Youtube comments of Greg Greg (@SlowhandGreg).

  1. It's supported by 70% of the population for crying out loud, go big or go home there are food lines everywhere
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  2. Republicans doing GOD's work in getting Democrats elected across the US Thank You
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  3. She even had time to pitch to 800,000 Polish immigrants in Penn
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  4. It must like dealing with a petulant toddler throwing his toys out the pram every 5 minutes
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  5. RWANDA is a waste of 600 million
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  6. I was quite surprised to see Nige on the D-Day beach given his side lost
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  7. 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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  8. People voted to leave the EU not the Single Market Daniel Hannan Vote Leave " Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market" Farage "Wouldn't it be terrible if we were like Norway" Arron Banks "Increasingly the Norway option looks the best for the UK" Vaccine rollout wasn't dependent on Brexit we were still in the EU medicines agency when the started aside from that nearly every EU country has overtaken us long ago and they don't have 155,000 casualties and 1.5 million with possible long covid
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  9. Farage is the arsonists that comes back and offers to help out put fire
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  10. This will be the hardest lesson the US has ever learn't, the idea that DJT is good for the economy is going to hit the rails of reality The combination of deportations, tariffs and Musk's government Austerity will reverberate round the US economy causing a deep recession
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  11. STOP SANEWASHING THIS MAN HE'S BARKING
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  12. Mad as a box of frogs the lot of them
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  13.  @charlesfriscia7236  you haven't a clue what communism is. Go to the library and read Marx's writings.
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  14. Truss was an economic car crash, no way could she stay in office
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  15. What's the point in her doing Press they have double standard with Trump whose just allowed to stand there spewing Bullsh1t for hours on end
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  16. Rwanda is a dead duck and the economy is in the toilet
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  17. I don't get why anyone would vote for the Cons it's a level of wilful blindness that's hard to fathom
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  18. How do you get Turkeys to vote for Xmas Tell them migrant Chickens will take their Job
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  19. HMP Wandsworth is a Category B men's prison in southwest London, built in 1851. It has an official capacity of around 1,600 across five wings, but inspections have consistently found it to be overcrowded with between 60% to 80% more inmates than it was designed for. The most recent report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons reported that over 40% of the prison’s operational staff were absent or unable to perform their duties. 13 years of cuts yet another thing that costs lots of money and doesn't work
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  20. Hows this shutting Starmer down? all Boris is doing is huffing and puffing and not answering the question after being presented with some inconvenient facts. Is this the best the Cons have? 63k dead and he still can't organise track and trace or even be bothered to hold an adult conversation with all relevant parties.
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  21. Contempt dripping from every word well done Kier tar the backbenches with the shame they will carry for propping up this disgrace of a human being
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  22. His businesses are hemorrhaging money, he's leveraged up to the 9's, he's liable for millions in personal tax fraud and owes God knows who 1/2 billion+ He can't pardon himself from the NY tax case and he can't stop it the guy is bankrupt again Trump couldn't run a sandwich stall without loosing money he's an economic car crash
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  23. The economy turning a corner is he on drugs? We have had the biggest drop in the standard of living in history over the last 2 years
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  24. Why do the Conservatives think it will get better the current state is the result of 14 years hard work started by Osborne's Austerity Given the Train wreck, they've left the economy in why would they get any seats, this is the 1st 5 year parliament on record where your worse off at the end of it
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  25. The bulk of the problem has been created by having it tax free in the 1st place, 1/2 the farms are no longer owned by farmers
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  26. So as well as being useless he has no morals Next Prime Minister then
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  27. Morning we now have a nickname for her No Mercy Harris
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  28. Anyone now voting Tory would vote for a sheepdog with a blue rossette or they have Stockholm syndrome zero seats LibDems for the official opposition
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  29. A standard car has 2,000 moving parts an EV has 20 The propensity for savings on an EV is exponential at the moment compared to a mature market with engine's Dumbest move yet
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  30. 14 years too late On your bike wishy Washy
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  31. The drone has a laser on it the howitzer shells sprout fins after thier fired and correct onto the painted target
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  32. People from the Indian sub continent are pretty socially conservative they have also grown up with the Cast system
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  33. why would anyone vote on Gaza there is literally nothing a UK government can do about it and Labour's stance is a 2 state solution and a permanent ceasefire?
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  34. When 14 years of CONservative policies finally hit the buffers They've borrowed 1.6 trillion over that time what have they done with it? We have +9 million people through migration but are -7% on average poorer, how's that work?
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  35. And now I'm angry he's not sleepy Joe and wants to pass legislation and and take troops out of Afghanistan how dare he wake up and discuss policy with our allies and undercut the industrial military complex doesn't he know how much grift we'll loose
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  36.  @JudyStroyer-bk6fb  It's complete gibberish Grandpa needs to go back to the care home
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  37. 2 sets of books and apparently stiffed the state by 3.5 million in taxes by his CFO mighty big fringe benefits
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  38. They can't resupply and equip 100,000 men never mind + 300,000 and sticking them in trenches in winter without adequate equipment is a freeze to death sentence
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  39. The Regan era is now dead welcome to Bidenomics The dawn of the fourth industrial age begins
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  40.  @bprimus  in what way his 4 year term had the worst macroeconomic numbers since Hoover? He even outdid Bush and the banking crisis
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  41. I've just inherited wealth from my parents I'm 67, 99% of millennial's will be pensioners rotting in a flat before they see a bean
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  42.  @bb5979  You in the twilight zone or what? You people are in an alternate reality Trump is effing mad needs time in a psyche ward
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  43. Sunak is, then, a living personification of modern finance capital. He has made money out of manipulating money; profited from the bankruptcy of others; ruthlessly exploited the leniency of regulators and the generosity of central banks.
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  44. Jeez him talking about Harris like that completely creeped me out ughhh
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  45. He's completely batshit crazy, he has serious mental health issues his delusions are getting grander and even more fictional
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  46. He couldn't shoot himself in the foot more than he's doing now, everyone knows he's still infected and raging on his meds. The negative ads coming out are absolutely brutal
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  47. 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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  48. Rents go up because there's a lack of housing chiefly at the bottom end the only way of dealing with it is from government action with social housing for the poorest and cooperative housing at the next leg up. Currently with the big corporate tax cut from a few years back you've seen investment entities plow money into realestate reducing the housing stock further The problem is structural and needs a long term government solution that an uncontrolled private sector won't provide what's worse is any attempt to do so will have the same private sector screaming
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  49. 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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  50. quote from Texas The aspiring mothers described in vivid, harrowing detail how the state's abortion ban had endangered their health, traumatized them, and, in the case of Samantha Casiano, forced her to carry and give birth to a baby girl without a formed skull or brain only to watch her die a tortured death four hours later.
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  51.  @ragnarlothbrok4281  no it isn't it doesn't exist, the world looks and sees nothing but a weak and feeble con man trying to cling to power. If you got your way democracy would be dead because at the end of the day everything Trump touches dies Your soul included
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  52. ​ @thegingerbreadgod1312 equating the mayor of London with a radical religious sect
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  53. Rhishi is cr@p He's a below average middle manger promoted well beyond his competence Rwanda is a complete waste of money And Training your own workforce costs money you need to invest in not just the people but infrastructure Without HS2/3 the current system is overloaded
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  54. 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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  55. 5 minutes in to there term and already the media bullsh1t Get a reality check this is a multi billion pound business
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  56. Statistically you are not wrong the 1st Parliament on record where people are poorer at the end of a 5 year term
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  57. If you pump 700 billion into the economy which then trickles up during the pandemic it would be a good idea if you taxed it because the huge increase in money supply has a huge impact on inflation You need a wealth tax or this will keep spiraling Quote Luxury goods boom in Britain as super-rich youngsters buck the recession Rich kids fuel sales of brands such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci They’re young, rich and mortgage-free, and the scions of the 1% are having a roaring twenties. Despite the economic gloom currently shrouding the UK and many other western countries, sales of luxury brands have been booming and growing numbers of buyers are young adults. Swiss watches, Louis Vuitton trainers, rare Birkin bags and 81-year-old whiskies are among the products that are fuelling impressive growth in the bottom lines of luxury brands such as LVMH, Burberry and Kering.
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  58. If he doesn't go in May his party will implode, every week a new low
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  59. He did plus there were no end of efforts at voter suppression which kept the total down to 81 million. They appear to have no idea how much the lying orange turd is hated outside his safe space
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  60. How to get Turkeys to vote for Xmas Tell them foreign chickens will take their jobs
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  61. Apparently the reich wing think that this will hurt her career and alienate her fans, I really hope it affects young people to get out and vote and having this played on the radio all the time will only amplify the sheer moral depravity of 4 years of Trumpism
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  62. I'm a pensioner and get nothing but increased taxation Cutting NI instead of thresholds just makes me angry, my son is on low pay because of a 14 year squeeze on wages and firms recruiting from timbuktwo to keep wages low. The number of civil servants has to be higher because of Brexit, you need more border staff etc. Arghhhhhh Your not fixing sewage in the rivers potholes from defunding councils housing crisis energy crisis or RAAC crisis
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  63. Clan Rally without 2 brain cells between the lot of them
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  64. Why doesn't he blame the EU and the asylum seekers in Calais while he's at it.
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  65. Nearly all our supply chains for small and medium companies run through the EU. My wife's company gets parts from Vietnam but they come through Germany. They don't become German parts until Thier integrated into product and exported back to Germany. Our supply chain is completely f'd Also Our goods by volume has fallen by 7% since 2019 a figure unprecedented in UK history.
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  66. The Haunted Pencil will say anything that's expedient he has zero morals as well
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  67. Sunak has presided over a high speed train that doesn't go to London and doesn't go to Birmingham Whats more expensive than an infrastructure project with escalating costs Cancelling an infrastructure project with escalating costs
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  68. They were restricting testing to keep the numbers down quote "President Donald Trump said Monday that there would be very few cases of the coronavirus if the US stopped its testing and contact-tracing"
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  69. There is no hope for the Tories
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  70. worst government ever
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  71. If your going to build ventilators why choose the latest design you'd look at all the models from the last 20/30 years and work out which one you could produce at the highest speed as you need them within weeks.
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  72.  @topbanana4013  Lee of course, the Tories should have known what they got he was suspended from Labour because of racism
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  73. only 10% of manufacturing costs are now down to labour that is decreasing with more automation while CEO pay has gone through the roof with decades of wage suppression
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  74. 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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  75. Before anyone bangs on about Sweden Sweden is sparsely populated (26 per Km2 V England 434 Km2 & London 5,596) and has a large housing ownership and stock + a well funded health system. They still followed social distancing and the elderly were asked to self isolate, people were asked to remote work. Quote Some restrictions were imposed. Public events were limited to a maximum of 50 people in March 2020, and eight people in November 2020. Visits to nursing homes were banned and upper secondary schools closed. etc.
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  76. 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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  77. Trump steaks - bankrupt Trump Taj - bankrupt Trump University- shut down because of fraud Etc..
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  78. Why didn't he raise the thresholds if the value of houses is becoming an issue in the South East? 4% only pay inheritance tax
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  79. He's going to go mental tmrw after Obama does the virtual graduation ceremony, should be a good ad out of that.
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  80. Taxes are going up whatever he says tomorrow 20% Threshold should be 15000 not 12250, freezing it increases tax at the bottom disproportionately The sooner the Tories are out the better if he leaves it past May the Tories will just spend months tearing themselves apart
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  81. Trump keeps telling them there persecuted this is the culmination of five years of inflammatory retoric and countless lies
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  82. cut taxes If you cut taxes potholes get filled in as all the trickle down runs into them
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  83. ​@donnwzad7980 everyone is tired of all his lying and total clownshow He can't even tell the difference between Asylum Seekers and Asylum Inmates now
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  84. Is Kier doing stand-up at Edinburgh next year couldn't stop laughing
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  85. Global Britain was always DOA SME's Farmers sole Traders etc. trade with the nearest country its called trade gravity or not at all and on average an economic recovery is 60% lead by these groups The cost of shipping has also gone up by over 600% in some cases and air freight has doubled over the last couple of years were fked without the single market our economy will just keep circling down the plug hole
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  86. Johnson gets more rude arrogant and obnoxious every week
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  87. Your responsible for this this is what you voted for
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  88.  @DavidGetling  on what evidence are you basing that on
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  89. 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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  90. Anyone in the current cabinet needs to be disqualified Sunak gave a tax cut to his banking buddies while putting up taxes, it was the treasury that put the knife into hs3 and the northern project making the upgrades London centric On inheritance tax its set at 350k but you have a nil rate band of 175k on main residence passed to a direct descendent also SIPP pensions aren't included, one of the main problems the Tories have created is more and more children are having to live at home as property prices skyrocket
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  91. There are no benefits to leaving a market on your doorstep never was and never will be stop complaining this is what you wanted a hard Brexit
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  92.  @akal8775  Antifa is a right wing bogey man that doesn't exist, the words origins are from Germany in the 1930's Antifaschistische Aktion It is now used as a general term to describe anyone opposed to Fascism You could use it for example to describe the Anti Defamation League Go read some history books on the rise of Fascism before posting far right nonsense
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  93. He's working on his insanity plea to avoid jail for systematic tax fraud
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  94.  @evolassunglasses4673  Russia lost a host of elite units in its failed attempt to take Kyiv the Ukrainians stopped the Russian special forces at Hostomal also downing a couple of planes loaded with troops. This has been verified by open source news outlets who scoured the obituary pages in Russia confirming the units and casualty rates the reinforcement column ended stuck in urban terrain getting hammered by artillery
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  95. There going to have to talk about his ADHD and his apparent emotional age which appears stuck at 9
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  96. Because Every sperm is sacred Every sperm is great If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate
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  97. While FOM is a contributing factor abandoning a frictionless market and the loss of cabotage is hammering the supply chain into bankruptcy. This winter is going to be like a set of dominoes falling even without UKCA and import checks or standards divergence once the bankruptcies start it will be a rolling wave of stagflation
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  98. Lawrence just leaves me cold, people like that who treat women as objects its just disgusting he's a mean small minded bully
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  99. He had no mandate to roll back net zero, abandon HS2/3, roll back levelling up, abandon Social Care
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  100. The under-count using historical averages in Europe is about 40-50%
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  101. He's good on Fox they struggle with him, he really gives them a good slapping.
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  102. Could he actually p1ss off women any more than he has it's like kicking a hornets nest getting your ars3 stung then doing it again see if something different happens The gender gap is going to be a mile wide and light-years deep at this rate
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  103. 4% is on the low side long term they've shafted the City as well. It was already declining as a major centre and now its getting kicked of EU business
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  104. Nice Trump stews in his own vitriol getting more unhinged by the week as more stuff comes out grabbing the daily headline and coming up id Lev and Igor wonder whats in those tapes records and recordings he handed over? Meanwhile Barr scratches nervously as SDNY investigates Giuliani.
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  105. You'd need to be mental to give up your human rights It underwrites the Good Friday Agreement & the TCA If you cut taxes you need to find the money from somwhere no more borrowing to fund them
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  106. He'd have cut you loose the guy was one of the weakest leaders have ever had Putin and Kim played him like a fiddle
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  107. At least he won't be p1ssed by 6pm and won't do Wine Time Friday
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  108. net migration is rising because of a lack of social and structural investment, if you want less foreign nurses you pony up the money and train your own Promising low tax and low net migration is a complete Con job
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  109. If you want to trade with the EU you play by thier rules The Tories cake and eat it deal was pure fantasy They promised Singapore on Thames we got Argentina on the Channel
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  110.  John Patriot  That really is how much Trump is hated outside your cozy right wing safe space. Outside of it people think he's a crook and a con man + now a cheat and wannabe dictator.
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  111. The Ukrainians were using this strategy Defence in depth (also known as deep defence or elastic defence) is a military strategy that seeks to delay rather than prevent the advance of an attacker, buying time and causing additional casualties by yielding space. Rather than defeating an attacker with a single, strong defensive line, defence in depth relies on the tendency of an attack to lose momentum over time or as it covers a larger area. A defender can thus yield lightly defended territory in an effort to stress an attacker's logistics or spread out a numerically superior attacking force. Once an attacker has lost momentum or is forced to spread out to pacify a large area, defensive counter-attacks can be mounted on the attacker's weak points, with the goal being to cause attrition or drive the attacker back to its original starting position. An accepted ratio of attacking troops of 3-1 advantage to move forward and 5 -1 in Urban Areas is needed to break through this type of defence all things being equal. Ukraine had 150,000 troops available in Feb since mobilisation it now has 300,000 on numbers that would mean the Russians would need 900,000 minimum well armed and equipped troops with associated logistics to conquer most of the country. As the war goes on full mobilisation will mean additional Ukrainian troops becoming available and Russia is already 10 weeks behind in mobilising also they currently only produce 120 of the latest T18 tanks a year and current tank losses are nearly 1000. You'd have thought that the Kremlin could do the math but I guess they don't want to burst Putin's reality bubble in case they get a Novchok birthday surprise
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  112. They've been complaining about Starmer finishing at 6pm for quality family time now wheel out the instigator of Wine Time Friday You couldn't make this gaffe up
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  113. Plan? First its illegal under the Convention for Human Rights Second that Convention underwrites the Good Friday agreement so this nonsense of leaving it is a non starter
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  114. Par for the course for MP'S of all stripes I'm afraid
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  115. why are they using private messaging for public business? All public business however conducted is covered by the freedom of information act and if your using the same whatsapp channel for private use tuff
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  116. If they have a policy debate he wins? When has unfunded tax cuts for billionaires and multinationals been a winning message? the only policy he implement in his last term and the only one the GOP care about
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  117. Gus has Autism, the connection he feels with his Dad is unique beyond what a nerotypical person feels
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  118. if you prioritise tax cuts it means your not investing in your domestic population or infrastructure, not having the skills your economy needs leads to higher immigration
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  119. The problem isn't the leader. it's the ideology, changing won't make a scrap of difference because they don't understand what is wrong
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  120. Is it possible to have a donation page to get this put on prime time TV?
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  121. 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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  122. Is this clickbait?
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  123. Conservative governments always cost you more in the long term they don't invest, if you don't invest in your social infrastructure your economy stagnates or has weak growth
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  124. what of the 2019 manifesto have they delivered?
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  125.  @suzy7726  because every time he opens his gob like nodding dogs you surge to the internet to justify his bullsh1t
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  126. Jeez has the House become idiot's corner, what a waste of 2 years of being in power
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  127. ​ @WinstonSmith24 3 trillion of it was corporate tax cuts
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  128. How long before he is excommunicated for not following the Cult line?
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  129. along with Musk and RFK
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  130. 7 bins, Meat Tax, Starmer volunteered to defend terrorists (Its done on a CAB System), Taxes are going down (Fiscal drag puts up taxes for everyone bar a few), more money for the NHS (you need +4 billion alone for the increase in migration to maintain the per head spend) To be honest the list is endless they've all but abandoned Net Zero & Levelling Up were on average -7% less well off than 2010
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  131. Just the Aura of her going over to shake his hand and tell him how her name is pronounced set a tone
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  132. His new part needs to be called the pity party, jeez the thieving goat just whines constantly
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  133. I'm a pensioner I don't need the fuel benefit what I needed was an economy and a party that didn't freeze tax thresholds and funded public services properly
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  134. Renewable energy has been the cheapest on the grid since 2020 Our biggest issue is non investment in the grid to make full use of always on energy Reason it gets cheaper year on year is wind and the sun are free energy sources whil fossil is subject to extraction processing and transport costs + inflation. Sigh
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  135.  @cassandrahepp6445  Please be aware that it is a kickback from the conspiracy The Great Replacement Theory It is part of the Cats and Dogs madness
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  136. The Conservatives are already the world laughing stock
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  137. Renewable energy dropped in price in real terms by 90% in a decade also In the UK you can get free and near free electric for charging with deals with your supplier also V2G will be huge
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  138. There are 5 stages of grief if you look at what he did about the 2020 loss he never got past anger and tried to bend reality He's doing the same thing over Biden Harris switch he's gone from Denial to Anger and is now projecting her crowd size as AI His mental state is going to deteriorate badly
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  139. All Labour have to do is point out that we are poorer now than 5 years ago That living standards have plumeted by 4.2% in 2 years while cumulative inflation rose by 20% the worst numbers in political history while the government in charge did next to nothing
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  140. The IMF put out a paper on wealth tax last September, the media is mostly right wing owned and we don't tend to get an full and Frank discussion on economics
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  141. ​ @philipdamask2279 a domestic battery costs 6k current expectations are prices will halve and capacity double in the next 5 years
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  142. Elect a clown you get a Circus Where's Ferrari been the last 3 years hiding in a fridge
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  143. Days into the Sunak premiership and where back to square 1 defending the indefensible that didn't take long
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  144.  @hat8918  Try reading the Transcripts it sounds like 1 mental patient talking to another
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  145.  @Joe-or1ht  Policy on small business tax breaks, action on price gauging, continuation of structural investment in renewables which will lower energy bills etc.
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  146. he's had connections to the Oligarchs since UKIP and they funded multiple far right organizations throughout Europe that gravy train stopped with the Ukraine invasion. Don't be naive its about money
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  147. why there just the same yobs that were BNP and NF at one stage
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  148. giving Putin 40 million people and the worlds biggest exporter of grain is even more irresponsible
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  149. 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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  150. Its more complicated than that, weve had record low inflation since the banking crash and Trump inherited a strong base but by pushing massive corporate tax cuts he artificially boosted the stock prices. Its estimated that the Fortune 500 companies spent a total of 3 trillion on stock buy backs. At the same time the Fed was doing QE the tax cuts were paid for with debt. During the pandemic trump added another 5 trillion to debt a lot of it neccassary support but combined with the tax cuts this was very inflationary In terms of how well Joe has done you need to compare what a Typical Republican would have done in a similar position they would have tightened government spending creating long term unemployment to drive down inflation It's the difference of +14 million jobs v 3 or 4 ​@robertdwyer5486
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  151. ​ @Rowsy91 green energy, unions, healthcare, minimum wage, NATO etc
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  152. Sunak doubling down on stupid He's got as much political acumen as a dead goldfish
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  153.  @TheDiamond2009  Trumpers aren't good on facts wonder why?
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  154. Port Talbot is closing because of brex1t, in 2026 the EU will introduce carbon tariffs that will make the importing of coked steel or any product using coked steel uneconomic quote Jan 2023 Trade exports with the EU are down 15% since Brexit; paperwork and delivery times are up, while regulatory divergence, which was heralded as one of the key Brexit benefits, has so far been very limited. As divergence increases, manufacturers see only additional cost, extra paperwork and further disruptions.
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  155. Rising star of what the US version of the Monster raving Loony party He's off the range completly batsh!t crazy
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  156. 50+% of the current inflation is down to increases in corporate profits and companies milking supply issues overall top corporations made +12.5% over the last 12 months. Reducing corporation tax as Truss is claiming she will do will actually boost inflation and balloon the debt corporation tax needs to go up not down. You stimulate growth by pumping money into the bottom including public sector, poorer people spend 100% of their income wealthier people save and the super wealthy hoard. If you cut government departments it will also not work as intended your cutting mostly lower paid jobs and killing demand which kills growth Can someone find these assclowns an economist
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  157. 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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  158. There's an official OBR government report on this 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 Dogger bank OffShore wind produces as much as Hinkley C Dogger Bank costs 9 Billion to build Hinkley C build Costs 33 Billion 3 years late and has subsidies over 35 years of 30 Billion
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  159.  @Dude0000  in what sense? They've lost control of the Black Sea & thier Air suppiriority is all but gone Thier troops are conscripted from a generation that had a birth rate of 1.4 which is causing major economic disruption not to mention the 1+ million that fled to avoid it. Russia is paying a huge price for this war
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  160. Johnson won the election on lying through his teeth about the benefits of Brexit and the fact that Corby was seen as unelectable. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and the protocol puts a border down the Irish sea + migration is worse than it was before due to Brexit and the economy is tanking with a huge chunk of the problems down to Johnson's hard Brexit. There will be a food crisis in GB this year not because of Ukraine but because last year farmers had to leave crops rotting in the fields pigs had to be culled and burnt because of acute labour shortages and the insane paperwork and costs needed to now sell into their EU market. North Shropshire by election was before the party scandal Farmers are fed up with him lying and not listening SME's are fed up with him for lying and not listening and every defence of party gate reinforces the view that you can't trust Johnson or his cabinet or the Conservative party.
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  161. My Mum is 92 and reads the daily mail she's a bit senile and can put her foot in her mouth at times but you wouldn't have her representing the monarchy. I keep telling her not to say certain stuff but even she wouldn't have done what Hussey did. So my answer is 92
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  162.  @impossibledrms  making up childish silly names posting them on clip you have no interest in and behaving like a spoilt 9 year old appears to be the standard GOP policy position these days.
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  163. The gulf apparently is +3 degrees over average this year ( surface temperature) and overall +1.6 so this is like here now and long term and will get worse, like the Republicans are funded by oil gas and coal in the the same way they were funded by tobacco to block any legislation. Its pathetic it will cost trillions in lost property, lives and general human misery.
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  164. What a cesspit
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  165. ​ @davidyare8465 that's good coz it will stop the brain drain due to low pay
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  166. They don't like Rayner due to the working class background the lowe class especially women should know their place. Johnson is a disgusting excuse of a human being that has cheated and lied to every partner he's had
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  167.  John Patriot  Just to add Trump is facing 3 lawsuits on tax fraud two on campaign finance fraud and two of sexual assault non of which he can weasel out of.
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  168. ​ @timmayers4965 you make people ill by creating a low wage economy then enact policies which drive up the cost of rent and other staple items. Your population becomes sicker over time through money stress and lack of nutritional food, Austerities long tail as diabetes level rise alarmingly now topping 5 million. Quote Children in the poorest areas of England are both fatter and significantly shorter than those in the richest areas at age 10 to 11
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  169. ​ @chrimbus71 Russia certainly isn't
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  170. meanwhile were loosing millions in lost duty
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  171. Farage is far right he has zero centre in him he's a populist and Libertarian be afraid of this man quote Kwasi Kwarteng made the right decision in swiftly cutting taxes, Nigel Farage said, dealing a blow to global economic institutions which have warned against the economic policy. The former Brexit Party leader praised Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng for cutting taxes and moving ahead with the policy despite warnings from world economic organisations. Since Friday's mini-budget, representatives from Bank of America, the IMF and JP Morgan among others have sounded alarm bells, saying the economic plan is sparking market chaos. The pound sterling fell to an all-time low this week, with investors worried the plan will hurt Britain's finances.
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  172. There not conservative anymore there supporting full on fascism, anyone not going along with this lunacy is branded as liberal it's mental.
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  173. productivity has risen but your right too much money was printed and now it needs correcting by taxing the rich where its spiralled up to and paying down the debt
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  174. The problem is the 1st past the post system the Cameron government had 36% both in 2010 & 15 setting the seeds for the current crisis. The Thatcher years were round 40% and the Conservative base is 50+ who are the highest voting demographic. I go out canvassing and trying to get young voters out is a mare even after Sunak dumped on them completely in the last budget.
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  175. Pollution needs paying for by those causing the mess. Why does the federal government have to pick up the slack for this.
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  176. He has the A team round him
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  177. Is this a comedy sketch? The economy is tanking invstment has fallen off a cliff and numbers in small boats has doubled. Oh and food production is down as well and we have additional brexit food inflation but apart from that !
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  178. What's going to drive the price up is their grid stuff, large mega pak factory just opened the
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  179. This is what they jacked us.out of the EU for! You've gotta be kidding
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  180. This goes back to Gove canning the school renewal program and is just another symptom of the Tories knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing It's estimated if the program had been kept up then all the schools would be refurbished by the end of this year
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  181. 14 years and we have a train that doesn't go to london and doesn't go to Birmingham
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  182. doesn't take into account tactical voting or the fact the Cons have a quite appalling economic record over 14 years where we are worse off that we were 14 years ago and services are down the Toilet Privatisation has been a complete failure as has selling off council houses because they have not been replaced and councils are spending 20 billion on housing support. We want the opposition to be the Lib-Dems and the Tories destroyed for what they have done
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  183. Problem is he's as mad as a box of frogs. There going on about Biden but Trump really has lost the plot big style and its the project 2025 you need to fear
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  184. @PlasmaCoolantLeak  my Dad was displaced by the Russians he ended up a Polish paratrooper via a Russian gulag, it will be a talking point in the deli and the Polish American citizens clubs. Just that one liner and by the way if your Polish mom has an opinion boy you'd better pay attention.
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  185. It's worse than that Sunak knew before the close date for candidates so he could have swapped them out but kept it under wraps hoping it would blow over
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  186. 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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  187. On average were -7% worse off than in 2010 if you look at GDP per Capita we've been in recession for a year and a half
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  188. Stop thinking rejoin is an option, you can make it better you can't reverse it The only way to move forward would be to change the voting system anything a FPTP system puts in place can be instantly undone with the next Con government
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  189. They did lots Austerity defunded the justice system Social services They then footed councils with both additional child support requirements and gave them an additional bill for housing support
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  190.  @ReedoTV  we've been in Rhisi-cesion for a year and a half if you look at GDP per Capita which has dropped by 0.7% over that period
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  191.  @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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  192.  @tomtheeagle1  politics is about compromise, don't confuse principles with compromise and the need to be flexible enough to get part of what you want rather than drawing a line in the sand claiming Principles and getting nothing.
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  193. Make America Garbage Again in full swing You had 4 years of this clown now your going to get his entire clown cart with him this time
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  194. Broad brush Tax cuts aren't stimulus You could say stimulate secondary glazing to encourage better insulation by making A+ replacement windows VAT free but cutting top rate tax has a return to the treasury of somewhere in the region of 20p in the pound Spend a pound on tax cuts gets round about 20p back to the treasury If you give Nurses a 10% pay rise then the economic multiplier on that would result in 80p of it going back to the treasury as its immediately taxed and the rest goes into a tax spend merry go round the economy. The current retain EU law bill that Truss introduced would remove supply side rules for goods and services making our market open to cheap low quality foreign imports which would cause business failures and farming bankruptcies, it also removes workers rights and with widespread unemployment would drive down wages at the bottom. The Truss agenda is basket case economics for the extremely wealthy
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  195. we had 8 days straight of beergate and 3 weeks on Ange's council house
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  196. "collective punishment " is a legal term under the Geneva convention it needs deliberating via a court. any human rights lawyer knows that Trampling over international protocol to score a cheap point because no one else could vote for it with that wording in
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  197. ​ @totalvoid6234 give it a rest are you a Tory political payed blogger your all over this comment board spewing bile
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  198. The simple fact is renewable energy became the cheapest source of energy on the grid back in 2019 The government are currently giving billions in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry for cleanup of legacy installations and exploration of new Any Government proposing a Green agenda will not only win but will reduce energy costs across the board within a very short time in office. It takes 1-2 years to build a wind farm it takes 7/8 to build a nuclear reactor and 1-4 to build a tidal system.
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  199. ChristoFascist sewer
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  200. The benefits of membership of the single market are vast Cost of membership 14 billion received back 5 billion pa Additional Cost of Brexit to businesses still able to trade with the EU 27 Billion pa Cost of lost trade with the EU 44 billion Cost to the City of loosing the Euro derivative market alone is 2.3 trillion There are multiple cost savings through joint programs which are too numerous to list but go look up how much its cost the UK to peruse an alternative to Galileo so far
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  201.  @m.b5777  The only reason for using tariffs is what's called to level the playing field this proposal is simply a sales tax by another name If you want domestic production you do what Biden did and offer tax incentives, currently he's reshored around 1 million and that will have a minor inflationary affect as well
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  202. and you can do it next year and for the next 5
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  203. Herd immunity wouldn't happen the disease would just rattle around for years what's just as bad and just as alarming the 2 mill dying is the explosion in pre-existing conditions for the survivors of the disease. With SCOTUS ready to rule against Obamacare ..........
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  204. Have you read Labour's amendment? Thought not
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  205. we'v had 14 years of failed trickle down after trickle down policy that has just gone to debt Austerity , failed - brexit failed, Truss Failed 2.4 trillion in debt and here we are
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  206. Joe has a booming economy 3% GDP growth last year and rising, drug prices are down due to his initiatives, 14+ million jobs record deportations at the border, debt to GDP down by 12 points etc.
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  207. Pritti Patel treats everyone with contempt what's the police got to complain about.
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  208. 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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  209.  @MochaMan.  Look inside yourself why do you debase yourself like that?
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  210. “Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.” The next time you are about to lie, or participate in a lie, consider whether you are willing to pay the debt from the lie in the future.
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  211. Our 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 on vaccine doses. They also were part of the EU PPE purchasing scheme which we were invited to which supplied high quality PPE again at a fraction of the cost the Cons and their VIP lane paid
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  212.  @intense5335  covid was already in the US end of December they dna traced the east coast outbreak to Europe and the China ban was a PR stunt which didn't block business travel had no quarantine provision and caused chaos at airports. He then spent weeks trying to downplay how bad it was going to be put a complete imbacile (Jared) in charge wouldn't listen to the experts until he finally had to do something when NY started to melt down.
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  213. Sunak is throwing himself under the bus, coming back early to lie about lying in the TV debate then saying not having SKY is going without stuff, he is simply effin clueless
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  214. If your voting on the Economy why would you even consider DJT His tariff plan will cost consumers 3 trillion over 10 years according to leading economists notwithstanding the effect of retaliatory tariffs on US exports. Look up what happened to small farmers during DJT's last term.
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  215. He needs taking to a tattoo parlour and have oven ready deal tattooed on every part of his body so he doesn't forget the sham and the shame he's done
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  216. Soo selling it to an offshore billionaire instead is OK?
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  217. Republicans doing GOD's work in getting Democrats elected across the US Thank You
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  218. Levelling up has become punching down Net zero gone with the bow to the fossil lobby and instead of investing taking the easy long term more expensive option in tying us to Gas and world commodity prices HS2/3 destroyed with huge impact on overcrowded norther lines Tax up NI down p1ssing of pensioners Economically they couldn't run a bath with average wages lower than 2010 and house prices +66%
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  219. ​ @KiwiGraggle your not getting Ukraine so live with it and get real Ukraine doesn't want to be reintegrated into Vlads greater Russian empire and neither do any of the old Warsaw pact countries, so how long is it going to take to get through to his brain?
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  220. He's abandoned all of Johnson's manifesto pledges at least the ones people cared about HS2/3 gone Leveling up gone Net Zero gone No tax increases -pffff Wishy Washy is even cr@p at being a Con
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  221. Question if you pump 800 billion into an economy because of Cov where does it go? If your going to fix anything you need to answer that question and start removing some of that printed money from circulation via taxation. Instead Taxes are rising on the low paid and pensioners via fiscal drag, food inflation is still 7% with more and more people falling into food and energy poverty
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  222. ​ @colinrobinson4233 your the one that needs a reality check
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  223. Looks like a Bribe, smells like a Bribe and walks like a Bribe so it must be a Bribe
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  224.  @GodWeenSatan  He is in it for the money
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  225. And this was the state before this god help us now 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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  226. They asked for a ceasefire vote they got one wording on these things is very important the SNP motion needed correcting "collective punishment " is a legal term under the Geneva convention it needs deliberating via a court.
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  227. 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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  228.  @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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  229. 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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  230. austerity doesn't save money it shrinks the economy. Independent economists reviewed Osborne's cuts and concluded that the OBR forecast of a multiplier 0.5 (every £ saved was net 50p to the treasury) was wrong the economic multiplier was actually 1.6 The OBR has also stated that investment produces x3 times more growth than cutting tax The idea that cutting tax has a multiplier > than 1 is a myth a fairy story cooked up by the billionaire funded think tanks we have 50 years of data showing us this
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  231. Fiscal drag means the 20% threshold should be £15500, promising to not tax you when you shouldn't be paying tax in the 1st place is taking the p1ss, thresholds are frozen till 2028 Thanks 7 bins and Labour +3 points Cons -2 in the latest polls so the Tories are gone where does the right vote go
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  232. 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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  233. Whatever he'd still be a 100 times better than any Tory
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  234. He'll have gotten the case via the list system your not allowed to turn it down
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  235. Lib-Dems as the official opposition and the Tories utterly destroyed zeroseats c'mon we can do this
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  236. He's also a security risk at a time of international tension
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  237. @Ja Ck why?
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  238. The MAGA crowd take behaving like an asshole to yet new heights
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  239. Patel, Johnson, Raab, Javid, Sunak, etc all children of immigrants The Queen Prince Charles etc children of immigrants
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  240. The threshold freeze has cost us +£560 in tax giving back £95 is taking the p1ss
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  241.  @neutrspec  He laid the groundwork for the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan with his sh1tty deal and troop withdrawals and closing bases in a hurry.
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  242. Unemployment is never going to be high even in severe recession we have an acute shortage of workers and I mean really acute.
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  243. So an election on the issues A straight up vote on do you want a national abortion and contraception ban with tax cuts for the billionaires with Trump or Not
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  244. If they had kept him on it would have triggered a constitutional crisis when the recommended suspension for lying came through. If the HOC hadn't voted to suspend him because of perceived loyalty what state would the country be in now and would we even have a Parliament?
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  245. Sunak has his own issues with Tax last thing he needs is this Which is why his camp leaked the Boris story
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  246. Tax cuts dont create growth, the corporate tax lowering to 19% caused an explosion in share buy backs not investment
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  247. it's the Conservatives economic model (supply side trickle down aka Thatcherism) you need to constantly feed it Supply Side Labour To reduce migration you need to raise taxes preferably on wealth not work and invest in the countries physical and social infrastructure and abandon Thatcherism
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  248. He's a unite the base enthuse turnout, Harris in't going to sway Republicans what she will do is turbo charge turnout and both will enthuse moderate independents
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  249. He just has to be better than all the rest which he is by a country mile
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  250. Look up Supply side Economics the bedrock of Reganomics If people understood how skewed Republican economic policy is instead of listening to thier endless proclamations about being low tax. Its only low at the top end
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  251. It's sad but if Diane Abbot were my MP I wouldn't vote for her, 70 and Gaffe ridden, if she was in a competitive seat she would have gone in 2019
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  252. Just wondering when the Tories where ever in touch Osborne & Cameron lied about Austerity and its economic effect and its been downhill since The Party still won't Fezz up to the damage defunding Justice the NHS Schools Councils has had There was a Tory going on about increased knife crime but if you shut down youth services what do you think will happen? and that costs more money even in the medium term with youths in prison for life
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  253. TAKING a tough decision would be introducing a wealth tax
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  254. You not notice he doesn't know the difference between asylum seekers and inmates in an asylum? How weird is that?
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  255.  @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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  256.  @williamstafford8248  5 th largest economy in the world is our California
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  257. yea but grocery prices aren't what they were in 2019 under Trump, just think of the eggs
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  258. Labour has left the country on its Knees? other way round mate Tory voters grasp of economics is mind numbingly bad and Zehawi got a slap on the wrist for trying rob 8 million how many on unemployment would that be
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  259. Past basic needs people don't work to create wealth they work to be successful and past a certain point in successful there drowning in assets which just get larger over time no matter how much they spend. Paying off or reducing college debt will boost the economy paying a living wage will pull people out of government subsidised programs building infrastructure will aid new business ventures all need tax revenue.
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  260. Yea well brexit means brexit why should the EU give a toss about a 3rd country Oh it doesn't
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  261. Its same hours 4 × 10 instead of 5 × 8
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  262. 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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  263. The Republican parties backing of anti sexual health issues is cynical way of introducing a wedge voter issue they can use to manipulate the vote
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  264. why are they clapping this complete failure of a human being?
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  265. 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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  266. They've had 14 years to build appropriate prison capacity yet haven't done so.
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  267. The LSE published a paper saying the real cost to the treasury will be 0.66 billion This takes into account how money flows round the economy and is taxed.
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  268. 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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  269.  @tonupharry  Brexit is like a slow puncture that started in 2016 when the pound fell by 30% against the Euro and investment into GB Plc fell off a cliff 2016 UK economy in GDP terms was 90% of Germanys 2022 UK economy in GDP terms is 70% of Germanys
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  270. Quote The revised Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD) figures show that the UK economy grew by 0.7% in Q1 2024 and by 0.4% in Q2 2024, while the US economy grew by 0.4% in Q1 2024 and by 0.7% in Q2 2024. (In fact, it’s worth noting that unrounded figures show the United States had the slightly higher growth of the two over the two quarters). That growth was built on net migration of 906,000 in 2023 giving the economy a slight bump. In Jan 2024 the BOE was predicting static to no growth in 2025 and inflation climbing to 2.75% So no the economy wasn't the fastest growing in the G7 it was on it's knees due to brexit boosted by migration
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  271. The average person now has less disposable income than 2006 so threatening people with going back to square one won't work were already at square -4
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  272. Or Royals getting off scott free bar 12million for being involved in high class grooming gang stretching across multiple countries involving thousands of young girls
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  273.  @ce017  Your talking about the Eejit that went round leaving passive aggressive notes on civil servants desks having zero understanding how modern networks virtual machines and cloud computing works in 2022.
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  274. We have a cos of living crisis people will have to choose between heating and eating. Average wages have fallen to below 2010 levels by -7% and 1 in 5 children are designated as IN poverty. 1 minute would have done not 8 minutes get a reality check
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  275. They have to portray it like this its about pumping up Bojo otherwise people will see what a clown show he's running, typical distraction from the real issue of the week which was the environment - Raw sewage pumped straight into rivers and the sea proposed coal mine in Cumbria Gas prices through the roof and another energy company going to the wall A budget that gave bankers a tax cut as well as domestic airlines Bojo the wonder clown sitting next to Attenborough without a mask Meanwhile Hosting COP26
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  276. 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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  277. In 2010 debt was 800 billion its now 2.63 trillion, BOE rates are 5.25% and gilts have been index linked to RPI, debt repayment last year was 130 billion with government annual borrowing at 120 billion. Yet by magic Sunak spent 20 billion on a tax cut 72 billion on fuel support instead of instigating a windfall tax
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  278.  @smllig1648  its a bot
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  279. If your voting Republican your getting a national abortion ban Why it matters: While Republicans disagree about whether to pursue a national abortion ban that would face long odds in Congress, a GOP president may be able to unilaterally curb access to medication abortion across the country using an obscure 19th-century law.
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  280. The headline figure became the talking point not the policies
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  281.  @annapachaclarke2392  So what your saying is removing 1 million workers from the economy erecting trade barriers with our closest trading partners cutting off export expansion for hundreds of thousands of SME's and cratering investment since 2016 has no economic effect? Anyway whatever Watch this from the Financial Times why do you think the Markets went Ape when Truss's budget landed? "The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK | FT Film"
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  282. They've changed the way polling is weghted and as far as im aware it doesnt include those that have never voted before I would add Trump appears to be SunDowning with greater regulatory as the campaign has moved on it is now very noticeable even to his own supporters
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  283. so who funds the IEA (Truss's brain is empty by the way with zero understanding of economics) quote In a new study, David Hope of the London School of Economics and Julian Limberg of King's College London lay waste to the theory. They reviewed data over the last half-century in advanced economies and found that tax cuts for the rich widened inequality without having any significant effect on jobs or growth.20 Dec 2020
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  284.  John Patriot  They are state and personal lawsuits which he is not immune from, he's already been found guilty of state tax fraud on 2 separate occasions been banned from being associated with a charity for charities fraud and there's video evidence of 1 of the sexual assaults. I wouldn't believe the right wing crap about Biden if I were you it will go the same way as Hillary 4 years on zip zilch nada just one debunked conspiracy theory after another.
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  285.  @justsomemanwithaplan4305  just because what he says doesn't fit a narrative they wish to push? The guy is one of the world's leading virologist's De'santis is a carnival Barking politican who wastes tax payers money on gesture politics. The whole point of De'Santis and his ilk is stir up imaginary culture wars so you never look at what a shit job he actually does
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  286.  @GF_MF  Why? We all know the language used was deliberate to points score not help the Palestinians. What sort of cheap piece of Crap would do that over a humanitarian crisis?
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  287. we've just been through the biggest fall in living standards in UK history at -4.2% down and our trade is down and we have a spiralling debt crisis month on month it will get worse UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times 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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  288. She's an incompetent ideologue Her behaviour is as appaling as her judgement, you can't solve complex problems by guffing off on one and trying to do the same thing that's failed over and over again
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  289. Why are you people so afraid of fact checking?
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  290. Tesla will benefit from the competition at the moment it's streets ahead and anyway it's a lot more than just a car company it's energy sector will dwarf the car production
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  291. I'm a boomer we got everything from free higher education to low tax paid for with oil money and asset stripping We've also had decades of tax free savings The WFA needs to go to the few who need it not me Also Those that do need it should get support in insulating their homes because £300 on heating useless if you have a cold damp draughty home
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  292. 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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  293. ​ @aleph8888 universal healthcare is the cheapest way of running it by a considerable margin
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  294. The majority in NI and an overwhelming number of businesses want it's full implementation. In fact businesses have already re-routed their supply chains from using GB as a land bridge the posturing here is to do with the success NI is having adjusting to being within the single market. This is cynical polotics 101 Johnson can't afford to have a thriving UK regional NI economy while GB's goes down the toilet.
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  295. During the Blaire / Brown period UK average wages rose by 25% During the Cameron/May period the fell by 3% During the Johnson period they fell by 5% Q / Why did the Turkey vote for Xmas A/ A Conservative told him migrant Chickes would steal his job
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  296. There just jealous of her popularity and eloquence as she is recognised and respected the world over It is what it is
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  297. He's so full of BS it's no wonder he has to flush 13/14 times
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  298. Why MP's are allowed to have outside jobs at al beats me there supposed to be representing their constituents not making a bit on the side
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  299. Sunak has rolled back the 2019 manifesto HS2/3 abandoned Net Zero abandoned Leveling up smashed with a wrecking ball He has a mandate for nothing
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  300. To crack water into hydrogen using electricity takes 3 the amount of energy it produces The only point in using it is to keep domestic gas heating go further ( you can run a 2080 mix) or for some steel but Arc technology seems to be taking care of that Bizzare
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  301. The latest statistic is 80% of people believe that Social Distancing is key to basically staying alive and not dumping all your elderly relatives on the plague cart. So the economy isn't coming back in the form you want any time soon. In fact the question needs to be asked is why would you bother save a whole bunch of businesses which are going to be closed for up to a Year. The economy that evolves after this will be very very different.
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  302.  FACTS ONLY  America First has its roots in anti-Semitism during the 30-40's its still the same today except they've lumped blacks and brown people in along with the Jews. The policies espoused by the Trump administration were put together by Bannon and Miller two of the most disgusting racists in the US today, both signing up to a neo-fascist agenda. China trade deal pffff took you for a ride there didn't he doubled the trade deficit made hundreds of farmers bankrupt and then had to back down and sign anything XI put in front of him. Walls don't work ask the Chinese Isys is still knocking around dream on Do you really just soak in a whole bilge pump of propaganda 24/7 without checking any facts?
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  303. Time for the Old People's Home grump Granddad
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  304. I looked at healthcare a while ago Canada spends 10.5% of its gdp on a unified system the US spends 17% with millions uninsured and point of care being the emergency room. Its currently a system built to gouge every dollar it can from its citizens
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  305. 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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  306. Spectator Analysis showed the Tories would add £3000 to our tax given their promises, over the last Parliament Sky calculated that the Tories had added £13,000 to tax since 2019 Sunak says he's good on maths ? is he fk
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  307. If you rip out decades of trickle down policies and tax breaks then there's enough to get started with in the next 5 years there's 100 billion in fossil subsidies in various budgets 2 billion yer on year millionaire's tax break 2.8 billion spent on management consultants we need realignment true and part of ripping out trickle down means slicing the pie onto asset wealth
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  308.  @taffyterrier  yea like who wants cheaper energy bills how will the energy companies manage
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  309.  @heathercooper6043  We joined because we were the sick man of Europe our farming fishing manufacturing was in terminal decline
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  310. It's not easily explained or we get into stupid analogies over household debt
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  311.  @FreedomStrike76  1.25 million visas in 2023 of which 50% are dependants, if you get dependants down to 100k because your recruiting from 20 miles away you get down to 250k net migration which is what we had with FOM. Explosion in net migration another brexit benefit
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  312. This is what happens when you invest 2 trillion into social and physical infrastructure rather than 3.5 trillion in corporate tax cuts Duh
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  313.  @gedog77  Its 5.5% GDP according to most with +6% on food costs By the way every point of GDP = 8 Billion in tax revenue so that's why your taxes are going up folks Another scary stat the UK lost 500,000 workers to emigration last year (90,000 identifying as British 250,000 as European + the rest)
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  314. Tax cuts don't reduce immigration neither does fracking or deregulation
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  315. Gt it over with before your polling drops to near zero There is no comeback Rwanda will only fuel the crazies to vote Reform
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  316. 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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  317. The proposal ive seen is a land / property tax which would replace rates Quote The result of 30 years of inertia has meant the UK has a property tax system that is regressive, inter-generationally unfair and accentuates the north-south divide. According to the lobby group Fairer Share, someone living in a modest £150,000 a year home in Bolton is paying over £2,700 a year in council tax – £1,000 more than someone occupying an £8m home in London’s Westminster.
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  318. what damage was that? I'd suggest not using the Daily Mail as a source
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  319. 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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  320. Ossof had just pulled ahead in the polls this should seal the deal the turnout in Georgia is through the roof
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  321. Millionaire pensioners got a 4 billion tax cut last budget and there going to abolish IHT of course its going well Now get back working serf tax breaks for the wealthy don't grow on trees
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  322. 13 years of Thatcherism + Austerity were now £1000 on average worse off than when Cameron took charge so little Rishi is going to double down on Thatcherism + Austerity for year 14 wonder how that will end The light at the end of the tunnel is the Tories will get kicked out
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  323.  @tariqbahoussain1442  that's a complete lie go look up the figures Under labour the average wage went up by +25% under 12 years of Tory misrule last time I checked it was -3% with a other -4% in the pipeline in all by the end of this government real wage stagnation and growth will be the worst ever.
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  324.  @neilbradley100  The bulk of the Conservative vote is centre right middle class one nation, a lot of people in my blue wall constituency vote green for local elections
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  325. More Thatcherism no thanks
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  326.  @gsuzuki6138  'When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.'
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  327. ​ @nigelmarche 1st time we're going to get some centre left policies like taking back rail and your spewing bile why
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  328. Because voters have the memory of a goldfish
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  329.  @AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable  so you haven't watched the report and your just on here trolling, why? Your comment is completly pointless
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  330. Dan THE HERO Niedle
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  331. NOTHING you can do can save your beloved Tories JHB there gone kaput toast
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  332. 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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  333. This is our choice stop blaming others for the decisions made by UK politicians
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  334. Privatisation of the NHS would cost individual voters + 50% minimum if it was fully privatsied, currently the bulk of it's issues are caused by fragmented outsourcing and lack of infrastructure investment. Your employing 250,000 extra admin staff just to manage the insurance element and government borrowing is way cheaper than private borrowing + there will be at least 5% profit margin Just look at what has happened with Water - privatisation is a con
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  335. 62,000 refugees will be given the right to stay 1.25 million legal migrant workers brought in with 1/2 dependants I mean it was way better when we were in the EU at around 200,000 net because there weren't loads of dependants refugees aren't the problem the government and their policies are
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  336. You do know that If you reduce taxes and the size of the state your removing social infrastructure investment that means not training your own workforce such as Nurses and doctors and importing them instead? So net migration under Reform economic policy can never come down its why the Tories can't do it they've reduced infrastructure spend too much.
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  337. He got jealous that they were getting together and getting all the headlines while he's getting slagged
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  338. ​@TimComley they were loosing voters to ukip, it didn't dawn on him it was his Austerity that was driving it
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  339.  @edwardmiller3859  everything Farage has touched so far has turned to CaK. Brexit has tripled migration and the Tories chasing the far right vote with Rwanda has seen the collapse of the blue wall
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  340. The everyday economy is in deep recession the reason the headline GDP isn't shrinking is people are spending every penny they have on food rent Mortgages and fuel as their disposable income falls through the floor
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  341. Frodojack you need to ditch the steal idea from your head everything is built on something that has gone before, claiming ownership of ideas is dumb especially when those ideas are collections and enhancements of other ideas. Zepllin's sound and take on what they produced was unique to them iconic and a momment in rock history why try and sour it with playground jibes.
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  342.  @rtorres4132  There was a Russian battalion fighting in Donbas since 2014 the FSB murdered the original separatist leader, west Donbas and surrounding area which the Ukrainians hold has a large mineral deposits including lithium as well as shale gas and o. There's a shale oil / gas shelf off Crimea as well
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  343. Real average wages have fallen by around - 6% under the Tories Worst economic crisis in 150 years
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  344.  @erasingtheuigours5560  Biden will be hailed as the messiah, money in people's pockets a jab in thier arm and an economy taking off in may/June And that's all down to DJT the most incompetent president ever
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  345. He's gone this is just Kabuki theatre 1922 will compress the timetable, Johnson will get done over by the ethics committee who will conveniently Suspend him long enough for a recall election
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  346. Conservatives economic model is Trickle down supply side to work it needs globalization and a continuous supply side cheap labour force otherwise you need to invest in physical and social infrastructure with a fairer tax system which deals with wealth created by wealth which is pretty much untaxed. REFORM & UKIP just turn off immigration they don't deal with the underlying economic model which will further contract the UK economy into a stagflation spiral and 750,000 is a result of hard Brexit and loosing FOM in 2019 we had net 200,000 an EU worker comes over here without dependants sometimes temporary in 2023 we have net 750,000 with wives husbands and kids coming from outside Europe
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  347. 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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  348. After spending days whinging about Starmer finishing at 6 PM on Friday so he could have quality time with his family they roll out a man who started drinking at lunchtime and was the instigator of wine time Friday which started at 4 PM And will remind people of Partygate on top of the gambling didn't have this gaffe on my bingo card
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  349. with Roe v Wade on the Ballot and Kamala driving turnout numbers there will be some well weird results 2020 was a turnout election there isn't that much enthusiasm for the Orange one this time especially given the middle class have done pretty well out of Biden
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  350. 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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  351. Braverman is a complete headbanger Anyway best you where going to get with Sunak is he won't crash the Gilt markets He may raise the Pension age to 70 close the schools to a 3 day week reduce council budgets that much you get a bi annual bin collection but hey he has to find savings for his bankers on short haul flights sipping champagne.
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  352. Growth will happen when you don't have people waiting for operations creating millions of sick days eating into company profits with sick pay just 1 example
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  353. He's not a lifestyle coach he's a doctor
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  354. Cameron and Osborne I believe and if you look at Sunak's spending proposals for defence there a complete work of fiction
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  355. we've just been through the biggest fall in living standards in UK history at -4.2% down and our trade is down and we have a spiralling debt crisis since when is our economy on the up? UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times 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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  356. Never voted Tory but yea the Major government was decent enough to patch up the economic mess they themselves created and a centre right move rather than the economic car crash of Thatcher. Having retired have had time to read loads on economics and political history given the data why anyone thinks the Tories are economically competent is beyond me
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  357. I think the last 2 weeks Starmer has stuck it too the Tories by stirring up the Hornets nest that is Immigration and Brexit which makes the Gammons really angry with the Tories and likely to peel off and vote for REFORM or other looney parties. Splitting the Right wing Vote will pay dividends come election time Reform UK stand at 7% LIB-Dems hovering around 13% Greens at 7% You can see the Green vote splitting and being used as a tactical vote
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  358. why do it at all it was a clean up interview to lie about lying
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  359. Which commandment has Trump NOT Broken?
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  360. What a waste of 1/2 a billion pounds
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  361.  @WordAte  They have settled down. The issue is the supply chain went from overnight to next month if your Lucky so In my small prosperous norther town the hotels can't get staff The local craft gin distillery had it's exports to the EU wiped out overnight and my friends son who was full time in a Show band saw their summer work disappear overnight and has had to go back part time. I'm well connected but this is happening all over the country outside of London, the main economic figures are masked by the service sector it will take decades for the regions to recover it's as bad as the Thatcher deindustrialisation
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  362.  @Jo5ephSmith  Layered defence which is what the Ukrainians are doing has a casualty rate of 1 defender to 5 attackers, you can look it up in the army manuals if you want and I suspect higher on the Russian side if there throwing conscripts in. So Yes Ukraine will be taking casualties but if they've lost 5000 in this battle which is a fair estimate then the Russians have lost 25,000 minimum if that's dead then multiply the number by 3 to get the number of wounded.
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  363. The way you cure our economic problems is Analyze where the 800 billion went spent during Cov Start taxing it out of the system Hint It isnt in the pockets of the low paid
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  364. You go where the data leads. Reason our economy is down the toilet is following an economic ideology not looking at economic reality
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  365. Why? We already have low corporation tax, last time it went to 19% the big companies spent it all on share buy backs pumping thier stock price. Only aound 20% ended up in th economy ​@mikecook1537
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  366.  @JohnnyRingo-c5v  if you want lower migration you can't have lower taxes the 2 are mutually exclusive. To lower migration you need to pay public sector workers appropriate wages to attract more of the domestic workforce and invest more in training infrastructure and the NHS
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  367. 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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  368.  @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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  369. It's akin to acid reflux
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  370. There is the question of what do you do with a 1 man walking crime wave Also A lot of this is down to him having the maturity of a 9 year old and add his ADHD into the mix if push comes to shove he wouldn't get a custodial sentence because of his mental incapability. Why the Republicans cling to his coattails is beyond me the guy is completely barking mad and his 4 years in office resulted in the worst economic record since Hoover and the big depression
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  371. Because there not allowed to spread lies and conspiracy theories dressed up as news
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  372. I'm a pensioner, we own our home again prime Tory demographic but my son will never prosper in a Conservative economy he's got 4 A levels 2 diploma's and 4 years experience and is on +40p above minimum wage. At 25 there's no chance of him leaving home other than via the bank of mum and dad With fiscal drag and degraded NHS they've really taken the pensioner vote for granted
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  373. 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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  374.  @iainprendergast8311  what's the difference between a left wing populist and a right wing populist Nothing They both promise the earth and deliver absolutely nothing if Corbyn had a majority of say 2/3 in 2017 he would have tried to implement a radical agenda and hit a brick wall the pound would have fallen and the Gilt market would have started to collapse same as happened to Truss. He gets rejected after 6 weeks what happens a new election chaos and Labour locked out of power for another decade or he's replaced and bitter infighting in the Labour party.
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  375. Rishi Sunak's bank tax giveaway to soar to £7.3 billion amid bumper profits When it was originally announced, Rishi Sunak's cut to the bank surcharge was expected to lose the exchequer £4.7 billion - but now bumper bank revenues mean the UK will forego £2.6 billion more than that So he could reverse the Bankers giveaway and use it to fund a 10% public sector pay rise
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  376. Autism is a gift, anyway having a zero % tolerance for BS should be admired
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  377. It's just getting a smaller and smaller bubble, facts have a real stubborn streak of just being facts.
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  378.  @Garycarlyle  yes it would, members can set reduced rates on a whole basket of things including "domestic fuel" we have 2 reduced rates 5% and 0% So it's a LIE
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  379. Is there no honour among thieves will they not do the country a favour and just GO
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  380. Its PMQ's not shadow PMQ's Flynn has his own problems Personally you could see it coming the money the Tories are blowing away is spectacular if you look at the budget there's still loads of trickle down tax giveaways in it. They need a replacement policy though just a note the Fees are an Accounting fiddle it pushes the government debt into future years until this budget 80% was written off after the 30 Years but Sunak has whacked it up to 40 and brought down the limit you start paying. On another note it should be targeted and by degree and ability to pay if my son had gone to Uni he'd have left with no debt just saying in the end he didn't because he is Autistic he became a Gardener. And Apprenticeships are a whole different pile of poo
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  381. 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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  382. Nothing we say or do will change that
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  383. The Haunted Pencil has spoken get back on your heads plebs King Boris isn't leaving till they drag him out by his short and curlies
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  384. Osborne is a hard right Thatcherite Austerity Raised VAT Lowered Corporation tax ( which they spent on share buy backs) Small state
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  385. There running around like headless chickens Most of the top companies are making a lot of money apple google Microsoft are pretty cash rich all this does is put a brake on them wasting it on share buy backs
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  386. GBN shilling for the Tories what a surprise. The party that has produced the worst economic results since the Nepolionic wars
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  387. These bases were the ultimate counter culture symbol they were named specifically to put black America under the boot post 1900 there symbols of hate of Jim Crow of voter suppression etc..
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  388. raising VAT overnight crushed any chance of economic recovery. quote GEORGE Osborne's decision to hike VAT will shave 0.3 per cent off GDP in 2011-12, the official independent forecaster said yesterday. Quote George Osborne's VAT rise illustrates an unbending truth of politics: it's easier to raise £13bn from the poor than upset VIPs
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  389. Its worse than that GDP per Capita was $50,000 in 2010 its now $45,000 If you tax working people then give it as in the Millionaire pension tax break of 2 billion it goes from the working economy GDP etc. to get locked in the Asset economy and we tax work not Assets It Therefore shrinks GDP per capita Your then left with a black hole that get's filled by borrowing
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  390. its their hard right Thatcherite economic policies + Austerity and it screwing over immigration as well ex Osborne stopped Nursing Bursary in 2010 as part of Austerity, numbers doing nursing fell because it was rolled into tuition fees now in 2023 we have a nursing shortage are out the EU so a Nigerian Nurse comes in to take her place brings Hubby and 2 kids.
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  391. spreading conspiracy theories is
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  392. 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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  393. C'mon Lib-Dems make it so
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  394. we now have a nickname for Kamala No Mercy Harris
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  395. we won't need one at this rate there dropping like rancid flies
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  396. Sunak was involved in the banking crisis his firm were one of the leading culprits if you want to throw stones then here Quote TCI launched a campaign against the Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007, which resulted in its sale to the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). The deal loaded RBS with crippling debt and led to a £45.5bn government bailout.
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  397. You've got it al you do is complain about it
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  398. They've spent 14 years on infighting and will spend the next 5 years on infighting
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  399. Its word salad after while you mentally block it out
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  400. Boris is the architect of a border down the Irish Sea and the shitist trade deal in UK history, we have chaos in NI and chaos at the ports and your moaning about someone who has principles and wasn't prepared to campaign on lies? I've seen no end of moaning about Brexit and how there's no benefits but we need to unleash them, sorry but leaving the single market is what you got plus 3rd country status there simply are no benefits unless you count raw sewage in the rivers because profit over people
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  401. We have a cost of living crisis people will have to choose between heating and eating. Average wages have fallen to below 2010 levels by -7% and 1 in 5 children are designated as IN poverty. All things that should be in the news 24x7 He is one of the elite who will get a goldstar service unlike his subjects but I wish him well as a person
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  402.  Doctah Wahwee  And what are they trying to push or are you just hypothesising based on what the right wing media tell you to think?
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  403. Yes his punching down agenda is going well with cancelling HS2
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  404. That's easy the Tories outsourced everything increasing its cost If you look at the NHS a lot of the money just hemorrhage out this way
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  405.  @freeplex589  I'd have thrown out the ERG extremists from the party, May was weak and got bullied in the end Boris broke Parliament and expelled the sane moderates who in a lot of cases got replaced with xenophobic ex UKIP nut bags
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  406. we like boring to the chaos of DJT Another week in which he was completely gross The post he put on truth social was disgusting and an embarrassment that he was ever President
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  407. What's better, get a few independents or enthuse the base comes out in massive numbers, Walz will energize the key demographic Democratic voters to turn out in even larger numbers.This is a turn out election you don't need a corporate pick
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  408. 2006 debt to GDP 40% 2010 62% (Banking Crisis) 2019 92% (Cameron tax cuts straight onto debt) 2023 103% (Projected) The Conservatives are responsible for 41% of that debt in 13 years
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  409. Same as Joe's, investment in social and physical infrastructure growing the economy from the bottom up middle out
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  410. It's because people are switching to tactical voting, the share of the left leaning vote has remained constant for months at around 58%, the right leaning vote is pretty stable at around 35% Over 50% of Conservative 2019 voters when polled want change and are disgusted with the last 5 years
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  411. I hope she doesn't at 70 and gaffe prone what does she have to offer?
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  412. Are they? They have a few centre left policies but so does labour
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  413. 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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  414. It's the House of Patronage go ask Lord Ledvedev of Siberia
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  415. Kudlow was terminally stupid years ago
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  416. He cares a lot more about you than Sunak did
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  417. Cmon he's only worth 200 million give the guy a break (leg, arm maybe)
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  418. Don't you just miss her instead we have the Pritster and Bojo with Rees Smug
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  419. They don't get a criminal record so they'll just sweep it under the carpet, the whole cabinet needs to go
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  420. Blame the Tories for all the voter suppression tactics I expect Labour to widen ID acceptability and introduce automatic voter registration as part of expanding the franchise
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  421. ​@evolassunglasses4673 imigration isn't the problem it's government policy If you allow offshore companies to create 1 million zero hour low paid completly unregulated jobs then import cheap labour to undercut existing businesses ITS NOT THE FAULT OF THE MIGRANT WORKERS. We've always had the ability to create well paid work through government policy and control migration the Tories chose not to
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  422. He's got the intellect of a petulant 7 year old
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  423. You do realise he's highly qualified
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  424. She is one of the most respected women around the world as is her husband Barack Trump is one of the least respected around the world, everyone has seen his complete lack of morals, the bullying his tantrums the way autocratic world leaders manipulate him
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  425. Nobody is obstructing Johnsons Brexit this is it, trying to blame the EU for us erecting trade barriers on ourselves is kind of stupid
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  426. ​@TPT6148 Norway are in the single market my brother lives there we now have to fill in export forms to send him a birthday gift I don't think you have a clue as to howmuch damage to the UK’s economy Johnson's hard Brexit is causing
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  427. And what's your alternative? I'm going with less shit than it is now and campaigning for the policies that are important to me, all your offering is +5 years of even more shit to clean up
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  428. Long term economic prospects are awful as will be the immigration numbers
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  429. so you listened to it did you? She was for mental health help for everyone or did that bit gloss you by
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  430. You
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  431. A 3 bedroom semi costs 1200+ to rent a nurse at the bottom of the ladder will be paying tax + NI + Student tax (> 24,000 with 6% interest) to buy a small 3 bedroom semi you would need to earn 60,000 The Tories over the last 13 years have created a debt trap where its impossible to get on the housing ladder and impossible to afford to rent if you try your finances are severely compromised
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  432. The reason our energy prices are the highest in Europe are we are tied to Gas and Cameron got rid of Labour's renewable and insulation programs.
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  433. This is what happens when you invest 2 trillion into social and physical infrastructure rather than 3.5 trillion in corporate tax cuts Duh
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  434. well that was a complete gubbing I've never seen such a one sided exchange, she pushed every button on his loony tune control panel, at least we have a nickname No Mercy Harris
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  435. Britannia Unchained straight from the Donkey's Bottom Quote The British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor. Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen, the British are more interested in football and pop music. The book is written by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Liz Truss The text sets out their vision for the United Kingdom's future as a leading player in the global economy, arguing that Britain needs to adopt a far-reaching form of free market economics, with fewer employment laws
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  436. ​ @Edward-cv2gw given the fact the Tories have lowered the bar virtually to the floor he only needs to be mildly competent to be the next coming of Jesus
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  437. If you don't invest in infrastructure you won't get out of the current doom loop of cyclical decline and mass migration
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  438.  @willtellall638  Trump even before the election was literally hated by 50+ % of the US population, he was not just unpopular some hard facts of Biden's voter Base as has been gleaned since the election they account for 70% of the US GDP and also supply a disproportionate amount to the overall tax dollars. The die hard Republican rural states sucks tax dollars in relying heavily on the so called costal elites. The US is on the cusp of being the global player in renewable energy much like it was in the tech revolution but Republicans are pissing in a pool of fossil fuel sticking thier fingers in thier ears and wanting to turn the clock back to the 50's.
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  439. LOL why is so easy to prank stupid people woops I meant Republicans
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  440. ? He's fetching his own travelling swamp with him stinkier and more putrid than last time
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  441.  @JanisDavis-b8v  refugees are 62,000 per annum v legal migration of 1.25 million yet you want to conflate the 2 why?
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  442. Yea but non of it is true this is just theatre we've had weeks of no evidence
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  443.  @Icculu5  eating an ice cream in a loud manner How do these clowns expect to be taken seriously last week they were going on about gas stoves
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  444. He's just not interested in governing, all him and Pence care about is holding power actually doing some work there awol
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  445. I've felt that way since Thatcher
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  446. ​ @totalvoid6234 what worse? Fighting for removal of the death penalty great job I say
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  447. Joe doesn't have time for the Malarkey, he's determined to create a legacy in as short a time as possible for his grandchildren hence the huge focus on climate
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  448. He has stiffed that many arenas by not paying his bills he has to do outside venues as the usual ones want paying and money up front.
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  449. @purukrishnamurthy2960  at least she won't crash the economy with Tariffs, Austerity and mass deportations
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  450. I mean he was always this bad the fact that the Con party has had a sudden epiphany is a bit rich they knew he's a lying lazy incompetent entitled twat when they elected him
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  451. I'm quite looking forward to a Labour administration A proper trade deal with the EU removal of tons of paper work and red tape working NHS fixed supply chain so no food shortages can't wait
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  452. Things will get worse we've had 7 quarters straight of negative GDP per Capita the GDP headline number is propped up by 1.25 million visas The other issue the Tories have is activists on the ground while they may have money people aren't keen to knock on doors and defend their record As for shrinking the poll gap with propaganda every part of the MSM has been batting for them and the polls still just get worse
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  453. Don't worry forget about the 30 billion in lost vat and import duties because ourr systems weren't ready
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  454.  @thesoundsmith  they've done psychological studies on Conservative v Liberal brains the Conservative brain is very triggered by fear and needs security authority and predictability the Liberal is open to to nuance novelty change
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  455.  @BlueStormBuG  How did high tariffs lead to the Great Depression? Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act | History, Effects, & Facts | Britannica It raised the price of imports to the point that they became unaffordable for all but the wealthy, and it dramatically decreased the amount of exported goods, thus contributing to bank failures, particularly in agricultural regions.
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  456.  @snowyowel7961  convicted of rape, convicted of embezzlement and now of cheating 3 - 0 I'd say
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  457. It doesn't get labeled Gammon Box News for nothing
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  458. Between myself and my wife were worth 1.5 million if we died tomorrow it would all go to my son Tax Free - this is a CON to let the top 4% off tax
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  459. Another party for the Billionaires, keep tugging the Forelock
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  460. 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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  461.  @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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  462. ​@JM-hn6vg you can choose to not have an abortion that's your choice For everyone else mind your own business
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  463.  @Su40sw  Why are about talking about Blair that was over a decade ago? Under Tory misrule we've had 12 years of Economic stagnation negative wage growth and reduced spending power a feat not achieved by any government in 200 years and defiantly not since comprehensive records began. Whatever your political thoughts are on the suitability of a labour government the Blair / Brown years gave the UK 25% growth in average wages plus a minimum wage which uplifted millions. The current governments fastest expanding industry is customs officers and its social programs are creating an explosion in food / fuel poverty and 3rd world food banks in many areas.
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  464. The public need a health briefing not a 2 hour slew of garbage coming out of the Orange idiot
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  465. Put the Democratic women front and centre, they have the fire to blast through GOP BS.
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  466. Their debt to GDP has fallen from 132% to 120% since its peak in 2020 GDP Growth is 4.9% netting an additional 250 billion tax dollars The strategic investment in renewables is possible as you say to being the default world currency but the transformation will decouple the US economy away from world commodity prices which will bring down production costs.
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  467.  @archvaldor  What honeymoon period the economy is heading down the toilet and it will be near impossible to turn round with the current economic policies. Remember were coming off the back of a decade of shrinking wages and economic stagnation heading into an even worse decade of shrinking wages and economic stagnation
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  468. Boris is a national embarrassment, the guy lies constantly and dishes up a heady mix of arrogance intertwined with complete incompetence It's percolating all down the cabinet the whole of the UK government is just rotting from the top down
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  469. Elect clowns you get a clown show
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  470. Yea I mean how will you cope with services improving and no free tax giveaways to the rich
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  471.  Edgar Friendly  There are Vigilantes, white nationalists, anarchists and criminals taking advantage of genuine protests yet nothing is being done to address the feeling that many have that they are second class citizens living in a police state. The President just sits there pouring gasoline onto the scab of racism, Fox news goes on a white power rant every 5 seconds and the administration's completely tone deaf to the cause's to the point where the right wing in politics is actively pushing all the wrong buttons to ensure what is happening will only get worse.
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  472. 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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  473. Liberal radical left = anyone that's not a ragging right wing conspiracy theory loving xenophobic misogynistic fascist
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  474. No it wasn't they have close ties with the Democrats as do the Conservatives with the Republicans
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  475. If you want lower migration vote for a party that will invest in the UK and is prepared to raise taxes on the wealthy to do it not one that p1sses money away on gimmicks
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  476. 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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  477. Farage isnt standing as a candidate what utter nonsense
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  478. 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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  479. 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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  480.  @robertjames4908  Immigration is the result of government policy andnot the fault of introducing FOM The biggest driver in recent years has been the lack of regulation on zero hour and the GIG economy, relentless outsourcing and a 14 year pay squeeze on public service workers. If you reintroduced FOM tomorrow legal migration would drop back down to +200k net
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  481. Sweden is sparsely populated (26 per Km2 V England 434 Km2 & London 5,596) and has a large housing ownership and stock + a well funded health system. They still followed social distancing and the elderly were asked to self isolate, people were asked to remote work. Quote Some restrictions were imposed. Public events were limited to a maximum of 50 people in March 2020, and eight people in November 2020. Visits to nursing homes were banned and upper secondary schools closed. etc.
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  482.  @elkiepops  the ever evolving covid contract scandal will get picked up one day hundreds of legitimate firms unable to get through to the government while the chumocracy got a VIP lane with billions in contracts to mates
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  483. Estimate is 85 billion over 10 years, the estimated cost to businesses of Johnson's red tape is around 8+ billion per annum
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  484. If they'd vote for DeSantis then they've just not learned anything an appalling record as Governor Failing schools quote Stanford University study of state-level standardized tests showed that Florida’s “learning rate” was the worst in the country — by a wide margin Failing housing policy median rent prices increased by over 30 percent across the state, from about $1,340 in February 2020 to roughly $1,760 in February 2022. One of the worst tax systems in the US New research by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) shows that Florida’s tax system remains among the “Terrible Ten” most inequitable in the nation, ranking 48th among all states. Florida’s reputation as a “low-tax” state belies the reality that it is, in fact, a high-tax state for low- and moderate-income residents. Floridians with the lowest incomes — those earning less than $18,700 — contribute 12.7 percent of their incomes to state and local taxes, while the wealthiest top 1 percent — those with incomes of more than $548,700 — contribute just 2.3 percent of their income.
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  485. The vilness from the Republicans would be off the charts not sure even I could cope
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  486. There never was a chance of a successful Brexit the EU closed down the idea of a Singapore on Thames the day after the vote, we've been leeching money from the City ever since quote from reuters The transfer of assets from London to EU hubs remains around 1.3 trillion pounds ($1.7 trillion), EY said, adding that Brexit staff moves are by now part of a broader view of strategic business drivers and operating models. FT This report highlights the damage that Brexit has already done to the City of London. More than 440 firms in banking and finance have moved or are moving part of their business, staff, assets or legal entities from the UK to the EU. While this is higher than previous estimates, it underestimates the real picture – and the potential longer-term impact.
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  487. The non tarrif bit only applies if you have proof oof origin at least 60% and that proof comes in the form of thousands of pages of documentation
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  488. It's been like this since 2016 Party before country Electoral oblivion is too good for them
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  489. 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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  490. ​​ @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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  491.  @tetraquark2402  blame outsourcing - water anyone
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  492. 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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  493. 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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  494. There is no cost to Labour Sunak has already raised taxes to base 37% in the past 2 decades before he became chancellor the base rate had been 33% The only people that will be affected are those paying school fees Non Doms and those currently avoiding Tax
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  495. We borrowed 130 billion last year and paid out 120 billion in interest rates The NI cuts weren't costed by the look of it but were supposed to be paid for by cuts to services
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  496. 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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  497.  @jamiestone1809  The Tories have defunded the justice system costing billions in additional costs as well as the trauma crime has on people's lives.
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  498. So full autocratic power play then, if he wasn't such a moron he'd realise he's digging his own grave on this and the longer GOP senetors keep mum like nodding dogs the worse the optics get for them. Everyone likes the mail, thier buddy the mail delivery person even more so in deep red states This is also getting broadcast all over the world at the same time as Belerous protesters are being beaten and after coming office back of federal troops beating up protestors
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  499. When 35 votes beats 55 votes the system is fked
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  500. So he's got no morals as well as being useless at his job Destined to be the next prime minister then?
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  501. ​ @ChelleKT1 no they won't In the unemployment numbers are a huge swathe 9f people who are classed as special needs, people with Autism, Downs others with severe mental illness. Budgets have been cut that severely that their is zero support for these people. Also if you look at prison statistics more and more people with special needs are ending up in prison
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  502.  @markredmond2014  Gary was a trader made a fortune betting the Tories couldn't fix the economy
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  503. there's no such thing we left the EU ages ago pointing out the consequences of that action is just highlighting the truth
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  504. ​ @alyb731 Sunak paid 21p in the £ I think you'll find they don't It's estimated that Bezos paid 3 cents on the $ last year
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  505. Are you living in an alternate Universe, all the woman did was Gaslight lie and stomp off pretty much a clone of her boss's behaviour
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  506. In terms of economic metrics its the worst since the Napolionic Wars
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  507. There's a majority in NI to stay in the single market There has to be a border down the Irish Sea or Regulatory alignment with the EU and remain in the single market (Irish backstop) Johnson chose the Irish Sea option and lied about it at the end of the day the DUP only represents 30% of the population and the further down the road NI gets the bigger the majority will be to keep the protocol or call for a referendum on unification
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  508.  @russlehman2070  white fright I'm sad to say
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  509. It's cost more already to not pay a decent rise
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  510. Only the Tories follow supply side economics everyone else knows what a crock it is but the Con followers don't bother to read up on how catastrophic it has been for the country for the last 12 years. Education Education Education Supply-side economics assumes that lower tax rates boost economic growth by giving people incentives to work, save, and invest more. A critical tenet of this theory is that giving tax cuts to high-income people produces greater economic benefits than giving tax cuts to lower-income folks. Essentially, the more money the rich are able to keep, the more the whole economy will grow. But the evidence reveals two fundamental problems with this story. First, its primary prediction is wrong—giving tax cuts to the rich does not increase economic output or create new jobs. Instead, tax cuts for middle- and low-income taxpayers are much more effective at boosting macroeconomic activity. Second, supply-side theory misunderstands the actual mechanism by which tax rates influence macroeconomic activity. While supply-siders maintain that lower rates at the top incentivize people to earn more money, the evidence shows that tax cuts boost output mostly by putting money in people’s pockets and thereby stimulating demand.
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  511. Should spend it on tidal systems they would be onstream sooner
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  512. The Labour guy reported it to the security In a statement, Mr Gardiner, who was a member of the shadow cabinet under former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, said he had been liaising with the security services for a number of years about his contacts with Lee, who runs a law firm in central London.
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  513. I am frothing mad at the momey wasted on this come the election I'll be out canvassing and telling anyone that will listen how Tories p1ss money up the wall
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  514. ​ @digitalbusker7023 in what way are they Tories? Current lot won't regulate water, don't want to transition to energy independence and won't nationalise the railways or build more social housing
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  515. Not really the bulk of UK Muslims are worried about the NHS and cost of living same as everyone else Why stereotype
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  516.  @alan6  Why are you trying to supress people's votes to try and make their lives better are you an agent of Big Dog?
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  517. Your only going to pay tax on pensions because Sunak Froze the 20% threshold till 2028 So far that has cost me a pensioner £560 this tax year Under the last labour government vat went down which greatly helps people on low income
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  518. 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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  519. 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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  520. On the right wing of the Tory party? The Tories have multiple right wings Elphick supported Johnson's Liberal economic agenda which Sunak has completely junked but was a hardliner on migration and social policy This is a list of what's been junked by Sunak - Net Zero, Levelling up, Social care, housing and planning, HS2/3
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  521. What in a drinking competition?
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  522. I'm a pensioner and by lowering NI and freezing thresholds my tax has risen by +£550 and those in the working income bracket of 33-55k have a few pounds extra and most of those were never voting Tory anyway. The one group Tories still have a following with around 50% support there now blowing off, I mean how dense is he to not realise that p1ssing off pensioners risks getting that current 20% approval to go even lower
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  523. If you dont want Khan to win by a landslide why did you nominate Susan Hall? She's as mad as a box of frogs
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  524. Reeve has an economics degree from the LSE and worked at the BOE there will be no economic tax surprises were 10% worse off now than we were in 2010, 14 wasted years
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  525. hate is all you have
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  526. Never voted Tory but yea the Major government was decent enough to patch up the economic mess they themselves created and a centre right move rather than the economic car crash of Thatcher. Having retired have had time to read loads on economics and political history given the data why anyone thinks the Tories are economically competent is beyond me
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  527.  @c.s3369  No it's not true you need to get a reality check
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  528. Warren is advocating a mixed economy (capitalism with guard rails) capitalism unchecked will decend into an elite economy for the few (just look at Russia with the oligarchs and a permanent leader) what I struggle with is thier is no acceptance from the right wing that monopolies are bad for capitalism and that they are in effect promoting socialism for the rich controlled by the very rich.
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  529. Our death rate is higher than our birth rate has been forr years we have an ever aging population. What kept the economy going was the input of EU workers there is no chance of taxes going down and the current prognosis is stagflation But hey there is nothing stopping you blaming everything on a fictional enemy works every time foor the wannabe fascissts
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  530. Hung parliment are they deluded or what YouGov had them on 18%, and the later they leave it the more of their voters move on to the great gig in the sky
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  531. Biden isn't pro abortion neither are the majority of Democrats The issue is a medical one sticking your nose in what is in most cases a women's health issue your ending up with more pregnant teenagers more death in childbirth higher infant mortality and back street abortions with all the knighmares that that brings where's the morality in that?
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  532. 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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  533. We were on of the main creators of the ECHR, It was ratified after the war as was the UN charter on refugees Churchill: "there must be an act of faith in the European family" look up "Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?" It has 46 members the only nation to leave is Russia when they invaded Ukraine which kind of says it all rather than get sucked in to right wing hyperbole and show pony politics some research into why its there and what it does would be of use
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  534. I listened to an interview with a bank expert he got his elite rich bank account closed because he wasn't rich enough Also They have a fie on him because he's a PEP What happens if you are a PEP? Because PEPs hold positions of power and influence, they can be a target for corruption and bribery attempts, and ultimately for money laundering or terrorism financing activities. This is why it's important to use AML/CTF measures to identify, mitigate and manage any such potential risks AML/CTF = Anti-Money Laundering / Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Bank Secrecy Act
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  535. Sajid Javid has been a non Dom for over a decade before becoming a cabinet minister The removal would generate around 3.2 billion and it also stops the avoidance of capital gains tax
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  536. should take out the word false could be the next winning slogan the get Brexit done of 2024 I Don't want to give people Hope yea quite catchy I mean Osborne got away with I want to make you all poorer
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  537. Seems like more and more presenters are pissed off with his endless lying
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  538. 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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  539. are we going to get 5 years of this?
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  540. what good economic news? 8 quarters of negative GDP per capita with 1 quarter just above water and flatlining again. 2% CPI inflation is only going to be down for a month it will start to rise again because these are 12 month averages all indicators are with CPIH (includes housing costs) 2.8% and it's component OOH (owner occupiers) 6.7% there will be considerable uptick in inflation we are saddled with high BOE rates till well into Autumn
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  541. 2 things to follow up on with Truss 1. Read an excellent article in Byline Times titled "LIZ TRUSS The Tufton Street Candidate" 2. Follow up on Minford the Brexir Economist (Singapore on Thames on steroids) who's tax advice she is quoting. Professor Patrick Minford, one of the ‘Economists for Brexit’, argues that leaving the European Union (EU) will raise the UK’s welfare by 4% as a result of increased trade. His policy recommendation is that following a vote for Brexit, the UK should strike no new trade deals but instead unilaterally abolish all its import tariffs. Under this policy (‘Britain Alone’), he describes his model as predicting the ‘elimination’ of UK manufacturing and a big increase in wage inequality. These outcomes may be hard to sell to UK citizens as a desirable political option.
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  542. Corbyn handed the Tories an 80 seat majority on a plate with his Hubris we needed a government of National unity in 2019 yet he would only support himself being PM and went to the country with a poll rating of -72 +12 The guy was a complete political car crash this post 2019 veneration really is sickening given what he did and what's happened to this country since 2019
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  543. Its a charter to smuggle were loosing millions in duty
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  544. They've not been in power for 13 years and i wasn't a Blaire/ Brown fan after 13 years of abject Con failure the last labour era seems like the golden age Increasing average wages Services that were staffed and worked Well funded schools Having freedom of movement to live and work anywhere in Europe I'm struggling to think of anything the Tories haven't broken
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  545.  @07Flash11MRC  The swamp of wackadoodles and weirdos round DJT is expanding
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  546. Quote Large tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality and don't fuel economic growth or cut unemployment, a new paper by academics from the London School of Economics and King's College London says. Their analysis of 50 years' worth of tax cuts for the wealthy in 18 countries counters arguments that such cuts "trickle down" to the rest of the economy. "Cutting taxes on the rich increases top income shares, but has little effect on economic performance," the researchers concluded. EndQuote All she was doing was piling up public debt
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  547. ​ @owainevans89 the tax base is at its highest since post war construction as is debt levels The tax base was 33% under Blair and 33% under Cameron the main difference was VAT raised by 5% by Osborne which affects middle and low incomes
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  548. Yea right you a millionaire?
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  549. Was there a bit about setting up the Farage Youth in their contract?
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  550. 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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  551. The GOP answer to inflation is savage cuts to spending sending the economy into recession and massive unemployment (Reaganomics with 7/8% unemployment high interest rates crushing working and middle class) It maintains wealth at the top and that is paid for in bucket loads at the bottom and middle in Bidenomics if you have an energy shortage you build more renewable capacity by increasing supply which lowers the price overall and also keeps unemployment low. You won't get 1-2% inflation unless you take out from the wealthy part of the 8 trillion Trump pumped in in debt with taxes
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  552. If you put a Clown in charge of Government the Clown doesn't become a Leader the Government becomes a Circus
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  553.  @fastestoneliner  fins pop out after its fired I guess look up "Ukraine Kvitnya guided artillery shell" I was gobsmacked by the tech which allows for 1 shot 1 kill from 24 kilometres away
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  554.  @kushagrashukla3403  debt to GDP has fallen under Biden from 133% under Trump to 122% The economy has grown substantially in the last 4 years
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  555.  @mogznwaz  If you turned off migration the country would collapse You got sold brex1t on lower migration but it was always going to go up because of dependants If you want lower migration then we need to invest in the domestic population, housing, infrastructure and public transport NOT TAX CUTS
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  556. Sun readers are hard to please? If your reading a paper aimed at someone with the intellect of a 10 year old owned by a Libertarian billionaire the there is no hope for you
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  557. Is there a cap on care home costs? There is currently no cap on care home fees in the UK. The UK government has announced that from October 2025 (this was originally due to come into effect in 2023 but has been delayed), If you remeber this was going to be paid for with a 2% increase in NI from 10-12% Sunak blew the money on a cut to 6%
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  558.  @Dynasty1818  Back in 2013 Osborne was told that Austerity was killing the economy 11 years on the Sunak / Hunt plan is tax cuts + 14% reduction on spending aka Austerity on steroids If you look at GDP per Capita we've been in recession for 2 years
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  559. 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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  560. Ukraine is the biggest shop window for US arms exports which have far outweighed the cost in aid also demonstrating the superiority over Russian arms
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  561. Renewable energy has been the cheapest on the grid since 2020 Our biggest issue is non investment in the grid to make full use of always on energy Reason it gets cheaper year on year is wind and the sun are free energy sources whil fossil is subject to extraction processing and transport costs + inflation.
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  562. 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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  563. Gdp per capita has fallen 7 quarters straight headline gdp was propped up by +1.25 million visas In 2008 gdp was 3.09 trillion its now 3.33 trillion with 8 million more people and further concentration of wealth in the City & South East weve been in an on off recession for 16 years.
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  564.  @happyfuture6515  I've been surprised how powerful Biden has been he also exudes an inner calm, he who should not be named had a knack turning the temp up to 10 and throwing gasoline on for good measure now it feels like he just defuses every situation
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  565. What credit does Boris have? and whats wrong with Starmer?
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  566. I'm extremely non violent but when Tucker speaks in that buddy buddy droning condescending way I just want to punch his face, the guy is slimy and vile in equal measures. Why do people listen to him is it out of a sense of masochism?
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  567. Religion doesn't tell you to be bigoted hiding behind it and using it as a shield is not acceptable
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  568. They've left the party. You get to a point where you have to make a choice in that can you change the party you belong to reflect enough of your views to stay. Miles is still trying to be a Republican the problem is the DT party isn't even Conservative.
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  569.  @xvi1128  nope it's a historic fact. Same as Trump having seen the worst economic 4 years since the great depression
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  570. 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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  571.  @mel92108  did he explain how pumping trillions into corporate tax cuts into debt fuels inflation? or how deregulation and corporate consolidation allows for corporate greedflation? You have the pandemic effect then +60% due to corporate gauging turbo charged by the Trump tax cuts
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  572. My dad was a refugee at the end of ww2 blame the current politicians for making the system unworkable
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  573. Breverman has around 15% support in the wider public according to polls in the US there's a 40% bottom on Republican support (red team blue team)
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  574. Fascist don't need petrol they run on hot air
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  575. when the problem is Right wing economics even further right economics isn't the answer
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  576. She 70 and loosing it a bit When you read her account of how the article happened it was supposed to be a draft seems she's starting to get the odd memory problem
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  577.  @vaughanie23  not all of them some are homophobic and transphobic as well
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  578. Renewable energy has been the cheapest on the grid since 2020 Reason it gets cheaper year on year is wind and the sun are free energy sources whil fossil is subject to extraction processing and transport costs + inflation.
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  579. 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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  580.  @bobsmith5185  he's a right wing arsewipe the guy has no morals
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  581.  @sparkymmilarky  Taxes are higher in Europe you watch too much tory tv and believe it
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  582. Latest is +4 for Harris After the disgusting post on truth social do you want the embarrassment of this oaf representing the US?
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  583. Lol If the Prada shoe fits wear it InActionMan it is Quote The PM has never been known to skimp on fashion, having previously been seen wearing £3,500 suits from Bloomsbury tailor Henry Herbert, £490 Prada shoes and a £795 Reiss jacket.
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  584. there's going to be a recession the multiplier for spending on public sector pay is for every £1 say a nurse spends it generates £1.6 in the wider economy. 80% of benefit claimants are in work there's only around 50,000 out of a working population of 32.7 million on full time benefit
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  585. Dems had to move on impeachment the stupid goat decided to interfere in 2020 and put him on notice were watching.
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  586. Its limping along the Energy Sector is making around 170 billion in EXCESS profits over the next 2 years the Tories are refusing to implement the windfall tax
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  587. Says a multi millionaire who's party is awash with dark money
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  588.  @yogeshkmrful  No anyone that stuck with the cult of personality sold their soul
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  589. The irony is he went off to lie about the lie on tv It ties him to Johnson
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  590. You can't fix the border wiitout bipartisan support for a common view of te problem. Hint Walls are not the answer
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  591. Taxes are rising Fiscal Drag means the Tax and NI threshold at 20% should be £15,000 not £12,250 The 40% rate is frozen as well and Corporation tax is going up
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  592. there's gullible people in every constituency
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  593. Its like saying rehabilitate Prince Andrew to the Royalty This time Big Dog has shat in the truthpool one to many times
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  594.  @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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  595.  @1inchPunchBowl  wrong rising wages wouldn't Stoke inflation especially at the bottom, the bulk of current inflation is part brexit part fossil dependency Last time inflation rocketed it was on the back of sky high oil prices we have a choice this time Look forward cost of Dogger bank wind farm is £40 per megawatt hour current OffGem spot price is over 200 Norway have 93% renewable and no trade barriers with its closest trade areas and has 3% inflation and we have 9% and climbing. Brexit alone has added +6% to our food bills
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  596. @Phaedrus Moros it's more prevalent in sexually repressive societies, the more closed right wing circles are the worst because people are afraid to speak out when they do there completely derided and outcast. How dare you accuse the elder of grooming etc etc Plenty of academic papers written about it go look it up
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  597. The DUP are so stupid it's kind of funny, the only thing that will save NI from unification is the protocol without it the push for a unification vote will deafening They couldn't be a better advert for ditching GB
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  598. Conservatives get there act together pfffffffff don't make me laugh The Tory Party Brexit's latest victim
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  599. It's a cult there's a good book on the topic of how it works written by an ex Moonie
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  600. You don't fuel a conspiracy theory, your trying to turn incompetence into some shadowy plot
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  601. Because there better than the Conservatives by a country mile
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  602. If you get a below inflation pay rise it can't cause inflation Also public sector pay is well below private sector levels due to Austerity ex- doctors pay has fallen 25% in real terms while tuition fees have trebled and bursaries been withdrawn And Government spending isn't like domestic spending it generates GDP and taxation by dint of it flowing round the economy the LSE put the true cost to the Treasury after this merry go round as 19p in the £1
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  603. 1st off the wind blows somewhere in the UK there's is never a dead calm because of the topography and the fact we are at the confluence of major weather systems, 2nd modern turbines turn at speeds as low as 8mph and 3rd when you add mass storage to any grid wholesale prices drop dramatically.
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  604.  @GargantuanD  DJT takes every opportunity to ramp up fear and hatred, the reason he did the outside rally in the 1st place was he's stiffed so many venues by not paying his bills they had to find alternates. He's currently setting the scene for his loss in November and inciting yet more political violence.
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  605. NI was always going to remain in the single market the people over there don't even want economy crippling brexit
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  606. They'll be reporting the truth physical exports fell by 4.6% in real terms imports fell by 7.4% in real terms service exports increased but Bloomberg analysts maintain they would have been higher without Brex i t London is OK the rest of the country is in recession
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  607.  @sensibledriver933  what's wrong with Rayner? Someone who left school at 16 and despite all the misogynistic sexism has managed to get to the very top of UK politics I was absolutely disgusted with the latest hit piece on her in the mail nothing about her policy views just a bunch of bile and misogynistic hate dripping with disdain at her lower class roots. Johnson had his seat given to him by Tory HQ as for his debating skills the man lies constantly its not even your dressed up political spin is just a complete bilge pump of Bullsht
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  608. It's a laughing stock with Naddine Dorrie and Ledvedev
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  609. If you want to lower immigration you need to invest in training your domestic workforce, increasing public sector salaries so it's not pulling in cheap foreign labour and invest in infrastructure as well as massively overhauling labour laws and regulation getting rid of zero hour low wage and cutting out outsourcing or having full transparency of workers pay and conditions if you are. Low tax = high migration it's a feature not a bug
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  610. UKIP lite
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  611. You got 20%+ increase in average wages under Blair / Brown with well funded services During the last 14 years we've had negative real wage growth
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  612.  @-The-Darkside  what did they lie about? exaggerated maybe but Corbyn's economic plans would have made the Truss market fallout look like a training exercise
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  613. Its not just benifit claimants its anybody that crosses the bows of the DWP
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  614. because they will be better than the previous 4 Tory PM's
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  615. we had a Tufton Street Libertarian wet dream budget which was according to the IEA, Taxpayers Alliance and Adam Smith Institute it was stellar the free market fundamentalist budget got kicked by the Free Markets right in the gonads latest poll while eye watering has some fundamental numbers under it which could wipe out the Tories even with 20% in the polls Only 8% of under 50's say they will vote Tory Labour now have a lead with the rural vote ( brexit and farming) the only poll lead the Tories had was on economic competence that is firmly in the skip fire of history Due to the FPTP system the latest poll would leave the Cons with 22 seats
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  616. ​ @5uper5kill3rz 50% only are owned by families. The cost of a family farm has been going up because rich people are using it as a tax dodge Family farms near me go for 2.5 million which is below the 3 mill threshold (Yorkshire)
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  617. Our 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 on vaccine doses. They also were part of the EU PPE purchasing scheme which we were invited to which supplied high quality PPE again at a fraction of the cost the Cons and their VIP lane paid
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  618. They were a Con show pony there wasn't the staff to man them
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  619. He sounds like he's as high as a kite, that's one hell of a downer he's going to suffer when the meds wear off The experimental antibody treatment he had will suppress the virus but he's not cured and pushing himself like that he's likely to have some sort of relapse.
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  620. Even though there pursuing the same Thatcherite economics that has spectacularly failed?
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  621.  @KevenHutchinson-gt1nn  They've done a better job than the Tories so don't look so smug. Low bar excepted
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  622. There are 5 stages of grief if you look at what he did about the 2020 loss he never got past anger and tried to bend reality He's doing the same thing over Biden Harris switch he's gone from Denial to Anger and is now projecting her crowd size as AI His mental state is going to deteriorate badly
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  623. The NatCon Brussels event was sponsored and coordinated by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian think tank funded by oil and gas money. As always these are not nice people I suggest you follow the money swilling around this pig trough
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  624. There's a spot fine but he'll get away with this Those who are caught without a seatbelt will be given the opportunity to take an online course, instead of taking the penalty points. The seatbelt awareness course will cost £53 and will be similar to courses for speeding offences. This comes as the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) stated that the existing fine is no longer a suitable deterrent.
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  625. The gilt market nearly collapsed we have >100% debt to gdp with zero signs of growth Your typical tax cut costs the treasury and doesn't stimulate the economy for example the Banker tax cut in the April budget of 8 billion will generate around 2.4 billion in additional taxation so a net loss of5.6 billion to the treasury
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  626. How irrational last time anything worked round here was when Labour was in charge now we have pot holes within potholes, highest tax burden and WTF are they spending it on it sure aint the country
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  627. The debt to GDP ratio was 62% in 2010 when the Conservatives claimed the country was bankrupt, Cameron / Osbourne instigated a corporation tax cut that they promised would stimulate growth in 2015 by 2019 the debt to GDP ratio reached 92% and there was zero real GDP growth in that period but the wealth gap exploded. During the pandemic we printed loads more money and guess what has happened oh look over that period Billionaire wealth doubled Under Truss's tax plans inequality will skyrocket as will inflation if you give a corporate Tax cut to everyone the up and coming Green energy startup is ploughing all its resources back into the company not paying tax but the BP Ladbrooks Hedge funds Banks will get a huge windfall funnelling the money to shareholders while further expanding the Debt and exploding the inequality gap. As of December 2021 we were debt leveraged at 102.8%
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  628. there dead anyway careering off to the right there's not much Farage ification left
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  629. On average were -7% worse off than in 2010 and were supposed to stick with a plan that is making us poorer Rhisi-cetion here we are
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  630. As part of Sunak's tax shenanigans with freezing thresholds till 2028 then using the money for NI cuts as a pensioner my tax has gone up by +£560 and then offering me £95 back is a insult Why didn't he use the 20 Billion to raise thresholds for everyone instead of giving a narrow band of those in employment getting +32k and less than 55k a tax break?
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  631. The way to stop abortions is with sexual health education and access to contraception, take a holistic approach and you'll reduce the necessity for one if you make it illegal you'll drive it underground for the poor and out of state for the rich. What the Anti abortion crowd are about is inflicting pain and suffering while claiming an unobtainable moral high ground these laws actually increase abortions and death in pregnancy overall and those deaths are on thier heads.
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  632. He's a really clever guy, you should hear him on the environment, his group is a big investor in Tesla
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  633. we've had loads of change, Rwanda scrapped, Green Energy projects fast tracked The pension allowance is £300, the last government increased my taxes by £600 alone, my issue with it was it's poorly thought out in terms of impact analysis and a PR disaster. Your talking maybe 80% of pensioners not needing it, official figures put 10% still qualifying.
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  634.  @aj529  Murdoc
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  635. Goods exports are down 4.6% in real terms adjusted for inflation and service growth has been suppressed quote from Bloomberg How, then, can we account for the strong UK services export growth compared to the G7 average? The answer is – again – that it is important to consider the right counterfactual. If we account for rising demand for services exports, we see that British exports should have performed even better than they did.
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  636. He's a below average middle manager who has failed upwards His sole achievement is reversing key manifesto promises
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  637. So what's the difference between Neoliberal trickle down that doesn't work for the Cons but Neoliberal trickle down from Reform?
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  638.  @dee-ix3iq  The current refugees are here legally they don't become illegal till their asylum claim is rejected If you shut down all legal routes to claim asylum leaving only arriving on British soil as the option what do you think will happen? And why do we not have ID cards to track workers movements all we have is someone whiny politician unable to take responsibility for their own shtshw
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  639.  @tazgecko  I'll give you 1 example, 72 billion was spent on energy support package rather than an appropriate windfall tax clawing 90% back which lead to an increase in profits by British gas (Who we used to own and was sold off for a pittance) of 920% the clawback was around 30 billion There's around 80 billion swilling round the system in fossil subsidies and tax breaks
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  640. 4 out of every 10 people retiring at 66 will do so into poverty
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  641. he wasn't going at all, and the half-day visit was a compromise! The question is how low can the Conservative vote go?
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  642. Here's an interesting fact the supply chain was an on demand 2/3 day delivery. If a delivery came from the EU and went say to Scotland the EU driver could pick up a delivery from Scotland to deliver to Birmingham then pick up again round the midlands area before heading to the continent. Quiz guess which blonde disheveled useless imbecilicus fkwt has completely broke the system So not only are EU freight firms reluctant to deliver very often there going back empty compounding the ever increasing supply chain delivery problems.
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  643. Keep up the mysoginy it's driving her numbers up
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  644. The 1st thing they did with it was give it away, all trade deals trade sovereignty for access
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  645. Our NHS is around 50% cheaper than a private system would be and we need an integrated transport system
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  646. White 60+ and devout christian everyone else doesn't count. They live in a bubble
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  647. 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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  648.  @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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  649. The vote in 2016 was all things to all men from a full Norway to the hard Brexit we ended up with In 2019 Boris got a vote of 43% mostly on the back of Corbyn Since 2016 its estimated that 2.3 million leave voters have died and if you take the new voters would vote remain 70-30 the current state of the electorate based on the 2016 result would be 55% remain 45% leave just on demographics alone. The fact that it's a complete economic train wreck isn't even factored in
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  650. Good idea open an application centre in Calais pulls the rug from under the traffickers at a stroke
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  651.  @tjw1861  Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. This is a Roe v Wade Election
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  652. Gosh Obama says what Trump should have come out and said, shows leadership that president spineless could never do and Fox cries because thier man is morally bankrupt. Trump TV never fails to look petty and partisan.
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  653. We're just going to have to play out the Johnson Brexit, unfortunately this ever evolving train wreck has to derail every carriage the worst part is having your freedom of movement removed then having your face rubbed in it telling you it's a benefit of Brexit.
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  654. Why are they so cr@p and incompetent?
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  655. The latest large scale wind turbines will power a house for two days on one turn, more birds die from flying into buildings and you can paint one of the Blades which vastly reduces bird death. Scotland is an ideal location for offshore wind farms they produce twice the energy a similar wind farm 300 miles down the coast even then the north Sea is one of the best locations in the world for offshore wind farms.
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  656.  Dawn Kuzio  you do know antifa is a fiction of the right wing media don't you, no prosecutions against anyone for being a member, no general worldwide terror threat notification In terms of blm if you have 40 million citizens in poverty then dump another 30 million onto the breadline coupled with chronic underinvestment then add a suppresion regime rather than dealing with the problem your going to get a lot of pissed off people.
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  657.  @bugwandis  "collective punishment " is a legal term under the Geneva convention its no wonder it got superseded it needs deliberating via a court.
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  658. what 2 tier policing? rioters banged up proper 10 out of 10 KS
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  659. Straight to the Misogyny, how apt
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  660. Another brex1t benefit along with 3/4 million dependants legally the hits just keep coming
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  661. Why don't they study politics and political systems before using big words like fascism and communism
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  662. I've always voted Lib-Dem or Liberal even with the sh@t stain of the 2010 deal because a Tory is 100 x worse and the Lab candidate has no chance in my constituency. They have 2 policies I support closer ties to Europe and PR the Tories have non
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  663. Her title is WokeFinder Genral And it's a sad and pathetic indictment of where the Tories have sunk too
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  664. Because New Labour didn't if you look at the data There borrowing by 2010 was 800 billion at 62% of gdp up from a steady 40% during the bulk of their term By 2010 Brown had steered the economy back on track, Osborne's Austerity and raising vat sent the economy into recession nocking off -2% off gdp then instituted a range of trickle down policies that were supposed to drive growth but just increased debt. Brown and BLair bought into a thatcher lite centrism which came with its own issues deregulation adding to the banking chaos being one and running with John Major's ppi another unfathomable decision. All in all Osborne and Cameron worked hard to destroy the economy labour built failing to regulate gig work and 6 years of public sector pay suppression lead to brexit
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  665. were in a Rhisi-session British gas posted 950% increase in profits and HE DID NOTHING
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  666. 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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  667. Trump is really mad about the whistle blower coz they were within days of getting the CNN interview and his scheme got blown up, he's going to rage and rage until they've outed whoever it is.
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  668.  @pavlovsdog5020  Heavy industry went because of Thatcherism. Nothing to do with joining the EU It was a political choice at the time Believe it or not our car industry had started making a recovery till 2016 when it started to decline again wonder what happened in 2016 to put off car manufacturers from investing in the UK?
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  669. given he hasn't enacted any policies yet your comment is pretty unhelpful He's offering a centre left, centre vision + showing the centre right there will be stable government as the Tories try to out UKIP the Reform party. If you want more left wing policies move the Overton window to the left don't start blaming Kier for moving enough to get the Tories out of power.
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  670. Poll of Polls (aggregates all the polls) Labour 44% Conservative 29% Lib-Dem 11% Green 6% Reform 6% Been steady for a while the locals looked to be tactical voting at a huge scale anyone but a Tory
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  671. The US has been a magnet for the best talent in the world for years
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  672. ​@denzel270 such as? The key problem is the Tories never once ran a balanced budget in 14 years, instead trickle down policy after trickle down policy was pushed into the system leading to the highest wealth inequality in Europe.
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  673. The Fox propaganda machine coupled with TRUMPS rhetoric has fueled the fringe militia groups which are openly actively recruiting and it wouldn't be a surprise if they weren't deliberately felled up with hate over the next 6 months to cause fear and civil unrest.
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  674. There are no benefits the UK economy is down the toilet wages aren't keeping up with inflation there are real pay cuts across the board unless your a CEO millionaire billionaire As an example the economy has taken a hit to GDP so far of 5.5% which equals 40 billion in lost tax Fiscal drag from the Apr budget will add on Average +£1000 PA to everyone's tax bill by 2027 raising a mere 30 billion Start here Brexit and the economy: the hit has been 'substantially negative Financial Times 30 Nov 2022 — In new a four part series, the FT examines the impact on Britain's economy, trade, business and politics.
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  675. A study a while back blew a hole in the roundup story, yields are comparable over land usage in Europe and intensive farming is killing the land needing continuous fertiliser usage with mono crops needing high levels of maintenance. What's worse is the dwindling water resources in some areas farmers need to get off the treadmill and step back and evaluate their land usage
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  676.  Help Me  Fox and the right wing spin have you convinced that the person who brags about being able to say "man woman person camera tv" is actually a businessman (conned his contractors and bankrupted 5 businesses) is going to actually do what he said 20,000 lies and counting
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  677. Ukraine is defending itself from invasion what do you want leverage over Europe wheat supplies as well as gas?
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  678. Pay and capital spending One key approach during the austerity years was keeping public sector pay low while cutting staff and expecting them to work harder. By 2018, police numbers had dropped by 21,000 and the prison service lost 26.6% of its staff between 2010 and 2015. Austerity is coming to bite the Con's hard saving a £1 in 2010 - 2015 will costs thousands to reverse the damage that was done
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  679. If they did this to themselves its gross incompetence If they let a missile through sophisticated defence systems its gross incompetence So which flavour of gross incompetence is it?
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  680. You can give them a seaweed feed supplement which reduces methane by 80%
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  681. I'm a retired boomer bought my house cost 3.5 times my salary Interest rates were at 8% at the time though. I also got free higher education, tax free savings and low tax paid for by Maggy with oil money and asset stripping. Granted I had a decent job but there is little excuse from my generation about paying more tax and given how ISA'S are tax free i don't pay much of that either
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  682.  @FactsMatter-wh7rr  why does she need to do a press conference? Based on the inane questions they gave Trump the other day it's a waste of campaign time
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  683. I have a charger at home it costs 7p per kwh to charge overnight saving £2,000 a year on petrol You can get a lease deal for £250 a month and the retail prices have fallen through the floor as battery prices have halved in the last 2 years
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  684. best of a bad lot
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  685. The indicted pardoned soon to be indicted for Sedition Flynn
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  686. Houses prices are artificially high due to government policies, prices have risen by 66% since 2010 while wage growth is -7%
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  687. More info is needed on exactly where sorting machines where taken from, it wouldn't surprise anyone to learn that they were deliberately removed from high population democratic districts and that the post office changes are even more nefarious than first thought.
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  688. Myanmar is a bloodbath, WTF are they talking about if they start with an insurrection then the national guard will be sent in to put it down. Yet more people's lives ruined for media profit by the right wing alternative reality machine
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  689. There's a good video going around someone has analysed the logistics involved in detail put simply Russia doesn't have enough supply trucks for the size of army there trying to deploy, they may well be setting up way points but the longer the supply line the more they have to guard. They need a forward airbase that's not going to be hit with a Ukraine counter or a special forces team and its not like there being treated like liberators there managed to unite 90% of the country behind them
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  690. 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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  691. why is that relevant the push for abortion ban was on the basis that life begins at fertilization and this isn't the end anyway the goal is to ban contraception as well
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  692. You got Brexit were not in the EU
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  693. It's pro billionaire and corporate a more extreme Tory
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  694. 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 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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  695. That's the funny part it's 2 The demographic of old angry men are well spread out it seems
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  696. The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota last month was a coronavirus “superspreading event” that led to an estimated $12.2 billion in public health costs, according to a new study by the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. The democratic states subsidise the central red states, they need a dose of reality
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  697. It's because people are switching to tactical voting, the share of the left leaning vote has remained constant for months at around 58%, the right leaning vote is pretty stable at around 35%. What the 35% of Turkeys voting for xmas think there getting is beyond me
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  698.  @gavinbissell8847  nothing compared to the problems we have now
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  699. We have non it was like a choice between Count Binface and Lord Buckethead at the last election Surprised the Greens or Lib-Dems didn't do better given the Choice of wacky left or wacky right
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  700. Net zero and reducing energy bills by transitioning to renewables Economic Growth by bottom up investment Joining Europol to try tackle the trafficking gangs House building Transport etc
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  701. Here's some facts on the energy crisis and Net ZERO next someone starts telling you net zero costs too much 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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  702.  @Lukex29  he offers nothing and uses people's genuine anxiety for political gain as do all national populists
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  703. I think he's going through age regression
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  704. Since when did Pat Tooney become an Economist? We won't know if the Fed got it wrong till later next year because no one has ever run it in a pandemic Consumer spending is through the roof were off an Oil price high and the cost of container shipping has gone up by 330% over the last 18 months there is nothing the Fed can do about that. If it raises rate too much it will affect US manufacturing which has been increasing and expanding month on month for the last 18 as more people try source goods and components from the US as the pandemic has taken its toll on world trade. The behemoth of the US economy is slowly restructuring itself it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of those technically leaving the workforce aren't starting up their own businesses given demand.
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  705. Its like herding cats
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  706. so your solution is to keep wasting 8 billion a year on performative politics?
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  707.  @grhinson  Quote from the FT The US is on track to grow at double the rate of any other G7 country this year, according to IMF forecasts, as the strength of the world’s biggest economy rocks international markets. The US is successfully pivoting away from fossil fuels the investment made during the last 4 years if kept up and reinforced will turn the US into the world renewable tech leader. Wind and Sun energy are not subject to inflation and infrastructure costs are still falling it's expected that energy prices will halve by 2050 in real terms.
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  708. yea but that abandons the long standing tradition of knocking off at 4pm for Wine Time Friday
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  709. reshoring energy production with renewables which will create domestic growth unlike the Fossil fuels which zip off to an offshore account and the world commodity markets
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  710. Only if you read Russian propaganda, there kindergarten compared to the FSB Wagner group are more right wing and undisciplined
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  711. They got booted out because of the utter lack of competence, what's left doesn't have an ounce of talent between them
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  712. @fabnobody8316  your daily dose of toxic conspiracy theories completely truth free Guess it takes allsorts I'll live in the real world and give X a miss
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  713. You not been watching the Tories turning the economy into a Skip Fire for the last 13 years?
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  714. The amount payed out for agency staff doubled to 80+ million at two to three times the cost of a Nurse why they get better pay and conditions as an agency worker The Economic Multiplier for Austerity was calculated back in 2013 at 1.6 so for every extra pound you give a nurse it generates £1.6 in the wider economy of that 1/3 ends up as tax so Austerity is a political choice
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  715. Let's hope he's good at it then
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  716. So the answer to the shtshow that is Brexit is more Brexit Forage is still the sht stain at the bottom of politics
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  717. Gdp is below 2019 levels Numbers in employment are less than 2019 Economy is 5.5% in gdp down each point of lost GDP = 8 billion Economy is 10% down from projections on 2016
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  718. Weve had 14 years of Austerity and lack of Infrastructure investment to deliberately make it feel a problem Any half decent government if it planned to expand the population would have invested to take account of that, there were always mechanisms within the eu to do it the tories chose not to use them ​@andyquelch5754
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  719. 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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  720. It's to do with Osborne's Austerity, short answer if you lower the social floor then the capitalist ladder gets further and further away till you get into a spiral The Tories never balanced the books (+1.8 trillion borrowed) so we're well overlevaraged for government borrowing it now difficult to borrow for infrastructure The rise in GDP from 2010 - 2023 is down to increased migration, real GDP Per Capita has shrunk by around 5%
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  721. Here's a thought Solar and wind energy are always free and inflation proof The cost of extraction, refining and transport will always go up as your looking in harder and more remote places quote from analysts on European power The average LCOE for onshore wind across Europe will drop by more than half to 23 € /MWh by 2050 compared to 2022
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  722. Real GDP growth from 2010 to 2021 is zero (real gdp is the amount of GDP accounting for inflation) Tax base in 2010 was 33% it will rise to 38% by 2027 under current Tory tax policy real disposable income has fallen since 2010 by quite a lot Sunak needs to pipe down about the wealthy paying tax do they fk quote Figures revealed by Tax Justice UK show Sunak paid an effective tax rate of 22 per cent on his almost £2 million of income, the same tax rate (21 per cent) as the average nurse pays on their £37,000 salary. (nothing on millions in assets) Executive director, Robert Palmer, said: “Our tax system is set up to allow the super-wealthy people to pay low levels of tax. This is the way the tax system is designed. Quote 2022 How do the wealthy get away with paying a lower percentage of their income and wealth in taxes than ordinary people? A big part of the answer is that many of their fortune streams – from dividends to inheritance – are chronically undertaxed, says Chiara Putaturo in our latest blog for Davos 2023 Sunak voted to lower CGT in 2016 which is where he gets most of his income from Quote from 2021 (guess who was chancellor then ;) In its two reports on CGT, at the request of the chancellor, the Office of Tax Simplification had concluded the tax needed reform in a number of areas. It found the disparity between CGT and income tax rates was one of the main sources of complexity, often distorting “business and family decision-making” and creating a tax incentive for taxpayers to 're-characterise' income and capital gains. It said a greater alignment of rates would reduce complexity and bring in an estimated £14bn to the exchequer. ----- In the last budget 6 billion went on fossil subsidies 8 billion in bankers tax breaks 2 billion on millionaire pensioners 1 billion on a back to work scheme estimates are it will cost 70,000 per short term job
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  723. I thought Cameron would be OK and that the Tories had drifted to the centre that illusion last about 5 seconds when Osborne put up VAT
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  724. Does it matter the last thing Labour and Starmer wanted was an Abbot Gaffe mid campaign best cut your losses now and let the left fume over a 27 point lead Starmer appears utterly ruthless (again) appealing to the centre and shows Sunak up to be a weak wet weekend
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  725.  @leegregorypeck  so wages aren't the driver then
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  726. JC wasn't really Labour or a team player worst leader you had and managed to unilaterally turn off older voters
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  727.  @barrymay8269  You voted for one that started drinking at lunchtime and had winetimefriday Given he's threatening to close all the bars in Westminster they will have to work for a change
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  728. Hard Times with all those Russian families sanctioned got to keep the private schools going
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  729. Ill start withe the Macro picture average wages have fallen by -7% since 2010, this weekend raac fell on a patient in intesive car, my tax has risen by £500 per annum, the local river is dying with untreated sewerage and the roads are full of potholes
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  730.  @markwelch3564  for CGT tax purposes she didn't need to live there just claim it's her primary residence. As she was on PAYE there is no requirement to make a non tax declaration so there is no paper trail. You can also offset home improvements against CGT this allows landlords to maintain property without having to pay tax on it. The property was however never rented out. So a lot of Tory noise about nothing
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  731. Rees Mogg video for yet another new low
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  732. You like your ever spiraling poverty in Brexit Britain? A promise of Singapore on Thames turning into Argentina on the Channel?
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  733. same as he isn't going to privatise the NHS or isn't going to spend 100+ billion on unfunded tax cuts?
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  734. They will put tariffs on where it hurts Republican states the most, 95% of the last lot of money collected in tariffs when bird brain was in power was spent of farming subsidies to negate the retaliatory tariffs. US farmers lost markets they had been building up for 50+ years overnight which will never come back
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  735. statistically the worst since the Napoleonic wars
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  736. The order does jack, he doesn't have the power it's gas bagging memorialised on paper.
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  737. My tax has gone up £600 a year and I'm on 18k
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  738. I dunno the Tories p1ss billions away on trickle down cr*p I could raise 40-50 billion just by pulling some of the most egregious stuff out of their. 1st port of call is people like Sunak paying 21p on the £ then there's the likes of Mone how is it legal to fulfil a contract and have all your profits siphoned offshore in a tax vehicle? Also why is it fair that a detached in Burnley worth 250k pays more council tax than an 8 million terrace in Mayfair?
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  739. They claim that in-sourcing will be 7.5% more expensive costing 6.5 billion every time I've been involved with outsourcing it has sent costs through the roof and standards of service plummet. Labour should claim a saving of 6.5 billion qoute Why is outsourcing expensive? A number of variables affect the cost of outsourced versus in-house fulfilment. Outsourcing fulfilment may entail service costs even though it frequently eliminates the need for large upfront investments in people, equipment, and warehouse space.
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  740.  @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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  741. If you have a renewable grid it has mass storage nodes on it, these nodes would save their infrastructure cost in just over a year. and Wind, Solar energy input is free and not subject to inflation unlike Fossil which has extraction, processing and transport costs so will always keep rising in cost. The estimated cost saving to consumers to move from peak Generator plants to mass storage is -20% and this is based on installations in other countries currently running.
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  742. @keithparker1346  you need to assess a person's assets. For the wealthy that's no end of trusts, shell companies offshore some of them then the valuation on everything from thier rolex to the Picaso in the hallway you could end up in court delays etc. A straight property/land tax screws all offshore millionaires who'd not get touched by a wealth tax and has one point of appeal it could also be levied pending appeal
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  743. There moving to a renewable grid away from gas I've just had solar and a battery installed my overnight rate is now 8p it used to be 24p and my FIT rate is 15p even my daytime rate is lower at 21 as long as I use my battery supply between 4 - 7pm Firms also got to write off 100% of their capital costs against investment and small firms will become NI exempt as they raised the threshold, the companies hardest hit are the Weatherspoons of this world that use the U23 rule to pay below minimum and basically prop up a low wage economy
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  744. So to get us out of the economic mess we're in caused by Thatcherism we need to vote for a more extreme version of Thatcherism? You never heard the saying doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
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  745. I feel really sad about this, Abbot isn't my politics but after a long career she appears to be fading a bit mentaly which at 70 is not supprising At the end of the day Westminster isnt a retirement home
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  746. @BlyatimirPootin  it's miles better than a Tory one but it still stinks of soggy centerism If you put a tax on employer's ni it will affect growth, so if it suppresses growth by 1 % which its expected to do in some economic circles your loosing 10 billion in future tax revenues and also the loss in subsequent years. There were lots of ways to get 10-20 billion out of the system including hiring more hmrc staff to collect the 42 billion in owed but uncollected tax in 2023 or stop paying interest to the 425 billion on deposit with the banks at the boe which we printed in the 1st place during the banking crisis. Our problem is rich people not paying tax
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  747.  @vi3wslove634  why Biden did what you wanted got out oof Afghanistan there was always the spectre of casualties And no one would have fared any better plus Republicans are fkn useless at govt. Best they Have is a failed reality star with mental illness ?
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  748. 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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  749. Supporting Ukraine means we don't have to fight I really don't understand why people don't get that imperial expansion never stops it swallows 1 country then builds up to devour the next
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  750. You'll find that's just Typhoid Mary Don gaslighting again. If you believe that shit then you need to get a grip on reality. Fox right wing universe isn't real life its a con to keep Marks like you in line yanking your chain when they need too
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  751. GDP per capita has fallen 7 quarters straight the overall GDP figure is propped up by 1.25 million visas Osborne depressed working class salaries turing us into a low wage economy Sunak is finishing off Osborne's work by doing the same to the middle and professional class
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  752.  @stephenburt8426  You control immigration by regulating your Labour market which we could always do and still can if we choose to but no one on the right will Stopping people from coming here by restricting visas doesn't address the reason the economy needs the Labour in the 1st place so if you implemented Reform's low regulation policies the demand for migrant workers would go up not down.
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  753. There's more than a 23 billion £ black hole Theres - 60 billion from Brex1t alone
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  754. She's been doing night classes in knife sharpening and back stabbing for beginners
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  755.  @danielwebb8402  That's because the economy has been stagnant due to errr Austerity The fiscal multiplier for Austerity was found to be 1.6 back in 2013 your literally causing your own economy to shrink by doing what they did at such a massive scale Quote from the economist In 2012, new IMF research suggested that, from the start of the world recession in 2008, fiscal multipliers were actually much larger than 0.5 – and in the range of 0.9 to 1.7. This is a finding consistent with earlier research on fiscal multipliers in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. If these figures are correct – and especially if the fiscal multiplier is well above 1 – austerity is not only unlikely to reduce a government’s fiscal deficit (and eventually public debt); its effect on overall economic performance will be seriously damaging. This is because, if, for example, the multiplier is 1.7, a reduction government spending of 1 percent of GDP will cause real GDP to fall by 1.7 percent. In short, if the fiscal multiplier is positive but less than 1, austerity will cause GDP to fall by less than the reduction in government spending; but, if it is positive and greater than 1, austerity will cause GDP to fall by more than the public spending cut, thereby deepening the recession.
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  756. You don't need more taxation on work you want equal taxation on wealth generated from wealth
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  757.  Jonny 2 High  Little Donnie wears diepers he's incontinent from all the speed he's had over the years don't believe me listen to this ex apprentice interview https://youtu.be/N60ceYRlY2I
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  758. We've had tax rises, as a pensioner getting rid of NI smacks of making up the shortfall by taxing pensioners and will be paid for by raising the pension age further
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  759. Crystal has an axe to grind at every Dem move, some of the content is OK but there two sides spin is waring, the Greens are useless at promoting green issues there supposed to be a one issue party but come over as being divorced from reality and against everything. Global warming isn't about everyone turning into a hippie
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  760. They have a very narrow appeal among the economically illiterate and those that haven't noticed that removing FOM has tripled migration
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  761.  @superhumantrueman  There was a load of reciprocal agreements when we where in the EU such as the Dublin accord leaving was always going to make it worse as a 3rd country we have no leverage over the EU the current Tory plan makes those claiming Asylum Stateless with no where to deport them too. In all of this we are still signatories to the UN convention on refugees which is direct contradiction to proposed UK law.
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  762. wealth tax is too complicated just change council tax into a proper property tax based on value and adjust income tax accordingly, also tax wealth made from wealth at the same rate as wealth made from work
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  763. 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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  764. And talks complete bollox
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  765. It certainly is and Farage along with the Tories is responsible
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  766. Tax Dyson who was using it as an IHT loophole like a lot of rich people, only 54% are family owned and the limit for them is 3 million
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  767. oh dear Tories do trickle down economics Labour demand side economics the 2 produce different economies completely because 1 puts money at the top the other puts money in the bottom and middle
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  768. It's 5 billion and the bulk of the cost is down to not processing them
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  769. Whatever you think of Starmer the one quality that comes through is his exceptional focus on getting a job done, excellent managers empower thier team
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  770. Tom I think you need to do a course in economics Anyone uttering the words "Loading for future generations" looses any credibility to talk on the topic.
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  771.  @ignaciomunizdiaz5194  look up "Ukraine Kvitnya guided artillery shell" I was gobsmacked by the tech which allows for 1 shot 1 kill from 24 kilometres away
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  772.  @nickl2883  debt to GDP has fallen from its peak of 133% at the end of the Trump term to 122% under Biden If you look back in history the debt ratio always goes up under a Republican
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  773. Z list cast of nodding dogs 👍
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  774. we haven't implement the bulk of the TCA and there is huge swathes of wooly language in it The Cons thought they could have their cake and eat it while dividing the EU countries the aim was Singapore on Thames they delivered Argentina on the Channel
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  775. Blackford kicked him in the Johnsons just to cap it off, Boris is like a stuck record at the moment
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  776. Jonson was p1ssed by 6pm most days
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  777. Galloway is a foghorn that will say anything that he finds convenient
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  778.  @adam6543  it's not a policy that's the issue it's punted to post election as will most things, like everything the Cons do it's lite on detail and pushed out to the private sector. It's in response to a more detailed integrated more encompassing story from Labour who have been looking at various childcare / school models in Europe especially Scandinavian ones. The private sector can't fix our economy the NHS our Energy crisis the public transport crisis the looming crisis in schools asylum crisis cost of living crisis In 13 years there doesn't appear to be anything the Tories haven't broken and made worse
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  779.  @viewer.123  The information I have is the tax threshold for a couple is 3 million which puts the majority of farmers outside the tax and 50% of farm land is not owned by the farmers that farm them which has skyrocketed land prices
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  780. how many people would even know it was the EU anthem but the politically engaged class
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  781. It has the capability to flatten them with dumb munitions
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  782. “Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. .” The next time you are about to lie, or participate in a lie, consider whether you are willing to pay the debt from the lie in the future.
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  783. Its only 0.8 if you have enough ventilators the current estimate is that people need one for 20 days and something like 10% are needing them, the mortality rate will sky rocket. Its just Science and maths why can't they get their head around the possible numbers. There worse than the Russian Trolls
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  784. Non dom should be scrapped it benefits the super rich if your resident here you should pay tax here, there's 183 day limit for normal people 0.3% of tax payers earning less than 100k claimed non dom status 27% earning 1-2 million did.
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  785. I've lost £560 through Sunak's fiscal drag which went to pay for an NI cut to the middle class
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  786. You weren't going to vote for him anyway It's a political calculation that the last thing he and Labour needed was an Abbot Gaffe half way through the campaign especially as she is in her 70's
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  787.  @maxwild1212  that you will be forever poorer and generations will hate the Tories to the core for what they have done 7 years on and there still lying about benifits and now saying oh but we didn't do it right
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  788. Statistically that's not the case they don't identify crimes by that category firstly and of the group they are of the level is 11% with the group 10.6% of the population.
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  789. Their the Tory core voter, if young people turned out in numbers they'd get more younger voter policies
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  790. Tesla isn't just a car maker, its grid based stuff is cutting edge as well there a leader in grid based battery and control software The money to be made from stuff like "Tesla Microgrid" and other such green tech could dwarf the car stuff
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  791. Nothing like throwing gasoline on the fire
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  792. When will a lifetime of fast food and adderal will take its toll?
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  793. It's surreal but there are other factors other than the pandemic at work it's just acted as an accelerator to a whole host of coming changes due to automation and a move to online commerce
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  794. 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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  795. There is only 1 way to pay for such massive cuts you are correct but all that does is shift the burden from Federal to private screwing over the least among us
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  796. I laughed at the tax and spend their way to prosperity was even tempted to send him Keynes seminal work but thought narrr wasted on the ignorant p1llock
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  797.  @tinaforbes1059  Russia has already committed national suicide, 300k young people in the age range 20-35 have left the country already a brain drain there not going to be able to reverse and 100k killed and wounded in the same age range in a pointless war. They were already suffering in this demographic from the Soviet collapse fertility rate is now below 1.5 and looking like a population collapse over the next couple of decades.
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  798. Voter turnout in by elections is always poor why assume its only Cons staying away?
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  799. As temperatures rise it Weakens the Polar Vortex you can end up with unprecedented cold spells
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  800. What rank incompetence are you joking?
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  801. No they don't get real there completely different
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  802. His family were pretty tight on money growing up his mother had a severe illness she worked in the NHS and he got a scholarship to a private school then on to Leeds Uni He was also the 1st person in his family to go to UNi, same with me it was a big deal back then my dad was a builder the % was around 14
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  803. And who are we going to sell it too? the 2 main trade blocks in the world the US and EU have told us to go swivel
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  804. He supports Trussanomics We know where that leads
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  805. Its getting like what flavour of dog poo do you want instead Purging all the moderates and recruiting UKIP zealots who would have thought that would be a disaster
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  806. PollingPeople poll just out Cons -2 to 18% Labour +1 to 46% with a bit of tactical voting Lib-Dems to become the new opposition
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  807. Putin's corruption machine is hard at work among all the far right leaders in Europe filling their heads with populist garbage using them to divide people. Cambridge Analytica was used by vote leave and enlisted their mate Vlads help. There's also talk of Ledvedev being used to pressure Johnson onto the vote leave side. From a Senate Hearing Political consulting group Cambridge Analytica used Russian researchers and shared data with companies linked to Russian intelligence, a whistleblower told a congressional hearing on interference in the 2016 US election Wednesday (16 May). Christopher Wylie, who leaked information on the British-based firm’s hijacking of data on millions of Facebook users, told a Senate panel he believes Russian intelligence services had access to data harvested by the consultancy.
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  808.  @MyDruidess  DJT's Tariffs will be a huge tax hike on working and middle class and in combination with tax cuts for corporations will create inflation and a recession Stagflation is very hard to get out of once your in it.
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  809.  @601salsa  the money and economy argument is plain dumb anyway Sweden who didn't do lockdown had just as much economic fall off as the countries that did The biggest problem the NHS has is Conservative cuts by Cameron to local authorities who shut nearly all their special care units for the elderly there's no where to discharge the elderly too so the system backs up and up. It's a case of save a pound on council budgets costing thousands down the line
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  810. the bile from right wing media would be truly disgusting and any policy message would get lost in a complete focus on trying to destroy her on a personal level.
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  811. If there not underplayed why is there 10%+ vacancies and over a billion being wasted on agency staff?
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  812. The estimated -6% would have generated 50 billion enough to maintain tax thresholds in line with inflation and put 20 billion into sorting out RAAC
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  813. What's wrong with human rights? ECHR is the last tefuge against government overreach
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  814. Trump is too weak and McConnel doesn't want it
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  815. The top 4% pay it and you'd need to be stupid if you couldn't figure out the exceptions to pass on anywhere from 1 -2 million to your kids
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  816. Murdoc is evil incarnate not just in the states his networks and publications are morally corrupt and there's no low he wouldn't sink too
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  817. Tesla stopped using Cobalt last year and Refining Petrol uses Cobalt which is then non recyclable
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  818. Can't wait for the Texas ads with their new holocaust denial two sides stance At least CRT is taught in universities as part of a law degree
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  819. Global Britain was always DOA SME's Farmers sole Traders etc. trade with the nearest country its called trade gravity or not at all and on average an economic recovery is 60% lead by these groups The cost of shipping has also gone up by over 600% in some cases and air freight has doubled over the last couple of years were fked without the single market our economy will just keep circling down the plug hole
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  820. The true cost of fossil is in the hundreds of billions, energy from renewables are a fraction of the cost of burning gas for generation Everyone in the UK is paying 170 Billion in excess profits to the UK energy sector which is tied to the price of gas and 100+ billion in tax subsidies will be given to the fossil sector over the next few years
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  821.  @ChrisSavenSH  Mine rest in my wallet I couldn't give a stuff if they let all the refugees in at this stage round were I live there's chronic shortages of staff at every level. We could do a recruiting drive in Calais see how many doctors and Nurses from Afghanistan are there and fast track them
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  822.  @piccalillipit9211  there are decent people in politics the Tory client media have expended an inordinate amount of energy in trying to drag everyone down to thier squalid level. Exhibit 1 daily mail running 10 days straight Starmer beer in hand non story Exhibit 2 the express claiming Starmer was sat on 10 million pounds worth of land (bought by him for his parents to run a donkey sanctuary in their retirment) Loads of stories on Rayner And They even eat thier own when they step out of line on what they want
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  823. @Pat Orsban why do you believe this rubbish? All the Ultra right wing media is giving you is crazy lie filled culture wars a 10 year old can disprove. Your signing your life away to a bunch of moronic haters.
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  824. Big dog lasted 12 hours before another doggie dodo scandal landed The lack of self awareness of the people surrounding Doris is stunning its no wonder they had a Rave the night before the Funeral of Prince Phillip they just think there untouchable
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  825.  @markwelch3564  We have 50 years of data showing trickle down doesn't work and also 50 years of data showing that tax cuts don't pay for themselves in generating enough additional GDP to cover the Revenue shortfall
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  826. Death stats was going to be the only way the true death toll was ever going to come out
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  827. Replace one liar with another not a great idea
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  828. Because back in 2019 it became cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than fossil and nuclear but you need the grid infrastructure to do it. The additional cost of staying as we are is estimated to be double that of investing in a renewable grid now + we'd still have to do it anyway
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  829.  @MichaelWilliams-n2f  exit polling of early voters is showing a huge lead for Harris, this happened in 2020 Biden got such an early lead from early and mail voting that on day voting could never catch up.
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  830. 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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  831. But the UK has the fastest growing economy in the UK
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  832. What car does Sunak drive? A Ford Fiasco Boom boom
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  833. He doesn't have any values and who believes a word this grifter says anyway
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  834. Instead of constantly pumping in subsidies which go straight into builders pockets and keeps property inflation going how about building social housing to lower rental prices and provide families a secure base to have kids in their 20's not their late 30's
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  835.  @OfficialSeth  Explain what happened to farmers because of the Tariffs, 92% of those raised went on Farming subsidies but nearly all to the corporate sector, the number of small farming bankruptcies went through the roof as did suicides in that community due to retaliation from the Chinese. Those export markets are now lost permanently due to lack of trust. If you put tariffs on then expect retaliation which will have a huge impact on US exports and Jobs, the EU doesn't play games and DJT will get his clock cleaned if he engages in a Tariff war with them, they are systematic and ruthless when targeting retaliation.
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  836. It's not a political problem anymore, his behaviour has got so bad, if you think back to sharpie gate and apply that kind of behaviour across foreign policy the your mind goes numb at the damage he is causing behind the scenes, Ukraine is a nexus point., the front line against Russian aggression and Putin would roll his tanks back over half of Europe if he could get away with it. The Orange idiot is risking world war 3 with his obsessive stupidity.
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  837. 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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  838.  @ahadmerchant9498  There's worse Tory minister Nadhim Zahawi banked £1.3million from an oil company while working as an MP, but he has been able to keep his total second job earnings hidden due to a Parliamentary loophole. Mr Zahawi’s total earnings from Gulf Keystone Petroleum included a final £285,000 “settlement payment” after he first became a Government minister in 2018. Mr Zahawi was co-chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Kurdistan in 2015 when he landed the job with Gulf Keystone, which has an oil field in Kurdistan and which paid him more than £1,000 an hour.
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  839.  @shughy1  he's like all the national populist before him spouting crap as easy solution to extremly complex problems blaming migrants and refugees for the a whole host of stuff that have nothing to do with them. His entire career is built on blame shifting distracting people from the real reasons their pay isn't going up or their hospital is Crumbling and using people's genuine anxiety for political gain, arsesholes like him are a cancer on our body polotic
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  840. I think it's funny the Cons are getting everything they deserve
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  841. One gaffe to many I guess, at 70 Westminster isn't a retirement home Her explanation of how a so called draft article got sent sounds like someone starting to have a memory problem
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  842.  @vincentblack7467  The party that got you to vote for brexit which has tripled migration and tanked the economy? (with Truss's help)
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  843.  @Gambit771  HMRC have seen the files as for you and I it's non of our business If she were the PM then that is a different matter but Labour aren't in government so can't be accused of doing favours for mates and its 15 years ago its as about a non story as you can get
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  844. Tax cuts on the way? They've baked in 10% cuts to services Fiscal drag is pulling in +30 billion NI cut cost them 9 billion if your on 36k to 50k your a few quid better off outside that And We borrowed 130 billion last year
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  845. They can walk into a job over in Europe anytime its a desired occupation all you need is a foreign language My mate's daughter is learning German intends to emigrate as soon as she's qualified
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  846. If it's so well paid why are they having to employ thousands of agency staff to cover the work, outsource billions in consultancy and fly plane loads of migrants from the 3rd world to fill public sector jobs?
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  847. Tax RAAC Renewables Unions Waiting lists Asylum claims Housing Planning Insulation Water
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  848.  @tomtheeagle1  What I would suggest is getting a state based solution sponsored by the Federal Government There are clever people than me who could design a system which would become universal over time as a buy in option your issue is always Red states wanting no system but sponging off blue state dollars
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  849. Thatcher started selling off leases for the oil and gas fields Norway took a different approach and created a national oil company and put the profits in a wealth fund. What your seeing economically is Thatcherism unravelling
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  850.  @keithparker1346  I think lib dems as the official opposition would be great
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  851. Blame the Conservatives it started with Thatcher we were just getting some sort of stability then the Cons get back and and lay waste to public services again treating everyone like shit has its consequences
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  852. 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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  853.  @aaronsinger  not really you cut off thier supply lines Crimea was turning into a money pit for Putin it even needed water importing the Ukrainians had cut off its water supply in 2014 the farmland was dying.
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  854.  @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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  855. 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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  856.  @jimbean1196  RT isn't independent Media try reading what was put down
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  857. He was offered billions from Congress on a smart wall using the latest technology to monitor and deploy fast response teams but he turned it down because ego and a boondongle with his name on it
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  858. 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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  859. They've been told to 2 sides everything by their Tory overlord No matter how insane 1 side is
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  860. Lib dems well get far more mp's why not Ed Davey?
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  861. Fun fact Areas of England with increased outsourcing of NHS services have more deaths of people with treatable conditions From an economics study aggregating NHS data across England and Wales
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  862. Since the data has gone into the DHS if you pull recent red / blue state stats out you see a marked difference in the curves, the blue states are consistent with previous periods the red states suddenly go flat and are inconsistent with previous periods. Go figure what's happening. Herd immunity isn't going to happen a mild case gives you immunity for a few months at best, near death experience gives you longer but it's not a strategy
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  863.  @lestrem11  Go read up and stop believing Tory propaganda, the EU are methodical and it ended like the Tortoise and the Hare with the bulk of EU countries ahead of us after we made a fast start. We were also part of the EU medicines agency so having the vaccine early was nothing to do with leaving the EU. Our initial policy and burst of speed was down to gambling that 2 doses could be given further apart than the 2 weeks recommended which is why everyone else caught up and we ended middle of the pack For that middle of the pack position the current government have wasted tens of billions and have a wretched record on death per 100k with a fairly staggering overall total at 156,000 August 2021 Guardian and New European - 6 countries have overtaken the UK rollout so far Financial Times - EU wins vaccine marathon after UK sprint September 2021 Sky News - multiple EU countries overtake UK rollout
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  864. ​ @flexthemex5016 the spending is driving GDP at 3.6% which in effect helps lower inflation and is permenat as its on infrastructure unlike unfunded tax cuts
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  865. Its a sad comment on voters that they don't get the savings and benefits of a universal system and will vote Republican based purely fear
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  866. ​ @mellowsecond4098 you have control just not as much as you had when in the EU Migration was always a political and economic choice nothing to do with FOM
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  867. If you reduce waiting lists then the loss of millions of sick days and sick pay will increase productivity just 1 example and There will be more room for spending once the interest rates start to fall and were not spending 120 billion servicing our debt also HMRC failed to collect 42 billion in owed tax last year
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  868. ​ @aleph8888 if it smells like a tax walks like a tax It's a Tax
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  869.  @FreaksSpeaks  why it should never have been charged in the 1st place like everything its miserly penny pinching and under investment while billionaires and corporations Swan around tax free
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  870.  @Tpry  It's 5%, Atheists are the biggest group and were chilled
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  871. Yea I mean cheaper energy and more housing can't be eroding fossil profits like that or reducing house values
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  872. The boat problem has exploded because we left the EU working with your allies and partners to solve a common problem and removing FOM has skyrocketed legal migration from the 3rd world who are now permanent not transitory and fetch their dependants. So why aren't you campaigning to rejoin instead of leaving another body that will make the problem worse if your so concerned about migration?
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  873. there there never mind you'll get over it they have professional help for people in a cult
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  874. Every economist says his plan will reignite inflation and create a reccesion
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  875. This will resonate across the world thank you Amanda . I'm 64 this takes me back to the poets in the clubs when we were young and idolised Dylan this was amazing
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  876. 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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  877. You should have done he's turned your economy around after Trump put 8 trillion on the US tab
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  878. It had the possibility of destabalising world bond markets as it is government debt is +2% more expensive than 10 days ago and the BOE has pumped 60 billion into the system in QE to stop a bond collapse
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  879. A man who puts the ar5e into ar5whole
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  880. Fiscal drag has added 420£ to my annual tax bill I like others are on a modest pension The 20% rate taking inflation into account should be 14350
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  881. Purchase taxes are regressive the tax system is not taxing money created by wealth but by overtaking money created by work
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  882.  @blakeh6250  Its supposed to have sophisticated anti-missile defence capability?
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  883. Aside from budgets not sure this government will be able to limp on much after May the issue dividing them are still there ERG see Brexit as a way of promoting trickle down low tax low regulatory standards One Nation Tories see the current shtshw and despair with sewage in rivers and sea, fracking back on the menu and chaos around every corner The red wall see Brexit as English nationalism and leveling up let the next round of infighting begin
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  884. A health service pay rise will have an economic multiplier of a minimum of around 0.8 and if the pay rise enables less recruitment and fewer days spent on agency staff + higher patient throughput that value can be > 1 Anything over 1 pays for itself 0.8 costs the treasury 20p in the pound The 1st thing that happens with any pay rise is the government take their slice back for a graduate that's near on 50% these days, the rest is spent in the wider economy where it starts its merry go round of spend and tax
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  885.  @rtorres4132  Read Bloodlands and Ivan Ilyin, Putin’s Philosopher of Russian Fascism by Timothy Snyder Red Famine : Stalin's War on Ukraine Applebaum, Anne To understand the present we must understand the past
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  886.  @thedude8771  the GOP are bleeding support people are actively switching registration to Independent and a few Democrat, the overall registration for republicans is at an all time low. Also the GOP appear to be blowing themselves up on a daily basis and the media have done a decent job of hammering home the big lie
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  887. Facts a 75 year old white guy was pushed over splitting his head open yet fart brain is watching OAN. Un frikin believable
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  888. Yea he did he's done it before, same with the racist dog whistles and the rest of his fachy stuff
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  889. Trump is even crazier than he was 4 years ago and this is the Roe v Wade election also she is highly qualified
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  890. No they don't the Cons have mismanaged the economy that badly on average your -6.1% worse off than in 2010 14 years of Austerity and stagnation
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  891. It's obvious the ghost of Chavez had a spectral rubber in one hand and the sharpie of doom in the other his essence invaded machines across the US after the Democrats prayed to the gods of socialism. Wonder if they'll start an organisation like AA for people who need to detox from this stuff
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  892. Better than the drivel on Fox
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  893. The best suggestion on this is to move to a fairer property tax so that 8 million mansion in Mayfair attracts an appropriate tax rate
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  894. Staunching the Red dribble Why demean yourself to such lows when 30 seconds of Internet search shows the Right version is the usual BS?
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  895. The bulk of the media is conservative they only look liberal because the GOP are blazing fascist and so right wing there off the chart (deny facts deny science etc)
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  896.  @Horizon344  let's reword it shall we to what it really means Should we become like North Korea and close our borders completely no one in on one out. You can't allow people to emigrate if you don't allow immigration last year 500,000 people left the UK to live elsewhere permanently. We should then force al 18+ year old women to start having children if they disagree send them to camps and have them reprogrammed because the birth rate is way too low at 1.6 without immigration to supplement the workforce the economy will implode. Now the final piece our elderly are living to long and are no longer useful to the state raise the state pension age to the point where only paying 2% in gdp on pensions
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  897. The SDP got 20% back in the 80's and got a handful of seats the Right and the Tories were dancing with Joy during that period
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  898. What a gift for Labour BadEnoch and Honest Bob
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  899. why is that he public sector needs extra investment to improve UK productivity
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  900. It's 14 years of hard Tory graft to get here please
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  901. 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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  902. If Reform get in then Argentina on the Channel here we come, economy is bad enough without 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts
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  903.  @FRU.No.1  What has been really troubling and one of the reasons migration is so high has been the relentless pursuit of a low wage economy with wage suppression in the public sector reaching in some cases as much as 30%. This drives away domestic workers to better paid jobs increases the likelihood of those with higher qualifications emigrating with the government shrugging its shoulders and adding yet more occupations to the shortage list thus increasing migration.
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  904. The level of disconnect is unbelievable The reason there is so many people in the Asylum system is by design there not processing the applications quick enough the whole system is designed to slow the process down to a crawl and they could allow the bulk of them out on licence to work while their application is being processed. We also don't have deportation agreements with the likes of Albania the EU does Quote Return and readmission An effective and humane return policy is an integral part of a comprehensive migration and asylum policy. Ensuring the return of irregular migrants is essential to enhance the credibility of policies in the field of international protection and legal migration.
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  905. More like his Fast Food and Adderall habits catch up with him
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  906.  @colinrobinson4233  your listening to sh1t on stations like this who are completely out of whack with political reality
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  907. Net zero will save energy consumers in the uk money Id also like to point out we the uk have subsidised fossil by around 500 billion since the Thatcher era.
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  908. He's on a drug cocktail that should have him excluded from decision making, the steroid treatment has serious mental side effects and should have been given to only a serious case, likely he has a lung shadow.
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  909. If your chief minister of propaganda is Rudy and his sidekick is Bannon what do you expect there completely incompetent Wait I've got one Biden seems like a nice guy, America doesn't need a nice guy
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  910. She called their antics weird Apparently that gives you licence to call her anything he likes
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  911. If the Tories are serious why have they taken to lying that badly about Labour costings that no one believes them anymore. Labour doing the bare minimum on services and fixing things the Tories broke is going to cost +42 billion where's that number from? Last but one budget - 8 billion on Millionaires pensioner tax break, 8 billion in bankers tax break, 6 billion in additional fossil subsidies This budget - tax thresholds frozen 18 billion on unfunded NI tax cut Tax base now 37% up from 33%
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  912. Starmer has had a big hand in selecting a lot of the new MP's given the way the Tories are imploding his majority will be huge
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  913. 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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  914. you actually believe a word he says? sad
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  915. Correct they've way off to the right abandoned the centre and centre right
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  916. Didn't she ban company's from mandating vaccine for thier staff?
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  917. Drove through Germany and Denmark over Easter they were building Wind-farms and deploying solar like it was going out of fashion huge changes from 2 years ago the Tories have done ....................
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  918. Reeve's budget reminds me of all the reasons I hated Gordon Brown Chips away at all sorts but doesn't address the fundemental inequality in the tax system Not that I would vote Tory but its a missed opertunity to set a new and bolder course at least we have Milliband driving a renewable agenda
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  919. yea they are a complete package of libertarian for the billionaire economics with populism
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  920. You invest and improve productivity
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  921. Tax is higher in the EU
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  922.  @khrispeter85  first off the democrats aren't left their centrists at best secondly they don't need to steal anything there's simply more of them
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  923.  @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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  924. The best people around talking the most sense have been women, they were the driving force in the new crop in Congress, AOC got the headlines but Katie Porter was a must watch in committee. Harris's probing questions and complete demolition on occasions, Warren has also stood up and let rip as well.
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  925. only 10% of manufacturing costs are now down to labour that is decreasing with more automation while CEO pay has gone through the roof
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  926. Its more like Q pac it should come with free mental health counselling
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  927. Kier will be fine give the right wing media propaganda a miss
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  928.  @0019808  the reason the Asylum bill is 3.5 billion is just incompetence. Vote for clowns get a circus
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  929. What white with two slits in the hood carrying burning crosses In western Europe Tucker the toxic verbal filth machine would be in jail for spreading racial hatred, the far right leader in the UK Tommy Robinson got 5 years Freedom of speech with zero responsibility
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  930.  @vroom6591  Taking vitamin pills has virtually no affect on your system they flush through most times. If you want extra vitamin D in your system then eat vitamin D rich foods Oh wait a lot of people are poor and can' t afford to do that! And eating healthy isn't a vaccine alternative.
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  931. Were going to get a proper economist in charge in Reeve with a degree from the LSE not someone who is the puppet of the IEA and Policy Exchange in Hunt and Sunak
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  932. Starmer has a history of being a very good manager, you may not like him but those that have worked for him hold him in very high regard Given getting the Labour party going in 1 direction is like herding cats you would be crazy to replace him, I get your drift though I think he could be a bit bolder
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  933. 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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  934. Why? I don't need a benefit I need the tax thresholds going up not 20 billion blown on an NI gimmick that was totally unfunded
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  935.  @FishingFan2  Your forgetting tactical voting
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  936. 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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  937. And what have you won? The vote was to leave the EU not the single market. Free market fundementalism is a scam by the supported by special interest groups. They don't care how many businesses go under as long as they make a bit more money.
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  938.  @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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  939. The Tories p1ss billions away on trickle down cr*p I could raise 40-50 billion just by pulling some of the most egregious stuff out of their. 1st port of call is people like Sunak paying 21p on the £ then there's the likes of Mone how is it legal to fulfil a contract and have all your profits siphoned offshore in a tax vehicle? Also why is it fair that a detached in Burnley worth 250k pays more council tax than an 8 million terrace in Mayfair?
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  940. and now the Con Party are railing against net zero talking up restarting fracking which will still keep us tied to world commodity prices. Remove the moratorium on wind development, put in a wholescale upgrade policy for insulating British homes, accelerate the sign off of Hinkley C invest heavily in Tidal Also change the planning laws to make all new builds and extensions have to be energy A+
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  941. Your best videos are when you discuss stuff with Micheal You should both get together and do a weekly podcast and video, I listen to most of my political content via podcast Some topics for you The changing demographics of the electorate The true effects of Sunaks extreme Supply Side Economic policy and what are alternatives Imigration the real issues to the economy (birth rate 1.6 emigration 50k pa etc)
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  942. 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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  943. Its not tyranny my father was deported to a Russian Gulag where his brother and sister died of starvation now that's proper tyranny not your lightweight childish won't take a medicine
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  944. We've had 14 years of grinding Thatcherism, Blair oversaw +20% rise in average wages and well funded services after 14 years 5he Tories have added 1.6 trillion in debt and we're-7% worse off in average wages
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  945. Its called freedom of expression why are you pushing for a fascist state?
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  946. council budgets are going on housing support 20 billion last year from selling off 2 million council houses and not replacing them Tory asset stripping for you
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  947. Its over Boris lost the soft power of frictionless trade and other EU freedoms has already re-routed the NI supply chain and disconnected trade from GB. The minute the deal was signed firms that understood its impact shifted supply and stopped using GB as a land bridge, since Jan trade from GB to NI has sunk through the floor it all goes Cherbourg - Rosslare in fact the EU and Ireland have been prepping for no deal the port has been expanded and the routes to NI have been improved. The DUP have only 12% backing in the latest poll and NI businesses are desperate for the Protocol to be fully enacted and the longer this goes on the worse that figure will get as NI prospers as GB suffers th full shtshw that is Brexit.
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  948. He's already lost, Trump has no room for new voters it's just his base. And the majority of people don't want the hate, chaos of a 2nd term as well as a nationwide abortion ban
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  949. There have been worse, he's been watching GB news I pop by for a laugh sometimes can't take more than a few minutes The brexiteers are all starting to suffer from Stockholm syndrome
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  950. 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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  951.  @davidtyrrell9534  Its economic impact should have been -2% on GDP its probably more due to chronic mismanagement, dodgy contracts etc. Add -4% impact to GDP because of Brexit world fossil prices through the roof and a government that has made it clear it will protect corporate profits above all else then here we are. The worst economic management of an economy since records began
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  952.  @mememachine5244  me too but nothing I've heard regarding IHT would affect me. There closing loopholes not changing the rate or allowance. The SIPP change I believe is to roll back the Millionaire pension tax break the Tories put in in 2023. My main concern is for my son and people like him who have become trapped in the Tories low wage economy.
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  953. After seeing a few clips of Trump speak was wondering why he wasn't in a Psych ward, he's completely nuts
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  954. They all are
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  955. We were on of the main creators of the ECHR, It was ratified after the war as was the UN charter on refugees Churchill: "there must be an act of faith in the European family" look up "Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?" It has 46 members the only nation to leave is Russia when they invaded Ukraine which kind of says it all rather than get sucked in to right wing hyperbole and show pony politics some research into why its there and what it does would be of use
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  956. When Clarkson is your cheerleader you know you've lost
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  957. How you know Boris is lying? His lips are moving
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  958. The Afghan people coming over are bilingual, the woman are highly educated for example they fetched over the airport staff air control staff, engineers etc.
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  959.  @r200ti  Define loosing? We are long into the economic phase as soon as the west started propping up Ukrainian's war effort and they went to full mobilizations then Russia would simply bleed out of men and equipment it may take a while but Russia only builds 250 Tanks per year. Also economically they are sitting on a demographic time bomb the population decrease is accelerating and made even worse by the war because now Russia has a Brain Drain problem with the loss of over 200,000 young skilled people mostly in IT leaving Russia altogether. So no Russia isn't winning and if Oil goes to 60 $ a barrel its economy will collapse completely because the Indian and Chinese government are screwing Putin for a 20% discount to take Russian Oil
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  960. It's the epitomy of verbal diarrhea how does he keep it going for 4 years. Its word salad decomposed then squirted out at great velocity and appears to be never ending.
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  961. You can give them a seaweed feed supplement which reduces methane by 80% The biggest issue with cows is water usage 68-155 litres per day if in milk even grown for meat there huge consumers of water You can turn the manure into biogas
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  962. ​ @randomdaveUK there UKIP voters who lent the Tories thier vote, profile over 50 male mostly uneducated and socially Conservative would be at home in the BNP
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  963. The reason the US is in such a state is because there's a complete disconnect of these people understanding of economics and how integrated common services are to GDP. The 600$ is currently propping up the unemployed worker -> who props up local businesses, landlords, the housing market, banks, insurance the list goes on and on The idea you can conjour jobs out of thin air is arghhhhhhh dumb, contraction will happen trying to blow through the pandemic causes a stop start effect which makes it worse and cripples small/medium businesses even further which are by thier nature the growth areas.
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  964. Rwanda was the ultimate dead cat to be used in emergency to save Big Dog 1/2 a billion later it's like Sunak is a dog with a bone that's too rancid to eat but won't give it up
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  965.  @JamieJooESC  My hospital has the funding now to remove RAAC and the clean water bill had it's 1st reading + Rwanda is gone. Pretty Meh Brown style budget but you can't win them all
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  966. Anti conservative anti capitalist? Antifa currently = never Trumper Trumps brand of conservatism is fascist in nature, rooted in racism and sexism and has promoted socialism for the rich capitalism for the poor and he wonders why people are so pissed off.
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  967. The thresholds at 20% is frozen till 2028 its 12250 it should be 15,000 by slight of hand your NI cut is gone and Pensioners are dragged further into poverty
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  968. freeports are a con quote Freeports attract organised crime, money-laundering, drug-trafficking and terrorist finance, while bringing minimal benefits to the nations that host them. But this was never about improving our lives. On the contrary, it’s about subordinating our needs to those of favoured capital.
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  969. His followers don't believe he's a moron, it's like getting through to the dead zombie army there still out there pretending it's all going to blow over, don't believe what you see just what I say.
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  970. More like 20 their support is aging out the system on demographics alone they would fall to 18% at the next election.
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  971. I live in a Blue wall seat there virtually gone from the local council That means no activists door knocking and pressing the message and with the local parties withering and being staffed by 70 & 80 year olds their time is up
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  972.  @SanderBelt-qz2ue  There's only 13 million leavers left demographics and age of the leave vote Younger voters entering the rolls are pro Europe by 2020 you were asking working remain voters who were 65%+ to implement something they didn't believe in
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  973. 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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  974. ​@MattzeStein Ukrainians have been hammering supply lines for weeks, its estimated Russia could have as much as 500k on the ground with all the logistics problems that brings and the Russians have a moral and discipline problem + competing factions.
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  975. He wasn't interested in the intelligence briefings to start with he got his conspiracy err I meant information from right wing media.
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  976.  @michaelathanasiou2030  you know that's a lie so why go there?
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  977. 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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  978. HS2/3 abandoned
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  979. Labour support a 2 state solution and a ceasefire what else do you want?
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  980.  @MrJimtimslim  any western commander wouldn't be allowed to sustain those sort of losses. At some point it gets back home then its aa problem for him until then he's going all in on terror tactics.
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  981. The choice between a spineless weak Sunak who puts party before country (like every Con leader before him which is why were in this mess) and Ruthless shameless Starmer I just want the Cons gone permanently
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  982.  @MCDONALD6969  there locating to Ireland because its in the EU and transferring from the UK as we are no longer the gateway to Europe. The EU have pumped millions into Ireland transport network and major shipping now goes directly there before distribution. Holland is another big beneficiary of Brexit If you want to promote growth you do it via targeted investment, blanket tax cuts cost the treasury approximately 80p in the £ in lost revenue
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  983. They have a selective memory Trump in numbers on of the worst POTUS on the economy that's ever lived this is his 4 years Trade deficit +40% People without health insurance +3 million Unemployment -2876000 jobs unemployment rate 6.3% Economic Growth -3.4% Manufacturing jobs -154000 Coal Jobs -8500 All the good times they opine about built on this Federal Debt held by public +50% (4 trillion) One puff of wind and the entire thing collapsed on itself built on smoke mirrors and debt like all his businesses Its going to take a huge lift to clean up Trumps mess but hey its the same old same old Republican come's in promises the world then blows up the economy, they can whine about the pandemic but they spent like crazy to sugar high the economy like I said selective memory and smoke and mirrors
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  984. They could have taken furlough money but they chose to fire then rehire after the pandemic on worse terms Same with pilots and cabin crews there's a shortage of those as well as restrictions on licencing due to non equivalence of standards ahhh every time we get rid of one of those pesky EU rules that were so onerous no one even knew they were there it creates mountains of paperwork or kills of people's livelihoods and job prospects. Following the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, pilots with UK pilot licences are no longer able to fly EU registered aircraft companies are changing policy to hiring EU staff only.
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  985. The average person now has less disposable income than 2006 so threatening people with going back to square one won't work were already at square -4
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  986. My theory is that they'll put all the stuff in articles of impeachment but leave it late and not send it to the Senate so he can't get cleared
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  987. Polls are weighted by the % 2020 vote since then 16 million young people have become eligible to vote of which around 30% will also GOP voters are older and more Anti-Vax and there were 2 million excess deaths in 20 & 21 Then we have the abortion ban a 65-35 issue
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  988. The protocol is already in action just kind of in a soft way, the businesses in NI have been realigning their supply chain with the South away from the UK because Brexit. Why the Cons and the DUP are having a meltdown is the plan was to use NI as leverage, the assumption by the Brexiteers was they could someone either force the South to leave the EU or break the EU market and still keep frictionless trade. What has happened is the EU supply chain has rerouted through Cherburg -Roslare and has abandoned GB as a land bridge with all the lost trade that entails for GB. It leaves the Brexiteers with FA leverage and a morphing situation of Irish unification in all but name.
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  989. Millions of people were sold a pup by voting for Johnson
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  990. The whole exercise was pointless anyway there was nothing stopping immigration being more tightly controlled its standard Conservative policy to depress wages as low as possible you do that by NOT regulating and having an endless supply side Labour Pool. If you run a supply side Trickle down economic model as the Cons do then the obvious place to get Labour from if your not in the EU is the Indian sub Continent.
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  991. By freezing thresholds and targeting the disabled as well as just cutting NI does nothing for the lower paid and pensioners and worse net zero would lower energy bills
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  992.  @1anhunter1  Labour will be socially centrist and economically centre left. The overriding problem you had was the lack of the centre right standing up to the hard right. My own MP was One Nation with the spine of a jellyfish. Our current economic plight needs interventionism it has done for 14 years which is why the economy has remained stagnant and has shrunk in real terms over the last 2 years and that means abandoning the economic tenants of Thatcherism.
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  993. If you think his poll numbers are bad now wait till the energy crisis bites again this winter they've had 2 years near on and they could have accelerated Net Zero to reduce UK customers bills by billions 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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  994. Its Thatcherism that's the problem, the ideal they revere and worship is a complete failure
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  995.  @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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  996. Move to a more sustainable model, current practices rely on chemicals, mono cropping and water table degradation
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  997. It now transpires they can use the 1 million business allowance as well so it's basically get an accountant and structure your business and stop effin moaning a couple can claim 1 million in IHT 1 Million each in Agricultural land allowance 1 million each in business allowance = 5 million
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  998. another 33 to go Good riddance to bad rubbish
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  999.  @AndrewHadland  I'm in a northern blue wall seat and am voting tactically Lib-Dem. The UKIP ification they have gone through has cratered support locally our local businesses have been severally hit by Brex1t, other key local issues include RAAC, sewage in the local river, the state of the roads, local transport and affordable housing. Even the well off middle class round here are venting on the Tories with their kids up to their eyeballs in student debt and having to move back home because of rent costs
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  1000. ​ @wodens-hitman1552 I went in for an xray the other day god bless the Nigerian nurse for being there, the waiting lists are bad enough without racist Aholes trying to make it worse and shorten my life.
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  1001. For ....... 100 billion in unfunded tax cuts fracking even more water polution and privatised nhs
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  1002. There a millionaire/billionaire pressure group not a party
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  1003. Is it finally dawning on these muppets you need to wear a mask, Darwin brain Don will take not mask wearing to the grave why? Cos his ego is more important than dealing with a national pandemic apparently
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  1004. Fascism relies on the removal of critical thinking, I re read Animal Farm recently the current path is scary
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  1005. He's promising to reverse 14 years of cuts, the Tories have also hollowed out our military we have a tax base that has risen from 33% to 37% and still rising with Sunak freezing thresholds till 2028 and a future Tory government raising the pension age to 67 how much Tory waste is in there? Outsourcing is expensive and Ideological
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  1006. Trump doesn't have any policies. Calafornia is on fire, the gulf of Mexico is +3 degrees above normal at the momment driving record setting Hurricanes There's a pandemic that's being mismanaged to the extent that 1/2 a million will be dead by Xmas The Trump Presidency is a complete shitshow of lies deception paranoia climate and science denial
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  1007. We voted 64% to join the commo market This story is the usual poor journalism from the Torygraph
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  1008.  @jayhoughton4174  your considered a resident for tax purposes if your here >183 days your foreign earnings can escape taxation but the whole thing on non dom needs Scrapping it doesn't help anyone but the super rich
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  1009. Cuts will be by raising the pension age to 68 No we want change
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  1010. It's centre left something we've not had since Wilson Just to point out the reason the country is in the sh1t is the Tories have defunded the social floor so the capitalist ladder isn't working
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  1011.  @jeffappleton926  The point of removing your rights under the echr and deregulation is to lower wages and costs as far as possible and has nothing to do with migration
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  1012. There was someyhing on about enabling them to be replaced with agency workers from Shapps, like that worked well for P&O maybe we should get some Filipino train drivers on £2 an hour and have their contracts offshore. With a bit of effort we could go back to serfdom if they like
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  1013.  @URBeingLiedTo  the uk has the lowest per capita spend on healthcare by a considerable margin in Europe, Sweden is typical at 11.5 % gdp ours is below 9 % Death rates from covid map excess mortality rates, you can also work out which age and gender groups it affected most using mortality data
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  1014. ​ @logandashiell2584 Ukraine won when they successfully defended Kiev Russia doesn't have enough troops or equipment for any sort of decisive action bar this never ending meat grinder
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  1015. Economy will get worse towards the back end of the year they have done nothing about our reliance on gas, went to Norway to see my brother at Easter drove up in Germany and Denmark there are hundreds of new wind turbines operating close to the motorway as they decouple their economies from Russian Gas
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  1016. Tories lost another 2 points in the polls last week and Labour gained +3 Cons 23% Labour 47% So he was listening to the British people just not the sort that hold your opinion and with tactical voting that could lead the Tories to only have around 50 seats at the next election
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  1017. Remote working was already coming in due to various reasons its just accelerated because everyone upgraded their systems during covid to keep working
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  1018. You pay the national grid price set by the regulator. I have a solar battery system due to the abundance of renewable s with just batteries you should be able to save the capital cost in under 5 years. Wind is always on and it costs to turn the turbines off so in England we can get as cheap a rate as 7p down from 24p for overnight use. A 10kwh system should cost around 3k my annual energy bill used to be 2.5k
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  1019. If you have a renewable grid it has mass storage nodes on it, these nodes would save their infrastructure cost in just over a year. and Wind, Solar energy input is free and not subject to inflation unlike Fossil which has extraction, processing and transport costs so will always keep rising in cost. The estimated cost saving to consumers is -20%
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  1020.  @zaftra  which reality are you living in? People in the workforce < 2019 GDP < 2019 Falling living standards reduced choice in shops Enjoy your turnip
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  1021. 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 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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  1022.  @andimcgaw  They'll do it through Tariffs doesn't need congressional approval in collusion with the EU which will target key businesses in Tory seats with ministers in them. The EU are very good at this game while we are a bunch of Amateurs
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  1023. This is the worst government in UK history of any stripe if you look at the economic numbers I'll give you a few for free Lower living standards after a 5 year term (again never been recorded in UK history) Biggest drop in living standards in a 2 year period (4.2% of falling GDP per Capita) highest inflation in a 2 year period average 20% etc
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  1024. This will resonate across the world thank you Amanda . I'm 64 this takes me back to the poets in the clubs when we were young and idolised Dylan this was amazing
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  1025.  @European-c2w  Right wing economic policy and leaving the EU is driving up migration both legal and illegal or hadn't you noticed the +2 million extra workers over the last 2 years?
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  1026. She's not a minor or a kid she's 17 and needs to be treat with respect instead of idiots like Mnuchin sweeps it under the carpet while dismantling pollution and environmental policy
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  1027. Thick as pigshit is being unkind to pigshit, dumb and dumber look like rocket scientists compared to these clowns
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  1028.  @sirmeowthelibrarycat  why would he block it?
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  1029.  @tonyb9735  I vote tactically all the time never had my vote count aside from at Council level. All I want now is to see the Tories reduced to 3rd party status not even be the official opposition given the amount of damage they have done to this country
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  1030. you don't negotiate with terrorists the only thing they understand is raw power
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  1031. 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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  1032. @UltralifeTech  this is true but what was it spent on and did he reduce the debt ratio The bulk is on long term infrastructure that's created growth on average of 3.6% gdp and positioned the US economy as the world leader. The debt ratio climbed under Trump to 133% due to growth its down to 122% The major problem with the Trump debt was the 4 trillion on tax cuts which added to post Cov inflation
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  1033. there in hotels because of austerity cuts to the home office A £1 saved is 10,000 cost down the line
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  1034. And you would vote for a Republican party that is bought and paid for by the Fossil lobby and Billionaire class? A lobby who have denied climate science spread misinformation and have tried to strangle Tesla at birth by funding short sellers on the market to try bankrupt Tesla. The lobby who have also made it exceptionally difficult for wind and solar ensuring grid ties to legacy fossil
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  1035. It's to do with residency as in is the UK her permanent home that's easily done by passing the 183 day mark non dom is a tax dodge for permanent resident with gobs of money it needs Scrapping
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  1036. No it isn't If you look at what's happened with the QE money it's spiralling up to the rich who salt it away in assets, you could make a case its increasing house prices but the root of the housing problem is in Thatchers council house sell off and no replacement.
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  1037. ​ @chrisj9700 pull the other one our economy was 90% of Germany's in 2016 its 70% now As backward logic goes try studying macroeconomic data I have plenty were that last one came from rather than parroting Daily Mail Boosterism Here's a freebie the EU gdp is > now than when we left
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  1038.  @piccalillipit9211  They didn't get the nickname the monkey hangers for nothing
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  1039.  @haraldschuster3067  :) Sad but true
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  1040. ​ @ReasonableVoter his MAGA base is only 30 - 35% of registered Republicans. We saw that in the Primary with Haley
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  1041. The taxes are high because of a decade and a half of Conservative Thatcherism and Brex1t, that answer applies to migration as well.
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  1042. we haven't implemented large swathes of it + there is a great deal of wooly language in the TCA Boris's tactic was to try break it by not complying with as much as he could get away with with the aim of abandoning it altogether
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  1043.  @tenniskinsella7768  Economy is down the Toilet the figures your being fed are overall boosted by 2 million visas, we've been in recession for 2 years with falling GDP per Capita Councils across the country have funding problems because the Tories cut government grants to local authorities by 50% and are spending 20 billion on statutory housing support because of right to buy
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  1044. A generic tax cut grows the economy enough to return +20p to the treasury for a net loss of 80p
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  1045. Yes it's a Con same as there other schemes
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  1046. why would I sacrifice MY human rights so you can rant at boat people and waste 600 million on a gimmick?
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  1047. Why do people vote for these guys against thier own interest, every tax dollar lost comes out of the pockets of average workers?
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  1048. It is goods exports are down by 7.4%, services are up but we should have done even better Last few years the banks have moved over 1 trillion in deposits from London to the EU Outside London the economy is completely fked
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  1049. That's MAGA and 1/2 of Haley voters would never vote for Trump
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  1050. 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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  1051.  @no1a646  I've seen the full clip Trump intends to make this the last election, he doesn't have a sense of humour, he never laughs
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  1052.  @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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  1053.  @mrflibble9783  depends what constituency your in as to who is the most likely non tory candidate I'd vote for anyone not a Tory at this stage
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  1054.  @tomtheeagle1  every economist knows a universal system is more cost effective and better for the population as a whole your issue is the 50 state system is akin to having 50 countries welded together. What does a Liberal prosperous state like Calafornia have in common with Alabama which has extremly regressive taxation and the highest instance of poverty in the US? And that's before you look at corporate lobbying
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  1055. It's called nationalisation
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  1056. Why anyone would vote reform is beyond me If you want lower migration equlise the tax system and invest in the domestic population, free further education investment in infrastructure. If youdont train the domestic workforce you have to import skills
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  1057. People need to be not so hard on them the GOP spent over a decade vilifying Hillary, the true power of social media was not appreciated I'd recommend everyone to watch the Netflix program on Cambridge Analytica. Thousands upon thousands of data points garnered through Facebook used to suppress the vote in 1 targeted group and gain an anti Hilary reaction in another. Oh Brad Pascal what have you to tell what data did you pass to Manaford who subsequently passed it on to Constantine Kilimnik for use by the Russian Troll farm? The stuff Facebook gathers may be anonamysed but there's that much of it you can profile each individual user
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  1058. LOL InActionMan
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  1059. The economy is re-balancing from the pandemic with low unemployment then wages will rise The other issue facing the US and other world economies is the amount of money pumped into them during Covid its basically all trickled up To reduce debt you need to re-balance the tax system to tax wealth earned from wealth not just wealth earned from work
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  1060. The 30 Bob nob
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  1061.  @l.w.paradis2108  I'm 64 male with asthma and mildly overweight, Ive had my shots the death rate among the group I belong to is over 10% and was at the start of the pandemic 20%, my mother's neighbour who is 74 contracted covid while on a cruise last year after recovering he was diagnosed with dementia while the virus isn't directly linked it appears to have accelerated the onset. If your happy eating a takeaway pizza which is stuffed full of chemicals refined flour salt and sugar then a vaccine is a breeze
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  1062. Starmer will have already done a 10-11 hour day by 6pm
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  1063. Grey was up for a promotion then told after the report she was sidelined (Reported in the Times) so keep up the fantasy stuff
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  1064. Quote Chancellor Rishi Sunak held a US green card - allowing permanent residence in that country - while he was chancellor, his spokeswoman has said Quote US green card is technically known as a Permanent Resident Card. ... Sunak was responsible for negotiating with the US on behalf of the British people while holding the residency card of that nation
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  1065. So all he cares about is the optics what a surprise not
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  1066. The Oxford vaccine is different in a number of ways it's been created using public funds while Astra Zenica will distribute it for the most part it's being initially licensed across the world on a not for profit basis. It should cost 3-4 a dose the two vaccines already approved cost up to Pfizer 20 and Modern 38 dollars. Pfizer have committed to selling at cost while the world is in its pandemic state. The Oxford vaccine is also easier to produce and distribute and is fundamentally different to the two others as it uses old established technology while the others use the new mRNA technology
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  1067.  Brandon Bernard  BLM protesters? the people I saw looting and throwing stuff were your usual criminal hangers on to a protest slink at the back then start causing trouble BLM is a social movement for racial justice you should start supporting it and hand in your KKK card
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  1068. The party of elite's batting for the billionaires?
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  1069. It costs the state 6k per privately educated pupil and that's just the top line it doesn't include tax avoided by gift aid, Sunak has gifted Winchester more than 100,000 of which they can claim 20k fom the government. Plus the ones near me are full of foreign students it's a business
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  1070. Blair +20% average wage growth, from 2010-223 under Con -7%
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  1071. Shame a household doesn't get to print its own money which it uses as a worldwide barter system otherwise it would be a slam dunk of an analogy. Debt is 28.6 trillion you could cut it to zero in 5 years if you wanted to
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  1072. It is for working people the taxes were talking about are not those
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  1073.  @lestrem11  What the NHS staff? The government could have used internal NHS procurement lines to get quality PPE at a fraction of the cost and within a shortened timescale instead Billions has been wasted pretty much the same story with test and trace
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  1074. The majority of people are scaling back taking precautions, I feel sorry for the hospitality industry rug pulled from under them with no government back up. Weather there's an official lockdown or not foreign travel is all but banned
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  1075. 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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  1076.  @thewoodster8607  It's not heavily subsidised who told you that? It's part of the UK energy mix and has forward contracts like everything else the people feeding you this stuff don't have the faintest idea how the UK energy market and grid works. back in 2020 new renewable infrastructure came in below gas for forward contracts. The government collects £2 for every barrel of oil from the Brent fields but gives out massive tax breaks meaning were subsidising Shell and BP (10 billion in exploration subsidies 75 billion in clean up of old infrastructure subsidies) to extract our oil and gas then sell it to us at eye watering prices on the open commodities market. Always on = Wind and Nuclear you either have to use the power it generates or turn the wind turbines off
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  1077. and Sunak would have put up the pension age to 68 to pay for further NI cuts
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  1078.  @tonalharmony9266  you really need to kick for the cabal delusional stuff, I'd recommend getting some factual information streams the right wing media has descended into a cesspool of fact free conspiracy theories pushed by lunatics.
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  1079. there is no cap currently, it was due to go in in 2025 would have been canned by the Tories anyway no budget
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  1080. no were not 3 million is plenty it's being used as a loophole by the wealthy which is pricing out farmers
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  1081.  @BS-vx8dg  Norway has strict Labour laws no zero hour and full transparency on outsourcing. You can't dodge parental leave, holiday pay or use companies to push an opaque low wage economy. They have virtually no immigration just enough to balance the birth rate. We have none of that and use immigration as a tool to drive a low wage low tax economy
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  1082. People come forward and tell the truth and all you can do is debase yourself with partisan optics
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  1083.  @ce017  He's living in a different reality to what is on the ground in 2022
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  1084. My Brother moved to Norway 8 years ago the standard of living over there is light years better off even the prices are about par since 2022 A 3 bed house in the country with 9 acres 1 1/2 hours from Oslo 40 minutes from a ski resort and near a Lake cost him 400k
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  1085. EU haven't done anything we chose to become a 3rd country so we follow 3rd country rules its also in the WTO rules that you can't give preferential treatment.
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  1086.  @skatergrl13  paper in the lancet medical journal which studied the effect they had in Hong Kong who masked up virtually overnight as they'd experienced sars the hard way
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  1087.  @garrettsmith6914  what a load of rubbish it's no different to wearing a seat belt or a motor bike helmet or banning smoking in certain places
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  1088.  @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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  1089. Cooperatives have always been around in Europe, they make sense, municipal broadband community banking etc... Don't get hung up on definitions we live in a cooperative society
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  1090. The benefits of membership of the single market are vast Cost of membership 14 billion received back 5 billion pa Additional Cost of Brexit to businesses still able to trade with the EU 27 Billion pa Cost of lost trade with the EU 44 billion Cost to the City of loosing the Euro derivative market alone is 2.3 trillion There are multiple cost savings through joint programs which are too numerous to list but go look up how much its cost the UK to peruse an alternative to Galileo so far
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  1091. Fiscal Drag 11,000 20% 2016 43,000 40% 12,570 20% 2023 50,270 40% 14,425 20% 2016 figures put into the BOE inflation calculator 56,389 40% If I were on higher rate I would just as mad that is a lot of additional tax
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  1092. Focused 6/7 If they do the Green renewable energy stuff I'll be happy If he tackles HOL reform I'll be even happier
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  1093. Funny there wasn't an economist among the talking heads. Here's how right wing think works you have an economic indicator, you have a conclusion then shoehorn your conclusion in and work backwards. Here's how it should work you take all the evidence all the bits of data and work upwards to a conclusion (the Sherlock Holmes method). Inflation - the Fed is targeting 2% 2021 Apr 4.6 now compare that with the pandemic hit Apr 2020 0.0 oil futures were negative the service economy collapsed 2019 Apr 2.6 The Apr 2021 figure is based on 2020 so across 3 years your still 2.xx % inflation
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  1094. Such as AND Why is the chancellor of the exchequer taxing ordinary people to the hilt and not closing tax loopholes that his wife uses and why isn't he taxing the vast amount of unearned income at the same rates as earned. NI is income tax rebranded what's worse is there's a ceiling for the rich after which they pay 3,5%
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  1095. Distinctly average Its a very low bar after the Tories.
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  1096. Tax is rising by 30 billion due to fiscal drag your 20% rate should be 14500
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  1097. You'll get less legal migration under Labour because they will invest more in UKPLC and less illegal migration because they will invest in addressing key areas that are causing the problems such as processing Did you know that under the Tories we are housing 60,000 who if processed would have been deported already?
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  1098. Its a bit of a short term and narrow win, the fundamental reason wages are low in the industry has been government policy crapping on Unions at every turn and introducing such wage busting ideas as Tupe and Zero hours contracts. The way of getting round giving good benefits to staff is to outsource everything with government blessing. There's not been any push by government to provide a network of locally run low cost lorry parks with sanitary facilities for overnight stops. So stop blaming the EU for UK government policies
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  1099. Your wrong but you've at least identified some of the other contributing factors. Brexit has had a huge affect but its always a multiplier its not the direct cause, food goes up the Brexit affect multiplies the pain the current bill re food calculated by economists is +6%
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  1100. smoke and mirrors fiscal drag on Thresholds which are frozen till 2028 claws most of it back and some more to boot 12250 should be 15000 accounting for inflation
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  1101. If Calafornia was a country it would be the 5th biggest economy in the world > than India.
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  1102. Is this the best they can do? :face-blue-smiling:
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  1103. Conservative values? What values racism, xenophobia, sexism Wake up pro life is a complete sham even firkin Ireland realise it's about women's health
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  1104. The way to stop abortions is with sexual health education and access to contraception, take a holistic approach and you'll reduce the necessity for one if you make it illegal you'll drive it underground for the poor and out of state for the rich. You'll actually increase abortions and death in pregnancy overall.
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  1105. We've had 8 years of Chaos and a complete clown show. We're the laghing stock of the world I disloke Cameron with a vengeance but he was at least semi competent
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  1106. If you earn less than 36,000 then your paying more in tax due to fiscal drag the burden shifts ever more to the middle and lower class. We borrowed 130 billion last year as well
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  1107. The NI cuts benefit those on 32-55k everyone else has a tax rise, the sweet spot is 50k The band of people there aiming at probably live in the South East and are getting hammered by Rent and Mortgage raises
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  1108. This supports small to medium family farmers (3 million allowance) NOT the Clarkson's of this world
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  1109. He's completely drunk on power, just add it to the long list of corruption
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  1110.  @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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  1111. Sounds OK to me
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  1112. 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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  1113.  @Andi-de3lv  Trump abandoned moderate Republicans when he picked Vance a Peter Teal backed candidate, there is no GOP it's just MAGA
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  1114. Easiest way of paying for it is Warrens wealth Tax - Simples
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  1115. Every economist outside of Tufton street Libertarian network has been saying this sine 2012 when the data came in on how disastrous Austerity was. It ended up being political so Cameron and Osborne doubled down on ideology over fact and gaslight themselves to a 2nd term, the political fallout from that was the rise of UKIP and "It was the EU honest Guv"
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  1116. Sunak is about as good as the Tories have got at the moment and Starmer isn't seen as a radical Leftie 60/70% of the electorate are from center left to centre right People don't want hard left or hard right
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  1117. ​@ionlyfearphobophobia if you exclude the largest and smallest from the polls thier average is around 13%, also their voter demographic is 50+ male with very little appeal outside that group when you dig into the mrp polls
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  1118. what they had their Coutts acount for the rich elite closed for no longer being rich enough?
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  1119. She was sacked because the Tories lost another 2 points in the polls last week down to 23% and Labour gained 3 to 47%
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  1120. No he didn't he has form as a Putin apologist. What's the difference between Putin, the Oligarchs & the Russian Mafia, nothing there one and the same.
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  1121.  @markwelch3564  Why would someone on PAYE think they needed to get involved with a tax accountant
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  1122. 3% isn't high, you need some to get wages up. Ultra low inflation for 12 years and zero wage growth
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  1123. His policies are good for Americans? Maybe the 1% in the billionaire and oil baron class everyone else gets screwed over
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  1124. ​ @purplehaze8557 it's a Westminster thing to feed the Gammons a distraction
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  1125. Labour and Starmer are proposing an Agri deal with the EU to resolve the NI protocol reducing the need checks by 90% Hint If we have less checks with NI we will have less checks with the EU
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  1126. Infrastructure creates economic growth ex the Channel Tunnel is estimated to pay back twice what it cost in increased GDP
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  1127. The French haven't had to endure how economically incompetent the Right are there in for a rude shock
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  1128. If you look at Sunak's last budget he's increasing the tax base from 33% to 36/7% there was around 20 billion in trickle down policies alone in it and where at 99% debt to GDP and out the EU for quite a while. As for not changing much you can keep the same tax base figure and change its makeup + reduce a lot of waste through outsourcing and other Tory pet projects. What you can't do at the moment is borrow much why are people so anti a centre left agenda that doesn't cripple the economy any more than it already is?
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  1129.  @keithparker1346  The issue isn't you should pay tax on it the problem is the amount of insane property inflation caused by a policy which has pumped around 200 billion into the economy over it's lifetime and created high rents scarcity of supply as well as asset stripping councils who if they had a property portfolio wouldn't be shelling out 20 billion in housing support but would have an income from it.
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  1130. Bring in the men in white coats and get her some proper help
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  1131. Tories did a scorched earth policy on the way out Unless you have a trust fund the budget statement will be pretty meaningless, likeliest rise is CGT
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  1132. ​ @chrimbus71 there both English Nationalist parties
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  1133. Dan Niedle says he pays 23% and he's a tax expert so I'll believe him
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  1134.  @massivehero4871  You must be part of the 1% then my income has gone down and my wife has seen around 12,000 wiped out in bonuses due to adverse trading conditions with the broken on demand supply chain with her firm they have also put up prices. My food is 6% more expensive because of Brexit and the NHS is falling to pieces. foreign Labour isn't what was suppressing the UK economy its government policy during the last Labour government average wages went up by 25% During 13 years of Tory rule average wages are less than when they took power. Junior doctors -32% Nurses -28% the public sector is in tatters
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  1135. YouGov have stated that only 1/3 Rd of Reform voters would switch back to Cons so their tack from the centre is a complete own goal opening up the blue wall to the Lib dems No one I know thinks spending 1/2 a billion on Rwanda is anything other than a desperate gimmick and a complete waste of money
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  1136. Sunak hasnt answered a single question in PMQ's whars the point?
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  1137. 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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  1138.  @jonathanlopez6953  I nearly choked when you said the dumpster was humble the most vain venal man on the planet who's ego would cause a lunar eclipse if it took corporeal form, and he has to be the laziest person in the WH with 90% executive time watching TV, I would have said the dumbest in the WH but Don Jnr and Eric are thier a lot. Estimates on his iq run in the 80's. Outmanouvered by a little fat Korean strung along like a fish by an ex kgb agent who's economy is smaller than Italy at the moment and blackmailed by the Turkish president.
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  1139. no such thing the Blair economy had well funded services and average pay rose by 25%, there was lots wrong with it but in comparison to -10% wage growth over 13 years our arses out of the EU NHS in tatters it seems like the golden age.
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  1140. Your getting fiscal drag with 20% rates frozen till 2028 currently its 12250 it should be 15000
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  1141. no they don't The problem the Tories have introduced is we still need supply side labour for a Thatcherite Tory economy but that now has to come from places like Nigeria and India and the people won't come without dependants You can't have a low tax Tory economy without the low wage supply side immigrant labour source that fuels it If you want to reduce immigration change the economic model to one with a fair progressive tax system and fully fund social and physical infrastructure moving to a demand side economic model
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  1142. Just watched Tories and Tufton Street voiced over by Carol Vordeman and on the Led By Donkeys channel democracy for sale
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  1143. Now Now I voted not Tory don't paint all pensioners with the same brush What's weird is I've got more Left wing as I got older not that I was ever right wing just a moderate like most people
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  1144. You can get an EU VISA for a whole range of Jobs
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  1145. Your better off rewiring council tax into a proper property tax a multimillion property in Mayfair pays the same council tax I do You'll never get a wealth tax through and if you did it would be difficult to impose. There's a building its worth X you pay 1/2% which will be Also build the new towns in Tory safe seats
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  1146. It's better than anything the Tories have to offer Or do you think 30 billion wasted in corporate tax cuts will do anything?
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  1147. We are sat on one of the best places in the world for offshore wind The North Sea has multiple shallow shelves and is the confluence of multiple weather systems As a domestic Octopus customer I'm already benefiting from ultra cheap off peak always on energy, Dogger bank has been ramping up and there are plans to expand off teesside
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  1148. @oneoflokis  Currently renewable energy is the cheapest on the grid, our old grid is geared around coal power stations and we don't have the mass storage to time shift the large amounts of always on power that it generates. The cost of nuclear has also gone through the roof. The grid currently pays wind farms to turn off yet uses GAS standby generation at peak demand time's at a staggering cost to the overall energy price.
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  1149.  @redearaser5026  the thing is if they actually bothered to dig into this stuff they'd find out how corrupt the GOP are and how much of the Hunter story was manufactured by right wing operatives for a made for TV campaign. He's certainly stupid for taking the Barisma job and gone off the rails with drugs but aside from some legal mild nepotism he's a saint compared to the likes of Kushner and Co
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  1150. 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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  1151.  @dixieflatline1189  your the ones that need to move on and stop living in lala land, you need to adhere to the protocol we signed and accept the consequences of your actions instead of blaming everyone else Also there are no remainers we are out of the EU
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  1152. Biden's policies are broadly popular across the board people want to see things done
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  1153. One introduced by her own party, if a bit of BNP was the answer what exactly is the question
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  1154.  @frankbrennan1619  why do that it's petty and small mined the Tories deserve you glad your not a Labour supporter
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  1155.  @diverguy3556  or obsessing over Harris's Time magazine drawing That one really gave me the ik urghhh
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  1156. @topboychris104  people are like goldfish. The last time he tried tariffs farmers lost export markets they'd spent 50 years building up and 92% of the money raised ended up in farming subsidies. The US also has export markets worth 3 trillion. Most of my colleagues believe he will be restrained from his worst instincts I do not. I'm a multi millionaire I'll be OK no matter what and will safe harbour my investments at the appropriate time. Sitting on gold for 3 - 4 years isn't a looser anyway.
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  1157. 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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  1158. They will be quite and competent We've had 5 years of bojos clown car party and chaos Quote U.K. stocks get a boost from the Labour Party's election sweep The U.K.'s Labour Party is back in power after 14 years and campaign promises of economic stability
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  1159. ​ @jjefferyworboys8138 75% windfall tax on the 170 billion of expected excess profits
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  1160. ​ @davidhowse884 that doesn't mean anything they've lost a lot of thier experience and officer class. That affects discipline and moral
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  1161. 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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  1162. Sea levels are rising by more than 1/8th of an inch every year Do his followers not know how to use the internet?
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  1163. He's offering something to centre left centre voters and pragmatic government to the centre right If your going to achieve net zero and get the country out of this housing gridlock you need a broad consensus
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  1164.  @derekcable  I'm on Octopus Flux my old rate was 24p per kwh my current rate is 13p per kwh which I use if I need to time shift consumption or top up my batteries
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  1165. Why are you so keen to give away yours and mine for that matters Human Rights ? You'd need to be mental to do that
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  1166. 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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  1167. Herd immunity isn't going to happen, immunity after being infected isn't permanent
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  1168. Yea but the Tories are easy targets anyone still voting Con must be a masochist
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  1169.  @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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  1170. The left leaning vote in the polls has remained constant at around 58% (Labour + Lib-Dems + Greens) They have enjoyed minority rule for 14 years
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  1171. England Football team are more consistent
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  1172. 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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  1173. ​ @KetanjiBrownsFavemolester the record inflation had 2 drivers the Trump tax cuts and Cov combine both your pumping 8 trillion into the economy and at the time it had shrunk by -3.6% over when Trump took over. Infrastructure investment plus other stuff has been driving the GDP up its averaged 3.6% which in turn lowers inflation by expanding the economy to the larger money supply.
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  1174. The Tories built low wage economy over the last 14 years that depends on migration, turn it off and the economy won't go into recession it will be a full on depression You need to improve public sector wages and invest in the domestic workforce and infrastructure
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  1175. when did you start talking BS
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  1176. Some councils are really good at it but it takes resources and central government have been starving resources from councils
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  1177. 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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  1178. They can't the legal side is driven by their economic policies and there were no boats prior to 2010
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  1179. Given how right wing they've gone they don't appear to want to conserve anything.
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  1180. He's toxic to everyone but his hardcore Base which is dwindling to a tranche of cult devotees spurred on by Faux news, even thier propaganda network can't patch up the damage, he's impotent, weak and incompetent. Even pivoting into racism isn't going to patch over the levels narcistic incompetence he's managed to push down the levels of the party
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  1181. Just getting to the final boosts the economy
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  1182. ​@boota1979 there a talking shop you need to research people like the Hertage foundation, Policy Exchange IEA and the fossil lobby if you want to know why we can't have nice things
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  1183. There going to go all in with the herd immunity, the propaganda machine is going to go into full overdrive trying to sell you the unreality that it's not as bad as you think. In fact it's worse far worse people surviving are coming out of this with long term health issues from fatigue, heart swelling, lung scarring, also older survivors are being diagnosed with onset dementia. What's the GOP long term game? Get rid of pre-existing condition cover and insulate businesses from being sued for not taking care of their workers
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  1184. Bojo delivered it Frost negotiated it Sunak implemented it The advisory vote to leave the EU didn't Include the Single Market its the Cons that insisted it did so you need a hard border, the Irish don't want Englands shyte economic car crash Brexit and have voted a majority pro protocol parties at every election Why do you want to inflict our economic misery on NI?
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  1185. completely wrong but keep believing in myths If you want to know the real reason ask?
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  1186. The private schools near me have masses of foreign students its a business one we subsidise to the tune of 6k per pupil and that's before gift aid
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  1187. Till the next 5 years the Tories are gone for good there's no chance of a 2029 comeback if at all
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  1188. 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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  1189. Rumour is Boris was at the party and there were other parties going on Williamson threw one. The Mogg is staring in an even more loathsome video
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  1190. ​ @johnf3885 the MAGA response has been typical a series of lies about the Presidential and VP pick Why is that? What is the overriding need to create an alternate reality to fester hate and othering of people?
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  1191. They got screwed with fiscal drag the 95£ won't even make a dent in that
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  1192. I work in IT the work the last 12 months is off the charts, all I can say is after the money I've made in the last year then I'm a Yang supporter UBI is the only way forward If you have a basic income you can move forward with dignity and be productive in all manner of areas, robotics and tech are going to swamp the traditional workspace. This idea that people are lazy is a crock of shit you'll get a couple percent on the fringes but most people just want to have a bit of dignity in thier life
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  1193. Sunak is useless with normal people he has zero connection
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  1194. 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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  1195. There is no deep state its right wing fiction, if you believe in one you've got brain melt, the levels of looney tune propaganda is staggering
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  1196. It's not real it's fantasy I was on the fivethirtyeight website and by early morning Trump had juiced rural counties and was hemorrhaging votes from the suburbs I had a long discussion with a Trump voter who was gloating who wanted to know why I was so sure Biden had won
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  1197. What values are those ? stealing from the middle and working class to give to the rich with trickle down or preformative cruelty with Rwanda or getting the poverty rate in children above 25%
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  1198. One thing to note he's been the laughing stock of the world for a while but this one has catapulted him into infamy and ridicule across the globe. This has hit every national news room with appropriate scientific ridicule
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  1199. Why? Do you like the abuse the lies?
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  1200.  @thedewberry_6399  Its also a drag on the Treasury as 40% of Benefit claimants are working and we spent 20 billion on housing support. If you uplifted the minimum wage it would help the economy why were subsidising a low wage economy for the beni... oh wait mmm Tory donors like low wages
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  1201. Freedom to be economically poorer have less workers rights and have companies pollute at will
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  1202. Apple is still the world leader in processing power on a phone its new chip is faster than a fast thing on steroids Didn't they make record breaking profits last quarter?
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  1203.  @gregsmith7821  He doesn't realise that the tax base didn't change for 2 decades till Sunak became chancellor, taxes have never gone down in the 14 years they've been in charge
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  1204.  @Jay-hy6lq  Why do you do that? you know its not true, your Orange leader may behave like a nine year old throwing insults and tantrums following his example just makes you look small and weak.
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  1205. Brexit will never be over because it was sold on lies and the likes of Farage's toxic racism As an economic project its a total failure
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  1206. I've grown more left with age, started of as fairly centre moderate now 66 never voted Conservative as my voting debut came at the start of the Thatcher era and I did economics. When people say to you how will Labour pay for anything reply how do the Tories pay for tax cuts? Tax base in the UK from Blair's Labour onwards has been round 33% for the last couple of decades till now under Sunak it will go up to 36/7 by 2027 with current fiscal policy The Tories waste so much money its unbelievable
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  1207. what takes your fancy the Lettuce Liz economic policies or perhaps the fracking maybe the NHS privatisation?
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  1208. Fiscal Drag + NI Cut means Tax is going up if you earn less than 36k and you get a few quid over 36k The people hit hardest by fiscal drag are the low paid, graduates, and pensioners ex- my tax has increased by +£450 (I'm 67)
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  1209.  @jimthompson9370  it does 50 years on Privatisation has been a complete disaster Norway have a 1 trillion wealth fund we got a few years tax cuts
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  1210. The Grift goes on and on and on and on, just when you thought you couldn't get lower.
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  1211. You need a competent distribution network with individuals who understand how the Federal government and the supply chain works, Trump's plan was you'd have to kiss the ring-piece before you got your vaccine, he's already made it clear New York were not getting it. The reason the vaccines are getting developed at such a rapid rate is a combination of two things the first couple out the traps are cutting edge bio technology, the other is the buckets of money being thrown at this from every government on the planet plus the academic resource plus private sector profit salivating.
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  1212. @jamesgravil9162  Conservatives round my way (Blue Wall) are socially Liberal fiscally Conservative not ideological at all very centerist with a right lean The current Tory Party is UKIP in all but name trying to appeal to the socially Conservative which if your educated middle class is a complete turn off
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  1213. Jan 2020 Debt to GDP was 132% Aug 2023 Debt to GDP was 121% In 2 years the debt ratio has fallen 11 points its the biggest fall in decades why Inflation GDP Growth and record Tax receipts Investment and rolling back the Trump tax cuts will cut the deficit, cutting spending at this point will push the economy into a recession which I presume is the point because politics over the people every time with the Republicans.
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  1214. Their obsessed with him
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  1215. Tax thresholds are frozen till 2028 taxes will go up by 30 billion on PAYE alone dwarfing the 9 billion bribe on NI Corporate tax up from 10 to 25% + The country is falling apart after 14 years of Austerity
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  1216. They said that last time and the tax base has gone up from 33% to 38%
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  1217.  @CricketEngland  I think Boris and the Cons have put to bed the myth that Corbyn would have been worse, we have a cratering economy a headless chicken as a leader the highest tax burden since the war severe labour shortages rampant inflation an privatised energy sector whose prices are going to double plus stagnant wage growth of at least -3% in the last 12 years. But hey at least Corbyn isn't PM (I think Corbyn' is rubbish by the way its just the Con's have really outdone themselves)
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  1218.  @goot-if4km  what's that got to do withh the near 1 trillion lost to the economy since 2016?
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  1219.  @collier8931  where do you get that rubbish from?
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  1220. Its due to the Tories running supply side economics aka Thatcherism it doesn't work without supply side labour
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  1221. I've a better theory there just incompetent because DT hires psycophants and yes men He's also got a racist agenda driven by Miller and Bannon
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  1222. The Dominion system is a paper based system and they hand counted the Georgia vote to double check, that 1.3 billion lawsuit various right wing loons are facing looks facing looks a slam dunk
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  1223. Why don't Fox just admit he's a frikin IDIOT and couldn't manage his way out of a wet paper bag
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  1224. Yea right + 20% wage growth that would be nice after a decade and a half of shrinking disposable income
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  1225. They have higher taxes
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  1226. The Tories moreso due to squeezing public sector pay reduction in train8ng and n9t regulating the gig economy ​@jamie_2452
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  1227. We derive no benifit from them anyway the way government gets short term money in for leasing to then give huge tax breaks and other benefits to fossil companies means there is huge public subsidies to create a failed business model which we subsidise. Tax breaks = corporate welfare as in socialism for corporations and the rich.
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  1228.  @Fadingfool  You don't have access to the oil or gas has this crisis taught you nothing? It goes on the world commodity market where private companies buy it on the WORLD open market. I have solar and thermal solar and also made the effort to double insulate the house when we had upgrades done a few years back. Investing in insulation and an energy source that is completely disconnected from the wholesale energy price is the best investment I ever made on current prices my capital cost will have repaid itself in 8 years.
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  1229. Part of the increased temperature trend weakens the polar Vortex, my Brother lives in Norway near Oslo they had -28 one day last week  @Fubar-fomo 
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  1230. 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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  1231.  @tjd18  If your allowed to unilaterally change an international treaty then why not?
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  1232. Quote from an article in the FT Northern Ireland success due to EU Jonathan Portes, professor of economics at King’s College London, said that “Northern Ireland has done better” because the Protocol allows it to be part of the EU single market. Fresh data comes after last month it emerged Northern Ireland was the only region in the UK with increasing imports for the first half of 2021, compared to the same period last year. The statistics show Northern Ireland performed better than any other part of the UK, with Britain’s overall economic recovery falling 2.1 per cent over the same period.
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  1233. He's as Thatcherite as they come Could be that Thatcherism Austerity and Populism have zero to offer which is why with every iteration of the Conservatives things just get worse
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  1234.  @MohammedShafiq-id5ov  the Russian advavance will grind to a halt in a cycle of attrition because the west will supply money and the latest tech to fk their year old rustanks
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  1235.  @myla6135  They can shut down tax havens get rid of non dom status tax unearned income at the same level as earned income employ more tax inspectors to go after the rich boys clamp down on avoidance Etc
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  1236.  @onepunchman2663  Vivek isn't playing with a full deck, he needs therapy
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  1237.  @imbonkers3629  The Tories had no mandate to leave the single market and remove FOM but they did it anyway
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  1238. He's centre left depending on his majority it will dictate how far he can go unlike the Tories who wield power with 36% like 80% of the country is with them Labour leaders need to take the majority with them
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  1239. Why its not a deterrent and for every person we send to Rwanda we get 1 back
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  1240. In what way? The Tories estimate that in-sourcing will cost 7.5% extra (6.5 billion), everywhere I've worked outsourcing has sent day to day costs soaring and service levels have plummeted
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  1241. Labour have a few policies I support Lib-Dems have a few policies I support The Tories have ZERO + a load of Policies I actually detest My vote will go to the party most likely to kick the Tories out for what they have done to this country I physically detest everything they stand for
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  1242. They also teach economics 70% of counties by total US GDP voted Biden Clinton 16 Million Jobs Obama 8 million Jobs Bush, Bush, Trump 2 million Jobs total BIDEN 14.1 MILLION JOBS
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  1243. Thers a 10% shortage of staff and 84 million spent on agency staff They work 12 hour shifts and have to have a degree its skilled arduous work pay the ferryman or die on a corridor trolly
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  1244. Pensioners don't pay NI so freezing thresholds and using the money to reduce NI has a net affect that those on 32 - 55k have a few pounds while everyone else including pensioners saw their tax rise. What's even more galling is with all the outsourcing and bad management were getting less but paying more AND they had +2 billion in extra borrowing
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  1245.  @ads13924  the country needs more kids we have an average of 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 but the Tories think its the wrong people having those extra kids.
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  1246. It was pure class What are you going to do when women vote against dirty grandpa claim their votes don't count
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  1247. Big tax increase? Who's got 10+million to bung into the stock market? Pensions are exempt by the way.
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  1248.  @Jw._02  Boris's economic record is way worse than Brown's by a country mile in fact you'd have to go back to the Napoleonic war to find real wage growth in the negative for such a long sustained period.
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  1249. OPEC is more powerful than world economies
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  1250. imf recommended a one off wealth tax to cover nations covid spending The issue is the wealthy not paying their taxes at all
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  1251. Since we left the eu both legal and illegal migration has skyrocketed- coincidence? I dont think so Brexsh1t the gift that keeps on giving
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  1252. Why will it go ? Exemption is what has caused the explosion in land prices and large companies and rich people buying them up
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  1253. How many have actually read the proposals instead of listening to the media? For a family farm the IHT limit is 3 million, 2 x 1 million agri allowance and 2 x 500k IHT allowance
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  1254. My brother lives in Norway just north of Oslo its been up to -28 The problem is our infrastructure isn't designed for ultra cold or over hot or monsoon conditions even in Norway this is strange weather but at least they have appropriate levels of insulation
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  1255. He has as much influence as John Major exactly zero
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  1256. If your receiving any sort of supplementary benifit you'll get the winter fuel allowance I'm a pensioner I will not but my mother in law will, its not means tested we get a carers allowance hence we will get the fuel allowance
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  1257. His convention looked like it was sponsored by Mogodon
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  1258. The Trump core demographic was white uneducated older, these people are as thick as mince I don't wish ill on anyone but they get the collective Darwin award for 2020/21
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  1259. That is some cool aid she is drinking the Tories are toast and could end up as the 3rd party
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  1260.  @belindataylor4600  debt to gdp was 62% when Labour left office for most of their term it was 40% the rise was due to the banking bail outs Debt to gdp by 2016 was 82% Austerity was still crushing the economy Osbourne decided to lower corporation tax it produced no visible increase in economic activity and went straight to debt by 2016 debt ratio was 92% so in today's money 10% represents 310 billion where now at 99% debt to gdp and to pay for Trickle down and Austerity policies that haven't worked for 13 years your tax base will rise from 33% to 37% The only time the tax base has been lower in the last 3 decades was the short period of 2016 to 2019 at 32% which added billions to debt
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  1261. 2 times fk all is still fk all
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  1262.  @CaptainTommy7  there flattening them with artillery and don't believe a word Putin says he's trying to justify using chemical weapons to terrorise the population go look what he did to Grozny
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  1263. ULEZ isn't a green policy it's public health The biggest concern with it is public transport if you want better air quality you need less cars period
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  1264.  @andrewoliver8930  Is that from the book of Mogg
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  1265. The Tories hat3 young people Tripled tuition fees Extended payback time to 40 years Lowered payback thresholds Adopted policies that have increased rent and housing by 66% while stagnating wages with austerity
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  1266. Does Jim Jordan care about the truth? Thought not just give him his tin foil hat and yet another anti rabies shot
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  1267. The Tories NI cuts werent budgeted for there's an 18 billion black hole
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  1268. So what are the effects of taxing graduates to the hilt and a policy that punishes those that wish to take a University degree then importing the same same skills from the Indian sub continent on cheaper wages depressing the wages from the top and middle which pushes wages down throughout the economy. Surely we should be importing workers to do jobs at the bottom end and training up people in the UK to do the skilled jobs?
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  1269. It's political posturing All parties have backed the 2 state solution for decades the motion is pointless the uk has no political sway over Isreal, all this does is breed more contempt for the snp
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  1270. Frozen thresholds mean real time tax increases 12250 should be 15000 And tinkering with NI doesnt affect pensioners many on low incomes who faced fuel poverty this winter, now councils are shutting down libraries
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  1271.  @sandiharris5906  and your point is what? Bleating constantly that a piece of medical safety equipment is somehow so egregious its comparable to fentanol I'd go back to arguing about seat belts
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  1272.  @tmc1054  My 1st job out of Uni was working in a factory in an ex mining town, given what Thatcher did to those people I've voted tactically against the Tories ever since and always will.
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  1273. Undermine Trump? How dare he spout scientific facts about death and disease? Latest info is showing long term health issues for those surviving including lung scarring and diabetes so the push by the Republicans to torch pre-existing conditions becomes more urgent.
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  1274.  Lucy Rane  90% of ICU beds and deaths from Covid are the unvaxed So no its not a dis aster, looking at those figures its pretty much a success
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  1275. Uneducated male voters are the lowest propensity voting block in the US DJT has p1ssed off - educated women voters the highest propensity voting block, black women, swifties, Polish immigrants (800,000 in Penn), Hatian voters (600,000 in Florida) & the youth vote. His tariff and tax policy has been slated by every economist on the book it will add 3 trillion to consumer prices over 10 years and that doesnt take into account retaliatory tariffs.
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  1276. I wish so your solution is to do nothing but shout a lot and waste 8 billion year doing it?
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  1277. I do what my wife tells me to its generally for the best
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  1278. Poulter was from the South East, London and the the South East are the land that Thatcher built and a different country to the rest of the UK, if things are now getting that bad that Tory middle class are feeling it then we should all be grateful it's been a long time coming. Quote The income gap between London and the South East versus the rest of the UK is now larger than the gap between East and West Germany
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  1279. JC was the worst you've had saw the bleed away of older working class voters away from Labour
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  1280. Based on the Australian model 1.6 million per refugee
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  1281. The Nordic states have strict Labour laws banning such things as zero hour also offshoring profits in Norways case and a centre left managed economy with well funded services + a border with Russia.
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  1282.  @words007  Trumps brain is Mush - you read the transcript from the economic forum where he was asked about childcare? My Mother in law with advanced dementia makes more sense
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  1283.  @ruairi110  The EU don't need political union the Brexiteers have handed Ireland economic union, it doesn't matter what the Unionists want the major supply chains are already changed and trade NI to GB is through the floor. The UK government can't abandon the protocol all they can now do is gaslight the Unionists over it because it's too late, the only time they could get away with this was a no deal that fleeting window is a long way in the past.
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  1284. Going badly how? The US is reshoring strategic Manufacturing 1st time in decades with + 1 million jobs, there's a renewables program which is leading to an oil glut and slowly moving the economy away from fossil dependency. Low inflation Low unemployment and 5% gdp growth last 1/4 with 3% annual when the predictions where recession +6 million unemployed
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  1285.  @stanjelinek62  that's a lie, bit like everything else you get spoon fed by the GOP, the level of fact twisting conspiracy theory rhetoric and disinformation wrapped up in propaganda is brain washingly numbing.
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  1286. Makes running away difficult Who'd have thought waging war has 2 sides
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  1287. He's an elite grifter How's your migration points system going that was one of his brain farts?
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  1288. 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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  1289. ​ @Harassed247 if you invest in the domestic population as Labour are proposing legal migration will fall If you invest in the border force and catching the criminal gangs then illegal migration will fall The current high numbers are caused by a combo Austerity and more dependents with br3x1t
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  1290. Sort of when you dig into it it's ukip / brexit / Boris vote it was never Conservative in the 1st place YouGov put the demographic as male over 50
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  1291. ​@TomRipley7350 Dyson owns 36,000 acres, Clarkson 1,000, real family farmers own around 120-200 There's huge tracks of land given over to grouse shooting doing sweet fa for our countryside or food supply bar being passed down iht free
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  1292. ​One party is going to invest in renewables which grows the economy the other is investing in fossil which will help shrink it The point estimates of the multipliers are 1.1-1.5 for renewable energy investment and 0.5-0.6 for fossil fuel energy investment, depending on horizon and specification An economic multiplier of > 1 produces more tax revenue than was spent via increased economic activity an economic multiplier < 1 produces less tax revenue than was spent via decreased economic activity Labour have the same figures I have the reason the Conservative party doesn't do this is ideological there wedded to supply side trickle down aka Thatcherism
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  1293. ​@neecierussell595 i'm reasonably wealthy and they've been a train wreck to my finances, i'm one of the luck ones i actively manage my families pension and savings. Even then I still took a hit. Anyone nearing retirement who had an automatic tapering into what was supposed to be safer investments could have seen near 40% of their SIPP wiped out by the Truss event In total its estimated Pension values fell by 25% and lost 425 billion in value in 2022
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  1294. 7 bins Sunak getaway would never have thought such an upstanding multi millionaire would tell porkies
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  1295. Your actually correct if it were a meat packing plant for example it would have been closed for a couple of days while they did a deep clean and decontamination. The virus has been known to live on on various surfaces for up to 48hrs
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  1296. 1/2 a billion on a propaganda stunt for the tory party. Can wesend them the bill?
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  1297. We can't make it in the UK and export it because of brex1t, we were warned about manufacturing back in 2016 and in 2026 we can no longer export to the EU without punitive tariffs On June 30, 2026 the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will be fully operational. (CBAM) applies a charge to carbon emitted during the production of imported carbon-intensive goods, such as aluminium, cement, iron and steel.
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  1298.  @normankennith7919  Living somewhere and claiming residency for tax purposes with HMRC are 2 different things, Dowden understood that with his jibe at DPMQ's the other week. The story is worse than Currygate
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  1299.  @dano9008  You got a drop of -3.5% in GDP in 4 years with 3.5 Trillion going to US Debt due to Corporate Tax cuts which was spent entirely on share buybacks artificially pumping the stock market. Also -2 million unemployed, the overall macroeconomic data shows Trump oversaw the worst economic decline since Hoover. The non pandemic years economy was built on debt which is why it collapsed like a pack of cards when the pandemic hit and needed a further 4.5 Trillion to keep it going. The huge monetary expansion is also why inflation wen't so high. In terms of broad economic numbers trump was +6 points in GDP Per Capita Biden is projected to be +20 points by Nov On health Trump -4 million without insurance, Biden +16 million
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  1300. Its a culmination of people not wanting to pay attention to the arrogance incompetence and cronyism of this government. The SERCO contract cost countless extra billions when it could have been run through the NHS and public sector at a fraction of the cost and with far better results. The push at the outset of the pandemic to herd immunity where the testing system was abandoned before having to be reconstituted a few weeks later. The current crisis is a view of how the example at the top rots everything underneath it
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  1301. The Rwanda policy boosted Reform's poll from 4% to 10% before Nige added +4 points
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  1302. that would be nice a leader of the opposition pressing the government on the damage of brexit, sewage and social care please make it so
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  1303. There is no comparison between Bernie and Corbyn, Bernie is a leader to be honest I've no idea wtf Corbyn is, the guy is completely isolated from reality
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  1304. Move blaming everything on migrants and refugees is so 2016
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  1305. 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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  1306. He talked complete and utter bullsh1t as usual
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  1307. Food across the board will have to get more expensive due to climate change and other factors including unsustainable farming practices and yes there will be no hyperinflation the Fed will kill demand till it tails off The US has an issue with oligopoly ownership of certain commodities these need breaking up to truly resolve the situation and people need to pay more for better quality food
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  1308. Going Net zero Costs 6% GDP oh no we must stop it now? Wait Not going Net Zero costs 13% GDP Oh no we must GO Faster But Brexit costs us 5.5% GDP already we can afford that?
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  1309.  @oceanside88  speak for yourself My father was Polish came here during the war my grandfather on my mothers side was half Irish How does setting up a concentration camp in Rwanda not make us look like wannabe fascist? By the way this will cost approx 2 million per person
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  1310. @strakermidwich9679  A lot of our plants haven't gone dormant till recently due to abnormal high seasonal temperatures and last year we lost our entire apple and pear crop due to a late frost and I mean really late. Abnormal weather events affect the food chain in a variety of ways most notably making it more expensive so mock all you like as you pay more for less
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  1311. Sunak has done net zero to lower inflation, if he really wanted to affect inflation he would have turbo charged renewable grid roll out removed the onshore wind ban and got us off as much gas as possible as well as huge push on insulation targets.
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  1312. It was made worse by leaving the EU as was legal migration
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  1313.  @veizagajp  Its a lot more complex than that, I think its better to put those forward than just name calling. The Fed started quantative easing beginning of 2020 to try stop the US going into a tail spin recession that would have been hard to climb out of. The Biden economy has recovered quicker than the Fed anticipated and is running hot. There is some remarkable data under the surface if you look, container prices worldwide up 330% for shipping goods, Oil up 25%, Natural gas Up , crops damaged by the late Polar event and summer drought (climate change). On the plus side manufacturing is up in the US for the 18th month straight US firms are building factories in the US again (Intel Arizona Tesla Texas and Arizona Ford Kentucky) Employment is at near full employment with small businesses springing up all over especially in manufacturing as costs to ship from across the globe skyrockets. The Trump economy was pretty much a low wage economy wage rises were always going to add to the overall inflation Have a nice day
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  1314.  @sgtwrench69  Emphasis on Renewable energy the infrastructure upgrade to the Grid has lead to a boom in renewable sector. Tesla Ford GM and Intel are all building factories in the US due to policy and emphasis changes
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  1315. He's generally OK at PMQ's I'm retired have the time to watch and dig deeper, the left whinge on but he's not a neoliberal like Blaire pretty pragmatic and will move to sort out the worst excesses of this govt. He's also looking at parliamentary reform with a more devolved slant. A lot more left than the Corbynites moan about just not radical.
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  1316. 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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  1317. It will cost 40 billion a year over 10 years Volatility in gas prices is costing UK consumers + 140 billion in excess energy costs Going net zero is a no brained on economic grounds alone
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  1318. agreed the Dem Senators are on average younger so trail by boredom see who keels over first
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  1319.  @silondon9010  covid 1 off 2% hit to GDP Only 5% of our gas came from Russia. So no you get RAAC from 13 years of neglect, record knife crime 13 years of neglect etc
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  1320.  @FionaHedges  and why wouldn't we? Nothing labour have done so far is perticulaly radical. My local hospital got 20 million to remove RAAC My son got a pay rise.
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  1321. This channel bangs on about deregulation endlessly and here are the results of lack of employment regulations and enforcement Same with the raw sewage in the rivers you can't champion deregulation with one mouth then complain when it's used to shit on people with the other
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  1322. not bad I'd put it on the list
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  1323. Quote TCI launched a campaign against the Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007, which resulted in its sale to the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). The deal loaded RBS with crippling debt and led to a £45.5bn government bailout.
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  1324. The current path seems to be tactically sound, Shiff seems to have a handle on this and the scope of this seems to be taking on a national security turn as it appears that this goes deeper. Every day it gets worse for the Republicans as DT implodes and more comes out and the calculation is that a good chunk of Republicans will vote for impeachment as well when it's finally taken which ramps pressure on the Senate. Looking back if Trump had been impeached over Muller he'd have gotten away with it in the Senate so you wouldn't have got to this point where he can't control the narrative and removal (even on the 25th amendment) looks increasingly possible while Republicans can stand the corruption the complete ineptitude and mental instability is causing them to blink.
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  1325. You apply for non dom status if you break the 183 day per annum rule It's just a tax dodge there's no reason for letting them off taxes if there resident it should be scrapped
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  1326. The LSE published a paper with the true cost to the treasury accounting for how money flows through the economy and is taxed at multiple levels Thier estimate is 0.66 billion
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  1327. Most people were appalled at the terrorist attacks on Jewish people. Most people are appalled at the indiscriminate bombing of Palestinian civilians. Israel has had 50 years to sort this out since taking over parts of Palestine instead they've allowed more and more settlement of occupied territory.  YaakovAltmann 
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  1328. Notice its women calling out this out for what it is cringe worthy BS and labelling them for who they are traitors to the USA who's God and fealty is to money
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  1329.  @alabamaman5994  what relevance is party politics in the overall scheme of things? And why single out the squad for thier protest vote. They would have fallen into line if the votes where needed
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  1330. billionaires telling us what we need, bit of an irony there don't you think?
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  1331.  @dufud  Starmer is a technocrat stuff happens in the background you don't hear about he's not a gob on stick like Nige
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  1332. They'll cut taxes for the well off he's not addressing you or me Also you can't just confiscate private housing stock the government would have to pony up full retail to buy from a landlord so its never going to happen
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  1333. There asylum seekers there's nothing illegal about them maybe the government should do its job and process them after all the western economies have been happy enough to plunder the middle east for oil. But hey why not demagogue about a problem instead of fixing it the true Tory way all hot air and no results
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  1334. The policy doesn't come in till 2025 and the Tories defunded it anyway
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  1335. Voting for Brexit was a mind numbingly stupid idea hope there enjoying their Turnips
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  1336.  @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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  1337. I've not seen the detail but if it's 1 million on arable land you can buy 180 acres round here with that amount and the average farm is 170 acres Homes are Partner to partner are they now excluded from the old system and put into general IHT? The reason this has to be done is there is 1.5 trillion locked up in savings in ISA's + owner occupier property + SIPP money which are increasingly owned by by rich pensioners with a huge portion passed on as generational wealth. My son on both me and my wife's passing would inherit a small fortune even after tax, my brother has no children and he would get a large proportion of his assets on his demise. We have a fundamental problem of wealth inequality built up since the Thatcher era.
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  1338. Part of the cost of living problem revolves round energy I get that the surplus money supply with the rich is an issue but our lack of energy diversification has left us. Any chance you could do a video on how the price cap works I've done some research into prices and a lot of the energy on the grid is forward bought most at a fraction of the spot price with wind energy being especially cheap yet we appear to be paying the top rate all the time?
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  1339. Net migration is due to the Conservatives they introduced a points based system so instead of suppressing working class wages with their policies they could suppress middle class wages. If your a Doctor Nurse Teacher IT consultant then look to the EU because the Tories will replace you with someone from Nigeria or India. Brexit for the Brexit Ultra's was never about migration it was about deregulation especially of workers rights health and safety water quality pollution food standards etc. then opening up the economy to the largest supply side cheap labour source in the world with India Germany are in the EU have freedom of Movement yet their average wages rose from 2010 20219 by 20% ours fell our problems aren't down to immigrants taking our jobs there down to government policy that allows the exploitation of the workforce with zero hour contracts unregulated markets such as the GIG economy with multi national companies offshoring profits not paying UK tax
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  1340. The US has a closed system for car sales many states require all car sales to go through dealerships
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  1341. Goostep all the way
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  1342. ​ @rassman48 I'm 67 and yes this is the worst government by a mile. Brexit is an economic disaster with zero plan were going to end up realigned, SME bankruptcy is at an all time record, net imigration doubled since loosing FOM, the longest period of economic stagnation since the Napolionic wars. Plus out of control privatised industry and a housing and Council crisis fueled by decades of right to buy subsidies.
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  1343. 42% of voters polled think your wrong
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  1344. We can realign with the customs union and get some of that sweet NI GDP growth back in GB
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  1345. That's just legacy industry think tank talking points that are divorced from reality. Your just parroting junk pushed out by right wing media. Truckle down was debunked decades ago.
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  1346. Neoliberal economic policies drive higher legal migration, if you invest in UK skills as Labour are intending the demand on net migration will go down
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  1347. He's a walking crime wave, the Ukraine thing is just the tip of an iceberg they've just scratched the surface
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  1348. If you want the Capitalist ladder to work you need a robust Social floor What we've seen over the last 14 years is a degrading of that social floor to the point people cannot get on the ladder hence total economic stagnation If you want a booming economy invest in the domestic workforce, that includes disability benefits to housing to sick pay to Healthcare etc
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  1349. There guilty as charged send them to the tower or even Ms Patel's dungeon quote Amid all the urgent material problems facing the country, why this relentless, almost pathological, search for wedge issues and cultural division points? One must assume the Tory party believes this is helping them. But examine the strategy, and there is little to suggest that this is true. The first thing to say about a government of a modern western nation setting out to “change its culture” is that this simply cannot be done. We are just too individualistic
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  1350. The majority of Conservatives are on the Centre Right and are aghast at the continuous march to the right, the disintegration of the Blue wall is down to a Brex1t they never voted for nor wanted and the fall out from a hard brexit, economic incompetence plus RAAC and sewage in the river
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  1351. You can stop additional drilling by removing all the tax breaks that are given to them Break even for North sea is 60$ a barrel Saudi's break even is 30$
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  1352. that's way to logical and practical how are they going to whip up enough bile and hate if they deal with the problem?
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  1353. ​ @lacdirk it's called Sane washing
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  1354. 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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  1355. There all going to have to explain how corporate socialism works as opposed to how social programs for the people are a bad thing, the one thing your going to get with a Bernie nomination is enthusiasm and given today's news about the DOJ and the Trump budget you've a stark choice sign on to a Republican oligarchy and watch the constitution and democracy die while everyone bar the 1% wallow in thier troughs or vote Trump and the GOP out.
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  1356.  @andrewcoxhead6451  That is incorrect the last Labour government oversaw the highest wage average growth in parliamentary history with +20% plus well funded services and 800 billion of debt we now have everything falling to pieces and 2.3 trillion of debt
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  1357. I have a solar battery system and am with octopus, before it was installed I paid 24p per unit for electricity now I pay half that if I need energy. If I had an EV I could get a 7p rate overnight.
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  1358. 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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  1359.  @sandragray3951  There refugees, enact stupid policies get stupid prizes We've left the Dublin accord and borders have 2 sides, all Patel's policies will do is make things worse cost millions of pounds and achieve nothing but then there not designed to achieve anything are they? Ever wondered why there allowing high skilled workers in from the Indian Sub Continent and the Philippines while at the same time trying to force people to take on all the shit low paid jobs?
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  1360. It's worse than that the person had already been processed and refused so thy could have just sent them back
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  1361. ​ @Bobisalive  me neither but Brown was lightyears a better Chancellor than anything the Tories have offered
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  1362. It's just Theatre read the judgment the Rwanda scheme is illegal on multiple levels of UK and International Treaty law
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  1363. 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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  1364.  @larryross1819  There's a lot of Cope in that? 30 seconds on the internet proves Harris worked at McD's during college
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  1365. Farage was the head of a populist fascist party, whatever your views on the EU his message was bile and lies and it's the remnants of this toxic messaging wee going to have to deal with for decades. When he got his Brexit party to turn thier backs on the EU parliment in the same way that Social Democrats did in Germany pre war disgusted me to the bone
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  1366. There's a fairly high tolerance for freedom of speech, in Europe they have hate speech laws a legacy of ww2 and the genocide that took place against jews
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  1367. I just think he listens soley to right wing media and gets his opinions and propaganda off Fox, from clips that you see its getting more and more toxic and amping up the hate levels to feed an ever decreasing frenzied Base. Last time I checked registered Republicans as a portion of the voting Base had shrunk to 25%
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  1368. we virtually have thats why businesses are failing trade is down and no major company will invest in UK PLC
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  1369. The conspiracy caucus
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  1370. why they wouldn't do any better, the boats didn't exist before 2010 its a Conservative thing same as mass migration
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  1371. Tesla isn't just a car company, its grid tech and solar development is still bubbling away
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  1372. Why not open one of the biggest vectors of infection in schools what could possibly go wrong with an age group who appear to be amongst the highest number of asymptomatic carriers? He still doesn't get that until he moves his lardy backside away from the TV and deal with testing at a federal level this is just going to rattle up more deaths and disruption.
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  1373. Common sense health measures saved millions of lives
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  1374.  @BlyatimirPootin  My constituency is a Con safe seat at the last elections I put time campaigning for the nearest candidate who could defeat him which is Liberal if it were Labour I'd campaign for them the Tories are crooks and liars always have been. Johnson just can't be bothered to hide the corruption and incompetence that's always been in the Tory party leading it to a new gutter low.
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  1375. Why would she go on Space Karen personal platform?
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  1376.  @rjkmusicmedia  what growth? We've had 12 years of a stagnant economy. We have decades of data showing Trickle doowwn not only doesn't work but makes things worse. We have 12 years of data showing Austerity is a complete failure and will cost way way more to fix. Ex nurses real pay is at - 10% of 2010 levels training subsidies were stopped and most Trusts use high numbers of foreign agency staff that are 1.5 times more expensive
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  1377. He's a germophobe and had to stand there not able to grab the sanitizer, he has ADHD by the way
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  1378. It's a better plan than the Tories because Sunak's plan has 2 hopes of working Bob Hope and No Hope
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  1379. Will there be a choice in November or will he have declared martial law
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  1380. Everything the Tories have literally done has made things worse in the migration area Brex1t - made it worse Slowing down processing to a snails pace - made it worse Rwanda show pony policy diverted resources from dealing with claims - made it worse So if Labour do the opposite won't that make it better?
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  1381. One would be enough Sunak is effin useless given his PMQ's performance
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  1382. Given the way the right lies constantly it just gets to be noise true or false and context is irrelevant.
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  1383. I dug a bit deeper into this and there a whole host of Issues bar the Dublin Accord there's information sharing through EU bodies as well. What seems to have also happened is any safe country agreement with the EU for repatriation say to the llikes of Albania is now null and void with the UK. The Albanian authorities claim the Albanians turning up on our shore haven't come from Albania they appear to have been floating around Europe for a number of years what seems to be happening in the EU is security has been ramped up over the last few years with frequent ID card checks for travel and work. We have no ID card so they can disappear into the dark economy easier.
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  1384. Gibber Jabba Johnson the king of the word salad and look over there and it would be worse under Labour
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  1385. The last time the US started tariff wars it ended in the great Depression, so much for brex1t now
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  1386. We used formula as a top up my wife breast fed and worked full time, hard work but the mother gives antibodies and other things through the milk. Governments need to be continously campaigning to get people to breast feed, even working you can do a large portion of the babies needs
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  1387. You were given 101 flavours of Brexit from empire 2.0 to a straight Norway You got a Johnson the bumbling Brexit without a plan but keep your fingers crossed for a decade or 2 and you may find a benefit (actually you won't just trying to add a little cheer) Meanwhile sewage in rivers and seas without getting hauled up in the Euro courts is the best your going to get
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  1388. At the current rate of progress they may get to the next major town in about a Year
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  1389. Why was this vote even happening its utterly meaningless
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  1390. the lot of them have put party before country for the last 14 years
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  1391.  @turbolevo8703  I'm not left I can just see a national populist for what he is bag of empty solutions feeding on peoples anxiety and fears
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  1392.  @mindyourownbastardbu  never voted Labour in my life I just don't like national populist Con men that feed on people's anxieties and offer empty solutions, with Farage and his ilk there's always someone to blame.
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  1393. SwneWashing
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  1394. He's only the richest man in parliament worth over 150 million and married to a Billionaires daughter If you thought Bojo was disconnected from the plebs the tone deaf way he pushed through a tax cut for the bankers should leave you in no doubt about his creds
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  1395. ​@sandrahildebrand4283 why would you cut spending it greases the wheels of the economy Ex - cutting irs funding loses 6$ for every 1$ cut
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  1396.  @MMRe13  and BNP and REFORM and UKIP
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  1397.  @zoeathomson4305  I agree it needs lowering but you can't do that without having a grown up conversation on what's driving it. Your cheap Uber is paid for with migration, lack of investment in nurses is paid for with migration even fruit picking if the government invested in automation you'd reduce the need. The elites don't want to pay the taxes that would solve a lot of these issues or even talk about it because it opens a Pandora box that thier economic model that makes them wealthy is a key driver
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  1398. Blair. / Brown +25% average wage growth Cameron / May / Johnson -6% There's also been aa steady decline in average disposable income since 2010
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  1399. Its better than the Conservatives alternative Lets be clear the Con solution is always privatisation while the problem is never ending Tory cuts, 40 billion spent on Track and Trace with a private company.
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  1400. If Nige says something I'd double treble check the facts he's not exactly best buddies the truth
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  1401.  @kevinnorthfield5097  she's paid her tuition fees why shouldn't she the Tories are always telling people to get a better job if they feel there not getting paid enough. Just taking government advice
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  1402.  @miteshghadi3146  Ukraine can do the same already to Russia
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  1403. There hemorrhaging staff, the roofs are falling in and class sizes are getting larger
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  1404. It was one of those parties with escorts present and boat loads of booze
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  1405. Yea I mean who wants lower energy bills and less migration let's stick with the bunch of Sunak's noo hopers Mug
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  1406. Brexit has already failed, Cummings thinking was they could push Ireland out side the EU which has failed and divide and conquer as the EU project collapsed which has also failed leaving GB stuck. The rolling car crash to the economy will continue were only half implemented in terms of checks with biometric passports to be implemented in September and UKCA sometime this year adding yet more costs and delays to GB businesses.
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  1407. One party thinks climate change is real and has plans to deal with it The other Wants to bury thier head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist, what's worse is the Trump administration actively rolling back pollution regulations and giving the green light on strip mining in ecological sensitive areas, the one in Alaska is completely nuts it will destroy vital salmon breeding grounds killing of part of the salmon fishing industry
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  1408. There is and always was a 100 and 1 flavours of Brexit from Singapore on Thames with the lunatic libertarians to a full Norway. You have the English Nationalist Populist Faction (Boris Boys) The UK Nationalist Populist Faction (Boris Boys + DUP) The Libertarian Faction (ERG) The Covid research group (Anti-vax lockdown nutters) The Net zero Scrutiny Group (bought and paid for by the fossil lobby) Northern Research Group (deluded northerners that thought Tories actually gave a shit about the north) So there is no answer to Brexit its a never ending internal Tory war
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  1409. if it goes any further to the right it may as well change its name to the BNP
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  1410. @ian x we haven't had mass immigration 80% of the hospitality workforce in London where EU workers because I didn't wanna work there and neither did you
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  1411. Why because Con volunteers would demand paying?
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  1412.  @vindhyameemaduma7691  Just don't shake Putin's hand it may have a skin glove on with Novichok on or stand next to a window that's not on the ground floor
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  1413. you wouldn't put your trust in people who voted in Liz Truss to do anything sensible
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  1414. Madam crazy woman man person camera tv
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  1415. only by the right wing press, we've had no end of achievements in just a few short weeks
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  1416. We shouldn't need them if they actually processed the claims.
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  1417.  @stephfoxwell4620  This lot lost us Europe all our soft power is now gone and has turbo charged the boat crossings. Must be a close run thing
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  1418. If you want lower immigration taxes have to 4ise and investment needs to be made in social and physical infrastructure Reform agenda is usual BS
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  1419. ​@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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  1420.  @marumaru6084  It goes up because of the price of GAS if we had a net zero grid then you wouldn't get the price changes due to enough mass storage on the system to use and store all the always on power
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  1421. He got impeached for lying cheating corruption and extortion and most of those are still on his ticket when he's no longer president
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  1422.  @windsolarupnorth7084  still doesn't make any sense to then use it in an inefficient ICE vehicle
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  1423.  @blakethegreatone2058  Nasdaq was 10.900 in 2020 it's now 16,000+ DOW 26,000 in 2020 it's now near 40,000 see a trend going on there?
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  1424. The grid has only 5% peak capacity, go look at an electricity usage curve, and engage your brain
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  1425. ​@oryxthetakenking6495 my electric bill doesn't move I have solar and with octopus have access to ultra low off peak tarrifs if I install V2G
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  1426. 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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  1427.  @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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  1428. There only hope is the economy? The uk economy is in the toilet its been going west since Osborne on Austerity Average wages are -7% on 2010 a decade and a half of stagnation and borrowed 1.6 trillion doing it Were 6 months behind the US in terms of BOE Rate cuts and the Fed hasn't
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  1429. latest news is incremental gains heavy targeting of russian logistics and backup forces
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  1430. There trying to move a needle that has been shoved so hard right its stuck in an unreality bubble, just 6 months ago the Federal government was banned from doing climate science. Could be a new Dem slogan/campaign Your all gonna burn literally if you vote for a Republican
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  1431. ​@user-wn1dl3kk6r we've been members of the echr since 1952, my dad fought against fascism to get those rights so you can sod off giving them away
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  1432. She's 20 years younger than the mental patient doubling as the Gop candidate
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  1433.  @cu7695  National debt has no relation to anything you have in a household, there's no credit card analogy there's no liking it to your domestic finances. A few facts The Dollar is a currency of last reserve The US is the richest country in the world with 32% of Global wealth It can print or issue more money at he flick of a switch and the world markets will not bat a eyelid. It is a collection of 50 economies linked by a pact to form a Union It could put in a 5 year plan that would wipe out all of it but getting the GOP to sign up to taxing the wealthy and reducing the military budget is like trying to get blood out of a stone
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  1434. @hewdelfewijfe couple's allowance is 3 mill average family farm near me is 2.5 mill Can they not read how the tax is structured or do they just follow the media narrative like sheep
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  1435. How do you pay for tax cuts CHEAPER ENERGY NOW 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.25 Jul 2023 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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  1436. It's called a Rhisi-session
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  1437. There not a proper party just a millionaire / billionaire pressure group
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  1438. All 14 years of it
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  1439. So your alternative solution is what to nationalize? Lets be clear the companies are making super profits as in Oil companies are an Oligopoly and the Utility market is a monopoly we are allowing the Oil and Gas companies to sell UK oil and gas on the world commodity market.
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  1440. The Oil and Gas companies are struggling in the north sea? So why are we issuing more leases and starting the process again? BP paid no tax for 5 years in fact it got rebates. You and I through the Treasury are providing rebates to oil companies to clean up the mess left by oil companies decommissioning wells rigs and pipelines the total cost of which could rise to 75 billion pounds. What happened to poulter pays?
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  1441. how about complaining at the 8 billion he gave to bankers or the 2 billion he gave to millionaire pensioners or the 6 billion he gave to the fossil industry?
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  1442. Yea right support a party thatthought the Liz Truss budget was a good idea And Whose main policy has seen migration quadrupled, taxes rise and the economy tank
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  1443. Yea get migrant workers instead dohhhh
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  1444.  @coderider3022  And what difference does that make? IHT wasn't going to be changed and the NI cuts were just making people like me worse off because of frozen thresholds. Worse still it was pretty clear they were going to ramp up retirement age to pay for the shortfall
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  1445. The change includes anyone who is on the DWP system that includes pensioners
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  1446. The public sector pay rises are a cut in real terms taking account of inflation since 2019 By suppressing pay in the public sector the Conservatives used migration from the 3rd world with associated dependants causing the biggest explosin in legal migration since ww2
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  1447. @neilkendrick4976  yes i did labour mayor lib dem for mp The Tories and reform are living in lala land if there telling people they can control legal migration, you do it through strict labour laws and investment in the domestic population. Loosing fom and putting in the system they have has seen numbers sky rocket, they were told by experts this would happen
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  1448.  @chatham43  Average wages falling by -7% since 2010
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  1449. Johnson never had any I told any of my Conservative friends that would listen during the PM election
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  1450. ​ @kat2023. The fundamental problem is Conservative economic policy, they've created a debt doom loop, were borrowing 130 billion last year debt interest cost 120 billion and there paying for tax cuts with 18% cuts to services by 2028 also thresholds are frozen till 2028
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  1451. The bankers tax break would pay a nurses increase x4 times over Ukraine fight so we don't have to
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  1452. ​ @Nick-kb6jd nationalising them won't fix the problems we have with them and successive Conservative governments have allowed debt loading I'm in favour of the GBEnergy rout additional capacity run for public benefit it will provide competition pushing down prices and we won't have to buy up huge swathes of debt and old coal stations We should have never sold them in the 1st place but that bridge has long gone
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  1453. Just think for a minute he could have been King Andrew, the lords titles and the hereditary nature of the system has met it course its time to move on after the Queen passes
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  1454.  @Deathwish026  it doesn't save money though, a fit and healthy workforce produce more gdp hence more tax It's the same dumb argument they use with public transport The Tories have been killing off there main voting block anyway the average age people are dying at is going down
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  1455. 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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  1456. Him and Barr plan to have him leader for life, the intention is to subvert the election and get in through the courts. He'll never admit he's incompetent. He may fake illness or have illness thrust upon him
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  1457. In what way? Last time they were in power the economy grew and average wages rose by +20%
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  1458. Lets be clear if Tesla are first to self drive it will be blank cheque time I have no idea how much that 1 sliver of technology will be worth worldwide
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  1459. what a waste reform are just rehashed tired right wing policies that support thr billionaire class you have too much money or something?
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  1460. Hawley and Cruz aren't going to get anywhere with Trump's Base, Trumpolini is a full on fascist dictator and the only people that he will bestow kingship on is his relatives. There just shitting in thier own bed
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  1461. There just extreme Tories, haven't you had enough of out of touch elites?
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  1462. The industrial revolution replaced jobs with different jobs the AI revolution will do the same as long as you can control the super corporations and stop them killing innovation at the bottom and make sure employees get thier due rewards. There should be more prosperity all round hence more money for healthcare leisure and a whole host of needful things
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  1463. @johnregan2443  the budget was fairly meh, the economy has been flatlining since we left the single market Tories tried 2 million visas that barely staunchly the bleeding, then they decided to appoint Truss who really did crash it
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  1464. I Trump you're 72 million with 80+ million
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  1465.  Dr Downtime  it's a bit of a stretch to call it a legal team it's more of a clown car show.
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  1466. ​@robinlware if your a high earner you benifit from low income tax, sales taxes hammer middle and working class
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  1467. We borrowed 130 billion last year debt is still increasing and taxes overall will rise in the next budget with fiscal drag, 20% level should be 14500not 12250
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  1468. Gas is up because its price is controlled by an Oligopoly of companies and states that use cartel like behaviour to fix prices Also As we move to renewable energy the infrastructure costs are still falling and Wind + Sun are still free unaffected by inflation Fossil prices will not come down but energy from renewable sources is expected to halve in price by 2050
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  1469. done on the data and not trying to aggregate and second guess All the reliable polls have been showing a big lead for Harris with women and party affiliation isn't an indicator of who voted what any more MAGA isn't Republican and the old Reagan and Bush supporters are moving on there is a big realignment going on
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  1470. And who's farms are worth more than 5 million ? Oh yea Clarkson
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  1471. Please no sensible ideas
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  1472.  @cricketerfrench7501  The richer you are the less tax as a % you pay I know I'm rich and pay fk all perfectly legally, my assets are closeted in tax free Isa's and pensions. Due to our joint income both me and my Wife have been able to save 20k most years. We don't have a mortgage by the way and haven't had since we were 40
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  1473. Going Net zero Costs 6% GDP oh no we must stop it now? Wait Not going Net Zero costs 13% GDP Oh no we must GO Faster But Brexit costs us 5.5% GDP already we can afford that? Why can't we afford to save 7% GDP?
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  1474. why do you repeat stuff that can be disproved with a 30 second internet search? life has it's mysteries
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  1475. You've got a high level of tax because of Con policies one of the main one's being Brexit the thing that you champion the most is the biggest factor in your tax bill
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  1476. Don't listen to experts, cherry pick your facts to suit your worldview, trash your opponents lie as much as possible
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  1477. Is Brexit to Blame - easy one yes See Project Fear I mean Yellowhammer for details
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  1478.  @TheYopogo  And then they got to know more about him and his policies his final numbers on approval before he handed the election to the Tories on a silver platter where -71 + 12 that's worse than Liz Truss at -69%
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  1479. Labour are left of centre GBEnergy is a left of centre policy As is removing zero hour contracts Controlling the railways as the franchises run out Etc.
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  1480. 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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  1481. Yes they did its called CONservative
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  1482. He just doesn't understand algorithms and maths or the Internet or mail or spam filters or anything tech
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  1483. You don't elect a PM you vote for an MP
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  1484. What a silly statement if you defund the social floor the capitalist ladder stops working or had you not noticed the degradation of the economy?
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  1485. Biden can staunch the bleeding at best, for proper change its a long haul of affermative action at grass roots level building support from door to door canvassing
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  1486. Get a reality check were part of the international community with trade and UN responsibilities.
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  1487. From Corbynism? Hell yea go Kier go
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  1488. 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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  1489. My dad was a Foreman he stopped loads of bullying in his section it was rife from constant racial slurs to abusive behaviour anyone not behaving got thrown out Bullying is done by the weak and insecure my Father was one of the strongest most principled people I know
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  1490. You actually believe this junk?
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  1491. 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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  1492.  @iqqyplaysgames  90% of vehicles are compliant there scared or stupid or both
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  1493.  @michaelmorgan9289  average wage is 33,000 average pension is 18,000 2 million pensioners are currently living in poverty and 4 out of 10 will be when they retire. As a scheme to kill off their major voting block I'd give them an A * as waiting lists explode
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  1494. 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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  1495.  @colliehouse3133  Where the loosers The benefits of membership of the single market are vast Cost of membership 14 billion received back 5 billion pa Additional Cost of Brexit to businesses still able to trade with the EU 27 Billion pa Cost of lost trade with the EU 44 billion Cost to the City of loosing the Euro derivative market alone is 2.3 trillion
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  1496. @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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  1497. It's got to be Ffff I meant Tucker the sheer naked racism and smarm as he pushes fascist policies. Ingram is not far behind
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  1498. Sunak gets credit for not being a complete lunatic like Truss and then puts a budget forward that adds £1000 to most peoples tax bills and gives millionaire pensioners a tax break Trickle down economics at its finest non for thee all for me
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  1499. I watched that surprised he put the knife in given Neil is a right wing sycophant Johnson has always been a disaster they only got behind him because each faction thought they could manipulate him. The notion that Boris has lost his magic is a myth the population as a whole just didn't know what a lazy lying piece of entitled trash he is.
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  1500. It was a Star wars reference rather than accusing him of being mr blobby or maybe ?
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  1501. Since we left the EU the illegal immigration problem has gone through the roof funny how working with ur partners and allies kept the numbers pretty stable and Since removing FOM our legal migration has exploded because we can ship people in from the 3rd world at knock down salaries but there now permanent and fetch their dependants. Nige talking BS in the 1st place given he's partly responsible the Visa points system was a UKIP policy before the Tories adopted it
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  1502.  @buckaroooooo  We were on of the main creators of the ECHR, It was ratified after the war as was the UN charter on refugees Churchill: "there must be an act of faith in the European family" look up "Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?" It has 46 members the only nation to leave is Russia when they invaded Ukraine which kind of says it all rather than get sucked in to right wing hyperbole and show pony politics some research into why its there and what it does would be of use
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  1503.  @abymodayil  he's not going to win debates spewing a load of his boss's lies and trying to mud sling. For one he's not very good at it when he tries it it creeps people out. Harris is an extremely competent prosecutor and an excellent debater. Pence's main problem though is the GOP don't stand for anything there's no platform a raging mismanaged pandemic out of control debt levels with no tax plan to sort it out bar cut backs and there trying to invalidate the ACA and all its provisions in the biggest health crisis in 100 years. Also there wanting to cut payroll tax which will bankrupt medicare and social security.
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  1504. The rail bosses got 6% in September the workers have had a pay freeze for 2 years running
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  1505. more UKIP why the Con party put up with the far right I dunno
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  1506. ​ @T5Zplayer take a 30% pay cut the come back
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  1507. The price of decades of bad farming practices and its industrialization.
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  1508. No you don't stop trying to suppress people's votes and discourage them from engaging in the democratic process
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  1509. Why don't you like employment rights?
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  1510.  @Mogwai786  Because it's not been adjudicated by the appropriate court.
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  1511. Migration from outside the EU includes more dependents Of the 1.25 million 1/2 were dependents With fom we had about 200,000 now its 750,000
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  1512. Private healthcare isn't the answer government would have to foot the insurance bill for all the pensioners and looking around at how badly Tories privatise stuff the bill for them would be more than there paying to run the NHS within a few years.
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  1513. @dogglebird4430 If your not uneducated then why would you touch Reform's economic policies with a barge pole?
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  1514.  @MrGatzby  This is just birtherism 2.0 if you fall for this clown show more fool you
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  1515. 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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  1516.  @independentandfree6466  nope I voted Lib Dem reason being there the only alternative who have a chance in my constituency. It would be nice to have a meaningful choice even single transferable vote would be a start
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  1517. ​ @YorickReturns private healthcare system would increase taxes, there are millions of people who don't have enough income to afford a plan Pensioners for one kids for another
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  1518. what's to smear he's had connections with Russian Oligarchs since UKIP, this is about money and wanting to tap into that gravy train again
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  1519. Renewables onshores jobs they also decentralise the jobs due to the way Renewables need to have additional local production
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  1520. @sonofsomerset1695  no it isn't. If you cut a government service or process by £1 it doesn't save you £1 because everything a government does on tax and spend has an economic multiplier For example investment in renewable tech has a multiplier of 1.6 so cutting spend on net zero costs the government £1.60 because you shrink your gdp by more than you save
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  1521. He's not really you can see from the macroeconomic data how our post brexit decline is going as manufacturing slowly shuts down.
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  1522. 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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  1523. Oh yea put down the moderate mildly conservative Biden to prop up a Fascist lunatic, great plan not.
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  1524. What's horrifying about cheaper energy lower taxes and a working nhs
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  1525. Thatcher didn't have a clue on economics the bulk of our issues are down to her policies and the subsequent trying to follow
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  1526.  @robertedwards2442  The Blair government as in new Labour was Centrist. We haven't had a centre left government since Wilson
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  1527. @sirmeowthelibrarycat  gdp = the countries combined output Gdp per capita = output divided by people Our headline GDP is stagnant propped up with migration Our economy has severe problems as GDP per capita has fallen 7 quarters straight, were not in a technical recession were in a full blown recession
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  1528. The Tories don't appeal to younger voters it's something like 8% under 50 so it's not really overblown by adding 16-17 year olds you also dilute the power of the grey vote which has kept them in power for too long in my opinion. We'll see what comes after but the Tories are permanently gone as a force with a bit more of a push, the last MRP poll put around 70 seats in danger with a few % point swings from say tactical voting. Then we shall see if its the far right that emerges or a more sensible centre right party
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  1529. He did but the Majority was a coalition based on lies, he promised the Free marketeers global deregulated Britain and he promised the English Nationalists lower migration and levelling up Just to point out the 2 are mutually exclusive so Boris spent his time playing off the internal factions
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  1530.  @georgesdelatour  The reason for high migration is economic pull factors such as not training your own doctors and nurses and not regulating your Labour market ex- banning low paid zero hour gig work. FOM allows your economy to shrink and grow with need ex- large public works such as major transport infrastructure seasonal fruit picking. Blair chose not to regulate the Labour market and improve labour laws which would stop the worst of importing cheap labour the Tories took it to a whole new level though.
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  1531. Until knuckle head realises that fixing the virus will fix the economy the slide will go on and on, historical data shows those states/areas that focused on containment and fixing the health problem were light years better off economically than those that tried to blow through it.
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  1532. from the LSE and lets not forget there's a 2 billion tax break for bankers in the next budget, government money is NOT a household budget it circulates generating more economic activity reducing / increasing wages has pro's and Con's Quote Pay rises are affordable In the first instance, our intention was to undertake this analysis for AFC staff across the entire United Kingdom. However, as a result of limited data availability, to assess the affordability to the Government of potential pay increases for AfC staff, we estimated the net Exchequer impact associated with an illustrative 10% increase in the total pay bill for AfC staff in England (only) in 2021-22. Despite the focus of this analysis being AFC staff in England, the economic benefits accrued by the Exchequer reflect the enhanced spending benefitting all industries throughout the entire UK economy. 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. To place this in context, this net Exchequer cost represents approximately 0.075% of total government expenditure in 2019-20 – equivalent to 7½ pence per £100 of government expenditure.
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  1533. He got a scholarship at 10 must have been pretty bright?
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  1534.  @chrimbus71  What's that got to do with right wing populism? The CON party has been steadily UKIP ifield adopting many of thier policies such as points based migration. We have the endless crowing about migration from both Both are trying to move the country to Libertarin fiscal policy which only benifit the very wealthy, both at the next election will advocate to remove our human rights.
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  1535.  @ronnieince4568  we have a major demographic crisis the birth rate in 2010 was round 1.9 in 2022 it was 1.6 The only thing keeping the economy going has been immigration Also the sort of people leaving the UK who are UK citizens are the more educated as it's simple to get a visa to work in other countries if your qualified. we have an Aging population more people on pensions more pensioners taking up space in the NHS not enough people paying tax so tax goes up etc.
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  1536. Lorry drivers HGV There's 300k with a wastage number of 600 per month leaving the industry (7200k PA) an estimate of 100k+ shortage It takes over a year to train a HGV driver the number of tests missed due to Pandemic 30k the pass rate is just over 50% So + 7800 per annum means we'll achieve 400k in 12.82 years I have an idea shrink the economy to fit the number I have an idea about the next tory leader all join the tory party and elect Patel, if you think BOJO is bad
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  1537. The problem witth tthe economy is Thatcherism It doesn't work doing the same thing over expecting a different result is thee height of stupidity
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  1538. Increasing thresholds would cost around 100+ a year billion, it doesn't grow the economy much either so it goes onto borrowing
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  1539. She is clueless on the topic we are starting to see the effects of mass storage on grid networks saving billions to consumers yet you want to stay as we are?
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  1540.  @caeserromero3013  the tax base did not change from Brown to Cameron it was 33% Osborne loaded it onto VAT which is regressive and hurts people on lower wages mote
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  1541. He makes no secret of being a putin apologist he's got over a decade of form on this
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  1542. Just don't go there we've moved on from killing people as an act of vengeance
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  1543. This version embraces Libertarian economics that would turn the UK into Argentina on the channel
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  1544.  @tinat.4508  That is true I was reading an article the other day about why the Conservative right had their hair on fire trying to claim CRT existed in schools. The piece noted that critical thinking is something that needs to be stamped out in its followers its not just about race. You don't want students having nuanced views on history art sex culture. This feeds into the Q mentality and the chants at Trump rallies such as fake media and lock her up and their latest Lets Go ++++ its designed to tribalize and unify the group which can them move onto its book burning stage
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  1545. Why would anyone want Tories on steroids given their track record
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  1546. ​ @chrisj9700 our economy hasn't grown in 14 years maybe you should take a primer in macroeconomics GDP per capita has fallen 7 quarters straight what's propping up Real gdp from a technical reccesion into a full blown depression is immigration
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  1547. In what way?
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  1548. Reform have even less of a plan than Sunak.
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  1549. Also several studies show increased productivity, the anti home working lobby are surprisingly funded by those owning office space, there is also business pressure from those around office buildings supplying hospitality and services quote from a leading financial article Empty office space is a money pit for landlords and companies that invested millions in purchasing, leasing and retrofitting office buildings to accommodate and attract workers. Rising interest rates, oversupply and declining demand are contributing to the potential downturn.
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  1550. There's always a small amount of fraud the current election has seen two people in Pennsylvania busted for it both Trump supporters one tried to vote twice the other stole his sons mail in ballot and forged his sons signature. Historical analysis puts it at 0.025% There is no widespread fraud, no voting machine rigging because of all he checks and balances along the way, dead people can't vote machines don't suddenly switch ballots and mail in is one of the safest forms of participation due to it being so traceable from the microchip envelopes to the paper copy ballots
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  1551. 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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  1552.  @kr050  The problem is the modern wealthy are stateless, you could tax their property more fairly by changing council banding
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  1553.  @freebornjohn2687  true, but the narrative now from the true believers is those that pointed out the pitfalls on what would happen are somehow responsible for the complete chaos its wrought. The efforts by Frost and Co to blame May for signing the Irish protocol is just one example of many
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  1554. You have the strongest economic recovery in the G7 by a mile why aren't you grateful?
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  1555. Heavy industry was deliberately killed by Thatcher the car industry had made a bit of a comeback but that has got killed by brexit The issue for major manufacturing is the complete demolition of the on-demand supply chain Johnson's brexit deal has completely fked it with delays massive red tape and paperwork
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  1556. @albedo0point39  7k and it is saving approx £1200 a year which could end up being more, I have a solar diverter for hot water saving on gas The reason it's gone from 15 years down to 6 is the battery which kicks in at peak times and timeshifts the solar or charges at low rate Couple of factors on battery prices government zero rated them as part of a solar install and prices have dropped for them by 20% from last year. Octopus do a tariff where they buy your stored energy off you at peak times and use it for grid smoothing, wonders of modern technology
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  1557.  @sylviabaxter265  why would immigration soar? There proposing to train more Doctors and Nurses current Tory policy is fly them in by the plane load from the 3rd world? What's wrong with workers getting better pay and rights or do you want to keep subsidising the low paid? 40% of people on benifit are in work and last year 20 billion was spent on housing support.
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  1558. what's wrong with Carney just because he wouldn't tow the line with the Brexit bullsh1ters
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  1559. they increased average wages by +25% the NHS, Justice System and Schools where well funded which is what the vast majority of people care about. I read a lot of Economic papers and a few have charted a Brown tenure to 2019 using economic models of his policies post 2008 and give the economy a +15% growth in real average wages as opposed to the utter stagnation of 13 Tory years
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  1560.  @darrenmccarthy2976  Over the Blaire/Brown era we had +25% growth in real wages Under 12 years of Tory government real average wages and disposable income have shrunk and its not just the current bunch they shrank under Cameron and May as well In 2010 debt to gdp was 62% by 2019 it was 92% all of it spent on tax cuts mostly for the rich we've seen a 40% drop in funding to councils since 2010 as well
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  1561. If you change a rule or regulation then if you export or import it will create more paperwork not less Take for example the Digital Standards if we weaken then and don't have compliance with the EU it will cause an instant hit of 1.7 billion in costs + high standards are a USP plus its easy to move a software business into the EU thus we loose the trade altogether.
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  1562. You've more chance of seeing Bigfoot than ANTIFA
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  1563. He wasn't sacked for being on the picket line
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  1564.  @margaretfarrell5137  Blaire was a centerist new labour was in response to Thatcherism the whole of the Labour Party are a lot further left than Blaire's new Labour Starmer and people like Reeve, Nandy are Centre left and appear pretty pragmatic the Left wing of the party keep getting thrown out of the shadow cabinet for having the discipline of a two year old they have a lot to contribute but they need to move on from Corbyn stop trying to push 1001 policies all at the same time.
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  1565. So what's the plan to get rid of all the paperwork red tape and repair the broken on demand supply chain? EU retain law bill? which its estimated will add 85 billion in costs to the already hammered businesses who are spending an arm and a leg on Johnson's hard Brexit as it is This guy is fkin cluless there never was a plan and never will be 7 years on and nothing but additional costs broken promises
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  1566. No it isn't the main demographic is old male and white And The Tories main demographic is old At current demographic change rates the Tories could loose another 80 seats next election while Reforms appeal will stay marginal due to them not offering anything
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  1567. Voter suppression, various forms of id that older people have was acceptable and a push to suppress younger, student and the poor
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  1568. At least Kier is making an effort and there are disciplinary processes in place Unlike Braverman
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  1569. It really depends on how bigoted you are Within a generation these people will all be British
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  1570. Then how come under Blair did average wages rose by +25% Tax base under Blair was 33% and averaged 40% debt to GDP After 13 years of Conservative mismanagement the economy has shrunk real wages have shrunk disposable income has shrunk energy bills are through the roof + Tax Base = 37% Dept to GDP is 100% Inflation is stuck at 5% and GDP per Capita has fallen by $5,000 over the 13 years
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  1571. I'm already getting cheap energy because of it you need to stop listening to muppets like these
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  1572. Gas will come down as more EV's come into the market. Your seeing last mile delivery and town buses go electric as well
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  1573.  @badenhowell3312  Why do you want to give Rees Mogg extra child benefit? We have a cost of living crisis, poverty on the rise expansion of food banks + a credit crunch on government finances caused by printing 140 billion during Truss premiership and you want to waste 1.4 billion on untargeted spending I give up its dumb gesture politics box ticking on a Universal benefit
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  1574. Northern Ireland have it minted under the current deal free market access to the EU and GB Which idiot would want the thousands of pages of import / export documents and all the veterinary certificates plus 20 mile border tailbacks and a stagnant economy that good old blighty now has.
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  1575. 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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  1576. Faucci is a public servant who is regarded as the leader in his field and is respected throughout the world if the administration doesn't want to listen to him it's a political calculation and everyone knows that, Tucker slavering like a used dripping wet wipe isn't going to alter reality. The death toll predictions are based on current data if the Red states go to hell with it and try and bully thier way through the numbers will go up, there not going to be able to suppress the excess death toll, people kind of notice when 2/3 out of a 100 people die especially as there more likely to be older with more associations and contacts.
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  1577. You've been able to get a coffee from a machine for decades.
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  1578. They told you he had Cov last week you need to take your ear patch off sound must be muffled
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  1579. 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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  1580. @skyblazeeterno  40 billion or why raise it in the 1st place
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  1581. All the Gammons are in Englund
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  1582. Worst economic numbers since Hoover 8 trillion in borrowing Un fkin believable
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  1583.  @vi3wslove634  Afghanistan is a war zone 12 from a emergency evac? Have you read the Afghanistan papers? Your suddenly squeemish about colatoral again read the...
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  1584. He's in all sorts of financial trouble over the next 3 months the full effects of his economic and virus mismanagement will be on full display
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  1585. My brother lives over the border in Norway near OSLO compared to England its sparsely populated the Older people have Cabins in the country during the pandemic many older Norwegians went to live in them as did people who could remote work. Even now the density of people on public transport is low compared to UK levels. Population of Sweden is 10 million population of London is 9 million now GO AWAY with your nonsense @DavidGetling 
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  1586. The current inflation is fueled by supply chain issues as the world economy comes out of the pandemic, a lot of countries still haven't been vacinated
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  1587.  @anonperson4597  So which group are you in Billionaires for Trump Oil Barons For Trump Scabs for Trump?
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  1588. It's staggering the level of stupidity this guy shows or the level of dumb he thinks everyone else. How does cutting payroll tax help the unemployed oh yes the bulk of the benifits go to the employers. And finally the unemployed are being paid to much yea right there the ones who are stopping the economy from completely tanking by pushing ever dollar they get back into it.
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  1589.  @plebius  Since 2010 we've had a reduction of up to 30% in some places to Public sector salaries. We also have over a million working on low wage Zero Hour workers combined they are 20% of the workforce. This especially effects the economy outside London and the South East. In my town we are the catchment area for the small towns and villages around for both Hospital and secondary schools You then have all the fallout and damage caused by Brexit which has hit sme's hard
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  1590. you voted for brexit which is the same thing you were warned that it would increase migration not decrease it and labled it project fear who needs experts Karma And every economist around has said net zero will reduce energy costs quote adopting net zero technologies will save ~£12-15bn a year because they have lower operating costs – an important factor that is missing from other analyses.
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  1591. The weird thing is if libertarians don't believe in government why do they run for government, they have no social values ie help your neighbour
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  1592. You need to get out more and have a wider circle of friends by the sound of it
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  1593. We need a constitution and a complete reform of voting and government The current lot have 40% of the voting public yet an 80 seat majority and just takes the piss at every opertunity Minority rule by a bunch of fkin clowns
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  1594. It's a universal credit introduced by Brown now a supplemental uplift topension credit Thank Sunak for the unfunded NI cut And Further NI cuts were going to be paid for by increasing the pension age and reclassified disabled as fit to work
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  1595. since 2016 its around 1 trillion the annual loss is around 6% GDP which is 187.86 billion which = 62 billion lost in tax year on year
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  1596. 2 phrases Tactical voting And FPTP
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  1597. we have voter suppression now in voter ID which disproportionately affects the young poor and minorities, the Tories also spent 3 weeks telling anyone that would listen that Labour had it in the bag so why vote or just vote for that independent
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  1598. @Armando Quil Ombos We've lost 4-5% of our GDP which is equivalent to 40 billion in tax revenue and businesses have additional red tape and processes which are costing around 10 Billion per annum. The company my wife works for has shed 8 staff going down to 12 and lost around 30% of its business. The arts and entertainment industry have lost around 7 billion in business Every niche seller and trader on platforms such as Ebay and Amazon + their own web sites have had their trade cut to zero. Erecting trade sanctions with a market of 450 million that's 20 miles away is economic suicide
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  1599.  @banky4943  It has already the Tory government Chaos has stopped
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  1600. @fredjohnson9712  what's the difference between Jim Jones and trump? Trump would charge for the coolaid
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  1601. Lower taxes never equates to lower taxes for the middle / lower class They lower your headline rate then put the burden on purchase taxes you actually pay more as a portion of your income in tax the lower down the economic scale you are. With tax the rich are forever on about tax fairness but its a straight lie someone at the bottom on minimum wage pays a huge proportion of their income + capital in tax the further you go up the scale the less you pay as a proportion so reducing the headline rate has a disproportionate affect on the overall tax take.
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  1602. 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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  1603. 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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  1604. ​ @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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  1605. we won't enter one due to the high price of rent mortgages energy and food stripping money out of people's pockets, were still spending and its still appears as GDP so the 170 billion in excess profits by the energy companies will if your looking at the headline number looks good. Underneath it people's disposable income is collapsing in the everyday economy and at some stage the bankruptcies will catch up
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  1606. 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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  1607. Your being conned this affects the Dysons and Clarksons of this world not family run farms
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  1608.  @shanjanusman9974  That's Conservative supply side economic policy nothing to do with the EU and it will get way worse now they can lower standards and undercut what little industry is left. Did the German car industry collapse because of the EU? When Germany unified they put 2 trillion into leveling up the East what have the Cons put into the north bar empty promises
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  1609. 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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  1610.  @thomashowe1509  Blair brought the in the minimum wage wage rise average salaries by +25% during his tenure
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  1611. he's mildly competent after the Osbourne mould the issue will be rising cost of living and negative growth the Conservatives are philosophically unable to deal with either
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  1612. 49% of Republican men won't get the vaccine? Lets do a questionnaire Obese - Tick Over 50 - Tick Couch potato lifestyle - Tick High blood pressure from consuming right wing propaganda - Tick So chances of dying from covid with multiple comorbities at + 50 is around 1 in 20 with the long term affects of catching the disease being unknown although you'd expect reduced life expectancy from needing a range of additional treatments from covid induced asthma from lung scaring to Long Covid
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  1613. since when the Tory media hate her and make up any old misogynistic shyte
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  1614. I listen to get a more centre right view on what's going on my politics are centre left both Times Radio and The View do podcasts The View is fairly Centrist its good to get a range of opinion rather than hunker down in an echo chamber
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  1615. I was expecting Limbar or the new Q woman Quality stuff some white people with guns that's really going to pack in the viewers, no grievance to small to bitch and wine about
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  1616. Why will it be more of the same? They have different policies
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  1617. Deputy leader give the turnip a badge Bitch slapped or what, if your on Universal credit you get 60% of your wage past a certain point the rest is nocked of credit so a 20£ uplift loss on minimum wage your into 4 1/2 hours extra oh and then there's the tax and NI to pay so were up to 6-8 hours extra work for the sum of a £20 pound note the Tories don't have a fkin clue. The free market utility ripoff, free market when it suits them.
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  1618. 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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  1619.  @Neveryoumind-o1o  My father came to the UK after the war as a refugee he was a Polish paratrooper. I have dual nationality am retired and can go where I please as can my family, you on the other hand are stuck after giving away any power you had to enable a fantasy brex1t that has produced extreme levels of legal migration and a shrinking economy. I spent most of the winter at my brothers place in Norway isn't FOM great.
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  1620.  @timayjust  first there not opening the border the chart with the really low numbers is pandemic related there's an increase over Dumps numbers but not statistically that significant. What's more problematic is the US population growth for 2020 down to 0,03 lowest on record with people leaving the labour market through old age and death your going to have to find labour from somewhere
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  1621. We've had 14 years oof beeeing promised low taxes and growth neither have appeared. Under Sunak iits gone into reverse the tax base is expanding and GDP per capita has been shrunk for 7 quarters. The only reason headline GDP was. 2 quarters was the +1.25 million migrants.
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  1622. The prosecutions were brought by the post office and In England and Wales, courts consider computers, as a matter of law, to have been working correctly unless there is evidence to the contrary.
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  1623. I remember and just out of interest went and checked their record Well funded services Introduction of the minimum wage average wages rose +25% GDP per capita rose to 50,000 Lets compare shall we were now worse of in terms of disposable income than we were in 2006 GDP per Capita has shrunk to 45,000 (US who were similar in 2010 is now 72,000) Our economy was 90% of Germany's it's shrunk to 70%
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  1624. His defence spending commitment is unfunded as well as the 75 billion being made up from data from 2 different data sets, there defiantly tough on defunding spending on the justice system and quote Amid the ups and downs of technical recessions is a bigger picture of stagnation. GDP per capita grew in early 2024 for the first time in two years, but it is still down 1.3 per cent over this period, and has grown by just 4.3 per cent over the past 16 years in total. In contrast, during the 16 years running to the financial crisis in 2008, it grew ten times as much – by 46 per cent in total.
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  1625.  @alien4422  My Dad was a Paratrooper help release prisoners in the death camps in the war Corbyn was a Peacenik intelectual who had fk all knowledge of International affairs or what the Russians where really like. Think there bad in Ukraine that's nothing to what they did to their own people or the Eastern European countries during the war the idea you could opt out of NATO or give up your Nuclear threat is mind numbingly Nieve.
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  1626. were short by around 5 million, also around 2 million need to be council houses Councils spent 20 billion on housing support last year, Tory low wage Britain for you
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  1627. ​ @gordonsmith8899 we're back to the damage done by Austerity the constant cuts degrading pay and burgeoning workload leading to low moral high turnover which impacts quality.
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  1628.  @TimoX-e2v  The fact that everything has been so disastrous after installing a populist clown in Boris to then want another one in Nigel is baffling to me as well
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  1629. NI voted to remain within the EU by a large margin (55%) an even larger margin want the Protocol enacted through negotiation with the EU (59%) the UK government need to crater the deal before it becomes too obvious how well NI is doing with unfettered access to the single market compared to the UK. Quote from an article in the FT Northern Ireland success due to EU Jonathan Portes, professor of economics at King’s College London, said that “Northern Ireland has done better” because the Protocol allows it to be part of the EU single market. Fresh data comes after last month it emerged Northern Ireland was the only region in the UK with increasing imports for the first half of 2021, compared to the same period last year. The statistics show Northern Ireland performed better than any other part of the UK, with Britain’s overall economic recovery falling 2.1 per cent over the same period.
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  1630.  @hklovejoy  My son has a boatload of qualifications and 4 years experience he's on +50p above minimum. I'm sick to the back teeth of Tory Austerity + trickle down which is driving a low wage economy. 14 years on Sunak and Hunt telling people not to have pay rises because its inflationary while average wages are -7% lower than in 2010. By the way migration is symptom of those policies not the cause. Wouldn't surprise me if the Tories didn't try outsource Defence they've done it to everything else.
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  1631.  @pt4005  so somehow there's no alternative to the worst economic record in 200 years but more Tory Do you have Stockholm syndrome?
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  1632. Nige talks utter bilge he appears to know nothing about anything he's the guy at the end of the bar talking endless bollox
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  1633. Historically, the United States economy has performed better on average under the administration of Democratic presidents than Republican presidents since World War II. The reasons for this are debated, and the observation applies to economic variables including job creation, GDP growth, and stock market returns.
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  1634. @jamesgravil9162  what's a real Conservative party? This lot don't give a toss about business or the economy
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  1635. To put this into context In terms of efficiency we spend under 9% of GDP on our Health service a comparable system is Canada which spends 11% of GDP, Germany have a semi privatised system costs 13% GDP. We have one of the cheapest systems in the world for the work it does based on those figures a rise of 2% GDP to 11% would be an additional 16 billion the semi privatised German system is 13% GDP Our per capita spend is one of the lowest as well US spends 12,500 dollars per capita on healthcare (Wholly private) UK spends 3,200 dollars per capita on healthcare If someone tells you the private sector can do it cheaper / better there lying
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  1636.  @Innoruuk  Its going shit companies all across the board are struggling with trade due to the huge insane levels of paperwork now needed not to worry when they go bankrupt we can just import more stuff from the EU
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  1637. Jay Rayner explained exactly what was happening in a Times podcast yesterday (Thursday) he's appeared before parliament a couple of times saying this could happen key takeaways Market controlled by the big 5 supermarkets dwindling food production in the UK as there is a race to the bottom for price (government strategy) Higher energy costs than anywhere in Europe Drought in supplier markets BREXIT - when supply becomes restricted that supply chooses the easiest destination one without border checks forms and vet certificates to fill in all of which add cost and delay
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  1638. the Tories have been making mistakes for 13 years and plow on would be nice if they learned some lessons for a change instead of blaming everyone and anyone else
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  1639.  @lewis123417  Identical to the UK then we've moved from a northern European economy to a southern one in 7 years. UK GDP in 2016 was 90% of Germany's its now 70% and falling we have a birth rate of 1.6 an aging population a crumbling health service and zero way of decreasing the debt to GDP ratio which is set to peak at 103% Employment is still below 2019 levels GDP is still below 2019 levels our home grown food production has fallen from 60% to 50% with government policy deliberately trying to shut farms down and downgrade food standards to import low quality cheap from abroad. This week saw noticeable food shortages what's next ration books?
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  1640. Already is
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  1641. Do you actually believe anything Farage has said? because I don't why the media cover this guy I'll never know Brexit hasn't worked because we haven't Brexited right ? enough said
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  1642.  @jimthompson9370  modern turbines turn at wind speeds as low as 8 mph they are located in multiple locations the average on a so called windless day of production goes from a total of 17% down to 10% and you can quite easily run as much as 40% without batting an eye lid. the UK is at the confluence of multiple weather systems and ideally placed for wind generation Its topography is also unique in that it has multiple locations for viable Tidal systems Once built wind and tidal require maintenance but have NO energy input costs which is why they are cheaper than fossil and will continue to get cheaper with each passing year. I have solar thermal 75% of my hot water will be free by year 8 (6 years from now sooner if prices and inflation keeps going as is) as its capital cost will have been paid for by savings on bills its the same principal with renewable energy
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  1643.  @nighttrain1236  since when they've not payed taxes for years and the latest round of tax incentives runs into the 100 billion
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  1644.  @joecater894  Its a world commodity market we don't own squat we sell it off with licences then give exploration tax breaks
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  1645. I want some centre left economics, most people I know want services fixing the water companies regulating and RAAC and asbestos removing from schools
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  1646. 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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  1647. ​ @rewdwarf123 brexit really screws over SME'S sole traders farmers & fishermen so 60 % of the working population with little to no chance of expansion
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  1648. Farage is a free market fundamentalist the immigration stuff is just blow
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  1649. There going to give him an award when he tells the truth
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  1650. There's around 50ish complete economic headbangers in the party IDS JRM Redwood etc.
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  1651. Labour are out of practice after being out for 14 years it will take a while to settle in
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  1652. Its only if your in the EURO zone
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  1653.  @nielss2773  as someone with a degree in economics I wish people would stop pontificating with thier Gut or how they Feel something should work. It's nonsense that pervades into a common view but is complete bollox.  The social safety net increases economic mobility · Lifts people out of poverty · Brings poor children into the middle class · Promotes economic growth Also lots of poor people are a drain on the economy because levels of crime, child abuse, drug and alcohol abuse all rise so you end up with more and more people in prison, high levels of reoffending and increased costs in policing.
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  1654. Ah Brexit the gift that keeps on taking from 2018 Historic examples include Britain’s decision to end the unrestricted entry of Commonwealth subjects in the 1960s, Germany’s experience with admitting temporary “guest workers” from the 1960s, and the US ending its labour program for Mexican workers in 1965. Drawing lessons from those experiences, the SMF predicted that ending EU freedom of movement and restricting EU nationals’ right to enter and stay in Britain for work will have precisely the opposite effect on immigration patterns to the one many Brexit supporters say they want.
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  1655. What making them electable ?
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  1656.  @ghostsintheforum  you've got healthcare what's to gripe about?
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  1657. There is no Hunter thing it's all right wing conspiracy central just take the medication or go back to the asylum
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  1658. Its worse in the Tories looking at the gender imbalance they have.
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  1659.  @hayleyxyz  The example of that is the Javelin and the NLAW both 3rd generation but the cost disparity is mind numbing I know there not exactly the same spec but battlefield role is pretty similar
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  1660. I find the Uxbridge result worrying because ULEZ should have made no difference where talking only 10% of vehicle's actually not meeting the standard. What this probably means is the Conservatives will go FULL anti-net zero even with the heatwave in Europe Tactically Labour needs to stand its ground on renewables and give the media both barrels because the renewable strategy will reduce energy bills by reducing dependency on gas and increasing energy supply. + There's just under 100 billion in fossil subsidies peppered around the Conservative budgets
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  1661. Also he's looking at trying to get a Pan European approach to people smuggling like Asset forfeiture etc.
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  1662. 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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  1663. The tax system is the most unequal in Europe its full of holes for the rich and corporations
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  1664. It doesn't matter about issuing licences if you pull the tax breaks and subsidies from exploration nearly all the fields wont get touched. When you dig around various budgets there's 10's of billions in subsidies rebates in tax system for the fossil companies Talking of wind power being cheap and getting cheaper ive been following Dogger bank capital cost is 9 billion energy source is FREE Hinkley C capital cost is 33 bilion 2 years delayed 30 billion in government subsidies planned in over 35 years and price tied to inflation already projected electricity cost x4 times dogger bank They both claim they will power 6 million homes Life is really frustrating at the momment
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  1665. Sunak has put in motion policies that are killing the economy and the BOE will keep raising rates at the rate of pain Sunak is inflicting on the middle class and headlines like yesterday with british gas making record profits he won't be able to buy a vote come the election. Just turning off Trickle down and instigating proper windfall taxes to push down the cost of energy as well as removing the onshore wind ban will have quite a positive effect we've a wind farm near us the infrastructure is there and they could easily add more turbines if planning reform got through.
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  1666. The BBC creates x6 more £ in taxation from increased GDP than it costs due to the ecosystem created which has created multiple media companies who now sell content round the word That would be another penny on your tax then to make up the shortfall of around 8 billion? Oh and it provides a huge amount of educational content for schools and universities something that is priceless that you can't quantify how much it would cost if privatized
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  1667. The merry go round of money with the NHS pay rise was calculated at 19p in the pound The 1st thing that happens with the pay rise is tax then there is the tax when its spent + the additional GDP it generates. Your saving on less Churn and keeping staff If your an ex student you have the student tax To give the public sector workers +10% would cost around 8 billion or = to the Banker tax break in the current budget
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  1668. Its wet in Ukraine in the spring
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  1669. I listened to a really interesting discussion on this the other week The guest on the podcast can't remember which one said for the Capitalist Ladder to work you need a robust social floor, we have eroded that floor so much that people can no longer get on that ladder and it is a big contributor to our current economic stagnation.
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  1670. less than 300 million on Rwanda or the 2.5 billion spent on barges
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  1671. Thier cheaper than coal and would be cheaper than fossil without the subsidies, the offshore wind farms take advantage of the land heating and cooling to be virtually always on. There's also a huge variation in wind generation depending on location. In terms of overall energy then a more distributed system needs to evolve with more domestic generation from solar and small compact turbines plus a huge push to retro insulate homes so they use less energy to heat and especially cool.
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  1672.  @yehimstone5492  not true global shipping ground to a near standstill during the worst of the pandemic the current administration has given the SF port licence to operate 24 / 7 to clear the backlog caused by increased demand.
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  1673. There's going to be a load of Trump psycophants on here so how does it feel to support the worst president in US history? Biggest unemployment record highest budget deficit 1/2 a million dead from covid most impeached most court cases against and the most corrupt
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  1674. Reform won't reduce immigration 1st you can't leave the ECHR because its embedded in the Good Friday Agreement 2nd where would they get their servants on low wages from
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  1675. Labour's worker regulation policy will reduce demand for legal migration as will their economic policy If you don't regulate and invest in your domestic workforce as the Cons don't you need to import skills
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  1676. Rancid flies
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  1677. @@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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  1678. Average cost of a family farm near me in Yorkshire is 2.5 million, with 2 x 1 million agri allowance and 2 x 500k IHT allowance thats = 3 million Only the big landowners will be hit and tha is at a rate of 20% ​@spiderbootsy
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  1679. 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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  1680.  @itsbboybump  I looked into this there's a huge Age disparity, people in Wales are on average older by quite a bit and people in London are younger by quite a bit The Higher the average age of your population the more health resources it needs, just on this factor alone Wales is having to do more with less.
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  1681. Corporation Tax isn't driving Multi National Business from the UK its the Loss of the On-Demand Supply chain what once was friction free overnight delivery can take weeks and involve thousands of page of paperwork and red tape. Where also a regulatory basket case who knows what standards will apply tomorrow. Regulatory Alignment = free flow of goods tariff and paperwork free with a single tax points for VAT Regulatory Divergence = CHAOS I'll give you an example my wife deals with the company exports as well as all the paperwork and the bulk of exports no longer reaching the 60% threshold VAT codes have gone up from 3 to 27
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  1682.  @danielmaddox2734  As someone who studied tax in detail when I retired because I wanted to minimise my tax it's a non story
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  1683. On the current trajectory he's even going to loose Texas, his covid response is dire and forcing open schools is akin to throwing a bucket of petrol on your indoor fire, if the explosion doesn't get you the smoke and flames will.
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  1684. 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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  1685.  @terrym540  No they didn't it was just talked about in the press
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  1686. This is the mother of all dead cats don't be gullible
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  1687. Im happy with that stick with Wishy Washy No more cons Marvellous
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  1688. Around 20% of the people in the UK economy have done pretty well under them, their house prices have risen 25% in the last couple of years and 66% since 2010 and they have no mortgage. Blame it on Boomers
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  1689. Yep that should do it I take it your running it where DT can see it
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  1690. I live near a load of private schools one of them has large stables they all have loads of foreign students, there businesses and removing charitable status will have zero affect on their business model. EX the nearest charges £36,000 pa for borders £15,000 for day pupils like how many nurses have 15K spare for school fees?
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  1691. When the pandemic hit the economy split into 2, those that could upgraded systems networks and production facilities basically went their own way. We're at the start of the 4th industrial age which got a Covid boost, biotechnology automation remote working green energy development etc. If you look at some of the fundamentals of say Tesla their costs are coming down, working for a Tech company ours are too less travel and a hybrid work model with 1 to 2 days a week in the office at most and all customer upgrades installs and maintenance is done remotely.
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  1692. We've been in recession 7 quarter straight if you look at GDP per capita, headline GDP is boosted by 1.25 million Visa's Tax has gone up and tax base has risen from 33% to 37% Were officially poorer than in 2006
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  1693. In 2020 consumers paid 30 billion for energy in 2023 that figure was 170 billion British Gas made 900% more profit last year. We desperately need to transition away from gas to get the 170 billion down. As far as im aware the total figure has gone but all the policies that drive it insulation targets and subsidies GBENERGY are still in the manifesto Labour could put in a proper windfall tax which would raise over 100 billion if it wanted to, id also like to point out there's 75 billion in fossil tax breaks currently baked into the system and Sunak added +6 billion in the last budget My figures come from the FT Bloomberg and the OBR last year they published a report which staed it was twice as expensive to stay as we are rather than persue a renewable agenda. Sunak knows this
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  1694.  @CB1000FP1  Just by moving to renewables and ditching Fossil subsidies saves us a fortune The FT 250 is already up +1.18% on a landslide Labour win and anticipation of easier trading relations with the EU
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  1695. He's paying for it with cuts due in next year 1st present for a Labour government 20 billion in Austerity cuts The guy really is a Hunt
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  1696.  @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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  1697.  @QwadLuzr  Renewable energy is cheaper by some considerable margin its also not sensitive to world commodity markets. As an example offshore wind costs £40 per kilowatt hour OffGem spot price with the gas peaker stations is £200+ As you have more EV deployment you can use their batteries via smart meters to load balance the grid reducing the need for so much gas standby. The fossil companies have a multi trillion business to protect so will use any lie or lever influence on government to slow down transition.
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  1698.  @BoyeeSmudger  there's plenty to go at such as CGT and council tax rebanding best get it over with straight away so we don't have bankrupt councils
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  1699. Marr is pretty much a centerist the current Tories have moved far right into Ukip territory He's given a fair shout to Conservatives its not his fault they won't be interviewed by him
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  1700. Do you have Stockholm syndrome? This is the worst uk government measured by economic statistics ever. The 1st time you will go into the ballot box after a 5 year term and be poorer than when you voted before
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  1701.  @josteincarlsen2905  Why every military textbook says you take higher casualties advancing through Urban terrain. We also know the Russian have an acute shortage of body armour as well as medipacks for the wounded. The Ukrainians standard issue is an AK variant adapted to the cold with lower rise and softer recoil. They also have a lot more night vision and thermal imaging equipment. My origin figures were based on both sides being equal which is unlikely. At 8-1 they would be in Poland by now
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  1702.  @jond532  a regular Friday night rave wine fridge and all with a few midweekerss thrown in. Johnson has always got away with the lying before this comes on the back of lobbying scandal personal flat scandal donors paying for high class meals scandal so many broken promises a d lies you'd need days to list them
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  1703. 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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  1704. She's a Q nutter, they live in the internet
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  1705.  @RodFleming-World  so where were you going to put the border then back in Ierland to fire up the troubles and break the Good Friday agreement? All you people seem to known how to do is destroy and break things and offer nothing in the way of solutions
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  1706. We have left the EU completely what are you on about
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  1707.  @alexander92179  Parties supporting and wanting to make the protocol work received 59% of the initial vote
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  1708.  @alexander92179  17% of the population voted Alliance this idea that you need to support a party of your own Religion needs scrapping the current power sharing needs to go unfortunately the septic boil that is the Conservative party may well restart the troubles if there not careful, the mere fact that they keep stoking this rhetoric is utter madness
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  1709. There's no commandments left for him to break wonder what deal he did with the Devil to garner the souls of the Evangelicals
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  1710. SNP wasted parliamentary time on petty political points scoring when were in a cost of living crisis, energy crisis NHS crisis and Brexit is dragging our economy down like a lead life jacket?
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  1711. When the problem is right wing Economic policy Your answer is doubling down on stupid?
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  1712. He's already cancelled Rwanda saving millions
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  1713.  @decimusrex92  The US is the richest country on Earth it has Space tourists, the debt could be cleared yesterday if they were serious, its about time it was called out
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  1714. How does leaving a tarrif free paper free red tape free zone 20 miles away with roll on roll off ferry access be anything other than economic suicide?
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  1715. Why would you give up your human rights? It's the last bastion against government overreach you'd be mental to support leaving
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  1716. Still doesn't validate stealing stuff
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  1717. So you want all the benifits of a social society with all it brings with zero responsibility? That's not how your FreeDumb works
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  1718.  @timmyg44  Tories got money from US so called think tanks who have close ties with various Tufton street ones such as the Taxpayers Alliance, Policy Exchange etc.
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  1719. It would make a nice change if they had a clue about economics. Freezing thresholds especially at 20% takes money out of the working economy at the bottom If you spend it on millionaire pensioner taxbreaks and IHT nearly all of it gets transfered to asset values your deliberately shrinking the economy
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  1720.  @leolion9535  Pensioners and the people I grew up with that got a council house near free and believe its all foreigners fault
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  1721. why is recycling gay hate into transphobia a thing? how completely shallow and empty of political thought do you have to be to post this comment?
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  1722.  @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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  1723. Steadied how ? We borrowed 130 billion last year and he's economically clueless
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  1724. They didn't need a wine fridge either or a suitcase to go down he offie to top it up I've not seen that sort of drinking culture in nearly 25 years it died out and was seen as unacceptable, as was lunchtime drinking.
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  1725.  @lindark28  Last time labour were in power the NHS worked and wages grew in real terms 13 years of Austerity Trickle Down Supply Side economics (AKA Thatcherism) and were all screwed not just the economy
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  1726.  @robj8201  The Cons put a border down the Irish sea via the Irish protocol which Parliament enacted into law as part of Johnson's oven ready deal. Its done move on no backsies
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  1727. There refugees and 80% of the cases are accepted even with our draconian and grossly inefficient immigration system
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  1728. @user-sd3ik9rt6d  not 60 + billion you could build a tidal system for less Qoute ‘Europe’s biggest’ battery in East Yorkshire opens The project has the capacity to store enough energy to power around 300,000 homes in Yorkshire for two hours It's not that big it only cost 75 million but it doesn't need staffing it's turbines aren't idling ready to fire up and can take in solar as well as wind I'd also add modern turbines spin in winds as low as 8mph and when you look at reports of a no wind day the stats are still putting in around 1/2 total capacity
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  1729. No he doesn't, we leave the hate to the Make America Garbage Again crowd
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  1730. Oh the irony MAGA said bring back jobs to America, Biden onshored 400,000 manufacturing jobs in 2022 alone MAGA said Make America Great, Biden proceeds to make the US the renewable Tech hub of the world Bidenomics by Dark Brandon the one the only Joseph Robinette Biden I had my doubts but boy is he smashing it
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  1731. 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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  1732. 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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  1733. There's a whole load of ripple effects going back to 2016 1st the currency devalued by 30% 2nd Investment in UK Plc fell like stone also many international companies started relocating headquarters into the EU The figures I've seen are the economy is 10% smaller than it would have been if we voted yes in 2016 in real terms that's around 250 billion the 100 billion is just Brexit shock as our economy and trading shrinks By the way that 100 billion would generate 33 billion in tax the 250 billion 82 billion in tax and people wonder why taxes are so high
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  1734. We'll get plenty of reform from Labour Good riddance to right wing rubbish
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  1735.  @chrisccc22  my Dad was part of the biggest antifa movement in history, many nations banding together, his parachute regiment fought across Europe to liberate them from fascism, the horrors of the liberated death camps haunted him till his death.
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  1736. HMRC have cleared it
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  1737. dam me too
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  1738. 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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  1739. Anyone praising the Truss budget should be banned from even talking about the economy
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  1740. Make it April the 1st
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  1741. Its not like they will have to put up tax Sunak has done it for them all they need is to realign higher rates like CGT close loopholes stop giving bungs to the rich and we can have working services again
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  1742. Why are people using the word defund, the framing is garbage
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  1743. what kicked the last round of bigot xenophobia was Cameron/Osbourne deliberately not regulating the emerging GIG economy which the Companies took advantage of by importing eastern European workers to things like Uber we had a sudden expansion in millions often supplanting established UK jobs. The workers paid very little tax and the vulture companies offshored all the profits. There is a fundamental problem running a supply side trickle down economy you need an unlimited supply side labour pool to keep wages down
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  1744. Most people want the government to do its job and process them instead of having them in the system for years eating up money Mwhy are we housing them at all why aren't they working or deported your asking the wrong question
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  1745. Lib Dem Brexit would have been a Norway mirror not this shtshow
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  1746. They voted for the Biden Harris ticket with Biden being 81 your assessing someone as capable of taking the role
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  1747. You'll find he's impeached for life just not removed from office. His main issue is his gross incompetence even when he came up with a criminal scheme to get phony dirt on Biden in Ukraine he sent Rudy, Lev and Igor to do the job bungling US Ukraine relations who had side hustle projects taking bungs from Shokin, illegal campaign contributions and nearly triggering an international crisis. He is mind numbingly useless at his job
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  1748. £1.8 trillion, debt in 2010 was 800 billion its now £2.6 trillion
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  1749. 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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  1750. @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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  1751. working class voters abandoned Labour in the 2010's and started voting UKIP accelerated even quicker by appointing Corbyn catch up
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  1752. The consensus is things will get worse and everyone will notice their tax Thresholds have been frozen AGAIN and will be till 2028
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  1753. That was the Supreme court
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  1754. ​ @beachcomber1able thier policy isn't any different to the Tories All show pony stuff no real solution
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  1755. ​ @kelperdude under a Republican administration thier way of dealing with inflation is unemployment to drive down demand We have 50 years of macroeconomic data showing this approach
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  1756.  @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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  1757. why is that then a party that pursues economic policy that will benefit billionaires in the same way that the current government does will somehow be popular after Labour start fixing our essential services.
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  1758. Why would the supreme Court take this on, it's a straight enough case.
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  1759. She supports this why are you even giving her an ounce of praise
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  1760. what we need is the Inquisition to sort it out
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  1761. Vance is the billionaire pick, he brings the money The billionaire class also know Trump has a junk food diet and is showing signs that he's not going to see a full term
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  1762.  @danielwebb8402  and why would I do that when it was paid for with a rise in VAT which has a regressive impact on those on low incomes. Osborne never lowered the tax base it was exactly the same as in the Brown era he just shifted the burden more to the less well off through sales tax. What we will get now is the worst of all worlds high sales tax and low thresholds squeezing the low paid and pensioners
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  1763. Was wondering if he's pulling insulation upgrades to public buildings down to save money as well as clawing back money supposed to be spent on charging infrastructure to try cobble enough for a tax cut. Sell out the countries future for a 10 pieces of silver
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  1764.  @fredsmith5473  ? We've had 12 years of Tory ecenomic stagnation and incompetence culminating with the current shower and there the best of a bad lot? Did you know they have the worst economic figures in 150 years the highest tax burden in 80 years and yet everything else would be worse how's that work?
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  1765. Your bill is double because the energy market is tied to gas if we had more renewables it would be cheaper
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  1766. Reform want to deregulate which will increase legal migration If you want to lower migration you regulate your labour market such as banning and regulations on ZERO hour.
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  1767. According to an LSE study the economy would have grown by 15% from 2010 to 2019 without Austerity In Real terms the economy completely stagnated in that period and debt rose from 62% to 92% so taking growth into account debt to GDP would have been around 60% as we entered the pandemic Disposable income is now down to 2006 levels and we wouldn't have had Brexit which has reduced the value of our currency by 30% and depressed GDP by 6%
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  1768. This is the end
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  1769. RICO RICO Rico comes and you all get locked up
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  1770. Any gas extracted isn't ours it belongs to private companies and is sold on the open market. Apart from permanently scarring the landscape fracking requires 100's of millions of gallons of water which it turns into a toxic goop and each well lasts 2/3 years before you move to the next one
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  1771.  @liluzivert4630  the stuff Rudy and Bannon are pedaling is made up propaganda, one is going to jail for fraud the other will be going to jail for foreign lobbying. Only the best people what a joke DT surrounds himself with con artists and criminals and the Hunter thing is a sad side show of how dumb he thinks his followers are
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  1772. They may be run better now that's progress
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  1773. Tory + just what we don't need, not had enough of Thatcherism yet
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  1774. Got nothing to do with his sexuality. I've known quite a few straight guys that couldn't keep thier hands off woman and then there's the drugs.
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  1775. No one knows who will be electable against Trump because it's going to be a numbers game in that you want the candidate who can get the Base out (anyone with a D on thier name) then increase the voter registration and participation. The reports coming in are of a propaganda campaign of such magnitude by the GOP run through Facebook and other online resources that anyone caught in it would be question thier own reality. Zuckerberg needs to be held accountable for this if the Democrats get elected. Allowing the spread of fake News lies and propaganda on such a massive scale needs to have consequences, brainwashing a chunk of the population shouldn't just result in Facebook breakup. Washing your hands wile trousering all the cash should have consequences.
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  1776. According to economic data the region your in went into recession when we left the EU and your local economy is contracting, the 2 hardest hit areas by Brexit are Midlands and North East. The only reason uk data shows were not in one is London and the service sector Quote from Mark Carney Speaking at the Global Progress Action Summit in Canada, he said: “When Brexiteers tried to create Singapore on the Thames, the Truss government instead delivered Argentina on the Channel
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  1777. 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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  1778. The core Republican Base doesn't care, they've cut themselves off and thier only goal appears to be to want to fester in some perceived culture war where the more aggressive you are the more your seen by your peers as owning the libs. No wonder they bow down to a leader with the intellect of a spoilt 9 year old
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  1779. 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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  1780. Sunak is persuing Thatcher style policie don't you get the impression it's a faiiure of those policies rather than the man?
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  1781. There going to go batsh1t The problem being they purged the moderates and people like Truss Leaky Sue are in safe seats
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  1782.  @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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  1783. There not strangers, parents tend to be pretty particular about which kindergarten to leave thier kids with. It acts as an extension of a wider family or network they develop play and interact with a wider range of children. You also as parents develop a myriad of social connections with other parents of children of the same age basically you don't know what your talking about
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  1784. ULEZ isn't deeply unpopular and 90% of vehicles are compliant + it was a conservative idea and Shapps forced the accelerated timetable by tying it to government transport grants
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  1785. @stevefoster5789  waspi was a Con job I lost a years pension Our economy is down the toilet, its been in recession since leaving the single market, trade down by 7% by volume, largest drop on record, last parliment saw the biggest drop in living standards on record and migration quadrupled. I think labour are a bunch of soggy centrist but th3re still 100 times better than the Tories
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  1786. Elon as a person can be a complete A hole he spouts Libertarian garbage all the time as if everyone can just build a successful multi billion dollar company just like that Autism has its downsides
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  1787.  @TheDiamond2009  Data is available from a variety of sources. The economic numbers he's touting can be found in the specialist financial outlets, the ones that are used to make investment decisions. The US has record breaking levels of investment at the moment a lot of it driven by the infrastructure investment bills the Democrats passed.
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  1788. Your statement is completely untrue about the last Parliament Johnson received £36,000 for wallpaper in one donation alone, his list of freebies is a mile long. You scratch under the surface and your talking here around £20,000 per annum which is chicken feed to most Tories who were being given second jobs to lobby for various things.
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  1789. Highest denomination in the UK is Atheist at 50%
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  1790. There current polling is 20% on YouGov which ties into the demographic that still thinks there actually worth a vote Quote The age at which Britons are more likely to choose the Tories over the Labour opposition has risen to 70 from 39 at the last general election in 2019 The NI tax cut was a big mistake as raising the thresholds is seen as a must with pensioners. Adding £500+ to pensioners tax bills is not a smart move when they are literally the last demographic supporting you.
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  1791. He looked fine to me for a 78 year old, compared to the Orange gibbering gibbon he's a mental athlete of Olympic proportions.
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  1792. Why? The mess were in isn't just the fault of the current bunch its the end result of Thatcherism, while she could use assert stripping oil money globalization and giving away council houses to look vaguely economically competent selling out the future only goes so far? The water crisis - Thatcher The council housing crisis (20 billion spent on housing support bankrupting councils) - Thatcher The energy crisis - Thatcher
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  1793. what can the leader of a party that is not in power do exactly bar gesture politics?
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  1794.  @catsploitation  Left wing populism has about the same following as right wing populism about 20% Its also just as destructive and anti democratic as it has no wish to compromise in any shape or form.
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  1795. His policy is just another show PONY, the UKIP visa scheme was adopted by the Tories and the result is migration has trebled
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  1796.  @RazorMouth  Qualified Lawyer as well
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  1797. Just go look at Krebs resume the guy is a very smart cookie unlike the muppets Trump surrounds himself with. Just look up the cyber security stories that came up before the election, they got swamped with the other news
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  1798. 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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  1799. ​ @mountainracer69 when the economic problem is Thatcherism you want people to vote for more extreme Thatcherism that seems pretty counter productive?
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  1800. It's politicians using displaced people as political pawns. They've got you in a lather about something that should be dealt with in a humanitarian and swift way. Look if you cut off legal ways of claiming asylum then this kind of thing explodes, Patel and the Cons caan grandstand about it then use it as an excuse to strip everyone off thier human to rights. Your being taken for a mug
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  1801. We've just had an inquiry that took 7 years and cost 200 million
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  1802. Turnout wasn't far short of the Nov election this was nothing short of epic
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  1803. She's a top of the line administrator who knows how Westminster works Maybe it's Starmer trolling the Cons getting Rhishi off the front page but who she votes for is irrelevant she was hired to do a job given her excellent experience and contacts
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  1804.  @hoxtondave9619  Brexit put economic sanctions on every Importer/Exporter from the EU which is vastly increasing the cost of food and other goods. The bill to do this is estimated o be 10 billion per annum. Not only that UK farmers are producing less because they can't get seasonal workers by the time everything shakes out economists are predicting food will 50% higher in the UK than in the EU.
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  1805. here plan won't work We have Supply Side Corporate Inflation on inelastic essential commodities, creating more demand balloons the cost which in turn increases Inflation if you wanted to grow the economy you'd address the shortage of energy by both increasing supply (onshore wind is the quickest) and reduce demand ( insulation) address the food shortages by growing more food in the UK because of leaving the EU our gdp has fallen by 4.5% we have 1.3 million vacancies exporters have a red tape and tarrif bill of 10 billion per annum and net exports are plummeting with sales to the EU falling by 30% gilt yields have risen sharply by 2% adding 15 billion to the uk debt bill basically while the Tories are in power as a country where fked.
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  1806. At Least Blair had a positive economic record of +25% increase in average wages with well funded services
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  1807. Labour's stance on Gaza is a ceasefire and a 2 state solution and there a Unionist party Just take a look at brex1t then amplify it by 10 if you want to know what economic independence would look like
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  1808.  @queensrule4450  there doctored videos, it's pretty sad the saps in Trump world believe this shit but they've probably got some excuse
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  1809. What? If Trump gets in hope your well off enough to afford his sales taxes and your jobs secure enough when the lay offs start
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  1810. Jan 2020 Debt to GDP was 132% Aug 2023 Debt to GDP was 121% In 2 years the debt ratio has fallen 11 points Investment in the economy boosts growth and tax receipts not tax cuts and cutting the Federal budget would plunge the US into recession but I guess that's the point with Republicans Politics over people
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  1811. The vote is a meaninglessness waste of parliamentary time The SNP could have focused on real issues affecting thier voters they chose political points scoring instead
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  1812. So 1st off I'm relaxed about migration my Father was an Immigrant during the 2nd world war but I want to point out what happened starting 2010 With the GIG economy combined with Tory Austerity we had millions of low paid jobs created and being taken up by migrant workers in an unregulated space displacing permanent paid jobs but at a fraction of the cost with zero hour contracts If you look at the Cameron economy it was totally stagnant the low paid jobs didn't really generate enough tax revenue and if your importing workers at a fast clip then it becomes fertile breeding ground for ArseHoles like Farage as services where cut at the same time. There's currently 4.4 million workers in the Gig economy There's a book on Austerity worth reading How Economists Invented Austerity & Paved the Way to Fascism by Clare Mattei The TUC have posted a good paper on the problems of the GIG economy worth following up and reading Knowledge is power
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  1813. ​@Canti_MyEverythingOsborne's Austerity strangled any recovery and we've been in an Austerity doom loop on and off since
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  1814. One of the wettest winters on record its almost like those magical unicorn investments you get with privatization are both magical and unicorn like
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  1815. What's he going to say about Sue Gray's proposal to ban alcohol at Westminster or when Westminster is run more as a 9-5 instead of starting at lunchtime and finishing in the middle of the night? How is he going to complain when Kier recalls parliament early to get to work on the peoples priorities
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  1816. Blame the Tories there the Architects
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  1817. 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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  1818. The situation is complicated by Truss and the fact that rates have to be kept high by the BOE to enable further Gilt sales Reeve has stated that investment in infrastructure will be split from general debt in OBR calculations because it has a positive economic multiplier and is essentially self funding. This allows for expenditure beyond the current budget but also stops cutting funding from say HS2 having any effect on the general budget like Sunak has just done.
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  1819. We've been in recession for 2 years with a continous fall in GDP per Capita. The headline rate is propped up by around 2 million visas being doled out over the last 2 years.
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  1820.  @timmiller6868  The Calafornia economy in GDP terms is 1/3 larger than Russia with a 1/4 of the population the reason for wealth inequality is the tax system the rich get ever richer correct the system at the top end and use the money at the bottom its an easy enough problem to solve.
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  1821. A lot of the bills where bipartisan he's passed 48 the biggest was the Infrastructure bill CHIPS was bipartisan as well
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  1822. I'm hoping for a Lib-Dem opposition the in depth polls show a 1% swing will be the difference between 50 & 150
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  1823. The death toll was bad enough with the lockdown the 2nd one was only half arsed anyway, since the Tories ran the NHS there wasn't much else could be done
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  1824. There talking about increasing productivity in GDP per Capita through investment in social and physical infrastructure
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  1825. The true cost of fossil is in the hundreds of billions, energy from renewables are a fraction of the cost of our current system Everyone in the UK is paying 170 Billion in excess profits to the UK energy sector which is tied to the price of gas and 100+ billion in tax subsidies will be given to the fossil sector over the next few years An example Dogger Bank Offshore wind Farm has a capital cost of 9 billion Hinkley C has a Capital cost of 33 Billion + 30 Billion in subsidies over 35 years Both produce around 5% of UK domestic electricity in full operating mode and Currently Nuclear is renewable closet competitor at only X 3 times the base cost
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  1826. The Tories
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  1827. I've gone more left with age but my generation put Thatcher in power and want to cling to a view of this country that never existed
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  1828.  @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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  1829. I'd prefer Davos to Westminster have you been ? Its a Ski resort very nice and the hotels all have a spa @KaiMia-xc9lk 
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  1830. One of them is Brexit another is the Banking crash according to Economic experts if we'd have stuck with Brown's economic plans average wages would have grown by 15% from 2010 to 2019. Brexit has blown a huge hole in the countries budget costing the Treasury hundreds of billions of pounds just to give you a flavour of the self harm 2016 our GDP was 90% of Germany's 2022 our GDP was 70% of Germany's Real GDP (taking into account inflation) was zero from 2010 to 2021
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  1831. Net zero will boost gdp by onshoring energy jobs and reducing electricity costs
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  1832. Yet another reason to promote renewable energy and move away from oil and gas
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  1833.  @billbo7630  you have the same trickle down supply side economics aka Thatcherism as you did during her years Unlike then there is no Oil Money or public assets they can strip to waste on tax cuts for the wealthy therefore the tax burden needs to rise on workers
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  1834. abandoning net zero is a political death sentence 1 renewable energy is cheaper and has been since 2019 2 food prices will skyrocket the worse it gets there are already shortages from unexpected winter cold snaps damaging harvests to drought to fungal infections due to persistent rain when it should be dry and warm
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  1835. He didn't have to he could have put a meaningful windfall tax on the expected 170 billion in EXCESS energy profits and used that he didn't because ideology and war profits are somehow OK in a Tory mindset
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  1836.  @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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  1837. GDP per Capita has been falling 7 quarters straight and headline GDP of 2 negative 2 quarters is propped up by 1.25 million visas
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  1838. Cuomo put a marker down and Trump watches his briefings, he said just watch the stock market tank if NY and California declared bankruptcy
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  1839. Wishy Washy is a below average middle manager promoted upwards Kemi is so out of touch i cant see anything but anialation of the Tory party
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  1840. An educated worker pays way more in tax back into the economy to the point where it should be free given the overall benefit
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  1841. If you like your tax cuts? those tax cuts that were a tax increase in a number of states and were squarely for the top 1% increasing the deficit by a huge margin. By the way not voting to eliminate private healthcare doesn't impact a unified health system, multiple countries with a public health service still have private healthcare though its focus is mostly as an addition to the state system. Your extra's are things like individual rooms quicker access to non life threatening procedures no waiting time when you go see the specialist etc.
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  1842. If you want less immigration change the economic model institute an equitable progressive tax system and properly fund Social and Physical infrastructure to create a demand side economy You can't have a low tax Tory economy without the low wage supply side immigrant labour source that fuels it
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  1843. At least he has a workable energy policy which would bring down costs if implemented
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  1844. @Pegaroo_  the council near me allowed a large development in one of the surrounding villages. 70% were bought up by people renting them out as Air B n B One of the main issues is during Cov the 3/4 of a trillion that was pumped into the economy to keep it ticking over all trickled up. Me personally we didn't go on around 5 foreign holidays, no restaurant's for nearly 2 years, were comfortably off and I'm over 60 probably didn't spend around 50k There's a lot of money sloshing around in the older generation.
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  1845. i think its a good ad for pete it shows joe as small minded cements him as the middle candidate. as for taking donations its a horse race and these are the rules at this point in time you'd take literally anyone than the Dumpster
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  1846. ​ @matthewframpton8737 he doesn't understand that to get a vibrant capitalist system working you need a robust social floor to then get on the entrepreneurial ladder. Defunding the social floor with Austerity has ground the economy into soporific longterm stagnation
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  1847.  @PeachWood-j8j  You have the best economy in the G7 by a mile, manufacturing jobs re-shored over 2 million, 1st real move since Reagan started the decline, infrastructure investment that will make the US the world leader in renewable tech. Embarrassed by success maybe?
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  1848. Masks, small classes, and outdoor lessons: How 5 countries in Europe are reopening schools - article in Fortune You could take the Trump approach of jamming them back together causing a major escalation covid transmission rates Example of what is and will happen comes from Israel's failed attempt to open
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  1849. Oh he was only running NO10 like a frat house whats the harm in having puke all over the place everyone was doing it and besides that he works hard (what at is beyond anyone but) he's allowed to let his hair down go around shouting Ogi Ogi Ogi and leading the Conga through the garden. I mean everyone had an ABBA themed Karoke night and wasn't that a TOGA party at NO11
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  1850. ​ @alfiedeegan1895 the investment in US social and physical infrastructure started to bear fruit almost immediately with the strongest economy of the G7 a record breaking economic recovery and 14 million jobs created 2 million being the reshoring of manufacturing jobs. The investment will continue to propell the US as the renewable world tech leader that's as long as the GOP don't get in defund everything and send the economy into reccesion
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  1851. Planning Reform GBENERGY Labour law Reform especially around Zero Hour Asylum Reform including asset seizure of trafficking gangs New law of defrauding the government Etc
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  1852. Theres an interview with Emma Pinchbeck is the Chief Executive of Energy UK, a position that she has held since July 2020. She is an expert in whole-economy decarbonisation and the energy transition Its on a podcast called 'The News Agents' episode from the 24th starting at 18 minutes in ish talking about the economics of a green industrial strategy the whole piece starts at 16 minutes in ish having a pop at the 2 parties. Found it really interesting as she was looking at it as an enormous economic opportunity
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  1853. Reform defiantly aren't Conservative thier economics are Libertarian which would drive migration even higher
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  1854. It's no wonder China and Russia want him in for a second term his mission to bankrupt the US is bang on track, both morally and fiscally.
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  1855. She's dragged the party 2 points down in the polls Tories now on 23% doubtless if the EDL and the football hooligans turn up and start trouble there will be a new low next week
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  1856. The whole purpose from Agent Orange was to scorch earth the whole thing there is no way he wants to debate the issues and he has no policies Mike mute for the next one
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  1857. Why they espouse Thatcherism as an economic model The reason we have high immigration is because of Thatcherism and the failure to invest in the UK social and physical infrastructure which then needs to import skills while the country crumbles round them
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  1858. ​ @OtakuXdragon look at debt to GDP iin 2020 Trump pumped it up to 132% Debt has actually come down its 121% that's a huge drop. Some play Stupid some really are stupid the headline number is meaningless. And If you shuut the government down that Ratio will climb not fall.
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  1859. Looked the guy up he's talking about MORE Trickle Down Supply Side Gerard Lyons: Ministers have an opportunity to cut taxes, drive supply side reform – and help reduce the cost of living We've had these policies for 13 years they haven't worked so badly that Corporation tax has had to go back up again, Osbourne's corporation tax cuts where a complete failure debt to GDP went up by +10% during 2016-2019 This was an analysis of Truss's tax cut plan The tax cuts offer the biggest gains to the wealthiest Britons, many of whom have built up a substantial financial cushion during the pandemic and who are most likely to save, rather than spend, additional income. In the same vein, corporations are also more likely to take the tax cut as a way to boost their profit margins rather than to invest the extra funds in expansion or growth, noted Deutsche Bank. The bank predicted the tax cuts would boost the U.K.'s economic growth by only 0.5%. WE DON'T WANT TRICKLE DOWN IT DOESN'T WORK AND IT HASN'T WORKED REALLY BADLY FOR 13 YEARS
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  1860. a universal benefit never made any sense especially when the thing that hurts us most is frozen Thresholds a legacy of the Tories and their unfunded NI cuts
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  1861.  @bigdaddy8381  The Trump W/H was full of incompetent bootlickers, Larry the Drunk TV pundit Kudlow, Steven Santa Monica Goebbels Miller, Jared Slum Landlord Kushner Even the bits of wall he's built that Mexico didn't pay for but came out of the military budget got blown down the first time there was a tropical storm. He couldn't even do a coup and Storm the Reichstag sorry I meant Congress properly. He even couldn't cheat on his taxes properly!
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  1862. HELLO Trump's a racist and a white nationalist you idiots 4 years to wake up to this.
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  1863.  @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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  1864. ​ @jjefferyworboys8138 do you understand what socialism even is? Without a socially funded army we would be defenceless
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  1865. Neither has my isa money Or The added value on my house created by decades of government policy designed to keep asset prices rising
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  1866. A side effect of the pandemic is people are spending a lot less by a huge amount on services (Holidays, bars even the Gym) and are now feeling positive enough to spend more on physical goods. Me we've not really travelled much in a couple of years the money I saved is going on a house extension and renovation
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  1867.  @trident6547  NY stock exchange has a deal to trade in eurobonds I get the EU wants it in house as much as possible but we didn't have to acquiesce to much to keep the bulk of the business I work in IT if we drop the European data standard its estimated it will cost 3.5 billion in lost trade most companies will move hq to the EU
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  1868.  @Pomarium  yes of course it is now go lie down take your medication and watch the Matrix again
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  1869. Why's that then? I'd give the right wing msm a miss if I were you There are a number of long form interviews with him on YouTube give them a listen
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  1870. It should be developed in the same way free software is developed as open source where multiple people work on the same project for the common good. Open source software was and is popular with everyone in the software Eco system because ideas aren't to be locked up and patented especially when they are just straight ports from manual tasks and as dumb as the amazon 1 click patent. There's also plenty of money to be made in tailoring and support. There is no way that any vaccine is declared patent-able as has been seen price gouging of thousands of % is put over peoples lives
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  1871. How could they do things worse? this is the worst period of economic stagnation and lowering living standards since the Napoleonic wars And in the last 2 years living standards have fallen by 4.2% with lowering GDP per capita as well as a 2 year rate of of 20% inflation
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  1872. Markets go up and down the latest OBR report showed H unt and Sunak were telling porkies
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  1873. It will be high on the Lib-Dems and Labour side as well as tactical voting Most long term Conservatives I know are that disgusted with them there either staying at home or tactically voting
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  1874. excellent news centre left party in power for 2 decades to reshape and rejuvenate the country
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  1875. Wasting 1/2 a billion on a propaganda stunt for f@#£ sake Im a pensioner with fiscal drag my tax has increased from 20% to the equivalent of 33%
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  1876. 90% of car usage is < 60miles a day as in under 30 per journey Last mile delivery for say Amazon is <90 miles a day Range anxiety is psychological
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  1877. There appears to be non zero zip Law for this administration
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  1878. You can grow the economy by improving productivity Did you know that as country GB has the lowest investment in robots and advanced machinery We have a shortage of Care workers Labourers Joiners HGV drivers Butchers Hospitality Staff Seasonal Fruit Pickers farm workers etc. whats the fekin point training a graduate to be a care worker or a waiter? You want to improve the economy try writing of all student debt its nothing but a Tory tax anyway
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  1879. 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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  1880. What do you want? Currently were in cloud cuckoo land with trade, our real goods trade is down -7% from 2019 if that keeps happening the country gets poorer and taxes go up to compensate for the loss of revenue
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  1881. If you want a full view of this you need to go back to the introduction of Austerity by Cameron and following the free market fundamentalism mantra, the belief throughout has been the free market is king and will be a world beating advantage over a controlled market that brings not just prosperity to the big boys but spreads economic frictionless market down all the way to your small time eBay and Amazon seller. Under the Cons since Cameron we have the worst wage Growth since the Napoleonic wars the highest tax burden on the low and middle class since the 50's skyrocketing fuel prices because of a badly regulated utility market that allowed companies to shut storage facilities and dash for gas whose supply is controlled by an autocratic leader and his oligarch buddies and a death spiralling supply chain crisis that's seeing containers pile high in Felixstowe with random fuel shortages. Oh and wait a completly botched pandemic response costing tens of thousands of lives And yet THE CONS ARE STILL AT 40% IN THE POLLS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE ARE YOU MASOCHISTS?
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  1882. 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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  1883. The post is right wing meaningless word salad designed to garner an emotional rather than a logical response. Why bother?
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  1884. She will drive turnout to insane levels with Roe v Wade being on the ballot in many states Her public speaking has greatly improved since 2020, I'm sure they all have Obama lessons she was Charismatic and engaging in her visit to the campaign hq and subsequent speech
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  1885.  @cal7168  No they didn't the people rioting were the usual collection of scumbags that collect round large gatherings trying to take advantage and cause chaos. Among the arrested were white nationalist trying to inflame the situation, Anarchists who want to destroy the system Criminal gangs trying to loot and steal. Lets also be clear that there is a direct correlation between inner city poverty and rioting that even the Victorians recognised and did something about but successive US administrations have not. The corporate Tax giveaway in 2017 reduced food stamps and money to city budgets to part pay for it this has a knock on effect to urban decay. Again you pour gasoline on a fire you started and what will happen?
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  1886.  @Iybraesil  I have had multiple conversations with people who have somewhat way out views. The approach I take is to try and inform and get them to engage in Critical Thinking. Far right ideologies rely on ignorance and propaganda they can easily infect those who do not Question the validity of the arguments being made.
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  1887. how do you think reform would fair any better given its broken Neoliberal economic policy that drives legal migration?
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  1888. He has the attention span of a gnat and is grossly ignorant. 120k is well under
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  1889. We play the game and the hand we have As a candidate she has exceeded my expectations and the contrast with an aging and incoherent opponent is stark
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  1890. What's the point he's been cosying up to Oligarchs since his UKIP days, being a Putin apologist goes way back
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  1891. Totally agree there's a paper on it somewhere fleshing out a complete policy
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  1892. 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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  1893. He's increased your tax by 560 with fiscal drag this is worth 95 at most
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  1894. Junk food diet and Adderall misuse takes its toll
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  1895. If Truss leaves corporation tax low then rates will have to skyrocket to compensate the current inflation isn't like the Thatcher era which was Demand side inflation which fuelled ever spiralling wage inflation. Its Supply side inflation with corporations getting spiralling profits we already have one of the lowest rates of corporation tax and higher rate band tax rates in the G7.
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  1896. Le Pen would have provided the refugees in Dover with boats, let's be quite clear here
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  1897.  @mclark1515  so true maybe he didn't want Yes for an answer
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  1898. The Oxford vaccine is round the corner it's a completely different profit, licence and distribution model and is going to be 3$ a shot as opposed to 20 and doesn't need high tech fridges for transportation. The current two are a band aid at best there not viable for much beyond front line workers due to cost of manufacture and distribution
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  1899. so you think there going to close your account? Do you have over 1 million? do you receive payments from foreign banks? do you have unexplained wealth?
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  1900. If you dig into what Starmer has been saying he's obviously read and been influenced by this book Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism Hopefully he's read her latest book as well The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
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  1901.  @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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  1902. Too Alpha? Trump is the most insecure whining man baby on the planet
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  1903. @abritsview  Jennerick is even worse and they won't pick anyone who is reasonable
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  1904. for what? Tax expert Dan Needle who outed Zehawai said there was nothing to see
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  1905. Parliment doesn't and never has represented the people, in a multi party system with FFP your into minority rule. The only way this works is that people believe the government of the day are governing in the best interests of all. The current bunch can hardly govern never mind in the interests of the entire UK, it's that bad that unless there's a radical change the breakup of the UK is inevitable with an independent Scotland and NI uniting with Ireland. The way candidates are selected needs changing so there's a better Proportional element that way all sides will have to work together the house of Lords is a joke the last list of honours was embarrassing
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  1906. So either Kwerteng and Truss ain't going to be lasting long at this rate
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  1907. renewable is cheaper over time, I have thermal solar its saves around £360 a year in heating hot water cost me 2700 to install so free hot water for me in 5 years. energy. Its not subsidies GBEnergy will help drive the cost of energy costs down by competing in the market as a low to non profit
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  1908.  @colinsmith1288  Rayner being there is just as irrelevant as the food and drink go read the government guidelines for running a safe campaign may2021
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  1909. 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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  1910. It wouldn't have done anything anyway what a pointless piece of posturing gesture politics
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  1911. Panto character nice one, the saying should be ITS BEHND YOU That's Truss Gove and Sunak with the knives
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  1912. why are you so afraid of fact checking?
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  1913. That's a lie no one in their right mind who had previously voted Labour would vote for Tory on steroids
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  1914. It's Conservative policies that are the problem, you can't fix anything when your world view is at odds with reality Hence things will just keep getting worse
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  1915. Yuri has been smoking again dropped a tab in the wrong place. Maybe he was an out of luck sailor from the Moskova
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  1916. There's a legal definition Abbot is a lawyer should know better Quote Racism is when a person is treated worse, excluded, disadvantaged, harassed, bullied, humiliated or degraded because of their race or ethnicity. *Race or ethnicity includes people’s colour, and nationality (including citizenship) ethnic or national origins.
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  1917. Since when he's one of the thickest MP'S in the Con party and there are plenty of contenders
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  1918. Truss lies all the time She is full of Johnson's cakeism
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  1919. Just as an aside the windmills near Trump's golf course in Scotland produce double the amount of energy per unit than the same type of windmill of the same coast in England The big problem they have is storage and distribution but there are other projects under way to store and utilise the spare energy but Scotland is just perfect wind turbine country
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  1920. 80% have their claims for asylum accepted and we have some of the most draconian standards around Refugees in the system has balloned from <10,000 in 2010 to over 70,000 with 40,000 being in it for over a year Over those 12 years funding to the home office to deal with Refugees has been cut the fast track system has been dropped and more bureaucracy has been put in place its almost like its been made not to work on purpose for political grandstanding
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  1921.  @fion1flatout  I've heard him plenty and he's completely empty and offers nothing throwing rocks at refugee dinghies about sums up his entire career of gesture polotics
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  1922.  @Mister_Grey_  Aug. 25-28 Emerson College, Harris +4 Aug. 25-28 Redfield & Wilton Strategies Harris +3 collated by fivethirtyeight Given how gross and disgusting the guy has been this last week his poll numbers will continue to dip
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  1923. It was 1,25 million and 1/2"were dependents As for growth Brexit has been choking our economy since we left the EU 60% of an economic recovery is by small businesses who have basically had a market of 440 million 20 miles away cut off, small businesses don't have the resources to cope with Brexits endless red tape and bureaucracy
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  1924. When I heard he had Starmer's ear I thought does Peter know he's being played, Starmer has never been a centrist he may cosplay one to gain power and he's more practical than the bulk of his party but he's no Blair
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  1925. They will ask relevant questions in PMQ's like why is there still sewage in the rivers and why haven't you addressed social care
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  1926.  @jennyfraser8443  at well over a million a pop shows the insanity of the far right in this country
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  1927. As a result of the US election Ukraine are looking at developing an atomic bomb for protection
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  1928. ​@johnhumphreys4265 the plan was to gut regulations for sewage cleanup, shifting the cost to the state or basically do nothing and get more pollution in the rivers from run off or have to pay millions in mitigation costs
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  1929. It's bullet points for activists when there door knocking and canvassing The manifesto will have detail, given the shalacking Tories have gotten since the last election there's not many tory activists left
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  1930.  @Gianfranco_69  So he removes mailboxes and gets his clown (who has 30mill stashed with a USPTO rival) to remove sorting machines worth millions and put them in skip, bans overtime and intentionally degrades the service as well as declassifying election mail from 1st class to second. You have using excess death data 200k excess deaths during the covid period, meanwhile him and his bro's get tested twice a day. Oh and his latest wheeze is he's going to get rid of payroll tax which funds social security and medicare why because as an employer his businesses will get their grubby hands on an extra 6+% like he doesn't give a F*** about the little guy. Meanwhile his henchman Barr is trying to invalidate the ACA the only piece of legislation on the books that guarantees pre-existing conditions (and those will explode due to covid) Wake up the whole thing is a con its all about the Grift, the entire GOP have been scammed by a multiple bankrupt
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  1931. Like him or loath him his economic record was a +20% increase in real wage growth and a boom in the service sector driven by his policies on higher education creating a skilled workforce attracting companies from across the world. And we ae talking economics here
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  1932. Not used cash since the pandemic except too pay the builder under the counter. Which appears to be what this rant is about
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  1933.  @ancietman  since 2016 our economic decline due to the Brexit vote and subsequent policies is around 1 trillion in GDP That includes projected investment actual losses currency devaluation reduced trade and reduced output Since we left the EU the GDP of the EU has expanded by more than our GDP removal for the total (3.13 trillion USD) Germany since 2016 to now earn 25-30% more in average wages Whichever way you cut it Brexit has been a complete economic disaster which just keeps screwing our economy harder and harder
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  1934. Sigh it reduces your energy bills I have thermal solar with current gas prices capital cost is paid for in 6 years and after that 75% of my hot water is FREE i've uprated the insulation in my home put in a new boiler and switched to underfloor heating it will stop coming on in April and not switch back on again till October, energy usage is 20% of previous. There are loads of net zero examples
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  1935. Why do you want the unelected House of Chums to continue?
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  1936. Tucker is a hollow shell of racism
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  1937. Tsar Trumpski is at it again
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  1938. we were already borrowing 130 billion and she wanted to give an extra 100 billion to the rich @BRMCaptChaos 
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  1939.  @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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  1940. Due to Fiscal drag on tax thresholds your £50 a week worse off tax wise Current 20% threshold should be 14300 taking inflation into account
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  1941. its their hard right Thatcherite economic policies + Austerity and it screwing over immigration as well ex Osborne stopped Nursing Bursary in 2010 as part of Austerity, numbers doing nursing fell because it was rolled into tuition fees now in 2023 we have a nursing shortage are out the EU so a Nigerian Nurse comes in to take her place brings Hubby and 2 kids.
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  1942.  @riseharris5204  Trump's record on Manufacturing jobs was -180,000 and inflation had risen to 2.1% by the end of 2019 as the economy was cooling due to +3.5 trillion onto debt for unfunded tax cuts. Quote Policy under the Biden administration has created favorable conditions for reshoring, the practice of bringing manufacturing and services back quote Nearly 1,800 factories have disappeared during the Trump administration between 2016 and 2018
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  1943. Of all the dumb things to do, a 1 day of headlines and for that he's now owned the situation the economic downturn is his the Trump recession is here.
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  1944. Johnson and reality I despair fastest growing economy my arse its completely fkd 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%. And Long Term The impact of Brexit on the UK economy will be worse in the long run compared to the coronavirus pandemic, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility has said. Richard Hughes said leaving the EU would reduce the UK's potential GDP by about 4% in the long term. He said forecasts showed the pandemic would reduce GDP "by a further 2%". Johnson's decision making ? opening schools 1 day closing them the next, shipping the elderly to care homes without testing them first, not attending Cobra meetings because he was too busy with other things
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  1945. Scotland
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  1946. The Conservatives are losing their grip on power and will do anything to hang onto it even produce performative legislation which will never be enacted but is designed to fuel grievance politics even if it means people getting killed by amping up the rhetoric. Othering minorities in Germany lead 1st to labour camps then to concentration camps then to death camps what is the rwanda policy anything other than othering refugees and putting them in a labour/concentration camp
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  1947. There's currently no NATO troops any trainers are volunteers that are ex military There's a lot of conflation in the media between NATO and individual countries its not one overriding homogenous group, European countries are providing aid out of self interest given that some appear on Vlad's hit list for conquest once Ukraine was dealt with. The US is providing aid because it burns out Russia's ability to wage war the Russian armies machines and munitions all have western chips and circuit boards in them when the stock runs out that's it rearming will slow to a crawl
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  1948. 80% are granted asylum all this does is waste huge sums of money on gesture politics
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  1949.  @thomasholland5487  There's procurement reform going through the Lords at the moment
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  1950. She has a strong parliamentary following Sunak still has leeches from the IEA hanging around his administration
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  1951. That's not going to happen the war needs to stop asap
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  1952. ​ @YatzarEL-17 they vote on a manifesto which Sunak has reversed, both him and Truss abandoned Johnson's platform, not that it wasn't lies to start with but he's as illegitimate as they come
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  1953. we do need change that's why it would be crazy to vote for a more extreme version of the Tories. Haven't you had enough of populism with Boris did it not teach you anything?
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  1954. 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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  1955.  @Razmatazuk  of course there's money there's an 8 billion tax cut for bankers in April's upcoming budget.
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  1956. They've put forward an economic stance under Rachael Reeve "The Everyday Economy" Its a million miles from Thatcherism and low taxes for the top They've put forward a stance on Brexit which is more alignment with the EU to vastly reduce the paperwork crippling business a Veterinary deal alone would sort out the NI protocol And a green new deal to move from fossil (Norway has 93% renewable and 3% inflation)
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  1957. Sunak cant be human what he did as a banker ruins companies, asset strips and outsources jobs makes people redundant based on a spreadsheet. Ive worked for 2 companies that have had this done there business suffered medium long term but thier short term balance sheet looked good Replacing a skilled software engineer with outsourcing to India creates huge barriers in efficiently for the remaining staff which far outways the cost savings
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  1958. Right wing economics on steroids you have to be joking?
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  1959. It doesn't get any better in fact it will only get worse as the effects of al the additional costs of not having a trade deal with the EU filter into ever increasing prices UKCA for example will kill off most small business manufacturing exports
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  1960. Maybe you shouldn't post against reality Renewables will onshore energy jobs increase gdp and lower electricity bills While Br3xit has depressed the uk economy by -6% gdp which is equal to 50 billion in lost tax
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  1961. There using Drones and spotters there trying to not give away infantry positions and conserve ammo, that looks like decent cold weather gear they had on
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  1962. That is superb well done
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  1963. What scandals, the tan suit the bycicle helmet?
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  1964.  @hollytimlick9470  Russia lost the war at the battle of Hostemal over a year ago there in a resource war with the US The Russians can't move too far from rail lines when they do the supply lines get cut off the west treat Ukrainian wounded and old Warsaw pact countries are servicing Ukrainian equipment. They can try keeping hold of what they have but it's economically expensive
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  1965.  @markcosenza3274  She wasn't a border Czar that name is a product of right wing imagination, she was given the task of diplomacy with central American countries, Mexico being on the border and By the way illegal crossings are below Trumps final months numbers
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  1966. simply the best ad I've seen in a while
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  1967. So for the 1st time since Wilson we will get a centre left government and you want me to not vote for them how strange? have you not noticed our rivers and sea are dying from pollution our schools and hospitals crumbling around you?
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  1968. Last time Labour were in government services were well funded and average wages grew by +20% It was the most successful period of economic growth in in the countries history built on education and creation of a skilled workforce for the service sector
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  1969. only around 150 billion give or take the odd million
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  1970. You stand by workers by getting into power and uplifting the minimum wage and introduce new labour laws that ban fire and rehire etc not do gesture politics on picket lines. If your constituency has a strike for some reason individual MP's may have a strong reason to go talk to the strikers and vocalize their grievances as an MP but picking sides is counter productive
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  1971. he lost last time he will loose this time
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  1972. simple process them so 40,000 are deported and the others are working in the economy easy peasy
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  1973. could have sworn the Oil and Gas prices were as they are because its a free market Anyway sounds like another good reason to buy an electric car
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  1974.  @jayemowrey1416  proven by who? Vance wrote the forward to the Authors book about project 2025, Peter Navaro has a chapter as does Steven Miller The disolvig the education dept is straight out of it repeated by Trump to Musk You think were deaf as well as dumb
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  1975. They could have done what based on rumours? He's in the Conservative party Con being the operative word
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  1976.  @seanpidduck  it doesn't create new wealth it inflates the asset values. When I bought my house kit cost 2.5 times my salary less 20% deposit. I'm retired but based on my expected earnings its now 5 times and I was really well paid. Rents are through the roof In relation to average salary.
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  1977. ​@PeteH0121 40% of people on benefit are in work, and we spent 20 billion on housing support last year as we spiral ever closer to a low wage underclass living in poverty conditions having to be subsidesd by the state. There isn't enough affordable housing and wages are too low most of this the result of Austerity and a lack of investment
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  1978. ​ @eyesodd not enough hospital or mortuary space
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  1979. His father was Greek They need returning so they can be viewed in the shadow of the Temple Quote The Parthenon Sculptures are a collection of different types of marble architectural decoration from the temple of Athena (the Parthenon) on the Acropolis
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  1980. Local library and I have a free bus pass You can read the daily hate mail for free
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  1981. because investment in the domestic workforce and infrastructure has been cut to the bone
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  1982. I work in IT we have huge shortages of qualified staff, there is no way a company can force people to work as before rather than remote for part of the week or even dictate hours. 2 days a month is all I'm in the office theses days and that's here to stay if the company don't like it others will offer the remote working to suit because it broadens the employee base. Quite a few companies have built on the distributed model and got rid of office space reducing costs as well as introducing more cloud based systems.
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  1983.  @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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  1984. council tax system needs replacing but no one dares say it
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  1985. her polling according to YouGov was 15% so your living in an alternate reality bubble if you think that
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  1986. The numbers there presenting don't take into account tactical so why does James think that after 14 years of gross incompetence that the penny has finally dropped with the public. Boris was broadly popular with conservative voters reminding them Sunak is a back stabbing weasel how's that going to improve his poll ratings?
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  1987.  @Discodave007licencedtothrill.  give her her proper title please WokeFinder General
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  1988. Guess we'll have to call him Blojo from now on Wonder if it's on security cam
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  1989. You don't negotiate with terrorists all they understand is raw power and death
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  1990.  @christophermonahan8571  There the billionaires media party they got nothing for the average person
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  1991.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  I remember from the 70's guys who thought Russia is not so bad Carl marx keep the communist dream alive etc. What they fail to understand was the post war labour movement was rooted in working class communities Beven worked the mine at 13, Corbyn is a champagne socialist never suffered the degradation and plight of the working class The post war labour movement did great things those that followed not so
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  1992. This is an extremely complicated issue that blowhard boy just wants to throw Conservative culture bombs all over. Everyone is different no two cases are the same so sticking your legislative nose with a blanket ban you don't have a clue about but are whipped up to a froth by right wing media what could go wrong? How much damage to children do they want to do?
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  1993. As an economist the wage rises aren't feeding inflation 60% of the problem is price gouging and increasing the debt by 50% in the Trump era Gee I wonder where those trillions went its not in middle and lower class wages If you wanted to cool the inflation levy a wealth tax on billionaires
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  1994.  @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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  1995. He's a grade A dummy
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  1996. 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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  1997. not according to historical records
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  1998. Reform aren't Conservative the 23% base will split all over the place 14% is around Reform's height
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  1999. The Times iss Centre Right If you want left leaning go listen to the new statesman
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  2000. They don't terrify Labour there has been a considerable demographic shift on who votes for them they attract educated younger voters
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  2001. I don't think he's anti immigration but there are some rather bad stats 2010 - 2019 Real wage went down by -3% Austerity put large cuts to services At the same time we had 7% in population growth that's despite having a low birth rate of 1.6 and emigration of 40,000 pa needing +400,000 to stand still. To Joe Blogs he's seen himself get poorer at the same time as services where squeezed and a huge increase in foreign labour with zero economic benefit with a toxic right wing media salting the earth. In fact we've had a decade of stagnation you'd have thought with that much growth in the employment base our economy should have been flying so why wasn't it? I'm all for FOM but the numbers needed to swing elections are narrow and Joe Blogs is probably uneducated older and male. I will as usual vote tactically for the least worst option with my only hope of unseating the Tory in my constituency is voting Lib-Dem Anyway I really like Labour's Energy and Green policy just what the North needs as well as an elected HOL and an Agri agreement to sole the NI issue I'm glad he fetched it up made me go look at the data and try work out how the Tories had knackered the economy so completely.
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  2002. If your occupying a country by force then bad things happen This goes back to basically England invading Ireland and being its ruler for centuries partition was a mess. There are 3 power blocks in the world and we aren't one of them anymore get used to it
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  2003. Yada Yada conspiracy Yada Yada Source one Rudy Guiliani minister of disinformation implicit in Trump's impeachment cought by Borat fumbling in his pants for a northern hard drive but could only find a floppy
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  2004. he keeps kicking the hornets its not like Ukrainians can't blend in or the fact that nearly all of them speak fluent Russian
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  2005.  @ADUAquascaping  it would be higher if we had decent accommodation as in council houses so low income families had somewhere affordable and permanent to live + affordable childcare My son is on 30p above minimum wage 9 gcse's 4 A levels and 2 diploma's with 4 years experience we have a low wage economy average wages since 2010 have dropped by -6.1%. GDP per capita is -10%
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  2006. Brexit is a force multiplier not the cause think of it like this (Austerity + Thatcherism) × Brexit = Stagnation
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  2007. Johnson's oven ready deal cratered our on demand supply chain from next day to next month if your lucky Brexit the gift that keeps on giving
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  2008. There's still a section of the population that still want to believe Johnson wasn't lying to them when he said he'd level up the North and Get Brexit Done. Sunak has clipped the budgets and everyone is getting punched down on with taxes and cost of living and Johnson's Brexit is an ever evolving train wreck which is feeding into inflation and the cost of living crisis. What has been done will evolve and get worse year on year you can't turn the GB economy around with the current mind set and Supply Side Economic policies. Starmer has an extremely talented and capable front bench just because you can't be bothered to look and explore their policy positions is your loss
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  2009.  @S-North  neither are these 10 volunteers
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  2010. we haven't implement the bulk of the TCA and there is huge swathes of wooly language in it The Cons thought they could have their cake and eat it while dividing the EU countries the aim was Singapore on Thames they delivered Argentina on the Channel
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  2011. borders have 2 sides and we have 100's of international agreements to do with trade and all sorts, anyone offering a simple solution like send them back isn't telling the truth
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  2012.  @LuggageStardate  False Accounting, trying to claim your porn star money as a business expense to gain tax relief against it.
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  2013. They can go into chapter 11, the problem with bailing them out is time, this is a long time problem air travel will take years to recover it's 18 months for a vaccine the economy will change and evolve.
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  2014. The Blair decade the best economic record this country has had The Cameron May Truss Sunak decade and a half the worst economic record since the Napoleonic war
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  2015. I don't vote Conservative and I watch it, some of the Times coverage is decent some times, this is being a bit soft on Dowden but at least you get to hear a varied point of view.
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  2016. The EU zone is bigger now than before we left so its already increased by 2 trillion we on the other hand have a completely stagnant economy
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  2017. 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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  2018. Operation save big Dog as he poops all over Rishi's chances of nesting in big dogs basket. Handy for Jonson sooo who dun it Carrie Nadinne Gove?
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  2019.  @adriandossantos4318  how do you cancel a potato? I've seen the clips and I still don't know what there yelling at does thier audience
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  2020. The deal is next to worthless in GDP terms Also It ties us to ISDS which has been used by corporations to block health and safety, net zero initiatives and polution measures
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  2021. Fuel allowance was a universal benefit it never made any sense, what's hurt my pocket more has been the freeze on Thresholds, the focus on reducing NI and the scrapping of insulation and renewable energy policies.
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  2022. Labour have deported 10,000 already its amazing how if you put someone in charge who actually want to solve a problem something happens And My local hospital has been given money to replace RAAC
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  2023. @desmondroberts6034  migration has gone up because we lost fom, the previous government were big on public sector pay suppression then using the visa exception scheme to fetch in cheap labour. Deregulation in the labour market such as an unregulated zero hour gig economy has a big pull factor as well as our obsession with outsourcing
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  2024. why he wants to grow the economy? Labour don't believe in trickle down and will take money from the top
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  2025. I'd suggest making him a Lord, Labour will create a 100+ Lord Damo of ???? 😂
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  2026. Companies I've worked for have tried outsourcing IT work the results are mixed from mildly inefficient to a complete disaster Any team that works for a number of years and gains collective experience is near impossible to replace by treating it as an accounting problem. I'd have thought that the work is no longer necessary or has drastically changed otherwise the project will go backwards and don't think of Elon as this business God that never makes mistakes or he wouldn't have got involved with Twitter
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  2027.  @lpwork6809  And illegally put it in the hands of a who? All you'll get with Republicans is cuts to services and tax cuts for the rich
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  2028. A more managed economy and tighter worker regulation will reduce legal migration. Legal migration is a feature not a bug of Con economic policy
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  2029. Capitalism doesn't work either in much the same way you end up with self perpetuating monopolies where there's not enough competition and an elite class who run things. They both descend into Authoritarianism to maintain the status quo. All western economies are mixed in the Scandi countries they have less capitalism more socialism and consequently have less of a wealth gap while the US is struggling with Cartel and monopoly behaviour in its markets. A tax break is nothing more than corporate socialism
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  2030. The reason they can't take heat pumps is 2 fold there not insulated to any standard at all and they don't have the electrical capacity if your heating a leaky building you need 3 phase Aside from that he's 4 years out of date fracking isn't economically viable and renewables achieved parity with gas back in 2019 + EV's reached parity with ICE this year and that's before economies of scale kick in. Our housing stock is the worst insulated in Europe and he's not even offering A+ insulation standards fkin joke of a party like the Tories
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  2031. They did at the Locals
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  2032. Sunak has already put up taxes multiple times, the tax base has gone up from 33% to 37% (that base has remained static for nearly 2 decades from the middle of Blair to the beginning of Johnson) and The NI cut was paid for with Debt The Defence spending increase was paid for with imaginary Cuts to services plus there's 14% cuts to budgets in the pipeline It's estimated that properly funding HMRC will raise 42 million, there's around 100 billion in fossil fuel subsidies, billions in tax loopholes
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  2033.  @bingofingers  The reason inflation was so high is consistent economic mismanagement by the Conservatives Factor 1 scrapping Green pledges by Cameron which would have if kept mitigated high gas prices by having more renewables on the grid higher levels of insulation in older properties and higher insulation standards in new builds. Factor 2 when the Ukraine war started the Con government doubled down on OnShore wind ban and a refusal to address our archaic planning + Sunak rolled back insulation targets for Landlords and didn't address insulation standards for new builds. Even faced with high energy bills necessitating obscene government subsidies appropriate windfall tax was not put in place. The government subsidy to the energy companies was 72 billion last year and we ended up borrowing 130 billion. He is now doubling down on his anti net zero stance even though a renewable grid will protect us from world commodity shock and the resulting inflation, Sunak is a effin useless free-marketeer Tory who can't see past the end of his nose and did f all to reduce inflation oh and I haven't even gone down the B word don't tempt me
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  2034. Common sense is you go with the cheapest energy source which is renewable Watering down insulation building targets is fkin stupid they should have been upped over a decade ago
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  2035. Debt to gdp was 62% in 2010 the rise was negligible just a few points till 2015 the Cameron corporate tax cuts which produced ZERO growth are what exploded the debt to 92% in 2019 The Brexit vote in 2016 has seen the pound fall by 30% and subsequent lack of foreign investment plus inward investment leading to a projected GDP shortfall of -5.2% We currently have zero elasticity in the labour market so the economy will continue to contract This has nothing to do with the banking crisis and everything to do with Conservative fiscal policy from 2010 onwards
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  2036. 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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  2037.  @darrinhawkins8087  first off the BOE Forecast the slowdown as well as the rise in inflation in February 2024 all the figures are calculated on a rolling average Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 second the reason they can claim we grew wasn't down to the economy actually growing in real terms it shrank and we all got poorer. What there crowing about is handing out 2 million VISA's, so what your seeing is the working population grow by around 5% but the amount that extra workforce created in GDP grow by 0.1%
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  2038. Blair was a centrist, his administration oversaw +20% growth in average wages well funded services and a massive expansion in higher education. He was a million miles away from Osborne's Austerity Thatcherite Trickle Down which has been ongoing for 14 years
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  2039.  @checktheplaylist101  why would that happen most of the Ukrainians have been having combined arms training and are armed with modern weapons body armour and top equipment
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  2040. ​ @dartskipper3170 That was caused by the last Oil crisis, this energy crisis is down to gas. Pretty big advert for getting our economy off world traded fossil fuels
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  2041. 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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  2042. 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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  2043. You need to talk about the cost of living NHS energy prices. That's why Labour won and that's why they will win in England. People want the Tory pain train to go away. Scotish labour are also pitching themselves as more left than there English counterparts which they woild have to do if there going to become the main party in Holyrood.
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  2044. Sorry Conservative incompetence now a military issue ? what else are they looking at stealing before there booted out?
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  2045. Her latest speech moves us away from globalism to a more sustainable model. The issue isn't GDP it's GDP per capita which has shrunk from 50k in 2010 to 45k now, reasons lack of government investment in social and physical infrastructure.
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  2046. Cameron were was socially Liberal and Fiscally Conservative
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  2047. we pulled out of the European security groups because Brexit Jesus said so. We will re-enter various European security and cooperation groups under Labour just like we've had to do with Horizon and Galileo @Deeps__ 
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  2048.  @eyeIce  because thier tax policy, currently the working and middle class are footing the bill for everything while there are mass social programs for millionaires and billionaires. Socialism for the rich capitalism for the poor just look at Amazon and the oil gas and coal lobbies. Countries that have a more holistic approach have a higher average life expectancy and spend less of thier GDP on healthcare, moving even slightly to this type of model would save the US trillions. Plus a healthy workforce is a productive workforce, the blight of prescribed opioid pain killers is a lot down to lack of healthcare resource etc etc
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  2049. Kami Kwasi the worst Chancellor this country has ever had Truss would be the worst PM but I can't forgive Cameron for starting us down the current path
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  2050. Because it wasn't news worthy enough
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  2051. You should have stopped at why would anyone vote Tory
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  2052. Wilful blindness does no one any good Labour are going to invest in renewables the Cons are not There is one of many differences
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  2053. Then why bother watching it? Or have you popped round for some science and facts?
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  2054. If the Cons pass this bill it will tank the markets so badly and consign the party to the dustbin of history the Liz Truss minibuses will look like a trail run
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  2055. 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 and toxic the Tory alliance with UKIP and BNP voters to get Brexit done has become.
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  2056. Johnson was a clown you can put a clown in a Palace he doesn't become a king the Palace becomes a circus
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  2057. We haven't had a centre left government since Wilson how would you know?
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  2058. ​ @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922 he's a realist We've left our only real option is to be a rule taker
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  2059. We have Supply Side Corporate inflation on essential inelastic commodities (Energy and Food) If by some miracle you increase demand through supply side reform the price of those commodities will increase causing further inflation which in turn will force the BOE to increase interest rates to try suppress demand. How do you get out of this? You increase your own energy supply and reduce demand for imports we don't own any of the oil and gas so building more on-shore and off shore wind + change the building regulations to A+ efficiency for insulation on new and extensions Overhaul your agricultural policy to put more land under production but move away from mono cropping reduce fertilizer usage and promote low till. Anyway non of that is on the table the woman is as mad as a box of frogs and Kwerteng for someone who has an IQ off the charts but can't see cause and effect when it stares him in the face is as his hedge fund buddies have said is a useful idiot
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  2060.  @randomlygeneratedname  No there not I'm a frequent traveler Dover was built and expanded for Roll On Roll Off there isn't the room to expand to a full check system
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  2061. He runs a successful podcast series called Origin Story with Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey Episodes include Neoliberalism : Everything's for sale Generally if I put links Youtube deletes the post anyway if your interested you'll find it from that
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  2062. You've got to laugh Suella's antics knocked another 2 points of the Tories in the Polls last week dragging them down to 23% boosting Labour by 3 points to 47% she encouraged far right Yobo's to congregate and 6 policemen were injured in the melee and she represents millions? Who are they the ones that down 14 pints then go around the street with a lit flair up their ars3
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  2063. You'll get centre left economics instead of reich wing how much difference do you want?
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  2064. They won't but if the issue is right wing economic policy that needs a constant supply of migrant Labour why will voting for a Party that promises the same economic model but by the power of magic Unicorns doesn't need the migrant Labour? If you want lower immigration you need to change the tax model increase taxes and spend it on training the domestic workforce as well as other infrastructure spending
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  2065. It's same old same old dump on the young as usual
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  2066. The man who actually had Green shoots of recovery before Osborne and Austerity throttled them at birth. Studying Economics enables you to take decades of data into account especially at the macroeconomic level, even though its been proven by multiple economists that Austerity actually cost more than it saved by a large margin Osborne still doubles down on small state belief ​@aclark903
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  2067. they've committed to net zero and energy infrastructure program? Stay as we are and it costs +140 Billion in excess bills for energy consumers Verses Build new Infrastructure and fetch that total spend on energy in the uk down from 170 billion to 30 billion it was in 2021 bringing down people's energy bills is a big deal in my book
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  2068. ​@sadiemallyon829 what criminal offence? Hmrc may look at it but working class people are taxed through PAYE, they'll be no tax record as such for cgt declaration, according to a tax expert you don't have to live there for it to be your primary residence. So no paper trail and a statement saying it was her primary residence case never opened
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  2069. Doesn't matter her seat is gone she will be out of a job in a few weeks
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  2070. According to an LSE study the economy would have grown by 15% from 2010 to 2019 without Austerity In Real terms the economy completely stagnated in that period and debt rose from 62% to 92% so taking growth into account debt to GDP would have been around 60% as we entered the pandemic Disposable income is now down to 2006 levels
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  2071. This is so short term in your view You can see in the macroeconomic data the decline in uk manufacturing This goes back to 2016 when inward investment fell off a cliff follwed by the trade barriers of a hard brexit There is not a lot any government can do till those trade barriers are reversed
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  2072. The Brexit Ultra's plan was to completely deregulate the UK set up a Singapore on Thames economy have unlimited immigration making 5% extremely wealthy and turning the 95% into a low wage sweatshop economy. Trickle down on Steroids
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  2073. What if you get of Earth 2 and rejoin the real world
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  2074. the Energy Sector is making around 170 billion in EXCESS profits over the next 2 years the Tories are refusing to fully implement a windfall tax The price of energy on the Tories manufactured market is geared to the price of GAS its sheer madness
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  2075. ​@Jmw790 the union guy hit the nail on the head Trump and the Republicans only care about the Billionaires and corporations just look at his record only piece of legislation passed massive tax cut for them. Money went onto debt Republicans plan to cut that debt cut social security medicare medicade universal 20% sales tax reduce income tax for high earners further
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  2076. @dogwalker666  much of your Starmer disdain is shaped by a very biased media While I agree he ain't great he's a 100 times better than a Con, it's a shame he's gone soggy centrist to try appease the media but given it hasn't worked he should be bolder
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  2077. If your energy is generated domestically instead of from imported fossil fuel it's better for the economy Your also creating a lot of spare offpeak energy which will be sold cheaply, most suppliers are offering cut price rates for car charging if you charge overnight
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  2078.  @bensteel3944  You do know your talking absolute rubbish, whoever we sign trade deals with we will have to abide by their standards. Johnston has already signed away digital rights that we currently have away in the Japan deal with no recourse to parliament the people or anyone else. They were intending to stitch every one up with an American trade deal to lower food standards and privatise the NHS
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  2079. Conservatives economic model is Trickle down supply side to work it needs globalization and a continuous supply side cheap labour force otherwise you need to invest in physical and social infrastructure with a fairer tax system which deals with wealth created by wealth which is pretty much untaxed and 750,000 is a result of hard Brexit and loosing FOM in 2019 we had net 200,000 an EU worker comes over here without dependants sometimes temporary in 2023 we have net 750,000 with wives husbands and kids coming from outside Europe
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  2080.  @Cat10980  ? You can't stimulate the economy by pumping money in at the top there is a Supply Side Shortage of essential commodities (Food and Energy). You need to solve the energy and food shortages first by I dunno increasing renewables ASAP And Sorting out domestic farm production increasing home grown supply.
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  2081. don't you get tired of pedalling that trash?
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  2082. A cup of cold sick is more popular than Sunak it's not a high bar
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  2083. I was a bit of sceptic on his age but given what he's done economically its a near miracle There's 2 trillion in investment over 10 years into infrastructure and renewables Your only just seeing the beginning of how strong this will be all Economists including me were predicting even higher interest rates a recession and 6% unemployment instead we have inflation at 3% GDP +3% and full employment
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  2084. Pushing the date forward means there preparing to cut infrastructure spending on charging The reason the date matters is 80% of people buy second hand and it puts the 2nd hand market tying the less well off to fossil vehicles The other big change was ditching housing insulation targets for Landlords this loads all the cost of a draughty rental on tenants, the standard was p1ss poor anyway it was only to C+ New houses and extensions need to be built to A+ Insulation Standard have a large heat store (Hot water tank) Underfloor heating installed + preferably Thermal solar to be heat pump ready or compatible with a heat pump system We are still building new houses that are NOT heat pump compatible Heat pumps in general are NOT suitable for older buildings see above for corrective work to make them so if you HAVE to go electric focus on insulation as high as you can with focus on the floor (20%) + Windows then look into Infra Red Radiators
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  2085. Why would anyone vote Reform thier economic policies would Tank the economy even further?
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  2086.  @brianholmes849  the Cons sold you out your best bet is to have a robust protocol and an Indipendant assembly that considers themselves NI otherwise if they keep this shitshow up then unfication will just keep cropping up.
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  2087. About bloody time
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  2088. Since whe? They never ask the Tories where the money comes from for tax cuts so I'll tell you. They have borrowed just under 2 trillion since 2010, last year H unt borrowed 130 billion, debt repayments were 120 billion of which 30 billion was down to Truss. Yet apparently we can afford 20 billion in tax cuts go figure
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  2089. He's mentally unfit now, I just don't get why anyone would vote for him, he isn't lucid, he's incoherent and rage tweets constantly like a petulant child? What gives with conservative media are they that desperate for a tax cut? He's just constantly screwing it up for everyone taking ignorance and incompetence to a whole new level.
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  2090. No there not unless you your a hermit living in a 1 room flat on your own
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  2091. He has the right to change the ambassador he doesn't have the right to trash talk her on a presidential call make up smear stories or use intimidation in real time, another criminal indictment to the list he should get a good idea from the Stone trial.
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  2092. Our prices are +6% according to various people who look at this stuff How Brexit is Impacting Agriculture · 1. Increased Red Tape · 2. Incidents of Food Wastage due to Approval Delays · 3. Reduced Workforce · 4. Higher Supply Chain costs the list goes on domestic production is declining rapidly
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  2093.  @rtqii  So it wasn't Ivan going for a smoke somewhere quiet and dropping the butt end on live ammo?
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  2094. The EU are trying to negotiate a trade deal the UK are pounding their chests bellowing an Ideological position divorced from reality Boris's chances of getting the EU to agree to a back door with no ties into the largest trading block in the world which sits on our doorstep are Fat and None Even threatening the Good Friday Agreement isn't going to work all it will do is alienate the UK
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  2095. 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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  2096. Next time someone tries to say how great Trump was or how good Republicans are on the economy point out he oversaw the worst economy since Hoover in his 4 years -3.4% economic growth -150,000 manufacturing jobs -8500 coal jobs +3 million without health insurance Trade deficit +40% Federal debt +50% (4 Trillion) Jobs -2,876,000 How any Republican can defend this is beyond me
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  2097. blame labour electing Corbyn
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  2098. If the world switches to renewables it will save trillions of dollars as well as reduce polution across the globe. There are numerous studies out there as wind and solar have been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 We spend huge sums subsidising fossil extraction and even more on environmental clean up Also 40% of shipping is dedicated to moving fossil fuel around
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  2099.  @stevejones2310  the thing with renewable energy is you need the small scale distributed as well as major plant it spells the death of the huge multicorprations who will fight tooth and nail to maintain there fossil profits
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  2100. Don't forget to add that Soros and Biden are paying for the soup and it's not ordinary soup it's democratic latte liberel soup in specially designed long throw cans made in secret Antifa factories.
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  2101.  @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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  2102.  @bobjames6622  you can run a passive house entirely off solar and a powerbank with minimal grid pull. I could build a wind turbine from an old washing machine motor and some plastic pipe don't be stupid think these things through
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  2103. Its negative 70 funny thing is there closely followed by Reform on negative 60
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  2104.  @royboy565  the Reform vote is higher in the South East and the Red Wall but it's compromised of the The old ukip vote. They may get some dissafected Tories but not that many. I live in a blue wall seat the Tories near me are switching to lib dem
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  2105.  @DD-zd9lw  well funded services under Blair and average wage growth of over 20% V 14 years of Austerity and a negative -7% wage growth
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  2106. ​ @WouldbeRenaissanceLady6926 the price increases are down to the pandemic and Ukraine war everywhere has had inflation
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  2107. Adviser that's a bit of an exaggeration, this BS about work needs shoving where the sun don't shine, they won't even pay people a living wage. Next he'll be going on how slavery was cool because a lot of people are not far off economic slavery now. And what's his answer to the next industrial robotic revolution? The guy is pathetic
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  2108. If we don't follow the law then we are lawless ex betting scandal why aren't you complaining about the government not following it's own directives?
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  2109. This is a sample from Abbot Labour MP Diane Abbott has said the UK and US are responsible for any breakout of conflict in Ukraine Diane Abbott: Keir Starmer's 'deranged' Nato support risks 'catastrophe' in Ukraine Even as a Labour supporter and member if she were my MP I couldn't vote for her and why I have no time for Corbyn and his peacenik lackeys, my Father came here during the war via a Russian Gulag he is Polish and fought in the free Polish army.
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  2110. Russia changed its industrial base decades ago switching to a Petro economy It doesn't have the soviet era capacity anymore
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  2111. You need money to do stuff, over the last 14 years the Tories have cut services and racked up borrowing from 62% gdp to 100% gdp for a total spend of 1.6 trillion GDP per capita has fallen 3 times in the last 14 years this last bout is 7 quarters straight so no one is doing anything without fixing our economy first
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  2112. The tax penalties alone will bankrupt him
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  2113.  @seanhuds7351  why has it been allowed to grow like this higher numbers where processed during the Iraq war is sheer utter incompetence
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  2114. Based on demographics from exit polls 4 million leave voters are no longer with us so your talking nonsense If you count at the other end there being replaced with young rejoiners the vote would be 55% in favour and that doesn't count switchers which you've admitted would be substantial.
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  2115. Sounds like a Mogg idea he's keen on slavery of the prolls as well
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  2116.  @jonfreeman9682  Passed what exactly, you don't need to be a professional to know he has ADHD and dyslexia, his reading age is around 11-12
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  2117.  @rich8305  of course he's serious who wants to keep paying 8 billion for zero results
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  2118. UKIP Reform policies are directly responsible for the explosion in legal migration you'd have thought being conned once was enough?
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  2119. He should just shout Liar at the top of his voice every time Don opens one of his multiple gaslighting orifices
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  2120. 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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  2121. @johnmartin7158  it's there policies that are the issue not the leader Johnson for all his flaws promised leveling up and more public spending, it was a lie but renaging on the 2019 manifesto and going back to core type just depressed the economy further
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  2122. It quadrupled when we left the EU borders have 2 sides
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  2123. More Thatcherism no thanks
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  2124. World beating Parties
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  2125. 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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  2126. So says the guy who supports someone that wants to bring coal back thinks windmills cause cancer and climate change is a Chinese hoax Get your story straight man
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  2127. nothing like Blaire he was a Thatcherite
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  2128. Makes you wonder if Kier wasn't trolling the Cons with this appointment Rhishi's day in the sun lasted just that a day if that
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  2129. Yea but he lied on TV to millions with a straight face with an alternate reality based view not of this planet. I watched a hearing the other day where a GOP representative was trying to convince everyone Fracking was green and good for the planet. There are real problems that need dealing with and having a party enmeshed in its own alternate reality claiming Biden is going to ban meat doesn't do the country or their supporters any favours.
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  2130. The Republican party went along with everything Trump did to the point it had no platform at the last election. Loffler and Perdue went along with the insane fire the election official rant because he wouldn't make stuff up to just hand the election to DT and now Stone wants to kill Mitch's Senate majority because there not loyal enough? This is one insane mixed up bunch
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  2131. Why do you delude yourself that there is more to it than this were a 3rd country having to obey 3rd country rules to trade to and from the EU which is 20 miles away with a border in the channel and a border down the Irish sea.
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  2132. Its the only thing stopping the economy going into depression rather than recession
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  2133. From the LSE you know those people that know a thing or two about economics Keeping tax low for the rich does not boost economy Major reforms reducing taxes on the rich lead to higher income inequality but do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment, according to new research by LSE and King’s College London. Researchers say governments seeking to restore public finances following the COVID-19 crisis should therefore not be concerned about the economic consequences of higher taxes on the rich. The paper, published by LSE’s International Inequalities Institute, uses data from 18 OECD countries
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  2134. In what way? There economic policies are the same as Liz Truss and will tank the markets and they were all in on leaving the EU which has tripled migration
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  2135. Do they not get that he's incapable of not lying constantly
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  2136. 5.2% of gdp is 140 billion we have a tax base ratio to gdp of 32.8 giving a loss to the exchequer of 46 billion So the figure your quoting is taxation lost not gdp which may have been adjusted for other factors Each point of gdp is approx 8 billion in funds to the exchequer
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  2137. They shouldn't live up to description if they don't want being called it
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  2138.  @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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  2139.  @andrewokeeffe5358  90% of what he was wittering on about isn't current or even future Labour policy.
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  2140. He wasn't sacked for being on the picket and line
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  2141.  @TheBladereddragon  Its just he's fkin shite Johnson's Brexit is shite his tax plans are shite his levelling up is vapourware and his entire cabinet are dipping into the piggy trough spreading public money to their donors We have 155,000 dead with covid a banker in charge of the NHS a complete Air head in charge of the foreign office and a psychopath in charge of the home office The PM is to fkin dumb to know the difference between a party and a socially distanced work meeting fully masked
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  2142. For a functioning economy we need 2.1 children we currently are having around 1.5
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  2143. Why does Dowden smirk at his own jokes The current bill for housing support is 20 billion, the sale of council hoses (asset stripping) is also costing around 10 billion in possible income Just to put that into context it's just under 1/2 the current government grant to councils
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  2144. At least you got a rise in the bottom tax rate threshold, since 2016 that threshold has been eaten away by Tory chancellors and should be 1570 Also in 2010 the IMF and the EU were pedalling Austerity only the US didn't try it though everyone abandoned it by 2012. You kind of need context anyway since then the Lib-Dems have drifted back left and abandoned NeoLiberal economics.
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  2145.  @richardgallagher4880  leaving is costing us around 100 billion a year that's just the up front figure Our car industry is collapsing there won't be one come full electrification The central issue is that in Europe they have an on demand supply chain we don't anymore so industry just can't compete and no one will set up export factories in the UK anymore unless the government pays for it
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  2146. why would you get even more with Labour it makes no economic or political sense
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  2147. the real cost of a rise for NHS workers is 81 p in the £ to the Treasury 1st every pound in extra pay is taxed what's left is spent in the wider economy it generates more tax and spend You save on Churn recruitment costs you save over 2 Billion in agency staff costs if the rise is decent so all this is BEFORE you factor in the cost to patients the lost sick days to the economy and businesses the additional cost of not treating a condition early etc.
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  2148. From Osborne to H unt successive Tory Chancellors have made the wrong call at every opportunity Buildings are literally falling down around us Cancelling a landmark infrastructure project to then divert the money to fill potholes in London just about sums up The Tories tenure
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  2149. He could have put a meaningful windfall tax on the 140 billion in excess energy profits which is a major contributor to our current inflation
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  2150. Yea like who'd vote for endless delays to freight thousands of pages of documentation which cost GB business 7.5 billion plus PA, have to buy new computer systems to deal with the endless VAT (4 -> 24+) codes the 60% limit on origin of goods that also needs a new computer system to track components origin plus UKCA on the horizon so more money down the toilet in dual certification. Come on NI step up to the plate and suffer like your ex GB buddies ;) don't make Frostie and Bozo look like complete clowns
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  2151.  @ezioauditore3128  You get the human rights as well leave the ECHR and you loose them not just dingy people and the only country to leave is Russia which says it all plus its a cornerstone of the Good Friday agreement and the Irish Protocol. Please do some research before guffing off with right wing media talking points
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  2152. ECHR applies to everyone muppet were either all in or all out there's no dingy exception
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  2153.  @abymodayil  The twitteratai Dems while maybe being the most vocal at pushing the Bernie is electable front need to get realistic that on the whole the electorate are very Conservative. I get Biden is deemed too moderate but if he gets what's in his policy statement done he will have moved the needle way over to the left of centre. A proper climate policy is actually on the table and he isn't afraid to talk about transitioning to clean energy and thats what's on the debate stage not Harris's good and bad prosecutors decisions. Pence was a shill for the tobacco industry the lives lost due to propping up that smoking is safe dwarfs anything on the democratic side. On the Yang front I believe he will be in the Biden administration he was very well respected by all the candidate's as a forward thinker on the impact of technology.
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  2154. Just type in this question and you'll get the answer below not investing in renewable energy is a false short term economy I'm waiting for Kier to give him both barrels on this one nearer the election. Will renewables reduce energy prices? 'Renewable costs have been trending down for decades and are already cheaper than fossil fuels in many situations. Our research shows they will become cheaper than fossil fuels across almost all applications in the years to come and if we accelerate the transition, they will become cheaper faster. '13 Sept 2022
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  2155. The BBC and the media ecosystem it creates has an economic multiplier of 6 for every £1 put in the Treasury gets £6 back through increased GDP that's another 10 billion the government would have to find. It also supports local radio and also produces huge quantities of educational material for schools and universities which is priceless
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  2156.  @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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  2157. One of the easiest ways is to up insulation standards, I've just had an extension built and decided to double insulate and one of the surprising side effects was how comfortable the inside is when it gets really hot outside.
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  2158.  @globalmuffin2  the latest are up to 40% but need to fall in price the standard cheapo ones they use are 17/18 as the tech gets better the price will drop the same goes for wind and other renewable schemes
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  2159.  @chrispbacon4701  I still think its bollox My dad was Polish my great grandfather on my mothers side was Irish my brother is married to a Colombian. Most of the Royal family are of foreign descent Johnson wasn't even British he had dual Nationality with the US Just grow up we live in a society where travel and job relocation can be world wide
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  2160. A lot of economists are but as non of them pedal right wing economic policy then you never hear about it in the media ​ the Conservatives economic model (supply side trickle down aka Thatcherism) you need to constantly feed it Supply Side Labour To reduce migration you need to raise taxes preferably on wealth not work and invest in the countries physical and social infrastructure and abandon Thatcherism
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  2161. You have a spare 8 trillion for him to blow again I take it? A large part of the Inflation is his expanding the debt and money supply so quickly.
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  2162. @markwelch3564  since when do estate agents or solicitors give tax advice for one its illegal ?
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  2163. It only has a high survival rate if there's enough facilities to treat the seriously ill to the highest level of care. Also a large number who are seriously ill and do survive have ongoing conditions such as Heart Liver Lung problems brain swelling etc.. and are debilitated for months. Immunity doesn't last and the antibodies fade out the bloodstream reinfections will occur With another serious outbreak then the practice of deciding who will and who will not die will raise its head again and the survival rate will plummet
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  2164.  @truthseeker5619  junk theories off the Internet are not truth I work in IT what's being claimed is complete gibberish. Which is why they got laughed out of court and why they'll loose against Domion
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  2165. They'll properly fund the criminal justice system which will reduce crime for a start
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  2166. ​ @Jonnyonthespot123 for all Starmers political nievness he's a fairly straight laced centre left guy and extremely pragmatic His 5 missions are based on the work of world leading economist Mariana Mazzucato her book Mission Economy, she's acting as an advisor to Reeve. A far cry from the billionaire sponsored IEA
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  2167.  @KiwiGraggle  what censorship? I've not come across any?
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  2168. ​ @Si_Mondo our credit rating was going down no one wanted to lend us 50+ billion for tax cuts for the wealthy which did fk all to boost economic growth
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  2169. ECHR underpins the Good Friday Agreement and is part of Trade agreements such as the TCA Why would you give up your human rights to be sh1tty to boat people The ECHR was written by us and is the last bastion against government overreach Stop chasing Reform voters there unhinged and believe in Fantasy economics and Fantasy Immigration policy which will never be enabled
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  2170. I'm a retired boomer bought my house cost 3.5 times my salary Interest rates were at 8% at the time though. I also got free higher education, tax free savings and low tax paid for by Maggy with oil money and asset stripping. Granted I had a decent job but there is little excuse from my generation about paying more tax and given how ISA'S are tax free i don't pay much of that either
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  2171. California are leaders in domestic solar as well if you have a compatible EV you can use it to time shift energy usage Millions of batteries connected to the grid at any one time reduces by a huge margin the amount of peaker plants you need or large single use battery storage facilities I had a quick look the state are offering incentives for solar installation + battery storage as well as very high insulation regs
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  2172. That's not quite true combined the centre left vote is 58 % some want more left some more centre but they defiantly have a mandate The last time the right of politics had a mandate was a fleeting one under Thatcher and the Falklands
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  2173. JHB why are you so entrenched in it's my way or nothing There has only ever been a small minority that want INsane Brexit most of us would have been quite happy with a full Norway but Noooooo that's not stupid enough we have to be Stupider and have barking mad Brexit There's no such thing as a remoaner we've left you got what you wanted now stop complaining about it
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  2174. He sounds fine when he gives speeches and he's still able to ride a bike
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  2175. She sounds more Presidential every day He sounds sooooo small Let this drive turnout of normal people
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  2176. Whaaaaat are these people for real Apparently this sort of insanity happened during the black plague, crazies going round saying it's gods punishment and a whole host of other theories.
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  2177.  @benstern310  Gammon is a pejorative popularised in British political culture since around 2012. The term refers in particular to the colour of a person's flushed face when expressing their strong opinions
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  2178. All Warrens proposals do is make the markets sharpen up their act and earn their profits, the investment that she is proposing would boost/kickstart various sectors by creating more competition so everyone wins..
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  2179. What like the fact that as a Brexit Ultra she and the other's promised a reduction in refugees when all the signs where withdrawing from the Dublin Accord and becoming Billy No Mates of Europe it would vastly expand the problem. Its almost as if working with your friends and neighbours has real world advantages like 30,000 of them in this case
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  2180.  @Jezza_One  Scotland 92% renewable Norway 93% renewable Danemark 60% renewable not seen any reports on any of those countries having wide ranging power cuts? Strange maybe it's a conspiracy? What Danemark and Norway have in common is 2% inflation fancy that is it a coincidence there not getting fleeced on gas prices ?
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  2181.  @gregy1570  like anyone with half a brain can't see that Murdoc's fox news is bad news for America
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  2182. The cuts are part of the reason inflation is so high they expanded the debt at a time when your normal economist would have said its prudent to shrink it They also fueled the wealth gap
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  2183. 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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  2184. Human rights apply to everyone not just boat people either everyone has them or no one does
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  2185. The founding Fathers fought to establish a democracy however flawed its become, you have the vote it needs to be used
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  2186. The station hires another populist fantasist The show should be called late night BJ Will Carrie be his assistant ?
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  2187. it's about policies and the Cons policies are driving our economy down the toilet Energy market needs a complete overhaul but PM Sunak will keep feeding money to already rich companies because the Tories can't admit the current system they designed and imposed on this country is a complete skip fire
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  2188.  @stephensipe5405  they stopped representing ordinary people years ago, they don't even bother to help business anymore and have run the economy into the ground over the last 12 years. Sunak cares about the City the rest of the country can fail as far as he's concerned.
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  2189. @laurencesmith1435  private health won't cover preexisting condition It won't insure pensioners at the same rates as young people It becomes mind numbingly expensive for the government and the economy, you have low wage people that can't afford insurance ending up on benefits because treatable conditions are left to get worse. You have huge amounts of government money going to private health to treat pensioners.
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  2190. Even more money from your wage packets as they collapse the economy with Truss style policies and collapse pension funds
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  2191. Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical
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  2192. 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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  2193. Why does the Billionaire owned media want us to give up our human rights? The ECHR is the last resort against government overreach ask the Hillsborough families
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  2194. Me too I end having to vote tactically This country after 14 years of Con misrule needs leadership like never before we've had hope beaten and pummelled out of us.
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  2195. There paying no tax There is a tax break on exploration and tax credits of up to 75 billion to clean up Disused and spent North Sea Rigs and infrastructure Wind energy is 17% part of the UK mix it is the cheapest form of energy on the market and has been since 2019 at the gas price peak it was 12.5 x cheaper it is still cheaper by x 3 to crack hydrogen gas from water with surplus Wind energy than the cost of natural gas you can run an 20/80 mix on current gas infrastructure of Hydrogen to NG reducing consumption by a fifth. Why do we not do this simples the fossil lobby distributed energy production breaks the profit model of large global corporations
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  2196.  @Petal4822  what sovereignty we have lost tons leaving gained non
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  2197. It doesn't work like that if you want more US production you invest like the CHIPS act and the Inflation Reduction act
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  2198. the vote share for Centre Left parties has stayed fairly constant for months at 58%
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  2199. Another Brex1t benefit didn't we tell you did you listen? quote from 2018 Historic examples include Britain’s decision to end the unrestricted entry of Commonwealth subjects in the 1960s, Germany’s experience with admitting temporary “guest workers” from the 1960s, and the US ending its labour program for Mexican workers in 1965. Drawing lessons from those experiences, the SMF predicted that ending EU freedom of movement and restricting EU nationals’ right to enter and stay in Britain for work will have precisely the opposite effect on immigration patterns to the one many Brexit supporters say they want.
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  2200. ​@davidlewis3773 not true the BOE owns 1/3 rd of it and banks also have to deposit 500 billion with the boe on account Like I said it's complicated
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  2201.  @teelo523  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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  2202. A below average middle manager failing upwards Truss was bad at economics but Sunak is barley much better 2 billion to millionaire pensioners to payed for by freezing thresholds on low paid and pensioners
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  2203. ​ @PaulK-ve1pu Rwanda gone, onshore wind ban gone, undersea cables approved, multiple pork barrel schemes ditched, rioters banged up double quick Pretty successful all in all
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  2204. he's Brown there racist not rational they'd vote for Fabricant rather than Sunak
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  2205.  @Nategodmafia  the stay at home orders are a blunt instrument till the federal government gets its shit together and comes out with guidelines that keep the infection curve at a manageable level. Which the cdc have done and Trump buried coz he doesn't like them. Till there's a vaccine most sensible people will stay out of enclosed spaces with lots of people and Wear a mask in public. Personally I've reduced my vectors of infection down to 1 shop a month fill the freezer then get stuff delivered and work from home no ball games restaurant's trips to the mall or holidays + social distancing when I'm out.
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  2206.  @lynnwilliams4024  except fund the NHS properly and be in power for the most prosperous decade this country has ever had with average wages increasing in real terms by +25%
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  2207. Women Harris has a 20+ point lead with women, that figure is going to have a substantial number who are registered red, ballot is secret after all
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  2208. They need to put up rates to attract buyers for government Gilts we have debts of over 2.7 trillion to service The Conservatives run a supply side economy and won't address strategic thinking even to something as simple as a gas storage facility in case of hard times or domestic food production to prevent food shock. We need to Subsidie farmers away from fertiliser farming Build more wind Turbines and insulate more homes
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  2209.  @MajorAnthonyNelson  that is a really stroNG reality distortion field your in. Do you even realise what woke is?
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  2210. No he didn't he just continued what was then the Thatcher consensus.
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  2211. I'll vote for anyone that will kick out the Tories
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  2212.  @ac4486  And your point being you'd rather have the Tories continue destroying the country? They've already said that they would be moving away from monetarism and Friedman towards a Keynesian economic model that brought economic recovery after the war. All you'll get with the Tories is grinding Austerity Monetarism the cornerstone of Thatcherism has completely has completely failed. But hey I'm just looking at both sides economic policies
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  2213. Cutting taxes doesn't grow the economy
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  2214. And I thought we couldn't get any lower With Truss and Johnson
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  2215. which we don't we got overtaken in June and have steadily slid down the pack
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  2216. ​ @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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  2217. There's an economic reason to stop Russia and Russian expansion in that it would cost us more in the long to medium term
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  2218. Try processing them at Calais and there not processing them in Rwanda its a one way ticket were people trafficking them there
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  2219. He's not going to go he'll cling on to the bitter end fouling the air with his stench This isn't the end of the scandals just the latest
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  2220. 8 years on with demographic changes alone the Vote would be remain 55% that doesn't take into account the economic train wreck that it is You've had your chance time to admit you were wrong
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  2221. So services were funded tax was lower and we had economic growth last time Labour in
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  2222. That's kind of illeagal
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  2223. People I know will vote tactically and its anyone but a Tory with even 10% the Lib-Dems will pick up seats and the Tory core headbanger frothing nationalist vote is drifting to Reform
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  2224. And what is that then? This is just noisy clueless rich people shouting
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  2225.  @1954cs  Its complicated the military + the Biden admin have a common goal in that certain things are now seen as supply chain essential post pandemic. Its deemed a necessity to have a home grown chip manufacturer and a battery supplier there are other things in the bucket but you get the drift. Things will be done to ensure a local supply. the R&D budget proposal is lifted out of Warrens plan of stick and carrot to get anything developed in the US to be built in the US. There are numerous technologies coming onstream one example I know a gas fitter who is now retraining to do ground source heat pump maintenance and installation.
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  2226. GBN is a propaganda channel for billionaire friendly policies
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  2227. Late is different to tax evasion
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  2228. @@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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  2229. He doesn't have a clue what he's talking about You can't cut taxes we have a debt to gdp ratio of > 100% and the people buying Gilts think the Brexit Ultra's are talking out of their arse over growth Before anyone starts banging on about Labour here are some facts 2010 gdp ratio 62% 2019 gdp ratio 92% due to the Cameron corporate tax cuts which didn't stimulate growth and went straight on the uk credit card 2023 we have less people in full time employment than in 2019 the economy has shrunk in real terms since then accounting for inflation economists predict it should be +10% which = around 80 billion in lost tax revenues if we where still in the single market and had FOM
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  2230. On economics there pitiful Trump put 8 trillion onto debt a lot of it down to the Trump Corporate Tax cuts Red States are the most unequal in terms of Tax Burden Quote New research by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) shows that Florida’s tax system remains among the “Terrible Ten” most inequitable in the nation, ranking 48th among all states. Florida’s reputation as a “low-tax” state belies the reality that it is, in fact, a high-tax state for low- and moderate-income residents. Floridians with the lowest incomes — those earning less than $18,700 — contribute 12.7 percent of their incomes to state and local taxes, while the wealthiest top 1 percent — those with incomes of more than $548,700 — contribute just 2.3 percent of their income.
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  2231. Climb down / delay is understandable given the current cost of living crisis The things that came out of the London expansion was an underfunded scrappage scheme and public transport Quote Some 62 per cent of outer London residents said they would travel more often by public transport if it was more reliable Apparently theres double the number of car journeys in outter to inner London The Cities especially need to roll back transport privatisation Quote The first buses in Greater Manchester's new locally-controlled system have been handed over. In September, the region will become the first area outside London to have a regulated bus system since privatisation in 1986. Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, officially received the first five buses for the new Bee Network
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  2232. The majority of that number would be Trump voters as well
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  2233.  @VincentRE79  True no else is going to be able to decimate heavy industry creating 13% unemployment to crush demand and wages and pay for tax cuts with Oil revenues and asset stripping sales.
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  2234. The inward training and investment simply won't happen. Vlad chose his inner circle for loyalty not brains
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  2235. 20 billion in trickle down policies in last budget paid for by increasing middle and working class taxes, abandoning net zero which is half the cost of NOT doing net zero 7 bins Sunak is toast
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  2236. He reminds of a below average middle manager i used to work with forever making the wrong calls because he was always trying to be non confrontational with everyone
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  2237. 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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  2238. Fossil companies don't want a free market, the get 10's of billions in subsidies from the UK alone
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  2239.  @chatham43  Off the hook for what exactly? You don't have to live at the address to not pay CGT Electoral roll address isn't the same as primary address for HMRC purposes The daily mail is just throwing mud at the wall to see if it can confuse you enough to think there was something wrong
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  2240. Why would anyone ever think that the Tories are good with the economy? We have a shortage of social housing at an affordable rent does stamp duty address this? No We have soaring inflation does tax cuts for the rich address this? No (Cameron's 2015 corporate tax cut ballooned the debt to 92% by 2019)
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  2241.  @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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  2242. The other candidates are as bad or worse
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  2243. Renewable energy is cheaper has been since 2019 if we had more of it our bills would be lower by a LOT
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  2244.  @A-W1669  That's dumb as a member we had a veto on any laws we didn't like and openly cooperated to agree the current state aid rules which were put forward by David Cameron. As a non member we have to follow the EU laws and rules if we wish to trade with them but don't have a veto on future levelling up. Our fishing fleet doesn't fish UK waters predominantly but up to Iceland and off Norway with some down the French Spanish coast, our UK water catch is sold mostly in France. Leaving the customs union was one of the most mind numbingly stupidest things the UK has ever done.
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  2245.  @A-W1669  Its a totally dumb argument were fishing in Norway France Spanish and Irish waters. We eat cod and haddock mostly. Its a manufactured for politics argument to gin people up like you into flag waving. Its dumber than dumb and Boris is either horrendously stupid or doing it deliberately to grandstand to the cheap seats. Without a deal British fishing will collapse end of whats even more stupid is this could have been used to re imagine fishing policy across the EU for conservation. What do we get instead brain dead tub thumping by Boris
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  2246. So your going to vote for the same economic policies that tanked the economy unfunded tax cuts?
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  2247. Sham Zero hour contracts destroy proper jobs, they were a primary reason for mass immigration into the unregulated GIG economy during Cameron era undercutting domestic businesses offshoring profits and contributing to the Brex1t vote. There also being used to ship people in from the 3rd world on low pay into the care sector, either you want lower immigration or not?
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  2248. Instigated a package of around 50 billion in unfunded tax cuts which would have increased our borrowing last year from 130 billion to 180 billion this spooked the markets all major worldwide credit rating agencies downgraded the UK gilt market increasing borrowing at a stroke. There was an associated problem with LVI's anyway the BOE had to step in and print money as we were at one point within hours of a total collapse of UK pension funds
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  2249. Corbyn never had a majority support of the Parliamentary party and more importantly the support of the public, he was foisted on both by the left of the party when we needed real leadership. Due to the fixed term parliament act he could have sat it out instead handed the Tories an 80 seat majority Labour's equivalent of Liz Truss
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  2250.  @safc2951  It's a low wage economy it has all sorts of knock on affects. 40% of people are on in work benefits, it encouraged s the government to put public service jobs on the visa exception list. It's a drag on housing and not enough people are paying enough tax because they don't earn enough. We've gone from 40% going to university to 37%, the graduate jobs are not there either
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  2251.  @LA-fr7fx  I'm coming more to the conclusion that it wasn't so much Boris as a plus it was Corbyn as a minus If you've heard Corbyn waffling on incoherently this week then you've got to ask yourself how could the leaders of both parties be that bad at the same time
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  2252. The everyday economy is in deep recession the reason the headline GDP isn't shrinking is people are spending every penny they have on food rent Mortgages and fuel as their disposable income falls through the floor
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  2253. Last time they were in power public services were funded you could get a doctors appointment and average wages rose by +25%
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  2254. 10 million listen to radio on a regular basis the Sunak is a liar the Civil service letter has been read in part or full on every radio news bulletin, it will feature on TV news on all the main channels and clips of Tory MP's getting carpeted by Derbyshire went viral After the Johnson years and Sunak claiming to bring back integrity he just shat all over the Tory brand
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  2255.  @dixieflatline1189  what indignation I really don't care if this fukmuppet burns the whole Con party down, if things get too bad I can always move to Europe I'm retired and my father came to the uk during the war so I applied and got duel citizenship when the vote went through.
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  2256. Since February they have done Fk All to mitigate energy usage (insulation campaign) or reduce usage and open up onshore wind to additional turbines. Onshore Turbines on existing sites take about 6 months to commission How about investing in energy storage tech grid stabilization using Vehicle to grid etc.. Oh yea let the market decide well the verdict was out last week your crap and haven't a clue at what your doing
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  2257. Brexit is done fishing is what it is because we're a third country outside the Single Market NI have it minted with free access to the single market and GB the barriers that GB exporters to NI suffer are the same as exporting to any part of the single market
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  2258.  @TheSuperPsychoKiller  I wouldn't be choosing who to vote for on their stance on Israel / Palestine as a conflict its been ongoing since I first started to vote 45 years ago. Galloway doesn't care its just a grift for him
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  2259. What the +20% in wage growth the highest increase on record?
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  2260. ​ @davelane9366 unlimited? People came here because there where jobs, how we run our benifit and services and who was entitled to them was up to the UK government All that's happening now is our best and brightest will up sticks and leave, 500,000 last year
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  2261. 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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  2262.  @grimnir8872  No it doesn't The classic solution to inflation is higher taxes and higher interest rates The reason that won't work this time is we have supply side corporate inflation with completely inelastic demand on an essential commodity. We can't reduce the demand and we can't up the supply short term. The short term answer is price controls which is what is being suggested in a round about way until the crisis is over which will be years if the government doesn't pull its finger out
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  2263. A success story in who's altered reality is he living in this is ongoing till there's a vaccine so why isn't the fukwit doing something about it
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  2264. I think they should stop being so blinkered and biased and put some Labour, Green & Lib-Dem people on who can point out the complete sham that is the Reform platform
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  2265. its 0.25% its just a 300 million pound show pony
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  2266. 2027* 113.01% 2026* 112.69% 2025* 112.79% 2024* 109.71% This is projected Debt to GDP under the current budgetary constraints so there can't be any Tax cuts I have slogan for Labour based on Cameron's renewable statement Get rid of the Trickle Down Cr*p
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  2267. I'm surprised he doesn't explode with all that hot air and BS inside him The master of projection is at it again Paul Manaford confirmed to be liaising with a Kremlin agent the same one he was working with to mess with the Ukrainian elections, John Bolton made it clear in his book that when Putin yanks his chain Donald comes a running and Fiona Hill made it doubly clear the Republicans are pedalling conspiracy theories which are fronted Kremlin disinformation campaigns.
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  2268.  @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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  2269. That doesn't work the lower payed you are the more of your joint income and assets are taxed The last NI tax cut when put together with Fiscal drag means those on 44,000+ get a tax break paid for by those on less than 44,000
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  2270. bbc is centre right my politics are centre left and the BBC isn't left wing in any shape or form where you do you get that nonsense from?
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  2271. He doesn't have the power to invalidate anything the states manage thier own elections. States are sending out ballot applications not ballots, he doesn't like mail in because it expands the franchise is traceable and auditable because ITS ON PAPER
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  2272.  @brianchandler1365  Dianne Abbot doesn't even have the Labour whip at the moment
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  2273. But they last for 400k miles which is lakes full of gas, anyway solid state batteries is next year
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  2274. @TheBaconWizard  no it doesn't I worked in IT all my life its lower and manual / manufacturing jobs what's created is a need for higher skills. The issue is to distribute the insane wealth that can be created if left unregulated.
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  2275. @fang_xianfu  I agree they need processing quickly and treating humanly also don't see why they can't have temporary work visas, and I've completely gone over to the idea of ID cards one of the issues is its easy for people to dissappear into the black economy the seedy car wash the cash only nail bar. The EU have clamped down on this stuff and part of the issue is people that worked in the black economy over there are finding it harder and harder to avoid the authorities
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  2276. DT going to go down as the worst in history, a wannabe failed dictator sat rage tweeting in a corner like a demented imbacile with his party signing on to crazy conspiracy theories
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  2277. ​@highspiritz9 polling by IPSOS put her support at 17% and the Tories dropped 2 points to 23% last week Labour gained +3 to 47% You need to get out of whatever bubble your in
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  2278. Steel is closing because of brex1t, current UK plans were for Green steel by 2050 that includes Labour Brent crude price needs to be at $65 to break even the price has fluctuated considerably as Oil demand is tailing off and sits at around $75 currently, Saudi are sitting on Oceans of the stuff controlled by OPEC their production costs are $25 Which is why the Cons gave huge tax breaks of tens of billions to the Oil and Gas sector
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  2279. He has dyslexia and ADHD and has been a regular Adderol User
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  2280. she wasn't in charge of the border
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  2281. they sit in their Tufton street echo chamber telling each other tax cuts are the magic bullet to everything
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  2282. The market wants EV's and people buying at this price point are not going to want an ICE vehicle if there's a EV alternative, the Ford marketing has already stuck the knife into gas sales coupled with pump prices the flexibility of using the power outlets and the promise of V2G the reaction will be to either go to another manufacturer or keep your money in your pocket till an alternative becomes available
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  2283. Its about standards and lying and leadership He has no standards, he lies constantly and he's a god awful leader
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  2284. Its cost us about 1/2 a Trillion so far and Your Pound is worth 25% less than it did in 2016 and 5% of our gdp and rising
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  2285. If you remove FOM and run supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism then you need migrant Labour and if its not coming from the EU then your giving permanent visa's to Indian and Nigerian workers who quite rightly won't come unless they fetch their families. Over half the immigration total is dependants If you want less immigration change the economic model institute an equitable progressive tax system and properly fund Social and Physical infrastructure to create a demand side economy You can't have a low tax Tory economy without the low wage supply side labour source that fuels it
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  2286. You can't turn approval on the pandemic round in 3 months, if everyone wore a mask tomorow and social distanced it would take 6 months to reduce the R number down to a practical level and thats not going to happen. Even with the suppresion he's a 1 man advert for going Biden every time he opens his mouth at the momment and the ads just keep coming as well as money is pouring into the Remote campaigns
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  2287.  @MCDONALD6969  We're comfortably off but wife's bonuses disappeared because of Brexit when the company she works for business dropped but my son after 4 years at work is on 30p above minimum he'll never be able to move out or afford to have a family like many of his generation that the Conservatives have sold down the river.
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  2288. wow Galloway's foghorn of no hopers
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  2289. I went for focused Have had some shit managers in my working career he comes over as a good team leader Granted he can get a bit wordy and dull at times Just the change in energy policy would be a start
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  2290.  @RC-9  he's 60 doesn't need the money or he'd still be in private practice. He primarily worked as a human rights lawyer worked a lot for Liberty. You work on human rights cases because your driven if your chasing money you do corporate
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  2291. since 2016 our economic decline due to the Brexit vote and subsequent policies is around 1 trillion in GDP That includes projected investment actual losses currency devaluation reduced trade and reduced output Since we left the EU the GDP of the EU has expanded by more than our GDP removal for the total (3.13 trillion USD) Germany since 2016 to now earn 25-30% more in average wages Whichever way you cut it Brexit has been a complete economic disaster which just keeps screwing our economy harder and harder 2010 GDP = 2.491 trillion 2023 GDB = 3.131 trillion 2010 Figure adjusted for inflation would be 3.645 trillion we are 500 billion worse off than in 2010 thank you Tories and your lying arsewipe policies for making us poorer
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  2292.  @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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  2293. @TDS_ExistMaga4ever  the gulf reached record temperatures this feeds the size and intensity
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  2294. People leave for lots of reasons I believe the main one is cost of housing in California if you work in IT such as me since Covid you don't need to be in the office plenty people I know have relocated out of the city and sometimes state where they work. The figure for California is 1/2 a million by the way. People in my socio-economic bracket take their liberal polotics with them as well and want decent healthcare, schools and regulations against polution + net zero and the move away from fossil fuel The counties in the US that vote Democrat account for 70% of US GDP
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  2295.  @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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  2296. New golden age of being laughed at He and his economics advisers are complete 1diots, there already the laughing stock before they even take power
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  2297.  @williamdeypres1122  They also show there is no love for reform who are neg 60
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  2298.  @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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  2299.  @Absorbing146  because they don't have any policies but tax cuts for the rich
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  2300. 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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  2301. Wishy Washy is a below average middle manager who's failed upwards
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  2302. what you were sold was always a political solution to an unsolvable problem the economy was always going to shrink and quickly when we left the single market. The intention was a deregulated Singapore on Thames sweeping up all the European trade the EU shot that one dead the day after the vote in 2016 what we've ended up with is Argentina on the Channel
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  2303. He was told he had intelligence briefings which he doesn't read or ignores and no your not going to build this economy back up because you don't understand whats happened to it in the first place, his administration are screwing up the bail out the testing and the economy there appears to be no bounds on what this group of F team retards can't car crash.
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  2304. ​@wolfswinkel8906 Russia doesn't have much of an economy left its all under price controls and no one outside Russia is accepting Roubles
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  2305. WokeFinder General The lot of them are a joke
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  2306.  @andrew30m  at 33% tax base that's 33 billion in lost taxes we have to foot the bill for
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  2307. 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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  2308. He's offering something to centre left, centre voters and pragmatic government to the centre right If your going to achieve net zero and get the country out of this housing gridlock you need a broad consensus I thought it cemented the fact that the Tories are racing over to out UKIP Reform in a move to the very bottom of right wing populist politics
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  2309.  @missano3856  Given his mental state he'll not go to prison, he wasn't all there 4 years ago you seen any clips of his rallies recently he's off his box
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  2310. and we have low unemployment so they've all gone to other jobs Estimated vacancies across GB is 1.2 million
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  2311. Caps won't affect current savers
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  2312. There not supposed too what do you think Sunak's budget was designed to do but crush inflation by screwing the people at the bottom and middle this is a feature not a bug of Supply Side Economic policy (hint taxes are low at the top and for business) Why is supply-side economics controversial? Opponents of supply-side economics argue that rather than increasing revenue for the government, lowering taxes will instead increase the deficit. As a result, the government will have to cut programs or raise other taxes to make up for this shortfall, unless it wishes to run a permanent deficit.
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  2313. So you want unelected civil servants changing UK law so much for sovereignty
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  2314. The question has to be why Tory policy only helps the wealthy are you rich?
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  2315. ​ @CB-hv2dg don't forget the lies and the cover up
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  2316. He had a scholarship to a posh school he will have had it drilled into him daily by the posh bullies what class he was I know I've been there
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  2317. it's something like 0.003% of all asylum seekers can be deported this way at a cost now approaching 600 million The policy has seen Reform go from 6% to 13% and the Tories from 30% down to as low as 18% in some polls You'd be hard pushed to find a policy that produced so much political self harm
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  2318. We've needed I'd cards for a while too many people are disappearing into the black economy, the lack of one was a major reason Albanians were coming over as the EU has tightened up checks due to security fears
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  2319. Errr the US has the fastest growing economy in the G7 with +3% GDP and reshored over 1 million manufacturing jobs in the last 3 years
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  2320.  @Pythonaria  if you think labour are anywhere in the same galaxy as the Cons your living in an alternate reality.
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  2321.  @oldskoolrools3087  I don't find Rayner either ignorant or a gob shite What's your problem with plain speaking norther people? Not gone to the right school has she, there's always the sexism to fall back on
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  2322. Abbot is 70 this isn't an OAP club
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  2323. We've implemented Brexit if they did it properly the country would grind to a halt because of import checks The more you diverge standards the more paperwork and additional costs you have businesses want divergence like a hole in the head
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  2324. Of the 5%
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  2325. ​ @iareid8255 there protesting for peace Armistice = noun. : temporary stopping of open acts of warfare by agreement between the opponents
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  2326. You mean the MSG rally it was wild and not just the immediate clip of the comedian but was completely effing crazy
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  2327. They've basically given up on government. There is no choice sort the virus and the economy will recover, continue with this shitshow and the economy will stagnate and contract for years to come.
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  2328.  @JR-vg1kr  nurses work anti social hours and 12 hour shifts plus have to study a degree course anything over a certain threshold gets hoovered up in student tax repayment I earned more doing 9-5 And Government money isn't like a household budget once it goes into the economy it goes round a tax and spend merry-go-round which eventually costs the treasury approx 20 p in the £
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  2329.  @christinefiedor3518  private sector nurses don't do the shifts and aren't subject to to the same pressure of an active hospital Your Nuffield patient is scheduled in and out any emergency and your carted off to the NHS
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  2330. Wishy Washy the living embodiment of failed upwards
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  2331. You don't want a passport or driving licence then? How about asylum claims being dealt with. How about some more customs officers to deal with the Billions being lost in import tariffs because we're not checking or immigration staff at airports and ports? Go Join the clapping seals at the Con Conference
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  2332. your all in on Christian nationalism then?
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  2333. There aren't 2 Labour parties both are completely different after 14 years of declining wages and services under Austerity if you can't tell the difference your brain has short circuit in it
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  2334. 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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  2335. Means testing the WFA is hardly going after pensioners especially given the state of the economy
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  2336. since when did anyone know they were spending 10 billion on Rwanda with thousands recruited?
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  2337. There a centre right pro capitalist station owned by Murdoch, I'm fairly all-right with it I get my centre left news from the New Statesman and other similar outlets and podcasts. How To Win an election Podcast is reasonably balanced for the Times anyway
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  2338. Tories run Supply side trickle down down Economics Labour run Kenysian Demand side focused on structural and social infrastructure They produce different economies totally
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  2339. At well over a million per asylum seekers it just shows the sheer frothing insanity of the far right in this country No clue how to deal with the problem so let's throw 150 million down the toilet in gesture politics to placate the rabid right wing media meanwhile the Gammons are on here cheering as the government pisses more money up the nearest wall. Are people in this country really that stupid?
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  2340. The numbers are 62,000 a year its a nothingburger
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  2341. Might help if they use the army resources to manage the pandemic instead of sitting on thier backsides and spouting it's up to the states not my problem. They can't even manage to delegate to the correct government bodies.
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  2342.  @bimmeroo0906  the only thing agreed by it was leaving the EU that could mean a full Norway to no deal The version that is most extreme you wouldn't want if you got it it would make a small number of people very rich while 90% grubbed around in poverty and crush the economy outside London even harder than Thatcher did in the 80s
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  2343. why his hubris handed the Tories an 80 seat majority in 2019 he should have worked to form a government of national unity but no he had to be leader so he got his election and went to the polls with favorability -72 rating and +12 approval his polling stank more than Truss's at its worst Take off the rose tinted glasses and look at the the sheer carnage that decision has wrought
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  2344. There having to back off the USPS plan coz it's affecting paychecks prescriptions with massive pushbike from constituents. The central red states that are sparsely populated rely heavily on the service as a for profit option just wouldn't deliver to a lot of far flung places. Trump is taking a dump in his own back yard, firkin idiot how unpopular does he want to be
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  2345. Why should the government subsidise business by depressing wages forcing people into in work benifit?
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  2346.  @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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  2347. The Tories haven't effed it up though its been a mind boggling success and they nearly achieved their wet dream Brexit The aim of Brexit for Johnson was to make him PM, I'd call even a few years in downing street for the Blond lying idiot a resounding win The aim of Brexit for the Conservative Party was to see off a challenge from UKIP on the right and maintain power 10/10 with that one The aim of Brexit for the Ultra's was to get their flag bearer in Power unfortunately they chose Truss to carry out sweeping supply side reform deregulate the economy lower and remove taxes for the wealthy and turn the UK into Singapore on Thames where 5% where fabulously rich and the rest could go fk themselves on minimum wage. For the Tories this was never about immigration that's just a theatre tool to manipulate the masses with if you run a Supply Side trickle Down Economic model it needs an endless supply of Supply Side cheap Labour pool to keep wages down and increase the profits at the top. The points system is just mirroring government policy when we where in the EU but suppressing wages in the Professional and middle class again increasing profits at the top. I dunno what you voted for but this was the inevitable end with the Tories in power
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  2348.  @blacklisted4885  food inflation and supply chain issues are a direct result of Brexit You can mask part of it by calling it global but we're now the market of last resort and have to pay extra for trade When brexit happened the on-demand supply chain hrough the EU disappeared adding delays, paperwork tarrifs and costs, what would have been a day or overnight can take weeks even in some cases months to arrive. Businesses that have survived the shock are slowly being strangled out of markets not just to the EU but becoming less competitive round the world because of increased costs v EU or US competitors. Overnight sole traders lost European access to Ebay and Amazon marketplace SME'S could no longer send small shipments Brexit is a complete fkin car crash that keeps piling up economic damage
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  2349. What 13% unemployment and outside London and the home counties the collapse of manufacturing?
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  2350. don't forget bashing union barons for having the nerve to ask for less of a pay decrease than there being offered
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  2351. Pension equality was done years ago If the Tories had gotten it would by raised to 68
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  2352. IP is a complex issue to start with, its origional intention has been completely undermined by it being handed out like confetti, the best way to combat someone using your ideas is to be constantly innovating so your always a step ahead. Hence to beat China invest in training your workforce, r&D at company, state and federal level supporting the whole with modern infrastructure. You could instead whine a lot blame China for everything and be well on the way to a sweat shop economy.
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  2353. If you have record inflation of course the headline figure goes up. quote from the ONS Total goods exports fell by £0.1 billion (0.3%) in October 2023, after the effect of inflation is removed. Exports to the EU decreased by £0.9 billion (7.0%) Brexit checks, paperwork and red tape costs 10's of billions and also discourage small businesses from trading because its too hard. Were also paying tariffs on a lot of goods.
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  2354.  @nigelhopkinson6614  Every business user I know uses bluetooth in ear while on the phone using Zoom or what's app group chat wtf does he use carrier pigeon
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  2355. no they won't Net Zero = saving for your average person on energy bills
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  2356. Mother and Mother in Law stopped voting labour because of him as did her elderly neighbour
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  2357. Its just a transition till we rejoin Sick man of Europe in 6 years flat nice work Tories
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  2358. When you start looking at the TCA a lot of it isn't implemented at our end anyway and theres a lot of fuzzy stuff in it Where not going to get better terms but the Tory diversification for diversifications sake creates huge business uncertainty and mountains of red tape and paperwork. We also dont have deals on performing artists and businesses taking in equipment to the EU or Services and recognition of qualifications is really woolly The Tories have burnt the boats on large manufacturers as a gateway to Europe the only way to increase trade is by boosting SME'S easing the trading burden won't restore what we had it may stop the bleeding and create a less hostile environment for the future. In all of this is the energy transition we will be locked out of eu and us markets if we dont go net zero on schedule
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  2359. ​ @thewordforever4839 narr Ron is a true Klansman at heart
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  2360. Australia deserves better than this bunch of Murdoch shills for billionaire interests.
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  2361. I give it till next May year and the ERG can't resist blowing everything up over the NI Protocol, there also a fight over fracking sewage and the current bill going through parliment removing standards and regulations across the board
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  2362. It's been a complete failure or are you happy with higher taxes higher migration and a lower standard of living?
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  2363. Yea right fastest growth in renewables I've ever seen
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  2364. Starmer has had to tack to the centre and over correct because you elected a fantasy populist and wasted a decade The Tories are about to do exactly the same but to the right
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  2365. The alternative is deal with the smuggling gangs instead of victimising the refugees
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  2366. how can you put budgets on anything in opposition how will the Tories pay for extra tax cuts which services are they going to slash to do it, last year they borrowed 130 billion increased tax by 30 Billion and reduced NI by 9 billion
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  2367. How do you know they are handling the debt so poorly? 3 trillion has been added by the Trump/GOP tax cut so far, Yelland has proposed a global tax rate and nothing will happen without partially or wholly rolling back the tax cuts + closing loopholes and making enforcement a priority. The GOP won't agree to any tax changes even as the debt climes higher and are keen on an increased military budget. I could solve the debt tomorrow with a 5 year plan the issue is unchecked political influence by major corporate America, ex- the IMF recommended a wealth tax to cover pandemic costs in rich countries can you see it even be discussed? Musk was complaining about a proposed billionaire tax while at the same time using a loophole to fund his lifestyle by borrowing against his shares so he doesn't have to pay capital gains (which should be in line with income tax by the way) giving him a clos to zero overall tax bill.
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  2368. Uxbridge was a sign of things to come the Tories will go fully anti net zero
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  2369. 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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  2370. 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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  2371. They can't enact any cuts because there still borrowing 130 billion a year its just theatre
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  2372. Wearing the right sort of mask reduces the spread of infection The issue was always one of not enough medical capacity to cope with mass infection as was clearly demonstrated in Northern Italy and New York even Swedens light touch reinforces that general medical view.
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  2373. He's an Independent now
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  2374. @brickie59  yeah and we got subsidised housing, free higher education, low tax from oil money and asset stripping + tax free savings Doesn't stop you moaning tho does it?
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  2375. ​ @pau1phi11ips 425 billion wiped off the value of assets held by uk pension companies
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  2376. At least they won't crash the economy and send mortgage prices and inflation soaring with unfunded tax cuts
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  2377. In Europe the average excess death rate was at least +20% so the US deaths from covid is more like 250k not 215
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  2378. Why? We're not in it what does anything they do bother you. There a sovreign state and can do whatever they want we have given away all influence on the back of the Tories oven ready deal
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  2379.  @michaelc3051  A wealth tax is more trouble than it's worth I think there going to let local authorities re band council tax, I've seen various figures around which show that 90% wouldn't pay more by a re-band but that by making it more progressive it will pull in money from the top end properties
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  2380. @skylineuk1485  millionaire billionaire class contribute sweet FA to the economy bar driving up inflation. All the tax breaks end up in fixer assets and don't cycle round the economy. Every £1 in upper end tax cuts and tax breaks generates approx +20p in additional gdp revenue for a net loss to the treasury of 80p. We also have a ton of data showing the more the wealthy take the more they leverage that power to gain even more out of the system this is done through removing workers rights deregulation as in the zero hour economy etc.
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  2381. ​ @alanwatterson2850 suppressed the vote though. Also date was chosen to corral the student vote in University towns
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  2382. 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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  2383.  @hattmancock6396  You shove no end of chemicals down your gut on a daily basis without reading the labels and your worried about a vaccine?
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  2384. This is it it won't get any better just worse. 99% of the regulations are there for workers companies benefits such as the work time directive, common standards on food to enable export/import Companies don't want the regulations scrapped it just creates even more paperwork
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  2385.  @ioeuropaganymedkallisto7204  untrue there was zero path to a majority, he stacked up large numbers of votes in already strong labour seats.during 2017, also the bleed in the Red wall had already started. Also the bulk of older voters had zero wish to go back to the Foote era and militant tendancy
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  2386. What like not spend billions on trickle down cr@p Get real
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  2387.  @seakr9838  what Kushner diid has nothing tto do with the current administration. Even what Hunter did has nothing to do with the current administration. And as far as I'm aware influence pedalling isn't illegal in the US.
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  2388. when your getting rinsed on migration by Labour in PMQ's and openly mocked its time to throw in the towel
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  2389. This is why Sunak and the Tories will be totally fked and the longer they delay the worse it will get I'm betting on a low of 20 points 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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  2390. Russia has an economy 2/3rd's the size of California's Just let that fact sink in when you hear a Putin apologist him and his Oligarchs are fabulously wealthy from the oil and gas his people have squat
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  2391. How do you know Starmer will be terrible? The woman on the right behind Reeve in the final group picture is World famous economist Mariana Mazzucato Go read her book Mission Economy Well well that changes things Head over to the Resolution Foundation and read Ending Stagnation as well
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  2392. @jimwoods9551  there crushing the blades and using the crush in road building Did the math on tidal the other day v nuclear Hinkley C capital cost 33 billion + 30 billion in subsidies over 35 years guaranteed price per unit @ x3 times current wind + inflation Tidal based on the Swansea figures for similar generating capacity 50 billion no fuel costs just maintenance expected life based on dams 100 years?
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  2393. Georgia poll watchers managed to can 25% + of mail in votes in some counties on technicalities, the full level of rejected ballots is still coming in but be clear there not illegal just not complying with various technical hoops you need to go through the two most common are a bad sig match and a naked ballot, there also a ton of people having provisional ballots because of voter roll purges. Given these facts you could juice Democratic votes by a good 2-3 hundred thousand.
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  2394. Why would they do better? If Labour picks a hard left candidate again they'll not win and it squeezes the centre vote who are put off a Lib-Dem Lab pact. If there's an election there will be some policies coming out of Labour
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  2395. they were dead already Cameron is damage limitation
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  2396. The lesson being if you lie and scare people you can get them frightened enough to vote against their own interests
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  2397. How were the Tories going to pay for public sector pay rises
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  2398. And the 1st couple spout your headlines from the Daily Mail my Mum used to buy it before she died my mother in law reads it neither got that it was biased and basically a propaganda rag
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  2399. It's estimated the move to net zero will reduce electricity prices by 50% by 2050 in real terms
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  2400.  @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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  2401.  @JohnDoe-hm2zz  Whats net zero got to do with it, decoupling your economy from fossil fuel removes the inflation ravages of world commodity prices. Sweden have 4 % inflation and 65% renwable we have 7% inflation and 35% renewable coincidence I think not
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  2402.  @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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  2403. why is that
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  2404. 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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  2405. @JM-hn6vg  not so, its not your place to control someone's medical treatment
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  2406. It reduces migration
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  2407.  @knasher2676  more fool you for voting against your own interests
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  2408.  @fuckfannyfiddlefart  yet the liberals offer you the best way forward with electoral reform A first step would be Single Transferable Vote
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  2409. The high migration is down to defunding public services and suppressing pay which makes the jobs less attractive to domestic workers, also the deregulation of Labour laws which allow a zero hour low wage economy and outsourcing + removing FOM, change these and you remove the economic pull factors.
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  2410. Refugees count for 62,000 of the 1.25 million total also 650,000 dependants which is way higher than if we'd have stayed in the EU
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  2411. You got an economy that had an average wage rise of +25% with Blair plus funded services and a program to renew the crumbly buildings (which was ditched with Austerity) with Blair That was then this is now an economic soft centerism program won't cure a completely knackered economy
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  2412. Over 50% voted left of centre and if you look at Councillors and Mayors it's been a pretty overwhelming mandate these last couple of years
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  2413.  @carlad2640  I'm retired and have the time to give you a free economics history lesson. During the Thatcher/Reagan era both changed from Keynesian demand side to Supply Side economics. This included globalisation and the use of supply side labour to boost GDP. To get elected both Clinton and Blair had to shift to what was called the new NeoLiberal consensus as Kinnock on a Keynesian economic platform had lost to Major in the previous election. So Labour didn't roll back what Thatcher had started and were now at the end of a 50 year cycle where the economic model is now shrinking the UK economy.
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  2414. Loosing FOM was a huge tragedy for everyone since Brexit the Asylum problem has escalated out of control seems like working together for common goals has benefits. But of course your going to blame everyone but yourself
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  2415.  @mikeyacson9542  if you want to get some proper facts on the subject search for The institute for government Asylum backlog they have an article and chart explaining what's going on with the system and how its being broken deliberately.
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  2416. It was all political theatre to get you angry
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  2417. ​ @DJFAmenHeavy another round of 100's of billions of unfunded tax cuts, where were you when Truss was PM?
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  2418. Musk is crazy he wants to implement Libertarian economics on steroids quote Elon Musk has offered a sobering preview of Donald Trump’s economic plan for America if he is re-elected, revealing that a period of intentional “hardship” is on the horizon for American households. Rather than cautioning against it, Musk described this hardship as necessary and inevitable, supporting Trump’s blueprint for restructuring the economy by slashing government programs. Musk’s remarks, shared in a Telephone Town Hall organized by his America PAC, indicate that he and Trump see economic pain to average Americans as a necessary cost of their policy goals. Let's be clear Austerity doesn't work, it didn't work in the UK which has seen it's economy, it's causing Hyper inflation in Argentina
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  2419. Trump and top team theres an oxymoron Putting people in government who dont have a clue how government works
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  2420. 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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  2421. 'When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.'
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  2422. ​ @West-End they can join the army at 16 Its been labour policy for over a decade
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  2423. ​ @jumblestiltskin1365 Labour will turn round the oil tanker Austerity and wholly change the tax code from Trickle down It will take time If you want an instant hit then change the Council tax system to something based on a houses value
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  2424. If you have more parties you'll get the Republicans in for life, the centre and left have always had to coexist to drive the political agenda. Conservative bottom is 30% going up to mid 40's and the vote for representatives is not proportional in a first past the post system with multiple parties 30's can easily get a win. The GOP could have split with the rise of the Tea party but it didn't it adopted a more hard right stance to placate them.
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  2425. Narrr you still got Tory bandit economics
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  2426. Thatcher was clueless got lucky with Oil money the asset stripping has really come home to roost
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  2427. It's illegal under British law and would have got sent back to the government
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  2428. If Starmer went out on the picket line it would be front page of the Daily Mail till the next election its completely self defeating as he has no power to change anything, why do we need gesture politics for gesture politics sake?
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  2429. 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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  2430.  @jeffsimon9594  Is that because he believes his own bullsh1t?
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  2431. He was seen as acceptable by the Murdoc press who wanted all lock downs and face masks canned
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  2432. Like the fukwit understands how immigration works in conjunction with the economy, the farmers are getting screwed as it is and cutting off migrant labour to get crops in is going to further crash the farm economy. Unbelievable By the way those poor meat packers there 90% immigrants were are they going to get cheap labour from are they suddenly going to pay a living wage
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  2433. 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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  2434.  @ringring5469  you wanted out of Afghanistan you got it
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  2435. Brex1t the gift that keeps on giving
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  2436. There is no normal with Boris in charge its just a series of revelations about chaos Next week we're no doubt going to hear about the farting contests in a bid to lower the tone even further and make the government look even more like clowns
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  2437. And a bunch of Eton Toffs with their hands in the public purse do? Starmer is about as middle of the road as you can get as for woke politics do you even know what woke means? Here I'll give you the definition "alert to injustice in society, especially racism" The Right wing are trying to make a virtue out of being a racist sexist homophobic A Hole and spinning anyone that disagrees as Woke or what used to be termed politically correct.
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  2438. After 14 years average wages have fallen by -7% The debt has risen by 1.6 Trillion, last year they borrowed 130 billion and are spending 120 billion on servicing debt (debt was 1.08 trillion in 2010) also we have +8 million more population
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  2439. @environm3ntalist549  average income for pensioners is 18,000 millions unable to both heat and eat then there's the 2 million over 50's still renting
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  2440.  @MontyCantsin5  The working class near me voted Brexit, UKIP and are swooning over Reform.
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  2441.  @MontyCantsin5  The Tories are a mess because they have multiple factions in 5 years there only achievement was to break our economy.
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  2442. They need returning so they can be viewed in the shadow of the Temple in thier full glory Quote The Parthenon Sculptures are a collection of different types of marble architectural decoration from the temple of Athena (the Parthenon) on the Acropolis
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  2443.  @Buckets1000  The Albanian problem is a number of factors there are those that have been people trafficked and there are those that come over here because the ID laws and work restrictions in the EU mean they need to move on. The Tories do nothing to shut down the black economy or check people's ID
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  2444. This is just so sad what New York went to forewarn the rest of the US and yet they learn nothing even though it played out day in day out. The same is now going to happen to the southern states and they sit there and stare at the problem what hell do they need to go through before they wear a frikin mask social distance and not congregate in large crowds..
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  2445. 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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  2446.  @BOZ_11  what's Labour's manifesto commitment or mission on child poverty? child benefit is a Universal payment raising it wastes money on the likes of Rees Mogg
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  2447. Net zero is the way forward its economic industrial policy which will create jobs reshore energy production and provide cheaper energy Your strategy is to keep using what Gas which is tied to world commodity prices and is the most expensive form of generating electricity currently x2.5 more expensive than say wind and has been up to x12 times more expensive at its peak
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  2448. I have a home solar batter system installed this year capital costs will be repayed in 6 years total estimated saving on bills over it's lifetime £44,000 why is doing the same to the grid a waste of money?
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  2449. Its not just the one party this is the first of many to be reported and its not just about the mealy mouthed apology its the whole culture of lying by this cabinet. Not one of them want to take responsibility for anything
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  2450. Just process them then they wouldn't be a problem
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  2451. It doesn't generally work because the services provided get poorer and waste more public time
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  2452. for every product using oil or containing an oil by product there is an alternative We choose not to use it or have an industrial base that has no incentive to do so quote In 2022, subsidies worldwide for fossil fuel consumption skyrocketed to more than USD 1 trillion, according to the IEA's latest estimate, by far the largest annual value ever seen
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  2453. He won't like that long he's been known to take Adderall probably originally prescribed for his ADHD Misuse of Adderall Due to its addiction potential, a person can rapidly move from Adderall recreational use to misuse to addiction. The physical, psychological, and behavioral symptoms can include: Sociability, talkativeness, and fast thoughts A sense of grandiosity, invincibility, and intense wellbeing Dry mouth, nausea, and vomiting Nervousness, anxiety, and panic Manipulating Adderall’s format (e.g., crushing and snorting it)
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  2454. What gets me is the rich can't see how he'll destroy them as well
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  2455. 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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  2456. The private schools near me have nearly 1/2 as foreign students these days. The numbers have been climbing for some while, the nearest has a lift for the horses from a semi underground stable. You couldn't make this stuff up. These are businesses and should be treated as such, parents who an afford the bottom tier of fees at 20k per year are almost spending someone on minimum wages salary we desperatly need to stop the squeeze on pubic sector pay and the march to a low wage zero hour economy for the majority while the few wallow like pigs in a trough in money. Jeremy H unt was on TV the other day talking about removing tapering at the 100k salary end, they live in a different world
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  2457.  @60panhead1  the US economy was turned round during the new Deal, the perception that trickle down economics works is stunningly dumb, pumping money in at the bottom worked in the last great depression. You also need to lift minimum wages so your not permanently subsidising people through taxation. Both measures boost economic growth which boosts taxation. Anyway you could solve the national debt tomorrow with a wealth tax, but then all the rich people brains would melt
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  2458. US oil production is > 100% of its current demand its a net exporter In terms of energy prices the trend is upwards never down ive invested in secondary insulation + solar current payback on capital costs is 8 years. The climate is changing with more fluctuations in temperatures ​@OneManJam
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  2459.  @Roatanlova68fmp71lliiiak  Bottom up middle out scrapping all the Trickle down
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  2460. we pay for it now + the shareholder bonuses
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  2461. Its ideology when your answer to everything is cut tax your not really addressing the problem. If you want less nurses from Nigeria you invest in training UK nurses if that means free University course for them so be it. If you want less fruit pickers you invest in the farmers so they can automate their harvest not just say get it from Morocco
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  2462. Your right about gig economy jobs but this goes back to Reagan though Bush and the diminishing unionisation coupled global expansion through to the creation of huge monopolies which control prices. There is no magic wand on this breaking up the likes of comcast etc to get more competitive on broadband forcing amazon to break up so it doesn't swallow the whole online purchasing ecosystem, breaking up Facebook and introducing unions and minimum wage + getting the rich, super rich and mega corps to pay tax
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  2463.  @JonSono  it prints out a paper copy of your selections with a bar code on the bottom the machines read the bar code. Georgia have done a full manual recount and done audits on selected counties. Zero physical evidence of fraud, zip ziltch nada
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  2464. Its a huge advert for renewables, passive house building and having a battery source in your property. Saw a Tesla owner put a video up after the freeze was using his solar to charge the car and the car to power his house
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  2465.  @DP-ic2lz  She is resident in the UK and liable for UK taxes She didn't make the money its inherited and she receives dividends what there doing is using a tax loophole to claim non dom your argument is the UK is not your main residence. The idea that she is paying Indian taxes is quaint it will be squirreled away in offshore tax vehicles
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  2466.  @johnrussell3961  I was making the point that the best way of tackling the inflation isn't just by putting up interest rates and that lowering corporation tax makes it worse.
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  2467. There an economic car crash hasn't your standard of living fallen enough?
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  2468. Brexit will never be done because its a Con built on lies to keep laundromat London running its tax scams for the Billionaire class. They need NI to fail otherwise the optics of a thriving NI economy with acces to the single market and the GB market while GB is gripped in stagflation will bust open the myth
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  2469.  @donaldboughton8686  you mean project reality, you cling to your brexit BS its all you've got bar a couple of xenophobic immigration bills and a tanked economy.
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  2470. 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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  2471. 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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  2472. @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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  2473. how about e put people 1st instead of cars ULEZ is a health measure which will reduce asthma which once contracted is for life 90% of vehicles are compliant
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  2474. It is because now over half are dependants before with FOM there was an ebb and flow most years it was around 200,000 and you can reduce that with economic policy and regulations ex ban zero hour low wage jobs which fuelled migration into the gig economy, increase minimum wage etc
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  2475. 7 bins but hey what Car does Rishi Sunak drive A Ford Fiasco Boom Boom
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  2476. Because the won't import dogs from Afghanistan?
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  2477. 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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  2478. If you use flawed math and say all the mail in is split as per day of then invent a probability number from thin air And For good measure back it up with flawed affidavits from Q crazies and a bunch of conspiracy theories about a nationwide plot. We've been talking for months about the red mist followed by the blue wave which is why Trump tried to knacker the post office then spent inordinate amounts of money in court filings to stop drop boxes, ban cut off dates and anything else they could to suppress the vote.
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  2479. good
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  2480. Job numbers? Unemployment is at 4.2% there are vacancies all over the Jo. Spectrum Your half a point off technically having full employment
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  2481. everything she said is rubbish The reason our energy prices are so high is rolling back Labour's 2010 green initiatives and tying our Grid to GAS Offshore wind is 2.5 times cheaper per unit than that generated from coal or nuclear
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  2482.  @tonyk8592  You do know that what you just wrote is wrong on multiple levels?
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  2483. Councils in financial trouble are to do with central government policy it's not a Labour/Tory/Lib-Dem issue Since 2010 central government budgets have been cut to councils by 50% and if you asset strip councils of accommodation they have to source it from the private sector, the current bill for housing support is 20 billion if the councils owned housing stock they would have income from it as well as not shelling out so your talking a 30+ billion black hole
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  2484. Just been pricing one up I can get a 2 year old estate 250+ range for £14,000 and due to ultra low electricity overnight rates save £2000 a year in petrol alone. Event horizon looks like it was reached a couple of years ago and was masked by global trade problems
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  2485. He lied 33 times What alternative universe are you in?
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  2486. Ukraine has developed its own long range drones, its what happens when you still have access to world markets
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  2487. There is no cap currently it was to be funded by an increase in NI from 10 to 12 % and would come into force in 2025 so Ni got reduced to 6% by the Tories instead
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  2488. We don't have any hand.a deal with the US will save us at best a whole .02 % on tariffs which is what we pay currently on total exports and the plethora of small / medium businesses will go to the wall due to the integration of supply chains with Europe so dream on this whole interview is hot air and BS
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  2489. That's what happens when you follow Ideology not data Osborne is always saying I believe in a small state yet over 14 years we've seen what happens when you lower and defund the social floor the Capitalist ladder stops working for millions
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  2490. 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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  2491. He's currently being sued for not paying his bills for the last four years of rallies if I were any city hosting one of these I'd want my money up front.
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  2492. Why be a Tory apologist?
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  2493. ​ @ReapeX quote The Next President Inherits a Remarkable Economy 2 hours ago — The high quality of recent economic growth should put a wind at the back of the White House's next occupant Tune into proper outlets on the economy like Bloomberg Reuters
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  2494. I know soggy centrism is about all were getting
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  2495. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. This is a Roe v Wade Election and Dementia Donny has no hiding place
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  2496. ​ @paulhoughton1691 he's always soiling himself his insides are a mess from a diet of Adderol and fast food
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  2497. I said when this started that thier reliance on encrypted traffic was wishful thinking, you get a flipper and you don't even need to break in he opens the door wide open. The trials should be interesting wonder if there going to straddle the 2022 midterms
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  2498. He'll stick to his family inner circle above all else as he doesn't trust anyone
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  2499. what's the point on a virtue signalling when you have no power, all UK parties support the 2 state solution
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  2500. Fastest recovering economy of the G20 US manufacturing up for the 18th month in a row Intel building facilities in Arizona, Tesla in Texas Ford in Kentucy Unemployment at near full
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  2501.  @Nigelforemporor  Afganistans fate was sealed with the Trump withdrawal agreement, you have inflation because of worldwide price instability in oil and shipping, 90% of the covid hospitalizations are unvacinated 95% of the deaths are unvacinated Republicans are dying at the rate of 27 per 100k Democrats at 7.8 wonder what the difference is?
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  2502. Iowa is not an outlier DJT goes round in a dump truck nearly breaking his neck getting in and threatening to shoot political opponents and journalists radiating Darkness And Harris does SNL smiles and brings the house down radiating Joy
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  2503. They can they support all the nutball economic policies Lettuce Liz was pedalling on the Libertarian far right
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  2504. Oil and gas are heavily subsidised so it's not a fair market on energy costs to start with the last time I looked people like shell where profiteering on there electric installations as well as fossil
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  2505. Net zero delivers cheaper energy hollow man here is just shilling for the fossil industry
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  2506. It costs taxpayers £6,000 per pupil so why am I expected to subsidies the wealthy through taxation?
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  2507.  @Raven-qj8xk  ISA's, SIPP's and vintage guitars
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  2508. There's a lot of aggressive anti-warren saltiness around all of a sudden coupled with vote Bernie or no one, that sounds like a deliberate campaign to get people at each other rather than focusing on replacing the Orange idiot.
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  2509.  @anderskorsback4104  I listened to a podcast looking at military strategy they had a retired UK General on who was saying that this was the UK plan In WW2
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  2510. The Progressive movement will move forward based on more representatives at every level of government, Bernie has set in motion a bigger shift than people realise, I don't think money was ever the issue what it came down to was just naked fear of a Trump second term.
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  2511. It's red team blue team reaction What puzzles me is we've had a decade and a half of economic stagnation all down to Conservative misrule in varied degrees it would benefit the elite and wealthy more to have a vibrant economy and there's no let up on go go blue team no matter the cost. Starmers speech was epic it ripped the veneer of patriotism and selfless service away from a party that's trying to come to terms with turning a blind eye to electing an incompetent bafoon for electoral expediency. If I was a Conservative supporter I'd want a complete clean out
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  2512. 2 things happened, Trump got his ars3 kicked in the debate, solidifying a Harris lead beyond the margin of error and continued good news on Core inflation. The markets love stability and aren't interested in Tarrif wars, which creates a lot of instability
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  2513. Don't get onto the conspiracy bandwagon Bernie is currently the frontrunner with a strong ground game going forward, if comes out of this with the most delegates he'll be the nominee. For mayor Pete to compete the other contenders need to drop out
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  2514. what grass roots membership you mean Momentum
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  2515. No one is joining the single market soon Mores the pity it would boost the economy by around 5%
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  2516. I think even he has given up on the Tories
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  2517.  @DJFAmenHeavy  the last labour government increased average wages by 25% over 13 years The current Tory one from 2010 to 2019 had A -3% reduction The debt in 2010 was 62% gdp by 2019 it was 92% Since Johnson took over the economy has completely tanked as has the decline in disposable income In 2016 our GDP was 90% of Germany its now 70% Brexit is an economic shtshw the country is heading to Greece territory under our current economic path why do you think the markets went apesht with the Kwerteng budget?
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  2518. Its not just economic growth its wage growth as well its running at -4% in real terms adjusted for inflation since the start 2010. The Tory answer to a Tory problem is more extreme Tory policies Starmer is lining his ducks in a row to keep hammering this home in the sure knowledge that this recession is set in stone for the foreseeable future. Gove's levelling up pot was empty, Sunak axed Bojo's rail upgrade promises and were back to an upgraded satellite of London again.
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  2519.  @calumhenderson9404  Wind turbine's are built to last between 20–25 years. Some parts may need replacing during this time. Announcement from the UK government Oct 2022 quote A new fiberglass recycling technology is helping to develop a circular wind turbine economy while creating jobs and revitalizing a historic site Nuclear have a shelf life of 35 years and the site isn't usable for how many years and at what COST?
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  2520. Lettuce liz Fantasy economics rides again Oh yea what about the Fracking it being as popular as a swimming in cow manure with the public
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  2521. More Thatcherism get real
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  2522.  @andyquelch5754  nothing, H unt was on about 100k lifetime limit and also removing tapering for those on 100k+ and Sunak will pay for his tax breaks by pushing up retirement to 68.
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  2523. shes spouting brexit garbage from Minford here's an analysis of his pro Brexit proposals Professor Patrick Minford, one of the ‘Economists for Brexit’, argues that leaving the European Union (EU) will raise the UK’s welfare by 4% as a result of increased trade. His policy recommendation is that following a vote for Brexit, the UK should strike no new trade deals but instead unilaterally abolish all its import tariffs. Under this policy (‘Britain Alone’), he describes his model as predicting the ‘elimination’ of UK manufacturing and a big increase in wage inequality. These outcomes may be hard to sell to UK citizens as a desirable political option. The economy is already 5% smaller than it would have been if we hadn't voted leave and the currency is 30% lower To put that into context prices from 2016 to 2022 on imports are 30% higher than they would have been and there's a net loss of over 40 billion per annum in tax to the Treasury
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  2524. The question is why would you want to make yourself poorer? Analysis by leading economists of Trump's economic plans have all said they will be inflationary and cause a recession
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  2525. This is so childish and immature why would anyone vote for this, he's a truly loathsome individual on multiple levels.
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  2526. It's underfunded The UK spends < 8% of its gdp on healthcare The equivalent Canadian system spends 10.5% of its gdp on healthcare The US has a private system with huge price gouging 10s of millions uninsured high instances of medical bankruptcy and they spend 17+% of GDP So stick your fact free racist xenophobic opinion in the trashcan
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  2527. 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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  2528.  @CB1000FP1  don't be so closed minded things change rapidly in the Tech age quote 29 Aug 2023 — Between 2010 and 2022, solar and wind power became cost-competitive with fossil fuels even without financial support. Quote enabling a more flexible energy system with storage would save the UK up to £16.7 billion a year by 2050 in electricity system costs
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  2529.  @east-saxon  in what way? Defunding healthcare training and the continuation of that policy from 2010 saw record recruitment from the 3rd world of doctors and nurses while our own graduates are going to Europe and Aus. The health policies have lead to record waiting lists with millions of lost work days. I can give you multiple examples of long term economic damage done by short term Conservative policies.
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  2530.  @thomasbroleen4241  what attracts you to him, I'm genuinely interested the guy repulsed me since his breaking point poster he's declared who he is by echoing shades of nazi propaganda ' who flooded Europe after the war' These people don't change and the imagery between the two posters was not a mistake
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  2531.  @andrewblake2254  just delve into his breaking point poster to see who he really is just another wannabe national populist prepared to plow through the sewer with idealistic unworkable solutions to complex problems The real issue is why do people believe such simple solutions uttered by a public school tosser has any connectio to their life
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  2532.  @krotchlickmeugh627  since when? Serving your country is patriotic there's nothing patriotic about whipping up Nationalism using fear tactics
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  2533. If he came up with valid points the world would die of shock
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  2534. IMF called for a wealth tax to pay for Covid months ago The complete lack of coverage it got was akin to tumbleweed
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  2535. ​ @nightowl7459 when the problem is amplified by RW economics it will at least get better by shifting to a model that invests in the UK population Why do we import so many nurses simples we don't invest in our own
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  2536. If you follow neoliberal policies the economy will keep spiralling down, Thatcherism and Austerity have led us to this point. Why pursue power so ruthlessly to completely fail making the same economic mistakes that have lead us down this path with a never ending string of trickle down tax and policy decisions?
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  2537. NI only affects the 20% threshold and we've had fiscal drag now for a few years, 12250 should be 15000 Also pensioners who are on low incomes are increasingly getting swept up by poverty, this has risen to 2 million. Also, 40% of people now retiring will classed as poor. Austerity is creating a self perpetuating economic doom loop, there is no longer any fat to cut in the system 20% service cuts to pay for tax cuts are for the birds
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  2538. It let's you dodge the 183 day rule a study showed only 0.3% of non doms earn less than 100k its used by high earners in the City quite a bit Anyway needs Scrapping completely
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  2539.  @chrisperry3430  One stat for definite the amount of artillery fire has reduced by 75% across the campaign. Not sure how they verify this but ammunition is getting an issue on both sides. One thing to note on all of this is Ukrainians have a lot more night vision and thermal imaging capability and they normally attack pre-dawn
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  2540. 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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  2541. Blair oversaw a decade of wage and economic growth + well funded services most would bite your hand off to continue that legacy from 2010 instead of 13 years of Austerity stagflation crumbling services and reduced disposable income
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  2542.  @JS-mh1fh  If they moved from quick grow grass to the deep root stuff you get better water retention, less wildfires, there's heaps of things that need doing
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  2543. There's no local structure and there manifesto was a complete fantasy document
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  2544.  @theAEDan  Average wages went up by +25% under labour they've actually fallen in the last 12 years as well as services being gutted.
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  2545. So I listened to this and I've seen this popping up all day and decided to have a think 1st off I don't need child benefit at all pretty much the only thing I have in common with Rees Mogg been lucky in life and my career now retired So what would I do with 1.5 billion rather than use a high portion on people that have > 2 kids but don't need the money or have > 2 kids and are on the poverty line. There's also the politics of it I live in Tory town some of the well off people can be pretty callus and mean quick to jump on stereotypes with not a thought on how fortunate in life they are. Wouldn't it be better to focus on child poverty with a number of measures that not only looking at homes with > than 3 children but also needed help in other ways such as expanding free school meals and trying to just enable people on the bottom rung a better quality of life? Poverty initiatives would be an easier sell as well Just saying Its alright saying your not going to expand it but it was extremely callus to not have an alternative policy even a really vague one that then takes the discussion onto dealing with child poverty in general.
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  2546.  @davidtuer5825  How does it encourage growth? Every indipendant economist says that GB economy is screwed by a lack of labour caused by removal of Freedom of movement and exports are screwed by billions being spent on red tape introduced by Brexit
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  2547. 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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  2548.  @barriewilliams4526  hope you don't have a private pension given Truss managed to wipe 25% off pension assets last time unfunded tax cuts were tried.
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  2549. Here's a thought Solar and wind energy are always free and inflation proof, not only that but with improved technology and economies of scale comes decreasing deployment costs
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  2550. It will cost a fortune and achieves nothing open an office in calais and process them as quick as possible. If there economic migrants just send them back this theatre of Patel's is disgusting at multiple levels
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  2551. ​ @raptango_na6199 I'll explain it, it was built on debt like his businesses Largely smoke and mirrors the issue with that is it creates a Boom / Bust economy and a prolonged period of unemployment
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  2552. GB has all but had a clean break, whining about Ireland aside we now follow 3rd country rules when trading with the EU so I don't get what more you think you'll get from ditching the small agreement we have but more tariffs and yet even more paperwork?
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  2553. You can drive numbers down by social distancing and universal adoption of masks as well as keeping bars to outside only, the window for a complete shutdown has gone, unfortunately that time was wasted
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  2554. I believe in public ownership but wouldn't just pull out a cheque book and buy them all back. I believe in lowering child poverty but wouldn't do it through universal child benefit because its untargeted and your throwing money at the Rees Mogg's of this world in a scattergun approach
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  2555. Johnson cobbled together in his coalition those that are economically Liberal and socially conservative with the Free-marketeers and the One Nation group all 3 wanted different things His economic agenda wasn't a low tax one remember he was going to up NI to pay for social care this defection drives a huge wedge into that coalition maybe even enough that Sunak is forced into a GE. Remember Sunak has ditched nearly everything on Boris's economic agenda no Levelling up no social care no housing no net zero etc.
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  2556. No it's Brexit all right thousands of pages of import / export documents never ending costs on vet certificates and a stagnant economy NI have it minted roro free market access to GB and completely free access to the single market will see an economic boom over ther I'm jealous
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  2557. Joe has a booming economy 3% GDP growth last year and rising, drug prices are down due to his initiatives, 14+ million jobs record deportations at the border, debt to GDP down by 12 points etc
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  2558.  @damonthomas78  GDP per capita +20 points, Debt to GDP -12 Points +14 million jobs 1 million reshored manufacturing 1st time in decades & Record small Business incorporation
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  2559. It's also one of the best locations on the planet for wind and tidal which you don't have to dig up, by the way we import most of our coal and don't own the oil and gas so it goes onto the world commodity market.
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  2560.  @31Blaize  India does deals for India any deal will be to our disadvantage Also His party will go into meltdown if India is granted the visa's it wants there already fighting like crazy over 1.25 million legal immigrants
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  2561. Dunno but you can't just turn it off the Tories economic model will collapse You need to restructure the economy 1st Supply side Labour is the result of Supply side economics aka Thatcherism
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  2562. It's a dog and pony show if you sign up to it more fool you
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  2563. Total Brain washing designed to control the group think of a large section of the population and it's extremely destructive, the perils and power of media needs to be taught at schools from an early age.
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  2564. He's spouting economic gibber jabber, its a word salad of nonsense The employment levels are regarded as full at just over 3% by economists, what they've all been saying is the economy needs more workers Option 1 get women back to work with childcare programs Option 2 migrant Labour Going for banning abortion to create more babies is a bit extreme and way too long a policy into the future for Republicans
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  2565. ​@nathanfurnival8724 the Cons got 3.5 million in donations from the fossil lobby There's around 100 billion in tax breaks for the oil and gas companies in the North Sea Norway have collected 500 billion more in tax from their oil fields And lastly Renewable energy is by a large margin cheaper than the alternatives
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  2566. Trump by the numbers is the worst on the economy in US history beating even Hoover Negative GDP real wages stagnated farm bankruptcy at record levels declining manufacturing jobs highest unemployment, I thought he was average bad turns out his ecenomic numbers are just awful
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  2567. The IMF recommended a wealth tax for countries to rebalance their budgets The tax policy of low business and unearned income with high personal taxation will just keep going while the Tories are in power
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  2568. Volunteers can do what they like and the threat is just noise there's nothing in it
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  2569. Same Con policies different wrapper, if you want lower migration vote for a party that invests in its domestic workforce not tax cuts
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  2570. And they would loose support from the centre which greatly reduces there appeal in 100's of seats
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  2571.  @TrevorTaylor-jk3ng  Why do we need gold it was a non story. When Labour left office in 2010 the Debt stood at 800 Billion it's now 2.3 trillion. The last 14 years make Brown and Darling look like economic rock stars
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  2572. the massive failure is relying on Gas Norway are 93% renewable and have 2% inflation
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  2573. I can remember a good few years ago when His Dark Materials was banned in a load of schools because the religious right got into a real froth about the book If the Seuss stories were selling enough you can bet that they'd be available so A there not selling and B they generate bad publicity
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  2574. we've collected next to no tax from the brent fields for years and have put around 100 billion in various budgets in tax breaks for the next 5 years Meanwhile the cost of renewable energy has tumbled to new lows and where getting scalped by the energy companies for 170 billion in excess profits
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  2575. ​ @UASupporter sound fiscal management would be a good start aand a focus on services. 14 years off on off tax cuts and zero growth + crumbling services
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  2576. It's a world wide logistics problem the US is doing better than most
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  2577. Because conservative and right wing economic policies are what's driving high migration and low wages
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  2578. There not illegal till you process them
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  2579. The paper trail the timeline are against him the people feeding him this crap are the corrupt of the corrupt.
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  2580. The economic data is dire it is going to get worse and since when is being poorer popular? There on for a drubbing now in 12 months they'll be lucky to win a single seat
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  2581. 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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  2582. He will be working from home Duhhh
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  2583. reform are just pushing billionaire friendly policies you rich or something?
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  2584. ​ @uniquevideosUk neither do you net migration is rising because of a lack of social and structural investment, if you want less foreign nurses you pony up the money and train your own Promising low tax is a complete Con job
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  2585. Why? There the pro billionaire pro fossil industry fk the average guy party?
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  2586. 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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  2587. The best interest of the business people in the UK is regulatory alignment for frictionless trade
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  2588. 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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  2589. Why aren't journos challenging him on green energy it's cheaper than coal, and the government pumps billions in subsidies to fossil fuels, Tesla is one of the fastest growing Power companies there not just cars. The US has a narrow window of opportunity take it now and they'll be a world leader botch it as Trump intends to and it can take decades to catch up
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  2590. Its only a big issue because our debt is at 100% GDP and remaining out of the single market will not grow GDP Borrowing to fund tax cuts is dumb when interest rates are low never mind when we have supply side commodity inflation on inelastic goods
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  2591. I saw them parade inside for the conference They should be forced to wear sponsorship badges like in Formula 1 Ex Bought and paid for by the IEA, B1lli0naire's B1tch, etc
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  2592. 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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  2593. There was still 2 trillion in investment passed and is the main reason the economy is booming
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  2594. The last thing you need is businessmen sticking their nose in running a service It's underfunded The UK spends < 8% of its gdp on healthcare The equivalent Canadian system spends 10.5% of its gdp on healthcare The US has a private system with huge price gouging 10s of millions uninsured high instances of medical bankruptcy and they spend 17+% of GDP Your business run hectare costs double and isn't fit for purpose
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  2595.  @wavell14  on the American model it would cost twice as much and provide emergency cover to millions of poor only Have you ever studied how bad private healthcare is as a service at providing value, they have zero interest in anything other than turning a profit, there is little incentive in the private sector for preventative treatments when you can price gouge at the sharp end.
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  2596. borders have 2 sides and we have 100's of international agreements to do with trade and all sorts, anyone offering a simple solution like send them back isn't telling the truth
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  2597. There not but if you running low on supplies you have insurgents behind your lines and your effectively cut off and aren't getting paid surrender looks a good option. These soldiers have been active for 6 months no rotation for o break hiigh casualties etc
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  2598. Yawn capital gains of plus 1 million per annum like who has a portfolio that gains that much even in a bull market oh yea Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk Omg this will break capitalism foreverrrrrrrrrrr noooooo the ultra wealthy need thier space rockets
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  2599. 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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  2600.  @dragonvalo  it's the relief of not being on another 12 hour shift with the relentless pace of shuffling stretchers round corridors while someone dies making space in a ward
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  2601. Why does it matter? He does have a mortgage though Sunak doesn't
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  2602. PAYE is fine you need to look at a property tax
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  2603. Yea like 60 years in the EU smoked by a bunch of Hedge fund sponsored Tories
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  2604. Oooo that hurts, on the back of Bush's speech and the man baby winging
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  2605. ​ @JohnSmall314 it's centre left when you finished your histrionics
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  2606. @lestrem11  ? There with volunteers campaigning I campaign for the Lib dems if we're at Central its casual there's no restrictions as such your really off on one here you need to take your blue scarf off
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  2607. The line that they would all go is meaningless. They add very little to our GDP the vast majority of thier wealth through tax breaks cycles offshore and into assets. Also it would take years to liquidate illiquid UK assets. And As a pensioner im getting a £400 rise, my savings have been growing at around double inflation. I can't afford the Tories
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  2608. Here are the 5 pledges he should have gone for 100% on all fronts Increase UK Debts (currently 100% Ratio of debt to gdp and in 2010 it was 62%) Reduce living standards (Currently were below 2006 levels) Give rich people more tax breaks by taking it from the less well off (Millionaire pensioner tax break paid for with Fiscal Drag) Shrink the Economy (Thatcherism + Austerity x Brexit = economic contraction)
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  2609. 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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  2610.  @ab-ym3bf  if you have 2 farmers with no machinery give 1 a tractor and accessories he's more productive Productivity has fk all to do with the workers in most cases, if wages are low its not worth a business putting money into capital expenditure I'd also add capital investment fell off a cliff in 2016 long term future planning for large firms was either put on hold or canned with only essential investment made. If your not making long term structural investment over time Productivity will decline
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  2611. @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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  2612. @angelafirst38  economy has been flattening since 2008 according to the macroeconomic data Only thing that pushes overall gdp Up has been migration. Your poorer now than in 2010 and the last government wore the worst in terms of growth in uk history.
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  2613. ​ @johnboughen3064 he's mostly competent the rest are that bad they make him look better than he is
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  2614. @johnsidwell2241  I know but voting Tory would have lost me over £24,000 as my wife would fall into the raising the pension age to 68 they were planning to cover the NI bill
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  2615. My wife is an Accountant for a small business she was saying because the Threshold has risen there overall NI bill will go down (6 employees)
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  2616. From populist clown to populist clown how the suckers and marks are easily led
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  2617. He's extremely pragmatic
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  2618. The carbon bit raises 8 billion there is 10 billion committed by the Tories for fiscal year 2023/24 in additional Fossil subsidies They would have to reverse part of the NI cut to cover the 8 billion shortfall
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  2619. prosecuted for what? Your allowed to claim CGT exemption for a house you don't live in by describing it as your primary residence for HMRC purposes
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  2620. Rachal Reve gave an address in Jan of Labours economic policy and also details the move to a green economy I hear a lot of lazy talk about policy when a quick search brings up specific issues. For me issue number 1 is the economy and issue 2 is getting off oil by investing in renewables now so were not tied to this cycle of fossil dependant inflation
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  2621. Conservatives economic model is Trickle down supply side to work it needs globalization and a continuous supply side cheap labour force otherwise you need to invest in physical and social infrastructure with a fairer tax system which deals with wealth created by wealth which is pretty much untaxed. REFORM & UKIP just turn off immigration they don't deal with the underlying economic model which will further contract the UK economy into a stagflation spiral and 750,000 is a result of hard Brexit and loosing FOM in 2019 we had net 200,000 an EU worker comes over here without dependants sometimes temporary in 2023 we have net 750,000 with wives husbands and kids coming from outside Europe
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  2622. We won the war on the back of US industrial might and we had a huge influx from Europe for example 20% of the Battle of Britain pilots were not British Another example there were 200,000 Poles under arms by 1945 a lot had made their way by various routes to the uk
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  2623. What the ones who don't want towaste 1/2 a billion on a propaganda stunt Grow a brain
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  2624. we will get a centre left government for the 1st time since Wilson - I couldn't be happier
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  2625. There's a great piece on Max's channel a caller to James O'Brian talked about the sell One of the things he was suggesting was Brexit doesn't have to mean ....... Ex brexit doesn't have to mean raw sewage in rivers Brexit doesn't have to mean a privatised nhs Brexit doesn't have to mean hours of queuing at Dover As for rejoin forget it The Democratic system would need a complete overhaul, the Tory controlled media would trash any moves for more democracy 24/7 it would make brexit propaganda look lightweight
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  2626. there's only 13 million left lots of daytime watching TV old gimmers with no steak in the economy voted for it
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  2627. Always vote even if you think your candidate won't win not voting is admitting defeat and letting the Jackals win
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  2628. He really crashed and burned transphobia isnt a joke
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  2629. 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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  2630. ​ @roygreenwood79 tax cuts don't generate growth. The low corporate tax rate went straight to share buy backs and increased ceo pay. Go look at the Data
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  2631. Nope
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  2632. There a wet weekend My MP is moderate he constantly backs the hard liners best you'll get is abstain
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  2633. If you look at his fiscal policies there hard right Thatcherite what more do you want?
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  2634. Schools are the plague ships of a community
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  2635. Boris reminds everyone that the Tories went with a populist clown now your promoting another 1 did you learn nothing
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  2636.  @zachhenry8537  spot on most of the feds printed trillions has spiralled up to the 1% and taxing them properly will bring down inflation
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  2637. We can align chemical standards at our end which reduces trade friction, the idea that we as a single nation had the power to go it alone and force the world to our standards (or lack of) was always fantasy land.
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  2638. In what way does Reform show nay common sense?
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  2639. 30 billion a year, that's the cost of increased debt servicing
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  2640. Finally some real election fraud to prosecute
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  2641. 100 billion due to Brexit
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  2642. Consequence of Tories salting the earth as they left and 14 years of bad economic mismanagement. 8 years on still no brex1t plan and the Truss disaster of Argentina on the Channel
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  2643. Was the Union involved with Case's investigation did he interview Gray and what a convenient time to publish just as the poo hits the fan again for the Tories? This is a quote from The Times 6th March 2023 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 Whitehall by Simon Case, the cabinet secretary.
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  2644.  @flabbybum9562  if you cut structural investment such as removing Bursaries for nursing places and reduce training places for doctors And Also depress salaries by 30% you both shrink the economy and cause high levels of immigration to replace the skills. Were attracting a Nigerian nurse to fill the place she fetches her husband and 2 kids. You look at the stats of the 1.25 million visas 1/2 were dependents. GDP per capita has fallen since 2010.
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  2645. no they won't
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  2646. 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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  2647. The real death toll is far higher, you'll need total deaths V projected to get a true picture and don't forget those that recover may well have a shorter life span due to damaged lungs, the effect will be traceable over years. Best way of dealing with it is don't catch it
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  2648. The rise in public sector pay and the minimum wage will push wages up above inflation, the NI increases will push pay rises down on higher and middle earners A rise in wages that also accompanies a decrease in demand for cheap labour will reduce the pull factor on migration. The NI increase is the odd 1 out it doesn't make sense even if your short of cash for the NHS
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  2649. Market brand recognition, its supposed to help your other models and also keep you in the mind of investors as a go ahead EV company
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  2650. Why would anyone leave the ECHR? The rights and freedoms secured by the Convention include the right to life, the right to a fair hearing, the right to respect for private and family life, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, conscience and religion and the protection of property. The Convention prohibits, in particular, torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, forced labour, arbitrary and unlawful detention, and discrimination in the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms secured by the Convention. Let me guess it precludes governments from behaviour akin to the 30's in sending refugees to concentration camps in East Africa Aside from the fact it will cost 1 million per person the Rwanda scheme is nothing but a Pony show for the deluded
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  2651.  @tomtheeagle1  I'll drink to that just cracked open a tinny
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  2652. His economy was a wreck in 2020 you can't afford another 8 trillion + yet another trade war + all the unemployment and inflation it will bring it like his supporters have the memory of a goldfish
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  2653.  @Michael-4  So your a Tory apologist, what draws you to such complete ecenomic incompetence and low standards in public life?
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  2654. GDP per capita has been shrinking for the last 7 quarters, were in a full blown economic reccesion the headline number is propped up by migration. The longer he leaves it the worse it will get mostly because its a reccesion of thier own making
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  2655.  @markgamolka1045  he no more has dementia than Trump does Trump is just gravy boat firkin crazy
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  2656. There economic policies are identical to Liz Truss's minus the supply side Labour And We know how that ended
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  2657. Be a rare day when we get some from Farage
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  2658. standing his ground on what exactly
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  2659. It's like spinal taps monolith
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  2660.  @villa_fan8882  he was funded by a dark money group so yes he did
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  2661. ​@christianround2774 dunno the guy is pragmatic to the point of sheer frustration, he'll have a majority the likes we've never seen + a large slice of selection control it won't be like the current tory faction chaos
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  2662.  @Joe-og6br  I've done my reading on what you can do with a little money. Planning is key just by changing to permissive and allowing councils to buy land and do joint development could build a load of private + council housing, we spend 20 billion per annum on housing support. Also it would speed grid roll out and change the whole outlook on decentralised renewable power production
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  2663. I have mine as well and also have a £450 tax increase the estimate for staying in the EU is +6% GDP that's 40-50 Billion in extra tax which could have been used to uplift tax thresholds
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  2664. Just to recap in a communist state the entire gdp of that state is controlled by the government in the US 35% of the GDP is controlled by state and federal government of which 8% is spent on military policing and prisons. To get to a socialdemocratic type figure as an example of Norway or Sweden is round the 55% mark they include healthcare The US spends 18% of its gdp on private healthcare which is way over market rates in government run systems which are typically between 13-15% So even if the the US had an epiphany on government run healthcare it would still be below what is regarded as a social Democratic run country, by the way have you seen how many trillions are wasted on the prison system and military? If you want to badmouth Biden get your facts straight don't just parrot factless garbage propaganda from right wing media
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  2665. If your economy isn't tied to fossil your energy prices come down then manufacturing gets cheaper How many businesses folded when the price of gas went through the roof?
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  2666. @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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  2667. Labour don't need it the constituencies it matters in Labour already have a comfortable majority
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  2668. Chill Cenk, the mainstream media is nothing compared to what's coming from Trump and his overarching propaganda and disinformation campaign. People are really afraid and Bernie needs to get through that fear and demonstrate how he'll pull things together. Everyone knows Joe is a Meeeh candidate but after the last 4 years of carnage and chaos people are scared.
    3
  2669.  @pipoo1  True
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  2670. Because the GOP house has spent 2 years fighting among themselves
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  2671.  @johnryan8645  they've a mega pack factory either built or being built Arizona I think, the energy market is transitioning at the moment the solar roof has had issues and there's been a shortage of powerwalls you can now only get one with a solar install. Worldwide there's a battery shortage. Like you I'm a long term investor but my Tesla stock is part of a tech equity fund.
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  2672. Cameron ruled for 6 years with 36% get used to it and Reform don't have Councillors, don't have a ground game with people talking to voters and the tactical vote was huge
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  2673. She a neoliberal Libertarian headbanger
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  2674. You were told removing FOM and leaving the EU would make both legal and illegal migration worse but labelled project fear
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  2675. With that attitude and lack of respect for your fellow travellers I'm sure the feeling is mutual
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  2676. The met police report and that Labour has a policy If you have specialist units they will be able to process the cases at a fraction of the resources needed because of your experience and that of your team
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  2677. If you want lower immigration you do it by investing in the domestic population and the countries infrastructure. Low tax low regulation drives legal migration through the roof as we can see in the culmination of 14 years of Thatcherite policies + Austerity and 1.25 million visas
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  2678. 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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  2679. Of course Iran had its hands in the drone strike and what do you expect after you try and choke a country to death with sanctions after going back on your word by pulling out of a deal then trying to promote regime change by economic pressure. Iran knows full well what it's doing and which buttons to press in this proxy war and there also aware that there dealing with a complete idiot who hasn't a clue what he's doing.
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  2680.  @SD-rn1fn  what bubble are you living in that supports 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts NHS privatisation and Fracking?
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  2681. Your joking aren't you? Trump had the worst economic record of anyone since Hoover Biden has been doing cleanup since taking office -6 Million Jobs -3.6 GDP +50% Debt (8 Trillion) +40% trade deficit (Tariff wars) Question what happens if you pump 8 trillion into the US economy which all trickles up Answer Millionaires and Billionaires wealth doubles and you get INFLATION
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  2682.  @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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  2683. Your energy bills will reduce in real terms the more renewables we have on the grid simply because wind and the sun aren't affected by inflation, extraction processing and transport costs + The cost of the infrastructure is still falling in real terms + Energy providers are embracing new tech to enable consumers to time shift demand onto cheaper off peak tariffs
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  2684. 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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  2685. How can you agree with someone that's in a Cult, go back to your echo chamber if you think it's lies
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  2686. Yes let's look she wrote an independent report and immediately had any chance of promotion blocked by cabinet and was passed over for a senior role
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  2687.  @leroilapue15  yea whatever 90% of covid hospital patients are unvaxed, the desiese primarily affects older people with pre existing conditions too dumb to take the vaccine then roll the dice with an extra 174 sides
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  2688. @stevefoster5789  Gordon Brown introduced it, Tories been looking at ways to get rid of it
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  2689. I see JHB is still trying to justify the shtshw that is Brexit The only reason Brexit happened was to fend off the far right in UKIP and keep the Tories in power the only reason we had Johnson's deal was he wanted to be PM and replace May and it didn't matter what damage his deal did it was all politics. Its been a political game by the Tories from the start hence No Plan in 2016 No Plan in 2023 hence a bunch of trade deals amounting to 0.0% gdp to replace the hundreds of billions lost in trading with the EU Double the number of refugees pre Brexit +6% food inflation over EU countries -10% drop in home food production Real GDP Growth from 2010 to 2022 is 0% (Real GDP takes account of inflation) Real Net disposable income has fallen from 6,127 in 2010 to 6,053 in 2020 and the OBR forecast is another -6% on top of 2021/22 figures taking us to 2024 Tax base will rise from 33% in 2021 (Same as 2010) to a staggering 38% by 2027 under current government plans (Tax base is a % of tax to GDP) Debt is still going up and was 99% debt to GDP last time I looked (62% in 2010) (40% in 2006) JHB is an idiot if you listen to any of her drivel and believe it then you have truly been Gammonised
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  2690. It's been ongoing since 2016 and meeting the standards isn't hard
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  2691.  @SpeedfreakUK  The poor lost 1000 on Energy compared to Labour's proposals and someone on minimum wage got about +£50 Benefits are to be cut and Austerity on steroids is about to be introduced to pay for said tax cuts 80% of people on benefits are working the Conservative party appear to be moving to in work slavery Pensioners got nothing £2500 is 1/4 of their total pension so widowers and widows may as well just buy a coffin to sleep in The bulk of the other inflation is on food from a combination of rising prices in general and a huge rise in prices because of BREXIT
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  2692.  @johnristheanswer  no there not Norway has 2% inflation ooo look it has 93% renewables as well. The US has a turbo charged renewable strategy and its 2.97% inflation we've done fk all on increasing or securing domestic energy amid a worldwide commodity shortage were running down farming in the UK in the face of a climate crisis making food even scarcer
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  2693. What did you actually vote for though brexit meant a million and 1 things to a million and 1 different people?
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  2694. 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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  2695. Reducing money supply is easy tax the wealthy who are for the most part getting off scot free. Don't start reducing investment that's driving things forward
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  2696. its a hit piece in a Murdoch paper normally FT don't stoop to this but needs must it seems, there will be a never ending stream of these leading up to the election
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  2697. They increased the threshold for NI, businesses employing 4 or less won't pay anything Get a better accountant
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  2698.  @janehalford4601  the Reds? Labour are Centre / Centre Left at best Blair was the last time this country saw any wage growth take it you like getting poorer?
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  2699. Why as a pensioner should I pay for a 6,000 tax break for extremly wealthy parents?
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  2700. Wonder if any of them wore a wire or had a recorder for like just in case? We all know he's gonna do his Don Mafioso bit of could you do me a favour though. Anyway his latest hair brained theory is the voting machines were somehow rigged by Venezuela to just alter the Presidential vote as he tries to grasp the reality that people voted Biden at the top of the ticket but Republican down ballot. He just doesn't get that 50+% of the population hate him and everything he stands for the lying cheating and conspirecy theories the corruption. So what's his next move going to be install Don Jnr and or Ivanka as the next heir of the Republican party? Republicans need to take a long hard look at what he's doing instead of falling in line and being a cash cow for the biggest con man grifter ever to grace politics. He makes Spiro Agnew look like a jaywalker in comparison
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  2701.  @KindCountsDeb3773  or download sensative data they can use at a later date, always think money with this bunch of grifters
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  2702. Since when did they do anything for the average person they've been asset stripping this country for decades
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  2703. On the contrary immigration would be lower under Labour because the high legal numbers are the result of Conservative economic policy and lack of investment in social and physical infrastructure.
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  2704. No there not and the reason migration is so high is Conservative economic policy - trickle down supply side economics aka Thatcherism if they cut off supply side Labour (migration) they will shrink the economy further
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  2705.  @MrDeadhead1952  It's a lot more complex than that were seeing loads of Health workers coming in because the government have underfunded pay rises in the public sector and cut training places under Osborne's Austerity. Also those workers can come in at -20%. Its important to have a discussion with people who only have half the picture, by the way the Tory mess will take years to sort out
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  2706. Conservatives economic model is Trickle down supply side to work it needs globalization and a continuous supply side cheap labour force otherwise you need to invest in physical and social infrastructure with a fairer tax system which deals with wealth created by wealth which is pretty much untaxed. REFORM & UKIP just turn off immigration they don't deal with the underlying economic model which will further contract the UK economy into a stagflation spiral and 750,000 is a result of hard Brexit and loosing FOM in 2019 we had net 200,000 an EU worker comes over here without dependants sometimes temporary in 2023 we have net 750,000 with wives husbands and kids coming from outside Europe
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  2707. 2006 debt to GDP 40% 2010 debt to GDP 62% 2016 debt to GDP 82% (Cameron tax cuts) 2019 debt to GDP 92% Austerity was also a complete failure unless your politically for a smaller state Economists as early as 2012 where questioning the economic multiplier used to calculate the impact of Austerity the OBR forecast was 0.5/6 the real multiplier was near 1.6 anything over 1 shrinks the economy and has a negative affect overall. This is a quote from 2019 UK economy £100bn smaller because of austerity The NEF said the cumulative effect of tax, public spending and welfare adjustments on growth by the end of the 2018-19 financial year would be to leave the average household £3,629 a year worse off – the equivalent of £1,495 per person.
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  2708. Having had vial pneumonia one of the long term consequences I've got is asthma, you need inhalers and are extremely sensitive to air pollution. Any kind of smoke or a badly installed air con or high levels of pollen trigger an attack. It's not just dying of covid that's going to be an issue but the affects on long term health.
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  2709. What do you expect? The Oil companies will gauge as long as they can get away with it
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  2710.  @adeebihabibi  In all the years I've been driving a car (+40) the price rockets when there's shortages and takes ages to come down when the price drops
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  2711. I've come to the conclusion that cult followers have a screwed up view of women If you can't see someone on top of their brief shutting down right wing bs it's on you
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  2712. I disagree we need ID and a national ID system not this current ragtag of options One of the reasons we saw a big rise in Albanians for instance is tighter security in Europe, we are also in a proxy war with Russia and all the implications of securit that should bring up.
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  2713.  @earnesttbass8107  No I mean anti trust, no one is asking for price control when you read the detail. We all know the GOP hates anti trust and are more than happy corporate mergers to go unchecked. Which is one of the reasons food prices have increased so much. Quote The egg industry, like much of the agricultural sector, is commanded by a few heavyweights — the biggest, Cal-Maine Foods, controls 20 percent.
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  2714. The reason we need large amounts of migration is because of economic policy Low tax and lack of investment in the domestic workforce If you want lower migration vote for someone who will increase taxes and invest in UK social and physical infrastructure so we don't needs 1.25 million immigrant workers
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  2715. why would you do that don't you like having human rights like the right to a fair trail? and since when will the UK give up its seat on the UN security council its lala land thinking same as usual
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  2716.  @R3tr0v1ru5  Since when ? The biggest periods of growth in the UK where Atlee post war and Blair, 3rd was Thatcher but she had 3.5% GDP in oil revenues and asset stripped the country.
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  2717. Yes that includes pensioners
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  2718. So when you cut corporate taxes and they use the money to buy back shares and put up CEO Pay does that grow the economy? (The 3.5 trillion went straight to debt by the way) or Invest 2 trillion over 10 years in social and physical infrastructure which boosts real economic growth (GDP last quarter was 5% and 3% average for the year) quote Softening inflation and rate hikes have coincided with resilient economic performance, fueling investor optimism, analysts said.
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  2719. He's heading for his 7th very soon, this was done to send a shot across his bows behave or else McConnel will reconvene the senate ergo the hostage video that he promptly issued with his calm down message. Impeachment is the least of his worries he's going to get hammered with civil lawsuits by the DC police union 2 dead and 20 injured 1 lost an eye the PGA have deserted him PayPal has even suspended payments, if your going to do Sedition best not be a complete moron fail and employ insurrectionists who post videos take selfies and not wear masks
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  2720. One million earned income in capital gains which can be offset over the years you hold the stock is like you have to be pretty rich and a huge majority of general stocks are held by pension funds. Who does this really clober oh yea CEO's who skirt round taxes by getting payed in share options or have huge share bonuses
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  2721. 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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  2722. here plan won't work We have Supply Side Corporate Inflation on inelastic essential commodities, creating more demand balloons the cost which in turn increases Inflation if you wanted to grow the economy you'd address the shortage of energy by both increasing supply (onshore wind is the quickest) and reduce demand ( insulation) address the food shortages by growing more food in the UK because of leaving the EU our gdp has fallen by 4.5% we have 1.3 million vacancies exporters have a red tape and tarrif bill of 10 billion per annum and net exports are plummeting with sales to the EU falling by 30% gilt yields have risen sharply by 2% adding 15 billion to the uk debt bill basically while the Tories are in power as a country where fked
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  2723. What's stupid about creating a grid which has the potential to reduce energy costs by over 1/2?
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  2724.  @J3006K  Going on Limbar's show for a pity party calling for his political rivals to be locked up getting dunked in a slap fight with Gov Whitmore after being called out for supporting white nationalists Ponsing around on the Balcony like El Douche bag while more and more cases come out of plague ship WH. You have to suspect he's been drinking his bronzer as well as caking it on with a trowel
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  2725. He's playing the propaganda war it boosts moral on the Ukrainian side and puts doubt into an enemy who thought they were just going to roll in and take over. 2/3rds soldiers are non combatants support they do basic training then go to be drivers cooks mechanics etc
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  2726. 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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  2727. Huge number more women than men in that line
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  2728.  @brianfoster1078  nothing they could do is remotely comparable to Austerity Brexit Truss then Sunak
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  2729. That's not to say if they were in power they would have done that it's just a political pitch to show a different direction Labour would jump for joy if public opinion was overwhelming enough to nationalisation
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  2730. Trust fund Tucker if he told me water was wet I'd double check it to make sure he wasn't lying again
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  2731. Your not going to have anything left to fantasise about Labour stealing soon good luck with the paranoia Fun fact -4% wage growth over the last 12 years of Tory Stagnation
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  2732. Pipe down there talking about using old disused airfields from ww2 and stuff like that, we have a golf course that's gone bankrupt which is a complete eyesore
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  2733.  @LRRPFco52  Trump didn't threaten him with anything he was getting tips on how to be President for Life
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  2734. In 2010 our public services were properly funded now they are not In 2010 our tax base was 33% its now 36% In 2010 debt to gdp was 62% its now 100% 13 years of Austerity + Thatcherism × Brexit did this
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  2735. To change that you put mass storage on strategic grid nodes. One such site was recently rejected by the council near me because it was deemed not necessary infrastructure and on green belt after 6 years in planning. The mass storage units are delivered in containers pre loaded you just hook them up and voila, insane really Each node would repay it's capital cost in under a year and stop us from using standby gas plant
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  2736.  @pieterzuiddam  we can do stuff on energy
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  2737. Peterson is a right wing grifter no idea why there even giving him airtime
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  2738. Great another party for the Billionaires and fossil industry
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  2739. Better social conditions make the country more prosperous
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  2740. 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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  2741.  @texajp1946  You still pedalling this old shit Tex, Zalensky won the presidency by 72% the Ukrainian people say fk you Putin, the scale of the resistance is now ingrained for generations with hatred of Putin and all he stands for the civilians are armed and the die is cast if he wants Ukraine he's going to have to quarter a standing army there which will bleed constantly.
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  2742. 30 billion on renewable energy is ambitious The tax system is a complete mess how you can have the highest tax base in history and p1ss most of it away is an art form
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  2743.  @Rikimkigsck  you can buy a coffee or snack from a machine now! People choose not too and who would have thought you'd need aa personal trainer :) I started in IT eearrly 80s you needed a team of people too operate the computer another team for data entry, things change
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  2744. Are you insane why would I give up my human rights just to be cruel to boat people?
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  2745. Reform policies will make the problem worse
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  2746.  @rb1062  the Tories waste money hand over fist on all sorts of useless tax breaks plus outsourcing
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  2747.  @schrodingerscat1863  70% of steel in the US is already made with Arch furnaces. and Just to point out the cost of Coal has doubled over the last few years (coke being processed coal). So there are multiple reasons why steel manufacture is declining with old plant becoming uneconomic even without the shift away from coal.
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  2748. 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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  2749. I thought you people were for capitalism and a supply and demand economy?
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  2750.  @sandragray3951  don't forget the vip lane for Tory donors and the 37 billion for the failed test and trace
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  2751.  @jeffappleton926  Leaving the ECHR has nothing to do with migration legal or otherwise? What do't you get?
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  2752. ​@leannechandley6282 given that Austerity + Thatcherism x Brexit is crushing the life out of the economy then better Ex In 2010 Osborne stopped nursing bursaries rolling it into university education resulting in escalating costs and declining student numbers 2023 because of Brexit we give a visa to a Nigerian nurse who fetches over her husband and kids No brexit minimal dependents no Tory win in 2010 nursing training numbers would be higher
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  2753. Tory costings are a joke, think of a number then double it
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  2754.  @leecromer3289  The cap was promised by the Tories to come in in 2025 to be funded by an increase in NI from 10 - 12%
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  2755.  @Mr.White10-65  quote Trump’s corporate tax cuts paved the way for inflation Wall Street tycoons and CEOs didn’t take the heat of inflation — they fanned its flames
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  2756.  @harryfarber6435  He'll easily staunch the red wave
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  2757. Don't spend your 0.08% increase in GDP in 10 years all at once the fact is it wouldn't cover the latest brain fart idea of giving millionaire pensioners a tax break
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  2758. There's some evidence that Bolton had a hand in it, the legals were panicking and Trump was still digging his heels in
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  2759.  @Escape2FreedomAsap  smiling as she stuck the knife into the Orange balloon to reveal a sad old man who has escaped the care home
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  2760. Population in general don't have a view on Israel Palastine
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  2761. Read The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism By Clara Marrei
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  2762. It's an economic train wreck Even migration is up due to increased numbers of dependents
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  2763. How do you argue with pure bullsh1t?
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  2764. 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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  2765. So Conservative economic policy that's driven the economy into the toilet with a more extreme right wing badge how does that work?
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  2766.  @kelsogirl562  Reform wouldn't change anything bar speed up our economic decline and make you even poorer
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  2767. Narr when you see the whole clip there bitching that the economy is too hot and unemployment is too low driving up wages
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  2768. / Th is is what leaving looks like what where you expecting?
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  2769. I thought you lot wanted lower immigration, if you don't pay proper wages then your looking to import workers on low salaries.
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  2770. There's a war in Europe covering the 2 largest grain producers on the Planet, chicken farmer feed their chickens a 50% grain mix normally surprising the cost isn't higher
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  2771. A 30 second Internet search shows she was tasked with relations to South American countries NOT border security
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  2772. There were no boats in 2010 So bs as usual ​ @maisondusuave 
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  2773. Campaigning was declared a work event by the government by April there were very few work restrictions and most had had a first vaccine so you know unless drinking and eating was banned at work which it wasn't then your clutching at straws here.
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  2774. 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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  2775. Labour have a plan
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  2776. he's an idiot how many family farms are worth over 3 million?
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  2777. It will cost double to stay on gas if you could be bothered to do some proper research Just changing from Peak Gas plant to Tesla Megapacks would save consumers 10's of billions
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  2778.  @DanteLovesPizza  The current media are controlled by Billionaire / Millionaire class until its in their interest to get an alternate voting system then the best us peasants will get is some devolution and a HOL that's elected and maybe STV The economy Union and the country has a serious London problem
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  2779. emptier they added 1.5 trillion to the 800 billion Labour left them
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  2780.  @sunrisesystems9280  far from it its intended to get people off their fossil addiction and also to sustainable farming The government subsidises fossil fuel by a huge amount
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  2781.  @BiggusDiggusable  It wasn't just Austerity which drove it over the line was millions of eastern European GiG economy workers disrupting established UK workers. We have had over the last 14 years economic policies that have driven migration through the roof
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  2782. @BiggusDiggusable  quote George Osborne’s austerity choked off the recovery: Brexit is his legacy The former chancellor’s reputation lies in tatters after six years of punishing the poor and rewarding the rich prompted the referendum revolt welfare cuts left the prosperous south-east and booming inner London almost untouched. According to the authors, the areas hit hardest were “older industrial areas, less prosperous seaside towns, some London boroughs”. In other words, Brexit-land.
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  2783. Planning needs changing yes but the biggest issue is the system is developer led local people are always up in arms because of the lack of infrastructure to support the new builds. No public transport to them no nearby doctors no cycle lanes old road can't take traffic flows schools nearby already full no nearby nurseries etc etc
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  2784. You can paint Sunak as on the take but i think he really is a true believer in small state Trickle Down Supply side economics. He still has the IEA swilling round As a follower of the Chicago school as develoved by Friedman he genuinely believes in Trickle down and that the wealth CREATORS are at the top The grossest example of this in the last budget was the millionaires pensioners tax cut which is being paid for with higher taxes at the bottom and middle unlike Truss hes not stupid or sniffing the old powder and at least balances the books. The whole problem though is after 13 years of this 3 severe economic shocks 1 self inflicted the well at the bottom is pretty dry and his last budget has started to really squeeze the middle class and pensioners as well by not raising thresholds. The remedy to this is a wealth tax, tax realignment and shutting down the myriad of tax loopholes problems with the wealth tax is the media it would be wall to wall non experts telling you how it would be so destructive to the economy capital flight etc. If you want in detail analysis try GarysEconomics channel
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  2785.  @juliewills3592  you pay NI all your life and that's it poverty in old age, guess it helps them die quicker if they can't afford enough food heating and other bills
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  2786. 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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  2787. So last time Labour were in we had sustained growth and an average increase in wages of +20+% under the Tories were -10% worse off after 14 years how does that logic compute?
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  2788.  @JillLawton-zt8me  So how much do you know about macro economics? Brown / Blair Borrowed 250 billion during their spell in government ALL Labour borrowing since WW2 is around 500 billion. Since 2010 the Tories have borrowed 1.6 TRILLION between 2010 and 2019 they borrowed 900 billion for what? were now 10% worse off in disposable income terms than we were in 2010
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  2789.  @freedomworks3976  why would you want that economic car crash back again his whole economy was built on debt and collapsed instantly it was put under pressure.
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  2790.  @DevilbyMoonlight  go get some therapy please this isnt conspiracy corner
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  2791.  ricky2222 peyers  erm there were 500k before the Dumster left office, I know trump was big with the uneducated but that's taking the piss
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  2792. Austerity doesn't work it causes the economy to shrink
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  2793. Labour are picking up the mother of all economic messes. We will see how there doing in a few years.
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  2794. the 2k is complete bollox but lets say its not it's 9.5 billion a year Labour have already said they will roll back Sunak's millionaire pension giveaway which cost 8 billion, his unfunded tax cut for pensioners will cost 2.7 billion and will be funded by raising the pension age to 67 costing my family £12,000 straight off the bat.
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  2795. You've not listened to PMQ's lately then?
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  2796. It's 9n the website as are other policies
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  2797. Unionisation doesn't stop you giving your staff share options the point of it is to negotiate better conditions, where unions exist employees have better working conditions better health and a backup from employee discrimination. Relying on employers to be good guys good luck with that most would dump on there own relatives for an extra buck
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  2798. The MAGA crowd sayed bring back blue collar jobs President Biden brought back 350,000 last quarter The MAGA crowd said Make America Great Again President Biden passed the IRA which will turn the US into the renewable tech leader in the world Irony is truly not dead What's Trump going to run on the biggest debt fueled economy in history -3 million jobs is he going to undo the IRA and hand power back to the fossil companies destroying the reshoring that's going on?
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  2799.  @kornpop4887  you already pay for junkies weather its through emergency medical care prison housing policing theft there is no escape in costs somewhere in the system - its just a dumb argument
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  2800. ​@run2cat4run it's partly that we have a large influx of students that spen a huge amount in the economy I'm unhappy with a move to undercut professional and middle class salaries with imported labour we need workers to replace retirees the Tory business model is shyte though
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  2801. how would a tax cut for the wealthy send a message?
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  2802.  @jasonmiller5369  why aren't all their vehicles equipped with night vision and thermal imaging equipment? Why don't the vehicles have insulation the captured and blown up vehicles aren't adequately shielded against petrol bombs if you mix styrene with the fuel it will drip through into the cabs and act like napalm. A lot of the flat tyres you see in the videos if you zoom are caused by rubber rot the vehicles haven't been adequately serviced Seems like the corruption that Vlads empire is built on has been embraced by the military and they've siphoned off as much of the cash as possible and is in a Cyprus bank account
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  2803.  @jasonmiller5369  Dream on an army that can't even equip its grunts with cab insulation from the good old Molotov? Lets get one thing straight Russia doesn't even have the intellectual capacity to build modern drilling equipment for its oil and gas industry it was all imported let alone develop high tech infrastructure that depends on dedicated levels of highly motivated highly educated well paid science and computer personnel. There are multiple papers written about the Russian brain drain over the last decade or so which has only increased now Psycho Vlad turns the screw on his own population. Good luck motivating anyone that's paid in Roubles everything as far as I can see is poorly maintained by extremely unmotivated people who make a buck on the side by selling anything they can get away with.
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  2804. ULEZ expansion was a Tory Policy promoted by Shapps and he tied funding to it being implemented, the original ULEZ zone was introduced by Bojo So are the Tories Uturning all of a sudden?
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  2805. Each year the US disaster relief budget goes up way more than inflation
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  2806. ​@jjefferyworboys8138 only the rich do benifit since when is 1 million not rich?
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  2807. Cameron Hague Sunak What a trio play which one is the most out of touch with the uk public dead pig dave 2nd to a letucce Richi Or Tory boy Hague
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  2808. Why? He seems really pragmatic and focused
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  2809. The Tories waste money hand over fist just look at the BiBi Stockholm and Rwanda there's 2.5 billion straight away
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  2810.  @kickazz999  refer to my comment on debt to gdp ratio headline figure is meaningless
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  2811. she's not defending it just gobbing off, maybe she should get on Rishi's maths program the complete load of bollox she's been spewing
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  2812. If someone stole your freedom you'd be p1ssed as well
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  2813. I think its unworkable in this country. You can tax assets and money created by wealth already we just choose not to, sadly Reeve has put down lifting the CGT rate an easy money created by money. A suggestion I've heard is everyone pays a % of their property worth replacing council tax at the moment a person in Burnley pays 1.5% of their homes worth while someone in Mayfair pays 0.01% You could set it at a national level of 0.5% and you generate as much additional income as a wealth tax would enough for a right wing government to cut income tax by 4p or a left wing government fix all the crumbling infrastructure and fund a Net zero program
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  2814. What about the safety of the moderator?
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  2815. Your not going to get it from the Cons they have zero talent
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  2816. He had some competent people round him last time This time it's Musk and RFK The whole thing will be a complete sh1tsh0w from day one from the Gang that couldn't shoot straight I only hire the best people - yea right which department will hulk Hogan be in charge of? He was talking of replacing the Generals with football coaches
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  2817. Why is 3 million not enough? Family farms near me in Yorks are 2.5 mill
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  2818. What misconduct it's all deflecion
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  2819. The only way to reduce migration is to invest in UKPLC that means free training , more housing better public transport Not Gesture politics
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  2820. If you want production back you do it with invest as Joe has done which has reshored over a million manufacturing jobs. Tariffs on some stuff is necessary for a level playing field but Trump is effectively putting in a sales tax
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  2821. Tories being the party of Tax cuts? This isn't true all taxes are going up because of frozen thresholds, the NI cut affects upper middle income households if your a Pensioner or lo paid your tax is going up substantially. Turned round the economy? Also not true CPI inflation is at 2% but it's a rolling average and will start to rise again next month AND CPIH (housing) is still at 2.8 so no rate cut on the horizon and OOH is at 6.7% (Owner occupiers) Put simply you can't tax cut your way out of recession and stagnation
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  2822.  @shryggur  there's not the Russia phobia that you'd think all western economies have labour shortages especially in jobs that need skills such as tech doctors engineers Putin seems to be following the Stalin playbook so things will get worse internally he's already blighted a generation even without sanctions the russian losses due to death and injury will have long term economic and social impact plus the alleged 200,000 that have gone for an extended holiday in Russians neighbouring countries
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  2823. If you put a Clown in No10 the Clown doesn't become a Statesman No10 becomes a Circus This bunch have no chance in what Universe does this Clown show garner enough votes to even get past even 100 seats with tactical voting
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  2824. Quote Brexit has fuelled surge in UK food prices, says Bank of England policymaker Britons need to be kept aware of the cost of leaving the EU, says Swati Dhingra Brexit is contributing to a surge in food prices as the country heads into recession, a senior Bank of England policymaker has warned. You get what you vote for
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  2825. A moderate Tory?
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  2826. Just get stuff from the EU and avoid all the paper work He thinks he's got problems there dwarfed by the issues facing British business and the costs Johnson has introduced to now trade with Europe doing what he says will tank the NI economy there better off with unrestricted trade with the EU
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  2827.  @keithmarshall8796  PFI was a Tory idea brought in by Major and finally ended in 2018 Taxes have remained the same for 2 decades with a tax base of 33% until Sunak became chancellor (Osborne put it up on middle and lower class with +5% VAT rise) The total of all Labour governments borrowing in Parliamentary history including Atlee is 500 billion while the Tories have borrowed 1.6 trillion since 2010. But hey who needs context and facts
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  2828. The US is not 1 economy but 50 tied together in a Federal system which promotes interstate commerce If you want to be like the US then we should have stayed in the EU the European version of a Federal state with multiple countries benefiting from regulation free inter country commerce.
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  2829. President Brandon to you
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  2830. 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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  2831. Quote from 2021 A wise tax plan silently vanished last week. The chancellor was due to narrow a notorious tax loophole for the wealthy by raising capital gains tax. Now, in a quiet reverse ferret, he won’t. Now he's PM he's still not doing it and keeping CGT low Quote Rishi Sunak saved £300,000 in tax thanks to cut he voted for in 2016 PM’s tax bill would have been higher had Tories not cut top capital gains rate Rishi Sunak has saved more than £300,000 in tax thanks to a cut he voted for in 2016, according to an analysis of his tax records. The prime minister has paid just over £1m in tax over the past three years, most of which was accrued on the gains he has made on his US-based investment portfolio. But that figure would have been £308,167 higher had the top rate of capital gains tax (CGT) not been cut by the Conservative government in 2016. The figures highlight the disparities between Britain’s income tax rates and its relatively low rates of CGT. The prime minister’s overall tax rate for the last three years was 22%, roughly equivalent to what a nurse would pay in income tax.
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  2832. It's the gin
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  2833. @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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  2834. They make up 5% of the population don't you think your being a bit of a drama queen?
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  2835. In a strong Labour market its the other way round
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  2836. 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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  2837. He's definitely in the pocket of the fossil lobby and the billionaire class through Policy Exchange and the IEA
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  2838. Our tax is going up by more because we don't pay NI due to fiscal drag I'm +£450 If you earn less than 36k your tax is increasing as well just not as much
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  2839. And 80% of them are pensioners, someone did the math a while back there loosing around 1% of that 25% total a year to old age
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  2840. This was going to happen, we've been ocasional remote working and moving now to organise this on a more wholesale permenant basis, the company are looking to downsize office space. The remote working phenomena has accelerated by about 5/6 years.
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  2841. On average Labour borrow less than the Tories and repay more BY A LOT The Tories have borrowed 1.8 trillion since 2010 and repaid ZIP
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  2842. Where did it all go wrong thats easy electing Cameron, Osborne's Austerity is wot started this whole sorry mess
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  2843. Probably didn't think Russia would decimate its population and industry to hold onto invaded territory setting its economy back for decades.
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  2844.  @stanspb763  act like a Pirate get treated like one.
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  2845. By cutting funding to social infrastructure and leaving the EU they've both increased Net Migration and increased visas for dependants. They've also increased the majority of working people's tax Energy bills have increased Sewage in Rivers has increased and they've even managed to increase crime and strikes How many positives do you want?  @SouthEastMane 
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  2846. Labour haven't been in power for 13 years so what your saying he's responsible for what exactly
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  2847. Corbyn had a -70 popularity rating and was the main reason Labour took an 80 seat drubbing
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  2848. 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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  2849.  @briandaniels8880  Russian money through Rusel is going into Moscow Mitch's coffers the 200mill to kentuky will subvert any chance of sanctions for election meddling against Deripask a classic Russian move to subvert democratic institutions with grift . Trumps is up to his eyeballs in debt with large loans through Deutsch bank guaranteed by God knows who, the pair of them have sold thier souls for any dollar they can make and any bit of power they can cling to. Don't believe your lying eyes just follow the new truth if you wish but know one thing they don't care squat about you or anyone else just themselves.
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  2850.  @davidbarlow350  why do you think I'm in favour of the EU just because I think Farage is a fascist piece of toxic crap?
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  2851.  alan boardman  powerful and continuing nationalism Disdain for the recognition of human rights Identify enemies / scapegoats as a unifying cause Corporate power is protected Labour power is suppressed Disdain for intellectuals and the arts Obsession with crime and punishment.
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  2852. Lower than a snakes belly ! love it
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  2853. Its 62,000 a year were sat on 40,000 who should have been deported, I'm more concerned about the utter incompetence of the Tories and the waste of 300 million and the whole 3.5 billion spent on not doing anything
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  2854. 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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  2855. 90% of what he said was nonsense if you believe it more fool you
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  2856. I have never voted conservative can't think of a single policy from Thatcher on wards that has been the remotest benefit to me socially or economically
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  2857. Austerity actually shrank and is shrinking the economy by more than was saved by the cuts Each tax and spend action by a government has an economic multiplier, the OBR calculated it for Austerity at 0.5 (for every £ saved you only really save +50p due to economic contraction) Real world data showed back in 2013 that the actual multiplier for Austerity was 1.6 (for every £ saved it cost -60p so you were actually contracting the economy more than was being saved in cuts by making the cuts)
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  2858.  @tannershortnacy7324  then why did a load of Republican senators on the intelligence committee sell stock based on the same information, the guy goes around making decisions based on a cadre TV opinion hosts and everything but that Murdoc pile of crap Fox gets called liberal and fake coz it won't push his BS. He goes on TV and claims it's not his job to do his job which is marshal a federal response.
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  2859.  @mikerodrigo5597  so why didn't the Senate Intel committee take it up given they pawed all over Hunters finances and had access to the big Bannon Rudy reveal call me a sceptic but two of the most untrustworthy people in Trump's orbit had thier fingers on this. I would imagine the Senate wouldn't touch it because as soon as an IT specialist got hold of it the metadata would throw up all sorts of issues given Bannon and Rudy are stupid, if you copy move alter data there's a trail, source email code shows all sorts of stuff and all I saw was some pdf copy.
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  2860. You need around 3k per head so you need around +2 billion to stand still also its not a tap you can turn on and off, after 14 years of Austerity policies turning it off would plunge the uk into not a reccesion but a full blown depression.
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  2861. @snafufubar  there's a lot of research been done listened to a really good podcast on an engineering firm on how they implemented it. They cut out meetings and trained everyone on how to run effective efficient meetings when they were needed. They analysed processes and improved IT where necessary They took on additional staff to cover work the engineers had been doing but was deemed non core such as paperwork Result was e boost in productivity thier most expensive and experienced staff where spending more time on thier core work, everyone had a day when they could arrange appointments reducing sick days Etc There's apparently an optimum work hours per week after a certain point productivity trails off sharply always remember the adage don't buy a car built on a Friday
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  2862. ​ @eddieharris6004 hs2/3, net zero, planning reform, social care. All we had was 5 years of chaos and incompetence
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  2863. ​ @willrelf1377 you can only deliver radical if you have the people behind you. My now dead parents voted for Atlee after the war then slowly switched to Con, the dysfunction during the 60s 70s left a lot of scars as did the Thatcher years on me
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  2864. Warren is advocating a mixed economy (capitalism with guard rails) capitalism unchecked will decend into an elite economy for the few (just look at Russia with the oligarchs and a permanent leader) what I struggle with is thier is no acceptance from the right wing that monopolies are bad for capitalism and that they are in effect promoting socialism for the rich controlled by the very rich.
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  2865. No she didn't last week the Tories bled another 2 points in the polls and Labour gained +3 due to her antics
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  2866. 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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  2867. we've just been through the biggest fall in living standards in UK history at -4.2% down and our trade is down and we have a spiralling debt crisis UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times 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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  2868.  @RobBCactive  the bulk of current inflation is Corporate ex fuel food is going up because of the Ukrainian war but we have at least +6% Brexit tax our food supply system is starting to seriously fall apart. Not enough Vets for declaration and certification Not enough buthchers at the slaughterhouses Chronic lack of drivers Mountains af Brexit paperwork its like a slowly deflating tyre could be back to rationing if they keep this up
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  2869. It's a slight of hand they've put NI up by 1.25% but raised the cealing
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  2870. It's not just social housing its social housing in the right place its transport links bus / road / cycle lane I bought an ebike last year if I still worked I could commute on it no problem
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  2871. US drivers average 12 miles per journey for 90 % of the driving population range isn't an issue last mile delivery van's only do 90 miles a day max
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  2872.  @carlisroy6666  what's honest about gesture politics we've had it for 5 years with the Tories there's 4.3 million children in poverty this will only help 250k at a cost of 3 billion
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  2873.  @JesusMagicPanties  Argentina on the Channel
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  2874. They have a shortage of teachers as it is those leaving will turn into a flood the education standards appear to be dropping at a quick rate
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  2875.  @chain-breakingsage  the underlying problem was the whole grid was dropping dangerously close to a full shutdown because they couldn't maintain the frequency. Wind turbines froze due to lack of winterization solar stopped because there was no protocol to sweep snow off them gas flow stopped due to water vapour freezing up pipes coal couldn't come on stream due to frozen instruments. The list is pretty extensive
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  2876.  @imbonkers3629  Our increased migration numbers are the direct result of loosing FOM, we no longer have the flexibility to import them from 20 miles away there coming from the 3rd world with permanent visas with over 50% being dependants
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  2877.  @RobinRother-gv3yf  My son is Autistic its a spectrum condition covering over 30 different markers every one classified with Autism is Unique. In terms of Sexuality and Gay / Trans you have the same thing a large majority of the population are aTypical the minority are a million and one flavours of a broad brush bucket every one of them is Unique in some way. And Migration has never been an issue what triggered this latest bout of xenophobic bigotry was the Cameron era decision to open the flood gates to unregulated GIG work which undermined local businesses. The GIG Economy firms offshored all their profits and imported huge numbers to work in the sector on low wages they in turn paid low rates of tax while simultaneously defunding public services. The people arriving did so because there was jobs that UK workers wouldn't do at wage rates they wouldn't accept the Tories run Supply Side Trickle Down Economics which only benefits the wealthy it needs a constant supply side labour pool to keep wages low and a deregulated environment with NO unions to work it was like the GIG economy was sent from Tory Heaven.
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  2878.  @andrewturner6642  I'm a pensioner the only thing I loose is £300. I don't pay CGT and I don't have an offshore trust. Plus I'm more concerned about the low wage economy the Tories have built because of my son. Just paying a decent raise to public sector workers boosts the economy and has a trickle effect on wages in other sectors
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  2879. Back channel diplomacy with Mr butt dial on a public phone with no security clearance who is being paid to have 2 henchman named Lev and Igor by a Ukrainian Oligarch under investigation for organised crime, how much worse could it be?
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  2880. Tuff Boris sold you out the soft power of frictionless trade Freedom of Movement has already re-aligned the supply chain.
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  2881. Zahawai's career is over 2 more scandals in the pipeline much worse than the current ones OpenDemocracy Revealed: UK government helped sanctioned Putin ally sue British journalist UK Treasury, then under Rishi Sunak’s control, let Yevgeny Prigozhin circumvent sanctions to target Eliot Higgins Guardian ‘They just vanish’: whistleblowers met by wall of complacency over missing migrant children As scores of youngsters are disappearing from hotels run by the Home Office and being trafficked across the country, sources claims warnings over their safety were ignored
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  2882. The Tories waste billions on trickle Down cr@p, outsourcing to their mates etc
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  2883.  @garrywynne1218  Only because you don't understand trade and integrated on demand supply chains.
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  2884. Tories wouldn't countenance state owned GBEnergy aren't interested in changing planning and don't want to build council houses or change employment law. So there nothing like the Tories
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  2885. I'm in the UK we had 2 days of winter sun where I was got grey in the afternoon but that doesn't matter to me There's always wind due to us being an Island, Modern turbines turn at as low speed as 8mph I have a solar battery install it's undersized for my needs due to only being able to use one side of the roof but it still provides 75% of my energy over 12 months You can run a house on an EV battery for a week if your careful so this we will always need fossil is not true especially with battery prices falling so quickly your talking 5 years.
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  2886. Reform aren't Conservative there Libertarian like Truss The reason the Tories are diving in the polls is because Sunak has tacked hard right economically and gone over the top with Rwanda Johnson promised Levelling up Net Zero HS2/3 Planning Reform Housing targets Sunak scrapped the lot and replaced it with Rwanda By the way Reform are the 2nd most disliked party in the country according to MRP polls at net negative 60 Tories are Negative 70 everyone else is in the 40's
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  2887. if Biden says it will be 2 Trillion it will be 2 Trillion
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  2888.  @shoelessjoe428  momentum had a policy of taking over local Labour associations to install their candidates. We had this before with Militant in the Thatcher era UK public abandoned Labour Then as well
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  2889. Lots of things have changed your food is more expensive and expires quicker for a start off Exports by volume are down Inward investment into the UK is down Your currency buys 25% less euros Stella plants are shutting Sewage in rivers are at record levels Etc
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  2890. Yea right the orange albatross biggest RHINO in the Republican party
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  2891. Sweden has a population density of 27 Km2 + 50% of Swedes live alone total population 10 million London has a population density of 5,598/km2 + multiple generations all living in the same property with a total population of 9 million So there is zero argument against having to lock down because we have large numbers of densely populated areas
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  2892. He'll get home confinement and his internet confiscated sort of thing you do with the elderly that has gone completely loopy Lets be fair he'd probably get off if he pleaded insanity
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  2893. ​ @Godsabum 53% have said they'll never v9te for trump, between 10-20% of Republicans would never vote for him Would you let your daughter anywhere near him or hour kids, what sort of example is he?
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  2894. If he has alzheimer's he was born with it
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  2895. Taxation on work has gone up but the UK tax base is still the lowest in Europe What does need addressing is someone in a detached house in Burnley worth 250,000 paying more in Rates than someone living in a luxury 8 million pound flat in Mayfair And a newly qualified nurse paying near 50 p in the £ tax while Sunak pays an effective rate of 21p on millions
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  2896. Hostile EU? Where the ones bitching all the time threatening to blow up a protocol we put into law just over a year ago and signed up to what must be the worst trade deal in GB history.
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  2897.  @christopherflux6254  It's the King's Speech setting out the government agenda. It was posturing
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  2898.  @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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  2899.  @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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  2900. They won't but if the issue is right wing economic policy that needs a constant supply of migrant Labour why will voting for a Party that promises the same economic model but by the power of magic Unicorns doesn't need the migrant Labour? If you want lower immigration you need to change the tax model increase taxes and spend it on training the domestic workforce as well as other infrastructure spending
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  2901.  @Theyorkshirepirlo  the allowance for a couple is 3 million 2 x 1 million agri allowance + 2 x 500k IHT allowance The tax is designed to flush out rich people who buy farms to avoid IHT pushing up farm prices making them unafordable for new entrants
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  2902. Osborne's Austerity cost more money than it saved so there is no guarantee that it would generate any benefit
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  2903. The UK economy is expected to avoid a recession this year, the International Monetary Fund has said, after it sharply upgraded its growth forecast. It now expects the UK to grow by 0.4% in 2023, whereas last month it forecast the economy would contract by 0.3%. Jeeezuz CHRiiiiist -0.3% to 0.4% on the back of some of the most draconian tax rises post war, boasting about a movement 0f 0.7 whoopee do Quote Brits face biggest tax burden since World War Two as record drop in household income expected after Budget The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said that six million people would be hit by ‘stealth taxes’, like freezes for tax thresholds, over the next five years, boosting government coffers by £120 billion. The independent economic analysts said this would be the equivalent of a 4p increase in the base rate of tax. Lets talk about movement shall we TAXI FOR SUNAK TAXI FOR SUNAK
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  2904. I'm a centerist as well there both off the range. Until they stop with the reform and Thatcher obsession I'm out
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  2905.  @myaltaccountthatiwillbarel2288  I live in what was a blue wall sear it's now a Lib-Dems stronghold The naz1 lite candidate only got 5% while their national total was 15%
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  2906. His politics are awful though he's not even Conservative
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  2907. The economic issues are to do with Thatcherite trickle down economic policy not working The immigration issue (legal) is also down to Thatcherite trickle down economic policy which needs a constant Supply of Supply Side labour (immigration)
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  2908. 57% of US inflation is Corporate as in price gauging We have Supply Side Corporate Inflation on inelastic commodities such as energy and food You can lower inflation simply by addressing these 2 areas for energy try reduce demand by better insulation and modernising heating plus the quickest and cheapest way would also be build more wind Turbines Have an agricultural deal with the eu to reduce delays remove vet and other paperwork costs from the spiralling food costs. Plus reform uk farming away from its reliance on fertilizers
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  2909.  @nickbuckle646  back in 2019 onshore wind generation reached parity with gas generation at 38p per gigawatt hour since then generation from gas has gone literally through the roof, currently you can crack hydrogen from water at 1/3 efficiency using spare electricity and there are huge advancements in the pipeline. There are also multiple ways of storing spare energy as heat Finland for example are developing a sand battery which is basically a thermos flask the size of a large grain silo. Scotland is already 93% renewable but tied to grid prices in the UK based on gas this is why labour are proposing GBEnergy the UK is unique in its topography for wind and tidal generation the cost of Cameron getting rid of the so called green crap runs into well over 100 billion
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  2910. You'll be a commie if you buy an electric car and have solar panels next or God forbid triple glazing and insulation so you use less energy
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  2911. Were at the start of the 4th industrial age, just look at the strides in manufacturing made by Tesla its Giga Berlin has increased efficiency on its line with Giga Casting that its even putting robots out of work. It will produces double the number of cars with half the space of the comparable VW factory. Driver autonomy mainstream level 5 will be achieved according to the experts by 2025 Etc..
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  2912. You couldn't make this up, caught with thier trousers down again, how incompetent and corrupt are these people. Note there was a bipartisan letter from the Senate with several Republican names on it in 2016 calling on the Obama administration to pressure Ukraine into sacking Shokin. Selective memory your way out of official records guys!
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  2913.  @BOZ_11  The movement has more to do with the conspiracy called the Great Replacement Theory. The dark money is from Christian White Nationalist organisations. Anyone that believes this is a true cause about the sanctity of life is a useful idi0t it is not they are political pawns this is about control.
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  2914. 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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  2915. Tufton Street are still in charge with Policy Exchange with a whole raft of Anti net zero policies enacted already by SUNAK including cancelling HS2/3 if it had gone ahead the intercity trains would move off the current line and free up enough mileage to move around 350,000 containers as well as increase local traffic
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  2916. He paid something like 2% on his income through tax dodges last year please don't go there
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  2917.  @tstocker6926  What's that got to do with the super rich bellyaching about taxes when they don't pay any?
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  2918.  @Astro_Shed  You say that but all the macro economic data says otherwise. The current economic decline stared under Osborne with Austerity. By defunding the Social floor he stopped the capitalist ladder from working properly. 14 years on we have a 2 year long recession and record legal migration trying to paper over the economic cracks
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  2919. We haven't had a centre left government since Wilson I'm looking forward to the UK finally moving on from Thatcher
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  2920. We have 3 incomes in our house mine as a pensioner I'm 550 worse off my wife who works now part time + 250 and my 25 year old son -250 We have a low wage stagnant economy young people especially can barely get their head above water at the other end more people retiring are doing so into poverty as someone who's studied Economics this is the House that Osborne built. Personally we're OK but on a socio-economic front it's a breeding ground for fascism
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  2921. You do know renewable energy is cheaper than the alternative and has been since 2019? I mean why do you want to pay more for electricity? Reason ours shot through the roof was we where to reliant on gas and didn't have enough renewable capacity or. Infrastructure
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  2922.  @marksavage1108  we want a country were we have human rights and not run by a complete BS merchant
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  2923. We have high energy prices because we don't have enough renewables on the grid and the grid hasn't been updated to cater for them. Forward contract price for dogger bank offshore is 42p per kilowatt hour Ofgem price dictated by fossil is 300p+ Wind energy became the cheapest source back in 2019 So why don't you go demand your MP lifts the moratorium on onshore wind instead of blaming the cheapest source of energy on the grid by x7
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  2924. Tax property + double on 2nd homes
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  2925. Various economic papers put the hit to the economy since 2016 at around 1 trillion (that's 330 billion lost in taxation) The year on year hit in lost taxation is 40 billion additional costs to businesses due to paperwork red tape delays and increased transport costs 10 billion Lost business in the performing arts 7 billion Collapse of small business sales on Ebay and Amazon market place Restrictions on FOM now leading to permanent inward migration from India Nigeria and the Philippines + the Pound is 25% down on the EURO the OBR economic forecast was downgraded because of the budget
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  2926. THINGS CAN ONLY GET WETTER
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  2927. They've read a load of propaganda about vaccines have spent 2 years under stress and are suffering from mass psychosis They shove untold chemicals down their systems daily without reading the labels on the food packets but somehow having to take a life saving medicine is the final straw.
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  2928.  @CBfrmcardiff  1st off I'm fairly fiscally conservative but did economics at college before doing a masters in IT decades ago. You can't pay off your debt without growing the economy, the UK has a GDP to tax ratio of 37% the more you implement Austerity the less you take in in taxes so you raise taxes to cover the shortfall and start the cycle again. There are some models floating around that 99p of every pound spent on infrastructure goes back into the treasury within 10 years lets use education as an example. While tax cuts put 25p out of every pound back in in the same timeframe. Since 2010 we've been in this holding pattern of low growth and economic policy driven by idealism, Sunak is implement the same policies but 12 years down the line it is making a bad situation worse. Here's 1 easy policy that would boost gdp by 3/5% in real terms write off all student debt millions of people with more money in there pockets to spend in the economy
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  2929.  @ltmund  I not complaining just sticking up for the poor youth of today that are getting shat on on a daily basis. When I went to University it was free the only reason it isn't today is ideology. A graduate todays tax is rising near the 50% mark. I'm now retired but have a degree in IT and with 30+ years experience worked all over. There's nothing sustainable about this governments immigration policies there mind numbingly short term importing skills which it doesn't want to promote or pay for itself.
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  2930. I have zero in common with the guy and I'm probably a prime target voter for the Cons well off retired What really winds me up about him is he has a degree in Economics but can't see 5 minutes into the future and how Thatcherism is destroying the economy for the professional, middle and working class. Labour will be a lot better but the trickle down stuff needs rooting out of our economy its destructive and creating a very unequal society
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  2931. Reform economic policy is the same as Liz Truss's why do you think there would be a different outcome if they implemented them?
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  2932. Fracking stopped they had a 2.9 quake near Blackpool that was after pumping a test well with 1 million gallons of toxic goop, there was also multiple shocks on a smaller level. Tho make the field operational they would pump in 10 million gallons to crack the shale increased volume has a direct connection with seismic activity. The legal limit is 0.5 If the fracture due to the earth quake splits the rock into the water table your poisoning Greater Manchester's water supply
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  2933. It's to do with Osborne's Austerity, short answer if you lower the social floor then the capitalist ladder gets further and further away till you get into a spiral The Tories never balanced the books so we're well overlevaraged for government borrowing it now difficult to borrow for infrastructure
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  2934. It will ramp up anyway Green electric is half the price per kilowatt hour of fossil and Oil will keep going up, were only at the start of EV adoption and large scale production.
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  2935. Below Average middle manager failing upwards This is a mess of his own making anyone signing off huge sums on the ultimate dead cat needs thier head examining
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  2936.  @nighttrain1236  What do you think is driving up illegal numbers? I'll tell you not being in the EU and cooperating with our Allies to find common solutions. What's driving legal migration? I'll tell you removing FOM and moving to a visa system that brings in low wage Labour from the 3rd world permanently not transitory like we had before. So Labour WILL cooperate with our neighbours and Labour will tighten up labour Laws and will also move to a more flexible labour market view with the EU which WILL lower migration.
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  2937. 5 missions on the website go look them up
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  2938.  @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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  2939. That was during his Kermit the muppet phase before he went to Peppa Pig world and I'm not making this stuff up
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  2940. 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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  2941. You can by dipping it in liquid nitrogen saw it on MythBusters
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  2942.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  The Russians are doing mostly dumb shelling the Ukrainians have developed a sophisticated mapping app which uses data coming in from drone footage to keep it updated. The Ukrainians also keep their artillery separated and mobile to minimize counter battery fire When the Ukrainians do fire its from multiple locations and drone targeted The Russians are also sloppy you can see troop concentrations from mobile cell activity with the high casualty rate of Generals and Commanders infantry attacks aren't well organized leading to high casualties. The things that have been pouring into Ukraine coz you don't need licences have been night vision thermal vision body armour and tactical gear
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  2943.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  100 a day is what I heard on the Ukrainian side not looked at the Russian casualties for a while attackers normally loose minimum 3-1
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  2944. ​ @steptay a robust benifts system increases GDP which increases tax take which can be spent on reducing taxes It's not a sunk cost just because you have people abusing it your wanting to cut off your nose to spite your face? Reducing benefits has zero economic benefits at our current level and creates economic damage.
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  2945. ​ @rikmorley1729 that's economic suicide If you want to lower migration increase tax and invest in the domestic population
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  2946. deliberately so a large bunch of Labour voters believed the BS and voted to leave
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  2947. Why does it help the UK economy to be run by Tories?
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  2948.  @LIONS1966  The only viable so called successful Brexit was the deregulated free market Singapore on Thames the problem with that was the EU shut it down the day after the referendum and it creates huge wealth for 10% while 90% are low wage serf labour which isn't very popular with 90% of the new underclass. Also this version had unlimited legal migration (bit like what the Tories have done anyway).
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  2949. Stop voting Conservative then
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  2950. There is next to no wage inflation in the system we are suffering from Supply Side Corporate inflation which is commodity based. There is also 1.3 million vacancies and full employment of the unemployment total on the books 1.5% are disabled or special needs 1.5% are unemployable (drink drugs crime feckless pick your poison) leaving a small percentage in the wrong place / wrong skills or just changing jobs/careers.
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  2951. Deputy is voted by the Members but Rayner is pretty moderate left same as all the shadow cabinet Non of them are nationalise everything no matter what the cost Corbyn was his own worst enemy and I have little sympathy he voted against the whip 400+ times he's not a team player and he was pushing an ideological stance rather one that could ever be enacted
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  2952.  @johnbrereton5229  pfffff you have a Libertarian Hard right Prime Minister a party full of the dregs of UKIP and somehow its not right wing gimme a break all the moderates and sane people were kicked out by Boris
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  2953. SIPPS are tax free and your allowed free to spouse primary residence with 325 limit +175 making £500,000 if its to a sibling If the house was worth 1 mill and the 2 pensions where 400,000 each if both parents died you'd have a tax free sum of 1.8 million You can get round it all sorts of ways as well using trust funds
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  2954. The fiscal rules arent neoliberal and Reeve has already said she would change them to fit Labour's agenda Last year we borrowed 130 billion and paid debt interest of 120 billion the whole thing is unsustainable
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  2955. We had imigration because we had the jobs that needed filling Osbourne and Cameron were all in on an unregulated zero hour gig economy no one in the UK wanted to work in it as a consequence we saw the jobs filled with migrant labour At the same time they ran down services with Austerity Don't blame migrant workers for government policy
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  2956. He'll have gone to boarding school, nuff said
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  2957. At least they'll build houses for the generations the Tories have screwed over with thier policies
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  2958.  @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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  2959. drink in the Copium
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  2960. @longdongsilver1255  I'm a pensioner with an economics degree If you want lower migration invest in social and physical infrastructure Free higher education, retraining programs, more housing to enable employees to relocate and vastly impoved transport. All your getting with Reform is more magic unicorns because tax cuts. Truss really nailed that zombie idea!
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  2961. A lot of love in those clips for Tucker (White Power Hour) Carlson and Frau (Neo-Fascist Segway) Ingrahm Just call it what it is its not CPAC its KPAC (The Klan reformed on tour to a state legislature near you) Jim Crow is back on the menu boys
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  2962. Bridgen needs mental health counselling, you look at ALL the data and work up you don't start at the top find a problem then cherry pick data that supports your theory
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  2963. Cenk I know your position is M4A but you'll never get it as a central policy, a better position is something that gets as close as possible to a universal healthcare system but on a state by state level. Think of the 50 states as 50 separate countries you can't even get them to agree climate change is real
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  2964. There not immigrants there refugees
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  2965. If we had a renewable grid the prices would be a lot more stable because you'd have mass storage doing load balancing. Our reliance on gas means you have to have large Gas Stations running on idle for peak demand in winter which cost an arm and a leg
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  2966. I'm a pensioner the £300 in lost allowance is nothing payment, to some on the breadline they need more but 80% of us have savings and own our own home The last figure I saw was 1.5 trillion held in ISA's
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  2967. If it's so much BS why did the Tories put so many public sector jobs on the Visa exception list and fly in plane loads of migrants on low pay?
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  2968. They were more Thatcherite than Thatcher give it a rest
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  2969. You just can't keep interrupting like that running over time and not answering the question. He came over as a condescending dick
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  2970. How many are disabled? I have an autistic son he gets zero support from the government, luckily he has me to ferry him around liase with his boss and other support needs. 95% of special needs kids don't get jobs because they can't manage on thier own without some sort of support network 40% of England/ Wales prisoners have educational special needs. If you want these people to work they need government support
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  2971. 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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  2972. There's liquid metal batteries and Finland have put a sand battery into service also in the UK they've built a liquid air battery
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  2973. It makes trade seamless and easy across the 27 Any sole trader can set up a website and sell to 440 million and we don't have it we have tons of paperwork an red tape and all the Ebay sole trader Amazon market small item exports got stopped overnight. The UK doesn't set the standards tthe EU sets the standards and we have to follow them and fill in loads of forms to prove it causing delays breaking the on demand supply chain which is what's happened with fresh goods at the moment
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  2974.  d mitchell  according to Trump the notorious con man multiple bankrupt snake oil salesman and compulsive liar. If he told me water was wet I'd double check just to make sure it wasn't another one of his pyramid marketing schemes.
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  2975. 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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  2976. we've been in Rhisi-cesion for a year and a half if you look at GDP per Capita which has dropped by 0.7% over that period They could have lowered inflation by a proper windfall tax on energy when British Gas are gouging 950% profits you know there on the side of private corporations
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  2977. we haven't implemented large swathes of it + there is a great deal of wooly language in the TCA Boris's tactic was to try break it by not complying with as much as he could get away with with the aim of abandoning it altogether
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  2978.  @nyxnecrodragon4256  we need every billion of GDP we can get after 14 years of Tory economic mismanagement.
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  2979. I mean who wants lower bills, I mean those poor oil and gas companies how will their shareholders survive if the UK is energy Independence with abundant cheap renewable energy
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  2980. What flip flops she has only been the candidate a few weeks and has already rolled out a sensible economic agenda targeting small business growth? and When you read the transcript from DJT at the economic forum it just looks like a garbled incoherent word salad
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  2981. why they will remove all the trickle down tax breaks and spend it on real stuff
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  2982. 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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  2983. There is only 2000 Army drivers and they won't have the appropriate insurance anyway.
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  2984.  @msquared6695  Great idea having untrained drivers running round a cargo full of inflammable petrol what could go wrong
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  2985. If you want to reduce immigration you need to abandon Thatcherism change the tax model and invest in the UK not continously pull in cheap labour from abroad If you vote for right wing parties this is your lot unless your prepared to fundemantly change
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  2986. 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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  2987.  @anthonymurano9040  your already paying out a third more in gdp on healthcare than the rest of the western world if you dive into the total spend figures I'd hazard a guess that emergency spending is through the roof coz you don't treat people beforehand a stich in time saves nine so to speak
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  2988. 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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  2989. Privatize the profits Socialize the Losses the Conservative way
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  2990. We still have loads of disused airfield frow ww2 in the green belt
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  2991.  @Shmimbleton  nothing like Blair his economy had +25% wage growth since 2010 it's been -5%
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  2992. Good job she has access to a private jet nearly all arrested have been put on the no fly list
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  2993.  @semperidem-b4b  let me guess the earth is flat and the sun revolves round it
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  2994. Since the pandemic I work remotely the business I work for is reducing office space by 75% to meeting and hot desk space only upgrading everyone's laptops and allowing work from home as a permeant option, they've also integrated an office from across the other side of the country into our team. I could work from anywhere there's a decent broadband and a nearby airport for the odd time I'm needed to do face to face. Its not just one thing its a whole confluence of different circumstances I see here people saying house prices are going up because of demand portfolio managers for the super rich who've made buckets of cash over the last few years are diversifying into property to avoid current and future capital gains.
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  2995. He comes across as a nice guy, the question has to be is Bernies dream of medicare for all viable in the time scale, as has been pointed out by TYT The Republicans have seeded the courts your going to face over a decade in the courts minimum and if no progress is made do the Republicans get in again. Your in a war over medicare not a battle and people need quick wins in the fight just to roll back the damage that Trump has done.
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  2996. 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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  2997.  @stevec6427  you could do a lot of the heavy lifting with new AI resources allowing you to focus your human resources in the right places
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  2998. 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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  2999. They didn't know the 10 billion committed to Rwanda or the billions allocated to Consultants
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  3000. Both Ossof and the Rev got more votes than Biden. The Revs beagle gave him an additional boost :) Ossof needs a beagle
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  3001. It's 1.25 million and 1/2 were dependents Dependents numbers have gone through the roof because we left the EU
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  3002. There's a difference between soft persuasion and blackmail Threatening MP's with funding withdrawal from their constituencies is a new low
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  3003. Trump cheats on his wives cheats in business cheats at golf and now he's cheating on his own country (again) outside the Fox bubble who actually believes anything this guy says anymore, everything he touches dies
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  3004. Since Brexit our legal immigration has exploded nuf said
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  3005. They don't get a budget till next year the autumn statement is on of intent the budget black hole is here now in 2024 looks like created by the NI cuts
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  3006. The whole thing is point of a net zero grid is a constant demand model. EV s are an essential part of a decentralised grid in V2G mode
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  3007. A guy came round last week canvassing for my Local MP and I asked him what do you stand for. He replied low tax fiscally responsible. I have buckets full of economic data showing that nearly every Conservative economic policy has been a complete failure. Privatised Energy and Water we have unparalleled amounts of sewage discharge and in 2021 energy spend by UK customers was 30 billion it will be 170 billion this year British Gas made a 900% increase in profits. Austerity increased crime rates reducing GDP the Justice system is still in chaos. Osborne's corporate tax cut which was supposed to boost growth generated 0.5% gdp creating additional tax of 40 billion at a cost of 200 billion, they spent it on share buy backs and CEO pay. Debt to GDP in 2010 was 62% its now 100% with current finances projecting it to continue climbing So I ask you what do Conservatives stand for?
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  3008.  @CelticSpiritsCoven  if you look at the timeliness your talking nonsense The EU wanted the prosecutor out because he wasn't prosecuting but taking kickbacks Burisma hiring Hunter was definitely to coerce soft influence but it didn't work Firtash was indicted
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  3009. Why is the Labour Party the Lib-Dem Party and the Greens unelectable? We've had 12 years of economic stagnation culminating in the current bunch who are even worse than Cameron and May For the record Average wage growth under Blaire / Brown +25% Average wage growth under Cameron / May -3% Under Johnson its projected to be -3/4% with 8% inflation on what planet is the alternative worse?
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  3010. If they turned of legal migration thee would be a Depression rather than a recession Tory economic policy runs on migration or hadn't you figured that out yet
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  3011. There running 30% profit on each car
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  3012.  @deborahwhittington8394  So which policies attract you? The economy falling off a cliff? His corruption and double dealing? The white Christian Nationalist Agenda? Being the laughing stock of the world for having an Incompetent multi bankrupt failed reality star as POTUS? The climate denial while the country burns floods and freezes?
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  3013. She lies a lot Some people believe it because they want to End
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  3014. He was as mad as a box of frogs to start with I guess his burger diet is catching up with him with clogged arteries in his brain
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  3015.  @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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  3016. Economic analysis of voting patterns showed that counties that voted for Biden accounted for 70% of US GDP, the largest being California which Fox likes to label as a failed state has the 5th largest economy in the world also appears to be recovering at record pace. They have 60% rate with at least one dose if you factor in Republican enclaves which are stuck at 40 and below its quite an achievement. The lack of Vax spots are rural by the way.
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  3017.  @seanpidduck  invest it in what? Property which spirals house prices and rents to unsustainable levels? Read Arguing with Zombies by Paul Krugman Noobel winning Economist
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  3018. So why isn't Murdoch being investigated for links with the Kremlin his publications do no end of damage across the world pushing the Kremlin view of the world?
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  3019.  @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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  3020. It depends on what you mean by a subsidy? the wholesale price on renewables has been going down steadily and reached parity with Gas back in 2019, a lot of the current energy crisis could have been avoided if we had more on the grid
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  3021.  @petedavies7680  They use Arc furnaces in the US for over 70% of their steel so why not? The point of net zero isn't just to produce more it's insulation to use less, it's planning reform, its timeshifting using smart tech, its mass storage and the removal of peak load plant that runs for minutes in a day and costs billions. As EV's become more popular it will be about mesh networking the batteries onto the grid for power smoothing.
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  3022.  @christopherweise438  They have created an unsolvable problem for themselves. The US has a declining birth rate and an aging working population, the gridlock over this is since the Obama era and is only now starting to manifest itself in the wider economy as labour shortages start to spring up. Not being able to have a rational conversation is a real problem there scared to death that the millions of immigrants get voting rights, there's something like 35 million with 11 million illegal in the labour market. If you look at the broader economic picture cosmopolitan states like California are streets ahead in GDP and appears to be responsible for the spread of Californication in the surrounding states not to say it doesn't have problems. Just through the pandemic you can see poor red states fall further behind economically and they were the most reliant on the migrant low paid and appear to be complaining the most about people not going back to work coz their supposedly lazy. If you block all immigration then the workforce that is present will migrate to better opportunity states again shafting the Red states.
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  3023. quote The authors say that with the UK’s tax take set to hit £1 trillion by 2025-26, the UK needs to move away from flip-flopping (such as cutting and then raising corporation tax) and wishing away problems (such as the £9bn loss of fuel duty revenue by 2030), and towards a proper tax strategy focused on taking on the UK’s twin economic challenges of raising growth and reducing inequality.
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  3024. DJT's campaign didn't want anything fact checked which 60 minutes refused to not do You saw how Vance blew up when he was corrected in the VP debate The Truth is there enemy
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  3025. yea the 2 bit Tories dream on
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  3026.  @m.sutton04  They didn't even do that
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  3027. we've had a stagnant economy for 13 years what's new?
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  3028. A pscho who's turned his country into a stalinst shit hole and poisons his enemies and you think the Russians want that never mind Ukrainian? He's several leagues above the Tories in siphoning off money for his own benifit and leaving its citizens to rot
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  3029. Trump isn't just wierd he's creepy, insecure and mentally unstable.
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  3030. 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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  3031. @Mr Right how so there the true patriots not the faux flag shaging Tories
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  3032. It's not UK territory it's a legacy of Empire and this has been in negotiation for years by top civil servants in the Foreign Office
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  3033. Brexit was always doomed it was just a vehicle to unite the Tory party and it succeeded for a few years It has zero chance of ever being an economic success people told you that from day 1 but oh no we don't listen to experts now your looking for another straw man to blame how about yourself for being so gullible
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  3034. Cancel culture? It's just a buzz word the right have plenty of platforms to spew thier hate and xenophobia. These dipshits nee to live with the consequences of thier words and actions Proud boys are now classed by Canada as a terror group!
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  3035. Give it a break we have the Internet you can check everything in 30 seconds
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  3036. They will reform the planning system from one where you can block development This achieves a number of things including opening up Councils to build council houses, New towns and further speed up grid roll-out Once this starts in the North it will be a natural extension to improve transport links with the Northern powerhouse just cut out the cost of high speed and give us a functioning transport system that connects east to west and effectively joins Leeds to Manchester & Liverpool If you start to align with the EU then trade can flow through Hull
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  3037. 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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  3038. Renewable energy has been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 by not deploying more where getting scalped for 10's of billions in EXCESS fossil profits
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  3039. Imposing 20% tariffs and rounding up migrant workers will crash the US economy it won't be a recession it will be a depression with mass unemployment. Trade wars go both ways your jeopardizing 3 trillion in US exports Ask farmers how Trumps last trade war fared export markets they spent 30-40 years building up disappear overnight permanently, 92% of the tariff money raised on US consumers went on Farm bail outs.
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  3040. Joint chiefs of staff put out a letter saying transition will happen on 20th. Everyone will be trying to block and slow things down behind the scenes
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  3041. the muppets that sold you brex1t which quadrupled migration?
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  3042. Since when we've had non stop Thatcherism + Austerity
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  3043. ​ @ohyesitsme people aren't paying it though the flood of used is coming from ex lease vehicles I presume the lease companies got massive discounts, today I can get a decent ev for under £250 a month and my petrol saving would be around £200 a month
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  3044.  @Chris1553 And what's that supposed to mean, I'm a believer in the rule of law that means letting it take its course. Unlike the current government who appear to believe the law isn't for them but an optional extra when it suits them.
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  3045.  @Chris1553  I agree why did it take 12 years but that's where we are and I wouldn't doubt that after a comprehensive trial he done it but he has the right of appeal hopefully it will be dismissed
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  3046. Tories lost another 2 points in the polls last week and Labour gained +3 Cons 23% Labour 47% The cause Braverman
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  3047.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  the guy is just Nieve he can't envisage someone so rotten to the core that he would persecute such senseless violence Hello Salisbury
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  3048. Trump is melting down on a daily basis as the poles reflect a solid Biden lead, anyone but die hard supporters see a president going off on conspiracy theories at every opertunity he's not been challenged a lot in his 4 years a well prepared candidate will just make him steaming mad, he's not the most focused to start with. If I where Joe I'd insist on a physical barrier between the two on social distancing health grounds
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  3049. A move back to do nothing don't invest in anything and keep screwing the sapps that take in this bilge you mean It ain't no different to the RAAC and Sewage problem don't spend a billion now and in 5 years it will cost what 10 ? 20 30 billion+
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  3050. I'm a middle class investor i use managed invest funds rather than straight shares to spread the risk across sectors and I'd love to pay this tax that would mean my portfolio was growing like it was on steroids. For an investor who is savvy and gets say 10% PA growth your looking at savings of +10million.
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  3051.  @davidsalo8397  It's hard to know given his multiple other mental conditions, the ADHD & Dyslexia are getting worse for sure, for most of us he's always been crazy.
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  3052. Its easy NI is in the single market we are a third country goods from a third country into the market need checking this is the deal they signed to Get Brexit Done hence border in the Irish seas.
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  3053. It's a real nest of of vipers, what else is going to come out, the dam has broken and stories are going to just keep coming
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  3054. What gives him the right to behave like an entitled Pig Tory boy
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  3055. I thought bringing back serfdom was part of Truss's platform?
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  3056. That's decades of bad farming practices and climate change for you. During Cov we planted a small diverse orchard and built some raised beds for growing our own produce, we don't use fertiliser but companion planting the fruit trees are biennial.
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  3057.  @thomashowe1509  it's normal practice And The Tories are toast there's no 1992 momentum there on for an extinction event
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  3058. focus on the issue don't come back with whataboutism coz your a cap doffing tory fanboy
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  3059.  @richardpeddie2060  Just keep on brown nosing for the Tories
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  3060.  @trucker4567  if you remotely knew what it meant it would be funny Origin story did a podcast on it woke the word that splits the world Be careful though you might learn something
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  3061.  @tonyfraser1749  any MP with a constituency outside of London will be renting a flat and claiming both rent and utility bills what do you think a Manchester MP does teleport to Westminster every day They'll all be claiming for IT and stationery equipment as well as a couple of staff
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  3062.  @bigboyshit1  what tax they've not paid any or years
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  3063. I'm doing an extension at the moment and have put in secondary insulation to bring the property up to near passive standard even with no windows in the temp difference outside to inside was huge there was no thermal transfer into the extension and the concrete floor stayed cool My secondary insulation was something called multifoil + an air cavity it works differently to the normal padded insulation
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  3064. Her endorsement has according to people that follow the data resulted in 408,000 clicks through to the voter registration within the 1st 24 hours The effect of Oprah on the Obama campaign is estimated to be +3 million D votes data analysts think it will be more with Swift
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  3065. If your middle or working class your going to see your overall tax burden decrease under labour as the rip out 14 years of Tory trickle down cr*p and expensive outsourcing and people's wages start to improve after 14 years of stagnation.
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  3066.  @christinemurray1444  tax has gone up per household since 2019 by 13,000 and Sunak's tax pledge to pensioners will be paid for by raising the pension age to 67 something that will add a £12,000 bill to my household. Labour's tax plans will affect asset and corporate wealth where most of the Tory tax rises are flowing into with the mistaken belief that trickle down works.
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  3067. Renewables are cheaper the Nations getting there 1st will have a huge competitive advantage in the world economy
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  3068. I'd put the 50% that now say they'll vote for Biden is pretty hardcore baked in the cake The protesters need to take a leaf out of the John Lewis playbook and make an active move to out the agitators.
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  3069. 16+ is reasonable given it would push more policies for younger voters the workforce of tomorrow
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  3070. Tories are a million miles from any other party They follow Supply Side Economic policy aka Thatcherism where everything can be bought in at a cheaper price it will be and damn the home grown industries that it undermines held slightly in check by being in the EU Labour, Greens, Plaid Cymru and even the Lib Dems advocate various forms of intervention Keynesian economic policy which is demand based, you improve the purchasing power to create more demand with better wages higher paying jobs using intervention in the market hopefully fairer tax policy. Even with the same tax basis you will start to see quite different results, if you take a straight line and move it by a few degrees by the end of the say 4 years that small shift will represent a large gap from its original course How much Labour can move the left of that straight line we shall see but green energy is a no brainer and being state owned will help lower costs in the market overall
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  3071. 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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  3072. ​@user-xk2ig4tc3f currently Tories are breaking thier own fiscal rules debt is going up at the same time the tax cuts are coming in, markets aren't going to sit by but at least Sunak's is drip drip
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  3073. Where does he find these loosers, how incompetent do you have to be to work in the administration
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  3074. What's with not wanting lower energy bills?
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  3075. Whitmore called him up on that after the twitter tirade after she called him out for supporting white nationalists
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  3076. That's what you get when you DeFund Social Services, DeFund The Justice system and Policing and Defund Youth Services Austerity what did you think would happen?
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  3077. This is a long form interview a conversation not just bullet points @aidandesilva 
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  3078. we've left what difference does it make? Brexit is a complete sh*tSh*w anyway and the Cons would struggle to tie their shoe laces on current form
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  3079. 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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  3080.  @Gph0367  there a recent podcast at politics joe
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  3081.  @SmithyD86  The Root cause of our economic problems are Austerity and Trickle down economic policy. Did you know we spent 20 billion on housing support last year? The reason why is councils being asset stripped by right to buy and then not replacing social housing stock also the Cons have pumped over 100 billion into these types of schemes over thier 2 main stints in office. House prices since 2010 have risen by 66% Average wages have fallen by -7%.
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  3082. The Tories have degraded the UK economy with their policies Those same policies have a direct impact on the need for more legal migration ex not training doctors and nurses suppressing pay in the Heath sector which is resulting in the one's that do qualify emigrating. Even if you turned that particular policy round tomorrow in the case of doctors it would take 7 years to fix + Brex1t is a multiplier were taking in 50% dependants now
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  3083. 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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  3084. It's a complete failure, the problem with it is as we've seen over the last 14 years when you start defunding the social floor the capitalist ladder stops working hence 12 years of stagnation followed by a 2 year reccesion as we are now drifting backward.
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  3085.  @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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  3086. Since when ? We still have Austerity if you hadn't noticed
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  3087. They already pay for their visa and an NHS tax
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  3088. ​ @KizzyKismet1 most of these far flung fields are uneconomical without 10s of billions in subsidies and tax breaks the golden age is over you'll nott see much in tax if anything from them
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  3089.  @KizzyKismet1  your economy will implode same way the GB one is doing now because of Brexit if you go independent but way worse. there's not loads of money in oil your better off pitching export and storage of wind energy.
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  3090. His flagship policy hss tanked our economy and seen migration quadruple Every privatisation has made us worse off and he wants to flog off the NHS
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  3091.  @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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  3092. Elon pays tax are you pulling my leg or what?
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  3093. How can it be screwed up he's only been in office 7 days?
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  3094. 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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  3095. well said
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  3096.  @anthonywilson8998  No I don't have a heat pump the system is configured to be heat pump ready and I double insulated when we had the extension work done at the same time as putting in the ground floor underfloor. Heat loss is a couple of degrees every 5/6 hours if its cold outside its not been on at all for months though if its not cold overnight the house stays fairly constant it also doesn't heat up that much either when it is scorching outside. Underfloor was similar cost to a radiator system when we took account of the pre routed floorboards and the time saving it gave on installation (plumber time). Secondary insulation is a couple of different products from YBS floorquilt and superquilt. Payback on the solar thermal is 8-10 years, the solar panels are inserts the roof needed doing so its fitting costs are moot as the scaffolding was there anyway electrical work was bundled in the 2nd fit I'd expect it to be higher than the solar thermal On a cost basis the Solar was done as a future proof I had the money so it was added.
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  3097. This is why the idea of small government is a complete crock
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  3098. Approximately 4 million who voted leave are no longer with us working through demographic and voter share by age data so how does that work?
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  3099. In what way the FT 250 is already up 1.18% business is happy the Tory psychodrama is over
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  3100. There's a lot of smoke? Coming out your arse mate
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  3101.  @1daxwood  are you really going to shill for the billionaire class?
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  3102. So he thought Trump was batguano Crazy welcome to the club
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  3103. 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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  3104. 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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  3105. Liib Dems and Labour are out of touch with the Billionaire class the. Fossil lobby and Millionaire Bank executives There's hot news for you
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  3106. There not bad it's the only centre right channel I listen to if you want unbiased then try the FT its pro capitalist but doesn't sugar coat the train wreck that is brex1t or our economy
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  3107. don't be ignorant these are human beings
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  3108. @TG-ts3xn  brex1t as a means of controlling migration was always going to fail, you were told before we left now accept responsibility and live with the consequences instead of this endless complaining.
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  3109. @patriciajohnson7658  not if you look at the stats crime broadly fell during his tenure then started to climb from 2015 onwards to its current record high. There's a huge economic cost with crime the cost from 2015 to present rises is estimated in the 10's of billions
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  3110. ​ @stanleypines1026 record SME'S going bankrupt, record net migration since loosing FOM, a currency worth -30% against the Euro and paperwork + 4ed tape a mile high
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  3111.  @BS-vx8dg  people just couldn't come here with FOM. There's loads of reasons but lack of labour regulations was a real driver post 2010 as it is today
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  3112. Hey excuse me but I thought the Republicans were in power, are we to assume that they can't do thier job and are so incompetent they can't sort funding an legislation to ensure a free and fair election yet hold all the levers of power? Pleeeeease stop my sides are splitting laughing 😂 these pumpkins don't deserve to be in office if there that firkin incompetent with a single skill set of Gaslighting
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  3113. GDP per capita is down 7 quarters straight
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  3114. Ahh the party of elites in the pocket of the billionaires gotcha
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  3115. A lot of people I know are hanging on to thier old car till they can get an electric why would you buy a new petrol car at this time gas prices are rising fossil insecurity has been displayed in the gas market
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  3116. since when did we live in a free country we've had a minority elected dictatorship which gets swapped out every now and then. I can't remember the last time a party got 50+% we've had crushing Tory rule and extreme Austerity on the back of 35% 36% 39% and 42% we not only left the EU we gave away access to the single market and lost our FOM because of it. At least the EU Parliament was representative not like the joke democracy we have with the House of Chums @grahamhobbs294
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  3117. when you build an economy around freedom of Movement you can't unbuild it all that will happen is it will spiral down the toilet and the valuable Labour resource you train will emigrate. Its happening already 500,000 people left the UK to pastures new last year over 1 million left to beat the exit deadline and as we were leaving Horizon many scientists left with that decision never to come back. When I retired after taking redundancy in 2018 around 1/4 of the workforce left for the EU or the US with another 1/4 retiring with the firm relocating to Holland and Poland @georgesdelatour 
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  3118. Biden's investment agenda over the renewable transformation will be dismantled with a 2nd trump term, its estimated that on its current course with the push to renewables, energy prices will fall by 50% by 2050
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  3119. Completely untrue even the Centerist Blair /Brown government saw a real increase in public sector pay and a 25% increase in average wages over their period in power including the introduction of the minimum wage. Cameron saw a -3% drop in real wages plus an -8% drop in Nurses pay plus the removal of grants for nurses the list goes on So basically shove the Tory lite bollox down the toilet where it belongs
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  3120.  @FriendlyFecker  CGT is fixed at 20% and you don't pay NI on it either Compare that to graduates who will pay 49.3%
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  3121. You wouldn't repeal it it takes too much time you'd just amend it its quicker Crime and Policing Bill is 300 pages a lot of the bad stuff was amended by the HOL but taken out by the government on second reading you could revisit their amendments whatever happens it eats up Parliamentary time which is desperately needed for other priorities
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  3122. ​@JonathanMorris777 400? I save that + just time shifting using the batteries and off peak without the solar. Your figures seem a little low
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  3123. @JonathanMorris777  my savings are down to time shifting + having domestic battery storage I have solar as well. Octopus offer 7p for overnight ev charging, my laundry and dishwasher are already time shifted to overnight in winter an EV will save me 2k a year on petrol. V2G looks interesting but car batteries aren't the same as the domestic ones currently they don't do as many cycles.
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  3124. It invests in a renewable grid which gives you access to cheaper electric You build it up front the energy input is free as opposed to squeezing the last ounce of profit from Gas stations all the while gas prices rise. 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.
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  3125.  @JasonKing-m6m  I can heat my house by just getting on my cross trainer it's that well insulated. Renewable energy is a fraction of the cost of Nuclear you could fit over 1 million homes with a 2 day battery with the change from an equivalent wind farm
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  3126. Who want's to know what the soon to be ex prime minister has to say No amount of GBN propaganda can save the Tories
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  3127. wonder how much you have to donate to get at least your Ideas read? My big idea is for the government to sponsor factory built modular houses which can be designed and pre built offsite given the shortages of bricklayers plumbers electricians etc. You need foundations and services then your house arrives on the back of a lorry and is constructed in under a week. Sponsor = guarantee buying a certain quantity, help with certification to standards etc there are already firms out there that do Kit homes and I'm aware people like brick but the idea is aimed at 1st time buyers the council sell them land cheap on the provision they build a starter home on it within 2/3 years and have a contract with a building company to guarantee foundations services round where I live the land is 1/2 the cost of the house
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  3128. ​ @OKnotOK09 the government then has to service the debts Total cost for nationalisation is around 80 billion and to fix the system you need +40 billion Your also reliant on funding from the City where currently 100% leveraged in debt to gdp thanks to the Tories
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  3129. Its like when the age of steam petered out, you can stick your head in the sand only so long
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  3130. Tory policy
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  3131. If theirs a fire then Trump will pour gasoline on it, if theirs a way of dividing people Trump will find away of pitting friend against friend Trump is the agent of chaos and he's just getting started, everything Trump touches dies
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  3132. Rage how dare they try and clean up the air we breath its outrageous and only having since 2016 to sort out a compliant vehicle how dare they charge my old pollution belching diesel van? I just checked euro 6 diesel was mandatory back in 2015 this is a nothing burger
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  3133.  @darrinhawkins8087  fastest growing economy my ar5e what you saw was 2 million immigrants while GDP per capita fell as we all got poorer One born every minute, how easy was it to fool you?
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  3134. It's not mass its 100 - 150k a year on a population of 70 million its 0.002%
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  3135. What BLM riots?
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  3136.  @cockybalboa2  Inner city riots are the results of poverty bad housing deprivation and unemployment the people rioting and looting are the usual collection of low life's, criminals looters that breed in these conditions. There's multiple academic papers on the subject and the conclusion is pretty much the same they just piggy backed onto a protest, in the case of where George Floyd was murdered you have the added grievance and provocateurs of all stripes turning up none of them poor or local just coming to cause trouble. And you can't really make it political odds are non to a handful of the rioters even vote
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  3137. we will see, one of the new MP's is Torsten Bell ex resolution Foundation is currently a Cabinet Secretary I'm unsure on Reeve her everyday economy stuff is an anathema to NeoLiberlism but the stuff she has come out with since taking office have been weird and don't fill you with much confidence. Still real economists in government is at least a start
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  3138. He's such a baby, he lies through his teeth and gets away with it, as soon as he's called out kaboom steam out of every orifice. Why don't the press call him a lier when he pedals this crap
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  3139.  @Shamilt3  what I find difficult to understand is why you people keep going with this delusional stuff, Trump was just a show he was fkin useless the echo chamber that's spewed round him is like a cottage industry of fakers and grifters. The guy is nothing but a two bit con man with a string of failed businesses. Take cyber ninja's for instance they've not a fkin clue how to run an audit and seem barley able to grasp how network and ballot software work or the fact that paper ballots are printed on special security paper or that the counting machines can spot dodgy ballots just by their weight and water marks. Yet they have people like you believing in the most insane sht you've ever heard of.
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  3140. People will vote Labour because they want the public services to work, not have sewage in the river, remove RAAC from schools and Hospitals and fix the pot holes What are you voting for?
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  3141. Net zero reduces energy costs quote The €12bn value of grid-scale battery storage for Germany A decisive tool for the energy transition: grid-scale battery storage in Germany will generate €12 billion in economic welfare gains, new study finds. There are loads of estimates on savings from experts and only tw*ts like Nige telling us that we need to keep on internationally traded commodities
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  3142. yea because the problem with our economy shrinking isn't right wing policies that have repeatedly failed why not do the same with a different hat on and make ourselves even poorer
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  3143. The Asylum problem has exploded exponentially since Brexit its almost as if working closely with your partners and allies has real benefits Now we have an insane policy costing millions complete logjam in the system and a promise that a concentration camp in East Africa is the answer as the British Government engages in people trafficking Quote from the ECONOMIST It is far too easy to run lawbreaking businesses in Britain The Tories are obsessed by small boats. They should stop the dodgy car washes and sweet shops instead Always judge a man by his shoes. What works as a rule of thumb for fashionistas also works for people rooting out dodgy employers in Britain. The best way to check whether a car wash is legitimate is to look at the workers’ feet, says Mary Creagh, the chair of Ethical Trading Initiative, which looks at labour abuses. A legal operation will have workers in proper boots, as they scrub vehicles by hand. A dodgy one will see poor souls scrubbing cars in soaking trainers. If a business is skimping on wellies, it is probably breaking other rules—whether paying below the minimum wage or hiring people who do not have the right to work in Britain. Hand car washes, of which there are at least 5,000 across Britain, are the archetypal example of Britain’s black-market economy. Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, fears that the tens of thousands of people who cross the Channel in small boats each year will “just disappear” into this economy unless something is done. The government has launched a crackdown on arrivals, signing a £479m ($575m) deal with France to stop migrants and announcing draconian new laws to detain and deport those who make the crossing. But as the government panics about small boats, it ignores the reason why many make the trip: the Conservatives have made it too easy to run a lawbreaking business in Britain.
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  3144. If all the young people voted they could push for debt relief and free universities because they don't and the Tory base is pensioners they get screwed. The young need to get politically active
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  3145. He was DPD so couldn't pass anything it was done by Cameron because he would be paid x4 in the private sector as a perk
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  3146. Corbyn isn't in the Labour party anymore catch up
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  3147.  @daviddavidk2352  The jobless north has been a project since Thatcher, Blair staunched the bleeding but they never reversed the trend of massive investment in the south and sweet FA in the North
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  3148.  @alidawson6118  no there not there left of centre Thhe current lot in power aren't even Conservative there that far right
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  3149. 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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  3150. Norway
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  3151. vote for a more extreme version of the Tories cause we haven't had enough populism with Boris we need rogering some more with farage The man that is partly responsible for tripling migration really? Experts told you migration would increase if you removed FOM project fear you called it, how's it working out?
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  3152. ​@kevinsimpson-dw6vuAs of 2026 all UK EV have to be 60% made in Britain to qualify for tariff free export to the EU We don't make batteries so all UK car manufacturing will close
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  3153. The government are pouring around 100 billion in tax breaks to the fossil lobby yet your moaning about people protesting get real The agenda is to block the switch over to renewables to maintain their profit base The government spent 12 billion last year propping up energy prices whil slow rolling cheap renewables solutions
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  3154. The guy is completely spineless anyone with half a cent of pride would have told Donald where to stick his coup At least the Jordons of this world have values loathsome as they mabe McCartney is pure snake
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  3155. Polling put her on +17% during her hissy fit week the Tories dropped 2 points to 23% Labour gained 3 to 47% You need to get out more you've gotten yourself into a bubble
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  3156. He's got to take an upgraded course in gaslighting
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  3157. Sean Putin has run his country into the ground it's GDP is now less than Italy he holds power through control of the country's oil and gas the place is crumbling it's a failed state yet you hold it up as a role model?
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  3158. Corbyn is a waste of space Doesn't have a viable plan on how to do it then still doesn't now
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  3159. ​ @elvishprincess321 we have a fiscally far right Thatcherite in charge who is doling out trickle down tax breaks like confetti, even rolling back a few of them will divert over 100 billion to a more worthy area.
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  3160. Higher Corp taxes actually encourage reinvestment because it's tax deductible, if you pay your workers more or employ more of them that's tax deductible too there are loads of ways to either forward or reverse your companies tax liability. At the end of the day You only pay tax on profit and the only reason you declare a profit is generally to pay that money out weather it's to the owners or shareholders
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  3161.  @mak88119  so the Republican answer to everything is what a tax cut for the rich! Gut social and healthcare programs for the poor so there even poorer and completely incapable of bettering themselves. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, Republican version Give a man a tenth of a fish keep the rest for yourself and use the money allocated to teach him to fish on a tax cut.
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  3162. Cracking down on the rich not paying their taxes would get more money in
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  3163. 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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  3164. You put a Clown into government he doesnt become a Leader the Government becomes a Circus Cummings thought he could be the ringmaster - what an arrogant mysognistc turd of a human being As for Johnson the Con party needs disolving its assets siezed and the lot of them made to start again what a disgrace
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  3165. The boats started when the Tories shut down LEGAL ways of applying for asylum. Total numbers being accepted are around 62,000 a year so its not the big issue you think it is and could be cured almost overnight, there is no solution that involves zero
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  3166. A net zero grid produces energy at a cheaper price than a fossil based grid One of the ways you can save money on your bill is have home battery storage it opens up cheap overnight tariffs and gives you high peak time export tariffs
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  3167. When the problem is lack of social and physical infrastructure investment tighter regulations on water companies a party promising tax cuts and deregulation isn't the answer. Liz thought us the 1st part quite starkly didn't she children
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  3168.  @oldshiny3012  there is no borrowing available to spend on tax cuts The reason the market went loopy over doing it was it doesn't grow the economy and deregulation makes polution worse not better
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  3169.  @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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  3170. Not so they started bleeding Labour votes towards UKIP post 2012, Labour have since built a new coalition but Boris thought he could use them in 2019 which led to him getting rid of the moderates and embracing UKIP's populism into a highly unstable coalition
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  3171. Port Talbot is closing because of brex1t and the EU carbon tariffs coming in in 2026
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  3172. We don't have a recession the economy is booming which is part of the reason we have a higher than anticipated inflation rate
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  3173.  @mspaic10  2% inflation means stagnation in wage growth especially at the bottom, the labour shortages means realignment from a low wage economy with added few points of inflation + oil prices anyway it should settle fairly quickly
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  3174. @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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  3175. 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 Labour 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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  3176. It's got nothing to do with regulations in fact they need to be upped so that all houses and extensions are double insulated. I've just had a large extension built aside from thermal efficiency standards being too low if you skip inspection and checks you get cowboy builders even with the checks currently there are still people having to have part built structures tore down and rebuild because there not safe. Planning needs changing yes but the biggest issue is the system is developer led local people are always up in arms because of the lack of infrastructure to support the new builds. No public transport to them no nearby doctors no cycle lanes old road can't take traffic flows
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  3177. Thatcher bribed the electorate with a once in a lifetime sale, asset stripping services giving away homes and using huge oil revenues for tax cuts. Thatcherism is a complete failure We have water companies pumping raw sewage into rivers debt laden to the point of Bankruptcy Councils with no housing stock spending near 1/2 their budgets on housing support which goes straight to the private sector making near 1/3 of councils on the verge of bankruptcy and The energy companies will charge UK consumers +140 billion in excess profits over 2021 prices this coming year The roots of this economic Crisis are in Thatcherism and the economic model she pedalled
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  3178. The roots of the current problems lie with Osborne and Austerity,, as a policy it didn't work and all doing trickle down does is make things worse
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  3179. With the passage of time the remain voter total gets larger, I put at 55% working on demographic data
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  3180.  @danceteachermom  oh of course there doing this secret thing it's oh a grandconspiracy yada yada talk about gullible all Trump did was slow the process down and shovel millions to friends of friends contractor's the Republicans didn't do anything when they could have and won't now because they can go around shouting
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  3181.  @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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  3182. The billionaire class are so effin selfish this is about the last Trump tax cut for corporations and the wealthy which is due to expire in the next term its already added 3.5 trillion to the debt
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  3183.  @TrinhNguyen-sh4fj  it depends on proximity and how close your having to get to people , in enclosed spaces even the six feet rule can still not adequate enough.
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  3184. ​@hetrodoxly1203 they are vectors for cross infection making out and karaoke not the most hygienic of past times
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  3185. The takeover by the Oligarchs has only just begun
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  3186. ​@Jimboy1611 it's the irony of it all that gets me Braverman is in one of the safest Con seats in the country and she's not even Conservative vying to be the next UKIP leader soz meant Conservative All noise zero results
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  3187. There refugees not illegals The West's insatiable appetite for Oil Gas and Minerals drives wars, wars result in refugees its an unsolvable problem so the best thing to do is accept it happens and deal with it. The gesture politics telling you that it can somehow be fixed is a complete lie and all that will happen is billions of pounds will be pissed away in failed policies which are designed for appearance only. So I have an idea why not send NHS recruiters to France and get all the Afghan refugees who are Doctor and Nurses fast tracked over here, there's a chronic shortage of lorry drivers as well.
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  3188. The ECHR is the last refuge against government overreach and corruption just go ask the hillsborough families It's main aim was to stop Europe descending into fascism again
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  3189. You can't debate someone who has an alternate reality
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  3190. 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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  3191. No she means reduce corporation tax which will go to the 1% in dividends and bung it on debt increasing inflation forcing the Bank of England to raise interest rates
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  3192. @pip1723  Osborne still defends it, there was an extensive economics paper in 2013 which put real numbers on its cost. OBR estimated an economic multiplier of 0.5 the real number proved to be 1.6 actually shrinking the economy in real terms. Even the IMF back in 2013 told Osborne it wasn't working he went ahead with his small state mantra
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  3193. you can't negotiate with a terrorist all they understand is raw power political economic and on the battlefield there will be no negotiation
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  3194. He's literally put 20 billion more in the last budget Dream on
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  3195. Why would you have an independent labour candidate split the vote and allow the Tories 5 more years of wanton destruction?
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  3196.  @sadiemallyon829  it really isn't complicated as I said she could simply claim she paid her brother £5000 for maintenance of the flat over 6 years There are no paper trails and hmrc won't be interested because there are so many ways round paying such a small amount Q did you spend more than £5000 on maintenance over 6 years - yes Q Do you have receipts- no it was 10 years ago Hmrc - thank you Ms Rayner case closed
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  3197.  @sadiemallyon829  The police aren't investigating the tax situation that's for sure. All that is right wing noise
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  3198.  @jonsmith5058  I'll tackle energy 1st the current blocks on Grid roll out are with planning. If you want to do a lot with little money focus on people's homes. Get them insulated, this isn't easy you need standarised solutions. Get more onto the grid quicker by expanding current onshore/offshore sites and domestic installations of solar. I have Thermal solar it caters for 75% of my hot water averaged over the year New houses built to near passive standard etc NHS is simple sort out social care, get rid of the paperwork, internal market and trusts with management duplication
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  3199. From the Telegraph City backs Labour as Mark Carney claims Truss turned Britain ‘into Argentina Quote from Mark Carney Speaking at the Global Progress Action Summit in Canada, he said: “When Brexiteers tried to create Singapore on the Thames, the Truss government instead delivered Argentina on the Channel Were the laughing stock of the w9rld under the Tories
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  3200. Cutting spending doesn't cut the deficit in the way you think it does. Every $1 the government spends has an economic multiplier, if for example the defence cuts have an economic multiplier of 0.8 you need to cut 10 trillion to save 2 You then have the problem of what do you do with all the unemployment you've created and the rapid shrinking of GDP will result in loosing the 2 trillion in reduced tax receipts.
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  3201. Outside Tice's GBN bubble he's been getting a hard time, if you dig into the manifesto there's 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts as well as fracking
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  3202.  @vincentdegennaro3375  Governments run services and privatising them will always cost the population more. Utilities are also not a business they have a captured monopoly and again will always cost more to the customer if privatised. Supply side economics has been debunked time and again Here we see high personal taxation with low taxation on corporate and unearned income leading to a spiralling cycle of negative wage growth and high inflation shorn up with huge levels of debt (Stagflation).
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  3203. Thatcher was able to cut tax because of Oil revenues (running at 3.5% GDP) Asset stripping (sales of Water & Electricity) + Globalisation (shutting down our heavy industry) Its a 1 off it can never be done again so here's what is actually happening to the economy Fiscal Drag has added £500 to everybody's tax bill that pays basic rate 20% because of inflation 11,000 20% 2016 43,000 40% 12,570 20% 2023 50,270 40% 14,305 20% 2016 figures put into the BOE inflation calculator 55,920 40% That money is being used for such things as the Millionaire Pensioner tax break of 2 billion This takes money from the working economy and injects it into the ASSET economy, non of that 2 billion is spent it actually shrinks UK GDP by 2 Billion making the problem worse removing IHT will do the same thing it affects the top 4% of the population
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  3204.  @indogoUI  take away his paid holiday leave as an example and see how he likes removing embedded worker protection laws
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  3205. Yea like Truss Sunak and Gove would never and I mean never and can I say never stab Boris in the back unless its a secret ballot that is
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  3206. ​Contuing with GAS will cost double the cost of Net Zero transition In 2021 uk consumers spent 30 billion on energy of which renewables where the cheapest source In 2023 uk consumers will pay 170 billion of which renewables will be x7 cheaper than GAS Net zero spend comes out of the government and needs to come quickly to reduce the ongoing 140 billion in excess energy profits
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  3207. There right wing I listen regularly, there just not as biased as the rest of the pack The News Agents are centrist New Statesman left leaning I stick with them for balance and quality is fairly high with decent investigative pieces If you want economic information you need specialist contributors the level of understanding in MSM is p1ss poor
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  3208.  @johnbrooks3832  Us being used as a staging post to get round EU trade deals with other nations and as a back door into the market was the big Boris plan unfortunately this has been a non no from day one the longer this went on the worse its got for the UK to the point where if we get a deal were screwed if we don't get a deal were doubly screwed with a cherry on top.
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  3209. Killed by them not dealing with the energy crisis, they could have accelerated the Transition to net zero 2 years ago saving UK consumers billions instead there lying about its benefits and jumping on a short term media bandwagon that understands nothing or is sponsored by the fossil industry. We still have an onshore wind ban and no accelerated planning permission for Grid and infrastructure rollout 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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  3210. Converting from a zero hour contract proposal isn't mandatory from the workers prospective in the proposal. Someone doing full time hours on zero hour can't get finance, cant get a mortgage and is often denied holiday and sick pay, it has been serially abused by the GiG economy as well as outsource agencies to create a low wage economy. 40% of benefit claimants are in work this is a huge burden on State finances 20 billion was spent on housing support last year again why are the government subsidising a low wage economy through taxation?
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  3211. Its pointless raising interest rates the inflation is supply side on inelastic commodities food and energy. If you want to tackle inflation tax the expected 170 billion in EXCESS PROFITS @75/80% pump it back to consumers only exception is households with their own private swimming pools. Reduce the money supply with a 1 off wealth tax
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  3212. 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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  3213. 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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  3214. Notthing like complete electoral suicide InActoinMan strikes again another do nothing policy and pretend it will all go awsy
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  3215. NI have it minted, they have free access to the single market and free access to the GB market It will be the fastest growing economy in Europe if they stick to the protocol
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  3216. I said that when Thatcher came to power, the one and only time I voted Tory was when Ted Heath was leader
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  3217. Tariffs will start a trade war that will impact 3 trillion in US exports combined with mass deportation and Musk taking a chainsaw to government departments sending the US economy into a depression and causing a world recession. The follow on impacts are a run on the dollar and the Dow collapsing
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  3218. Why would you support a populist bunch of out of touch elites pandering to your social bias?
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  3219. Could run a bath let alone the economy What Car does Sunak Drive A Ford Fiasco Boom Boom
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  3220. @Phaedrus Moros There are multiple studies that show religious groups overlap with child grooming "A recent literature review by a University of Alberta cult expert and his former graduate student paints a startling and consistent picture of institutional secrecy and widespread protection of those who abuse children in religious institutions "in ways that often differ from forms of manipulation in secular settings."
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  3221. ​​ @zenouxbeauty due to fiscal drag my effective tax rate has gone up from 20% to 33% Due to energy costs going up above inflation due to Tory mismanagement of a Public monopoly that effective tax rat sits at 60% Investment in infrastructure such as GBENERGY has an economic multiplier of 1.6 while the recent tax break for millionaire pensioners of 4 billion has a multiplier of around 0.10 Moving away from fossil will reduce prices and start to decouple the economy away from world commodity shock Virtually everything that's falling apart and stopping working you can put down to Thatcherism and it's failure long term
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  3222. There's a good interview with economist Torsten Bell on PoliticsJoe which goes through the hard choices facing any new administration and labelling the Autumn statement as economic fiction Even small changes can have big consequences Hunt's budget is shrinking public service budgets post April to a level that would see them completely collapse to pay for the tax cuts. We will be going into the election poorer than we were in 2019 and the OBR don't expect wages to recover to pre 2008 levels till 2028
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  3223. here plan won't work We have Supply Side Corporate Inflation on inelastic essential commodities, creating more demand balloons the cost which in turn increases Inflation if you wanted to grow the economy you'd address the shortage of energy by both increasing supply (onshore wind is the quickest) and reduce demand ( insulation) address the food shortages by growing more food in the UK because of leaving the EU our gdp has fallen by 4.5% we have 1.3 million vacancies exporters have a red tape and tarrif bill of 10 billion per annum and net exports are plummeting with sales to the EU falling by 30% gilt yields have risen sharply by 2% adding 15 billion to the uk debt bill basically while the Tories are in power as a country where fked
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  3224. 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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  3225. Zero hour low pay and outsourcing is a huge factor in migration and recruitment from abroad to fill low paid jobs. Also Contributes to councils spending 20 billion on housing support and 40% of benefit claimant being in work Labour are there to run a country not dole out taxpayer money to subsidise business as the Tories have for 14 years
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  3226. There under pressure to govern andget things working The state of public services after 14 years of cuts is abysmal and the majority of people will pay higher tax because of fiscal drag + wages are falling, gdp per capita has been negative for 7 quarters propped up by 1.25 million visas
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  3227. 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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  3228. Why did the SNP waste parliamentary time on a pointless vote? We have a cost of everything crisis
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  3229. A lot of them have passed on given it was daytime watching tv dribbling pensioners that bought this sh1t Last time I did the calc it was -3 million at the leave end and + 3 million new young voters
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  3230. Sunak wasn't British he was part of an increasing global elite with homes in multiple countries. Badenoch is plain weird, like Braverman thinks she is part of some ruling class and that migrants and the low paid are scum to be abused
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  3231. There would be hell to pay and would result in a redraw of the court, you can't run a country like that
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  3232. Dumber than voting for the magic unicorn party? The issue is right wing economic policy that needs a constant supply of migrant Labour why will voting for a Party that promises the same economic model but by the power of magic Unicorns doesn't need the migrant Labour? If you want lower immigration you need to change the tax model increase taxes and spend it on training the domestic workforce as well as other infrastructure spending
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  3233. @leonardeast4971  I agree she needed to raise money but it was a very Brown budget that only partly addressed the problem. The NI hike was a typical political gotcha to Sunak pre spending all Labour intended tax by dropping employers without funding. + Really bad comms for the other changes. By the way my hospital now has 20 million to remove RAAC.
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  3234. This is the Trickle down Supply Side Economy the Tories have built with Millionaire Billionaire wealth doubling during the pandemic Sunak's budgets have been full of tax breaks for the rich tax hikes for middle and lower class ex Millionaire pensioner tax break V Fiscal drag for middle and Lower Class This is the economy the the Tories have built for the 1% whose wealth they won't touch enjoy your Turnip Serfs Quote Luxury goods boom in Britain as super-rich youngsters buck the recession Rich kids fuel sales of brands such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci They’re young, rich and mortgage-free, and the scions of the 1% are having a roaring twenties. Despite the economic gloom currently shrouding the UK and many other western countries, sales of luxury brands have been booming and growing numbers of buyers are young adults. Swiss watches, Louis Vuitton trainers, rare Birkin bags and 81-year-old whiskies are among the products that are fuelling impressive growth in the bottom lines of luxury brands such as LVMH, Burberry and Kering. Imports of Swiss watches to the UK were up by 31% in the first half of 2022, according to the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry – the average spend at the Watches of Switzerland group being about £6,000. Meanwhile, sales of watches below £2,500, sometimes referred to as “mid-range”, are falling.
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  3235. Not like the pair will be missed Rwanda is a complete waste of money - bring on the election so I can canvas and tell people how much money this bunch of loosers are wasting
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  3236. The fact that he sanctioned 3 non uk residents who were already on the US naughty list not really a response has Putin got compromat on Boris?
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  3237. Badly managed and they refuse to change the planning laws so we have endless arguments about the route and end up digging expensive tunnels for nimby's
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  3238. We introduced the paperwork oh and the additional 24 vat codes and the cabotage limit and we were responsible for the shellfish limitations its called third country status. We had a choice to leave the EU but stay in the single market Boris chose Apocalypse now.
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  3239. 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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  3240. 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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  3241. ​ @slizoski26 Biden has passed bills putting 2 trillion into American infrastructure over the next 10 years boosting the economy and rewiring it to renewable energy Trump spent 3.5 trillion on a corporate tax cut that went straight to debt and was used to artificially boost the stock by share buy backs creating boom bust conditions, same stunt Bush pulled except when the sh1t hit the fan this time the tax cuts were far bigger and the spray far worse.
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  3242. @arfurdaylee  I'm just good at maths unlike Sunak, how's the 1.25 million legal visas 1/2 of which are dependents going?
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  3243. Oh well at least he's dragging his Party down the toilet through the sewer into the cesspit of oblivion Tactical voting in both by elections was the worst possible outcome for the Cons and there is no quick fix to the economy its going to get worse
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  3244. It's on the website these are just key points for campaigning
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  3245. Anyone can be a Tory member and vote for the PM 16/17 has been labour policy and ex pats can't vote but if you're living here from the commonwealth you can So whatever
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  3246. what's wrong with stopping the Tory gravy train for the wealthy and spending it on services
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  3247. Why should it make you afraid its targeting bad actors who are hell bent on causing trouble and promoting insane beliefs they've picked up from the internet. Trying to force feed insane shit and lies, then overreacting because no one else will listen to lunatic ravings deserves some cooling off time in a jail as well as some mental health therapy.
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  3248.  @miniaturepainter8805  average cost of a family farm near me is 2.5 million (Yorkshire) Feel lucky no one has 600 acres round here it's more like 100-150.
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  3249. wasted vote we need the Tories out
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  3250. Why do you want the US economy to go into recession?
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  3251. 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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  3252. Since the riot the GOP are loosing thousands of registered Republican party members who are switching mostly to independent
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  3253. Traitor
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  3254.  @vatsmith8759  That's what you get in Tory Britain where everything is outsourced to mates at cheapest price
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  3255. By structural investment Biden is making the US the world leader in renewable tech Unlike Do nothing but tax cuts and debt Trump How galling it must be that a Democrat is making American great again?
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  3256. If you want to sanction Putin clobber the Oligarchs, clean out the Putin cash from the Tory Party the 4 he named were on the US list years ago Also put in a plan to be free from Russian oil and gas ASAP
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  3257.  @amirmxd  If you look at their voter demographic there to widely spread across England The 2 seats won by Tice and Farage are a couple of he most deprived areas in the UK, Reform feed on misery
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  3258.  @fang_xianfu  3.6% to be exact and the bulk of rich people avoid it to be fair if you read into it even if your on the fringes you can plan round it
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  3259. He's an ignorent bigot was kicked out of labour for it
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  3260. He's a xenophobic misogynistic mess, with great power comes great responsibility "I'm not responsible at all" If I were China I'd be very tempted to dump some of the trillions in US treasury bonds on the market and watch wall Street tail spin just to shut the Orange idiot up.
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  3261. Labour will invest in ukplc reducing the need to import say nurses Reform are promising tax cuts how does that work?
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  3262. 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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  3263. Investment in Green infrastructure has an economic multiplier of 1.6 The sooner we get off gas the cheaper energy will be plus being bonded slaves to world commodity markets
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  3264. Structural investment isn't a sunk cost you have an asset that generates money at the end of it. It will also generate further GDP in onshoring energy production and jobs > than the capital cost @danielwebb8402 
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  3265. California are dealing with the rise in demand by increasing the energy efficiency standards and insulation standards of all new and major refurbishment builds
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  3266. Food inflation isn't caused by the increase in money supply, you could blame consumer spending on luxury goods for that. Its caused by scarcity along with increases in supply chain costs The economy is expanding at its faster rate since 1980 the Fed has already announce an end to Tapering they will also raise rates. The balance to be struck is to keep the economic boom that is under way maintaining high employment while introducing interest rates that will stymie inflation growth. A small amount of inflation is actually good for the economy (3.5-5%) it shows that wages are growing with inflation at say 1-2% your into a place where wage growth is low and there's a level of stagnation in the system.
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  3267. 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.25 Jul 2023 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.30 Aug 2022 read obr report Fiscal risks and sustainability – July 2023 @met54 
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  3268.  @Exodus26.13Pi  why would we renewables are cheaper and are not tied to world commodity prices, I'm retired have built a large extension with double insulation floor roof and cealing plus changed to underfloor heating and solar thermal for hot water my energy consumption has fallen by 80%. Onshore wind reached price parity with gas back in 2019 nuclear is currently x3 the cost of wind and there are multiple technologies in the pipeline for storage
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  3269. Garage's monopoly money economics would completely tank the economy
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  3270. When the curtain fell on migration a million people had left the UK 10% where UK residents the reason this hurts so much is where sitting on a demographic time bomb with an ageing population and a low birth rate. Government where told the consequences of a hard Brexit that it would knacker the economy leading to acute labour shortages but it was labelled project fear. We are also undergoing a brain drain if your skilled then there is no problem getting a work visa in the EU they have shortages as well, the IT company I used to work for before early retirement relocated to Holland leaving a satellite in the UK moving the bulk of its staff or offering redundancy. The only way of increasing work participation without migration is investment in Women and young couples to provide the environment where its not a huge financial burden to have kids often removing one of the couple from the workforce by providing subsidized high quality childcare after school clubs holiday clubs social housing child tax credits.
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  3271. There are also other structural factors, a lot of the current economy and employment is built on sand one heavy storm and it will wash away, the infrastructure is falling apart, the March to automation in the next 5 years has just been given an accelerator pedal. You can see over in California how it's going to go
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  3272. If you have wipe downs masks and limited people in a space plus testing it could be manageable but even going for a haircut with all that in place increases the vectors of infection. Without adequate backup, guidelines and protocols it's just asking for trouble. The other thing is the majority are going to self social distance so all this does is screw over small businesses and thier employees as trade will be at about 20% max pre virus
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  3273. Everyone knows the Press an the Tories will hound Labour for any move on Asylum I thought it was a smart move to focus on the Smugglers rather than what the Tories have done the Smuggled and also stand up and say they will clear the backlog (There being 6-8 billion reasons for doing that). I'd expect a full on attack on Conservative failure and a focus on how much money their policy is costing Funnily enough the Mail and Express where more concerned about reaching some sort of agreement with the EU and reentering European security groups
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  3274.  @vermont741  I'm hoping the judge asks for a Psyche evaluation before dishing the sentence
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  3275. Trade barriers create additional costs its not rocket science Your also getting increased legal migration because dependents also predictable Our SME economy which is mostly outside London has been absolutely hammered they employ 60% of the British workforce, prices will continue to climb for the foreseeable future
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  3276. Times radio do focus group analysis last months was pretty daming for the Tories worth a listen it on a podcast called Polotics without the boring Bits from the 6th of feb
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  3277. Trump can't break 42% approval on a good day and these are not good days, 55% disapprove and between 3-5% are agnostic on the topic. Poll after poll shows 50% wouldn't vote for him under any circumstances just look at the chants at the RGB memorial of Vote him out. The GOP are signing thier own death warrant if they try go along with the Mango Mousolini, "Everything Trump Touches Dies"
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  3278. He was kicked for not towing the party line just like he didn't under Blair Brown but Starmer had the bottle to suspend him
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  3279. Blair was centrist we've had hard right economic policy for 14 years hence shite economy
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  3280. Pathetic whataboutism Tory boy My father fought in ww2 he didn't behave like an entitled pig
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  3281. GOP doing gods work in campaigning for the Dem's
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  3282. I've already voted and it's not for that bunch that's for sure
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  3283. 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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  3284.  @LordOfLight  by 2010 debt to GDP was 62% a full 2 years after the crash by 2016 it was 82% a full 8 years after the banking crash by 2019 it was 92%. The Current tories haven't balanced the budget in 14 years. They've also destroyed the UK economy with Brexit and Austerity before putting the final nail in with the Truss surprise
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  3285. Productivity is low because the Tories are London centric If you want higher productivity you really do have to level up and on a massive scale of social and physical infrastructure not tinker round the edges. The Tory agenda is more like punching down
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  3286.  @seanhuds7351  There spinning you a yarn about the ECHR we have obligations to refugees under the UN convention on Refugees. The free market Tories want completely open borders get a grip of your Tory factions only the English Nationalists are for throwing rocks at dinghies. There's a process for assessing Asylum applicants which is being broken and gummed up to create political theatre. Current stats are 80,000 applicants 20% rejected on average so were taking in 62,000. 500,000 emigrated from the UK last year the government issued 1.3 million work / student visas.
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  3287. 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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  3288. lets sack everyone with scientific knowledge and skills and put in a load of mouthpieces from Fox, that will work fine they can make sure everyone is on message as they battle a major pandemic
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  3289. what damage?
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  3290. @paarker  yea I mean +25% average wage growth during his period in office, were much better of in a low wage stagnation Tory economy withcrumpling public services NOT
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  3291. Labour are solely focusing on the Atheist vote with 48% of the population I would point out that Islam is 5%
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  3292. Clue is in the name Whip part of Mistress Patel's dungeon no doubt
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  3293. cough inflation quote from the ONS Total goods exports fell by £0.1 billion (0.3%) in October 2023, after the effect of inflation is removed. Exports to the EU decreased by £0.9 billion (7.0%)
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  3294. He's not going to make it much past Xmas before Sunak will be forced to call an election There's already trouble brewing over Dodgy Dave from Brexit Ultra's now IDS and the anti chyna crowd are going to get riled up + Bravermans crew
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  3295. Starmer is proposing you just organize and have specialist units to deal with it its not rocket science as a specialist in certain areas of IT I can do in a couple of hours what would take a graduate weeks. The problem with the Tories is they look at everything as a hedge fund manager you get rid of that experienced specialist that costs a lot and replace him with a graduate or not at all to save money without looking at the impact to service levels or that your storing problems for the future
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  3296. Trump has opened the Pandora's box of political violence his latest stunt has seen Springfield campuses closed with shooting and bomb threats with legal migrants especially targeted
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  3297. Renewable energy is the cheapest on the grid by a large margin has been since 2019
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  3298. And average wages have fallen since 2010 by -6.1% the economy is completely stagnant with gdp per capita falling poverty increasing and spending on housing support reaching 20 billion
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  3299.  @EnglishTurbines  Non because the Government refuses to let them out on licence so they can contribute to the economy while their asylum claim is processed 80% are granted it and 80,000 are in the system and the Home office only processed 18,000 last year its pathetic. Its 1 big con set up for maximum PR so they can bang the immigrant gong and like Pavlov's dogs you lot come running out slavering all over the place. There is no magic solution once the refugees and economic migrants are in western Europe its too late they need processing if you were going to stop them it needs dealing with at source, the Economic migrants countries more than likely need aid the Refugees need the west to stop having wars.
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  3300. ​ @walkaz the current talk in EU countries is 30,000 our totals have more than doubled since Brexit last year it was 80,000 So 30,000 + say 20,000 more sounds a good deal to me As this year its going to be near the 100,000 It's a better offer than what InActionMan is proposing housing migrants indefinitely at a current cost of 8 billiona year and escalating
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  3301.  @RE-ng5uw  no there's not evolution and genetic diversity produces all sorts from one sex to complete hermaphrodite we've had women with huge levels of natural testosterone men with abnormally low levels, men born with no penis women born with no euterus etc
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  3302. ​ @abishev doesn't matter what there stripe council finances have been decimated by cuts and asset stripping
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  3303. Except she is far right and has been for decades
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  3304. ​ @Ole-sf4ps farage can mouthpiece whatever he wants with no consequences he'd make a right pigs ear of it
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  3305. Yet he oversaw +20% in average wages all we've had in 14 years from the Tories is decline while spending 1.5 trillion in debt doing it which is 3 times the total debt accrued by every Labour government added together
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  3306. Is brexit safe with Labour? Brexit is dead, it died with the Truss experiment both Sunak and now Starmer will look for off ramps. Its even tripled migration
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  3307. Your judging that solely on his speeches in Parliament Governing the country doesn't involve being an angry Scotsman, why the focus on personality politics
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  3308. She's an ERG Brexit Ultra Anyone who thinks cratering trade for SME'S with trade barriers is deluded
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  3309. Biden's economic stats will elevate him as one of the best ever Presidents, he has laid the groundwork for the most successful economic period in US History, infrastructure, strategic production, Jobs, investment now it's KH's turn to finish the job The guy is a miracle worker given the dumpster fire he was left God bless you Joe
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  3310. they've set in motion a housing crash and a really deep recession
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  3311. Their last witness was proven to be a chinese spy quote GOP House 'informant' indicted on allegations he was an agent for China Gal Luft, 57, was charged with acting as an unregistered agent for the Chinese government, trafficking weapons and lying to federal agents. The Republicans running this are a joke and complete laughing stock they don't appear to have 2 brain cells between them to rub together
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  3312. if you kept up with the tech renewables reached parity with gas on energy costs back in 2019 and EV's achieved cost parity with ICE this year and that's before economies of scale kick in. We have the worst insulated housing stock in Europe and the offer is what exactly get everyone up to A+ standards and save consumers 100's of billions? No way Tice's attitude is working people can fk off and keep paying outrageous amounts to the energy companies cos we don't care were not going to regulate to improve your life and wellbeing
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  3313. Nige talks utter bilge he appears to know nothing about anything he's the guy at the end of the bar talking endless bollox
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  3314.  @williamrae9954  only if you call helping wreck the country with his Tory enablers success
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  3315. That may be but they get considerably disproportionately richer under the Cons Under Blair/Brown average wages rose by 25% Under Cameron/May/Johnson they have fallen by -6% I wasn't a Blaire fan but 12 years of Tory Austerity and I'd take anyone that wasn't Conservative
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  3316.  @SubjectiveFunny  Your not paying the workforce enough that leads to a stagnant economy large sums spent by government on income and housing support and low income tax and NI take leading to such measures as freezing of tax bands leading to fiscal drag which makes people at the bottom even poorer creating less tax and spend in the wider economy. 80% of income support claimants are in work For someone to buy a 3 bed small semi they would need a 20% deposit and a salary of 60k rental of said property is 1200+ pcm Food inflation is at 16.5% Energy inflation 47.3% Housing inflation 10.3%
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  3317.  @puraLusa  more migrants don't make salaries go down government policies do, we had migration during Blaire and average salaries rose by +25% we had even more migration under Cameron/May and average salaries fell by -3%. Housing policy is dictated by government including the infrastructure (road/rail/bus etc) services to support it.
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  3318.  @jeanneale9257  the Tories run Supply side trickle down economics Labour run a version of Kenysian Demand side Economics. The 2 produce completely different economies Supply side invests in millionaire pensioner tax breaks Demand side invests in physical and social infrastructure such as renewable energy tech health schools and transport So they have fk all in common
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  3319. From 1 liar to another
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  3320. This is Johnson's Brexit, Norway aren't in the EU and they don't have this problem and this is way worse than the Swiss. Johnson and his cabal of lying toads chose this course of hard Brexit because Flags and the City
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  3321. 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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  3322. So why are taxes going up for the Working and Middle Class? You have to balance the books if your running a Supply Side Trickle Down economy (which keeps giving tax breaks to the Rich ex- Millionaire Pensioners tax cut 2 Billion, removal of the Banking levy 8 billion) you have to pound the pennies out at the bottom / middle So why has Thatcherism stopped working? Lets be clear it never worked the current economic situation is 13 years in the making where the ever expanding Supply Side Trickle Down + Austerity policies now mean you have to squeeze the middle class as well as the plebs. And what's finally broken the back of this economic model? Removal of FOM Supply side Economics needs an endless supply of SUPPLY SIDE CHEAP labour to keep costs down so that corporations and individuals at the top can continue to expand their wealth. Why do you think Truss's low tax Libertarian model was calling for complete deregulation + unlimited immigration from India with a trade deal
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  3323. Putin through various means has been pumping money into right wing organisations and politicians across Europe to destabilize them as much as possible for decades. He's been accused of taking Kremlin money before its all rather murky given the Oligarchs are allowed to launder their ill gotten gains through London
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  3324. Their voters have to be stupider than chicken shit to believe this guff spewing from her mouth Over the years Republicans have become more incompetent at governing an economics I mean Trump put 8 trillion on the debt, the right would contest that Austerity is the way to fix it not true those that tried it post banking crisis stagnated their economy the real way of fixing it is rolling back Trump and Bush era tax cuts
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  3325. 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. thats 425 billion reasons not to vote Tory
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  3326. Production is being reshored that will inevitably cost more initially but have long term positive economic effects
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  3327.  @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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  3328.  @steveb3060  because they promised not to raise VAT, income Tax and NI. Last year it was estimated by the public accounts committee that 42 billion in tax was left uncollected I'd hire some more hmrc staff if it were me
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  3329.  @steveb3060  You reduce energy prices by having a long term plan to switch to renewables. Given the Tories pulled funding from green projects over the years the cost of our electric has gone up to the highest in Europe. So why is renewable energy cheaper? because the energy input is Free and doesn't go up with inflation & doesn't have the same extraction processing and transport costs as Oil and Gas. Even the capital cost has come down + the efficiency has gone up.
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  3330. 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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  3331. Taxes started to rise in 2019 till then the tax base was 33% for 20+ years Were here because of the failure of numerous Tory trickle down tax policies that failed to grow the economy and only created more debt and we have to pay for the Fallout of Austerity, Brexit and Truss
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  3332. 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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  3333. 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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  3334. 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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  3335.  @SpudsF42  the current economic shtshw is a combination of Austerity and Thatcherism by not doing either things will improve
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  3336. DJT is the worst dealmaker on the planet 90% of the afghan debacle was down to his deal behind the governments back
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  3337.  @allip4226  There's around 100,000 millionaire pensioners. You still need somewhere to live and your average is 18,000 so counting locked in property wealth is silly
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  3338. My mother's neighbour cought it and survived he was ill for 8 weeks he's 60+ and now has been diagnosed with dementia, he's been calling people on the phone talking just rubbish to them forgetting people names. He may improve but it's really disturbing
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  3339. 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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  3340. We knew that before he was elected PM by his party he'd already been sacked twice for lying the guy lives in a fantasy world. The fall out as Johnson clings to power will spread dogshit across the entire Tory brand
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  3341. @Dean F. But how low can he go? The bar seems to be falling by the day
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  3342. Who would have thought Trump would lie steal and cheat to win or that his party was too weak and feeble minded to see the consequences of its actions and sell out their country for a failed reality star with a fragile ego
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  3343. At least you can debate him it's impossible with Sunak and Farage because of the tirade of bullsh1t they spew
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  3344. what like process the asylum claims and save 3.5 billion while deporting 40,000 legally
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  3345. unfunded tax cuts are a bad idea especially when the bulk of the inflation is from hikes in corporate profits
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  3346. 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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  3347. The Polls show a complete wipeout against the Conservatives due to tactical voting there will not be a hung parliament Also the economy is getting worse and there's nothing Sunak can do about it Supply Side Trickle Down Economics needs an endless Supply Side Low Wage Labour pool as well as a deregulated Labour market to enable wage suppression to maximise Corporate Profits. Removing FOM shot an economic model that had stagnated the economy in BOTH feet every non UK economist out there points to chronic labour shortages as the root cause of current policies NOT working.
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  3348. 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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  3349. He lost 150k manufacturing jobs in his 4 year term Biden has added 400k in 1 year Trump expanded the debt by 50% to 134.54% Biden has decreased it to 121.1% On top of that he's passed legislation to turn the US economy into the Renewable Tech hub of the world Trump passed a tax cut for the rich and rescinded regulations one of which was electric carriage brakes on hazardous substances any ad campaign can just do a side by side on actual achievements not those in Trumpkin's head
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  3350. It's called Supply Side Economics aka Thatcherism
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  3351. There are 2 things going on with inflation 1 is supply side on inelastic world commodities Fuel and Food the other is the huge amount of money pumped into the economy during Covid which has trickled up. The rich doubled their wealth over the covid period on the 750 billion that was used to keep the economy afloat there spending it on luxury goods Yachts etc. and driving luxury spending to new highs Quote Global sales of personal luxury goods including leather accessories, apparel, footwear, jewelry and watches are expected to grow by 22% this year, to 353 billion euros ($367 billion) from 290 billion euros in 2021, according to the Bain consultancy study commissioned by Italy’s Altagamma association of high-end producers. Also the last budget was more Thatcherite trickle down nonsense with tax breaks for millionaire pensioners Bankers and the fossil industry paid for with fiscal drag adding £1000 per average taxpayer and you have the top CEO's in the UK getting an average pay rise of 22% Basically if you don't tax the 750 billion out of the system it will have a huge distorting affect on the economy those with money aren't price sensitive and you need a more progressive tax system ex- Sunak paid 20% on the bulk of his earnings because it was CGT @ 20% which should match income tax at 40/45% Trickle down Thatcherism never worked and it never will it just increases the wealth gap which is now starting to get out of control
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  3352. The guardian put it well Count binface v Lord buckethead Heads you loose tails you loose What a state our politics is in
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  3353.  @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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  3354.  @rosemarywoolley8394  mask wearing in enclosed spaces and on public transport was already a thing I live in a university city with a large Asian influx it was also adopted for smog during the summer months most of the elderly passengers wear masks on public transport as do I its no big thing Why this nupty wants to martyr himself over it fk knows he's probably never been on public transport in his entire privileged life
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  3355. Have you read there manifesto? Libetarian fantasy economics with lala land imigration policy
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  3356. His flagship policy tanked the economy and quadruple migration He wants to pravtise the NHS Every privatisation has been a complete failure or hadn't you noticed?
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  3357. It certainly is and that's why this is a non story
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  3358. Wind is 17% of the mix the issue is storage there isn't any including decommissioning our LNG store
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  3359. Such a weak man, completely and utterly spineless I would say Texas deserves better but they keep voting for these weasels.
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  3360. 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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  3361. Aid to Ukraine pays itself back with increased US arms sales And Boosts the effectiveness of the US defence network against Russians nuclear threat
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  3362. Planning Without it the grid lol out will get further and further behind
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  3363. what difference does political virtue signalling do? They've been at war in some shape or form since before I started voting 50 years ago
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  3364.  @philmartin5689  he was sacked for making up policy on the hoof in a Sky news interview
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  3365. The growth for this quarter is influenced by the last 2 budgets A couple of things both help and hinder Help Public sector pay increases Planned housing, infrastructure and nhs Hinder Reeve's stupid NI hike, a classic Brown budget What matters most isnt gdp but gdp per capita
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  3366.  @haren1116  The core component is energy which could have been resolved with swift action and we wouldn't have had such a dependence on Gas if Cameron hadn't scrapped as he put it all the Green Cr*p. Those actions include change planning for swifter grid deployment remove onshore wind farm ban A huge push on secondary insulation and modern glazing Require new builds and extensions to have A+ insulation standards and zero gas with recommendations for underfloor heating etc. Last year Sunak scrapped that Landlords had to update buildings to C+ energy standards simply Pa THet Ic
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  3367. The flag stands for tolerance
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  3368. It's just renewable energy is cheaper per unit than Gas and has been since 2020 Last year the Tory government spent 72 billion on subsidies to the energy companies to keep bills down due to the volatility of GAS on the world commodity market
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  3369. ​ @jimcobain4381 what's wrong with well funded public services and wage growth both happened during the last labour stint
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  3370.  @jeffmcgowan5887  Yea look the US is top of the corona virus plague stakes in the world. No self serving Democrat would have been able to screw up so badly that the economy is cratered for years.
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  3371.  @indricotherium4802  loads of the Tories round my way are what you call Blue Greens there Centre / Centre right but care about the environment and their children's future while still having a range rover as their 2nd car
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  3372.  @indricotherium4802  if your well paid middle class there's no thought about being eco conscious with your car choice it doesn't stop you being keen on recycling or wanting more trees and natural spaces. There's a lot of well off people who with a nudge would install solar and switch to an EV there not socialist they float round the centre voted Tory on the back of Cameron wouldn't touch Corbyn with a barge poll but pull the Green lever in council elections
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  3373. Then we joined the EU and our Economy improved
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  3374.  @LindaGray-o7j  he got knighted for doing a good job and his wife works plus he has a mortgage so he can't be that well off And The older male working class are still besotted with ukip not a brain cell between them
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  3375. Go look up the renewable policy labour laws policy and Reeve's speeches on the Everyday economy If they get into power they will be inheriting an economy that is totally fked my brother is back over from Norway at the moment and he can't believe the increase in prices since a few years ago there now on a par for food costs that's a 50% jump in 2 years
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  3376. The Ukrainians are always talking peace the only peace language Putin understands
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  3377. 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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  3378. Cutting taxes doesnt generate growth the wealthy plough it in to assets, corporations put it into share buy backs increasing ceo pay IT DOES NOTGET REINVESTED INTO THE ECONOMY if you want to grow the economy its really really simple GIVE IT TO POOR PEOPLE THEY SPEND EVERY PENNY RECYCLED BACK INTO THE ECONOMY INVEST IN SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PULL THE TAX SYSTEM TO PIECES AND REMOVE EVERY SINGLE TRICKLE D9WN POLICY
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  3379. He needs better drugs, at least I'm scared of his girlfriend junior just makes people think he's dumber than his dad
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  3380. Given Trump's high cholesterol junk food diet it could be any time
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  3381. Tories trusted on the Economy? You have to be kidding Austerity + Thatcherism + Brexit = an economy going down the toilet So how do labour cut taxes for workers simple reverse Tory FISCAL Drag For example a 1p tax cut which the Tories are going to promise for the election quote With a total cost to the Treasury of just over £5 billion, that means around £2.5 billion would be handed back to those on the highest incomes – compared to £137 million to the lowest. In cash terms, someone earning £20,000 would see their tax bill lowered by £74 a year, whereas someone earning £50,000 would gain £374 - more than five times as much. EndQuote If you look at Fiscal drag your taxes have rocketed 11,000 20% 2016 43,000 40% 12,570 20% 2023 50,270 40% 14,305 20% 2016 figures put into the BOE inflation calculator that is a staggering rise in tax at the lower end as that threshold includes NI EVEN those on 50k would be better off with higher thresholds 55,920 40%
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  3382. Nandy is sponsored by a Trade union so hows that work
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  3383.  @PeterPeach21  women hate him they are 55% o the electorate
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  3384. It's a Cult to get people down off the ledge will take a lot of work and some sort of reckoning with social media that is building an alternate reality Oh and Trump is batshit crazy and needs serious medical intervention
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  3385. Kudlow is just stupid what possessed him to say this stuff it will be in attack ads all over the place
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  3386. 2016/17 the economy was running on the fumes of the Obama admin 2018/19 was a mixed bag economically with an artificial bump fuelled by rapid expansion of the money supply with the tax cut adding 4 trillion to debt but The tariffs he did put on were both inflationary and China retaliated, of the tariffs collected 92% ended up being used to bail out farmers and lets be clear those export markets are gone never to come back because you don't trade with a bad actor
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  3387. The point of Starmer? Abandonment of trickle down supply side economics and free market fundamentalism embedded into every part of government policy The mission statements and approach are lifted from this book Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism By Mariana Mazzucato Over ULEZ and 2 child they have some real comms problems Sunak and Hunt have set in motion with the last budget and general policy an inevitability that the economy will get worse for the vast majority of people. Does Starmer fill me with hope No Does Sunak fill me with dread yes
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  3388. You do if the government just wastes 100 billion because it can And We're paying as consumers 170 billion for energy this year in 2021 we paid 30 billion Cheers Conservative privatised foreign owned energy companies (by the way that's = to putting up the 20% tax band to 40) but hey its working - oh mmm there sh1tting on the middle and professional class now well that's a problem
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  3389.  @girlonfire00net  I take it your here from Earth2?
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  3390.  @Iazzaboyce  the reason people at the moment can't buy a house is stagnant wages since 2010 while housing has gone up above inflation the difference in average price to wages is +80k Blair period saw 25% wage growth
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  3391.  @Iazzaboyce  Brown Lowered VAT to boost the economy which was starting to work Osborne's 5% hike put us back to zero and negative growth
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  3392. Average people won't be better off the Tax Thresholds are frozen till 2028 Fiscal drag and the privatsed foreign owned energy companies charging x5 the amount ithan in 2021 for energy and living standars àre still going down
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  3393. has anyone tried to move money around after we've left the EU your micro inspected over the smallest transactions over money laundering and other paperwork involved because were a 3rd country all because of that arseh0le The banking system should bar him for that reason alone
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  3394. He's effing crazy also Congress has to approve military action of that scale You also may find that within months he gets impeached as being unfit for office So Why is everyone SANE WASHING this guy
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  3395. More like 80+ I'm 67 most of my friends are 50-65 I don't think there's 1 that will vote Con at the next election were in a blue wall seat. The only one that may and he'd probably go to Reform is someone who started listening to GBN and talk radio, we've currently got him off it with help from his daughters. That stuff is so toxic though and he knows it
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  3396. Offshoring is a waste of money Put your energies into solving the problem like deportation agreements with 3rd countries, werelucky Turkey Greece and Italy are getting swamped
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  3397. Boris hasn't changed over the years this is who he is and the Cons knew it when they elected him but did so for political expediency. Groups in the party thought they could manipulate him for their own gain now he's infecting the lot of them with his own corruption
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  3398. @tug1345  there is no lost money in the NHS, if you want it to operate better it needs it's processes overhauling and a huge cash injection to upgrade equipment and IT systems as well as getting rid of trusts, have a central purchasing department and stop outsourcing. This will reduce its operational costs but that takes planning and commitment All Tice wants to do is blame the problem on public ownership and farm out work to the private sector
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  3399. They can't escape economics Every year fossil gets more expensive as it's subject to higher and higher extraction costs, processing costs and transportation costs The capital cost of renewables is still falling in real terms and the input energy as in wind and the sun are free and not subject to inflation Just had a solar and battery system installed it will pay back capital costs in 6 years, reason the battery and it's cost has plummeted in the last few years
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  3400. Osborne removed Nursing Busuries which reduced the numbers training Year on year you need more and more migrant Nurses. The biggest driver was Cameron he refused to legislate or regulate the GIG economy near a million workers on low pay zero hour with all the profits offsh coming from eastern europe.
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  3401. Its only out of hand because the Tories have made it so and Brexit has made the situation far worse were no longer in a host of international agreements
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  3402.  @pickleperryemz  No they didn't Labour had some bad years because of the Iraq war but the numbers claiming asylum are pretty constant the last crisis was 2002 and now were seeing an across the board increase. Labour dealt with the last time this happened by fast tracking applications the Tories seem determined to gum up the system close down all legal routes for claims and let people rot in hotels for years on the government payroll then scream Rwanda at the top of their voice. This is a Tory problem made worse by Tory policies and Brexit
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  3403. Who cares all good Conservatives send their kids to private schools I know lets privatise all the schools and spend the money on tax breaks for the rich and when they can't afford to go to school the little mites can go play fruit picking on a farm.
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  3404. They've built houses just not social ones or in the right place there in the pockets of the developers the new estates are a shambles with transport connections and facilities there there to make developers money end of
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  3405. what's new
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  3406. ​ @George57 debt is 2 trillion + Rest of the comment is fairly accurate though
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  3407. 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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  3408. It was a completely different tactical battle to the 1-1 early on in the season both put together a real window modern football tactics. The result on Saturday was a testament to Dallas's progress as a footballer and reminds me of another indispensable team player in James 100% Milner
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  3409.  @globalmuffin2  the reason for deploying on agriculture land is prob coz there allowed too and lecacy grid infrastructures are present. There's a load of converging technologies gonna hit at the same time, small array solar that tracks the sun in urban areas projects to mesh network EV batteries and use 1-5% for surge demand solar roof tiles etc.
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  3410. Cut out laundromat London that would be something the Oligarchs rinse their money and push some to the Cons in gratitude
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  3411.  @kwanchan6745  The FT described Brexit as an economic slow puncture every now and then someone kicks the tyre and makes it go down a bit faster ex Covid UKraine Truss's Budget but it settles to normal but still keeps going down. Most visible manifestation of frog boiling is the tax keeps going up the tax basis was 32% in 2019 then 33% in 2022 now rising again and until 2027 where its expected to be 38%
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  3412. Try get some more education instead of blowing off with right wing media stereotypes
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  3413. This budget alone 2 billion on a millionaire pensions tax break 8 Billion on a tax break for bankers 6 billion on a tax break for fossil fuel companies 2022 40 billion (cost of Truss Budget) 11 Billion (cost of not insuring against rate rises - Sunak) 2020/21 60 billion in Fraud (report just out) Sunak 37 billion Track and trace privatised and less than useless Covid VIP lane? collapse of Greensill Capital 5 billion (Cameron) Quote from Bloomberg Brexit is costing the UK economy £100 billion a year ($124 billion), with the effects spanning everything from business investment to the ability of companies to hire workers. WAKE UP
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  3414.  @jasonhawkins4528  no one is poking anyone my father was Polish his relatives lived for decades under Russian oppression Farge is completely ignorant. Why are you making excuses for someone who has over a decade of form on this topic?
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  3415.  @rogerbennett9641  On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland. They retook Poland in 1945 and didn't properly leave till the end of the cold war.
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  3416. Sunak is a Thatcherite far right candidate and Truss is Libertarian not a Conservative bone in her body
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  3417. Trump makes up Obamagate and acts like a complete dick and McConnel has a hissy about Obama, wait till Obama starts campaigning for Biden appeals to the nation etc..
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  3418. Trump is a complete insder he's sponsored by the Billionaires and Oil Baron's his sole achievement in officexwas a huge tax cut for corporations and the wealthy piling 4 trillion onto debt before Cov. Dont mention the bleach incident
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  3419. A channel owned by an offshore billionaire with connections to RW think tanks in the US who's job is climate denial and to push their tax agenda interviews deluded MP
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  3420. He's completely transactional he sees the cost of everything and the value of nothing, he will lie cheat and steal to do what he views as winning and cares nothing for anyone but himself
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  3421.  @Roxy54J  She dropped the Tories 2 points in the polls to 23 %added 3 points to Labour at 47 %
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  3422. Going renewable cost 6% gdp staying as we are cost 13% gdp due to gas prices. Energy costs 30 billion in 2021 in.2023 it will cost 170 billion GAS
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  3423. Just to note he appointed Sue Gray She banned WhatsApp And Confiscates phones when they have shadow cabinet meetings Plus His missions are based on work by leading economist Mariana Mazzucato
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  3424. The 20 billion in tax cuts were paid for by freezing budgets post April nearly every economist bar the right wing Think Tanks and Media think this is pure fiction there is nothing left to Austerity if they try services will collapse
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  3425. Sunwk is the richest person in Parliament worth over 250 million and married to a billionaire daughter
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  3426. Virtually the whole of UK media is centre right at best the current complaint is against a station owned by a billionaire run at a loss trying to push billionaire interests and bypass the ballot box
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  3427. Going Net zero Costs 6% GDP Not going Net Zero costs 13% GDP Why can't we afford to save 7% GDP?
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  3428. @markwelch3564  again cgt doesn't apply if its your primary residence, you do not have to live there
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  3429.  @truthseeker5619  there is no Antifa organisation it stands for anti fascist and the origins of the name are from the movement in Germany who opposed the nazis. You could umbrella maybe the Anti Defamation League and other groups who campaign against holocaust deniers and neo nazi groups. BLM is a social movement pushing for change in equal justice and equal voting rights for all. But of course your not interested in the truth or history and just want to jock off with your stupid culture wars wallowing in self pity and victim hood
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  3430.  @truthseeker5619  the hearings they held with state republicans had no legal standing the affedavits to those hearings weren't affedavits just opinions when the court asked them to produce testimony under oath and subject to perjury they did not because lying to a court gets you serious jail time. Rudy speed his crap out of court when in court and asked are you claiming fraud he said no. Court documents ar available go look for yourself. People post all sorts of wakadooel junk online, a magician can fool you real time just think how easy it is with video. Every way you look at the se claims they fall apart against hard facts
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  3431. 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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  3432. He's the last thing this country needs
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  3433. Investment in physical and social infrastructure paid for by ripping out the Myriad of wasteful Trickle down and outsourcing Thatcherite economic policies.
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  3434. 2.7% was what it was in 2010
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  3435. He had a second job 150,000 for 2 days a month nothing to see here
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  3436. House prices have risen 66% and wages fallen by 7% since 2010 due to government policies How about we change the government and build some houses
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  3437. The bulk of the workforce are 0aid between 11 and 15 an hour work in all conditions and out of hours as well they've had a pay freeze for 2 years and thier bosses got 6% in September
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  3438. The guy is as thick as mince anyone taking health advice from him needs therapy
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  3439. Low tax = high immigration It's a feature not a bug of supply side trickle down Thatcherism Reason - lack of investment in your domestic population, drives for small government depress wages and outsource without putting strict Labour regulation in place making employing foreign workers the go to choice
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  3440. Reganomics demands high unemployment to crush inflation AND wages There brains are melting because this blows the doors off their preconcieved economic theory of Supply Side Trickle down the next big thing will be renewables they really are on a loosing streak
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  3441. Our economy has been stagnant since 2010, any perceived growth was through migration, Reeves budget doesn't come into force till Apr 2025 What you apper to be complaining about is 14 years of Tory incompetence + brex1t
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  3442. ​ @allandavies1642 I'm retired left when Labour appointed Corbyn and have now rejoined. I'm not over the moon with the current lot but given where Labour was a few years back I'll wait and see.
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  3443. He had a Canadian hairdresser rumour is she's been packed off back to Canada pregnant. To be honest I'm more surprised he had a hairdresser.
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  3444. WHY THE MASS HYSTERIA, the fecin idiot is sat on his arse watching TV instead of mobilising the full levers of the government and army to sort this out. The shortages of PPE and other healthcare stuff will overwhelm the whole system arrrrghhhh
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  3445. ​ @nowgrownup they look like economic and rock stars compared to the last 13 years
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  3446. Leave it out the Tories spent 72 billion on fuel subsidies last year 1/2 a billion on Rwanda and 1.5 on Barges
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  3447. currently electric from wind turbines is at least x10 cheaper than that generated with gas and it's not solely down to current price rises it became the cheapest source on the grid in 2019 and where are they going to get the 10 million gallons of water to turn into toxic goop from?
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  3448.  @Trendycosmetics-os6gh  Our taxes have gone up under Sunak it was estimated by £13,000 per household as a pensioner I'm extremely p1ssed off with his attack on NI which there going to have to pay for by raising the pension age to 68 catching my wife in the net which is a £24,000 hit
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  3449. 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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  3450. Good on you Joe pick people up and say Americans want to work and are decent hard working people
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  3451.  @chrisj9700  If you live in a 1 million £ house you can afford to pay tax on it. We could set up a student loan type system they can borrow from if there cash poor and the money is taken from the estate. This also encourages pensioners who's kids have left home to downsize freeing up multi-bedroom properties onto the market.
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  3452.  @jimmyguitar9873  The money that doesn't go offshore gets locked up in assets such as houses in Mayfair, stocks Art etc
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  3453.  @carolewynn9407  how dare they selfishly live in a 5 bedroom property and freeload off the system that's enabled them to accumulate so much property wealth. No one's forcing them out if there prepared to pay the tax. Successive governments have pumped 100's of billions into enabling people to buy property its time to pay the ferryman.
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  3454. Trump goes on about Hannibal Lector because his brain doesn't know the difference between asylum seekers and asylum Inmates His tariff plan is a sales tax on the working and middle class coupled with a tax cut for the wealthy will trigger inflation and a recession.
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  3455. Families tax bills went up by 13k over the last parliment and your moaning about a discretionary universal payment really?
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  3456. ​ @markabrahams2191  Octopus are getting round it by offering peak rates for people with batteries to export between 4-7pm as well as a standard Feed in Tariff + cheap overnight but you need to have invested. I have solar + Battery + solar diverter for hot water, capital payback is 6 years. Why can't the grid do that?
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  3457.  @timthetiny7538  It gets more expensive to extract with each passing year making it uneconomical. We passed that point in 2020 it's just our grid and infrastructure needs to transition.
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  3458. There hitting on the lower grade harder to extract stuff now which will have the inevitable impact on prices.
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  3459. We left its been a spectacular success for the Conservatives who gained an 80 seat majority For the rest of the country its been a complete shtshw why there is no plan never was a plan on how to proceed post Johnson deal The English Nationalists just bang on about imigration like Farage the Libertarian wing like Mogg want full globalisation at a time when the US China and the EU are getting more protectionist To put it bluntly where fked without the single market which is 20 miles away not some fairytale market half way round the globe
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  3460. Record profits across the board and I mean record
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  3461. if you change from trickle down to demand side bottom up middle out then yes
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  3462. Less GAS more renewables = cheaper electricity simples 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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  3463. Why start the Streisand effect by tweeting out a denial of something that wasn't even being speculated on?
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  3464. Farage a devotee of Trussanomics you having a laugh?
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  3465.  @Ducky-c3k  In what Universe? She even got a campaign ad for the votes of 800,000 Polish Migrants in Penn Every button she pushed he went chasing after like a mad dog
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  3466. This didn't age well Sunak griffting for his wife with a childcare contract, even if its a genuine mistake by a super rich elite he's fkd now attack ad incoming
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  3467.  @barbarahernandez7629  at the very point in an economic cycle that you should have been paying down the debt he expanded it as soon as there was an economic problem the only way of dealing with it was to vastly expand the money supply this fuels long term inflation. In truth you'd have had to expand the money supply during the pandemic its just the corporate tax cuts made it happen quicker and at eye watering levels. Back in September 2021 the IMF recommended western economies apply a one off wealth tax to rebalance the money supply as it was noted nearly all the additional money has expanded wealth at the top by huge margins. If you step away from personal inflation you have rampant corporate inflation from the likes of fossil fuel companies you look at shipping its the same there simply isnt enough competition in the system you can either tax them or break them up.or both.
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  3468. listened to an analysis of focus group when they mentioned Rishi's pan everyone laughed
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  3469.  @danielholder8167  were not even doing a windfall tax on the oil from the UK Sunak put in loads of rebates
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  3470. 110% of next to nothing = next to nothing / what planet are these people on he has never been poor in his life, all of these guys need to engage in a social experiment where they have to live like the poor for 3 months on poverty wages they just haven't a clue. In fact it should be mandatory for all senators
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  3471. What 4 day week?
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  3472. that's disgusting you should be ashamed of yourself
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  3473. The UK needs immigrants to keep a stable population and to man a host of jobs from seasonal fruit pickers to Doctors We have a birth rate of 1.6 and falling as well as 50,000 people emigrate from the UK every year Our in work population is still not up to 2019 levels and there's 1.3 million vacancies My recycling hasn't been collected this week we've been told staff shortages, the wait at A&E is up to 4 hours why? Staff shortages, the local restaurant has stopped lunch time service why staff shortages, deliveries delayed Staff Shortages Long Queues at ASDA Staff Shortages, Airport Chaos Staff Shortages Welcome to broken Britain where everything is the fault of migrants who we desperately need to work in our economy but instead were lambasting them while businesses go bankrupt.
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  3474. He handled all the documentation
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  3475. she did a job didn't even cover half of the impropriety and goings on if you want the full SP go listen to this podcast Partygate The Untold Story ITV News
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  3476. I mean who needs the human rights my father put his life on the line to win in ww2, get real
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  3477.  @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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  3478. Elon as a person can be a complete A hole he spouts Libertarian garbage all the time as if everyone can just build a successful multi billion dollar company just like that Autism has its downsides I like his products he's a clever guy but he should really stfu at times his level of awareness outside his unique bubble is zero, reminds me of Jobs he spent a lot of money and spread a lot of misery claiming his daughter wasnt his daughter.
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  3479. Surprised Vance doesn't have an ear patch, what's the point in being in a cult if you don't follow it's rituals
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  3480.  @WantToGoHomeSoon  we've had over 30000 lies coming out the Orange morons mouth in the last four years, typing stuff in all caps doesn't make the latest rabid rantings from culture war conspiracy hell central true. I've worked in both the private and public sector in IT and the idea that there is some grand colusion conspiracy is Barking mad, the public sector especially is monolithic you need to get a form filled in for everything and the private sector is only marginally better at the jobsworth stuff.
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  3481. He's appealing to the general public who don't care what he promised Corbyn's Faithfull The majority are glad to see the back of Jeremy
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  3482. Narr DJT keeps kicking the hornets nest that is the women's and educated vote all he has is uneducated men. It just makes the former 2 groups more determined to vote. If it becomes a turnout election Dems win
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  3483. no were not highest denomination is Atheist at 48%
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  3484. If the Red states seceded they'd be bankrupt within months Screw Texas you can get your oil at 20$ a barrel if you made a deal with the Saudi's and they can keep there sewage coated hormone injected beef to feed their mutant children that have birth deformities due to the toxic runoff and pollution because companies need no regs to poison people
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  3485. 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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  3486. I think Warren is a better long term bet, if the Senate is still Republican then I feel she has better plans on democratic reform, nothing is going to happen till Dark money is drained out of Washington, Healthcare reform which should be the number 1 priority won't happen till outside money and lobbying is taken out of the picture and that applies on the Democrats side as well.
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  3487. So what's the difference between Neoliberal trickle down that doesn't work for the Cons but Neoliberal trickle down from Reform? Lettuce Liz has already shown us the disastrous nature of these policies
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  3488. She and her opinions have a 15% approval rating Your deluding yourself, the bulk of that 85% think she is utterly incompetent and highly devisive
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  3489. The issue here is economics, the Tory economic policies will drive far higher rates of migration. Blair adopted a sort of 1/2 way house not rolling back many thatcher era policies. It was described as the new Centrist consensus those days are long gone. The only way of reducing legal migration is by increasing taxation and social and structural investment but as soon as this is broached the RW media go into meltdown. I'm 67 by the way were probably a similar age  @Tugga74 
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  3490. This come from the Express? Nuf said - fake news
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  3491.  @indogoUI  Oh Yes He Would
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  3492. He was going to leave NATO if he got a second term how's that helping? One of Putin's aims handed too him on a plate
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  3493. Massive tax hikes? only on the rich Maga said bring back jobs Joe reshored 400k ast year Maga said make america great again Joe pivoted the US economy to be more self sufficient and become the world Tech leader in renewables Oh the irony By the way studies show the wold will save trillions by going renewable it also decouples economies from the world energy commodity market and able to cope with energy shock
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  3494. Your too cynical by half but I keep coming back for a listen :) 16/17 year olds was a Brown Policy I believe there's a push to ID cards one of the reasons there's been a migrant influx and not from boats but other means is our lack of closing down the black economy and ID checks as the EU has ramped up their internal security. Ports have had few to none lorry checks since Brexit happened The Economist was running a big piece on the tories lack of action on the black economy last month.
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  3495. Post fact checking scored 33 lies for DJT V 1 for KH there is a big difference between opinion and the truth
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  3496. 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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  3497. That's because to do batsh1t imigration policies you'd need to leave every international treaty the government has ever signed including trade ones
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  3498.  @SmartCookie2022  Tax base only went down under Thatcher because she used oil money and asset stripping to fund it. During Blaire's Premiership average wages rose by +25% and the Tax base didn't change till Sunak became Chancellor. I've and everyone else has lost £500 in fiscal drag you'd be lucky to gain more than £100 from a 1p tax cut. Also uk energy consumers Have had thier energy bills go up from 30 billion to 170 billion in 2023 Why Privatisation and dependence on Gas even a modest 28 billion investment in renewable energy will see a massive decrease in that total
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  3499. which isn't what you have here there just shilling for the Oil and gas companies Over the energy crisis which is caused by a reliance on Gas we will shell out 170 billion in excess profits to these companies Meanwhile renewable energy is still at 2019 prices which is the last time Gas was at a comparable cost
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  3500.  @Lenser  there an exercise in kisarse
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  3501. t needs to be gone its well past its sell by date
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  3502. Its an overreaction to the wasted and lost years of Corbyn and Jamie Driscoll wasn't ousted he didn't make a long list for a different post and has been going around crying about it ever since
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  3503. Sunak will have been informed by the gambling commission probably within 2/3 days of he election being called, the Times has said there are quite a large spike on the day before the election. If it's small bets it could be 10-20 ish individuals
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  3504. ​ @PeterPeach21 he can't buy a vote with women and has spent the last 2 weeks in the grosses display of toxic masculinity ever seen. Along with woman hater jdv
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  3505. Trump's sales tax will devastate your wallet hope your job is secure when the lay offs begin
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  3506. We have supply side inflation on Energy Food Housing Labour The government is doing fk all to improve supply in any of these areas in fact its actively making it worse with Fossil subsidies of 100s of billions no meaningful windfall tax Running down farming on a race to a deregulated supply side low standard bottom Removing building targets Points based immigration giving us middle managers and consultants instead of Workers And for thier final trick letting the BOE use a demand side tool to push the economy into recession and pretend its not their fault current projections are 6,5% rates post xmas Happy new year Tory fanboys
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  3507.  @washingmachineenvy  more swords please
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  3508. @georgesdelatour  Norway have a regulated labour market and migration is near net zero including outsourced workers having terms and conditions comesurate with Norwegian labour law ex min wage holidays sick pay etc.
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  3509.  @nifralo2752  My brother speaks English, Norwegian and Spanish I speak English French and Polish. Large numbers of people have dual nationality passports as me and my brother do.
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  3510. She'd make a perfect Witch in a horror movie about sacrificing children. Her ideology has no bounds even during a pandemic trying to push for schools to be privatised.
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  3511.  @Stand663  we voted to leave the EU. NI is no longer in the EU it is via Jonson's protocol in the single market and the people of NI want it to stay that way.
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  3512. 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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  3513. no
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  3514.  @R53Hole  They have to find 18 billion to make sure we don't have Austerity again, the Tories forward spent the NI money there was no fiscal headroom it was paid for with promises of more cuts
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  3515.  @chriscurtain1816  good the reason this country is in the mess it its is the continuous bilge pump of lies and unfufilable promises from hard right wing parties They couldn't do a jigsaw with 1 piece they'd be stood around for ever arguing and squabbling among themselves on which way to put it. RIP the Tories
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  3516.  @wellard67  Into what conspiracy theories. Try a podcast by Origin Story called Conspiracy Theory What there not telling you
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  3517. After the last time the Secret Service did a threat assessment of DJT'S golf courses and recommended it wasn't safe because there were too many houses overlooking it.
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  3518. ​ @everest9707 the large number 625,000 of dependants is a result of Brexit your getting people from Nigeria India they fetch thier families The high legal migration is the result of Thatcherism + Austerity × Brexit If you cut funding in 2010 for nursing and doctor training what did you think would happen by 2023?
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  3519.  @Vroomfondle1066  Gilts come to term all the time if your debt levels are such that your just replacing them then it's at the new rate so it's not just for new debt Your comment on money supply would be valid if we had normal inflation but the bulk is Corporate Supply Side on inelastic commodities (essential food and energy) in this case restricting money supply will have little effect we also have a Brexit multiplier as a trading nation everything we import and export to from the EU is more expensive. We also had over 1 million workers leave the UK over Brexit resulting in acute labour shortages ex- Pork production lack of abattoir workers meant pigs culled and the carcasses burnt lack of vets and additional paperwork and trade barriers has seen a collapse in exports driving up domestic prices Restricting the money supply isn't going to resolve domestic food production which is going to continue to spiral down requiring further imports to cover the ever increasing shortfall
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  3520. Cost of domestic installations have plummeted (UK) In October I purchased a solar battery system with 2 GivEnergy 5.2 kwh batteries and they cost 1550 each Octopus my provider will give me an overnight rate of 13p a FIT tariff of 15p instead of what I was paying (25p standard) You can also hand over control of charging to Octopus who have what is called intelligent flux, dectralised mesh networking to stabalise the grid at a local level
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  3521. Its one way of pushing your unpopularity from 11 points down by election time he's going to be 20 points down, he's screwed up the covid response the USPS touches everyone even more so during a pandemic at the current trajectory even with suppression it still will be a Democratic landslide. Everyone who can will put their votes into drop boxes, vote early etc.. the margins are just going to be huge
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  3522. What they may get free school meals and not get schooled in a portacabin? Grow up
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  3523. @philbrown8181  migration is a function of economics leaving the EU has zero effect It's also gone up because we've lost FOM the experts said it would but oh no you've had enough of experts
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  3524. According to Oxford University researchers, ending fossil fuel use by 2050 will save the world at least $12 trillion (€11.3 trillion). The study disproves the fallacy that going green is economically difficult, says Professor Doyne Farmer, who led the study We are dependant on Fossil because the Fossil lobby want us to be and will do anything to stop the gravy train being turned off
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  3525. What do they do for Big dog put a dead dogs head in their MP's bed to remind them of their fealty? Operation mafia light piss all over Parliament under way sir no one will ever expect the hand of Mogg All hail the Chumochracy and its venerable leader Doris
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  3526.  @johnvalerian8440  before the pandemic the US had 14% of its population in poverty plus a huge chunk living paycheck to paycheck, I've not seen official figures for 2021 but it's been a disaster for so many. The poverty trap in the US is systemic there is no way of getting out of it once your in you have to forward borrowed for rent and food you are trapped with only a sliver of hope getting out. In purely economic terms your shooting yourself in the foot by not pulling as many in society out of poverty as possible if you do not and pursue Austerity it just creates more poverty and reduced demand more small businesses go under and larger firms contract that in turn recycles itself into an economy that is on a contracting spiral. You also have a huge increase in social issues such as homelessness crime increases as people become more and more desperate just to put food on the table despair takes hold drug use goes sky high etc.
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  3527. Lowers the need to import skilled workers as well such as doctors and nurses @edmurth 
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  3528.  @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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  3529.  @sharonwashington8150  on the basis of what a stopped clock is right twice a day?
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  3530. removal and regulation of zero hour contracts, banning fire & ReHire change planning new towns more council houses Investment in GBEnergy Overtime for NHS staff to clear the backlog student debt forgiveness to attract new staff etc.
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  3531.  @saucejohnson9862  he's not just down in the polls if you scratch the underlying data there is next to no room for him to expand his margin, he is not an unknown the numbers of floating voters just doesn't exist this time and Biden is polling +50 % and he has no support on multiple key metrics. That fact that Trump lies his ass off in a pandemic for perceived political gain pushes quack cures and has overseen the worst response to the crisis in the western world while still pedaling disinformation at every opportunity means that people have made up thier minds.
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  3532. Why is the Labour Party the Lib-Dem Party and the Greens unelectable? We've had 12 years of economic stagnation culminating in the current bunch who are even worse than Cameron and May For the record Average wage growth under Blaire / Brown +25% Average wage growth under Cameron / May -3% Under Johnson its projected to be -3/4% with 8% inflation on what planet is the alternative worse?
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  3533. Right wing economics has been a complete failure for 14 years with Osborne's Austerity fueling the left behind brex1t vote and you want a more extreme version?
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  3534. He flies PorkAir
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  3535. 13 Years of Trickle down supply side economics reinforced by Sunak's last budget where he is squeezing yet more from the working and now increasingly middle class to pay for such things as Millionaire Pensioner tax breaks will see further economic decline in the next 18 months, you can't turn a 13 year path of stagnation around by doubling down on the policies that caused the stagnation in the 1st place. I've omitted figures rom 2020-23 deliberately so that you can see the true scale of the ROT and how deep it goes. 2006 debt to GDP 40% 2010 debt to GDP 62% 2016 debt to GDP 82% (Cameron tax cuts) 2019 debt to GDP 92% Austerity was also a complete failure unless your politically for a smaller state Economists as early as 2012 where questioning the economic multiplier used to calculate the impact of Austerity the OBR forecast was 0.5/6 the real multiplier was near 1.6 anything over 1 shrinks the economy and has a negative affect overall. This is a quote from 2019 UK economy £100bn smaller because of austerity The NEF said the cumulative effect of tax, public spending and welfare adjustments on growth by the end of the 2018-19 financial year would be to leave the average household £3,629 a year worse off – the equivalent of £1,495 per person.
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  3536. They have a talent pool issue after all this is the Party that elected Truss as PM and left her there for 6 weeks costing the Country approx 3/4 a billion per week
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  3537.  @alangrigo5246  get off your high horse if you believe in god then god made people gay. My guess its a test to see how intolerant you all were to his creation so he could send more of you to the dark side
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  3538. ​ @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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  3539. Thatcher gave Jimmy a Knighthood and Currie gave him open access to Broadmoor the Head of the CPS is BANNED from reviewing cases except those tagged NATIONAL SECURITY. The reason is you don't give that political appointee the power to prosecute s so he can't engage in political prosecutions thus you have separation of powers between the Judiciary and Parliament
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  3540. There's billions being sent back in Immigration / Migration is a 2 way thing
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  3541. no it won't the oil extracted currently 80% isn't going to the UK if we really wanted to conserve it for ourselves it would be owned by us all where doing now is subsidising energy companies to the tune of 170 billion if we had sensible energy policy it would all be government owned we would burn gas for heating only and conserve our national resource
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  3542. Like the +13 k this Parliament per household by the Tories
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  3543. ​ @shaun906 they don't that's why they can claim they would be successful
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  3544.  @billelder125  The issue you have is Labour's base is a lot more elite liberal younger ex Uni the old school working man 50+ is socially very conservative an voted UKIP Brexit then swung to the Tories. So the electorate is mixed and you need a broad coalition remember the Cameron wins where on 36% of the vote only. I hope there is more devolved power for Scotland because Brexit has shown us 1 thing if Scotland left the Union it would be economically catastrophic
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  3545.  @louisdisbury9759  You obviously don't like the vast majority including MP's understand how the economy works, it literally is No loss
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  3546.  @Finderskeepers.  Their assets aren't easily transferable. What you fail to understand is that locked up money either offshore or in assets does fk all for the economy
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  3547.  @jollyandwaylo  they've found 2 main strains so far the original and a mutated version from Europe what's sweeping the States is primarily the European version apparently it's more contagious than the original, there isn't not really enough data to say weather it's more or less deadly. Also there's not enough data to point to how long immunity after infection recovery lasts.
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  3548. What like the one Andrew and Maxwell where in
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  3549. You wanted Brexit you said it would help control our borders we told you it wouldn't it would make it worse You got Brexit It's worse Next brain FART idea RWANDA it has 2 chances of working FAT and NO When are you going to stop with this constant failure your embarrassing yourself
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  3550. Boris Johnson do the right thing? Were here because Boris is a feckless lying worm and were going to continue with him as our leader till the next election because non of the alternatives would be much better, he has literally surrounded himself in cabinet with the most incompetent bunch of apologists and money grubbing crony's this country has ever seen
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  3551.  @mcbellyman3265  Many Tories did vote but for the Lib-Dems, there the Cameron coalition they have no affinity with the current conservative party as it heads off down the English nationalist route. Our new MP is Lib-Dem the Cons got absolutely spanked and the naz1 lite candidate polled 5%
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  3552.  @jeffsimon9594  I was a data analyst before I retired the last time the UK had growth was under Blair / Brown = +25% to wages to be exact. Just settling public sector pay strikes is a boost to the economy, we've had 2 years of Tory bullsh1t over them.
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  3553. It has voters resident in it who aren't stupid The majority don't want an abortion ban The majority can read reports on how DJT'S tariff policy will be a defacto sales tax costing consumers 3 trillion over 10 years
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  3554. You don't fuel a conspiracy theory, your trying to turn incompetence into some shadowy plot
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  3555. Democrats have higher numbers that vote early and by mail so check the early numbers against previous elections, it's down to 55% that vote on the day
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  3556. ​ @timwoodger7896 we'll see the reason Sunak can't turn it round as Thatcherite policies + Austerity are the root cause and he's doubling down on both He's pissing 10's of billions away on tax breaks for trickle down policies
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  3557.  @mn5499  from the ONS UK general government gross debt was £2,436.7 billion at the end of Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2022, equivalent to 101.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) It's due to peak at 106 in 2023
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  3558. You need to move to the centre to gain power, the reason that Labour are ahead in the polls is they are now Centre / Centre Left while the Tories are in right wing lalal land Personally want a more centre left agenda but the media is controlled by the right wing even with a 20 point lead it will be a hard slog to the line I've never understood your antipathy towards Starmer he will deliver you Power, with Power comes influence
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  3559. @keithparker1346  Unlike the US were not going to be able to fund the level of infrastructure build required with UK borrowing you'd need a ratio of private investment The $ is the currency of last resort the £ has weakened continuously since Brexit loosing near 25% of its value also with high interest rates and the raging high levels of deb the Tories will leave us with we have an extremely weak gilt market. Planning reform ASAP so you can build and add to existing infrastructure, we have a windfall about 5 miles from me the NIMBY locals are doing everything they can to block expansion even though its miles away from the edge of town
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  3560. so we learn DeVos is behind groups putting money into this, what a surprise right wing (fascist) hate machine funded by the ultra wealthy who play their base for complete suckers preaching collective genocide so they can live in their gilded castles. Screw everyone who isn't prepared to get back on that treadmill and line their pockets, just throw your elderly on the plague cart while your at it your kids with asthma, diabetics and anyone else they can't be bothered to save. Trevor Noah Fox Montage https://youtu.be/oTCHGooLdGA
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  3561. The Russian oil industry has been struggling for decades they don't have the engineering skills, part of the XonMobil deal that got canned in 2014 brought in foreign oil men to do survey and drilling work in collaboration. Russia is also suffering a brain drain they've lost between 200/300k 18-30's all with transferable skills a lot in IT since the war started.
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  3562. 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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  3563. will of the people? 3 million leave voters have passed away since the vote and 3 million young people have entered the rolls Your asking the under 50's to implement a policy they voted against 65-35 given it's people in the economy that bear the burden
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  3564. when the jury is given evidence of corruption and fraud they came back with a guilty verdict
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  3565. Tories dropped another 2 points in the polls last week to 23% he's just trying to shore up the blue wall against the inevitable loss
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  3566. There is a podcast Partygate : The Inside Story By ITV News If you thought what was headlines was bad the full sorry tail is even worse
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  3567. Viral experts from multiple countries who've tracked this as the dna strands have mutated all across the world have all said it's natural, yet the Bot / troll army wants to feel a conspiracy, let's be clear they are hundreds of species of bats and thousands of variations of bat diseases and they fly around craping and peeing in flight.
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  3568. 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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  3569. FPTP needs to be gone and we need a second chamber that's elected as well as serious Reforms which disbars people from parliament when they seriously misbehave
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  3570. 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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  3571.  @BeeBeeCJr  no there not One is trying to pivot the economy towards renewables and reshore jobs The other pumped 3 trillion into debt for a tax cut for the rich
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  3572.  @jamesbomd3503  your core problem here is DJT isn't Republican and doesn't represent the values of large numbers of registered Republicans. He also has a very big Woman problem also those that are college educated.
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  3573. The left want a professional well funded army and view pointless gesture politics as a waste of Taxpayers money.
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  3574. Reform lite why ?
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  3575. So you don't have a mortgage or pension then and are up for the chaos of 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts? By the way the o ly way of reducing immigration is by investment in the domestic work force as in free further education as well as courses to transition people to new sectors, investment costs money
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  3576. Shutting and defunding youth services, reducing school budgets, defunding the Police and justice system. 13 years of constant cuts to public services a tanking economy where the low paid are getting poorer with rising poverty levels what do you expect?
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  3577.  @jasbindersingh2441  there's the same number of French staff but it now takes longer to process each passenger as the UK is a 3rd country it will get worse in September when arriving from outside the EU will require biometric readings
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  3578. Define woke? In my book it's just don't be a racist xenophobic homaphobic arsehole
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  3579. what 4% with 8%+ inflation Tory maths for you
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  3580.  @jgreen9361  I'll tell you why house prices are spiralling and yes low mortgage rates have a small effect but the biggest driver is quantative easing and increasing the money supply, this has all spiraled up to the 1% who are investing it in fixed assets. Last year was a record year for the increase in billionaire wealth, if you want to correct the economy then introduce a wealth tax as recommended by the IMF
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  3581. He has a degree in economics he knows exactly what he's doing the complete cynicism of the budget is a true wonder Why did he load all the burden on the low paid, workers and graduates? Because there not Tory voters, you'll notice the changes don't affect unearned income. This was a budget for the 1%
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  3582. 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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  3583. What Starmer is doing is rinsing Sunak over the Macro trends that defunding the Justice system does, there is a huge financial costs as well as social cost you can hang on Austerity
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  3584. How do you know what they are if you stick your head in the sand and don't deal with the problem It's sick theatre that does nothing but waste billions
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  3585.  @seanvance1933  The Australian system costs 2 million per head so no it won't be cheaper and it still doesn't address the years it can take to process claims
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  3586. there not illegal till they have their claim rejected we currently have 40,000 sat there who if they where processed wouldn't be here The cost of showboating for the gamons riling people up and doing nothing is 6 billion a year
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  3587. 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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  3588. Lets get some stuff out shall we Last year the government gave out 72 billion in domestic energy subsidies, our main issue is spot price energy which is generated from gas. Replacing peak demand Generation with Peak Demand storage such as MegaPacks, Hydro and pumped storage will save around 30% at a stroke if not more if you also switch to renewables. Gas it's exploration and transport are affected by world commodity prices wind and solar last time I looked were free once you built the infrastructure So A wind turbine with a 25 year lifespan becomes progressively cheaper in it's generation costs over time, Fossil fuel and Nuclear becomes progressively more expensive over time
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  3589. He's as thick as mince why not get health advice from a whitch doctor its probably better
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  3590. Its not a gaff i do yougov polls unfortunately Just stop Oil etc. Are very unpopular. The media are on net zeros case even though the economics are with it. In terms of money the economy is getting worse the rates should peak next spring / summer at.6.5% the debt to gdp ratio has gone over 100%
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  3591. Supply side Reforms? Deregulation will lower standards across the board remove workers rights and subject GB business to low quality food and goods from all over the world bankrupting UK business especially SME's who've been badly hit with Brexit as well as bankrupting farmers. With removal of labour laws and safeguards you'll have high unemployment with an expanding zero hour low wage economy I'd also add that further deregulating the City won't see the big expansion they think they will get Investment by big business in the UK virtually stopped in 2016 and hasn't recovered if they release 100 billion from the pension funds and the expectation it will be invested in the UK forget it it will go to the US and Europe The IEA is funded by god knows who and promote low tax for the rich and supply side economics as a solution to everything they also support selling off the NHS and privatising pension
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  3592. @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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  3593. @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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  3594. If he knew how to turn things round he'd stop asking the Ghost of Thatcher and Brexit Jesus for advice
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  3595. What's a mere 6% GDP and hundreds of thousands of small businesses trade ruined. At the rate there going they'll even loose the pensioner vote the NI cut doesn't affect pensions fiscal drag does though many will be paying +£400 for the 1st time with energy costs trebling and food prices through the roof.
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  3596.  @CLARKE176  They've made such a pigs ear over it we'll be back in the common market in no time
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  3597. They've moved further and further right you mean there not left in any shape or form known to man The only thing now right of Sunak are the complete headbangers like Truss and Braverman
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  3598. Reform number is inflated not saying there not up but given the media exposure they get in comparison to Greens Lib Dem they should be a lot more.
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  3599. But there a bunch of xenophobic idiots who have even less of a clue about economics than this shambolic lot
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  3600. we have an energy crisis which needs investment in and there promising to lower taxes for the wealthy how does that work? If you pump 28 billion into renewable energy it has an economic multiplier of a minimum 1.6 which means for every £1 you put in it creates enough GDP to return £1.6 in additional taxation. As a pensioner this will help me enormously because it will lower energy costs and I'm home most of the day far more than any tax cut. Getting energy costs down to 2020 levels would be the equivalent to me of my tax going from 20% to 10%
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  3601. That was a Tory plan, did you know 2 million over 50's are still renting? We have a housing crisis, a funding crisis, a public building crisis, an NHS crisis, an energy crisis and what was the tory answer to all of this oh an NI cut, you can't make this stuff up.
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  3602. Energy costs have tripled because of our reliance on GAS, renewable sources were already cheapest on the Grid back in 2019 Switching would reduce costs but then Energy companies wouldn't be able to scalp 140 billion out of the UK market in Excess profits
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  3603. Immigration is the result of Economic policy If you run down public services with a 14 year squeeze on pay don't regulate zero hour low pay with lack of regulation on outsourcing then you've created the perfect environment in the economy to act like a hoover for migrant Labour. It tripled because of the removal of FOM due to dependants and shopping at a cheaper pool of supply side Labour - brex1t benefit for you
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  3604. Yup I support them paying their taxes
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  3605. So do people who want and have renewable energy, the last few years has seen the development of microgrid tech allowing home to be run from your car when the main grid either goes down or needs a boost. There are multiple storage solutions in development, the underlying reason why green electric is the future is price its half the cost of Fossil per gigawatt hour and getting cheaper all the time.
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  3606. He put flyers about gaza through Muslim areas and flyers about Muslim grooming gangs in white areas His policies are whatever yanks your chain He's buds with the likes of Arron Banks
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  3607. It's 10 years ago doubt that they are. If your working on PAYE you'll never fill in a tax return let alone know what cgt is
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  3608. why to skim off votes from Labour? we have a FPTP system you get Centre or Centre Left move the dial across anymore and you get JACK
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  3609. How about strengthening labour laws that your fkn party has spent decades ripping up
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  3610. Portacabins are warmer because of underinvestment, the school I work at (I'm retired and do invigilating on a part time basis). The main school buildings all need insulating properly and have all the windows upgraded, if you upgrade the insulation to say A+ the heating bill will be near zero because bodies generate heat I'd also add the rooms are over hot in the Summer. To put in context the 150 million the cost of the Millionaire pensioner tax break in the last Budget is estimated at 2 billion, tax break for fossil exploration 6 billion tax cut to Banking levy 8 Billion etc.
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  3611.  @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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  3612. What a bunch of snowflakes the right is The energy industry in this country will make 170 billion in EXCESS profits over the next 2 years with the aide of the government and you lot come on here and bleat along like Barties being herded down the street HAVING A GRID THAT WORKS ON RENEWABLES WILL SAVE BILLIONS back in 2019 renewables became the cheapest source of energy on the grid yet all the government has done is double down on fossil and take you stupid idiots for a ride why because global corporations don't want the oil gravy train to stop
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  3613. Nothing works because of right wing policies changing the Cons for a sh1ttier option isn't the cure
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  3614. Swift isn't on the chaos train and RFK needs therapy as for Vance where did he get such negative charisma from?
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  3615. Why demean yourself to such lows when a 30 second Internet search shows your statement is false? How much of your manhood and integrity do you have to sell to be like this ?
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  3616. Harris is probably the best qualified, top would be Warren but she's bit old and Harris will melt the Republicans brains a women and Black will be a bit much for them to not to go full birther racist. Anyways he'll need legal expertise with all the corruption cases that will need filing in 2021
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  3617. Tax cuts dont generate growth the ones she was proposing would have generated 20p in the £ at best
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  3618. It could be he's really stupid It could be he's pardon signaling Why did Bill Barr need the NY prosecutor changed. What's in the stash of tapes they lifted from Epsteins place I don't think anyone would be shocked if DT was involved given his. Complete lack of morals
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  3619. So what do you think is causing the inflation ? Partly its supply side essential inelastic commodities energy and food the other reason is the 750 billion the government put into the economy during Covid which has trickled up and doubled millionaire and billionaire wealth. They can spend with impunity they don't care what inflation is or prices, the top 100 CEO's awarded themselves a 22.5% pay rise last year and look at Sunak he paid a mere 20% CGT on his vast earnings in 2022 nothing on Capital. To put that into context your penny pounding people at the middle bottom to make up the shortfall in taxation and reducing their wealth to decrease the UK debt level so the top 5% can grow their money pie with impunity. How many people do you have to make poor enough to decrease the electricity usage (supply/demand which is driving up energy costs) which will compensate for Sunak increasing his by spending 9k per annum on heating a swimming pool? At some stage the Conservatives will have to come after pensions and sell the NHS because the money just isn't there at the bottom its all but bled out the middle class are next.
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  3620. Government finances don't work like that in any shape or form. Ex1 cutting police numbers under Austerity increased crime and unsolved crime this affects gdp enough to wipe out the money saved by reducing police numbers Ex2 paying nurses +10% only costs the Treasury 18p in the £, reason the 1st thing that happens is its taxed it then gets spent in the wider economy in a sort of merry go round till its been chipped away by saving.
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  3621. ​ @alanmpage Trump is weak on immigration did fk all about it for 4 years bar grandstand.
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  3622. are you being sarcastic?
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  3623. There's the tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation for the wealthy and abandonment of net zero for the Oil Barons
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  3624. Nothing will make Farage likable to the vast majority of the electorate His brexit is an effin disaster the points based scheme he championed is ditto And We've had quite enough Thatcherism to last a century
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  3625.  @saraandivanevans6881  there life is estimated at 25 years minimum and you buy a machine to recycle them there just fibreglass you need a big enough crusher. There also looking at moving to bamboo composite for blades and Perovskite cell technology for solar as well as Sodium - Ion batteries in the next few years Did you know the UK government is paying the Oil companies 75 billion to clean up old infrastructure in the North Sea?
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  3626. 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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  3627. The guy was an economic car crash -150k manufacturing jobs IN 4 FRIKIN YEARS +50% debt -3.6% GDP +40% balance of trade deficit -3 million jobs sole legislative achievement a tax cut for the super wealthy and corporate America, him telling you stuff and reality are 2 different things Quote from Bloomberg American firms are expected to reshore almost 350,000 jobs in 2022 -- an increase of 25% from 260,000 in 2021, according to figures cited in Deloitte's 'Future of Freight' report
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  3628. Texas will loose oil and gas jobs no matter who's in charge due to the fact that renewables are getting cheaper and grid battery storage comes on line in the next couple of years, Trump's is a false hope that you can turn back the tide the smart move is to ride the wave and embrace the change creating new alternate jobs. Tesla are building a giga factory in Texas, oil production in the US is dodgy price wise at best
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  3629. 120 seats? They'll be lucky with tactical voting & Rwanda whipping up votes for Reform
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  3630. You can't buy any of the so called competitors they've not geared up and there supply chains are a mess thier tech is all over the shop because over the years they've outsourced various processes. You can order a Tesla for delivery in 6-9 months hopefully that will come down
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  3631. 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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  3632. Monocclonal is now 1500 per shot 2 shots needed plus hospital costs. Vaccine 20$ currently free
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  3633.  @MakeHotRoddingGreatAgain  there are ways to cut profiteering
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  3634.  @staceyleeellis9160  Sorry but you'll be waiting forever, because the Cons decided to be a third country throughput through our ports is grindingly slow and will get slower as more checks are phased in.
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  3635. one of the reasons the economy is in the toilet is the 14 years of Tories driving wages down at every opportunity, also zero low pay and outsourcing are big drives in net migration
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  3636. New renewable is the cheapest on the grid, staying with fossil has been calculated to cost double a renewable grid.
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  3637. He made the wind blow harder for a month in the channel believe in Brexit Jesus its all they have
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  3638. 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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  3639. The City like everyone else was sick of 8 years of Tory chaos. Sunak can't turn round a squabbling pack of rats which is what the tories have descended into
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  3640. When did this channel go full Oswald Mosley do you get a free brown shirt if you subscribe?
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  3641. And what did the voters vote for? According to Nige and Daniel Hannan we'd be mental to leave the single market and peddled a full Norway
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  3642.  @Tondaloona03  whats one of those? I'm pointing out failed promises from everyone up the food chain, we have no leveling up, no Brexit high wage bonanza and a rudderless government that's still trying to fight battles of the past. We are completely and utterly directionless
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  3643. Government money isn't straightforward it goes into the economy then round like a merry go round generating additional gdp and taxation A recent LSE report put the the true cost of a 10% rise for nurses to the treasury at 19p in the £1 Your starting point is all that pay rise is subject to tax NI and all will be spent in the wider economy
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  3644. That's because there not Conservative or have any viable policies for that matter
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  3645. I agree if you look at where the wealth has gone in the last 14 years its locked up in artificially high property prices Tax wealth as well as work I've done zero to generate a 66% rise in my house vale over the life of this government and a fair tax system would reflect that
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  3646. There not illegal till their claim is processed and rejected Language matters
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  3647.  @scooby1992  Any thought that he will change is crazy he lives from one news cycle to the next and in his own alternate reality
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  3648.  @SeaSea11  You an get treatment for being in a cult, the guy is barking mad
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  3649. 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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  3650. Why's that? Reeve has a degree from the LSE, she also not a puppet of the IEA and Policy Exchange
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  3651. The FT 250 is up significantly this morning, business people don't share your pessimism, every year of the Tories 14 has just seen the level of chaos building to what has been a complete collapse of anything bordering sanity.
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  3652. 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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  3653. @Fred Smith Wind and tidal with some solar
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  3654. Its 60,000 refugees that there spending around 3-4 billion on trying to be mean and evil to Aren't you more concerned at the Tory Economic policies driving 1.25 million legal migrants?
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  3655.  @viviorko  and was a leading voice on the veterans affairs committee
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  3656. We've had 8 years of Chaos Reform aren't Conservative there just another agent of chaos.
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  3657. As people migrated from Calafornia the states around became Blue. The current pandemic has also seen a shift in work patterns, my job has been remote since the start of the pandemic I could live anywhere in the world with a decent broadband connection only requirement would be being able to sync meetings. Were also not going back the office will be optional reducing capacity by 75% and only having hot desks our desktops are getting upgraded with hi spec laptops. With not having to live near work anymore Democrats could be anywhere!
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  3658. According to the economic data average wages have shrunk by -7% since 2010, your £ is worth 30% less against the Euro, waiting lists are at an all time high and GDP per Capita has been falling for 7 quarters. Headline GDP is propped up by 1.25 million migrant workers Also Core inflation is starting to creep up this is the measure used by the BOE to set rates
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  3659. Energy spend by UK Consumers in 2021 was 30 billion this year it will be 170 billion There's 140 billion reasons to go net zero
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  3660. Average wage Growth under the Tories (Cameron, May, Johnson) -3% accounting for inflation +25% under Blair/Brown 18% under Thatcher/Major Stagflation here we come :(
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  3661. 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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  3662. without power you can do nothing
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  3663. Turkeys voting for Xmas again Not that I care I want 2 decades of labour if possible
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  3664. If they hadn't completely lost thier mind on voter suppresion tactics and a history of gerrymandering as well as blocking everything in the Senate we wouldn't be at a stage where Democrats are faced with having to win by big margins just to get a seat at the table.
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  3665. We've had 14 years of failed Monetarism all there doing is going back to what worked before Thatcherism as in Keynesian economic tax and spend to grow the economy
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  3666. were moving on from 14 years of failed Thatcherism back to John Maynard Keynes economic theory He argued for governments to stimulate faltering economies with public investiture. Even a small increase in government spending could net sizeable results, creating economic and social stability. In the interwar years between WWI and WWII, right-wing strongmen rose across Europe as a response to faltering economies Keynes understood that factors like economic deprivation, deflation, and inequality lead to dictators
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  3667. @johncaygill878  has nothing to do with industry its about the state investing in infrastructure that improves productivity. Our gdp per capita has fallen by 10% since 2010, a malaise started by Austerity
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  3668. Jeez this channel is a pile of crap, self serving elites pontificating how we should be riled up over nothing Promoted and financed by billionaires that don't even live in the UK using a propaganda and disinformation model pioneered by the Murdoc's to keep the plebs from focusing on what's really going on
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  3669.  @Lewis-kq4wd  Errr the brain dead Orange one ballooned the trade deficit with China who took him to the cleaners in negotiations and money laundering through Kushner doesn't count.
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  3670.  cj p  at least she would be a competent murdering witch instead of a clueless self deluded griffting idiot.
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  3671.  @diverguy3556  or obsessing over Harris's Time magazine drawing That one really gave me the ik urghhh
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  3672.  @blazzz13  it will get worse the points based immigration system we have now targets middle executive and professional class suppressing thier wages forcing graduates to either take lower paid jobs or emigrate
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  3673.  @jmills1549  the Cons have pulled 15 billion out of council budgets over the last decade disproportionately affecting Labour councils SUNAK'S Additional leveling up money is going to 40 out of 45 areas with a Conservative member of Parliament despite Labour representing 90% of the poorest areas in England There are also mandatory policies which councils have to follow poorer areas have a higher burden on social care and housing
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  3674. When corporation tax was 19% down from 28 the vast majority of companies spent the increased money on share buy backs CEO pay and divividends inflating stock prices So what proof do you have that it would be any different with your plan?
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  3675. Quote The UK is "sleepwalking" into a food supply crisis and the government must step in to help farmers, the National Farmers Union (NFU) has warned. Yields of tomatoes and other crops will likely slump to record lows this year, it said, with potential supply problems ahead as already seen with eggs Don't you just love a government that hasn't a fkin clue what effect Brexit combined with its other policies would have
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  3676. Putin has been pushing money into extreme right wing politicians and organisations across Europe for decades he's been accused of Kremlin connections before through Arron Banks and Steve Bannon
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  3677. Thier bought and payed for by the Billionaire class
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  3678. So nothing to do with the 4 trillion in unfunded tax cuts then? That rapid expansion of the money supply combined with Cov spending is why inflation was so high. This time if he tries it it will be worse as debt to gdp ratio has skyrocketed and there isn't the capacity to borrow which will lead to higher interest rates
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  3679. What sort of problems? Without one I can't access all sorts of off peak and solar tariffs and you can access your daily usage
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  3680. Pints all round
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  3681. The issue is its not the Conservative Party anymore its a hybrid Brexit English Nationalist party, the brextremists like Mogg want Libertarian nirvana and the ukip lot fro5h at imigration
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  3682.  @theoutsider6191  No one would bat an eye lid at Pot being legalized in some form if you ask me some at the very top have displayed signs that there familiar with Bolivian marching powder. I live in a well off northern area used to be staunch Conservative the mood round here is everyone will be voting Lib-Dem next election there are so many groups of Centre Centre right people that are totally pissed off with hard right wing bollox. There mostly fiscally Conservative but socially liberal. Funnily enough I've some builders working on my house at the moment the 2 older guys spout the usual guff on immigration they may well stick with the Cons but as far as I can see they've lost the middle class round here for a generation.
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  3683. Paying public sector workers fairly reduces migration
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  3684. What economic recovery even the governments figures put our GDP 10% down Except for NI wonder what's different about Northern Ireland?
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  3685. 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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  3686. after 14 years of declining wages Id have voted for a Labrador rather than a Tory
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  3687.  @oneoflokis  true I was surprised at the shift to younger educated urban voters but on reflection its down to the raising the educational threshold and getting more people university educated. And the destruction of workers networks through WMC and loss of Unions.
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  3688. The core driver of this is Conservative supply side trickle down I find it hilarious that Tories endlessly moan about something thier creating through thier economic policies
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  3689. Those on credit will get an extra uplift The Cap isn't currently in and wouldn't have been till 2025 and was supposed to be funded by a rise in NI back in the Boris days, there's currently no budget for it from both sides
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  3690. her polling according to YouGov was 15% so your living in an alternate reality bubble if you think that
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  3691. Let's be clear there a bunch of fascist racist that can't cope witj a multicultural tolerant society.
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  3692. It has a legal definition Abbot is a lawyer and should know better Quote Racism is when a person is treated worse, excluded, disadvantaged, harassed, bullied, humiliated or degraded because of their race or ethnicity. *Race or ethnicity includes people’s colour, and nationality (including citizenship) ethnic or national origins.
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  3693. He's the billionaire tech bro choice for project 2025 Trump is one cheeseburger away from a coronary
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  3694. Our economy was stagnant before Brexit, all brexit has done is give us a good kicking while we're down
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  3695.  @shenkaed  get your information from reliable sources? 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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  3696.  @shenkaed  The drop in real household disposable income would represent "the largest two-year fall in living standards since records began in the 1950s
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  3697. 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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  3698. What was he being bribed to do?
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  3699. That will turn of the Blue wall to the Lib-Dems and pump Reform by a couple of points
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  3700. And yet you gave it to Johnson and his cabal who are currently wrecking this country and dragging its name through the mud Brexit was always a lie and a Con disaster capitalists who want to sell the country and its people out to the highest bidder and you fell for the lies
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  3701. Go read up on what was going on at No10 from wine o clock Friday to Karaoke nights to ABBA themed fancy dress parties no expense was spared on the government credit card to Rave on
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  3702. The Cons are screwed the longer they leave it the worse it will get because of Ideology they will not deal with the energy Crisis which they made and is exacerbated and magnified by Privatisation. Energy prices feed into everything not just domestic bills and even moderate Tory MP's will not admit to the legacy failure of Thatcherism and Austerity Here's why 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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  3703. @user-gk9oj3nb1m  the last lot were completely effin incompetent as well as tied to the hip with Tufton Street think tanks so yes there will be a world of difference
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  3704. Buying more equipment to speed throughput
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  3705. There currently isn't a viable alternative, were here because of 14 years of incompetent Tory mismanagement and the last thing the majority of people want is the Tories back
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  3706. And no helicopter support and no gun battery support ?
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  3707.  @wilhelmu  I wonder if it's to do with Ukrainians targeting command and control structures, thers no coordination its been said they don't have maps I presume Google is switched off he looks lost.
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  3708. You have the best economic recovery in the G7 + 400,000 manufacturing jobs reshored last year Blue collar and working class wages are shifting upwards
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  3709. as soon as its introduced it will be seen by nearly all as not effecting them
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  3710. If you create trade barriers things go up, trade by volume is 7% less than in 2018 the tax shortfall has to be made up from other sources We're increasing legal migration because we left reason dependents given the numbers since leaving the EU you'd need +8 billion for the NHS just to stand still on a per capita basis.
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  3711. It was twice the noise from the press was the main reason.
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  3712.  @dazzwsmith  labour have right wing msm to deal with
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  3713.  @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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  3714. He's only popular with his Cult The reason he's been indicted so much is he's not very bright doesn't understand anything and has the maturity of an 11 year old bully
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  3715. we have the lowest number of robots per capita in the developed world + the Tories have used supply side Labour to depress the UK wage market, people come here to work those Jobs should be well payed not being used to push wages down and basically skimp on innovation and investment. There are just so many manual jobs that could be automated including in the NHS
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  3716. @TheBaconWizard  the jobs get replaced with other businesses if I create a well payed skilled jobs they generate work in other areas quite a few well off middle class people I know now pay for gardening services. At some stage you may need UBI but currently the issue is wealth distribution and the embedding of a right wing supply side labour low wage philosophy
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  3717. Blaming gold star famalies for his covid and making out they want to hug and kiss the sweaty orange blob. Way to go to drive your poll numbers down even further. Saturday was the mother of all super spreaders and he's covering for the fact he's patient zero and has spread that out to them on Sunday.
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  3718. The Faux anger and left blaming is reaching fever pitch. What the f*** a pandemic and civil responsibility has to do with the left is beyond me. The right have gone truly nuts Trump was all in for fascist rule locking up anyone that dissented and a police state.
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  3719. government spending is subject to an economic multiplier in the case of the proposed tax cuts its around 0.2-0.3 which means for every £1 the Treasury looses in income it gains an average +25p through expanded demand and GDP growth If you look at Osborne's corporation tax cut UK debt to gdp rose by 10% during the 2016 - 2019 period they delivered nothing growth was stagnent 10% of gdp to debt in today's money is 313 billion
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  3720. What's Christian about the Rwanda policy It's an utter disgrace
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  3721. Why would you scrap payed holiday leave or the clean water act?
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  3722.  @victoriaplum997  The reason for these sunset clauses is to get rid of stuff like holiday pay the clean water act the working time directive etc. not replace them. Mogg is a Libertarian he wants us to go back to the era of zero rules for business no matter how much it poisons the environment or hurts its employees. It was never about improving conditions or tailoring them to a higher UK standard it was all about sweat shop Britain
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  3723.  @clivemarriott7749  The plight of this country sits squarely on the hard right Thatcherite policies that have been enacted Austerity cut services to the bone and depressed public sector wages corporate tax cuts ballooned the debt the championing of a low wage gig economy then blaming people's woes on the migrant labour it needed to fuel it. We haven't had a Socialist government since Challaghan, Blaire / Brown where Centerists in what seems like a golden decade of increasing wages and improving services pissed away by greedy Tory policies.
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  3724. 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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  3725. Never a true word
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  3726. ​ @sasserine labour wouldn't increase paye tax or vat anyway PAYE tax isn't the issue its people living of investment income of more than 50k and still paying basic rate ex Sunak and H unt
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  3727. ​ @briangibson6527 you reduce migration by investing in social and physical infrastructure of he UK Not tax cuts What Reform are proposing would crash thee economy make Truss's work look like a dry run
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  3728. Because all effort is being pushed towards military goals the internal infrastructure in Russia is collapsing. They've already had a serious brain drain at the start of the war of over 1.5 million. Also very little was done infrastructure wise given Russias size in term of infrastructure investment post user collapsing, the Oligarchs and Putin have done the bare minimum and the war is on the back of generations with a low birth rate of 1.4 Thier economy doesn't have enough workers so things will start collapsing like the Dam for instance, the heating systems in apartment blocks etc
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  3729. Ukraine and its population have gone into full mobilisation even with Russians resources how will they hold territory while bleeding resources against an entire country being armed by the west? What happens if Georgia tries to take back its stolen parts?
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  3730. she isn't at the BBC she's an independent unlike your thought process
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  3731. Next couple of years should see cheaper domestic battery storage with sodium/ion we also have smart grid on the way once there's enough storage around including EV'S the grid can use them for load balancing instead of firing up a gas peaker plant. I've got solar thermal just waiting a couple of years to get my roof fully done it needs retiling
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  3732. She is a lawyer there's a legal definition of racism which she chose to ignore there is no debate Quote Racism is when a person is treated worse, excluded, disadvantaged, harassed, bullied, humiliated or degraded because of their race or ethnicity. *Race or ethnicity includes people’s colour, and nationality (including citizenship) ethnic or national origins.
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  3733. No they don't Reform have 1 mp
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  3734. Hire an EU Nurse and you get 1 Nurse Hire a Filipino Nurse you get her Husband and 2 kids simples 200,000 becomes 750,000 because of dependants Often times the EU worker moves on, you were sold simple solutions to a problem that was manageable when we were in the EU but now isn't
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  3735. 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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  3736. It's a bit of an oxymoron "you wouldn't believe" nothing surprises me about this guy anymore no matter how low the bar is he still manages to sink even lower. I just find him completely repulsive and weak how shallow do you have to be to look up up to this pathetic human being.
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  3737. They'll reform council tax, its being talked by every think tank outside Tufton street
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  3738.  @Loneman_OG  and your missing my point which is a general money spent needs to be targeted at those that need it, it doesn't matter what the spend is on. If your aim is to reduce poverty don't use the scattergun approach have a focused mission explore all avenues use a multi solution approach don't just look for a big bang headline then pat yourself on the back and move on. Changing universal benefits for all to target a few is wasteful and this has got to the stage of are you for gesture politics. It doesn't solve the problem of child poverty but you get a pat on the back from the left and a shalacking from the right over stereotypes. The real thing you should be angry about is WHY aren't Labour using this to turn the conversation into after 13 years poverty and food banks are on the rise instead of using it to talk about fiscal responsibility.
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  3739. I saw some clips of the RNC thee all as mad as a box of frogs There not hard right there off the scale right wing, Trump is just deranged that's all I can concur, the man spoke complete gibberish of a dystopian world that is in some alternate reality Today he tried to claim the booming stock market is because of him
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  3740. 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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  3741. ​ EvropaAeternvm they lost because they were cr@p Reform aren't Conservative there economics are Libertarian thier other policies are national populism. Chasing Reform alienate moderate Tories as seen by 72 lib dems seats
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  3742.  @MarkWilliams-ix1qf  if your urban/Suburban you don't need a gas car/lorry/bus etc change will happen quickly as Cities expand and create emissions free zones such as London and Paris The final mile delivery will be all electric in 5 years, people with second cars will quickly gravitate to at least 1 electric the only reason to have an ice car is long distance, everyone where I live is middle class with multiple cars per family the bulk of which would struggle to do more than 40 miles per day. The bulk of cars are round where I live are on contract or finance Yea sure I live in a well off district but it will happen quickly, everyone since the pandemic is talking electric and climate these people generate the second hand cars 3 years from now
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  3743. Since when are employers working people semantics but the Tories left them with very few options given they issued an unfunded pre election tax cut of 20 billion that whoever won had to sort out.
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  3744. Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
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  3745. People don't understand economics. I've had numerous conversations over the years explaining economic multipliers on government tax and spend explaining how cutting services with Austerity actually shrank the economy producing less tax revenues Ex defunding the justice system by Osborne increased crime, increases in unsolved crime especially theft has negative effects on the population and companies in relation to GDP > than the savings made by Austerity
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  3746.  @ignoranceisbliss6259  I'll give you an even worse example defunding nurse and doctor training leads to exponential growth in the need for migrant professional workers They can't cut net migration because a huge chunk of it is driven by Austerity and would take a decade to rectify
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  3747. In what way is the EU struggling after Brexit given the fact its GDP is larger now than it was with Britain in it?
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  3748. I infiltrated ANTIFA? The word itself is an amalgam of anti fascist and isn't an actual organisation, the nearest you can get would be something like the Anti Defamation League which works to fight anti sematism and racism pushing back at the growing number of fascist and neo national hate groups. If it did exist there would have been high profile arrests this year with trails broadcast on Fox with all the angst and hand wringing about left wing radicalism. Nope didn't see any arrests just lots of jaw from politicians looking to invent the bogeyman. Communist not good enough for you then we have this new scarier word for you.
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  3749. We have more land dedicated to golf than housing, if we get short of food compulsory purchase golf clubs and turn them in agricultural small holdings
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  3750. Ahh the ignorance, Rwanda is a show pony to dangle you along it will never happen and you like a gullible Gammon will keep ticking the blue box Every last one of us is paying for Tory incompetence as they slow roll the system to generate as big a crisis as possible in the hope that it will garner votes look at us where the fkin Usless Party we can waste bucket fulls of money on a pointless policy that we can't back out from now because it would RAGE the gammons after all that BNP NF vote is our core support
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  3751.  @Bristolcentaurus  Labour are in the process of improving productivity with its NHS review and investment in renewable energy
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  3752.  @Kohagaan  the west won't use nuclear weapons Putin knows that We're doing the best we can the sanctions and Europe ditching russian gas and oil should have happened in 2014
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  3753. ​@SubjectiveFunny actively speeding up what's causing our economic collapse which is a Tory debt doom loop? Since 2010 our economy has completely stagnated because of Conservative fiscal policy, we also have ever rising immigration due to lack of investment in training, re-skilling the domestic workforce. Cutting tax doesn't generate growth, Osborne's corporate tax cut generated + 20p in the £ corporations went on a share buy back spree removing money frow the working economy into assets.
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  3754. Reform are a fkin joke thee policies are so paper thin anyone with half a brain could punch through them 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts privatize the NHS Fracking (with all the subsidies and deregulation to make pollution a going concern) Yet the Tories are silent , not a whimper
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  3755. It's too well written, the report reads like something you'd get from a top analyst who had expertise in multiple areas and could condense the facts into a briefing narrative. The sort of thing the Orange idiot should be reading too form policy instead of watching far right conspiracy TV.
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  3756. If you outsource and penny pinch at every opportunity what do you expect?
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  3757. zero sounds a good number to me
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  3758. Brexit is costing the economy -6% gdp or around 60 billion in lost tax The economy is stagnant because companies 1st grow exports with its nearest trading partner its called Trade Gravity so we'll stay stagnate till the bulk of brexit is reversed.
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  3759. They've put forward an economic stance under Rachael Reeve "The Everyday Economy" Its a million miles from Thatcherism and low taxes for the top They've put forward a stance on Brexit which is more alignment with the EU to vastly reduce the paperwork crippling business a Veterinary deal alone would sort out the NI protocol And a green new deal to move from fossil (Norway has 93% renewable and 3% inflation)
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  3760.  @steveez5717  2017 was as far as Corbyn could push it the Lib-Dem vote was completely squeezed by 2019 he was dead in the waterT The older working uneducated working class male voters were switching to UKIP (BNP light) those guys are just lost there all on the Rwanda train. No one outside Toryland are going to keep bowing to the big money guys all there eggs are in the Boris basket. The economic path forward is through a push to switch the economy from fossil devolve power to the regions and fire up small businesses who are the lifeblood of the economy outside the City. I'd hope you'd get a raft of legislation on workers rights and an uplift in the minimum wage ban fire and rehire zero hours Non Dom and close down all the fekin tax havens. As an aside I've been listening to a great podcast series called "Origin stories" the last episode I listened to was "Neoliberalism everything is for sale" Its done by a couple of Jurno's on the left absolutely cracking given our conversation its right up your street. Knowledge is power nice talking to you
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  3761. Main issue for voters is Energy Prices Cost of Living NHS Poo in rivers and Climate Change They've excised Corbyn so are now seen as electable
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  3762. Lettuce Liz economics again Talk about memory of a goldfish
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  3763. So how will you reduce spending mr Sunak err simple raise the pension age and as if by magic everything goes away If your reducing NI and pulling pensioners into paying tax there is only 1 way to resolve the fiscal gap
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  3764. no it wasn't, the Trains used to interconnect in the good old days, privatisation just sucks money out of the Treasury
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  3765. RAC said none of the 5p cut was getting passed onto motorists
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  3766. You can't combat ignorance They sounded like they read the Daily Mail or frequete other right wing media sources all the stuff was the same stuff the Tory propaganda rags have been pedalling. As an aside the Budget was horrific how they can even think Sunak is somehow remotely competent is beyond me it was trickle down all the way Key takeaways 2 billion tax break for millionaire pensioners 8 billion tax giveaway to Bankers an extra 6 billion tax giveaway to fossil industry Fiscal drag that will add £1000 to average persons tax bill by 2027 and tax basis going up from 32% to 38% OBR says we'll be 6% worse off over the next 2 years zero money for public sector services
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  3767. Because they don't do detail and what there saying is basically rubbish steel is closing because of brex1t and the carbon tariffs being imposed on imports to the EU in 2026 making the export of steel and products made from coke steel uneconomic
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  3768. I can get a new or nearly new EV with > 200 mile range for less than 20,000 and save £2,000 a year on petrol due to cheap overnight tariffs Most people are at this stage just going to drive their current cars into the ground before switching
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  3769. The only things Labour has said won't change on taxation are Income Tax VAT and NI Rhishi Sunak payed 21p in the £ on 3 million in income there's plenty of other taxes that 90% of us would never pay and are riddled with loopholes for the wealthy also last year 42 billion in tax went uncollected
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  3770. money well spent keeps us off getting involved just think how much it would cost if we were deploying forces
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  3771. 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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  3772. And how do thier economic policies reduce legal migration? If the requirement of an economy to function is based on migrant labour, you just can't turn it on/off like a tap you need to address the root cause
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  3773. Quote from the Times its GROSS Pay packages for water industry bosses soared by a fifth (20%) on average last year, despite the companies overseeing hundreds of thousands of sewage spills. The average remuneration for executives at ten firms in England and Wales climbed to £1.1 million in 2021-22, up by £193,000 on average. The increase prompted accusations of a “national scandal” given the state of the country’s rivers. Collectively, executives across the sector were paid almost £25 million. The Times revealed this week that several water firms, including Northumbria Water and United Utilities, had lobbied to weaken the government’s £56 billion plan to clean up storm overflows. Analysis of Companies House data by the Liberal Democrats, who are calling for a ban on bonuses for water bosses, found significant increases in base pay, bonuses and pension contributions.
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  3774.  @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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  3775.  @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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  3776. what's your point after that tirade of inaccurate information
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  3777. Murdoc is as hard right as you would imagine, the Kremlin has spent decades using, the Oligarchs cultivating them and anyone in the nationalist sphere, Putin though an Autocrat is just as much a fascist as Comrade Carlson Frau Ingham Laklen and Rupert Murdoc. Tucker resembles Hanoi Rose at this point There still trying to spin the Trump presidency as successful (-6 million jobs, -3.6 gdp, +40% trade deficit, doubling the national debt, record suicide levels in farmers caused by stress from the trade war)
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  3778. He borrowed 130 billion last year April's borrowing was +10 Billion over estimates and he spent 20 billion on NI cuts which left pensioners fuming He's also tying us to gas rolling back renewable infrastructure, transport infrastructure and social infrastructure The man stands for nothing
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  3779. 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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  3780. 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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  3781. Why there promising the same low tax unicorns the Tories are?
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  3782. Plank of the week talks to plank of the decade Two intellectual midgets battle it out to see who can dumb down the discussion the most
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  3783. ​@mikecook1537 Thier growth is down to Brexit and the upgraded infrastructure put in by the EU They have completely taken over as the gateway to Europe, with growth comes imigration, with imigration comes a need for more services and social housing which in turn will need higher taxation, if companies don't pay the public will have to.
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  3784. More extreme Conservative BS why would anyone do that? The people that told you brexit would reduce migration your having a laugh
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  3785. It won't happen as you think. Currently US oil is at around $70 a barrel the break even point is $65 it's pointless extracting more they will sit on the leases + Every year renewable energy gets cheaper in comparison as capital costs fall while Oil and gas are subject to rising costs + inflation
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  3786. What for now eating an ice cream in a loud manner Maybe they dont like all the jobs hes created and want a good bit of unemployment to teach the country a lesson
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  3787. Changing leaders won't make a difference This is the unravelling of Thatcherism, Sunak has doubled down on small state low tax which is grinding our economy into the grave
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  3788. I forgot the white nationalism bit
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  3789. Why wont the Tories call out Reforms agenda as being complete bollex Also Look up Proportional Past the Post
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  3790.  @elvishprincess321  The Tories lost so badly because they chased the reform vote and got hammered by the Lib-Dems
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  3791. the FT did a piece of on how far to the Right economically the current Tories are and they scored a 9 Republicans 8.5 Labour 4.75 Democrats 4.6 Interesting piece far more objective that the drivel you've just written if you don't have an FT account you can find a comment on it at tax research written by Richard Murphy quote From the FT this morning. The Tories are now the most right-wing ruling party in the developed world and are completely out of step even with their own voters
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  3792.  @Grim_enigma  sorry for the tone thanks for engaging
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  3793. Too expensive and who wants to buy out Tory debt and old Coal stations
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  3794. ​ @Bobisalive the Tories are further right than Thatcher currently how fachy do you want?
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  3795. The eat out scheme will have done more for the economy that Truss's proposals ever will
    2
  3796. More extreme version of the Tory party haven't you had enough kicking for 1 decade?
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  3797.  @tancho103  borrowing 2010 800 billion borrowing 2024 2.4 trillion
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  3798. His father was Greek They need returning so they can be viewed in the shadow of the Temple Quote The Parthenon Sculptures are a collection of different types of marble architectural decoration from the temple of Athena (the Parthenon) on the Acropolis
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  3799.  @pieroocchooa5837  The President just declared on TV that there were antifa tattooed black clad ready to go super soldiers coming to a town near you coz he heard it on Right wing TV. The head of one of the largest intelligence agencies in the world is taking his briefings from a John Doe on Facebook who made shit up that right wing moon barkers amplify. I have but one thing to say "person woman man camera tv"
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  3800.  @jakebe4915  there doing all they can the Ukrainians are being equipped with the latest anti tank anti air equipment all man portable. They also have drone capability and are using commercial drones for recon plus the Russian army doesn't appear to be equipped with night vision or much thermal guidance
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  3801. why are you in a union then?
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  3802. ​ @pete2k7 and why would a private company build our infrastructure if the contracts were short? Hinckley C is for 35 years if it ever comes online. Thank Thatcher
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  3803. I thought he was a numbers man obviously not read the latest OBR report 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.25 Jul 2023 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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  3804. What policies are those? Unfunded corporate cuts onto debt stoking inflation? 16 nobel prize winning economist say Trumps plans will Stoke inflation back up again and cause a reccesion
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  3805. Why was Pence not there again? Remind me?
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  3806. ​@wisepranker the American economy is booming ours is contracting what's your point?
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  3807. we borrowed 130 billion last year any tax cut is on the back of further borrowing and taxes will go straight back up after the election. The fiscal headroom is on the back of 18% cuts to services and budgets by 2028 so what are you going to cut to pay for it?
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  3808. Between myself and my wife were worth 1.5 million if we died tomorrow it would all go to my son Tax Free - this is a CON to let the top 4% off tax
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  3809. No they didn't The current shtshw is because of Brexit It's like working with your neighbours to solve common problems has real world benefits People said it would get worse if we left the EU and it was dismissed as project fear
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  3810.  @nickedwards2904  you don't get it do you Join up the dots
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  3811. 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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  3812.  @GardenandGreen  it's a fraction of the price of current energy mix but hey stick to your fossil manifesto
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  3813.  @aituk  go listen to politics Joe pucast episode "Rhishi's Hail Mary' Ava Santini plays a game of spot the difference between UKIP manifesto policy and Current Tory policy It's quite funny and informative
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  3814. The fundamental reason the economy needs high levels of SUPPLY SIDE CHEAP LABOUR is the Conservative economic policies are supply side trickle down aka Thatcherism If you invest in Social and Physical infrastructure up skilling your own workforce adding more automated processes through investment you need less migrant Labour
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  3815. Liz Truss was completely wrong we have 50 years of data since Reagan & Thatcher which shows Tax cuts DON'T create growth The average growth rate with Osborn's corporate tax cut was 0.5% GDP increasing tax receipts by around 40 billion till it went up this year at a cost of 200 billion in lost tax receipts. All the data we have points to companies using the bulk of tax savings on share buybacks in turn increasing executive pay. So even if she had gone at a slower pace the eventual end would have been the same all Sunak has done is staunch the bleeding we need root and branch tax reform and major social and physical infrastructure investment to turn the economy around
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  3816. He's running a centre left agenda and in all likelihood will need every vote Corbyn voted 400+ times against the whip he doesn't want loads of little corbynites gumming up the works and making him a 1 term PM
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  3817. Renewable energy policy will drive energy prices down which affects especially pensioners and the low paid
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  3818. The lead is baked in, Starmer isn't regarded as a threat to middle England who will vote tactically to destroy the Tories because of their chronic ineptitude
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  3819. Why if you want to cut immigration taxes need to go to pay for the Physical and social infrastructure needed Reason we need so many migrants is lack of investment
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  3820.  @0019808  the reason for high migration is Supply Side Trickle Down economics aka Thatcherism
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  3821.  @jamesnicholls1054  if you invest in infrastructure both physically and social you need less immigration. Why do we Nurses and thier famalies from Nigeria? Because in 2010 Osborne cut Labour's Bursary system leading to a lot G term decline in nurses being trained. Why do we have 600,000 + dependents? Because of Brexit and loss of FOM the visas are permenant. So yes Labour will reduce migration but it will take time to repair right wing economic damage
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  3822. Keep up with the sexism it's driving her polling up
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  3823. A worse version of the Tories? Why?
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  3824.  J Kasten  fact check before you write, another piece of crap spread by the lie machine that has become right wing media
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  3825.  @balla4544  plus the fifth largest economy in the world and the fastest growing and the best paid jobs and the best social safety net envy of the world but hey go live in a red state shhthole with a fkd economy
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  3826. Brexit isn't the reason for our low productivity and 13 years of economic stagnation Austerity + Trickle Down Supply side Economics is (aka Thatcher) The autumn statement was a case in point tax rises at the bottom to fuel tax giveaways for businesses and the well off, fiscal drag really hurts the poorest in the economy and using NI instead of tax bands puts extra burden on low income pensioners as well. There are some simple remedies cut the NHS waiting lists and get people back to work, provide social support for disabled and special needs adults to work. Build lots of council houses so council budgets aren't eaten away with housing support ( now up to 50% in some councils) Change council tax to a value tax not banded and capped
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  3827. He'd have never passed a psyche evaluation in 2016, he's a basket case
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  3828.  @dave710  it's the shutting down legal routes to claim. We only take in 62,000 as it is, the Tories ha e created the current business model. Also we need ID cards there are loads of people disappearing into the black economy and modern slavery is on the rize
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  3829.  @allip4226  and the tactical voting that is going to be devastating for them in a general
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  3830. Port talbot is closing because of Brexit
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  3831. Why do you think the Tories ever cared about you in the 1st place they are privatising the NHS by stealth and creating a low wage economy for your children
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  3832. opposition to fracking is 60% against 17% for and educated people understand that net zero investment now will produce a cheaper cleaner grid so your voter pool is pretty narrow Then we have the complete car crash that is brex1t which has tanked the economy and tripled migration
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  3833. People want a covid briefing from experts in the field of infectious diseases not a firkin campaign rally from agent Orange
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  3834. Biden has turned the economy around and the stupid goat has the termacity to say a Republican would run it better Last Republican in office (tRUMP) +3.6 million unemployed + 8 Trillion debt -150,000 manufacturing jobs +40% trade deficit -3.5% GDP FIGURES NOT SEEN SINCE HOOVER AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION The economy was going down the pan look over at the UK who've implemented so called Conservative policies post COVID their economy is now a raging skip fire
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  3835. Why is our PM allowed to have a loan with a Foreign National? A it should be automatically declared in MP'S interests B at what point does this become compromat, you couldn't get a civil service job with finances like these and you certainly would never get security clearance All MP'S need to have thier Taxes Audited by HMRC
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  3836. 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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  3837. We are on It's what is called an s curve with EV adoption, at the moment because there newish they are expensive but 40% of the price is battery Last year battery prices dropped by 20% It is estimated that in 5 years battery prices will halve and energy storage will double I costed a solar battery system around 3 years ago and payback was 15+ years had one installed this year and payback is < 6 years Things are moving very quickly at the minute
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  3838. Why are labour finished they've just started repairing the Tories mess
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  3839.  @oldskoolrools3087  you listen to the opposition in interviews they sound perfectly normal, if you read tory media then there the spawn of satan
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  3840. This would have been a 5 minute story if they'd not tried to cover it up and lie about it
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  3841. Grow a brain it underpins the Good Friday Agreement and multiple trade agreements
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  3842.  @Suve35967  No you lost, because you were sold a dream that could never be realised a complete work of fiction.
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  3843. 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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  3844. Ah yes fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me Lets vote for the FogHorn of ignorance one more time
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  3845. Layered defence which is what the Ukrainians are doing has a casualty rate of 1 defender to 5 attackers, you can look it up in the army manuals if you want and I suspect higher on the Russian side if there throwing conscripts in. Your also calculating 3 wounded to each death if Ukraine has high casualties the Russians are just haemorrhaging men so will they run out or have they more zombie hordes to send forward
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  3846. She demonstrated that Trump has the attention span of a gnat and he's even crazier than 4 years ago
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  3847. Ahh the Millionaire choice how wealthy you must be
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  3848. Another scare story from a Tory shill The Billionaires channel shows its true colours
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  3849. The allowance for a couple is 3 million it flushes out the Dyson of this world using it to dodge IHT and inflates farm prices
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  3850. how about inform people that it doesn't affect them its like only 10% of vehicles that don't comply and their mostly diesel
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  3851.  @Manchesterkoi  Can't have been working very hard if they've got a pre 2014 diesel still on the road. Aside from that I'd agree the timing is poor but that was forced on Khan by Grant Shapps tying transport funding to ULEZ expansion and ULEZ is also a Conservative policy brought in by Johnson. If it is trades people that will be mostly hit an answer is a better scrappage scheme for those that physically live in the area
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  3852. Looked like a mob hit Russian Mafia problems more like Or The FSB planned it to justify targeting Ukrainian civilians, The were responsible for the flat bombings to justify the Chechen war so anything s possible
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  3853. 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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  3854. Are you aware that if ICE car sales collapse Toyota will be one of the 1st to go bankrupt? They currently can't transition we've seen in Europe how quickly its going and gas pri es just speed up the pace
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  3855.  @davidmt23  Why would intelligent people give up their rights to live and work in Europe and crater the UK economy?
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  3856.  @Elizabeth-jd3mn  Johnson's cabal aren't Liberal there just doing the Tory thing looking out for themselves and their donors
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  3857. 95% of people support his actions according to YouGov polling
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  3858. If they were going to 25 him it would have been at the start, his mental crazy behaviour is baked into the Republicans now and they don't have a pair of balls in the entire party. There's still people coming out saying it's a Dem hoax.
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  3859. It would cost 3 billion and raise 250k out of 4.3 million out of poverty at 12k per head
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  3860. Keep it up, the behaviour is driving the Women's vote through the roof for Harris
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  3861. It's latest nickname is GBeebies
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  3862. what valuable part of the economy? The fossil industry gets billions in tax subsidies both main players in the North sea didn't pay any tax for around 5 years before 2023
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  3863. She was the casting vote in the Senate which passed all Bidens infrastructure bills which have spurred an average of 3.6% gdp growth per year and the reshoring of 2 million manufacturing jobs.
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  3864. An economy relies on small businesses to recover after a recession by about 60% if your knee capping small businesses then sick man of Europe has arrived at double quick time
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  3865. Weve had the biggest rise in taxes during peacetime in our history and thresholds are frozen till 2028 You should have a 20% limit of 14350 not 12250 We also borrowed 130 billion last year youd not leave the Cons in charge of running a bath let alone the economy
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  3866. 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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  3867. At some stage most companies will get round the open source model, it's pointless hundreds of companies trying to reinvent the wheel, Tesla maybe able to afford the research but aside from a few the others are years behind at a guess 5+ If your going to get government approval it helps that there only certifying one system as well.
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  3868.  @noodlyappendage6729  there just driving NI to unification, the protocol keeps the status quo no one wants a border but the DUP and Brextremists
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  3869.  @eriihf  I would call the Rwanda policy far right the Policing bill stopping protests far right the voter suppression bill far right. At what stage has any government gone down this insane path?
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  3870. You've been that gullible before😊
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  3871.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  What far left and why? Do you want to have an ever decreasing pay packet and standard of living or are you one of the super rich?
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  3872.  @Dean4511  this whole thing is a logistics problem which isn't being managed, the military do supply chain logistics at a stratospheric level. There is currently a team of 1 running this and he's several cards short of a full deck
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  3873.  @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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  3874. Over the last couple of years thier activist base at local level is all but shot as they loose councils and their stalwart supporters get too old to paddle the streets Last poll had 10% support in the under 50's with Sunak's fiscal drag biting into pensions the over 50's will fade as well there done
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  3875. ​ @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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  3876.  @billybobthornton9668  reduced waiting lists = increased productivity + companies paying out less in long term sick pay which = higher gdp & more tax
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  3877. In the UK there has just been a petrol run with fuel shortages. Prices are up 30% and they've bee blitzed with cop26. It will turn in 12 months given ev supply
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  3878. You don't get a choice so says Emperor Vlad
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  3879.  @jjefferyworboys8138  how do you resolve the generational wealth that Thacherism has created? Tax breaks have lead to 1.5 trillion in isa's Right to buy hundreds of billions in tax breaks Etc.
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  3880. The drumbeat on renewable energy is constant and one that will be transformative Detaching your economy from world Commodity based fossil fuel will be liberating as well as lower costs and also reinvigorate regions where its based + tidal is more decentralised by its nature
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  3881.  @shanjanusman9974  we also have 1 in 3 small firms staring at bankruptcy most farmers undercut by red tape for exports and lower standards for imports, sewage filled rivers and sea total collapse of hospitality in some areas due to staff shortages. The Nissan plant owned by the French and Chinese bailed out with huge amounts of public money not to shut up shop and relocate to the EU with the only market for anything they produce being the UK because they can't meet the 60% threshold
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  3882.  @shanjanusman9974  Leave is a right wing project funded by the billionaire class, the levels of propaganda spewed out were on an industrial scale just because left leaning politicians believed the complete pile of bilge coming out of vote leave doesn't give it credence. Since the vote they have gone into overdrive to sell the hardest brexit possible simply to introduce supply side economics on an industrial scale Follow the money who paid Cambridge Analytica for the Facebook campaign? Who owns the Sun Mail Telegraph and Express why are they still boosting Johnson the most useless PM in political history lying lazy and incompetent Who pays into the economic think tanks that are driving current cabinet policy I'll give you a clue - Fossil industry pushing for net zero to be dropped, Big Pharma and health companies circling to privatise the NHS large multi nationals
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  3883. 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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  3884. 1 in 5 apparently
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  3885. 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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  3886. 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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  3887. They won't be running Trickle down supply side economics aka Thatcherism and will try some of the worst effects of Austerity Things can only get better
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  3888. There are no real restrictions most places so where is this hot bed of mandates there trying to end? So its not the people's convoy just a load of dumb fk's with too much money in their pocket and too much time on their hands Or are they getting funded by a far right group? oh yes what a surprise
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  3889. ​ @blacklisted4885 if you pull out London service sector large parts of the UK have been in near permanent recession since we left only London has posi5ive wage growth and the economy overall has shrunk. Food round our way choice has near gone the so called fresh stuff lasts a couple of days instead of a week and the shelves are often empty
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  3890. Brexit turbo charged both illegal and legal migration yet we have it's architect the FogHorn of ignorance proposing policies which will amplify the problem not resolve it.
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  3891. 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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  3892. @Beornræd The US has a Right wing senate stopping left wing progressive taxation policy. Germany has a Gas problem of its own making France has a Centerist in charge Norway Sweden and Finland have left wing governments Where the only country in History to put trade sanctions on itself without it our food for example would be 6% cheaper (comparison with NI who are in the single market) Which is why our inflation is basically out of control because you can't fix something if you refuse to acknowledge the problem
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  3893. Labour won't raise taxes Sunak has done that already the Tories are p1ssing billions away on Trickle down policies Quote US Sanctions Rwanda Over Child Soldiers – As UK Sings President Kagame’s Praises The latest sanctions stand in stark contrast to the UK Government’s often inaccurate descriptions of life in Rwanda, where it plans to send some asylum seekers. The US State Department will from next month end all military cooperation with Rwanda after adding the small African nation to its list of countries using or sponsoring child soldiers. Rwanda, it says, sponsors the M23 rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo – and M23’s terror squads use armed children to commit some of the Congo’s most gruesome and bloody atrocities. Rwandan President Paul Kagame denies funding the group but admits having influence over it.
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  3894. 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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  3895. the issue is of character, Johnson is too indiciplined to achieve anything his government is a continuous round of chaos lead by a serial lier take the so called sanctions there is little to no attempt to clean the City and the myriad of secret offshore shell companies that own UK property and businesses take the Patterson affair rewriting the rules to get what would be regarded in normal life criminal behaviour worthy of 20 years at her majesty's pleasure bypassing security warnings about Ledvedev using donor cash for pimping his flat vip Lane for crony ppe contracts the list is endless
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  3896. Do what how many family farms are worth more than 3 million?
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  3897.  @ludicrous6380  why would you be anti-labour 13 years of economic failure has culminated into this point, you cant turn the economy around without abandoning Supply Side Trickle Down Economics which has run out of road and now needs to tax the middle class to survive.
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  3898. 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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  3899.  @cshartley101  there not in government so exactly how are they supposed to change national polocies?
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  3900. Labour are going to invest in renewables which grows the economy the Conservatives are investing in fossil through tax giveaways which will help shrink it The point estimates of the multipliers are 1.1-1.5 for renewable energy investment and 0.5-0.6 for fossil fuel energy investment, depending on horizon and specification An economic multiplier of > 1 produces more tax revenue than was spent via increased economic activity an economic multiplier < 1 produces less tax revenue than was spent via decreased economic activity The figures I've quoted are widely available and the spending won't increase inflation the root cause of that is increased mony supply 700 billion through Covid 130 billion through Truss. Squeezing lower and middle incomes to pay for it wont work either the money needs removing from the system from where it has trickled up too, increased boe rates make it tricle up faster to the asset class they don't remove it.
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  3901. ​ @ozzy8286 we have an ex dpp in charge. This lot will learn the hard way
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  3902. 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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  3903. 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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  3904. His agenda was undeliverable brexit is a complete mess apointing Sunak as chancellor when you want to spend large sums on leveling up wasn't going to happen
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  3905. the ECHR which underpins the Good Friday agreement and is the last resort against government overreach just as the Hillsborough families are you mental?
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  3906. Biden won by 6 million 4+% points plus 350k+ across multiple swing states, Trump is one of the most loathed and hated politicians by 50%+ of the population ever Claiming he won by a landslide is just nuts
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  3907. Corbyn isn't even in labour anymore catch up
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  3908. and how long has it taken for you to see the light I'm 67 and never voted Tory
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  3909. And you loose what little rights that are left in this country as well its not a thing that just applies to dinghies
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  3910. 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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  3911. If you make your house energy efficient and install solar and batteries you'll have lower bills, capital payback is now under 6 years
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  3912. Mama Mia here we go again my my just another ABBA Evening On the dance floor tonight the Crime Minister Mr Bozo Bodger Johnson doing the limbo try to lower the bar even further Oh Yes And our second record coming up folks is wait for Common People by Pulp
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  3913. The states being affected at the start were blue states and the administration of Trump gambled it wouldn't spread or be as destructive or as virulent as it's been also Trump wasn't interested. This half in half out state is the new normal till federal government gets its act together, there's no guarantee that immunity will last if you've had it most of the data coming back appears to point to the more sever your illness the more resistance you'll have and there's no info on how long that will last could be a year could be longer
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  3914. 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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  3915. I listen to Richard but it's an opinion, some of his stuff has merit but we have dug ourselves a hole
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  3916. There spread out because there nearly all 50+ men
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  3917. We have concerns that Hawley is a fascist who'd stiff anyone for a leg up the political aldder
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  3918. 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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  3919. Just lobby your mp to allow them to work then
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  3920. !40,000 deaths and one of the worst covid management in Europe -3% wage growth in the last decade (not seen since the Napoleonic war) Highest tax burden since post war reconstruction Corruption unbound Yet 38% of people still think its better under the Cons than anyone else un f** believable
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  3921. Ouch That's gotta hurt
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  3922. It's looking more and more likely that he's patient zero for the WH outbreak he's been on meds longer than they are prepared to say.
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  3923.  @eagle3676  don't start with the disunity talk Bernie wanted a brokered convention when it suited him.
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  3924. The last big poll was morning Consul 8,000 to a claimed accuracy of 1% What's aparant from the underlying data is DJT has a serious woman problem, the more he opens his mouth to court young uneducated men the more women he puts in the debit column. 2020 women 55% of the eventual electorate men 45% I also think the more he speaks the more it motivates Democrats to turn out
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  3925. @Napoleon1123 He's worried about his offshore trust to avoid IHT on his millions
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  3926. net zero will reduce energy bills, the reason there high now is were tied to gas
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  3927. the economy would collapse faster than its currently doing
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  3928.  @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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  3929. 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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  3930. and what law has she broken exactly? your talking about someone on PAYE and a perhaps / maybe / theoretical tax bill of £1500 10 years ago with zero paper trail because as far as the law is concerned you don't have to live in a place to claim it as your primary residence.
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  3931.  @nihilistlivesmatter  tax isn't a police affair it's hmrc.
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  3932. Markets are never free there dictated to by various things including government policy but also the power of multi nationals to slow down the transition to energy Independence that moving to reneweable grid will bring
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  3933. ​ @JamesSmith-gj2ho you could automate fruit picking , plant the trees in the right way invest in the machinery
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  3934. we've had a Right wing - then Centre Then Right wing government for 50 years and you wanted to reverse 50 years of policies in 5 do you not know how silly that sounds and why you lost by a lot in 2019?
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  3935. After all they've only an 8% shortage and ours is 25%+, so greedy they could at least have a decent shortage so it doesn't make our xenophobic muppet government look even stupider than it does.
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  3936. Do you have any idea on how bad her economic views are? Lower corporation tax to boost growth? This is a complete fairy tale corporate profits are up 12.5% and are fueling inflation lowering corporation tax is like throwing gasoline on a fire. Disaster capitalist privatise the profits socialise the loss
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  3937. This needs bumping up the search LISTS AGAIN
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  3938. We were the instigators of the ECRH and it does a lot of heavy lifting to stop government abuse of power against its citizens. If its removed you loose the rights as well most of the new policing bill falls foul of human rights law there basically trying to con you into giving away your own rights on the back of a scheme which is fk stupid at best and disgustedly immoral at worst
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  3939. Why cant they manage on a 5 million tax break?
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  3940. You'll get less legal migration under Labour because they will invest more in UKPLC and less illegal migration because they will invest in addressing key areas that are causing the problems such as processing Did you know that under the Tories we are housing 60,000 who if processed would have been deported already?
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  3941.  @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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  3942. you'd need to overhaul the entire energy market they created post privatization Instead of passing on the customers who's firms failed they could have set up a new company to take them on and run it not for profit which would have put pressure on the market to reduce prices.
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  3943.  @brianborstein8456  people coming up and telling the truth about what's going on in the WH isn't a hoax it's just facts if you want to ignore them fine calling stuff hoax and witch hunt is parroting the clueless idiot that is currently president
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  3944.  @brianborstein8456  the Muller report was up by several million from Manaford sized assets and as for pressure it's like a Full sized guerrilla asking for a baby chimps banana the power disparity doesn't make it oh just do this little thing it's the big busy tactic. Your lot can do better than this complete sleaze ball
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  3945.  @brianborstein8456  why do you parrot out the word Hoax then go off into a Fox nut job conspiracy theory? Hannity Limbar the rest of thier ilk push propaganda it's not even dressed up as news these days. This stuff is on par with the moon landing didn't happen and it was all a fake.
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  3946. They will reverse all the trickle down stuff and spend it on services
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  3947. Kind of they could have fetched it down by intervening in the energy market 90% tax on 140 billion in excess profits would be a start
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  3948. If you want less immigration change the economic model institute an equitable progressive tax system and properly fund Social and Physical infrastructure to create a demand side economy You can't have a low tax Tory economy without the low wage supply side immigrant labour source that fuels it
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  3949.  @mark.e.p  like closing off the IHT loophole that lets you offshore your assets?
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  3950.  @georgesdelatour  when you make trade deals you cede sovereignty for access. In the CPTPP you gave away sovreign rights to decide trade disputes so don't lecture me on sovereignty Mug Quote A threat to sovereignty CPTPP includes a type of corporate court system: the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS).  This notorious system allows foreign companies to sue the governments for any actions that they argue could affect their profits.  In the past, this court system has been used to challenge increases in the minimum wage and countries’ attempts to bring public services back into public ownership
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  3951. Thatcher stripped around 1.2 trillion in assets from the country a lot now owned by offshore interests If you have an asset such as a house, water company, energy your expecting a return, so the value to the country of ownership is a loss of around 60 billion per year
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  3952. It's the nightmare that never ends, the first wave is still breaking in middle America the test and trace still isn't up to speed and the slow down is purely down to the lockdown + a large % of the population social distancing and adopt mask wearing. Now the lock downs are ending unil there's diffrent leadership the deaths will keep on and on and on because a significant % refuse to take social distancing and mask wearing seriously because a divisive incompetent president wants the economy reopened as it was.
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  3953. Nocking off early to start wine time Friday is not something people need reminding of
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  3954. Reform pedal supply side economics same as the Tories which needs a supply side labour pool to function Fantasy economics meets Fantasy immigration policy
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  3955. Floating Gin Palace I hear there's still 250 million allocated to it
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  3956. Fix things fk tax cuts
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  3957. The current Labour policy is to over deliver to ensure at least 2 terms
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  3958. Vaccines was a red herring we were still in the EU when the pandemic struck so absolutely no effect If you want to make everyone better off improve all public services, remove penalties for studying and redistribute the mind numing amounts of wealth locked up by the super rich Over the pandemic Billionaires doubled their wealth? Property rose by over 30%
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  3959. It's a shrinking part of the population, the chart just follows Fox and the rights propaganda they've created a hard core group of extremely paranoid followers. Given the toxic nature of most of thier key talking points there not going to be expanding thier voter registration into the young and educated.
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  3960. Wehey at last a benefit of Brexit more refugees to be angry xenophobic and racist about go Nige give it your best we hate everyone else shot and shout at lifeboats and claim its all the EU's fault. Pre Brexit we were part of the Dublin accord "The Dublin III Regulation allows the UK to return migrants to other EU countries"
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  3961.  @frontenac5083  Get a vaccine then you won't have to go into isolation
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  3962.  @lemdixon01  Its not experimental its been trailed around the world Latest statistics are still 90% of people in hospital with Covid have not been vaccinated
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  3963.  @crimfan  in 2020 70% of counties by GDP voted for Biden Trump won every sh1th0le county on the list While a similar effect is happening here it's starkly different in that the Northern seats have a real ingrained hatred of Thatcher, the rise of the south east as this monolithic block of well off Brits is now peppered with some of the most deprived areas in the country such as Clackton. If the rich South East don't pony up some money to level up then the poverty rot will keep expanding there as well
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  3964.  @danielwebb8402  My figures where real gdp and they came from the OBR so no spending hasn't gone up everything needs adjusting for inflation
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  3965. Don't get sucked into whataboutism
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  3966. I'm a pensioner the last Tory government were the worst in my lifetime a knackered economy with no growth and a failing NHS Not only that my families tax went through the roof
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  3967. Given Trump's addiction to junk food and his Alzheimer getting worse Vance is the billionaire's pick to take over and all in on project 2025
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  3968. Borrowing to prop up gilts
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  3969.  @tombrenemanMt  The Fed like every other economy at the moment due to the pandemic is printing money and buying its own debt keeping interest rates low. Fiscal stimulus at the bottom results in 100% spend which boosts the economy. Biden has employed some real economists for advice rather than Larry Kudlow also Yelland is a pretty smart cookie Debt is currently high but your actually paying the government if you buy treasury bonds yield is below inflation. I'm not saying debt can't be an issue its just your headline is well baloney
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  3970. Kemp is corrupt he just wasn't corrupt enough, the levels of voter suppresion in Georgia are pretty Draconian
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  3971. What's he going to do sue every voter who didn't vote for him? Pathetic
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  3972. All Corbyn had to do was keep his head down and be a team player and he couldn't even do that
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  3973. Yes it did or are we going to deny the reality of your decision even when experts told you so.
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  3974. Trump is insane, his 20% tariff = a 20% sales tax your going to head into the biggest recession the US has ever seen with this policy
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  3975. America first is a rebrand of the same old tired fascist ideas, the term has history and is embedded in neo national racism and the KKK. The Q stuff is much the same it's roots are in anti-Semitism and white supremacists conspiracy theories rehashed from the early part of the 20th century same stinking rotting pig just some bright shiny lipstick on it
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  3976. There was a government paper in 2023, if you don't do it it will cost more than waiting because we need to upgrade the grid infrastructure anyway and by sticking with gas your ballooning your operating costs. At the end of the day renewable energy is the cheapest on the grid + it's input energy cost is zero Gas is subject to extraction, processing & transport costs times inflation
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  3977.  @Cedawood  He is but part of the issue is the rise in poverty driven by Austerity and a Tory low wage economy with soaring rent and house prices quote Invest more in youth clubs – creating 250,000 positive opportunities for young Londoners to help steer them away from gangs and crime quote Recorded crime in London is more prevalent in the neighbourhoods with the higher levels of income deprivation: Overall, 40% more crimes were recorded in the most income-deprived areas in 2023, compared to the least income-deprived 10%
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  3978. You get a bit of soggy centrism and your wailing like it's the end of the world. We've just had the worst government in recorded history by every metric and your complaining about Starmer?
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  3979. @liberte.3.6.9  statistically the last Tory government were the worst in uk history. The first time on record you've been poorer at the end of the parliament + Record tax rises with the tax base going from 33% to 37% + Trade in physical goods shrinking by - 7% Labours tax rises will see the base go up a single point to 38% for that we get services such as police and health funded
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  3980. build back with what the Brexit Ultra deal + Austerity + Thatcherism ha tanked the economy
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  3981. 2 child cap is popular with voters by a large margin its something like +70% Unlike the Tories who have a whole client media on their side Labour have to govern for the majority not just follow some elite idealistic socialist wonks who've never implemented a policy in their lives.  @sueyourself5413 
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  3982.  @Moscow_Will_Burn  get real the economy is shrinking and fast quote Notably, GDP per capita — which adjusts for population growth — contracted by 0.6% in the fourth quarter, after a 0.4% decline in the previous three months, and fell further through each quarter of last year. Over the whole of 2023, seasonally-adjusted GDP per head shrank by 0.7%.
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  3983.  @jaehparrk  2.68T For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $83.4 billion and net quarterly profit of $20.6 billion, or $1.24 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $64.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $12.7 billion, or $0.73 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.
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  3984. Starmer will be the next PM the question is by how much or with supply agreements. Reasons the economy is tanking and will continue to get worse were a long way off the bottom
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  3985. You voted to stop trade as well you numpty As Mark Carney put it the Brexiteers wanted to create Singapore on Thames but they've created Argentina on the Channel
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  3986. There's been a bit of speculation on what he was high on and it didn't look like alcohol to me.
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  3987. From the UK we'd take Biden tomorrow would love a government that's halved inflation when the previous guy pumped 40%+ of gdp onto new debt and has policies to make the US the renewable tech world leader. Post pandemic I'm amazed at how's he's turned it around and the amount of bipartisan bills he's gotten through the senate All Trump did was pass a tax bill that went straight to debt and was for the wealthy and corporations
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  3988. why do you want the Dyson's of this world to pay no tax the family limit if split by a couple is 3 million
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  3989.  @paulmapp8306  It's not the Tories borrowed 1 trillion from 2010 to 2019
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  3990.  @feelsgoodman9737  the total turnout is estimated to be 155-160 million that's +30 million on 2016, younger voters and ocasional voters are turning out in droves, the GOP are not a growing party far from it, sorry the math is against you. Dam Trump fails to undercut facts again.
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  3991. Small boat problem has exploded after we left the EU, Starmer wants closer cooperation with the EU Borders have 2 sides something the thiko brex1teers don't seem to realise And labour aren't for letting them in there for for processing them in a timely manner and shutting down the smuggling
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  3992. Is this guy stupid or what these are communication accessories, you use up to the minute Apple products for security reasons. Every business user I know uses bluetooth in ear while on the phone using Zoom or what's app group chat wtf does he use carrier pigeon GOD HELP US FROM TORY STUPIDITY THIS GUY IS A TOTAL PRAT
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  3993. Seen a report by the OBR that Net Zero will cost an economy 6% GDP but not going Net Zero will cost 13% GDP because we've gone over the event horizon with regard to costs. renewables are a lot cheaper than Fossil If you delay that 13% will rise due to the increasing costs of fossil fuels
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  3994.  @garrywynne1218  What's your point? The figures indicate a slight rise in real terms for the service economy (London) while the rest of us are getting poorer. Trade friction especially effects small businesses and SMEs account for three-fifths of the employment and around half of turnover in the UK private sector.
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  3995.  @garrywynne1218  quote 11 May 2023 — The EU accounted for 47% of UK goods exports and 36% of services exports. 48% of the UK's imported goods and 47% of imported services The primary issue here is if just 1 component goes through the EU supply chain your whole assembly is dependent go stick your head in the sand where it belongs
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  3996.  @garrywynne1218  so to sum up before we left the EU I could order a £5 spare part and have it delivered next day now I have to wait till I need a palette full to make it economically viable or I pay £55 for it and charge the customer +50£ for it and wait 5 weeks till it arrives.
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  3997.  @garrywynne1218  You know I have a friend who's young lad plays in a showband, they used to tour France during the summer season. When are you going to get the balls to stand up and say I was wrong and Sorry to people like that? The Tories promised you 100,000 net you've now got 750,000 a primary cause is leaving the EU, boat crossings have exploded who would have thought working with our EU partners on a common problem would be the best way forward. Leaving for the Elites was never about migration they will tell you any tale that you will swallow just like Reform are doing now and like GBN are spinning. All they cared about was a deregulated City and the rest of the country could burn as far as they were concerned.
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  3998. Coz the Orange One wants to go full fascist and bypass democracy oh and he's completly incompetent
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  3999. Mike Graham is plank of the week every week The guy was a complete tool when he was on Talk Sport this is even worse drivel
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  4000. More Thatcherism no thanks
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  4001. Switching to renewable energy and I started growing my own veg during Cov
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  4002. He didn't prioritise the economy if they had we'd have had measures in place to stay 1/2 open rather than spreading the disease all over the place. Nothing was done about ventilation in schools Testing was a complete mess This policy just spread the disease quicker
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  4003. Project 2025 will gut FEMA and break up NOAA and the gop are complete climate change deniers Head in sand here methinks
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  4004. I presume Tucker knows replacement theory was peddled in Germany in the thirties leading to extermination camps and a 100 million dying world wide as direct and indirect cause of ww2. But hey he's a trust fund racist on a Fascist TV station
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  4005.  @moiseshuerta3984  enough there starving out the front line troops by destroying logistics hubs hope you get conscripted next round then you can see for yourself
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  4006. @dogglebird4430 16+ balances outthe obscene obsession the Tories have pandering to the Grey vote, we have crumbling schools and depressed public service wages depressed by 30% + rising tax levels on graduates while the Triple lock and tax on wealth and Assets stays untouched.
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  4007. @davidjohns4745  NeoLiberal trickle down economic policy was a choice instituted 1st by Thatcher, the Tories have less than 10% approval in the under 50's and won the 2010 & 15 election with 36% of the vote. The Thatcherite economics drives high levels of legal migration
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  4008. As result of this years extreme heat destroying crops food prices will go up + 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 Quote The Conservative party received £3.5m from individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high-pollution industries last year, according to new analysis
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  4009. Let's just pop the blue state bailout pimple well and truly. Districts that voted for Biden comprises of 70% of the US gdp, the state relief money will disproportionately help Red states and districts who have a larger proportion of poor and unemployed. They have more unemployment than Blue districts because the new economy built on Tech has been booming even more so during the pandemic. Did he advocate for child benefit being means tested on religious grounds?
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  4010. ​ @Noel-ji8nm there's no such thing as a red Tory Osborne changed economic course completely in 2010 leading to the shthole economy we have now
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  4011. How will he pay for it? 130 billion borrowed last year, 120 billion in interest payments as debt to gdp reachs 100%? Austerity shrinks the economy
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  4012. To pay for the NI cuts they will raise the Pension age and Household incomes are on course to fall for the first time over the course of a parliament despite Jeremy Hunt’s national insurance cuts, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has said in its assessment of the chancellor’s budget. Amid almost two decades of falling real wages, the foundation said that after adjusting for inflation, household disposable incomes were poised to fall by 0.9% between 2019 and the end of 2024 – “the first parliament in modern history to see a fall in living standards”.
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  4013. It was politically dumb to put a number on it The number becomes the issue everyone talks about not the policy
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  4014. I'm an Athiest but how does claiming someone supports radical religious views with zero evidence not be racist? Its a political dog whistle to yank your chain and like one of pavlov's dogs your drooling all over it.
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  4015. By importing 1.25 million workers we only got a technical recession rather than a full blown depression
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  4016. It was a CATastrophy He lost the childless cat lady vote
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  4017.  @muirislandjim453  This is from a long article showing how dire the current bunch are. Quote UK government debt has reached the highest level since the 1960s ... and is the worst period for pay growth since the Napoleonic wars ended in 1815
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  4018. It's the UKIP ification of the Tory Party Backing a channel that is opinion at best propaganda at worst that pushes conspiracy theories and tries to bully and degrade anyone that doesn't agree with it
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  4019.  @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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  4020. The latest on Jacksonville is there going to use cruise ships for additional accommodation, you couldn't write the script and get it accepted as even remotely possible
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  4021. You can't restore integrity you put Boris give us a loan Johnson in charge even though you knew he was a lying toad The fish rots from the head down this is just more of Johnson's slime and the only reason Sunak stood down as Chancellor was to stick the knife in the scandals will just keep on coming 1. Zahawi Tax Scandal 2. Treasury gave permission for Wagner leader to sue for Libel even though he was sanctioned 3.Boris Johnson soliciting loans through a mate who he gave a plum job too 4. Suella Braverman - sacked as a security risk then reinstated 3 weeks later 5. Raab bullying current complaint count 24 6. Leveling up money going to Tory constituencies
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  4022. What's new its always been that way
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  4023. we are out why do you care if people try and make trading and commerce with a market 20 miles away possible The best interest of the business people in the UK is regulatory alignment for frictionless trade No major company will set up in the UK Johnson's hard Brexit destroyed the On-Demand supply chain what used to take overnight or a day or so now takes weeks and tons of paperwork Medium sized companies are transferring business to the EU to avoid it and back in 2016 the EU started upgrading Irelands road port infrastructure so goods from the EU didn't have to use GB as a land bridge You have your political exit from the EU stop trying to ram a cult belief down business people's throats with your complete and utter nonsense anything from a full Norway to No Deal would have satisfied the referendum vote
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  4024.  @JR-vg1kr  the FT did a piece on The labour economy v the Tory one its all over social media your like on a different planet with Austerity The economic calculation was we'd be +15% better off from 2010 till 2019 with robust public services instead of -3% and services cut to the bone
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  4025. net zero policies reduce energy costs why do you want to pay more?
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  4026.  @knasher2676  no one makes you anyway labour are only vaguely left
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  4027.  @knasher2676  what's there to fear unless there your in the top 0.01% Even in their redest days the built the NHS and rebuilt a war ravaged country. While the current tories are moving towards Fascism.
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  4028. You need to get some Therapy if that is what you really believe
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  4029. we will have a sensible Net Zero energy policy which will greatly reduce domestic energy costs something the Tories could have accelerated 2 years ago but chose not too This is why 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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  4030.  @chrishart8548  Under Blair / Brown average wages rose by 25% under Cameron / May Johnson they have grown by -3% an economic failure not seen since the Napoleonic War
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  4031. ​ @Harryball-h9b if you deported them the US economy would go into reccesion, they'll make up a large portion of unskilled labour doing post Hurricane reconstruction. Legal / Illeagal migration is an issue but DJT'S grandstanding and xenophobia isn't the answer
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  4032. He's going to go into full cheat mode, try and get Barr to follow up on Obamagate anything, arrest Biden the works, it's going to be another drink bleach week.
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  4033. Affects the poor.? Hunt used Fiscal drag to pay for it You got a tax cut if you were 32-55k and working everyone else got a tax rise including pensioners.
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  4034. Our constituency went Lib-Dem, the cons are a dumpster fire there not coming back
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  4035. Why Labour had an excellent economic record +20% Average wage growth V Tories-7% in 14 years
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  4036.  @kernv  you do know that cutting tax is propped up by filling the GDP shortfall with migrant labour, dont you? If you want to cut migration you need to raise more revenue and invest in the local population for example making training nurses and doctors free, increasing thier pay so they don't emigrate.
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  4037. @111111877  debt to gdp in 2010 was 62% by 2019 it was 92% its now 100%, the Tories have wasted 14 years and 1.4 trillion on shrinking average wages by -7% a truly staggering litter of incompetence
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  4038.  Raptor Jet  official fbi policy is to not say anything till there's an indictment so Barr wouldn't even know there's an investigation. No one would the only reason we do is Hunter made it public so yer wrong wrong and wrong the fbi got thier fingers burnt with the Clinton fiasco
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  4039. why don't you want cheaper electric?
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  4040.  @tomm5228  there life is estimated at 25 years minimum and you buy a machine to recycle them there just fibreglass you need a big enough crusher. There also looking at moving to bamboo composite for blades and Perovskite cell technology for solar as well as Sodium - Ion batteries in the next few years Did you know the UK government is paying the Oil companies 75 billion to clean up old infrastructure in the North Sea?
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  4041. Democrats aren't voting for RFK he's as nuts as Trump Harris turned it into a turnout election when that happens the dens win by how much wh knows tax cutsfor billionaires and banning abortion isn't very popular
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  4042. if you cant tell the difference your not looking stop just parroting lines from a some media wonk
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  4043. 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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  4044. No but the very wealthy pay it
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  4045. Tories will be lucky to be the official opposition where i live in a blue wall seat the council is now soilid Lib-Dem and you couldn't buy a tory voter
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  4046. Because nothing is happening the Conservatives have become ungovernable with factionalism and the country is in an economic hole you wouldn't believe of the Tory's making. Stringing it out will make the defeat worse as the factional infighting continues
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  4047.  @Nora.........  you can't lower immigration without training your domestic workforce and increasing productivity, that requires investment not tax cuts. Tax cuts need paying for as Liz found our.
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  4048. 20% are still voting for Haley even though she has pulled
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  4049. Its hard when Russia is using such huge volume of munitions, this literally is Russia throwing what's left of a battered kitchen sink at the problem I would add there doesn't seem to be an achievable military goal bar bomb the opposition into oblivion or submission
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  4050. if the BOE hadn't been independent the Gilts would have collapsed causing world wide sell offs Where in hock for over 100% of gdp that's 2.7 trillion and T4uss and Kwerteng wanted to blow a load on tax cuts for the rich and now this bunch are bitchin
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  4051. he was the only Thatcherite in the race you have high taxes because of Brexit over 1 million left the labour market and a 5% drop in gdp = 40 billion in tax revenue
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  4052.  Brian Jones  if your obsessed with democracy why are you trash talking the duly elected potus. If they get you to believe through propaganda and lies that it was stolen then its a short journey to murdering your political enemies. This is how it started in Germany in the 30's Trump is a toxic con man
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  4053.  @soulsaver369  They have
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  4054. What's wrong with saving money?
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  4055. So the Brexit Ultra's want to give away Parliamentary sovereignty and have 4000 UK laws reviewed by Civil Servants then without Parliamentary debate have them removed from the statute book? 1 such statute would be the European bathing water ACT of 2006 (which where not following anyway) which needs to be enforced and enhanced another is the Working Time Directive which needs to be Enhanced not watered down HGV standards again they need to rise not just allow any mupet to drive a lorry or light goods vehicle Standards for factory pollution same Statutory holiday entitlement and other workers rights and How much will this so called bonfire cost the economy Billions because we will have a legal and regulatory black hole creating huge business uncertainty for decades while we get our sh*t together
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  4056. Yea why compare yourself to a decade of real GDP growth to your zero the economic numbers against the 2 era's are staggering I'll never slag of Brown & Blair again except the odd occasion PPP cough Iraq ;)
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  4057.  @TheManwithaview  not by me but I get your point
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  4058. What's funny about that? It's a better goal than raising spending on debt repaymen to 13% as the have
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  4059. There is a fundamental change in philosophy on how the response is handled. The GOP response under the last administration was dump it on the states screw the blue states if you can led by the ghoul in chief Jared, just look at the cronyism in Florida or the low vaccination levels in Texas. The new administration is were all in this together every hand possible to the pumps help at all levels red or blue we don't care and a majority of Republican Mayors and Governors are palpably relieved and on board with this. The previous administration was falling to pieces, DT couldn't keep his fingers from interfering in anything there was nothing he couldn't make worse
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  4060. Yes they've been shafted but the whole sector needs to change to more sustainable farming methods
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  4061. So why are we here one word AUSTERITY and that's what we will get more of if the Tories are reelected More Knife crime budgets slashed for youth and mental help services Austerity NHS falling apart long patient waiting lists millions off sick waiting for operations dragging down GDP Austerity Overcrowded prisons high crime rates which drag down GDP Austerity Kids in portacabins crumbling schools teachers leaving in droves Austerity PotHoles everywhere Local Council budgets cut by 40% causing car damage and crashes Austerity THEY KNOW THE COST OF EVERYTHING AND THE VALUE OF NOTHING
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  4062. He'll get hauled up in front of the ethics committee they have the power to Suspend him if they do his constituency can petition for a by election job done but with maximum damage to the Tory brand
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  4063. I take it your employed by the fossil companies?
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  4064.  @gbjanuary  they'll get wiped out it's just how badly Truss isn't Conservative she's thrown her hat in with the netball Libertarian ERG wing
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  4065. by tightening labour laws the numbers will go down such as getting rid of zero hour sopping all the outsourcing
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  4066. I don't think so given all that's gone and DJT is sounding more and more incoherent with every day. There will be surprises, there's 600,000 people of hatian descent in florida + the roe ballot initiative. Georgia was the surprise last time we'll see.
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  4067. Companies have reduced stock to extremely low levels over the past couple of decades relying on the on-demand supply chain more and more sticking a spanner in that will reverberate for a couple of years. Both government and companies are realising that key components for example such as computer chips your better off having slightly higher production costs but having more control of the supply chain and not have world production centred in just 1 country (currently Taiwan produces 51% of the world supply)
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  4068.  @thomashowe1509  you don't get a choice Quote A barrister is bound by the “cab-rank” principle. This principle means that if a barrister is requested to act for a client then the barrister must accept the brief and act for the client if: the client's problem is within the barrister's area of law; the client is willing to pay the barrister's fee for the work
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  4069. I thought we were moving on from a law breaking liar to someone honest She lied through her teeth to frighten pensioners about Turkey joining the EU from the Guardian Readers should recall that the Tory leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt is best known for persistently purveying falsehoods during the 2016 EU referendum campaign. During a TV interview with Andrew Marr, playing on fears of mass immigration, she claimed that Britain would not be able to stop Turkey joining the EU. As a former EU ambassador to Turkey, I can confirm that Turkey was not and is not in line for EU membership. Its membership of the EU customs union does not grant it free movement of people. Britain always had a veto over any aspiring member, and if Mordaunt had previously had any credibility, her infamous dishonesty about Turkey destroyed it. I thought part of the reason for ditching Boris Johnson was his habit of lying.
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  4070. debt in 2010 was 800 billion and 62% of GDP by 2019 it was 92% of GDP the total of accumulated debt in 2024 was 2.4 Trillion so in 14 years the Tories expanded the debt by 1.6 trillion to add context the accumulated debt by ALL labour governments in UK history is around 500 billion
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  4071. On the contrary its to shore up the Blue Wall and try stem the size of the inevitable defeat
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  4072. Means Starmer's agenda won't get stalled
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  4073. were sat on the next biggest resource after oil The UK is at the confluence of multiple major weather systems and the bridge to the continent has multiple shallow areas to build offshore wind Did you know a wind turbine in Scotland generates twice as much power as one in England
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  4074.  @ricochet2977  We've left the EU removed FOM which was what you wanted and was the limit of the leave vote. Now you have an extra list of demands why?
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  4075.  @MAHAMLW33  while there are two views to the stimulus bill there is definitely no defund the police stuff in it that's pure right wing fiction I don't understand why Republicans hate on immigrants so much the majority have been in the US for decades and have paid thier taxes and most work in some of the lowest paid jobs there are. Stimulus and unemployment only goes to previously registered tax payers all of whom will have contributed to the public purse far more than DT.
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  4076. did you learn nothing from the Truss debacle libertarian economics doesn't work
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  4077. If right wing economic policies are tanking the Economy why would the UK electorate vote for 5 more years of getting poorer?
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  4078. 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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  4079. were here because of Austerity, Brexit and Truss - Sunak wasn't about fixing anything just more trickle down tax cuts that fail to create growth
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  4080. When your told its a crass statement don't keep digging your own hole to Bury yourself in
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  4081. We always had the tools to control migration Cameron especially failed to do it. A cullis example was GiG work, totally unregulated with over a million workers pouring in from the EU
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  4082. The Tories are wedded to Thatcherism aka Supply Side Trickle Down Economics What does it need? Supply side cheap labour to depress the home labour market to expand Corporate profits All they've done is switch from supply side working class labour to supply side middle and professional class labour with a points system now they've screwed the working class so much there's not much left in the tank there going to screw the middle class and depress their salaries.
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  4083. uprating a public building when its refurbished to A+ insulation standards reduces energy consumption and will cost +10% in capital but pay itself back in reduced heating and electricity costs in around 2 years saving the taxpayer billions if adopted as policy throughout the public sector There are loads of examples some small some big some connected to new tech some just insulate your home properly @mrade5321 
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  4084. Biden's 22 years of taxes are publicly available and the Senate Intel committee had access to the Guiliani / Bannon scoop call Mr a sceptic but these two aren't what you may call reliable. By the way the Senate committee also got hold of all of Hunters tax information and bank records the laptop story is bogus is there some real info that's been hacked maybe is there a load that's made up probably
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  4085. Debates are pointless Trump just lies 24/7 its like verbal garbage he has no policies anyway
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  4086. Ahh the ignorance, its a show pony to dangle you along it will never happen and you like a gullible ammon will keep ticking the blue box
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  4087. basic questions such as?
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  4088. ​ @El.Cid17 it's a complete waste of resources and money at best it moves the problem around without dealing with it
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  4089. In what way Sunak froze thresholds screwing us pensioners over and the Tories were planning on raising the pension age to 68 which would see my MRS effectively loose £25,000 at a stroke
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  4090. Yea right on let's cut ourselves off from our nearest trading market that's 20 miles away just at same time as international shipping costs have trebled. Fantastic we can double that -4 GDP easily and stagnate wages well below the -3% on average After all what's a bit of poverty now we're free to dump as much sewage into our rivers and seas as we want yea all aboard the Titanic oops I meant SS Stinking Brexshite
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  4091. ​ @tubbytoboron1685 nhs Wales are taking in patients from the Bristol area to help aleviate the backlog and you can swim in the sea in Wales while England endures its poonami
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  4092.  @mrstephenpariah  I stand for publicity owned services but I'm not prepared to write a blank cheque to nationalise them, that's the vibe I get in a FPTP system you have to cut your cloth accordingly
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  4093. Ah yes and now Infrastructure will come down from above like a Golden Shower @jamieparry6420 
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  4094. @NoNeed2No  expert on economics are we? Migration was always going to explode if we removed FOM, shopping for labour in the 3rd world means lower salaries permenant instead of transitory workers and loads more dependants. Net migration isn't a tap you can turn on and off its caused by economic pull factors such as lack of investment in training your domestic workforce, wage suppression over 14 years in public services, lack of regulation on zero hour and outsourcing. Brex1t didn't address any of this hence the train wreck, you got what you voted for take some responsibility
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  4095. We're 6th out of 7 in G7 growth measured from 2019 to present In 2020 our GDP went down by 11% in 2021 up by 7% we've also got one off the highest inflation rates And Non of these figures are adjusted for inflation The reason the treasury are squeezing people with tax rises is the -4% drop So great economy not its actually spiralling into stagflation
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  4096. The reason the justice system is falling to pieces is Tory Austerity 20,000 police let go + 20,000 office staff + defunding councils police and courts All you do to fix it is fund it properly
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  4097. Mine have gone down had a solar and battery system installed last year Batteries are now vat free making capital payback around 6 years
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  4098. 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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  4099. Cancun Cruz wants to get his ass owned in the same way as he got dumped on by Australia
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  4100. The Toxic Toerag couldn't save anyone let alone the Tories The reason there in such a mess is the UKIP ification of the party and its constant drift right
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  4101. He's one of the few talking sense Labour have shifted to the centre and the Cons have lurched batsh1t right so +20
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  4102. 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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  4103.  @alizainal9057  things happened despite Johnson not because of him The lock downs where a complete mess because the test and trace system wasn't fit for purpose he got lucky in apointing someone competent in the vaccine rollout As for Ukraine before the invasion Johnson blocked advanced weapons being sold to them oh how he changed his tune when he saw a photo op. The current version of Brexit is insane and unsustainable rammed down our throat on the back of political expediency, there was never a mandate to leave the single market and all its car crash economic consequences and the level of boosterism and flat out lying that went on to sell things like the Irish Protocol and you want that lying turdbag back get real he's the root cause of the current economic mess and our downward spiralling economy.
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  4104. Asylum claims have quadrupled from 10,000 to 40,000 per year since Brexit It's almost like working together as part of the EU and being part of the Dublin Accord was at least mitigating the problem and yet when told to their faces they called it Project Fear and guffed off about British exceptionalism There is no going back but I told you so
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  4105. You'd rather have the Tories?
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  4106. The economy has got progressively worse since the last election, Truss's mini budget salted the earth with the Gilt markets, Sunak is already overborrowing so there is only 1 option Labour.
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  4107. polling put centre left parties at 58% So yes they have a mandate to govern from the centre and be moderately left wing
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  4108. Vote reform go bankrupt more like
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  4109.  @joecater894  no they won't this is the Tories
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  4110.  @joecater894  what would boost energy security is building another Dogger bank wind farm a mere 9 billion for 5% of uk domestic usage instead of pouring 100 billion + into oil companies coffers
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  4111. @joecater894  it will take over a decade before any of it comes onstream by that time we should have a minimum of 40-50% wind and 20% tidal running on the grid. Getting that capacity and enabling its deployment should be the no1 priority given we have an overreliance on gas generating electric sucking 170 billion out of people's pockets over the next 2 years
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  4112.  @misfit2022  it's 48 billion not a trillion Sunak spent 20 billion on Trickle down tax breaks in the last budget And you can get parallel funding from businesses given it saves them money on energy Uk customers will pay +140 billion for energy this year with nearly no windfall tax, British gas profits up 900%
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  4113. ARE YOU INSANE?
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  4114.  @josefandreou5687  Russia lost the war a year ago at the battle of Hostemal, there in a resource war with the US bet Putler is wishing he'd never interfered in the 2016 election now He's also accelerated the adoption of renewable energy by 5/10 years as well as having a huge brain drain of near on 2 million people from the Russian tech economy But hey he's still got Crimea
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  4115. How does leaving a tarrif free paper free red tape free zone 20 miles away with roll on roll off ferry access be anything other than economic suicide?
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  4116. the week is young only 3 Tory criminals this week so far When was a wine fridge and a karaoke machine with wine Friday just a minor misstep
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  4117. 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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  4118. Why lie? 30 seconds on the Internet disproves your comment. Are you that shallow you'll debase yourself for someone who lied 30,000 times while in office? For fks sake get some self respect
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  4119. Big Calls he's got right? Like sending old people back into care homes without testing them deliberately? Lets be clear they had a testing strategy it was scrapped because HERD IMUNITY when the figures on death rates started coming in from Italy they completely shat the bed and panicked PPE VIP lane ruled unlawful coz mates rates Vaccine rollout 1st in Feb middle of the pack by June Lockdown 2 more U turns on policy than I've had hot diners Visa Scheme for Ukrainians a total mess its like it was designed to fail NI rises and additional costs to gradin t cost of living crisis in 150 years 37 billion wasted on an outsourced test and trace system that wasn't fit for purpose ? This cabinet are a complete an utter car crash
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  4120. I double insulated my downstairs at the same time as I put in an extension mineral fibre for cavity and under floors with a superfoil as a secondary layer. You can staple superfoil to your rafters cover the seams with foil tape and there are a range of product price points for even more insulation put a batten over it and plasterboard over it to create an additional cavity
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  4121. Why? Because thee Tories will get shelackeed in the blue wall?
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  4122.  @MarkEdmondston  that's all rumours What they've said is close loopholes like offshore tax wrappers. And for a couple it's 1 million
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  4123. Reform are a protest party with zero structure platformed by billionaire media interests quote The Liberal Democrats have just over 3100 councillors across the UK, currently leading 69 councils across England and Wales.
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  4124. Trump couldn't debate a sock puppet at the momment everyone knows his lies and party tricks he's grossly transparent and the more you challenge him the shorter his fuse gets. He's fallen apart regularly these last few months storming out of press conferences. No one who believes in democracy would ever vote for Trump so don't cry the dissolutioned Democrat BS you've not even bothered to go through Biden's policy agenda
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  4125. its around 6 billion a year so like shouldn't we process them instead of making it worse
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  4126.  @jacquib256  The reason the crossings have gone up is because we no longer cooperate with France much on this and treat it as a single issue problem. The solution to this is opening legal routes to apply accepting you have to take some and that the quest for zero makes it worse not better. Also put some serious effort into a Europe wide force to tackle the people smuggling, introduce ID cards and clean up our black economy and modern slavery. Shouting at dingy people is pathetic and solves nothing
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  4127. @Leonidthemighty the rich aren't mobile thier assets are extremely not liquid.
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  4128. This is a fairly crude map, there's not enough testing by a country mile to make any conclusions about anything other than its a bit worse here than there. The deaths are underrepresented by at least double. The true death toll will only come out by comparing expected to actual.
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  4129.  @kingape1572  I've got a complete titanium replaced right knee so first part of my T2000 upgrade does that count?
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  4130. 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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  4131. I don't pay tax on my sipp or my isa savings or the inflated price of my house due to government policy The bulk of my savings are curtesy of low income tax due to oil money and asset stripping during the Thatcher years and the inflated value of my home down to policy designed to forever increase asset prices. I even got a grant at university
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  4132. The Tories have reduced Council funding across the board since 2010 by 40% this has been partly made up with council tax rises the overall shortfall is 27% and the average population rose by over 8% If you deliberately reduce funding then standards will drop no matter who is in power and that applies to the NHS we have one of the lowest spends per capita in the G& and the highest share of publicly funded healthcare The NHS isn't poorly managed no matter how many times some Tory squawk box says it is in fact one of the highest value systems out there if you want to reduce wait times put more money into it As a comparison of what good value your getting the UK spends below 9% of its gdp on healthcare the nearest comparable system is Canada which spends 11% of its GDP if you applied 11% to the NHS it would receive an extra 16 billion in funding My figures are all collated from government sources
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  4133. @jeffbridges666  how does erecting trade barriers to your closest market and cratering what little manufacturing is left = success Port Tolbot is the latest victim coked Steel and its products will recive hefty EU tariffs from 2026 on 3rd countries
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  4134. Pipelines take way longer than a couple of years they need commissioning and Russia doesn't have a load of the skills needed
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  4135. FORBESBUSINESS Biden-Voting Counties Equal 70% Of The U.S. Economy Ceccesion = economic suicide
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  4136. fiscal drag with 20% rates frozen till 2028 currently its 12250 it should be 15000
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  4137. Stewardship of the economy my arse its on its fekin knees so 1st Austerity Quote The independent Office for Budget Responsibility implicitly used a "fiscal multiplier" of 0.5 to estimate the impact of the coalition's tax rises and spending cuts on the economy. That meant each pound of cuts was expected to reduce economic output by 50p. However, after examining the records of many countries that have embraced austerity since the financial crisis, the IMF reckons the true multiplier is 0.9-1.7. the fiscal multiplier will be quite small for transfers and subsidies going to the better-off. This is because recipients – already able to comfortably cover their outgoings – are more likely to save, rather than spend, any extra income. 2nd his last budget had 2 billion for millionaire pensioners 6 billion extra for fossil fuel industry 8 billion for bankers and no doubt other seedy giveaways to pay for that we have fiscal drag screwing over students + refusing to pay public servants decent wages
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  4138. You've had the biggest investment in infrastructure since the new deal, record private investment, record small business incorporation, record jobs created, double the GDP growth of any country in the G7 A strategy to make the US the world leader in renewable Tech what has actually been destroyed because when they took over DJT left a dumpster fire?
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  4139. Russia isn't winning + the consequences of giving Putin +40 million people and the world's largest grain producer will make the blackmail over Gas look like a practice run.
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  4140. Law and order candidate? run on his instincts? Trump is frikin mental and your allowed to protest or did they forget about the mental thugs with long guns and nazi flags screaming to get a haircut
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  4141. He was born in Southampton he's British his wife is Indian He made his money in the City running hedge funds and banking, what always surprises me about these people is He has a degree in economics but completely ignores what he's been taught and base's policy on ideology It wouldn't surprise me if he'd been non dom at some stage as well, the budget didn't touch unearned income while hammering workers the worst category are at the bottom and graduates neither of which are likely to vote Con
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  4142.  @johnrussell3961  The bulk of the inflation is Corporate inflation this has nothing to do with workers salaries its completely different to the Thatcher era inflation which was a revolving door of demand side followed by wages. This is Supply side if Truss cuts corporation tax then the BOE will need to raise rates to 8/9% to even make a dent and that will plunge the country into a recession like its never seen before way worse than 2008 and the banking crisis.
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  4143. So protests are allowed if they don't upset anyone? Suffragettes would be banned now and they resorted to far more activist campaign stop vilifying the messenger and listen to the message Renewable energy is cheaper than fossil and we are paying hundreds of billions in fossil subsidies quote Boué highlights the decision in 2016 by the then Chancellor, George Osborne, to zero-rate, rather than repeal, petroleum revenue tax. This meant that oil companies stopped paying any tax, but could still claim rebates from the government for the cost of decommissioning old oil rigs, estimated at £51 billion ($66bn) by energy consultants, Wood Mackenzie. The UK Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast that between 2016 and 2022 petroleum revenue tax will result in a net loss to the exchequer of £500 million a year. “The UK government will be footing the bill for around 45 per cent of the future decommissioning costs in the North Sea,” Boué says. “British taxpayers can look forward to a future in which the country will still be producing quite substantial volumes of oil and gas, but the petroleum fiscal income that the UK government will derive therefrom will be at best marginal, or more likely be negative.”
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  4144. @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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  4145. Why have the Tribute act when you can have the Full A hole
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  4146. 700 billion went into the economy over covid it all trickled up millionaire billionaire wealth doubled the fix is a wealth tax to pull it out
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  4147. YouGov poll today Tories down to 23% Labour up to 48% LIB-Dems 10% She's whipping up the English Defence League & islamophobic far-right groups, from football hooligans to so-called “migrant hunters”, are seeking to mobilise supporters to turn up in central London This 8snt going to end well
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  4148. She needs to get with the program young people don't vote much and when they do they don't vote Tory as for teenagers they can't vote at all c'mon what about those poor pensioners hitting the million ceiling ITS JUST NOT ON and that's why were scrapping the upper limit and pissing on normal folk to pay for it with fiscal drag. Don't you people know the 1st thing about Supply Side Trickle Down economics DUH
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  4149. An assessment of wind power on offshore in Scotland compared to England they produce double the amount of electricity so where you put them matters
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  4150. Like many he doesn't understand the full impact of economic policy on immigration Couple examples Train less doctors we need to import Doctors to import less would take 7 years. Deregulated GIG work during the Cameron Years fuelled low pay zero hour contract migrant workers - Answer regulate the GIG economy ban Zero Hour. I pre one post Brexit Immigration issue  @MoireFly 
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  4151. The only reason is governments haven't put the effort into storage till now There's loads of heat based ones in trial look up Finish Sand Battery Quote Finnish companies Polar Night Energy and Vatajankoski have built the world's first operational "sand battery", which provides a low-cost and low-emissions way to store renewable energy.
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  4152. There improving all the time some makers such as Tesla & Nissan have many years in the field there expecting to get 3-400,000 out of the new Tesla's not seen how nissan are doing but I'd expect to see 3rd party replacements as the market mature
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  4153. he's not the worst not even close an example Sunak spent 2 years peddling Rwanda and didn't address the energy crisis in fact made it worse by shelving renewable projects and he was probably best of a really bad 5
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  4154. he likes it a lot more than you do why on earth do you want to tun the UK into the North Korea of Europe Our economy is a complete basket case because of Brexit The Brexiteers promised Singapore on Thames they delivered Argentina on the Channel
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  4155. It's progressive the less your paid the more it helps even I can figure that one out The other thing is it reduces inflation that reduces pressure on public sector pay and pensions are supposedly tied to the triple lock for each % point of inflation you can reduce it by you save 1 billion + Blanket corporate tax cuts help no one you need a higher rate and tax breaks for the areas we want to grow, why are we giving fossil producers tax breaks.
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  4156. ​ @pansepot1490 my father was Polish he was taken to a Russian gulag at 15 because he was in land they wanted, in 83 years nothing has changed there still animals
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  4157. There refugees not illegals The West's insatiable appetite for Oil Gas and Minerals drives wars, wars result in refugees its an unsolvable problem so the best thing to do is accept it happens and deal with it. The gesture politics telling you that it can somehow be fixed is a complete lie and all that will happen is billions of pounds will be pissed away in failed policies which are designed for appearance only making you even angrier as the Media bangs on and on about it. So I have an idea why not send NHS recruiters to France and get all the Afghan refugees who are Doctor and Nurses fast tracked over here, there's a chronic shortage of lorry drivers as well. Farage and Patel's response is double down on what doesn't work and make it worse
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  4158. we have 50 years of economic data that shows trickle down doesn't work, all it does is create more inequality
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  4159. 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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  4160. 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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  4161. Quote Education was another key dividing line. “While the Conservatives’ support decreases the more educated a voter is, the opposite was true for Labour and the Lib Dems,” YouGov said. Quote Only 2 per cent of people aged 18-24, and 15 per cent of 25-49-year olds say they intend to vote Conservative at the next general election – due to be called before the end of 2024 – according to polling by YouGov for The Times earlier this month. The Tories voter base is dying off you'd have thought that for no other reason than political survival they would get the NHS to work properly and reduce the number of excess deaths after all every Crumbly that Croaks is one less likely Tory Voter but all the can see is £ signs as its less pension and more money for the rich
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  4162. CHIPS Act, Infrastructure bill, IRA 48 bills in his 1st 2 years and will go down as the most successful President since FDR
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  4163. You need to talk about the cost of living NHS energy prices. That's why Labour won and that's why they will win in England
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  4164.  @annenunney9907  if you look at the polls top 2 issues are cost of living & NHS by a huge margin.
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  4165. We were on of the main creators of the ECHR, It was ratified after the war as was the UN charter on refugees Churchill: "there must be an act of faith in the European family" look up "Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?" It has 46 members the only nation to leave is Russia when they invaded Ukraine which kind of says it all rather than get sucked in to right wing hyperbole and show pony politics some research into why its there and what it does would be of use
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  4166. The last time we were conquered was by the Norman's (hint there from Normandy)
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  4167. The GOP call everyone a socialist it's become a meaningless throwaway Maybe we should have a discussion about the GOP's fondness for corporate socialism
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  4168. ​ @kaya051285 we don't have the workers to do it or the joined up thinking to have an integrated transport policy but at least Labour are discussing the issue Andy Burnham podcast on Rock and Roll politics Sadiq Khan has been on about this as well
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  4169. The countries problems are down to Conservative policies, if you want the country to improve don't vote for failed Thatcherism
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  4170. no its not the economy then the NHS are
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  4171.  @cordoroy9515  20% of the population have prospered over the last 14 years the problem now is Austerity and 14 years of Conservative policies are finally staring to affect them. If you underfund core government services and expand the population while simultaneously suppressing wage growth then your going to get a hard core who genuinely believe it's because of immigration rather than the fact that it's government policy deliberately making them poorer.
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  4172. innocent of what one of the cases is he's stole millions off his own niece
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  4173. If you live in a fantasy world yet your staff don't believe in magic unicorns what do you expect ex Rwanda policy its a show pony its illegal and against the UN convention on refugees are we going to leave the UN no but you have masses of civil servants trying to draft what is a policy for nothing more than political theatre instead of dealing with the problem. If I was working in an environment like that I'd be pretty demotivated what's the point of working on something that will never see the light of day when you know it your boss knows it and the Minister knows it as well
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  4174. what a weasel making light of a trans girl murdered for being trans in front of her grieving mother
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  4175. Your figures are meaningless 1st they don't account for inflation 2nd they don't account for increased population if you take both into account we have seen the fastest drop in health spending on record between 2010 and 2019 its started to go up because o the effects of pandemic era costs just non of it on salaries. Why are you in favour of the government pissing billions up the wall on agency and supply staff to make an ideological point of making workers poorer? There are over 10% vacancies in health and schools getting worse by the day because of pay and conditions
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  4176. There going to slow the growth of the Economy? No a load of badly run legacy businesses need to go under because there too leveraged in debt. Tesla - Record Profits Microsoft - Record Profits Google - Record Profits EV sales in Europe where 20% of All registrations double Septembers we are at the start of a huge S curve for next industrial revolution
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  4177. God she's a toxic little witch and I thought Patel was bad Makes Enoch Powell look like a centrist
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  4178. WOKE just means don't be a racist homophobic misogynistic A hole I presume you don't know what it means otherwise you wouldn't have used it, various commentators appear to think its anything they don't agree with which is not the case
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  4179.  @stoicsceptic8420  I'm with him its simplistic tripe The Tories won't do anything about migration because at the heart of their Economic policy is something called Supply Side Economics (Thatcherism) it has low taxes at the top and a feature is a need for constant cheap migrant Labour at the bottom. Since the Tories came to power they've been making it as hard as possible for people to afford to get a University education they would rather import that as well and push the current population into the low wage labour pool..
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  4180. This is incorrect but why do you spread this guff?
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  4181. 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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  4182. You need some professional help, being hooked on a distorted reality is bad for your mental health
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  4183. usual Tory tears OMG how will we cope quote Keir Starmer was quick to stress that the party has no “settled policy” during a phone-in on LBC radio this morning, but set out the case for widening the franchise to both groups. Starmer noted that EU nationals are already permitted to take part in local elections. “If someone has been here say ten, 20, 30 years, contributing to this economy, part of our community, they ought to be able to vote”. Starmer said EU citizens he had spoken to on the doorstep made that point. “That feels wrong, and something ought to be done about it.” On votes at 16 and 17, Starmer argued it was not such an “outlandish idea” given that it is already permitted in Wales and Scotland.
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  4184. She is talking bollox if you want more productivity you invest in social and physical infrastructure not piss money away on corporate tax cuts
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  4185. @OKnotOK09  basically though Tory councils don't do council house building and labour run nearly all city councils who have higher needs for housing and statutory child services + the bulk of increased population gravitate to urban areas which is +8 million since 2010
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  4186. At some stage most companies will get round the open source model, it's pointless hundreds of companies trying to reinvent the wheel, Tesla maybe able to afford the research but aside from a few there years behind at a guess 5+
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  4187.  @boxtradums0073  Again "Collective Punishment " is a legal term under the Convention and needs proving in a Court not thrown around as a Prop. You can't use that sort of language
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  4188.  @AndiWard  You could start with reintroducing FOM which would lower the number of dependants coming over by well over 1/2
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  4189.  @ChrisMurray-iw9ij  it will get moved onto tax
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  4190. If you look at the biggest culprits of cheap labour its the gig economy which Osbourne and Cameron championed, refused to regulate and enabled the companies behind them to offshore the profits
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  4191. Im a pensioner due to fiscal drag my tax has incresed by 540£ so much for low tax tories i was miles better off under labour ​@MinkieWinkle
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  4192. Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical
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  4193. He has backing because the economy is in tatters and everyone but him will make it even worse with tax cuts, Truss is as thick as mince, Suella lies to parliment about the law and Kemi doesn't have a clue about the economy neither does Mourdant
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  4194.  @jesan733  US oil production is at record levels global demand is down, I would point out Russia has a very very limited supply of spare parts it used to import all its oil tech from the US till 2014
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  4195.  @lemurianchick  If you believe that your deluded read The Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan also 1984 by George Orwell
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  4196. According to economists on average 40% of a houses asset wealth is gifted by the government that is through varschemes through the years such as right to buy. This is also generational, also due to government policy House prices have risen by 66% since 2010 and average wages by -7%
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  4197. 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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  4198. loads of foreign students in the ones near me these days
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  4199. what do you mean by trust? Their economic policies will bring down legal migration If you want to tackle the illegal stuff you need to tackle the gangs, human trafficking has become a lucrative well organised business
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  4200.  @1958PonyBoy  you store or convert the energy, there are multiple projects to either convert the excess to a green fuel such as hydrogen and store the energy there are multiple projects in the pipeline. The answer isn't just one thing it's a whole plethora of technologies coming on-stream over the next decade.
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  4201. ​ @williammore558 they have 5 missions central to any is planning reform The mission philosophy is based on Mariana Mazzucato and her book Mission Economy Your Mission is based on goals not cost as in the moon Mission which ended up paying back economically x7
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  4202. Why reform are not Conservative in any way
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  4203. so you can see the horror of a 2nd Trump term and the face of Christo-Fascism
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  4204. why if they don't generate the backlog they don't have any policies to run on The people need processing in line with our commitment to the UN Charter on refugees unless your advocating we leave the UN all this is an expensive dog and pony show for the masses to get lathered up about.
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  4205. 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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  4206. CNN right wing MSNBC Centrist There are no left wing mainstream channels TYT left wing Midas Touch left wing
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  4207. If they believed what he says he would be marched straight to rest home for insane elders
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  4208. Its good for NI they get access to the single market
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  4209. The more you talk about it the more it's not going to happen He's a whiney bitch bad looser that cheats at every opportunity there was a book a while back about how he cheats at golf all the time, why no one calls him out for it beats me you'd think everyone would refuse to play him as what's the point.
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  4210. One of multiple quotes pointing out why the economy is shrinking and you can't grow it Hint it doesn't involve tax cuts for the rich Post–Brexit labour shortages risk 'permanent' damage to UK Economy Labour shortages caused by Brexit and accentuated by the COVID pandemic have badly affected businesses across the board From the FT Brexit intensifies labour shortages as companies struggle to hire. Report finds big drop in EU workers with no evidence of rising wages Labour shortages: the ‘most urgent problem’ facing the UK economy right now Britain is currently in the grip of an ‘employment crisis Anyone going on a UK break this month would do well to book pubs and restaurants well in advance, said The Sunday Times – and even if they get a table, they shouldn’t expect a full menu. It is more than a year since the last lockdown, but the hospitality industry is still facing acute labour shortages – and it’s not the only one. So unfettered banking bonuses will cure the labour shortage and increase wages at the bottom? Your answer on your last piece of firewood as you freeze to death this winter.
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  4211. Its worse than that we,ve had an increase in population of 7% since 2010 so a comparison with Labours figures would be 152,000 they've also cut community policing defunded youth services reduced the number of prison officers and cut back office staff across the board
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  4212. There going to house generation rent and cement a double decade of rule
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  4213. cutting taxes pffff don't make me laugh there continuously p1ssing money up the wall What was it 100 billion Sunk has wasted and Rwanda 399 million so far 5 year contract at 50 million a year? 1/2 A BILLION on a Publicity STUNT Fiscal Drag 11,000 20% 2016 43,000 40% 12,570 20% 2023 50,270 40% 14,425 20% 2016 figures put into the BOE inflation calculator 56,389 40% Average family is £1800 worse off after successive Tory tax rises What a Hunt :(
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  4214. We don't have to imagine under Trump it was -3.4% for 4 years worst since Hoover
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  4215. He'd already shot someone in the head people were trying to disarm him so he couldn't kill again, he wasn't defending himself he was fleeing the murder scene
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  4216. If you remove FOM and run supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism then you need migrant Labour and if its not coming from the EU then your giving permanent visa's to Indian and Nigerian workers who quite rightly won't come unless they fetch their families. Over half the immigration total is dependants If you want less immigration change the economic model institute an equitable progressive tax system and properly fund Social and Physical infrastructure to create a demand side economy
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  4217. 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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  4218. It points to high levels of tactical voting
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  4219. @The Padded Cell it reduced life expectancy which had been steadily climbing from 2010 it slowed then started going down especially for men in 2017 The degradation of 5he NHS over a decade was bound to have an effect
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  4220.  @Nigelforemporor  I've tried posting links but it gets junked by YouTube My issue with Trump is he's crazy My son is autistic and I've done a shed load of reading on the topic Trump has ADHD dyslexia and stunted personality disorders, he has no sense of right or wrong if the executive had done its job you'd be looking at Mike Pence's second term (god help everyone) You've 2 choices take the inflation hit with full employment or suck it up with a recession and high interest rates It's good we talk I appreciate your discourse even if we don't agree give me a hard time if we bump into each other again
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  4221.  @kevr8482  your repeating the same crap the fossil industry has been pedalling for years Reminds you of the tabbaco industry!
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  4222.  @Rj7733  first off violent crime has been climbing because of the pandemic started rising before Jan 21 Second inflation you can either have employment numbers rising new businesses springing up and factories being built in the US or low inflation controlled by high interest rates given US labour is more expensive than that in the far east. What's really swung up costs is the huge increases in shipping costs it looks pretty permanent which should encourage US firms to source stuff more home. Everyone has been screaming about home grown industry now its starting to happen Everyone is screaming about the additional costs that would entail The US recorded its 18th month straight increase in manufacturing Climate change the US suffered multiple once in a lifetime / decade weather events late polar storm plus drought drastically affecting crop yields. The Colorado river is drying up at an alarming rate yet no one is addressing the issue seriously just booting the can down the road
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  4223. 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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  4224. The Labour base is more Urban suburban educated younger and more female the so called working class as in uneducated over 50 voted UKIP / Brexit / Boris
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  4225. If a Federal worker move sand from 1 point to another it wold still generate 0.8 GDP If its greater than 1 (IRS + 7) it pays back
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  4226. single biggest issue is cost of living next NHS then Energy Crisis Everyone has given up on the Tories and refugees and Migration Rwanda is a complete waste of money when our schools are crumbling over the heads of children
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  4227. ​ @Dynasty1818 average wages are -7% lower than in 2010 The only reason Real gdp is below zero by a small fraction is the staggering amount of immigration over the last few years GDP per Capita is falling like a stone
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  4228. The GOP in the Senate are already going scorched earth even before Biden takes office, they will claim fiscal conservatism and let the US burn all to own the libs Mcconnel sits thier nominating judges in the legislation graveyard that is the Senate with the attitude of our way or purgatory.
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  4229. People are concerned about the Cost of living and NHS Everyone I know (I'm 67) have seen this ongoing since Israel invaded and expanded in the 70's and as long as a party isn't Islamophobic or Antisemitic then its not an issue people cast their vote on
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  4230. The last NI cut doesn't benifit pensioners, fiscal drag screws every one. Then they screw services as well?
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  4231. If the world switches to renewables it will save trillions of dollars as well as reduce polution across the globe. There are numerous studies out there as wind and solar have been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 We spend huge sums subsidising fossil extraction and even more on environmental clean up Also 40% of shipping is dedicated to moving fossil fuel around
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  4232.  @dallassukerkin6878  NSW AUS is 75% renewable, Norway is 93% We should be 60% but for the Cons M House will be 95% grid Indipendant within 5 years as I refurbish it. Your talking points where valid in 2010 things have moved on
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  4233. Fiscal drag has put up tax for the low medium paid by £500 a 1p tax cut for someone on 24,000 would be £125 for someone on 50,000 they get £350
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  4234. Fossil fuels are heavily subsidised the world over including in the UK, there's around 100 billion in the pipeline and estimates are the Brent field has got 500 billion over it's lifetime
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  4235. Reform exists as a vehicle for the super rich to try stop net zero which will create energy independence and break their business model. Who benefits from fracking not people in the UK that's for sure
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  4236. The poverty is down to government policy, keeps going because no wants deal with the fallout from the countless wars we've either started or fuelled
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  4237. The proposed legislation is under discussion to ensure it doesn't have unintended consequences I'm retired and do zero hour invigilator work at my local school which isn't fixed or permanent, zero hour should have been properly regulated by Blair he got talked out of it by Mandelson. We then saw the issues in the Cameron era of lack of regulation with the gig economy and huge numbers coming from Eastern Europe on zero hour low wage undermining established businesses and offshoring profits.
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  4238.  @rs72098  we had deflation during 2020 that's why there is so much pent up demand Oh and apparently a load of shale oil companies went broke when oil demand fell off a cliff and future's went negative in 2020 plus reduced farming output due to the severe weather events hitting crops in the US at the start of this year so transitory
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  4239. All five miles of new T wall in four yours pfffff I agree with one thing the capital needs normalising the razor wire compound is not a good look there must be a better way to keep it secure
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  4240. Here's the beef, the US has a birthrate of 1.6 it needs large-scale inward migration to keep the number up to 2.1 to fill all the jobs and pay taxes We will go into decline economically if fkwits in a certain party don't stop blaming migrants for everything when in fact the economy is built on them
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  4241. @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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  4242.  @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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  4243.  @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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  4244. that's not the reason for pressure on housing and services both are down to government policy, services have been run down by the Tories since 2010 and house building has been at a snail's pace since the 80's. Selling off council houses just made it infinitely worse down the line
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  4245. Richard your not a Politician, stick to economics seriously I listen to you a lot Aside from dealing with the backlog the services provided by the NHS will have to be insourced Outsorcing doesn't save money it doesn't improve the service and you loose control of quality which nosedives adding additional cost. Streeting has a political problem on how to get waiting lists down quickly so productivity increases and Labour get reelected in 5 years.
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  4246.  @iandawes4132  given the main reason for the need for migrant labour is lack of investment in Social and physical infrastructure then yes Mind you 750,000 is a pretty low bar to get under
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  4247. In what Conservative utopia have you been living in recently?
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  4248. @Ladybird22373  in what way are Labour worse? The show pony waste of money Rwanda plan has gone Renewable projects that have been sat on the shelf for years have been authorised and funded The hs2 to nowhere will get extended to Euston, with a possible not HS section completing the link to Manchester The 1st reading of a clean water bill was read last week Most strikes have been settled And rioters banged up and put in their box So a big step up from the Tories already
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  4249. Jeeez he's a moron
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  4250. The NatCon Brussels event was sponsored and coordinated by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian think tank funded by oil and gas money. There not Conservative and have only 1 interest - money
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  4251.  @snakeplissken5480  I'd take any of them over a bunch of corrupt Eton Toffs who've given this country the largest tax burden since post war reconstruction and- 3% drop in average income over the last decade a feat not achieved since the Napoleonic war
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  4252. Compared to Johnson she's a lightweight in moral values
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  4253. In what way? They have set out to rebuild public services, if you improve peoples health then we we stop loosing millions of sick days and the economy will improve for everyone We literally have schools falling down and crumbling due to neglect
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  4254. Why the downer on Tesla Giga Berlin and Texas opening new battery pack along with increased productivity due to using Giga Casting the Grid side is coming along with huge revenue streams from VPP's Cyber truck has thousands of Pre orders and there trailing a Semi
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  4255.  @johnrussell3961  the Tories have put 1.8 trillion of debt into the economy. If you look at the corporate tax cut by Osborne it was spent on share buy backs ceo pay and dividends
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  4256. What was he praised for the clips I've seen are just a tirade of complete bullsh1t repeated ad nauseam
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  4257. her polling according to YouGov was 15% so your living in a bubble if you think that
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  4258. As someone reasonably comfortably off the Conservatives have never served anyone other than the ultra well off's interests since Cameron took power there just not bothering to hide it anymore. If your centre right leaning they've offered nothing for the past 12 years
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  4259. Progressives aren't socialist there mildly Liberal The Democrats over in Europe are regarded as mostly centre right the progressives centre left Corperations are fkin dumb there business does way better with a more centrist government hard right policies may give a short term boost but they have a long term negative effect on the consumer base the companies depend on as their market.
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  4260. You can mitigate the drag with regulatory realignment without commitment to rejoin we are where we are Corbyn's problem was trying to rewind Thatcherism getting stuck down the rabbit hole of rewinding Brexit is fruitless TCA is up for renegotiation in 2024
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  4261. Sweden doesn't have the population density and enough housing that old people could self isolate and at no time was its medical facilities under the strain ours were from day 1. Its economy ground to a halt because supply chains round the world slowed shrank Letting it rip in the UK would have ended up like New York in the early days fridge wagons for the dead % of deaths to infections climbing into the 2-3% mark as the medical system ran out of space/ oxygen / drugs etc. @kyletitterton 
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  4262.  @DJFAmenHeavy  Look up The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK | FT Film Numerous articles on teh LSE web site about wage and economic growth (or lack of it) with comparisons with other OECD countries Quote extended austerity will have a significant impact on the rest of the economy as recent research into the fiscal multiplier has found that for every £1 of public spending that is cut, £1.60 of private sector economic activity is also lost Gauging the multiplier: Lessons from history, Barry Eichengreen (Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley) and Kevin Hjortshøj O‟Rourke (Chichele Professor of Economic History, All Souls College, University of Oxford), 23 October 2012
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  4263. Winter fuel allowance was a universal benefit one that I don't need The question is where did all the extra taxes the Tories collected off my family go? Apparently it was +16k in the last parliment?
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  4264. for what ending her candidacy early what a dumb thing to say
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  4265. If you remove the right to strike what else do you have left we know the minimum service level legislation will be abused to punch down even harder on workers and this is the government that turned a blind eye to Fire / Rehire (P&O) and is allowing companies to import workers at -20% of current staff wages + allowed the explosion of low paid zero hour unregulated gig work that undermined established UK businesses while offshoring all their profits
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  4266. They won't, Sunak spent most of his time chasing the nutters with the Rwanda policy
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  4267. True
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  4268. you don't need to pay more tax to change over to renewables there actually cheaper than fossil you just need the infrastructure investment A large gas station is cheap to build expensive to run a wind farm is expensive to build cheap to run power is free for fk sake. What the Tories don't want to do is invest so give out 10's of billions in fossil subsidies and hope the problem goes away by the next election
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  4269.  @ianhollands1641  you had immigration under Thatcher
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  4270. Dirty lecherous grandpa is certainly outdoing himself this time
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  4271. Such simple times, at least were not going to Clinton's emails any mud they sling is scooped straight out the murky pool of oil and gas corruption, the more Rudy whines on and the more Solomon bangs out propaganda the more real reporting uncovers the slosh of dirty money floating around anything to do with oil and gas
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  4272.  @devinvez6630  if you read the full Muller report it's pretty awful what went on in the Trump campaign, the whole Manaford thing is appalling, Flynn was highly compromised and as with the current scandal there's dirty oil and gas money sloshing all over the place.
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  4273. follow the money there in with the fossil lobby
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  4274. They all would, the Con party is dead, 14 years of failure capped by brex1t and Truss
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  4275. Sunak was Chancellor under Boris gimme a loan Johnson who's got to be Britain's most corrupt politician ever
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  4276. ​ @stanleypines1026 +20% wage growth under Blair even after the banking crisis, 2010-2023 average wages fell by -7%. We have had the longest period of stagnation since the Napolionic war
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  4277. there is no plan never was never will be Brexit is solely there to patch up the Conservative party The EU retained Law bill if passed will cost businesses 85 billion over 10 years along with the additional 10 billion in costs for Johnson's red tape paperwork and broken on-demand supply chain We are loosing billions in tariffs and have zero quality control on goods coming in the customs centres ports set up costing millions are idle 7 years on Tory Brexit is a complete kin car crash
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  4278. They may have been in the past but the Boris/Cummings purge pre election got rid of nearly all the moderates. What's taken thier place are the lunatic fringe of the far right. Thier populist banter may go down well with a certain crowd but dig under the surface and just the sheer rank aragance and incompetence is staggering.
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  4279. 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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  4280. He seems fine to me albeit he supports arsenal
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  4281.  @bongsound  why do you people never look at the overall picture, funding as a % of GDP has been falling Under the Cons more of the NHS money has been spun out to private entities instead of being run in house at a fraction of the cost, if you want to spin a narrative of a failing system you deliberately try make it fail despite that the NHS provides outstanding value for money. Norway 10% gdp on healthcare Canada 10% gdp on healthcare UK <8% all public services US 17+% gdp on healthcare Germany 12.5% gdp on healthcare private So whatever junk the right wing media have put in your brain it's purpose is to bolster companies who see easy pickings feasting over privatising UK healthcare and making an absolute killing as they screw every last £ out of the people.
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  4282.  @bongsound  The spending claim is total BS and the Cons have been in power for well over a decade. They spaffed 50+ billion on a track and trace system that barley functioned and PPE contracts that were over the top and not fit for purpose. Whatever the shortcomings of the NHS are they could have done at least as poor a job as Dido Harding on half if not a third of that total. That 30 billion saving is the equivalent of Doris's 1.25% NI increase
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  4283.  @fatwhitebloke9851  pass the sick bag why do you even bother posting when you believe the complete garbage is little fascist Farage spews. The junk your honking up is designed to get yer to vote against your own interests brainwashing you into blaming everything on foreigners.
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  4284. This guys a fkin idiot the inflation is Supply Side Corporate profits driven on inelastic demand for key energy and food. Fed rate doesn't do squat just tax the big players and get it out of the system
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  4285. Its a complete waste of time and money the people have spoken Tories loose 2 points in latest poll down to 20% now as low as Lettuce Liz and Labour gain +2 Give Rhishi a bag of sweets well done head boy your into loooooser territory
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  4286. Try GarysEconomics channel
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  4287. Sunak is as Thatcherite as they come JRM is a Libertarian and Braverman would fit better in the BNP
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  4288. 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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  4289. There will be another scandal and another and another until he's gone He's a lying Toerag without any conscience always was always will be, he has no morals Vaccine resolution? it was middle of the road at best Brexit resolution? Its a complete mess 50% implemented at best and we have huge delays at ports and airports Trade down by 15% and the prospect of a trade war with the EU and US
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  4290. What a creepy toad If you want to put the UK public 1st don't vote in right wing plunderers To lower migration you need to raise more tax and invest in in social and physical infrastructure EX- Osborne cuts Nursing Bursaries 2010 Nursing numbers decline slack taken up with EU workers 2023 13 Years of Austerity + Brexit means a Nurse from Nigeria with husband and 2 kids therefore 1.25 million migrants 1/2 being dependants This is what you voted for
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  4291. Boris chucked a load out and replaced them with true believers
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  4292. Sky just dropped this bombshell quote 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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  4293. If you combine DJT's policies with Musk firing millions of federal workers your talking about an economic depression not seen since the collapse of wall street quote Elon Musk has offered a sobering preview of Donald Trump’s economic plan for America if he is re-elected, revealing that a period of intentional “hardship” is on the horizon for American households. Rather than cautioning against it, Musk described this hardship as necessary and inevitable, supporting Trump’s blueprint for restructuring the economy by slashing government programs. Musk’s remarks, shared in a Telephone Town Hall organized by his America PAC, indicate that he and Trump see economic pain to average Americans as a necessary cost of their policy goals.
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  4294. He's not senile he's insane, its always been so but cooped up without his Rally fix of adoring sycophants faced with a real problem his true incompetence is shinning like a beacon
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  4295.  @wackityshack  Current is 70k studies show that death rates in the population are under recorded by 40-60% lets average it at 50 so total is currently more like 150k this is well on the way too 2 Mill by the time this has rattled round for a year the numbers don't lie. Social distancing, masks closed concert venues sports stadiums are the norm till there's a vaccine. Huge spikes in cases have been tracked back to sports events in Europe. If you want to ignore the data that's up to you as long as your prepared to live with close family members dying because of your decision especially the elderly.
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  4296.  @stephenjon3502  like doesn't quadrupled migration lower living standards failing economy increasing tax give you a clue as to how crap it really is
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  4297.  @michaelathanasiou2030  the Tories have borrowed 1.5 trillion since 2010, last year they borrowed another 130 billion and paid interest of 120 billion. Bad mouthing Labour over borrowing is a bit churlish don't you think given the Tories have tripled the debt in 14 years?
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  4298.  @thomasbroleen4241  within England? Within GB? Within the EU? What economic restrictions and polocies are you using within those blocks? Are you blocking migration out? Are you using taxation to control the associated movement of Capital into and out of those zones?
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  4299.  @thomasbroleen4241  I've already replied there is no yes no answer to an unqualified open ended question with no set parameters. Anyone claiming they have a yes no answer in those circumstances is deluding themselves or deliberatly lying
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  4300.  @thomasbroleen4241  I did answer you appear to not want to think about that answer and it's multiple threads and where they may lead the last thing politicians want is for its population to use critical thinking
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  4301.  @thomasbroleen4241  hers a thought for you the Royal family are the children or grandchildren of immigrants do you like being ruled by immigrants?
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  4302.  @bigyoshi4696  Manufacturing returning with +2 million jobs 1st time since Reagan era, another year another record business incorporation's, NASDAQ up +50% with still high interest rates
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  4303. Jim Carey come forward and do your looser shpeel
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  4304.  @maria8809ttt  If only Keynes was around today. A lot of current capital and market activity is locked up in FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate. Post 2008 crash we've seen a huge tax cut for corporations both in the US and UK, it's estimated that the Fortune 500 companies alone spent 3.5 trillion on stock buy backs. We also have the growth in multi national cartels (Oligopolies) especially in Fossil Fuel, Shipping and Wheat. So how much of the old theories still hold is moot.
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  4305.  @nightowl7459  you can automate fruit picking it would need government investment up front but would pay back over time reducing costs. Most farms need temporary accommodation for them. But it's that word again Investment and a long term approach which goes against Conservative economic values
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  4306. Greens in my area are disaffected centre right Tories with an eco conscience
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  4307.  @Jo5ephSmith  I'm a data analyst we don't get delusional Your in urban combat if you want to take it you do it building by building
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  4308. Whats manly about being a Jerk all the time no wonder so many of them are incels and don't have partners
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  4309.  @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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  4310. What a distorted world view there is on here Biden has passed 48 bills in his 1st 2 years many of them bi-partisan He's started reducing the 7.5 trillion of debt accumulated through the Trump era and is reshoring jobs as well as pivoting the US economy to be the renewable tech leader of the world
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  4311. ​ @gg-sr9lq all MP'S get freebies which are declared, 75k from a BVI company now that's what i call proper curruption
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  4312.  @James_36  the uk economy is on life support Back in 2010 debt to gdp was 62% its gone up year on year and is now 100% we borrowed 130 billion last year and core inflation is sticky BOE rate is unlikely to fall in the near future Energy prices have also trebled and the number of bancrupcies just keeps going up Reuters 16 Jun 2023 — Company insolvencies in England and Wales last month jumped 40% year on year to the highest level since monthly records began in January The £ has lost 70% against the € And economic growth has flattened since 2010, current average disposable income is back to 2006 levels
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  4313. Stockholm Syndrome @earnestequivocation6250 
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  4314. He should talk to Black entrepreneurs they'll tell him what it's like to be cancelled by banks, spoilt prick
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  4315. Tech never suffered because of the pandemic it went it's own way, there trying to compare 2 completely different economies I could already remote work before the pandemic all that happened was a huge investment in our companies infrastructure to formalise and enable it across-the-board plus savings on travel and buildings means costs are going down. Commodity inflation isn't hitting the tech sector very much as innovation is far outstripping costs.
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  4316. They all looked like comfortably off Boomers who don't give a toss about much bar thier tax line to be honest.
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  4317.  @lesigh1749  rebadged ukip same old lies if you hadn't noticed leaving the eu has made migration worse not better and increased taxes due to economic depression
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  4318. There's a reason not to do press conferences that's because the Washington press Corp live in a media bubble disconnected from the American people. Example press core are you running in 2024 Town Hall - how will the child credit affect me. Press Corp - what about the fillibuster Town Hall - how soon can I get a vaccine for my kids Etc
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  4319. so what is the cap now? Oh yea there isn't one, this is another future unfunded proposal
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  4320. except planning reform, rail nationalisation, GBEnergy and lower bills, business confidence to invest now the Tory chaos has gone (FT 250 up 1%)
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  4321. there just as crazy as the Wagner group anyway there defending their right to be fascist A holes from the biggest Fascist A hole on the planet Putin go read "Ivan Illyan, Putin's philosopher of Russian Fascism"
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  4322. Change the planning laws. The stuff he's on about in the HOL was moving the cost of new house build pollution from builders to the government who would then either have to cough up to have infrastructure put in place or just allow more pollution runoff. It was basically a tax break to the building industry which would have cost the government millions down the line. Yet more short termism
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  4323. France had a rise of 4% EDF was capped and there also moving domestic fuel to zero vat rated The French government own EDF and EDF also owns part of the UK energy market which we sold off and run a faux market, Norwegian government created a company to run and manage its oil and gas retaining strategic control while funneling all profits into its social system we sold off a load of leases and refuse to tax big fossil. A government with the worst economic record in 200 years is telling us not to ask for pay rises giving us a loan to pay over 5 years increasing taxes and telling us we have the fastest growing economy in the G7? Pull the other one! GDP GROWTH 2020 -11% GDP GROWTH 2021 7% net over 2 years -4% NOT adjusted for inflation You really can't tell Sunak was a merchant £anger.
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  4324. the way the reason the justice system is falling to pieces is Tory Austerity 20,000 police let go + 20,000 office staff + defunding councils and courts All you need to do to fix it is fund it and staff it properly, will that cost more not over time a broken system is inefficient and swallows money wholesale
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  4325.  @infosuge  it's +66% since 2010 with negative wage growth of -7% on average wages
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  4326. 1st off if your working class pay PAYE you'll never have heard about CGT, 2nd she doesn't need to be living there permanently to claim it as her primary residence This is from 10 years ago and as she doesn't fill in a tax return not sure they'd even have a record
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  4327. ​ @rfurdaylee since voting to leave in 2016 our economy has lost close to 1 trillion that's 330 billion lost in tax revenue Why do you think the Cons have had to raise taxes and employ more civil servants red tape and bureaucracy in costs money
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  4328. I mean what happens when the fact check Sunak that would be intersing on old 7 bins
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  4329. Modaunt is a proven liar she'll get shredded in debates
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  4330. The opinion polls aren't going to narrow the economy is a raging skip fire and its going to get worse because of Sunak's policies Just look at yesterday British Gas made 800 million in excess profits and the BOE is going to have to raise rates to 6 or even 6.5%
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  4331. Still believing in Boris the man who put CON in CONservative The party who sold off the water companies then allowed them to kill our rivers with sewage Responsible for the lowest growth in average wages over the last decade since the Napoleonic war (-3%) Or maybe your up with the highest tax burden since post war reconstruction and are just soooo pleased the bankers got a huge tax cut as part of the overall increases Maybe your looking forward to the NHS being sold off and the eye watering private insurance bills you'll have to pay?
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  4332.  @mikehawk8526  she believes in the great reset which is a conspiracy based theory which has its roots in anti-Semitism, when you dig into it it's the usual neo-fascist kook bat stuff that surfaced in the US with the John Birch society which is closely linked to the German movement in the 30's. These ideas caused the Pogroms in Russia led to WW2 and appear to be radicalising a certain section America.
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  4333. ​@Sjb2077 no one voted to leave the single market leave backers said we'd be crazy to Once the vote was in they changed the goalposts And here we are commiting economic suicide with the biggest fall in living standards in one parliment in history
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  4334. Brexit is an economic multiplier everything it touches is worse because of it. After the 2016 vote long term investment by multinationals slowed right down 7/8 years on and that lack of investment is gnawing at the economy like a rat eating its way through a sack of grain. You then destroy the On-Demand Supply chain through Europe implement huge numbers of checks red tape and paperwork which strangles the ability of companies to compete so that SME's for example are shrinking back to core business as well as putting up prices. Economic death by a thousand cuts some of the figures are truly staggering currency is down by 30% since 2016 100 billion in lost inward investment an economy 5.5% smaller due to leaving the single market (equal tp 44 billion in lost taxation) 8 billion in additional business costs for red tape and paperwork etc. etc.
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  4335. Getting a load of cultist pensioners at one of his Clan rallies doesn't really exude broad appeal
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  4336.  @trevormappley  I'm a nothing were out the EU trying to bang the Brexit drum is nothing more than self flagellation and blame avoidance. I'd deal in the hear an now.
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  4337. He's got a large property portfolio
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  4338. I think you'll find that most don't the exception appears to be Johnson whose main focus is on the papers and the headlines The current base of Tory policies is based purely on right wing media headlines
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  4339. @richardmacey3619  Not according to the Data she has a +3 point lead given margin of error not much in it But The more he opens his mouth the more he p1sses off women of which you will see record turnout. There's also 600k of polish descent in Penselvania who will vote Harris over his Ukraine stance, 600k Hatian descent in Florida.
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  4340. Another party representing the Billionaire class just what we need Sapps
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  4341. California has a progressive tax system which applies to income tax Texas raises Taxes through sales and property taxes only Quote According to the ITEP graphic, total state and local taxes as a percentage of family income is 13 percent in Texas and just 10.5 percent in California for the bottom 20 percent of earners. The GOP want to move away from income tax to purely sales tax Nationally under the Texas model the top 5% currently pay 3.6% in state Taxes
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  4342.  @sahhull  importing coal was always going to happen with the Cons signing onto supply side economics fk everyone else the market is king so go suck on it. The reason we're so gas dependent is the extreme free market fundamentalist approach preached by right wing politicians
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  4343. It's more cost effective for the grid to have a localised mesh network of storage it can draw on at peak times. Modern battery domestic storage has the capability to be controlled by your supplier.
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  4344. 0.0025 % chance of fraud maybe they want to get it down to 0.0024 It's in his power to get this done quickly by proper funding the Postal Service and funding the states, the latest tech tracks your postal ballot in the same way an Amazon parcel
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  4345.  @mra9248  no it doesn't
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  4346. 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists say Trump policies will fuel inflation
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  4347. The world needs to kick the gas and oil habit and move to renewable sources, I wouldn't trust either Russia or the US at the momment
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  4348. That's not true renewable infrastructure cost v efficiency have dropped through the floor your also looking at smart ways of running the grid. We already have vehicle to Grid technology as electric cars are rolled out over the next few years the need for expensive gas peaker plants will vastly diminish
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  4349. Tories lost another 2 points in the polls last week and Labour gained +3 Cons 23% Labour 47% So he was listening to the British people
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  4350.  @evolutionistheflyingspaghe2702  men have kids and some even understand the negative economic impact of Dirty Grandpa's tariff policy
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  4351. Voting Reform is like Turkeys voting for Xmas
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  4352. He's socially centre and fiscally Centre Left as far as I can make out
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  4353.  @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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  4354. ​@letsgobrandon9867 it's worse than that of districts that voted for Biden accounted for 70% of US gdp
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  4355. A full Norway met the referendum conditions Leaving the single market was always going to tank the economy
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  4356. The ECHR is the last recourse against government overreach one which the Hillsborough victims used why would you give up that right?
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  4357. People's priorities Cost of Living crisis (food inflation still at 7%) NHS Energy Crisis Sewage RAAC what's your answer an effin tax cut, cancel net zero, cancel HS2/3 Cancel ......yourself for ##### sake
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  4358.  @starscream9595  There's always an excuse with Trump its always someone else's fault. Even I was surprised how bad he was on the economy when I dived into the numbers the guy was on a par with Hoover. -150000 manufacturing jobs lost, record farm bankruptcies -8500 coal jobs lost worst GDP record (beating Bush who had 9/11 and the wall street collapse) worst inflation of the national debt (4 trillion) Worst Jobs record Man when you start dissecting it its pretty grim and the list is pretty extensive.
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  4359.  @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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  4360. Have you looked at Biden's record in office or are you just going on media clips? He's reshored over 1 million manufacturing jobs reversing a trend that's been going on for decades, policies and funding in place to turn the US economy into the renewable technology world leader.
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  4361. DT suffers from ADHT and his speech problem is down to dyslexia both conditions combined contribute to his low read age. Anyone with kids would put his emotional age at about 9/10. Addarol is the least of his worries.
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  4362. Because there the same as Cons
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  4363. Blair was the last pm to have wage growth Since 2008 you've been getting poorer
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  4364. Reform are not Conservative ther Polulist nationalist Libertarian The nutters like Braverman, Truss on the far right of the party maybe but your talkin 1/4 at most of the current crop
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  4365. ​ @nicholasweaver7809 who wants to vote for a party with lettuce liz economic policies Reform are the broken bits of the Tories
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  4366.  @americanaforever6725  there's enough land leases issued for supply for the next 30 years, the issue is more extraction a load of smaller companies went bust in 2020 when oil futures went negative and surveying and development went on hold it takes the same amount of time to start up again so 2022 The green new deal would actually save money decoupling the economy from fossil price fluctuations, couple of things I'll mention solar/wind is 1/2 the cost of fossil per megawatt hour issue currently is storage which is currently being addressed the other thing is upgrading and building houses to a passive standard. I work in the tech sector after the polar vortex incident last year decided to replace all the windows upgrade the insulation (was planning a house extension anyway) and have a log burner just in case with the improvements my autumn energy bill is down 80% and the changes will make the place cooler next summer. Yea sure I'm nearing retirement and I can afford it but 700+ people lost their lives in Texas green initiatives on insulation and glass tech could have saved hundreds of lives.
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  4367. Why ? The average retirement income according to AGE UK is 18,148, there whole stick is to the improve lower paid, poverty costs the Government more money than curing it anyway not that you can get that through to thicko Cons
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  4368.  @elric6084  Brown didn't crash pensions it was a stupid tax that only raised 5 billion a year. Brown borrowed around 250 billion to stabilise the banking system. In 2010 debt was 800 billion since then the Tories have borrowed 1.5 trillion around 3 times debt borrowed by every Labour government combined.
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  4369. Which Reform policy is remotely practical and could be implemented? I'll give you an example opposition to fracking is 60% against 17% for Migration policy is an extension of Rwanda gesture politics and is unimplementable Unfunded Tax cuts of 100+ billion (been there with Truss)
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  4370. we got a Brexiteers Ultra budget and the markets told her and Kwerteng to F off and join planet reality were not funding a Libertarian wet dream economy that has 2 hopes of succeeding Bob hope and No hope On what astral plain does borrowing 70 billion to give to your rich mates who fund the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Tax Payers Alliance make fiscal sense?
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  4371. Every point of lost GDP = 8 billion in lost revenue to the Treasury Brexit is an economic car crash there was zero plan back i 2016 and there's zero plan now As for democracy there busy giving away sovereignty to the CPTPP by agreeing to ISDS and reducing standards by the back door YES IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT CLINGING TO THE ROTTEN CARCASS OF THE BIGGEST BAG OF LIES EVER FOISTED ON THE UK PUBLIC
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  4372.  @robertmuckle2985  Northern America has 32% of the world's wealth, Europe comes in 2nd with 24% China is 4th after Asia Pacific region. Net worth of al US households is the 136trillion a 3.8% rise on 2020. So the US is the richest country on the planet by a stinking steaming country mile
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  4373. Kinnsinger in veteran affairs, I'd make Liz ambassador to somewhere decent like the EU
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  4374. Immigration / Emigration these days is an extremly complex matter In the larest numbers are around 130,000 students that each yearly intake adds 1.75 billion to the economy and there's now around 1/2 million in the system there also given a 2 year grace period t.o work here after graduating its one of the few sectors thats growing and Brexit hasnt screwed up. Ive been arguing against the current points based system for some time and what makes it worse is the -20% on uk wo4kers + we now hear a £10,000 golden handshake For context we have the lowest rating for automation in the developed world produtivity is really low and since 2016 investment has slowed dramatically Also we have a low birthrate of 1.6 and falling and would have population decline without around +400,000 imigrants Stacked onto that there was 500,000 people emigrated last year so our inward migration was actually 1.2 million We have a housing shortage of around 5 million over the next 10 years a skills shortage of around 10% in health and education at the moment the whole thing is an ever evolving skip fire. Any thought of a economic recovery would require under Tory Supply Side Trickle Down Policy needs millions more in foreign cheap labour at multiple levels. This car crash is 13 years in the making and isnt just as a result of Brexit all that does is amplify the issues
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  4375. ​ @mr90s48 so we should cancel vital infrastructure because the Tories couldn't run a bath let alone build a rail link?
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  4376. First off if it's a business then it looses thousands of volunteers the salaries would need to rise by 30% and everyone would pay 50-100% more in insurance premium A private system helps the wealthy not your average Joe public
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  4377. keep paying higher taxes and eating your turnip then Its your choice
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  4378.  @billythewhizz8077  we have one it's called the ECHR
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  4379. Over 50% voted centre or left of centre with a band of Tories kicking out Coffey and voting green
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  4380. Hard right dunno what your drinking
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  4381. You can dice and slice statistics to suit the top 1% also pay a lower amount of thier overall income than those at the bottom, the levels of wealth where no tax is payed at all are obscene Jeff Bazos pays tax on income but has billions in share stock which is gaining value and he can sell if he's short for the odd mansion. The more you pander to the ultra wealthy the worse the economy gets as wealth is just locked up and doesn't generate tax or economic activity so you get the current situation of a lack of investment in infrastructure education and health. Your then left with the easy targets of squeezing the 95% for additional revenue and that at a certain point causes social unrest.
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  4382. The boat people are the least of your worries brexit and Conservative economic policies means high migration for at least a decade
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  4383. Cummings new what he was doing as did the Tory party they should be disbanded and have their assets seized for what they've done to this country
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  4384. They get a talking sheet from the right wing think tanks, sounds like she didn't even read that. By the way companies only pay taxes when they make a profit, companies only make a profit when the want to pay dividends or take money out jf you reinvest or pay your workers more you it's all tax deductable
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  4385. Blame the Tories for not building enough prisons and defunding the justice system
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  4386. You did that's why migration quadrupled and the economy is tanking and just for a side measure tax went up by 5 basis points How blinkered do you have to be to look at failure and go narrr give me more
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  4387. Been following the focus groups on Times Radio, they've gone from a soft labour lead to baked in we need change
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  4388. Of course he can't Tice and Graham live in an alternative right wing reality bubble
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  4389. 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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  4390. About what?
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  4391. of course it won't work he's as dumb as a rock The Smoot-Hawley Act increased tariffs on foreign imports to the U.S. by about 20%; at least 25 countries responded by increasing their own tariffs on American goods. Global trade plummeted, contributing to the ill effects of the Great Depression.
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  4392. ​ @paullewis2413  how? they have attainable policies which will boost the economy
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  4393. Its already 5.2% smaller than its projected it should have been from 2017 onward and we've devalued the pound by 25% The loss alone is 140 billion in trade and 40 billion in taxes to the exchequer and thats just for last year which includes about 1.5 - 2% of that Brexit depression
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  4394. he's not even a good technocrat more like a below average middle manager that's failed upwards
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  4395. Why net zero means cheaper energy and not being at the mercy of world fossil prices
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  4396. he didn't say he was buds with Rhishi
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  4397. If you defund youth services, defund the police and defund the justice system while increasing poverty what do you think will happen?
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  4398. I'm affluent in a blue wall seat the Greens are middle class NIMBY's in my area I'm voting Lib-Dem to boot out the Tory Incumbent
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  4399. A lot of the hand wringing about them going elsewhere is stupid, the bulk of thier money is locked in assets such as mult million pound property in Mayfair it does nothing for the economy because it doesn't circulate
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  4400. ​ @wulfsorenson8859 how can it be worse when everything was better 14 years ago, even your wages were on average 7% better off, the £ in your pocket was worth +30% more against the euro
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  4401. Pointless they'll cut past it its a rubble pile
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  4402. we borrowed 130 billion last year so no there is no surplus were still servicing 2.6 trillion in debt. Interest payments on a 12-month basis reached £117bn in May 2023, double the level in the period to September 2021.
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  4403. He'll stay if they try and remove him he'll call a snap election, the Sun had an open letter from the billionaire donors backing him the billionaire media are soiling their pants trying to keep the assclown in power. Boris is the Billionaires btch there desperate for City deregulation so they can crash the markets again like they did in 2008
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  4404. ​ @gio-oz8gf bit of hope that things will move in a different direction Torsten Bell has been given a safe seat The 42-year-old served as the party’s director of policy during Ed Miliband’s leadership and enjoys close connections to many of the shadow cabinet. Inside Westminster, some expect Bell to be immediately appointed to a ministerial position following the election. Bell’s first book, Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back, will be studied closely as an economic blueprint for a Starmer administration
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  4405. we've already had 14.
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  4406. Importing/ exporting to and from the EU will thanks to the shit deal negotiated will add +25% to the cost of goods over the next few years That figure is made up of thousands of pages of added paperwork customs checks vetinary checks lorry delays additional customs and port staff etc etc.
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  4407. They haven't had a right wing party in charge there in for a shock at how incompetent the Right are at governing ex UK
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  4408.  @jasielm5258 mine is a combination of wind the solar on my roof I live within 5 miles of large wind farm and 50 miles away is a huge offshore wind farm and my utility company is renewable focused Its easy enough to add a small turbine to the existing system at my home, every small installation will help. By the way I went this route on cost as well as having lived through 2 previous oil crisis and if everyone that could afford it like me did this it would help a lot. I'm lucky as to where I live but there are other solutions such as nuclear. Its only this last year that the tech and the battery technology has finally got to a mainstream stage
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  4409.  @maisiemoo_x  Their parents aren't though
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  4410. The imf put forward a plan to cover the pandemic cost it's known as a one off wealth tax. But hey bankers need there champagne and tax cuts
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  4411. What increase average wages by +20% You really want an9ther 5 years of getting poorer?
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  4412. ​ @ContactDailyKaizen there trying to not rock the Tory boat if they remove the veneer off then the DUP and ERG will smell blood and bring down another PM Left wing independent sources have been all over this from day 1 even the Times podcast (centre right) and the View (Centerist) have been covering the Tory infighting and train wreck that is Brexit Left of centre podcasts Guardian New Statesman
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  4413. Disatified in what way? the Tories have been abysmal, so bad we are worse of now than in 2007, multiple recessions and inflation will be back up nect month all indicators are with CPIH (includes housing costs) 2.8% and it's component OOH (owner occupiers) 6.7% there will be considerable uptick in inflation
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  4414. 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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  4415. There's a reason Brexit was a load of BS We are subject to trade gravity a country trades with its nearest neighbours the further away in distance you get the more costly it is to trade. Divergence introduces economic pain which adds costs to UK products for both import and sale not to the EU but everywhere. Not only are trade volumes for export down to the EU they are down in general as we become less and less competitive
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  4416. Bloody fascists Do they not know there being fueled up with propaganda, this needs clipping with the Nuremburg rallies
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  4417. Loved the podcast well done
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  4418. nige has never told the truth in his life if he's a man of the people why did he have an Elite Millionaire's bank account I hate the guys guts has anyone tried transferring money from a 3rd country to the EU because I have when my mum died my brother lives over there it is the stuff of nightmares I had to stop sending him birthday gifts because of all the export paperwork Farage is a complete and absolute tw*t
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  4419. There are 19 other cases in progress aside from this one young Donald has been a very naughty boy Insurrection (7)Financial (6)Election interference (2)Sexual misconduct (1)Other (3) Tax evasion, money laundering, rape, inciting a riot, treason it's quite a charge sheet
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  4420. It's estimated the 72 is now 100+ with penalties and thats before tax investigations into the multiple dodgy entries in his filings.
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  4421.  @anniehovsepian6173  he'll do his usual and tie things up in court, the legal battles are likely to outlast Donald J Trump hopefully it will tie up his finances so he can't cause to much mischief but who knows. What's clear is that major tax reform is needed a special unit in the IRS needs setting up to investigate all the high rollers and a judicial overhaul so the cases can't be appealed ad infinitum as well as streamlining the process
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  4422. 😁
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  4423. Not sure on amd but nvidia is well solid long term ill look up amd
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  4424. ​ @Gary-le7dz buying a flat which tory policy has driven the price of that high with market interference through a subsidised scheme that it's left people on low wages no other option in getting on the property ladder
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  4425. Labour's are missions its an approach based on this book Mission Economy A moonshot guide to changing capitalism “A timely and optimistic vision. Rethinking the role of government nationally and in the international economy - to put public purpose first and solve the problems that matter to people - are now the central questions for humanity"
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  4426. It will reduce energy bills changing from peak power station plant running on Gas Turbines on standby to Tesla MegaPack technology will save 10's of billions to consumers and that is just 1 example
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  4427. The Republicans are truly spineless, just stand up call the Looser a looser and stop playing a very dangerous game
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  4428. And hey want Gym Jordon on the case to give a different angle typical
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  4429. Tesla isn't just a Car company, its grid tech has the capacity to overshadow the car business by multiples
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  4430.  @b1bbscraz3y  I've been impressed with her fightback, she really pulled no punches in the after debate interview, these debates are making her stronger and more driven, an all women ticket that would mess with the GOP Heads.
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  4431.  @nickrobinson7096  The rules where pretty tight at the time and London was in tier 2
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  4432. He isn't Conservative and brings along the failure of his brex1t baggage + A majority of Conservative activists who do all the work dislike him to the point they would quit
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  4433. I agree but probably for different reasons The Reform % has gone up because they keep banging on about Rwanda, it just highlights the problem and thier failure while alienating centre voters who think its a waste of money
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  4434. Net zero is the way forward its economic industrial policy which will create jobs reshore energy production and provide cheaper energy Your strategy is to keep using what Gas which is tied to world commodity prices and is the most expensive form of generating electricity currently x2.5 more expensive than say wind and has been up to x12 times more expensive at its peak
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  4435. they had to change the modelling to make it even be positive
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  4436. It's 2025 on the news I heard and the detail was lite Jam tomorrow its not much use on it's own you need a comprehensive plan
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  4437. ​ @Youmissedme-i5z Biden's infrastructure policies are reshoring manufacturing for the 1st time since pre Reagan with over 1 million.
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  4438.  @Lunarfacia  were virtually on. WTO now hence the endless form filling tariffs on some goods having to prove country of origin, 27 different tax regimes. Etc
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  4439.  @keithyoung810  Farage was a commodity trader and Tice is a property magnet there both libertarian, their policies of deregulation and free market fundamentalism will generate and even bigger Pull factor on the UK economy for migration. They don't understand economics basically, if you want to lower migration you tackle the problem causing it not its physical manifestation which is high net numbers
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  4440. Strategic economic supply chain dependance. The era of Total globalisation is dead
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  4441. Conservatives economic model is Trickle down supply side to work it needs globalization and a continuous supply side cheap labour force otherwise you need to invest in physical and social infrastructure with a fairer tax system which deals with wealth created by wealth which is pretty much untaxed. REFORM & UKIP just turn off immigration they don't deal with the underlying economic model which will further contract the UK economy into a stagflation spiral and 750,000 is a result of hard Brexit and loosing FOM in 2019 we had net 200,000 an EU worker comes over here without dependants sometimes temporary in 2023 we have net 750,000 with wives husbands and kids coming from outside Europe
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  4442. There's been an academic paper which estimated on a best managed basis you would be -350k dead but that means best case state as well as federal given how efficient he's been at the roll out you'd have thought he would have been able to get somewhere near that total
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  4443. It's called home working, they do know how to video conference and use a telephone, they only need to be in for a vote
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  4444. The problem Is CON ideology when your answer to everything is cut tax small state your not really addressing the problem. If you want less nurses from Nigeria you invest in training UK nurses if that means free University course for them so be it. If you want less fruit pickers you invest in the farmers so they can automate their harvest not just say get it from Morocco and ban workers.
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  4445. Nuclear is just getting too expensive especially as battery prices have dropped massively and are due to fall in price further
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  4446. The cause of our economic problems are his and his parties policies, yet again we're back to Austerity and moneteris you would think after 14 years of it failing that they would twig and change course? Fundemantly he's a cr@p Tory who's economically clueless
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  4447. If you want a view into why Putin started this war then read "Ivan Ilyin Putin's Philosopher on Russian Fascism" by Timothy Snyder To understand the depth of the resistance and why Ukraine won't bend to Putin you need to go back to 1933 and Stalin he deliberately starved 4+ million Ukrainians to death of a population of 29 million. In 1941 he ordered 60,000 political prisoners to be executed as he was afraid if captured by the Germans they would be released. Post ww2 the sovietization kept up a brutal campaign against both perceived and real resistance with thousands sent to the Siberian Gulags or just disappeared. While east Ukrainians speak Russian it doesn't mean they have much sympathy for the cause its a similar scenario to the British in Ireland (south) one language but fiercely independent Also the Soviets sent tanks into neighbouring countries over the cold war years to pummel dissent.
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  4448. Tesla is about the safest bet on the planet at this point in time it's stock price has fuk all to do with cars it's move into grid is what's powering the price
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  4449. The Cons are dead they'll limp on for a while trashing the economy but given how badly they've mismanaged things and how much worse its going to get there USP of being sound on the economy is in tatters all they've got now is hate migrants and the EU have a pop at Trans people
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  4450. Starmer is an excellent manager what your wanting is someone with the oratory skills I genuinely think he's getting better he is obviously practicing, his Kings Speech retort I thought was well paced and now showing emotion The Tories have wrecked the economy the only thing keeping it afloat is London, what needs to be done would take decades
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  4451. 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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  4452. So hows Brexit going in GBeebies Unicorn Land Hire an EU Nurse and you get 1 Nurse Hire a Filipino Nurse you get her Husband and 2 kids simples 200,000 becomes 750,000 because of dependants What did you think would happen a magic switch would create thousands of nurses willing to take a 30% pay cut since 2010
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  4453. Why are you not counting women's votes this cycle? Every time he opens his mouth he adds more women's votes to Harris's total, he can't help himself.
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  4454. ​ @kenc7120 the chief driver of the recent US inflation and the struggle to get it down was the unfunded Trump corporate tax cut that went straight to debt. Coupled with Cov relief of 4 trillion he pumped 8 trillion into the economy with a drop of -3.6% gdp fueling post Cov inflation. It's taken 4 years and an average of 3.6% growth to lower the worst effects of what was a double whammy. If the corporate tax cuts are reauthorised economists have warned it will kick off another round of inflation and also destabilise the bond market
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  4455. 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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  4456.  @johnrussell3961  Both Starmer and Reeve are left of Blair Brown the thing is Starmer is the ultimate pragmatist he will push but not force unlike some he isn't going round telling people they are wrong
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  4457. There's a good interview with economist Torsten Bell on PoliticsJoe which goes through the hard choices facing any new administration and labelling the Autumn statement as economic fiction Even small changes can have big consequences Hunt's budget is shrinking public service budgets post April to a level that would see them completely collapse to pay for the tax cuts.
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  4458. A good chunk of the 23% who voted Con did so because of the dystopian fictional project fear and will drift from the Tories if Starmer is remotely competent
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  4459. Ultra low inflation means no wage growth a tight labour market there's a labour shortage across the board business is booming in numerous areas and the first jobs to go are casual and gig economy
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  4460. As soon as campaigning begins people will be reminded what an economic clusterfk he was -2 million jobs -3.6% GDP +8 Trillion debt 3.5 of it in corporate tax cuts to the wealthy Then there's 3 supreme court picks who overturned Roe v Wade and The republicans insane crusade against woman's rights The plans to dismantle Obamacare Book bans Attacks on gay marriage and LGBT rights He's also said he plunge the US into a trade war and will try dismantle Biden's infrastructure IRA and CHIPS act plunging the US economy into recession and sending inflation through the roof.
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  4461.  @wavell14  your living in lala land, private healthcare cost the nation more and costs the people more it leads to price gouging lack of preventative services and escalating A and E costs because the poor can't afford insurance. Germany spends as a nation over 50% more for thier healthcare than we do with 12.5% gdp If you compare to Canada a well funded public service Germany are effectively wasting 2% of thier gdp on insurance and it's mechanisms. At less than 8% of GDP the NHS is the mother of all bargains Have you even looked at premiums or costs, how would the low paid even afford 1200 a month to cover a family?
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  4462. A lot of Bernie's policies aren't in dispute but this conspiracy stuff is junk, pretty much everyone was tepid on Biden and you had a number of alternatives dangled in front of the left such as Warren. The reaction was Bernie or nothing and the older voters for various reasons chose not Bernie and Biden fell out the pot.
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  4463.  @mitseraffej5812  the membership of the GOP is shrinking to 25% of the voting population of that 75% believe the Orange Moron backed by a media ecosystem that that spins an alternate reality akin to communist China's population brain washing control
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  4464.  @MICHAEL-vy3ch  Here's an idea because there more valuable to the economy and investing in education generates a worker that pays way more tax creating higher GDP growth then we pay to train them. If there generating more tax revenues then we should end up paying less
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  4465. Agreed its more about energy independence and cheaper energy after my extension and house refurbishment to double insulation and thermal and standard solar I pay next to net zero for my energy
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  4466.  @keithparker1346  we don't, the 1st priority is finding 18 billion so we don't have another round of cuts to services.
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  4467. 90% windfall tax on energy companies redistributing the tax to customers which would lower core inflation Oh that was Labour plan
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  4468. ​the current talk in EU countries is 30,000 our totals have more than doubled since Brexit last year it was 80,000 So 30,000 + say 20,000 more sounds a good deal to me As this year its going to be near the 100,000 It's a better offer than what InActionMan is proposing housing migrants indefinitely at a current cost of 8 billion a year and escalating
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  4469. There's an urgency to hit the ground running at speed, people don't get how hollowed out the government has gotten under Trump he's literally taking a wrecking ball to everything. Just to repair the damage is going to be extremely difficult and his latest endeavours appear to be to appoint some really shadey folks into the departmental structures.
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  4470. Sweden is sparsely populated (26 per Km2 V England 434 Km2 & London 5,596) and has a large housing ownership and stock + a well funded health system. They still followed social distancing and the elderly were asked to self isolate, people were asked to remote work. Quote Some restrictions were imposed. Public events were limited to a maximum of 50 people in March 2020, and eight people in November 2020. Visits to nursing homes were banned and upper secondary schools closed. etc.
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  4471. population of Sweden is 10 million Population of London is 9 million with a population density of 5,596 people per Km2 go away with your nonsense comparisons @DavidGetling 
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  4472. they will just have to put in some more overtime then there is no way I want my taxes subsidising wealthy people to the tune of 6k
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  4473. We voted to leave the EU Not The single Market or loose FOM We've had this crap shoved on us by a party who's voter base is geriatric and has zero skin in the economy
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  4474. After all the Tory membership voted for Lettuce Liz and IDS Hague must regret every day he ever allowed the membership to choose
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  4475. 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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  4476. And the reason there in a hotel to start with is Tory incompetence
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  4477.  @HonestBottom  the issue with Asylum and legal migration is Tory policy If you processed all the claims in a timely manner 40,000 would already be deported, last years claims where 82,000 of which 80% are accepted so 62,000 a year isn't a big number for a population of 68 million. More problematic is legal migration again due to a combination of Tory economic policy of not investing in the UK workforce and being outside the EU of the +1.25 million immigrants 1/2 were dependents when in the EU net migration had stabilised to +200,000 given our low birth rate a sustainable number if investment in physical and social infrastructure had been done and could also have been reduced.
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  4478.  @bigverybadtom  it's from official govt data, the numbers don't lie the guy was officially the worst
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  4479. Brexit has been an economic train wreck
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  4480. At least we had 25% growth in average wages, I remember the good old bad old days when we could slag off a prime minister and still have wage growth and a vibrant economy. Now well the highest taxes in 80 years and the worst economic outlook in a 150
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  4481. because George the Poundland Farage got in
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  4482. It's an incentive for those who can to move to a different state.
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  4483. 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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  4484. what's the point all Tories are bad this is what you get with Thatcherism
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  4485. I want to see him loose twice in Georgia and see the GOP eat thier own blaming everyone and dive into a cesspit of self destruction
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  4486. Blanket tax cuts don't generate growth here's why the markets freaked out All government spending is subject to an economic multiplier here's a recent example worked out that a 10% pay rise for NHS staff had an economic multiplier of 0.81 for every £1 spent the Treasury recovered 81p. The 1st hit is with the £1 getting hit with both income NI and student tax the remaining money is spent in the wider economy generating more GDP hence tax there is also every likelihood of reduced staff churn which generates savings and less money spent on Agency staff. This excludes benefits from having a fitter healthier workforce. Onto Truss's tax cuts in general these would have generated for every £1 cut between 20-30p in additional income through GDP growth because the economic multiplier is around 0.2-0.3 so its no wonder the markets freaked out. We have 50 years of data to look back on so this idea that cutting taxes is a magic recipe for growth is complete BS like other Zombie ideas the ultra wealthy keep resurrecting it because it benefits them and think the average person is too stupid to go learn how this stuff works
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  4487. There was interesting research came out last week millennials aren't getting more Conservative as they age breaking recent trends, the Republicans as the Conservatives over here are burning out trying to out right wing themselves offering nothing to younger voters.
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  4488.  @mattjames7430  he gets booed outside his right wing safe space, no mix race sports team will even go to the WH coz he's a racist prick He's lying cheating con man
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  4489. 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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  4490.  Dawn Kuzio  you mean the European virus apparently the US has mostly the mutated version whose source is Italy. The US economy is stop / start splutter on off state till the pandemic is addressed appropriately. The current piss poor leadership state will kill small medium businesses long term for a decade if its not sorted out.
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  4491. I think people like Reeve Nandy and Milliband will do an excellent job they come over as knowledgeable and dedicated
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  4492. 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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  4493. He's generally unpopular if you poll the electorate
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  4494. You can still download the pdf on safely campaigning during Covid But your not interested your just spaffing off guff you've picked up
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  4495. @lestrem11  go read the pdf I campaign for the Lib dems its like normal if your working late. Go read the guidance pdf
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  4496. Stick with the party that's pumping money into the rich and screwing you over then How much does your disposable income have to fall before you'll look at alternatives?
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  4497. We've left all right why do you think our economy and finances are in such a state
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  4498. So what a load of Cr@p from Gates! I live in the Uk here is a REAL world example on costs, Nuclear is eye watering in its varacity to sponge billions. Hinckley C is now a decade in being built total cost so far are 33 billion But wait thats not the end of the story its going to be 3 years late oh and did i forget to mention the 35 BILLION in subsidies from the UK government over 35 years with a guaranteed price per kilowatt hour @ × 4 the cost of renewables We have an offshore wind farm coming onstream this year producing roughly the same amounts of electricity called Dogger bank its taken 4 years to build and costs 9 billion +350 million on a Tesla MegaPack In what twisted screwed up universe is Nuclear even viable for your extra 60 billion what exactly are you getting at those sort of additional costs you get 180 medium MegaPack instalations
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  4499. We all know it won't he's going to try get as much alignment as possible. There's a lot of stuff you can do to ease the pain ultimately well be back in the single market but it would take decades.
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  4500. ? Last time that Labour were in power services were funded and not falling apart and average wages rose by +25%
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  4501. Freidman didn't factor in a global pandemic, extreme globalisation policies that have off shored huge swathes of production and climate change hitting crops (polar event followed by a drought) US companies are starting to turn it round and build stuff back in the US due to al the ongoing supply chain issues (the cost of Global shipping has trebled)
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  4502. @SierraLima Less heat is escaping from the planet duue to carbon dioxide pollution. You had aa polar event damaging crops and livestock killing nearly 1000 followed by a drought, record number of storms in the gulf. STOP whining about the pandemic and do something about it like get a vaccine
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  4503. @andybarry5315  why do you want lower food standards, lower safety standards, lower workers rights, more pollution, lower standard of living?
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  4504. @109 Countries we've seen him redraw a hurricane map with a sharpie so yes he does behave like a spoilt 9 year old
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  4505. Vlad the Mad didn't give us an option
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  4506.  @robertbushnell5627  If you reduce the pool of labour your able to recruit from by 90% and have an ageing population with a birth rate of 1.6 (needs to be 2.1 to be stable) at the point you have a pandemic which hastens early retirement as well as introduce onerous visa requirements to replace your lost workforce then your going to have more than a few issues this is just the tip of the iceberg This is a Quote from Adam Posen a leading US economist from an article published in Bloomberg (business and market analysis) Most of the UK’s soaring inflation is down to Brexit Adam Posen said 80 per cent of the reason why the UK will see the highest inflation of any G7 country next year, as per the latest IMF forecasts, is due to the impact of Brexit on immigration and the labour market. He warned that Britain is showing to be less elastic than its counterparts in its post-pandemic recovery, and that it could be trapped in a high inflationary period for longer. “You’ve seen a huge drop in migrant labour, a disruption in labour markets that everybody experienced due to Covid and reopening, but with fundamentally less elasticity… and that [Brexit] has to be a major part of it,” he told a conference at Kings College in London yesterday. “When you look at the monetary factors, the growth factors… the UK doesn’t look that different from the euro area. “When you look at the macro factors, it’s very difficult to see anything other than the labour market issues. “There’s been no regulatory changes… It really seems like Brexit has to bear a disproportionate role in explaining the inflation.”
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  4507. Thatcher is why we are here, the root causes of our economic woes
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  4508. The Trump tax plans will wreck the economy, tariffs are essentially sales taxes which are highly regressive taking money from the bottom and the middle while lowering tax at the top. People at the bottom and middle spend most of their money People at the top your lucky if it's 20% net effect recession
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  4509. It's all Obama's fault, we need to find Hillary's emails and Ukraine are helping
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  4510.  @Alex-mu4ue  we don't invest in training or capital infrastructure you can improve productivity just by updating and making the apprenticeship scheme work or a subsidy to farmers to convert say fruit farms to have a subsidy to buy fruit harvesting machines (uk built only). For housing get some architects together and design a kit house that can be made in a factory to the latest energy standards that would be guaranteed for 50 years and have a huge rollout of starter homes. why does everything have to be double walled brick
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  4511. So the arseh0le o ignorance is finally going to do some work I'll believe it when I see it All he did in the EU parliament was screw the expenses system
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  4512. He isn't in the best of health I doubt very much any doctor would risk prescribing it to him, if your in any doubt just look up the side effects no one in thier right mind would take it off prescription
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  4513. 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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  4514. Boris is just an embarrassment they must practice really hard to be this incompetent, you'd have thought the Cons would have ditched him by now and elected a prime minister who could go at least a month without screwing something up. The minister in charge of the exam fiasco was told the algorithm had issues even a cursory glance at the fact that 1 of the components it used class sizes would have set of alarm bells utter incompetence
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  4515. 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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  4516. Corbyn was a waste of space I've been visiting my brother in Norway, every corporation in Norway has to be incorporated in Norway and pay Norwegian tax no offshoring, plus no zero hour and they control migration.
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  4517. ​@holyheretic3185 Calafornia if it were a country would have the 5th largest gdp in the world.
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  4518. Johnson had a mandate stray from that manifesto and what do you expect
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  4519. ​ @PhilJones-bb1wn The Employment Allowance, which offers some relief on NI costs, increases to £10,500. This provides a cushion for many small businesses, particularly those employing fewer staff. Businesses may see these shifts reflected in higher staffing costs, particularly for mid-sized and larger firms with significant payrolls.
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  4520. 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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  4521. 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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  4522. Congress have a 2 Trillion bill on the table for ratification and signing guaranteeing 600+ till Dec so what are they supposed to do just hang around till DT figures out he can't exec order the crisis away. Pelosi can call them back at any time as can Mitch for the Seneate The ball is in DT's court and you know how stubborn he can get, he's been off on his Mussolini rants recently
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  4523. because its the last refuge against government overreach especially given you can have a majority on 36% with the bulk of that number pensioners.
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  4524. I think its funny JHB is in a strop one of the most useless bags of hot air in media today
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  4525.  @barryj388  we got lucky we had a channel to defend bit difficult rolling tanks across it.
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  4526. 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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  4527. No they won't but it will increase facism
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  4528. @sintheticsounds1686  the pool of eligible for the army as in male 18-45 is around 35 million loosing 5% of thier brightest and most employable over the last few years + battlefield casualties including injured and people currently serving your hitting a demographic that had a low birth rate anyway it has existential economic consequences. The west Post ww2 has mass migration to renew its labour pool. Russias brain drain started before the Ukrainian invasion
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  4529. 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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  4530. The likeliest candidate so far is the Oxford vaccine, the UK and Astra Zenica have put 30,000 blind test with a 1/3 receiving a placebo on phase 3 trial in the US starting beginning of September and this by all accounts is the one Trump is going to try and push through on emergency usage, the problem is 2 months isn't long enough and its only going to healthy people 1st. There's a lot of discussion on obesity in the UK not only are obese sufferers of covid more likely to die or if they don't have severe medical problems but the whispers from initial studies that the vaccine is less effective if your fat. Simply put its not going to be a magic bullet, there hoping for 50% effectiveness and the UK government has gone on a health campaign to get people to loose weight and I suspect they've been told which groups a possible vaccine doesn't work on.
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  4531. Stupid enough to give him an 80 seat majority
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  4532. How are they going to pay for it, which taxes are they going to put up? Theyve just spent 20 billion on an unfunded tax cut to boost thier poll ratings baking in real cuts to services of 18%
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  4533. Fish rots from the head down just ask Blojo
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  4534. Yea I mean who wants cheap renewable energy c'mon how will the fossil baron's live a lifestyle of opulent luxury. Just think of their shareholders as well
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  4535. Which bit? Screwing over working for the rich is par forr the course
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  4536. Currently no ones employment is threatened we have full employment and around 1 million vacancies
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  4537. 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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  4538. Its designed to fail it will never get past the ECHR which underpins the Good Friday agreement Do they know that or are they playing with matches and petrol again? Is there nothing this bunch of c****s don't want to break and destroy
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  4539. The corporate tax cuts fueled the national debt we should have been reducing it they are responsible for a couple of points of inflation we have now? Supply side economics in action long term will further fuel the wealth gap
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  4540.  @yodaguy6956  Probably not but I'm on a mission to get people to look at what "Supply Side Economics" is so there better informed anyway these 3 talking heads are boosters for it. Supply-side economics assumes that lower tax rates boost economic growth by giving people incentives to work, save, and invest more. A critical tenet of this theory is that giving tax cuts to high-income people produces greater economic benefits than giving tax cuts to lower-income folks. Essentially, the more money the rich are able to keep, the more the whole economy will grow. But the evidence reveals two fundamental problems with this story. First, its primary prediction is wrong—giving tax cuts to the rich does not increase economic output or create new jobs. Instead, tax cuts for middle- and low-income taxpayers are much more effective at boosting macroeconomic activity. Second, supply-side theory misunderstands the actual mechanism by which tax rates influence macroeconomic activity. While supply-siders maintain that lower rates at the top incentivize people to earn more money, the evidence shows that tax cuts boost output mostly by putting money in people’s pockets and thereby stimulating demand. Why is supply-side economics controversial? Opponents of supply-side economics argue that rather than increasing revenue for the government, lowering taxes will instead increase the deficit. As a result, the government will have to cut programs or raise other taxes to make up for this shortfall, unless it wishes to run a permanent deficit.
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  4541. He looks and sounds 1 junk food meal away from a coronary, those cholesterol hardened arteries are really starting to show
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  4542. With Sunak's latest trickle down budget + yet more Austerity we've had 13 years of Thatcherite nonsense, what's the height of stupidity if its not doing the same thing that has blighted the economy for 13 years promising tax cuts for the rich will magically make everyone better off. Its now at a stage where they have bled out the working Class are are putting the screws on the middle class. For What A millionaire Pensioners Tax cut Sunak paying 20% on the bulk of his multi million pound income because CGT is deliberately kept low to allow the asset class to not pay tax What we have is socialism for the Rich Capitalism for the poor Millionaire / Billionaire wealth doubled during Covid and they now want to squeeze the money they acquired through the government pumping 750 billion into the economy out of everyone but the rich who hoovered it up in the 1st place.
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  4543. He gets negative coverage because he's an idiot that constantly lies and says stupid things, he even argues with himself
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  4544.  @chips1889  I like Owen but him and his Momentum band live in cloud cuckoo land, you move the needle gradually and pragmatically and work on taking the bulk of the electorate with you. The stuff in the last manifesto would have taken a couple of decades to implement and a complete waste of time promising to do it because you don't have the bulk of the electorate with you so we can stop with the purity tests.
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  4545. Germany is 20% better off than the UK since 2016 please explain.
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  4546. asset taxes, if your not in the top 5% then forget it sit back and enjoy better public services
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  4547. ​@tomtresco2952 In 2010 debt to gdp was 62% and debt was 800 billion, by 2016 it was 82% by 2019 it was 92% and here we are at 100% after Tory borrowing of 1.5 trillion + 8 million people and a knackered economy. You've got some cheek to start slagging Brown who stopped the banks, pension and mortgage system from going under in 2008
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  4548. It's the symbolism that matters not the scale of damage
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  4549. This is a quote from The Times 6th March 2023 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 Whitehall by Simon
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  4550. in what way?
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  4551.  @ruairi110  I feel genuinely sorry for you but the Cons are mix of liars and the delusional that believe the lies. The UK govt have no leverage and the unionists stamping thier feet and threatening trouble will just result in more hot air from the likes of Frost. Instead of getting angry with the protocol and EU blame the Cons and the DUP who both sold you a crock sht
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  4552. ​ @richardoliver4997 renewable energy reduces bills. It's slashed mine by 80%+
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  4553.  @jackspring7709  She has said enough already to be proven a brazen liar, she just won't be as good at it as Johnson was
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  4554. CEO and senior management pay has ballooned out of all proportion with the workers that drive those profits since the Reagan era Wonder why that is oh yea union busting
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  4555. Anyone know what Sunak's plan is beside building a train that doesn't go to London and doesn't go to Birmingham?
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  4556. This has been ongoing since 2016 not much of an excuse not to be compliant
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  4557. Your only paying CGT on second properties and shares outside ISA'S and pensions? It's already lower than income tax and house prices since 2010 have risen 70% on static income and wage growth If you crashed the market by 50% your still worse off as a buyer than in 2010 Moggs talking out of his Toft arse as usual
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  4558. did they not know about the privatising the NHS 100+ billion in unfunded Truss style tax cuts and the fracking or did they just not care?
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  4559. Bernie's vote is suppressed by scare tactics and is boosted by the youth vote, the GOP have used socialist so often it's like a boy crying Wolf, over the last 10 years everyone is immune to it. There should be 3 left max in the race and bloomberg and Biden aren't in that cut, there's a lot of media delusional think going on but Biden was always a meeeh candidate who sucked up way more of the debate than he deserved. His USP I was Obama's wing man, yea whatever
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  4560.  @marymcmahon8669  there's a whole disinformation campaign round the topic on the right it's mind numbingly fact optional and not based on reality but they believe it anyway it's like thier brain washed. Introducing reason and facts just makes them double down on the insanity
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  4561. Net zero grid = lower electricity prices the reason energy is so expansive currently is reliance on gas and Old Tech Peak load management is currently done by having a gas station on standby for those few minutes they need grid smoothing, Tesla MegaPacks do the same job at a fraction of the price saving billions
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  4562. Tory Mantra outsource everything even if it doesn't work
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  4563. Brexit's only aim was to stitch the Tory Party together and see off challenges from the right to retain power There was never a plan and still isn't There's no economic value in trying to get rid of laws standards and regulations in the opposite is strue it will add further costs to businesses If you want to get rid of regulations embedded in laws you need to go through each one and rewrite it bringing it before parliment for scrutiny
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  4564. 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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  4565. So the reason the economy is in such a mess is Right wing economic policies which invest in nothing including UK workers and drives up immigration because of the resulting skills shortages. If you want to reduce energy bills you invest in renewables to get us off expensive GAS If you want to stop importing Nigerian nurses their husbands and kids you train UK staff by making the education Free Its not rocket science
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  4566. At the end of the day you have to take the public with you it doesn't matter how right or righteous you feel your path is. As for abandonment of pledges you're going to get +10% rather than zero with Corbyn or -40% with the Tories. If the only way of getting any of your agenda done is to move to the centre then you need to move to the centre.
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  4567. Supply chain issues are world wide the US is faring better than most, if you can't find it in store order it from Amazon, and why does Amazon have stock? because there mostly in-sourced with supply chain deliverers and a lot of issues are with distribution.
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  4568. You've forgotten Brian that its one rule for the Republicans and screw everyone else, these appointments are just to make it a circus directed by the chief clown and why are they giving Dershowitz oxygen its pure hot air and blagging
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  4569.  @jujutrini8412  They don't want a National Abortion ban and restrictions on contraception Trump is nuts anyway people know that from his 1st term
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  4570. 81,283,485 on the hit list for voting against him And now hes not POTUS he'll have to pay his bills up front
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  4571. Sunak is at the how do you polish a turd with the Con party at this stage, constant infighting, zero anything that would help ordinary people and borrowing money like a drunken sailor
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  4572. Farmers suicide rates and bankrupts jumped steeply during the last Trump administration because of retaliatory Tariffs, to try keep them going the Federal government spent 28 billion on farming subsides a year. Your looking at this kind of fall out on a massive scale the guy is crazy
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  4573. If you put people under severe stress due to lock downs and restrictions and they go deep dive into anti-vax propaganda you get mass psychosis Just go read up on what happened during the Black death and the flagallants More needs to be done on the mental health front
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  4574. 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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  4575. an why do you think that? Hes committed to GBEnergy a state run renewable venture Reeve is dumping Supply Side for a more interventionist demand side economic approach There's a labour bill ready to enact day 1 that's been done in conjunction with the unions on zero hour and other conditions + a load of other policy initiatives which the Con's won't touch with a mile long barge pole
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  4576. ​ @anonUK the policy agenda is economically centre left, I believe the worker reform will broadly go through I'm retired and do zero hours as an invigilator to help the local school the legislation will need to be carefully crafted
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  4577.  @anonUK  there will be change, the UBER GMB deal is the first step on the start of a journey, zero hour is here to stay it needs regulating, like I said I do zero hour on minimum wage not to make a living but to help out mostly by reading for kids on special needs.
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  4578.  @anonUK  I don't disagree there needs to be regulation. If the hours are regular it's not a zero hour job. This all should have been done during Blair's period he had the political clout to do it at the time. While his economy was good he really made some bad calls.
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  4579. Eat less meat cook more have more pulses in your diet go for quality not quantity
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  4580.  @theflyer68  nope. 65 and have an aging gut
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  4581. Words matter He was told by his adviser not to repeat the slur it was premeditated and disgusting Especially as the origins of this are from extreme far right websites and message boards populated by neo Nazis and white supremacists such as the Patriot Alternative.
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  4582. I agree get them processed rejoin the EU so we have a common policy and halve the numbers
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  4583. what's the point in a vote you wouldn't want legal migration stopping anyway your taxes would go up and you'd have a managed regulated economy
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  4584.  @Casual_laughter  tax base is low compared to other European economies Trying to maintain low taxes feeds immigration
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  4585. Cutting tax doesn't stimulate enough growth to justify the tax cut Infrastructure investment is the only way of growing the economy and gdp per capita Looking at the spend the Tories waste a huge amount on trickle down cr@p
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  4586.  @snakeman9902  no he's not I'm not a Conservative supporter and have despised Thatcherite policy at every level and this guy drips with it through every pore
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  4587. ​ @weswheel4834 Reform voters won't vote Tory for the most part Reform aren't Conservative they liked Bojos populism
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  4588. The fields wont get developed without the tax subsidies totaling into the 10s of billions Up until the war oil prices where really low any ramp up of production will see these additional fields marginal cost become uneconomical
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  4589. Too close to call yea right 10% of Registered Republicans say they will vote for Harris (this doesn't count the stay homers) Trump's biggest voting block is uneducated Men notoriously low turnout unmotivated group especially the younger ones
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  4590. 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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  4591. DJT tarrifs are a sales tax on the working and middle class combined with the proposed unfunded tax cuts will create Stagflation which will be very difficult to get out of for many years
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  4592. Sounds like the oil reserves need a good flush through from time to time anyway
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  4593. No it won't its about the economy And if you grew a brain you'd understand that the reason legal migration is high is because we've left the EU And the Tories have pursued economic policies which relied on immigration which would take years to reverse
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  4594. They just said they wouldn't put up VAT, ni and basic rate How is that lying? Even if the Tories had got in there would have been tax rises their plan was to up pension age to 68
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  4595. US drivers average 12 miles per journey for 90 % of the driving population range isn't an issue last mile delivery van's only do 90 miles a day max
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  4596. There's not much to comment on and her story has morphed a couple of times. You can believe either party or just shrug your shoulders like most and conclude that's its moot, after all this time its difficult to prove either way.
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  4597. The rate is a million in gains per annum and that would exclude your personal pension plan If you invest say in Amazon over 10 years you'd need to make +10 million and even then it would only be the sum > 10 million that would attract tax, your overall stock holding would have to be very substantial and I'm presuming you can offset losses. So errrr bit of a nothingburger only affects the really rich in fact it even encourages you if your on the the edge of this to move savings into pensions
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  4598.  @GolfingInParadise783  Incorrect? Our economy is failing due to the lack of inward investment in social and physical infrastructure. The net migration figures are a symptom not the cause. And Migration isn't a tap you can turn on and off it's taken the Tories 14 years to make it this bad in for example in the NHS that it is consuming plane loads of 3rd world workers. It takes 7 years to train a doctor 3 years for a Nurse so you could feasibly reduce this with varying policies within a decade the other option is to not provide healthcare
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  4599. Well he certainly nailed the female vote there (not) Does he not get that doing this with women is like kicking a hornets nest over and over, the more he does it the angrier and more likely to vote they get and they were already pretty angry over Dobbs and Roe V Wade
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  4600. We want access to their market, Boris and Co either don't understand how Trade and the EU Works or don't care because of some horeshit imperial numb nuts idea that the world owes us a trade deal because once up a time we had an empire (based I would add on gunboat diplomacy and conquest)
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  4601. @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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  4602.  @nuancematters  The on demand capability is idling GAS power stations if we had more wind for basic supply and MegaPack storage for grid smoothing the costs would plummet
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  4603. Brexit is unworkable if you look at the current situation regarding the massive increases in red tape the need for vets certificates passport checks the destruction of the on-demand supply chain all with the same number of staff when non of this was necessary before and the civil service had already been hollowed out with Austerity.
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  4604.  @daviecanning1180  and it will be a relief when labour abandonment of the magic unicorn project As for democracy no one had a vote on leaving the single market or loosing FOM, Norway aren't in the EU the decision was political
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  4605.  @daviecanning1180  Nope but come the next parliament the Labour party will start to realign standards with the EU and renegotiate the TCA so we can trade again without all the Johnson red tape. Brexit as envisioned by the ULtra's is dead 7 years of total incompetent failure with whole sections of the economy impacted beyond repair.
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  4606. @valleysofneptune I'm looking to the future you keep pretending the people that sold you this did so because they had a vision. The whole purpose Brexit was to see of electoral challenges from the right and maintain Power There's never been a plan and any lie to keep the Gammons frothing and on board will do. Its all a Con they dolled out 1 million visas last year, asylum applications have doubled because where no longer in the EU There blaming everyone but themselves as the wheels come off
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  4607.  @JohnnyRingo-c5v  split left right is currently 58-36% in 2019 Left still had >50% and that was with Corbyn Brexit and Boris against them
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  4608. 2/3k deaths per day at the moment current trajectory so approx 75000 a month by Nov should get to the half million mark, guess it's less than 2 mill doesn't shine through as a vote winner to me
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  4609. The NatCon Brussels event was sponsored and coordinated by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian think tank funded by oil and gas money. There not Conservative and there not nice people
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  4610. He's a complete idiot on economics health and education Florida is sinking in education attainment tables Abortion bans are bad for women's health outcomes especially among the poor The Florida tax system is one of the most unequal of US states where the bottom 20% pay 13% of thier income on average on state taxes while the top 5% pay 3% The GOP are nothing more than a lobby group for the super rich and corporations
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  4611. The protocol is already in action just kind of in a soft way, the businesses in NI have been realigning their supply chain with the South away from the UK because Brexit. Why the Cons and the DUP are having a meltdown is the plan was to use NI as leverage, the assumption by the Brexiteers was they could someone either force the South to leave the EU or break the EU market and still keep frictionless trade. What has happened is the EU supply chain has rerouted through Cherburg -Roslare and has abandoned GB as a land bridge with all the lost trade that entails for GB. It leaves the Brexiteers with FA leverage and a morphing situation of Irish unification in all but name.
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  4612. The Conservative party morphed into UKIP to stave off a challenge from the right wing nut jobs at the last election ditching all the moderates who wouldn't sign up to Boris's hardliners Brexit. This bag of sht is who you wanted and who you voted for, Farage and his bunch of right wing idiots are even worse
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  4613. Cenk your being devisive cut out all the purity tests. There is no progress without compromise and your my way or highway agenda won't go anywhere, progressives are now part of the establishment pretending your somehow aloof from the democratic party makes no sense because your just pretend sniping from the outside. Get more progressive candidates on the ballot and ensure that the parts of the Biden agenda you support is fully enacted, form a viable long term plan on how to move 50 states to social health care one which the GOP can't just dismantle as soon as it gets back in power.
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  4614.  @davidbarlow350  we have a hard Brexit Labour will make it a soft Brexit the last thing we need is insane Brexit
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  4615. 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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  4616. You have a federal system comprising of 50 states, they will fk up so bad that 4 years will be their lot, the carnage will be awful though
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  4617. Don't you get that there never was any advantage only disadvantages the only vague plan anyone had was a deregulated city of London hoovering up all the EU service Business and The EU shut that down the day after the vote in 2016. Once they sold you a Pup they convinced themselves it would be sunny uplands. Currently Average wages are -6.1% below 2010 levels.
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  4618. Sophie ridge on Sky had her researcher calculate how much tax had risen per household since 2019 for an interview with Bim Afolami Guess what that figure is? go on I bet you can't It's £13,000
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  4619. from a party that's claiming to be more Tory than the Tories bit rich
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  4620. He could have done a huge amount to curb inflation by having a complete energy plan which moved us from gas a breakneck speed as Germany have
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  4621. Supply side Trickle down economics has hit the buffers the 2 here are talking like its 1980/90 it never worked anyway Thatcher's low tax economy was paid for with Asset Stripping public services, Oil Money, Giving away Housing and Globalization the current lot can't keep feeding up money to the rich and get a different tune out of the economy it was a one time for Boomers only
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  4622. The issue the Donald has is like the Desantis and now Haley those votes won't automatically go to Trump
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  4623. It matters to me not I'm all in on a new Labour government I can't wait but I'm curious why you think that a more extreme economic model of turbo charged Thatcherism will have a different effect and not continue to shrink the economy and drive up legal immigration
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  4624. Why is 62,000 asylum seekers so important to you? We had +1.25 million legal migration with 1/2 being dependent Rwanda is a dog and pony show for the gulible
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  4625. Trump is a bad guy, you prosecute bad guys for thier crimes and while we're on the he's a bad guy the assassination route is one of Putin's calling cards, while we're on the topic assassination of a foreign general your not at war with is plain old murder.
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  4626. You can't cut taxes we have a debt to gdp ratio of > 100% and the people buying Gilts think the Brexit Ultra's are talking out of their arse over growth Before anyone starts banging on about Labour here are some facts 2010 gdp ratio 62% 2019 gdp ratio 92% due to the Cameron corporate tax cuts which didn't stimulate growth and went straight on the uk credit card 2023 we have less people in full time employment than in 2019 the economy has shrunk in real terms since then accounting for inflation economists predict it should be +10% which = around 80 billion in lost tax revenues if we where still in the single market and had FOM
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  4627. Wind is currently the cheapest power source on the grid we only have 17% of it you can run a mixed energy grid with as much as 60% What happens when the wind doesn't blow we need to invest in storage and Tidal and During lull periods the wind produced has gone down to 10% what people don't appreciate is the huge range of locations round the UK and also the modern turbine will start turning at wind speed 8 mph Also your not subsidising renewables your subsidising Fossil with 10's of billions in tax breaks which contribute nothing to the economy
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  4628. All councils are struggling, central funding has been cut by 40% and housing stock asset stripped and not replaced by right to buy Last year housing support cost 20 billion and it will get worse if the 2 million council houses aren't replaced
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  4629. what message? we know how to make magic unicorns? The issue is right wing economic policy that needs a constant supply of migrant Labour why will voting for a Party that promises the same economic model but by the power of magic Unicorns doesn't need the migrant Labour? If you want lower immigration you need to change the tax model increase taxes and spend it on training the domestic workforce as well as other infrastructure spending
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  4630. Corbyn ran a very loose ship there was little to no discipline Starmer comes along with Iron discipline his nickname with the left Stalin Starmer because he's having non of the loose cannon behaviour This is a sample from Abbot Labour MP Diane Abbott has said the UK and US are responsible for any breakout of conflict in Ukraine Diane Abbott: Keir Starmer's 'deranged' Nato support risks 'catastrophe' in Ukraine Even as a Labour supporter and member if she were my MP I couldn't vote for her and why I have no time for Corbyn and his peacenik lackeys, my Father came here during the war via a Russian Gulag he is Polish and fought in the free Polish army. Stalin killed 5 million Ukrainians with collectivization and during the war executed 200,000 Ukrainian political prisoners as Germany invaded.
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  4631. Lie Nice try though
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  4632. Boats were 1/2 what they are now when we were in and legal migration has skyrocketed
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  4633. Theres a broader problem with the 28 billion figure. It was always a theoretical figure, Sunak and Co have maxed out borrowing to 130 billion last year and debt to gdp is rising + The tories have baked in 10% cuts to services in the next budget to salt the earth. The quickest way of getting green investment going at warp speed is changes to planning to stop grid upgrade roll out being stalled, the best way to get retro fit insulation is to have a body composed of experts + builders come up with cost effective solutions alligned with tax breaks. No vat on solar + installs etc ​@BCync
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  4634. If I compared the Government to a bunch of muppets I'd be doing a disservice to muppets They truly are the most useless bunch of wet wipes this country has ever seen
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  4635.  @DzIVDzAN  Most of the Buildings will have been levelled by now so a fall back strategy while exerting maximum casualties makes tactical sense
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  4636. @jasonhughes638  that figure is based on property, a lot of pensioners are asset rich cash poor And 20% live in poverty that figure is rising by the day as people enter retirement and get dragged down by high food and fuel inflation. I'm a pensioner but have never voted Tory I know what there like and it's been estimated by economists that 40% of that property value is down to government subsidies and policies.
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  4637. @jasonhughes638  since 2010 house prices have risen by 66% and average wages by -7% The 1st thing labour needs to do is change the planning system and build like it was post war, the value of my property is irrelevant to me its where I have lived since 1985
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  4638. You can return people you have to process them 1st, Tories are sat on 180,000 backlog
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  4639. From Osborne / Cameron to Sunak / Hunt all in between every last one of them have put Thatcherite Ideology and Party before country IMF tells Osborne to ease austerity The Times Jan 2013 — The IMF has called on the Chancellor to use his March Budget to relax his austerity plans due to the UK's ongoing economic weakness. Quote Meanwhile, from his numerous sinecures, Osborne can reflect on the political consequences of austerity. It contributed to the Brexit vote There are numerous articles decrying Hunt & Sunak pointing to the same old tired fiscal arguments and seeing them make the same mistakes all over again this time turbo charged by brex1t. The longer he leaves it the worse it will get
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  4640. There hard right populist The nearest we've got to centre anything was Blair
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  4641. @dj_cakes  you add 1.8 trillion to debt use part of that to give a corporate tax cut which ends up being spent on share buybacks ceo pay and dividends so stocks go up, another load goes into right to buy so house prices go up. If Labour actually build new towns and council houses the fallout from negative equity is going to be grim
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  4642.  @T5Zplayer  tying that blue scarf round your neck seems to be cutting the blood from your brain
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  4643. For god's sake roll on a Labour government this is just clusterfk Island at the moment
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  4644. what choice did they have after Liz burnt the fiscal house down?
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  4645. 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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  4646. Half a story as usual, small businesses employing 4 people on minimum wage will no longer pay NI To help mitigate these additional NICs costs for smaller employers, the employment allowance (which allows businesses whose annual NICs bill is less than £100,000 to reduce their NICs costs) will increase from £5,000 to £10,500 per year and will apply to all businesses as the £100,000 threshold will be removed
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  4647.  @jowallis8  No its not Shipping costs rose by 300% and 600% to the far East and Airfreight costs have doubled in the past 2 years. Global Britain was a pipedream to start with from a failed economic model of Globalisation from 50 years back its completely dead now. Since when are we going to be able to turn a profit on exports to the far east and say India your having a laugh. All were going to get is rising imports and falling exports resulting in balance of trade deficits and higher taxation.
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  4648. what a policy that reduces energy prices and decouples your economy from world commodity prices which are controlled by multinational cartels are you on drugs or a fossil fuel lobbyist?
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  4649.  @keithparker1346  we'll see, this week's decision by Sunak to announce construction of Gas peak plants instead of moving to MegaPack technologies will cost customers 10's of billions. Deliberately playing to the GBN anti net zero crowd and those that are drifting to Reform We're still building houses to inadequate insulation standards. We'll see what happens when it happens
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  4650. Our tax is high enough the problem is it appears optional for the wealthy EX Micheal Mone 200 million contract 60 million profit straight into an offshore account no tax and completely gone from the economy
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  4651. @MinkieWinkle  you have zero clue how the grid works Or How load balancing works on it Battery storage needs zero maintenance is always on and is software controlled, the savings on gas are off the scale your talking capital repayment within a year
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  4652. He's been completely brainwashed, he needs serious help
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  4653. The people he is picking are complete clowns, you got what you wanted a complete freakshow for 4 years
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  4654. Bernie is a Liberal by all measures in most western countries he'd be bunched with moderates in the middle ex UK, the current UK labour party are way left of any position Bernie takes. With US politics being dominated by extreme right wing Republicans a centre candidate looks very left, Biden is a Conservative and would fit comfortably into right wing parties across Europe. Social safety net, minimum wage and UHC are staple policies of a civilised mixed economy, stripping these away or not enacting them turns you into a sweatshop economy
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  4655. don't be stupid
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  4656. 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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  4657.  @Kikiconsilience  Businesses have had multiple tax incentives to invest in recent budgets
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  4658. 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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  4659. The Orange muppet in the WH still doesn't get it, without a comprehensive testing strategy, track and trace and an antibody test, he can stand on his soap box and rant all he wants. Economic activity is going to be luke warm at best. Until there's a vaccine the sensible thing to do is bare minimum in terms of social contact especially now we know social distancing is the only thing that does work.
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  4660. He's just cynical and ruthless, decided to cut his losses so there is no chance of an Abbot Gaffe mid campaign, +3 points in the polls today, aside from the Westminster bubble this will have zero affect on the polls. At 70 she could have gone of her own accord and would have been bumped to the HOL, probably still will be if she doesn't stand as an independent
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  4661.  @MaxDamageTV  just heard she's anti net zero, that's going to push Tory moderates even further towards the Lib Dems and Greens
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  4662. It will end up costing something like 1/2 a billion there's lots of uses for that kind of money my local hospital needs 20 million to replace RAAC
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  4663. 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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  4664.  @AndrewHadland  Any voter swayed by minor foreign policy shifts is transitory. Labour clearly stated they wanted a cease fire and a 2 state solution when they amended the SNP motion that policy has not changed while the pro Palestinian lobby have moved onto demanding sanctions. There is no win with these people Instead Labour are pitching to bread and butter issues like the cost of living, schools, housing, NHS etc. while providing at least a different vision on migration both legal and illegal.
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  4665. 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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  4666.  @jonrotten31  getting the Tories to enact policies in a hard brexit that has tripled migration and plunged the economy into recession
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  4667. What taxing me +£560 with fiscal drag then giving me £95 back Sunak is taking the p1ss
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  4668. There's nothing to investigate its even flimsier than beer gate and that was a washout
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  4669. ​ @zog97xy more fantasy economics
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  4670. It makes me laugh that my fellow pensioners are mostly Tory voters who do they think created the welfare state that provides them with healthcare and a pension in the 1st place? Joking aside 20% are now officially in poverty and the NHS is on its knees a lot of that is social care with nowhere to discharge patients too
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  4671. What Car does Sunak Drive A Ford Fiasco Boom Boom
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  4672. He isn't an incoming US official DOGE is an autonomous advisory body outside the Federal government If he was a US official he'd have to sell all his businesses
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  4673. we have permanent migration from India Nigeria before we had transitory from all over the EU some stayed but a lot didn't Brexit is the equivalent of putting trade sanctions on yourself whatever happened before is now harder costs more and you have to jump through multiple hoops for it to happen. I'll give you an example before Brexit you could get next day parts from say Germany after Brexit there's a minimum £50 carriage fee so either you don't get the part or you order more than you need to make it worthwhile knowing that next now means next month if your lucky and you have to absorb the additional cost.
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  4674. The US currently produces 70% of its steel using ARC Furnaces, The EU plan to move to ARC Furnaces also uses Green Hydrogen. The Hydrogen is created using Off-Peak wind energy and stored near the plant. Moving to Green Tech has a infrastructure cost which pays back over time it is not a sunk cost, so the ARC furnace works in conjunction with a wind farm and hydrogen produced by electrolysis. You need a whole of government approach you can't rely on a free market to make such sweeping industrial changes. It's widely recognized that Green infrastructure has an economic multiplier of 1.6, for every £1 invested £1.6 is generated long term.
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  4675.  @grimnir8872  quote The largest volume of admissions were for White British patients (13 million). Mixed ethnic groups had the lowest rate of admissions with almost 13,875 admissions per 100,000 people Migrant workers also pay the NHS levy as well as tax As a pensioner I will never be able to afford private and have no wish to die young because of racism
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  4676. Keep up the Brown Nosing enjoy your +£1000 tax hike while eating your Turnip Soup
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  4677. They've put forward a stance on Brexit which is more alignment with the EU to vastly reduce the paperwork crippling business a Veterinary deal alone would sort out the NI protocol. Best your going to get in 4 years I'd have thought a visa deal would help as well
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  4678.  @ashwilliams4959  there are 8 trillion reasons, the Trump admin is responsible for 1/4 of the entire US debt
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  4679. @uniquevideosUk  More renewables will make energy prices come down, a Tesla MegaPack will save billions in peak load management Insulation to A+ standard will save billions All councils have had thier central government funding cut by 40%, most of the Labour ones are cities who have higher statutory expenditure mandated by government, for example housing due to selling off 2 million council houses the housing support bill is 20 billion some councils are spending nearly 45% of thier total budget on it So don't come on here with a load of half baked talking points you've been spoon fed by interested parties with zero facts to back them up
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  4680. @ricochet2977  Just driven through Germany there's building wind turbines everywhere When you Wang on about fossil your ignoring the fact they decommissioned thier nuclear plant early + base load is 40% We have 20% nuclear before you even start our issue is additional capacity being filled by very expensive stand by gas which should be replaced with modern battery storage. We have 20-30 points to go at before your even considering base load + we're at the stage with the ever reduced battery costs of more domestic offlining with solar installations
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  4681.  @philipfry9065  One of the main reasons our economy is tanking is brexit, while we may have a small manufacturing base it's vitally important to trade in specialised goods. The SME's are also not London Suth East based and this is starting to affect employment. Trade in physical goods is down -7% on 2019 this is huge given we have + 2-3 million population since then. The estimated loss to the treasury in taxation is 50 billion a year.
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  4682. Elon's crew are mercenaries, he's also using an app for the 1st time live what could go wrong? Apparently the mercenaries have been cheating the system because they get paid per location canvased, some are leaving because there not getting gas reimbursed and most of the DJT support is rural.
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  4683. There are a number of stories from Tesla power wall + solar users of how they managed off grid during the blackouts in Texas. Be aware people with these rigs will have gone into passive housing as well. While having to conserve power they kept going throughout worth looking them up to get a feel of how decentralised power would be a real boon in the grid overall
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  4684. Why? He's a moderate, people don't want extreme
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  4685. Right wing economics got us here and you want more extreme Right wing economics How does that work exactly? If you don't invest in training up Nurses you need to import them, if your not in the EU they fetch their dependants with them it's not rocket science
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  4686. He is the main reason it has tripled we now recruit from 2,000 miles away instead of 20 that means more dependants and is the difference between net 200k and net 750k
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  4687. I'm reading it at the moment fascinating stuff (mission economy)
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  4688.  @anonUK  non dom status needs to be scrapped its just legalised cheating for the rich, everyone but the very wealthy gets stung on the 183 day rule
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  4689. don't forget the Z list
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  4690. they won't remove the 25% tax free lump sum as it would trigger a wave of withdrawals which would crash the pension market
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  4691. If you want to halve inflation you attack the source of it Interest rates affect domestic spending which isn't the core drivers in this case which is supply side on inelastic commodities (Energy & Food) Over the next couple of years its estimated that the UK energy sector will make 170 billion in EXCESS profits that's NORMAL Profits + EXCESS Profits if you wanted to cut inflation you'd tax the EXCESS profits @ around 80/90% give it to consumers with lower prices across the board. The Energy crisis started before the Ukraine war and back at the end of 2021 the government could have removed the block on onshore wind restored grants for improving insulation overhauled building regulation so all new builds and extensions met A++ energy standards as well as overhauling planning for off-shore wind. For the naysayers out there that say Oh well its the markets even the Conservative government pick economic winners and losers all the time through the Tax system hence the 6 billion subsidy to the fossil industry and applying windfall taxes to renewable energy providers. Quote Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced that renewable electricity generators will face a 45% windfall tax from January 2023 until March 2028. By comparison, the windfall tax for the oil and gas sector will be set at a lower rate of 25% to 35%. You couldn't make this sh*t up you'd get laughed at Corey (@soper_mr) asked: "Octopus is putting our prices up, but claim to be 100% renewable. Did the price of wind go up lads?" In response, the supplier said it was a fair question that they get asked a lot. The founder of the firm, Greg Jackson, recorded a video to explain the situation. In the two-minute clip, Jackson says: "In the current outdated system, the most expensive type of energy (usually gas) sets the price for ALL types of energy, including renewables. It's bonkers."
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  4692. The UK are planning on 35 years for a Nuclear station lifetime and 25 years for an offshore wind farm were looking at £120 v £41 MWh so wind is just on x3 times cheaper to the grid
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  4693. Its Conservative ideology thar has failed you can change leader all they want the still keep banging the trickle down drum
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  4694.  @mullenio4200  why not just paying public sector workers a fair rise improves the overall economy and reduces the pull factor on migration? and were not even talking about the opening up of cheap renewable energy
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  4695.  @physiocrat7143  Paying public sector workers has a positive effect on the economy. It also reduces migration
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  4696. We have a huge headline capacity to cope with peak demand, bar an hour or 2 on cold days there's plenty of spare capacity if you can timeshift consumption There is also access to v2g tech and part of any long term plan is increasing domestic energy production as well as storage and vastly reducing consumption be effective insulation on heating and cooling
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  4697.  @Colin623  We had less than 5% exposure to Russian gas Germany has 40% etc. We're also killing our domestic food production through Brexit and importing more this is increasing food inflation which is +6% higher than in Northern Ireland with the underlying lack of labour (1.3 million vacancies) where in an economic down spiral unable to reduce a deficit that was 92% in 2019 and >100% now. Japan tried running extreme supply side economic policy a while back its currency has dropped like a stone over the last decade and its deficit is 150%+ Since the start of the Ukrainian war Germany has had a policy of home insulation and built an Lpg Dock as well as expanding rehewables the UK has done sweet FA our recession will last years
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  4698.  @johnristheanswer  the drivers of uk inflation are Supply side energy food and housing Deal with the shortages you reduce inflation +brexit adding extra costs across the board
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  4699. 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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  4700. The fundamental problem he has is that removing FOM and leaving the EU was always going to make both legal and illegal migration worse so there is nothing he can do either legally or politically.
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  4701. ​ @alexbutler6599 my sons Autistic they are all unique, while it has a broad brush definition People need to get there head round the fact that you can't categorise Trans people they again are all unique in there own way
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  4702. If you have FOM the workforce can come and go If your out the eu migration is no longer transitory people from Nigeria Philippines and India will be permenant and fetch thier families I really dont give a fk what Brexiteers thought they were voting for but without the labour our economy will collapse even more, this is their sh1tsh0w and they need to own it
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  4703. Yea like who wants them spending money in the UK economy creating jobs paying tax
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  4704. Slogan driven Best levelling up in the world
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  4705.  @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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  4706. Without an independent ukraine our defence budget would need to be 3.5% of gdp
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  4707. There all awful promising tax cuts for the rich when we have an economic crisis with debt loading of 100%+ of GDP The reason that debt to GDP was 82% in 2019 was down to Cameron's tax cuts for the rich last time how much debt can these thieves pile on the workers of the UK
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  4708. 2010 36% 2015 36% 2017 40% 2019 42% That's FPTP for you and its worse the bulk of their voter base are pensioners with zero skin in the economy read MSM and watch daytime TV
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  4709. Tories lost another 2 points in the polls last week and Labour gained +3 Cons 23% Labour 47% So he was listening to the British people just not the sort that hold your opinion and with tactical voting that could lead the Tories to only have around 50 seats at the next election
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  4710. Councils used to get an income from renting council houses out since the Tories have had an asset stripping spree the amount spent on housing support has risen to 20 Billion. Thatcherism and asset stripping for short term gain has long term consequences
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  4711. I studied economics a long time ago but the fundamentals don't change, Sunak has an economics degree but fails to implement anything he was ever taught about economics in general and instead follows free market fundamentalist policies. Those policies only work for the top 1% and screw everyone else, get it cheaper from cheap child labour in Asia then go ahead let it undercut British business who can go to the wall. He was a Hedge fund manager they are like locusts stripping assets and creating nothing but pocketing the wealth they can squeeze out of companies before loading them with debt.
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  4712. Stock options have a number of issues The biggest being avoiding higher rate federal income tax band in the US by using the capital gains route The next is it has encouraged stock buy back schemes which isn't the case for Tesla but is increasingly problematic in rewarding poor performing CEO's with big share option packages. I'd also add that Elon paid little to no tax last year along with a whole string of billionaires who were using various complex schemes to milk the system Lastly Elon moved to Texas because he doesn't like being told what to do, his factory in Calafornia was closed a couple of times because of out of control covid outbreaks and has some weird libertarian view on stuff.
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  4713. An interesting fact about Biden and the right going on he has Altzheimer disease. The other day they showed Biden biking. My dad had the disease one of the first signs he had was balance problems it doesn't just affect speech cycling is a complete no way.
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  4714. @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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  4715. why not?
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  4716. Does this Graham have no clue how trickle down supply side economics vaguely doesn't work? AKA Thatcherism yet is a Tory champion at every turn? It needs a large SUPPLY SIDE pool of cheap Labour to even tick over coupled with lower regulations and workers rights How the fk does he expect the Millionaires and Billionaires to keep scalping the working and middle class with even more tax breaks if they can't have unlimited migration through the back door. Conservatives aren't the English Nationalists that merged with the dregs of UKIP for convenience in 2019 there Free Market Fundamentalists all in on Globalisation) (Global Britain anyone)
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  4717. We have a completely stagnant economy because if you defund the social floor the capitalist ladder stops working When the capitalists get too greedy 90% of the population suffers
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  4718.  @SpudsF42  My dad was polish came here after the war when he was demobbed after fighting fascism in Europe is that any good?
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  4719. Mogg isn't a Conservative he's a Libertarian.
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  4720. economic policies will benefit them more that the Tories
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  4721. @angelmedia9051  why?
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  4722. A well reasoned argument NOT TBH I'd prefer a Barrister in charge over a hedge fund banker who's failed upwards. what's your problem with Rayner apart from she's female and got where she is through hard work and didn't go to OxBridge
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  4723. They were all part of the worst government in history The 1st time you have been worse off after a five year term on record
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  4724. It's a tory economic sh*th*le I'm retired got my Polish passport last year because a bunch of idiots decided to remove my freedom of movement. What's to be pround of we're an absolute disgrace we put a know liar in charge replaced him with someone who had the economic acumen of a lettuce. There's no deal on performing artists you can't even drive your gear to the continent JHB and her ilk are destroying this country with their bile
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  4725. 2nd half Economic rebound what alternate reality is this guy in, the virus is going to be kicking round for months if not over a year social distancing and low/no demand for a whole slew of activities, and no more feckin tax cuts for big corporations.
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  4726. 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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  4727. Blair / Brown +25% on average wages services that work Cameron /May -3% on average wages Johnson Truss Sunak -?? services that are run down to the bone and are on life support The tax-to-GDP ratio in the United Kingdom has increased from 32.7% in 2000 to 33.5% in 2021 debt to gdp rom 62% to a projected 103% in 2023 (don't blame the pandemic it was 92% in 2019)
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  4728. Your going green no matter what, the economics of alternative energy is way past the tipping point the issue for Governments is how to use the transition and harness the the tech to transition jobs. If you vote against an energy transition your only harming yourself to a future where patchwork upgrades are done costing businesses across the board more to operate leading to higher prices and pressure to keep wages low. Increasingly goods across the globe will be traded as carbon neutral and baked into trade deals In terms of government spending the Federal budget shouldn't change much and and people need to focus on getting their representatives to sort out the tax cheats and get rid of all the for the rich tax breaks rather than connecting it to a specific policy. The biggest move on this front is the Yelland proposal of a global corporate minimum.
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  4729.  @montanamountainmen6104  I'm in a temperate area we've a lot of wind just due to geography our othrr supplier is nuclear the coal is mostly mothballed except during this winter. A high % of farmers near me have a medium sized wind turbine our solar is domestic which is spreading. Way back both the dems and Reps were on the climate change wagon till the fossil fuel lobbyists got involved. They pushed science denier candidates and swamped the zone with disinformation the net result was a load of crazy science denying candidates and those who just shut up and took the fossil fuel money. The GND is more to do with transition more than pushing wind and solar, there's money in there to cap off old Wells that are pumping out methane by the ton, money for retrofitting public buildings with insulation plus a whole load of stuff. You should be able to have a sensible conversation about the GND goals but it appears that it's Dem policy or nothing. Last year we had the wettest winter on record this year the second wettest April was the driest in the last 100 years we got clipped by by the cold snap. This is my last comment on this thread keep well keep your mind open
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  4730.  @thejollygreendragon8394  I read a book on it from a psychologist they put his developmental age as 9 because he doesn't have the aptitude to see right from wrong and his emotional state at forming relationships is extremely stunted it also ties in with his use of language and the temper tantrums. How much the ADHD has to do with it I don't know also the word salad he comes out with is probably dyslexia.
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  4731. the MAGA crowd shouted bring back jobs President Biden is bringing back jobs at a rate not seen before The MAGA crowd shouted make America great again President Biden enacted legislation to make the US the world leader in renewable technologies and strode the world stage like a colossus Irony truly is not dead He's also got unemployment that low businesses are complaining that it needs to be higher so they don't have to compete for staff and improve wages and conditions, who'd have thought doddering 80 year old populist Uncle Joe 😉 Trumps achievements Huge unfunded corporate tax giveaways Debt +50% -4 million jobs -3.5 GDP And there's plenty more where they came from
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  4732. So Scrapping paid holiday leave will be a real advantage grow up this is all about pissing on the workers and turning the uk into a sweat shop
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  4733. Best out in the open that Republicans are OK with sedition and political violence in the furtherance of power Coupled with a completely empty manifesto what do they actually stand for?
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  4734.  @bigfisher4354  Thatcher / Major tax cuts were paid for with Oil money and asset stripping public services. Osborne never reduced the tax base below 33% and the Tories borrowed over 1 trillion from 2010 to 2019 stagnated the economy and increased the population by 8 million.
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  4735. That was done on the back of voter suppression, this is going to be a very high turnout election
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  4736. People looking at electric cars vans and buses are quite happy jumping brands
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  4737. I think there missing a point the labour market is tight and if you work from home you can work anywhere in the country. My mate has just got a job in Southampton he lives and works from home in Leeds southern salaries means he's just had a 1/3 pay rise. He's expected in the office couple times a year for social reasons more than anything to do with work
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  4738. How so?
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  4739.  @aclark903  are you seriously trying justify this thievery withh that comment
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  4740. Sorry your not dealing with a sane rational government your dealing with a psychotic kleptocratic bully, this isn't Russia v Ukraine its Putin and the Kremlin v Ukraine as he attempts to turn the clock back 30 years. Your dealing with a man who has blown up 300 of his own people to justify a war in Chechnya poisoned his political enemies with nerve agent his regime exists on lies and violence. NO ONE especially the Ukrainians trust a single word coming out of Putin if he takes over there will be revenge killings FSB hit lists are apparently already out there. Historically Stalin starved 3.5 million ethnic Ukrainians to death look up Holodomor and Ukraine, Putin is just as cruel and evil
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  4741.  @slynskey333  he's gotten a 4 point bump in the polls and destroyed the main Tory campaign attack line while canning Rwanda
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  4742. throwing conscripts into the meatgrinder? Gross
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  4743.  @kohlweydesign  Its not been passed by the Senate yet and won't be it's waving a flag to the legacy automakers. If you were going to put a proposal in that would actually pass you'd do it based on quantity of the vehicle manufactured in the US (including all components with say a sliding scale 40% - 60% Currently Tesla is undercutting legacy makers by 30-40% in terms of production costs and can sell everything it makes with a 30% mark up. The other issue is can the Admin afford for GM and Ford to go bankrupt? As I said politics By the way you have one party discussing this with the GOP AWOL and just saying No while claiming climate change is a Chinese hoax and the future is coal while leasing vast tracks of state land to the oil industry.
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  4744. Read the transcripts its like a mental patient with verbal diarrhoea
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  4745. What an angry little man DeSantis is he has no policies just hate and an appalling record as Governor Failing schools quote Stanford University study of state-level standardized tests showed that Florida’s “learning rate” was the worst in the country — by a wide margin Failing housing policy median rent prices increased by over 30 percent across the state, from about $1,340 in February 2020 to roughly $1,760 in February 2022. One of the worst tax systems in the US New research by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) shows that Florida’s tax system remains among the “Terrible Ten” most inequitable in the nation, ranking 48th among all states. Florida’s reputation as a “low-tax” state belies the reality that it is, in fact, a high-tax state for low- and moderate-income residents. Floridians with the lowest incomes — those earning less than $18,700 — contribute 12.7 percent of their incomes to state and local taxes, while the wealthiest top 1 percent — those with incomes of more than $548,700 — contribute just 2.3 percent of their income.
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  4746.  @michellemaher6144  most western democracies allow a range of opinions from right to left and Ukraine has a smaller neo fascist ultra nationalist group than even Russia has "Autonomous Nasionlists" and let's not forget Putin's unhinged nationalist views and anti Liberal stance on everything fuels the Ultra's in his country and has made up multiple excuses to invade Georgia and Chechnya. Th current Ukrainian regime is Liberal and represents the forward looking younger population
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  4747. Pure Vapourware
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  4748. That will teach her to read stuff before she re-posts it. Enough of the conspiracy theories
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  4749. You've had 14 years of Thatcherite economic policies stick a sock in it with your silly stuff
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  4750. General opinion is she did well with a couple of key exchanges her being the boss The issue wjth the right appears to be one of misogyny and being so insecure they can't cope with a strong, forthrigh well educated women
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  4751. staples like pasta are +100%
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  4752. give it a rest you got extreme Brexit and its a complete sh1tsh0w
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  4753. No this is not JUST because of COVID and the pandemic this started 13 years ago YOU JHB have shilled for this every single day 13 Years of Trickle down supply side economics reinforced by Sunak's last budget where he is squeezing yet more from the working and now increasingly middle class to pay for such things as Millionaire Pensioner tax breaks will see further economic decline in the next 18 months, you can't turn a 13 year path of stagnation around by doubling down on the policies that caused the stagnation in the 1st place. I've omitted figures rom 2020-23 deliberately so that you can see the true scale of the ROT and how deep and long it goes. 2006 debt to GDP 40% 2010 debt to GDP 62% 2016 debt to GDP 82% (Cameron tax cuts) 2019 debt to GDP 92% Austerity was also a complete failure unless your politically for a smaller state Economists as early as 2012 where questioning the economic multiplier used to calculate the impact of Austerity the OBR forecast was 0.5/6 the real multiplier was near 1.6 anything over 1 shrinks the economy and has a negative affect overall. This is a quote from 2019 UK economy £100bn smaller because of austerity The NEF said the cumulative effect of tax, public spending and welfare adjustments on growth by the end of the 2018-19 financial year would be to leave the average household £3,629 a year worse off – the equivalent of £1,495 per person.
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  4754. were paying +£560 in tax due to fiscal drag and frozen thresholds giving us +£95 back is like asking us to be grateful for stealing our car and money and then giving us some back for the bus fare home
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  4755. The three that look like they should be left based on debate performances are Bernie Warren and Pete, they had thier chance at an alternate in Warren but decided to go on the "how much does it cost" kick and try tear her down over medicare. There is no path forward for anyone who doesn't have a way forward for healthcare, the basic fact is that US healthcare currently is the most expensive in the world and has the lowest level of coverage it's a mess.
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  4756. The economic situation is down to Osborne and Cameron as is the high migration Austerity cut funding for domestically trained health workers and they failed to regulate the GIG economy which lead to a surge of over 1 million from eastern Europe on low wage zero hour. They also pumped 50+ billion into right to buy which has seen house prices increase by 66% at the same time real wages have fallen.
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  4757. this is all smoke and mirrors it's a policy that wasn't coming in till 2025 and was to be paid for by a hike in NI from 10 -12%
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  4758. I can't wait
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  4759. All your comments are easily checked and shown as false so why do it?
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  4760. Omnicron breakthrough after booster 70% icu and covid hospital beds 90% unvaxed, current stats are 20 times more likely to die of covid if unvaxed Current sympathy vote for the unvaxed zero reason they need to get the fk off the Internet listen to the experts not dicks on social media
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  4761. I'm a Labour supporter but if your of that ilk your not wrong, Lib-Dems got a surge as well.
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  4762. Not implementing an energy windfall tax has increased inflation prioritising the private sector
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  4763. ​ @BoredomIncarnate1 when Nick is fed up you know the Tories are in for the mother of all gubbing
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  4764. They won't increase taxes for the average person in the middle and working class at all. Their tax plans focus on non domes shutting down the 42 billion in uncollected, closing loopholes realigning tax codes, removing subsidies, cutting outsourcing etc.
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  4765. He just looks insane to most people why our political class don't want to point out he has several screws loose is beyond me
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  4766. The movement has more to do with the conspiracy called the Great Replacement Theory. The dark money is from Christian White Nationalist organisations. Anyone that believes this is a true cause about the sanctity of life is a useful idi0t it is not they are political pawns this is about control.
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  4767. ​ @turntheblueiris4626 If you dig into what Starmer has been saying he's obviously read and been influenced by this book on mission driven goals but let's be honest hrer the economy resembles a skip fire and we're not over the worst of it Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism Hopefully he's read her latest book as well The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
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  4768. 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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  4769. 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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  4770. Any economist looking at DJT'S economic plan combined with Musk taking a chainsaw to government will tell you it won't work not only that it will start a run on the dollar if not checked will collapse the markets.
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  4771.  @clayblaze1327  and you voted Tory my my
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  4772. @waltermcphee3787  you sign up to certain Octopus tariffs which guarantee price Or you can have an active tariff Cheapest is if you have an EV or batteries
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  4773.  @billB101  Batteries They come preloaded with software in containers you just plug and go. And don't say but cost because you have no idea of the insane marginal cost of gas on a cold day in winter running a full sized GAS power plant in spin just for a few minutes or hours during peak load between 4-7pm. It drives the wholesale price through the roof
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  4774.  @billB101  To power my home for a day it cost me £3,000 for battery storage. 3 years ago that would have been £7,000 I don't think you realise how much the costs have come down. Battery prices have halved in the last 18 months and there expected to half again in the next 2 years as well as competing technologies coming on stream such as liquid air batteries and liquid metal batteries.
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  4775. ​ @chrisgriffin698 Blair's economy provided +20% wage growth and well funded services, I used to moan all the time about him look at the state of the country now under the Tories
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  4776. That's gone anyway the economy is Toast whoever they elect its just the damage limitation
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  4777. That's because the system is tied to Fossil fuel Gas in particular net zero policies reduce energy costs and decouple the economy from world energy commodity prices so we wouldn't have had the economic shock we got with more renewables in the system
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  4778. Embrace Brexit what drugs is he on Its like here I know its a shit sandwich but you bought it, I know we told you it was prawn and caviar but we lied so get onboard with your new happy meal and stop complaining
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  4779. He just said we wouldn't go back in the single market Reason our economy is in the toilet is brex1t The reason migration quadrupled is brex1t So he will sail as close to the EU as possible without rejoining
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  4780.  @EagleBill1  There are no opportunities to having trade barriers with a market 20 miles away which was part of our on demand supply chain which has gone from next day to next month with the equivalent paperwork of war and peace.
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  4781. If you define the mission to rewire the economy from fossil to renewables detaching it from world commodity prices by investment in the renewables sector that drives innovation it would be more apt. The levels of investment are akin to that spent on the space race putting a man on the moon, the resulting innovation from that period are still big economic drivers today. Also add private funding is matching public funding If you put were getting rid of fossil then you'd get a complete meltdown from people with an interest in keeping the economy tied to fossil
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  4782. Planning Reform and allowing Councils to start building council houses again is radical
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  4783. He speaks what's on his mind? He just talks shit all the time these people make dumb and dumber look like rocket scientists, there going to get a collective Darwin Award.
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  4784.  @harishkaria5644  not true the last 14 years has seen 10+ million Try harder
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  4785. No it's not we have effectively put sanctions on ourselves with Brexit we have extensive trade barriers and removed the ability to recruit from a huge pool of workers. Trade out to the EU is down 15% while food imports are up 10% we have less people in the workforce than in 2019 and are the only economy in the G7 to be in the red on 2019 figures. This is also a slow burn that the current problems with the war in ukraine has turned from a smouldering fire into a raging inferno back in 2016 our GDP was 90% of Germany its now 70% and still shrinking.
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  4786. He's already admitted that whips use bullying tactics that go beyond the legal limits ohh very suspicious
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  4787.  @Paul-eb4jp  iits worse than that even at 1st glance there's NI too add plus student tax sorry loan then whatever they spend it on generates economic activitywhich is subject to Vat That activity generates further tax etc.
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  4788. The poll shows 10% support for REFORM of which if they stood down then only 1/3 rd would go to the CONS Non of the polls show the effect of tactical voting When you plug tactical voting into an anyone but a Tory model the Conservative share collapses As for boundary changes a lot of younger voters who vote Labour have moved into the suburbs and all the new housing near me are young couples and our Councillors are now majority Lib-Dem as a Northern Blue Wall seat were moderate and want the RAAC fixing in the Local hospital and the sewage being pumped into the river to stop I messed around with electoral calculus a small shift in tactical voting and a 8-10% showing for REFORM are wipe-out territory at 100 seats for the Cons, Rwanda costing 1/2 a billion and not getting a grant for hospital repairs is a death sentence to our local MP
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  4789.  @schrodingerscat1863  And why can't ours be if we invest in an up to date grid and renewable energy. A lot of the b1tch1ng about costs are down to the Tories pulling the plug on a lot of investment since 2010. For example we would use less energy to heat our homes if we didn't have the worst insulation standards in Europe.
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  4790.  @schrodingerscat1863  I have thermal solar installed due to inflation and the price hikes in gas it will pay for itself in capital cost by next year. At which point 75% of my hot water is Free for the next 19 years of it's expected lifespan. And that's how it works and that's why green energy is cheaper. You have Zero input energy cost. Also if I had a heat pump (which I don't) I could add another water tank as a thermal store and run the heating off the Thermal solar combined with the heat pump to use next to no electricity for heating. So green energy is basically free you have capital costs and due to inflation the payback period gets ever shorter.
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  4791.  @kevinneedham9643  it's like 3 cents a mile to run an electric car versus 19 cents for gas Power stations are better at energy conversion than cars even without de-carbonisation
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  4792.  @kevinneedham9643  currently a mix of fossil nuclear and renewable energy. The next phase in green energy is decentralised both generation and storage
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  4793. the Minister in waiting post election
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  4794. He's worth 200 million and is married to an heiress
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  4795. 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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  4796. Of all the walking zombie tory idiots to get in you had to choose this numpty
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  4797. You can't have a low tax Tory economy without the low wage supply side immigrant labour source that fuels it If you want to reduce immigration change the economic model to one with a fair progressive tax system and fully fund social and physical infrastructure moving to a demand side economy Sunak and the Tories are too embedded in Thatcherism to even move a scintilla away from that if we don't change governments soon the economic spiral will increase Hunt put in 10% spending cuts into next years budgets to pay for the recent tax cuts which will further shrink the economy. Sunak & Co can certainly make the whole situation a lot worse
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  4798. There's already been a crash you didn't notice it because every stock is lumped together, after the initial fall in prices last year various govt stimulus kept part of it afloat but it still went down by a large margin what masked this was a tech new economy boom. Money was also spent differently from those who's jobs migrated to online and new practices, I work from home still my holiday money is being spent on a house extension and upgrades to my living space, we've sold our second car when I go back to the office which will be now once every few weeks it will be by public transport or by bike may even get an e-bike Etc
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  4799. Question for the Labour left when are they going to cut out the purity tests and realise you have to compromise
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  4800. If you take out London the GB economy has been in recession for years. Since Brexit there's been the odd quarter in Manchester, Leeds and NI but the picture is dire elsewhere 2 of the hardest hit in the post brexit crash are Midlands and North East both heavy supporters the irony is they've been completely shafted
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  4801. How about build them in factories and make them affordable
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  4802. The demographic of who votes for Labour has been changing for a while their main base is educated younger voters
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  4803.  @laurencesmith1435  The trend has been going on for some time the right wing of politics offers nothing for younger voters support for the Conservatives dipped to 8% in the under 50's. If you want to conflate statistics with your personal views that's your problem and by the way transphobia is the politics of hate and division used by those who should know better
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  4804.  @laurencesmith1435  education teaches children critical thinking how to break down problems and form personal judgements based on evidence and facts This is generally at odds with more Conservative thinking which begs for easy solutions uniformity.
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  4805.  @laurencesmith1435  I'm retired I do voluntary work at my local secondary school helping with special needs children and your view appears to be one portrayed by sections of the media not grounded in the facts in my area
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  4806.  @laurencesmith1435  I worked in IT nearly all my working life part of my job was looking after the new starting graduates never had much of a problem with them a few where unsuitable and moved on to other careers. You get what you put in there's no end of appalingly bad bosses and managers out there blaming everyone else for thier failings
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  4807. The connection between an autistic child and his family is only complete when they realise that the son is different
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  4808. The current 20% could be even worse there's +4 million have left the voting rolls at the dead end and 4 million new voters at the other All a lot of voters have endured is 14 years of Tory failure + Yougov polled for tactical voting it was 40% in Lab LD and only 20% in Cons
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  4809. in 2010 we should have raised taxes to cover the deficit 14 years later someone is finally tackling the problem
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  4810.  @contemplating1015  Depends what you cut We need a second rail line to take intercity traffic off the old line to then have more local services. Our local trains are rammed to the gills Not saying we needed HighSpeed but there's a huge economic drag by not having the capacity. Also Outsourcing, privatisation of Public Monopolies, selling off Council Houses without replacing them, PPI ALL have a negative economic effec and vastly increase government spending, everything costs more than it should
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  4811. Tice you complete m0r0n net zero will save uk consumers billions Stop lobbying for your backers the fossil industry In the US ercot replaced a gas peak plant with grid scale battery storage it cost 750 million saves 1 billion EVERY YEAR i've refurbished my house brought it up to A+ insulation standard replaced the old tierd heating with underfloor energy usage down -80% My friend has thermal solar 75% of his hot water is FREE
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  4812. The policy is that are driving the stock market to record hight Business investment to record levels and double the gdp growth of the next nation in the G7?
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  4813. That's because of the tactical voting electoral calculus let you put your own predictions in and asign % of tactical voting last I looked its around 40% for labour and lib😮voters
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  4814. The Tories conserved nothing. A decade and a half of asset stripping ever lower wages and economic decline, a record utterly damning topped off by Truss wiping 425 billion of the value of pensions and Sunak trying to bribe the electorate with a totaly unfunded 20 billion cut to NI with a scorched earth strategy as the door hit his ar5e on the way out.
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  4815.  @catherinemontgomery7130  The government are giving out Visas like confetti there just not bragging about it. Go look it up I think its funny all those bleating about migrant workers Patel Tub thumping about taking back control and there getting in Filipino workers for the NHS by the boatload
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  4816. ​ @keithparker1346 your yearning for an age that didn't exist The so called working class voted UKIP BREXIT BORIS with the younger ones not voting at all. The middle educated younger class are more and more Lab9urs core vote as is the suburbs they want schools NHS to work and not have shyte pumped into the rivers there not interested in intellectual socialism just a decent wage and a roof over thier head. You can see this trend over in the States
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  4817. @joelww2501 what growth? The native population has been shrinking for years with the economy proped up by migration Current economic policy will see more people leaving it was 500,000 last year
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  4818.  @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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  4819. Taxes aren't high for the wealthy as in Sunak paid an effective rate of 21p in the £ and in there next manifesto they will promise to abolish IHT which affects the top 4% Our tax base has been 33% for a couple of decades till Sunak was made chancellor (its now 36% due to go up) The Conservative economic model only works for the wealthy I've never understood why anyone thought selling your assets then leasing them back was evere a good long term investment for GB PLC
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  4820. Yes this was a political choice by the Cons no Corbyn wasn't the answer he handed power to the Cons on a plate He may have fired up the left of the party but the nation as a whole rejected him wholesale you've only to look at who he appointed as Shadow chancellor to see that it would never fly. In hindsight what's worse is we could have had Andy Burnham. As for Starmer he's generally keeping his policies close to his chest I presume so as not to have the right wing media have a couple of years tearing it to shreds on a daily basis.
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  4821.  @angelathurston8663  First off Corbyn was his own worst enemy secondly when Assange started getting into bed with the GRU deliberately leaking info to further the aims of Putin who was trying to destabilise the US and its elections it was never going to end well. 75% of the print media are owned by billionaire interests who will run a hit job on anyone that doesn't bitch for them
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  4822. Food is 2.9% and will keep rising due to Brex1t checks feeding through the system
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  4823. We were on of the main creators of the ECHR, It was ratified after the war as was the UN charter on refugees Churchill: "there must be an act of faith in the European family" look up "Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?" It has 46 members the only nation to leave is Russia when they invaded Ukraine which kind of says it all rather than get sucked in to right wing hyperbole and show pony politics some research into why its there and what it does would be of use
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  4824. There's the nut ball republicans living in an alternate reality and everyone else jammed into the Dems
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  4825. HOW DARE HE HOW DARE HE drag union funding into this the ignorant pig with his snout in the trough the Tory party have been taking money from Russian sources go look at the PANDORA PAPERS
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  4826. Why not Russia isn't winning + the consequences of giving Putin +40 million people and the world's largest grain producer will make the blackmail over Gas look like a practice run.
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  4827.  @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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  4828. Kevin tell Trump to FO and decomittee these clowns GET SOME FKIIN BALLS
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  4829. Tax base remained the same at 33% for the last 2 decades till Sunak took charge of the Treasury, there is nothing to indicate that Labour would increase taxation on the middle, professional and working class based on the last time they were in power.
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  4830. A tax cut for Millionaire Pensioners For fk's sake pass the sick bag
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  4831. The only good Tory MP is an unemployed one Get ready for your ration books he's taking the country back to the good old days of the 40's
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  4832. ​ @Mr.White10-65 the gauging is done at a corporate level with the Trump tax cuts corporations increased prices post Cov, there currently making record profits. That's what happens with corporate consolidation into oligopolies combined with ultra low corporate tax.
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  4833.  @Mr.White10-65  so all western governments pumped money into their economies over Cov, this was necessary though how much each government wasted is moot the US with the Trump corporate tax cut added to the rapid expansion of the money supply in a very short period of time. You can see this expansion reflected in increased asset values given nearly all of it trickled up in things such as property and stocks. You also have energy inflation from the Ukrainian war which the multinationals have taken advantage of. Over in Europe there busily getting away from fossil over to renewables and anyone can see there could be severe problems with the gulf region on a knifes edge. Food inflation is a whole raft of issues from supply chain to corporate consolidation to energy prices and more.
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  4834. There doing well because they can promise things that will never be enacted because they will never form a government, if you did try and enact them such as UKIP visa scheme which the Tories adopted it would go tits up.
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  4835. were already borrowing 130 billion a year to fund the myriad of tax breaks for the wealthy we have an energy crisis which needs investment in and there promising to lower taxes for the wealthy how does that work? If you pump 28 billion into renewable energy it has an economic multiplier of a minimum 1.6 which means for every £1 you put in it creates enough GDP to return £1.6 in additional taxation. As a pensioner this will help me enormously because it will lower energy costs and I'm home most of the day far more than any tax cut. Getting energy costs down to 2020 levels would be the equivalent to me of my tax going from 20% to 10%
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  4836. No they won't Reform have a well spread out minority appeal, Tory activists on the ground and councillors will leave if that happens
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  4837. ​ @totalvoid6234 stop spamming
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  4838. @jollygolly-f4m And the reason the Tories lost so badly was chasing after reform voters with insanely bad policies. Farage described Truss' budget as, “the best Conservative budget since 1986”
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  4839. ultimate result of Reganomics - no wonder there bricking it about the Green new deal. A unique feature of green energy and a move forward with the Green new deal is its distributed nature, houses small farms and businesses that are in themselves energy creators undercuts the whole big power model (who are big GOP donors) Your big oil and gas really do not want to compete with this model.
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  4840.  @wethepeople720  Huge forward investment in infrastructure moving the economy away from fossil inflation to inflation proof renewables onshoring manufacturing creating 3.6% GDP average per annum double the next best economy in the G7
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  4841. ​ @pwimbledon labour aren't pro imigration in fact they want to invest in uk workers which will reduce net migration
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  4842. 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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  4843. Past May they will have to cut service budgets due to the 9 billion on NI being raided from the spending pot
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  4844. Best case they both get screwed.
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  4845. 80% goes abroad currently and they pay no tax so what's the benefit
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  4846.  @woodstockxx  money spent on Ukraine is less than the tax cut for Millionaire Pensioners in the last budget. Were also offloading loads of old surplus stuff. You need to widen your reading if your going to Wang on about budgets
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  4847. why would we have energy rationing if the policy is targeted correctly large numbers of homes could be grid independent You can run your house electrics off an EV or battery already
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  4848.  @anglodoomer5995  so the man stomping his feet saying gimme Ukraine or else isn't the aggresor? Weird only reason he hasn't invaded yet is Ukrainian resolve and US missiles
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  4849. The grid is designed for peak load on a duck curve from 4-7pm. I get paid by the utility company who manages the battery storage I have through an active tariff.
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  4850. ​ @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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  4851. Everything a government does on tax and spend has an economic multiplier, removing spending has an economic cost, leveling up should be structural investment which has an economic multiplier > 1 which means removing it costs more to the economy than going ahead and spending it. Your shrinking GDP which brings in less tax so you raise taxes to compensate, this is the current doom loop were in
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  4852. Just another slogan sorry that's all your going to get with this lot
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  4853. We've been living on tick with the Tories for 14 years The 1st thing they did was put up VAT and lower CGT and corporation tax while subjecting us all to brutal Austerity
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  4854. @RC-9  no idea where you get your economic figures from in 2016 the pound fell against the euro by 30% and long term investment in UK plc started to dry up If you look at macro economic trends the Tories have been a complete disaster with real gdp growth from 2010 to 2021 at zero (real gdp is adjusted for inflation) As for Raab I read the report any of that type of behaviour I'd have sent him to HR and he'd have had a disciplinary hearing then either given a warning or been sacked its unacceptable its especially egregious when it involves junior staff. A study back in 2018 put the cost of bullying and harassment in the NHS alone at 2 billion so protecting arseholes like Raab has severe financial economic consequences to the economy as a whole
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  4855. This has been 13 years in the making, it doesn't matter who is in charge Thatcherism just ended the Cons Polls narrow yea right? Raw Sewage in rivers 20 billion on housing benefit Energy Bills through the roof Taxes up with fiscal drag 1/3 of councils on the verge of bankruptcy There unelectable now
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  4856. In most cases it's cheaper to give the benefit universally due to reduced administration costs and less fraud
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  4857. Why there doing there job representing asylum applicants if the system wasn't so broken by the Tories they'd be hardly needed Just as yourself why so many are just in limbo not being processed?
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  4858. The point is such a visible lie is just the tip of an iceberg of deceit, the great deal maker couldn't make a deal with anyone no one trusts anything he says and he's to dumb and self centered to ever back down. He's wound up the Chinese to the point where there looking elsewhere for everything and will spin him along for however long it takes.
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  4859.  @daawedge9324  who knows we shall soon find out
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  4860.  @Fan-nothing  no it hasn't the service economy is mainly border-less and not subject to trade friction
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  4861. All private car sales are down + used car prices, its called a cost of living crisis
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  4862. @jameshall6061  your view seems tainted with msm opinion which skews heavily towards the Cons. I've listened to both on long form podcasts and there perfectly articulate and present thier points well
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  4863. 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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  4864. I've got one for them F*** The Tories
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  4865. Because its fringe
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  4866. It's shifting Labour because of high rental and remote working in London pushing out younger voters into the suburbs so it will become a safe Labour seat purely by demographics quote London's suburbs are being placed under a huge amount of strain as an increasing number of families move out of the capital. and High house prices and the rise of flexible working have resulted in a growing number of Londoners leaving the city for pastures new. New data shows record numbers of Londoners are buying homes elsewhere, with Surrey, Hertfordshire and Kent the most popular locations.
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  4867. dream on 55% of the vote will be women like in 2020
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  4868. Labour's position is moving it towards a May style deal if the EU will let us
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  4869. At least average wages increased by 25% This lot have shrunk them by -3% on top of the -3% Cameron and May managed
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  4870.  @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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  4871.  @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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  4872.  @kevinhamilton1177  I've lived through a number of them there fine, Blair's even raised average wages by +20% best of any parliament in history
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  4873. She hasn't from everything I've read
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  4874.  @docdirtymrclean3610  reducing debt for graduates helps with employment mobility, housing, starting a family putting more money into their local economies etc.
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  4875. I think a wealth tax is unworkable in this country. You can tax assets and money created by wealth already we just choose not to, sadly Reeve has put down lifting the CGT rate an easy money created by money tax. A suggestion I've heard is everyone pays a % of their property worth replacing council tax at the moment a person in Burnley pays 1.5% of their homes worth while someone in Mayfair pays 0.01% You could set it at a national level of 0.5% and you generate as much additional income as a wealth tax would enough for a right wing government to cut income tax by 4p or a left wing government fix all the crumbling infrastructure and fund a Net zero program
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  4876.  @jalalmiah8135  He's not wrong, it's just gesture politics, 14 years out of power and the 1st vote they have they decide to vote with the opposition
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  4877.  @arthurmackrell8154  The Dogger bank wind farm costs 9 billion in infrastructure cost and produces around the same amount of power as the New hinkley C will at a capital cost of 33 billion (+30 Billion in subsidies over 35 years) The electricity it produced by the Dogger bank site is 3 times cheaper than that proposed by Hinkley Customers are being Fleeced for 170 billion in the current energy crisis because we are tied to GAS
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  4878. He can't nor can the Conservatives it's part of the economic model I don't see braverman or any of the rest abandon Thatcherism do you?
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  4879. Tice and Farage multi millionaires stand in 2 of the most deprived seats in the country and claim to be of the people? are you sh1tting me there taking them for a ride Do they realise how fked over they would be with Refuk Policies?
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  4880. 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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  4881. @bigtony4829  Osborne's Austerity started a kind of economic doom loop where they patched up cuts with migration There baking in more Austerity that's just doubling down on the root causes of lack of investment in doctors and nurses for example. Due to the numbers there's also becoming a bigger problem, over 1/2 were dependents if you look at spend per capita on services if your growing your population you need to expand services like the NHS to cater for it.
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  4882. From Open Democracy An influential Tory-linked lobby group leading the backlash against the UK government’s net-zero policy has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from an oil-rich foundation with huge investments in energy firms, openDemocracy can reveal. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which also campaigns as Net Zero Watch, has also received more than half a million dollars through a fund linked to the controversial billionaire Koch brothers. Tory leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt is under pressure to explain donations she has taken from prominent climate sceptics despite maintaining she backs the UK’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. The trade minister has previously received £20,000 from First Corporate Consultants, a company run by Terence Mordaunt, who chaired the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) between 2019 and 2021. From a climate watch blog Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch, a junior minister in the department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, received £1,000 from Michael Hintze for a ticket to a Conservative Party fundraiser in November, according to the register of interests also that three other Tory leadership candidates – Suella Braverman, Penny Mordaunt and Jeremy Hunt – have links to climate science deniers.
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  4883. ​@MichaelNelson-it9mftories are polling at 18% on you gov the question is will they even be the official opposition?
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  4884. Real doctors with real data based on science now there's a suggestion, it may help it may not it has bad side effects, looking at the survey there's a ton of stuff doctors are trying what doesn't help is it looks like a big pharma donor is in Trumps ear pushing this drug plus he has a financial interest in a company making the stuff. The Grift is never ending
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  4885. Dog whistling transphobia is so tone deaf the sooner the Tories are gone the better As for Labour having no plan they have lots and the Cons are salting the earth spending every £ they can on all sorts of trickle down Cr*p Last year they borrowed 130 billion Truss alone lost UK Plc 30 billion jacking up gilt rates in the process this year they've taken in +30 billion in fiscal drag spent 9 billion on NI cuts spent another load on Corporate tax cuts a wedge on outsourcing childcare and leaving public services with a real time cuts near 10%
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  4886. ​ @libertasdemocratiam887 lied and had her staff come out and lie on her behalf It's not the offence that's the issue its the cover up and lies around it
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  4887. its a hit piece in a Murdoch paper normally FT don't stoop to this but needs must it seems
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  4888.  @seamus7054  Your talking GDP per Capita Economists outside the Right wing bubble have been banging on about it since 2012 In real terms average wages have shrunk by -7% since 2010 In the period of 2010 to 2023 the Tories have borrowed 1.6 trillion. The question is what did they waste all that money on?
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  4889. There's loads of policy on Biden's website, job 1 fix the virus
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  4890. 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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  4891. Why are you that keen on high taxes to pay for trickle down You've been mugged for 13 years with Thatcherite BS that's making you poorer and you won't pull the lever for another party Stockholm syndrome or what
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  4892. Peterson is just another right wing talking head spouting guff . Nivea to think Russia will loose the war? War is waged by the military supported by the political class funded by the economy Currently the 100,000 Russian troops are poorly supplied and have been in the field many now since February with no rotation with frontline units taking over 50% casualties. If the Russians can't adequately supply 100,000 what chance of resupplying more as their economy grinds to a halt. Its hard to see after such staggering levels of incompetence arrogance and corruption
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  4893. one word Austerity 13 years of it chasing a failed economic model that and trickle down
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  4894.  @timcomley5948  today's economic seeds stretch into 13 years of failure You have An economy hollowed out by succecive Conservative government
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  4895.  @tonyb9735  The security services were ordered not to look
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  4896. I'd have to agree but the system is broken it needs a long term fix not just a promise to take it back to pre Blair The initial fee was an accounting fiddle by Brown to push the cost into future years up to this last budget 80% was written off The cost would be 15+ billion in the 1st year
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  4897. ​ @totalvoid6234 stop spamming
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  4898. There an economic car crash hasn't your standard of living fallen enough?
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  4899. so he stood up and lied coz the guy doesn't exist a couple's allowance is 3 million
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  4900. @leehenry5764  and your evidence is what? Is Far right fossil lobby now an experts in grid load balancing? Quote Octopus Energy has unveiled Octopus Power Pack, what is described as the UK's first mass-market vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tariff. This tariff guarantees free charging for electric vehicle (EV) drivers, potentially saving over £850 annually compared to standard tariffs.
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  4901. 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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  4902. Since the Reagan era and the abandonment of Keynsian economic theory weve been told the only way to control inflation is unemployment, something ive never believed Current problem is rich people havextoo much money leading to asset inflation
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  4903. Sales taxes are regressive in Texas the median is 8% with people in the bottom 20% of earners paying 13% It will impact negatively on gdp cause inflation leading to stagflation which is hard to get out of
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  4904. 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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  4905. Uk is 5% Muslim get a reality check before typing
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  4906. If you look into it there's diet additives you can give cows to reduce their methane, there's been some trials of adding seaweed to their diets reducing methane by 80% My sympathy to the officer he had a number of strokes while in hospital due to his injuries Have a laugh at this Last Week Tonight host John Oliver hilariously skewered Fox News viewers this past weekend after running a super cut of some of the ads on the network. There was an abundance of ads for things like baldness solutions and drugs for frequent urination and impotence. The first rule of advertising is to know your audience, and if this is the case, it explains a lot about Fox News viewers. https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-depressing-men-commercials/
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  4907. we've had 3 years of chaos and were now getting higher taxes than at any time since WW2 plus a shrinking purchasing power and that's after negative wage growth and a stagnant economy under Cameron / May. In those 12 years we've had huge increases in corporate profits and money flowing to the top creating the biggest wealth gap in comparison to other European countries. Voting Tory is literally bad for your wallet
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  4908.  @markbanner6473  Under Blair / Brown real wages rose by 25% the deficit was a fraction of its current dizzy heights and we had real growth. Under Cameron real wages fell by -3% and the economy stagnated in terms of growth under Johnson real wages are shrinking again and were in stagflation with the highest personal taxation since the war. The economy has performed that badly in the last 12 years that even before the pandemic the deficit was rising under Tory priorities and we've seen a reduction of 25% in services.
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  4909. There a bunch of moaning NIMBY's in my area wanted to cancel a cycle lane build because some trees would get the chop There always objecting about house building or any building for that matter
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  4910. 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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  4911. That's because the gettabable voters don't care. Why January 6th isn't a complete deal breaker beats me and the way he tanked the economy but they appear to want a reason to vote for him
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  4912. rats deserting a sinking ship and that's being unkind to rats
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  4913.  @ronniedobson  36% of the electorate wanted Con Austerity as sold by Cameron and Osborne
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  4914. When are they going to stop sanatizing and excusing his incoherent verbal vomit and complete nonsense, its like get him some professional help his brain is mush
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  4915. Liberal? I wish More centrist with a bit of economic populism
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  4916. ​ @DigiDriftZone completly wrong EV'S reached price parity this year with ICE without subsidies and without the economies of scale that are looming as factories gear up. You will have no choice but to create the infrastructure because it is market led, round my way anytime anyone is doing a renovation or extension thier assessing solar We have way more capacitythan your quoting its just not in one time point, the key is to charge EV'Soff peak and to reduce energy consumption by mandating new builds and extensionsare A+ insulated and have solar + thermal solar. Rental property needs to be uprated as well people live in them there not a fkin cash cow to screw people who can't afford to buy
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  4917. Like anyone who has the brass nerve to kick out the previous leader and then take Elphicke in for political gain isn't going to take any sh1t from anyone Starmer made it clear it's about service not climbing the greasy pole and the clock to the next election is ticking Labour can't hang around being nice to back benchers because of feelings
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  4918. If they keep voting for stuff like UKIP and Brexit then no
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  4919. The estimate where from the OBR and IMF as well as the BOE Sunak thought he could do nothing and it would happen he needed to tackle energy excess profits and we have the Brexit factor on food Tory policy is decreasing home grown food and the energy / fossil companies are projected to make 170 billion in excess profits because of this crisis
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  4920.  @dianecameron137  He's offering overtime to health workers to help clear the backlog and I'm sure many people will be glad of the money given the mortgage crisis mad worse by one Liz Truss
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  4921. My father fought as a paratrooper in WW2 to rid Europe of Fascism, the sort that cries out for bans on free speech demonises other religious groups and others minorities. He fought against oppression and the mass murder of millions of people not just Jews but Gypsies, the homeless, political prisoners and the LGBTQ community. He fought against the deportations the use of Eugenics and sterilization to create an Aryan race He certainly didn't fight to be pontificated to by a bunch of right wing tw*ts on talk TV
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  4922. Vaccines protect against measles mumps rubella wooping cough TB smallpox etc. If parents have been rotting their brains with anti vax garbage it's time for the kids to take control and say no to life threatening diseases
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  4923. Project reality here we come, the funny thing is over the 4 years of bickering about this membership has become more and more lucrative economically with such initiatives as the Galileo Project which we can't afford to do on our own and when we tried poured millions down the toilet. Australian style deal means in essence no deal he's just putting lipstick on a pig.
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  4924. He not only doesn't have a plan he's going all in with kids in school to spread it faster while invalidating obamacare
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  4925. Again small business incorporation are at record levels job growth is over 14 million the recovery from the Trump depression continues
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  4926. Reeve has an economics degree from the LSE and experience at the BOE Starmer ran the DPP reducing crime year on year till he left
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  4927. This is more significant than it looks on the surface, there is no reason to change your registration with no elections on the horizon unless your ideologically driven, these switches are likely to be from long term activist members. What it means at grass roots level is the nominations are going to be more extreme and more from the crazy wing of the party which will again drive more people away.
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  4928. Europe isn't in lockdown, Germany have even had limited crowds at sporting events, UK is in a bit of a mess but that's because they've a right wing government that continously does half ass measures.
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  4929. He's so stupid he doesn't realise he's stupid Why can't the Republicans see they elected a complete Moron
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  4930.  @rlwetz4317  it's not her border she doesn't make policy
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  4931. The latest brain fart from the government is illegal and just another show pony while doing sweet FA Asylum claims where always going to go because of Brexit you were told and it happened its almost like cooperating with your neighbours and allies has benefits who would have thought.
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  4932.  @kevinadamson5768  Labour activists who supported Corby. Thier loud noise but there's not many of them
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  4933. Its one way of reducing the pension bill Yet They couldn't even do that properly If you put a Clown in charge of Government the Clown doesn't become a Leader the Government becomes a Circus
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  4934. Because you vote for an MP and a party not the leader
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  4935. Hyper inflation isn't 7% nothing like running around with your hair on fire because the economy is recovering at such a fast rate
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  4936. She put her party before country during the Brexit years
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  4937. I'll go with Labour over far right supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism + Austerity any day
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  4938.  @taffyterrier  lack of we have a labour shortage
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  4939. I want a labour government with well funded services
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  4940.  @middleman9183  we had them before back in 2010. The reason the economy has stagnated has been down to Tory austerity and defunding the social floor.
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  4941.  @boltonpictures9034  I have savings and assets of over 1 million with my wife CGT won't affect us, IHT is frozen but there are ways round it and the limit is 1 million per couple
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  4942. It started with a big lie about a President that they said was born in Kenya because Racism and finished with another woppa that the election was rigged by a shadow cabal of deep state democrats because Racism. There the ones that let the lie stand if they'd all come out straight away and shut this down it would have died down but they didn't because there angling after all the nut bucket fringe that the Orange idiot has attracted, they really don't get it he is a Psychopath of Mussolini proportions these people will follow only Trump and he will anoint another Trump and throw them to the dogs
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  4943. Brexit is the main reason migration has tripled we now recruit from 2,000 miles away instead of 20 that means more dependants and is the difference between net 200k and net 750k Voting for Farage is like voting for an arsonist who's offering to come round and throw another can of petrol on the fire
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  4944. I drop by now and then I'm retired but have seen this before with militant it's just politics enjoy the stream Having what is effectively a party within a party doesn't work and I'd add Corbyn was a really bad politician all he had to do was keep his head down and tow the party line but as usual he's not up to being a team player and had to have his say. If you really want a more left wing party the only real choice is to lobby from within for PR and also get people out to vote younger voters are notoriously bad at turning out if they had very high participation rates you'd see policies like free tuition debt write off
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  4945. Since when did pensioners get a tax raise?
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  4946.  @davidwong9001  if your keen on extra id why not have auto registration and a nationwide id card which is federally managed and automatically issued for 16 and over?
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  4947. And do what? Farage's common sense is rooted in ignorance and an extremely simplistic short term view of problems If you want to green up farming while maintaining food production you'd need a national 25 year strategy to move farmers away from mono crops increase hedge rows and adopt a no till strategy with companion planting reducing fertiliser use to near zero At the same time you'd build glass house vertical farms near large population centres
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  4948. ​ @Ps-we3pp on a manifesto which Sunak has completely reversed Leveling up gone, net zero gone, hs2 gone, social care gone So time Sunak was gone
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  4949. Green energy is cheaper if you have cheaper energy your costs go down The issue is lack of mass storage to time shift consumption Battery prices fell 20% last year and for a domestic solar install there VAT free as are the panels, I've just had an install done the expected saving is £1200 a year from a combination of time shifting usage and opening up cheap overnight tariff, cheaper daytime tariff and not using the grid during peak
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  4950.  @jasonmiller5369  you'd think that Russian troops would have the latest toys wouldn't you? Apparently not they don't even have night vision goggles or thermal imiganing on their tanks and vehicles never mind portable infantry models. How do we know this captured vehicles and ceasing of ground push at night
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  4951. When will the media stop sanewashing Trump he's crazy always has been
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  4952. There is no amount of retribution that could equal the misery and pain caused by these tax dodging leeches It's highly likely he launderd the millions through the offshore account back into his property company using unsecured loans as the vehicle
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  4953. I Don get why you think Labour's 40+ polling won't hold? YouGov have polled various groups with people under 50 having an 8% total for the Tories This is from ipsos Tactical voting and the next election Around one in three (34%) Britons say they are very or fairly likely to vote for a party that is not their first choice at the next General Election to keep another party out. One in five (18%) say they are very likely to do so. Two-thirds (67%) of those likely to vote tactically at the next election say they will do so to keep the Conservatives out, while 22% say they would vote to prevent Labour I'd add that the SNP are all over the place thier Holyrood record isn't sparkling and scandal + disunity are giving the same feeling in Scotland Time For a Change
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  4954.  @Fun_and_Knowledge_  he's peddling trickle down economics yea he's not crazy but the economics are screwed
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  4955.  @Fun_and_Knowledge_  the market doesn't care if its trickle sideways there past lending for tax cuts though. The economy won't grow till trickle down economics is completely binned it's a 13 year record of utter economic failure
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  4956. Why would that make any difference Reform's policies are just more extreme and just as ungrounded in reality
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  4957. We need more public transport, abandoning the only rail project the country has
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  4958. What a suprise old people who got thier money from Thatchers bribery with asset stripping and oil money are stupid enough to blame everything on migrants. Im 67 and have got more left wing with age as the results of Thatcherism start to really bite
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  4959. If you run the demographic changes through with older having a higher % leave and younger remain the current population 8 years on would be 55% remain. You've had 8 years to sort this out its a complete economic car crash time to admit your mistakes
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  4960.  @mike747436  There are multiple companies looking at NI as a Bridge to the EU those plans will not be implemented till the Protocol is implemented. The leverage the Brextremists thought they had through the land bridge was dismantled within months.
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  4961. Amen and keep safe
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  4962. Vigorous he's even crazier than he was 4 years ago The Alzheimer is really taking hold
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  4963. Palastine is complicated and we are in a cost of living crisis There is no right wrong to this whatever Nova Media bang on about. You have a well armed terrorist organisation backed by Iran who are more than happy to turn Gaza into a bloodbath V Israel who are itching to do some ethnic cleansing I personally would prefer them to stick to domestic politics there are way to many opinions on the middle east
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  4964. Top trolling guys
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  4965. McGrath isn't even the nominee yet and isn't even a shoe in for the gig, she's wishy washy as well
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  4966. It's political opportunism by the cynical When you start following the money there's billionaires and or the fossil lobby or both involved
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  4967. We're not smart enough to think on our own? It's not that there not smart enough it's that they don't want too, neurological studies have shown right wingers to be less curious a prime example is the Iran approach, Obama took the long view the deal was a gateway the right wing approach is for an instant solution no matter how unrealistic. The cult like devotion to this imbecile makes it worse
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  4968. Its pretty sad that your batting for the Tories after 14 years The reason he's had to bend so much is Labour's lost decade following a false Prophet you inflicted on yourselves + 4 major economic crisis
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  4969. ​@SaintGerbilUK Trumps economy was fueled by debt which is why it collapsed so hard it was completely unsustainable and the warning signs of a recession where already starting. Historically Democrats are way better at running the economy on every metric by a large margin and the counties Biden won account for 80% of US GDP. Also the top states contribute to the federal budget are all run by Democrats. And The GOP are wedded to sales taxes instead of income these taxes disproportionately affect low middle income especially retirees take Florida the bottom 20% spend 13% of their income on state taxes the top 5% 3.6%
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  4970. So your saying you take the word of TalkTV a station who claims climate science isn't real and we should all go enjoy the latest record breaking temperatures that are damaging buildings and infrastructure ? This station is a toxic pile of crap
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  4971. That's incorrect but it does blunt the attractions of a tech that is still evolving the question is will it force it to evolve quicker? There is plenty of room in the market for multiple solutions they have to be scalable and affordable though
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  4972.  @batboy3746  why would someone that's openly gay be polarising?
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  4973.  @DarranKern  Trumps aiding Russia by tearing the government to pieces in his insane narcistic deniel head in the sand action, a normal sane president who isn't so weak and insecure would have tackled this head on and put Russia in its place there's also plenty of bipartisan support for regulating the Internet disinformation service known as Facebook, instead he's allowing social discourse to rip the USA to pieces as conservatives run around shouting media Bias and spouting nutball conspiracy theories dreamt up in Russian troll farms.
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  4974.  @maxsmart645  it doesn't matter where any of the Democratic candidates stand on healthcare beside not making it worse, the major shift to get the needle moving on the subject is to change the makeup of the Senate. At the momment the US senate is a block on any and all legislation that isn't right wing orientated.
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  4975. ​ @DrzBa I'm hoping the Lib dems are At least we'll get meaningful debate about pollution and social care
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  4976.  @fredferd965  he's one of the worst no one trusts him not even his colleagues You'll get a never ending stream of scandals you just need to look at the incompetence he surrounds himself with
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  4977.  @leehenry5764  most right wing in political history
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  4978. Why is the Labour Party the Lib-Dem Party and the Greens unelectable? We've had 12 years of economic stagnation culminating in the current bunch who are even worse than Cameron and May For the record Average wage growth under Blaire / Brown +25% Average wage growth under Cameron / May -3% Under Johnson its projected to be -3/4% with 8% inflation on what planet is the alternative worse?
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  4979. Holding off the election will completely cripple Tory support here's why 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. If Labour and the Lib-Dems + Greens get there act together on telling the TRUTH about Net Zero then 7 Bins is but a wipeable stain on the window of politics and will regret the UKIP ification of his party 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
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  4980.  @chadimirputin2282  Raising Thresholds before 2028 which is where Rhishi froze them till is a tax cut. Reducing energy bills by moving to renewables is a cut to my costs. Building affordable housing means I don't have to keep subsidising my son. Supporting local transport means I can get around without a car. Etc. People can't afford the Tories or right wing policies anymore.
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  4981. The Lettuce, 7 Bins, yea agree with Cruella but we need better someone more evil
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  4982. Electric car sales reach record high in UK despite supply chain disruption Sales of electric vehicles reached their largest-ever monthly market share in December, accounting for almost a third of all new cars sold So were at price parity with ICE the economies of scale havent kicked in yet and the tech is producing ever cheaper batteries but were not going to invest in the necessary infrastructure because were what Stupid Tories that can't see beyond the end of our nose? So there will be a country full of EV's no charging points and a grid in a near state of collapse. No wonder we have a public buildings RAAC problem don't put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after then when that day comes lie about tell everyone your sopending record sums after years of cronic underivestment if that doesn't work claim labour broke the economy and if you elect them it will be worse And finally If that doesnt work PULL THE EMERGENCY JERMY CORBYN LEVER
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  4983. She has more relevant life experience than the entire Tory cabinet
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  4984.  @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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  4985. already done it
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  4986. That's just total drivel, he really needs to get out more.
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  4987. We've been in recession for 2 years (8 quarters of falling GDP per capita = 4.2%) headline number is the consequence of 2 million visas over the last 2 years 0.6 is also the rise in GDP per Capita but.... Food prices have risen steeply some staples doubling in price and energy has been all over the shop reaching a peak in 2023 with energy costs to UK consumers being 30 billion in 2020 and 170 billion in 2023 during which te government spent 50 billion on supporting a privatised industry price gauge Our economy is broken year on year exports are down 7% by volume so Hun t and Sun ak can go drink a pint of Devon Water
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  4988.  @MCDONALD6969  because businesses need to pay for the infrastructure that supports them not sponge of workers. Tax breaks are just corporate welfare you know that thing your permanently bitching about some workers getting.
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  4989.  @crabby7668  the uk has always imported a lot of unskilled labour the macroeconomic picture completely changed under Osbourne an Cameron leading to the decade of stagnation you can pull as many individual examples out as you like but here are the underlying figures Blair / Brown +25% real wage growth including the mining mum wage smaller class sizes better public sector pay Cameron / May Johnson -3% real wage growth -5% in the public sector
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  4990. the MRNA vaccines (Pfizer, Maderna) are completely synthetic the Oxford and J&J use clones of clones of clones of a batch of cells from the 70's Do your research on each vaccine don't let ignorant comments like this influence your decision
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  4991.  @djl5634  companies can't run when their staff are sick or dying, the original death rate was just under 1% for every death there can be as many as 10 cases of long covid (disease lasting and affecting patients for over a month and in most cases longer) Also death rates skyrocket once the health system is full due to limited resources for treatment
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  4992.  @johannesaarto1631  that goes back to hard right wing Supply Side Economic policies where no adjustment is made to control strategic assets and industry for the national benefit. Both the US and UK should have much more control of their domestic energy supply the UK for example has untapped natural gas reserves in the North Sea but bought cheap on the foreign market. The US has allowed various industries to become near monopolies and allowed manufacturing of key components such as chips to be completely offshore. I'm not talking about nationalisation you can achieve similar goals through taxation and partnerships
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  4993. 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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  4994. I'm in a blue wall seat and will be voting Lib-Dem anything to get the Tories out before they do any more damage
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  4995. And then they will get an uplifted fuel allowance. What's your problem I thought you lot were egainst government handouts?
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  4996.  @Ominousheat  there's around 80 billion in fossil subsidies in the system. Also there's 42 billion in uncollected tax and Labour are going to hire more hmrc stsff
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  4997.  @bumblefoot5  wef is a talking shop get real stop od ING on the conspiracy junk
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  4998. why did he lie all through the debate disrespecting the electorate
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  4999.  andrewharper1609  yet Blair / Brown oversaw +20% wage growth, strong economic growth and well funded public services
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  5000.  @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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  5001. The pandemic threw up major problems in running a global on demand supply chain, too many companies have out sourced everything and rely on a single source for their product. The most obvious example is car manufacturers and the supply of computer chips.
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  5002. The same Farage that sold you brexit and a points system for migration which has seen visa numbers baloon to 1.25 million?
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  5003. Yea right no regulations on the gig economy where offshore companies fetched in low wage zero hour labour
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  5004. Yea I mean who wants a world renown economist in the treasury and a Professor at Berkley Just cut the sexism the previous R occupant was a Wall Street asset stripper ( During his time as OneWest CEO and Chairman, the bank became embroiled in several lawsuits over questionable foreclosures)
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  5005.  @davidbarlow350  No one can keep up with the right wing lunatic conspiracy laden garbage, you can't rig paper ballots without getting caught you complete muppet. There are that many checks and checks of checks oh wait news just in Republican voter just caught trying to vote for dead Mother Biden now winning by 7 million and 1 votes
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  5006. 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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  5007.  @disisnotmysandwich  There are no benifits to leaving the single market only negatives. The ability to trade seamlessly, have an on-demand supply chain with no paperwork and simplified tax system is worth 100's of billions in additional trade Our fortunes will be turned around with net zero and cheap renewable energy
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  5008.  @richardgallagher4880  it's no longer able to trade in euro bonds from 2024 loosing a 3.5 trillion market
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  5009. Hunt and Osborne broke the local social care system with Austerity cuts which backs elderly patients up into the Hospital system, fix social care will go a long way to fix the NHS
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  5010. 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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  5011. You were told by experts that immigration would rise if we lost FOM There is no quick win on immigration if you want to lower it you need to train your domestic population, pay comparable salaries across the public sector and regulate your labour market getting rid of zero hour improvement on sick pay holiday leave and stop outsourcing
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  5012. Why are you so anti Khan given that he is delivering on his stated goals Free school meals reducing poverty and creating higher attainment Increased council housing More community policing An aim for more youth services to reduce youth crime Improved public transport? From here in the blighted North of zero investment you'd be crazy to put a right winger in power
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  5013. The rich are going to dig in even harder coz thier going to have to pay the bill for this catastrophe down the line in taxes
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  5014. @youtubeshadowbannedmylasta2629  Again what subsidies are you talking about? The energy market in the UK works on forward contract prices, new renewable energy deployment on the grid has attracted the lowest forward contract price since 2020 before the energy crisis. And There are near 85 billion in long term oil and gas subsidies, were currently paying Shell and BP to extract fossil then screw us over on price selling it back to us. I have a home solar / battery system it will pay for itself in 6 years and save me £44,000 over its life (assuming zero inflation) The event horizon for renewable is long gone your way out of date
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  5015. ​ @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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  5016.  @craigjensen6853  what's a Republican going to do? Trump era had record farm bankruptcies and record suicide rates in farmers due to his policies. Centralising farms under big corporations makes the problem worse not better you muppet
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  5017. Government finances are a lot worse than 22 billion if you want to invest in infrastructure and reverse the damage done by Austerity, brex1t and the Truss Budget
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  5018. The party members could be my brothers dogs or Russian Oligarchs for all we know
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  5019. I true dat
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  5020. The BOE uses interest rate hikes to cool consumer spending creating unemployment which tightens the Labour market We already have a contracted Labour market so the BOE interest rate hikes do nothing bar chill growth and put some businesses into bankruptcy because the current squeeze on consumption is with energy and food which are essential commodities and are controlled by external entities. It doesn't matter how hard the BOE squeezes if people need to heat their homes and eat food to live that consumption will to a certain extent still happen.hence sticky inflation. Any government should look inwards on energy and food production as a strategic resource.
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  5021.  @edgarkrattiger9185  your understanding of modern weaponry is stunningly narrow with a fraction of what is available to NATO Ukraine is becoming a Russian tank graveyard Also you need to take Russians claims of total tank numbers with a pinch of salt they've probably got at best 20% of what they claim fully serviced operational and equipped with modern comms, even then reports are that few that were blown up seem to posses modern thermal imaging or any night vision capability. Seems like a lot of people have been taking money out of the Russian system for upgrades and maintenance there's also no thermal insulation in any of the vehicles as soon as their hit the crew gets cooked
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  5022. What sort of idiot would prioritise migration in a cost of living crisis and energy crisis?
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  5023. The Green agenda Labour bill developed in conjunction with the Unions Childcare policy A move from Supply Side Economics to Keynesian Demand Side Economics
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  5024. This Johnson's deal with the Devil coalition! The real issue is Johnson got rid of a lot of moderates and replaced them at the last election with what can only be described as zeloets who believed in Brexit Jesus now big dog has dumped all over the place their precious Brexit is down the pan as is the economy. The big donor money as well was always in the Trussenomics camp all Boris did was play factions off against each other the time for Sunak to grow a spine was with the Windsor framework and deselect anyone who didn't vote for it.
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  5025. If you want to grow GDP give money to poor people they spend every penny creating a merry go round of Fiscal activity. Give it to rich people and it gets squirreled away in assets which in turn generates more untaxed money which is fkin useles for growth as is giving it to corporations who spend it on share buybacks boosting their value + CEO pay. Neoliberal trickle down NEVER worked Thatcher's tax cuts where built on Oil Money (3.5% gdp at its height), Asset stripping, globalisation and bribing people with one off free housing. This is why 13 years of Thatcherism + Austerity has seen the economy and peopls living standards shrink
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  5026. How do you know there illegal they've not been processed?
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  5027. I'm looking forward to it
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  5028. Why do you want Khan out? His manifesto pledges are spot on, why are you against free school meals for kids driving down poverty and increasing academic attainment? Why are you against council house building, last year government spent 20 billion on uk housing support?
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  5029.  @djtomoy  We had a thriving SME adding value business trading across Europe until Brexit happened our sales are down by 25% would expect others like us are the same. We import product from from various European countries some of which has originated in the far East then using British ingenuity add value and sell it on. A large business example of this is the NLAW project made in Northern Ireland a joint Swedish British venture which has parts from 13 different countries. The sooner the government stop being delusional A holes and have a proper trading agreement with Europe the better
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  5030.  @tonyb9735  you don't seem to appreciate that Corbyn was a backbencher for a reason why he was even in the Labour party beats me he voted continuously against the Blair / Brown government never put forward or sponsored legislation and lived in his own time bubble that appears to have stopped the day he got elected. Even when elected leader he never sorted out his own party the stuff in the manifesto was a fantasy left wing wish list that he'd have needed a couple of decades and a super majority to enact. Corbyn is the man through his own hubris handed the Tories an 80 seat majority on a plate in 2019 he went to the country with a +12 -72 approval record which is the same as Truss at her lowest left wing snake oil right wing snake oil what's the difference
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  5031.  @tonyb9735  My point is Corbyn was living in a fantasy land his government would have fallen to pieces and very quickly blocking any hope of a Labour government for a decade or more even splitting the party completely.
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  5032. ​ @crayontom9687 the Times is centre right but has an economic blind spot for what's called Tresury Orthodoxy They struggle to join up the dots that what lead us here is Osborne's Austerity, Sunak has tried to double down on cutting investment and now Hunt will cut future spending on services. It stagnated the economy and the more you double down on it the worse it gets
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  5033. 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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  5034.  @richardsculley67  the labour shortages were accelerated by the pandemic and Brexit at the same time I'd agree with that But When you move from a roll on roll off ferry transport system to one requiring checks the throughput declines, we are an island by simply slowing down the movement of freight your slowing down the economy all major economies bar the UK and Russia are back to over pre pandemic levels. What's the connection between the 2 countries ? One has trade sanctions foisted upon it by the world for starting a war and the other deliberately put trade sanctions and barriers on itself.
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  5035. FU
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  5036. No there not and this just drags the party of do nothing down further
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  5037. broad tax cuts for the rich do not produce growth the bollox she's spreading that people are anti growth is complete BS in 2015 Cameron lowered corporation tax and personal tax the economy was still stagnant yet debt to GDP increased by 2019 from 80%+ to 90%+ You can only do Thatcherism once there are very few assets to strip there is very little room to crater home grown industry and flood the UK with cheap imports of food and goods there is no oil money to tap This has nothing to do with economic orthodoxy and everything to do with ballooning debt and not being able to pay for it
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  5038. 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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  5039. it closed because it is uneconomic A coal fired power station has unit costs of x 2.5 times that of offshore wind The reason our energy prices are so high are the rolling back of labours 2010 green agenda and reliance on GAS
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  5040.  @Yorci62  It's about cost to the consumer. Gas has extraction, processing and transport costs Renewable energy does not. Savings accelerate over time because wind and solar input energy are not subject to inflation, and currently renewable infrastructure costs are falling in real terms. Both a Gas Generator and a wind farm have maintenance costs if you say a unit of both now costs 100 in 10 years the unit provided by wind will have increased marginally in line with maintenance. If you factor in +5% cost rises to gas year on year over 10 years that 100 unit now costs 160 + maintenance. Offshore wind reached Cost parity back in 2020 with base gas generation before the crisis.
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  5041. Pensioners took a major hit with freezing of thresholds, the average pension income is 18,000 with 2 million in poverty already and 4 out of every 10 people retiring joining them. Also more pensioners are retiring without a home and renting
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  5042.  @davehallett810  gold? Where not on that old chestnut He had a plan to recover from the Banking crisis and 2 years in it was slowly turning things round. The cuts he was going to make where across the board and no where as severe as Austerity a 2013 analysis showed Tory Austerity was for every £1 saved in public sector removing £1.60 from the wider economy. Faced with this evidence in 2013 Austerity became a political choice leading to Camerons tax cuts which by 2019 had ballooned the deficit to 92% of GDP from 62 in 2010 and stagnating the economy on the way with a negative 2% wage growth and a £ to Euro rate dropping from 1.50 Anyway the Tories are toast the levels of corruption and incompetence has ballooned with Johnson and now Truss
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  5043.  @Userjdjddss  Why would that happen Sunak has already increased the tax base all Reeve has to do is get rid of this trickle down nonsense and close tax loopholes + offshoring. I did a quick tot up you can raise round 100 billion alone on removing trickle down tax breaks
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  5044. 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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  5045. Unfortunately to get to the end you have to go through the mill, the overall Russian aims stalled after a week or so as long as you keep the pressure up the Russian are losing between 3-5 to 1 in terms of casualties. In the UK were trying our best to take in refugees and look after them till this is finished and will keep providing what aid we can as private individuals
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  5046. Over the years I have had to revise my opinion of new Labour given their economic a record and what they achieved at the time the MSM portrayed them as devil incarnate when it turned out Cameron was a wolf in Sheeps clothing with his economic assassin Osborne starting an inexorable roll of 13 years of decline
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  5047. Trickle down supply side economics falls on its arse without supply side cheap labour to suppress domestic wages to boost profits. The points based system allows the import of people into high skilled or professional jobs on lower wages therefore depressing the wages of the middle class. At the same time they are squeezing the working and middle class with fiscal drag which will put people's tax bills up by on average £1000 while depressing the economy by not fixing inflation.
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  5048.  @uniquevideosUk  quote 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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  5049. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, he's taken Oligarch money so I wouldn't trust nige about anything
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  5050.  @suchaone6395  No they won't they don't offer anything just chaos
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  5051. Zero hour low pay and outsourcing is a huge factor in migration and recruitment from abroad to fill low paid jobs. Also Contributes to councils spending 20 billion and 40% of benefit claimant being in work There there to run a country not dole out taxpayer money to subsidise business
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  5052. I'd say run a bath What car does Rhishi Sunak drive A Ford Fiasco
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  5053. Swift has gotten more Beautiful with age, well done Travis
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  5054. 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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  5055. Its fastest negative growth Fastest tanking economy in the G7 World beating Stagflation
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  5056. no she's not polling gave her 17% and last week the Tories dropped another 2 to 23%
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  5057. Polling also says 50+% will never vote for Trump & 40% of Haley supporters said theyd vote Biden if Trump was the nominee + Has anyone listened to Trump recently hes a demented dribbling incoherent sweaty wreck
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  5058.  @23poiuz  They have NI elections next year the current polls would change the power dynamic in Stormont in favour of Sinn Fein with the 2 hard line unionist parties loosing ground. The assembly has already voted on accepting the protocol as a baseline.The further down the road they get the harder it is to blow up. Meanwhile Ireland has invested 20 million in upgrading Rosslare and also money is earmarked for road improvements.
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  5059. Deeper analysis of the data is showing that while he's gaining slightly with male non college educated it's having the opposite effect on college educated and suburban woman. The policy is on the website, it just needs highlighting
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  5060. It would make a nice change if they had a clue about economics. Freezing thresholds especially at 20% takes money out of the working economy at the bottom If you spend it on millionaire pensioner taxbreaks and IHT nearly all of it gets transfered to asset values your deliberately shrinking the economy If you combine this with Energy prices 2021 uk consumers spent 30 billion on energy 2023 uk consumers will spend 170 billion on energy You are seeng the largest transfer of Capital out of the uk economy shrinking real disposable income in UK history EVER
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  5061. Yea but last time Labour were in they didn't fail the decade had average wages rising by +25% current living standards and disposable income levels are now back to 2006 and everything is broken
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  5062. ​@marumaru6084 that's total BS we had the biggest jump in GDP per Capita since records began under Blair, average wages rose by over 20% and debt averaged 40% of GDP. the Tories haven't balanced the budget in 14 years just kept increasing borrowing in 2010 it was 62% of gdp 2019 it was 92% you have to say wtf they done with 1.6 trillion?
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  5063.  @marumaru6084  what reckless spending? The average of Blair was 40% was below the debt left by Major of 45% debt to GDP it rose under Brown to 62%. Since 2010 its completely gone through the roof, why Osborne's Austerity.
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  5064.  @marumaru6084  you really need to read some books on how economics and Government Finance works. The UK economy back in 2010 at Browns defeat was showing signs of recovery Osborne strangled it at birth. The OBR forecast Austerity was based on showed an economic Multiplier of 0.5 it was later shown by leading economists in 2013 to be 1.6. On top of that Cameron was juicing the economy and lowering wages by not regulating the GIG economy which lead to millions of foreign workers on low paid zero hours contracts undercutting UK business then off shoring the profits. Hunt and Sunak are doing the same thing now covering shrinking GDP per Capita with +1.25 million visas
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  5065. @lumasters8197  one is proposing to invest in renewable energy the other is going to revive fracking and promising +100 billion in unfunded tax cuts how's that work?
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  5066. Some will move not all they live here for a reason, if its not paying tax they can fk off as far as I'm concerned we don't want them
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  5067. We have socialism for the rich capitalism for the poor. See that tax break for millionaire pensioners costing 4 billion that's socialism for the rich as they take government handouts
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  5068. ​ @crowbar9566 why would I want to give up my human rights? The right to a free trail The right to religious freedom The right to to not be enslaved Etc Your insane for throwing it away just to be cruel to a bunch of boat people and even madder to give this lot complete unfettered power
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  5069. More Thatcherism get real
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  5070. 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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  5071. sending people without due process to a concentration camp in East Africa at 167,000 a pop with a max limit of 10,000 My father and his family have been there in WW2 its fkin imoral disgusting degrading beyond contempt for people advocating it just go the whole hog and have the "taken care" of here miss out the middle man. That doesn't even address the 6 billion wasted on NOT processing the Asylum claims due to sheer incompetence. Its an expensive show pony because the Tories have nothing else they've wrecked the economy we've shyte all over the water system the NHS and schools are falling to pieces and what are we to do Hold Our Nerve?
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  5072. Sunak has issues with Non Dom tax the last thing he needs is another tax scandal by one of his cabinet Good old Boris another scandal this time over his money
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  5073. Just rejoin the EU and see the numbers halve as well as see legal migration plummet
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  5074. ​ @Dilbert-o5k our Nige has some well dodgy friends. Quite a few sanctioned or been criminally charged
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  5075. We'd have locked down earlier and been out of lockdown for a shorter period Also Schools would have been given the money to upgrade thier ventilation Eat out to die out wouldn't have happened and we would have had a functioning test and trace system 5hus avoiding a second lockdown
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  5076. The cruelty isn't a by product it's the point
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  5077.  @marcopalazzo9349  no it isn't fully implemented where still a way off there's biometric checks to come in in September and were not doing import checks
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  5078.  @marcopalazzo9349  you know what the funny part is the Conservative party lobbied for 3rd country biometric checks it was our idea
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  5079. Same economic fantasy policies that got us here in the 1st place
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  5080. From Cameron to Sunak they've been a 14 year train wreck. Our economy is smaller than 14 years ago we have higher unsolved crime, higher average energy bills and higher nhs waiting lists RIP the Tories
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  5081. So the Chinese are making an ev for 5k Tesla have replaced 20 robots with 1 casting machine in Berlin thier costs are falling through the floor on a luxury brand buutt cheap transport is dead? Don't see it myself
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  5082.  @hughjohns9110  have thier say about what exactly?
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  5083. Yea we could do with a better voting system but voting for the Billionaires no thanks
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  5084. There's 22 years of his publicity available taxes information that say otherwise
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  5085.  @mikerodrigo5597  Good reason for that the data is probably compromised as someone who works in IT digital fingerprints speak louder than words. And Rudy and Bannon are imbiciles their origin story is false.
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  5086.  brownsugar3  Gallup
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  5087. It has its short comings but updating it with some modern economists wouldn't go amiss While they can be wrong there not empirically wrong as in the estimated cost of Brexit was -4% GDP its now at -6%
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  5088. Shapiro was a corporate pick Harris and Walzz are pretty centrist whatever baloney the media comes up with, paid leave, healthcare and school meals
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  5089. Doesn't work in Australia it costs 1.6 million pounds per refugee they also have a labour crisis
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  5090. 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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  5091. It doesn't have the logistics to supply the numbers there already in Ukraine listen to the Guardian Podcast "The Russian soldier exposing the horrors of life in Putin’s invading army"
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  5092. The rise is down to a weakening pound, Sunak is just as cr@p as Truss
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  5093. don't worry it isn't quote Figures revealed by Tax Justice UK show Sunak paid an effective tax rate of 22 per cent on his almost £2 million of income, the same tax rate (21 per cent) as the average nurse pays on their £37,000 salary. (nothing on millions in assets) Executive director, Robert Palmer, said: “Our tax system is set up to allow the super-wealthy people to pay low levels of tax. This is the way the tax system is designed.
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  5094. ​ @alridd7038 we're here with government borrowing last year of 130 billion because of Truss, Brexit and an unfounded NI cut. Our repayments on debt were 120 billion. There is no more boosterism to go round. What's your solution?
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  5095. Pantomime Dame at this point
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  5096.  @Johnwild6152  No it wasn't it had problematic language removed
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  5097. He's centre left Blair was a Centrist
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  5098. Early voting and mail in is male 44% Female 56% Polls are a reflection of past elections An incumbent who was defeated has never run again an incumbent has never passed on reelection passing to their vice president to run a Black women has never run as the nominee of their party before Women's healthcare and their ability to control their own bodies has never been on the ballot in a presidential before Multiple states have abortion ballot initiatives including Florida
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  5099. Are the Tories deliberately trying to get wiped out? This is nuts who under 50 would vote for these numpties?
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  5100. 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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  5101. Starmer can't go at any pace he's not in power. Listened to a podcast that interviewed a leading industrialist representative on the topic and the private funding and tech are here at the momment her fear was noises coming from the government would drive it all to the US and EU Her view is this isnt going green its a technical and economic revolution first ones there will reap the rewards
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  5102. Tesla's are increasingly present where I live bought an Ebike conversion kit last year things are changing you need off peak overnight tarrifs for charging
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  5103. @Dragonsitter  Marr gives me hope, the politicking to get here is painful, if you look into Starmer in detail he appears principled yet very pragmatic but utterly ruthless A story I heard the other day was that Sue Gray has banned WhatsApp and confiscated phones at shadow cabinet meetings and is being used as a sounding block as to how policy could be implemented successfully
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  5104. Everyday people from his campaign staff and local activists you mean What's funnier is he's stiffed the owner by not paying, what a jerk
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  5105. If this is Sunaks Flagship his fleet is at the bottom of the ocean sunk beyond hope
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  5106. that's because Braverman is even her own side recognise she's a raging Bigot Quote More senior Conservatives have hit out at Suella Braverman’s “racist rhetoric”, accusing her of undermining the party for the sake of her own leadership ambitions. Quote Tory peer Baroness Warsi has warned that what she describes as Suella Braverman's "racist rhetoric" is putting British Asian families at risk. @twisteddancer7773 
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  5107. Blair and Brown were the last time we had economic growth and working services The countries decline is down to Thatcherism and never ending asset stripping by the Tories.
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  5108. I did a cost analysis I'd save £2,000 a year on petrol
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  5109.  @RobBCactive  some of the right wing talking heads go on about Freidman's money supply theory though they don't really understand it just the bit where he said expansion of the money supply causes inflation We had near on 10/12 years of intermittent QE and a large expansion of the money supply nearly all looks to have gone to the wealthy with billionaire wealth doubling over the pandemic So much for trickle down
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  5110. 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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  5111. If there was enough will in the GOP they could cut the debt tomorrow by putting forward a plan to plug all the tax loopholes, remove tax giveaways approve a global corporate tax minimum with NO TAX INCREASES spare the hot air
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  5112. It didn't take long for this sht stain of a channel to plumb the gutter did it Is that all the right wing have got some vague guilt by association of being a hundred miles away from the the case how PATHETIC quote A lawyer for Jimmy Savile’s victims has accused Boris Johnson of “weaponising their suffering” by falsely claiming Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute him. Richard Scorer, whose law firm Slater and Gordon (UK) represented 168 Savile victims seeking compensation, said that victims are “angry, upset and disgusted” by the Prime Minister’s comments. One victim of Savile said the Prime Minister’s false claim against Sir Keir had triggered all the flashbacks
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  5113.  @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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  5114. We will see the mission approach is pretty radical all departments working to 1 goal Whitehall is pretty disconnected and dysfunctional at the moment and Kier is a driven man
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  5115. Time for Corbyn and his ilk to retire at 74 and being in parliment since the 80's its time to go its not an OAP club.
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  5116.  @marumaru6084  Lack of investment and the relentless pursuit of a low wage economy over the last 14 years depressing wages in the public sector by as much as 30% in some cases then using that as an excuse to import cheap labour into it. If you want low migration you need to invest in the domestic population and it's infrastructure and regulate the Labour market. Key pull factors to migration are things like unregulated zero hour in the gig economy and unregulated outsourcing.
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  5117. @Zekers87  why? What will we learn that we don't already know?
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  5118.  @hassantariq2971  no they don't it's not safe to drive without a break and preferably one every 4 hours
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  5119.  @tonysheerness2427  we don't know what rules he's broken or the structure of his transactions and income and I don't get why anyone would associate an elite millionaire who has complex tax affairs probably offshore funds with your average man in the street with a bank account and CARE. If they can do this to an Elite Millionaire they can do it to you doesn't really roll off the tongue
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  5120.  @alexedwards6509  Do they have over 1 million in the account and have unusual transaction patterns? Don't waste your tears on the grifter
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  5121.  @chain-breakingsage  Or you could do nothing and watch the country crumble, the Grid issues aren't just confined to Texas upgrades and reinvestment has been put off multiple times there's a large number of bridges which are from the 30's need replacing your going to see them basically condemned and unusable you can see how bad broadband is on the Zoom reporting. The longer you put this off the bigger the bill and the nock on to company reinvestment
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  5122.  @chain-breakingsage  it needs winterising there's not much excuse given the report from the last freeze recommended it
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  5123.  @dangerousfables  last budget 2 billion on Millionaire pensioner tax cut, 8 billion in bankers tax giveaway, 6 billion in additional subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. There's loads more but these were the headliners and the big bucks.
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  5124.  @aaronaaronson7600  That only accounts for around 1 Trillion since 2016
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  5125. @aaronaaronson7600  not quite true that was the projected economic hit estimates last I saw where 5.5% but the bleed out from Brexit started in 2016 when long term investment was put on hold by major companies in the UK, given that planning is in the 5-7 year mark where feeling the slow disintegration of major companies not investing. By the way 1% of gdp = 8 billion to the treasury per annum shortfall is 44 billion not counting lost growth and investment were fkd basically
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  5126.  @stevemillington3849  Redfield and Wilton polled by age it won't surprise you to know that the less qualifications you have the more likely you will vote for a right wing party. In the age of the Tories getting UKIP ified the educated vote has gone to Labour
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  5127. Why bother wasting time on it its junk to start with and a complete waste of money
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  5128. I looked this up the Euro 6 diesel standard was mandatory for new reg in 2015 so 6our looking at 8 year old and above vehicles being penalised it's not a very high bar
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  5129. Why would you vote reform given this mess is down to following ukip policies such as hard brex1t and visa scheme etc.
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  5130. I have savings non of this will touch me
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  5131.  @jjefferyworboys8138  go to Read her everyday economy papers and she has a degree from the LSE If a labour mp has money its a big deal if a Tory mp has money its lauded.
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  5132. The bulk of US oil comes from the US, the impact of a Drone strike affects world oil prices if its an emergency the POTUS would declare an emergency and probably block exports and everyone would scream communism. That's politics for you
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  5133. There are demographic changes in voting patterns Analysis is showing that people are not getting more Conservative as they get older, I wonder if this is why the Right are pushing the populist button virtually daily now. Come 2024 there only going to cement a complete implosion no independent wants 24 months of Why Hunters dick picks were pulled off twitter or endless hearings on mask mandates and China conspiracy theories. Meanwhile Trump will be crying to anyone that will listen I wuz Robbed and threatening to run as an independent if not selected
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  5134. You don't vote for a PM he's selected by the party you vote for a local candidate who may have a party affiliation. Boris is a complete sideshow the UK economy has been steadily spiralling downt the plughole since 2010 culminating in the highest tax burden in 70 years and the lowest growth in 150. Figures out last week showed a decrease in firms exporting by 1/3 and we have ingrained stagflation Whoever in the Con party takes charge isn't going to change there dreadful economic management its like we're being run by a asset strippers wait oh yea so we are
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  5135. My son is Autistic he is one of the lucky ones in that we have supported him despite the barriers put up by the state and is now working. 95% of people with Autism do not there is zero government support with local authority budgets cut to the bone. Like people with Downs they need support in multiple areas. If you throw them at a job without that support they get dismissed within hours or worse abused and taken advantage of and were is the next place for them if you remove their benefits how many will end up in prison? quote HM statistics Over 30% of prisoners have learning difficulties and/or disabilities.
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  5136. Trump supporterscould start thier own groups Scabs for Trump Billionaires for Trump Hedge Fund Managers for Trump Oil magnets for Trump
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  5137. the Tories really are just useless and should to a man leave politics entirely if this is the calibre they have to offer there not even tackling the underground labour market people are coming here because we have NO ID cards and few checks Quote It is far too easy to run lawbreaking businesses in Britain The Tories are obsessed by small boats. They should stop the dodgy car washes and sweet shops instead Always judge a man by his shoes. What works as a rule of thumb for fashionistas also works for people rooting out dodgy employers in Britain. The best way to check whether a car wash is legitimate is to look at the workers’ feet, says Mary Creagh, the chair of Ethical Trading Initiative, which looks at labour abuses. A legal operation will have workers in proper boots, as they scrub vehicles by hand. A dodgy one will see poor souls scrubbing cars in soaking trainers. If a business is skimping on wellies, it is probably breaking other rules—whether paying below the minimum wage or hiring people who do not have the right to work in Britain. Hand car washes, of which there are at least 5,000 across Britain, are the archetypal example of Britain’s black-market economy. Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, fears that the tens of thousands of people who cross the Channel in small boats each year will “just disappear” into this economy unless something is done.
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  5138. Theres a broader problem with the 28 billion figure. It was always a theoretical figure, Sunak and Co have maxed out borrowing to 130 billion last year and debt to gdp is rising + The tories have baked in 10% cuts to services in the next budget to salt the earth. The quickest way of getting green investment going at warp speed is changes to planning to stop grid upgrade roll out being stalled, the best way to get retro fit insulation is to have a body composed of experts + builders come up with cost effective solutions alligned with tax breaks. No vat on solar + installs etc
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  5139. Dyson bought a load of farms to avoid IHT as did Clarkson how do you deal with that? quote Clarkson has previously said that he bought his 126-hectare (312-acre), £4.25m farm, Diddly Squat, in order to avoid inheritance tax on his estate
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  5140. Rhisi-cession Stick to the plan ? what Plan Quote Notably, GDP per capita — which adjusts for population growth — contracted by 0.6% in the fourth quarter, after a 0.4% decline in the previous three months, and fell further through each quarter of last year. Over the whole of 2023, seasonally-adjusted GDP per head shrank by 0.7%.
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  5141. Why's that truth hurt?
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  5142.  @shaun906  I'm sure if she had stepped down then they would have given her a Peerage The last thing Starmer wants is an Abbot Gaffe halfway through the campaign best cut your losses now. You have to blanche a bit at Starmer's utter ruthlessness makes Sunak look like even more of a wet weekend
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  5143. No you haven't during the Blair / Brown years the country had average wage growth of +25% under 14 years of the Tories you had negative -3% Last time they did this productivity improved because businesses used the tax relief part on profits to invest in their companies
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  5144. He's still an evil Banker
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  5145. Statiscally looking at the economy the worst ever was the last 5 years ​and the best everwas the Blair/Brown period @robertisherwood6897
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  5146. and why is that your only getting 250k lifted out of 4.3 million at a cost of 3 billion It's pure gesture politics
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  5147.  @BraddersVee  I'd be looking at food through school, we know that uk children are on average shrinking and well fed kids get better grades And Also council house building a lot of the poverty is linked to housing
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  5148. 25th and president Vance
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  5149. How can you tear up 50 + years of UK Law by unelected civil servants each law needs parliamentary debate. If you thought the economy tanked with Liz Truss just enact this piece of Bats**t piece of rubbish
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  5150. Looking at demographics and voting patterns given the age of a lot of those voters the total left all things being equal is 11.5 million Younger people on the whole were +70% in favour of remain so on basic maths your looking at 55% pro 45 anti as a best case not taking into account switchers who feel they were betrayed and lied to.
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  5151. @TOP.FOX.  the under 20's voted remain +90% the over 70's +30:%
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  5152. Of the people I know (all are vaxed to the hilt) there's been a few breakthrough cases recently symptoms have been mild and lasted a couple of days and I'm over 60 so most of my acquaintances are older. Hospital workers will have to isolate as a precaution.
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  5153. common sense would be to process them in a timely manner and not deliberately use them as political pawns 80,000 applied last year @ 80% success rate means where keeping 62,000 a year there's 180,000 in the system meaning where housing 36,000 who should already have been deported and 144,000 who should be working in the economy
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  5154.  @gemannable  And the moon landing was staged in a set in Holywood Just listen to yourself regurgitate crap pushed out by the likes of Carlson, I sat and watched it on live TV, there was no Fbi there were oath keepers 3 percenters and proud boys as well as the ignorant rabble that believed the stop the steal shit. The conspiracy rubbish is mind boggling dumb there is literally no logic to it but the blind faith you'd find in a cult
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  5155.  @Bobisalive  Increased the numbers in limbo so it makes the problem look worse so she has a soapbox to gob off about everyone stopping her dealing with it
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  5156.  @Batters56  The economic multiplier on Austerity was calculated in 2012/3 to be 1.6 when Osborne put it forward the OBR estimate was 0.5 One of the starkest figures was from defunding the Justice system (police, social services, courts, prisons etc.) the current estimate is the increase in unsolved crime not dealing with crime etc. has a cost from 2010 to present of 500 billion.
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  5157. It's centre right always will be
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  5158. There not illegal there asylum seekers and refugees, its a problem by design there slow rolling processing 80% of applications are granted. The reason they come over in boats is the Tories have shut down all other routes to claim asylum Blame the politicians in charge not the refugees
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  5159. GB news is opinion and its owners are a Dubai hedge fund so the GB is a bit of a stretch As someone who is interested in politics its been sad to see the the decent of the Tory part into a populist vacuum lacking in prospective and morals. You could forgive Cameron for his Austerity based politics in the view that he believed he was doing his best for the country (at lest a section of it) but the current regime make huge claims then lie about the reality of it if challenged and get boosted by channels like this who will excuse any behaviour. Apparently we have a tax cutting chancellor despite the highest individual tax burden in 70 years and the fastest growing economy yet real wages have shrunk in a fashion not seen since the Napoleonic war 150 years ago how's that work?
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  5160. Food inflation Northern Ireland 13.8% Food inflation GB 16.8% Energy inflation is at 57% Quote UK gas producers and electricity generators may make excess profits totaling as much as £170 billion ($199 billion) over the next two years So who's responsible for this definitely not th BOE
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  5161. If you invest in the UK population as Labour are proposing you'll need less foreign labour to fill skills gaps Tory economic policy is driving the high levels of legal migration and brexit is making it so they fetch more dependents
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  5162. The plan now appears to make the Russians lives on the front as miserable as possible by contentiously attacking supply line, by all accounts the ship they blew up was loaded to the gills with munitions
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  5163. Durham's report is a nothing burger multiple committee's reports and intelligence agencies say Russia did it not just that but they were IP tracked also Assange couldn't cough without the British logging it. Its also now coming out the crook Manaford and his Putin connected oligarchs are the origins of the whack job conspiracy theory designed to get Putin off the hook. I mean what idiot would believe the entire 5 eyes security network conspired to frame Putin oh yea the same idiot who uses a sharpie to redefine a weather map.
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  5164. Small firms got an uplift to the NI threshold many will see employers go down, the hit will be against the weatherspoons of this world that milk the system Also you can write of 100% of capital investment in the business now Reducing low paid jobs is a consequence hopefully the Investment in infrastructure will compensate for all those unemployed u23 bartenders
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  5165. The exit polls showed that the Orange one's core base is male white uneducated and 50+ This also happens to be of the most unreliable demographics in terms of voting. The election exit polls also showed he got hammered in the Burbs especially among women who are one of the most reliable demographics in terms of voting. The youth vote U20 is heavily in favour of the Dems at 75-25., that vote will translate into 20-22 year olds heavily favouring Dems and with climate change a high priority the 18-20 vote will again slant heavily towards them Also the never ending right wing hysteria about being anti science, vax, climate change, abortion is ensuring that a lot of the voter base is completely unobtainable.
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  5166. Average cost of a family farm near me in Yorkshire is 2.5 million, with 2 x 1 million agri allowance and 2 x 500k IHT allowance thats = 3 million Only the big landowners will be hit and tha is at a rate of 20%. I have no idea why there protesting another complete messaging failure by Labour, this drives the rich looking to doge tax out of the system and should stop farm land inflation
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  5167. Musk's brain is fried by too many drugs. he's halved twitters value and is sucking up to DJT its embarrassing Adding 5o the collection of wierdos, billionaires and swamp people in his orbit
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  5168.  @DaveyNaples  They'll build more council houses, Andy Burnham has already outlined how it would be possible
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  5169. ​ @gavsewell6903 it's not like they've not been warned what happens when you employ Lettuce Liz economics
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  5170. His economy was a wreck in 2020 you can't afford another 8 trillion + yet another trade war + all the unemployment and inflation it will bring
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  5171. I thought you lot were against benefits?
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  5172. Migrant labour has powered the economy and provides the living standards you have today And getting rid of FOM is one of the main reasons it's circling the drain at the momment So yes there asylum seekers and we desperately need them working in the economy
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  5173. ​ @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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  5174. The so called working class voted UKIP BREXIT BORIS with the younger ones not voting at all. The middle educated younger class are more and more thier core vote as is the suburbs they want schools NHS to work and not have shyte pumped into the rivers there not interested in intellectual socialism just a decent wage and a roof over thier head. Install another out of touch populist fantasy socialist and you'll be out of power again I have my gripes about the direction in terms of tax but without power you get nothing
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  5175. '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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  5176. The BOE forecast last Feb a rise in inflation and stagnant growth Blame Labour in 2 years time when their policies have actually been in place The NI tax hikes don't come in till April
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  5177. Your diagram is wrong there's a battery storage system at the chatging end
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  5178. If your so concerned what are you doing about global oil prices increasing by 25% How about the cost of container shipping worldwide going up 330% Yea whatever your part of the problem not the solution
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  5179. This was always a political stunt to try and get Labour arguing with itself hope your happy now
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  5180. The costs are lower in NI food especially is cheaper and fresher
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  5181. We stopped fracking because of earthquake activity caused by the test drilling. Fracking involves pushing through below the water table then sideways into the shale rock then pumping a toxic mix of chemicals to split and recover the gas, the earthquakes can fracture the seam between the shale and the water table poisoning the water for the whole of the greater Manchester and Bradford Leeds area.
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  5182.  @fwcolb  it's safe when it's no where near a large population the test site produced earthquakes the largest was 2.9if the toxic goop gers into the water table it poisons millions
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  5183. Trump will be bankrupt after the election, he's currently under so many private lawsuits and with the tax fraud he's going to be squealing till the end
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  5184. course he will he'll open legal routes for applicants which destroys the business model of the traffickers also They will process the Asylum claims deporting 40,000 staying here illegally and save 6 Billion in costs as well as boosting treasury receipts by 2 billion due to the enhanced economic activity of the people granted applications.
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  5185. Tariffs are nothing more than a sales tax This will impact negatively GDP and also trigger inflation Also Canning the move to renewable energy will destroy 2 million jobs and add an additional 32 billion to consumers energy bills
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  5186. Cenk and guilt by association, Pete is who he is the guy turns the other cheek but subtly sticks the knife into your conscious (if you have one). He doesn't do it by megaphone politics and banging the table and can Cenk just climb down from Bernie or no one.
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  5187. There's a good interview with economist Torsten Bell on PoliticsJoe which goes through the hard choices facing any new administration and labelling the Autumn statement as economic fiction Even small changes can have big consequences Hunt's budget is shrinking public service budgets post April to a level that would see them completely collapse to pay for the tax cuts.
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  5188.  @rodgerwoods4971  I've looked at parts of the bill the child tax credit is long overdue plus helping women get back to work, there's some tax rises in it for high earners and measures to plug loopholes. Also the spend is over 10 years. There may well be a bit of pork in there but thats government
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  5189. @Ow Thattickles Tesla opened a new factory in Texas +5000 jobs plus all the work it generates in the area 25 thousand jobs at a pinch, Intel are building a chip manufacturing plant in Arizona Ford new plant in Kentucky GM are investing in the US etc
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  5190. The current Tories are a coalition of English Nationalists that want all the Toxic UKIP policies and hard right Free Market Fundamentalist who pedal extreme Supply Side Economics Both wings want fundamentally incompatible things Johnson barely holds them together, its dawning on the standard Conservative voter that the Cons don't represent them.
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  5191. It's the elites trying to scare you because Labour will have to rip out the Trickle down cr*p that lets them pay little to no tax to put into public services and get them working again
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  5192. The party controlled by Elite's sponsored by billionaires with a bit populist candy for the Gammons Mug
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  5193. It was staged and he left without settling the bill like the billionaire crook he is His billionaire friends want your social security and Medicare to pay for thier tax cuts Man of the people Funniest thing I've heard in years
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  5194. It's 62,000 per annum it's like p1ssing in a barrel compared to the 1.25 million
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  5195.  @paulchadwick9419  There economic policies are Libertarian (eg Truss), trickle down, NHS Privatisation, Fracking, abandonment of net zero
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  5196. ​ @myhonestreaction6217 mass deportation and tariffs will send the economy into a depression and a trade war that will have a detrimental effect on the 3 trillion $ worth of exports A large % of the labourers working on post hurricane reconstruction will be both legal and illegal migrants
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  5197. Labour don't have to put up taxes Sunak has done it for them your threshold is frozen till 2028 no matter what and he's screwed over pensioners
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  5198. They caught up within 2 months and payed way less for ppe and the vaccines Boris threw billions at it
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  5199. If you want less legal migration run a more socialist managed economy that invests in its domestic workforce, housing, NHS transport and other infrastructure Legal migration is driven by cost cutting and focusing on low tax small state so you import skills all over the shop.
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  5200. The dingbat shovels the macho shit like he's one of the avengers, you can't defeat a virus, you can't bully a virus, you can't twitter bash a virus. You can make a plan based on science and with the help of the best experts in the world or you can shovel propaganda bury the facts and employ a complete idiot pundit from Fox then tell your psycophants to go on TV make shit up and lie. Will Trump suddenly gain enlightenment 6 months down the road, the motor cavalcade says NO
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  5201. Purchase taxes are regressive if you look at Texas where there's no income tax the Tax burden on the bottom 20% is 13% the top 5% pay 3.6%
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  5202.  @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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  5203.  @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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  5204.  @jamesowen1213  House goes to the spouse no tax + 325,000 on savings (joint savings would need to be £650,000) + 1/2 the rest of the farm minus the house gets 1 million allowance. You also get 10 years to pay the 20% due over the limit.
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  5205. Sunak is suffering from long Boris and the dirty deals he did to become PM
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  5206. But Sunak says how marvelous things are and the BOE says we have to suck it up buttercup so the he can keep giving out tax breaks to the rich those poor millionaire pensioners WHY didn't we do this sooner and Sunak paying 20% CGT instead of 40/45% tax bless him he's earned it paying the same tax rate as a nurse on fk all is only fair for our Elites
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  5207. The real issue is fake 2nd jobs 20k a year in hospitality isn't that surprising id rather it be over the table and declared.
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  5208. He told 33 lies of which he was called out on 3 whoppers that were insane Cope harder
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  5209. He's threatening Polish immigrants with mad Vlad on their homelands border Haitian immigrants by calling them pet eaters Mexicans as rapists Puerto Ricans as garbage Arab immigrants with ethnic cleansing in the middle east Him and Musk have some weird idea on cutting government to the bone deporting millions and tanking the economy and somehow it will be better in the future? What, why is he still 46% in the polls?
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  5210. It's 4% of the population I'm medium wealthy you'd need to be stinking rich or stupid to pay IHT, from a couple to kids you can legitimately hive off a couple of mill tax free using various exceptions
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  5211. Thier private companies they make thier own rules. Anyway the answer is competition the Republican lawmakers are more than happy with monopolies who jack up prices and create captive markets and thats across the board from drugs to tech to banks
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  5212. @Hurdy_guy  NI doest go up till April and they've allocated for it anyway
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  5213. What difference does it make what he says? If the Roberts court start to make law and policy from the bench then the Democrats have a perfect right to use whatever means they deem necessary, McConnel started this by picking only Federalist society extreme right wing judges and trying to remake the bench to rule in favor of conservative corporate thinking for 4 decades. The ACA is the tip of the Iceberg
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  5214. we could run the line from Hull to Liverpool divorce from the South East and rejoin the EU and leave them to their Argentina on the Channel
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  5215. @ogukuo72  because it will increase our GDP overnight and within a year by 4% which = 40 billion in extra tax take
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  5216.  @CBfrmcardiff  I'm old enough to have a father who was a paratrooper in ww2 and an uncle who flew Lancasters National Populism is as old as the hills it was the scourge of Europe then and it still festers away rotting in the dark recesses it offers nothing. Refugees are caused by wars and most of those wars are the direct result of the west's insatiable appetite for oil and minerals, for over a decade we've had economic stagnation and a decline in real average wages while the rich have got richer, how about blaming the real culprits for economic policies that have punched down at every opertunity Cameron/May/Johnson, blaming immigration for a perpetual cycle of government failures is lazy the endless of rounds of Austerity driven cuts plus the total lack of investment in infrastructure over the last 12 years is the real culprit of people's angst. But hey its a free country go blame immigration if you want and let the real perps walk if you thought Osborne era austerity was bad I've got news for you Sunaks implementing Austerity on steroids.
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  5217.  @shughy1  No crime is relative to the factors I outlined and has fk all to do with immigration statically migrants are less likely to commit crime. As for migrant grooming gangs your way off Quote from a home office report in 2020 "The majority of child sexual abuse gangs are made up of white men under the age of 30, an official paper has said. The report, which covers England, Scotland and Wales and summarises a range of studies on the issue of group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE), also known as grooming gangs The home secretary, Priti Patel, said: “This paper demonstrates how difficult it has been to draw conclusions about the characteristics of offenders. It found that while offenders come from diverse backgrounds, groups tended to be of men of the same ethnicities. Money and sex were motivations as well as a sexual interest in children and misogyny, the review said.” EndQuote
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  5218.  @apollomemories7399  I wasn't a Blair fan down to the Iraq war but during his time in office he oversaw 25% growth in real wages as well as a vibrant economy shrinking school class sizes The bulk of the borrowing was to prop up the banking system which failed lets be clear because Thatcher deregulated the system. In hindsight I bet Labour wished it had reversed those regulations. Don't start spouting diversity crap the Queen is part German Prince Phillip was part Danish part Greek millions settled here after the war and Thatcher and co had an open policy from the commonwealth Half the England football squad have at least 1 parent or grandparent that wasn't born in the UK
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  5219.  @John1873--  Cameron made plenty of political capitol out of what was supposed to be an internal comment anyway thattt was over 12 years ago and for the record I didn't find it funny either. For all the Tory bluster about being good with the economy their current tenure has been so piss poor your looking back 200 years for any sort of comparison
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  5220.  @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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  5221. @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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  5222. It will reduce energy bills by 2/3rds by moving away from our reliance on GAS you know that thing that is controlled on world commodity markets that we have no say in pricing
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  5223. only 13.5% in Northern Ireland
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  5224. Labour don't have to put up taxes Sunak has done it for them your threshold is frozen till 2028 no matter what and he's screwed over pensioners
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  5225.  @El.Cid17  Uk pensions lag way behind the rest of Europe try living on 1 its 11502.20 most people have a small top up which puts them into paying tax but well below the minimum wage in total. My tax has gone up by +£550 because of fiscal drag
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  5226. You've got brexit this is it There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow more brexit won't make it appear by magic
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  5227.  @jimmyjones9780  George Osborne was uk chancellor from 2010 to 2016 he took a sledgehammer to government spending severely degrading services such as the police by defunding swathes of the justice system and trying to privatise parts of it a policy which has long term economic ramifications. Under First Past the Post the 2010 & 2015 elections the Tories had a majority by winning only 36% of the vote, 2017 it was 40%
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  5228.  @susancurtis1651  Trade North to South is more important to the NI economy because without it NI's economy would implode the da8ry farmers would go bankrupt overnight and that's just the tip of the iceberg
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  5229.  @CaminoAir  they flushed that away when they appointed him. Johnson hasn't changed his personal life is a complete car crash he's been sacked for lying twice and now this dredging up and enabling the far right neo nazis who spread this filth
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  5230. How evil and disgusting can this government get is there no bottom to thier depravity GET PROCESSES IN PLACE THAT DEALS WITH THE PROBLEM QUICLY AND EFFICIENTLY STOP THIS MACABRE THEATRE FOR THE RACIST TROLLS HOW DESPERATE ARE YOU FOR FKIN VOTES YOU BUNCH OF GHOULS
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  5231.  @swimminginthoughts  The Democrats are a collective not one person which is why they have stable administrations
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  5232. The same Thatcherite policies that got us here are you really suggesting 5 more years of self mutilation
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  5233. what she doesnt follow Republican conspiracy theories?
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  5234. Head over to Labour Social on YouTube there's a series of videos explaining them
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  5235. Let's be clear globalisation means lowering standards to rock bottom and importing the cheapest crap you can get away with flooding the local market and putting local industry and producers out of business for........ A few quick millions screw the social costs of decades of unemployment and decline. If you want an example look what happened when they started importing cheap Chinese steel or cheap Australian coal.
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  5236. Blair / Brown +25% on average wages services that work Cameron /May -3% on average wages Johnson Truss Sunak -?? services that are run down to the bone and are on life support The tax-to-GDP ratio in the United Kingdom has increased from 32.7% in 2000 to 33.5% in 2021 debt to gdp rom 62% to a projected 103% in 2023 (don't blame the pandemic it was 92% in 2019) I'm going to vote Labour to be better off
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  5237. In such times you need base production of strategic assets, as in what if we find ourselves in a trade war with China? Russia has shown how getting hooked on their Gas could have been extensional you can't allow that for Steel or Batteries or Chips or Food etc.
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  5238. He would have been just as useless as Truss. Stop ulegising the guy
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  5239. People are fed up of his crime spree
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  5240. What's the fuss the Tories have behaved like their our Overlords every time there in Power You gullibly bought the line that we need to squeeze the economy because Labour can't be trusted thus enacting 13 years of Austerity and Trickle Down Supply Side Economics which has lead to higher taxes and less disposable income than well 13 years ago Your going to go through the voting booth and pull the Blue lever again your just suckers the worse they treat you the more you vote for these right wing idiots.
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  5241. The MAGA crowd screamed bring back Blue Collar Jobs Uncle Joe brought back blue collar jobs 350,000 last quarter MAGA said Make America Great Again Uncle Joe passed the IRA CHIPS and INFRASTRUCTURE Bill to turbo charge the US economy to be the world leader in renewable Technology and fetching car manufacturing back Irony is truly not dead Dark Brandon strikes again
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  5242.  @rikmorley1729  it would take over a decade to reverse economic policies embedded in the system, migration isn't a tap you can turn on and off
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  5243. The Tories have wrecked the economy it will take till 2026/7 to sort out anything like looking at thresholds the freeze is till 2028 I'm a pensioner with a modest additional work pension its absolutely hammering me with additional fuel costs
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  5244.  @1310mini1  these people are in a closed loop information bubble, you average Democrat and to some extent independent gets thier news and facts from multiple sources from a very left biased TYT to right wing mainstream media such as CNN with at least a common grounding in fact. The right wing have no problem with fact optional content and it's getting worse with the rise of OAN Newsmax and the sheer wonton disregard by Facebook for responsibility, thier algorithms are pushing people to all sorts of untrue dangerous places. Please don't shout at them try and treat the as if they have Stockholm syndrome, information education is key
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  5245.  Greenday Today  insulting people doesn't work see my previous comment, I've had a few conversations with Trumpistas on the comments section if your polite sometimes you can engage
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  5246. 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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  5247. There is nothing conservative about NatCon They have deep connections with The Heritage Foundation The NatCon Brussels event was sponsored and coordinated by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian think tank funded by oil and gas money. This is a Libertarian Billionaire & big Fossil event if you believe they have anyone but their own interests at heart then your deluded follow the money
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  5248. common sense would be to process them in a timely manner and not deliberately use them as political pawns 80,000 applied last year @ 80% success rate means where keeping 62,000 a year there's 180,000 in the system meaning where housing 36,000 who should already have been deported and 144,000 who should be working in the economy
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  5249. what for exposing Johnson Cummings Sunak Hancock et all as being completely inept
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  5250. Military guys always want more, its a long front 1000 km the limiting factor is ammo, one thing that's surfaced is NATO needs a larger supply of ammunition
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  5251. More fool you one set of right wing con men for another
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  5252. We borrowed 130 billion last year and payed 120 billion in interest costs thanks to the Cons, we've also had public pay suppression which has driven migration through the roof. Unless you have some offshore trust fund no sure why your bothered?
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  5253. 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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  5254. there are alternatives we just choose not to use them
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  5255. The movement has more to do with the conspiracy called the Great Replacement Theory. The dark money is from Christian White Nationalist organisations. Anyone that believes this is a true cause about the sanctity of life is a useful idi0t it is not they are political pawns this is about control.
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  5256. How are you going to reduce legal migration? If the Tories cut training budgets and depress salaries for Nurses and doctors but you still need nurses and doctors your going to have to import them. It would take nearly a decade to repair the economic damage of Austerity
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  5257. cobalt is used in petroleum refineries and Tesla stopped using it last year anyway an EV has 40 moving Parts an ICE vehicle has 4,000 and prices will continue to drop as production ramps up
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  5258. He's studied Russia / Ukraine for decades
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  5259. You reduce migration by investing in the domestic population NOT dolling out tax cuts.
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  5260. Yes no move on It will help balance out the insane bias against y9ung people by the Tories
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  5261.  @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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  5262. Then why have we been in recession for 2 years (GDP per Capita) seen trade drop by 7% by volume comparing to pre pandemic figures and are now worse off than we were in 2010
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  5263. not really she's spouting Minford's garbage here's an analysis of what is going to happen Professor Patrick Minford, one of the ‘Economists for Brexit’, argues that leaving the European Union (EU) will raise the UK’s welfare by 4% as a result of increased trade. His policy recommendation is that following a vote for Brexit, the UK should strike no new trade deals but instead unilaterally abolish all its import tariffs. Under this policy (‘Britain Alone’), he describes his model as predicting the ‘elimination’ of UK manufacturing and a big increase in wage inequality. These outcomes may be hard to sell to UK citizens as a desirable political option. The economy has already lost 5% gdp which = 40 billion in lost taxation through reduced economic activity due to Brexit this would turn everywhere but London and the south east into a wasteland even worse than Thatcher's attack on heavy industry
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  5264. Yea only 4+ years to go Read some reform stuff on Labour its completely crazy Rwanda has gone thankfully Onshore wind ban gone If you study economics and read the FT and other sources you'd know the Tories have been skirting round the finances and what a disaster brex1t is and also their NI cut was completely unfunded
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  5265. He's completely crazy and is going to increase your taxes on a scale never seen before 20% tariff = 20% sales tax
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  5266.  @Bob-hc2kq  quantative easing affects the world price of the dollar against other currencies, the G20 have all been doing it if you compare the dollar value the Euro its at exactly the same point as 2000, against the Yuan again steady. Powell is rolling back tapering personaly I think the Fed were too quick to lower the rate in 2019 but hey its opinion and I'd cut tapering slightly quicker but Powell doesn't want any shocks to the system. From a classic textbook theory you'd expect print more = devaluation of the dollar = inflation BUT that's not what's happening the dollar is steady and commodity prices (oil and natural gas) are rising combined with supply chain pandemic issues are causing ripples in the economy. The way to deal with the fossil issue is to move from an oil dependant economy as has been demonstrated in the past world oil prices have a disproportionate affect on the US inflation rate. Have a nice day
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  5267. His pension rank is different to the one he attained due to only serving 2 years not 3 at that level so technically he's both
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  5268. I voted Lib-Dem and for a Labour Mayor In just a few weeks they have rolled back onshore wind ban canned Rwanda approved multiple Grid projects and clamped down on nutters Our economy is shagg3d after the Tories it will take time
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  5269. The Tories have defunded the Police Justice system and Councils via Austerity prosecutions have gone down as resources get stretched further and further till the system breaks down the last figueres I saw its halved since 2017 This is a quote from the Daily Mail Child sex abuse prosecutions more than halve in four years as convictions fall 45% - while courts backlog sees victims waiting nearly two years So all I hear about is ONE case when the glaring fact of the matter is that thousands have got away with kiddie fiddling for what Tax breaks to corporations and Bankers, Millionaire pensioner tax bung?
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  5270.  @xelthiavice4276  yes it will for a start there are 180,000 in the system if you processed them all tomorrow that would mean 36,000 being deported and 144,000 not being propped up by the state for political purposes. Last year 80,000 people applied for asylum of which 80% will be granted 62,000 from a population of 68 million is not a lot
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  5271.  @tammyturowski6703  use my bank card but back on topic the main reason for the rant here appears to be against tax evasion money laundering and a whole host of illegal activities associated with cash transactions Nige doesn't give a toss about anyone but himself
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  5272. The overall economy is short of about 2 million, about 1.5 working people left the UK economy including a load of Brits whose jobs were transitioning over to the EU because of Brexit. The UK has an aging population as was demonstrated by the stats on hgv drivers having an average age of 55, I used to work in IT am retired but my company closed its UK office couple of years back a large chunk like me just took redundancy and retired early a few went to work in Holland the job market over here is crazy I'm forever getting asked to do projects I was a technical architect working on networking and security. I thought there would be more young people in IT but these 30k vacancies and rising
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  5273. Supply side Trickle down economics has hit the buffers the 2 here are talking like its 1980/90 it never worked anyway That's all there offering is rebadged Thatcherism they haven't been able to reduce taxes since they took power so talk of keeping more of your money is boloney the Tax base was 33% under Blair/Brown and Cameron till a brief period where it went down to 32% (corporate tax cuts which ballooned the debt to GDP Ratio while still having a stagnant economy) and has gone up to 33% and will hit 36% in a couple of years. Thatcher's low tax economy was paid for with Asset Stripping public services, Oil Money, Giving away Housing and Globalization
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  5274.  @fortybelow1973  it has a population of 38 million which is less than Calafornia or Texas, a system which allows for Calafornia to have a version of m4a and Texas to keep treating it's residents like dirt will eventually move Texas. Rome wasn't built in a day and the only way to convert the healthcare system is on a state by state level
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  5275.  @fortybelow1973  Canada to the outside world appears to be more like a country the United States is what it says on the tin a collection of states bound by mostly commerce. There are a number of dynamics working in the US while you're going to get a majority for M4A the dynamic playing out in the country is that if you look at voting patterns 70% of the GDP resides in Biden voting counties, the depressed and rural counties are run for the most part by Republican's and Companies are allowed to pour vast sums into propaganda pretty much unregulated.
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  5276. Trade will get better as there going to realign standards with the EU Immigration will get better because they will regulate the Labour market and remove the 20% discount The economy will get better because they will rip out all the trickle down cr*p and spend it on real things Reeve has a degree in economics from the LSE and experience in the BOE
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  5277.  @januarysson5633  50 maybe 100 years
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  5278. The so called working class voted UKIP BREXIT BORIS with the younger ones not voting at all. The middle educated younger class are more and more thier core vote as is the suburbs they want schools NHS to work and not have shyte pumped into the rivers there not interested in intellectual socialism just a decent wage and a roof over thier head. Install another out of touch populist fantasy socialist and you'll be out of power again I have my gripes about the direction in terms of tax but without power you get nothing
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  5279. The figures are 48 Billion a year to build a renewable grid or 6% gdp by 2035 which is cheaper than the subsidies the government gave to the energy sector in fuel support which was 70+ billion in 2023 A big part of this is insulating homes and building new ones to a higher thermal standard this gives large savings to consumers
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  5280.  @Memovox  The bulk of it is, were above Russia in expected economic growth in the G20 at 19th so what is the connection? Russia has economic Trade sanctions against it for invading a foreign country The UK put economic Trade sanctions on itself to get Brexit done
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  5281. Its all part of the Bojo Sunak master plan to reduce the spend on pensions, gone is the triple lock and now we have the triple wammy Plague extra high Heating and reduction in Pensions in real terms. Starve, Freeze and Infect The new Tory slogan for Xmas
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  5282. What a jerk
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  5283. Labour are keeping the tax relief for businesses to reinvest and grow instead of profit take we've had 14 years of not balancing the books, escalating debt with zero real growth then hammered by brex1t The 20 billion NI cut wasn't funded and was meant to hobble any Labour spending plans by pre spending their manifesto tax rises so they couldn't do anything.
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  5284. ​ @Mick37364 there isn't any difference between Reform the Tories and UKIP after last week's conference
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  5285. there in hotels because the government hasn't processed them an deliberately slow rolls to make the situation worse
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  5286. If you control Kherson you control Crimea's water supply the Ukrainians cut it off since 2014 so water had to be shipped in I believe there's a desalination plant but keeping Crimea has been very expensive for Russia. The push in the south is for Kherson and to control that part of the coast, Donbas is a shelled wasteland
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  5287. Ahh the ignorance, Rwanda is a show pony to dangle you along it will never happen and you like a gullible Gammon will keep ticking the blue box 2010 18,000 in the system 2023 140,000 in the system Every last one of us is paying for Tory incompetence as they slow roll the system to generate as big a crisis as possible in the hope that it will garner votes look at us where the fkin Usless Party we can waste bucket fulls of money on a pointless policy that we can't back out from now because it would RAGE the gammons after all that BNP NF vote is our core support
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  5288.  @Gambit771  and whys that because he went to Eton treats women like dirt and hob nobs with Russian Oligarchs
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  5289. ​ @mikebarnes3557 he's right go look who owns this its propaganda to push billionaire interests
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  5290. It gets traded on the world commodity market and aside from that extraction, processing and transportation go up in price year on year while renewable energy comes down in price.
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  5291.  @NatMart9394  battery prices have dropped by 50% in the last 18 months Bloomberg have estimated that they will halve in price and double in capacity in the next few years Domestic and grid scale mass storage will revolutionise the grid and transport.
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  5292. MAGA said bring back jobs so Biden brought back jobs MAGA said make us great again so Biden starts the renewable revolution to make the US the green tech leader The irony hes actually helping these muppets
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  5293. Even better give them a job so they can pay taxes
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  5294. The guy is raracist right wing dick that tries to devide
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  5295. you have a smart meter, if you had an ev you'd know that your smart plug turns on and off when its most cost effective to charge What is the average distance traveled by car in the UK? Average Car Mileage UK (2023) Average Mileage per Day, Week, Month and Year On a daily basis, cars in the UK drive an average of 20 miles a day, 142 miles a week, 617 miles a month and 7,400 miles a year.
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  5296.  @mickywalters7439  I listened to an interview with the Neil Kinnock a while back he was reflecting on his battle with Militant the 2 situations are just completely different in that the Economy wasn't too bad back in that election it is a veritable skip fire now. The real parallel is a party within a party Momentum in Labour and these activists taking over local areas, membership is always more activist but if you push it too far your abandoning the voting public as the Tories are now there in all sorts of trouble with the UKIP block and the Libertarian wing. Sunak is a Thatcherite but he's having to throw red meat to the base with Rwanda. Opinion polls aside the Guardian does some good work on Focus groups on their podcasts well worth a listen
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  5297.  @ianbarnes9947  reason for the gaffe that got her into trouble in the 1st place is she looks to be having memory problems
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  5298. The nickname is Blunder Truss
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  5299. He thinks everyone that matters is over 60 and is a religious nutter oh I forgot white as well
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  5300. You can reduce migration through economic policy Ex - Osborne cut Nursing Bursary Effect less nurses trained Consequence employ foreign nurses Multiplier Brexit means outside the EU = MORE dependents Ex Osborne / Cameron fail to regulate Gig working don't BAN zero hour contracts allow offshore multi nationals Import just under 1 million workers into the sector between 2010 & 2015 Low migration is impossible in low tax trickle down supply side economy
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  5301. I'm 67 most of my friends are 50-65 I don't think there's 1 that will vote Con at the next election were in a blue wall seat. The only one that may and he'd probably go to Reform is someone who started listening to GBN and talk radio, we've currently got him off it with help from his daughters. That stuff is so toxic though and he knows it
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  5302. The man that brought you the hard brexit and visa system that has tripled migration and sent the UK economy swirling round the toilet bowl ? No thanks
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  5303.  @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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  5304. We have our own laws every 1 of the 4000+ where passed by parliment if you want to change them every single 1 needs reviewing and debating in parliment
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  5305.  @viper_fan  no it doesn't there are 1 million and 1 flavours It just means whatever guff comes out of a politicians mouth at any single day, business needs access to the single market or the economy will keep spiralling downwards
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  5306.  @viper_fan  we'll be back with some sort of cobbled together access to the single market. 2 reasons Energy and Northern Ireland
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  5307.  @chriswood3252  Its 30% the decline started 2015 Just as an aside spawlykiwskyj My wife works for a small manufacturing firm with its supply chain across Europe they haven't had a bonus since we left that's 20-25% additional wages per annum pre Brexit. That money would have been spent in the local economy now multiply that effect by 100's of thousands of small UK firms and take some ownership of what you people have done. After 7 years your still spewing the same incoherent bilge and blaming everyone else for the economic car crash you've inflicted on the country.
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  5308. I got mine 2 weeks ago and sent it off straight away, I'm in North Yorks
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  5309. You can't fix the Southern border because republicans won't engage on capital hill for a bi-partisan solution, remain in Mexico just backs the problem up and makes it worse. This will get worse not better because of climate change. The US is out of Afghanistan you have been baying for this, it would have been far worse with Steven Miller around, in hindsight the collapse was inevitable due to the Trump deal. The world has a logistics problem through promotion of a world wide on demand supply chain the US is faring better than most. Finnaly stop being a selfish snowflake and do your patriotic duty get a jab and wear a mask what sort of A hole tries to prolong the pandemic get thousands killed just to own the libs?
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  5310. Insulating homes to A+ standard reduces your energy bills and is extremely cost effective lowering standards for landlords increases the burden on tenants who are getting scalped as it is EV's reached cost parity with ICE this year without subsidies and they have yet to touch the economies of scale that further investment and production will bring so by not investing in Infrastructure your increasing costs for the public and lowering the UK's productivity. Renewables reached cost parity with gas back in 2019 so Tice is 4 years out of date (No Surprise there then)
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  5311. our exports by volume are 7% down from 2019 the biggest recorded fall in our history
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  5312. these aren't OUR fuel reserves the Tories sell them off and they go onto the world commodity market where the Privatised energy companies buy them back at a huge markup passing the cost onto the punter
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  5313. @garygreen1782  well there you go Cons for you don't forget to thank Hu nt on the way out
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  5314. Like Corbyn the peacenik intelectual was ever going to get elected, you can talk all you like but actually doing stuff in the real world is a different cup of Cha
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  5315. Migration is a normal part of the economic circle I'm more concerned at the Tory economic policies driving legal migration And What are they doing to root out people disappearing into the black economy 60,000 refugees a year is a drop in the bucket just process them and deal with real problems or is victimising refugees just to easy?
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  5316.  @harshitjain575  you do know your spouting verbatim right wing propaganda don't you? Meanwhile back in the fact based US things are recovering nicely enjoy your hair shirt and flaggalet
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  5317. If you stop all legal immigration the everyone is illegal You do know that The current government are importing labour on the quiet from the Philippines and Indian sub continent and you do know that based on the Australian model this is copied from it will cost about 2 million per head Its just theatre for the masses that doesn't solve the problem but wastes a lot of tax payer money
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  5318. Patel, Johnson, Raab, Javid, Sunak, etc all children of imigrants The Queen Prince Charles etc children of immigrants What's the difference now?
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  5319. I think he had a loose bowel episode
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  5320. It's the cost of 3 billion and the fact that it only affects 250k out of 4.3 million If your aim is to lift as many of that 4.3 million out of poverty as possible it seems a pretty expensive way of doing such a small number
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  5321. Unless your very wealthy you won't we have real world examples of sales taxes to work from Ex Texas Bottom 20% by income pay 13% top 5% pay 3.6% and the median is 8% and you need to be in the upper quartile to benifit
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  5322.  @PJH13  The tax burden has risen in real terms by 33% over the 14 year term and it's not just 2020 If you look at income tax alone the thresholds have been eroded till they were frozen in 2021
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  5323. His economic policies are as fanciful as Liz Truss's were, does Tice really believe his own BS
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  5324.  @anonnemo2504  Not enough to pay for the tax cut the last big Tax cut to Corporation tax by Osborne produced 0.5% GDP over the period it was in force collecting an additional 40 billion at a cost to the Treasury of 200 billion. The millionaire pensioner tax cut costing 4 billion by Sunak will return even less as the money goes straight into pension assets so straight out of the working economy. The 20% threshold will be higher but NO tax cut creates more growth than it costs
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  5325. The death toll would have gone through the roof Sweden is sparsely populated the elderly could basically debunk to their Cabins, it also has a well maintained health system and most Swede's acted by adopting a level of social distancing depending on age and circumstances. Were not as bad as New York but you can see the mortality rate in the early days before restrictions as to what would have happened.
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  5326. you don't need to pay more tax to change over to renewables there actually cheaper than fossil you just need the infrastructure investment A large gas station is cheap to build expensive to run a wind farm is expensive to build cheap to run power is free for fk sake. What the Tories don't want to do is invest so give out 10's of billions in fossil subsidies and hope the problem goes away by the next election
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  5327. Renewables are cheaper why don't you want cheaper energy?
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  5328.  @johnjolliffe  why would they increase immigration? If you want to lower immigration Short term you would have to alter the visa system to make it so European workers could travel and work hassle free, the current number of 1.25 million is a direct result of Brexit and having to hand out semi permanent visas to people coming from India Nigeria and the Philippines who fetch thier families with them. You then change the tax system to a fairer model and invest in a modern transport system and improve your social infrastructure with free education and a well run NHS so you don't have to permanently keep importing labour How do you get this disconect about migration? It's a direct result of economic policy you can't have low tax without constan supply side migration
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  5329. Betrayed? there are no benefits to Johnson's Brexit
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  5330. 2020 the breakdown was 55% women 45% men Harris has something like a 20+ point lead in some polls with women She also has a massive lead with college educated. That's an effin lot of incels he needs to turn out
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  5331. The latest battery storage to come on line is liquid air, the 1st are opening next year it's based on standard refrigeration techniques https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/worlds-biggest-liquid-air-battery-starts-construction-in-uk Big strides are being made in solar panel efficiency the latest are going to be round 40+% there also talking of them working low light The next battery technology is just round the corner the buzzword currently is carbon Ground heat pump tech gathers apace as an alternate energy source using tried and tested heat transfer technology Theres also tidal systems being explored, the world doesn't stand still as a species we can be incredibly inventive when we put our mind to it going backwards no thanks
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  5332. No they wouldn't there's not a single viable policy on their manifesto, they'd get ripped to shreds in an open debate
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  5333. why would anyone vote to remove their human rights and worse rely on this bunch of lying chancers not to abuse it
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  5334.  @KysAngel  healthcare isn't free now the US has the highest per capita gdp spend in the western world for your healthcare with life expectancy going down, the system is broken with huge spend on emergency facilities and health problems not treated at the start. You can argue round how to fix it but the GOP solution of cutting back spending on a broken system will only break it some more. Companies that are making money out of the current system are determined to keep the status quo with unlimited budgets to spread fear and misinformation
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  5335. sending or deporting anyone to what is a concentration camp thousands of miles away in Rwanda doesn't look any different to Putin deporting citizens of the Donbas to Siberian Gulags
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  5336. 25% of the voters in his seat are resident or work at Catterick army garrison 😅
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  5337. Lammy negotiated for Starmer to be in the international party on D-Day the one Sunak bunked off
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  5338.  @timg1246  I study economics I'm a data guy we have statistically full employment that's why there are so many strikes too many jobs too few people to do them. We also have a points based immigration system designed to suppress middle income wages import skills at lower rates and forcing people into unskilled jobs. You really don't get it do you
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  5339. @timg1246  you ever done economics? This is a quote from an economics source In the real world, an unemployment rate of 5% or lower is often considered full employment. This level of unemployment prevents inflation and lets workers move between jobs, but is low enough that those wanting full-time work should be able to find some kind of full-time job The issue with points based is its inbuilt 20% below market rate put in by the Tories its massive cost and explotative nature creating economic slavery and it doesn't address any economic need the sooner we get back FOM and stop all the xenophobic bullsh1t posturing the better. Populism and othering asylum seekers and migrant workers is cheap politics with a zero end game that will only spiral into more cruel policies and further degrading treatment while costing a small fortune achieving nothing and not dealing with 5he problems
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  5340. why?
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  5341.  @judithrochin256  they pay well you also learn a lot very quickly trying to tar and feather everyone whose worked for them over certain individual scandals is dumb
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  5342. She lies too much and is easily cought out
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  5343. ​ @nunyabuziness9622 Ahh Trussanomics how did that go last time?
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  5344.  @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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  5345. blame the Tories
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  5346. Nearly 1/2 the councils are going bankrupt it's nothing to do with how there run its the reduction by 50% in real terms of central grants and population increases + social care and housing costs. Thanks to right to bu and not replacing stock councils are spending 20 billion on statutory housing support
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  5347. Cuts don't necessarily generate income, Osborne's Austerity cuts decreased UK GDP more than it saved in frontline costs
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  5348. After sars there was some international effort to investigate this area There's a good interview with a virologist on democracy now which is matter of fact and there's a good podcast by Chris hayes about the spread of disinformation in the Internet age. The problem of global markets versus a local economy has been swept under the carpet it has come more to the fore with green issues and more awareness of climate impact but big business and profit have a stranglehold on the topic
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  5349. Looking at the data its tactical voting Anything but a Tory Uxbridge I had a whiff of anti net zero and something to scare.the uneducated with
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  5350. Your talking complete nonsense
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  5351. I've installed underfloor heating last year used pre-routed flooring boards Tor Floor on a suspended double insulated floor rather than screed, the advantage of pre-routed boards was speed of installation so less money spent on Labour. I did 90 square meters of ground floor quite a bit of ancillary Labour myself and we ended up with a Gas boiler but the system is Air Source ready. Cost was £25,000 to give people some idea which is not a lot different to a standard radiator system
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  5352. Its not even close that Johnson is the worst PM this country has ever had The longer he hangs on the more he shit's all over the party and amps up further Tory infighting
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  5353. Renewables are cheaper and Reform have 2 chances fat and none
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  5354. Corporations market to the under 50's the bulk of which believe climate change is real and you shouldn't act like a right wing arseh0le to the LBGTQ community. Last poll by age the Conservatives received 8% support in the under 50's mostly male signalling that at the next election your party will be dead
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  5355. Its Alt Universe + Alt Right who buys this garbage
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  5356. Braverman is completely and utterly incompetent, Rwanda and barges billions spent on a PR farce and not dealing with the problem & Dog whistling to the likes of Tommy Robinson's crowd is disgusting trying to cause trouble on the streets why doesn't she go down on Saturday and hand out the black shirts you know she wants to. quote Far-right groups and football hooligans ‘to descend on London during Palestinian march’ The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC), said it will march alongside activists for the fourth successive weekend as it calls on Israel to agree to a ceasefire after its bombardment of Gaza. Now English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson has spoken out against the demo, saying: “British men are mobilising for Saturday to be in London” to “show our Government and show our police and show Hamas and everyone sitting around the world saying ‘Britain has fallen’ that there is a resistance”. A call to arms has also been issued on social media by the Democratic Football Lads Alliance, a right-wing organisation that uses football fan networks to spread Islamophobic hate.
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  5357. Just look at Horizon project
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  5358. The driver of migration is Thatcherism Supply side trickle down economics needs a constant supply side Labour pool The only way round this to slow migration is to invest in your domestic population People flock to right wing populism when left wing managed economy is the only way of slowing migration Ah well
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  5359. ​@larry3387 Biden is respected round the World, that respect was built up over decades. Even the majority of GOP senetors and congress think Trump is an Ahole
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  5360.  @susanhawley4102  why? All going to net zero involves is building sustainable infrastructure. It isn't more expensive it's actually cheaper it just has higher up front capital cost and doesn't make the fossil industry boat loads of money
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  5361. Drilling and production are not guaranteed it may well have to be re-shelved on safety or other grounds and its 5-7 years before it will enter the market plus it all gets traded on the world commodity market us any. You can add more turbines to ems in under a year and have a new offshore development in 2/3 plus we need to invest in tidal
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  5362. Business's use the roads and infrastructure they lean on schools for training and they get government to subsidise the people on the poverty line it's a deal that the top are reneging on.
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  5363. alcohol at work a drinking culture I believe was Ms Gray's word A wine Fridge a suitcase to go down the Off Licence with a Karaoke machine the term Wine Friday being the order of the day if she tightens that blue scarf any more round her neck she'll throttle herself
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  5364. 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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  5365. ​ @timmyg44  the referendum was advisory and vague it meant a million and 1 things to different groups Norway aren't in the EU neither are Switzerland and the current hard Brexit is unsustainable due to trade gravity and globalisation unwinding due to a fossil fuel crisis war plague and in some countries famine
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  5366.  @timmyg44  leaving the EU and leaving the single market are 2 different things because of Tory arrogance and their infighting we left both plus removed freedom of movement. We are slowly but surely heading back to a place where we will be negotiating to have access to the single market again because the current trading position is untenable. We have yet to implement well over 1/2 the intended Brexit changes and our economy is catering under the strain global Britain as a concept of British exceptionalism is dead the markets told Truss and the other Brexit Ultra's to go swivel. As an entrepreneur you can't do any import/export without running into the car crash that is Johnsons Brexit every single promise by vote leave has been broken
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  5367. A low wage economy which depends on zero hour and migration is anti business, it lets them paper over the cracks with cheap labour instead of investing to boost productivity
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  5368. And yet your saying they will vote for a party that has been taken over by UKIP and has abandoned businesses that comes on the TV like Shapps and lie twice in a couple of days adding flames to the fuel shortage?
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  5369. Then why has he proposed to tackle the Smuggling gangs introducing new powers to sieze thier assets. This is proper leadership on the issue not 1/2 a billion spent on a posturing gimmick to send 0.2% to Rwanda
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  5370. In one way a universal ID system for all citizens with automatic voter registration would make sense but the right wing would have a complete meltdown about having to carry ID cards or it being mandatory and automatic. Just think you could make it a smart system and add I dunno a vaccine passport People are already registered with local and federal government in a number of ways the above solution is a compromise but a pill the right wouldn't swallow
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  5371. did you read the full article ?
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  5372. reform would be a disaster there's 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts in their manifesto abandoning renewable roll out and fracking
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  5373. Green stuff reduces bills, if the Tories had gone full renewable in 2021 then they wouldn't have spent 72 billion last year on energy subsidies.
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  5374.  @justincronkright5025  if you don't fund Ukraine Vlad had a monopoly on Wheat and our defence budget would need to rise to 3% gdp
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  5375. 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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  5376. How many sticks do they have to beat ICE car manufacturers with before they get the message
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  5377. And he would have been just as useless just in a different way the issue is free market fundamentalism when you have a pandemic you need state control we'd spent 10 years running down the helth service and outsourcing shutting down the pandemic response group to save money Not replacing old stock and making trying to make healthcare as dysfunctional as possible to justify privatisation
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  5378. Thatcher asset stripped the country and transfered huge sums of public money to the wealthy, that removes publicly owned wealth which trickles up to the rich. She also blew billions in oil money on tax cuts 40+ years on we have nothing to show for it
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  5379. Which lie there are so many in this Tory government.
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  5380. You've got a hard brexit which has tanked the economy increased migration and raised taxes
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  5381. ​@keighlancoe5933 no you wouldn't you have stayed in bed. With education to 18 its vital government make policies for the youth of today rather than focus on pensioners and home owners
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  5382. 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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  5383. Why is this such a big story Abbot has marginalised herself over the last couple of years Why are we not talking about the Trickle down budget from Hell 2 billion in millionaire pensioner giveaways 8 billion tax cut for bankers additional 6 billion additional tax break for fossil fuel companies verses Fiscal drag adding £1000 per person Corporation tax going up Student loan repayment extended to 40 years and reduced limit for payback 16.5% food inflation 50%+ energy inflation
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  5384. Reform is a limited company with 3 members its not even a proper political party if it were it would be regulated as one
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  5385. 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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  5386.  @mhall801  the economy has recovered to just below pre pandemic levels way ahead of every G20 country Unemployment at near full The world has inflation not just the US Oil +25% cost of container shipping +330% or do you think somehow world commodity prices are controllable by 1 nation?
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  5387. I had my first shot a few weeks ago had the chills and aches for a day and a half, my mum who is 90 had no side affects at all looking forward to a bit more activity having asthma been mostly holed up working from home and visiting the grocery store
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  5388. ​ @MrYossarianuk nice one
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  5389. It will but the cost of just scrapping the system is 15 billion and that doesn't take into account the vast numbers sold off in debt to the private sector You need a long term policy and fix the schools NHS pot holes everywhere childcare the economy renewable energy the tax system FIRST
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  5390.  @KS-kn9tn  In the fact anyone could do better than this current government
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  5391. They did exactly what they said in the manifesto
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  5392. That's because they will never have to implement what is a piece of complete political drivel
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  5393. You can't call other MP's a liar without being refereed to the standards committee but as parliament is dissolved there are no MP's
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  5394. Why all the misogyny?
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  5395. back the Dyson's and Clarkson's of this world you mean for a couple the total allowance is 3 million
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  5396. what don't you get about putting trade barriers on yourself makes you poorer?
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  5397. I voted for a Labour Mayor and Lib-Dem mp Not sure what all the doom and fuss is about! The economy has been stagnant since the Osborne Austerity budget in 2010 then got a thorough kicking with brex1t Any perceived growth with the Tories smoke and mirrors was down to migration in real terms GDP per capita has fallen by -10% The Reeve budget doesn't come into force till Apr 2025 Most of the downturn we see now is down to the 2023 24 budgets and brex1t Port Tolbot being a noted victim and Luton is next
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  5398. They want the demand curve to not look like an upside down U enabling constant use will best suit a future grid
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  5399. No you weren't you've been fossil independent since the tail end of the Bush era through 4 Presidential terms, just get your facts straight and check them
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  5400.  @darrens2601  It improves GDP per capita over time which translates to better wages and increased tax take. Investment has been sorely hampered by Tory Chaos which in turn has seen a 2 year recession in GDP per capita
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  5401. Its just a bone to the far right of the Con party Doris wants the division and argument makes like he's doing something pathetic in its blinding obviousness
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  5402.  @nathanaelsmith3553  Most self builders use it and councils want the dwellings up fast. I only heard about it due to looking into secondary insulation.
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  5403. 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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  5404.  @daveday6728  Its actually 3 times more debt than every labour government total labour borrowing including Atlee is around 500 billion since 2010 the Cons have borrowed 1.6 trillion
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  5405. so what is the cap now? oh yea there isn't one
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  5406. That's sarcasm I take it?
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  5407.  @seanpidduck  No they don't want their homes to inflate what difference is it to me that my gaff is worth 300,000 or 3/4 of a million I'm not moving anywhere. And planning rules aren't the issue its the NIMBY's that turn up to every development meeting while the voices of those that would live there aren't represented. As for growing the economy this does nothing of the sort studies have shown return in tax cuts to the wider economy is 28p in the pound at best, similar studies on Austerity have also shown that for every Pound removed from public sector workers it removes £1.6 from the wider economy. If you want the economy to grow join the single market and reintroduce freedom of movement we have an acute labour shortage and a staggering level of paperwork and tariffs on our nearest export market. By the way you borrow money when rates are low and invest it in social and physical infrastructure to improve your populations productivity not borrow when rates are ballooning to piss it up a wall on tax cuts
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  5408. No major company will set up in the UK Johnson's hard Brexit destroyed the On-Demand supply chain what used to take overnight or a day or so now takes weeks and tons of paperwork Medium sized companies are transferring business to the EU to avoid it and back in 2016 the EU started upgrading Irelands road port infrastructure so goods from the EU didn't have to use GB as a land bridge
    2
  5409. There understaffed and have had their pay squeezed like all the public sector workers look at the Home office a backlog of 160,000 applications that's built up over the last few years
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  5410.  @ScragNath  been a senior analyst running a large team never shouted at anyone bullying behaviour is the refuge of the weak and incompetent. Catch any of my staff doing it they'd be straight to HR
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  5411. Most governments are going to have to subsidise their domestic car manufacturers because their that far behind the curve and need to stop pretending it's anything but a subsidy, more so for domestic jobs but the goons in charge who've tried to block progress from ice need to go.
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  5412. You can take money out of the economy by raising taxes we have one of the lowest rates of Corporation and top band tax rates in the G7 all the pain has so far been piled on the bottom.
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  5413. what would you be voting for? the socialist fantasy project was completely rejected by the electorate
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  5414. Dream on
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  5415. Free labour
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  5416.  @garemacquarrie6705  GBN are owned by a billionaire offshore with connections to the Legatum Institute a Libertarian think tank ( for the world elite)
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  5417. One of the nut job theories going round is to do with aborted fetal tissue being used in its development so they hook in the Anti abortion crowd. The fact is the MRNA is completely synthetic, and the AZ for example uses a clone of a clone of a clone etc of some fetal tissue from the early 70's. As an example of how the right are completely fu** crazy Idaho are effecting a ban on requiring not just a covid vaccine but All vaccines, Florida are doing something similar and that will tank the cruise industry in that state. Performance polotics has consequences
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  5418. Generic Renewable investment has a positive economic multiplier if you add mass storage as well that saving goes up by a huge margin. Input energy for renewables = free Gas is subject to extraction, processing and transport costs as well as inflation, at the moment were paying Shell and BP to extract due to large subsidies
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  5419.  @andrewturner6642  There not massively subsidised at all dunno where you got that from. The cost per kwh became on par with Gas Generation back in 2020. and there not as unreliable as you think we just don't have mass storage to take advantage of the fact most are always on. There here now, the 1st country to fully take advantage of cheap power by investing in the grid infrastructure has a huge commercial advantage.
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  5420. Farage is the last thing the Tories need it's following UKIP polices that have got them into the mess there in EX the points based immigration system which has exploded net migration The issue is it's haemorrhaging votes from the centre
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  5421. and those are his good points
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  5422. Desperate much? This bs can be refuted with a quick Google. Nice try tho x by the way Thatcher knighted him and Edwina Curry gave him unfettered access to hospitals
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  5423. Its called freedom of expression, think about what your supporting by swallowing this bilge its a straight line to Authoritarianism and fascism
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  5424. It won't work The EU are already coordinating with South America and will probably hold talks with Canada as well as the UK There's no point pandering to the 1diot you have a coordinated retaliation and sit out his scattergun approach to everything by the midterms the US will be sick of him
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  5425. Boat people are a distraction no idea why you and others bang on about it so much its 60,000 given asylum per year at the moment from a population of 70 million
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  5426. The next RNC chair will just funnel money straight to Donald Youd think the big donor's would be sick of him siphoning off money into his personal piggy bank by now Least E Jean Carrol and NY may get some money now
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  5427. The debt is caused by 2 major GOP tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate America - Clinton debt goes down Bush tax cuts for corporations and wealthy debt explodes Obama gets debt under control after years of fighting the GOP and Trump blows it wide open wit a tax cut for the wealthy and corporate America.
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  5428. Rich people pay their kids way through college leaving them debt free which is why the Republicans are bitching so much, there's nothing in it for their Billionaire donors
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  5429.  @HaPham-ny2bn  Then you will know what a bunch of fascists the Russians are The FSB even killed Alexander Zakharchenko, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people’s republic in a car bomb and replaced by the more reliable Pushilin. Read Ivan Ilyin, Putin’s Philosopher of Russian Fascism and Red Famine : Stalin's War on Ukraine
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  5430. The Democrats need an army of truthers going round with fact sheets the play against the ACA is all about lining the pockets of the rich, tax analysis puts all the benifit of repealing the ACA as a giant tax cut for the top 1% of about 32000 dollars removing subsidies to healthcare on the bottom 40% and affecting 59% not at all (except guaranteeing pre-existing conditions for everyone). Repealing it screws everyone but the top 1%
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  5431. reform are worse version of the Tories we got here because of 14 years of thatcherism and your suggesting thatcherism on steroids will work? How did Truss work out remind me
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  5432.  @indricotherium4802  Johnson has blown it the picture of the Queen mourning alone while there was a rave on at number 10 will be bury them every time. The stark contrast was what finally tipped the scales there's no going back with the electorate and the red meat only helps the die hards and the Ultra's More Brexit will crash the economy further and come the election sewage and deregulation will poop up again as will miles of ques at the ports with biometric passports etc
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  5433.  @indricotherium4802  he'll hang on I've no doubt about that the mask is down though what he's shown is what a lot of us tried to get through to our friends back in 2019 His first action in government was to illegally prologue parliament and lie to the Queen not much has changed in 2 and a bit years, still lying still ducking and diving surviving from day to day
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  5434.  @indricotherium4802  honeymoon period I doubt it, if Johnson goes before summer the new leader still has out of control fuel bills and traffic chaos at the ports and escalating shortages in supermarkets with food prices rising through the roof. Full brexit hasnt come in and a new leader will have to promise to blow up the protocol causing trouble in Ireland and an all out trade war
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  5435. Cameron's government instigated the Hard Right Thatcherite economic Agenda coupled with Austerity which has resulted in the current mess. Not Conservative my ars3
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  5436. Sweden doesn't have the population density and a much better health service
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  5437. I've never voted Tory never seen the attraction, Thatcher asset stripped the economy and blew oil money on short term tax cuts. Reform are promising 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts, the last 14 years has seen borrowing of 1.6 trillion and a broken economy
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  5438.  @tiggerwoods100  that's untrue past a certain disposable income wealth in a majority is accumulated, the current system has the wealthy pay way less in taxes in % terms of total income compared to every one else. You've also a screwed up system where the Federal government is having to subsidise business with various programs because they pay poverty wages.
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  5439.  @tiggerwoods100  And you completely ignore purchase taxes and the huge tax breaks on unearned income plus the Federal subsidy of the poor. The lower and middle class subsidise the rich end of.
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  5440. Corbyn got kicked out for not keeping his head down and towing the party line under previous Leaders it was tolerated but to be honest everyone has had enough. During the Blaire / Brown years he voted 400+ times against the government he just isn't a team player
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  5441. @ianainsley7174  13 years of hard right economics that has crippled our economy and your answer is there not hard right enough let's jump to some elite rich guy in Tice who claims to know all the answers? I've got an answer based on data lots of it Thatcherism trickle down supply side economics doesn't work only for elites like Tice and Sunak
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  5442. They have a smaller sample of Republicans because there leaving the Party in droves and becoming independents
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  5443. Thatcher economics needs tons of migrant labour to work Banging on about multiculturalism is a distraction so you don't notice what there doing to the economy with trickle down for thier mates
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  5444. 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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  5445. Nar it's the economy The chief driver of migration is the economic fallout of brexit as well as the removal of fom 200k before 750k after
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  5446. US arms sales are booming across the world The GOP don't want a border solution, Trump got the Republicans senate bill killed
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  5447. so your going to waste your vote based on media made up culture wars how sad
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  5448. Reeve has already dispelled that myth with her Mais speech
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  5449. The elite will loose loads of tax perks The Tories fetched in a tax break for millionaire pensioners in the 2023 budget costing 8 billion, all the fossil subsidies will be gone costing billionaires hundreds of billions
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  5450. Ukraine has 800,000 currently active military personnel Russia has 450,000 in ukraine at the moment of the 300,000 professional soldiers they had in ukraine at the start its estimated by independent sources 90% are no longer active. The Russians also have a logistics problem 1/2 a million men on foreign soil means a constant long supply chain In terms of moral the Ukrainians will never give up there fighting for thier homeland and lives the Russians on the other hand are fighting for what exactly?
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  5451.  @gurucartel3422  the Russians have a fundemental problem, the Oligarchs, the Russian Mafia and Putin are interchangeable they are part of a system which has as its bedrock corruption Everyone is on the take even with them being at war. The western sanctions while they don't seem to have that much effect on the surface deprive the Russians of a flow of high grade Optics normally made in Japan up to date chips for smart weapons from Taiwan, spare parts for the oil and gas industry, spare parts for trains even those there getting they have to pay through the nose for in foreign currency. Russia now is not the Russia of the Soviet era its manufacturing base declined a lot as it switched to becoming a Petro Mafia State. Its education system also declined did you know that Russia had to import Oil and Gas engineers! Before 2014 it was from the US they had a partnership with ExxonMobil and once the oil wells fail through lack of maintenance your into a multi year program of drilling a new one.
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  5452. It's about tax and regulations, the rest of Trumps campaign money is coming from oil barons cause he's going to scrap net zero and regulations on clean air.
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  5453. Wars are fought between sovereign nations Hamas is a state sponsored terrorist group not a nation Persecuting a war against Gaza isn't going to destroy Hamas they have no army and the government as such is falling to pieces so what is Israel's intention ?
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  5454. So how do you get rid of the voter suppresion and gerrymandering that reduces your vote to worthless?
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  5455. There in a feedback loop with the media they consume, if they listen to Fox OAN and Newsmanx all day they succumb to their own propaganda and believe what they are doing is is vital for America Mass Psychosis in tune with their audience detached from reality and morality welcome to the Trump show
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  5456. It will be in the OBR report I can tell you were its from anyway the Cons were told there was no room for tax cuts but blew 20 billion on a pre election unfunded NI bribe
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  5457. It's more complex than that, everyone nowadays should have some sort of additional private top up pension. What's hurt me most is the tax thresholds being frozen and cuts to NI + their abandonment of net zero when fossil prices went through the roof, 2 years back you could have gone all in on insulation and really pushed domestic generation
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  5458. They can't cut immigration without shrinking the economy further because its the Conservative economic model that's driving it higher in the 1st place
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  5459. Get it up and running quick by outsourcing to Ukraine another Tory wheeze
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  5460. 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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  5461. Why would he want that? your comment makes zero sense
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  5462. No the current leadership are trying to sideline Corbyn's OAP clique
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  5463. Someone's been watching Trevor Noah :)
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  5464. 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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  5465. It was a giveaway by Thatcher to buy votes , she pissed all the Utility money and oil revenues on it
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  5466. Captain Hindsight ? Sunak couldn't even get his attack line straight Starmer mentioned crumbling schools in his speech so this is a straight out LIE Labour have been calling for the RAAC list to be published for months. I thought he was supposed to bring back integrity to the office not just follow the Johnson playbook of Lie if caught out Lie again
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  5467. I'm a minute in and it's complete nonsense As for Trump he's a Con man and a crook and not very bright so if the Republicans want to win why don't they put up a proper candidate rather than this chump and have a proper manifesto instead of Dem Bad
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  5468. Check out these 2 articles A Keir Starmer government might be more radical than you think by Michael Jacobs Another must read article is by the FT which is backed up with graphs and data showing the trajectory of the UK economy under Austerity Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity A decade of Tory spending cuts left the country vulnerable to the external shocks of the past two years
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  5469. The scam is tying you into the fossil market the UK are haemorrhaging due to the Conservatives abandoning large swathes of Green policies that would have saved us a fortune 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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  5470. He used campaign funds, screwing a porn star isn't a claimable expense aside from that there are 19 other cases in progress Insurrection (7)Financial (6)Election interference (2)Sexual misconduct (1)Other (3) Tax evasion, money laundering, rape, inciting a riot, treason, theft young Donald has been a busy boy
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  5471.  @snowyowel7961  dream on with the BS from 2010 to 2019 the debt to GDP ratio rose from 62% to 92% and real average wages went down by -3% and we had a decade of stagnation Cameron got rid of Labour's Green policies which would have saved UK energy consumers hundreds of Billions over the last couple of years, they didn't even maintain rainy day gas storage Pandemic wise they ran the NHS into the ground before it and got rid of emergency stocks of PPE then wasted billions on a failed testing strategy and bungled PPE contracts
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  5472.  @snowyowel7961  what is our lack of foresight and planning. Inflation is mostly food and energy our borrowing had gone up to 92% by 2019 used to pay for corporate tax cuts that produced zero growth. We've screwed up our energy and are paying the highest prices in Europe even though we had < 5% of our gas from Russia ours is nealy all domestic which we've handed over control of to large fossil multinationals. We've screwed our farming over with Brexit producing less while importing more in a rising market and added billions in paperwork costs. World wide Tory crisis more like 13 years of failed policies coming home to roost
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  5473. If Trump truly has 40% support why do so many Americans have so little self respect. This isn't a Conservative v Liberal point its just the guy drags his country and its name through the mud at every opertunity. Doing a political interview outside the cemetery on D day celebrations showing complete ignorance at every turn. His latest hissy fit at the WHO. All of it diminishes the US in the eyes of the world.
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  5474. You don't have to be on the Kremlin payroll to be a Russian asset you just need to be taken in by Russian propaganda which the far Right in the US spread constantly. Trump was as stupid as they come he also has ADHD a man born into untold wealth which he pissed away constantly being a multiple bankrupt
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  5475. The US has a higher prison population than Western Europe by 300% it jails people for longer and for more reasons than the rest of the world
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  5476. It's ideology we have it now with Sunak, the economy doesn't need tax cuts to stimulate it it needs investment and a lot of it It's like his BS on net zero costing UK households it doesn't it is payed for mostly by increasing debt yet what did he do instead put 20 billion onto debt with his NI cut and that was the worst of all taxes to cut it boosted middle class incomes. If you want to stimulate the economy with government money then pay public sector workers more or raise the 20% threshold or improve benefits at the bottom.
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  5477.  @jaimiepotts  we need east west and additional capacity NOW not in 30 years we're decades behind in infrastructure
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  5478. How come they've deported 10,000 migrants already + taken part in busting an international smuggling ring.
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  5479. At least he took some StarStreak missiles as penance, have you seen the absolute Pigs ear Patel is making of the Ukrainian refugee crisis I live in a posh Tory area I've never seen so many angry upper middle class women with too much money on our streets whatsapp venting at Patel and Doris. For the record my wife subscribed to it in lockdown it was really useful they've kept it going as a local street help
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  5480. There's a lot companies like Walmart can do to expand their business and reduce costs, the online delivery will get stronger as well as pickup, with gas prices going up who wants to spend time on busy roads crowded stores shopping for groceries
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  5481.  @liarzdice  Constant automation drives the costs down, better route planning from having more deliveries and more data means the delivery model is constantly evolving. They can't do anything about wholesale commodity prices but the final mile delivery will get cheaper as they move to EV. Inflation isn't affecting the Tech economy in fact costs are coming down. Household inflation is personal our bills have gone down over the last couple of years. Remote working and only in the office 3/4 times a month saves us on travel plus going to Starbucks on a lunchtime and we've also done some lifestyle changes. It does make me acutely aware s I near retirement of 2 economies though.
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  5482. I've Thermal Solar to a 300 ltr tank even in a temperament climate it supplies 75% of my hot water it can work off electric as well as gas
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  5483. My son is on minimum + 30p in 2010 the same job indexed for inflation to 2023 levels should at least pay £19.22 If you need to check stuff use the BOE inflation calculator. Public services pay has been depressed by 25% and what did the Tories spend it on trickle down cr*p that's shrunk the economy @goonerboz6023 
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  5484. One of the reasons our economy is totally stagnant is the lack of investment in the social floor, the more you lower it with Tory punching down the harder it is to get on the capitalist ladder. The Tories answer appears to be there not punching down hard enough Marvellous such a lack of self awareness and ability to see the consequences of their actions
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  5485.  @dontwastetimetoday493  In the last 2 decades renewables have had around 60 billion in tax breaks and subsidies back in 2019 the forward contract price became on Par with Gas. Fossil has been subsidised at around 10-12 billion a year totaling between 200 billion + in tax breaks and other forms of subsidies Hinkley C will receive 30 billion in subsidies over 35 years its electricity will cost x 2.5 times that of Dogger bank wind farm at roughly the same output which COST 9 billion to build and commision.
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  5486.  @arthurmackrell8154  generation isn't
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  5487. She is 20 years younger than the psychiatric patient doubling as the 78 year old GOP candidate
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  5488. 3.9% the limit is around 1 million for a couple so no it doesn't affect most in the South East and even then its only paid by the stupid there are loads of ways to increase the limit legally @beachcaster56 
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  5489. Kudlow is a mouthpiece, corporate debt is too high, government debt is too high and personal debt is too high coupled with a squeeze on lower incomes caused by a lack of wage growth and indirect taxation rising due to the Trump trade war. How much of the middle class is actually left?
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  5490. Everyone else is suffering? Tory landlords wouldn't vote on anything to do with landlord reform Moan moan moan 14 years of Austerity and trickle down now were moving to tax and spend all of a sudden your crying
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  5491. 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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  5492. I used to work at the GEGB then National Power you are correct But We no longer have to rely on standby a standby GAS Generator for peak demand They can be replaced with Mass Storage which is unmaned automatic and software controlled. Also using smart software you can do Grid smoothing at a local mesh network level utilizing EV's plugged in for charging purposes and Pull instead of Push.
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  5493.  @Gilambesh  Your saying it would cost billions but have you any idea how many billion a year it costs us to run Standby on demand Gas Generators? And battery prices are dropping all the time Quote According to S&P Global Mobility research, the cost of manufacturing sodium-ion cells is about $50/kWh, compared with $70/kWh for Li-ion
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  5494.  @Gilambesh  In 2023 the UK government paid the energy companies 72 billion in subsidies as commodity prices peaked. If you thought your bill was bad then it was half what it would have been without intervention. Why Gas wholesale prices and our dependence on it.
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  5495.  @Gilambesh  dogger bank cost 11 billion and can provides 5% of domestic energy when fully commissioned. I used to be all in on nuclear but Hinkley has soured me off it completely similar output to dogger 8 years in construction but now delayed 2 years with build cost escalating to 40 billion. Saw an interesting article on a liquid air battery near Manchester, things people come up with. Oh and carbon capture is a complete scam if you want to lock up carbon grow trees and use the wood to build more houses
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  5496. In terms of economic numbers Trump was the worst since Hoover and the great depression -3.6 gdp over 4 years -6 million jobs Under Biden so far they've got record employment fastest growing economy in the g7 If you look at the raw numbers the Republicans were a disaster
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  5497. he got his rich elite bank account closed because he wasn't rich enough anymore He has a file of him because he is a PEP Politically Exposed Person He therefore comes within the realms of AML/CTF = Anti-Money Laundering / Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Bank Secrecy Act
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  5498. They've a range of people with some on the fringe, the Cons have had 10 dismissed from parliament for various reasons, Peter Bone's lover is the Con representative up for election says it all about the Tories
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  5499. Let's be clear Tory tax cuts will be paid for by raising the pension age probably to 68 if they were to be elected and Labour will aim to raise money by closing off loopholes in the tax system deliberately put in there by the Tories also try and recoup some of the 42 billion in uncollected tax last year, shut down all the fossil tax breaks, visit the way the BOE structures interest payments or bank deposits of 480 billion
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  5500.  @emmahowells8334  no you wouldn't he's a psychotic autocrat
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  5501. so how much tax did Sunak pay on 3 million? was it 47% ? was it chuff he paid 21p in the pound How much tax did Michele Moan pay on 60 million profit = ZERO it got squirrelled Offshore And how much tax does a property costing 8 million used to Launder money in Mayfair get taxed well less than a detached house costing 250 in Burnley  @areyoustupid..... 
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  5502. It's estimated to generate £1.60 for every £1 spent That's what infrastructure investment does so why the pearl clutching?
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  5503.  @DD-gt2cv  70% of steel in the US is done in an Arch furnace I'd suggest you stop getting your info from the daily Express
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  5504.  @TerryHall-nm8gt  they do In 2020 cost returns on a windfarm was 8 years 15 with financing since then gas has gone up and turbine efficiency has also climbed steeply. We have a system which rewards milking every last ounce of profit from ageing infrastructure. Also the government look at very short term
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  5505.  @DD-gt2cv  quote However, recent innovations have shown that EAFs can produce a vast range of steel products, even some previously only produced by integrated blast furnaces, by managing the raw material mix (i.e. high-quality scrap, mixed with ore-metallics where necessary). Therefore, the transition to EAF steelmaking is not expected to limit the UK steel industry's capabilities
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  5506.  @DD-gt2cv  quote However, recent innovations have shown that EAFs can produce a vast range of steel products, even some previously only produced by integrated blast furnaces, by managing the raw material mix (i.e. high-quality scrap, mixed with ore-metallics where necessary). Therefore, the transition to EAF steelmaking is not expected to limit the UK steel industry's capabilities
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  5507. @DD-gt2cv  I've just quoted you an extract from steel experts The problem with you people is you'd rather listen to some opinionated gob on a stick rather than experts who are looking forward to the opertunities change brings and who are proposing real world solutions to the transition. We had this with brexit the experts told you migration would increase if you removed FOM, oh no we've had enough of experts
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  5508.  @DD-gt2cv  Quote One company, MIT spinout Boston Metal, is aiming to streamline the process by eliminating the green-hydrogren step and instead using electricity directly for making steel. Its process is based on technology called molten oxide electrolysis that uses electric current to separate oxygen from iron ore, a critical step in the steel production process. “The advantage that we have is that it’s a one-step process directly electrifying steel production,” said Adam Rauwerdink, Boston Metal’s vice president of business development. It aims to build its first commercial steel plant by 2024 or 2025, and then license its technology to major steel producers.
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  5509.  @DD-gt2cv  There building it now with multi million deals from venture capital. We also know that if there's a deadline for green steel people get very inventive very quickly when there is a lot of money to be made. and Both of us view Hydrogen as making the process more expensive and not really the answer
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  5510. @DD-gt2cv  there's a production facility in Sweden The argument that we've always done it a certain way is wholey negative, the future isn't fossil, cheap Chinease steel is heavily tarrifed and any future European steel making will not be fossil based. Companies are innovating because instead of turning a blind eye to pollution, governments are finally addressing the real world long term problems
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  5511. yea I mean Biden's only reduced debt to GDP by 11 points after the historic Trump high where Trump blew 8 trillion I mean where's the tax cuts for the rich C'mon Man
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  5512. The mastermind of brex1t which exploded migration? No thanks How much of a fool do you have to be to fall for the same thing twice?
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  5513. Its the last refuge against Government overreach Quote How Human Rights Secured Victory for the Hillsborough 96 UK Political Parties Should Vow to Keep, Not Ditch, the Human Rights Act The act has also empowered victims, by requiring proper investigations into deaths apparently at the hands of the state or due to the negligence of state officials. Without this, the gross negligence behind the deaths at Hillsborough would never have been uncovered – a case made with great eloquence by Barry Devonshire, whose son Chris died at Hillsborough. There is surely no better example of how human rights laws protect ordinary UK citizens.
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  5514. Tory government simples
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  5515. Like fuk he's a parasite
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  5516. He has a right of appeal but he should have the whip withdrawn
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  5517.  @Chris1553  And I'm not happy with vigilante justice that we see around the world where someone is accused then taken out and stoned to death. He's been convicted he'll not escape now.
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  5518. If your a Trumper your already desensitised to anything the cult does
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  5519. The Tories are sat on 40,000 who should have been deported already (20% of claims fail) @hazyhayley7488 
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  5520. In 3 years Johnson has achieved absolutely nothing, everything they claim as a great success is just lie Worst covid response in Europe we are nearing 200,000 deaths and its reported nearly 2 million cases of long covid and lets not forget the flip flops from herd immunity to lockdown to herd immunity to lockdown We have the worst economic prospects for inflation and growth in the G7 and that's after the worst decade in 150 years for economic growth. The highest personal taxation on workers since WW2. In 2010 there were 8,000 refugees in the system seeking asylum now there are 80,000 many have been in it over a year And what are we going to get another 2 years of this complete and absolute chaos while the Con party rearranges deckchairs on the Titanic
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  5521. Because the Tories outsource everything because there so incompetent
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  5522. Not sure how this is structured but the average farm is 170 acres and 1 mill will buy 180 acres near me Farmhouse now part of family iht ?
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  5523. what do you care go put a fake bandage on your ear
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  5524.  @swimminginthoughts  no you didn't your all in on the Cult, enjoy your sales taxes if he wins apparently it will add up to 4 trillion over 10 years
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  5525. 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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  5526. With who? There are some misogynistic homophobic racists that are clueless about economics left for him to attract?
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  5527. The older people like me are taking precautions at a Neurotic level, groceries are delivered no social activities bar outside we have a reasonable distance they fetch their own beer and use a different loo which I clean down thoroughly afterwards, no holidays flights bars etc. only trips to the park bike rides and open spaces. There are currently 2 versions of the virus 1 originating from China and a mutated version which is just as harmful but is more virulent in spreading. I have asthma probably down to a bout of viral pneumonia I had years back and am on medication for it this, even mild covid can cause lung scarring and long term health issues (the new pre-existing condition of the decade)
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  5528. You've the lowest death total from covid the fastest economic recovery and expected GDP growth of 3% only matched by Canada But hey your welcome to the UK's death disease economic misery zero growth ultra high taxes NHS buckling under 2 million long covid cases
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  5529.  @uniquevideosUk  There's been 12 ministers of the PO in that time and they are the go to vote for those who thought brex1t was a crock of sh1t and Nige is a BS gas bag and are sick of stuff getting worse. Like the potholes everywhere the sewage in the river and RAAC in our local hospital
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  5530.  @Flibbles  nearly all the cases brought before it are against the government of the day
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  5531. Fox is bricking it, they may be able to fend off lawsuits but ad buyers are going to get very rare during a massive economic downturn and if they push these nut jobs there going to loose ad revenue
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  5532. Reform can't cut taxes same as the Conservatives can't we have a debt to GDP of 100% and borrowed 130 billion last year Cutting services further shrinks the economy here's why defunding the justice system increases crime to a greater level than money saved Not funding the NHS properly increases waiting lists which affects GDP by having millions of workers on long term sick Not funding social programs puts more people into poverty which leads to increasing crime and increased demand on the prison system see point 1
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  5533. Cunningham is a Vet and voteVets are kicking Tillis and Trump in the gonads over their stances on various issues
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  5534. studies show that academic attainment is +5% when they have trailed this
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  5535. @mrror8933  we should pay people a decent wage provide livable housing and decent services, the current tory death spiral to a low wage economic slave economy is unworkable and plain wrong
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  5536.  @mrror8933  I have one for you Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back by Torsten Bell – a roadmap to the new normal. I shall read yours I like books but my sphere of detailed knowledge is Data
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  5537.  @RRR4847-o9g  what a complete crock of ****. If you want economic growth a vibrant economy you give money to poor people because the spend it. Give it to millionaires and it ends up locked in assets and savings doing zero for the economy. Example low corporation tax nearly all of the additional money was spent on share buy backs a complete and utter waste of tax.
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  5538. One that will be ground into political obscurity if it happens, example the UK labour party went guns ho to the left and are now licking thier wounds after getting thier ass handed to them on an election plate by a completely incompetent Conservative majority. Biden and most of the rest of the moderates play in the political landscape that is, if they had solid majorities across the board the party would naturally move to m4a for example, if you move out of the big tent you'll get nothing but GOP tax cuts and a permenant underclass to the 1% Like it or not you need the moderates
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  5539.  @baldrickscunningplan6154  No we know what's coming you get over it
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  5540. the VIP lane and donors + eat out to help out was spreading covid at a rapid rate of knots the Treasury didn't bother to get medical advice
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  5541. You'll get lower fuel prices with renewable the high cost on electric is down to using gas to generate electric especially for short term demand Offshore wind £40 per kilowatt hour contract price Nuclear £92 OffGem spot price £200+ The fossil industry will pump out all sorts of bollox to keep its cash cow delivering trillions in record profits Quote A multimillionaire Brexit donor funding anti-‘net zero’ campaigns is the director of a company with tens of millions of pounds invested in oil and gas. The revelation comes as chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to bow to pressure from the motor industry and cut fuel duty in his spring Budget statement on Wednesday. Investment manager Jeremy Hosking has given millions to political parties including the Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party/Reform UK, as well as Vote Leave. Recently, he has been bankrolling Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party, which has campaigned against ‘net zero’, and has been linked to a climate denial group.
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  5542. There has never been a majority of those in the working population who would have to implement the nutsack idea you were sold, and quite frankly we've given up because the lot of you appear clueless We have brex1t it's sh1t and we told you so yet your off on another crusade to damage the country further
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  5543. The Cons Elected an Economic Lettuce that was in Thrall to a Libertarian Think Tank the IEA
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  5544. No they were convinced Jesus would save them and GOP have peddled climate denial on an industrial scale
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  5545. Starmer has deported 10,000 illegal migrants already and Milliband has pushed through a load of renewable projects as well as canning Rwanda, they've done omore good stuff in 3 months than the last lot in 5 years
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  5546. Pete isn't a neoliberal To actually understand neoliberalism listen to this podcast from Origin Story Neoliberalism Everything's for sale
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  5547.  @uingaeoc3905  Jonson has repeatedly said he's not going to play by the rules in a blind misguided view of British exceptionalism and that they should bend to our world view. He's been told and better told No, oven ready my arse
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  5548. Knew what exactly The PO repeatedly said nothing to see Ministers aren't investigative reporters
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  5549. Grandpa needs to go back to the care home. Hope your all in on Christian Nationalism project 2025 and president JD Vance
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  5550.  @u2beuser714  you can verify most stuff through open source a model based on the collective development of software, thousands of videos checked for authenticity etc. Most western news outlets tend to have a political spin rather than make stuff up they conveniently leave stuff out as well sometimes
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  5551.  @justinblake420  there's a problem with that narrative they simply don't have enough soldiers to occupy what they've taken of the 200k troops only about 80k are infantry you need to garrison every town its an area the size of France with 44 million population
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  5552.  @justinblake420  so why are they killing people and wrecking the infrastructure? Once you take a town or city you have to garrison it because the local malitia and soldiers hide their guns and melt into the population of 44 million without sufficient troops at each point and even with supply lines get attacked patrols are blown up etc. And the bulk of Putins goons are conscripted there not defending their Country and they could get shot by any passing civilian
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  5553.  @Anonymint-vj7bt  occupation carpet bombing and fsb hit lists aren't peace
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  5554.  @Anonymint-vj7bt  There's 1.5 million refugees flooding into Europe already and people in Ukraine know what a shithole Putin will turn it into they've seen it in Donetsk
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  5555. Tax down here isn't any better due to frozen Thresholds now dragging pensioners in
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  5556. He's supposed to be a numbers man Net Zero will save UK consumers over 100 billion in Energy Costs yet he's prepared to let the country burn on the altar of culture wars  @ppo2424 
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  5557.  @markhorton5300  Lifting up poverty stricken countries through aid helps stabilise governments therefore reducing the number of refugees sloshing round the system. And you thought we were doing it for no reason out of the kindness off our hearts god you deserve Nice But Dim at the despatch box
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  5558. And that is thanks to Brexit + you were warned but apparently experts aren't to be listened to.
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  5559. @cloudbasenirvana  you people really need to get real and stop with the alternate reality You were sold a pup Live with it and take some responsibility stop trying to blame everyone else
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  5560. My father's a Polish immigrant, I found my aunts exit papers the other day it was pretty chilling they were rounded up and shipped to Siberia at the end of the war they were given refugee papers allowing entry to the UK and USA, my father got out as part of the Polish free forces his younger brother and sister weren't so lucky.
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  5561. Of the counties that voted for Biden in 2020 they make up 70% of the US gdp up from 68% in 2016 and likely to rise to 72% for the Democrat. If you look at Texas it's affluent metro areas vote blue the poor rural areas vote red this is despite the fact that its tax policy is highly regressive with purchase sales and property taxes which negatively affect low income earners with the bottom 20% paying a median of 13% in tax while rhetoric top 5% pay 3% Republican run states also are near the bottom on education
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  5562. Several states have abortion on the ballot so your going to get some strange results not encountered before, they will have very high engagement and turnout, anything within 4-5 points could be in play.
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  5563.  @jelias999  In the current proposed tax changes I'd pay nothing and I'm what I'd regard as comfortably well off nearing retirement and also extremely conversant with the tax system. The US economy has at this point in time a huge advantage round the world in that it has the skills in tech and engineering to have an even bigger revolution than happened in silicon Valley the key is to make sure the bulk of the fruits of that innovation don't get outsourced. Of the counties Biden and the Democrats won consisted of 70% of the US gdp in an imperfect world the people in the middle want to see a better distribution of the enormous wealth the US generates yet we are struggling to just keep the wolves of the fossil industry who have poured billions into the GOP and waged a decades long disinformation and anti-science campaign at bay. There aren't 2 sides to this at all even though the budget office told the GOP that the tax cut bill would explode the national debt they did it anyway in aa big FU to working Americans.
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  5564.  @cu7695  2% wealth tax for 5 years Enforcement and closing down all loopholes Investment income is taxed at the same rate as income tax Drop of 2 trillion over 5 years from the defence budget Minimum 15% tax rate globally on all large companies profits before deductions Other measures such as the child tax credit and universal pre-k will boost the available workforce of both skilled and unskilled women who have the potential to add a huge boost to the economy. Even a small investment in the workforce such as free training for various skilled jobs will have a huge impact on tax revenue 3-5 years down the line.
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  5565.  @sylwekr1100  Covid didn't affect huge swathes of the economy the bulk of it transfered to remote working. In fact it did the government a favour by getting rid of a load of old unhealthy people. Overall impact was a one off 2% on GDP Comparing to Brexit which is estimated aat. 5.5% year on year permeability damaging trade
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  5566.  @goldenaye3  there is no peace with an invader you don't reward imperialism next stop would have been Hungary and Poland
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  5567.  @howard4510  how nieve you are
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  5568. Most of them are older white male and racist so no
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  5569. He welds 2 disparate factions together with his lies the English Nationalists want levelling up and no migration the Libertarian wing want zero trade barriers zero regulation and open borders with ultra low taxes with no government money on infrastructure
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  5570. ​@simanothername3035 what are you basing that on 20+% real wage growth and well funded services under Blair From what is see of negative wage growth and crumbling infrastructure it looked like the Golden Age.
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  5571. ​ @roblewis226 if you can't see a distinction your not looking, the 2 are miles apart
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  5572. He was a Con mp in the home counties, the North South divide has gotten that bad economists are comparing it to east/west Germany at the fall of the wall
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  5573. Trump's brain is turning to mush if he even makes it to November I'd be surprised junk food diet and all, last picture I saw of him sitting down he was wearing compression socks designed to stop fluid build up
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  5574. If they tried anything then the Russia / Ukraine border along the north would light up Russia doesn't have the troops to defend it
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  5575. Its been estimated that were down 500 billion on North Sea tax based on Norway's tax take from a similar resource. Currently were giving BP & Shell 75 billion to clean up and decommission their own mess because Tories + 6 Billion in exploration costs @Jay_Johnson 
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  5576. So why is Starmer worse? Reeve appears to understand supply /demand economics and isn't wedded to Thatcherism which is a good start
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  5577.  @colinmelling6369  he can but you don't listen h quotes the legal definition Female human being; a person assigned a female sex at birth, or a person who defines herself as a woman.
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  5578.  @brianchandler1365  dianne abbot isn't evenn standing next election Given that the current shadow cabinet are up against the likes of Coffey and Braverman they make Abbot look preffreble
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  5579. He stated his 5 missions what more do you want?
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  5580. since when is feeding kids and believing in the public school system extreme?
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  5581.  @loopdigga45  Of course it wasn't and you don't have a clue about trans issues. Nobody chemically castrates anyone why don't you repeat the lie about abortion at 9 months for the full set
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  5582.  @loopdigga45  what is it with you people repeating cr*p you read off the internet
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  5583. Like Biden he will flow to the centre, if you move the centre to more progressive policies then he will go with it
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  5584.  @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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  5585. 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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  5586. NatCon is a vehicle for billionaire and the fossil industries interests, stop listening to propaganda and follow the money
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  5587. There not going to do anything about it the idea is to completely deregulate and let the free market take care of itself. The cabinet are mostly acolytes of the IEA a libertarian think tank who's ideas are free market even if it poisons it's customers and it's factories pollute the environment while devastating local business who can't compete with far east child labour, burning the planet to a crisp in the name of making money because you know freedom They've also advocated for privatising the health service coz who cares if workers die coz they can't afford it
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  5588. Corbyn's fantasy socialism project that was roundly rejected by the voters? No one wants another populist
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  5589. People aren't convinced by labour because the msm give us wall to wall conservatism Take net zero its cheaper to invest in it now and more expensive to stick with gas but no one in the msm will tell that story, its not even disputable
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  5590. You'll get a tax credit for re-investment. If you pull it out the business in dividends you'll pay tax.
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  5591. At least she's not a mental patient masquerading as the GOP candidate
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  5592. It's normal practice in the UK because the day after the election the government is sworn in and hits the ground running.
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  5593. That's because there is no defence of creating trade barriers with your closest market screwing your economy over by nearly a Trillion @johnpearce3033 
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  5594. ​@dogglebird4430it's a fantasy agenda If you want lower migration increase taxation and invest in the social and physical infrastructure
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  5595.  @oldshiny3012  The question here is on huge overspend by the party in government not what about look over there deflect deny oh but the other side does xxx If you want to ass kiss Tories in public go ahead
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  5596.  @richardpeddie2060  by the way do you know how stupid you sound screaming that the shadow deputy PM doesn't need IT equipment to do her job. Think about it
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  5597. @2aph0d_b33blebr0x you Brown nosing Tory fan boys need to get out more work always provides IT equipment I take it your still on quill and parchment
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  5598.  @trucker4567  I take it you've figured out we've moved into the IT age then and are feeling Salty at having it pointed out?
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  5599. Corbyn didn't loose coz he was a socialist he lost coz his polcies stank and he was a garbage leader
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  5600. Tory lies about trade to get elected Tory goes on TV to blame his lies on someone else Tory lies about the economy Tory goes on TV to blame his lies on someone else Its a 12 year running script yet the public fall for it time and again
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  5601. OK please read all The updated relief can in fact be even more generous for true family farms than the £1m headline. A married couple owning a farm together can split it in two, meaning it qualifies for £2m of agricultural property relief, plus another £500,000 for each partner if a property is involved. That means a farm worth £3m might pay zero inheritance tax, said Arun Advani, associate professor of economics at the University of Warwick and a director of CenTax.
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  5602. @sup5356  look at the detail It's farming land a tax expert recons for a couple you have 1 mill each + spouse to spouse inheritance under IHT of home with 500k each making a total of 3 million. There flushing out the Clarkson s and Dyson s of this world using it as a tax dodge
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  5603. And what next? We're here due to catastrophic Tory economic mismanagement
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  5604. [What like a Chancellor that has an economics degree from the LSE some actual policies to deal with the shortages of Energy and Housing that are contributing to inflation? The current government are doing fk all about the shortages of energy and hoping it will go away if the BOE raises rates enough
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  5605. The Tories have no backbone, Johnson purged the party of dissent when he and Cummings took over getting rid of the moderates. While his popularity is down the toilet Bozo is the one that holds the English Nationalist element together without the dregs of UKIP and what would be the BNP crowd the Tories would crater at the polls. Expect non stop culture wars to try and prop Big Dog up.
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  5606. The council tax bands have not been addressed since its inception for many this has become what it replaced a POLL TAX The Tories cut council funding by 50%, sold off 2 million homes which generated 20 billion in rent and now have a 20 billion hole due to statutory housing support. WHAT'S YOUR PLAN TO FIX IT?
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  5607. Since when has parliament been an OAP home Abbot at 70 and Corbyn at 74 need to stand down
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  5608. ​ @billB101 yea because who wants to listen to experts, the same experts that said migration would go up if we removed fom and said our economy would go down the toilet if we left the single market
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  5609. There refugees and Rwanda concentration camps are about as sick as you can get
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  5610. As someone who is 67 the Republicans constant war on climate change is disheartening. This is the 1st time we've seen a real push to change from a fossil based economy. The Republicans would drag us back to the smog ages and I have a son. I'd also add that my generation hasn't not noticed the 8 Trillion Trump spent 3.5 on corporate tax cuts and yet the Republicans talk of cutting Social Security and ObamaCare. Healthcare for people retired is a major issue
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  5611. What a bunch of self righteous overpaid pricks. The standard on this channel sinks ever lower
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  5612. Tax Cuts there's tax rises because of fiscal drag average family is £1800 worse off + Pensioners are getting dragged into the 20% tax band
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  5613. no there not 28 billion on GBEnergy speeding up net zero transition saving consumers billions, reforming zero hour contracts banning Fire Rehire overhaul of the Visa system. There will also be increased funding for services by ripping out the Tory Trickle down cr*p
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  5614. Yea right Rudy you loyal idiot, Trump isn't going to throw you under the bus he's tossing you to the baying Wolves who are slavering all over this story because the money trail is surfacing
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  5615. Reform have zero interest workable policies Get real
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  5616. Brexit is like a force multiplier we will get the shortages first they will last longer be deeper and be slower to recover You can see this all through the economy GDP is yet to reach 2019 levels the workforce is still below 2019 levels with record low unemployment the EU GDP is now larger than in 2019 when we where members and have removed 2.85 trillion Tariffs and trade barriers make us less competitive increases prices across the board example food inflation in NI is 13% its 16.5 and rising in GB
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  5617.  @Justin-yt8zv  What does right leaning even mean? Starmer is socially fairly Conservative but economically Liberal Cameron was socially Liberal but economically Conservative My personal finances I run on a conservative basis but having studied economics know that if you defund the Social Floor the Capitalist Ladder stops working for millions I give you example 1 Austerity and 14 years of conservative economics.
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  5618. Ali Alexander isn't the originator of Stop The Steal It was put together by Roger Stone in 2016 and sidelined when Trump won it was supposed to be resurrected in 2018 but the Dem margin was too big then wheeled out in a desperate attempt to keep Trump in power. All roads lead to Roger Stone
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  5619. The only way to get rid of these sharlatans is to make Biden successful The whole system has a perverse incentive for the GOP to make him fail, the more Biden does for every American the more likely they will be out of a job they don't regard Congress as being representative and doing a civic duty it's just a vehicle for personal power. Whatever you think of Biden or democratic policies if he isn't successful and these people get in again it will be the end of democracy in the US, the Orange turdpile has spent four years breaking government to the point of the worst depression since the last great Republican depression in the 30's
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  5620. I've voted Libe-dem since Thatcher asset stripped our services and sold them on the cheap, couple that with flogging housing and not replacing them thus creating a property spiral and renting crisis to the point where councils like Hastings are spending 4 billion of a 12 billion budget on housing support. Even her vaulted achievement of low tax was done on the back of oil money which could have revolutionised this country if it had been invested in infrastructure.
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  5621.  @jezlawrence720  The Lancet volume 7 issue 7 July 2022
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  5622. The Johnson agenda was quite appealing Social care Leveling up Hs2/3 Net zero End to Austerity He was to lazy and feckless to deliver and Sunak has rolled everything back and is promoting an immigration policy that is a boon to Reform Tories r i p at the current rate they'll not even be the official opposition
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  5623. What's a lie? The Cons have been banging on about all sorts of stupid stuff quote Amid all the urgent material problems facing the country, why this relentless, almost pathological, search for wedge issues and cultural division points? One must assume the Tory party believes this is helping them. But examine the strategy, and there is little to suggest that this is true. The first thing to say about a government of a modern western nation setting out to “change its culture” is that this simply cannot be done. We are just too individualistic:
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  5624. It's not uncontrolled legal migration is by design Thatcherism at its finest
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  5625. Its a pathetic display of weakness and incompetence at the very least, as a team leader I'd be sending a report in to HR if 1 of my lead analysts was going around bollocking people
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  5626.  @adrianrouse5148  everywhere Raab has been the department has been dysfunctional stop trying to excuse incompetence and blame other people for Government failure 1st its the EU Then it was Remoaners the Now its the Civil Service blob what ties all 3 together the same shyte Ministers pedaling the same shyte policies getting the same shyte results
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  5627.  @lhaviland8602  The effect of Joe's executive order on any contractor who has govt work having to pay 15 will leach through the system, if a infrastructure bill is passed that will also push up wages in any surrounding economy to the point where it will be hard to pay less and get staff
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  5628. Boris is as thick as mince an is a barley functioning Alcoholic
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  5629. the energy they generate is x3 cheaper than the current nearest source Nuclear and coal the reason our bills are so expensive is being tied to fossil
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  5630.  @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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  5631. The Tories have been running Trickle down supply side Economics for 13 years it doesn't work never has the economy is going down the toilet. Thatcherism worked for Thatcher due to asset stripping oil money and giving away council houses. Elect another Tory government and the stagflation will get even worse
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  5632. He doesn't have a right lot of time the Putin economy is a Petro one built on corruption and nothing like the soviet managed economy
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  5633. Trump and the GOP attract the older whiter voter which they've been trying to get rid of with bad public health policies and Cov mismanagement, we will finally see how successful they were in Nov.
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  5634. It was always pointless
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  5635.  @KillYourLocalMP  The reason the US and its allies have been loosing for over a decade is they are seen by the bulk of the country as an invading force. There was never going to be a good outcome to this. Mission creep on a epic scale.
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  5636. What by deliberately tanking the economy by not having the skilled workers to expand the GDP and pay taxes for their pensions?
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  5637. Yet he pursued hard right Thatcherism destroying the economy on the way
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  5638.  @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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  5639. The fatal flaw to this Libertarian crack pot theory is that if you work from home you can switch jobs with zero increase in commute times. Poking the Bear doesn't always result in the outcome you wanted
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  5640. what nonsense Before Blaire who has defined Centerism we had a hard right Thatcherism after Blair Brown we had Hard Right Thatcherism + Austerity Its like comparing the common cold with syphilis oh yea there both diseases  @michealhunt6607 
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  5641. Plant native grasses which are deep rooted instead of the grow quick stuff. Change farming practices to regenerative farming. There are so many things you can do to regenerate the land
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  5642. It doesn't matter who leads the Conservatives the problems are caused by Tory Ideology so they can't fix them Trickle down doesn't work does this sound familiar to everyone?. Quote In a new study, David Hope of the London School of Economics and Julian Limberg of King's College London lay waste to the theory. They reviewed data over the last half-century in advanced economies and found that tax cuts for the rich widened inequality without having any significant effect on jobs or growth.
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  5643.  @MBarberfan4life  The 8 trillion of Trump debt trickled up to the wealthy whose assets and income have doubled over the last few years the GOP have no interest in it going down they want to keep their tax cuts for the wealthy.
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  5644.  @georgesdelatour  would be a good move you could tax it
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  5645. Trump was regarded as a complete fool and pushover by the international community + who wants the chaos of all the swamp people and bottom feeders he surrounds himself with.
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  5646.  @CovidIslandDiscs  They pine for Corbyn's failed promises of rewinding Thatcherism and would rather see Labour in opposition than compromise to gain power. EX Starmers plan is a compromise a gradual state ownership of renewable generation (will be about 70% of production over 15 years ish) Corbyn's was Nationalise the lot (production Grid Retail) no matter the cost or the impact to the Gilt market of borrowing between 1/2 to one Trillion in one go. Tories is Privatise everything
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  5647. Tim looks and sounds normal to me as someone living in a small town
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  5648. Your wrong at multiple levels If you want to cut immigration you need to invest in physical and social infrastructure making your workforce more productive
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  5649.  @Needlesse  Supply Side Trickle Down down Economics needs Supply Side Labour cheap and plenty of it. If you pull the plug on the supply side labour without changing your economy it will colapse Argentina style
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  5650. Your welcome
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  5651. 58% of the population according to the polls are left leaning Why do people vote left because right wing economics is broken always has been since Thatcher when we moved from the Keynesian demand side consensus and as we have seen from the last 14 years when you defund the social floor the capitalist ladder stops working for the majority hence economic stagnation
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  5652. How can you talk for so long and actually say nothing, it's just a circular list of empty buzz words and blame avoidance. How is crunching the numbers and working out what 1% of the population dead in a 3 month period is in real lives lost sensational, work it out yourself population of the US 350 million
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  5653. House prices have risen by 66% since 2010 and average wages have fallen by -7% GDP Per Capita has fallen for 7 quarters straight the headline gdp is boosted by 1.25 million visas The Cons have broken the system
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  5654. ​ @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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  5655. Ukip used the flag gbn has with thier fake patriotism get a reality check
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  5656. I've hrard that there not going to certify new house members to maintain GOP majority contesting Dem house elections. That means they have a majority on the jan 6th
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  5657. Multiple academic papers have blow the unemployment myth into the dust on numerous occasions. The problem is women are struggling to work because of childcare etc. The US has a higher Death rate v Birth rate and an aging population If you then blow a pandemic through killing XXXk + especially at the upper age ranges what do you expect And yes the same stats apply to western Europe
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  5658. Hunts headroom is based on cuts to services of 18% by 2028
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  5659. ​ @paullewis2413  true dat
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  5660. You need the migration if you run Supply Side Trickle Down Economics aka Thatcherism If you want to cut immigration you shouldn't vote for right wing parties there economic low tax low regulation model uses migrant labour to feed it To cut the need for migrant labour you need to change the economic model and invest in the UK and its workforce such as modern transport links free University etc.
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  5661. Taxation while high the base is still lower than Europe If you want a fairer tax system that doesn't put a high burden on work stop voting for right wing parties that follow Thatcherite trickle down economics
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  5662. Round our way Con voters are sick to death of this absolute shower (Blue Wall) they want Net Zero and charging points for thier Tesla's And there disgusted at the far right culture wars while schools and the NHS go to RAAC and ruin. There also completly p1ssed off with BREXIT and having THIER freedom of movement taken away
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  5663. Renewable energy is cheaper By a lot
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  5664. How about admitting that her Brexit has quadrupled the problem Like working together has value another Brexit shtshw to add to the list
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  5665. Unity is a two way Street the Washington branch of the GOP just say no all the time and go on Fox claiming Biden is banning meat. If they started telling thier voters the truth and stopped going down on all fours and kissing DJT s ring-piece it would be a start
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  5666. Biden made America Great Again putting in place infrastructure investment that will result in the US being the world renewable tech leader Trump did a corporate tax cut that went to debt and boosted inflation
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  5667. It's like when I tell my 20 year old son that black is definitely not the new white, on topic though the space it was recorded in should give it some natural reverb ( though obviously not a 220ms delay) I'm amazed at how much compression is used just got a cali 76 and it's a real eye opener
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  5668.  @nezzam100  If you want to run a renewable grid you need flatten and fatten the demand duck curve. In doing that your not paying for large gas power plants to be on standby for mere minutes a day. Modern grid smoothing technology to couple with renewables is automatic, software driven and unmanned. The theoretical cost savings are 75% personally think given our sh1te privatised system we will get 30-40 with the rest being leeched to the private sector. The reason for keeping the current system is the current standby stations make their owners a small fortune which we pay for
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  5669.  @angiemetcalfe7210  Yes they've verified that the bodies were there for days with satellite photo's plus there's the eye witness accounts of the women they left alive as well as the rape and cutting some of the Russian soldiers did.
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  5670. That's because Tories have 2herever possible scrapped the renewable agenda keeping us tied long term to gas and its commodity Volatility Did you know last year the Tories spent 72 billion on energy support propping up a failed system
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  5671.  @ProfYaffle  I've been going through a program of updating my insulation. It's amazing how much you can save energy wise with not much outlay
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  5672.  @markrainford1219  reduced my consumption by about 80% so far and from around April ish to just this last week the central heating hasn't kicked in although we've had the odd log fire. A lot of things I've done aren't expensive just time consuming like taking up the floor and insulating between the joists with mineral wool before adding a multifoil secondary layer then flooring.
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  5673. Putin, The Oligarchs & the Russian Mafia are one and the same thing the whole system is built on corruption and Grift. The Oligarchs get to steal as long as they pass there 10% onto Putin When he came to power the old soviet industries died and Russia became a Petro economy it doesn't have the intellectual resources to even run New sophisticated Oil drilling equipment it was Using Exxon Mobile till 2014. With that amount of decay in the system Russia is fked its population is declining now at an alarming rate and life expectancy has plummeted but even with the war the chief cause of death is Alcoholism
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  5674. I wouldn't get too hung up on the stock price it can drop tomorrow by a large margin as well as go up, Tesla has underlying good numbers for cars but it's Grid stuff is bubbling under. We've seen speculation like this before you'd rather see long haul investors rather than bandwagon but that's markets for you.
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  5675. Don't vote Tory then if you want things to improve 2010 - 8,000 migrants in the system 2022 80,000 migrants in the system 1997 - 2010 +25% growth in real wages 2010 - 2019 -3.6% wage shrinkage 2019 - 2022 The exact figures aren't out but real wages are expected to fall and disposable income shrink by a big number Poverty and food banks are booming under the Tories though
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  5676. Trump is a complete imbecile his understanding of world politics is zero and gets played all the time
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  5677. In the UK were in the mess were in because Green policies where abandoned we should have at least 3 working Tidal systems by now. 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 Labour 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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  5678. What's a whiney piece of toxic out of touch crap doing telling me about Southgate I remember when Barnes used to get bananas thrown at him and my Dad had to go interrupt a bunch of skinheads trying to beat up on a Pakistani guy (My Dad was an ex paratrooper and his mate was an ex tank commander) Keep reminding people how toxic racism is how it marginalises people and what it costs society how plain dam hurtful it makes those being abused feel Hasn't this piece of crap done enough damage whipping up xenophobia
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  5679. Eating habits on your colon, red meat is worse for you as you get older I like my beef but being 50+ have cut it almost out of my diet unfortunately pizza has had to go the same way. Fossil fuels are uneconomic the battery revolution is just around the corner, you saw what happened during the lock down with negative oil futures the fact is if the US doesn't transition to green it will get left behind, no one will buy gas cars there even projecting hybrid planes in 5 years. Pence = fossil
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  5680. I'm a pnsioner were the generation that got everything, subsidised housing, free higher education, low tax from asset stripping and oil money and tax free savings
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  5681. Who cares you know exactly what's been going on Raab demands a policy that is unworkable because of his ideology civil servants tell him its unworkable man rages rinse repeat
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  5682. White voters with a College degree Harris +18, All Voters with a College degree +21 (total of electorate with a college degree 41%) Women +21 She has just also taken a narrow lead on the Economy. Also uneducated men in safe states for Trump (Florida) and Harris (California New York) are breaking for Trump, note they are the least likely to turn out but change the National polling picture which when Biden was running was he needed +3-4% various analysts think this is now not so which means her national lead while slimmer is fatter. We'll sleep when were dead go girl
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  5683. The problem is catering to the crazies for ratings is self destructive there only a small faction of the party, they may be the most rabid and vocal but if they become the dominant force they will turn off the electorate the vast majority who are registered as independent
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  5684.  @Gph0367  I like Gary but he does give you the Downers Look up Economists Torsten Bell and Mariana Mazzucato, there's podcasts at Politics Joe as well as a recent one with Gary
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  5685.  @markdowns9607  everything privatised is more expensive, private companies exist to make a profit and to pay shareholders and the executives as much as possible The notion that the private sector can do things better and cheaper is farcical
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  5686. ​@martinweaver7873 right wing economic policy drives migration by not investing in social infrastructure
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  5687.  @benchoflemons398  good example on Turkey where Erdoğan has stuck his nose into central bank policy crashing the currency
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  5688. A premiership built on lies an economy in tatters and he couldn't even bring himself to come clean on a serial groper instead put him in a position of power
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  5689. 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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  5690.  @williewonka6694  The GOP base is completely fractured the Cultists in the Trump corner normal people in the other
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  5691. And your supporting the king of lies himself with a world record of 40,000 while President. If Trump ever told the truth you'd have people dying of shock
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  5692. If you want to find demons then go look at the police and home office who OK'd the march
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  5693. Where the evidence? There was no evidence the stuff he's touting was GOP removing people off the electoral roles
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  5694. How many people as a % of the voting population are actually registered Republicans? What appears to be happening is the number of registered Republicans is going down increasing the pool of non affiliated and all the hate mongering is driving up voter registrations among Democrats especially minorities, you've young voters as well. 14 points could well be the tip of the iceberg as the one thing we do know is there will be massive turnout in Nov no matter how hard the GOP try to suppress the vote
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  5695.  @zxbzxbzxb1  we have 2 reduced rates 5 & 0 the Zero rate was supposed to be phased out but most countries have kept it, Norman Lamont put vat on domestic fuel at the time it was zero rated The current basket of goods that members can apply reduced rates to include "domestic fuel" note that doesn't include fuel for businesses which EU directives put at no lower than 15% and I would have thought buried in the level playing field rules we signed would mean a lot of these EU directives still have to be stuck to.
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  5696. 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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  5697. The simple answer is No, people with no work will have a range of problems, it affects self esteem and causes psychological issues notwithstanding this constant barrage of something for nothing from the right wing. automation will create wealth and should give everyone a better standard of living not just the takers at the top who need to get off thier high horse and address the huge wealth inequality they've generated while keeping the population under control with a prison system which is completely out off the rails with incarnation rates 3/4+ times those in Europe.
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  5698. ​ @derekcrawley7329 we've had 14 years o stagnation under Labour the economy grew on average 2.5% increasing average wages by +20%
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  5699.  @SmithyD86   There's a paper over at the Resolution Foundation called Ending Stagnation give it a read
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  5700.  @auroraclark2582  The GOP control the state how can they be corrupt? If your referring to DJT he takes his own maga swamp round with him and his cabinet will pull the 25th within months and have Teal and Musk's poodle in charge
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  5701. There's loads of grey field sites in the green belt we have dishes airfields from ww2 and it can take up to 14 years to get planning for a pylon This country is a joke at times this guy needs to get a reality check
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  5702. It's pointless the problem is your trying to polish a turd
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  5703. Don't forget making all the UK sheep farmers unemployed Thatcherism at its finest
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  5704.  @AngusTuttle  not at all there just Ideological and won't listen to Contra beliefs that go against their world view no matter what evidence you put in front of them. I've listen to Osborne many times say I believe in a small state, it's something based on an unshakeable faith that Thatcher was right
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  5705. Renewable energy cuts you off from the economic shock of the world commodity market.
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  5706. And it was all Labours fault
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  5707. Jeez dunno where you put your brain to come up with TOSH like that Sunak is an economic hard right Thatcherite and socially hard right as well Starmer is economically centre left and socially centre There is a yawning chasm between the 2 parties  @georgesdelatour 
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  5708.  @GailPlatt  were not were in an economic crisis caused by Thatcherism aka trickle down supply side economics If you don't invest in anything for 14 years continously cut budgets and spend it on ideological projects such as free schools outsourcing and trickle down cr@p you get here.
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  5709. such as?
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  5710.  @ipohtennischannel5482  He didn't ask what kind it was what's your beef? All you need to know is in the manifesto and I could tell you where there going to get extra money from if you like?
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  5711. He's banned under the US constitution, this is the least of his legal troubles he's aided and abetted computer hacking in Georgia breaking into a Voting Machine caries the penalty of 5 years its not like his minions in the couldn't shoot straight gang didn't get themselves captured on CCTV @charleswhite758
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  5712. Enhanced education is good for the economy it allows it to grow turning people into higher rate Taxpayers
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  5713. ​ @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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  5714. good job everyone is looking to renwables ASAP
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  5715.  get lost  OAN pedals fawning crap it's standards of journalism or nonexistent it pedals the true looney tune level conspiracy garbage, if you believe that stuff then get therapy
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  5716.  Mike Hall  Trump is that bad if you replaced him with a rock it would do better, the guy is so fukin incompetent it beggars belief. There appears to be no situation he couldn't fuk up and make worse.
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  5717. Mocking the elderly and mentally infirm as a blood sport, hey Don her nickname should be No Mercy Harris
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  5718. 60% of the population detest him to the core His policies are Rank Privatise the NHS Deregulated workers rights Tax cuts for the wealthy Nuclear energy at x 3 the cost of renewable and 12-15 years to build
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  5719. He has form for this Nigel Farage has dismissed criticism of his praise for Vladimir Putin - insisting the Russian President deserves more respect than David Cameron.2014
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  5720. why the stupid as fk transphobia He's quoted the legal definition loads of times people are just dicks about it and have an agenda
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  5721. 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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  5722. Truss wiped out 25% of pension assets in 5 weeks the total was 425 billion why would Labour do something like that yet Reform had a similar economic platform and your worried about the left how quaint been ODing on Tory dystopian spin?
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  5723. First off railtrack are back in government ownership and secondly the government underwrites the rail industry its a fake to call it private it gets loads of public money. Last year with the help of government subsidies the network made 500 million profit which went to shareholders and bosses with bonuses and a 6% pay rise
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  5724.  Smeagol Gollum  He's signed an executive order for 15$ for federal employees and contractors and Bernie is going to push it through reconciliation.
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  5725. He's promising to lower migration when loosing FOM has trebled it how is that honesty?
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  5726. Trump is clueless, you have 14 million undocumented people in the workforce pull them out and you'll trigger a recession there's already labour shortages.
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  5727.  @Rtg5637  The Far Right in Europe used to have a cosy relationship with Putin through his Oligarchs they would like the gravy train back Quote That Russia serves as a reliable cash machine for Europe’s far-right political forces has long been an open secret. Back in 2014, for example, French media reported that the country’s far-right National Front party had funded its election campaign with loans worth €11m from Russian banks.
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  5728. Net zero will save us money we spent 72 billion last year on energy subsidies because we are tied to Natural Gas for generation by diversifying our energy profile, upgrading the grid and insulating our homes better
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  5729.  @captainfrandad1138  Doesn't even have to increase taxes on unearned wealth the Tories have spent 14 years creating a labyrinth of trickle down tax breaks for the wealthy
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  5730. Winter is coming story is the Russians don't have the equipment to stop the draftees freezing to death He's trying to bomb the infrastructure to force the Ukrainians to the negotiating table before winter if there able to operate with modern winter clothing night sights etc
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  5731.  @Timsvideochannel1  So suppressing public sector pay and putting the jobs on the visa exception list when you can't recruit thus filling the jobs with record legal migration is the answer is it? If you want improvements with productivity you make sure you have enough road and rail capacity so that the drivers aren't delayed by hours every time they do a delivery. If you want more productivity in the NHS you invest more Scanners etc and upgrade the computer systems so your not wasting millions of man hours on manual records.
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  5732. Well Turkey gravy futures hang in the balance the price of stuffing will fluctuate as the Chinese hold up supplies of secret sauce
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  5733. There's been no plan for 8 years and there's only 13 million of you left with 75% of the working population will have voted remain
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  5734. There not patriots there nationalists, same as the faux Christianity
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  5735. ​ @KetanjiBrownsFavemolester investment in renewable energy is a smart move unlike oil last time I looked air and sun was still free while gas will never come down And how do we know this Because it never has done before
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  5736.  @NickyM1964  gas is controlled by multinational cartels it never goes down, Dems are pushing renewable energy last time I looked air and sun were still inflation free
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  5737.  @KetanjiBrownsFavemolester  Oil is heavily subsidised as is coal the total last year was near 1 trillion for the US. So not only are the gas companies screwing you over price your paying for the privelidge with tax dollars.
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  5738. According to Oxford University researchers, ending fossil fuel use by 2050 will save the world at least $12 trillion (€11.3 trillion). The study disproves the fallacy that going green is economically difficult, says Professor Doyne Farmer, who led the study We are dependant on Fossil because the Fossil lobby want us to be and will do anything to stop the gravy train being turned off
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  5739. Don't worry inflation will be back up again due to energy costs which were 30 billion in 2021 and will be 170 billion this year Then there's the mortgage rate rises as people come off thier fixed terms We're still goingto have the biggest drop in living standards over 1 parliment in history
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  5740. Why would being in conversation with a Prime Minister who oversaw the most successful economy this country has ever had? Like him or loath him his economic record was a +20% increase in real wage growth and a boom in the service sector driven by his policies on higher education creating a skilled workforce attracting companies from across the world. As someone who will support and follows Labour we are not going back to a Centrist economy as the intention with GBEnergy and GBRail shows. Debt in 2010 was 800 billion in 2023 it reached 2.3 trillion and is still rising. Also the Cons don't want to invest in anything which is creating high demand for migrant labour, if you want lower legal migration you have to accept a more state interventionist planned economy. If your interested in Labour's economic direction then go read "Rachel Reeves Mais Lecture 2024" If not please don't spout tosh you've picked up from the Tory MSM
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  5741. No there not there backed up by IMF data
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  5742. Your assuming we don't take any energy saving measures I've just fitted solar thermal it saves around 17% of my energy bill I've also just fitted underfloor heating that saves around 40% on my heating (I double insulated the floor which is why its so big)
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  5743. Blair / Brown +25% on average wages services that work Cameron /May -3% on average wages Johnson Truss Sunak -?? services that are run down to the bone and are on life support The tax-to-GDP ratio in the United Kingdom has increased from 32.7% in 2000 to 33.5% in 2021 So stfu about Labour's economic record it kicks the Tories record into the stone age the Tories couldn't run a charity stall without fkin it up we have lower living standards higher taxes and failing utilities and services 57% energy inflation & 16.5 food inflation
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  5744.  @T5Zplayer  no its not its 13 years of Austerity the 2015 tax cuts and Cameron + Osbourne going all in on the gig economy with zero regulation on companies that paid no UK tax and created millions of zero hour low paid jobs which uk workers wouldn't do so migrant labour from the EU came in for the work. Imigration doesn't occur because we're good old Blighty it happens because there is work here I could bitch all day about Blair / Brown but there a million times better than what we've had for 13 years
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  5745. Inflation was rising at the back of 2019 due to the corporate tax giveaway which went onto debt, without Cov there would have still been a recession in 2020 you can't inject 3.5 trillion into debt without consequences. The US president doesn't control world commodity prices multi national cartels do, the easiest way of controlling energy prices is replacing as much as possible with renewables and disconnecting the economy frow world commodity shock
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  5746. He's taking hundreds of millions from foreign billionaires like Musk and Theil he has zero morals
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  5747.  @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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  5748. The debt to GDP has fallen in the last 4 years by 11 points from it's Trump high of 132% to 122% The GOP dicking around with the debt ceiling had a bad effect on the dollar lowering US credit rating and keeping rates higher longer. A market is only free when there is a level playing field and plenty of competition
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  5749. We've been stagnant since 2008 any sort of recovery was strangled at birth by Osborne's Austerity, gdp per capita has fallen 7 quarters straight.
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  5750. I'm alive because of it so you can stick your anti vax nonsense
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  5751. they run trickle down low tax deregulated Liz Truss style economics so theirs zero chance of either keeping the economy afloat or bringing down immigration
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  5752. The reason we have high immigration is Right wing Economic policy which doesn't invest in domestic workforce creating a skills gap that has to be plugged by immigration. If its not the economy keeps spiralling down the pan Anyone promising low tax and no immigration is lying
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  5753.  @spazzymacgee5648  they'll finish off what Thatcher started and sell everything off including pensions
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  5754. Leaving the EU means we no longer cooperate with our partners and allies to solve common problems which is why this has ballooned and Loosing FOM has tripled legal migration
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  5755. The IMF are the biggest NeoLiberal organisation on the Planet when they tell you you've gone too far in screwing over your population with lowered services and income inequality you've really gone too far. We borrowed 130 billion last year as it was Truss's tax cuts would have added another 100 billion to the very wealthy.
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  5756.  @darrentaylordigital  a corporate tax break = corporate socialism A tax break for the wealthy = socialism for the rich But God forbid we have child tax credits or decent public services oh no capitalism for you peasants
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  5757. They can't they won the election on the biggest sack of lies you'v ever seen and are incompetent
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  5758. @jamess6961  I voted lib dems and yes it is my son got a pay rise and my local hospital got 22 million to Deal with RAAC Also the zero rated batteries as part of a solar install so I ponied up for some Expecting to save £1400 a year on energy costs paying back capital in under 6 years
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  5759. @WatchingtheWorldBurning  what's good for me is good for 90% of the population. We're not all millionaire land owners like you
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  5760. Yawn 70% of the US GDP by County voted Biden There preaching to the stupid
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  5761. The 13 does't take into account tactical voting or Elphicke reminding the Tory faithful that Sunak is a back stabbing weasel
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  5762. Dedicated and hard working socialists? Corbyn was an elite stuck in his own talking shop bubble promising to turn the clock back to pre Thatcher I ain't a Starmer fan but you need to get real the only route to power is to be acceptable to the centre and try take them along with centre left policies
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  5763. There was an easy way of dealing with it its called a wealth tax given the 700 billion had trickled up the economy as rich people didn't spend anything for a year and a half
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  5764.  @dragonfly6908  what's your point?
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  5765.  @vevey75  That's because we have a privatised system who's retail price is tied to the spot price of gas. Its a public monopoly that will make 170 billion in excess profits with the aid of the government. Its a rigged market for the benefit of the investors Privatise the profits socialise the losses
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  5766.  @miked172  The GOP appear to get more insane every cycle but there is a fundamental issue educated voters who would vote Democrat are leaving the state quote Far-right legislative extremism in Texas is leading to a cataclysmic brain drain that is eventually going to cripple the growth of the Lone Star
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  5767. What gives him the right to behave like an entitled Pig Tory boy
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  5768. why would that happen if their economic policies do the opposite?
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  5769. Taxes for the average and low paid will go down just like they did last time under Blair / Brown Tax breaks for the wealthy get shut down You currently have thresholds frozen till 2028 so Sunak can pay for his Trickle down cr@p
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  5770. why we've had 14 years of Con incompetence the economy is on it's knees
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  5771. Why lie? 30 seconds on the Internet shows its BS. You want to believe Trumps firehouse of BS soo much you loose all self respect and just follow on like some nodding dog?
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  5772. Yes Tice needs to read up on economic Trade Gravity And also realise that a huge % of trade is from SME'S who don't have the capability to trade other than locally
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  5773. How dumb are these people? The protocol is happening and it's too late to do anything about it, NI businesses have either rerouted or are in the process of rerouting their supply chains. Goods that used GB as a land bridge from th EU are going direct from Cherburg to Ireland because FOM frictionless trade and cabotage beats xenophobic right wing nonsense every time
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  5774. Myanmar is a blood bath, if these Cult following Bozoz's start any sort of coup attempt it will be put down by the National guard There's a book on how his followers are brainwashed Communist Chinese style by right wing propaganda The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the former President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan
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  5775. that's world traded commodities like fossil for you go renewable and control your own destiny
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  5776. Woke just means don't be a racist sexist homophobic ars'hole so no no one cares but the ars'holes Get a life Piers
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  5777. There's a 10% shortage if you don't give them a decent rise that number will increase with yet more countless billions pissed up the wall on agency and supply staff
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  5778. Part of Johnson's appeal was he was Economically Liberal, if you knew him you'd know he was lazy and nothing would be delivered but there was a huge raft of spending promises. What we see in her as right wing is social Conservatism
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  5779. voting based on fake culture wars how sad
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  5780. These are the rules of the game if you want more MPs create local associations build from the ground up and get councillors and activists on the ground so you can canvas. We had a vote in 2010 and pr it was rejected
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  5781. I've seen a few videos of Ukrainians cannibalising the wrecked and semi wrecked equipment, if there standard pattern then they must be acquiring quite a bit of second hand hardware. I'm presuming every mechanic and chop shop in ukraine who can be is on the job
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  5782. He's offering something for people from the centre left to the centre right If you want to waste your vote on a bunch of far right populist grifters go ahead. It's not like we can't see the consequences after 4 years of the current far right set of griffeters that are in power now
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  5783. The ERG's aim appear to be to get us to withdraw from every single international treaty on the books they appear completely insane My Dad jumped out a fkin plane over Europe to get us those rights I'll be damned if I give them up without a fight with a bunch of fascist right wing ars3holes that infest the Tory party these days
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  5784. He's not aging well and JD Vance ain't overly popular, the case will be made that he won't last a full term
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  5785. renewable energy is cheaper by a lot if we had more bills would be lower
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  5786. @cazfloss1990  even your example doesn't really cut it. Your over average acarage and 53% only are family owned.
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  5787. Why would anyone vote Tory? Your taxes are the highest in 80 years Services are crumbling literally Crime is up convictions down 140 billion in excess energy profits sewage out of control privatisation completely undermined as a total disaster Debt to gdp 62% in 2010 its now > 100% Gdp per capita is 5,000 lower than in 2010 everyone is poorer
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  5788. Tax base in the UK was 33% for 20 years till 2019 it then rose by 4 points and was 37% in 2024 This takes it from 37% to 38% by 2030 according to the OBR
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  5789. @swaldron5558  we voted for more money into the NHS RAAC fixing, clean water and cheaper energy through the green agenda
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  5790. 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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  5791.  @daegueric  Tesla have opened a mega pack factory (for grid buffering) in Arizona, a lot of the stuff you read about with Elon is they've insourced a lot of the production you'd expect the stuff he's building to get cheaper or produce bigger margins. Looking recently I was surprised at how cheap solar/wind energy now is per MWH it's under a half of fossil and a third of nuclear. With an increase in electric vehicles and I mean like buses and last mile delivery taking off you'll need a lot of new grid infrastructure around cities. Interesting times
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  5792. And he'll still get 45% of the vote how depressing.
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  5793. All the benefits of a social society with none of the responsibilities, just go live on an island
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  5794. @maccagrabme  the reason we have high imigration is right wing economic policy of trickle down supply side Thatcherism If you want lower migration then you need higher taxes and free university and higher education The cause of the current economic mess is Osborne's Austerity + Thatcherism × Brexit The complete lack of investment to pander to the low tax Tory donors REFORM s economic policies are fantasy land
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  5795. ​ @TheOutsider840  there was a huge imbalance because the Tories run an economic principal called Supply Side to even stand still economically it needs loads of cheap labour. Thatcherism needs a constant stream if you turn it off the economy melts down as is currently the case were short of over 1.3 million workers
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  5796. What's driven this country down the toilet is Thatcherism and you reakon labour will somehow be worse get a reality checked
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  5797. What does Trump stand for exactly? His inauguration saw a bevy of billionaires on the front row Anyone thinking a serial sexual predator and felon has any interest in working people is deluded Mike Johnson the House leader has been trying to get the debt ceiling raised by 4 trillion so they can yet again push through massive tax cuts for the wealthy and push it forward onto US debt as well as cutting healthcare and pensions.
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  5798. It's trashed by a 30 year project by the federalist society backed by billionaires All the rulings are pro corporate anti worker That even goes to allowing wholesale gerrymandering unlimited money in politics rolling back minority and women's rights
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  5799. The citizens want this plan canned and the money used to repair RAAC
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  5800.  @markwelch3564  They provide much needed shade for a lot of plants and slow down evaporation look up Agrovoltaiacs
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  5801. No one believes cry baby Donald any more, in the current Iranian crisis only the usual war mongers believe assassination of a high ranking foreign general is a justifiable act and not a war crime. Whatever label the US put on him it's the equivalent of Iran taking out the head of the CIA.
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  5802. Let's get politically active and elect high quality representation this constant sniping at how much there paid is counter productive The economic policies Sunak is following means food banks and regressive personnel taxation is a feature not a bug
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  5803. How about asking how much business is generated by having reliable broadband US wide, given the pandemic how much did it cost not having reliable broadband? The social cost for shool and collage students is incalculable
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  5804. Fossil fuels are heavily subsidised through the Tax system in the UK over the next 2 years the energy Companies will make 170 billion in EXCESS profits enough to make the current grid up to 70% renewable I'd also add that in the UK as well as the US the grid needs updating its old and in the wrong place and power stations are old and need replacing at this point in time Onshore and Offshore wind is the cheapest form of electricity on the grid in the UK by a considerable margin (Nuclear is double)
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  5805. @Hiddenwarrior17  you don't solve problems by sticking your head in the sand and ignoring it then mouthing off because it gets worse Which Is what the government are currently doing and your part of feeding that incompetence
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  5806. Working class people have thier tax deducted by PAYE, there's no paper trail and you don't have to live somewhere for it to be classed as your primary residence Even then you can just claim you spent 5k decorating it or in property maintenance over the 6 years, she could even legally of hired her brother to do the work
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  5807.  @brit8013  I wouldn't go that far its right leaning but it puts out facts even if it spins them a bit. I listen to the New Statesman as well to get some counter views.
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  5808. 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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  5809. So your saying that with collapsing markets China will just pony up the asking price? You ain't got much of a clue about China, it's not the west little old Putler needs to be afraid of
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  5810. 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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  5811. The privatised energy market is making a killing around 170 billion in excess profits while the Cons sit on their hands and do nothing British gas profits up 900% The privatised water industry is pumping raw sewage into the system and borrowing more money to pay out in dividends Tory economics for you
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  5812. no one else is leaving the EU listen to real news not propaganda. The economic hit to this country in leaving is around 1 trillion since 2016. @facts9538 
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  5813.  @Ruda-n4h  new Zealand had long periods of covid free existence with zero restrictions were an island and had 2 years of rolling restrictions due to political incompetence and lack of proper protocols plus one of the worst Cov outcomes in terms of mortality on the planet
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  5814.  @Ruda-n4h  long spells restriction free deaths per 100k 50, uk per 100k 324
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  5815. 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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  5816. ​ @ClimateScientist2025 tariffs are a sales tax
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  5817. IMF recomended one back in 2021 because the 700 billion the Tories put into the economy over Covid trickled up Millionaire and Billionaire wealth doubled. The only way you'll deal with the deficit is by pulling that money from the rich, Sunak's current Trickle down plan will erase the middle class
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  5818.  @brianwalker2696  Crime hasn't gone down its gone up Removing Fraud from the stats just means your comparing apples with concrete You can also fiddle the long term trends by comparing an individual statistic like burglary with the same period during lockdown. And lastly you measure per 100k of the population If you look at long term trends then crime rose steeply at the end of the Major Government before falling dramatically with the additional resources allocated by a Labour Government then has slowly ramped up from 2014 the simple reason is under Conservatives services are cut to the bone. You can't be tough on crime if you defund the police justice system prisons and councils You can look at conviction rates from 2013 they've slowly gone down with a sharp spike due to covid and all sorts of people getting fined then a dramatic fall in 2022 Defunding the system has cost the public money in the tens of billions in lost GDP since the lows of 2013/14 Additional crime and it being unsolved has a huge economic cost.
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  5819. So what Miller is saying is that on various technicalities that we can disenfranchise enough people to put in a President that lost by 7 million votes.
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  5820. The tech sector isn't going to stagnate neither is the renewables sector or the evolving manufacturing using robotics There is also a huge labour shortage in IT where I work its in the 10's of thousands and salaries have risen sharply The Fed will squeeze just enough to make sure unemployment doesn't start to rise as for real estate its way over priced if you ask me same as the market was last year.
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  5821.  @stanleypines1026  My wife works for an SME the levels of paperwork and red tape is insane, there are a boatload of additional costs, their business has shrunk by 25% a lot of the issues are supply chain Brexit relate at least there unlikely to go bankrupt like so many others The small craft beer firm near me that has a tap room lost its EU business overnight as did the small scale artisan Gin distillery. My Friends son plays in a show band they toured France in the summer and now Can't. I can no longer send my brother birthday or xmas presents as he lives in Norway and everything attracts tariffs + shipping costs jumped up. Its death by a thousand cuts you have zero idea how trade works
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  5822. With masks it depends which one I use N95 the surgical masks are better than nothing
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  5823.  @andylane247  stop spit flying everywhere
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  5824. 2 men too stupid to know it was a gimmick in the 1st place you mean
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  5825. It's an Oligopoly look it up
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  5826. Tax cuts don't grow the economy and trickle down doesn't work, we have 50+ years of economic data to back this up. Your also living in a trickle down low tax (for the wealthy and corporations) economy how do you like it?
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  5827.  @BS-vx8dg  there in the single market and Shengan
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  5828.  @strigoiu13  3 million leave voters are no longer here we passed the 50-50 mark in 2019-20
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  5829.  @BobbanYT  covid in one form or another is here to stay for quite a while.
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  5830. Barisma again this got Trump impeached for trying to extort Zelensky
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  5831. How she's an ERG nut job Brextremist living in Rainbow Unicorn land
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  5832. You got brexit it quadrupled migration tanked the economy and raised taxes by 5 basis points It's a complete failure how about you move on and stop wanting the impossible
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  5833.  @webbo9798  All of it a complete disaster now he's trying to sell tripling immigration as not the Brexit you voted for and there not doing it right yet you still lap up his dogshyte
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  5834. If we had covid passports and mitigation plus improving school air quality reducing class sizes maybe that would stave off another surge?
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  5835. This guys a fkin idiot the inflation is Supply Side Corporate profits driven on inelastic demand for key energy and food. Fed rate doesn't do squat just tax the big players and get it out of the system
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  5836. 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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  5837.  @tiborsipos1174  It's a 2 tier system I've just installed a solar battery system was having the roof done so had scaffolding up. It opens up cheap overnight tariffs, just by using the batteries to time-shift I can get electric at 13p all day instead of the 24p it cost me previously. The EV tariff is even better at 8p per kwh
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  5838. People rise and fall together, what the brain dead right wing fail to appreciate if you create institutionalised poverty it cost society as a whole weather that's in lost GDP or the insane amount spent on prisons and policing an ever desperate population. The US has six times the prison population of comparable western countries the cost of this societal failure is incalculable. The US has the highest spend of GDP on health with the lowest outcome and due to the insane right wing theory of privatised is infinitely better common infrastructure development costs four times as much as comparable western European countries.
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  5839.  @gabb05  There are more fundamental things happening to the economy the pandemic has set of a supply chain problem that is changing the way businesses outsource. US manufacturing has increased for the 18th month in a row, Intel are building a chip factory in Arizona Tesla have built new factories in Texas and Arizona other car makers are creating production facilities in the US. US labour is more expensive so your going to see increases in prices
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  5840. We're saving our country from the Tories as we speak Nige is all gob Starmer has deported 15k since taking office
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  5841. Johnson got brought down because he promised so much but was too lazy and feckless to deliver There's nothing left of the 2019 Tory agenda, net zero abandoned as was HS2/3, social care gone, leveling up a joke should be renamed punching down
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  5842. @tonyfraser1749  Wales NHS isn't worse it has exactly the same issues England and Scotland have. Having 1 national railway system for tickets and organising timetable will save around 2 billion
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  5843. ​@justinengland9814 the guy is obviously a billionaire either that or a complete Mug
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  5844.  @justinengland9814  It has everything to do with his agenda which is acquiring more wealth and power to accumulate more wealth and power. His sole reason for supporting Trump is money
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  5845.  @SuperSky9  If he lives that long he's taking far too many drugs for someone on the spectrum and is completely addicted to social media.
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  5846.  @SuperSky9  Works is a stretch, he's managed to cut twitters value by 75% He's planning Austerity on steroids and we know what Austerity does don't we children Stagnates and shrinks the economy
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  5847. What's hurt me most is the tax thresholds being frozen and cuts to NI + their abandonment of net zero when fossil prices went through the roof, 2 years back you could have gone all in on insulation and really pushed domestic generation. Prices are rising by 10% because were still tied to gas
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  5848. The FT 250 is already up 1.18% in anticipation of a more small business friendly environment
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  5849. It's entertaining he wound up the Greens last week
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  5850.  @markwelch3564  when did he say that been listening to the podcasts?
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  5851. @markwelch3564  it was rewinding Thatcherism for ideological reasons while spending well over a trillion doing it. If you want to have public ownership of say energy then build replacement capacity as its needed don't buy old clapped out coal stations or gas standby stations.
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  5852.  @markwelch3564  The Corbyn agenda was never going to happen no one would give him well over a trillion for what was an Ideological project. Also he'd need a solid majority to even try and that was never going to happen either plus he was a Cr*p politician that handed the Tories an 80 seat majority on a plate.
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  5853. It's the supply side trickle down model, anyone saying pay higher taxes especially the wealthy and train your own workers gets shouted down as a leftie. You get what you vote for
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  5854. Its quite clear the last people you need to choose the PM is members Sunak's own polling is better than the Tory Party their polling stinks and you can't cut tax because you've cratered the economy with 13 Years of Austerity, Trickle down Economics (Thatcherism), borrowing for tax cuts with debt to GDP at 100% and Brexit. The people at the bottom are now facing a tax bill to give millionaire pensioners a tax break the Bankers a Tax break and subsidise Fossil fuels WHAT PLANET ARE YOU ON
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  5855. studies showed that EU workers contributed +80,000 in value over a home grown worker, freedom of movement was of huge benefit to the UK economy, stop it and all sorts of unintended economic consequences happen @grahamhobbs294
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  5856.  @bogusmcbogus2637  They have a selective memory Trump in numbers on of the worst POTUS on the economy that's ever lived this is his 4 years Trade deficit +40% People without health insurance +3 million Unemployment -2876000 jobs unemployment rate 6.3% Economic Growth -3.4% Manufacturing jobs -154000 Coal Jobs -8500 All the good times they opine about built on this Federal Debt held by public +50% (4 trillion) One puff of wind and the entire thing collapsed on itself built on smoke mirrors and debt like all his businesses Its going to take a huge lift to clean up Trumps mess but hey its the same old same old Republican come's in promises the world then blows up the economy, they can whine about the pandemic but they spent like crazy to sugar high the economy like I said selective memory and smoke and mirrors
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  5857. There are more Democratic voters than Republican because their demographic is younger it depends on turnout. Also The GOP get more rural votes
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  5858. They've taken their holiday to go You look at the dark money flooding into the Trump campaign this is just a non story
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  5859. This call surely puts the icing on the cake that talk radio truly rots your brain I've never hear so much crap talked in so small a space of time
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  5860. ​ @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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  5861. Read the transcript of his ramblings at the economic forum Its a word salad of verbal vomit and far worse than listening to it
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  5862. I disagree fundemantly with the cult like devotion to Thatcherism and Trickle down the market is king but these people are intelligent they just don't have any connections to the working and middle class and get detached from life outside London
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  5863.  @jamtommy6446  have you the remotest idea how much benefit to the economy overall putting money into education is? Skilling up workers is worth millions over the extended period of their working life its a complete no brainer
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  5864. ​ @Philcopson you don't get it do you the Brexit thing is a Con we have record imigration because we're not in the EU and there here to stay and are not work transient
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  5865. Let them work get them processed so 40,000 can be deported Our economy is on its knees because of right wing economic policies and burning through 3-4 billion because I dunno a migrant purity test is fkin insane f you want to shut down the black economy you need regulations, ID Cards and staff to enforce it This is Tory Brexit Britain invest in nothing regulate fk all and push cash to your donors and mates and don't think Tice would do any better he won't
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  5866.  @stanthesteelguitarman8228  Tory vote is well spread out they will loose both to Labour and the Lib-Dems even though the lib dem vote is only 11% due to tactical voting Electoral calculus have a personal predictor once you plug in tactical voting and reform on 13 the tory numbers plummet its just the way FPTP is
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  5867. there not red tories wash your moth out with soap you may not like their drift to the centre to garner votes but instead of a hard right government a x1000 times better
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  5868.  @ExpatriatePaul  this is untrue Without effective government trade and systems cease to work for the benefit of the majority of the population. Left to thier own devices companies descend to the worst version of themselves. Monopolistic corrupt bending the system creating Zombie companies.
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  5869. ​ @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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  5870. No matter how much damage you thought Barr did don't forget this is a zero sum game. The enemy of my enemy is my friend If Roosevelt can make accommodations with Stalin then surely we can with the pre 6th of Jan enablers Post 6th enablers such as Holly and Cruz well everything Trump Touches dies
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  5871.  @levbronstein-red  Blair was a centrist moderate Starmer looks Centre left to me looking at Reeve's economic policies and Millibands Green Policies. Someone who would bring government competition to privatized industries organically rather than Corbyn's no hope big bang
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  5872.  @levbronstein-red  There's no such thing as Red Tories, the Cons are out on an unreality all of their own. As for Apartheid we used to do the sports boycotts back in the day it should have been economic as well.
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  5873.  @levbronstein-red  I'm retired used to work in business several of them over the years. Don't bandy about NeoLiberal if you don't know what it means and the true nature of NeoLiberalism. Teher's an excellent podcast on the topic by a couple of left wing journalists just type in "Neoliberalism: Everything’s for sale" and you'll find it. As for Blarites having nothing to offer those days are gone buried under NeoLiberal Austerity coupled with NeoLiberal tax cuts in 2015 that ballooned the debt to GDP ratio to 92% The current assclowns have managed to break the system that much it will take decades to repair.
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  5874.  @levbronstein-red  Try some of these The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future - Paul Krugman History of Economic Thought - Lionel Robbins
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  5875.  @levbronstein-red  There didn't need to be much undermining Corbyn was his own worst enemy
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  5876.  @jjefferyworboys8138  its deliberately complex there are a number of economics papers on the topic but the general consensus among them is its unsustainable The Taxpayers Alliance and the IEA disagree which is where Truss comes in and these insane tax giveaways are born
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  5877. The reason the economy is going down the toilet is Austerity +Thatcherism x Brexit Removing regulations increases paperwork and red tape to ALL Markets outside the UK making UK companies noncompetitive Low Tax = no investment in UK population = mass immigration to plug skills gaps so what's that Reform are going to what make it worse by removing yet more regulations? Standardisation = Free flow of Trade Diversion = buckets of red tape paperwork and additional costs TO ALL MARKETS
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  5878. Trevor Noah has a good piece on Fox's take on her
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  5879. In terms of rock throwing you get it from the Cons non stop against Labour there still blaming them for the state of the economy 13 years on The usuals serving your Union Paymasters (which is a Lie) Sunak has pulled the Corbyn lever no end of times (he's been kicked out) I'm not sure why they've done this maybe its to Troll stations like this anyway the reason the Cons are so shit at Law and order is they've defunded the police courts and the councils
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  5880. just installed underfloor in my house it was built in 1935 albeit as part of a major refurb and extension. the overriding benefit is from double insulating walls and floors and fitting A+ windows. Didn't bother with a heat pump but did instal thermal solar, heating has been off since around April and hot water has been free most of that period  @keithhissey5173 
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  5881. I'd get medical help @xavierayayaell546 
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  5882.  @stevestephens8969  45 billion of unfutax cuts give me a break it was all on tick how stupid are you tax cuts for the rich generate squat the economic multiplier is 20% at best meaning your pissing 80p per pound of tax money up a wall
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  5883.  @stevestephens8969  2015 Cameron's tax cuts produced zero growth and ballooned the debt which in 2019 had risen to 92% from 62 in 2010 There's numerous budgetry papers budgetary paper on tax blanket tax cuts for the wealthy go into investments get spirited off shore very little goes into the economy A tax cut that would boost spending across the board is VAT it would also help with costs in the public service sector Cameron raised it to 20% further deflating the economy
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  5884.  @stevestephens8969  gold standard gimme a break sovreign debt is only an issue if you can't service it ours was 45 ish for a long time till the banking crisis another gift from dumb ass neoliberalism. Cameron claimed he was going to drive it down he didn't again unfunded tax cuts sent it south and upwards Trump tax cuts in the states just went way worse, Reagan tax cuts increased debt Bush tax cuts increased debt and your expecting the gilt market to fund yet more debt jog on
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  5885.  @stevestephens8969  we could go back and forth all day the Issue with the UK economy are long and varied my main point is blanket tax cuts on an already low upper rate don't produce growth. If your debt to gdp was below a reasonable level the markets would go whatever and fund it anyway The uk is currently an economic basket case long term investment by major companies has dried up and SME investment is hamstrung both by Brexit with very high gdp/debt and inflation at 11% And the last time inflation was this high was the last time we had an energy crisis
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  5886. God needs to start a phone in help line for these people
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  5887.  @KernowDamo  I've got loads of things that need reversing we will have our 3rd immigration bill since 2019 I'd add the retained EU law bill and reversing FreePorts and economic zones. Then there's all the problematic clauses in the new trade deals. I'm not disagreeing with you it just depresses me the level of time that would be needed to unpick all this stuff.
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  5888. Net migration has tripled through removing FOM instead of recruiting from 20 miles away your recruiting from 2,000 with an explosion in the number of dependants hence net 750k instead of 200-250k Neither Reform or the Tories are talking about addressing the economic pull factors while Labour are If you want to seriously reduce net migration we need a visa system with the EU and to reform our Labour laws
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  5889. Its shock to get the MSM to stop talking about boat people and trying to rebrand Sunak as the brave new future disconnected from 13 years of shyte tory policies
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  5890. She's bonkers same old trolley of lies that Johnson peddled but in a different package
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  5891. Can the GOP afford to expel him with a 4 seat majority? Sorry 3 seat and a Santos If the Dems pick up his seat that reduces it to 2
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  5892. You a multi millionaire ? wealth taxes do what they say on the tin tax the wealthy and no Labour won't do it it's been proved ineffective
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  5893. ​ @happystarhappystar1477 we exploit the resources, no such thing as a free lunch
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  5894. last data I saw had an uptick to 9% from 5% of registered republicans switching to Harris after the media blitz of ex officials and the Chenee's going all in Enthusiasm among the gop is 80% compared to 93% Democrat and Harris has x2 as much money to spend + tens of thousands of field workers and volunteers
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  5895.  @The_Phoenix_Saga  the one that looks at a privileged thick as mince Etonian who's had everything handed to him on a plate over the years and has subsequently lied his way to the pinnacle of politics and thinks how did we get here The Tories are always bangging on about the working class making something of themselves when someone does it's bring out all the old tropes time
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  5896. They said working people Reason tax has to go up is the NI cut to bribe the electorate was unfunded and unsustainable
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  5897. There not going to negotiate a Boris back door into their trade zone and with the Cons its like speaking to small children having to repeat it endlessly again and again no you can't have a back door no you can't have a back door They are resigned to a no deal, they also want to move forward on anti money laundering rules and see Britain's exit as an ideal time to move as the UK can't block them anymore, if the City (UK) wishes to trade with the EU it will have to adopt them or get blacklisted.
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  5898. Wot like Nige the guy that said brex1t would be the land of milk and honey instead its a cratering our economy and record immigration
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  5899. You know that's a complete lie why repeat it?
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  5900. The Tories supply sided cheap labour into a low wage zero hour GIG economy undermining established businesses there now doing it to the Professional and Middle Class its not about the migration its government policy that's driving wages down. 2010 to now Germany has seen a 20% rise in average wages we've seen squat so don't blame the migrants blame the Tories
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  5901. It takes around 10 years to commission a nuclear plant, its obsolete before it even comes online there already x 3 times the cost of renewable energy​@stevehodgson5470
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  5902. @keithparker1346  take the last estimated purchase and debt figures and adjust for inflation its not the purchase price which is the issue its the debt of the 80 billion 62 is debt
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  5903. @pjj177  what are you on about the Tory policy flop yet another failure as fossil poure money into Conservative donations? Quote What is the record low price for UK offshore wind is nine times cheaper than gas? The projects are all due to start operating within the next five years up to 2026/27 and have agreed to generate electricity for an average price of £48 per megawatt hour (MWh) in today's money. This is nine times cheaper than the £446/MWh current cost of running gas-fired power stations.8 Jul 2022 This is from its peak but gas is never going to be cheaper than renewables they reached parity in 2019
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  5904.  @andrewjmp3494  we've been making electric vehicles since cars were invented (ex milk floats golf buggy) there's around 40 moving parts in them compared to the 4,000 in an ICE vehicle issue was always battery tech and cheap petrol Petrol isn't ever going to fall significantly and battery prices keep coming down with new technologies coming online al the time Quote “The energy and transport revolution continues,” energy analyst Gerard Reid wrote. “Lithium battery cell prices are now below $100 per kWh, down 80 per cent in a decade. Going forward we will see even lower costs and better performance, which is why the death of the internal combustion engine is near
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  5905.  @Alto53  the current economic crisis is magnified by a large factor by the application of Supply Side Trickle Down Economic Theory as run by successive Conservative governments. It didn't work in Thatchers day its damage got masked by asset stripping and oil revenues and we're hitting problems stored in the privatised utilities that only a central government approach can resolve. Take the water companies they've been heavily debt loaded to pay bonuses and dividend if the interest rates keep rising they'll go bankrupt leaving billions in corporate debt who'll pick up the tab that will be you and me with water rate hikes
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  5906.  @Alto53  We are coming off the back of 50 years of corporate consolidation after the deregulation years and switch in the 70's to Supply Side Trickle Down economics which has ballooned the wealth gap. The big players in the market hold incredible power through Oligopolies. Ours is structurally worse because we had excessive privatization of public utilities and put trade sanctions on ourselves with Brexit Ex water isn't run by a private company in Scotland but the English ones are debt loaded to 50 billion if interest rates go up they will go bankrupt
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  5907.  @Alto53  The bulk of the current inflation is Supply Side Corporate inflation in basic commodities. If the UK had a wider energy portfolio and more renewable as base the price would drop by 3/4 As policy the Government encouraged the dash for gas which is used as a peaker power source in the privatized market nocking back multiple applications for onshore wind and Tidal schemes Wind energy on the forward market is £42 per gigawatt hour OffGem spot price is £257 We have the market we have because of Supply Side Economics (Thatcherism) where you don't look at the consequences of being reliant on just one energy source you just take a short term profit driven view.
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  5908. The working class voted UKIP BREXIT BORIS And that trend accelerated during Corbyn's tenure most of those votes are permanently lost, Labour are doing what the Democrats did over in the states appealing to the middle class and younger educated vote + women in general
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  5909. It's government policy that suppreses wages not the fact you have a larger labour pool. EX unregulated gig work on low wage zero hour with profits flowing offshore There always were multiple ways of controlling migration through policy while we were in the EU we chose not to do it
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  5910. So spending 8 billion on a bankers tax cut is better than funding NHS pay? or spending 4 billion on a millionaire pensioner tax break is better than repairing RAAC in schools? Give your head a wobble @gillycooper8717 
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  5911. Why does the economy need loads of migrant labour? Economic policy, supply side trickle down economics needs supply side labour, deregulation makes it worse ex- gig economy and low wage zero hour Tice thinks he can work an economic miracle by just shutting down migrant labour without dealing with the policies that create a need for it hes living in lettutce liz lala land
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  5912. Reform are offering low tax low regulation policies the same ones that crashed the market under Lettuce Liz and the same ones that brought nearly 1 million migrant workers into an low paid zero hour unregulated GIG economy during Cameron's reign. They want to start fraking which uses 100 million gallons of water per well and causes earth tremors If you want lower immigration you need higher taxes and investment in the population like free University Tuition and its infrastructure like road and rail links in the North @dianeirvine7624 
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  5913. You don't get it do you the reason he's taxing the workers is because the heart of the Tory voting base is pensioners and there mad about loosing their generational wealth. He doesn't give a flying fk about those that don't vote for him
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  5914. why don't you like human rights?
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  5915. Reform arre bought and paid for by the Billionaire class Get real
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  5916. What people dont want cheaper energy by moving to renewables away from fossil Save yourself no one wants a return to chaos
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  5917. He's following the US lead as far as I'm aware Blikin is pushing every lever he can to stop it escalating into a wider conflict and free the hostages quite a few Arab states would like Hamas destroyed Geopolitics is a messy business
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  5918. 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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  5919. Parliamentary report on pandemic failings by this government Group Think Fatalism British exceptionalism rinse repeat for any problem this bunch face they are a broken record
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  5920. I have plans the concept of plans, there eating the dogs Pass the straight jacket and stop sane washing this sh1t
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  5921. that's because its made up apart from the dik pics
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  5922.  @foloeel  I do I'm still voting Lib-Dem though I'm in a blue wall seat so Labour is not an option I voted for a Labour Mayor though zeroseats
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  5923.  @dansplaining  Starmer to me seems to be the ultimate pragmatist he has a centre left chancellor, a left Deputy, a centre left energy minister yet appears to be the model of centrism. The appointment of Sue Gray signals to me that instead of the endless Westminster talk he intends to get things done if he doesn't then Labour will suffer the same fate as the Tories will this time. That means they have to deliver on transport energy and housing
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  5924. Polling put her on +17% during her hissy fit week the Tories dropped 2 points to 23% Labour gained 3 to 47% You need to get out more you've gotten yourself into a bubble
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  5925. I follow various media the only one's propping up this sort of bollox those on the Populist right of politics. Centre right outlets like the Times aren't interested this stuff is just simple solutions to highly complex problems the people pedalling their snake oil are more than happy to get people riled up so they go to the next snake oil salesman and buy some more @chopperoon1 
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  5926. There pedalling Trussanomics and fairytale solutions to migration while taking away your human rights, not exactly vote winners when people start looking
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  5927.  @ifindoubtbailout70  and who would like that be? Its certainly not reform who are a party started by the elites for the elites and promoted by the Billionaire class
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  5928.  @ifindoubtbailout70  That change doesn't involve Reform who are just another band of Elites wanting to prop up the fossil industry and the Billionaire club.
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  5929. ​@rhysbevan429 the inflation is Supply Side Not Demand Side interest rates curb Demand side inflation if the inflation is on inelastic Supply side goods (food and energy) then your using a sledgehammer to crack an egg. Government should have in 2021 Increased the supply of energy by fast tracking renewable policy and grid upgrades Put in a windfall tax of 70-80% on excess Profits to curb pandemic and war profiteering pushed the bulk of the money to customers Stopped the current farming policies and encouraged through grants and taxation the growing of more domestic food Insulation programs and changes to planning where still building homes that will need Insulation retro fitting. We did non of the above and you couple that with 2 major bouts of QE which has all trickled up in the covid case 700 billion in Truss's case 130 billion and zero attempt to pull it out the top but a policy of squeezing it out the bottom. The rich who benefited from QE are fairly immune to rate hikes
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  5930. Labour must be laughing all the way to 2035 Badenoch could start a fight in an empty room and Jennerick lied about the Special Forces and the ECHR and has various money coming in from dubious sources
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  5931. Net zero will reduce the cost of energy and remove our de0endence on natural gas
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  5932.  @FredHousehold  So many fossil lobby talking points making so little sense
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  5933. Were going to have to backpedal to a May style deal the go it alone fantasy is damaging our economy since 2016 and its getting worse Global Britain was always dead on arrival because a lot of people voting for Brexit wanted to shut the borders and turn the country into little England You can't have unfettered supply side economics which needs access to a supply side labour force and shut the doors to the migrant labour it needs to even tick over without extremely damaging economic consequences
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  5934. The Tories run Supply Side Trickle Down Economics hence the millionaire pensioner tax cut and fiscal drag for the Plebs Labour run a Keynesian Demand side Economic model which invests in Physical and Social infrastructure and the 2 produce completely different economies. So stick your comparisons in the nearest garbage pit
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  5935. ​ @jamestaylor7042 the carpet baggers that sold you the economic train wreck that is Brexit It's even increased immigration and from non white countries irony truly is not dead Delusional
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  5936. If you vote for a performing troll what do you expect. There not in Congress to legislate or represent thier district it's all about the performance and minutes on tv
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  5937. With FOM 200,000 without 750,000 Rwanda the 200 million dead cat Why Brexit Jesus told me to do it The non net number +1.25 million of which 1/2 are dependents
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  5938. not really thee rarely suitable
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  5939. Pro growth Tories? Cutting taxes will stagnate the economy further the Tories have completely knackered it Sunak IS NOT A CENTERIST HE'S A FRIKIN HARD RIGHT THATCHERITE
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  5940. You'd loose all the prime fishing grounds most of the Offshore wind power all the oil and gas field revenue
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  5941.  @ryanclaridge8395  those are official figures from government sources a Big number trotted out by a Tory Squak machine is no indication of what needs to be spent per capita And Just because it busts a load of unfabricated preconceptions you really really want to belive isn't my problem its yours
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  5942. I have a degree in Economics but being able to read is the only requirement and he's not in charge of it anyway its the Bank of England
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  5943. I mean why put an alternative party that has concrete costed plans in power that would address a whole range of issues instead of Blunder Truss and her fantasy economics with the worst yet to come I mean we have the housing market crash to look forward too I'm sure that's a real vote winner
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  5944. you already pay tax as a pensioner
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  5945. If your voting for your children's future you wouldn't touch a right wing party with a barge pole The Tories have tripled University fees removed bursaries for Nurses and slashed Doctor training places all leading to higher legal migration
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  5946.  @xsentfromuk8938  reform certainly don't they represent the Billionaire class that fund them and provide a free mouthpiece and propaganda outlet in GBNews
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  5947. With what Libertarian policies that favour the ultra wealthy get real
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  5948. No one but the gulible wants fracking a privatised NHS or yet more water pollution
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  5949. Pathetic whataboutism tory boy Labour have an independent ethics panel to refer all complaints too separate from the Shadow cabinet
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  5950. The guy is quoting facts from the 1st term, adding 4 trillion in debt on tax cuts which added fuel to the post Cov inflation which has finally cooled
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  5951. @ManForToday  why would you dispute facts derived from decades of data! We know where this goes and it's not goid Quote The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act did not cause the Great Depression; however, it worsened conditions during that time. The Act increased tariffs, which further stressed the economy by raising the price of imports to the point that they became unaffordable for all but the wealthy, and it dramatically decreased the amount of exported goods, thus contributing to bank failures, particularly in agricultural regions
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  5952. He's paid for by a right wing think tank, they use xenophobia to try persue a Truss style economic agenda
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  5953. 58% voted centre to left of centre you are in the minority, these thugs will get the book thrown at them and quite right
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  5954. It was always going to be an economic car crash because the people implementing it did so for political gain no one in their right mind would leave the single market were currently at -6% GDP or in lost tax that's 50 Billion, that 50 billion could take your tax threshold at 20% to 15000
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  5955. What gets me is that the Chamber of Commerce is actually lobbying against policies that would help their members there is a huge labour shortage which could be helped by the untapped skills of women.
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  5956. Currently the markets won't lend us Squat after what Johnson & Truss did and will be very wary of a Labour government with trust needing to be earned. Also interest rates are high its not like in 2010 with near zero interest rates & 62% debt to GDP were 100% and 5.5% rates Were paying 115 billion in interest and also borrowed +130 billion last year Cost of water nationalisation is 80 billion alone  @Nick-kb6jd 
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  5957. We've left the EU and won't be back in my lifetime if ever. Why do Brexit Ultra's get their knickers in a twist over trade, they clearly haven't a clue how integrated just at once supply chains work or they wouldn't be banging on senslessly about regulatory alignment as if it where the pox. Regulatory alignment Good Regulatory divergence Bad Divergence will continue to add huge costs to trade depress trade growth and lead to high inflation in the GB economy (hint its no where near as bad in Northern Ireland)
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  5958. Musk has been taking too many drugs the guy is cuckoo and should stick to his businesses also He is unreliable and and could pull the plug at an instant if you upset his fragile ego. Just to say Milliband has expressed multiple renewable projects through that were basically sat on the shelf waiting for Sunak to cancel if elected. He is anti net zero and listens to Policy Exchange which has ties to the fossil lobby. HS2/3 line could have lead to 350,000 containers being shipped by rail instead of road, while it should never have been HS and should have been built by now it's economic loss will be devastating for outside the South East
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  5959. Into a government that's going to reverse 14 years of trickle down cr@p that flows to Tory donors
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  5960. because Reform are rebadged UKIP and are despised by a large section of the electorate, and most centre right voters are socially liberal
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  5961. Brexit is and always will be an economic train wreck Believing in br3xit Jesus doesn't change economic reality
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  5962. Johnson is no different now than when he was campaigning for Brexit or when he was Mayor or when he campaigned to be leader. The guy is a fantasist and a lier who will say and do anything to further his aims, Johnson's government have achieved nothing because its all about the Johnson show and surviving the next days news cycle. What's worse than the lying is the sheer incompetence and laziness of the guy and he's surrounded himself with the dregs of the Con party there's what a couple of ministers you'd say are competent the rest you wouldn't pay in rubber washers.
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  5963. Problem is people like you don't bother to look there's plenty of difference and there's a Lib-Dem and Green party too
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  5964. The bits of Ukraine they've taken over look like a Stalinist shit hole already thriving towns and villages are dying
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  5965. Trump = Crazy, Chaos and quite insane people running the government, JFK for example
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  5966. The Tories are already borrowing 130 billion a year to subsidie thier tax cut agenda We need to spend 40 billion a year to fetch the burgeoning energy bills down in 2020 energy spend was 30 billion in 2023 it will be 170 billion Consumers can't afford the ongoing cost of being tied to GAS
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  5967. More Thatcherism get a reality check
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  5968. We have a hard right government you numpty With hard right fiscal policy since 2010 2010 being the last year our services were properly funded
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  5969. This debacle is on you and your VOTE 50 years in the making the ultimate ar5e end of Thatcherism Energy bills tripled Trains that don't run raw sewage in the rivers housing shortage Even the Horizon scandal is Thatcher and the Con's fault Outsourcing everything at cheapest price screw quality or accountability
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  5970.  @LuzDoSol-yr5bv  the Tories have been veering hard right and will go there again as they perceive Reform as their rival, Jennerick is mouthing off about the ECHR and Rwanda. Then the wets cave in every time bunch of spineless jellyfish
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  5971.  @mfecanegukurahundi24  he delivered Austerity allright It depressed the economy permanently by 2% of gdp The central premise from the OBR was the fiscal cost as in economic multiplier was 0.5 as in save a £1 treasury actually saves 50p Unfortunately this was proved wrong the economic multiplier turned out to be 1.6 seems if you defund stuff like the justice system crime goes up and that has a knock on effect on gdp. You can find info on economic multipliers in Kaynes work The rational for Austerity was the work of Professor Carmen Reinhart and the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, Ken Rogoff in a research paper called Growth in a Time of Debt. The paper was found later to have errors in it discovered by a student who got hold of the original spreadsheet in 2013.
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  5972. 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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  5973. It would be a devolved chamber representative of the regions The policy document proposes devolved powers hint we have a London problem
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  5974. If Elon does his stuff the dollar will crash within around 2 months at which point even the GOP will impeach them
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  5975. This is kind of rose tinted view here Momentum where a party within a party promoting their own agenda There was a similar movement in the 60's Militant tendency
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  5976. cooperating with the people who run the border on the other side reclassifying people smugglers in the same light as organised crime and seizing their assets plus getting rid of the backlog that's costing us 8 billion Words fail me in how to describe how bad your idea is
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  5977. If you had a net zero grid your bills would drop by 75% Your paying for last mile gas
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  5978. Because we have an elite class in charge who's focus is in maintaining corporate and business profits over everything else
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  5979. Nice one
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  5980. They couldn't afford the loan for it
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  5981. A rough guess on his drug bill is in the region $100,000 so good luck with getting enough supply plus money plus hospital care to make this viable
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  5982. We've had 20% inflation over the last 2 years 2 million visas handed out GDP per Capita negative 8 quarters straight and the biggest drop in living standards since records began And those are the positives, you'd have to have Stockholm syndrome to give this lot 5 more years
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  5983. I lost a years pension because of Cameron Lesson no 1 never vote Tory
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  5984. 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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  5985. His policies are unobtainable when you campaign on lies you get Johnsoned Level up - never going to happen No tax increases - 19 and counting Guarantee triple lock - inflation at 8% pension uplift 3% We're all going to be better off - -3% drop in average earnings plus shrinking disposable income We're getting rid of red tape - brexit is a complete fkin mess with billions being spent by both government and businesses on red tape its not even a cottage industry its gone full industrial
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  5986. The French don't hate us Boris is being a complete Dick about everything EU so he can play polotics - look over there the EU hates us while he makes a complete bollox of running the country
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  5987. Why do Murdoch publications produce complete s**t, there's global warming the gulf this year was +3 degrees wildfires in all sorts of places huge swings in temperature and this fkmuppet thinks were heading for an ice age. The only thing ice cold is Rupert Murdoch's soul propping up billionaires and spreading lies
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  5988. We really need to get off fossil As for the price of oil being higher next year then who knows Europe is on a major drive to electrification with 20% of new cars sold being EV
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  5989. we left with a hard Brexit the economic fall out from that is -5.5% GDP resulting in 44 billion reduction in tax receipts to the Treasury 10 billion in additional costs of red tape and paperwork per annum Broken on demand supply chain no major investment in the UK since 2016 if you don't believe me look at the decline in car manufacturing Further disruption promised with the retain EU laws bill which would add 85 billion in business costs over 10 years Benefits Raw sewage in our rivers and sea as we don't have to comply with the water safety standards anymore
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  5990. IOWA looks to be an outlier but it shows a +20 spread with women you can see given the misogyny spewing out the DJT campaign and putting a lunatic like JFK in charge of health this figure being replicated all over the place
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  5991. Like the could erase the last 14 years of Austerity? They've baked in 10% cuts to services post budget to pay for thier NI scam if they go past May there will be a squeeze like no other, plus there breaking thier own fiscal rules with rising debt ​@malcky630
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  5992. Anyone voting Tory at this stage has Stockholm syndrome The last 5 years is officially the worst economically on record, no just that living standards have fallen by 4.2% in just the last 2.5 years with 20% inflation and food staples doubling in price. What did the government do in this crisis? NOTHING
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  5993. Tories only care about power I'm looking forward to a labour government they finnaly seem to have got thier act together
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  5994. Oil is controlled by multinational cartels, Biden forced the price down by realeasing some strategic reserve but its in their interests to make the price as high as possible going into an election because Trump will sell the country out and let them drill anywhere as well as banning renewables and stopping further development. Also this won't be an issue in 4 years if the economy keeps decoupling from fossil for energy usage, Calafornia is already starting to see the effects
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  5995. ​@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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  5996. 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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  5997. Trump is done, Harris just turned it into a turnout election. His base doesn't really expand
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  5998. Across all its periods in power averaged out Labour have borrowed less and repayed way more than the tories This latest 14 year spell has seen them borrow just under 2 trillion and repay nothing
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  5999. Shaun Bailey your having a laugh a rich elite that doesn't give a fk about poor people same as every Tory
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  6000. You need more decentralized energy production and storage rather than these big bang solutions which take 7/8 years to implement like more stuff like this "World’s first large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland" and this 'Most powerful' tidal turbine starts generating electricity off Orkney"
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  6001. Your like nodding dogs, Farage has been a Putin apologist for over a decade, the far right across Europe loves Putin and his Oligatchs money and wants to go back to it
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  6002. You need to look at small scale low cost but lots, it can still be a grand project but it needs to be devolved As climate change progresses the % of water in some of these weather events increases
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  6003. He's not in the real world? He's not been in the real world for years what narcissistic Psychotic lunatic draws on an official Hurricane Map with a sharpie then tries to get the Met people to alter reality for him? The guy is a shrinks wet dream
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  6004. Farage isnt even Conservative he's a Libertarian populist last couple of years we've had Thatcherism on steroids with refugee baiting
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  6005. she's should be in UKIP or BNP, not a Conservative bone in her body
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  6006. What does Trump 2.0 give you aside from Chaos and destitution? 20% of the US workforce is immigrants The Democrats have set the stage for the US to be the Renewable World tech leader powering the AI revolution You rip that up and the US is done as a world leader ceding the stage to China, look forward not back
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  6007. there not red tory the hard right currently in power are x1000 times worse than any Starmer government would be sort your head out
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  6008. How much do they have to steal from the working people to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy and how bad do the services have to be to be a true conservative?
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  6009. In 2019 the economy didn't resemble a skip fire And You where always going to get evolution not revolution because the Corbyn agenda was nostalgic socialist fantasy land But from what Starmer has been saying he at least appears to understand the gravity of the situation if you think its bad now by spring BOE rate will be 6.5%
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  6010. ​ @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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  6011. Maybe they can read Reforms manifesto why would anyone believe or support the rubbish in it
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  6012. Farage is far right too right for the current Tory party the One Nation group would rebel
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  6013. 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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  6014. 5 missions
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  6015. Immigration is complex the only beef I have with any party on the topic is soapbox ing it
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  6016. After the initial stages its an economic war as in who runs out of resources The Russians are poorly equipped winter will be bad for them, how bad we shall see
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  6017. Switzerland has high gun ownership and non of these issues why because there are no assault weapons and licencing and vetting is strictly carried out
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  6018.  @markmiranda3364  no one is defunding anything more money gets puored in year on year
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  6019. The media in the UK is heavily right wing biased what this is designed to do is not let them whitewash 12 years of failure and present Sunak as something new oh look were not the ones that crashed the economy and ran the Justice system into the ground with Austerity I'm not a fan of the approach but it is generating a lot of Airtime and Labour have been responding by highlighting the true cost of Austerity
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  6020. No they haven't both Reeve and Starmer have lambasted trickle down as for Austerity you can't rehire all those people that were sacked 13 years ago rebuilding will take time get real there is no fantasy Corbyn switch @timelwell7002 
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  6021. They proposed Trusanomics in there manifesto so what doe that tell you?
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  6022.  @christineshaw3423  just imports to the single market
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  6023.  @TruthHurts-s7g  Studied Economics back at college am now retired get most of my financial data from reliable sources I have pensions and savings to manage in my retirement. You wish to refute the evidence and believe in charlatans, what did you think would happen when we erected trade barriers with our closest market?
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  6024.  @TruthHurts-s7g  so carbon taxes to your main export market + tarrifs on products made from coked steel isn't the reason manufacturing is leaving the UK? Yea right dream on
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  6025.  @TruthHurts-s7g  When the truth differs from your worldview you make an excuse to explain it away. The only person your fooling is yourself
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  6026. What's your point? We need growth and efficiency gains unions don't invest businesses do you can create a level playing field for both not do what the Tories do play everyone off against each other
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  6027.  @keithparker1346  Cut the trickle down Cr@p Last budget alone 8 billion to bankers 6 billion to fossil 2 billion millionaire pensioners Match private and public funding on infrastructure projects such as GBEnergy, If you processed All the Asylum claims you'd deport 20,000 a year and have 60,000 extra working in the economy generating taxation and reducing spend by 2 Billon If you raised the minimum wage + 20% tax threshold you'd reduce in work benifit if you empower housing associations to build social housing you'll drive down rents boosting money circulation in the wider economy etc.
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  6028. Like who cares Johnson and his cronies are the worst bunch of thieving Bandits this country has ever elected
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  6029. They are the future of the Tory party the billionaire's b1tch party
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  6030. We need an additional rail line to take the intercity traffic off the current system and that goes for east west and Birmingham Leeds as well With additional capacity you can move an additional +350,000 containers around
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  6031. Even there getting sick of his 1 man crime wave also the Big GOP donors hate Donny
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  6032. You've listed a load of right wing cranks divorced from reality who've created their own echo chamber
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  6033.  @LA-fr7fx  I've voted Lib-Dem most of my life, I like some of their policies not others but having studied Economics Conservative economic policy is driven by political dogma not reality. The Thatcher years saw massive sell offs of utilities and a huge tax windfall from oil yet we have nothing to show for it but higher energy bills and sewage in our rivers I would struggle to support Cotbyn but now he's gone I'd vote tactically if it was needed but my constituency is a Con safe seat we really need some changes to the system an elected 2nd chamber on a PR basis and at least single transferable vote for mp's
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  6034. What's economic growth? Real average wages have gone down by -3% under Cameron / May and -5% under Johnson
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  6035. Complete rubbish 40% are in work and the government is forking out 20 billion in housing benifit because they've flogged off social housing, created a low wage economy and subsidised housing purchasing. The true freeloaders are at the top not the bottom
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  6036. Grid capacity shouldn't be an issue load balancing and management are the key Smart meters and V2G will make peaker gas plants a thing of the past and wind capacity is set to soar as is the introduction of tidal plus decentralised production with domestic solar and wind getting cheaper as well as moves in house efficency and insulation.A modern house or even a retrofitted older house can be designed to use 80% less energy to heat and cool it
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  6037. They run the same economic policies that drive immigration so how will they help?
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  6038. Exactly not the geriatric with dementia, word salad is better than mush at least it has body and doesn't resemble verbal vomit
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  6039. 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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  6040. 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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  6041.  @DJWESG1  The current lot aren't neo liberal please stop using it if you don't know the ethos and meaning behind it
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  6042. There policies are unworkable and the ones that aren't like fracking nhs privatisation and deregulation no one wants
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  6043. Labour won't be neoliberal but to gain power it needs to move away from looking like an Elite Socialist talking shop
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  6044. Sunak wasted 100 billion in 4 years There are also slews of Tory waste on consultancy outsourcing trickle down tax breaks were talking billions The largest part of the budget is going to be debt repayment as interest rates and inflation eat into the economy there is near zero room for borrowing In 2010 debt to gdp was 62% and interest rates near zero 2023 it's 100% and interest rates are 5% the effects of Brexit on the long term foreign investment that stopped in 2016 are starting to really bite + the effects of removing FOM has seen esential foreign workers fetch in extended family with them. The Tory economy is a raging skip fire which will get worse because there is near zero room for borrowing until inflation goes down to 2% 10% of the NHS admin budget is spent leasing with the private sector Hunt and Reeve are light years apart even what may seem small decisions will have a big effect down the line ex removing consultants
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  6045. Renewable energy is cheaper, the current price of electric is set by the most expensive which is gas onshore wind at the peak was over x14 cheaper The energy market in the UK will make 170 billion in excess profits over the next 2 years due to this model the treasury is giving away 10s of billions in tax breaks to fossil Stop spouting off and repeating lies you pick up from uneducated idiots about Renewable energy
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  6046. Raise the minimum wage then and stop subisdising a low wage economy
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  6047.  @duran5706  good negotiator? Since when trade deals worth zero gdp the latest selling out our farmers, just call her Roll over Truss
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  6048.  @duran5706  this is a disaster for brexit! How so brexit is a complete screw up Frost was never going to get anywhere neither is Truss the Cons are going to have to stick to a deal they brokered signed and voted for, it may be garbage but its a shit heap of their own making
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  6049.  @audience2  far left? Even after the ww2 they were just left Now there soft left at best The Tories are raging far right nut jobs at the moment
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  6050. What are the Tories running on ? Oh we only lowered your living standards by 4% in 2.5 years the biggest drop in uk history but it could have been worse?
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  6051. Ahh the lost Corbyn years if Labour had had an electable leader in 2017 he would have walked it instead we got the left's fantasy agenda and an 80 seat majority in 2019
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  6052. Thatcherite policies have spent 50 years pumping money into boomers, they own their own homes and have over 1.4 trillion in ISA savings and The youth of today are getting fk all
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  6053.  @markabrahams2191  We have one of the lowest tax bases in Europe even after the rises and our system is riddled with holes so only people on PAYE appear to pay much tax. Also the Tories have borrowed 1.8 trillion our debt repayments thanks to the Lettuce are 120 billion and Sunk/Hunt borrowed a further 130 billion in 2023. We have now a projection of a further 18% budget cuts further damaging the economy and boosting the need for even higher migration.
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  6054. That's because instead of solving problems the Tories are resorting to Populism and trying to stoke culture wars. Ex Brexit will be the land of gold and magic unicorns Reality 5% hit to gdp and around 1 trillion lost to economy since 2016 ( year on year cost -40 billion in taxation) total to date 330 billion loss of taxation
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  6055. Over 14 years they have borrowed 1.3 trillion and Real GDP has risen by a mere 100 billion to achieve that paltry rise they increased the population by 8 million making gdp per capita sink from 50k to 45k Everything is worse than 14 years ago
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  6056. Your trying to force an economy with it's supply chain embeded into Europe out as if there are no consequences and it will happen as if by magic Our taxes rose in parallel with leaving the EU Our Immigration rose in parralel with leaving the EU and Our manufacturing is collapsing Port Talbot and Now Luton Yet you sit there pontificate and take zero responsibility, you won get over it accept the consequences of your actions stop blaming others
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  6057. Tucker is an entitled trust fund nut job out of the Murdoch disinformation empire
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  6058.  @evolassunglasses4673  no he isn't he's a rich trust fund A hole who's gone full white supremacy, the modern day kkk
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  6059. Pathetic whataboutism What gives him the right to behave like an entitled Pig Tory boy
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  6060.  @SrCoxas  everyone cares because it affects food prices especially animal feed and fertiliser
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  6061.  @fanfeck2844  Novachok perhaps?
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  6062.  @steffanhoffmann8937  no we didn't we had lots of Europeans including airmen and others flee to UK there were also Canadians that came over The US was supplying us with arms and equipment
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  6063.  @danceteachermom  What you mean his job and getting them processed and deported in double quick time? The US is taking the same amount of refugees in annually as its always done over the last couple of decades, just because he's not wasting millions of dollars holding them in privately run detention camps your complaining?
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  6064. The core of Trump supporters are uneducated white male there also low propensity voters. The voter suppression the GOP have enacted will hit them as well. If your dumb enough to believe the election was rigged your not likely to make an effort to vote
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  6065. 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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  6066.  DabCat 716  that figure appears to have been pulled out of thin air, looking at the instances in one of the meat packing factories is showing 8 deaths so far from 1800 positives, many mild cases take a couple of months to recover and viral pneumonia leaves the body badly scarred needing treatment in some cases indefinitely shortening life and leaving you with a permenant drug bill
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  6067. Climate science deniers are out in force today Do they get paid by the fossil lobby or are they just useful idiots for them.
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  6068.  @TomTKK  flawed? Only in that they've been too conservative on its affect. Glad your all in on Mass Migration as parts of the planet get more uninhabitable.
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  6069. When the poo hits the fan he can blame Pence, oh and the Democrats it's thier fault as well, the chances of him taking responsibility and showing leadership are fat to none
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  6070. he is the true mister wibble wobble more U turns that a U bend factory
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  6071. Is not an invasion and its multiplied exponentially because you voted for Brexit so we now no longer have a shared responsibility with 27 other nations
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  6072. 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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  6073. Why is Sky Australia shilling for DT oh yea it's owned by a billionaire to push billionaire polocies, don't Australians get sick of this ultra right for the rich garbage?
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  6074.  @TinyBabyDuckling  calling a party scum for the damage they've done to the economy and the amount of people's businesses they've destroyed the weaponization of immigration, stealing from the lower and middle class to push money into millionaire / billionaire pockets, defunding the Justice system with all the knock on effects on crime. Scum doesn't even come close what's their latest picking on trans kids who have the highest level of suicide of any teenage group not keeping benefits in line with inflation so we can push a few thousand more kids into poverty?
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  6075. this is the culmination and embodiment of Brexit Truss is the champion of the ERG and the Brexit Ultra's, Kwerteng is the vehicle of the ultra right think tanks wanting to move to this utopian free market City vision of Singapore on Thames. Both visions are economically unworkable and batshit crazy what Johnson did was play the English Nationalist off against them his mistake was hollowing out his party of one nation Tories and absorbing the dregs of UKIP. The Tories have a major problem the longer blunder Truss and Kami Kwasi are in power the more damage they will do to the UK and possibly world economy
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  6076. Its a good comparison in my view how do you run a country without lockdown Density of population - we saw in northern Italy and NY what happens when Covid gets into a heavily densely populated area. Medical resources - at no time was Sweden's resources stretched beyond capacity the Tories have run the NHS down to the bone. In the UK it decimated the nursing home population. You have low resources and dense population and the deaths per cases sky rocket with the ugly spectacle of refrigeration vans for the dead bodies and doctors basically having to refuse care and pick winners and losers.
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  6077.  @lemsip207  You could never command a majority with JC in charge In 2017 he wasn't widely known by older socially conservative labour voter and still only got 262 seats. You needed 321 for a Majority and he had zero chance of becoming PM in a coalition. By 2019 there was no one on the centre-left who would even vote for him amongst older voters that was reflected in the polls yet his arrogance led him to hand the Tories an 80 seat majority. 2016 - 2019 completely wasted without a credible Opposition
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  6078. In what way are they incompetent? Bit corrupt maybe but there going about enacting their agenda.
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  6079.  @PGHEngineer  yes it will in Starmer we trust he'll be there for 10 years at least
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  6080. Applies to anyone with a salary of 32k - 55k Everyone else + pensioners has a tax hike due to fiscal drag - for example 12250 should be 15000 So a pensioner with a small additional pension will see a tax rise of £540 the national average is 18k so an additional 3% off not much goes to the government
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  6081.  @Nick-kb6jd  of course he is but there are ways of doing it that don't involve huge buybacks you can set up locally owned not for profit generation such as tidal projects turn as many houses into solar banks with guaranteed feed in tariff Cooperative owned not for profit wind farms that give you discount on your electricity if you own a share Etc you need to be creative
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  6082. No one is going to cut a deal with Trump he's pissed in the bad faith truth pool so much the filters and pump have jammed. The chicken nugget idea seems to be the best option
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  6083. So what policies do you want if you don't mind me asking? I've been doing a load of research on policy my interest is in Economics and also renewable energy A faster move to Net Zero will reduce energy prices considerably by taking us away from Oil and Gas price volatility + If your interested in the True economic picture there's a Paper at the "Resolution Foundation" on "Ending Stagnation" Underpinning both of these is serious wholesale planning reform @El.Cid17 
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  6084. She's not pro brexit We have the shitshw the Conservatives created someone has to fix the economy they've completely buggered
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  6085. since when did having 20k pa net disposable income to fritter away on private education become the purview of the middle class? It's like IHT only applies to the top 5%
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  6086. Pathetic whataboutism Tory boy
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  6087. Its hot air coming out of Johnson's arse, all the property is privately owned the government would have to pony up full price for it and do a compulsory purchase order. It would literally cost several fortunes
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  6088. Biden's been tepid from the start, Warren's anti corruption speech in New York got a lot of press, the name calling early doors has taken the sting out of it repeating it now is just getting like white noise, I cant' see her past being anything you could make much ado about. With Bernie hammering on about Trumps corruption as well its going to be a hard few months for the Don. When your outed for lying so much people just tune out and his latest assault on medicare is going to get even the pensioners frothing.
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  6089. She was cleared by hmrc or dont facts count?
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  6090. ​@danielmackay8099 keep up the misogyny it keeps driving up her poll numbers
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  6091.  @kimjong-un5562  sigh - social means being nice to people and cooperating, you know like helping your neighbours, looking after the elderly, being a good friend and supporting your local community.
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  6092. 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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  6093. The Cons knew he was a lazy incompetent liar when they appointed him they all turned a blind eye saying oh he can win us an election. He won that election on a bucket full of lies and lied his way throughout his tenure Vaccine was a Brexit Benefit - Lie nothing to do with the EU every country had the choice to go it alone Oven ready deal - Lie his deal is a car crash that even he was trying to unpick, he lied to the ERG and the DUP about canning the protocol and lied to the public there would be no hard border in the Irish sea
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  6094.  @Fre667Roger-Ring  even by Tory low standards he was useless The G20 IMF data puts us just above Russia at 19th with zero or negative expected growth
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  6095. He's pursuing the same failed agenda of Austerity and Trickle down Thatcherism that's been tanking the economy for the last 13 years GDP per capita has fallen in real terms by nearly 20% There will be no economy the way there going on and now we have Thatcher's failed privatisations biting us on the ar5se raw sewage everywhere and sky high energy profits 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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  6096. I have a hunch on the fate of millions of lives isn't good enough, his mouth dangerous. Answer the feckin question you slimeball
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  6097. Six months on still no plan the WH is like a Plague ship with Trump running round it like Typhoid Mary and they want to pat themselves on the back for a travel ban that wasn't a travel ban. History will not be kind to the DT/MP shitshow
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  6098. Why would Labour be a disaster? Would they spend that 500 million wasted on Rwanda fixing RAAC? god forbid we repair our crumbling infrastructure how will the elite survive without their tax cuts?
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  6099.  @RjjFerg  The reason US healthcare is so expensive is because its private The UK NHS costs 9% of GDP on healthcare its estimated over 20% of US GDP is spent on healthcare Even well run public/private systems swallow minimum 14% gdp
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  6100. Coal is so yesterday's answer a lot of the costs are to do with peak rate and lack of investment in grid balancing, wind generated energy costs over 1/2 of what coal energy costs to produce. There are plenty of storage solutions out there it's just a infrastructure investment
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  6101.  @bobthebomb1596  there up front cost loaded and lend themselves to decentralised production putting more emphasis on grid load management There not attractive to big business unless you have a large wind or solar farm even tidal is more localised production its not your big nuclear station with government backed guarantee payback
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  6102.  @bobthebomb1596  there building a liquid air storage facility out Manchester way comes online later this year Thing is battery tech is on overdrive and for grid and domestic systems your not squeezed for space money should have been thrown at this stuff a lot earlier But complacency
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  6103. @NichoTBE  renewable energy reached price parity with gas way back in 2019 its miles cheaper than any current alternative Going net zero will cost 4 trillion over 10 years not going net zero will cost double that due to the cost of gas and the unstable cost of oil, suggesting we go nuclear isn't on the cards either Hinkley c is 10 years in and will be 3 years late with huge cost overuns What's holding it back is lack of commitment to infrastructure building
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  6104. ​@localreviewking134 don't forget the Yobs injured 6 policemen
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  6105.  @lukeclark7367  if they spend the time going to college why would you expect them to work construction, my dad worked in the industry I did a couple of summers between college back in the day my son is college educated but has become a gardener his mate worked hospitality during his breaks a friend of mines son is training as a heating engineer. I just don't recognise what your point is bar there's a lack of young Labour period across the board the US has an aging population and a falling birth rate and your spouting stupid anecdotes about bathrooms all the young people I know work really hard.
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  6106. Trump has zero chance of being re elected His economic nubers Stank worse than a pile of cow manure Trump - 2 million jobs Biden +14.1 million Jobs You look at every macro economic metric and it tells the same story a guy who borrowed Trillions to sugar high the stock market giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy V real infrastructure investment lower drug prices higher levels of people on healthcare insurance. You then have +16 million young voters added since 2024 and they do not want abortion and contraception bans
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  6107. Net zero will reduce energy costs reshore energy jobs and detacch the economy from world commodity fossil shock
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  6108. The tax base has risen to 37% from 33% in 2010's The question is what are the Tories doing with all that money and where did the 1.3 trillion they've borrowed since 2010 get spent on?
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  6109.  @tobyscustoms4813  the polling on the 2 child limit is 50-50 on labour voters and near universal on Indipendant and Conservative voters Stupidity on policy effects in the electorate is strong. So what's the point of an Indipendant labour candidate they have zero chance of winning? Another 5 years of the Tories will see a privatised NHS doctors fees an Economy that serves the 1% abandonment of net zero
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  6110.  @b00ts4ndc4ts  Mate the locals were going full anti net zero believing any berti bullshit that came their way
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  6111. They use bigotry to distract from what there doing to the economy, using vast numbers of migrant labour to prop it up while it circles the drain
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  6112. I wouldn't worry his complete ineptitude with the covid response will kill the economy, there's no end of historical data that shows disease control of a pandemic has a direct correlation to economic success. Those that lock it down swiftly and deal with it effectively have a huge economic advantage over the areas that basically stick thier head in the sand and let the virus burn away. Turning mask wearing into a culture war will see most red states burn, countries such as Japan and Hong Kong have near universal adoption of masks the current studies point to it being a huge factor in keeping thier R rate below 1.
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  6113. what's wrong with spending on public services rather than say on the recent 8 billion bankers tax break 4 billion for millionaire pensioners and additional 6 billion for fossil fuel companies? that 18 billion is just wasted gone out of the economy?
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  6114. Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical
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  6115.  @jonsmith5058  His missions are radical it's just he's boring and feels centrist. Read Mission Economy A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
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  6116.  @keithparker1346  How do you know? Planning has changed in decades moving to a permissive system opens up all sorts of opportunities that don't need buckets of money
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  6117. @jonsmith5058  these are different times my Dad came here after the war as did many others the post war building boom was done on the backs of migrant labour, the new NHS staffed from the colonies something that would be a hard sell today. My solution is permissive planning, factory built housing to A+ thermal standards with Council / Private partnerships and a ban on landbanking
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  6118. The reason the country is in a mess is Tory economic policy Thatcherism + Austerity Even Thatchers flagship privatisation is unravelling yet according to you we need even harder right wing economic policies? Take seat with the Letuce and try some of Thressa's turnip
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  6119.  @nickrails  the Tories went down 2 points in the polls last week while braverman had her hissy fit to 23% Labour gained +3 despite being mired in ceasefire v humanitarian pause. People need to get out of their echo chambers
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  6120. Starmer will be finished when he decides to leave There currently isn't any viable opposition, if your going to blab on about reform forget it there love child brex1t quadrupled migration and no one is going to back privatisation of the NHS and tax cuts for the wealthy in yet more trickle down failure. As for net zero I'm currently getting the benefits of cheap off peak and time shifting usage with smart appliances and not using the grid during peak demand with battery storage I ain't over the moon with this government but the alternatives are just awful
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  6121. ​ @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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  6122. 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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  6123. Our economy was 90% of Germany's in 2016 its now 70% pull the other one GDP per capita was 50,000 in 2010 its now 45,000 we've been going backwards for 14 years @lestrem11 
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  6124. As long as she doesn't talk​ @privateperson702
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  6125. its normal or why would Lord Frost be a lord or be given a cabinet post
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  6126.  @timothykrause2327  No they won't, demand will go down creating a downward spiral on the economy leading to hyperinflation as more and more people become unemployed. Go read your history books on the great depression and the Keynesian economic theory that pulled you out of it.
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  6127. Mccarthy will claim next he's never heard of the John Birch Society or even the Ku Klux Klan.
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  6128. Any chance of good relations with GB went out the window with Boris big mouth who echoed a Kenya quip and who was all for tearing up the good Friday agreement till Trump lost.
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  6129. The only way to get the economy going is social and structural investment not tax cuts, there's 10% cuts baked into the budget for services which will further shrink the economy, Thatcherism is a broken record
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  6130. That's because he is a swivel eyed lunatic as are all the ERG living in an alternate reality doesn't give you the right to pedal your insanity without it getting fact checked
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  6131.  @paulhumphreys-gw3po  There the 2nd most unpopular party in the country according to YouGov and that's from the same survey that gave them 19% so dream
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  6132. ​ @1701-TP they live in their own echo chamber, I listen to various views so that I don't get siloed but have to say there way off to the Truss Libertarian right.
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  6133. No they didn't we had large numbers from India and Pakistan during Thatcher
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  6134. Why it will wreck UK meat farming with substandard products shipped from 1/2 way round the globe
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  6135. @aarongarcia2911  people seem to have a misconception on how Russia is currently organised, Putin, the Oligarchs and the Russian Mafia are one and the same thing Putin is effectively the Don of Don's in Mafia speak which is why everything is so stunningly corrup and incompetent and you can't trust a word anyone of them says.
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  6136. enjoying your tax rises are we? lets see what there paying for shall we Millionaire pensioner tax break check Bankers tax break check tens of billions to the fossil industry Check
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  6137. She's an ERG nut job She'll take the country back to the dark ages like Braverman
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  6138. The Prime Minister has many great strengths? What like lying and getting away with it
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  6139.  @andybrice2711  Steel closures are because of BREXIT nothing to do with UK energy policy as in the EU are putting very high tariffs on coked steel and coked steel products from 2026 onward from 3rd countries
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  6140.  @andybrice2711  without being in the EU manufacturing in this country is dead. Weather that is steel, cars, batteries anything.
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  6141. General consensus outside right wing copeville is she crushed it like a boss The only people thinking otherwise appear to have issues with women and definitely women in power and seem to think DJT's toxic cry baby attitude is somehow masculine I genuinely pity you people
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  6142. How long will it take Republicans to impeach him for being INSANE and needing to go in a Care Home?
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  6143.  @grumpyoldveteran7286  the economic ones are the same failed tierd neoliberalism that the Right have spouted for nearly 4 decades. They make the rich richer and fk over everyone else.
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  6144.  @grumpyoldveteran7286  low tax low regulatory framework (trickle down supply side) It's had 40+ years of analysis it doesn't work the push for low taxes ends up as low taxes for the wealthy and corporations and high taxes for everyone else (to compensate high purchase taxes (vat), health insurance needs to be high) this also feeds high asset values (housing which start to bleed the life out of renters). Low regulatory framework is just code for shyte in the rivers zero hour contracts bans on collective bargaining removing paid leave etc. Welcome to fire and rehire nirvana voting reform is like Turkeys voting for Xmas
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  6145.  @grumpyoldveteran7286  yours and my standard of living has gone up but since 2010 living standards are declining Thatcher +18% rise in average wages Baire / Brown +25% Cameron /May -3% Johnson / Truss / Sunak -?? Thatchers tax cuts where built on asset stripping Utilities and Oil revenues, the Blaire/Brown economy had a bit of left over oil money but had genuine growth the Cameron era economy was crippled with Austerity and further killed with tax cuts, 2010 debt to gdp was 62% by 2019 it was 92% currently its over 100 which is debt of over 2.7 trillion. The low tax model that Thatcher managed and these right wing thinkers such as Tice aspire too could only be done once, the utilities can only be sold once, the council houses can only be given away once the economy rewired to remove heavy industry to a supply side model again once. Supply Side low corporation tax is a 1 trick pony it never worked as the advocates of it push The other economy killer is Brexit from 2016 investment in the UK has fallen off a cliff and that cliff has gotten steeper since 2020, businesses don't like uncertainty and they hate trade barriers. The other major factor is an aging population the numbers of people in work now is less than 2019 the UK lost over 1 million workers who either went back or emigrated to the EU in 2020. So Reform the Conservatives or any other party telling you that they can magically grow the economy and reduce taxes while improving services are lying out of every orifice in their body. I bought my house a 3 bed semi in a posh area of the North in 84 it cost 3x my salary to do so today would be at least 10x what's more rent on a 2 bed semi would be near 100% of my take home pay because as a graduate with loan repayments which are another form of tax make it impossible to save anything. So here is a stark figure which highlights the UK's spiralling decline in 2016 our GDP was 90% of Germany today its 70%
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  6146. She was removed for stupidity and crashing the markets
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  6147.  @alyb731  what establishment the one that owns 100% of debt run up by successive Tory pms? And told her to fk off and present a grown up budget coz the one she presented was fkin insane
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  6148.  @IanDarley  multi nationals have always been able to tax shop and Shell don't pay tax they haven't for the past 5 years neither does Amazon Microsoft Google etc. Your premise is just wrong we have a tax base of 33% Germanies is 37.5 France is 46.2 both are growing Faster than the UK Back in 2016 our GDP was 90% of Germany now it is 70% Our currency is down by 30% against the Euro and dollar since 2016 major investment in UK plc has fallen off a cliff BritishVolt collapsed no one would invest in it car manufacturing in this country is collapsing London CNN— UK car manufacturing hit a 66-year low in 2022, as the closure of two plants We are an economic basket case no one in their right mind would lend us money to piss up a wall on tax cuts with a gdp to debt expected to top 103% and no fkin plan to reduce it bar fantasy economics. The Johnson Brexit deal destroyed the On-Demand EU wide supply chain in this country there will be NO large manufacturing investment and little SME investment because of it period.
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  6149. He's centre right
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  6150. Great Biden is the Best US President they've had in decades over 2 trillion in investment planned over 10 years 800,000 manufacturing jobs reshored already
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  6151. Tax cuts just don't create growth no matter how many times you say or try it Fixing the NHS waiting list does it will massively increase work hours by not having people off sick and the subsequent cost in sick pay is a boost to the economy Settling the doctors strike will cost around 2 billion lowering IHT will cost 10 billion and affects the top 4% that 10 billion you may as well flush it down the toilet all the good it will do a stagnating economy
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  6152. He's just saying don't eat your own, robust discussion and don't bear grudges you need a united front and yes Bernie got shafted in the last nomination but that was then and this is now. So bury the hatchet just not in each other. The left isn't particularly left anyways its more a liberal slight off centre the reason it looks so far off is the right is about as extreme as it gets. Calm down :)
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  6153. stopped from what? Committing economic suicide ? Feel free your economy is heading down the toilet as it is the longer you keep it up the worse it will get
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  6154. Why? Haven't the billionaire class screwed you over enough?
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  6155. The numbers are irrelevant its the % debt to GDP and GDP per capita Ratio Debt to GDP was 62% in 2010 its gone up year on year for 14 years its now 100% @charlievarley 
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  6156. Its 100.6% and were not in "Death Debt Spiral" that theory has been widely debunked. If Sunak actually wanted to deal with the inflation which would reduce debt repayment he would tackle the energy crisis and the Cost of Brexit Crisis @madam9736 
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  6157. GDP & GDP per CAPITA are globally represented in Dollars same as Oil @Demun1649 
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  6158. Ukraine will develop its own long range missiles within a year or two
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  6159. Why do you even care? It's a gimmick to divert your attention away from the fact people on average are poorer now than in 2006
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  6160.  @dylanmurphy9389  Then why then why are they trying to, there was only ever 2 choices regulatory alignment or a hard border down the Irish sea. The we can have our cake and eat it theory is magic unicorn thinking, we've not moved on much from all the lies that put this lot of assclowns in power in the 1st place
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  6161. we borrowed 130 billion last year
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  6162. ​ @lindark28 there's only around 13 million left, pensioners voted 70-30 in favour Brex1t is dead anyway migration Tripled, economy tanking sky high food inflation
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  6163. ​ @bedandbreakfastman11 Removing FOM is why migration Tripled 50% of the visas are for dependents due to us shopping for cheap labour in the 3rd world If you want lower migration train your domestic workforce, pay the going rate in public services and stop outsourcing and regulation on labour such as removing low payed zero hour.
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  6164. The path for more progressive polocies is through getting more representation at all levels and building from the ground up.
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  6165. Yea but that would mean investing in social and physical infrastructure, levelling up the north and building an east west rail link as promised with the Northern powerhouse instead we got a high speed link to nowhere everything else cancelled and more Austerity.
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  6166. Very glib Starmer is an exceptionally good organiser If its in the next manifesto it will get done in some form
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  6167. They'll be in for 15 years at least look at the alternative The right of politics has trashed the economy in just 14 years
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  6168. Were talking Tories here it's all for show
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  6169.  @PointofConnection  So your going to vote for a Guy who will crash the economy by instigating another 3.5 trillion onto debt even though debt to GDP is sky high
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  6170. There's a worker shortage dream on
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  6171. NatCon isn't conservative it's a vehicle for Billionaire interests and the Fossil industry, follow the money
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  6172. we had a slew of voter suppression tactics including voter ID favouring the Elderly, the removal of automatic registrations, wall to wall don't give labour a super majority and a Tory campaign that was a complete work of fiction describing a dystopian wasteland if you voted Labour.
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  6173. Reform back the Truss approach to economics and we all saw how that ended
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  6174. Mordaunt lies her face off but isn't as good at getting away with it Truss is stupid and lazy Kemi and Suella are ERG nut jobs
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  6175. And did it affect the economy, were services still fully funded, under Blair we had +25% wage growth under the Tories we've had higher immigration filling zero hour low paid gig work to companies offshoring profits and ZERO growth in fact you have less disposable income now than you had 13 years ago. SO park the whataboutism
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  6176. Battery prices fell by 50% over the last 18 months if Mass storage was used on the grid it would save a Fortune Payback on the solar battery system I installed a couple of months ago has dropped to under 6 years, what is wrong with you people when facts appear to not matter a jot?
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  6177. Sunak has screwed up its going to be a landslide the best chance of PR or a form of it will be after a 2nd term when hopefully there's been some devolution and the HOL has gone.
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  6178. there centre left and it's about time we had a chancellor with detailed knowledge of economics
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  6179. If you defund the Police, Justice System and Local Authorities then crime will rise. The affect of the additional crime caused by Austerity on the UK economy is tens of billions each year.
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  6180. at least Labour will process the applicants saving 3.5 billion at the end of the day its 62,000 per year we have a population of 70 million so its like why all the fuss@@mleh-qx8mo
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  6181. @mleh-qx8mo  62,000 not being used as a political football working in the economy generating tax revenue not draining 3.5 billion because the party in charge won't live up to thier obligations under the UN refugees charter. What's your problem you voted for Brexit and workers from India and Nigeria what's your beef
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  6182. renewables are 2.5 times cheaper on forward contract price than their nearest rival Nuclear and the government are giving over 100 billion in subsidies to the fossil industry so how does not going with renewable seem like a good idea given their so much cheaper? Are you afraid all those Oil execs won't get their bonus?
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  6183. Goebbels If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. We couldn't do the vaccine while in the EU Brexit will be an enormous success There were no parties Its the sheer corruption Boris drags round with him that are making the Tories completely toxic and this is just the aftermath a a pitiful party wallowing in its own sewage Next election campaign it will be only we can stop the boats but we know thats a lie coz they can't stop them now
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  6184. @@Pedros-fe7zp why do you keep repeating the lie that they are illegal and they are migrants there not there refugees. They become illegal once there claim is processed and rejected language matters. definition of concentration camp = a place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners OR members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.
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  6185. The type of resident your describing the majority use public transport therexare millions pof homes with driveways
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  6186. There's no trade deal without a massive visa scheme, not something easily sold to the public as a win
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  6187. 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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  6188.  @yvonnenorth9634  No we won't most of us hate Farage for what he's done to the country
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  6189. Human rights act embedded into law the equality act plus Labour laws on sick pay and holiday pay. The great bonfire of regs To give you a snapshot of what the intended Water and legalizing dumping
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  6190. ​ @llewev  the economy will shrink with thick Lizzies plan and in all likelihood grow withe the anti growth coalition here's why every home would be fully insulated so less energy usage smaller bills energy produced would be domestic and not bound to world commodity markets a deal with access to the single market and freedom of movement will boost the economy by +5% or we give tax cuts to the rich the gilt market keeps tanking on unsustainable borring we have runaway inflation and a housing crash
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  6191. What's changed with Johnson he's lied broke the rules and couldn't give a stuff about it, its standard Johnson he lives in his own personal reality. The guy is a shambles and the government lurches from one chaotic episode to another
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  6192.  @stevec6427  Ahh but you didn't get Tory policies as can be seen of the shtshw that Osbourne then Sunak has made of the Economy. Blair / Brown +25% increase in average wages Cameron -3% in average wages Johnson well lets say ist going to be bigger than the -3% Blair and his war never supported it but then I never supported Thatcher's either and they've still not discovered a viable Oil Fieild down there.
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  6193. ​ @S-North we've had a fiscally hard right government for the last 13 years Thatcherism on steroids boosted by Austerity Not a leftist policy in sight and your blaming who exactly?
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  6194.  @Mikewazowski_24  he's stup1d as well No one wins trade wars. One of the reasons the great depression got out of hand was tariffs
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  6195. She was sacked because the Tories lost another 2 points in the polls last week down to 23% and Labour gained 3 to 47% Cameron is in to try stem the bleeding to the Lib-Dems in the Blue wall
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  6196. You never studied History and The New Deal using Keynesian economic Theory?
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  6197. billionaire lobby groups such the Institute for Economic Affairs and Taxpayers alliance
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  6198. Polling puts it top with 30% of Conservative voters which according to yougov is a mere 20% of the public, it doesn't feature in the top 10 with voters bar those who are getting conned to support reform So no its about the economy stupid
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  6199.  @JohnnyF71  but your daughter doesn't have ADHD age estimate is done using the language / depth of vocabulary, my sons autistic which is why I've extensively read up on this stuff it seems a taboo topic in the media though, the worst is yet to come a 70 day tantrum
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  6200.  @JohnnyF71  The breakthrough with my son was a diagnosis while at school and instead of them fighting it I got them to go with the flow, he's exceptionally clever and artistic but has personal space issues, he now has a job as a gardener at a country hotel where he is highly regarded for his work ethic and they've allowed him to engage in his hobby of bee keeping in the grounds to the mutual benefit of both.
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  6201. ​the current talk in EU countries is 30,000 our totals have more than doubled since Brexit last year it was 80,000 So 30,000 + say 20,000 more sounds a good deal to me As this year its going to be near the 100,000 It's a better offer than what InActionMan is proposing housing migrants indefinitely at a current cost of 8 billiona year and escalating
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  6202. of course he is Check out these 2 articles A Keir Starmer government might be more radical than you think by Michael Jacobs Another must read article is by the FT which is backed up with graphs and data showing the trajectory of the UK economy under Austerity Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity A decade of Tory spending cuts left the country vulnerable to the external shocks of the past two years
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  6203.  @redacted629  electric car fires are a fraction of a percentage on ICE ones
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  6204.  @darrellrobson2484  they're just as much Tufton Street puppets as the Tories, there champions are the same pro corporate pro billionaire economic policies Right wing economics broke this country a more extreme version will sink it completely
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  6205. Why do you predict migration going up? You were warned that brex1t would have the opposite effect yet you called it project fear, labour will start the long rocky road back to fom with additional labour regulations and a lowering of the Tories insane migration numbers
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  6206. @Phaedrus Moros why do you deny reality data and academic study so much, everything is geared to an emotional response? Your presented data but choose to turn the other way and exist in an information bubble that just repeats your distorted views of the world
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  6207. The difference between Trump and Jim Jones is Trump would charge for the cool-aid You actually believe that complete bs don't you, kind of sad
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  6208. Maybe Farage hops over to Calais and gives out unsold copies of the Daily hate Mail
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  6209. Reform are the Billionaires choice the only thing they will do is sell you out
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  6210. 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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  6211. they need to close the tax loopholes + collect what is owed 42 billion was left uncollected in 2023
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  6212. Its not a Labour think Tank quote Its stated aim is to improve the standard of living of low-to-middle income families. Check out the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Analysis. The Right wing is bought and paid for by lobbyists such as the IEA and TaxPayers Alliance and our media is owned by Billionaire interests. @0w784g 
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  6213. Labour want to spend 28 billion on Green Policies and here's why Cost of Energy in 2021 to UK Consumers (Renewables where the cheapest source of electric at this point) was 30 billion Cost of Energy in 2023 to UK Consumers will be 170 Billion (Due to Gas price Fluctuations and the energy market being tied to GAS (40%) If you invest 28 billion a year into renewable energy and grid expansion it will OnShore energy jobs and reduce the 170 billion eventually down to 30 Billion + inflation @nazb1982 
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  6214. Well thats one way to ruin a counties economy and push areas outside of London and the South East further into reccesion
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  6215. They run supply side trickle down economics (aka Thatcherism) it needs an endless Supply Side pool of cheap Labour to make it even stand still in economic terms.
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  6216. I think so the missions are based on Mariana Mazzucato's work Mission Economy, as far as I'm aware she will be an adviser. The mission approach is cross departmental I'm assuming Sue Gray was brought in to formulate how it would work
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  6217. What is more at issue is income inequality as the middle class get squeezed into a smaller groups with less disposable income thier capacity to generate added value jobs disapears. As one of the squeezed middle class if I had more income I'd spend it on better food (organic) going to a concert or the theatre more often, if I was younger activities for my children etc. The better off I am then the more wealth flows down. This will not end well for everyone if the 1% keep denying thier is a problem
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  6218.  @FletchforFreedom  if your going to make a point then please don't start with an insult based on a random supposition of my circumstances. If you've no interest in the social/economic damage that's happening that's your prerogative but your hardly for freedom if your advocating for a model which is pushing more and more people below the poverty line, that only gives tax breaks to the rich but fails in its duty to improve the health and well being of the population as a whole.
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  6219. How's make america garbage again going?
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  6220. 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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  6221. The NI tax cut bribe was costed with fantasy cuts to government budgets Labour knew it The Tories knew it And In serious circles it was covered by the IFS and Resolution Foundation the right wing think tanks were just take it of the disabled and pensioners the plan if they had won was to raise the retirement age to 68 and make disabled people work or throw them out on the street
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  6222. If the world switches to renewables it will save trillions of dollars as well as reduce polution across the globe. There are numerous studies out there as wind and solar have been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 We spend huge sums subsidising fossil extraction and even more on environmental clean up Also 40% of shipping is dedicated to moving fossil fuel around
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  6223.  @yorkshiremgtow1773  That is incorrect at the end of the Major Term debt to GDP was 45% during the Blair Brown period it dropped to 40% before reaching 62% saving the Financial system in 2010. Since then the Tories have never balanced the books borrowing 1.6 trillion and sending Debt to GDP up to 100% while adding +8 million to the population.
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  6224.  @yorkshiremgtow1773  Your looking at borrowing as an absolute figure Blair / Brown grew the economy by the largest margin of any administration. Which the Tories have spent 14 years trashing with their ideology of small state & Tax Cuts
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  6225.  @davidm1187  Yea DT is too stupid to be a Russian plant
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  6226. 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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  6227.  @Trump_2024_USA  no you didn't your a troll that registered 2 months ago
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  6228. When he loses he doesn't do the 5 stages of grief he stops at anger and glitches trying to bend reality. We won 2020, Harris crowd was AI. Biden will retake the nomination. Oh boy is this going to get way worse.
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  6229. 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 and toxic the Tory alliance with UKIP and BNP voters to get Brexit done has become.
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  6230. Delusional or what Johnson was a complete car crash even if a 10th of what the covid inquiry has revealed is true the Tories should resign on mass
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  6231. Putin apologist more like, why do you instantly spew his BS as soon as he yanks your chains like nodding dogs?
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  6232. 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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  6233. Another scare story from a Tory shill The Billionaires channel shows its true colours
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  6234. The Fast Food and Adderol is catching up with him
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  6235. he'll be the 1st and only
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  6236. President BS speaks with forked tongue
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  6237. @ Yea they are we've started moving away from fossil there's no VAT on batteries as part of a solar install (saves you thousands and the grid) They've deported 15,000 illegals already. Etc
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  6238. Benito Trumpolini is a superspreader and off his head on his meds. We've got another week of Roid rage then watch the fallout for another few weeks as various people in the WH chain get hospilized, Rudy was coughing on Fox the other day. If you were writing a script who would be the worst person to have to go into intensive care optics wise for Trump? Coz at the rate Karma is happening it will be so
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  6239.  @quijybojanklebits8750  just trying to sum up Aggression, Anxiety, Mood swings, Deppresion, Agitation, Irritability, Nervousness etc.. (data courtesy of the mayo clinic) let's face it he's not the most stable of people when he's not on this. He's also on a real cocktail of stuff no one knows what the interacting side affects will be.
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  6240. You've given the Fraudit over to a bunch of conspiracy theorists with no certification in election audit's who've lost chain of custody to the voting machines making them useless for future elections costing the State millions to replace. But hey I was only asking questions? Mail voter fraud is 0.025% at the last count the machines weigh the returned ballots, check their size auto match signature's any that aren't within tolerances are tossed for inspection. By the way dead people don't vote the relatives of dead people that do get caught.
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  6241. of which its estimated 2.3 million have passed away On demographic changes alone if there was a vote tomorrow it would be 55% remain The longer this goes on the further away from reality we seem to get @petergaskin1811 
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  6242. It's all there is because we can't go back aside from Tories salting the earth even rejoining the single market won't happen if we about turned and all asked for the EU's forgiveness even in 3 to 4 parliaments off. You can't rejoin unless both Major parties sign onto it
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  6243. The question is why do you pedal such an obvious lie? Labour policy will reduce migration by investment in the domestic workforce
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  6244. I agree he's more and more framing up an offer to the country that will bring in the centre left, centre and give a permissive structure of competence to the center right of stable government. No one feels threatened by a Starmer government and is at ease to tactically vote for them or the Lib-dems to make sure the Tory clown show is given the treatment it deserves. With the Tories trying to out UKIP Reform Sunak acting like a Dictator over HS2 (zero parliamentary scrutiny) Liz Lettuce feted at the conference and Braverman doing a Mosley tribute act while they all appeared to fawn over GBeebies and Farage
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  6245. You obviously don't understand Right wing Supply Side Trickle Down Economics Foreign Labour is just another supply side commodity the points system is designed to import Labour from the likes of India at cheaper prices pushing down middle and profesional class wages that in turn pushes down working class wages as they have less disposable income to spend. Right wing Anti immigration populism is just rhetoric to garner votes it's always been empty, when the donors billionaire money comes in its on with the CON @imbonkers3629 
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  6246.  @dave710  They have already deported 15,000 illegal migrants, funded numerous infrastructure projects to remove RAAC and push our grid away from fossil fuel and all the economic instability that brings. The last government fell because it didn't address the needs of public services crashed the economy and spent 72 billion in 2023 on supporting the energy companies. The current mob are well below my expectations but 100 times better than the Tories and don't mention Reform they are a joke party
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  6247. 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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  6248. Infrared heating is a method for heating materials that uses electromagnetic waves to transfer energy from the infrared source to the product without heating the air in between. The emitted infrared energy is between 0.7 microns (µ) and 6 µ. At peak efficiency, wavelengths are selected for the product to be heated to minimize energy usage. They Heat Objects not the air, conventional Radiators work on Convection, Underfloor is radiant. Twinned with A+ insulation they are probably your best bet for older properties @rogerphelps9939 
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  6249. Threat to what Centre right Con voters hate Farage for what he's done to this country
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  6250. Hes frikin useless He lost to Truss who lost to a lettuce
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  6251. why there giving them 100's billions in tax breaks to do it it then it goes on the world commodity markets we get fk all benefit the UK energy sector is fleecing us for 170 billion over the current crisis because where tied to Gas prices for generation If we invest in renewables its cheaper and stays in the UK under the control of the UK
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  6252. She is only pushing trickle down supply side which is seen as the onlly way to grow economically by the Libertarian think tanks (funded by billionaires and multinationals) Quote  a 2015 assessment, the International Monetary Fund rubbished trickle down and said governments should instead focus on policies that would directly help those on low and middle incomes. “We find that increasing the income share of the poor and the middle class actually increases growth while a rising income share of the Top 20% results in lower growth
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  6253.  @haroonvlogs5437  the figures under Blair / Brown where average wages rose by +25% Where are we now with the Tories -5% ? -10%? There complete economic arsonists
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  6254. He was a functioning alcoholic, not remembering charts from morning to afternoon sounds like he was on booze starting lunchtime
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  6255. How can you loose infrastructure? By the way Truss wiped out 425 billion in value off pensions = 24% in just a few weeks
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  6256.  @Lorgar64  we have the lowest tax base of European developed countries even after Labour's tax hikes. The mini budget had 42 billion in unfunded tax cuts as well as 72 billion in Energy Subsides giving a total of 114 billion in unfunded borrowing. Markets don't like unfunded borrowing Thatcher did it by wasting our oil legacy and asset stripping for a once in a generation effect.
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  6257.  @alanbeattie636  This was not the case in 2010 The Tories have spent 14 years suppressing public pay as well as not regulating GiG workers and importing cheap labour to cover the cracks in the process creating a low wage economy. In 2010 our gdp per Capita was 50k it's now 45k
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  6258.  @Lorgar64  How do you know the tax cuts would improve the economy? Are you an economist? Every major study has shown they don't pay for themselves with additional growth. Generic tax cuts as Truss proposed have an economic multiplier of around 0.2 loosing the Treasury 80p in the £1
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  6259.  @Lorgar64  Q - Why have we been stuck in decline? A - Thatcherism at the point we should have invested in infrastructure she p1ssed oil money up the wall on tax cuts. Every Tory administration has tried it since but failed due to no oil money and not enough public assets left to strip.
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  6260. It's a tory economic sh*th*le I'm retired got my Polish passport last year because a bunch of idiots decided to remove my freedom of movement. What's to be pround of we're an absolute disgrace we put a know liar in charge replaced him with someone who had the economic acumen of a lettuce. There's no deal on performing artists you can't even drive your gear to the continent
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  6261. It's a tory economic sh*th*le I'm retired got my Polish passport last year because a bunch of idiots decided to remove my freedom of movement. What's to be pround of we're an absolute disgrace we put a know liar in charge replaced him with someone who had the economic acumen of a lettuce. There's no deal on performing artists you can't even drive your gear to the continent JHB and her ilk are destroying this country with their bile
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  6262. How much are the Tory tax cuts going to cost? 2010 debt to gdp was 62% in 2019 debt to GDP was 92% by my calculations Cameron / Osbourne tax cuts cost the UK 0.8571 Trillion
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  6263. 10 out of 10 Girls nicely put
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  6264. Most Muslims like most Atheists are concerned about the cost of living crisis and will vote anything but Tory to get them out
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  6265. It's a drop in the ocean at 62,000 a year concentrate on important stuff
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  6266. @firstknight6057  no it won't the dependents are so high because of Brexit if you take more European workers its a lot more flexible + they've said they would abolished the -20% pay to foreign workers And Thatcherism is the ultimate driver of supply side Labour
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  6267. Joe AGB Biden All guns blazing right at yer get your shades on
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  6268. 40% have educational special needs the cuts to social services and rehabilitation means they will reoffend We have a broken system which abandons people which in turn creates more crime costing more money
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  6269. Even her own party call her a narrow minded Bigot
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  6270. Only the even more fash ones who think that the current lot aren't cruel enough @notjustforhackers4252 
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  6271. Yea he could sign another deal then whinge about it ad nauseam he tweeted out Kwerteng's budget was great about as much political acumen as a wet lettuce
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  6272. 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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  6273.  @bl3rune  it will have been focus grouped
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  6274. Going Net zero Costs 6% GDP Not going Net Zero costs 13% GDP Why can't we afford to save 7% GDP?
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  6275. The government prints it
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  6276. It never was communism the US has a capitalism monopoly problem for decades
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  6277. Net Zero reduces Energy costs by switching away from GAS Energy costs 2020 to UK consumers 30 Billion Energy costs 2023 to UK consumers 170 Billion I make that 140 Billion reasons to go renewable don't you? That 140 billion comes out of Consumers pockets the estimated cost of net zero implementation is 40 Billion a Year a net saving overall
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  6278. Maybe they have a better grasp of thhe law the literal meaning of Jihad isn't what you think it is. What does Jihad literally mean? striving “Jihad” literally means striving, or doing one's utmost. Within Islam, there are two basic theological understandings of the word: The “Greater Jihad” is the struggle against the lower self – the struggle to purify one's heart, do good, avoid evil and make oneself a better person
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  6279. The reason the Tories are so bad is the candidates they stood at the last election A lot were ex UKIP everyone had to worship Brexit Jesus but the UKIP bunch are populists wanting spending and the free market bunch want no spending Anyone just looking at it from an economic point of view could have told you it would be a complete train wreck, so far since 2016 its lot the economy around 1 trillion, long term investment ie 3-5 year plans all started getting stalled post 2016, the £ dropped by 30% and the latest forecast is an overall 6% hit to GDP
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  6280. Starmer has control of selection a massive majority will see change not factionalism unless the Starmer clones go feral  @olaa5534 
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  6281. I think the Senate need to call Greta Thunberg, she's part of a deep state plot to keep Trump off the cover of Time magazine, the angry Democrats have secretly planted a climate activist that Obama has been training for years. This plot is deep, it goes to the very top.
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  6282. ​@mountainjay long supply chains, corporate consolidation + climate change Food will continue to go up in price no matter who you vote for Oh I f9rgot bad farming practices, water misuse, mono cropping the land till its dead
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  6283. 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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  6284.  @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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  6285. Biden is a moderate what's the problem, only in the US of the western democracies is healthcare a commodity, everywhere else sees it as a service meanwhile the US wastes trillions propping up a failed model. The Conservative values of I don't know going bankrupt because of medical bills, having to ration your insulin so you've enough money to eat or the values of not having any health insurance at all because you can't afford it on minimum wage. Get out of your gilded cage Cupp and look around
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  6286. No
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  6287. Unless your one of the 4% richest people in the country WTF you wanting handouts Again WE NEED OUR TAX CUTS school fees will skyrocket under Labour
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  6288. @Jozztime  it was irony 4% pay IHT the bulk of whom have enough money and send thier kids to private school
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  6289. So left wing crazy instead of right wing crazy Its a theory
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  6290. no it doesn't he may poll well in GOP primaries but that's 30% of the public Trump is in hot water there's 19 other cases against him Insurrection (7)Financial (6)Election interference (2)Sexual misconduct (1)Other (3) Tax evasion, money laundering, rape, inciting a riot, treason, theft it's quite a collection
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  6291. There's no public mandate for wrecking the UK economy by blitzing 4,000 laws with zero parliamentary scrutiny If they need repealing then each one needs debating and rewriting you've 50+ years of UK statute to sift through
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  6292. The pro billionaire party wanting to turn the UK into a Libertarian sh1thole for the 90% while the elites have unbridled wealth? What am I missing here do tell?
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  6293. I'm 65 as a country we've had to grapple with no end of discriminatory mysoginistic behaviour now we have people on here trying to claim that teaching children tolerance and when power abuses its position to discriminate is a somehow a bad thing? We have politicians in power as we speak trying to whip up hatred against Muslim refugees as well as Trans bashing trying to stir up Transphobia and yet your bad mouthing teachers for promoting tolerance ? Bunch of fkin right wing neanderthals
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  6294. The last thing DJT respects is weakness He treats Ted Cruz like dogsh1t It won't matter who Starmer appoints anyway and wouldn't have mattered if the Cons were in DJT will do what he want's to do
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  6295. Policy won't change he'll just get the processing done efficiently saving 4 billion @rodgerhargoon3402 
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  6296. Blair delivered growth the minimum wage and +25% rise in average wages @maccagrabme 
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  6297. My dad was in a Russian gulag these fukwits need to get a reality check, Putin is an arsonist
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  6298. Im on the centre left i pop by sometimes to see what crazy stuff your pushing Kemi is awful but so were the Tories in general if you think reform would do better i have shares in a crypto snake oil company to sell you By the way i voted lib-dem a proper political party not a company owned by 1 man recieiving fossil lobby funding
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  6299. Tax is through the roof one of the reasons is brex1t also loosing FOM and getting workers from the 3rd world has seen migration triple
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  6300. ​ @ukmachloop yes I do
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  6301.  @miniaturepainter8805  600 acres isn't small
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  6302. Since when she crashed the market you numpty
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  6303. Truss and Kwerteng plus the Brexit Ultra's aren't Conservative so any rally round is superficial whats Conservative about ballooning the debt for tax cuts for the rich someone on minimum wage will get £30 if ther lucky someone on 150,000 gets thousands
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  6304. No one I know is idiotic enough to believe anything Farage says. The policies that he put forward on immigration that the Cons have adopted have tripled migration the guy is a con man
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  6305. There are 2 1 It unified the Conservative Party round a rallying cry before 2019 the party was all over the shop and tearing itself apart with the likelihood of a complete wipeout if UKIP stood in Con seats 2. Every Euro Sceptic party in the EU changed their tune near overnight if you look at Le Penn she changed Euro Sceptic to a true supporter then talked up modification due to the complete Economic car crash that Brexit is. There is one more I hope and that is the complete wipe out of the Tories at the next election for pedalling this shyte
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  6306. The only addition to his voter base is the uneducated bro vote Had some workmen doing an extension last year the older uneducated sometimes vote the 3 20-30 lads all mouth but say they never vote but are all in on Trump There not politically engaged at all, it's sports, crappy reality TV and beer as well as boasting about their sexual conquests
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  6307. We don't own the energy that's mined in our jurisdiction and will see no benefit to the customer it all gets traded on the world commodity market all the government do is sell leases. The so called green tax are just purchase taxes geared to incentivise the use of non fossil energy and the current cost per gigawatt hour on the market is £200 the contract price for Dogger Bank wind farm is £40 per gigawatt hour so if we had more wind and less gas the electric cost could be at least halved.
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  6308. ​@YoLo-bb2vc impressed by reform? Fantasy Libertarian economics coupled with lala land imigration policy are you serious? These are the people that sold you the pup that Brexit is with its billions in lost gdp
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  6309. Here's the record of DJT the worst POTUS on the economy since Hoover -150000 manufacturing jobs lost, record farm bankruptcies -8500 coal jobs lost worst GDP record (beating Bush who had 9/11 and the wall street collapse) worst inflation of the national debt (4 trillion) Worst Jobs record -2876000 worst economic growth rate -3.4% etc..
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  6310. I think Biden's great hes not anti UK just has no time for the bumbling muppets the Cons keep putting into power. They should copy what he's done to reinvigorate the US economy and fetch inflation right down
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  6311. Wrong public sector pay is affected by economic multipliers the cost to the treasury is approx 20 p in the pound Look the 1st thing that happens is the pay award attracts tax and ni it goes into the wider economy generating GDP which further attracts tax by the time the merry-go-round stops 80% of it is recouped by the treasury in taxation so your true cost on headline 18 billion is 3.6 billion a mere bankers tax break of a figure
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  6312. @keithmarshall8796  the one responsible for the points based migration system which has doubled the number of dependents coming in and is shipping in people from the 3rd world at below market rate to depress service sector salaries? You mean the that takes back control and let supply side freemaketeers rip with global Britain and unregulated migration?
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  6313. @HPugwash  services are at breaking point because of Austerity back in 2010 Osborne cut funding for health sector training and we have depressed wages of around 25%. The ones that do qualify are leaving the country to be replaced with cheap foreign labour on top of the shortfall. Migration is a consequence of economic policy If you want lower invest in the social and physical infrastructure and regulate plus appropriate taxation
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  6314. @andyquelch5754  no I don't agree with the levels of migration. If you want lower migration regulate and invest the Tory fantasy that you can have a low tax low regulation economy and have sustainable levels of both inward and outward migration are that a complete fantasy. Example - non regulation of Zero Hour and the gig economy lead to millions coming here employed by offshore multinationals undercutting domestic businesses shovelling money Out of the economy in offshoring profits. Zero hour and Uber are banned in Norway for example where the labour market is highly regulated
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  6315. @andyquelch5754  move on, the Tories privatised water which is going to cost around 100 billion when they start going bankrupt and right to buy is costing councils 20 billion in housing support and 20 billion in lost rent. I agree PFI was a mistake but it wasn't terminated till 2018, 8 years into the current bought of Tory mismanagement. It was also a Thatcher era legacy to get elected Blair swung right over to the centre, and the economic consensus at the time was that the Thatcherism, Reganomics worked breaking the post war Keynsian model From 2012 economists have been making ever louder noises that far from working its lead to the economic malaise were in today. Reeve in her Mais speech said as much. So our choice is stick with a failing economic model based on a unique period in our history with massive oil revenues or move to a more Keynsian managed economy
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  6316. @smashcan1  cost per person is around £3,000 pp and should be increased with population size and inflation I'm not disagreeing with you but it's totally incompatible with a low reg low tax supply side tricle down economic model.
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  6317. @andyquelch5754  I put a full reply to this but it seems to have gotten auto deleted But it would appear we broadly agree that a more centre left approach and a managed economy advocated by Reeve is the way forward over the Tories endless outsourcing.
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  6318. The guy is as nutty as a fruit and nut loaf He'll get zero backing unless it comes 9ut of his own pocket or that of Republicans trying to shill for a spoiler
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  6319.  @ionlyfearphobophobia  Most of my street are voting Liberal democrat signs up everywhere. + people I know think Nige is a lying Tosser, Reform are the 2nd most disliked party after the Cons on neg 60 the other parties are all in the 40's so it seems I hang with the normal majority.
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  6320.  @Mr.White10-65  we know that to be false, the best way to deal with displaced people is to get them housed and settled as near where they used to be as possible. Climate change will keep making it worse.
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  6321. The polling data shows high amounts of tactical voting if replicated at a General would see a Tory wipeout with a good number of Lib-Dem MP's, the more worrying thing is the Tories go full climate denial because railing against ULEZ stemmed the bleeding a bit and their client media go with them. This is bad because it should be a non partisan issue and you can see them being so desperate that they turn climate mitigation and turning to renewables it into Brexit 2.0 Labour Lib-Dems and the Greens need to do a full on media assault and point out the 100's of billions in tax breaks the fossil industry receives and also renewable energy is miles cheaper and its the Tories who have tiedices
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  6322. Voting for higher taxes, less healthcare and an end to social security so billionaires can get thier tax breaks, amazing what billionaire propaganda can do Your not voting for DJT his brain is mush he will get replaced your voting for Vance the pet poodle of the likes of Teal, Musk and the other billionaire crowd
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  6323. Its coming up to Panto season Boris is yearning for his true calling a slapstick dame Meanwhile Truss is taking night classes in knife sharpening While Rhisi is busy giving his banker mates a tax break
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  6324. Republicans aren't pro life there pro controlling women
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  6325. I've got a couple of ideas to take this further LET'S GO ELECTRIC LET'S GO GREEN LET'S STOP BURNING STUFF LET'S GO INFRASTRUCTURE
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  6326. It has an inflation mandate the way it does that is to raise rates to create unemployment which cools demand If the government want full employment they put money into social and physical infrastructure as the Biden administration has done and was done during the New Deal Era which boosts economic growth and federal taxes  @JudyStroyer-bk6fb 
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  6327. Reform's economic polices are complete garbage, you can't run a Trickle down supply side economy without unlimited migration so when he says low tax and low immigration he's talking absolute bollox Right wing economic policies are the problem not hey lets go more right wing @georgerj2419 
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  6328. @nifralo2752  You get a tax free lump sum of 25% and the saving includes NI and the accumulated investments are tax free no cgt
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  6329. 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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  6330. It's a result of privatisation and a failed transport policy has nothing to do with NZ
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  6331.  @thetruth156real3  I don't know why people listen to Farage and his nonsense given his record and the economic train wreck that is brex1t
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  6332. He can't man up because he's a petulant child with a team of one
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  6333. Its a pointless attitude because we will never rejoin when the Tories can sh@t in the bed as soon as they get in with as little as 36% of the vote Labour have a few policies I support Lib-Dems a couple Greens quite a few Tories ZERO and policies I actually hate so Less than ZERO.
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  6334. How many family farms are worth over 3 million?
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  6335. He used campaign funds screwing a porn star isn't a claimable expense
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  6336. Privatised rail system is a complete and utter mess You've bosses and shareholders racking in millions part of it is even owned by the Italian government a dysfunctional fragmented network At this point you'd have to agree with the Ryan Air boss the Torys couldn't even run a sweet shop there a disgrace
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  6337. You need the migration if you run Supply Side Trickle Down Economics aka Thatcherism If you want to cut immigration you shouldn't vote for right wing parties there economic low tax low regulation model uses migrant labour to feed it - example Cameron's GIG economy fuelling immigration with zero hour low paid work, Osborne then spent the extra tax on lower corporation tax and they spent it on share buy backs To cut the need for migrant labour you need to change the economic model and invest in the UK and its workforce such as modern transport links free University Reform will be even worse than the Conservatives given they appear to be clueless on economics
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  6338. She's 20 years younger than the mental patient the GOP are putting forward
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  6339. The problem of independence is Brexit, the gb economy is intertwined
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  6340.  @ThePereubu1710  the ERG should have all been thrown out by May prior to the 2017 election there not even Conservative
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  6341. The billionaire right wing think tanks fossil and pharma lobby are pouring untold amounts into pushing tax cuts for the wealthy
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  6342. Wage suppression decreases productivity increases churn and increases dependence on migrant labour. Increasing pay will have a long term overall beneficial affect on the economy.
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  6343. You get immigration because you Vote Tory its a side effect of Supply Side Trickle Down Low Tax economics aka Thatcherism
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  6344. were short of 5 million homes at last count
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  6345. Checked the polls the Tories have slipped 4 points since the election to 21% There voter base is aging out at around 20% their seat total collapses to under 50
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  6346. The fundamental issue for the Republican elites is that the Biden economy is good for them, and they know it. Inflation doesn't hurt them at all in fact there getting fat off the back of it. They also know Trump's tarrif war will be a dumpster fire
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  6347. The key to cheaper energy and revitalising the economy is a renewable economic strategy British gas screwed us for +800 million in excess profit while Sunak just stood there and did fk all
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  6348. Free market fundamentalist isn't free its at the expense of 90% of the population Thatchers burying of heavy industry will be but a blip to what will happen to every farmer SME and the millions they employ who's up for 15% unemployment?
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  6349. There just millionaires cosplaying far right populism
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  6350. This is the start, the next primary then Kemp and others will be replaced with Republicans who will ignore the vote in 2024 call fraud and select Republican electors to the electoral college in defiance of the popular vote. This is just another power play for minority rule with gerrymandering plus the capture of the courts it will become impossible for Democrats to win EVER Some stats - Biden voters comprise of 70% of the GDP (blue states heavily subsidise red states) The GOP has currently a 5-6% advantage in the Senate which is growing With gerrymandering it is anticipated that they will have an inbuilt 8% lead in house races This won't end well
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  6351. If you want less immigration change the economic model institute an equitable progressive tax system and properly fund Social and Physical infrastructure to create a demand side economy You can't have a low tax Tory economy without the low wage supply side immigrant labour source that fuels it
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  6352. Clean network? There living in the dark ages
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  6353. The question is what do you think your getting with the Conservatives that is better than the last Labour government Taxes never went down under Osborne the Tax base stayed the same and have been rising under Sunak, investment in our Armed forces has been slashed by the Tories as well as investment in the police There no good with money borrowing 1.5 trillion since 2010 a figure x3 all Labour governments in UK history combined including the Atlee I wouldn't have voted for Corbyn but Cameron was a complete disaster who started the whole decline and baked it into the system giving him a 2nd term was the worst decision this country ever made
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  6354.  @Globaldave1970  Trump got the billionaires to back his campaign by promising them he'd renew the corporate tax cuts which have loaded 3.5 trillion onto US dept. He promised the Evangelicals to get rid of Roe v Wade their price for their support this time is a complete nationwide ban.
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  6355.  @verabolton  pumping another 3.5 trillion onto debt does no one any good neither does rolling back renewable initiatives. He's also a scab and anti union during his last term the US lost -150,000 manufacturing jobs. The Dems have created 14 million jobs of which 2 million have been in manufacturing the first reversal of a trend that started with Reagan
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  6356. @wordzmyth  tax cuts are a sugar high for the economy it gives the illusion of growth while inflating debt and storing problems down the line 80% of the corporate tax cuts were spent on share buy backs, this boosts the stock market and ceo pay without real growth which wears off you then get a recession with increasing inflation. The Biden led growth has been on the back of infrastructure investment, reshoring 2 million manufacturing jobs, switching to more localised energy production with renewables.
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  6357. Id focus on the economic benefits of getting cheap labour from the 3rd world Then I'd point out labour will remove things like the millionaire pensioner tax break Id also double down on the Rwanda show pony while ponting to the benifits of tying our economy to wold traded commodity prices with fossil which can be manipulated by cartels especially at times of political instability. Giz a job Rhishi?
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  6358. My pension goes up in April and because of fiscal drag £400 of the rise.hoes straight back out in tax. The threshold should be 15000 by now so go stick yout green shoots where the sun don't shine What a Hunt
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  6359. 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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  6360. Why would anyone be stupid enough to give up their human rights?
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  6361. What's causing the economic decline is Thatcherism and Austerity cut the Trickle down Cr*p and fund services and then things will change. Also put in a fair windfall tax of 80/90% on excess profits to pump back into the economy @mikeman584 
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  6362. MG talks so much shit his breath must stink like a sewer
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  6363. 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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  6364. we have a hard brexit which isn't working, the fundamental problem is that Johnson brexit is bankrupting the country and was always a political fudge to stop the Conservative party fracturing
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  6365. 90% of vehicles are already ULEZ compliant the people that got scared into voting Tory will overwhelmingly be compliant
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  6366. Brexit is done my Mrs. fills in thousands of pages of documentation weekly to prove it Why do you care about Northern Ireland it has a population the size of Leeds and Johnson's shyte deal put a border down the Irish sea on purpose
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  6367. UKIP Tories Reform what's the difference?
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  6368. Most of the corporate tax cuts just got poured into coperate pockets and buy backs it did nothing for investment In fact it fueled the national debt at a time we should have been reducing it
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  6369. Grid is designed round large coal stations which no longer operate You need to integrate millions of domestic solar installs + decentralised wind production + install mass storage to do grid smoothing
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  6370. Why wouldn't people vote labour for cheaper energy prices?
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  6371. Inflation is being driven by global oil commodity prices, bad 2021 harvests caused by abnormal weather events, trembling of shipping costs worldwide and a tax cut in 2017 that has put trillions into the deficit. So Republicans are going to lower global oil commodity prices how exactly? You bet they won't touch their precious tax cut for the rich any plan to repatriate manufacturing thought not, how about global warming affecting crop yeilds?
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  6372. ? 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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  6373. Government finances don't work like that
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  6374.  @KeithDCanada  it's about the same as voter fraud. There's more chance of being struck by lightning
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  6375. Reform are pushing economic policies for the Billionaire and corporate class using migration to cover their real intent
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  6376. As younger people come onto the electoral map they grew up during the Obama presidency and are increasingly appalled by the radicalisation of thier parents through Fox and other media outlets. This isn't 1960 anymore and a kkk message will drive up the active opposition.
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  6377. Free market fundementalists have never got anything right responsibilie for the 2008 crash and the demise Inn US manufacturing in the. 2000's. Well come to disaster capitalism global Britain the Ecenomic wasteland to rival the US rust belt
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  6378.  @JupiterThunder  she wouldn't have any assets to strip or oil money to give tax breaks to the wealthy with
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  6379. Gulible to the end
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  6380. It's your patriotic duty to get vaccinate for the sake of your family clan tribe or cult. The Murdoch toxic media promoting screw you me me me messages needs calling out. Somone needs to start a class action against them
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  6381. The election will be about the economy burying the Tories and Thatcherism should be the goal The Tories have increased borrowing 13 years straight the only way of changing that is ripping out vast swathes of trickle down tax breaks and policies
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  6382. so exactly what was wrong with the report? she did a job didn't even cover half of the impropriety and goings on if you want the full SP go listen to this podcast Partygate The Untold Story ITV News
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  6383.  @beluga2342  seeing as your running around with your hair on fire over this I'll just point out why the current sudden increase in inflation isn't connected to the money supply (that's not to say that it won't cause issues in the future). The bulk of US wealth is in the hands of the 1% that figure hasn't changed with the increase in money supply, they don't know what to do with their money already bar becoming Space tourists. As someone reasonably well off nearing retirement my 401 has been blasting away well beyond inflation that additional wealth is locked up till I retire and a part of that additional wealth is generated by cheap money and fed easing but its not entering the economy for a few years yet. Corporate America appears over the last number of years to be addicted to low interest rates and a low wage economy with the labour shortages increasing wages especially at the bottom the economy is readjusting put on top of that fossil demand.
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  6384.  @boulevard14  They've dropped Torsten Bell into a safe seat wonder if that's because he will be part of the new team (was head of The Resolution Foundation leading uk economist centre left)
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  6385. WHY? The purpose of net zero and renewable energy is to decouple your economy away from Oligopolies that control world commodity prices. This makes zero sense when where on the bottom of the EV S curve with economies of scale starting to reall bite through
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  6386. there are 19 other cases in progress Insurrection (7)Financial (6)Election interference (2)Sexual misconduct (1)Other (3)
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  6387. You'll have high taxation and a failed economy no matter which Conservative leader you elect Were currently moving into a stagflationary death spiral after 12 years of a fairly stagnant economy but without the inflation. Reason being there all going to push corporate tax cuts which will balloon the debt and produce zero growth because - Thatcherism. If you give a tax cut to an multi million pound Oil company it just fuels inflation as it ends up in shareholders and executives pockets, if you give a tax cut to a Tech startup it does nothing because they don't make a profit for about the 1st decade
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  6388. 1/3rd of uk councils are on the verge of bankruptcy many are Conservative or were when they got into difficulty The root cause of this is Austerity and spiralling cuts from central government
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  6389. People don't want a privatised NHS, Fracking and 100+ Billion in unfunded tax cuts given the Truss debacle
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  6390.  @1961-v9k  Because putting trade sanctions on your economy depressing it by 100 billion losing 33 billion in tax tanking inward investment and breaking the on-demand supply chain is just incidental?
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  6391. Tax take has increased in real terms by 33% since 2010 debt was 800 billion in 2010 it's now 2.4 trillion, last year HMRC failed to collect 42 billion, we are loosing 45 billion in tax receipts due to Brexit and the Tories have created a tax code that is optional for the wealthy and large corporations. There is a lot to sort out putting it mildly
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  6392.  @teddypicker8799  Cruelty costs money
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  6393.  @rodmarker2071  no one can make brex1t work putting trade sanctions on yourself was the mother of all dumbfk ideas not withstanding it tripled migration
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  6394.  @AlfieDoug  they took our Freedom of Movement away so unless you meet skill shortage requirements in a different country or have enough money or are a dual passport holder then your fked. Next there going after our human rights There already taking our right to protest away as well as the right to strike
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  6395.  @AlfieDoug  I can travel settle work anywhere I want in Europe or UK for as long as I want as can all my family
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  6396.  @AlfieDoug  Currently retired may work again may not or do some voluntary stuff abroad not sure My father came over here via a Russian gulag joined the free Polish army as a paratrooper and fought across Europe in ww2 fighting fascism Worked and been on holiday over to Europe many times and have a brother who's settled in Norway the current bunch in charge are nothing more than a bunch of incompetent populist arseholes who couldn't even win a PR battle with a footballer and will serve up all sorts of populist drivel to try stay in power.
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  6397.  @AlfieDoug  Far from grumpy just angry at what there taking away from the younger generations who will leave this country for better prospects when they graduate. Jakanory was after my time Quote After an exhausting year in Britain with three prime ministers, a budget fiasco, a surge in food and energy prices, a crisis in the health service and a wave of industrial unrest, the feeling that “nothing works” has become a catchphrase. The British despair is being watched with interest from abroad as other countries try to tempt people to relocate A survey last year by TotalJobs suggested 4.5 million people were considering emigrating from Britain, with almost half of them saying the rising cost of living was to blame Enjoy your Turnips
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  6398.  @AlfieDoug  Not me I grew up in the age when University was seen as investing in the countries future my current house was 3x my salary and now my son to buy a house is 9x or 10x and if he'd have gone to University (we'd have paid so its moot) he'd have come out with 50/60k loans at some exorbitant interest rate blighting his future. And I studied economics to a high level Brexit is an economic skip fire that's been burning away at the economy since 2016 so disposable income will continue to fall till the country changes its economic policies.
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  6399.  @sunnyonion3461  So if me and others can switch to a high level of renewables at a personal level the Grid can't do it? Pull the other one once I install a battery and then buy an EV I can run my home standalone for 3/4 days without the grid Tesla owners in the US did it couple of years ago in the big Texas freeze the tech is getting mainstream Keep up and stop listening to fossil lobby gibberish that is at least 10 years out of date
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  6400. Yea but tell that to the Taxpayers Alliance or the Institute for Economic Affairs the think tanks that are guiding these two puppets sorry is that muppets maybe I was right 1st time
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  6401. Reeve is proposing a broadly centre left economic policy a million miles from the twisted low tax fossil fuel led trickle down offered by Sunak and co
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  6402. To most it looks like a billionaire trying to smear a working class woman because he doesn't want to loose his non dom status Your exempt from CGT on a property you don't live in as long as it's designated as your primary residence for HMRC purposes
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  6403. why will they do better there economic policies are of the Truss variety, their immigration policy is the same right wing show pony stuff Sunak was pedalling with Rwanda and they want to privatise the NHS and start fracking also investing in renewable infrastructure decouples our economy from world commodity shock and produces cheaper energy so they will ditch our long term beniit for a short term unsustainable tax cut
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  6404. The Conservatives are going to close the polling gap? yea right on the polls don't even take into account tactical voting we are on average 5% worse off than in 2010 so 13 years of going backwards. The latest NI cut if you take fiscal drag from frozen thresholds into account doesn't reduce your tax until you reach £44,000 another con
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  6405. What they may ban offshore Billionaires using an opinion station to promote Libertarian propaganda?
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  6406. You never know Clacton Man might be a thing, run down seaside towns the New bastion of Populism, Tice is running in Boston and Skegness Maybe it's the pollution, a deliberate Tory plot, sewage has been one of their major achievements
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  6407. In breach of international law
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  6408. It's £300 give it a rest I'll have to pay for my ski pass at Xmas
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  6409. ​ @kevinadamson5768 Reform We're created to push the Tories further to the right especially to make sure the wealthy dont pay tax, corporation can pollute at will and prop up the fossil industry with tax breaks
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  6410. Get a reality check wind power achieved cost parity with gas back in 2019, our building standards on insulation are a complete joke The Tories don't listen they run off to their fossil lobby think tank mates who spew climate denial its no wonder a recent poll put tory support in the under 50's at 8%
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  6411. The sheep are the anti vax peddlers people over in Asia have been regularly using masks against infection and smog
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  6412. Labour aren't controlled by the likes of the IEA (Truss) or Policy Exchange (Sunak), both with opaque funding with connections to the fossil lobby and billionaire tax lobby groups So no difference at all Andrew just night and day
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  6413.  @theXveritat  What's the west got to do with the price of fish, this is just about Putin wanting to steal all the Oil and Gas under the Shale field in north east of Ukraine and steal all the Lithium deposits. Noble cause my arse he's just a cheap bandit
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  6414.  @surrendramonkeyshines5634  The question isn't who is levelling them its why does Putin think its a good idea? At the end of the day he gets to own a pile of rubble which he will get kicked out of eventually.
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  6415. @RobertMunsterLBR  the government budget IS NOT A HOUSHOLD BUDGET
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  6416. 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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  6417. Green are a bunch of NIMBY's There's no such thing as blue Labour
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  6418. How do you get Turkeys to vote for Xmas Tell them migrant Chickens will take their Job
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  6419. And the choice being vote for a Sociopath who will gut the government, shell out trillions in tax cuts to corporations loading unpayable debt onto the bond market and crashing the economy Debt to gdp when Trump took office was 80% when he left it was 133% its now down to 122% down to Biden's growth and investment strategy The Trump economy was built on debt unlike his businesses a country can't go bankrupt but it will suffer hyper inflation if he tries what he did last time again, there is no wiggle room in US debt
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  6420. So last time the Trump tax cuts cost 4 trillion onto debt so this time it will be different how?
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  6421. Oh dear not anything for the poor billionaires Sunak making a speech sponsored by Policy Exchange a think tank trying to lower taxes for the rich and get energy independence canned so were forever dependent on fossil
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  6422. Tom you fuelled this for over 2 years with your brainless Rwanda policy which has swallowed 1/2 a billion The only way to deal with this is with the full cooperation of the EU and a multi jurisdiction task force to arrest and prosecute the trafficking gangs, it has become too easy and too lucrative for the criminals. and Starmer will produce worse growth? How do you produce worse growth than -10% over 14 years? (GDP per Capita 2010 50k in 2023 45k), (headline GDP is distorted by + 10 million net migration over 14 years)
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  6423.  @Doc959  You have 1 million + workers leave before the deadline the UK still doesn't have the same number of workers in the Economy as it did in 2019 so less people paying tax plus the economy is flatlining after 7 years of reduced investment as foreign companies abandoned Britain so taxes go and service standards go down to meet the shortfall. Get out of your bubble and into the real world Quote - economist How much poorer is UK after Brexit? Investment is 11% weaker and GDP is 5.5% smaller than it would have been, costing the economy £40 billion ($48.4 billion) in tax revenues annually. Quote - Economist How Brexit affects investment in UK? Based on responses from businesses, they estimate that business investment was 23% lower than it would have been in 2020/21 due to Brexit. Are UK exports down since Brexit? Research by the Centre for Business Prosperity at Aston University has shown that UK exports to the EU fell by an average of 22.9% in the first 15 months after the introduction of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, highlighting the continuing challenges that UK firms are facing
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  6424. Sunak follows the same Libertarian supply side globalist economic policies that Reform pedal, they don't and haven't worked for the last 12 years and rebadging crap won't make them work now
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  6425.  @SlimTortoise  my Dad came to the UK during the war and stayed I applied for and got Polish citizenship last year and my wife is eligible to stay in the EU beyond the 90 days as a spouse only proviso is she doesn't work. My son has dual nationality now as well and there are millions who I presume fit in this category. You just need an Irish passport and jobs done
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  6426.  @SlimTortoise  Brexit is a force multiplier you put trade sanctions on a country everything gets more expensive due to the massive amounts of red tape and delays. We have a worse situation with HGV drivers because our ability to recruit is reduced and we've added additional travel times and costs to exports. Also our economy is built on immigrant workers at one point it was calculated 80% of hospitality staff in London were from the EU We have an ageing population a birth rate of 1.6 migration outwards of 50,000 per annum you need 400,000 extra workers just to stand still economically or your into contraction and stagflation.
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  6427. That's what you get when you DeFund Social Services, DeFund The Justice system and Policing and Defund Youth Services Its like Duhhh Austerity it's on your door Tories
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  6428. Lib Dems have 3,000+ councillors and vast numbers of activists doing the miles and pressing the cause
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  6429. glory be what a bunch of kooks
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  6430. there are no short medium or long term benefits to Brexit the tens of thousands of SME farmers and fishermen who have gone bankrupt or lost billions in exports because of Brexit will never be recovered from that means depressed wages for 60% of the workers in this country in those businesses for decades. Medium and large companies have been bailing out the UK since 2016 and the total cost to the UK economy stands somewhere in the region of £1 trillion to date  @davidshepherd8917 
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  6431. Why can't it be achieved?
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  6432.  @bobjames6622  Why do you base your opinion on ill informed pundits who know zero about the energy market Norway run 93% renewable we have a unique topography round the British isles that would naturally lead itself to tidal power that you can use as a base load. We are at the conjunction of competing weather systems east and west with multiple shallow off shore locations to site wind farms. We could use excess wind and tidal power to either export to Europe or crack hydrogen gas from water at a fraction of the current cost of natural gas, you can run a 20/80 mix on our current infrastructure reducing gas consumption by 1/5th. As more electric vehicles come onto the market you can use Vehicle to Grid Tech to smooth demand spikes offering discounts for off peak charging vastly reducing Gas peaker plants Tidal would be no more costly than Nuclear offshore wind is 2.5 times cheaper than nuclear and 7.5 times cheaper than current electricity spot price. Our current Wind mix is 17% our current renewable mix is 33% And lastly Octopus paid 45 million in windfall tax due to being renewable only last year Shell paid zero and Nest went out of business costing the taxpayer 6 million
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  6433.  @iamrocketray  Yields are falling according to the US Agri department due to increasing drought conditions caused by climate change. We have large amounts of natural carbon decomposition what there talking about is reducing fossil use so we don't wrap ourselves in a carbon duvet and cook ourselves to death with the greenhouse effect. We are also melting both poles at an accelerated rate Please get better information preferably not from the fossil lobby or the millionaire billionaire class who see a move from Fossil as destroying their business model
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  6434.  @paulpaintshop103  tidal - keep up
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  6435.  @rafalwspin1  average household car does 142 miles a week average current battery has 250 range if your using 9kw gets some insulation and led light bulbs plus an efficient boiler plus thermal solar to heat your water
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  6436.  @johnbrereton5229  where talking about food inflation if you have a market of 27 as opposed to a market of 1 Economically it will be harder hit by external and internal shocks which it will take longer to recover from The US is a market of 50 also Biden has made huge strides in decoupling the US economy from global shocks with a number of policies to reshore critical infrastructure jobs and pivot the US economy away from fossil to renewables The UK has done fk all about energy since the crisis began in dec 21 and has a deliberate policy of managed decline in food production Quote The UK is "sleepwalking" into a food supply crisis and the government must step in to help farmers, the National Farmers Union (NFU) has warned. Yields of tomatoes and other crops will likely slump to record lows this year, it said, with potential supply problems ahead as already seen with eggs
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  6437. Settling strikes rather than have them cripple your local economy seems grown u to me
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  6438.  @Celtictribes  yea right best economic performance in the G7 reshored 400,000 manufacturing jobs in 2022 and is moving the US to be the Renewable world Tech leader v Trump who's claim to fame is +8 Trillion on debt and a tax cut for Corporate America and the wealthy
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  6439. A brain drain is never good for an economy Our economy has always needed lots of low skilled labour we don't have enough babies of a low enough education to fill vacancies in manual jobs. @historex54tamiya 
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  6440. 58% of the electorate are voting for left wing parties and 20% are voting Tory which Nige has avowed to destroy and your complaining the audience is against him? for fks sake your looking at 15% only that believe his BS
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  6441. Renewable energy has been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 by not deploying more where getting scalped for 10's of billions in EXCESS fossil profits Increasing heat and cold spells are affecting world crop supplies and food is getting more expensive because of it
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  6442. 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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  6443. They do its clear the backlog and deport around 40,000 legally that are just sat there because of Tory incompetence costing 3.5 billion
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  6444. go figure why won't they support Tidal developments 7 billion on a Nuclear station poison the water table with fracking but little investment in tidal
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  6445. 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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  6446.  @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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  6447. Starmer's is his own man just ask the left of the party which he's culled ruthlessly.
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  6448. Top priorities for the electorate are Cost of living NHS Energy crisis Just why does everything seem to be falling to pieces under the tories while taxes are going up? Sewage in rivers RAAC in hospital and school food inflation rent inflation etc No time for luxary voting
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  6449. He can't destroy Biden he doesn't have any policies all he did was try and crash and burn the debate Trump was like a spoilt petulant child all you wanted to do was shout at the Orange idiot will YOU STFU
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  6450. ​@ianbayliff2397 the grid needs upgrading and old generation plant is retiring, usual Tory thing let the privatised utilities milk old plant and not invest giving shareholders maximum returns
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  6451. Cutting taxes doesn't increase growth the economic multiplier is around 0.2 You generate growth by social and structural investment we have 50 years of data on this
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  6452.  Mj light  The polls were within the margin of error, and nearly all that were queuing to pay thier respects were women not children, keep praying to your con man God he hates you as well as Democrats but your useful marks for him to manipulate at the momment. The great divider the lier in chief the king of chaos everything Trump touches dies
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  6453. Lots of dead and sick people all at once arent good for the economy either
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  6454. he didn't praise Margret Thatcher go read the article it was 1/2 a sentence and an observation
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  6455. 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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  6456. The point estimates of the multipliers are 1.1-1.5 for renewable energy investment and 0.5-0.6 for fossil fuel energy investment, depending on horizon and specification An economic multiplier of > 1 produces more tax revenue than was spent via increased economic activity an economic multiplier < 1 produces less tax revenue than was spent via decreased economic activity The Conservatives are constrained by ideology
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  6457. As long as your on the ground floor and not near a window
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  6458. The government has spent 50 years of Thatcherite policies giving housing and money to boomers Young people have got fk all now your complaining when it's time to pay the ferryman for previous governments excess
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  6459. no we didn't we only voted to leave the EU and that was 7 years ago no one voted to leave the single market or FOM because if Johnson's deal had been put to the public it would have failed
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  6460. The issue with any Labour leader is the capture of the media by the right wing Look at today's TalkTV story some made up lies and gender nonsense that apparently Labour will enact So Starmer isn't as bad or bland as they make out but then again he's not exciting either a pretty safe bet if your pig sick of 13 years of Tory misrule
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  6461. The cost of ever increasing trickle down policies ex millionaire pensioner tax break in the last budget cost 2 billion you know give that 2 billion to student nurses they spend every penny of it in the economy give it to millionaire pensioners and it goes straight into assets with ZERO growth
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  6462. ​ @fmj9346 what rubbish get out more your just going round a loop of confirmation bias
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  6463. Why would anyone vote reform? Nige doesn't have a clue every ukip policy the Tories tried turned to sh1t
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  6464. @barbaraeastham9205  the 2 ukip policies and now reform the Tories implemented were a disaster Nige supported and still supports Trussanomics They want to privatise the NHS And deregulation is one of the key factors in high legal migration
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  6465. I have no idea why you would defend Trump's record on the Border Biden deported more in his 1st 18 months than Trump did in 4 Years He loaded 8 trillion onto debt 3.5 was from the corporate tax cuts that debt was used for stock buybacks and inflation inducing stock pumping. He left office with -2 million employment record from 4 years even Bush managed +2 million during 4 years including the banking crash. Gas prices are at the Behest of Multi nationals Biden is promoting renewable energy which will disconnect the US economy from Global Fossil prices making it more resilient to World price shock. Reshoring Chip production will do the same.  @MexicanRhino-e5z 
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  6466. He's not but dream on
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  6467. what truth? Rwanda is just p1ssing money up the wall we need migrant labour because our ruling party runs supply side economics aka Thatcherism so needs Supply side Labour if you just cut it off without major internal investment which needs higher levels of tax you'll shrink the economy
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  6468.  @onthemove301  Where just going to end up with a drip feed of sanctions from the EU and US till the protocol is enacted.
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  6469.  @JayJay-nc7pr  The show pony Rwanda scheme has been scrapped, Renewable schemes that had been shelved are funded and expressed through, my hospital has funding to remove RAAC approved and the 1st reading of the new clean water act took place last month.
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  6470. schools and public buildings are shut because of his goons making bomb threats in Sprngfield Having an old age mental patient who's hatred of black and migrants knows no bounds
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  6471. There's 19 other cases going through the court many he can't avoid even if he was President there civil cases
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  6472. We've had hard right economic policies for a decade and a half and Brexit populist bullsh1t since 2016 I'm going out on a limb here and laying the blame on the decade and a half of Thatcherite bollox with the economic train wreck that is Brexit
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  6473. Even at double its still half the cost of running and ICE vehicle
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  6474. Perfect analogy all Nige can do is destroy They followed his Brexit lead and look where it's lead them now out of control migration and a tanked economy
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  6475. How articulate and focused was she, now compare it to the likes of Jim Jordan banging his soap box it's a world of difference Why can the GOP not see thier consuming themselves with this stuff it's like they've collectively gone crazy and the world gets to see the utter insane meltdown
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  6476. The values of gerrymandering the southern strategy voter suppression court packing those were there before Trump he's just added bigotry more sexism more racism and wholesale corruption
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  6477. There isn't even a charge if your vehicle meets emission standards which is post 2014/5 vehicle I'm an asthma sufferer this is the way to go most final mile delivery vehicles will be EV within 3-4 years The only real argument is when it's implemented as in giving people an extra year to comply
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  6478. 14 years ago services were well funded and we were only in 800 billion debt nothing works and debt is 2.3 trillion
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  6479. @ghost mall I'd enjoy his nomination just to see the Reich wing run around with their hair on fire for months beating themselves into a frothing pool of hate and bile
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  6480. yea yea any more trickle down budgets like the last one and you couldn't get any more right if you tried He has to put up taxes for the coz the economic model of low corporate taxes has produced sweet FA growth so to fund his trickle down hes screwing the working and middle class for those sweet millionaire pensioner and banker tax breaks
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  6481. He's rolled back the 2019 manifesto I know it was lies by Johnson but to deliberately sabotage HS2 and sell off land to salt the earth Sunak is a complete tw@t
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  6482. In an election contest they'd probably vote Truss in again, I've seen lots of comment stating she wasn't given enough time as if crashing gilts creating a 60 billion black hole and nearly bringing down the pension system wasn't bad enough. Tax cuts just don't create growth no matter how many times you say or try it @monged4life442 
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  6483. ​ @mobsiesixsixsix9785 media don't want Labour they'd boost BNP if they were allowed Latest attack Labour will spend 110 billion on green policies! Oh wait it's over 10 years and is virtually the same spend the Tories have budgeted
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  6484.  @paulembleton1733  if you believe you can drive a lorry to the Asia Pacific just as easily as to France you'll believe any old pice of cr@p
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  6485. what green tax? There's around 80 billion in fossil subsidies in the system currently
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  6486.  @AlexLee360  your welcome
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  6487. @snowyowel7961  leaving the EU was an economic disaster of biblical proportions one of the reasons your taxes keep going up and oh I dunno clean water directive anyone Also why the Tories are running down farming and also bankrupting manufacturing
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  6488.  @Matt-ou7tu  Who says there going to run Austerity I could get another 100 billion to spend by ripping out all the Trickle down Cr*p
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  6489. Musk is addicted to social media and ketamine He is also on the spectrum and needs serious mental health help, Autistic people with that bad an addiction wow can't believe your drinking the cool aid. I wouldn't believe a word he says he goes down every reich wing rabbit hole there is and eats all the droppings Him, Teal, Bazos there the ones you need fear
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  6490. It's been like this since Brexit the only growth the Tories achieved was in migration. Wouldn't matter who was in charge
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  6491. There's a medical paper published in the lancet describing the effect of mitigation methods using Hong Kong as a case study, one of those measures was the almost universal adoption of mask wearing to slow transmission rates. They were badly scared by the sars epidemic. In Europe and the US government's didn't initially push mask wearing because they were afraid of running out of essential mask supplies for key workers, in fact there are still huge supply chain issues. You can make your own by the way if you have a sewing machine which is more than adequate and are not restrictive Instruction video https://youtu.be/9ljLYHedxyU
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  6492. no it doesn't you can't run the economy without migration its bad enough people were stupid enough to vote for Brexit making themselves poorer without totally collapsing the economy
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  6493. The deal is one of the worst in history 2nd only to the one he made with the Afghan terrorists behind the governments back which lead to the debacle withdrawal of US troops
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  6494. they doubled the NI exemption rate if your only employing 4 people your going to be exempt in most cases
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  6495.  @stephfoxwell4620  go read the details
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  6496. You can add wind turbines to current sites and offshore new developments take a couple of years You've also got tidal starting to make an appearance plus new ways of making the grid more efficient using vehicle to grid smart technologies
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  6497.  @TOSStarTrek  in the last 10 years renewable costs (infrastructure and operations) have dropped by 90%
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  6498. 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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  6499. Flynn got a good deal with the shelving of the Turkey bung money for favours, lobbying as a secret foreign agent is as close to treason as you get, Manaford got 7 years yes it was far worse but Flynn could have had a lot of his assets sized under the corruption charge. It's a strange hornets nest to poke especially as the judge will be inclined to release all currently closed material.
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  6500. Multiple reports show it helps companies bottom line by having fewer cases of discrimination within the workplace
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  6501. 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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  6502. Azov got integrated into the main Ukrainian Army years ago and stopped being a Militia and Wagner Group are Neo Nazi this from the Spectator The latest unit to hit the news is Rusich, a unit affiliated to the infamous mercenaries of Wagner Group. Its name simply means a member of the old Rus’ people, and speaks to its inchoate ideology, a mix of traditional Slavic (and Viking) paganism, Nazism, and extreme Russian nationalism.
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  6503.  @stuartwray6175  Most countries have a far right problem Ukraine's is not as bad as most or the Russians whose whole ethos is Nationalism
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  6504. He's throwing 10s of billions of your and my money in tax breaks and subsidies at this Electricity generation from wind is mind numbingly cheap compared to other sources and getting cheaper and if the costs are falling now given the energy input to power them is FREE how cheaper will it be in 7-10 years when these fields are due to come on-line We have an energy shortage now and have had since back end of 2020 yet the government has done nothing to expand supply or insulted homes to reduce demand Instead they've stood there and watched the economy burn in a raging skip fire Norway has 2% inflation and 93% renewables so I'd suggest you go dig into the economics of this before taking a side
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  6505. ​@spacechannelfiver I've greatly revised my view of New Labour mistakes there where but with more information that the MSM can't control and spin available they where heavily demonised with no real counter views. We where lead by the nose into Austerity 2 years in economists where screaming at the top of thier voices this is not working its actually shrinking the economy I never heard that at the time but digging into why were in the economic mess where in this is a quote from 2015 . But if anything, the monster in the room is the prevalence of what economist John Quiggin called “zombie economics” – ideas that are constantly discredited, but insist on shambling back to life and lurching their way through our public discourse The Tories are still spinning this zombie into life after 13 years of failure
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  6506. She dog walked DJT for 90 minutes in the debate made him look the senile fool that he is Some puppet
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  6507. 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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  6508. For a start there are 180,000 in the system if you processed them all tomorrow that would mean 36,000 being deported and 144,000 not being propped up by the state for political purposes but allowed to work. Last year 80,000 people applied for asylum of which 80% will be granted 62,000 from a population of 68 million is not a lot All labour would do is do their job and get them processed and off state aid
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  6509.  @seanhuds7351  62,000 a year for a country of 68 million is us being mean petty and small mined yet you won't even countenance that. You'd rather spend billions on being as cruel as possible with no real outcome of it even succeeding. I remember reading a story about the deep south when segregation was banned they used to have many public swimming pools when they where desegregated they closed them.
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  6510. Thier are 85+ million immigrants and thier children living in the US as of 2020 and 11+ million who are termed as having no status. A lot of the illegal imigrants have been living in the US for decades and have children and in some case grandchildren who are US born and are therefore citizens it's a huge mess that has no policy end
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  6511. What tax cuts? Personal thresholds are frozen, 12250 should be 15000 thats over +500£ also NI thresholds are frozen and corporation tax is going up by 6 points
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  6512. oil prices have gone past their peak and were at maximum consumerism time as in 4th quarter leading to Xmas Not exactly needing to be a clairvoyant to see that one
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  6513. 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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  6514.  @TheOutsider840  The demographic of the the leave voters was 70% of over 65's voted leave in the U20 category were 90% remain. So there has been no majority among the voting population in the UK for some time. Johnson's deal was always a political one it was never about what was best for the country. Also the Brexit Ultra's wanted Singapore on Thames which includes large numbers of migrant labour which is at odds with what the UKIPers were promised so you now have the worst of all worlds high legal migration and a shrinking economy Enjoy
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  6515.  @TheOutsider840  We would never join the Euro so that poll is pointless. Reason - The City. The economic and cultural damage is done by leaving the single market.
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  6516. Ukraine fights so we don't have
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  6517. Because the Conservatives have increased borrowing from 62% of GDP in 2010 to 92% in 2019 and now > 100% If your debt to GDP was anything like during Labour's tenure 45 ish till the banking crisis it wouldn't have been such an issue blame Cameron and Austerity
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  6518.  @AutoAlligator  The pandemic only accounts for a small fraction of our debt we'd already run up a sizable tab due to Camerons tax cuts for the rich that produced ZERO growth and zero extra revenue for the exchequer. We're also in the process of crashing our economy with Brexit so not surprising the markets thought Kwerteng was talking bollox about growth
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  6519.  @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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  6520. A lot of this is out of date as for the Russian numbers currently in ukraine thier logistics are poor to start with and are getting pounded continuously while Russia targets civilians wasting munitions trying to intimidate the general population. The Russians have a discipline moral and corruption problem which will only get worse especially if your throwing criminals into the mix
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  6521. Try living in the south east, I live up north but my entire career my company had me shuttling down there every so often beer is like double housing is through the roof
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  6522.  @yomama5521  your right it's more like 150k
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  6523. Yea whatever where not paying the mafia don of Russia so get a reality check
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  6524. 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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  6525. Thatcher bribed people with their own state owned assets and oil money 50 years down the line there's no oil money and no assets left to strip hence the 20 billion budget on housing support
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  6526. There's no such thing as a Red Tory. Even Blaire was well left of the Centre Right which Johnson destroyed
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  6527. ​@phYT01 people are looking to leave because the Tories have driven the economy for many including professionals into the Toilet with sky high housing costs and depressed wages. Got ZERO to do with Asylum and migration If I was 10 years younger and not retired I'd be upping sticks and going to live near my brother in Norway, potholes everywhere fkin home Secretary that should be expelled from the Tory Party so she can join the National Front
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  6528. There offering simplistic ounworkable solutions to complex problems The Con is vote for this this will do it when they get power and it doesn't work its oh we need this as well and so it goes on The people you list are essentially stupid and have no real grasp of the problems there snake oil is supposed to fix
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  6529. They poll white men a lot do they?
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  6530. Don't believe your lying eyes believe me How many Trump supporters does it take to change a lightbulb? None. Trump says it's done and they all cheer in the dark.
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  6531. Canned Rwanda Green energy Workers rights bill Water pollution bill And Balance the books, we've had 14 years and the Tories overspent in every single one of them increasing debt from 800 billion to 2.4 trillion
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  6532. Whoever came to power was either going to raise some tax or make draconian cuts to services
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  6533. He's not wrong though the Times is normally a Tory cheerleader What does Sunak offer? He's rolled back and destroyed most of Johnson's key pledges and retail offer to the majority and crawled into Thatcher mode. No one but the deluded faithful wants that
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  6534. Rudy is just so typical of the Trump inner circle and appointees, they are so fkin useless he was almost broadcasting what he was doing on Fox, "hey look over here Dornie wants me to do some crime for him" And the dumbass conspiracy theories floating round his booze pickled brain. Only the worst people
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  6535. Look up Finish Sand battery the there's loads of heat ones in trail Quote Finnish companies Polar Night Energy and Vatajankoski have built the world's first operational "sand battery", which provides a low-cost and low-emissions way to store renewable energy.
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  6536. And we compare Rush Limbaugh to Lord Haw Haw
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  6537. What scare stories are those? your promoting a party that will give the biggest tax break to the wealthy in history by adding it to debt Did Truss teach you Nothing?
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  6538. He's not a centerist if you look at some of the policies in detail Reeve is definitely not and will reshape economic policy, there is a huge amount you can do to rebalance taxation GBEnergy and the renewable transformation are not centerist and before you slag it off the US is plowing 1.75 trillion into renewable the EU 600 billion there is no choice for a non right wing government From now to the election they will be constantly hammered on how will you pay for it something never leveled at tax cuts
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  6539. ​ @leehighland5435 not really he just represents a different brand of chaos and the last gasp of angry white boomers
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  6540.  @leehighland5435  I'm half Polish my generation have a lot to answer for, bribed bt Thatcher now leaving nothing for generation rent. Farage stinks of decay
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  6541. Legal and illegal migration is up because we left the EU and removed FOM, we warned you but you wouldn't listen
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  6542. Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda is even less popular. This will drive turnout especially among women who are rightly mad about roe v wade
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  6543. The majority of the population? The UK needs immigrants to keep a stable population and to man a host of jobs from seasonal fruit pickers to Doctors We have a birth rate of 1.6 and falling as well as 50,000 people emigrate from the UK every year Our in work population is still not up to 2019 levels and there's 1.3 million vacancies The Politician are going to say one thing and do the opposite because Economics
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  6544.  @tofueatingwokerati2039  You don't grow the economy via low taxes, the only successful low tax economies are Petro States If you want to grow the economy you invest in good infrastructure educate your population to a high standard and keep them healthy all that costs money Reform nor the Con's can grow the economy because they refuse to address the problems in it
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  6545.  @philly9872  They would be just as rubbish as the Con's, Tice talks utter economic drivel
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  6546.  @philly9872  You already have the dregs of UKIP in the Tory party and you want more of that but with the Guff lord himself spouting off his nonsense. Farage said great budget all the economic acumen of a wet lettuce the guy talks utter bollox like Tice Like Boris at least Truss believed the crap she was spouting and tried to enact it instead of claiming to have a magic potion that would cure everything
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  6547.  @philly9872  remainers don't exist we left the EU years ago get used to it
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  6548. Trump pumped trillions into the economy with debt if you want to cool inflation raise a wealth tax on multi millionaires and billionaires Screwing over russia is good for business, jobs and the economy US arms sales are booming across the world
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  6549. Maybe we just Understand macro economics more than the right wing voter?
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  6550. But was it a world beating Party Did they all sing in tune with the Karaoke Did Lulu Lyte have security clearance for being in a restricted area There were loads of parties its the best kept non secret in town wine Friday there's already damnation in the Grey report of a drinking culture at work I mean that went out in the 70's/80's
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  6551. Right wing populism in Boris or left wing populism in Corbyn they were both out of touch elites in Johnson's case he got to burn his party to the ground making them unelectable for at least a decade. Both promising simple solutions and turning back the clock to a time that didn't exist to highly complex structural problems with the UK economy. I'm no Beer Korma fan but at least he's electable @zenex1741 
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  6552. Trump's loss in 2020 and his denial even now shows he isn't going to let the switch from Biden to Harris go why People talk about the five stages of grief as: denial. anger. bargaining. depression. acceptance. Trump does 1 then 2 then stalls and loops back to 2
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  6553. @Connie H soo you can't even admit nature's experiments that's really sad. Just because your in the 90% everything else to you has to be black and white anything that can't fit in that pocket has to be denigrated and hated
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  6554. Delusional? Labour have a 20 point lead moving to the centre
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  6555. He will release them as soon as the Audit is finished Anyone with half a brain can see he is batsh1t crazy, the Purge as official government policy whose in chatge of it Hanibal Lector
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  6556. Wind is over half the price of fossil per megawatt hour go look up Dogger bank wind farm I'd add that fracking would take over 10 years before you saw any benefit and given it caused earthquakes last time it's doomed before it starts
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  6557.  @unrealharry  He's awful how much do you know about him his political leanings connections with the Radical hard right US Evangelical movement his ties to the Heritage Foundation a US think Tank that is far right and sponsored by big Fossil interests? He's not even Conservative
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  6558. As an example I had a really bad dose of noro virus and still caught it again the second time it just wasn't as bad by a country mile just unpleasant for a day rather than debilitating for 3/4 days your still infectious though the time gap was just over 9 months.
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  6559.  @rtorres4132  The Azov are a tiny fraction of the Ukrainian army and Putin had zero intention of sticking to the Minsk agreement its theatre for the masses to plan the current invasion takes 4/5 years. There's a shale oil / Gas shelf in the east stretching west above the Dinipro river there's also large Lithium deposits near Dinipro itself plus large shale oil/gas off Crimean coast. People aren't ethnically anything just because they speak a language. Ireland doesn't belong to the UK just because it speaks English. Only a hardcore group of nationalist nutters wanted Putin's FSB thugs roaming round disappearing people Its just a piracy petro mineral war by a thug who can
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  6560.  @rtorres4132  No one was ever going to invade Russia the Army that's built up is offensive based its not designed to defend I'd suggest you also read The Art of War by Sun Tzu I'd further recommend reading historical material on Stalin's great Purges one of which was to order the murder of 60,000 Ukrainian political prisoners in 1941
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  6561.  @rtorres4132  Except the Ukrainian government isn't neo Nazi Look I'll give you a clue Putin is the Fascist his propaganda network is straight out Goebbels for advanced Autocracies The Wagner Group are Ultra Nationalists He conveniently ignores the Stalin era because its his new blueprint for Russia The Russian economy is fked anyway you've lost 300k of your best and brightest in the 20 - 30 age range who have left the country You've also lost dead and injured 40-60k (3 wounded to each death) and injured by modern weapons means your arm and leg blown off. Ukraine is in full mobilisation and Russia is sending in 6 week trained kids
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  6562. Tories listen to no one We've had enough of experts was Gove's line
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  6563. Business has had a enough of Farage's bollox about sovereignty He can fk off and eat all the turnips he wants and I'd suggest taking the one out of his backside 1st
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  6564. Warren's wealth tax would wipe out the debt pretty quickly Roe Connor is proposing beefing up the irs for the wealthy they reckon that alone will pull in 1.5 trillion over ten years you can also reverse the big Corp tax cut for another 2 trillion
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  6565. In Reeve we will have a Chancellor that has a proper economics degree from the LSE and has worked for the BOE, as well Torsten Bell a leading UK economist has been parachuted into a safe seat. What you will see is the end of trickle down which is blighting the UK economy
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  6566. They call this a news station, more like oil and gas propaganda channel
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  6567. The IMF are the biggest NeoLiberal organisation on the Planet when they tell you you've gone too far in screwing over your population with lowered services and income inequality you've really gone too far. We borrowed 130 billion last year as it was Truss's tax cuts would have added another 100 billion to the very wealthy.
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  6568. that's boloney it's estimated that sticking with gas will cost double converting to a renewable grid
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  6569.  @YakovShani  The bottom quartile in Texas pay 13% in taxes (made up of sales property + etc.) the top 5% pay 3.2 % in taxes It's a system designed to make sure the poor stay poor and impacts those on pensions as well with higher prices for goods and services.
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  6570.  @YakovShani  the bottom 20% by income pay 13% the top 5% pay 3.2% hardly a fair system it just widens the wealth gap
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  6571. That from poundland barbie And​ The current talk in EU countries is 30,000 our totals have more than doubled since Brexit last year it was 80,000 So 30,000 + say 20,000 more sounds a good deal to me As this year its going to be near the 100,000 It's a better offer than what InActionMan is proposing housing migrants indefinitely at a current cost of 8 billiona year and escalating
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  6572.  @stevesinclair4159  Thatcher the second worst prime minister of the modern age bar Boris?
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  6573.  @stevesinclair4159  I was too, in 76 studied politics and economics funny they missed out mentioning Wilson being communist it must have been an oversight on the lecturers part or maybe your talking complete guff. A lot of the root causes of are current problems have their origins in the Thatcher era, council house sales and no reinvestment in replacement stock privatised utilities that put profit and their shareholders first minimal infrastructure investment in the North and Midlands.
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  6574. It's the Tories last minute NI bribe, by 5he way the Cons were going to pay for it by upping the retirement age to 68
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  6575. He conveniently forgets that its supply side trickle down that's the driver for high legal migration
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  6576. It's not just the deaths it's the huge number of health problems among those that survive from a severe infection, with the repeal of the ACA pre existing conditions are back in play, question if you have had covid will you even be able to afford medical insurance? Part of his constant whining about state overspend is blue states have more exposure through medicare and medicade and there all having to fund testing that should be done on a federal level.
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  6577.  @pamdeshane1289  Look at the excess deaths across Europe you get a similar picture when you start crunching the raw underlying data its pretty grim. There still mapping age to deaths and the other key factor is damage done to those that recovered this isn't the flu and while its early days people are being left with problems in vital organs heart swelling, kidney failure etc. Your deluding yourself if you think this is just going to be the old and the sick
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  6578. Rory Stewart
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  6579.  @bobomb1986  Stewart gave honest answers in the leadership debate Jonson Gove etc. Lied thier faces off And theirs no such thing as a remainer we've left, it's a putrid tactic to demonise an opponent so you ignore their opinion and facts look at all the bleating by the Brexit hardcore oh we've a reminers Brexit the current economic car crash isn't our fault even though we've as hard a Brexit as you can get bar no deal. How much more fkin paperwork and red tape do these morons want to saddle business with?
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  6580.  @robertreynolds2702  he's the muppet that brought you a border down the Irish Sea then his boss lied his face off claiming it didn't exist. It makes you realise how gulible to propaganda large parts of the population are.
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  6581. Since when did parliment have any meaningful debate or vote
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  6582. It's called getting women out to vote
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  6583. I created the greatest economy? Fact - same economy as the Obama economy juiced by corporate tax cuts (short term) depressed by a trade war with China. We've got to get it going again? It's screwed across a number of sectors till there's a vaccine sort out the health problems the economy will follow ignore the health problem and any recovery is delayed. One example sports there's no way you can have fans in a sports stadium at the moment with the current and projected levels of infection it's a complete non starter, Germany are due to restart football behind closed doors but they have track and trace + massive testing program, a live TV event such as football needs around 200 people to function they all need the same level of testing as is currently employed in the WH.
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  6584. There all in for recycling gay hate into transphobia and Getting in some gay hate as well What's with hating on EV's they don't put out noxious fumes in urban areas even the Chinese love them market share went up to 17% pretty similar to Europe the US is lagging behind at 4.3% for Jan 2022?
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  6585. 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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  6586. The reason the threshold happened in the 1st place was a Lib Dem condition of coalition as soon as they had total power it started sliding
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  6587.  @iangascoigne8231  In 2012 Osborne was told Austerity was shrinking the economy and the economic paper it was based on was debunked at that time Clegg needed to dissolve the coalition for a mandate for more pain. Even the IMF a bastion of neoliberalism was making the case for more investment
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  6588.  @iangascoigne8231  no they did wrong the electorate punished them for it now they've changed tack
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  6589. 600 million on a photo op for the CON party soon to have near zero seats in the forthcoming election because of extreme stupidity
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  6590. That was Osborne I don't think the Lib-Dems had much choice They managed to get tax Thresholds lifted about their sole achievement which Sunak is busy eroding Austerity was a disaster as was the decision not to regulate the Zero Hour low wage GiG economy which saw around 1 million arrive in the UK brought in by OffShore companies, both fuelled the rise of UKIP and the Brexit vote. The whole 13 years has been one economic disaster after another
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  6591. Your correct but at least he gave the guy plenty of space to put his case which I thought he did well. The point about cowboy employers undercutting the good ones for example. The EU will need lots of energy we have one of the best places in the world for offshore wind due to the confluence of multiple weather systems
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  6592.  @TroyaE117  we're on the verge of a Mass Storage revolution Your solar system can come with a battery to timeshift energy usage an EV battery can run your house for 2 days on average
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  6593. The only thing dumber than Donald are his supporters, my how the world laughed when you all put a patch of Gauze on your ears You guys are dope what's the difference between Jim Jones and Trump? Trump would charge for the cool aid
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  6594. They've deported 10,000 illeagal migrants already more than the Tories did in the whole of 2023. It was a naff budget but they were left with a dysfunctional mess
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  6595. Renewable energy is cheapest on the grid started being in 2019 so end of conversation it's cheaper
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  6596.  @dublodave7860  You don't need gas generators for spike demand you replace them with this, it's software controlled unmanned has no moving parts and has instant demand capability for grid smoothing quote The Astonishing Economics of the Tesla Megapack By adding about 300 MW of storage, ERCOT will generate approximately $1 billion in savings in 2025. This is from a one time purchase of Megapacks for $750 million. These savings will also happen each additional year after 2025 - they are recurring!
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  6597.  @applemac100100  basing your vote on made up media culture wars are we? You people really are gullible
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  6598. @mikedon5205  UK Needs Immigration Points System says Nigel Farage UKIP Leader We have a points system and have lost FOM Immigration has more than trebbled because workers outside the EU fetch over thier families It's like watching an exercise in Stupidity
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  6599. there Libertarian Extremely small state globalisation at any cost to your internal markets Deregulation at any cost to your workforce the environment food safety banking safety etc. Unlimited supply side migrant labour
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  6600. Having a prosperity Gospel preacher in the white house says it all, it's all just corruption Trump and his sycophants really know how to put the Con into conservatism. Taking away food stamps for Xmas how low can you go. What Faustian bargain is worth selling your soul to this man for whose lying and cheating and avarice is on full display daily.
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  6601.  @kbcaps  He seems eminently pragmatic to me, The 5 missions and its philosophy are based on the work of world renowned economist Mariana Mazzucato her book Mission Economy A Moonshot Guide To Changing Capitalism
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  6602.  @kbcaps  what power do any uk politicians have over Isreal any stance is just gesture politics Outside the Westminster bubble no one cares were worried about the NHS cost of living and energy prices.
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  6603. Why would Starmer stick with a broken model Reeve will want to get costs out of the NHS one of the key ways of doing it is in house and there spending billions on Agency staff Throughput is also appalling was in with my Mum before Xmas the back end of the system has to many people that should be in social care and that was a removal of local funds during early Austerity. There's also a lot you can do with local facilities and there is no 1 size fits all it depends on the population mix
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  6604. The only thing I've seen the experts who have studied corona virus and its dna agree on is its natural and likely jumped species from a bat. The Wuhan lab was like other labs studying Sars (and I presume variants) A lot of the conspiracy stuff is centered round cov-19 being synthetic which is why any lab theory gets a kicking.
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  6605.  @robertlangley1664  according to the polls 58% of the country wants a left leaning party so no he's not joking
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  6606. No there not there completely different. An excellent example is the NHS Labour are offering debt forgiveness to uk trained nurses and an overtime rate to clear the backlog Get an eye test your obviously colour blind
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  6607.  @bernardedwards8461  reform are Lettuce Liz economics with fantasy imigration policy Anywhere near power and they'd make Kwasi's budget fallout look like a practice run
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  6608. Oh we definitely hate Trump, how Hannitey has the nerve to say what he does God knows probably sold his soul to the devil for a TV slot
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  6609. unfunded tax cuts that pumped trillions into the economy and onto US debt during the Trump era need to be taxed out to reduce inflation Quote A billionaire gained roughly $1.7 million for every $1 of new global wealth earned by a person in the bottom 90 percent.
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  6610. what crazy left Biden is pretty centrist and at least spent money on investing in America rather than tax cuts for the rich Could be why there's full employment and the best performing economy in the G7
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  6611. Trump is as mad as a box of frogs Why does anyone follow him its like just getting weirder and weirder
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  6612.  @GargantuanD  There eating the dogs, there eating the cats
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  6613.  @GargantuanD  ahh so gullible I have a semblance of a plan Bumble brain still can't get his head around tariffs = sales taxes
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  6614.  @jeanneale9257  look the difference between the Corbyn agenda re energy was buying it all back debts and all costing around 600 billion Millibands proposals are investing in new infrastructure of around 30 billion PA and letting legacy generation phase out over time zero cost to the exchequer. Corbyn's plan would have see the Tories straight back in after 1 term claiming he'd bankrupted the country on a vanity project and promptly sold it back to thier mates. Millibands plan is progressive over 2/3 election cycles and you can block the asset stripping by giving Scotland Wales England NI golden shares
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  6615. The 2 reasons the US has a deficit are the Bush and Trump tax cuts Also The capitalist ladder doesnt work without a social floor to stand on
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  6616. so you'll vote Tory instead over something we have zero effect on?
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  6617.  @pallascat1743  at least we have something in common. I'm 67 and never had the privilege of voting for who I want just tactically.
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  6618. What do we know about this election that is actually a fact well in 2020 the electorate was made up of 55% women and 45% men Since then the GOP has waged a war against women's healthcare Also of the counties by GDP 70% voted for Biden even polling shows large numbers of the college educated vote is democrat. Do enough voters realise that DJT and Musk's economic plan will crash the economy (Musk claims this is necessary for structural realignment he doesn't know wtf he's talking about)
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  6619. What is to debate Trump lies constantly and his current objective is to crash postal voting so utterly he can walk away with 4 more years even if 60% of the population vote against him
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  6620. What a bunch of spineless whips, the party of macho personal responsibility are just a bunch of simpering lap dogs.
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  6621.  @pankaja7974  The stats don't back up your prejudice
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  6622.  @mr.thegreat557  no one will they doubled because of Brexit live with it
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  6623. No he's not were dying under a mountain of export paperwork removing standards will just introduce more paperwork countries don't want cheap unregulated crap and you have to fill in the docs to prove it
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  6624. He's not going to get the money to run from all sorts of usual Republican donors
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  6625. We have the Internet you can disprove it in 30 seconds as a lie So Why demean yourself by trying to spread it? How low does your own self esteem have to be to do that?
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  6626. If the kids get it they spread it like the plague and yes they catch it and there are a boat load of side effects both short and long term to even a mild dose without the super spreader factors
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  6627.  @loksterization  I've written to my MP a lot about tax havens and money Laundering Panama Papers Russia Report Freeports (havens for people trafficking money laundering and smuggling) Pandora Papers and now again about Russian money and influence in the Tory party
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  6628.  @loksterization  all money laundering
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  6629. No one ran up debt and killed the economy quite like it
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  6630. What far left Marxists?
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  6631. Brexit is an economic multiplier everything it touches is worse because of it. After the 2016 vote long term investment by multinationals slowed right down 7/8 years on and that lack of investment is gnawing at the economy like a rat eating its way through a sack of grain. You then destroy the On-Demand Supply chain through Europe implement huge numbers of checks red tape and paperwork which strangles the ability of companies to compete so that SME's for example are shrinking back to core business as well as putting up prices. Economic death by a thousand cuts some of the figures are truly staggering currency is down by 30% since 2016 100 billion in lost inward investment an economy 5.5% smaller due to leaving the single market (equal tp 44 billion in lost taxation) 8 billion in additional business costs for red tape and paperwork etc. etc.
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  6632. There's around 80 billion in fossil subsidies in the tax code you have to get the money from somewhere
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  6633. Is there some sort of coordinated power play? That's two states now they've tried funny business
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  6634. He's the messiah didn't you know of the Christian Right who have sold their soul for political power
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  6635. Renewable wind produce a lot of off peak, my FIT payments are the same as off-peak costs, I'm currently able to time shift my solar production
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  6636. How much is the fossil industry paying him?
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  6637. Net zero = capital expenditure now V high running cost Insulate a school building to A+ standard and its savings on its heating and electric bill cover the capital outlay within a few years Not doing it is a false economy
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  6638.  @itsme-gm9oi  By the way the Aus scheme this is based on cost 2 million per head
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  6639.  @pg8835  there not foreign if there born here
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  6640.  @dbfhorses  Queen is half German Phillip was Greek / Danish
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  6641. The circus just started there's 2 other scandals just arriving much worse than the current 2 1 from open democracy Revealed: UK government helped sanctioned Putin ally sue British journalist UK Treasury, then under Rishi Sunak’s control, let Yevgeny Prigozhin circumvent sanctions to target Eliot Higgins 2. ‘They just vanish’: whistleblowers met by wall of complacency over missing migrant children As scores of youngsters are disappearing from hotels run by the Home Office and being trafficked across the country, sources claims warnings over their safety were ignored
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  6642. Sunak didn't bother forward costing his NI tax bribe of 20 billion. We knew there would be a shortfall but it seems the Tories went scorched earth on the way out and it explains why we had a summer election Our finances have been in a mess for a while going back to Osborne and the damage Austerity did to the economy
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  6643.  @steveb3060  renewable infrastructure pays itself back in around year 10 of a 25 year life cycle even accounting for borrowing costs. If you take 2022 prices Mass storage at stratigic grid nodes would pay for itself in a year saving consumers 30 billion a year.
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  6644. Harris leads by a huge margin in women voters, the Democrats encourage everyone to vote early and by mail if possible, Trump's messaging is don't use mail and vote on the day. The democrats have a huge ground game to get out the vote with thousands of volunteers
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  6645. capital gains is one million Per annum if you made 10% on investments then you'd need a portfolio of 10 million and you'd still not pay anything. Remember pensions will be excluded
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  6646. Stripping people's citizenship is mental full stop
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  6647. ​ @nickbrian5141 labour manifesto didn't contain any of that As for reform they'd do the same as the Tories pretend there's an easy solution and not process claims so we end up with thousands in hotels or in camps or on barges
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  6648. Any printed documents are next to useless, the whole Hunter thing lives and dies on digital documents, each digital document has a huge amount of digital fingerprints on them showing how they were copied amended and originated from. In an email you can if it's digital look at the source code which tells it's own story as well as the metadata, you also could do with the hard drive/computer it resides on which also has a trail. Anything printed can be just mocked up on word
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  6649. Quote “A single cohort of international students is worth a net £25.9bn to the UK economy. " Last year, the number was 136,000 student visas The UK has a Birth rate of 1.6 it needs +400,000 ish to keep a stable population and The Times quote Labour has announced plans to cut immigration that would bar employers from recruiting foreign workers unless they pay them the market rate What's interesting about this quote is Starmer hasn't any plans to cut migration he has plans to stop firms undercutting domestic workers + plans for Apprenticeships & Training. Is it lazy writing or deliberate?
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  6650. he's not indian he's british like I'm not Polish because my father came here during the war Try money grubbing Tory
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  6651. Thatcherism has always driven imigration through cutting domestic investment
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  6652.  @ArjunGhag-ix7te  There is no centre right Braverman is the same toxic hard right as Farage both clueless in being able to deal with real world problems The reason the Cons got such a kicking is they've spent 2 years with Rwanda chasing the nutter vote, none of Reform's policies stands up to even casual scrutiny
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  6653. 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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  6654. 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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  6655. It's clear the right wing have been snorting lysol again Do you have evidence of course they dont
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  6656. Tesla last quarter made 30% profit per vehicle a model 3 costs 40k $ so current base cost is 28k and coming down with the opening of more factories as economies of scale ramp up and battery tech gets cheaper and more reliable. This is just the beginning
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  6657. 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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  6658. Habib and the rest of the Brexit Ultra's don't have a clue how international trade works and the importance of tariff free paperwork free red tape free VAT harmonised trade is appear to grasp that it's costing over 40 billions its costing in lost taxation alone and strangling small business growth who employ 60% of the UK workforce Our economy is swilling round the toilet bowl and your even seeing the effects of getting rid of FOM on increased permanent visa migration with over half dependants
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  6659. The derailment of a 150-car train carrying hazardous material in East Palestine, Ohio, was likely more severe because the Trump administration repealed a key safety rule, according to an industry insider.
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  6660. Renewable energy was half the price of fossil before the current crisis. It's also detached from the world commodity market and can have a large portion decentralised.
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  6661. In today's supercharged disinformation world that would fan the far right into conspiracy overload, did you not see the hysteria and fallout from ULEZ 2
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  6662. ​ @annmorgan5130 labour offer an economic approach that will get us out of this Thatcherite Austerity driven economic doom loop
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  6663. I've got shares in an EV company through a bundled multi asset fund in my pension it's not a controversial choice check your pension you probably have too. A Federal program will implement a standard and also promote at the cheap end Tesla's don't need it but the model T of tomorrow does. Taxi's and light commercial vehicles are another group, this isn't aimed at the luxury market. As an aside economists regard every dollar spent on infrastructure as getting 95cents in the dollar return this will be no different tax cuts provide 24cents in the dollar. All final mile deliveries will be done by electric vans UPS and others are converting thier fleets now
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  6664. What's wrong with 15 minute cities?
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  6665.  @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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  6666. He's like me far to intoloate of complete fkwits you need to be able to compromise over most things and have a flexible view if you don't nothing gets done
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  6667. MRNA one of the true wonders of the modern world developed in Germany by Turkish immigrants without any Warpspeed money So cut the I out of this you had fk all to do with it
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  6668. He's still the best they have unfortunately The ultra right are still angling for one of thiers even though the country is a million miles from Sunak & Hunts economic policy and what was effectively an unfunded Autumn statement
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  6669.  @chrislaurenceleo  he on purpose backlog is costing around 4 billion a year + the 1/2 billion wasted on Rwanda
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  6670. ​ @catmonarchist8920 pivot to what? The current lot are effin useless they need a complete clear out
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  6671. Reeve's budget doesn't come into force fully till Apr 2025 The current economic patter started in 2010 with Osborne, you'll need to assess Labour's progress in 5 years to get any idea of a reversal
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  6672. Your swapping one party for the Billionaires for another There interested in low tax for them and deregulation thy don't give a stuff about you and me
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  6673. you can put the array on stilts it helps create shade areas underneath slows evaporation look up Agrivoltaics
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  6674. So a journalist won't let him lie his ass off in an interview and he throws a baby tantrum, what's he gonna do run to Fox news and have a good cry. Its like he's so mired in whack job conspiracy theories he actually believes all the crap he spouts
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  6675. Why would we want a foreigner buying our election? Billionaires want only 1 thing more money, even though they have more than they could spend anyway
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  6676.  @davidrenton  Why is creating a problem in the 1st place then not dealing with it year on year Its piss easy to see lack of progress on this pathetic whining about not putting them into a Labour / Concentration camp in east Africa that is set up to take 200 a year
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  6677.  @srabonx  with what? They have very little smart munitions left and conscripts are poorly armed equipped and trained with little to no motivation coupled with a huge exodus of military age men to surrounding countries They have been taking a kilometre a week using dumb artillery grind that levels the area in front uninhabitable while burning through conscripts like they were an endless swarm of zombies. How long can Putin keep this dumb shyte up is more to the question
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  6678.  @staffan-  To get the quantity to the front line armed and trained to actually do something takes logistics and planning, we know the Russians are incapable of the last 2 otherwise Ukraine would have fallen back in Feb / March. I dunno how many Russians will die of hypothermia alcohol abuse friendly fire but it will be more than the Ukrainians kill there is no discipline in the Russian army
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  6679. Every lie is a debt to the truth, sooner or later that debt must be paid An entire manifesto and cabinet built on lies that will consume us all if the rot isn't cut out
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  6680. @Raymondo666 he could have removed the NI ceiling which would have raised more.
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  6681.  @resistancefighter9009  it's been tried loads of times. Best case is it widens inequality and balloons the debt Worst case is as above plus high inflation a falling pound and falling average wages.
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  6682. @Raymondo666 The issue is that there wedded to trickle down so your always with a Conservative government going to have low taxes at the top and regressive rather than progressive taxation. NI and VAT are very regressive taxes, they don't touch unearned income which doesn't even attract higher rate NI
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  6683. @Raymondo666 Johnson lies through every hole in his body, he says stuff to one group then the opposite to another. We've a pretty bad black hole taxation wise due to Brexit our employment rate is still below 2019 level and there's negative growth in the economy. We've lost 2% gdp during the pandemic which has bounced back in NI and the City but 5% GDP due to Brexit each point of GDP is worth 8 Billion to the Treasury. Northern Ireland are still in the single market and the City deal in Services mostly. There Conservative what do you expect they live in fantasy economic land
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  6684.  @resistancefighter9009  Quote from the FT UK dividends expected to beat 2022 forecasts as energy profits soar ... Investors in British companies can expect higher dividends this year Quote From Business Leader Global profits soared by two-thirds (+64.8%) in 2021/22 to a record £3.93 trillion, easily shrugging off the effects of the pandemic, according to the latest Global Profit & Income Barometer from Henderson Far East Income, an investment trust seeking dividend income and capital gains from investing in Asia-Pacific ex-Japan. Quote from Fortune Corporations ‘opportunistically’ raised prices in 2021 which fuelled inflation, according to new research
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  6685. @Raymondo666 Welcome to your low wage high tax economy then where the rich get ever richer and the middle class and poor are left to rot. Any form of manufacturing will die off were already 15% down and the wasteland of the Midlands and North and 13% inflation under Thatcher will seem like the good times. There's no oil money or utility companies to sell off to plug the taxation holes this time.
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  6686. @Raymondo666 So you don't understand it then? Wind, Solar and Tidal produce electricity substantially cheaper but require infrastructure built up front. Short term gas generation is cheaper up front but cost way more over time. In 2019 the cost of gas generation was on par with wind now its x4 more expensive, Nuclear is x2.5 more expensive than wind and coal is x2.5 with electric cars you can microgrid the system to use the batteries to smooth out grid demand reducing the amount of on standby gas stations And the Green levy is used to upgrade pensioners who have no other income to improve their insulation to help reduce their bills.
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  6687. @Raymondo666 There's enough supply in the system of fossil fuels otherwise you'd see shortages. The oil and gas industry are an Oligopoly An oligopoly is a situation where a few firms sell most or all of the goods in a market. Oligopolists earn their highest profits if they can band together as a cartel and act like a monopolist by reducing output and raising price. There currently making what is regarded in economic terms super profits Shipping is another wheat production is yet another Oligopoly though on a country basis Norway have 93% renewable energy and less than 5% inflation they own their own oil and gas fields in a public partnership all the profits go to the state. Thatcher sold off leases instead of putting it into a wealth fund and the companies sell it on the world commodity market. Tidal is reliable I've just changed my boiler and heating to use a thermal solar panel haven't need to pay for hot water since it was installed and I also have underfloor heating which will use heat from the thermal panels as it gets colder. My bills are dominated by the standing charge the issue with it was up front cost the payback I've calculated at 8 years that was at 2021 prices. Choices
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  6688. @Raymondo666 if people like me that can afford them with a tax kick and a publicity campaign from the government and planning laws are changed for new builds it fetches down overall demand + you can incentive councils to do it to rental stock. The government figures on badly insulated homes is there are 18 million out there. It would also create jobs and expand innovation
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  6689. @Raymondo666 money comes from somewhere, tax breaks for big business are just corporate socialism then. And there's a saying going round for the Tories Privatise the profits Socialise the losses, The big issue with privatised utilities is there a monopoly cut up into bits to try create an artificial market the standing charge keeps going up to bail out the failed players customers maybe the government should look at abolishing that.
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  6690. To anyone adding a hunter comment Rudy is the most comical inept cartoon Goebbels minister of propaganda ever seen, he's even too bad at his job to be a Scrooby door villain Is that a hard drive down my pants nope it's a floppy
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  6691. It's not going to be close, data is pointing to a female surge There 55% of the electorate
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  6692. Trump is a bully and a stupid one at that
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  6693. 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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  6694. Hey TV stop telling the truth, context, context
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  6695. The bulk of our Housing Crisis Water Crisis and out of control utility bills are as a direct result of Thatcherite policies, even the banking Crisis in 2008 had its roots in Thatcher era deregulation. The so called economic miracle was bought on the back of asset stripping and oil money wage deflation through carpet bombing heavy industry and leaving millions to rot. scroll to present day here is an example - The water companies have borrowed over 50 billion and paid out 57 billion in dividends the debt loading will see them go bankrupt if interest rates continue to climb so who do you think will pick up the bill?
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  6696. Boris had no influence on him when he was last in power DJT's tariff plan will wreck the US economy and ours so cross your fingers he doesn't win
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  6697. He's there to staunch the bleeding in the Blue wall defeat is inevitable its just the size
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  6698. The GOP are forever trying to defund the justice system by making cuts so they can give money o billionaires, there latest scam is to defund the IRS so their mega donors don't get cought for tax
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  6699.  @RobBCactive  I read that Times had a segment on it trying to downplay the seriousness of what was done did Sunak personally Authorise it I mean exactly who did given he was under sanctions
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  6700.  @marieclark3119  You know I got to thinking why all the antagonism, why make up lies about Joe and fuel a culture in Right wing media that makes it impossible for any GOP reps to ever compromise or agree to anything. I looked up the inflation thing in more detail as well as the job numbers mostly coz my pension portfolio and savings is mostly in Tech which is my area of expertise. The inflation figures were comparing March this year with March last which where highly abnormal due to the shutdown of the economy, there are ongoing supply chain issues and other stuff but there are some real anomalies in prices lumber for instance anyways my main sources for financial news is Reuters Bloomberg and the Financial Times anything they say on Fox or Fox business needs flushing down the toilet as do anything the GOP currently spout.
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  6701. DJT is a multiple bankrupt whose clueless on economics and. Musk ihas halved Twitters value in 2 years because he doesn't understand how things work
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  6702. A party that has its own TV station pumping out propaganda in GBN and also TalkTV with little to no pushback And now subbed 100 million from a foreigner? What i find curious is why anyone gives them the time of day their key policy brexit has tanked the economy, seen a steady increase in tax and quadrupled migration.
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  6703. People are concerned about the Cost of living and NHS Everyone I know (I'm 67) have seen this ongoing since Israel invaded and expanded in the 70's and as long as a party isn't Islamophobic or Antisemitic then its not an issue people cast their vote on. Too much Westminster Bubble talk
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  6704. The economy is like an oil tanker takes ages to turn round, the brexit decline continues A recovering economy depends on small businesses, the small manufacturers are increasingly finding it harder to export and restrictions on services is slowing down the City.
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  6705. The economy is booming there are structural issues causing inflation Labour shortages Oil price up 25% Container shipping up 330% Polar event followed by summer drought affecting crop production and livestock
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  6706.  @psn_philldutra7574  it's based on real people doing real jobs 5000 direct jobs in Texas with Tesla generating what 25-30 thousand from the economic fallout from the factory Intel building a large facility to make chips in Arizona etc take of the blinkers
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  6707.  @coronaphyrrus1254  the US economy posted its 18th straight month of increased manufacturing data, Tesla Texas, Intel Arizona, Ford Kentucky just a few examples plus thousands of small firms springing up. Just look at the data
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  6708. There's not been a major poll in a while these small ones can be up to 5% within the margin of error Data I've seen says no significant movement in the last month. Looking like a turnout election
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  6709. ​ @jake751 there miles apart, why are you trying to pedal other parties narratives?
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  6710. Keep up it was proven to be a lie almost instantly
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  6711. define woke you bunch of numpties
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  6712. 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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  6713. 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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  6714. Why will it be worse under Labour? The current government are pissing 6 billion up a wall by not processing claims. That's at least 36,000 people who should already be deported
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  6715.  @rubensano4860  renewables are cheaper go look it up
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  6716. 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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  6717. She's been part of an extraordinary turn around in the US economy
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  6718. Anyone Mogg is against I'm for, Mogg has only 1 agenda to wreck the trade and cooperation agreement which means bankruptcy for hundreds of thousands of small businesses with a trade war with the EU and the restart of the troubles
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  6719. If they think things are bad in France now wait till the Right get in charge we have 14 years experience of their incompetence
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  6720.  @jennarmour8356  That's because they became a grift machine What do you want Elon Musk and Peter Teal oh tax cuts we'll donate 100's of millions and oh deregulate, lower worker protections change child labour laws
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  6721. New South Wales Aus are 75-95 renewable should be fully in 5 years If the world switches to renewables it will save trillions of dollars as well as reduce polution across the globe. There are numerous studies out there as wind and solar have been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 We spend huge sums subsidising fossil extraction and even more on environmental clean up Also 40% of shipping is dedicated to moving fossil fuel around
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  6722.  @franparish1599  what? My house will be 95% energy Indipendant in the next 4 years I'm just hanging on so battery prices come down which they will do in the next couple of years because of Sodium/Ion Your living in the dark ages listening to that fossil lobby Shyte
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  6723.  @franparish1599  what like escalating electricity gas and petrol cost? I'm doing this as part of a refurbishment but that base cost will pay itself back in 7 years probably 4 if I get an EV I've already got thermal solar for hot water and that saves enough to pay itself back in 8 years. After that it's free power and hot water So why aren't new homes mandated to have this stuff given our energy dependence and need to get more out of the grid?
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  6724.  @anthonymorris5084  I'm not Aus my bad its South Australia Quote The battery backup Elon Musk built to win a bet has saved South Australia tens of millions of dollars. The record-setting "battery" is made of Tesla PowerPacks and helps stabilize the local grid. Rural South Australia experiences bad blackouts each summer. More than two years after winning an electricity bet, Elon Musk’s resulting Australian solar and wind farm is an almost total success. The facility powers rural South Australia, whose population density falls between Wyoming and Alaska, the two least dense U.S. states.
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  6725.  @anthonymorris5084  Wind and solar aren't subsidised in the UK not sure what your point is the latest Contract price for Dogger bank OffShore is 42p per kilowatt hour which was 12x + cheaper than the the Offgem Spot Price at its peak stage. Renewables became the cheapest form of energy on the grid in 2019 before the current energy crisis Current tech challenges holding it back is the Grid still doesn't have enough transfer capacity across Scotland down through the North East to the south the work is supposed to be ongoing but usual government delays all should be finished by 2029. The other issue is storage and Grid resilience There's already a Vehicle to Grid Software solution along with local area battery backup that's now running if your a Octopus customer. Look up "Powerloop: Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Balancing the grid with green energy by storing renewable power in electric cars." You've also got Hydrogen pilot over in the North East you can run a 80/20 mix on current infrastructure. Cutting natural gas consumption by 1/5th using green hydrogen is pretty seismic
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  6726. It does somewhere the modern blade turns at 8mph
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  6727. yet the forward cost of their electric is 42p per kilowatt hour as opposed to the current price of gas at over 100p and has been as high as 600p per kilowatt hour Wind forward contract prices for onshore reached parity with Gas back in 2019 and has been getting more expensive ever since
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  6728.  @rjones6219  The OffGem price is 142p currently this is based on the most expensive form of generation which is currently Gas its been as high as 500+p One of the problems renewable energy and having millions of EV's plugged into the grid with active technology should resolve is balance loading so you don't need expensive Gas stations on standby when everyone plugs in their kettle quote from Octopus The energy network of the future Powerloop is a revolutionary way of taking green energy in the middle of the night and storing it in the battery of a Nissan LEAF. Using a bi-directional charger, the Nissan LEAF connects back into your home to provide your house energy during peak times when energy demand is at its highest. Using car batteries as energy storage devices enables us to keep intermittent renewable energy for when we need it most. This makes our energy system more efficient and moves us to a green economy faster.
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  6729. He has ADHD among other things for which Aderral is a prescription medication The recent report on the Trump Whitehouse showed it was awash with speed though
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  6730. Last time I drove across there in March they were building loads of wind turbines so they could get off gas and also had loads of infrastructure transport projects on the go. Don't believe all you read in the media
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  6731. More renewables and a net zero grid will reduce energy costs give it a rest
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  6732. Change planning and build them in factories
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  6733. They weren't praising Thatcher they just called her an agent of change. I was there back then Wilson promised modernisation then did fk all about the unions if he had Thatcher wouldn't have happened. She got lucky with 4% gdp of oil revenues which she blew on tax cuts
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  6734. The progressive wing has a big say overall but they need the more centrist and right wing of the coalition to form a majority and that means compromise
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  6735. The Brits are politically irrelevant compared to the EU
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  6736. ​ @freedomfighter5335 exactly there like rabid dogs over a CV embellishments but turn a blind eye to Farage and Reform recieving millions from the fossil lobby and an off shore billionaire
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  6737. Tax cuts don't encourage growth and most of the spending increases are self inflicted with Brexit Quick economics primer Supply-side economics assumes that lower tax rates boost economic growth by giving people incentives to work, save, and invest more. A critical tenet of this theory is that giving tax cuts to high-income people produces greater economic benefits than giving tax cuts to lower-income folks. Essentially, the more money the rich are able to keep, the more the whole economy will grow. But the evidence reveals two fundamental problems with this story. First, its primary prediction is wrong—giving tax cuts to the rich does not increase economic output or create new jobs. Instead, tax cuts for middle- and low-income taxpayers are much more effective at boosting macroeconomic activity. Second, supply-side theory misunderstands the actual mechanism by which tax rates influence macroeconomic activity. While supply-siders maintain that lower rates at the top incentivize people to earn more money, the evidence shows that tax cuts boost output mostly by putting money in people’s pockets and thereby stimulating demand. Opponents of supply-side economics argue that rather than increasing revenue for the government, lowering taxes will instead increase the deficit. As a result, the government will have to cut programs or raise other taxes to make up for this shortfall. Which is whats been happening for the past 12 years 2010 debt to gdp 62% 2019 debt to gdp 82% 2022 its 100% with ZERO projected growth 1% of GDP = 8 Billion in TAX
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  6738.  @rosemarywoolley8394  why they've been wearing them over in Asia for decades every time there's a health scare?
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  6739. ​ @nimzgaz7049 It's a sh1te idea that is put out there as a Show Pony that will never see the light of day Who pays you Tory central, i cant believe youve been conned by this? Wheres the money coming from? The military has been hollowed out by the Tories your talking 1/2 a milion people when we have only 75,000 military personnel
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  6740. At the macroeconomic level average wages are down -7% since 2010 GDP is static with +11 million population meaning UK productivity has fallen off a cliff.
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  6741. There's always another scandal with Boris the guy is a lying toerag always has been Quote Crates of what appeared to be prosecco and beer were delivered to the cabinet office on Wednesday (1 June). Footage shared online shows a Sainsbury’s driver wheeling the alcohol to the door of the building, located around the corner from 10 Downing Street. The cabinet office claim the delivery was a “genuine mistake” and that it was intended for a “non-government address”. It added that the alcohol was taken elsewhere and not consumed on site.
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  6742. 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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  6743. That stuff you can use for paying under the counter for black market illegal migerannt workers? Or use to. Buy elecit drugs so how much do you launder Nige??
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  6744. Another scare story from a Tory shill The Billionaires channel shows its true colours
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  6745. He controls his party unlike Sunak There going to be centre centre left If you want headbanger right wing and I. Pending poverty keep voting Tor
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  6746. Delusion HQ here I managed 10 minutes of it before I had to quit The reason the Tories will be consigned into oblivion if not this election then in future is they offer nothing but chaos and destruction, there is no turning the corner our economy is wrecked for large parts of the population.
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  6747. Should have had a rate cut earlier, Powell is a Republican by the way
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  6748. so your keen on loosing your human rights and having your kids indoctrinated are you what's he going to call it the Farage Youth?
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  6749. The party of 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts yea right we know how that ends
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  6750. They can't argue fraud if they do they will be disbarred for lying, he's still trying to strong arm people into doing crime for him All this will do is fuel Trump's insane persecution complex and make him really mad at the Republicans
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  6751.  mako zero  he brought it with him :)
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  6752. We turned down joining the Eu procurment scheme multiple times for a fraction of the cost we ended up paying
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  6753. @DJWESG1  it's my taxes that went down the plughole Since becoming chancellor Sunak has frozen thresholds even with the NI drop my family are £1800 worse off in tax Meanwhile there giving millionaire pensioners £40,000 a year at a cost of 2 billion spending 300 million on a Rwanda election campaign stunt
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  6754. Unlikely we need investment after 14 years of Tory pillaging, the memory of this Thatcherite period will last decades
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  6755.  @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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  6756. 70 % of the public are for the latest stimulus package there were zero Republican votes in favour, they don't represent anyone but themselves and the hard core 30% All they have is culture wars which were lost decades ago, the rotting stench of decay and corruption consumes them as the big lie they fostered gets out of control and like a cancer eats thier party.
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  6757. His numbers are stuck because 55% would never vote for him the strategy has always been divide and suppress the opponents vote.
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  6758.  @JohnDoe-qy8vr  you don't like a booming US industry with record exports?
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  6759.  @JohnDoe-qy8vr  you don't like a booming US industry with record exports?
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  6760. If you regard life begins at conception then IVF is classed as murder they fertilize a number of eggs then insert the most viable and flush the rest away. Republicans doing God's work in promoting and campaigning for the Democrats
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  6761. Its not the people coming here for Jobs that are responsible for your declining living standards its government policies, always was always will be
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  6762. Look they don't contribute to lower wages in the UK not in the way you think they do. We need a lot of low to medium skilled migrant workers we don't produce enough home grown our population is ageing and we have a low birth rate. You should have a high skilled home based workforce supplemented by migration at the bottom end. There is nothing stopping governments presiding over a higher wage economy Blair managed it with +25% average wage growth @rogerwoodhouse7945 
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  6763. Labour have a Net Zero policy as for the Cons We still have an onshore wind ban and no accelerated planning permission for Grid and infrastructure rollout 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.@whiskeywarlord9425
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  6764. No they wouldn't Corbyn was really unpopular
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  6765. @Yesindeed126 in the same way the Tories went mental when they kicked out Boris and the ERG + Libertarian faction installed Truss the Labour party went off the rails after 2015 and turned to a socialist elite fantasist Reeve is an economist who's worked at the BOE and already had an endorsement from Mark Carney I heard the other day Sue Gray has banned the shadow cabinet from using WhatsApp at the moment with the Tories its zero discipline and akin to herding cats
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  6766. Assume everything the right wing m3dia and Trump tells you is a lie Then all will be clear
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  6767. How can people ever think Republicans are good for the economy, it's a rape and pillage strategy the mess they leave can take generations to repair, what's worse is Red states are the worse for dumping on thier own voters then convince them that wallowing in poverty is somehow noble
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  6768. In what way? The last 5 years have been the worst in UK economic and political history of any governments term, they really are world beating now
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  6769.  @Celtictribes  their period in office saw 20+% wage growth Debt was 800 billion when they left office it's now 2.4 trillion and real average wages are less than in 2010
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  6770. What's with all the TRUE Conservative stuff you've got a hardcore Thatcherite in No10 does it not occur to you that its hard right wing policies that don't work not who's implementing them Reform are just a load of re-badged Libertarian policies that Truss tried and crashed the markets with
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  6771. 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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  6772. The king of bullsh1t rides again with his foghorn of ignorance
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  6773. you make over a million dollars? To do that on the stock market you'd need about 10 million invested at least your also not liable for pensions and there's a whole way of squirrelling money away. Lets be clear you only pay if you cash in and you can roll over your allowance and on a profit of 1 million and 1 dollar you pay 40 cents its designed to match income tax it will have ZERO effect on stocks there are not enough individual players everything is in investment vehicles.
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  6774. Talk to them about the 10000+ data points the right wing billionaire machine has on them and how data marketing at brain washing levels is being used on them, Facebook will not vet political ads for truthfulness and encourages the connectivity. It's all about pushing the right buttons making them angry about the stupidest of things. Point out how they are being manipulated to support billionaire issues which are tax cuts tax breaks and keeping the people at the bottom in line.
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  6775. Johnson was done for repeatedly lying to parliment Not for breaking lock down rules as usual with the blonde idiot it woz the cover up rather than the crime that screwed him over then diging a hole so deep it you could see Aus
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  6776. No lie too big to just push out, simple math shows its a complete cow pat of garbage spewing from him as usual
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  6777.  @Jase-y1o  That's not factually correct if as the Tories have you defund the Police Justice system and Councils via Austerity prosecutions go down as resources get stretched further and further till the system breaks down the last figueres I saw its halved since 2017 This is a quote from the Daily Mail Child sex abuse prosecutions more than halve in four years as convictions fall 45% - while courts backlog sees victims waiting nearly two years So your snidey remark about Labour glosses over the glaring fact that thousands have got away with kiddie fiddling for what Tax breaks to corporations and Bankers?
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  6778. Ireland is OK its just GB the Conservative government couldn't run a sweet shop there that short term and incompetent 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 Labour 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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  6779.  @MrAlb3rtazzo  They'll still pay more than the 1% they were paying on UK asset income which are illiquid
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  6780. The people that sold you Brexit?
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  6781. What Brex1t opportunities? The only 1 with any semblance of a plan was Liz Truss who wanted to turn the economy into a Libertarian sh1th0le for the 90% while the 10% became incredibly wealthy
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  6782.  @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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  6783. ​ @nowgrownup neither do you Cruella was speaking to a US right wing Libertarian think tank whose sole purpose is to fix the system so they don't pay tax and you don't get any services. They pour endless pots of money into denying climate change whipping up trans hate and punching down at every opertunity Everything is the fault of trans black gay migrants that are here to take your jobs and steal your children
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  6784. Why there just the same shit Libertarian supply side globalist economic policies Sunak pedals?
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  6785. Popular with who? Those popularising sexual violence? Quote Donald Trump, the president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, has been accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including non-consensual kissing or groping, by at least 25 women since the 1970's
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  6786. The EU state aid rules are pretty loose, were never going to hit any of them under a Con government
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  6787. Its not like we have much choice Truss doesn't have a fekin clue the lowering of corporation tax will further fuel the Debt and inflation
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  6788. the bulk of the inflation is supply side on inelastic goods eg energy the government not taxing the snot out of the expected 170 billion in Excess profits then pumping it back to consumers is a key driver then there's the self inflicted +6% on food because of Brexit
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  6789. Why is a 5 million tax break not enough And Why don't you want cheap energy?
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  6790.  @janethumphries3041  If you trade with the EU you have to follow EU rules and standards if you trade with the US you have to follow US trade rules and standards. We now have to follow EU rules and standards + third country rules and standards we are not big enough or powerful enough to set international standards that's the province of the EU US or China. What did you vote for by the way?
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  6791.  @janethumphries3041  Why because he lied about Brexit and what's this patriot once great country? They sold you a crock of shit for empire 2.0 which romanticised a time that never existed with its closest approximation to pre WW1 gun boat diplomacy where we sent the navy out to steal other countries resources. That bubble was burst totally with the Suez canal debacle. We've essentially got the vaguest upgrade of WTO and you actually want to make trade worse?
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  6792. It's propaganda not news owned by an offshore Libertarian billionaire
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  6793. Where you get the idea that Reform are Conservative is for the Birds. Tories hemorrhaged sears to the Lib-Dems. Anyone voting Reform isn't going to vote Conservative we saw that with the nut all Rwanda scheme
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  6794. ​ @mattharrison5220 Reform aren't Conservative, there's little to no overlap in my Constituency
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  6795.  @davidcooks2379  The traditional Tory party are socially liberal fiscally Conservative as is their predominantly One Nation base. This you'd expect from a reasonable educated middle class core support that has zero interest in made up culture wars
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  6796.  @davidcooks2379  Tories core support is socially liberal centre right on economics. Which is why they will continue to bleed support to the Lib-Dems Green and Labour. There is nothing Tory about Reform
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  6797. Sunak is one of the reasons 2008 banking crash happened hedge fund managers trying to leverage the system quote Most infamously, TCI launched a campaign against the Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007, which resulted in its sale to the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). The deal loaded RBS with crippling debt and led to a £45.5bn government bailout. The Treasury says Sunak played no role in that deal, but as chancellor he is now ultimately responsible for managing the taxpayer holding in the bank. Starmer is to the left but as a barrister is pragmatic and Reeve is also to the centre left, BUT Starmer is socially Centre or even a bit centre right The fight with Corbyn was about antisemitism and his rewinding the Corbyn agenda is more about results rather than ideology in 5 years how do you get from A to B and present enough of a case that the electorate give you another 5 years  @mesolithicman164 
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  6798. Blair +25% rise in average wages + well funded services Since 2010 Debt to gdp was 62% now 100% in 13 years the Tories paid off nothing and NEVER balanced the books
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  6799. Every company stagnates at some point but Tesla are so far in front at the moment its embarrassing, by the way the reason the others can't catch up is vision, Tesla have in housed as much production as possible the other large auto makers have over the years out sourced as much as possible.
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  6800. She's already been outed for lying her face off to scare pensioners into voting leave with the ludicrous assertion that Turkey where going to join and flood England Her military Creds are inflated as well going from one liar to another
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  6801. Tax cuts don't create growth its completely delusional thinking they do Osborne's corporate tax cut was spent on share buybacks increasing CEO pay in the bargain and went straight to increasing UK debt If you want to grow the economy you invest in physical and social infrastructure and get money into the pockets of the working and middle class Bottom up middle out scrapping Austerity and Trickle down policies
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  6802. They have moved further to the right no idea where you get your distorted reality view from
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  6803. I presume there just counting those claiming benifits the last figures I saw on eligible for work was 39% and a lot of 2nd jobs have gone
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  6804. He's one burger away from a coronary. His insides don't work either he smells bad by all ccounts
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  6805.  @dogbreaththe3rd851  That's a crazy statement you'd need to taking drugs to believe that rubbish
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  6806. It's probably the money from the YouGov shares laundered through Gibraltar
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  6807. Lab policy to the Right? If you look at the latest from the Unions the GMB are very Conservative over Green policies and most Unions fight tooth and nail to block change at any cost. Labour voters in what was the red wall can be very socially Conservative while wanting very Liberal fiscal policy which is why Boris's promise of leveling up was such an attraction complete BS and he lied through every orifice in his body but Labour need their votes as well as the more Socially Liberal people like me. Lib Dems can be all things to all men or women because they will never be tested on it
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  6808. He's taken control of party selection for the most part
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  6809. This guys a fkin idiot the inflation is Supply Side Corporate profits driven on inelastic demand for key energy and food. Fed rate doesn't do squat just tax the big players and get it out of the system
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  6810. The reason the inflation is high is down to the on demand supply chain breaking down due to the pandemic and rises in oil and gas non of which can be controlled by fiscal policy alone. Once the cost hikes wash through the system things will cool down running around like these guys with there hair on fire every 5 minutes does jack The Fed's mandate doesn't involve propping up the market its focus is on jobs first inflation second and record profits from people like Apple again nearly all the major Tech stocks are swimming in cash pending in the service sector is climbing back up
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  6811. Bad diet, increase in asthma, pollutants it could be anything or a combo, Caucasian kids are 80% apparently in marked contrast to the death rates by race in the adult population
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  6812. ​ @degoth_spirestone that's baloney as studies have shown We get the I have a gut feeling driven economic policy which doesn't address anything. Your also going to get a certain percentage of fraud and waste in any system.
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  6813. Boris sold them out with his Brexit deal there not going to vote Con next election if the Lib Dems campaign hard enough
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  6814. Gosh why didn't I think of that the 5% of Russian gas @ 140 billion Jeez you people are mugs @tims9434 
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  6815. Yea too many that's why we have 1.3 million vacancies
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  6816. The reason he has to put up taxes is that Conservative governments couldn't run a sweet shop they are completely clueless on economics or looking beyond surviving another day Debt to GDP 2010 62% Debt to GDP 2019 92% Debt to GDP 2022 99.5% Its expected to rise in 2023 to 103% and the Current bunch of bandits intend to squeeze services to the very core in 2024 to try balance the books
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  6817. Biggest voting block is the Athiest vote at 48% how about not fear mongering to your gibbering audience about 5% of the vote
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  6818. A Party of rich elites peddling Thatcherism with a dose of populism for working people my a3se Same old Trickle down cr*p different wrapper
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  6819. I'm still voting Labour, 24k a year in freebies is slightly over average for someone not in Government and he is the Leader after I looked into it. The big gravy train numbers are on the Tory side in government.
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  6820. They receive funding from the fossil lobby who are afraid their business model will be broken coz who is going to vote for higher energy prices as renewables are cheaper
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  6821. Reform's fiscal policies are Batsh1t there basically Truss's with a few changes the main one is to choke of the supply side Labour pool that makes Thatcherism and supply side economics even look like it works. Unfunded tax cuts, migration ban, leave the ECHR Fracking abandon net zero completely
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  6822. 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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  6823. @Gehri_soch2.0  but he isn't most of his problems come from central government and the 40% real term cuts over the last 14 years
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  6824. Wind is currently the cheapest power source on the grid we only have 17% of it you can run a mixed energy grid with as much as 60% What happens when the wind doesn't blow we need to invest in storage and Tidal and During lull periods the wind produced has gone down to 10% what people don't appreciate is the huge range of locations round the UK and also the modern turbine will start turning at wind speed 8 mph Also your not subsidising renewables your subsidising Fossil with 10's of billions in tax breaks which contribute nothing to the economy
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  6825. Women's healthcare is on the line and the more they see of trump the more women are repulsed by him Dunno what states will vote for who but with Women making up 55%+ of the voter turnout not sure anything can be taken for granted
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  6826. tax base was stable for 2 decades at 33% till this current Parliament
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  6827.  Rita Poon  Corporations only pay tax on Profit and they only make a profit if they want to take money out of the company in dividends and payments to directors. You avoid making a profit by reinvestment the losers are those that want to use cash to pump their stocks Directors who are avoiding personal tax lability by dividends and captured markets that have no growth ex a Casino or a semi monopoly utility say Phone for example. In respect to a phone company they get a huge boost from an infrastructure plan due to the proposed broadband upgrade.
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  6828.  Rita Poon  it's sad to see you have such a distorted and negative view Trickle down economics as an economic theory was debunked decades ago changes in the corporate tax rate has little impact on overall gdp or costs the biggest drivers of growth and economic recory are emerging companies who typically reinvest to 100% and that also applies to an explosion in small businesses . Anyone not in that lane is currently pouring billions into think tanks politicians and messaging platforms to get you to believe that black is the new white. Its obviously working on you
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  6829.  Rita Poon  I'm not a Bernie Bro, I studied economics and literature at college before majoring in Information Technology the corporate tax hike is a nothing burger the old fat lazy companies who are pouring billions into a disinformation campaign over it should get off thier corporate fat backsides and move thier companies on by updating diversifying and reinvesting.
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  6830.  @butcheinsel8722  Infrastructure investment creates jobs its kind of basic economics 101 Also corporate tax rates have very little effect on the hiring and firing in companies ably demonstrated by the 2017 tax cut from 35 to 21 which created errr nothing but a hole in federal budget.
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  6831. Net Zero reduces Energy costs by switching away from GAS Energy costs 2020 to UK consumers 30 Billion Energy costs 2023 to UK consumers 170 Billion I make that 140 Billion reasons to go renewable don't you? That 140 billion comes out of Consumers pockets the estimated cost of net zero implementation is 40 Billion a Year a net saving overall
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  6832. see my previous answer from Not the Fossil Lobby Renewable energy has been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 As an example of base cost Dogger Bank wind farm costs 11 billion to build Hinkley point C 33 Billion and Hinkley has 35 billion in running cost subsidies over 35 years Both have comparable outputs. Solar and wind infrastructure costs have fallen by 95% in the last decade @Celtictribes 
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  6833. Active price is set by the highest cost to produce on the market which is currently GAS. Peak demand is serviced by On-Standby Gas Power stations we've introduced a Tesla MegaPack facility in East Yorks to bring Grid smoothing to Dogger Bank when it comes online this removes a level of demand for On-Standby GAS. The Tesla MegaPack installations save insane amounts of money compared to cost @nothingtoseehere999 
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  6834. Batteries quote The Astonishing Economics of the Tesla Megapack By adding about 300 MW of storage, ERCOT will generate approximately $1 billion in savings in 2025. This is from a one time purchase of Megapacks for $750 million. These savings will also happen each additional year after 2025 - they are recurring! Quote Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery The project near Manchester, UK, will use spare green energy to compress air into a liquid and store it. When demand is higher, the liquid air is released back into a gas, powering a turbine that puts the green energy back into the grid. Quote What Is a ‘Sand Battery’? A “sand battery” is a high temperature thermal energy storage that uses sand or sand-like materials as its storage medium. It stores energy in sand as heat. Its main purpose is to work as a high-power and high-capacity reservoir for excess wind and solar energy. The energy is stored as heat, which can be used to heat homes, or to provide hot steam and high temperature process heat to industries that are often fossil-fuel dependent.  @raytrevor1 
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  6835. Hughes has been banging on since the 2010's I just think he's unable to admit he's wrong by 2020 which was the point Wind reached parity with gas. I used to work for GEGB then National Power I'm well aware how grid smoothing works and the demand curve + base loading. When I was there the Peak Plants very rarely fired up if the Con artificial market has them supplying base demand the costs will go off the charts. As a rough guide we need 40% Base Load that can't be wind but currently we have MAX 17% wind and the Minimum seems to be around 10% in the renewable mix is also BioGas and Solar Battery Tech is also making great strides it should replace ALL Peak Plants otherwise the grid isn't configured right. Tidal is now as cost effective as Nuclear with an up front cost for a similar size as Hinkley coming in at 50 Billion with Hinkley's total cost at 75 and a possible lifetime = Dam's of around 70+ years it should also become cheaper the more we build. @iareid8255 
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  6836.  @iareid8255  Hughes may have had a point in 2010's he certainly doesn't by 2020 when Gas & Renewable hit price parity. I'm well aware we need 40% base load but we're only at 17% peak on wind and haven't invested squat in storage or the grid to move energy around the country
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  6837. Its more complicated than that the system taxes work rather than wealth and due to fiscal drag + government policy taxation has gone up at the bottom and wages have stagnated at the bottom / middle as well During Covid if you had wealth it nearly doubled asset values rose and those like me who spent large sums on such things as holidays + have spare income as well invested their additional income in yet more assets generating more untaxed wealth.
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  6838. Their voter base is primarily uneducated men, that means very spread out with no national appeal.
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  6839. Listen to byline times podcast the Bannonisation of uk politics
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  6840. And who's exactly making a profit after the last 12 years of god awful Tory government?
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  6841. A rough guess he's already lost bigly due to the early vote
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  6842.  @PeterPeach21  large numbers have already voted, exit polls put Harris 2 - 1 up The Iowa poll puts DJT behind with women by 27 points He's also putting an anti vax, anti abortion lunatic in charge of Health. Every Economist has said his tariff plan is crazy loosing the educated vote. All he has are the uneducated toxic male vote to juice and there lazy feckers who seldom vote
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  6843. @PeterPeach21  you don't have the numbers I'm a retired data analyst. There will be shock Harris state wins, looking at the bleed in Red States the electoral base has changed completely.
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  6844.  @pocketjokers1  I'm going to be around 750k up as I have a large stake in Tesla . The markets will remain stable for about a year before things start to go west by that time I will have moved into gold while you plebs pick up the pieces enjoy coz things will get effin crazy quick
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  6845. that's the current cabinet done for they've all lied for Johnson
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  6846. You know the lisp the other night reminded me of when my mum had a mini stroke
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  6847.  @jeremyjones9467  yea like they would never overturn Roe and have spent the last few decades disenfranchisement of anyone that doesn't vote gop
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  6848. There's a direct corolation with the England football team getting to the final of the European championships fans in Wembley and watch parties. Also schools broke up at the same time it finished plus the government ran out of tests because everyone wanted to go on holiday. Less testing less cases. I guess scientists aren't football fans
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  6849. He was trying not to get trapped lying Starmer has trapped the last 2 telling some right whoppers
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  6850. Temperature are due to go down to -20 at the weekend in Ukraine also reports of rations 7 years out of date they'll be chewing through diesel just to keep warm, how will this affect the Russian forces?
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  6851. Reform are repackaged Lettuce Liz fantasy Economics with Braverman's Fantasy immigration Both together no thanks the country is in a bad enough state as it is with right wing economic policy
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  6852. Just to add the Pfizer vaccine first to market was developed in Germany by Turkish imigrants without warpspeed money, the UK are deploying the Oxford vaccine this notion that without warpspeed it would be five years is junk. Anything he did do gets flushed down the toilet coz he has to lie again. Right wing media are just sour pusses that's one big furball thier choking on
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  6853. We been victimising the far right ever since the 1930's and long may it continue
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  6854. He studies war not economics, the reason we won WW2 was the industrial output of the US was greater than Germany it was an economic inevitability Russia can only build 250 tanks a year with sanctions they have no thermal no advanced optics, there also suffering a brain drain of over 200,000 18-30s w8th irreplaceable skills leaving and a population crash and he's killing the men that should be having kids. Russian population fell last year by 450,000 fk knows what it is this year your also chipping into the population pyramid that produced less children post Soviet breakup Putin has no option but to keep going till the grisly end he needs people at any cost and the Ukrainians aren't going to accept occupation
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  6855. And why would you trust Reform there backing Fracking which has no benefit to any UK voter all it will do is feed the Fossil corporations profits
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  6856. why they've committed to net zero and energy infrastructure program? Stay as we are and it costs +140 Billion in excess bills for energy consumers Verses Build new Infrastructure and fetch that total spend on energy in the uk down from 170 billion to 30 billion it was in 2021
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  6857. Conservative values? What are those taking as much money out from the poorest in the country as possible? Cheating the tax system? Lying? Getting a Criminal fine? Negotiating tax policy with the US at the G7 when you had a Green Card obligation to make the US your primary home? Making a humanitarian crisis worse by instituting a visa system on Ukrainians that is barbaric creating headlines like this "Refugees are choosing to return to war-torn Ukraine exhausted by the 'hunger and homelessness' inflicted by the long wait for UK visas"? How about Pork barrelling the levelling up money for political proposes with headlines like this? "Some of the wealthiest parts of England, including areas represented by government ministers, have so far been allocated 10 times more money per capita than the poorest under Boris Johnson’s “levelling up” agenda" The Cabinet is rotten to the core as are a huge chunk of conservative MP's with lobbying jobs
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  6858. If you want to live in a billionaire run Theocracy Just like Russia, Putin and the Oligarchs but more fetid rotten and worse
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  6859. Doesn't matter if you look at the stats from Bush to Trump they created zero jobs Both instigated tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations
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  6860. It's like working with your neighbours to solve common problems has real world benefits People said it would get worse if we left the EU and it was dismissed as project fear you reap what you sow
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  6861. @A***** A***** why do I care this is the hard Brexit shtshw in full flow My dad was a polish refugee in the war I've now got dual passport so basically you lot can own your own car crash for a change instead of blaming us EU citizens.
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  6862.  @jsemplefelton5348  I'm retired I have a large camper van spend most of the summer touring Europe and will be off back end of Feb for a month Skiing. Then in June am off to Norway to stay with my brother. Enjoy loosing your Freedom of Movement For Nothing.
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  6863.  @clivestraw1913  till their claim has been rejected they are not illegal The right wing media have a full scale onslaught to get refugees dehumanised they never want you to have any compassion for then so the constant drum beat is never ending there conditioning you in the same way Pavlov trained his dogs. 85% have a valid claim for asylum The reason they come by boat is we've shut down all other legal means to claim asylum and made the problem worse if you want to keep them on the other side of the channel then open an asylum application centre over there
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  6864.  @jsemplefelton5348  Rebel from what everyone has seen the economic car crash that is Brexit They have an arsey right wing government if Poland withdrew from the single market its economy would collapse completely based on the models from what's happened in the UK the estimate is a loss of 15% gdp there a lot more connected to surrounding economies than we are. It's also predicted that by 2036 they will be better off per head of population than the UK as our economy declines and thiers surges
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  6865. You need to look at medical spending in terms of GDP, the US has a higher per capita spending on healthcare than Europe and Canada and it has the best healthcare in the western world (for those that can afford it) and the worst (for those that can't). Universal healthcare if implemented would save the country a literal a fortune as the current US GDP spending has risen to 18% the average for the EU is 10.5% Its not unfeasible that US could as a country save a Trillion dollars in Healthcare based on 2017 figures lord knows how bloated that figure is now in 2020. How are you gonna pay for it? has to be the dumbest question of all time
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  6866.  @hammertic  The level of freebies is around £20,000 a year on the Labour side not enough to buy anyone off on the other hand Farage is getting over 1 million a year from an offshore billionaire, Jenrick has received foreign dark money donations recently.
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  6867. Tax cuts don't create growth its completely delusional thinking they do Osborne's corporate tax cut was spent on share buybacks increasing CEO pay in the bargain and went straight to increasing UK debt If you want to grow the economy you invest in physical and social infrastructure and get money into the pockets of the working and middle class Bottom up middle out scrapping Austerity and Trickle down policies
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  6868. 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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  6869. 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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  6870. So if you believe life begins at birth why 6 weeks? There is no fetal heartbeat thats a myth Quote ultrasound can detect "a little flutter in the area that will become the future heart of the baby," said Dr. Saima Aftab, medical director of the Fetal Care Center at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami. This flutter happens because the group of cells that will become the future "pacemaker" of the heart gain the capacity to fire electrical signals
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  6871.  @Iamtilersscreeminganger  Why would you give up your human rights under the ECHC you'd need to be mental to trust any government not to abuse them let alone this one that's already banned protests
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  6872. Of course he should resign the story isn't over there is more to come staying as an MP just sprays more manure all over the Tory Party
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  6873.  @arthurroberts6003  gas prices are. Artifical the Saudis can ship oceans of oil at 12 dollars a barrel it's a cartel Transition to electric and your not beholden to gas prices?
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  6874. Economy is in a mess 7% down in trade by volume since 2019. The headline figure is boosted by 2 million visas in the last 2 years. Outside the service economy things are pretty dire
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  6875. angry old men are well dispersed in the population
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  6876. Pound is not recovering its a dead cat bounce (look it up) the reason interest rates will go up so sharply is no one in their right minds would lend a country with >100% debt to GDP more money on a wing and a prayer of fantasy growth by paying for tax cuts. Kwerteng spouting off about supply side reforms oh how we laughed as we short the pound And here is why the bulk of the current inflation is Supply Side Corporate on inelastic commodities (Essential Energy and food) If by some miracle Kwerteng was to increase growth that growth would demand more energy which would in turn drive up the price which would increase in inflation meanwhile the pressure on borrowing would mean further interventions by the BOE with borrowing forcing the pound lower thus increasing inflation so rates go up then the housing market starts to crash The figures I've seen economists put forward are at least -10% fall in house prices and rates of 6-7%
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  6877. @Iazzaboyce  I don't get your point no one has built enough houses since the post war period our planning system is archaic and the market and councils have been screwed over by right to buy and billions pumped into it
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  6878.  @giffgaffnettwork5626  What you fail to understand is the tax threshold was frozen by Sunak till 2028 and Labour will reduce taxes at the bottom end Energy will get cheaper the more renweables are on the grid
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  6879.  @giffgaffnettwork5626  When Cameron came in he raised the pension age this at a stroke cost my family £11,000 my wife is near retirement in the next 5 years Sunak will pay for any giveaway by raising the retirement age to 67 this will again at a stroke cost my family an additional £12,000. After promising not to raise taxes in 2019 I'm paying +£550 because of fiscal drag. In 2015 I bought a campervan direct from Germany at a 30% discount to the UK price to replace it now would equate to a +50% premium because our currency is -30% of what it was and you can no longer buy direct. My holidays cost +30% more because of these Tory bafoons. They are completely toxic to my and every other middle and working class person in this country's bank balance.
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  6880.  @giffgaffnettwork5626  I worked for an energy producer for 20 years during privatisation. If you change the grid to renewable you have to flatten the duck curve. Something not possible when I worked there but is now possible due to technical advances both in mass storage and time shifting. The effect of this can be seen in power systems in places such as California and Norway. As the curve flattens and fattens then energy becomes cheaper, the theoretical max drop in prices is around 25% of current cost. The biggest beneficiaries of the Tech will be EV's on domestic overnight charge who will get near free electric if they enable V2G tech allowing the EV battery to be used for grid smoothing at peak time.
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  6881.  @ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw  Stalin killed 4 million Ukrainians during colectivisation through starvation then ordered 200,000 political prisoners executed as the Germans marched through Ukraine. Stalin was no shining light he invaded Poland and carted off a few million to rot in the Siberian Gulags. By the way Wagner are the biggest load on Yahtzees on the planet
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  6882. They've changed the way the crime stats are reported Labour have a page detailing the overall analysis of cuts to the system and how much it costs search for "Cost of crime soars under the Conservatives, reveals new analysis" quick one liner from it costs for crimes against businesses have more than doubled, from £8.7bn in 2015/16 to £22.8bn in the year to September 2020, driven by increases in theft and robbery.
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  6883. renewable is cheaper over time, I have thermal solar its saves around £360 a year in heating hot water cost me 2700 to install so free hot water for me in 5 years. The Cons are far from socialist biggest raging Thatcherites since the witch herself
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  6884. Truss is in the pocket of the ERG headbangers
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  6885. Why would you give someone ivermectin its for the treatment of parasites hence its association as a horse de-wormer it will give you diarrhoea weakening an already weak immune system. There are a couple of anti viral treatments on the market but there very expensive let's be clear alternative just means quack snake oil cures you've read off the Internet
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  6886. @richardgallagher4880  stayed where? There population has shrunk nominal gdp is a meaningless comparison As is our gdp we handed out 1.25 million visas
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  6887. What's the point in Pro EU voters leaving Labour there the ones talking realignment to smooth trade and travel and the Pro EU crowd are also the Pro Green crowd in most cases with Labour alone offering a clear renewable policy that doesn't involve bunging the private sector billions. Most of the soft Tory support round my area would flip Labour just on Green policy and cleaning up the rivers and sea + sort out NHS and Schools The Tory vote is going to collapse in areas you'd have never have thought of for all sorts of reasons
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  6888.  @a3103-j7g  get a reality check Muslim is 5%
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  6889. There economic policies are just recycled right wing rubbish
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  6890.  @archvaldor  I'm 66 and I'm well aware of the political spectrum from Major's soft Right to Thatchers Neoliberalism and Blaire's Centrism to Johnson's Right wing Populism Truss's far right Libertarian free market disaster capitalism and Corbyn's nostalgia socialist trip back to the 70's Sunak is full on Thatcherism he'll get by because the markets don't care how he balances the books you can't see him being able to win an election though there are too many crazies in the party and most people aren't a fan of Supply Side Trickle down which has been killing the economy since Cameron took over.
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  6891. @SuperSupermanX1999  Sunak isn't centre right Thatcher called them the wets, Johnson booted most out the party and filled the spots with ukip dregs. The Tories are really fked the English Nationalist lot like Gullis are mental no amount of cruelty is too much on the Libertarian front there all barking for tax cuts as debt to gdp soars to > 100% By the way Thatcherism needs a constant supply of Supply Side Cheap labour to even stand still and they've cut themselves off from the nearest source according to the ONS we lost 500,000 workers from the UK economy due to outward migration in 2022 numbers in employment are still below 2019 levels over 1 million vacancies. Sunak isn't going to change his stripes on Supply Side Economics and like you say he's having to pander to the various power blocks in the party with nutter legislation
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  6892. Whats the difference between a ceasfire and a humanitarian pause? ​This is in part one of Bush's fk ups, 2006 him and Rice allowed elections to take place even though they were warned it could go badly wrong. Hamas won 40% took control and murdered thier opponents many fled. Gaza is blockaded at the other side by Egypt who don't want Iranian backed terrorists coming into thier country. The consequences of Bush decision has created a terrorist state meanwhile There's been a huge influx of ultra orthodox Jews who've been allowed to settle in occupied territories what's worse is they vote hard right crazy So you have religious nutters on both sides making sure there is never going to be peace Starmer is following Blinkin who is putting pressure on Isreal to try deescalate the situation meanwhile rockets are still being fired into isreal and Hamas are quite happy to use 2 million people as human shields and are content to let them die for the cause.
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  6893. Supported by billionaire owned media Mugs the lot of you
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  6894. @tug1345  if you want to move away from the Trust system your going to have to invest 1st
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  6895. Why does he want to insert himself into everything Head of a 2 bit party that pedals in conspiracy theories, junk science and economics He even wasted time over in the states supporting a candidate that will make this country poorer what a joke
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  6896. we tried Libertarian economics with Liz Truss it didn't go well quote Kwasi Kwarteng made the right decision in swiftly cutting taxes, Nigel Farage said, dealing a blow to global economic institutions which have warned against the economic policy.
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  6897. but is always windy
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  6898. The IMF has said the same thing the once bastion of NeoLiberalism they have changed their tune.T# Quote from the resolution Foundation Tax rises are often announced shortly after elections and the idea that fresh tax cuts are affordable rests on undeliverable spending plans that imply require real per-capita spending cuts of around 18 per cent for unprotected departments like the home office, justice and local government by 2028-29.
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  6899. Welsh water have the best records on clean beaches and the Welsh NHS is same as England underfunded
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  6900.  @MinkieWinkle  It's got nothing to do with the solar and everything to do with the batteries and the diverter for hot water I can timeshift and open up special tariffs with my supplier including ultra low overnight tariff. All the flexible tariffs are below what I was paying + I'm saving on GAS for heating water. Hence 6 years without them it's 15+
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  6901.  @MinkieWinkle  Let me elaborate further In 2023/24 the cost of domestic batteries fell by 20%. The Government this year Zero Vat rated battery packs as part of a domestic install. I was just as surprised as you were at the estimates a few months in and even with minimal sun it looks like the estimates from the solar company were reasonably accurate
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  6902.  @MinkieWinkle  Goldman Sachs Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026 quote Sodium ion cells, produced at scale, could be 20% to 30% cheaper than lithium ferro/iron-phosphate (LFP), the dominant stationary storage. My Battery cost 1500 + install my tariff went from 24p to 13p overnight 21p during the day and 34p from 4-7pm My total install cost £7500 including 4.2 kwh of panels, 5.2 kwh battery + inverter You can easily set up a spreadsheet and work out
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  6903. Tories have borrowed way more in 14 years than multiple Labour governments combined And we're paying the highest tax burden since the war Things can only get better
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  6904. Sold off 2 million council houses with a large increase in immigration and we have a housing shortage Govermental spend on housing support is NOW 20 BILLION
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  6905. Elon recently admitted on SNL that he has Aspergers (higher functioning autism) if he regards the current Tesla battery tech as a breakthrough then it will be for multiple reasons Tesla is where it is today because it's not stuck in a short term loop, you have to say Elon has been exceptionally lucky to get long term backing for his ideas
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  6906.  @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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  6907. The National grid is a privatised company for fk's sake what do you expect from a private company they aren't going to pour money into rural areas it will be run on a shoestring in the regions. Its no different than the water companies pouring raw sewage into rivers and seas these companies should never have been privatised there public utilities and the government has zero will to control them
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  6908. No we won't taxes are going up overall The NI cut helps 30-60k crowd who are likely working in the south east and are getting hammered by mortgage and rent increases. It's a budget that perpetuates the economic doom spiral the Tories have created
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  6909. France would shut down our economy by blocking the ports
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  6910. Yea we do and also think there being greedy if there unhappy with the 3 million couples allowance
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  6911. @fatshartspunhouse2403  your clutching at straws here. There's nothing stopping him passing it on to child all they have to do is live for 7 years after. Reason this needs to be is it's being abused by rich people who are driving up land prices and making family farming unviable
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  6912. @fatshartspunhouse2403  the tax exemption has caused money to flood in raising land prices. 1/2 of England is owned by 1% of the population The average farm value is 2.2 million but you inherit your spouses allowance for iht on their death so technically you can get away with 20% on 200,000 We have an area the size of greater London given over to grouse shooting, personally I'd look at breaking up crown estates as well. Thatcherism has given my generation everything at the expense of future generations. Cheap subsidised housing, tax exempt savings, low tax paid for with oil money and asset stripping, free University etc. If you don't address the imbalance you'll get the rise of Populism, weather that's the watered down kind in Corbyn and Johnson or the fash lite in Farage
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  6913. Boris is fancying some Novichok underpants for Xmas then Putin is a ruthless thug that is killing tens of thousands of his own and Comrade Boris may well find a boatload of dirt unloaded onto the media as well
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  6914. we had no brex1t plan when we left the EU, we had no Energy plan when the crisis hit and on top of that Truss managed to devalue pensions by 484 billion.
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  6915. Why would anyone ever vote Con over the last 50 years since Thatcher when i started voting? They've never been for the people just asset stripping ghouls
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  6916. Reform aren't Conservative my seat went to the LibDems because Sunak was chasing Reform voters. Reform got 8% round here no one is interested in thier toxic bilge
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  6917. 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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  6918. To boost the economy pumping money in at the bottom is an easy win, unlike tax cuts every dollar gets spent.
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  6919. You obviously don't understand economics or how our economy works If you want to bring down net migration you create strict labour laws as well as well as reintroducing FOM with the EU You then run a more centre left managed economy Example Norway who near zero net migration even though they are in shenghan The migration were getting currently isn't transient as it would be with FOM it's permanent and a result of the hard Brex1t we signed on too
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  6920. ​@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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  6921. Labour are not even to the centre yet, the current Tories are way off in ukip lala land
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  6922. Its neither GB (run by an offshore entity with links to a Libertarian billionaire sponsored think tank) nor News it's marketed as opinion at best and right wing propaganda and conspiracy mongering at worst. Its part of the Tufton street mob such as the IEA who pulled Liz Truss's strings nearly bankrupting the country Mayfair-based Legatum Institute, which advocates for free market economics has courted senior Government ministers through Shanker Singham, who led a self-styled ‘special trade commission’ for the organisation. The Legatum Institute was founded and funded by the Legatum Group, that has invested millions in GB News.
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  6923.  @zdwade  because your subsidising US oil through your state and federal taxes, it needs to be 30-40 dollars a barrel even with subsidies and Trump will be shifting billions to them in slush money + additional tax breaks to keep them afloat which is pointless the Saudis can ship it to the US at 10$ a barrel still make money then cut off your supply any time they like
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  6924. In what alternative reality?
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  6925. It pushes Billionaire libertarian tax policy it's pure propaganda
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  6926.  @IndianaJake  They invested in re-shoring strategic production to reverse the negative affects of globalization during a crisis
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  6927. It's a political line to get the left to not show up at the next election
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  6928. government spending is subject to an economic multiplier in the case of the proposed tax cuts its around 0.2-0.3 which means for every £1 the Treasury looses in income it gains an average +25p through expanded demand and GDP growth If you look at Osborne's corporation tax cut UK debt to gdp rose by 10% during the 2016 - 2019 period they delivered nothing growth was stagnant 10% of gdp to debt in today's money is 313 billion The gilt people know these figures we have over 50 years of data on this stuff
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  6929. their economic policies are as insane as lettuce Liz and there immigration policy is another right wing fantasy land, remember they were all in on the Points system which has been a resounding success in increasing immigration to 1.25 million
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  6930. People want out of Afghanistan, the bump in approval is going to be temporary Trump treat Covid as a messaging problem, we can see how bad it would have been with the antics of Florida and Texas
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  6931.  @plugsocket9432  we've put up draconian trade barriers you muppet course its Brexit, the only country in the world to sanction itself
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  6932. I thought it was a brilliant contrast to last week, positive but not over the top Pragmatic and not trying to pull the wool over people's eyes at the task ahead
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  6933.  @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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  6934.  @DaPs166  BLM has nothing to do with Marxism please don't pedal ignorance
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  6935. ​ @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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  6936.  @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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  6937. ​ @moragfoster5871 no its not It will save billions in energy costs instead of a peak demand curve you'll get smoothed consumption even at night + Some decent home insulation standards
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  6938. We've been seeing this since Brexit If you want a reversal then jog back to the single market
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  6939. How about paying them an appropriate wage to retain them
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  6940. He used campaign funds screwing a porn star isn't a claimable expense aside from that there are 19 other cases in progress Insurrection (7)Financial (6)Election interference (2)Sexual misconduct (1)Other (3) Tax evasion, money laundering, rape, inciting a riot, treason, theft young Donald has been a busy boy
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  6941. Why is 3 million and a reduced IHT to 20% not enough for them? 90% of family farms will never pay a penny
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  6942. She had no mandate to do batsh1t stuff Johnson was elected on levelling up not completely levelling the economy and turning us into Argentina on the channel
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  6943.  @domingodesantaclara1130  Russia is a petro state run by a Mob boss, expansion into Crimea saw the state seize key businesses and sell them on the cheap to the Oligarchs. Now they've picked over the bones and made money they move to the next target Chechnya->Georgia->Crimea->Ukraine-> then where? Poland?
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  6944.  @rokketron  You lot are like nodding dogs Farage yanks your chain and off you go ditching any form of critical thinking
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  6945.  @rogerbennett9641  Different Mindset? What planet are you on, the killings never stopped when Putin took over. It went from a 1 party system to a Mafia state
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  6946.  @ChristineRead-ck1uq  There's been no peace proposal you kick invaders out not appease them. This has zero to do with NATO and everything to do with corruption and continuously feeding the Oligarchs new money making opportunities by stealing. It's a top down Kleptocracy which needs to feed of it's next victim all the time
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  6947. She does a podcast called "The Trawl" Funny and satirical
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  6948.  @BigMikePlays  Project 2025 aims to cut entitlements including food stamps to pay for tax cuts for the rich
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  6949. ​ @steveharrison4176 Fracking The destruction of large parts of the countryside to aide the fossil billionaire lobby
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  6950. If you look at Fiscal drag your taxes have rocketed since 2016 11,000 20% 2016 43,000 40% 12,570 20% 2023 50,270 40% 14,305 20% 2016 figures put into the BOE inflation calculator that is a staggering rise in tax at the lower end as that threshold includes NI 55,920 40% As for spending cuts, we need to spend more to get out of the 13 years of Stagnation we've been in caused by extremely poor economic and fiscal policy. Our GDP is pretty much the same as it was before the banking crash and GDP per Capita has gone right down with a big drop in real disposable income. That money needs to come from the Myriad of useless trickle down policies giving tax breaks left right and centre to corporations and the wealthy with ZERO return. As an example the Millionaire Pensioner tax break 2 billion then 8 Billion tax break in Banking levy plus 6 Billion in fossil subsidies in the last budget alone.  @MinkieWinkle 
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  6951. ​ @barbarabell2396 Because the assumption was that the black hole was for future budgets not the current one What appears to have happened is the NI cuts were not funded or the assumption was made that it would be paid for by cutting services and squeezing public sector pay further
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  6952. We were an economic laughing stock with Osborne, even the IMF gave up on us in 2012 and the tory backing media have been gaslighting the public since
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  6953. As a politician she has to compromise to get things done, the problem isn't AOC. The moment anyone strays from the path as Warren did you get a completely over the top puritanical backlash.
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  6954. Rwanda policy is a dead cat Its just a multi million pound waste of money to feed to xenophobic masses who buy into the lie that migration is the cause of all our problems. Edward Mosley was banging this drum in the 1930's it wasn't true then and its not true now
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  6955. It wouldn't have made any difference Trump is doubling down already and driving the back to school don't wear mask message his brain just can't handle a change direction
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  6956. ​ @Patrick-y4d1z the one that 80% of the country is in?
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  6957. Ahhh an exhibition in trolling the president, there probably only running it in DC so he sees it. Glass with one hand ✋
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  6958. You get proportional representation as a policy one more than the the Tories have that I would support
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  6959. Why aren't the media holding the billionaires feet to the fire, Fox pedalled eugenics last week now thier trying to get thier poor saps back on the treadmill by pushing the freedom card, the suckers are lapping it up unaware thier feeling the billionaire economy
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  6960. Polling says she'd drive the Tory vote off a cliff
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  6961.  @victoredwards3959  Reform pedal the same supply side economic nonsense that Liz Truss's tried except chocking off supply side labour as well. There is zero chance of it ending differently
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  6962. Your pension contribution is before NI and Tax is taken out if you opt out your paying 35% on that money
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  6963. This is the brexit decline another round of regulation for 3rd countries came in with an overarching trade deal with South America. 20 miles away is a market we have effectively cut ourselves off from latest victims Port Talbot steel Luton car manufacturers
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  6964. After 8 days straight on the front page of the daily Fail and the local Conservative MP who wrote to the police having done the exact same at a campaign event which is have a working meal May21 had yougov guidelines you can still download them it was post vaccine w8th a load of restrictions lifted this constant attempt to two sides the issue is pathetic Johnson's staff were boozing it up every Friday by all accounts during lockdown 2
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  6965. 99% of Urban / Suburban journeys are less than 60 miles round trip final mile delivery ex Amazon do 90 miles on average in a day. Multiple car families do even less EV adoption will skyrocket in 2022. Where I live created a bike lane for commuters this last year and I bought an E-Bike conversion kit The Times They Are a Changin
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  6966. He's trying the good old terrorise the civilian population into submission bringing Nazi era tactics to the theatre Taking a City the size of Chicago where the population are armed to the teeth and there's killing zones on every street corner, not sure the Russian soldiers will be too keen on that. Latest news is most of their armour isn't insulated properly and a Molotov will drip through 90% of them or heat them up so badly they have to be abandoned
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  6967. He campaigned for Brexit which has lead to the explosion in legal and illegal migration what's his next brain fart of an idea so I can make sure I vote the opposite
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  6968. when the conservatives spend money like water on trickle down tax breaks then bring Labour on, REFORM are just repackaged Thatcherism
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  6969.  @iangelling  it's a feature of first past the post, the Cameron government's ruled on 36% of the vote, Johnson got 43% on the back of Corbyn, leveling up & breaking the brexit impas. Given he delivered nothing & Sunak has reversed his entire agenda there going t9 get the mother of all gubbins in the election
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  6970.  @matthewtrow5698  Back in 2015 the IMF called out Osborne's trickle down and Austerity as not working and that economic growth came from the bottom up and middle out. Major studies of 50 years of data have junked the Tories economic policies the only one sticking to them post 2010 was us everyone else has moved on. Starmer & Reeve aren't stupid they need money without raising the base rate of taxation so will have to dismantle decades of trickle down cr*p to do it.
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  6971. @keithparker1346  the biggest block currently is planning, firms landbank, its grinding slow on essential grid roll out as well Just by changing to permissive development you could spur gdp growth and bank a second term Put new towns in the Tory seats that are left Just a thought
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  6972. Farmers need to grow more sustainable way
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  6973.  @susanmaxwell-q6q  I know about economics and planting and the fact modern farming destroys the ground leaving it lifeless. The system is unsustainable given the ever rising prices of fertilizer
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  6974. ​ @zoltan-zq3xe whoever was in power when we get a crisis gets it in the neck, given the Right cant run jack at an economic level the pendulum will swing the other way. Supply side trickle down is a complete failure if the money pumped into economies isnt taxed out of the system youll see more and more political unrest as right wing economic policy drives millions into poverty
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  6975. The Root cause of our current inflation is connected to energy policy Brexit is just the shtshw that pours petrol on any economic problems we have and makes them way worse Here's a fun fact historically coming out of recession is driven 60% by SME'S and exports small businesses trade locally its known as trade gravity and weve erected trade barriers with a 400 million person market 20 miles away. Corporate investment has dropped right off since 2016 basically this isn't a 5 quarter recession its going to be permanent as we spiral into a doom loop
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  6976. no it doesn't where in this mess because people have been pulled off processing asylum claims Braverman's magic thinking is make the situation soooo bad people will vote us in again its like hiring the Arsonist to come put out a fire they started
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  6977. This is embarrassing for the Republicans There just recycling the dead story about Barisma which was debunked as fake news during Trump's 1st impeachment Biden publicises his tax returns has done for 20 years Hunter is an ex crack head who used nepotism to boost his profile story ends
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  6978. Why does the media bother playing Trumps childish stupid game, its like wearing masks in public saves lives by reducing spread STOP FACT END we don't want to know why some jerk somewhere has heard a conspiracy theory that Bill Gates has microchip all the masks, or there's a Cabal of Hiliary Clinton Clones stealing your DNA from them.
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  6979. 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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  6980. If you can't afford the gas and electric how does that work? Even prisoners get a £2 a day allocation for their food and they don't have utility bills to pa
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  6981. At this stage you've just gotta say Trump is a complete and utter F@@@wit and Pence's bootlicking is embarrassing
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  6982. There not Conservative there more Libertarian in their outlook free market etc.. Remember what the Covid review said Group Think Fatalistic British Exceptionalism
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  6983. No we don't we need to reform the tax system in doing so you will reduce the tax burden on the less well off and provide funds to repair our crumbling infrastructure. And the last thing we need is fantasy socialism, Populism on the left as well as the right left us with Brexit and a skip fire of an economy
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  6984.  @ibrahimn22  The front is thousand kilometres long and Russia has to permanently defend it committing huge numbers of troops and equipment or it will be seized back by the Ukrainians who have the men and increasingly equipment. The Russians are expending huge amounts of artillery shells just to creep forward as the defender you have a huge advantage and anything the Russians capture is a pile of rubble now anyway.
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  6985. Your the ones moaning about migration how else you going to get workers
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  6986. Trump hides his medical history has chronic stress issues, grossly overweight and has a junk food diet. We already know he's incontinent and has been for years you just can't see him lasting 4 years
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  6987. given that you don't need to live somewhere to claim the CGT exemption then it's a nothingburger, the question is why is it such a top priority of the Media behaving like their the propaganda arm of the Tory Party?
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  6988. Trump has ADHD & is dyslexic While his brain may be rotting he was unfit and crazy when he was President
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  6989. Salem whitch trails are a symptom of mass psychosis. Bit similar to the big lie and anti vax
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  6990. Thier Thatcherite which is why the economy is down the toilet
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  6991.  @imbonkers3629  the Tories economic mantra is Supply side trickle down low tax You need high volumes of cheap supply side Labour otherwise you have to invest in the local population, The Blair economy was built on upskilled educated new middle class, Thatchers was asset stripping oil money globalisation and city big bang. Importing high numbers to suppress middle and professional class wages is part of Sunaks strategy
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  6992.  @imbonkers3629  the Blair period saw the biggest growth in average wages this country has ever seen including at the lower end the average was 20%+ Dut to the minimum wage some saw thier salaries jump 15% at its introduction
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  6993. Fracking stopped they had a 2.9 quake near Blackpool that was after pumping a test well with 1 million gallons of toxic goop, there was also multiple shocks on a smaller level. Tho make the field operational they would pump in 10 million gallons to crack the shale increased volume has a direct connection with seismic activity. The legal limit is 0.5 If the fracture due to the earth quake splits the rock into the water table your poisoning Greater Manchester's water supply. You also have no control over the price it goes on the world commodity market so the government see added revenue but we get none Net zero is a benefit not a curse localized energy will fetch the price down and Wind is the cheapest form of production by a country mile plus we should have more tidal schemes
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  6994.  @simongardiner949  They managed to create a Quake just under x 6 the limit with test amounts of fracking liquid only. Also there long term expensive projects that can take several years to come to market with disruption to the local landscape and huge amounts of pollution and at the end of the day the product is sold on the world commodity market. A better model is to decentralize energy production as much as possible and use technology to get rid of the peak demand which drives up the costs. Gas is used in this final peak and drives the wholesale price through the roof. Plus build more wind install more solar build a couple of Nuclear plants we need more across the board non of it tied to fossil.
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  6995.  @simongardiner949  you drill through the aquifer then through rock into the shale, there is no way of stopping minor quakes the overriding issue with fracking is the 10 million gallons of toxic slurry your creating. It's just an environmental nightmare all round. The quickest way of solving this short term is a drive to insulate the 18 million homes that are sub standard change the building regs to make greater thermal efficiency mandatory. The quickest way of adding capacity to the grid is opening up onshore wind farms to add extra capacity it could be done within 6 - 9 months if you declared it a national emergency. In our current situation we need round about 10% thats 6/7% from thermal efficiency savings +4/5% short term build to start getting the overall price down. Long term we need more decentralised power otherwise we're into large scale grid construction the flagship nuclear stations may sound good but you need a localised mix to keep the grid stable while not covering everywhere with pylons. People will use less gas if their homes don't leak like a colander
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  6996. You elect Liz Truss she goes for massive tax cuts and causes the BOE to have to inject 140 billion into the system through QE that money sloshes around gravitating up to the wealthy who spend it on swimming pools and helicopters but instead of cutting wealthy people's demand you get poor people to cut back through demand side interest rates. So quiz how many poor people have to turn off their electricity completely for the laws of supply and demand to allow Sunak to heat his swimming pool?
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  6997. @Diana-007  the Tories have pumped billions into right to buy completely distorting the housing market, from 2010 to present housing inflation is 66% alone It has become the only way low / medium income earners can get a home It is robbing councils of around 40 billion in funds
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  6998. @Diana-007  the Cons have flogged off around 2 million council homes pumping over 100 billion into subsidies over the years creating uncontrolled property inflation while asset stripping around 200 billion in today's money from council assets.
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  6999. @markwelch3564  In the context of money, giving “Advice” is a regulated activity. Only firms that are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) can offer this I sold my mother's house recently and got zero financial and tax advice on inheritance or cgt tax, neither the solicitors or estate agents were registered with the FCA why would they want the burden
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  7000.  @carlitor4173  she hasn't lied as far as I can see she is not liable for CGT and The Cons have pumped over 100 billion into the housing market inflating prices to the point that a working single parent's only hope of having a permanent roof over there head is to use the same scheme that is destroying council budgets and causing out of control housing inflation.
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  7001. Its the removal of a tax subsidy, we pay through taxation £6,000 per private pupil There are hundreds of these in the tax code for the wealthy
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  7002. And what are the Russian casualties? How many troops and what level of equipment do they have left defending thier secondary lines after pouring in resources to try stop the Ukrainians this far The Russians target civilians with their missiles the Ukrainians target logistical supply chains
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  7003. The level of intelligence of some of these people is outstanding
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  7004. We went over the event horizon with green tech 4 years ago, trying to stop it now is like standing on a beach telling the tide not to come in. I could bore you with figures but it looks like fossil propaganda is too embedded
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  7005. Hamas are quite willing to sacrifice 2.3 million people as human shields and parts of the Isreali government are more than willing to oblige 2 wrongs don't make a right this is just gesture politics the vote has zero meaning meanwhile the US and Blinken are using every lever they can pull to try defuse the situation and get hostages freed. My father was a guest in a Russian gulag during the war 1/2 his family died in 1 after the war they couldn't return to Poland all of thier farm had been siezed when he became a paratrooper he was effectively fighting on the same side as the Russians Post election Starmer will have to deal with Isreal geopolitics is brutal
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  7006. @TG-ts3xn  what if your beef is with the government? Which nearly all the 300+ cases last year where and they weren't asylum cases
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  7007. Whys that then the worst economic record over the past 12 years in 150 and somehow every other party but this bunch of assclowns wouldn't be better? Take off the blue tinted glasses and stop making a fool of yourself by trying to excuse the worst government this country has ever had
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  7008. That's wrong I did some calculations a while back Hinkley C is costing 33 billion up front will be 3 years late taking over a decade to build and has 35 billion in subsidies built in over 35 years you could build a Tidal equivalent for 50 billion up front and a wind farm equivalent for 9 billion The wind farm and infrastructure could be built in 3 years (see Dogger Bank Offshore) and produces electricity 3 times cheaper than Hinkley would. A tidal system would last 50+ years at least @voodo0983 
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  7009. No ones even going to do this As an aside i gave up on gas cooking years ago have an induction hob as well
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  7010. Yea brilliant can't wait Corrupt data mining needs to be put to the sword
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  7011. Is this satire? Even the Cons don't respect Rees Mogg
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  7012. Why does the economy need loads of migrant labour? Economic policy, supply side trickle down economics needs supply side labour, deregulation makes it worse ex- gig economy and low wage zero hour Tice thinks he can work an economic miracle by just shutting down migrant labour without dealing with the policies that create a need for it hes living in lettutce liz lala land
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  7013. Take Labour’s fiscal stance. Reeves promises to abide by the “golden rule” that in normal circumstances governments should borrow only for investment. But that still allows for significant capital spending. Labour has pledged £28bn a year for climate action this decade – a larger annual figure than promised by Corbyn and John McDonnell. Under Ed Miliband’s stewardship, Labour pledges to achieve a net zero power system by 2030, establish a new publicly owned energy generation company and drive a 10-year, £60bn energy efficiency programme to fix Britain’s leaky homes and buildings, creating tens of thousands of new jobs and apprenticeships across the country.
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  7014. He's not Conservative and even more clueless than honest Bob and BadEnoch
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  7015. So we have no real energy policy bar leave it up to the private sector no farming policy bar run down UK agri and buy substandard cheap from abroad and no moves to Curb greedflation with anti profiteering regulations and windfall taxes Sunak has even slow balled net zero which would save 10's of billions on energy and given 10's of billions in subsidies to Fossil fuel companies Sunak is doing Sweet FA to help and actively making it worse
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  7016. Fox has really gone off a cliff, the lack of alternate opinion to butt lick to the Donald is cringe worthy. Libertarians are a waste of space, they dissappear up thier own logic.
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  7017. Starmer has a working group with the Unions to introduce new labour laws as soon as they get into power
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  7018. Trump don't have a clue what he's doing his brain is mush Immigrants are taking 100% of the new jobs in fact more than 100%. He's barely coherent these days
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  7019. In general the effects we have now are down to the last 2 Tory budgets and policies, Reeve's budget doesn't come into affect till April there's around a year to 2 year time lag
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  7020. @davidbarrass5210  Energy prices will come down for many people not go up, if you can access off peak tariffs your already benefiting from always on wind. The economy has been stagnant since 2010 and the current decline is long term and brexit related, Port Talbot closed and Luton Factory next Our manufacturing and farming were always going to suffer badly if we left the single market
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  7021. 70% of US steel is made in ARC Furnaces so what is your point?
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  7022.  @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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  7023. Who would actually want to sit and watch Fox and friends? It's like a coven of stupid
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  7024.  @alimetodista3459  Popular as a turd that won't flush
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  7025.  @kristymaufroy2405  Your all in on Anti-Vax taking control of health with JFK and your happy That Elon Musk will crash the economy deliberately. That's fine there's always someone that believes these billionaire idiots. Quote Elon Musk has offered a sobering preview of Donald Trump’s economic plan for America if he is re-elected, revealing that a period of intentional “hardship” is on the horizon for American households. Rather than cautioning against it, Musk described this hardship as necessary and inevitable, supporting Trump’s blueprint for restructuring the economy by slashing government programs. Musk’s remarks, shared in a Telephone Town Hall organized by his America PAC, indicate that he and Trump see economic pain to average Americans as a necessary cost of their policy goals.
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  7026.  @kristymaufroy2405  He's going to put JFK in charge of Health and Musk to start the same Austerity that has halved Twitters value in 2 years You must be effin JOKING?
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  7027. Billions being wasted on trickle down cr@p
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  7028. Tories set a target each time it's 10,000s of thousands then oh look we failed
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  7029. Since when you read any of the stuff put out by Reeve or Milliband Over 30 Billion on renewable energy in a new Company GBEnergy within 4 years that's 120 billion which will transform the supply landscape Starmer's Job is to Troll the Tories as much as possible end off you'll get a centre left manifesto that the left will hate and the centre right will go whatever and tick the box because 13 years of Trickle down economics has completely hit the buffers
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  7030. 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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  7031. The referendum was to leave the EU, the Conservatives decided to leave the Single Market which is killing trade especially small businesses Habib and the rest of the Brexit Ultra's don't have a clue how international trade works and the importance of tariff free paperwork free red tape free VAT harmonised trade is or appear to grasp that it's costing over 40 billions in lost taxation alone and strangling small business growth who employ 60% of the UK workforce
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  7032. If your in Westminster your likely to have 2 houses, its 15 years ago and has been investigated to death its a non story I'm 67 and have never voted Tory the current dire situation is down to Thatcherism and the destruction of the social floor combined with endless asset stripping
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  7033. Mogg believes in serfdom with the elite getting all the gravy
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  7034. CPI at 2% is temporary its a rolling total as months drop off then it will start to climb again Also CPIH is still at 2.8 cpi + Housing and owner occupiers OOH is still high at 6.7 Im sure they will find a way to blame labour for it going back up in June
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  7035.  @jaygriffiths6793  We've still got crumbling Victorian infrastructure 40+ years after we were promised privatization would provide the capital investment necessary to rebuild our ageing system. The water companies are pumping out raw sewage into the rivers and sea at record levels this winter and the water companies are debt loaded to the tune of 50 billion causing real concerns that rate hikes will bankrupt a number of these companies with government picking up the bill and bailing them out. If you look at energy and rail then privatization is nothing more than a complete and utter failure
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  7036. You really don't want the change they'd bring Thier policies mean a low paid economy with pollution everywhere from lack of investment & regulation, + they'd make the legal migration worse with more globalisation
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  7037. Yes you can, we have a low tax base compared to Europe, our main problem is under investment in infrastructure causing productivity to go down from 2010 making everyone poorer
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  7038. Since Brexit we've grown as much as Germany? Nothing like cherry picking your figures Covid in the previous year took our economy down by a far bigger percentage than any western economy and the bounce still doesn't have the economy recovering to 2019 levels. Germany are currently dealing with 40% of their gas being turned off and have actually done something about it we've done fk all about the energy crisis
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  7039. We've had 7 quarters of gdp per capita shrinkage the headline GDP number is propped up by +1.25 million migrant workers Digging into the macroeconomic numbers were in a doom loop 😢 For refrence Biden 2 years ago signed off 2 trillion in infrastructure and green investment thier economy posted +3% gdp growth zero population growth last year
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  7040. @TomAshdown-u2j Taxes have raised? The NI stuff doesn't come in till April 2025 The overall effect calculated by the OBR will see a rise in tax base FROM 37% to 38% by 2030 (Tax base in 2019 was 33% it rose to 37% by the end of the last parliament) Port Talbot closed this quarter due to brex1t, manufacturing is in terminal decline, we had a new round of regulations due to brex1t which ends the last of small manufacturing exports. The further we move from the EU the worse it gets in terms of regulatory issues
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  7041. @greyvoice7949  it closed because in 2026 coked steel and coked steel products attract punative tariffs if exported to the EU which is currently it's main market. As a 3rd country even though we are 20 miles away we have the same access as India. Luton is closing because the EV deal runs out in 2026 and 60% of the product would have to be manufactured in the UK. People on the right appear to know less than nothing and make stuff up
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  7042. @greyvoice7949  NI doesn't go up till April 2025
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  7043. @greyvoice7949  we've had a stagnant economy since 2010 the only reason the GDP figure rose is migration. We've been in a technical recession since leaving the single market. The last Parliament was the 1st in history to leave you worse off after 5 years.
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  7044. @greyvoice7949  I voted Lib-Dem at the last election And We've been in a technical recession since leaving the single market hovering between +0.1 and -0.1 The underlying GDP per capita has been shrinking the shortfall being made up by +2 million migrant workers In 2019 our tax base was 33% it rose to 37% this summer and is expected to reach 38% by 2030 So no things aren't getting dramatically worse all your seeing is the consequences of brex1t which will keep the economy stagnant till it gets reversed, no party can fix it because an economy pulls out of recession on the back of small to medium businesses which have been hamstrung with their export markets near gone and their on demand supply chain completely fked. Also we have the highest energy prices in Europe thanks to the Tories.
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  7045. Europe where a couple of weeks in front on covid have a higher population than the US and have and had live sports back on for months, there ticking over managing with under 100 deaths a day. The US response is a complete shitshow they are banned from travelling to juts about everywhere at the moment the underlying infection rate is off the charts and they've just hired Dr Death from fox to come onto the team and spout herd immunity nonsense
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  7046. ​ @Godonstilts so true
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  7047.  @buzzukfiftythree  The reason there's so much bureaucracy is the NHS is split up into trusts that then have duplicate management structures
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  7048. I'm looking forward to a decade of Labour bring it on can't wait They'll be plenty of reform in thier
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  7049. Sunak is gunning for zero seats, today he reminded pensioners he'd robbed them of £560 with fiscal drag by promising to give them back £95
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  7050. The benefit was a united tory party and an 80 seat win + the Truss agenda the brexit Ultra's blew it because she couldn't do the frog boiling slowly she went full bore from day 1 You can make brexit work for the 10% with extreme right wing policies of low tax sell off everything and unlimited immigration or make it work with massive state intervention leveling up and creating sustainable manufacturing outside of London + better access to the single market with a degree of regulatory alignment. The current drip drip drip of economic decline will keep ticking along till 90% of the population figure out what the true right wing agenda for Brexit was Truss being elected was not a mistake they will try again
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  7051. If I were still looking ICE motors it would be in the region of using alternate fuels on commercial vehicles, with autonomous driving round the corner its not even clear that owning a vehicle at all is going to be the way for millions
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  7052. 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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  7053. So let's be clear Elon is a control freak, he's IN-SOURCED just about everything he can the manufacturing has been revolutionary the latest press in Germany can cast a car in 2 pieces negating 20 robots and it's factory will use less space to produce double the number of cars. It doesn't suffer a chip shortage because it's not tied to the old 8/16 bit eprom chips legacy ice cars are using it's all software driven and platform flexible. There is no 2nd place in the market from a conventional car company because their still trying to cling onto how it used to be done with all the component and logistics outsourced.
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  7054. 2 child limit is popular even with Labour voters your better off finding a different way of alleviating poverty than increasing a Universal benefit
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  7055.  @allandavies1642  Corbyn was a populist elite that lived in an intellectual bubble. My father was a paratrooper in the war his foreign policy stank, my mother voted for the 1st time Labour for the post war reconstruction the likes of Bevan and Atlee wouldn't have given Corbyn the time of day. There is no difference between a populist on the left to a populist on the right, there was no grand vision just a promise to roll us back to pre Thatcher and a wasted decade were we've had to endure 14 years of Tory misrule. His biggest sin handing the 2019 election to the Tories on a plate & saddling us with an over correction to the centre. By the way the so called working class round here the young don't vote and the older ones switched to UKIP years ago there onto Reform after the Brexit bubble burst with Boris.
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  7056. Ah the Foghorn of ignorance is back Haven't you people got sick of his BS or being conned yet?
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  7057. The plan is a waste of money and crazy The MP'S on the left are spinless for voting for it And The frothing gammon faction on the Right just as spinless for not demanding what they really want displays of performative cruelty
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  7058. Thee is no military tactics its you will be part of greater Russia for your own good if you do not we will destroy you Fkin ORCS
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  7059. Serve so much he spent 8 trillion straight to debt 3.5 of that was corporate tax cuts that pumped the stock market fueling boom bust? There's a reason he's Benn bankrupt multiple times
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  7060. Brexit is dead or hadn't you heard after 7 years zero benefits and an economy in the toilet
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  7061. If the world switches to renewables it will save trillions of dollars as well as reduce polution across the globe. There are numerous studies out there as wind and solar have been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 We spend huge sums subsidising fossil extraction and even more on environmental clean up Also 40% of shipping is dedicated to moving fossil fuel around
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  7062. The bulk of Inflation at this point is tied to world commodity prices you can squash so much of it with Fed rates but on the other side of the coin the US economy has been going through a Tech revolution which accelerated by the pandemic. Its also time to push to renewables there are multiple projects across the US coming onstream in the next few years and costs per kilowatt hour are heading way down below half the cost of fossil
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  7063. Warren is advocating that the laws in place are actually enforced, the wealth tax is the result of that many schemes and loopholes that the ultra rich can dodge through to pay next to nothing. The wealth is also generated on the back of government providing support for the under payed support for education support for research the list goes on. There is nothing left in the kitty it's all gone no money for infrastructure no money for education dwindling research investment lack of investment in people. If you don't like her plan come up with a better one Stop saying NO do something.
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  7064. Compare the questions asked at the recent town hall to the press conference and why should Biden ever attend another pressie
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  7065. Here's an idea agree to a commission to look into using the popular vote instead of the electoral college so we don't have the Sedition caucus frothing at the mouth as they debase themselves into who can do the most Trump ring piece kissing again.
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  7066. no its not nearly all of it is capital expenditure V high running cost Insulate a school building to A+ standard and its heating and electric bill cover the capital outlay within a few years, add some solar panels to the roofs and the bulk of its electric is generated reducing running costs further.
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  7067. There will be will be an electronic trail through metadata if they can get AMI's original copies. Gov entity probably trail back to Trump no chance. If it was here brother then where did he get the equipment to clone it and where did the inquirer get the expertise to crack it. More interested in the Fed's having an excuse to raid Pecker's treasure trove, how much leverage does he have on all sorts of people.
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  7068.  @purukrishnamurthy2960  at least she isn't going to hire an anti vax nut job and put them in charge of health and Musk who is going to instigate extreme Austerity and help crash the economy Quote Elon Musk has offered a sobering preview of Donald Trump’s economic plan for America if he is re-elected, revealing that a period of intentional “hardship” is on the horizon for American households. Rather than cautioning against it, Musk described this hardship as necessary and inevitable, supporting Trump’s blueprint for restructuring the economy by slashing government programs. Musk’s remarks, shared in a Telephone Town Hall organized by his America PAC, indicate that he and Trump see economic pain to average Americans as a necessary cost of their policy goals.
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  7069. It's a tar and feather a Republican week, he's your orange turdpile own it and reap the consequences. R stands for Rebbelion and Sedition
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  7070. Labour have just tied Sunak back to Johnson with his stream of Bullsh1t from Tuesday's performance The Streisand effect of Sunak's lying has opened the can of worms of How Much have the Tories cost you in extra tax since 2019 Glad you ask Sophie Ridge at sky did 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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  7071. The Telsa battery pack that was built saved loads of money a lot of the cost issues are to do with grid balancing Wind power cost less than half that produced by coal as does solar
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  7072. spineless sheep please
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  7073. It's just allowing employees a right to go to 4 days Did 4 day week for 10 years before i retired
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  7074. 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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  7075. Such a selective memory Trump in numbers on of the worst POTUS on the economy that's ever lived this is his 4 years Trade deficit +40% People without health insurance +3 million Unemployment -2876000 jobs unemployment rate 6.3% Economic Growth -3.4% Manufacturing jobs -154000 Coal Jobs -8500 All the good times you opine about built on this Federal Debt held by public +50% (4 trillion) One puff of wind and the entire thing collapsed in on itself built on smoke mirrors and debt like all his businesses
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  7076.  @charleswebb5117  I know but I'm practicing my response when people tell me how good he was on the economy, there all official govt stats
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  7077. 20.30 has gone so wonder if he'll make it to 20.30 today?
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  7078. 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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  7079. If you want world info try https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51235105
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  7080.  @stevestephens8969  so your an economist are you? Tax cuts dont grow shit well debunked 50 years of data etc the womon was completely captured by right wing think tanks that serve the very rich absolute complete bollox
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  7081. @Christina-g4s We paid low tax during the 80's because of Thatchers asset stripping and blowing all our oil money. My son will inherit enough that he will never have to work again. Last year our government spent 72 billion on energy subsidies, our energy bills were sky high as it was. The water companies she flogged off are loaded with 80 billion in debt and aren't fit for purpose.
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  7082. @ I just poured all the money I could into a SIPP tax and NI free Also Stocks and bonds rose by 25% last year I'm now retired if when my son inherits he will be made for life
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  7083. There aren't enough people in the UK and the age and skills profile don't match the requirements. Its a non growth aging population which was boosted by EU labour. The reason all xenophobic rhetoric took hold is you believed Tory lies and fell for Camerons austerity which shafted jobs and wages for decades now you've fallen for Brexit which has the UK as the fastest shrinking economy in Europe with thousands of farmers fishermen and SME's going out of business over the next few years.
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  7084. Harris did what Biden couldn't she manipulated him so thoroughly only the hard core would think he didn't get completely dominated and led around like a cat chasing a laser pen Couple that with the ever expanding bunch of weirdo's in his orbit Loomer and JFK being the latest
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  7085.  @stephenconway2468 EU retain law bill? which its estimated will add 85 billion in costs to the already hammered businesses who are spending an arm and a leg on Johnson's hard Brexit as it is Its pearl clutching trying to get people to believe in an alternate reality
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  7086. @2aph0d_b33blebr0x that is soooo lazy we've left the EU because of you knukleheads somone is trying to make the best of a bad job and your still in lala land waiting for Brexit Jesus to make it all happen
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  7087.  @alanbrown4637  more than likely worse For a start no one but the clinically insane wants fracking it does nothing for local economies bar scar the landscape You can't cut taxes without gutting services the only 2 big ones left are the NHS and pensions and you can't grow the economy without investment If you deregulate you'll undermine home grown business and farmers sending them into bankruptcy flooding the market with low quality products and creating high unemployment as happened in the 80's The economy would become even more London centric
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  7088.  @stevec6427  true how about banning over 66 year old's because there senile spend too much time watching daytime tv and have no skin in the game anymore.
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  7089.  What the Western MSM hides!  yea right you really don't understand how this works Putin wages war when the oil price is high he fills his coffers then off they go just map his campaigns on Chetchens and Georgia the war in Ukraine will stop when oil hits 60 dollars a barrel which is round about Putin's production costs. Its down to mid 80's so by Xmas as central banks round the world raise rates it will languish round the necessary price at which point he starts to really run out of money.
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  7090. You can get treatment for being in a cult you know
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  7091. @checkraiser1000  he's sundowning it is getting worse quickly If he did get elected your in for large tax rises and job losses due to his tariffs and trade wars, farmers lost their export markets during his last term with 92% of the tariffs collected going on farming subsidies. The US export market is worth 3 trillion, economists expect a between 10-20% drop in the DOW over a further Trump term Given how quickly his dementia is getting its odds on you'd be inaugurating President Vance the Billionaires b1tch
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  7092. @checkraiser1000  It was 74 million and given the GOP response to Cov, masking and spreading anti vax conspiracy theories the mortality rate shot up in Trump voting counties so you'd think it would be a tad lower this time even without his displays of crazy.
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  7093.  @checkraiser1000  at least i can count it was 75 mill in 2020 and he's SunDowning, his tariff plan is nuts trade wars work both ways, US exports are worth 3 trillion a year. How many Trump supporters does it take to change a lightbulb? None. Trump says it’s done and they all cheer in the dark.
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  7094.  @luisbustamante9869  The anti vax propaganda on top of an extended period of stress can lead to mass psychosis you get a group think mentality. Look up the Flagellants of the Black Death era another group whipped into hysteria
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  7095. what that it's disinformation that you've not bothered to fact check , really no I'm not surprised
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  7096. What a muppet, we had the CONS clogging up the system with fkwit ideas just as they start addressing the problem up comes another right wing gasbag
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  7097. The Insane economic policies of Lettuce Liz with the Batsh1t immigration policies of Braverman Hello Argentina on the Channel Its fantasy economics meets fantasy migration policy, meanwhile the cost of Tory crisis continues
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  7098. So if your a Tory voter and your enjoying the fruits of an extended period of Thatcherism why go for the extreme version Just put up with what you have instead of trying to make it worse for everyone else
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  7099. She's not even Conservative most of the garbage she spouts is English Nationalism with a strong libertarian accent. The Current tories are about as unpatriotic as you could get there tearing the Union to pieces to try set up Singapore on Thames fk everyone else.
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  7100.  @PNWAffliction  millions of birds die flying into buildings and get eaten by cats stop spewing fossil industry crap
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  7101. The tax is aimed at the Dyson's of this world if you can't survive with a 3 million tax break there's something wrong
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  7102. Tesla batteries went Cobalt free last year
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  7103. we don't have open borders the 1.25 million was on purpose
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  7104. I was thinking Stockholm syndrome
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  7105. He's not just healthy he's abnormal he's in better shape than I am at 20 years younger and have exercised all my life
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  7106.    Bernie would kick Putin so hard he'd be leaking gas and oil for a decade and his shithole economy would be down the pan even more than it is now. All Russia cares about is storing trouble and keeping that imbecile Trump in the WH because if he is the US is weak like it's leaders overweight bloated ego
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  7107.  @chrisj9700  No they won't its been calculated that a property tax of 0.5% will only increase tax on 10% the other 90% will either pay the same or less. Currently a detached property in Burnley will pay 1.5% of its value in council tax.
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  7108.  @chrisj9700  If 90% will see no change then how is the 10% cash strapped? The reason its needed is the Government have pumped over the last few years near on 700 billion into the economy House price inflation is way over standard inflation due to government policies and on top of that various housing initiatives like right to buy have pumped over another 100 billion into the housing market over the years. People on PAYE are taxed enough its time to unlock some wealth and pay back what has been gifted them by tax breaks and government incentives over 1/2 a decade of Thatcherism so we can do something for younger people in the economy.
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  7109. 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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  7110. You can run a standard house on an EV battery for 2 days so the more EV penetration you get the less base load you need
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  7111. Dodgy Dave will sink without a trace The Conservatives are to divided
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  7112. Replacing Sunak won't do anything, the current situation is the culmination of 14 years of bad policy and bad leadership When Cameron who I thought was one of the worst PM's we had looks 100 times better than the shower around him you've really got problems
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  7113. 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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  7114. The category 5 dementia indicator
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  7115. and let the Tory in of FPTP great
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  7116. They don't get the commodity spot price they have long standing agreements with Europe which will cover price per therm
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  7117. The reason immigration has gone up is removing FOM, it allowed seasonal fruit pickers for example move around the block If you need workers now its permanent and with dependents. If you want to lower immigration you do it through regulating your Labour market NOT arbitrary migration targets and also investment in the domestic workforce You were warned it would have the opposite effect and people like Gove said we've had enough of experts
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  7118. I drop by and listen to all opinions i suggest you do likewise and pick up some comentary from the centre left to get balance, if you do not you will continue to exist in an echo chamber that gets further away from the overall mood of the bulk of the country Id suggest The New Statseman (centre left), The Times (centre right) and the FT and guardian for varying economic articles Have a nice day
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  7119.  @rosemarymay3914  you appear to have cut yourself off from critical thought judging by your previous comments just echoing and nodding along to your closed information silo.
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  7120. @rosemarymay3914  slow enough not to do stupid emoji and embarass myself and have enough work experience in IT to know that the algorithms pull you into extreme confirmation bias with little to no factual data.
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  7121. There doing a lap of honour now about inflation falling and the economy coming out of reccesion, also small boats will keep increasing and inflation will rise in the autumn as fuel and food prices start to go up again. Also there hoping July will see low turnout along with the voter suppression measures.
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  7122. Why do you shill for these people Raab was totally incompetent Bullying isn't acceptable period I've managed large teams its the refuge of the weak and incompetent forever blaming others and lashout for your own failures Here we have a complete media operation which you fell for for blame shifting
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  7123. from the comment I'm assuming you know sweet FA about communism when has believing in public education and kids that aren't hungry communist?
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  7124. We have loads of land, there's a load of disused airfields near me and an abandoned bankrupt golf course
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  7125. GBN isnt news its opinion Its funded by an offshore billionaire with a but ton of oil shares and aims to drive the conversion toward tx cuts an aginst renewables
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  7126.  @PaulStargasm  Renewable energy is cheaper by a long way we just haven't invested in upgrading the grid to take advantage of it
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  7127. Because he knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing He's a devout Thatcherite who can't see the destruction short term Thatcherite thinking has done Why have our energy bills trebled? Why are our rivers like open sewers? Why is the housing support bill 20 billion last year? We flogged of and asset stripped council houses so now pump 20 billion a yearintonthe private sector
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  7128. What a pile of 💩 these people are I mean how are they going to cecede the counties that voted for Biden are responsible for 70% of the US gdp if you look at Texas city urban where the money is vote blue, you've a Tesla giga factory just built and there moving their headquarters to Texas the bulk of them will be democratic voters. If you believe in electrification your hardly going to support the GOP (aside from Elon fk knows what goes through his head at times)
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  7129.  Mr. chicano  I'm waiting till the new battery is standard (Tesla 4680) early 2022 Sold our second car a while back and bought an Ebike conversion kit their amazing But since I mostly remote work now and my wife's commute is short were less than 150 car miles for the week at the moment
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  7130.  @yehimstone5492  I mean you know that's a lie not sure why you want to bat for the side of big Oil who have enough land leases for current production levels for the next 30 years
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  7131. 14 years of not balancing the books from the Tories with ever increasing jam tomorrow promises Debt in 2010 was 800 billion its now 2.4 trillion wtf does Holmes know about economics?
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  7132. The Biden Administration has reduced the debt from a record high under Trump 132% debt to GDP ratio to 121% debt to GDP Ratio It's about time we looked at the debt ceiling properly as the ratio to GDP this constant BS about a number is taking the piss out of uniformed electorate
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  7133. Brexit is a complete economic disaster welcome to poverty
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  7134. The government failed to collect 42 billion in tax it was owed Like everything else the Tories were responsible for they've run down HMRC instead of boosting it to save money and ended up loosing it
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  7135. If you look at his record as governor its awful High tax inequality screwing ordinary workers Failing school system putting it 48th Insane property and rental prices The US as a whole aren't going to buy into the insane maga shit again especially with this looser
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  7136. I'm a pensioner and I feel fine with the choice, this is all fallout from Sunak's unfunded NI cut to try bribe the middle class A Tory win would have seen the pension age rise to 68 to cover this and further cuts leaving pensioners high and dry
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  7137.  @ravd8082  why would he do that there a bunch of Billionaire sponsored no hopers spouting populist drivel
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  7138. ​ @rgp101 and be completely daytime tv adled believing anything the Con leaning msm tells them
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  7139. ​ @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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  7140. their policies of deregulation and free market fundamentalism will generate and even bigger Pull factor on the UK economy for migration. They don't understand economics basically, if you want to lower migration you tackle the problem causing it not its physical manifestation which is high net numbers
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  7141. It's like asking if the pope is Catholic Tea Party. - racism Floyd - institutional racism Their latest gig white replacement theory and banning discussions on slavery
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  7142. ​ @Anonc635 Middle East is complicated this has been ongoing since ww2 and exploding out during the 70's Isreal is a strategic Western partner & we're also dependent on middle East oil and gas with a war on in Europe Like it or not the average Palestinian is cought up in global politics as there is no solution to what Isreal has done via settlement
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  7143. Utter nonsense everywhere backup Tesla MegaPacks have been installed they've saved billions. You need minimum 40% base load and Norway run on 95% renewable quote The Astonishing Economics of the Tesla Megapack By adding about 300 MW of storage, ERCOT will generate approximately $1 billion in savings in 2025. This is from a one time purchase of Megapacks for $750 million. These savings will also happen each additional year after 2025 - they are recurring!  @nockianlifter661 
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  7144. Things are moving very quickly Quote Gas-Killing Flow Battery Deploys Table Salt For Long Duration Energy Storage Aquabattery specializes in flow battery technology, which leverages the chemical reaction that occurs when two specialized liquids are set in motion together, separated only by a thin membrane.  @davidcooks2379 
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  7145. Its likely it will be flow batteries there currently starting to appear Gas-Killing Flow Battery Deploys Table Salt For Long Duration Energy Storage. Aquabattery specializes in flow battery technology, which leverages the chemical reaction that occurs when two specialized liquids are set in motion together, separated only by a thin membrane. @saba1030 
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  7146. Populism = promising the undeliverable Reform economic policies are the same garbage we've had for 13 years - Trickle down Thatcherism, it doesn't work never has never What are there other policies? Fracking Privatise the NHS @jeffsimon9594 
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  7147. He's probably one of those millionaire pensioners collecting their 40,000 tax break on the back our our tax hike @matty7758 
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  7148. Tim was artillery and suffered deafness because of it, left the NG to take his seat in congress
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  7149. Reform don't have any viable policies there just a FogHorn of gesture politics
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  7150. Why has it gone up? Man in White House he crazy, he very crazy he shoot himself in foot daily.
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  7151. Its a shame they don't have a fkin clue about economics (our children's debt) You can't cure the US debt by cutting back on programs, you've seen with IRS cutbacks it costs more than you save. That also applies to Hugh swathes of the Federal budget if you cut Healthcare your workforce is sicker businesses suffer more absences GDP declines more than is saved etc. Start taxing wealth created by wealth at the same rate as you tax work
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  7152. The gang that sold you a doubling of illegal migration and a trebling of illegal migration no thanks
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  7153. I'd bet on 1.75% Manufacturing has increased in the US for the 18th straight month the economy is realigning itself people are building factories to make stuff in the US again (Tesla Texas and Arizona, Intel Arizona, Ford Kentucky etc) There's also loads of small businesses springing up
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  7154. And vote for right wing economic policies that are already flat-lining the economy making you poorer are you mad
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  7155. what's taking a job got to do with an impartial investigation? She will have been head hunted for the appointment with a fairly heft salary increase in Labour's anticipation of being able to hit the ground running if they get elected Did she vomit on the carpet at no10 after an all nighter have an ABBA party get that rip roaring drunk that she broke a child's swing And why aren't you mad at Lord Frost taking a job with the Con party?
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  7156. It's 62,000 a year costing 1/2 a million get a prospective
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  7157. and without government its even worse
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  7158. He's sundowning and the problem is accelerating. Not sure why your all keen on paying more tax if he got elected or why you want president Vance They'll pull the 45th on him within months
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  7159. Its Per Annum not per week as well
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  7160. 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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  7161. It's because ther UK laws passed by parliment if you want to change them then you need to replace each of the 4000+ with your own specific version and debate in parliment why you want to change it. Ex work time directive Clean water act Etc
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  7162. I probably won't but that's because I vote tactically always against the Tories You do know this is nothing more than a scare story just the Billionaires channel showing its true colours trying to get you to vote Tory again
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  7163. Completely untrue even the Centerist Blair /Brown government saw a real increase in public sector pay and a 25% increase in average wages over their period in power including the introduction of the minimum wage. Cameron saw a -3% drop in real wages plus an -8% drop in Nurses pay plus the removal of grants for nurses the list goes on So basically shove the Tory lite bollox down the toilet where it belongs
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  7164.  @attackpatterndelta8949  look at energy alone 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 Labour 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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  7165. What difference does that make? Renewable infrastructure prices have been falling, just put a solar / battery install on my house 3 years ago payback was 15 years now its 6 estimated saving of the system 44,000
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  7166.  @Land-of-reason  Yes we have were a 3rd country with all the costs paperwork and Irish sea border that that entails
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  7167. We have full employment
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  7168. 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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  7169. She spouts the same crazy policies as Trump on the Wall, Abortion, is anti Union and completely illiterate on how Tax and spend works Trump's economy was built on debt Biden's is built on long term investment Tax cuts and cuts to services instead of investment produces Boom/Bust and increases debt
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  7170. staple foods have doubled in price over the last 2 years ex Pasta and what was that Mogg said about cheaper food? LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - Britain's departure from the European Union has accounted for about a third of the increase in food bills for households since 2019, equivalent to about 250 pounds ($316), researchers from the London School of Economics and other universities said.
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  7171. As a man I can vouch for men being stupid and a majority easily manipulated with the memory of a goldfish Our decisions for a large uneducated majority don't take account of the dangers to healthcare and education that voting GOP would cause and how it will blight family life.
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  7172. Your forgetting one thing Trump is grossly incompetent, his WH won't accept you sort the health emergency out and the economy will take care of itself as long as he keeps sticking his head in the sand it will get worse. States are laying off public employees because there's no money coming from the federal government various businesses are half open employees are getting sick in some cases taking a couple of months to get better, schools are open one minute closed the next meanwhile evictions and foreclosures are going to create homeless Trump shanty towns.
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  7173. Sunak is bad but the alternatives appear worse We got Sunak because the members voted in Truss
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  7174.  @nickjones8867  Right wing politics has brought us a flailing economy and record migration and your backing Thatcherism on steroids, I have several barrels of snake oil to sell you.
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  7175. ​ @finesselord9945  why would they vote for a party that's owned by the fossil lobby? One of the main inflationary drivers is food which is being affected by climate change and energy which is bound to the world commodity markets
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  7176. What absolute bollox Putin, the Oligarchs, the Russian Mafia are all one and the same Hes nothing more than a kleptocrat running an oil state your trying to asign some wierd parydime to a Gangster
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  7177. the question is why don't you want cheaper energy? The true cost of fossil is in the hundreds of billions, energy from renewables are a fraction of the cost of our current system Everyone in the UK is paying 170 Billion in excess profits to the UK energy sector which is tied to the price of gas and 100+ billion in tax subsidies will be given to the fossil sector over the next few years. Tying ourselves to gas generation is insane
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  7178.  @Jezza_One  fracking is unviable without massive government subsidies and wouldn't reduce costs due to its expense. It also use 10 million gallons of water per well and has to move site every 3 years and the water is mixed with toxic chemicals leaving a pollution hazard to the water table. It cost 9 billion in infrastructure costs to build Dogger Bank wind farm which can produce 5% of uk domestic electricity needs is on time to come on stream this year. Hinkley C cost 33 billion + 30 Billion in subsidies over 35 years and produces 5% of UK domestic electricity and the energy it produces will cost x4 that of dogger bank and its 2 years late already. The Tories won't invest in Tidal because its regional and would be controlled by local authorities such as the swansea bay scheme boosting regional growth and doesn't have enough kickback to the big players
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  7179.  @stoicsceptic8420  The right want to keep the status quo there more than happy to screw the country for billions in excess profits. Renewable energy is cheaper there's no reason bar disinformation for not switching
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  7180.  @Jezza_One  why would you use coal at x 3 times thee cost? Even TEXAS The home of oil deploy more wind than us you want obviously don't want cheaper bills
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  7181.  @saltburner2  we have only 17% wind you need 40% base load giving you a large margin to expand current production, Danemark run at 40% Cost of Hinkley C is currently 33 billion + 30 billion over 35 years in subsidies + price tied to inflation. To build an equivalent tidal system its been estimated to have a capital cost of 50 billion once built its generation costs are maintenance + returning your 50 billion in capital outlay normally you could calculate at 35 years but Dam's last for decades which is the nearest comparison so your looking at 50 years minimum This is a one off project cost based on Swansea bay I could spreadsheet the numbers but the Nuclear will cost more by how much is hard to tell because the tidal system once built will get even cheaper with inflation built in and will last at least 15 years longer, the hoover dam was built in 1931 and its still generating today.
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  7182. So was the lisp caused by a mini stroke And The Harris Biden swap is driving him to bend reality like the 2020 loss, he will spiral further into mental illness
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  7183. My constituency has been Tory run for like ever it has a river dying from pollution a hospital falling apart with RAAC needing 20 million and some of the roads look like a moonscape they have that many potholes in them. It will go Lib-Dem for the 1st time in it's history enough is enough
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  7184. The steroid Trump is on is reserved for cases with Covid pneumonia, it's going to be some time before he's A/ not shedding a bucket ton of virus and B/ he gets an all clear on his lungs. Instead of him pretending to be macho man he needs some serious rest if he pushes it to far he'll get a lung full of fluid again.
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  7185. Our energy market is a private monopoly and should never have been sold off. and The US is increasingly using renewable energy in it's Grid, Texas the oil capital of the US is up to 20% wind
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  7186. @dogglebird4430 What's language or policy got to do with completely debunked economic theories. You can find plenty of academic material on the Internet as to why Trickle Down Supply side doesn't work and why it massively increases migration.
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  7187. @dogglebird4430 We have 50 years of data showing what you've writen is no more than wishful thinking. I will give you 1 example of the 200 billion in corporate tax cuts instigated by Osborne it created 40 billion in additional taxation for a net loss to the treasury of 160 billion. Most got spent on share buy backs boosting share prices and ceo pay and thus being locked up in asset values not circulating in the economy. Even the IMF abandoned trickle down in 2012
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  7188. All the Tories have left is Rwanda and Mud slinging, 7 bins Meat tax etc. Wishy Washy ain't good at the lying stuff he has to many tells
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  7189. Everyone else subsidies it because it benefits the economy overall, public transport reduces road traffic which in turn reduces maintenance and infrastructure costs and improves productivity
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  7190. He is the ultimate pragmatist, his social values will not have changed just how you get there If you look at GBEnergy it will change energy production over time while providing state owned competition and doesn't involve spending money on renationalising antiquated coal stations and other infrastructure
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  7191. 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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  7192.  @thewolfdoctor761  ending fossil subsidies wouldn't sky rocket prices due to the fact that most are connected to exploration there's going to be a steady movement beyond inflation on fossil prices due to all the easy access stuff burning out. The increases will happen with or without tax breaks as renewable projects squeeze the market on top of increasing extraction costs which kills all the small players off as the market tightens.
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  7193. US manufacturing is up for the 18th month running the economy is strong and restructuring itself, Musk is in the process of hiring 5000 for his new factory in Texas Intel are building a semi-conductor facility in Arizona and Ford and GM are building EV factories in the US in the coming year. It takes time to decouple from the far east economy and US wages are higher there's a lot of investment going on in the US.
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  7194. And what ? The current government are according to economic data the worst in uk history, your looking to the time of the Napolionic wars to get even close so you want 5 more years of complete shambles infighting and watching your standard of living shrink?
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  7195. Labour won't win power if they drift off to the far left you need a broad coalition The electorate are very different to the pre Cameron era Male working class older voters are increasingly voting for far right populist parties that espouse shipping migrants off to Tim Buck Two and throwing away the key
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  7196. According to a pollster with the New Statesman based on UKIP voting patterns, Reform have an upper ceiling of around 15% with a margin of error and A breakdown of voting types has shown a huge amount of apathy from the 2019 Conservative vote who are totally disillusioned with politics entirely though some are drifting to Reform If you connect the 2 your looking at a couple of seats for reform and complete wipe-out for the Tories who will be luck to get 60 seats given the anti-Tory vote is being heavily weaponised with tactical voting
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  7197. Your defecting because what was promised was undeliverable and you'll go support a party that also promises the undeliverable Most people on here need an economic reality check
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  7198. They will not they will sit on the leases reason US oil is $70 a barrel and the break even point currently is $65 a barrel
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  7199. UK have forward contract price which gives you an idea of cost currently the new Dogger bank off shore comes in at 42p per kilowatt hour pre gas crisis in 2019 the grid price was pretty much the same 38-42 its now something like 4/500 but that's the UK broken energy market our masters went all in on gas and the tariff price is based on gas + they shut down storage based on cost coz you can buy cheap gas from Russia Dohhhhh
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  7200. Does anyone believe anything Boris says anymore? If he told me water was wet I'd double check you can't believe anything he says. By the way anyone think Fat Mancock got more than a grope and the Bun has incriminating evidence of say mmmmm I dunno a Lewinski type episode ;)
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  7201. 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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  7202. a fiscally sound Con for a year or 2 till things settle internationally isn't the worst. the energy and cost of living crisis is into its 1st year of a 2+ year cycle there are some go9d labour policies that can be hammered home in that time UK energy and windfall tax + green policies
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  7203. Trump's high is 45% he won in 2016 by suppressing the Democrats vote same plan they were running against Biden. It's now a turnout election + healthcare is on the ballot AGAIN
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  7204. Pensioners have been badly hit with Sunak's tax shenanigans, my bill is +£560 through fiscal drag and rates are frozen till 2028, promising to give £95 back isn't much of a vote winner. My wife works Part time and is the only person that benefited from the NI cut my Son is below the 32k point the NI offset the tax increase, as a houshold we can't afford the Tories
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  7205. yes and no the 140 billion pumped into the economy during the Truss debacle didn't help but we have a reliance on gas if we had more renewables + tidal and Nuclear we'd control our own energy supply but shell and BP own the NS fields so were screwed
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  7206. He's running a centre left agenda and in all likelihood will need every vote Corbyn voted 400+ times against the whip he doesn't want loads of little corbynites gumming up the works and making him a 1 term PM
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  7207. ​ @jjefferyworboys8138  Truss and Kwerteng are Libertarian dancing to the tune of big business lobby group that are thinly disguised as think tanks such as The Tax Payers Alliance there's nothing Conservative about them or the ideologues they've surrounded themselves with
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  7208. President Shootus Footus Dailyus Is saying et tu Brute on a daily basis, crisis management for dummies or how to make a situation worse at every turn
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  7209. Why would anyone ever vote Conservative? They've asset stripped the country over 2 periods now accumulated more debt than every Labour government combined?
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  7210.  @Red1Green2Blue3  wait for the head to head debates Truss is a complete clown if she's elected you'll see the Tory party annihilated at the next election not by Labour who will stay steady away but they will loose middle England to the Lib-Dems and Greens
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  7211.  @molybdomancer195  roumer is donors and Boris was at the party Looks like there's plenty more to come out in video format as well
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  7212. force deported more illegals than Sunak already Amazing what you can do if you don't waste 2 years banging on about Rwanda
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  7213. 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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  7214. He just kept Thatcherism at bay for his period in office and continued the Neo-liberal agenda just toned down
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  7215. No one's anonymous you can back trace anyone, and even if your using a VPN Facebook holds over 100,000 data points on everyone. You need to clear out all the bots and Russian / Iran etc trolls
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  7216. Johnson's hard Brexit has removed us from a frictionless market, introducing trade friction increases cost explodes red tape introducing whole layers of extra people to do work that didn't exist pre Brexit which increases delivery times which makes a shortage problem into a crisis. In regard to hgv drivers the Cons have spent decades union bashing and collective bargaining and rights have been trampled all over, the roads are too full there's not enough lorry parks with cheap sanitary facilities and overnight parking. This is repeated up and down the whole economy an aging population with a declining birth rate whose economic growth has been sustained by migration, University entry is at an all time high but we have no fruit pickers. You lot of xenophobic idiots work it out for yourself
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  7217. Corbyn is as nieve as always I liked some of the policies but he was rooted in turning the clock back to the seventies
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  7218. Reform is a limited company it has 3 members Whatever he's touting they are not members of a political party because if they were they would then have to abide by certain rules Let's call them dunba55 subscriber's.
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  7219. Murder rate was up under Trump economy was in the toilet after front loading debt with tax cuts, capital was attacked by a mob, body bags in mass graves from cov. What a weird view of good
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  7220. The working class voted Brexit and UKIP then went over to the Tories in 2019
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  7221. Trump will become increasingly unhinged over the following months there are 5 stages of grief if we look at Trump's reaction to his loss in 2020 it goes Denial, Anger then gets stuck in a loop on Anger where he tries to bend reality. We are seeing the same reaction over Biden dropping out and Harris being the Democratic nominee, the fantasy attempt to explain her crowds as AI His brain is glitching and it will just keep going round in circles, he just can't let it go he will never get to bargaining. depression. acceptance.
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  7222. Under 40's are companies main focus in terms of marketing and the GOP bills are trying to cut out the younger vote which is currently splitting 70-30 Dems specifically on social change issues and Global warming. Acknowledging climate change is a start
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  7223.  @craigherbert200  Statistics show that under 4 years of Trump manufacturing jobs declined by -274,000 Coal jobs declined -7,100 Trade Deficit went up +15.3% Border Apprehensions went down by -4.7% Federal debt rose by +42% Also Farmers suicide rates went through the roof as Trump tariff war with china brought midwest farmers to bankruptcy and despair Statistically the worst Economic numbers of any President on record on a par with Hoover just because Trump told you ad nauseam he was doing all these things doesn't mean he was it was nothing more than the Trump show your daily dose of smoke and mirrors coupled with an alternate reality. Put "Trump Foxconn" into the Google machine and get a taste of the real world.
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  7224.  @gpw203  different one to you, if you knew what woke meant you'd be embarrased
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  7225.  @bimmeroo0906  The data isn't accurate before our exit millions of small traders could set up a website and post their product throughout Europe or be on Amazon or Ebay as well as SME's who employ millions of people in this country. It also affects goods in which we use in manufacturing as its destroyed the On-Demand supply chain. This has a number of affects the first is huge delays for firms getting product and as they have to carry lots more stock which decreases their competitiveness. There also faced with large costs on import/export from red tape and paperwork this doesn't go away if you export outside of Europe its just different red tape and paperwork. All that money has drained out of the economy and creating higher costs for goods in the UK which leads to higher taxes to plug the gap on lower company profits due to Brexit. Since the on demand supply chain is broken no large company will invest in the UK such as car manufacturing because of the Supply chain problem. If you want to grow the economy you need access to the market 20 miles away
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  7226. The Tories have always been appalling There's just nothing left now to steal and asset strip to bribe the voters with
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  7227. @AyyyVik  privatising the NHS wouldn't reduce the tax burden it would stay the same + your paying insurance The 10's of thousands of voulenteers would leave the NHS and the services they provide would go. The cheapest way of paying for health is through taxation I don't think you grasp the scale of poverty in the UK or the number of pensioners a new system would have to support through taxation which would funnel vast sums of money to the private sector
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  7228.  @AyyyVik  then do the math and don't spout right wing rubbish
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  7229. @AyyyVik  I'm not left of Liberal I'm retired worked in IT all my life my decisions are data driven. A private system would be at least +50% on the current NHS and the State would have to pay for millions who couldn't afford insurance. There's a working population of 32 million 8.1 million are classed as in work poverty and 14.4 million classed as in poverty overall. What little you would gain would be quickly eaten away by rising costs of an aging population and once it was sold off your into a situation where you are committed to funnel government money permenantly to profit driven entities. Look at council house sales, the stock has been lowered by transferring it to the private sector so councils have a funding gap where they used to get rent + they are now paying 20 billion in housing support to the private sector.
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  7230. @AyyyVik  looking at this further your also moving uk assets to private companies many of which are Foreign, thier profits will be siphoned offshore removing them from the UK economy. Even a small drop in gdp of say 2.5% your looking at a loss in taxation to the treasury of 20 billion a year every year
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  7231. @AyyyVik  by not having a healthy workforce albeit a poor one your damaging the economy, more man days off sick even greater levels of poverty driving up crime which costs the state again in lost GDP having to increase police and prison spacee etc. It's estimated Osborne's defunding the justice system during Austerity costs 500 billion in lost gdp Ever wonder why your tax is going up and your getting less? The fact is the economy is shrinking on a per capita basis.
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  7232. You actually believe this grifting Millionaire ex commodity trader man of the people?
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  7233. It won't create hardship with a sounder footing and recovery Libertarian economics are a failure wherever they have been tried In the UK PM Liz Truss tried the Libertarian playbook tanked UK bonds and was ousted after 6 weeks leaving the Conservatives to a near oblivion in the next election
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  7234. what did you expect when you voted to remove FOM experts told you it would rise but all we got back was project fear
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  7235. The distorted dystopian view the have of BLM is pretty staggering, what do they think happened a load of black people turned up in white makeup and fooled the MAGA faithful?
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  7236. 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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  7237. The Express headline today is we have turned the corner economic boom on the Horizon It's a good job no one in the City listens to them and rely on the FT Reuters & Bloomberg who all think our economy is a complete basket case at the moment
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  7238. When your being assaulted with complete bullsh1t by Sunak what are you supposed to respond with Sunak went down the Johnson, Trump Farage route of throwing faeces at the wall until something sticks
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  7239.  @johnmacom3208  Trump counties after the 1st wave had 7 times more deaths than Biden voting counties, Republican voters are on average older than democratic voters therefore suffered more deaths.
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  7240. They hate everyone who tells truth to power
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  7241.  @dancooper3454  all a Dictator would do is pack it with cronies It's now over 800 due to various Tory PM's dishing out peerages like sweeties, plus donate 1 million to the Conservative party get a peerage. Ledvedev - Lord fa5hers an ex KGB agent Dorrie - soon to be ex MP lthick as mince worst government minister ever Plus a few SPAD's from Johnson's time to get the numbers up of Brexit Ultra's in the lords
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  7242. I'm a pensioner my family are paying around +13k more in tax thanks to the Tories £350 is neither here nor there
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  7243. Grant Shapps forced the accelerated expansion by tying it to transport grants and it was originally dreamed up under Bojo + the Conservative mayor in Birmingham is going ahead with it You should know by now if a Conservative tells you something I'd check the receipts
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  7244. Why currently they have nothing to offer but division and failed economic policy?
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  7245. @livelife5947  Man, Woman doesn't refer to biological sex the inference with this stupid analogy is that it does. It's no different from using the word child. It's also being used by unscrupulous people to spread hate against the Trans community a small subset of the LBGTQ community with the highest suicide rates in the UK Why all the hate and intolerance?
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  7246. I don't think he understand how the Grid works and the presenters are just as clueless Bills are going up because of the cost of Standby Gas generation NZ replaces this with mass storage, until that's done were at the mercy of the commodity markets
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  7247. 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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  7248. It just fires up those who think immigration is the cause of everything to get angry and switch to Reform. The words digging their own G....
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  7249. There is no difference between the campaign and project 2025 there are a lot of ex Trump staffers there who will be in the next administration. and Given Trump lies every time he opens his mouth plus he's lazy and just wants power this is what you will get.
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  7250.  @EnglishTurbines  Local businesses went bankrupt this summer because they couldn't get seasonal staff. Why Brexit Food prices are up because Farmers couldn't get seasonal staff to pick the fruit Why Brexit Thousands of pigs were culled because there weren't the abattoir workers so Pork prices are up Why Brexit We are the only country in living memory to put trade sanctions on ourselves and you dummies keep blaming migrants
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  7251. Tax relief for the middle class and child credit V tax cuts for corporations with DJT? that is some strong drugs your on Guess how he will pay for it cuts to Medicare and social security
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  7252. 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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  7253. Part of the transition is more effective insulation and heating + A renewable grid has mass storage on it, once you go down that route which countries are doing your smoothing off the duck curve and electricity becomes a lot cheaper. If you look at an EV it can be used both as transport and a mass storage device that can power a home for 2 days
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  7254. He's not proposing selling off the NHS and privatising the BBC + CHAN4 and pensions + scrapping inheritance tax and going full hard Brexit to make the rich even richer. I don't think you have any idea how bad the Tories will really get given another 5 years look at the damage they've done in 13.
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  7255. Sweden is sparsely populated the elderly could basically debunk to their Cabins, it also has a well maintained health system and most Swede's acted by adopting a level of social distancing depending on age and circumstances.
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  7256.  @WhatDemocracy  fought
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  7257.  @WhatDemocracy  Echr was brought In post war by the UK as a bulwark against faascism
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  7258. @deanrogers8381  pandemic accounts for a 1 off hit of -2% gdp brex1t is currently running at -5.5% annually The energy crisis is self inflicted its a cost of electing Tories crisis Since 2016 1 trillion has been moved by banks to the EU in deposits alone brex1t is an economic dissaster of biblical proportions
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  7259.  @deanrogers8381  economists in th FT disagree as does Bloomberg Quote 12 Jan 2024 — Britain's departure from the European Union has cost its economy some £140 billion (€162.87 billion) so far, with an economic output of 6% less
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  7260. @deanrogers8381  worldwide? No one else has put trade sanctions on its own economy current estimates are 5.5 % gdp loss annually that = 50 billion a year in lost tax revenues. We borrowed 130 billion last year and have debt repayment of 120 billion with a shrinking economy
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  7261. @deanrogers8381  our gdp is 2.6 trillion £ your quoting dollars Gdp per capita shrunk for the 7th consecutive quarter why is that important? The standard of living is derived from per capita GDP, determined by dividing GDP by the number of people living in the country.
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  7262. @WhatDemocracy  he was part of the invasion force in Europe that defeated fascism Churchill was the key instigator of the ECHR post ww2 it was seen as a bulwark against the future rise of fascism. My father settled here after the war his family were refugees at its end in no small part thanks to the work of Churchill and other leaders.
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  7263. Did the shotgun have a sniper scope on it? Yea right just another gun nut
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  7264. Why would you want MP'S affiliated with unions not to show solidarity, its more a sigh of strength that you can have a broad church appeal across multiple demographics
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  7265. Who did she make it too? A US far right Libertarian think tank no different to the IEA who were pulling Truss's strings but aren't afraid to whip up gay hate white nationalism and promote abortion bans as well as pedal climate denial And for what? Lower taxes for the rich and corporations
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  7266. Why are the Sun echoing Trumps petty childish name calling in their headline? Oh I forgot for a minute its Murdoch the man behind Fox the biggest ultra right wing disinformation and conspiracy theory propaganda outlet in the US
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  7267. The war against the Taliban? Could have sworn that we went into Afghanistan to find Bin Laden? A war that was lost well over a decade ago finally has the curtain pulled down on it a salutary lesson to mission creep and just making things worse
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  7268. Once V2G becomes standard overnight electricity will become free Range has doubled over the last few years and ev cost next to nothing to maintain and has a shelf life of 400k miles
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  7269. we've had this discussion on another thread my view is we cut the Trickle down Cr*p to be honest I had quite a bit of cynicism a few months back this conference I feel a bit more hopeful, not touching CGT is I think a mistake. The tax base overall will rise because of Sunak's changes from 32% to 36% the effects of frozen thresholds will add 150 billion to the treasury over 5 years and an effective energy windfall tax could really help consumers bringing down energy prices  @keithparker1346 
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  7270. Heres some common sense Trickle down economics doesn't work Cutting taxes and cutting services shrinks the economy it doesnt grow it
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  7271. yes it's a non profit think tank that steers Conservative policy and has done since the Reagan era
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  7272. No he won't, the the last thing you do to a bully
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  7273. I feel sorry for Australia, a channel that shills for the billionaires every policy they advocate dumps on the general public in advance of the 1%. all they can do is trash talk Biden because of a far right agenda. You want to get rid of national debt then introduce a wealth tax for anyone with assets over 5 million watch the fat piggy elites squeal like hogs about how unfair it is after raking in billions during the pandemic. Why should every day people have to put up with large scale pollution that the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay for cleaning up
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  7274. I don't think so he's not into the ultra right wing garbage there currently pedalling
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  7275. ​@calastyphon3414 convert the economy to net zero The countries that don't rely on fossil will have a massive advantage on energy costs for businesses
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  7276.  @calastyphon3414  no Reeve Reeve put it into context The figures say we should be spending 40 billion a year on net zero, the Cons have p1ssed away so much money it will be impossible to reach that figure without private partnerships
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  7277.  @calastyphon3414  we have a tax base of 36% up from 33%, looking at the last budget alone Sunak blew 20 billion on tax breaks for the wealthy
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  7278.  @calastyphon3414  personal tax iis high enough the issue is tax on wealth instead of work
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  7279. In what way? I'm already getting cheap electricity because of our move to renewables
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  7280.  @ryanlongley5052  no There are loads of people who have gone down the solar / battery / ev route who get cheap off peak energy courtesy of off peak always on wind. I pay a maximum of 7p per kwh because I can timeshift usage.
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  7281. They express a feeling and aren't Corbynistas, I listen to the podcasts sometimes there on the same page as me sometimes not. The issue younger voters have is the swathe of money taken up with rent 40% at the last count. Sunak also abandoned a policy to force Landlords to uprate insulation to C+ Standard. + He's hammered young people with additional Graduate Taxes and there will be a push to disincentive going to University if they get in power again.
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  7282.  @villa_fan8882  He was funded by a right wing dark money group so yes he did
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  7283. Far Right and facts are like Oil and Water
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  7284. Then the government would have to subsidize farmers and have an agri policy the Cons like to outsource everything
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  7285. Of the counties that voted for Biden contain 70% of the US gdp If your too stupid to understand that Republican economic policy screws you over time and again then keep with the irrelevant culture war distraction
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  7286.  @kristielynnkw  Conservatives run supply side trickle down economics everyone else run Kenysian Demand side Economics The 2 are radically different producing radically different economies.
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  7287.  @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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  7288.  @olearris  I wish I had your faith, with the gerrymandering, dark money etc... You'll struggle on the timescales, Bernie is 80 and while vigorous for his age Republicans are extremely thick skinned and the scotus is packed with conservatives. Remember this is effectively nationalising healthcare across the country. It's going to need a carrot and stick approach and a long term plan that can't be undone. Obamcare is hanging by a thread, what needs to come must be proof against ideological vandalism.
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  7289. ​@knightsnight5929 it's not its illegal to use it for political campaigns.
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  7290. Worst government in history and the guy is asking charge to what? Just filling the potholes, getting rid of RAAC in our hospital and removing sewage from my local river would be a start
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  7291. Majority looked to be boomers and all the guys bar one were seriously over weight how many of them don't wear a mask and take precautions. A huge % of those at the riot were boomers as well, they have decent jobs they listen to all the bile on the right wing networks You speak to people like this about a minimum 15$ wage and they blow up like there trying to justify economic slavery Trump has his hardcore in the uneducated but there's a huge swath of hardcore educated older right wing who don't want a multi cultural America and are prepared to put up with concentration camps at the border.
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  7292. It's Thatcherite economics you keep voting in Con government to reduce migration you need to pay higher taxes and train your domestic workers, it won't cure it completely but its a huge part of the problem. Anyone pointing this out gets shouted down as a leftie you get what you vote for
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  7293.  @Tugga74  if you invest in the domestic workforce you reduce the need for migration Labour do not have the policy you so phlipantly bandy about but are subject to non stop media pressure to not tax the elites and use the money to invest in UK plc. If they put forward a comprehensive reworking of tax policy that would be used to fix the underlying economic drivers you wouldn't vote for them instead you would pull the blue lever believing some populist BS that you can have your cake and eat it to.
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  7294.  @Tugga74  this is untrue They were relentlessly pressured to not reverse Conservative economic policy which drives migration by the Tory media. There already pushing the view that Your taxes will go up when in fact it's the Elites who will loose thier tax breaks
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  7295.  @ianc8054  because of the economic policies you have that decision will shrink the economy and leads to increased taxation which is politically unpopular?
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  7296. @ianc8054  which bit about businesses going bankrupt and services stopping working if we do that because the economic model we run do you not understand?
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  7297. There is a balance between increased migration and increased investment driving productivity. The price is higher taxes though not on the working and middle class but the removal of the insane amount of tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. What slows increased automation is the non stop availability of cheap labour  @ianc8054 
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  7298. He's probably going to be in prison in Georgia by then, the Republicans need a real candidate
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  7299. I'm fine with it Reform are just noisy Cons
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  7300. now then its dash to the UKIP end is still in progress we wait til Cruella is elected supreme leader of the Tory party before giving them their NF/BNP sticker @Nemothewonderfish 
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  7301. Capital cost of renewable infrastructure fell by 2% in real terms last year the normal lifespan is estimated at 25 years and It's around light years cheaper to get your final mile at peak demand time from Mass Storage than to get it from Gas standby Generation Station because they store off peak always on energy.
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  7302. It's to do with borrowing, you need the rate to be attractive enough to sell Gilts we borrowed 130 billion last year total debt is around 2.6 trillion and interest payments are currently 120 billion. The Conservatives have really screwed up the economy everyone in the City knows there will be near zero growth
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  7303.  @Petal4822  freedom of movement, any leverage over trade damaging provisions in trade deals, the ability to lobby and block GM foods the list is pretty endless. We have minority rule which is determined to screw over thee majority
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  7304.  @uingaeoc3905  People in Poland support the EU 80% and thier authority over trade matters 70% the government is playing the usual right wing grievance polotics as it wishes to maintain power trying to divide the Polish people over lgbt rights making woman's right to full medical treatments and an abortion somehow political trying to create some form of Catholic Christian zeal. Poland is also becoming more cosmopolitan more European and us changing. Hungary is a failed state Orban and his party are corrupt, it's loosing population and becoming poorer by the year it has a severe brain drain due to the Anti intellectual stance of his government at some stage if Orban stays in charge it will be kicked out.
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  7305.  @uingaeoc3905  I've relatives in Poland younger people and the educated don't want anything to do with Duda's reactionary right wing shit he managed to scare a bunch of old crusties to vote for him by pedalling himself as the moral leader against a tide of liberalism. Pensioners don't create GDP and there dying off.
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  7306. It's a side issue to make you look the other way while they issue 1.25 million visas
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  7307. Name 1 good thing the GOP passed with a trifecter in 2016/7, all you got was a debt / inflation fueling tax cut for the wealthy Hint - trickle down is the rich p1ssing on you and telling you its raining
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  7308. Look selling off around 1 trillion of your assets and leasing it back is a fk stupid idea you need to factor in between 3-5% profit on 1 trillion that's a 50 billion loss to the public purse from a fixed asset we used to own same goes for water and council houses as a country if we still owned those assets we would be 80+ billion better off, Thatcherism the long tail
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  7309. Starmer is targeting the smugglers not the smuggled cooperating with the people who run the border on the other side reclassifying people smugglers in the same light as organised crime and seizing their assets plus getting rid of the backlog that's costing us 8 billion The Tories offer is to shout a lot about the smuggled as if that will bring down the numbers hint it won't
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  7310. Trump is going to try and run a shadow government and use leverage over the party to get show hearings in the Senate and try and derail anything Biden does. Moscow Mitch's obstruction side show with Obama will look small beer compared to what's to come if Georgia Senate seats go to the GOP. Hopefully the people in Georgia will see that 2 years of Senate obstruction is destructive for everyone.
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  7311. ​@martynblackburn9632 there even further to the right but according to this lot there not fachy enough
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  7312.  @JohnDoe-ew3xt  he'd expressed a desire to leave it on a number of occasions irst in his presidential run in 2016 there's credible reporting from the security personnel he surrounded himself with that he would withdraw in he's second term. Comrade Tucker has been barking on about nato for years aside from that Trump got played by every autocrat he met all Kim had to do was send him a letter
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  7313.  The governor  Why? with soft power comes great wealth to US business. Its not just about military alliances there's huge scope for trade underneath which the US exploits to the max. You wanting to lower your standard of living?
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  7314. Last time labour did this there was a big increase in productivity Productivity since 2010 has fallen by 10% On top of this the NI threshold has doubled removing small businesses from paying NI altogether, the biggest looser are companies employing high earners such as City service sector
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  7315. Turnout is going to be through the roof, Texas are 95% of thier 2016 total already, it's estimated there will be another +30 million with a likely 160million voting in total last time I checked early voting was up to 80+ million and expected early turnout is 100+million. Polls are what they are with so much participation it's up to everyone to assume that thier vote might be the tipping point and participate and do thier civic duty
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  7316. Yea its a real con people wanting to breath unpolluted air what's wrong with good old city smog and lets get the lead put back in petrol while were at it who wants EV's with there zero urban pollution and cheap running costs. And get rid of that wind energy that's half the cost per kilowatt hour of fossil we need to pay more for good old coal
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  7317.  @margaretarmstrong2445  most of the cars makers have stopped using cobalt, refining oil uses use once cobalt you can't even recycle it so get of your righteous stool and check your fossil friend's talking points.
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  7318. they don't have much competition and they've committed to GBEnergy
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  7319. He's insane and won't serve a day needs to be in a mental institution
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  7320. We don't have mass illegal imigration it's a fraction of the overall total. And Farage doesn't have the answer its more show pony Billie no mates fighting with the EU We saw how that ended in utter failure for the Tories
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  7321. ​ rigamortice have you looked at there economic offering its magic money tree Truss style freemarketeer fantasy land
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  7322. The only people there were anti maskers anyone with any sense wasn't there
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  7323. Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical I'd expect them to alter the tax system fundamentally as well
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  7324. Biden will go down as the most consequential of modern times pivoting the US economy to be the Renewable world tech leader
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  7325. 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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  7326. Government spending has no comparison with a company or household budget A huge amount of this money will go into the US economy in arms production
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  7327. The reason the government spent 72 billion on energy subsidies last year was because we were tied to Gas. Upping our renewable energy usage to move away from gas dependable is a priority
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  7328. Don't need to all they have to do is get on with net zero reducing UK energy spend and abort the tax threshold freeze to 2028 that Sunak has implemented to further the Conservatives trickle down agenda. @wallacewhybrow2705 
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  7329. Biden is +4 points in total vote % +6 million in total votes 1/4 million votes ahead in swing states +78 votes in the electoral college Its like dealing with a toddler and his cartoon side kick of disinformation Goebbels Giuliani (Lawn and Order baby), so it takes Milley to teach the GOP what the truth is
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  7330. a look at what a failure that's been
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  7331. Limbaugh doesn't care he's got his place booked in one of the 7 levels of Hell This is not the Flu and death is the least of everyone's worries the people that recover are highly likely to have long term health issues (lung scarring, kidney failure, liver problems, heart problems, auto immune problems) and at any age. I can live without a bar for 2 years and I'm happy to chip in some money to help those that loose their jobs, I've already contributed to food banks etc..
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  7332. The guy is a Con man he's already laundered all the fighting fund election litigation money into his own pockets, he's over a billion in debt to be called in has multiple court cases going on two for sexual assault (one of which is rape) he's in hock for millions of unpaid taxes and he's going to be sued in civil court for millions for damages caused in the capitol riot. He's currently blacklisted by every bank for one thing he doesn't pay his debts, multiple states and cities will be blacklisting him for unpaid security costs now he's not president so anyone putting up money for any of his enterprises don't expect to see any of it back or even a product at the end of it
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  7333.  @Will46666  The current bunch of Tories are hard right Thatcherite nutters, Rhishi takes his orders from Policy Exchange the anti net zero Libertarian think tank.
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  7334. ​ @jake751 yes there is but I take it you can't be bothered to find out
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  7335. There's around 100 billion black hole in their tax plans in fact non of their manifesto is remotely achievable bar stopping the move to energy independence. When you start looking behind who funds stuff on the right you walk straight into the billionaire fossil lobby
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  7336. In the past 2.5 years we've got 4.2 % poorer and seen prices increase by 20% Food inflation on staples has doubled and he sat on his hands and did nothing during the energy crisis. I drove through Germany last moth they've built 100's of wind turbines to switch over from gas we've done err nothing just gambled it would go away
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  7337.  @JamesBarber-p7b  he could have instigated a proper windfall tax not used 42 billion of public money to boost energy companies profits And He did squat to remove planning restrictions on onshore wind farms, in 2.5 years we could have upped capacity reducing reliance on gas, he also canned improved insulation regulations
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  7338.  @b62boom1  It's a double edged sword, its also being used by the government to depress salaries in the public sector. Osborne canning training bursaries as part of Austerity for health workers has lead to an explosion of foreign nurses and doctors. And if your expanding the population you need to build the housing services and transport to sustain it. Figures on students and dependants is 500,000. The question is then would it be 200,000 net if we still had FOM how much of the fallout is Brexit
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  7339. There are a lot of people economically inactive and a high number part time as well as those trapped on in benefits + families that can't afford childcare.
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  7340.  @birdie1585  If a female teacher has a kid does she now go back to work or stay at home same with health workers there are many women. Also if we pay the going rate then there won't be as many leaving to go abroad If you want to build more houses then have then prefabbed in a factory move away from bricks and mortar + there are also a huge range of new materials
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  7341. The average person is £1000 worse off than in 2010 thanks Tories a continuous gaggle of useless Conservative muppets
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  7342.  @joancooley1387  He just pedalled the same old shyte Trickle Down Supply Side Economics which has stagnated the economy over the last 13 years and any other Tory Leader will do the same
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  7343. 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 do it all the time so no meaningful amendment goes forward and the whole debate becomes pointless on an opposition day motion.
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  7344. Don't you want a clamp down on illegal immigration or ID to vote?
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  7345. The problem Is CON ideology when your answer to everything is cut tax small state your not really addressing the problem. If you want less nurses from Nigeria you invest in training UK nurses if that means free University course for them so be it.
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  7346. They are China deployed more renewable energy last year than the rest of the world put together
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  7347. The issue here is Harris like Waltz are a more pragmatic Democrat who have abandoned neoliberalism and found a new centre She's is talking about practical supply side reform to get infrastructure and housing built, the deregulation from the right combined with investment from the left but done in a constructive way.
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  7348. I mean how did a man who is thicker than p1gshit ever get elected He's old senile and incontinent, an effing embarrassment to the US oh yea 50% of his campaign funds came from 9 billionaires, tax CUTS gimme my Tax CUTS
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  7349.  @TheTwosliceToaster  get yourself a proper hero for the Left not some half baked London intelectual that was living in the past. Until you stop wallowing in this false veneration for an absolute failure where stuck with Beer Korma
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  7350.  @scooble  I would suspect Driscol doesn't have the 1st clue about economics especially government economics which is in line with 99% of MP's and 99.9% of the public. And stop using neoliberal as a throwaway comment when you don't appear to know what it means
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  7351. Not playing with a full deck that's for sure
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  7352. If your voting on made up media culture wars your a pretty sad person Onshore wind has been reinstated and 3 projects approved that the Cons sat on and planning directives have been altered, they have an unavailable majority it doesn't matter what various factions want
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  7353. No it isn't we have the prospect of 11% inflation embedded stagflation and a shrinking economy 12 years the Cons have been in power and 3 times wage growth has gone negative from 2010 to current its something like -8% in real wage growth and were into our second decade of stagnation
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  7354.  @ThePierre58  the Cons managed to blame thier crap economy on the EU they can't hide their utter incompetence on anyone anymore go look at the data
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  7355.  @ThePierre58  Inflation in France is half what it is here there economy is predicted to have 1.5-2% growth this year Our predicted growth is Zero, each point of GDP growth is worth 8 billion to the exchequer if we actually contract then tax revenues will decrease you have a predicted inflation of 11% and no plan to get the country out of the economic hole the Tories have dug. All Sunak can come up with is Austerity 2.0 which will crater living standards even further
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  7356.  @ThePierre58  Trump manager of the worst economic record since Hoover his 4 year record was appaling -3.6 gdp growth +6 million unemployed doubled the deficit and introduced a corporate tax cut that fueled borrowing and part of the current US inflation? Whatever your political affiliation the guy was an ecenomic disaster ran the country like his businesses on credit except bankruptcy isn't an option with a country when it collapses.
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  7357.  @ThePierre58  yea the models OBR LSE and IMF plus other economic publications and bodies
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  7358. border is same as it always is if the Republicans want to fix it there would be a bipartisan deal All republicans want is the fight @LouieMcGood-ef6ud 
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  7359. @djinghiskhan9199  quote The Trump policy that freaks out economists the most Trump's trade proposals could be equivalent to a $3 trillion tax hike, warned Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the center-right think tank End This doesn't even factor in retaliatory tarrifs which in DJT'S presidency led to increased farmer bancrucies and suicides and the federal government giving 10s of billions to the farming sector in subsidies. He's on about taking on the EU, let's be clear they are cold calculating and will retaliate where it hurts most there not subject to the whims of 1 man
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  7360. @djinghiskhan9199  sales taxes are regressive the less you earn the more you pay that's why the GOP and their millionaire buddies and Oil Baron's love them
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  7361.  @codswallop164  they were cought on camera which is why they pleaded guilty.
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  7362. No you didn't put your ear patch back on and go worship your cult leader
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  7363. ​@31Blaize me too but I don't get that people can't see how biased the media are to the Right wing the Cons have gotten away with shrinking our economy, erecting insurmountable trade barriers to our closest market defunding servics to the state of collapse crashing the economy and nearly bankrupting pension funds yet the forelock tugging goes on bizarre!
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  7364.  @willc1294  there just as deluded on economics as Truss and Kwerteng + there insane they want fracking
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  7365. Reform economic policies are as Batsh1t as Truss's where
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  7366. At least he's more competent If you can call what looks like a below average middle manager failing upwards
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  7367. 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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  7368. Not according to focus groups the 20 seconds at the end sunk him completly and Tim buried the hatchet. Why was Vance there not Pence? Because Vance will say and do anything to gain power including breaking his oath of office.
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  7369. @derecksmith4799  he chose Vance because he's a chameleon who will do and say anything + he came with millions of dollars from the Venture capitalist Bros Teal and Musk who think that A/ they can manipulate Trump And B/ DJT IS So effing senile he'll last a year tops before Vance the Billionaires puppet takes over
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  7370. You need to look at tax as a % of income not total tax take People in the bottom 20% pay a fare higher % of ther income and asset worth than anyone else in the economy by a large margin people at the very top are paying 2 or maybe 3%
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  7371. Don't forget regressive purchase taxes bottom 20% of Texans by income pay 13% top 5% pay 3.5% by income in state taxes
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  7372. ​ @stephengraham1153 Lib Dems And allowing 16+ plus and long stay migrants the vote will weaken the right further at the election in 5 years time
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  7373. Add this to the Pritsters habitual bullying the whips using mafia tactics to coerce MP's and now a PM openly trying to bully and fat shame another MP The bar for the Cons has been lowered again Boris is now a lying shameless and now bully
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  7374.  @JohnAdams-xc5yk  not true there's been a well armed well trained units in there you can pick up pro russian footage showing these troops in action, how many as a percentage of the total who knows there's 140k troops committed that have been fighting in the field for 4 weeks a lot of footage we see is of ambushes only 40-50% will be infantry, the conscripts which are about 20% of the total will be in support roles this is a problem if there being targeted. Ukrainian forces looked to be more based on the western model but how far that goes I dunno where there is much much higher levels of support for every combatant
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  7375. If you implement the Trickle down Supply Side budget from hell with tax cuts to bankers millionaire pensioners and Fossil fuel companies and screw everyone else with tax rises then someone with loads of money will accrue bags more money By the way the guff about no money left was BS the debt to GDP ratio was 62% in 2010 by 2019 it was 92% its now 100%
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  7376.  @EileenHall-j9f  what difference does political virtue signalling do? They've been at war in some shape or form since before I started voting 50 years ago
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  7377. Murdoc is Satan's agent on Earth
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  7378. I work in IT its not, the world moved to a global on demand supply chain years ago if you improve data flow you improve efficiency of the system saving costs by integrating partners into your information systems. It was starting to happen anyway the WH is just giving the logistics sector a kick up the ** so there's a standard rather than multiple versions of the same shared resource
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  7379.  @coltkom  I'm a technical analyst with a very large software company and it will. We've already been doing cross integration projects one standard helps everyone
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  7380. They won't this is based on all REFORM votes going back to the Tories and there being NO tactical voting
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  7381. I know saw her on the show Make Me Prime Minister a right good laugh Alastair Campbell and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi put 12 ambitious Brits through their political paces, as they compete to be crowned Channel 4's Alternative Prime Minister
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  7382. What do you mean by low taxes? If you vote for a Right wing Party they will implement Trickle Down supply Side Economics If you look at the start of this process with Cameron and Osborne the 1st thing they did was increase VAT unless you are Rich sales taxes have a disproportionate impact on the total level of taxation you pay on your income and assets. Go look up the charts. The cheapest method of funding healthcare by a country mile is through taxation a flat tax or Insurance policy goes into the same bucket as sales taxes again it hits disproportionately middle and lower incomes. Basically if you reduce the size of the state unless your a millionaire + you will pay more tax as a total of your income + assets through regressive taxation. Small sate deregulation exaggerates this effect by removing workers rights and bargaining power as well as using external supply side labour pool to put downward pressure on the labour market. Fire and Rehire + zero hour are legal whatever the government claim
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  7383. A Party of rich elites peddling Thatcherism with a dose of populism Same old Trickle down Right wing cr*p different wrapper
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  7384.  @fletcherreed3259  He pumped 4 trillion onto debt doing it adding around 2-3 points to the post cov inflation The chance of him being allowed to do it again with debt to GDP now standing at 122% are fat to none
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  7385. this crisis is 13 years in the making successive trickle down policies that have failed to restart the economy after the banking crash which has also led to 13 years of Austerity. There paying for Asylum applicants because they don't want to process them so that people like you get wound up and blame anyone but the Tories for their shtshw they've left the country in
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  7386.  @gpw203  what wage inflation? I was talking about food and goods if you erect trade barriers between you and your main market / supplier you incur extra costs with each twist of the knife Brexit piles more pressure onto a cracking cost of living crisis. Vet certificates cost money delays cost money carrying extra stock because the supply chain is fked costs money spoilage because of the delays costs money export markets closing costs money Every last drop of it is coming out of your pocket
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  7387.  @El.Cid17  You obviously don't understand what a Free market is the loss of GDP is around 60 billion in lost tax revenue alone and doesn't factor the complete collapse in long term investment or the 30% weakening of the £ or total lack of access to a large labour market Its the sheer quantity of economic damage like a wrecking ball across the economy These are from financial articles FT Reuters Bloomberg quote The red-tape curtain is very expensive – costing an average 8-9% for both goods and services, and exports and imports. That’s around £25 billion a year on UK exports of just under £300 billion to the EU (2019 figures). This is a long-term trading cost Quote Economic and environmental wrecking ball': Study tots up £83bn cost of Retained EU Law Bill Quote Brexit has wrecked Britain's car industry 20 May 2023 — Production fell 9.8% from 2021, and declined 41% from 2019 Quote British pig farmers 'fear ruin' over Brexit 31 Jan 2022 — The slaughter backlog within the British pig industry is almost certainly down to butcher shortages as a result of Brexit. Quote 'Fears of new bureaucracy, rules and costs have all come true': Brexit making touring Europe 'unviable' for UK artists The number of UK artists booked for European festivals this summer is down 45% compared to 2017-19, according to the group Best for Britain - which previously campaigned against Brexit.
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  7388.  @gpw203  go park it since 2016 Germany has seen wage growth of 20% The complete bag of horseshit you've been fed is just that Being in a single market with NO tariffs NO paperwork NO barriers to trade helps everyone sell to a market of 440 million and the EU had THE BEST TRADE DEALS on the PLANET. Our Japan deal is sloppy seconds at best Large companies have complex supply chains which Brexit has fkd up Medium businesses are setting up abroad small business are shrinking or going under You where SOLD Global Britain which means zero protections for home markets mass unemployment as every fker under the sun rapes our economy with unfettered GLOBALIZATION Those Tory tossers don't give a fk about you the plan was complete free market deregulation to pollute fire / rehire import to the lowest standard possible and drive wages through the floor with a ruling elite gorging unfettered capitalism profits while the rest of us ROT. Its that fkin bad 1/2 a million emigrated last year and it will get worse
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  7389. Because at its core the GOP agenda is to remove women's rights Don't look at the shiny thing at the top of the ticket one burger away from a coronary look at Vance his backers and thier agenda for a billionaire plutocracy
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  7390. You do know the Hunter stuff is all made up to rile up his cult followers don't you? There's never going to be charges just like there weren't any against Hillary. The guy is a multiple bankrupt had his charity closed down for using it as a cashing account Trump University had to reimburse its students when it was described in court as nothing but a Ponzi scheme. He's stiffed every contractor he's ever come across he cheats on his wife's, taxes and lies to his followers with 500 of their lives and ruined for following his nut job election rantings In the end Everything Trump Touches Dies
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  7391. Your wanting simple solutions to highly complex problems The people promising these magic solutions are snake oil salesman yet your happy enough to move onto the next stall and buy some more
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  7392. REFORM are just rebadged Thatcherites with all the failed economic policies that that entails from running a supply side globalist economy Completely out of touch or why would they guff off about fracking
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  7393. They've deported 10,000 illegal migrants already loads of energy projects that were delayed and put on the shelf have been funded My local hospital has gotten 20 million to replace RAAC and they had the 1st reading of the clean water bill last week They've done more in 6 months than Sunak did in 2 years
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  7394. Food and Farm crisis is self inflicted being over reliant on fertilizer, mono cropping and various land management practices that strip it of nutrition and slowly degrade the water table.
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  7395.  @Stand663  What's to fight about NI don't want this legislation they voted 60-40 for the protocol
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  7396.  @Stand663  the paper work and friction were chosen by the Tories and their hard Brexit there's 2 places to put a border because of that choice and in Ireland isn't going to happen no matter how much the unionists bitch about flags. The DUP wanted Brexit they've got it if they don't like it tuff we told you so. The protocol is a signed binding agreement the Tories campaigned and won an 80 seat majority on so no backsies
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  7397. The allowance for a couple is 3 million This affects the landlord farmers and businesses trying to dodge IHT
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  7398. She's a centerist If you want to transform the uk economy you'd pump money into leveling up the country outside London Frost is talking bollox as usual
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  7399. We have a Right wing nutter bought and paid for by the Billionaire class pontificating about the BBC Comedy gold
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  7400.  @beagle30  since when there all paid to undermine anything that's neutral and publicly owned, if its not owned and controlled by the billionaire class they want it gone. Whatever the BBC faults are the biggest to them is with it being that they can't control the narrative so there propaganda only goes so far before it hits reality.
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  7401. Which is lucky given the gibberish they pedal​ @jjefferyworboys8138 
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  7402. Brexit benifits bask in your sovereignty
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  7403.  @davidwebb4904  you mean something like this? HS2 light a step closer as Government opens talks with 18 Oct 2024 — Transport Secretary Louise Haigh to hold talks with private businesses and metro mayors advocating for a new version of the axed high-speed line.
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  7404.  @davidwebb4904  I did a breakdown on hinkley C a year ago, the Government are only committed to 33 billion, cost overruns are having to be absorbed by EDF currently. The main issue is the delays you can build the equivalent wind farm offshore for 11 billion in 2 years. And Put mass storage on strategic grid nodes for 30 billion quote EDF says its Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant could be delayed to as late as 2031, with costs rising to £46bn
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  7405.  @davidwebb4904  We have the lowest tax base of major European economies. The bulk of the bill is Pensions and NHS You can however increase revenue by collecting what is owed estimates are that last year HMRC failed to collect 42 billion. If you want to decrease waste and reduce costs devolve the spending power to local government who are more able to scrutinize budgets
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  7406. Just since the Tories got in ack in 2010, longest hardest period of stagnation and negative economic growth since the Napoleonic war and the highest tax burden since WW2
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  7407. That isn't really the problem what we've seen along with Liz Truss is the complete failure of Thatcherism, the current bunch are so welded to that ideology they cannot comprehend why deregulation and trickle down tax cuts has turned our economy into a stagnant cesspool yet their answer is to double down on the very thing that has failed for 14 years.
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  7408. JC was mired in the past CND peacenik stuff the guy was a relic roundly rejected at the ballot box and his blindness to the real world was one o the main reasons
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  7409.  @bad444  stimulus has nothing to do with world wide inflation The. Clue is in the worldwide bit. Supply chains will take years to recover if at all the pandemic has tought us shorten the supply chain control your destiny is
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  7410.  @rider3859  Trump and republicans would have been worse you'd have had a squeeze on spending resulting in a high unemployment and zero gdp growth Oh wait trump already did That millions unemployed and - 4% gdp
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  7411.  @rider3859  the general economy is ticking over OK we have worldwide inflation due to ecessive consolidation and shipping costs trebelling Corporate profits are at record highs and the GOP refuses to tax them
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  7412.  @rider3859  unemployment is at a record low and the Orange idiot that tried to steal an election and make himself president for life is busy doing the cry baby tour Granted Abbot and DeSantis are trying to resurct Authoritarian rule but people will get sick of it after a while
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  7413. I've read Freidman and studied economics, the issue is how much does his theroeis hold in a globalised market and a pandemic The more you look at this with record corporate profits the more the finger points to reversing the corporate tax cuts, in fact the super rich billionaires doubled their net worth these last 2 years yet they appear to contribute virtually nothing to overall government coffers. I agree there needs to be a rate rise and an end to quantative easing but tax needs sorting out as well
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  7414.  @JoshAndBooze  its assumption didn't involve a pandemic and a word wide on demand supply chain that semi collapsed and Trillions locked up in the wealth of super rich Billionaires. Anyway the tapering needs to go happen quicker.
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  7415.  @JoshAndBooze  if you expand the money base and it all circulates round the economy without growing said economy you'd expect inflation. The top 10% own 70% of US wealth their net worth has Increased enormously how much of that are they spending extra if any? The bottom half spend every cent they have. Just saying
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  7416. The guy is as thick as mince and has been spouting Internet conspiracy theories
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  7417. It cost the state £6,000 per private pupil in tax breaks that's without the gift aid because they have charity status and £9,000 to educate a state pupil so the Government is still quids in with this policy
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  7418.  @everest9707  2010 Osborne cut nursing busuries leading to a decrease in domestically trained nurses Classic Thatcherism Supply side Trickle down economics needs a constant supply side Labour pool (migrant workers) to cover the lack of domestic investment
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  7419. ​@KIoakk there going to take your human rights away for a start Then Privatise the BBC getting rid of the only independent news channel
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  7420. we don't want 100's of billions wasted on Tory projects
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  7421. There not soviet anymore and their offensives have completely failed also their economy is now in long term dire straits quote Russia stares into population abyss as Putin sends its young men to die · Experts believe Russia may see fewer than 1.2 million births this year
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  7422. Last mile van delivery will all be EV in the next few years, all new town buses are Electric
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  7423. how do you know Labour won't be more competent? Starmer by all accounts ran the DPP extremely well and Reeve has experience at the BOE You can't take anything the papers say about the Labour front bench as fact they just line up behind the Tories like slavedogs you need to go to independent media listen to some long form interviews
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  7424. Why would the Republicans want Trump again he was an economic disaster who added +50% to the national debt (8 trillion) with unfunded tax cuts to sky high the stock market and fuel inflation Trump by the numbers over 4 years +50% debt 8 trillion taking debt to GDP to record levels of 132% -3 million jobs -3.6% GDP etc. the US would go bankrupt with another Trump term
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  7425. Tory economic policy is driving the UK down the toilet and you want a more extreme version? Gimme strength the level of disconnect is off the charts
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  7426. the ECHR which underpins the Good Friday agreement and is the last resort against government overreach just as the Hillsborough families why does the right always want to take our rights away?
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  7427. Why be a complete dick head and repeat ignorant media commentators talking points trying to stir up Trans hate
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  7428. Putin won't negotiate in good faith this war will end when Russia has exhausted itself of Imperial Conquest As for give Ukraine what it needs the focus should be on Ammunition and lots and lots of it they've been on full mobilization since February and have already 3 full equipment drops curtsy of hasty Russian retreats
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  7429. The only way we will be better off is to invest and grow the economy our GDP per Capita has fallen since 2010 from 50k to 45k and the last 2 years has seen the sharpest drop in living standards in UK history
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  7430. More Tory economics Marvellous can't wait to be even poorer
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  7431.  @111111877  just pointed out the bleeding obvious
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  7432. It breaks international law on multiple levels and 0.5% isn't a deterent its a money pit disguised as a show pony
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  7433. erm it was Prime Ministers question time and Sunak lied his arse off a few months in and we get Johnson's playbook childish names and a sack of lies People pay less tax? where cutting crime? Poverty down? verbal wanking has a new star Sunak
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  7434. Why would they be scared of reform there just rehashed dregs of UKIP
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  7435. Delivering for millionaire pensioners you mean screwing everyone else The current budget is classic Tory grift with inflation and fiscal drag the average person will be 6% worse off with an additional tax burden of around £1000 under Sunak the tax base has moved from 32% in 2019 to 33% 2022 and is expected to be 38% by 2027 when the rate freeze expires. The reason is the economy is a raging skip fire after 13 years of Tory economic mismanagement
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  7436. @smunro1983  it's the economic model that needs feeding migrant workers, reason it's exploded now is 14 years of wage suppression and leaving the EU
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  7437. We now have the tech to move off fossil EV's are hitting the bottom of the S curve, renewables already 1/2 the cost of fossil per kilowatt hour There are numerous ways of reducing car usage as well
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  7438. Starmer at least has a mortgage
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  7439.  @alanpartington2540  Starmer in PMQ's
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  7440. @alanpartington2540  why wouldn't you the right wing media would be all over it if it weren't true Knowing them he's probably being followed 24/7 to try dig up anything they can as their precious Tories self immollate
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  7441. How dumb are these people, why do they even bother just start with "Hi were carrying water for Murdoch, he's a fascist billionaire and we want all our billionaire friends to screw as much money out of the plebs as possible"
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  7442. Sigh 0.0025 % of fraud found over 20 year period It's traceable, there's a hard copy you can audit after the event. Its far more secure than voting machines and you could buy the optical readers now to count them + pre verify the signatures so you get a quick count. Or you could close all but a few polling stations make people queue for hours and lock them out at the alloted time so you can rig the election.
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  7443. He's awful how much do you know about him his political leanings connections with the Radical hard right US Evangelical movement his ties to the Heritage Foundation a think Tank that is far right and sponsored by big Fossil interests?
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  7444.  @ryanfisk3671  it's a market that's 20 miles away and is the main supply chain for businesses across UK dummy Brexit's sole purpose was to glue the Tory Party together its political economically its a complete fkin train wreck hence empty shelves and let them eat turnips, they lied when they guffed off about benifits. There's no plan just a steaming wreck of an economy as we collectively get poorer and see higher taxes and increased costs of products
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  7445.  @ryanfisk3671  you got large number of migrants over because the Tories were all in on an UREGLATED ZERO HOUR LOW WAGE ECONOMY people just came for the jobs
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  7446. It gets worse in the 2020 election 45% of the votes were cast by men 55% by women, they live longer and are more reliable voters
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  7447. It's costed at the same price as Truss's corporate tax cuts which will be debt loaded its a here's what could be done
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  7448. Relying on fossil fuel from a far off country who would have thought it would be a problem?
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  7449. Wouldn't mattered who was in charge because Brexit is an economic train wreck and 50 years of asset stripping Thatcherism has run out of road
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  7450. He will remove the hundreds of billions in subsidies and the fields won't get explored
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  7451.  @andrewwalsh2755  Even Blair/ Brown were a million miles from the Cons so you're analogy is a bit dumb
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  7452. I mean how will the rich survive? By the way they forgot to say that your first 400k is taxed as is its only the above 400k portion that attracts the extra taxes
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  7453. they can't If you want to lower migration you need to invest in Physical and social infrastructure that means a fair and equitable tax system not Tory low tax for the rich trickle down which needs migration to feed it
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  7454. How can he launch an attack on Boris's integrity Boris doesn't have any Johnson just lies with an abandon of arrogance and incompetence
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  7455. That's caused by trickle down economics same policy Reform are wedded to
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  7456. ​ @princealex3985 it's 1.25 million of which 50% are dependents The numbers are a direct result of loosing FOM a non EU worker will want to fetchthier family you can't justdrive through the channel tunnel for Xmas And We can't reduce migration while you run Supply Side Trickle Down economics aka Thatcherism otherwise your squeezing middle and lower class income to pay for tax breaks and cuts for the rich, as it is Thatcherism is exploding tax at the lower end
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  7457. You mean its the biggest threat to their portfolio's 2020 saw deflation and the rich made more money than EVER So which bits don't they like I bet full employment and rising wages but of course there not going to say are they instead hike interest rates depress the emerging small businesses that are recovering and starting up and get those workers back in low paid employment.
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  7458. They won't go down with djt in fact if you combine his lunatic tariff scheme with mass deportations you'll wreck the economy for well over a decade. And That will allow China and the EU to become the renewable tech leaders undercutting US manufacturing by having cheaper energy
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  7459. Kudlow is a joke, rolling back pollution regulations creates more jobs for hospitals asthma alone is a major issue, you need cleaner water as well.
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  7460. Voting Reform is like Turkeys voting for xmas They have no viable policies, as for Nige hes the biggest griffter of them all, sold us down the river with Brex1t which is killing the economy and claims he can put out the fire he startted. I drop buy sometimes Andy but lets be clear Nige looks after Nige no one else
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  7461. 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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  7462.  @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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  7463.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Not on his economic record Trump +50% debt is responsible for a 1/4 of all US debt (90% gdp to debt to 132% gdp to debt) (big part of that was the unfunded 1.5 trillion corporate tax cut) which is also responsible for a large part of inflation. -3 million jobs GDP -3.6% Balance of trade +40% Biden in 2 years is +6 million jobs has reduced the debt to GDP from 132% to 121% +400,000 jobs reshored in 2022 and has pivoted the US economy to produce its own chips and Green tech to lead the world in renewables But hey you vote for the orange fktard if you want
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  7464. Why will tax be higher under labour? Last time they were in power they lowered VAT which is a huge benefit to middle and lower incomes and cutting NI screws over pensioners
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  7465. She's not even Conservative and She was all in breaking international law and lying about it at the dispatch box
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  7466. Funny how it = the pre election bribe of cutting NI
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  7467. The reason there doing that is 13 years of failed Tory economic policy Debt to gdp was 62% in 2010 its now > 100% Trickle down Thatcherism + Austerity has completely tanked the economy and we're still hemoraging money In 2023 well pay +140 billion in excess profits for energy companies privatisation has been shown to be a complete failure So let's be clear Thatcher Major Cameron brought the country and economy to breaking point you add brexit ontop and we were always screwed, by electing 3 of the most useless pm's in GB history since Cameron the Tories will implode and rightly so
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  7468.  @ezekielrayfield1512  turn off gbeebies talktv and don't read the daily mail or express and you'll be fine, all of a sudden all those burning issues will fade to nothing compared to the real issues in your life
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  7469. 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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  7470. The Cons run Supply Side Trickle down economics Everyone else runs a form of Keynesian Demand Side Economics which has emphasis on investment in Physical and Social infrastructure So there is a choice the 2 produce completely different economies at the Macro level So no he's not a cardboard Tory no one is
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  7471. Nige has had the stench of oligarch money all over him since the UKIP days this is transactional he wants a return to that gravy train even if it costs Ukrainian lives and their independence
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  7472. what's wrong with EV's there dirt cheap to run? Energy suppliers are giving as low as 8p pkwh for overnight charging, you get around 250 miles out of a 50 kw battery I would add battery prices have dropped by 20% in the last year
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  7473. We don't have the fastest growing economy in the G7 What your seeing in the headline GDP data is the addition of 2 million workers over 2 years due to legal migration. Businesses won't suffer because of tighter labour laws unless there abusing the system and treating there workers badly. Zero hour is a major contributor to a low pay economy that doesn't do the general economy any good
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  7474. Listening to Trump is like o/d ing on mogodon He is just depressing
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  7475. Had to laugh when I saw the title of this video 😅 Oh yes you are, in fact your one of the worst
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  7476. Lettuce Liz Economics with Cruella imigration policy? Are you serious do you know anything about economics
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  7477. I ran the numbers on daily usage the Russians are using 15,000 a day which vastly outstrips production also The NK shells are supposed to be cr@p with zero quality control, no 2 shells have the same packing guess there doing them by hand @garyddlewis3067 
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  7478. We borrowed an extra 130 billion last year debt servicing costs us 120 Billion alone There is no tax cuts taxes will rise because of FROZEN thresholds ex 12250 should be 15000 GP per Capita has fallen 7 Quarters straight and If they leave the election long the results will just get worse
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  7479. You could see this coming due to the dire state of the economy there's issues with the whole system It needs an overhaul the cost of scrapping it though is 15+ Billion and that money would be better spent on improving schools for 1 The Tories are also storing up a huge wage hike for public sector workers without one they are just leaving in droves
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  7480. He's cherry picking data based on a theory, usual nonsense
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  7481.  @mrwpg There is masses of real data from reliable sources to find out what's happening. You start with the data all of it and work up NOT start with a Theory and work down That's how the WMD theory took hold
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  7482. 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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  7483.  @TimesFM4532  It's enhanced as well
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  7484. 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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  7485. He had the. Worst economic numbers since Hoover and the great depression. 8 trillion on debt nearly 1/2 of US debt Completely fkin useless
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  7486. It's got nothing to do with cake, the central issue with Johnson is the constant lying
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  7487. I've been writing to my MP constantly on the law and order bill he's Conservative and he comes back with excuses. I'm on the YouGov survey list sad to say when this was polled there was high levels of support Quote Britons broadly supportive of Public Order Bill's measures to criminalise certain forms of disruptive protest For 66% Against 25% So sadly this looks a media win anyone digging into it in detail knows how bad it is
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  7488. Increase your wages below the inflation doesn't cause more inflation. Its way more complex than that. The core reason we have high inflation is energy costs have soared from 30 billion in 2021 to 170 billion expected in 2023.
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  7489.  @saucejohnson9862  He literally does nothing but watch TV all day, the reason there still is a stock market is down the the Democratic house stimulus bill which he didn't broker because he is incapable of negotiating. He is not doing anything now for the vast majority and money is drying up and businesses are dying. If you don't watch Fox or follow right wing propaganda who constantly treat this as a reality TV script you'd realise the guy is fekin useless it's all veneer there is a vacuous chasm underneath his administration is literally falling to pieces as he tries to spin everything rather than do the job.
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  7490. @UCs1-2vhgu-cCH-WQoAyrntQ anyone could get the market to break records by juicing it with an unsustainable tax cuts to the top which encouraged stock buy backs while inflating the national debt and the reason it's as it is is the liquidity pumped in by the fed through the house bill. There is also a smoke and mirrors high driven by tech and other companies who are in high demand during a pandemic, I've tech stocks which have soared 70% but that is not down to Bozo brain in the WH but down to firms speeding up transition to cloud services enabling virtual working. At ground level for the majority on low wage earners thier jobs and the economy is collapsing under thier feet because the Republican idiots can't see further than thier nose and won't pump anymore money into the bottom because hey were all right Jack. Demand will fall off a cliff in the next few months, the states are in the process of laying of health workers firemen teachers police as tax funds dry up. Why do Conservatives have a complete mind block over economics instead trotting out I'm OK screw everyone else, the socio-economic impact of do nothing Dornie is going to cripple the overall economy for more than a decade.
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  7491. FOM was good for everyone we have shortages of all sorts of labour
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  7492. Norway invest in it's domestic workforce with free education and retraining and have strict labour laws which ban zero hour low wage and all outsourcing has to be transparent in that they have to abide by Norwegian employment law so sick pay etc. The labour then coming into the system is down to necessity not because they can import on the cheap
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  7493.  @larrygerry985  why does size matter when the economic drivers of migration are the same. Underfunding your education and training while not regulating your labour market at the same time as keeping taxes low. Low tax small state trickle down needs large numbers of migrants to grow the economy it's a feature not a bug.
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  7494. borders have 2 sides France could bankrupt us in weeks by closing dover calais
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  7495. Target based approach is pure nonsense, your economy needs what it needs If you want to reduce migration you have to reduce the PULL factors Paying public sector workers the going rate and not using the VISA exception scheme to suppress pay Training and investing in your domestic workforce Investment in infrastructure High labour standards to stop outsourcing and zero hour being a cheap trick
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  7496. why was it the lowest turnout? anything to do with the huge voter suppression efforts by the Tories maybe with voter ID On TV 24/7 claiming it was a done deal trying to suppress and splinter the left vote?
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  7497. All the best people? They'd struggle to get on the Z team never mind the C or D team
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  7498. And I thought the Tories could sink any lower than Boris oh how I've been proved wrong we had the lettuce liz then the below average middle manager Sunak now your championing a raving Bigot
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  7499. It is a real conservative party that's why things are so sh1t 13 years in the making hello Argentina on the Channel
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  7500. It means training workers, expanding communications networks as well as early tax relief for new startups and also closing down predatory practices by the big boys
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  7501. Fascism starts when you pump out hours of mindless propaganda convincing your audience that voting for a psychopathic authoritarian moron is a good idea or that when you loose everything is rigged so we need to cheat because they do.
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  7502. Your living in La La Land if you think the Cons will ever do anything about immigration or that Labour will be worse
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  7503. Trump has a cealing of around 46%, he won in 2016 with a depressed Democratic vote, in 2020 both sides had record turnout. Not sure he's firing up his base enough to care, white working class men are the lowest group in voting terms offset by his grip on Fox Boomers who are dying out
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  7504. An assault rifle spits out a bullet that travels at three times the speed of a handgun, a handgun bullet creates a small hole more like a really bad knife wound an assault rifle bullet when it hits the body often spins turning internal organs to Jello the speed also creates an exit wound the size of an orange and any bone that gets in the way is pulverised.
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  7505. NatCon has zero to do with Conservatism as usual follow the money The NatCon Brussels event was sponsored and coordinated by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian think tank funded by oil and gas money.
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  7506. Reform can't win period there not Conservative either
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  7507. The economy was going to get screwed even if the lockdown hadn't happened, people will have started to self isolate and the virus would have overloaded the health service.
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  7508. I'll stick to getting medical advice from medical professionals not some guy off the internet
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  7509. After the election Starmer will have to deal with Israel who are a strategic western ally Hamas are a terrorist group who are more than happy to use 2.3 million people as human shields with some on the right happy to oblige Blinken is pushing all the levers he can to try deescalate Israel's response and stop a wider conflict spreading across the Middle east Geopolitics is messy
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  7510. That particular base is defecting to Reform because the Tories aren't bigoted enough all he's doing is burning down the Blue wall voters
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  7511. They've got a lot of whiplash and sent the video Viral and it should stay viral
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  7512. If you define the mission to rewire the economy from fossil to renewables detaching it from world commodity prices by investment in the renewables sector that drives innovation it would be more apt. The levels of investment are akin to that spent on the space race putting a man on the moon, the resulting innovation from that period are still big economic drivers today. Also add private funding is matching public funding The idea that the US is at its best when free markets have free reign is an economic myth just look at Tesla it got post 2008 regeneration grants from the government to keep it going
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  7513. If you cut public sector pay you increase the cost of hiring staff due to churn and vastly increase migration for low paid public sector jobs. Boris isn't here anymore there is no one to gaslight you and tell you you can have your cake and eat it
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  7514. 😂😂😂😂😂 Get real Nige your the 2nd most disliked party in the uk
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  7515. what have they got left? Sunak was put in to calm the markets after 3 solid years of chaos and craziness finished off with the Truss debacle. The members will go for the most right wing unhinged Lunatic choice and there's still a large group calling for unfunded tax cuts.
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  7516. The lock her up was campaign stuff she never did anything serious enough they could pin on her Trump is and always will be a blowhard all mouth and no action unless its burning through other peoples money
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  7517. The employers threshold went up my wife is an accountant for a small firm they employ 6 she was saying their ni bill will go down
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  7518. Definitely I'm voting Lib-Dem tories out Tactical all the way
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  7519. The IMF the bastion of neoliberalism said Trickle Down didn't work in 2012 after the damage it did post banking crash
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  7520. He has a history of being a Putin apologist and spreading Russian propaganda and was on RT a lot at one time You want to support this guy that's your affair don't spread rubbish trying to normalise his behaviour the far right across Europe want a return of the gravy train and the Oligarch money back quote from 2020 That Russia serves as a reliable cash machine for Europe’s far-right political forces has long been an open secret. Back in 2014, for example, French media reported that the country’s far-right National Front party had funded its election campaign with loans worth €11m from Russian banks.
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  7521. ​ @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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  7522. 5 million are now no longer with us due to age with the overwhelming number voting leave being pensioners time has eaten into that number
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  7523. we don't live in a free market the government pics winners and loosers. If you give a fossil company a tax break your picking a winner if you pay for that by taxing working and middle class PAYE your picking a looser  @MCDONALD6969 
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  7524. Faucci is the top in his field in the world, opening up is a political decision based on information provided from multiple quarters. The responsibility for this shit show is Trumps and Trumps alone.
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  7525. Quickest way is to devolve council tax banding. Then you can vote for sh1t local services if you want and have a big house
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  7526. There is no culture war if your opinions are unpopular and you go on a self righteous public crusade you deserve all the flack you get. Why do these people play victim constantly
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  7527. You can get therapy you know 8ts not too late
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  7528. 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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  7529. ​@TheGazza636 Tice is deluded and doesn't understand Trade and its complexity. Eu rule alignment will happen because we can't afford not too the more you diverge the more it costs the less competitive we are. Not only are our exports to the EU by volume falling due to trade barriers with the supply chain knackered so are our exports to the rest of the world.
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  7530. @TheGazza636  our supply chains run in/out and through the EU, supply chain disruption is already custing us billions. Any product sold in the EU has to meet EU standards just look at Apple they've adopted usb C worldwide. Uk firms still produce to the CE mark difference now is we have tons of paperwork and red tape to negotiate for the privilege. The more you diversify (lower standards) the more paperwork there will be the more f8rms will just give up and relocate to the EU and sell back into the UK
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  7531. @TheGazza636  yes I voted to join Since then we've spent decades integrating our supply chains and removing duplication ex- Gallileo, Horizon as well as harmonising trade rules so a sole trader in Doncaster can sell all over Europe tariff tax and paperwork free. Now we have certificates delays tariffs multiple tax codes and import / export issues with 27 different countries who are on our doorstep
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  7532. @TheGazza636  the firm my wife work's for does export/import and has to deal with all the fallout even thier US exports are down My son is Ceoliac and gluten free food was mostly manufactured in Europe since Brexit prices have doubled also I can no longer send my younger brother a birthday present he lives in Norway paperwork is to cumbersome you have to fill in export forms. I'm also not a fan of paying higher taxes because our gdp has fallen
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  7533. @TheGazza636  you a taxpayer if so fiscal drag instituted by Sunak is taking +£500 off you in income tax and NI. Our gdp per capita has fallen and continues to fall affecting tax revenues and disposable income as salaries don't keep up with inflation
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  7534.  @belindathrasher111  with you people it's always something or someone else. When you can't handle the truth it's the deamons Just face it your a religious bigot that likes hurting people then using God as an excuse.
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  7535. They've consistently failed to invest in capital budgets, buildings, IT systems scanners + Torched the social care system as part of Austerity
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  7536. The economy is fragmented into many parts you'll get one part in a recession another part booming like manufacturing decline but Tech booming even those lines are blurry Renewables were already picking up pace and we have the tech to produce EV's at scale and cost it could be the cost shove to accelerate what was already happening
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  7537. Reform aren't conservative
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  7538. If they served businesses they wouldn't have left the EU and cratered the economy There nothing more than an English Nationalist party like Reform
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  7539. Bringing NI back into the fold would create a hard border in Ireland restart sectarian violence and crash the NI economy
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  7540. Just to point out that the insurance market are not insuring Russian cargo ships, without insurance the bulk of maritime shipping won't touch Russia, 40% of all shipping is dedicated to moving fossil around. Also every Green party in Europe is on the warpath using the situation over fossil supply to leverage renewable energy and domestic programs such as insulation grants to cut energy usage and public transport initiatives to cut petrol usage.
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  7541. ​ @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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  7542. Were not going to get overseas investors while we have trade barriers with our closest market 20 miles away so its irrelevant.
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  7543. ​@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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  7544. He promised the undeliverable Leveling up gone Brexit is a mess His lies cought up with him
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  7545. It's just his collection of nodding dogs that will change tack The vast majority of the uk public think he's an ar5eh0le
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  7546. There a Neoliberal more Libertarian offshoot with a bit of populism to get the Prolls frothing
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  7547. Right wing policies are the root cause of high imigration so who cares
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  7548. Like what sort of idiot would base their vote on fake culture wars?
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  7549. It does we need to clamp down on right wing Billionaires setting up Propaganda channels and claiming there News and also make them declare their links to the Billionaire climate denial network
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  7550. Thatcher respected the rule of Law, I hated the woman but at least she wasn't a dishonest Liar like this bunch @poppypoopapie 
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  7551. The GOP in Pennsylvania control the legislature and refused to allow various initiatives for pre-checking, pre-curing, pre-counting mail in ballots and early voting. The Republican party wanted this chaos it is all by design,everyone knew this would happen from the local GOP to the President. The president also ensured even more chaos by installing Lewis DeJoy who has removed sorting machines in post offices all across the great lakes states allegedly in the name of efficiency but was designed to slow the mail from 2/3 days eventually it was up to 10 days Now they are doing what they always intended to do if the mail in overtook day of bleat bitch and moan crying foul like the cheats they are Shameless Voter suppression 101, if they hadn't put so much effort in cheating the total would be south of 130k not the current 30k
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  7552. Billionaires and the fossil industry 1st vote reform
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  7553. I tuned out of labour politics during the Corbyn years he wasn't my cup of Tea. Been impressed with Millibands renewable policy The thing I've found strange is Starmer even starting from Corbynite policies by 2019 they as well as him lost the election.
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  7554. The difference between the UK and Germany during ww2 is the British had the likes of Turing oddballs and gayas were hounded out Sadly we didn't do right by these people after the war still
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  7555. Reforms tax plans are even more likelyunfunded than the Tories how's that work?
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  7556. I have a smart meter without it I cannot access the ultra low overnight off peak tarrif what's with all the scare stuff?
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  7557. @GT380man  fossil lobby got to you?
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  7558.  @dave710  From 2019 new renewable power became the cheapest on the grid, this year Dogger Bank wind farm will come online with a forward contract price of £42 last years peak was £511 and current average today is £72 If you also fit one of these it saves you billions in not having Gas fired stations on standby for peak load quote The Astonishing Economics of the Tesla Megapack By adding about 300 MW of storage, ERCOT will generate approximately $1 billion in savings in 2025. This is from a one time purchase of Megapacks for $750 million. These savings will also happen each additional year after 2025 - they are recurring!
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  7559. Unless your a Millionaire + then voting Conservative has always been against your economic interests Thatcher bribed the boomer generation with a one of sale of thier own assets but I put that down to a stupidity
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  7560.  @Lorraine-p4r  Brexit was a lie purpotrated by the Libertarian elite who dreamed of Singapore on Thames It was all about London screw everyone else All they've delivered is Argentina on the Channel, Truss was thier last chance of turning the UK into a deregulated sh1thole
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  7561.  @Finderskeepers.  No it can't liquidating assets in a country takes time. Paying people with an increased social security has more benefit to the economy than these parasites
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  7562. There not being erased from history, people want history to reflect the truth that these people were traitors
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  7563.  @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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  7564. all politicians are
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  7565. There not going too its more lucrative to focus on the Energy division and keep the margins they have on EV's I can see the Semi coming out soon and Cyber Truck but again that's big ticket mark up profit
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  7566.  @yvonneplant9434  and when they process Lithium from seawater what then? There's also a number of chemistries in the pipeline
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  7567. You need zero hour and low wages in a Tory economy the Ecenomic philosophy is Supply Side Economics + Trickle down. Why are people surprised if you want demand side Economics policy then vote for anyone left of the Tories. Even thhe Liberal Democrats have seen the light of n this one
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  7568. IOWA showed a +20 gap in Women for Harris Abortion, healthcare and putting a lunatic like RFK in charge of health is frighting and Musk is saying he will start the same Austerity to government that has halved Twitters value in 2 years
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  7569. There waiting fr his affair with a staffer during lockdown while Carrie was pregnant to surface Thats''s pure speculation based on his past track record by the way
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  7570. Lib-Dem Surge Reform Steady Labour down a couple Tories down 1 in the polls Who would vote for this trash, tax cuts for landlords you have to be joking paid for by culling disability benefit
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  7571. The Last time the US was so called Economically Great was as a result of the space race, the government poured billions into R&D matched by private enterprise to produce huge leaps in technology many of which we are still enjoying the fruits of today. Quote Silicon Valley becomes the epicenter of US tech innovation During the 1960s, Silicon Valley came into its own. The cold war and the space race created an increased demand for integrated circuits. Tesla now worth billions only exists because of joint government / Private funding quote In June 2009 Tesla was approved to receive US$465 million in interest-bearing loans from the United States Department of Energy. Quote Biden's Industrial Policy Is Changing the World Economy Bloomberg Biden's measures aim to bolster US jobs and investment, but they also target China by keeping America ahead in key technologies. EndQuote The Irony here is that Biden is actually reshoring Jobs and manufacturing and doing what the Orange Idiot could never do Making America Great again (Economically) the Renewable tech leader in the world The parallels with the moonshot are uncanny
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  7572.  @GregOrCreg  The 2 child cap polls well in the red wall, Labour's core strategy is to maximise the vote in target areas to gain an overall majority
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  7573. He's a home counties mp it's a different world. It's well off or was middle class Toryland where government money was never a problem
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  7574. narr where towing it round to the Pacific so our Lorries can hop across to asia
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  7575. Why do they want to get back Reform voters most are not natural Tories ,The conservatives under Thatcher were the party of Globalization and pro immigration to keep taxes down?
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  7576. ​ @michaelbergeron1554 arms sales are driving us exports
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  7577. ​ @michaelsmedley7519 the breakdown of the YouGov poll shows 10% under 50 support Tories. Those switching to Reform in the red wall are male uneducated 50-65, not the Boomers. Also its been calculated that the Tories will loose 3% of thier vote if they leave the election till Jan 2025
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  7578. Harris will drive a turnout election on the Democratic side especially as Roe will be front and centre for women and climate policy for younger voters
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  7579. Polls are weighted by the % 2020 vote since then 16 million young people have become eligible to vote of which around 30% will also GOP voters are older and more Anti-Vax and there were 2 million excess deaths in 20 & 21 Then we have the abortion ban a 65-35 issue I wouldn't go in on the old stuff Sweaty Orange Jesus sounds like an old drunk at the end of the bar riffing off
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  7580. Experts warned that removing FOM would increase migration not decrease it but apparently we've had enough of experts
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  7581. how can a multiple bankrupt who left a raging economic skip fire be more trusted on the economy his numbers were worse than Hoover's
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  7582. I know you get paid to say this stuff but you know I'd get another job throwing your army off a cliff then doubling down on the mistake isn't winning
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  7583. Pouring 8 trillion onto debt increased inflation. Debt to gdp ratio has gone down from 2020 from 132% to 121% If you want to takle debt revoke the Trump ttax cuts
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  7584. They should put them in a 90%+ Black prison for some Racist Racial awareness therapy
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  7585. What sort of out of touch bubble do people in the Telegraph live in? No one gives a f@#£ about your stupid culture warrs it's made up its junk your living in lala land
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  7586. 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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  7587. Just Boris and the Cons who are banging on about how easy Brexit is and what a great deal he'll get us, Boris still doesn't get the Northern Ireland situation or have a clue when it comes to WTO. He got hopelessly outmanoeuvred when he managed to negotiate a far worse deal than May's We have no border staff or appear to be training them up or appear to be doing anything much bar gaslighting for the inevitable car crash in January.
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  7588. Media are constantly on his back about mostly nothing, the Tories left an economic skip fire ballooning legal migration and a broken asylum system My local hospital finnaly got money to replace the RAAC and multiple renewable energy projects that were shelved have been rolled out and funded.
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  7589. ​ @OneTrueScotsman not true Labour are focusing on kitchen table issues, cost of living, cost of energy, NHS, farming post brexsh1t
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  7590. No Senators its too risky I'd get Bernie's view on Labour secretary though and Warrens advice on Treasury
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  7591. got their act together? they have plenty of workable policies Sunak is considering 1 of them now windfall taxes, the bulk of the media is right wing biased and goes out of its way not to cover Labour or the other parties. Times radio has some content but not that much basically you have to go to independent or foriegn media to find out the full picture
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  7592. If you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail Interest rates wont cure UK inflation because its not demand driven its supply on inelastic world commodities If you want to bring down inflation tax the 170 billion in windfall profits @75% and push it back to consumers and businesses that don't spend 9k a year on personal heated swimming pools also stop giving handouts to the likes of millionaire pensioners bankers and the fossil industry
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  7593. I disagree fundemantly with the cult like devotion to Thatcherism and Trickle down the market is king but these people are intelligent they just don't have any connections to the working and middle class and get detached from life outside London. If your perception of the current economic plight of this country where energy spend has gone up from 30 billion in 2021 to 170 billion expected in 2023 is were looking to the future and turning it round while doing fk all about the Privatised Energy Sector bleeding the country dry you need to just GO clear OFF Never darken our doors again Weve still got an onshore wind ban AND grid INFRASTRUCTURE not being built a year and a half on from the start of the energy crisis and YOUR BIG IDEA IS ROLL BACK DEPLOYMENT OF ALTERNATIVES TO FOSSIL FUELS ARGHHHHHHHHH
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  7594. The reason there diving in the polls is the UKIP ification of the Tory party, Starmer got a 4 point poll bump when he put forward his migration plan. GBN and TalkTV, the Mail, Express and Sun are in love with the performative cruelty of the Rwanda plan and were bigging up a push to pressure Labour on it by running stories about how it's working by pushing migrants to Ierland. The 2019 manifesto had net zero, leveling up, HS2/3, Social Care in it all of that has been junked for a cut to NI Reform switchers for the most part are not economically on the right they are very socially conservative
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  7595. There not going to raise taxes on people working it's counter to growing the economy at the moment they have said they will close NonDom and various tax loopholes as well as hiring more HMRC staff to collect the 42 billion in uncollected taxes from 2023. Labour's tax base under Blair Brown was identical to 10 years of the Tories, its Sunak that's put them up and is piss1ng them away on sh1te trickle down policies
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  7596. 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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  7597. I want the government to process all the people in the system and stop wasting 8 billion but there not doing that what did you want them to do?
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  7598. Why does banning a Libertarian propaganda channel have a connection with Stalinism. GBN is not news even offcom agree
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  7599. what a load of tosh about liberal elite people believed the hype and were lied to about Brexit after years of Osborne's Austerity and real average wages falling in 2015 by -4.6% on 2010 levels far from the crock of gold the Tories have now got real wages down to -6.1% on 2010
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  7600. There are plenty of proposals if you bother to look the current media don't cover most of them take the Green policy for instance they want to reintroduce a slew of stuff that Cameron called Green Crap 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 Labour 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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  7601. Net zero isn't your problem its the price of Fossil, reducing reliance of fossil will fetch down the price
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  7602. Because we still rely on Gas and also the way the grid and OffGem structure the energy market You pay a price based on the last mile principal at peak demand time this is provided by Standby Gas Generation. Energy consumption is expressed on a chart is called a duck curve. So you need enough capacity on the Grid to meet the evening peak demand. To fully utilise say wind you need to add Mass Storage to buffer the always on Power to flatten the demand curve and Smart tech to time shift demand to fatten it. Mass storage even using something like a Tesla MegaPack which is pricey pays back it's capital cost in savings in under 2 years by removing the standby Gas Generators which are expensive Hope this helps
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  7603. 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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  7604. Try funding schools properly then make school meals free
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  7605. whatever you do gas prices won't come down best way of dealing with it is to move to renewables in 2021 gas and renewables where on par price wise UK customers paid 30 billion with rising fossil prices that figure is expected to reach 170 billion in 2021 so 140 billion in EXCESS profits
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  7606. @James_36  if you freeze the 20% threshold like Sunak has someone on 20k pays £500 extra in tax but so does someone on 50k if you change the rate from 20% to 19% someone on 20k gets +£75 someone on 50k gets £350. If you earn your income from capital gains you pay 20% no matter what no NI nada
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  7607.  @mn5499  mine are from the Office for Budgetry Responsibility and are the ones quoted in the financial papers
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  7608.  @mn5499  do what you want it makes no odds the Tories have screwed up the economy that badly no one will lend them extra for thier brain dead tax cut guff
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  7609.  @mn5499  the main problem was the. Tories ran up the debt to pay for tax cuts. 2010 it was 62% by 2019 it was 92% During the Blair years we had +25% growth in average wages Cameron /May - 3% Current clown car bunch God knows Saying no one could do better is churlish could anyone have done as bad?
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  7610.  @mn5499  the economic data shows following Brown's plan would have lead to 15% increase in growth and wages from 2010 to 2019 what we had was Austerity pulling well over 100 billion out of the economy at a time it needed stimulating flatlinig the economy into now its second decade of Tory stagnation. Every £1 spent by the government has an economic multiplier as it goes into the economy it starts a cycle of tax spend and increased economic activity resulting in the overall cost to the Treasury in the case of Austerity of 20p in the £1 I'm not interested in the red team blue team I just care about my pay packet and services supply side economics aka Thatcherism doesn't work as an economist we have half a decade of data proving it and debunking the low tax myth. You don't get growth and you do get low wages and an ever widening pay gap.
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  7611.  @mn5499  who spun you the yarn the Treasury gets more when taxes are low? The nock off point is somewhere round 60-65% on top rate income tax and 45% on corporate tax The reason you have corporate tax at around 30% is to encourage investment in the businesses dynamic growth and high tech businesses continously reinvest they never pay corporation taxes that leaves the cash cows to lumber on they don't have much growth and there is zero reason to give them a tax break in fact by doing so the stop investing ways in ways to improve productivity and pull more and more money out of the businesses in stock buy back and shareholder dividends. Politically I'm as moderate as they come in my lifetime we've had a couple of left wing governments in Wilson and Callaghn with Blaire being the Centerist of centerists Thatcher and Cameron both signed up to supply side economics as does Sunak now Supply Side just doesn't work Thatcher got away with it by asset stripping and oil money to fund tax cuts Cameron tried Austerity and tax cuts plus deregulation where he could and completely stagnated the economy which is why income and sales taxes are at record levels. Corporate tax take as a proportion of overall taxes has fallen since the Thatcher era.
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  7612.  @mn5499  he's from the Chicago school everything they pushed with neoliberalism has been debunked by over half a decade of data Read Paul Krugman - Arguing with Zombies There's a couple of podcasts on political economics you should try by Origin Story Neoliberalism : Everything's for sale Centerism : Stuck in the Middle with You As i pointed out Thatcher got Neliberal economics to work on the back of asset stripping Oil and Globalisation When Cameron/ May tried it we had a decade of stagnation and worse just to keep it from going into recession they allowed a rampant unregulated gig economy to emerge creating millions of low paid jobs wich resulted in millions of EU low paid migrants. Truss as part of her so called growth plan was going to open the floodgates to migrant workers from the Indian sub continent We have nothing to sell off Globalisation is going into reverse and the bulk of the Gammons don't want mass migration so how the feck can you run a low tax economy when reducing the state means reducing the services that the workers in the low wage economy you've created depend on them?
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  7613.  @mn5499  and Krugman got a Nobel prize in economics and he says its bollox There's no data that shows this if you drop corporate tax as the US did in 2017 and we did in 2015 it just goes onto public debt neither tax giveaways created squat both stored up future inflationary pressures. Aside from that you're not going to get away with mass immigration to get supply side any where near working
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  7614.  @mn5499  no there isn't I presume your a millionaire Quote "Based on our research, we would argue that the economic rationale for keeping taxes on the rich low is weak," Julian Limberg, a co-author of the study and a lecturer in public policy at King's College London, said in an email to CBS MoneyWatch. "In fact, if we look back into history, the period with the highest taxes on the rich — the postwar period — was also a period with high economic growth and low unemployment. Quote Start with the economy. Over the course of the neoliberal era, economies around the world have become more and more unequal. In the United States, the wealthiest 1 percent took home about 8.5 percent of the national income in 1976. After a generation of neoliberal policies, in 2014 they captured more than 20 percent of national income. In Britain, the top 1 percent captured more than 14 percent of national income—more than double the amount they took home in the late 1970s. The story is the same in Australia: The top 1 percent took about 5 percent of national income in the 1970s and doubled that to 10 percent by the late 2000s. As the rich get richer, wages have been stagnant for workers since the late 1970s. Between 1979 and 2008, 100 percent of income growth in the U.S. went to the top 10 percent of Americans. The bottom 90 percent actually saw a decline in their income.
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  7615.  @mn5499  he's a Libertarian the answer to everything is tax cuts and a smaller state Krugman debunked every part of his work with decades of real data The partial quote I showed you was of a complete study of 50 years of Neoliberal Supply side economic policy. Responsibile for the Asian financial crash and the 2008 Banking crisis due to overzealous deregulation Responsibile for lowering wages for low and stagnating wages for the middle class Responsibile for the increase in corporate Oligoplies suppressing competition increasing prices for normal consumers. And now responsible for the second decade in a row of the UK stagflation Its a completely and utterly failed economic philosophy with the receipts to prove it
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  7616.  @mn5499  1 out of 100 economists tells you that tax cuts are the economic nirvana, we have an accumulated 50 years of data showing that the 1 is wrong yet your belief system in Libertarian ideals are so strong you block it out. The Chicago school has been debunked on again and again dunked on multiple times and shown its wrong yet still it rises like a zombie why because it suits large corporations and the ultra wealthy who pedal this shyte, they pour billions into think tanks and academics to get a foothold of legitimacy it's no different to the pro smoking lobby or the anti climate change crew. Vested interests spinning you a half believable yarn that tries to cloak itself in legitimacy. The only low tax models that even half work are propped up by oil money and are as corrupt as fk aka The Saudis Russia etc Go listen to Neoliberalism Everything's for sale to understand why any of it even gets a smidgen of traction its junk economics at its worst
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  7617.  @mn5499  Given you've been banging on about Sowell's figures I went an looked at the iconic birth of NeoLiberalism the Reagan Era. The first thing is Reagan's big tax cuts in 1981 didn't create more revenue and were quickly followed by tax hikes in 82 83 84 and 87 Inflation at the time was running at over 10% with interest rates reaching their peak in August 81 at 20.5%. The Reagan era also saw a huge increase in the US deficit to pay for both the tax cuts and the expansion of defence spending. Both tax cuts and government spending have what's called an economic multiplier in relation to tax cuts that's regarded by Fed Committee for budgeting to return around 20 cents in the Dollar. The economic multiplier for spending varies infrastructure projects will in general pay for themselves and the huge cash injection into defence spending and the economy coupled with a reduction in interest rates where key factors in US economic growth. So Sowell's 2+2 = tax cut still doesn't work
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  7618.  @mn5499  I read the rationale behind his general thesis and checked the Regan era numbers The issue is if you pump 1 trillion into an economy you'll get tax growth no matter what you do with tax rates and bands, Reagan just kicked the can down the road Same as Cameron in 2015 and Trump 2017 all ran up huge deficits pumping money into the economy. Deregulation lead to the Asian crash then the Global crash in 2008 If you look at the Trump tax cuts it generated a huge Sugar high for the stock market and he ended up doubling the Federal debt again by pumping money into the economy we see now the Nasdaq 33% down on its inflated high and inflation biting into the US economy. Biden is pumping 3/4 of a Trillion into it to transition from fossil this will again start the tax spend merry-go-round. I admire you for your zeal but tax cuts dont do what Sowell says its a far more complex picture and the one thing we know for certain is if you pump money into an economy it starts a merry-go-round of tax and spend good old Keynsian theory at its finest. Its also worth noting that the US is a collaboration of 50 differing state economies and has a huge amount of oil and gas production. You also need to disconect from the 70's/80's the higher tax rates in the US and UK where insane the data I've seen shows a reversal at round 60% if your a higher rate payer 50 + NI is around the cealing for the uk With round 100% debt to gdp in the uk the gilt market isn't going to loan you money for tax cuts that return pennies in the pound as Truss found out Lastly I'll get round to reading Sowell in full at some stage but I've been through stuff on the Chicago school before it was way too thin on its macroeconomic cause and effect and has been widely debunked by Krugman and others Finally Libertarian neoliberalism is a complete dead end its focus on self rather than community has multiple downsides even apart from the burgeoning wealth gap or the minimum wage economy and associated poverty and corporate capture plus oligopoly
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  7619. for about a couple of weeks before the markets told him where to stick his 1 trillion pound socialist fantasy project Compare the current policy of replacement of energy producers by renewables over time with a public wealth fund to bail out privatised companies including those with aging fossil fuel stations and large amounts of debt accumulated to pay shareholders. The chaos of a Corbyn reign would have been the same as Truss's ideologically unhinged unpractical and short lived tenure.
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  7620. ​@TheValeyard92 There generally factual I always tell people on the left to listen to the Times podcast otherwise your closeted into an echo chamber I listen to the News Agents with is Centerist and The new Statesman which is centre left For economic stories the FT doesn't pull punches on the Tories economic incompetence and Brexit
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  7621. @keithparker1346  there socially centerist fiscally centre-left If you want someone further left socially find a proper champion Renationalizing stuff won't turn the economy around it will also distract and derail the push to net zero, spend on energy by uk consumers in 2021 was 30 billion this year it will be 170 billion. We need planning reform and infrastructure building yesterday
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  7622.  @yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533  Right on Make America Garbage Again
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  7623. 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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  7624. Yet the working class uneducated will still vote GOP
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  7625. With regard to Bidens comments it's politics, the chamber of commerce in the US has been running anti ev advertising, getting major legacy ice manufacturers on board with flattery and a bit of pork helps get the current bill through the senate and puts pressure on the US COM to change their tune. Tesla don't engage in advertising
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  7626. There's tons of trickle down policies to go at and shutting down offshoring profits would be a good starting point
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  7627. Reform are Libertarian economic nut jobs with a populsit agenda against migrants and refugees, there not trying to conserve anything bar the horrendous amount of Corporate and wealth tax breaks
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  7628. The repeated statement Trump won by a landslide is just fantasy Fact Trump was 100-1 to win the popular vote he's never been popular every Democrat hates him plus a fair few independents Fact looking at the voting data Biden won by turning the suburbs while the big metro areas turned out so did the Burbs What is going to cause a major problem though is the relentless way the GOP are attempting to suppress and gerrymander the vote in money terms Biden voters comprise of 70% of the US GDP
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  7629.  @link10909  you can't negotiate with a deluded mafia style boss such as Putin, his regime is run on corruption and violence, he's a bully that sends his boys round to teach you a lesson if you don't pay up or tow the line and is OK with using terror tactics poisoning opponents with nerve agent etc.
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  7630.  @link10909  he had a load of troops training the Ukrainians only a complete lunatic would put nukes in Ukraine ww3 would be in full fallout by now and the US is supplying MANPAD's plus nato is supplying real time sattalite and tactical data, Putin has lost his army is getting pounded the Ukrainians have drones and appear armed to the teeth with anti tank weapons including thousands of the good old rpg7. Biden will pour aide in to help keep the Ukrainian economy going as will the EU while the Russian economy tanks
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  7631.  @link10909  Putin is a psycho the US has played it right by releasing intelligence and getting everything in place where now into a proxy war which Putin can't win, he doesn't have aerial dominance to start a carpet bombing campaign his artillery and rocket units are getting picked off and he's running out of troops to either secure his supply lines or do a ground assault. Significant development was Belarus not entering the fray by all accounts his generals went ape about joining in. There is really no way to reason with someone who thinks that if terror tactics don't work then do them worse, any sane politician wouldn't have done this in the 1st place.
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  7632.  @deepdungeon8465  he's already doing that in Mariupol and Karkiv, there's only so much artillery to go round and don't worry he's already regarded as in the Stalin mode in ukraine and across the world deliberately targeting hospitals is seen as equally barbaric. WTF You been watching theres 4 million refugees already thousands of Russian casualties 4 dead Russian generals its a full scale invasion indiscremenant rocket and artillery bombardments the works
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  7633. We have a low wage economy partly down to low regulation in the Labour market. During the Cameron era GiG economy firms exploited the lack of regulation to import near on 1 million workers on Zero hour low pay undermining UK companies and businesses. The previous government suppressed pay and were going to remove the right to strike to thousands of public sector workers while putting their jobs on the visa exception list and importing workers from the 3rd world.
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  7634. There economic policies are a complete work of fiction
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  7635. ​ @DaveSchultzXXL tariffs are a sales tax Trickle down doesn't work Migrant workers make up large % of labourers that will help rebuild post hurricane destruction
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  7636. The data show that, since World War II, the economy has performed substantially better under Democratic presidents. On average, real (inflation-adjusted) GDP has grown about 1.6 times faster under Democrats than under Republicans.
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  7637. you have record growth and record unemployment. Orange Jesus was -3.6% GDP and -2 million jobs @JoeBidenCorruptJoeBidenR-ym6ig 
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  7638. What do you expect from a merchant banker and hedge fund manager They know the cost of everything the value of nothing to Sunak it's just spreadsheet and his aim is to reduce taxes for the wealthy and a 20% increase of nothing is nothing +20%
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  7639. 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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  7640.  @joebloggs1574  There are ways of avoiding tax but you need to plan ahead Here's one we used last year my mum died and left quit a bit of cash I put a lot of it into my wifes unused pension allowance to put it into her SIPP gaining +20% tax rebate
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  7641. 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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  7642. What fkwit would vote to give away their own human rights, that really Is a new level of dumb?
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  7643. Bit rich banging on on this channel as there forever going on about deregulation. This is the sign of a things to come along with pollution in our rivers. Low reg disaster capatilist shithole economy designed for the Tory elite and big business donors. They'll make a bit of noise but still give the parent company a free port to manage. And yes it is connected to brexit its a result of the globalisation Agenda that will undercut home grown industry and workers
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  7644. 70% of counties by GDP in the US voted for Biden, Texas may be governed by the Republicans but it no different to any other part of the US, there already seeing a Brain drain of Doctors, Nurses and Teachers.
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  7645. 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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  7646. Trump doesn't have any policies apart from what's good for his own wallet Evangelicals need to get off the sexual repression program they've been supporting a serial sexual predator for four years complaining about a transgendered federal employee is just disgusting there is no right to be bigoted and deliberately try and hurt people for who they are.
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  7647. Some Tidal projects there's plenty of energy in water it just doesn't make money for the Fossil lobby
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  7648. We're spending 5 billion a year on not processing people with 80,000 who should have already been deported All there promising is to be competent and not use migration as a show pony
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  7649. Pfffff After years of silence, David Cameron has finally denounced allegations relating to his private parts, a dead pig and a university
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  7650. It's pointless councils investing in property when the Con's flog it off on the cheap
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  7651. No one wants to do fruit picking jobs the farmers will just stop growing crops if you don't allow for seasonal workers, tons of food rotted in the fields last year this year farmers are scaling back and food prices are rocketing up as we replace UK produce with imports
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  7652.  @Th3_Gael  Why pull it down to a personal experience when figures are based on a population 67 million across the whole of the country. Making economic policy on Bert's experience down the road is recipe for disaster. The UK working population has contracted by a large percentage overall go look at the data from the ONS.
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  7653. Go check out Musks latest Libertarian ramblings He's quite happy to completly tank the economy to do what he says is realigning it Problem is he doesn't understand how it works his plan would lead to a run on the dollar and hyper inflation
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  7654.  @faithingod5533  Trump has opened the Pandora's box of political violence his latest stunt has seen Springfield campuses closed with shooting and bomb threats with legal migrants especially targeted
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  7655. It also costs more per patient than we pay now
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  7656.  @bigblue6917  Give the podcast a listen I found it riveting it fleshed out the timeline and gave a sense of scale to what was going on and the pressure the journalists and leakers where under.
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  7657. Net zero reduces dependence of fossil fuel you know those things that are sending energy prices spiralling again?
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  7658. Still better than a Tory
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  7659.  @gyrovids9462  bout sums the clown up will he be doing pantomime this exmas?
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  7660. 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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  7661. What legal process? Its been a clown car roadshow there lucky that the Q Car lawyers haven't been struck off
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  7662. He doesn't even understand business he studied economics but is a devotee of the Chicago school neoliberal theory totally immersed in trickle down supply side economics just look at the budget 8 billion tax break for bankers 2 billion tax break for millionaire pensioners +6 billion more in subsidies for the Fossil industry Fiscal drag and fk all for everyone else Same Thatcherite shyte we've had for the previous 12 years Its a Truss budget but one that scrapes everyone at the bottom to balance the books
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  7663. So lets fact check this shall we The cheapest source of energy the on grid is renewables Nuclear is around x 2.5 times more expensive as is Coal Gas varies but at peak time we run so called peak Generating Plant which is gas. During a peak demand period in 2023 the cost of servicing peak demand from these top up stations reached over x 10 times average cost which was x 4 base forward cost of renewables on the grid at that time. Our energy is the most expensive in Europe one of the main reasons is they run more renewables than we do. Back in 2012 Cameron got rid of the bulk of the Green commitment and the energy companies did what we called the dash for gas tying our grid to the international cost of Gas and abandoning a push for Mass storage which is used to support renewables.
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  7664.  @VincentRE79  you don't do it all at once and you retrain the workers investing in human capital the witch left people to fkin rot The reason people latched on to leveling up was finnaly a promise to right the wrongs of the Thatcher era and yet it was all smoke mirrors and lies for another round of punching down invest in London fk everyone else
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  7665.  @nightdeveloper  You can't disprove that there was contamination in a lab because the data isn't and never will be available. If you look at probabilities its easier to get infected from bats that shit and pee everywhere than from lab studies. In the detailed program I watched on the topic bats have hundreds of variants in their bodies because of their metabolism making them ideal study subjects but they are also good at adapting antibodies. Anyway they are there on a universal corona vaccine just needs testing with MRNA
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  7666.  @nightdeveloper  Its all about feel and emotion not data with most right wingers, also its also political to try and undermine Biden. There's a study of what triggers a right wing brain as apposed to everyone else they have a heightened sense of Fight and Flight by constantly pushing stories that amplify the Fight and Flight mode they keep their followers in a permeant state of anxiety. To do that though they have to constantly outdo and amplify the crazy. A good example of the fear and emotion taking over is the Red states not giving enhanced unemployment because they say it promotes people to not work. Every academic study ever done on the topic in the US and western Europe over decades points to Unemployment benefit having zero effect on people making themselves available for work or is a driver to stay at home. Its a sort of start with a conclusion then work backwards to shoehorn the facts in, I'm a Sherlock Holmes kind of guy myself, read all the books multiple times love em
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  7667. Why aren't they comparing it with Starmer speech which was full of substance.
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  7668. You had a commission investigate election fraud you numpty they came up with squat zip nothing
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  7669.  @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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  7670. Fox news gets piped to a household and who controls the remote?, that doesn't mean everyone in that household is a raving alt-right cult member. Who are the prime watchers of Tucker and Hannity?
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  7671. When you lose you get the 5 stages of grief Trump never gets past 2 Anger he then brain loops and tries to bend reality That's what's happening with the Harris Biden switch, there cheating, crowd was AI etc. It will get way worse by polling day to the point its way to visible to even a casual independent
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  7672.  @gen_x_dad  Not all of us are mediocre or only have a single language.
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  7673. Joe wants to turn a blind eye to corporate consolidation with resulting cartel like price manipulation A market is only free when there is adequate competition and a level playing field
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  7674. The Tories have borrowed to the hilt over the last 14 years adding 1.8 trillion to debt, due to rising inflation and the Truss debacle between 12-15% of our GDP is spent on debt repayment Until this is addressed were stuck with high interest rates, all of Hunt's 20 billion in NI tax cuts were funded by additional borrowing last year of 130 billion.
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  7675. If you want higher wages vote for a party that doesn't introduce union busting legislation allow zero hour contracts actively encourage outsourcing and bring in such wonders as TUPE
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  7676. Why would you vote REFORM their Tory with added be evil to refugees Their economic policy is a cut and Paste from Lettuce Liz You remember her the one that single handily nearly crashed all UK pension companies and left a 60 billion hole in UK finances while bumping up interest rates by 1.5 points?
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  7677. The Russian occupied parts of Ukraine have turned into shit hole Stalinist enclaves the Russians in Ukraine want nothing to do with Putin they have contacts family still in the enclaves places like Donetsk are dead businesses crushed people leaving the city Crumbling Jeez Tucker is a dick
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  7678. Keir Starmer calls trickle-down economics a 'piss take' from 2022 Rachel Reeves takes aim at ‘Tory trickle-down economics’ from 2022 The shadow chancellor has a vision for social democracy in an age of economic shocks and uncertainty – New Labour this isn’t "Rachel Reeves speaks at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC" from 2023 Embedded in multiple Tory budgets are a whole raft of Trickle down policies + waste through outsourcing and consultancy which Starmer has railed against on more than one occasion. I'd add that the fiscal rules only cover the 1st 2 years there is an intention to beef up the OBR I would sack half the economists in it and fetch in some who are more open minded given that it doesn't even tally with the IMF most times who are hardly the bastion of liberalism. I really don't know how they will thread this needle the only feeling I have on this is that Reeve is competent and will try push a similar agenda to that followed by Biden bottom up Middle out given the amount of money needed it will need private sector buy in but not in the Tory sense of outsourced and Privatised. Latest announcement The Labour Party has announced a proposal to cut NHS waiting lists by paying staff to take on extra out-of-hours overtime shifts, they would introduce a £1.1billion overtime fund to create an extra two million appointments.
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  7679. In the UK were in the mess were in because Green policies where abandoned we should have at least 3 working Tidal systems by now. 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 Labour 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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  7680. If you want to lower immigration rejoin the EU the explosion in visas means there permanent with 50% dependants, I can't believe people are that stupid that removing FOM would only make this worse bloody dumb as fk
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  7681. The investment programs Joe put in will gild the economy for a decade, she will get 2 terms easy.
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  7682. Not sure why you say that I've looked at Millibands Green plan and Reeve's economic policy and they look sound to me You also have Standards reform + HOL reform Childcare policy Workers rights bill already drafted with the help of Unions A commitment for closer ties with Europe (vague on purpose) etc.
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  7683.  @eltelw8209  the US bailed out Europe the Germans got slowed by the water
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  7684. Reform voters weren't going to vote Tory anyway
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  7685.  @chrispennington9652  Reform are just a rebadged Libetarian party, same shit supply side globalist economic policies that Sunak pedals
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  7686. the money goes straight to the oil and gas companies the stuff gets sold on the world commodity market and the Tories are giving them over 100 billion in tax breaks for the pleasure we get fk all bar high energy prices
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  7687. ​ @guydavis825 we'll be alright because we understand how this barsh1t idea works. Me ill probably make around 1 mill from the markets, I already have multiple orders to automatically switch to gold and other investments when it starts going South. You rubes are going to get smoked though
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  7688. If Trump told me water was wet I'd double check if it were true. Doocey is a plant to make Psaki look good at press conferences, surely he can't be that stupid?
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  7689. And replace with WHO, the problems we have are structural and 50 years in the making the ultimate ar5e end of Thatcherism Energy bills tripled Trains that don't run raw sewage in the rivers housing shortage Even the Horizon scandal is Thatcher and the Con's fault Outsourcing everything at cheapest price screw quality or accountability
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  7690. He's a car crash with the Economy the US debt is spiralling out of control, during the good times he pushed through a tax bill that increased the debt and gave it to the 1% There are so many tax breaks and loopholes that Amazon got a tax rebate
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  7691. Because things are going to get worse with the economy, if you look at the polls there bleeding support month on month
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  7692. there free market trickle down zelotes if your mindset is that way you double down and shrug your shoulders look at the Truss bunch still claiming she was right
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  7693. why would anyone take peterson seriously?
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  7694. If you invest in your population then economically the standards will rise you can see this clearly in the data The Blair economy had a rise of +25% to average wages (there's a load of things I didn't like about the Blair government but you can't knock their handling of the wider economy) Cameron / May had a rise of -3% to average wages a feat not seen since the Napolionic war Jonson is scheduled to bust that negative 3% in just 3 years The Conservative pursuit of supply side and trickle down economics is going to kill wage growth for decades but hey that's what Tories do the rich get richer fk everyone else
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  7695.  @patdbean  what 13 years of them give me a break Where bottom of the G7 in predicted growth for 2022, the US and French economy have completely recovered from covid while we have the highest taxes in living memory The current sorry economic state is the result of supply side economic policy introduced by Osborne in 2010 and now being peddled by Sunak in 2022 and what's worse is the likes of Farage and Tice pedal the same economic nonsense that's driven us into what will now be a decade of stagflation. The lot of them promise low tax low regulatory economic policy which if they do that will need propping up with huge amounts of public debt, you can see the effects of this during the covid crisis, low taxation at the top and business end over 10 years hadn't reduced the deficit enough The Bank of England had to pump large sums into the economy and at its worst the economy shrank by 11% Last time I looked it had gained back +9 but it's about to shrink again due to Sunaks budget for the wealthy which didn't touch unearned income or high earners and in fact gave bankers a 2 billion cut
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  7696.  @patdbean  they could increase it and lower the age from 23 to 18 Every penny pumped into the bottom end of the economy is spent, the range you pay tax is crazy as well the allowance is 12750 the minimum living wage is calculated at something like 20800 I went to university when it was free in fact I got a bursary for coming from a a relatively poor family kids these days are being hit with 10s of thousands of pounds of debt
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  7697.  @patdbean  300,000 only Increases the population by 50,000 if that we have birth rate of 1.6 Right wing political parties push globalisation and don't care if child labour in Africa can make it cheaper then they will import it undercutting local industry That's why there importing cheaper workers from india
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  7698.  @patdbean  immigration from the EU went up because we had the jobs that needed people and successive governments thought an expanding economy was the way to go. The current lot will say one thing then ddo another through the back door. By the way I'm . not against curbing uncontrolled immigration my main point is we need + 250k for a net stable population. We also need a more nuanced conversion on the topic
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  7699. Tax bands were frozen till 2028 by Sunak CGT is at 20% even if your income is 50k And I'm a regular isa saver so matching it to income tax only affects the very wealthy like sunak and hu nt
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  7700. you'll find he got kicked out of office for being a lying arsehole
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  7701. @gjaegreag that's not true you can price cap essential supplies of food and energy you just run it as a war economy for the duration of the crisis your talking a lot of government control but we're at a stage where large numbers can't pay and businesses will start going under at an unacceptable rate
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  7702. @gjaegreag no they don't you just tax the super profits (as in the additional profit created by a closed inelastic market with Oligopoly and monopoly companies) and use it to pay them back through the market. Its not like price capping by governments hasn't been done before how do you think they controlled food and energy prices during the war. You could nationalize on a temporary basis while we have the crisis
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  7703.  @Papa_Khan  Trump has ADHD and Dyslexia as well as various Psychosis and this was based on his time in office he's also getting worse The Sharpie incident The Bleach incident Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV Good People on both sides The Nicky Haley Jan 6th glitch The Obama glitch etc.
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  7704. It takes years to get to where we are this is the brexit decline Port talbot shut Luton going We have inexorable barriers for small businesses to trade 20 miles away what do you think would happen?
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  7705. how about we put people 1st instead of cars ULEZ is a health measure which will reduce asthma which once contracted is for life 90% of vehicles are compliant This is disgusting he does fk all for anyone its a gimmick because he doesn't want to spend the cash instead it will go on more trickle down and tax cuts for the wealthy
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  7706. You've got a right wing government who are implementing supply side trickle down (Thatcherism) + Austerity with a vengeance We've had 13 years of failure with this model why do you think your taxes have had to go up Millionaire pensioner tax cuts and banker tax cuts don't pay for themselves
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  7707.  leicanoct  there's not enough testing by a country mile, the data isn't good enough, the 2/3 week lag in the disease will hit different places at different times.
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  7708. What the right wing economic policies that's cratered the UK economy and given you over a million low paid zero hour contract jobs run by offshore companies that shipped in low paid eastern European workers to fill the vacancies that undermined established businesses? You really have been taken for a mug hook line and sinker
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  7709. The US and the UK had 30% ish corporation tax for decades we went to 19% and had no growth the US went to 21% slightly better but same picture all the additional money was spent on share buybacks it wasn't invested so what was the point of a tax cut that cost the UK treasury 200 billion in lost receipts? I'd also add that over in the States as here the tax cuts ended up being paid for with DEBT. @S-North 
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  7710. 30% isn't high and I'm saying lowering tax doesn't attract more investment as the figures from over 1/2 a century of data repeatedly show. Just reducing headline rates produces an economic multiplier of 0.2 for an average return of 20p in the £ costing the Exchequer 80p in the £ in lost revenue. Trickle down has been widely debunked several times as Junk economics. Most R&D + investments in new plant are already tax deductible anyway. The best way to boost growth is with government investment in infrastructure often with private partners (not outsourced) its estimated that Renewable investment in this country already have an economic multiplier of over 2 due to the instability and continuing high price of gas. @S-North 
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  7711. If you want to lower migration increase tax and invest in the domestic population What You dont want to increase tax or shut down the massive loopholes and tax breaks for the wealthy Then STFU about immigration because your part of the problem
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  7712.  @ratusbagus  It spends 30 billion which is exactly the amount the Truss tax cuts would cost in debt and cuts which will turbo charge inflation even further and not improve productivity one jot. Its costed It covers areas that if the Conservatives have to backtrack politically then he can say I told you so. At the end of the day he has no power but someone with a plan as opposed to the chaos we've had will seem attractive to voters.
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  7713. It's complicated, the realignment of politics as we went through brex1t was masked by a single issue. currently People Under 50 are identifying more with left of centre views especially in urban suburban areas. Older working class especially male are becoming extremely socially Conservative It's soft in that there will be a new coalition formed, the one Boris gained power with is completely busted and the one that Corbyn failed with is now reforged moving towards the centre.
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  7714.  @seanvance1933  Here's a good idea how about we create a proper processes that quickly and effectively deal with their asylum application in months rather than years. Here's another 1 why don't we open application office in Calais that way we can process them while there in France store the paperwork and then can immediately deport economic migrants. Or we could spend 2 million a pop sending them to Rwanda and look like a bunch of wannabe fascists setting up concentration camps in a foreign country
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  7715. The same NeoLiberal economic policies that drive legal migration and suppres uk wages? No thanks
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  7716. Net zero will reduce bills and we spent 72 billion on energy support last year because duh GAS as well as 10 billion in fossil subsidies
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  7717. Big tech have bent over backwards to stay out of this, they enabled every lie he peddled for years to the point they had to shut the whole thing down because of the imminent threat from organised armed right wing groups. By the way anyone that was involved in planning and organising this and other seditious acts your not going to be able to slink away Parlour might be down but it's been mirrored so those in office dumb enough to be involved there's a trail to your back door your front door your phone and your computers.
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  7718.  @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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  7719.  @ProjectHyena  The Eu has repatriation agreements with multiple countries Albania being one of them. If an Albanian claims asylum here they have to go through the full application process which can take years. One of the reasons for the increase in Albanians is the tightening of ID checks across Europe
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  7720.  @ProjectHyena  wee were never in Shengen
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  7721. Again this is a story from a Murdock paper no more credible than the Tree Hugger comment Wait till it becomes official policy there will be hundreds of these types of stories that are deliberately seeded to rile up various groups by the right wing press.
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  7722. That's to next year's budget not this years
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  7723. @gos4343  spend on Asylum was budgeted at 4.5 billion it now turns out its 7.5, Rwanda was going to come in at a billion a year accounting assumptions were mass deportations. No budget allowance for increases for public sector pay awards, accounting assumptions they would be frozen or money found through efficiency Etc.
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  7724. The bulk of car usage is < 60 miles a day, I own an RV your looking at 300 max with a 1//2 hour m way stop. You'd have to have specific requirements to need that you kind of range
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  7725. All he ever did was stick the Tory party together to gain power his Brexit deal was a PR exercise hence the complete giveaway of NI and then he promised whatever the various Tory factions wanted they could have English Nationalist - No Immigration Leveling Up Libertarian - Compete deregulation unlimited immigration The guy would say anything to anyone to survive the next news cycle
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  7726. ​ @ntompkins Vance is the tech billionaire stooge, Anyone looking objectively at Trump would conclude he ain't going to last 4 years Vance like Teal and Musk are advocates of a billionaire Theocracy that will be achieved via project 2025
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  7727. The Foghorn of ignorance got you to vote for a hard Brexit which has driven migration through the roof ENJOY
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  7728. Iht hasn't changed, the loophole on SIPPS has been removed and it doesn't affect anyone with a sipp as they will be dead
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  7729. ​@alyb731 you'd have to be really rich and stupid to pay IHT 1st SIPP pension pots are exempt, 2nd spouse to spouse property is exempt and you can claim both the parents tax allowance to immediate relatives
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  7730.  @muirislandjim453  Your benefiting from tax policy that transfers money from people that work to people that hold assets Why should you double dip?
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  7731. Government tax policies have benefited you in terms of Asset values disproportionate to those of people that work. If your that bent on not paying the low rate of CGT go live in Norway for a year and they don't pay inheritance tax either. If your getting near pensionable age sell a property and shove it in a pension you've 5 years worth of income allowances @ 40% of your earnings and the government will give you 20% Take financial advice but there are multiple ways round this  @muirislandjim453 
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  7732. What difference does it make Why play the Cons game and that's all it is at this stage throw s**t at the wall see if anything sticks and try sow division in Lab?
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  7733. If California where a country it would have the 5th largest economy in the world and is the biggest contributor to the federal budget.
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  7734. ​ @johnmurray1044 there both up Putler's ars3
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  7735.  @rokketron  quote Nigel Farage has named Vladimir Putin as the world leader he most admires, So nige told us
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  7736. Democrats have put forward bills to get rid of it but the Republicans blocked it
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  7737. DT's mental health has been deteriorating, he was several levels mad in the recent Ingram interview. He's been on total meltdown tweet storms of late his paranoia is getting really bad as well.
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  7738. we can always replace them with migrant labour eh?
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  7739. Its just the culmination of 13 Years of Thatcherism trickle down + Austerity If you follow a failed economic model for 13 years the sh1t really starts to hit the fan aka RAAC, ballooning crime figures, prisons overcrowded more and more people in the asylum system because your not processing them because you've cut staff. etc.
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  7740. ​ @UNIVERSAL-UR he wasn't shot if he had been most of his ear would be missing and he would now be deaf on that side
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  7741. It's for infrastructure
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  7742. 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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  7743. I was Large parts of the North and Midlands where, Thatcher destroyed huge swathes of UK industry and replaced it with nothing, the South East got its service economy we got told to F off. She then poured Billions of oil money into tax cuts @LeeCharles1993 
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  7744. It was 5% done and would take 7 years to complete going through Indian land. Also it doesn't fetch the price of oil down to the consumer @mikegoetz3184 
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  7745. Isn't democracy a bitch, I know lets gerrymander the result we want
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  7746.  @vampire__uk  There are trades people left after Brexit in area interesting?
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  7747. 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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  7748. No they won't reform aren't Conservative and they'll loose yet more blue wall seats The average Con voter where I am is one nation socially Liberal fiscally Conservative Reform pulled 7% any merger here would destroy any chance of ever winning the seat
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  7749. Then we should have more housing not the current state, Sweden's elderly where in their own Gaff in the countryside most of the time over here we have multiple generations living together especially in the cities
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  7750. Your in Boris's post brexit serf economy fastest growing industry food banks for the poor
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  7751.  @CLARKE176  tthe only way of fixing Brexit is realignment with EU standards to remove paperwork Johnson's brexit is only half implemented at best there's way way worse to come
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  7752. People are still under the impression that Boris Jonson's Tories are Conservative When he purged the moderates on his brexit stance absorbed the dregs of UKIP to form an English Nationalist block then went all in with the ERG who are more Libertarian and Socialy Conservative then the die was cast. This iteration of Toryism will tear itself to pieces the ERG want diametrically the opposite of the Nationalist wing and Sunak's Supply side economics is going to Crush just about everyone but the top earners.
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  7753. Liz is a Libertarian and Cruella is a National populist not a conservative bone in either of their bodies Last proper Con leader they had was Major
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  7754. electoral reform so you can get a diverse and more representative representatives at ALL levels
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  7755. ​ @chrisj9700 if you dig deeper into the numbers were now into an economic doom loop
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  7756. Why would you vote REFORM their Tory with added be evil to refugees Their economic policy is a cut and Paste from Lettuce Liz You remember her the one that single handily nearly crashed all UK pension companies and left a 60 billion hole in UK finances while bumping up interest rates by 1.5 points?
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  7757. That will be the Trade deals that lost so many farming votes in North Shropshire ? The same ones that are worth +ZERO GDP to the UK economy? Jeez you people live in a bubble
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  7758. The system he's calling for is mirrored in China, there not really communist the leaders come from the party elite.
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  7759. Reforms economic policies are no different to the Tories why do you want more poverty?
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  7760. The main cause is a government that is totally economically incompetent and an economy that is completely shafted by Austerity then Brexit If you then subject a knackered economy to other external shocks it falls over like a pack of cards enjoy your Turnip
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  7761.  samford hikes  the election wasn't stolen DJT lost because of his incompetent handling of the pandemic on top of being extremely unpopular due to him being a race baiting xenophobe with a white nationalist agenda. The guy was the Laziest POTUS in history with 300+ golfing days watched TV and tweeted most of the days he was supposed to be working and he had the morals of a slug pardoning scores of white collar criminals.
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  7762. This isnt about Partygate Arghhhh its about lying through every orofice in the scummy toads body then trying to intimidate a parliamentary committee like a cheap school bully would Do they have NO shame?
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  7763. Trump and the Streisand effect strikes again The Lincoln project have been pushing Trump's buttons for a while nice one they've set up the ultimate purity test on the 6th, those that don't vote Trump's way in the house and Senate will go in the book of Trump grudges for life.
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  7764. Reform have only a limited gene pool of voters there not Conservative, the economic policies are Libertarian eg Liz Truss and they get out the old white hate vote with no workable policies
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  7765. You don't have to live somewhere to use the address for tax purposes. My brother lives in Norway for hmrc purposes and his uk bank accounts he's registered at my house. Rayner owned the property and was registered with hmrc as her primary residence It's the biggest nothingburger I've ever seen
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  7766. The issue is offshoring shares to avoid tax on dividends and using tax loopholes to avoid tax on gifts of 2hat would have been at the time 3/400 million You or I can't gift more than 3000£ without it being added to our estate ut if your a billionaire no problem
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  7767. If you want to shut down the black economy you need regulations, ID Cards and staff to enforce it This is Tory Brexit Britain invest in nothing regulate fk all and push cash to your donors and mates
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  7768. 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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  7769. The government is spending 20 billion on housing support and 40% of people on benefit are in work 3 billion on 250k children when 4.3 million are in poverty just looks like gesture politics to me
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  7770.  @dantheman1534  Green cost per kilowatt hour are over half that of fossil and a third of nuclear and falling. Micro grid tech is being rolled out to not just first adopters now. Texas has 20% green now the only reason that's not greater is their grid is falling apart Battery tech in the next couple of years will halve In price and double in capacity. Also oil and gas prices will continue to cost rise and commodity markets become more unstable
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  7771.  Chill Will  the economics of building wind farms isn't dependent on subsidies there just cheaper unlike oil gas and coal which get every tax break under thee sun. Micro grids work on not just an individual property level but on an associated local mesh. Power companies will roll out the tech because it saves them money
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  7772.  Chill Will  Quote " government regulation is artificially curtailing production" False So what is the truth behind US production? Back in 2020 the price of oil futures fell off a cliff and went negative due to the pandemic and the Saudi's increasing production to try and put some of its competitors out of business. Exploration and development virtually halted, engineers were released or made redundant projects moth balled or wound up altogether. The thing is you can't just turn off an oil well , anyway the lifecycle of exploration to production is 7 years if you halt a project 4 years in its start again time in most cases. As for government meddling the artificial tax breaks and oil development incentives are meddling. Lets take Sweden for example they have 50% green energy the government have put money into the steel industry there to move to Hydrogen instead of natural gas which is produced using spare wind energy. California who have 40% renewable's has a similar plan as it expands its green energy footprint. Once the infrastructure has been built by So Called Government Meddling with incentives it will be increasingly difficult for Fossil reliant states to compete due to the low running costs of renewable alternatives. Here's an example from France they built a tidal generation system costing billions the electric its produced paid back the infrastructure cost in under 10 years its now producing electricity at next to no cost barring maintenance. Oh and the bulk of US steel is made using electric Arc furnaces The fossil industry flood the space with so much disinformation its untrue like the moratorium on leases The Oil companies currently have enough land leased already to produce oil at current levels for 30 years for fk's sake how much land do they want?
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  7773.  Chill Will  China is also the biggest investors in wind farms in the world. Your clinging to fossil is admirable but coal in the US has been on life support for a while mines are closing and coal power plants are being phased out due to cost, Aus they scrape it off the ground no mining needed World trade is changing since the pandemic shipping costs have risen by 300% both the US and the EU are looking at more protectionist policies for example there are plans to designate chip manufacture as strategic requiring a % being built in the US using grants and import tariffs to achieve this goal. You've also got the manufacturing automation Tesla is expanding to build in the location for sales hence China, Berlin and now Texas with battery factories next door to the car plant. The reason Tesla can do that is the cars are built by robots for the most part cheap labour + shipping becomes less of a factor. As I said oil is only going one way in price as will natural gas
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  7774.  Chill Will  Tesla are plugged into the local grid like everyone else, subsidies wise all governments give them out including the state of Texas its projected to create 15-20k direct jobs and100k indirect jobs in the surrounding area. Tesla have put 10 billion in investment into the project. They've also built a grid storage facility near by and have Solar all over the site It's good to talk invested a bit of time checking my facts our conversation has been civil, my opinion is that due to a combination of the pandemic and technology this whole area has reached a tipping point and from this point it will accelarate at a frightening pace your of a different opinion time will tell.
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  7775. You've got conservative Thatcherism and it stank Reform are just a worse version of the Cons don't delude yourself
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  7776.  @annother3350  just 19 other cases Insurrection (7)Financial (6)Election interference (2)Sexual misconduct (1)Other (3)
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  7777. 2 wrongs don't make a right Hamas is a terrorist organisation
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  7778.  @hanskloss7726  Russia invades, Russia steals from the local populace and gives to the Oligarchs its Putin's way of greasing the wheels of his power. He's just a common gangster with an army Donbass would have been back in Ukrainian control without Russian divisions stationed there from 2014 onwards Quote How Crimea Was Carved Up And Sold At Auction To Putin's Oligarch Pals After the annexation of Crimea, the peninsula's prized resources were identified and distributed among Russian oligarchs with connections to the Russian President, handing out everything from wine vineyards to hockey clubs to steelworks.
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  7779.  @GiorgioDamm  World traded commodity with price fixing by multinational corporate cartels There's a program to transition to renewable energy which will be scrapped if the GOP get in which will have a huge effect on domestic energy prices removing the economy from world commodity shock and reducing energy prices as well as stopping the instability
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  7780. That is widely regarded as a made up story by the daily Mail
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  7781. we have an energy crisis which needs investment in and there promising to lower taxes for the wealthy how does that work? If you pump 28 billion into renewable energy it has an economic multiplier of a minimum 1.6 which means for every £1 you put in it creates enough GDP to return £1.6 in additional taxation. As a pensioner this will help me enormously because it will lower energy costs and I'm home most of the day far more than any tax cut. Getting energy costs down to 2020 levels would be the equivalent to me of my tax going from 20% to 10%
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  7782. another 5 years of Thatcherism no thanks
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  7783. 49-51 is pretty much a draw Sunak lost out on the media fall out from lying his face off though the Lie became the big story all over the news media
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  7784. ​ Leidolfr that's good then we can repair the social floor and get the country back on its feet again
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  7785.  @jakeend8440  patents and intalectual property are just a monopoly grant they serve no real purpose anymore as they've been expanded well beyond there original purpose and even then all they did was slow innovation. You have a market lead by constantly innovating not copying multiple software platforms are now run as a collaborative open source (world wide) projects. Tesla for example have open sourced thier patents secure in the knowledge that their innovation will keep them enough years ahead of the competition, if your getting undercut by Chinese knock offs your stagnating.
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  7786.  @GemmaHentsch  the talk of the fantasy land the Brexiteers wollow in harks back to the days of occupation gunboat diplomacy and basically looting a foreign country rresource
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  7787. @Maverick It's not your warped view of England anyway, the island was Celtic then taken over by the Romans, there's been numerous viking invasions followed by the Norman's. Millions came to the UK from Ireland to work in the 1800's and millions more immigrants settled here after ww2. The Queen is of German descent and the King was Greek / Danish. Yet you believe and follow this ethno nationalist crap and the A-holes that promote it like its some beacon when all there doing is using it to gain power
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  7788.  @stevenhoskins7850  no I'm not I'm fked off with stupid paperwork
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  7789. How about getting a soul and stop listening to Right wing populists who have the answer to everything and achieve nothing
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  7790. @NoMoreVoxPops  last year battery prices fell by 20% There expected to fall by the same this year Our Grid is sized to cope with a 4-7pm peak with energy usage having what's called a duck curve The more wind you put on the system the more always on off peak capacity you have my supplier offers a 70% discount rate for overnight EV charging And A premium Feed in rate if I allow them to remotely manage my battery storage from 4-7pm Cost wise Hinkley C will end up with a price tag of 80 billion with ongoing subsidies, Dogger bank wind farm produces the same electricity for 11 billion and it would only cost 30 billion to change from on demand gas generation to mass storage for peak flow grid smoothing.
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  7791. Seen a report that Net Zero will cost an economy 6% GDP but not going Net Zero will cost 13% GDP because we've gone over the event horizon with regard to costs. renewables are a lot cheaper than Fossil If you delay that 13% will rise due to the increasing costs of fossil fuels
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  7792. Harris had a shut out on this No doubt the clips on TicTok are brutal, they certainly aren't faltering to DJT on YouTube Question are you going to give the nuclear codes to someone who is shouting there eating the dogs, there eating the cats
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  7793. Between him becoming leader and now the Tories added 700 billion to national debt and jacked us out the EU causing a shortfall of 50 billion in tax revenues
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  7794. If you want lower immigration then you need to invest in the uk social and physical infrastructure Free higher education, retraining programs, house building,transport, relocation schemes etc. There is no easy fix and non of this involves tax cuts
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  7795. Both of them are lowlifes and opportunists wouldn't trust either
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  7796.  @Speedkam  Asset - Its willing manipulation, there too stupid to know there being used
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  7797. There not investigating the CGT stuff that's froth and nonsense
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  7798. What's wrong with cheaper energy
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  7799.  @ryanwalters6184  Tim pool is a puppet of RT, follow the money
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  7800.  @JuicyTaz201  Trump promised to bring back manufacturing he lost 200k jobs Joe has created 2 million manufacturing jobs and set the US to be the renewable tech leader in the world. Question is since he's making America Great Again and reshoring manufacturing why aren't you supporting Joe instead of Trump.? The man that walked the walk instead of the man that talked gibberish? Irony is truly dead
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  7801. Yes you can you need to remove part of the 700 billion printed during Covid and 130 billion caused by Truss from where its trickled up to its basically swilling around the pockets of the wealthy and super wealthy Quote Luxury goods boom in Britain as super-rich youngsters buck the recession Rich kids fuel sales of brands such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci They’re young, rich and mortgage-free, and the scions of the 1% are having a roaring twenties. Despite the economic gloom currently shrouding the UK and many other western countries, sales of luxury brands have been booming and growing numbers of buyers are young adults. Swiss watches, Louis Vuitton trainers, rare Birkin bags and 81-year-old whiskies are among the products that are fuelling impressive growth in the bottom lines of luxury brands such as LVMH, Burberry and Kering.
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  7802. It's shifting Labour because of high rental and remote working in London pushing out younger voters into the suburbs so it will become a safe Labour seat purely by demographics. This is not like Abbot's seat at all the influx of labour voters is young middle class income people. quote 48 per cent of children in Hackney were living in poverty after housing costs. It is the fourth highest rate in a local authority area in the UK after Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking & Dagenham
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  7803. It depends on the infrastructure investment and supply side reform. 3% inflation isn't bad in itself if your getting positive wage growth We've had 14 years where disposable income has declined by on average 10% with government policy deliberately suppressing pay in the public sector and using immigration keep it low.
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  7804. @LA-fr7fx  so a rule of thumb money spent on public sector wages generates a minimum of 0.8 in terms of a an economic multiplier, so spending 10 billion through incresed economic activity it generates enough tax and spend that the real cost is 2 billion. Here's the rub though cutting spending can have a > 1 effect, analysis of Osborne's Austerity put the figure at 1.6 An example is defunding the justice system, outsourcing parole function and creating private prisons. You have inefficient use of resource, incresed crime which affects gdp and reduces productivity.
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  7805. @LA-fr7fx  I could reduce customer spend on energy dramatically by using the government to invest in mass storage at both the grid and customer level we have the tech just not the will. That would increase both companies and people's spending power and reduce costs. So for say a 30 billion investment I'm reducing customer costs by 20 billion a year and paying for the investment by increased gdp and productivity over time
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  7806. So basically if they have a house majority and a Senate majority then it's fk democracy It already takes a +5% for Democrats to have a house majority and in the Senate they represent +41 million people more than the GOP how much longer will people stand for minority rule
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  7807. Ouch thats gotta hurt
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  7808. 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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  7809. for who? Reform are the 2nd most disliked party in the UK next to the Tories according to the in depth MRP polling
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  7810. Who pays cgt? I'm well off and I don't, Sunak and Hu nt do though
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  7811. Net zero will save money on energy I'd also like to point out we've subsidised fossil by 500 billion since the Thatcher era
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  7812. The move to renewable energy is economic, if you want to get into the CO2 debate then that is the pointlessness of carbon capture back in 2020 renewable energy reached price parity with Base Gas generation since then it has become ever cheaper in comparison
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  7813. Why are they giving this human toxic guffbag oxygen?
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  7814. Yea but that's what the Brexit Ultra's are selling
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  7815.  @nighttrain1236  can't the grid is privately owned their aim is to make money for the shareholders not connect cheaper electricity
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  7816.  @Grimeyhoob  forward contract price of renewables is a 10th of Gas prices our market is tied to fossil spot price so the companies with renewable contracts are printing money with the behest of the government
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  7817.  @ftumschk  There public monopolies only a complete m0ron would sell them off in the 1st place It's like selling a house you own then leasing it back with guaranteed rent increases then going down the bookies and blowing it all
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  7818. 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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  7819. Yea but Reform aren't Conservative there the right wing nut job party touting Trussanomics
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  7820. Trump if elected will undo all of Bidens long term economic investment which is driving US gdp at twice the rate of its nearest G7 rivals. On its current course US energy prices will halve in real terms by 2050 under a renewable grid making America the world renewable tech leader.
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  7821. Reform follow the same Libertarian supply side globalisation economic policies that Sunak is hell bent on implementing and is screwing over the economy at the moment So it will get worse and worse till you elect a party that doesn't keep trying to implement a failed economic model that's based on political dogma
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  7822. No it doesn't Tesco for example spend 1 billion on wages and 26 on everything else.
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  7823.  @catherinemartin6258  they won't even let the Muppet into serious meetings because he's too much of a security risk
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  7824. Labour aren't the puppets of the IEA (Truss) and Policy Exchange (Sunak)
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  7825. @philipharris7594  all the laws on the books were enacted by the UK Parliment, the horseshit there trying to peddle is revoking 50 years worth of laws we enacted while as a member. The whole point of common standards is you don't waste huge tranches of money double certifying goods for export then filling out pages of forms to comply with bothe taking an axe to everything from Labour and workers rights polution legislation to hygiene standards would cost uk businesses over 83 billion over 5 years onto of the tens of billions already added. Regulatory divergence will never happen we will always get dragged back to alignment because the market is 20 miles away its called trade gravity you can't tow the UK into the Pacific so trade divergence is a fantasy. Even if they could achieve Global Britain that would entail complete globalisation with zero trade barriers our home economies wrecked by zero standard cheap imports and unlimited cheap labour.
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  7826. Most logistics analysts think Russia can keep this up for another week max. The Ukrainians are getting resupplied the Russian logistics appear all over the place and the current equipment attrition rate is 5 - 1 with captured vehicles being repainted and fixed and put into service for Ukraine. There is also the drone problem which is causing havoc behind their lines. After multiple ambushes morale in the Russian forces is fragile
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  7827.  @TheDisinformationProjectNz  the Russians have captured 1 city near crimea in 3 weeks they have to use the roads because of the weather. Losses taking an urban environment with troops will dwarf any losses they've had so far
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  7828.  @5rings16  Russia has lost or used over 10 billion in equipment a lot of it irreplaceable now due to sanctions which will be hardest felt in modern components that use chips such as planes air defence smart munitions thermal imaging drones. Let's look at the tank situation most appear to be poorly maintained have no thermal protection and the bulk appear to be old models that haven't been upgraded. Replacement cost is 5-7 million $ Russia has lost 600+ Aircraft 15 million $ replacement cost lost 100+ Soldiers dead 10,000+ 20-30,000 injured long term affect on the Russian economy billions, 200,000 Russians fled to neighbours long term affect on Russian economy trillions
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  7829.  @5rings16  How's that happen when you loose a sizable chunk of a whole genartion of your population? Even a low estimate is putting the ultimate economic cost at 20 billion a day long term that takes into account lost production plus lost population growth plus brain drain Short term gdp in Russia will be - 10 instead of +2 causing stagflation and widespread unemployment that also leads to lower birth rate on top of the lost generation
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  7830.  @Adcabrer  winning what exactly? There territorial gains are pretty static as soon as they push out from North and East there supply lines get hammered. They've not affected regime change, thier backers in Ukraine they've been feeding money through corrupt contracts to use on disinformation and to be the Kremlins chosen replacement have all been arrested. There still not 100% in control of Muriopol They've also lost huge amounts of equipment and men plus an estimated 300,000 20-35 year old Russians have fled the country many of them with irreplaceable IT engineering and medical skills. Also the sanctions means they can't get spare parts for just about everything when stuff starts to break down then that's it, Also Europe will be off russian oil by the end of the year and off russian gas by the end of 2023 the only thing currently propping up the economy
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  7831.  mgtowkremlin  you'd have thought open source is a wonder sattalite photo's are freely available since so much stuff has been breaking down or appears badly maintained the current theory is that they could coble together 6000 and that's assuming preventative maintenance has been carried out. Which we know they have not been doing Also the Ukrainians are using a combo of drone targeting for thier howitzer batterys The Russians have drones but from what I have seen there fitted with lawnmower engines
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  7832. He got more done in his 1st 2 years than virtually every other modern Presidency in 8. The economic investment in social and physical infrastructure will power the US economy for the next decade as long as they don't elect a Republican who will try tear it all down
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  7833. The left haven't missed a point they just don't care maybe we should join the EU to get guarantees like this If you are legally resident in an EU country you are entitled to open a "basic payment account". Banks cannot refuse your application
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  7834. Experts told you legal and illegal migration would increase post brex1t and you labeled it project fear Gove even went on to say we've had enough of experts You voted for it we told you so now suck it up and take responsibility
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  7835.  @WillyEckaslike  You got what you voted for a hard brex1t, you were told it would wreck the economy and increase migration no you said project f e a r How about admitting you were conned for a start
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  7836. It's a bit hard to normalise landslide numbers in the obituary pages and 2/3 out of every hundred people not being there, if your 60+ the mortality rate among your peers and elders is very distressing.
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  7837. there stopping the government do illegal things RWanda is a waste of money dunno why your not bothered by the 600 billion on it
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  7838.  T85  why do you try and be rude? Do you not know it belittles any comment you make and just makes you seem small and petty!
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  7839.  @timonsolus  Is there enough coke in the WH for him and his deranged girlfriend?
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  7840. YouGov and others reported thier weekly results with Labour's poll lead solidifying Also Focus groups have steadily swung against the Tories to a more pro we need change anything but the Tories stance
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  7841.  @evangelpaul1027  there getting laid off now, renewables are here grid storage is here it's not round the corner any more the US oil and gas industry is unsustainable without subsidies and they don't pay for the environmental damage they cause when they f**k up. Fracking is a major environmental nightmare it's banned in most European countries due to concerns about pollution in the water table and the earthquakes.
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  7842.  @jandavies4400  There economic offer is the same free market libertarian unfunded BS that Truss tried to sell.
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  7843.  @Lorgar64  if you want someone to blame for our high taxes then its Osborne's Austerity which shrank the economy, Brexit which also shrank our economy to the tune of 50 billion in lost tax receipts and Truss. we now have 2.4 trillion of debt (it was 800 billion in 2010)
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  7844. The Cons have no chance its just the size of the bloodbath The leading issue for voters is the economy the energy crisis the NHS and in our area also water No one around here is going to change their vote based on dingy people and protests about the Israel - Palestine conflict
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  7845. ​ @bwright227 it was probably Sunak's team that leaked it bit of revenge for her gobbling off so much
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  7846.  @richardruff8712  if you go to electoral calculus you can input current polling and assign a % as a tactical portion. Current YouGov polling puts non Tory tactical voting at 40% but things can change
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  7847. Child benefit is a Universal payment its untargeted so Jacob Rees Mogg would get it your just throwing money around like confetti hoping some of it lands on the target
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  7848. you go to a charging station by the time they come into general use in the cheaper end you'll be able to charge them in a few minutes
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  7849. ​ @boring4606 the minister that's been cought repeatedly lying?
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  7850. A recession in under 3 months That is really going some and takes commitment By the way Austerity doesn't work the UK tried it and far from saving money it shrank the economy, DOGE is the same thing on steroids and combined with the tariffs won't just cause a recession but put the US into a depression spiral.
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  7851. ​ Contuing with GAS will cost double the cost of Net Zero transition In 2021 uk consumers spent 30 billion on energy of which renewables where the cheapest source In 2023 uk consumers will pay 170 billion of which renewables will be x7 cheaper than GAS Net zero spend comes out of the government and needs to do so quickly to reduce the ongoing 140 billion in excess energy profits Over 10 years that's 1.4 trillion sucked out of the economy
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  7852. we've had 3 years of chaos and were now getting higher taxes than at any time since WW2 plus shrinking purchasing power and that's after negative wage growth and a stagnant economy under Cameron / May. In those 12 years we've had huge increases in corporate profits and money flowing to the top creating the biggest wealth gap in comparison to other European countries. Voting Tory is literally bad for your wallet so why are you an activist and what do the Conservatives stand for apart from vomiting on carpets for people on minimum wage to clean up after?
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  7853. No they haven't the oven ready deal was widely known to be a complete pile of crap and the Protocol put a border down the Irish sea because of the hard Brexit
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  7854.  @alst4817  the land that Thatcher built by decimating the North and Midlands
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  7855. The government have pumped 100's of billions into right to buy and other property schemes which boost House prices and boomers have basically been bribed with state asset sales so there's no cream left for the younger generation its all been spent mostly by the Tories on tax cuts.
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  7856. No major company will touch the UK with a barge pole as it is due to a collapsed on demand supply chain and the insane amount of delays red tape and paperwork Now you want to embed a decade of regulatory uncertainty the looming crisis of a trade war due to the fair playing field doctrine and tank SME's dwindling exports just utter madness.
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  7857.  @andrewclark8630  Tax cuts of the ones proposed by Truss don't stimulate the economy we have 50 years of data disproving this lie and the markets have access to the same economic data I have. We don't need whataboutism's with Cov spending focus on where we are. A year on Year tax deficit of 50 billion on top of 72 billion in energy energy support is not sustainable. Especially when we have a 5.5% depression of economic activity with brex1t = to a loss of 50 billion in tax revenue per annum
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  7858.  @andrewclark8630  The analysis was pointing to an economic multiplier of 0.2 which means for every £1 in tax cuts it generated additional GDP of 20p for a net loss of 80p in the £1 to the exchequer.
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  7859. My tax has gone up The economy is worse off than in 2010 Migration is through the roof because we no longer have FOM, were having to give permanent visas to loads of dependents who will now be permanent If you defund the justice system you shrink the economy reducing tax receipts If you defund the NHS the waiting lists go up, people are off sick longer you shrink the economy reducing tax receipts We need to tax wealth not just work 13 tears of trickle down Thatcherism has been a complete failure
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  7860. The data show that, since World War II, the economy has performed substantially better under Democratic presidents. On average, real (inflation-adjusted) GDP has grown about 1.6 times faster under Democrats than under Republicans.
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  7861. you have to process them 1st were not processing anyone
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  7862. ​ @deanrogers8381 there are multiple reasons for the low turnout across the board. Simple fact was everyone not voting Tory were not scared off by a Starmer government
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  7863. US has inflation like the rest of the world + Trumps inflationary tax cuts to add a bit more pain Bidenomics = structural investment in the country's future
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  7864. Devil is in the details They said they wouldn't raise taxes on working people. Employee ni is obvious one The NI bribe was totally unfunded leaving a shortfall of 20 billion
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  7865. He's lost already and making excuses and lying through every orifice on his body, there litigating to block states having drop boxes, states dropping off mail in ballots at poll places etc.
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  7866. There's one problem she's hopelessly incompetent @vinchenzo678 
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  7867.  @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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  7868. Why bother wasting time on it just vote it down and send it back its a complete waste of effort and money. Send the bill for the 1/2 billion in cost to CON HQ
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  7869. BBB will reduce inflation by easing the labour crisis enabling more women to return to the workforce You could just import cheap labour from Mexico or outsource to the far east which is what's been done in the past? Didn't think so
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  7870. They have a plan to turn it into an open cast mine and screw over the fishermen by polluting the area with toxic waste.
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  7871. Ebola crisis must have only happened on Fox from memory it was under control, Obama did wear a Tan suit though. Earth2 is a weird place these glimpses into an alternate reality are scary, there not even pretending to present facts and tart them up a bit anymore.
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  7872. Why would anyone who's enjoyed years of peace vote for a bunch of sectarian crusties? Voting based on your religion is nuts to start with I just looked at some polls the DUP could end up 3rd behind the Alliance party oh how I would laugh if that happened
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  7873.  @gerardflynn3899  I looked at the polling breakdown its remarkably consistent across age ranges, looking at the total breakdown there's a hard core of 30-32% that appear to be radicalised by Unionist rhetoric. They unionists don't appear to stand for anything bar social Conservatism and hating Catholics I was really shocked I didn't think there would be consistent support in the youth its just sad
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  7874. Do your research on renewable energy per unit it is 2.5 times cheaper than that generated by Coal
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  7875. The thing is there was a concerted plan by Trump involving other Republican legislators to try rig the election, he pressured Pennsylvania and others to block mail in vote counting till after the polls closed so that he could grandstand on election night and claim fraud and now has involved them in a conspiracy to subvert the electoral process and get himself installed against the will of the people. Fraud and racketeering charges another crime he'll probably never pay for
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  7876. since when he's still pedaling supply side reforms which if enacted would remove workers rights enable low quality foreign imports of food and goods cratering home grown business creating high unemployment with reduced labour laws your int a zero hour low wage economy centered round an elite service sector we need industry and farming and outside the City and home counties not more shyte in our rivers and seas with unfit for human consumption meat from tim buck too
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  7877.  @Unapologetic-76er  Maternal and infant deaths are up in Texas by 13%, babies born with congenital abnormalities rose by 23% yet DonOld wants disabled people to just go die
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  7878. 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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  7879.  @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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  7880. The woman is terminally stupid tax cuts dont generate growth best you'll get is 20p in the pound 45 billion in tax cuts to generate 9 billion additional gdp bargain not
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  7881. 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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  7882. Since the policy was enacted billions has been spent by the government in transferring 2 million houses to the private sector. From 2010 the Government has pumped 50 billion into these schemes while simultaneously pushing the cost onto borrowing Asset Stripping the councils of housing means they no longer have an income stream from rents, this revenue stream has to be either replaced or cuts made. Further they still have an obligation to provide housing support in 2023 this figure ballooned to 20 billion and is pushing some councils to the brink of bankruptcy + Pumping money into the housing market has increased values since 2010 by 66% at the same time wages have stagnated and are in real terms -7% A total failure of a policy that is artificially driving up house prices while pushing councils into bankruptcy
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  7883. Boris thinks about the papers headlines tomorrow and thats about the sum of his planning. They cling like leeches to the failed economic ideology of free market fundamentalism which says at every turn the free market can fix it, so there will be no government intervention to train in sectors with shortages
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  7884. The market isn't just one market anymore as was shown in the pandemic, the Tech sector has been booming as the digital revolution takes pace during the pandemic you had a recession on services. If the fed squeezes rates you'll get a small recession on consumer goods but the pace of technological change is relentless with everything from battery tech halving in price and doubling in capacity to robot built homes.
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  7885. Is this a prequel to the budget with Hunt announcing unfunded tax cuts? There is no fiscal headroom any he has is through imaginary cuts of 18% by 2028
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  7886. If Labour are elected your likely to see a rise in personal allowances at the 20% range + a rise in the minimum wage. Why Because it takes people off in work benefit and reduces government spend in that area example - Fiscal Drag for someone on 20,000 is extra £500 in tax its also £500 for someone on £50,000 The Tory proposal of say 1p tax cut in the £ is £75 for someone on £20,000 and £350 for someone on £50,000 And If we don't go Nett Zero it will cost more here's why 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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  7887. ​@DavidGetling what your seeing in the last poll is the left increasing thier tactical vote as Nige has entered the race and you'll also see a bleed from Tory to Lib-Dem
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  7888. 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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  7889. When are people going to focus on Trump's age as well as his mental state He is badly overweight and has a junk food diet and is one cheeseburger away from a Coronary and President Vance.
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  7890.  @yeehaw3792  it's an extremly densly populated area stats put transmission down by 50% for mask use
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  7891. So the last government were the 1st in uk history to leave people worse off after a 5 year term. They also oversaw a 7% drop in trade by volume again a 1st in uk history Just by settling the public sector strikes and investing in energy and housing they will grow the economy which has been stagnant since Osborne's Austerity. So le5s see shall we and ignore all the media noise?
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  7892. ​ @zeeone4492 there not the puppets of Policy Exchange (Sunak) IEA (Truss)
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  7893. ​ @malcolmrowe5031 end of capital,punishment, legalising birth control, vast improvements in public services then the witch got in and destroyed everything
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  7894.  @Oak_Knight  We were never in the control of the EU we had a veto. The single market is about trade harmonization and the demolition of barriers for mutual economic benefit, we still have to meet those standards or we can't trade with the EU so were tied at the hip to a trading block through Trade Gravity (its 20 miles away) but have erected all sorts of trade barriers because flags
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  7895. ​ @rokketron doesn't have a clue about the economic benifit of energy independence in a world of volatile commodity prices
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  7896.  @rokketron  new renewable energy projects became the cheapest entering the grid back in 2019. Economists are expecting staying with fossil will cost twice as much as investing in renewable grid. the sooner we do it the sooner we will benefit.
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  7897. More government spend on something that used to be free The headline numbers he's talking about aren't adjusted for inflation according to the ONS overall exports trade went down by 0.3% with a fall of 7% to the EU
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  7898. why not they got there act together had them integrated into the main Ukrainian army and got proper training and discipline something you can't say about the Wagner neo Nazis who are a bunch of undisciplined thugs.
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  7899. Corbyn was a left wing populist espousing Fantasy Economics his fate would have been the same as Lettuce Liz but more bloody making the Labour Party unelectable for decades. Populism doesn't work whatever side of the political spectrum it comes from
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  7900.  @hvhvgitaar  Corbyn was the problem by 2019 Diisliked by 70% off the public who saw.hiim as a London elite detached from thier lived reality living in his own socialist fantasy world
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  7901. No one believes that they will put thresholds to 20k it would add 100+ billion to debt per year and NHS privatisation would increase everyone's bills including the Government
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  7902.  @elcajondavid1  Ukraine have been cleaning up their act regarding corruption what the Orange idiot did was basically try and get them to corruptly make up dirt based on a blueprint from Paul (the crook) Manaford. Everything he touches dies and gets corrupted.
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  7903. She is on tour in Europe
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  7904. An alcoholic junkie predator in the WH. Only the best people, pass the sickbag
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  7905. He's said he's going to take hydroxi so watch this space
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  7906. ​ @tonyfraser1749 since when did we get a vote to leave the Single Market or loose our FOM back in 2016 all was on the ballot was EU not the rest of the shit they've tacked onto it
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  7907. One is a Democrat the other is maga a personalty cult. The media are focusing on the candidate that sounds and acts normal.
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  7908. ? Mourdant is a known liar and will get eviscerated for it Kemi and Braveman are ERG you wouldn't trust them with matches never mind the government there insane Truss is lazy and incompetent and can't lie her way out of it like Johnson did
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  7909. If I had the total 2k added to an overall budget i'd distribute it differently, more money for states expanded unemployment rent relief Whats section 230 got to do with it? Senator Whydon is the expert on this topic not Trump and the Trumplicans
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  7910. If you want to see how deluded and what a con the America First agenda is look up FoxCon, you couldn't get a more fitting example of window dressing propaganda and sheer incompetence
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  7911. 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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  7912. They need to tighten up the eligibility for tax exemption these people aren't engaging in religious speech it's all political Why would God have anything to do with the Orange human turdpile
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  7913. Strikes cost money and depressing public sector pay was being used to import low wage migrant labour from the 3rd world. The Tories left a right effin mess
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  7914.  @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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  7915. ​@mylessalmon2569 what's trump running on bar hate an tax cuts for billionaires?
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  7916. not really they've borrowed 1.6 trillion since 2010 the more they try harder on Thatcherism the worse it gets
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  7917. Neither has Braverman it's all hot air forr the gulible
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  7918. He can't get it through his thick racist skull that you have to fix the virus health problem it is the number one issue front and centre, the clock has ticked past the point of no return it would take a massive u turn then 6-8 weeks of mitigation and that's just to get the numbers down. Next scandal just as people start early voting data massaging by the Trump administration and compliant Governor's.
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  7919. Elon Musk has Aspergers syndrome (higher functioning Autism) trying to make sense of what is a brain dump is pointless Trying to judge him by neurotypical standards of actions and behaviour is a waste of time I have an Autistic son he can be brilliant and stupid all at the same time and act like a 9 year old going on 50 and once he goes down a certain path can disconnect himself from what would be regarded as normal reactions and behaviour.
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  7920. There the party of the billionaire class there's nothing in their manifesto that's good or workers
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  7921.  @jon-xd7tl  that's just word salad Credible deterrent rubbish how about doing the hard bit and go after traffickers plus issue ID cards and start rooting people out of modern slavery as well as shutting down the black economy. We're attractive because the government can't be ar5ed to do the hard bits its too easy to disappear All the Cons are doing is feeding the current business model because there lazy and totaly incompetent
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  7922. He retired before the overseas deployment was issued Check your facts
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  7923. So what part of the manifesto is so tempting? The fracking because there in the pockets of the fossil industry? the 100+ billion in unfunded tax pledges that would crash the economy completely? Privatising the NHS maybe?
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  7924. You have wealthy people with vast estates these need breaking up or they perpetually expand at the expense of everyone else
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  7925. +10% seems a bit low given the cumulative weight plus battery gain
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  7926. Far right yobs more like it
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  7927.  @markcicero7931  That's true Caligula wasn't voted in by a Landslide unlike Joe
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  7928.  @markcicero7931  Biden won by +7million votes the Democratic senators represent +15% of the population compared to the GOP the house is +6% more votes overall
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  7929.  @markcicero7931  it's 70% of registered Republicans who are 33% of the registered electorate so the figure is a quarter of the country not half. The same quarter don't believe in climate change and also contains 90% of the vaccine deniers. Its not really a coincidence the right wing media ecosystem isn't news it's a collection of grievance talking heads and conspirecy theorists, the programming and content is like the verbal equivalent of the WWE performative but at the end of the day all show and not based in reality. There are currently only two serious cases regarding the election going through the courts one is in Georgia and is against DJT for trying to get officials to break the law and cheat and find more votes the other is in Florida where a Republican operative is being investigated for registering and promoting phantom candidates to slew of votes from the Democrat. The Republican party has a serious popular vote problem, they've not won the popular vote in decades and thier voting Base is getting older, whiter as well as more male. They didn't break even on voter split in the last cycle till you get to 45 and then it's 49-51, the counties that Biden won comprise of 70% of the US gdp he also won the black vote by 95% and the first time youth vote by 70% with the under 35's by 60.
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  7930.  @markcicero7931  70% of 33% is round about a 1/4 and the states aren't passing anti fraud bills non of the proposed or enacted legislation will have any affect on fraud and the thier not designed too why don't you read them! How stupid are you people? DJT is a wannabe dictator with a fragile ego propped up by a media eko system that feeds on lies you believe this shit because you want too and can't face the fact you've hitched your wagon to a psychopath with multiple personality disorders who can't tell or face the truth.
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  7931.  @markcicero7931  Why are you quoting a survey done at the beginning of Dec in Apr? 64 failed court cases later billion dollar lawsuits answered with it was all Kubuki Theatre you should never believe anything I say a failed coup attempt by the mad Orange one a CPAC that resembled a Nuremburg rally complete with neo-fascist symbolism thousands of people delisting themselves from the Republican party and a media eco system that sports Tuckers replacement theory the core of which cost round about 75 million lives in ww2 either directly or indirectly and you still cling to the coattails of baseless conspiracy theories debunked with a minimal effort. Everything Trump touches dies
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  7932.  @markcicero7931  non of the laws passed are to do with voter fraud or have you not read them Why don't you want to live in a representative democracy?
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  7933.  @markcicero7931  since when has banning 24hr early voting anything to do with voter fraud? Since when has restricting voting machines and drop boxes anything to do with voter fraud? Oh yea nothing it's targeted voter suppression coz we can't have all those blacks in Atlanta voting Dem we need to keep the aryian purity of the vote
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  7934.  @AlexanderTheGreatMan  He's senile and crazy, just look at the clown car picks for his cabinet, every conspiracy nut going
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  7935. The reason the economy is knackered is Thatcherism Reform promote economic Thatcherism its like hey that didn't work 14 years in a row maybe if someone else did the same things will change
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  7936. 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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  7937. ​ @MihoyMinoy-si8fb states have introduced automatic registrations since 2020
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  7938. He's an amateur compared to Sunak, +23 tax rises, hs2/3 gone leveling up now punching down and an economy that has average wages -7% lower than 2010
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  7939. I'm sure Reeve has a plan to unpick 14 years of Tory trickle down, as an aside they've parachuted Torsten Bell into a safe seat a leading left wing economist Secretary to the Treasury? 2 economists running the Treasury that would be a 1st
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  7940. Renewable energy is the cheapest on the grid both here and in the US has been since 2020 It's about rolling out next gen infrastructure to support it, even the Neanderthals in the GOP can't stop it
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  7941. You promote the NeoLiberal policies that drive migration Matt so why don't you explain to the group here why Legal Migration is so High No? Thought not lets demonize refugees instead
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  7942. Where do they get these people from, do they go round and dredge up the most misinformed fossil fuel apologists they can find? The UK runs nearly 40% wind for electric the reason being wind power costsi 1/2 the price per megawatt hour to produce go look up Dogger Bank wind farm to see what's happening in the sector Also we don't own the oil and gas in our waters the government sold off the leases to private companies wayside from a bit of tax even then the Cons have given Shell sweeteners
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  7943. @waynewinky2754  it's not the heating boilers that are the issue ban gas ovens and hobs You can get rid of peak demand grid gas by building more wind farms and installing tech like the Tesla mega pack arrays They've just done one in Calafornia cost 750 million will save 1 billion a year and they have relatively cheap gas to boot
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  7944. Jeez DJT is effin dumb
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  7945. 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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  7946. 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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  7947. Voting is being split by age and education older male uneducated voters moved to UKIP, younger educated voters moved left to labour The voter pool that Reform and the Conservatives are drinking is ever shrinking as well as getting ever angrier as neither have workable solutions to today's problems The red wall will shift back to labour what will be left of the right wing of politics is a base that is consuming itself driven by billionaire propaganda to keep them engaged
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  7948. Osborn cut nursing bursaries and doctor training places in 2010 as part of Austerity It will take over a decade to turn that decision around
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  7949. Why would A Labour term change border policy to open you need better drugs
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  7950.  @stevec6427  the Tory asylum debacle is estimated to be costing an additional 3-4 billion in extra costs that doesn't include money wasted on Rwanda
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  7951. Is there a way to get auto id at the same time as auto registration just saying so they stfu about it. By the way it starts to smack of an id card which will then be a mandatory carry which police and others services ask for which is against thier libertarian views and smacks of state control. I'm sure he'd have a complete meltdown over that could be used as a negotiation tactic?
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  7952. and why is that he comes over reasonable in interviews I'm OK with boring
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  7953.  @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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  7954. Isn't Musk's intervention with his billion foreign interference? By the way He's South African the C word isn't what you think it is it's a racial slur.
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  7955. It's still using lithium while the batteries will be a leap forward what will drive car sales is battery cost rather than size weight
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  7956.  @xenosscape8573  fracking, breaking every trade and international treaty we have Deregulation for more pollution, privatise the NHS and unfunded tax cuts Its a complete fantasy alternative reality agenda
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  7957. @paulsawtell3991  she Asset stripped the country with a one off sale + used oil money for tax cuts as well as asset stripping councils with right to buy Why do you have sh1t in rivers - Thatcher Why did British gas profits increase by 900% - Thatcher Why does Norway have a 1 trillion pound wealth fund from oil and we have fk all - Thatcher Why are we spending 20 bIllion on housing support - Thatcher
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  7958. @xenosscape8573  I've read all of them, complete and utter fantasy not one of them stands up to close scrutiny. There even worse than Johnson's cakeism You reduce legal migration by investment in UK people and skills that means increasing taxation and investment in ukplc not fantasy tax cuts
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  7959.  @xenosscape8573  I've read all thier policies especially the economic ones. If you want low immigration you invest in UKPLC not tax cuts
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  7960.  @doghouseriley4732  Quote from the LSE in 2008 The National Minimum Wage is one of the most significant labour market interventions that the Labour government has made, raising the pay of well over one million low paid workers by about 15% overnight at the point of introduction. • Since 1999, the minimum wage has been increased by 30% after adjusting for increases in the retail price index, well above the increase in average earnings over this period. • Prior to its introduction, there were claims that it would not only destroy up to two million jobs but also push up inflation and interest rates as better paid workers sought similar pay increases to their low paid colleagues. • None of these fears have materialised. So far, there is no evidence of significant job losses for the workers most affected by the minimum wage and there have been no obvious knock-on effects on the wages of better paid workers.
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  7961. They all get freebies, what would you rather have it be declared or under the table. And The real issue is fake second jobs to buy influence, Nige for example gets over 1 million from an offshore billionaire
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  7962. In what way? We've had a number of positive announcements since they took power
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  7963. Its simplistic rubbish the Tories economic policies need a constant stream of migrant labour to grow the economy if you cut that off because the likes of Osborne / Sunak won't tax the rich and implement progressive taxation you get the squeeze and inflation were currently getting at the bottom and your also looking at a labour market with over 1.2 million vacancies.
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  7964. what difference does political virtue signalling do? They've been at war in some shape or form since before I started voting 50 years ago
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  7965. You'll find the bulk of his staff that work on his golf courses are illeagal You can sort this out by regulation but that's not what the gop want, they want the cheap labour and to blame the Democrats.
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  7966. REFORM pitching to Labour Voters? There peddling more extreme Thatcherism, Fracking abandoning Net Zero and NHS Privatisation
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  7967. If DJT won IOWA by +7 as in 2020 he would still loose that would need to be -10 points out for the battleground states?
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  7968. ​@savemefrommorons not with allowances and I have other pensions on top so fiscal drag is already catching me, if it had been uprated with inflation it would be 14,400 so a loss of around £400 remember NI thresholds are the same if your working that's another £200. Anyone on minimum may as well emigrate now
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  7969. I'm for public ownership of utilities but against nationalisation on the grounds that it will suck up too much time, money and energy doing it when we face the biggest cost of Tory Crisis in my lifetime. We're at 100% debt to GDP the markets have already said no more and our biggest cost over the next decade is debt repayment @scooby1992 
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  7970.  @clemobenoit5813  Not a Tory if people really understood there economic policies then they would struggle to to break 10% in the polls. And I'd put myself as fiscally Conservative Socially Liberal
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  7971. The FogHorn of ignorance rides again conning the gullible Biggest driver of legal migration loosing FOM with 2 million in 2 years 50% now being dependants and the average age of the worker being older Biggest driver of illegal migration leaving the EU and the Dublin accord so were not working with our friends and allies to resolve a common problem
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  7972. There's not much you can do when they've turned mask wearing into a cultural issue, evidence suggests large reduction in transmission rates but everyone needs to wear them to make it effective. It's easy it gets you to nearly normal but apparently it's the new hate item on the right.
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  7973. They want the Truss vision of Brexit completely unregulated low tax total globalisation There also all in on immigration if you run an unfettered supply side economy you need an unlimited supply side source of Labour, Truss was all in to open the floodgates to India. This is at odds with the UKIP wing of the party who are raging xenophobes want the death penalty for daring to get in a dingy and land on Blighty The economy is a skip fire they started back in 2016 and there still arguing how to put it out record food inflation today and OBR says were going to be 6% worse off come the election
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  7974. Tax cuts and deregulation of AI
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  7975. ​@maccagrabme regulatory alignment = free trade = improved standard of living We have to follow EU rules for trade anyway the bulk of our SME supply chain is through the EU but now we fill in paperwork have checks and tarifs. The worst of all worlds
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  7976. I don't think he can from a legal standpoint the documentation to states will have already been submitted, if your a blue state your not just going to roll over and Shatpie in another candidate
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  7977. We have a demographic crisis our birth rate is 1.6 which is why we have immigration so your solution is have less kids make the crisis wose and import more workers? Conservative thinking at its finest
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  7978. That is incorrect GBNEWS is an opinion channel a lot of he stuff on here is factually wrong
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  7979. where not currently its a scare story to get you to keep burning fossil which became more expensive than wind energy back in 2019 before the energy crisis started.
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  7980. It's called social infrastructure, a lot of the benefits target the non college educated section of the workforce
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  7981. Why are we not investing in tidal we are geographically uniquely placed to make use of both wind and tidal
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  7982.  @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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  7983. There's always wars going on around the world while the Cabinet keeps this constant drip of mealy mouthed lying and deflection then it won't go away. Its a symptom of a bigger problem with this government
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  7984. The media want him gone + the right wing want a centre left agenda destroyed Why? They dont want taxes on the rich There hell bent on destroying our move to net zero and energy indipendence Starmer is here for the long haul get used to the noise
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  7985. Improve your Insulation
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  7986.  @Laura55sere  We are the golden generation that Thatcher gave everything too, asset stripping the country to buy votes. 50 years on and the sh1t has really hit the fan, I got a grant to go to University today a student walks out of college with 60k in debt. I have a house I bought for 36k now worth 650k with no mortgage. Our economy is in dire straits and 90% of that is down to the Tories accelerated by brex1t and the Truss fiasco
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  7987. He had the. Worst economic numbers since Hoover and the great depression. 8 trillion on debt nearly 1/2 of US debt Completely fkin useless
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  7988. Who funds think tanks that lobby for low taxes for the Billionaire class? Errrrr let me guess And this same think tank influences Truss and Kwerteng which leads to the bond market tanking. Its fkin useless advice and they've as much credibility after what's happened as a circus clown
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  7989. You struggle to get very wealthy people to support a party that want to create a fair tax system that's not a surprise You struggle to get people who have everything to contemplate having their taxes raised to invest in the American people That's not a surprise
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  7990.  @twoblacklabs904  ANTIFA as a political organisation doesn't exist nearest you'll find to the right wing concept were a handful of Anarchists in Portland. Those sorts of people don't travel there your kind of hippy activist offshoot. You'd hardly call the Anti Defamation League ANTIFA so you have this bogey man that the right are all scared off that doesn't really exist
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  7991.  @ericdickerson7656  the interviews I've seen with the people who where arrested just points to them being fkin stupid and falling under the spell of a Snake Oil salesman. They really display a mind numbingly high level of dumb.
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  7992.  @ericdickerson7656  and the Proud boys and 4% ers who were hanging with Roger Stone and Marj Green who were major players in the Riot?
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  7993. Apparently infrastructure projects cost on average 4x as much in the US as in western Europe One of the fastest growing sales items in urban areas for comutting is electric bikes.
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  7994. Worst president since Hoover
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  7995. Reeve has a degree from the LSE seen a couple of interviews one I remember she was talking about infrastructure investment and the Sky journo just didn't understand a word she was saying and kept on as if infrastructure was a flat negative cost. She and the labour party as a whole appear to be having to deal with really stupid people who have got in their tiny brains that the UK finances are like a households finances. I think this was why the other weeks interview on fiscal rules sounded like word salad I wish they would pivot away from trying to convince complete morons that don't understand government finance and focus on poverty and how there going to aleviate it. I know this isnt quite the topic but i was listening to Times Radio yesterday and the guy was banging on about Tresury authodoxy like we dont have 50 years of data saying Thatcherism and now combined with Osborne's and now Sunak and Hunt's Austerity doesn't work. A huge problem in all the statistics the Media and government are using is that under every metric I've seen the bottom 10% in our society has inflation at way over the figures presented. Anyway im off topic but the whole thing is getting me wound up But I did have a laugh at yesterdays stupid evil when their boats couldn't dock then i remembered stupid evil always costs us money
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  7996. He's trying to emulate Truss and be the worst leader in Tory history
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  7997.  @trishacardus9063  the word woman is a description its not connected to sex I could say you sound like an old women that describes your silly comment about Starmer I could say your a big girls blouse for hiding behind a media hell bent on getting you to vote Tory again.
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  7998.  @trishacardus9063  If the Tories get in for another 5 years it will be 1000 times worse than any Labour government More Ultra Brexit low tax deregulation nonsense bringing SME's Farmers to the brink of Bankruptcy along with water pollution Sale of the NHS doctors charges Rising the retirement age breaking the triple lock sale of the BBC chan4 tens of Billions in fossil subsidies abandonment of any pretence of net zero zero social house building points based immigration undermining middle class and professional wages ever expanding trickle down tax policies like the millionaire pensioner tax cut
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  7999. ​@alien4422 your having a laugh aren't you, the points system is there to undermine middle class and executive jobs and push wages further down, you people fare mugs you really are
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  8000. What is this awful woman doing on TV she wants to give rich people more money at your expense and tie our economy forever to oil and gas
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  8001.  @Freddie1980  It was calculated by leading economists the Osborne tax cuts generated 40 billion in additional taxation through increased GDP at a cost of 200 billion
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  8002. How do you get Turkeys to vote for xmas tell them migrant chickens will steal there jobs Legal migration has quadrupled since leaving the EU and illegal migration doubled + the economy is in the toiled with rising taxes Ever get the feeling you were duped
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  8003. Johnson was done for repeatedly lying to parliment Not for breaking lock down rules as usual with the blonde idiot it woz the cover up rather than the crime that screwed him over.
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  8004. 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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  8005. ​ @Noel-ji8nm it's a shame Corbyn never lived up to that saying The man who handed the Tories an 80 seat majority on a plate, a man who had never implemented a policy in his life, never had to confront real life politics just lived in his elite socialist bubble. No better than Whako Truss on the right or Fartages fake Populism
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  8006.  @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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  8007. @Zaphod-ef9yz  Reform don't have a single workable policy, besides deregulation for more sh1t in the rivers
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  8008. If you don't know our Nige is a racist by now your delusional
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  8009.  @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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  8010.  @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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  8011. Why he represents all the Conservative party have become over the last few decades what's different about Sunak
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  8012. So with Brexit being a complete failure with higher than needed food prices higher tariffs on goods fewer exports less choice in the shops and even leading to higher immigration because dependants that's a winner in my book
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  8013.  @djtherock7062  It was fuelled on a debt bubble that was already bursting in late 2019 as inflation started to rise. Driving the Debt up so high during the good times meant that the fall post Cov was way harder. You never heard of fixing the roof when the sun is shinning? Unlike Trump's companies it's hard for a country to go bankrupt though he did give it a go leaving a complete economic skip fire when he left office.
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  8014.  @noway1844  His plans would also increase energy costs by 32 billion and loose 1.7 million jobs but hey just spreading the news. New report analysing them trying to turn the clock back on renewable energy.
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  8015. There suffering from mass psychosis and need help as are the Q crowd All the crazies came out during the Black death period, then all the witch trails stuff.
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  8016.  @emilymccartney1593  I'm a pensioner too we are the generation that got everything subsidised house buying low tax from oil money and asset stripping Free higher education and Tax free savings I feel embarrassed that my generation voted in the complete shower that has wrecked the country for 14 years
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  8017. 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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  8018.  @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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  8019. 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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  8020.  @solidtron1965  covid causes blood thickening round the infected areas especially in the lungs it also can cause heart swelling, brain swelling liver problems kidney failure and horrific drops in the autoimmune systems t cell count vastly increasing the risk of thrombosis. Hydroxy doesn't play well with a range of these symptoms increasing death rates by a high factor. It's snake oil to put it bluntly, there are some treatments that are helping which have been used in aids treatment, there is no magic bullet
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  8021.  @Zarken26  so you don't understand the UK energy market then? Or that we actually own 90% of our gas consumption?
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  8022.  @theoutsider6191  Covid cost 1.9% gdp its chicken feed compared to the cost of Brexit which is costing 5.2% gdp and acting like an accelerant onto inflation
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  8023. You vote for Conservatives this is what you get its called trickle down with deregulation same as having all the shyte in the rivers and billions in debt to cover dividends.
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  8024. Nige has had the stench of oligarch money all over him since the UKIP days this is transactional he wants a return to that gravy train even if it costs millions of Ukrainian lives
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  8025.  @Mrtickleberries  Ahh so naive, there still laundering money through London through shell companies and most are in Dubai It isn't called the London Laundromat for nothing
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  8026. People should be more worried about Reform's economic plans with 100+ Billion in unfunded tax cuts that would if enacted crater the economy overnight
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  8027. The last labour government had well funded services +20% Average wage growth how's that the same?
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  8028. If your worried about inflation why are you backing a candidate that will add 3 trillion to consumer prices with his dumb tariff idea?
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  8029. Keep up the misogyny. The women's voting block is one of the highest voting groups in the forthcoming election
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  8030. One right wing failed economic policy for another You do know its the lack of Investment in Infrastructure that's driving up immigration don't you?
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  8031. Conservative tells the poor the rich aren't getting enough tax breaks - usual fake news oh Liz Truss Listen to this rubbish and your brain will rot
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  8032. Yes Labour are better@2aph0d_b33blebr0x
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  8033. 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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  8034. Sunak is disingenuous but are you really siding with that total piece of cr*p that is Galloway?
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  8035. I would just like to say that Battery storage as part of a SOLAR install are now ZERO rated for VAT I have a few months ago availed myself of this tax break Originally when I sized and costed this system 3 years ago the capital payback was 15 years The actual savings for me are £1,300+ a year, we have an electric oven as well as induction hob, then the laundry, I also had a diverter fitted so that when we have excess solar which is every morning it heats a tank of water saving on GAS.. The system because of the drop in battery prices and zero rating + the ability to time shift usage and also get very low rates overnight will pay back in under 6 years. I also costed savings with an EV For me a second hand 2022 would cost around 14-16k and I would save 2k a year on petrol If you have savings like I had it is a good investment with phenomenal payback and your also helping to stabalise the grid and long term prices due to time shifting usage from the peak load period of 4-7pm
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  8036. We can realign standards without having a new deal which will vastly reduce friction I'ts in both our interests to remove as much friction as possible within the current framework Europe with the UK need a border force that can operate across borders that is well funded to smash the people smuggling gangs
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  8037.  @karstenbalamagi8463  The traffickers money is more than likely Laundered in London. Its a massive cross European criminal enterprise worldwide it's estimated to be worth $250 billion
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  8038.  @karstenbalamagi8463  money laundering, it's estimated that people trafficking is worth around $250 billion worldwide
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  8039. You need councillors on the ground sending out the message and talking to the voters, activists canvasing despite zero media coverage the Lib Dems have 3000 + councillors a whole load of activists canvasing, same with the Greens and Labour Reform are a tin pot party with a foghorn at the top 2 councillors and zero ground game
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  8040. If you have a supply side shortage as in energy you could ad more renewables to the grid quickly to reduce dependency on gas Oh I know lets ignore it and let the BOE use a demand side tool to crush the snot out of the economy instead
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  8041. ​@dogglebird4430national Populism is a dead end it offers no solution its just channeling peoples anxiety into hatred of others. It only took 7 years from Germany putting migrants in concentration camps to getting to the final solution. Nige and his closet fascism
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  8042. Small businesses are queuing up to support Labour because they intend to roll back a lot of Brex1t insanity which is throttling trade
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  8043. ​ @Gary-le7dz they don't understand that Thatcherism is the driving force of thier economic decline and record levels of immigration To them immigration is a tap you can turn on and off not a consequence of long term economic policy.
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  8044.  @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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  8045. Why wouldn't you want labour?
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  8046.  @iceshakle  not very humorous Blair gave us the best decade of prosperity the country has had in modern times +25% wage growth, real economic growth and well funded services Brown patched up the fallout from the banking crisis leaving 62% debt to gdp ratio and gdp per capita @50,000 You can have as many opinions you like on new labour period but those are the economic facts Osborne went on a personal crusade to shrink the state in doing so he shrank the economy suppressed public sector pay refused with Cameron to regulate the GIG economy leading to near 1 million workers pouring in on low paid zero hour contracts. And it's all been downhill since then the Tories have Never balanced the books debt to gdp ratio is 100% we borrowed 130 billion last year interest rates are eye-watering high and gdp per capita is 45,000 with people now on average worse off than they were in 2008. At this stage I'd settle for back to 2010 and a bit of a recovery rather than the economic doom loop were in
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  8047. If your going down this road then it would be wise to know what is possible and what is just more BS would it not? For example the promises on migration are pretty empty, legal migration is high because of economic policy its not something you can switch on and off while illegal is wrapped up in international law  @TJ-kw8ct ​
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  8048.  @iceshakle  why are you so afraid of the economic facts? If you don't like the New Labour years for Idealogical reasons then fine there's lots of ammunition. We have decades of data showing the economic failures and fallout of Thatcherism made even worse by Austerity to the point its stagnated the economy for 13 years.
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  8049. Trickle down supply side was debunked over a decade ago even the bastions of NeoLiberlism the IMF have come out saying it doesn't work. + The basis on which Austerity has been pursued has been debunked as well What the markets told us with Lettuce Liz is no more fantasy economics and I've been reading some interesting stuff on Net Zero recently after the kerfuffle that Sunak brewed up by ar5e kissing Farage and the far right of his party. I read the FT occasionally when I go to the Library and the money men are all in on Net Zero and there was a right storm when the recent wind farm auction collapsed it wasn't said explicitly but implied it was deliberate. Anyway here's a piece of Info which makes Sunak decision look well dodgy I can't see him calling a snap election but looking at the bottom quote "things can only get worse" 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.  @KernowDamo 
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  8050. he got booted out of his Elte Rich bank account for not being rich enough They have a fie on him because he's a PEP What happens if you are a PEP? Because PEPs hold positions of power and influence, they can be a target for corruption and bribery attempts, and ultimately for money laundering or terrorism financing activities. This is why it's important to use AML/CTF measures to identify, mitigate and manage any such potential risks AML/CTF = Anti-Money Laundering / Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Bank Secrecy Act
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  8051. It's working as intended 2 million in 2 years, free market fundamentalist for you
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  8052. Yet more generated and all paying uk tax
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  8053. @diorocks5858  the cost of switching to renewables is 50% cheaper than staying with fossil fuel over the medium term Commodity values increase with scarcity and costs wind and sun is free
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  8054.  @oneoflokis  the Corbyn vote of 2017 was pretty much an outlier due to a whole host of reasons, although Labour increased their vote in other demographics they were bleeding working class votes.
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  8055. 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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  8056. The tape of the Koch meeting on HR-1 shows exactly where there at, no policies just bought and paid for politicians in the pocket of right wing lobbying groups. Just hollow shells with no morals principals other than greed and power, the Anti democracy legislation going through at the moment is all orchastrated through dark money organisations
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  8057. The Republican fight against science is pretty one sided it's maximum scientific breakthroughs for them with every drug under the sun and screw the plebs get back on the wheel if you die well get some illiegals to do your job. Oh and woe betide the imigrants wanting some rights if you speak out your straight to the concentration camps. Welcome to the age fascism
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  8058.  @Barbarapape  There brainwashed by GBN and Talk TV all they effing want to talk about is effin migration and the good old bad old days
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  8059. DonOld is Teflon, unlike Shady Vance The line of attack should be he is one big Mac from a coronary do you want president Shady
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  8060. It's a complete WASTE of Money
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  8061. I live in a blue wall seat the people round here want nothing to do with her culture war bollox They want their energy bills to come down, the RAAC in schools fixed, the NHS working properly and Net zero kept to to fetch down energy bills as well as clean up the sewage  @lesigh1749 
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  8062. no he wouldn't the reason the numbers are so high is dependants and the reason so many dependants are allowed is the people are coming from India Nigeria and Philippines if they come over from the EU its easy enough to travel etc its not uprooting yourself and family from 1/2 way round the world. Its nothing to do with big business its the economic policies that drive this and Reform would in many ways be even worse If you want to lower migration you need to invest in Physical and social infrastructure that means a fair and equitable tax system not Tory low tax for the rich trickle down which needs migration to feed it
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  8063. loads of us voted tactically same as what happened in 97 but now we have the internet to make the vote more efficient Just to point out Lib-Dems brilliant ground game thousands of councillors Labour even better and Greens also on the ground making their case despite media ramming Fartage down our throats
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  8064. You'd think after Ron got his ars3 handed him on a plate by Newsom he'd have quit straight away How thin skinned and stupid does he have to be to carry on
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  8065. He works night and day? laziest PM on record Moral integrity? He's a pathological liar Delivered Brexit? Its a shambles 17 mile tail backs at Dover computer systems that don't work and a Bill for additional customs staff that dwarfs our EU contributions. Fastest growing jobs currently are shipping agents and customs staff
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  8066. JB has instigated the biggest investment in infrastructure since the great depression and put the US on a path to be the world leader in renewable technologies. DJT will try destroy it all and put the US in a deep recession because that is all he knows how to do
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  8067. Uneducated young male voters watch sports, crappy reality TV drink beer and are uninterested in politics. That add may fire them up but getting them to actually vote? Narrr
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  8068. ​ @travismarshall3089 if you pump 8 trillion into the economy which then trickles up as the Don did it has to go somewhere hence rise in asset values. It's a double whammy of Trump tax cuts and Cov spending
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  8069. The Tories lost so badly because they started chasing Reform voters and doing insane things like Rwanda Reform and the Cons are 2 cheeks off the same ar5e, Nige and his gang would be just as incompetent
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  8070. ​ @DougBrown-h1n Starmer has already appointed 3 experts in their field to government posts from outside the political party
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  8071. This isn't a new story it's fake outrage by the media, if you don't want them accepting hospitality then write to your MP to change the rules. I'd rather it be declared and above board rather than under the table
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  8072. So Murdoch smells blood and sends his dogs out to whip up the prols Let me guess his chosen vessel is another bunch of right wing populists with billionaire economic priorities how convenient
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  8073. The reason immigration is through the roof is right wing economic low tax supply side trickle down needs immigration to feed it If all you do is swap one right wing model for another then the economy and the reasons for needing migrant labour will never change
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  8074. They contribute 42 billion to the economy which is fkd already by Brexit You wanting to destroy it altogether?
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  8075. He's got bipartisan bills through that no thought possible, the guy has a stutter if you listen to a full stump speech he's just a bit slow He also still works out and eats healthy the whole Joe is too old is based on sexism and racism towards Harris, if he replaced her with a middle aged straight white guy you'd not hear a peep
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  8076.  @alfredttarski4521  were effectively doing wto now that's what all the checks and border stuff is now Due to the were thin trade deal we have were 3rd country status making under who rules the EU can't give us preferential treatment if it wanted to, 1st country in the history of the world to put trade sanctions on ourself
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  8077. He left an economic skip fire by instigating a 20 billion unfunded tax cut as a pre election bribe and to run a scorched earth policy to crater any chances of Labour having any leeway on spending. What a narrow minded pathetic man he was
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  8078.  @DB-lq6tt  You've payed through the nose for energy and had the Treasury provide 72 billion in subsidies over the last year because Cameron abandoned Labour's insulation and renewable energy targets and you have the bare faced cheek to complain about Green investment that will move us away from the horrendous cost of being tied to GAS? WTF is wrong with you people ? do you not want cheaper energy and disconnecting from worldwide economic commodity shock? I got hammered for thousands over the last parliament as a home owing pensioner I don't care about the WFA. If the Tories had got in it would have cost our family dearly.
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  8079.  @DB-lq6tt  by suppressing public sector pay you got an explosion in migrants filling posts accompanied by their dependants numbers not seen since ww2 Your also paying for increased housing benefit claims and income support through taxation by creating a low wage economy. That economy in turn produces less taxation leading to overall increases in general taxation to cover the shortfall
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  8080. If you have common sense why are you listening to the pr1ck that sold you brexit a points based immigration system and resulted in 1.25 million visas last year?
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  8081. Who has a farm worth over 3 million? The Clarkson of this world trying to dodge iht
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  8082. You get less immigration by investing in your economy, the reason its currently high is the Tories invest in nothing
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  8083. There's plenty of money if your prepared to look HMRC failed to collect 42 billion owed to it in 2023 and The Tories waste untold billions on trickle down cr*p If you run small state then there is nothing you can do to growth if you run a centre-left agenda with a managed economic plan there are hundreds of things you can do to promote growth such as Pay public sector workers a fair wage so your not having to import 3rd world workers on the cheap then subsidising their housing because they don't earn enough and also it reduces the need for agency staff As I said 1 example in hundreds
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  8084. Data says on average people are 10% worse off than in 2010
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  8085. @pmarsh3700  it's the male contingent that would have ended up as football hooligans My blue wall constituency went from Big Con to Lib-Dem the Reform guy got 8%, they have no policies for 90% of the population
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  8086.  @matthewabln6989  we have a Lib-Dem mp who is concerned about the sewage in the river, getting rid of RAAC in our hospitals and schools and wants to push social care reform sounds like a result to me over a Crusty 60+ year old spouting right wing nonsense especially the economic drivel reform central came up with
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  8087. Can't be trusted on Brexit? It's a complete fkin shambles, you'd be wiping your arse for a decade if the forms you had to fill in for export were printed on bog roll As for the lie about fuel vat just another turd pooping out of Johnson's mouth to pile up with the rest of them
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  8088. Braverman is a useful idiot Thatcherite economic policy and low tax needs high migration to work
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  8089. If you want to know how wide awake he is the announcement of withdrawal from Afghanistan was timed and is also agreed with our allies, they will pull out on the same timescale cutting the legs of Pentagon's objections and making it a symbolic date. To be clear if the US now remains in Afghanistan they would have to quadruple thier presence to take up the slack from the NATO troops there, so you'll get plenty of hand wringing from the neocons but who's going to stand up for a massive troop increase in the region.
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  8090. The guy is mildly liberal will CNN stop tar and feathering him as lefty commie, every where in the western world runs social programs and social healthcare yet horror of horrors this is radical while subsidising big business doesn't raise an eyebrow.
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  8091. In what way?
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  8092. Were going backwards and no amount of backpedalling lying and obfuscation by Johnson or his lackeys can change that, this is nothing but a show pony for the hard right swivelled eyed loons in the Con party that believe in magic unicorns Even with these changes which will never get enacted there will still be a hard borer down the Irish sea the only way of removing it is with harmonized trading rules. And NI businesses don't want anything to do with the rotting economic car crash that is is GB's brexit, 55% voted to stay in the EU which went to 60% at the last election voting for parties that supported the protocol which is likely to rise higher if there has to be another early election to get beyond the impasse with the DUP likely to fall behind Alliance in voter share .
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  8093.  @Hope...M  GOP are Union busters didn't you hear Trump bragging to Elon
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  8094. If you lie your arse off and promise pink unicorn tax cuts which would balloon the debt by 50 billion and do zero to productivity then your opponent tries to chase down the crazy path you what do you expect 2 Jonson candidates from a failed Johnson administration trying to promise the unachievable whats changed
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  8095. Russia is an Authoritarian regime with an Oligarchy class just think of it as a country run my a mobster. China has an elite class and a middle class and is way off communism but likes all the Authoritarian stuff. The US GOP is extremely right wing the current administration policies are virtually dead centre and seen as normal in western countries. As for what happened to capitalism its alive and well though the large companies are trying to strangle it by generating huge monopolies.
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  8096. 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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  8097. The economy will change irrevocably with this virus even if they get thier way for some people to go back to work anyone that doesn't believe this BS is still going to follow social distancing so the biggest hit on the death rate will be among the tin foil hat brigade. Let's get real the mortality rate will sky rocket to 5-6% because of the need to icu a huge number of people and a lot of people will die because they can't be put on a ventilator or get the proper care, this is what the data showed about Italy and why Europe freaked out and went full lockdown.
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  8098.  @RuislipResident-v7p  quote When the IEA complained to Ofcom about the broadcaster James O’Brien’s description of the institute as a “hard-right lobby group for vested interests of big business, fossil fuels, tobacco, junk food” on his LBC show, Ofcom rejected its complaint, ruling that he had not distorted the facts. Yet the combined platform of these dark-money groups on the BBC is surely many times bigger than that of any other non-party grouping.
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  8099. apart from the collapse of the health service in Italy the mortuary trucks in New York Sweden has a functioning health service isn't densely populated and has adequate housing
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  8100. The fascist lite arm of Conservatism what a stunning choice after Boris go for another Elite Populist windbag who will promise everything and deliver nothing
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  8101. Whoops the Judge has been on the lemonade again, cue SNL sketch
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  8102. Last year the Tory government spent 72 billion on energy subsidies to keep consumer bills down because of the volatility of GAS on the world commodity markets Renewable energy reached parity with base Gas generation back in 2020 before the energy crisis Governments around the world are looking at ways to disconnect their domestic economies from the Economic Shock of volatile commodity prices they have no control over.
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  8103. P&O didn't just fire and rehire they replaced the crew 90% with Filipino staff who live onboard for 6 month stretches and are paid 2-3£ an hour They can't leave the boats because they have no status in either the UK or EU And you want that sort o sh1te company investing in the UK?
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  8104. It's a plot to get young voters to register and vote Labour, the Sunak master-plan at work he would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids
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  8105. face masks cut the rate of transmission by 53% 90% of ICU covid beds are taken by the unvaccinated 95% of deaths are the unvaccinated Get vaccinated take sensible precautions or spout crap in the name of FreeDumb
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  8106. Why do they get the idea that felons who have served thier sentence then campaigned to get thier vote back then have that right stolen away from them by a combination of Republican representatives and Republican judicial appointments might conceivably vote Democrat? The issue is Florida is razor close and an extra 300,000 votes will have a huge impact state wide so the poll tax was a way of bypassing the will of the people. The Fox people really know how to spout entitled shit.
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  8107. What a bunch of Murdoch toadies pushing batshit crazy theories all round the globe. Australians deserve better Lawsuits - wins 1 losses 19 Biden is ahead by 1/4 million votes in 3 states, the DHS has come out to say there's no fraud, no one but DT is screaming baseless fraud claims
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  8108. Migration is the result of economic policy suppressing public service wages to as much as -30% over 14 years by the Tories is the main reason migration is at the levels it is as well as switching from FOM to a Visa scheme which has trebled the number of dependants.
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  8109. No one is praising Thatcher there calling her an agent of change. Wilson promised to modernise and then did fk all about the unions. The Jonson agenda of leveling up, net zero and social care yes he was too feckless to get it done But Truss and Sunak have completely abandoned the 2019 manifesto
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  8110. So the Haunted Pencil has spoken all bow to King Boris King of the Liars
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  8111. Satan's agent on earth still breathing alas but good news non the less
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  8112. The Cons run Supply Side Trickle down economics Everyone else runs a form of Keynesian Demand Side Economics which has emphasis on investment in Physical and Social infrastructure So there is a choice the 2 produce completely different economies even the Blaire / Brown hybrid was a million miles away from what we have now which is 13 years of Supply Side stagflation
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  8113. Fastest in G7? Were 6th out of 7 from 2019 to present day growth forecast is -4% due to Brexit twice what the pandemic has done to the economy so how do we fix that? Level up got canned or does he forget he cancelled HS3 and instigated the same old London centric plan that screws everyone else.
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  8114. As in it could have been worse, what's blatantly obvious is the NI cut Sunak dropped pre election was unfunded designed to eat up any potential Labour tax rises forcing them into wasting 2 years of a 5 year term The reason he is so angry is Reeve just reinstated the NI cut onto employers with a big F you
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  8115.  @MrBerry67  already the detail looks good They increased the NI thresholds most small businesses are now exempt from employers NI, this hits the high earners the bulk of which are I the City service economy
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  8116. @MrBerry67  quote The government will also expand the Employment Allowance by removing the £100,000 eligibility threshold, to simplify and reform employer NICs so that all eligible employers will benefit. The allowance will increase from £5,000 to £10,500. The Federation of Small Business described the move as a “policy win”
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  8117. @Insightful21  what growth we haven't had any for over a decade and a half?
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  8118. Rwanda the 1/2 a billion dead cat the bill for it should be paid for by Conservative HQ its nothing but a propaganda stunt What a Waste of Money What a Waste of Money What a Waste of Money Blue wall gone gone gone
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  8119. Diversity in that claiming something is true or possible iwhile it plainly isn't?
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  8120. because he's spreading harmful disinformation which will get people killed, he will say and do anything and harm anyone if it furthers himself.
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  8121. Fundemantly we have a London problem HS2/3 was the wrong solution but the right idea, improved transport networks including rail bus and road, a link from Hull to Liverpool so continental transportation doesn't rely on Dover
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  8122. ​ @richardcarter1924 coz he's a whako like Dump
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  8123. ​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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  8124. Tories dropped 2 points to 23% in the polls last week Labour gained 3 to 47% asset to Labour and the Lib-Dems more like
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  8125.  @yurt-the-silent-chief  Quote Veterans angry after finding ID is invalid at polls — Ex-servicemen in Gosport are turned away from polling stations after presenting Veteran Cards as ID. quote A leaked memo from the Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer has finally given the game away about what the real purpose of the Government’s Voter ID law was. In the memo, Mercer reveals that he repeatedly lobbied Downing Street for veterans to be able to use their veteran ID cards in order to vote. His requests were denied by those around Rishi Sunak due to fears that it would “open the floodgates” to students also being allowed to use their ID cards to vote.
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  8126. Another right winger that doesn't understand the energy market the government under sunak subsidised energy bills to the tune of 72 billion last year that is straight out of taxpayers pockets 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.25 Jul 2023 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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  8127. ​ Ashwin Varghese  there's all sorts of battery options now from vehicle to grid, sand battery molten metal liquid air etc. there all scalable you just need to accept that's the direction to go in rather than doubling down on oil and gas. 2019 wind became cheaper than gas before the current price rises its now 10x cheaper
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  8128. She's the next leader of the opposition
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  8129. @chickenpie113  I read a FT article when they elected Truss, Sunak has only rolled back the crazy stuff there were still 20 billion in trickle down policies in his last budget Quote The Tories have become unmoored from the British people The government may have adopted the most extreme economic position of any major party in the developed world If they get creamed down to 100 seats there's only the headbangers left
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  8130.  @Lisbon6T7  General approval among Tory members who are still spitting feathers over Boris then Truss being replaced is Badenoch Braverman I went and looked at the margins in other likely contenders but there all going to lose their seat Mordaunt has only a 7,000 majority. People like Truss, Swain etc will be reelected its looking pretty grim for the Party as your right people want less of the Fascist stuff and deffo no more trickle down
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  8131. Its politics the they need the major gas car companies buying into EV's Lets be clear Elon is an A-hole clever one but extremely focused on Elon and can't understand why people don't see things like he does I mean its easy to make your billions this is what you do.
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  8132. As someone on low income because of the insane amount pumped into the housing market by successive Tory governments the only option is to use the scheme that is pumping inflation into the housing market. And CGT doest apply to your primary residence (hint you don't have to live there its a tax thing) Just to put house inflation into context prices have gone up since 2010 by 66% while average wages have shrunk by -7% and 50 billion has been pumped into right to buy by government. It's a completely broken system that means we're paying out 20 billion a year in housing support to private landlords from yours and my tax
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  8133. ​ @OliviaHacking-kf7px well funded public services can't wait
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  8134. @stephenrichards5386  the right wing of politics promised that brex1t would lower migration The experts said it would go up Reality is its quadrupled Experts 4 - Nige & the Cons 0
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  8135.  @DJToMyHits  We have the internet these days so stop trying to spread made up shyte you'll get called out for it pretty quickly
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  8136. It wasn't unscripted it was obviously a message to someone in Russia, we have no idea what's going on in Putin's inner circle the CIA will
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  8137. Why don't they have a bipartisan approach with immigration? facts Biden past Trump's 4 year total deportations of 1/2 million within 18 months also apprehensions at the border are up by 400% The US are now producing > 100% of its oil requirements and have 30 years worth of leases
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  8138. Trump can't cooperate with anyone he even argues with himself
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  8139. For the US this is just the gift that keeps on giving WHY A javelin costs 200k a Russian Tank costs 2-5 million lets be clear who are you going to buy tanks or APC's from in the future Uncle Vlads scrap yard or the US The whole thing is like an Expo for the American arms manufacturing business
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  8140. Why they have doubled the NI threshold if your employing 4 people on minimum wage your no NI exempt
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  8141. So you'd prefer corporate tax cuts to manage the problem?
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  8142. Why watch an interview with a criminal that constantly lies? Putin -it's all NATO'S fault Real reason - Putin , the Oligatchs, the Russian Mafia are one and the same Ukraine is just theft, invade steal and reward Oligarchs use extreme violence if you have to
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  8143. 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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  8144.  @goldeneagle99  there's a > 50% voting left leaning parties which means most of his policies will a majority support
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  8145. Corbyn is long gone labour are becoming a fairly broad church party while the Conservative appear to only promote billionaire interests
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  8146.  @markbanner6473  the demographic of labour voters is changing if you follow this sort of stuff. Older working men are peeling off and voting on National populist grounds rather than who would be best for thier wallet
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  8147. Their grid is archaic and suffering from decades of under investment like most in the western world, wind and solar have a forward price per killowat hour of half that of fossil equivalent if your switching away from fossil for transport you need to vastly expand the grid and the ability to load balance quickly. Its up front cost with long term payback V short term payback with long term cost
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  8148.  @AximandTheCursed  why would you stick with fossil fuels there like an albatross round your neck tying your economy to the whim of the world commodity cartel. Renewables get cheaper year on year and more efficient, storage evolves quickly if governments get off thier arsed and make it a priority and insulation standards and building standards need raising so we don't waste so much energy especially cooling our homes
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  8149.  @AximandTheCursed  you build a coal fired power station you build an offshore wind farm they both cost about the same in infrastructure but one needs to burn coal for its entire lifespan and one doesn't yet there both somehow the same? Give it a rest with the fossil lobby speak its the same netball arguments they trot out about EV's We have a fossil and car lobby that pump out propaganda and buy influence to lobby against Insulation initiatives for homes Subsidised Public transport initiatives for urban areas Localised small scale tidal power Domestic Solar and Wind initiatives The domestic stuff doesn't even cost its blocking tax breaks and building standards improvements You need a big fk off nuclear plant near a large conurbation not where I am what we need is more distributed smaller scale solutions so that each home is more energy efficient
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  8150. We have the most unequal tax system outside the US and tax isn't why the economy is stagnant its through lack of investment also we have record borrowing. Sunak and Hunt have made an active choice to put up taxation on the less well off with fiscal drag, < 36k your paying more and as soon as you hit 50k your paying more as well
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  8151. We don't tax income made from wealth any where near enough and the likes of Micheal Mone being able to spirit 60 million straight to an offshore trust fund is taking the p1ss @nickryder9669 
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  8152. I stand on the side of science and data, these right wing morons just don't get it, it's basically a maths / logistics problem. You can A kill the economy and save lives or B kill the economy a lot over an extended period and fill the morgue with a few million. The US economy is going to be changed forever no matter which path you take letting the pandemic rip is actually the worst thing you can do, like this guy will give up his ventilator slot arrogant prick
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  8153. very sweeping everyone is a leftie that don't agree with you no wonder this station is such a pile of garbage it brings out the worst of the worst the most intolerant
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  8154. Haters gotta hate @backgammonbacon 
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  8155. Biden deported more in his 1st 18 months than Trump did in 4 years & the Trump administration was a complete clown show all about visuals not dealing with the problem.
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  8156. He's just produced one of the most cynical budgets in Tory history taxing workers and the low paid as well as graduates to the hilt while ensuring unearned income is not touched. Not that you don't expect it from the Cons but to then shield your families unearned wealth in tax dodges and not even pay the absurd low UK rates is taking the piss
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  8157.  @BlueTeamRedTeam  Trump's campaign manager Manaford was done for taking Oligarch money
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  8158.  @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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  8159.  @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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  8160.  @frishter  inflation is 2% Under the last government were around 20k worse off under Cameron 10 k worse off
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  8161. No more referendums, one of the reasons migration has tripled is loosing FOM shopping in the 3rd world who have cheaper Labour and fetch their dependants
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  8162. CGT won't crater the economy its a way for rich people to not pay tax
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  8163. Reform have the same dumb economic policies that crashed and burned Truss so why would you vote for them?
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  8164. He's thick as mince, this is a gimmick a propaganda stunt If you fell for it more fool you
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  8165. I have a 1935 house spent a couple of years retro fitting insulation including under the floor
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  8166. He's bought and paid for by the billionaire class and doesn't care about the country
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  8167. Corbyn was a populist like Truss and Johnson would have suffered the same fate driven his party into oblivion
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  8168. The rapid test isn't as sensitive as the lab test, not sure by what % but it's quite a bit, at a guess half
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  8169. According to economists, if we'd have kept on Brown's path, we'd be 15% better off by 2019 The economic killers were Austerity & Brexit
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  8170. Millionaire Pensioners will they got a £40,000 tax break on the back of workers tax thresholds being frozen costing everyone around +£500 in tax Mind you they've screwed over normal pensioners by cutting NI not raising the thresholds many will start dropping into the 20% tax band  @mogzybuster 
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  8171. The economy as we new it is gone, all those that can will work from home all those that know the science and data will self isolate as best they can till there's a vaccine. My economic purchasing and lifestyle is on hold till there's a vaccine. So in saving my own life what am I missing for a year? Not going to a restaurant missing a holiday not going to a concert or ball game. The more you look at this with the data coming out the more I'm pretty determined to sit it out adjust my lifestyle accordingly.
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  8172. 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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  8173. It's more complex than that there are 4.3 million children in poverty this deals with 250k at what is a huge expense
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  8174. @banedon8087  give it a break even the Cons thought she was a bigot
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  8175. 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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  8176. It could be there trying to rotate new troops into the fight as well as resupply their front lines and you don't know how much he's prepared to throw into the meat grinder
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  8177. Build an electoral base not built on sand like the Lib-Dems with 3,000+ councillors
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  8178.  @yvonnelas2969  they were told by the Tories it was in the bag. Also a lot of people couldn't be arsed with photo id And The Tories spent 5 years dragging down trust in government with scandal after scandal taking a dump in the pool wherever possible
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  8179. Texas's top priority in the face of a failing electricity grid and extremes of temperature 1 election fraud 2 teams playing the national anthem 3 making Texas a gun state
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  8180.  @SaintGerbilUK  Rwanda, Cancellation of infrastructure and net zero, fake culture wars, Brexit the list is pretty endless
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  8181.  @colinsixhitter3303  why? He's centre left your only hope of turning away from a hard right government that will literally kill this country
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  8182. More pollution more salmonella in our food more raw sewage in our rivers more and more paperwork for British exporters loss of markets because of low standards more cost due to duel certification. Take the digital standard GDPR lowering and dual standards will cost British Business 1.7 billion in application costs and would mean those that have business in the EU will set up offices in the EU and transfer their core business there also several US states have looked at the EU standard and are copying data integrity requirements.
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  8183.  @BabyBane100  ? we've left with Johnson's Unicorn deal unlike you I've moved on we need to get people in power that will sort the shtshw that all of Johnson lies have gotten the country into. You can't sort a problem out if you stick your head in the sand and go lalala its all the EU's fault and have no idea what direction your going in.
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  8184. Johnson was to feckless and lazy to do the job His win was boosted by an opposition that was all over the place and his ability to lie with impunity
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  8185.  @clivemarriott7749  Gosh your living in an alternate reality where economics and facts doesn't apply and only media speak dogma is the order of the day. We had loads of people come here because the Cons created loads of low paid jobs and there was zero regulation neither the firms in the Gig economy nor the workers contributed enough in taxation. Biggest grooming gang had prince Andrew in it Keeping Labour green policies would have saved hundreds of billions to UK energy consumers its just a fact get over it. reducing corporation tax from 28p to 19p saw huge amounts of money taken out of companies in dividends and Bosses payments plus share buy backs while the TAB went onto the UK national debt non of it was re-invested.
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  8186. ​ @Steven-vo4ee early voting and mail in demographic analysis is showing 56 - 44 voting women to men, right wing influences are mental down over it
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  8187. It always is
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  8188. Why would anyone want to own a 40 year old pile of rust that guzzles petrol
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  8189.  @rockatansky1305  why is anyone even bothered about it it's just irrelevant in the scheme of things a nothing burger
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  8190. Tories gotta grift and this station shills or them all the time 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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  8191. He had the. Worst economic numbers since Hoover and the great depression. 8 trillion on debt nearly 1/2 of US debt Completely fkin useless he's no chance
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  8192.  @mickreaddin4979  the numpty doesn't realise Le Pen would have signed an order to provide all the Calais refugees with boats and ordered the police to help them set off probably given them an escort out of French waters
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  8193. No its not Where still not checking imports loosing billions in uncollected tariffs We have a smugglers charter no one knows how large scale the problem is The TCA is up for renegotiation next year The on-demand supply chain is completely broken Its taken 7 years to get this far we don't even have a working alternative to a host of EU institutions that we now need to create ourselves
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  8194.  @lumpyfishgravy  were running a debt to gdp ratio of 100%+ how do cut taxes without ballooning the debt? NI should never have gone up its too late now to reverse it they've done the uplift to thresholds
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  8195.  @wetincornwall6882  were not taking in enough in taxes, if you want to dampen inflation you need to raise taxes and interest rates 50%+ of the inflation is down to ballooning corporate profits the top companies made over +12.5% for the last year raising corporation tax should be a priority
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  8196.  @dr.mund0339 Why the dumb as fk whataboutis Oooo lets compare a Plague to I dunno the sniffles why that really makes no sense
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  8197. Why are people on this board going on about thee Lawyers this was sanctioned by the British government. How about you ask Sunak why the special sanction was allowed he was the minister in charge of the department that green lit this.
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  8198.  @himoffthequakeroatbox4320  it's just a case a unit of work
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  8199. I heard an interesting podcast the other day which explained that the right and the left approach the debated in the same emotional way, the left believes its not emotional but based on fact as does the right. The problem is right wing media which has spent decades feeding a false reality in forever pushing the shock boundaries or whitewash what it's side does you can't really communicate with someone who doesn't have a shared reality your not debate about their interpretation of fact because they are arguing on the back of a lie. You can't even get them to agree that there that the capitol riot wasn't left wing provocateurs despite the hundreds of arrests and the association of the Oathkeeprs with Stone.
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  8200.  @dakoob9837  do yours he's libel for 80+ million for it
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  8201.  @dakoob9837  Donald has robbed and cheated all his life quote For the contractors who built the Taj Mahal casino three decades ago, the wounds still fester. One calls Trump "a snake oil salesman.”
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  8202. ​ @cv990a4 there at 23% in the polls while you have to ask yourself 1 in 5 who are these people that support this complete shower its pretty much as near the bottom they'll get. Dodgy Dave is to try shore up some blue wall votes but the die is pretty much cast and we wait to see how dedicated the tactical voting will be.
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  8203. Why would you elect the main instigator, Trump is the chief divider playing neighbour against neighbour, he is an agent of Chaos there is no fire too small he wouldn't walk over and pour gasoline on, his toxic racist rhetoric fuel an us and them culture, he 's shown he is incapable of working with anyone cannot compromise and takes sadistic pleasure in driving wedges between people. If you think this is bad after 4 years he's only just getting started the violence vigilantism and protests will burn the US to the ground
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  8204. I had my first shot a few weeks back like the diners I'm old overweight + I have asthma last time I looked through the stats mortality among that group was round 1 - 20 though the odds have been going down with therapeutics.
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  8205. I'm looking forward to labour At least thier economic policies what we're going through is the collapse of Thatcherism you can't asset strip and borrow your way out of stagnation
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  8206. Getting people to vote is stuffing the ballot box? All the GOP run on these days is fear, in multiple red states there are insane voter roll purges, closing of polling station in urban areas, in Texas use of the police to raid a Latino voter advocacy group.
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  8207. Errrr there's no such organisation as antifa it's just a broad brush depiction of a whole range of people who are anti fascist which is most sane individuals in a Democratic society and what's worse is Rupert Murdoch knows this and is more than happy to stir up fear and trouble. This guy isn't antifa he's just some protester left wing guy with a gun same as the vigilante right wing guy that shot people there just criminals. The big domestic and international terrorism theat is the rise of white nationalists and there's hate fueled agenda
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  8208. Britannia Unchained straight from the Donkey's Bottom Quote The British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor. Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen, the British are more interested in football and pop music. The book is written by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Liz Truss The text sets out their vision for the United Kingdom's future as a leading player in the global economy, arguing that Britain needs to adopt a far-reaching form of free market economics, with fewer employment laws
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  8209. my taxes have gone up by 5605 this year because of fiscal drag so Sunak can put his lying mouth on a septic tank outflow and swallow
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  8210. How much information is out there? Lots this will drip feed till 2020 election
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  8211. Whys that then the worst economic record over the past 12 years in 150 and somehow every other party but this bunch of assclowns wouldn't be better? Take off the blue tinted glasses and stop making a fool of yourself by trying to excuse the worst government this country has ever had
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  8212.  @quietmike4791  There not likely to win the Senate, appointing Trump speaker will crash the whole of government and the economy he won't approve budgets or anything all he will do is endlessly demand Biden/Harris resign pedal all the conspiracy crap and burn down the whole of the country. He is completely batshit crazy
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  8213. So how will Tice pay for the Tax Cuts because as everyone knows tax cuts don't grow the economy, last person to try it lasted less time than a decomposing lettuce
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  8214.  @oldshiny3012  Nothing I've seen on there website explains how they magic money from thin air. Tax cuts don't create growth for every £1 you give in a tax cut the average you get back in increased GDP growth is 20p Which is why the markets melted down with Truss's budget.
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  8215.  @ricardosmythe2548  Cutting services shrinks the economy every £1 saved with Austerity cost £1.60p. Defund the justice system get more crime reduces GDP Hire less people to process migrants more people in Hotels increases costs reduces GDP Privatising the NHS will increase costs not reduce them etc.
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  8216.  @oldshiny3012  The tax cuts were costed by others at around 50 billion straight to borrowing. Fiscal drag currently adds 30 billion, the recent NI Cut cost 9 billion. rate changes at 20% to 20k and 40% to 70k and the corporation tax cuts would cost 100 billion + Tax cuts don't create growth
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  8217.  @ricardosmythe2548  yes my reply was cut as well cutting services has an economic multiplier as well as tax so a £ saved doesn't mean you have £ to spend
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  8218.  @ricardosmythe2548  a paper by four PEF researchers – Rob Calvert Jump, Jo Michell, James Meadway and Natassia Nascimento – said the austerity measures – in 2010 and later in the decade – had led to weaker growth, a low-wage economy and contributed to the vote to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum.
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  8219.  @ricardosmythe2548  Assume you can make 20 billion in cuts with an economic multiplier of 0.5 (generous) Assume that you 100 billion in tax cuts attracts an average multiplier of 0.3 (also generous a lot of the higher end money to corporations and high earners disappears into fixed assets). You have 70 billion - 10 billion = 60 billion tax black hole
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  8220.  @ricardosmythe2548  Tice wouldn't do any of that he's the billionaire's b1tch GBN is a propaganda channel for the Libertarian ultra wealthy it has connections to the Lagatum institute and conversely the Heritage Foundation. It uses culture war wedge issues to promote a Libertarian sh1thole economy. TBH the 2 of us could get in a room and compromise on a whole range of issues which would take this country forward but the MSM and GBN would flame us to the ground.
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  8221.  @davidr4114  He's a Libertarian like Truss there what's called ultra Conservative. Go look over at CPAC
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  8222. The reason REFORM can't do any better than the Tories is they follow the same broken economic model Removing regulations increases paperwork and red tape to ALL Markets outside the UK Low Tax = no investment in UK population = mass immigration to plug skills gaps Scrapping Net Zero = increased dependence on Fossil fuel and long term HIGH electricity prices making businesses noncompetitive @patrickobrien5066 
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  8223. He's ruined 100s of people's lives as well as getting people killed over his lies
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  8224. @Henry-Ludlow  macroeconomics are using a phone I have old stubby fingers There's 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts in the Reform manifesto And Supply side economics runs on supply side Labour turn it off and your economy will grind through recession into a depression couple that with tax cuts paid for with debt and you have Argentina on the Channel
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  8225. @Henry-Ludlow Reform have 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts + an immigration policy that is at direct odds with it's economic policy. Either there as stupid a s fk or there taking people for ride which is it?
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  8226. So is Russia they produce 2 million shells a year and are currently using 5.5 million a year and are getting 3rd 4th rate cr*p from North Korea At least western shells are accurate and of high quality
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  8227. Public sector pay doesn't cost a straight out £ amount any rise will immediately have a 28% pull back from tax, when you look into the cost of training, the cost of retention and rehire + the way that part of that money goes straight into the economy in a cycle of tax and spend it costs the Treasury around 20p in the £. If your looking at doctors and nurses it may well be less at it affects waiting lists
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  8228. Duh that's because they removed FOM
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  8229. 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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  8230. ​The extent of the pain will slow down but tax threshold is frozen till 2028 and BOE rises still have to happen Frozen thresholds add £500 to your tax bill below 50k already + double+ on fuel +50% in food cost (my bill not what the government claim) Anyone still voting Tory must have Stockholm syndrome And The blue wall has been voting in Greens at council level this is electoral suicide
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  8231. The polls are weighted by the last election The GOP have older voters and made a big play of getting rid of lots of them via bad public health policy during Cov. And This is a turn out election akin to Obama. Hillary had decades of negative attacks on her
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  8232. Labour should pass a bill as soon as they take power charging the cost to the Conservative party as a campaign expense. the biggest wast of 1/2 billion on a propaganda stunt has never been seen in this countries history and to do it when there's a cost of living crisis is political suicide but that's the bright bit
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  8233. Sunaks Conservative party are spending money like drunken sailors they've already been warned by the IMF, were 100% debt to gdp borrowed 130 billion last year and no prospect of any improvement
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  8234. The ultimate dead Cat costinng 300 million While immigration was 1.25 million with 1/2 dependents why we lost FOM people coming in now are permenant.
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  8235. It helps the optics for the Democrats to have a stream of these on a daily basis constantly elevating it as a news talking point 2 days ago Bush's daughter came out for Harris Tomorrow who knows
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  8236.  @John-ed2wj  And Libertarian Billionaires and Oil Barons do? quote from a round table meeting on X there not even hiding it anymore. Elon Musk has offered a sobering preview of Donald Trump’s economic plan for America if he is re-elected, revealing that a period of intentional “hardship” is on the horizon for American households. Rather than cautioning against it, Musk described this hardship as necessary and inevitable, supporting Trump’s blueprint for restructuring the economy by slashing government programs. Musk’s remarks, shared in a Telephone Town Hall organized by his America PAC, indicate that he and Trump see economic pain to average Americans as a necessary cost of their policy goals.
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  8237. @derekcable  octopus offer funky tariffs to those with solar and battery systems my tariff is down from 24p to 13p if I need to top up my batteries. Go check out thier website then plug the capital cost v payback into a spreadsheet
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  8238.  @lesigh1749  No they aren't what?
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  8239.  @derekcable  There's nothing stopping you getting batteries or solar or both
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  8240. @LifesAbe-ach  it's now dirt cheap and far more efficient than it used to be, my 10 panel system generates enough for 9 months of the year the guy over the road has 20 the slightest bit of winter sun and he's full for the day What makes it work is cheap battery storage.
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  8241. They didn't empty the Coffers that was a Joke and Tory Spin and gave Osborne an excuse to shrink the state and really empty the coffers debt to GDP in 2010 was 62% GDP 1.6 Trillion of debt later its 100% with mas migration during the period and falling GDP per capita
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  8242. Don't be fkin dumb you don't need vet certification if you have a frictionless border, the UK government chose to inflict third country status on us adding a mountain of burecratic paperwork and checks. Frictionless border = no vet shortage Third country status = vet shortage This is entirely self inflicted and nothing to do with home trained vets
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  8243.  @angrybrit7331  No they didn't they chose to leave the EU, Norway isn't in the EU and it's still a member of the single market you'd need a lobotomy to think leaving the single market was a good idea it's like putting trade sanctions on yourself.
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  8244.  @angrybrit7331  free market fundementalism is con promoted by special interest groups. Its ideas are responsible for the decimation of white collar jobs.in the US rust belt and the 2008 crash. They would fry the planet and reintroduce on slavery if they could get away with it to make an Extra dollar.
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  8245.  @angrybrit7331  another myth promoted by the billionaire backers of Brexit that have fed millions into anti EU propaganda campaigns through social and platformed media. The EU has never been as strong one of the reasons is the remaining members have seen the complete fk up we've made of exiting, the border down the Irish Sea is all but built trade gravity and frictionless trade have caused the NI economy to align with the South and GB is being bypassed as a land bridge. The TPP countries are looking to the EU regulated level playing field free market model as a next step to curb China's growing influence and as a bulwark against another pandemic Main Brexit lies currently debunked Were better off economically - nope not a hope in hell ever The EU is collapsing - opposite is happening Southern Ireland will leave the EU - again the opposite is happening
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  8246. so you have an offshore trust to avoid IHT do you?
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  8247. In what way are they spending like it's growing on Trees do enlighten me?
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  8248. When are the media going to stop sanewashing a geriatric 80 year old with dementia? DJT should be in a care home not the WH
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  8249. Rumour is it was Sunak's staff that leaked it Bit of blue on blue to get her to wind her neck in
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  8250.  @terencegumbs2478  Braverman's policies are purely soapbox theatre for the unwashed not a hope of any dealing with the problem Unsustainable you say do you know the numbers? 80,000 applicants last year of which 80% will be given asylum so 62,000 and we have a population of 68 million there's 180,000 now stuck in the system so bird brain Suella is deliberately housing 20% who should have been deported already and 80% who should be working in the economy Instead we have the complete fiasco that somehow where not bound by the UN charter on refugees You people really are mugs for swallowing this horsesh@t
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  8251. ​@JackHGUK you had a thumping defeat in 2019 a left wing agenda was roundly rejected and the Tories can retain power with as little as 36% of the vote And It depends what you mean by left given the economy resembles a skip fire and given the fact that Reeve is looking to follow Biden's push into renewables and putting the middle and working class 1st. I want to see the Tories completely destroyed and don't care if Starmer doesn't pass your purity test
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  8252.  @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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  8253. This is the 1st parliment in history where you will be worse off at the end than you were at the start. Why has Sunak called it quite simply he has no mandate to roll back all of Johnson's election pledges, as a blue wall resident I've been writting to my mp every time Sunak has u turned on net-zero pledges, Its been a near weekly excercise. He appears also to have zero authority in his party and doesnt want a summer of infighting
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  8254.  @ChristineRead-ck1uq  Try appealing to people other that white over 50 racist angry men. They are the 2nd most disliked party in the UK give you a guess who the most disliked is. The Lib-Dems are set to become the opposition and by polling day will end up with the 2nd most votes overall.
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  8255.  @ChristineRead-ck1uq  If you dig into the polling they are the 2nd most disliked party with a negative 57 and could go lower with undecided. Their core demographic is 50+ angry white men and they offer nothing to anyone else. + there also not standing in all the seats and are basically an English nationalist party. On current polling they will get 2 seats the Cons 60 Lib-Dems 72
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  8256. A net zero grid will fetch prices down and break the chain with Global Multinationals controlling energy. We have the Tech to use EV and domestic batteries as part of the Grid freeing up companies to create a system with a constant demand profile. Even installing Grid scale battery storage gives huge savings in the billions because your not keeping a Natural GAS station up and spinning for demand spikes  @ronaldking1054 
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  8257.  @davidrenton  Invasion and other othering tricks to get people to not see refugees as human beings once that line is crossed mass deportation to a Labour / Concentration camp in East Africa Quote The Nazis started using forced labour shortly after their rise to power. They established specific Arbeitslager (labour camps) which housed Ostarbeiter (eastern workers), Fremdarbeiter (foreign workers) and other forced labourers who were forcibly rounded up after they came to power in 1933 The Albanians being given refugee status are women who have been people trafficked
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  8258. Putin apologists go back to RT to pedal your propaganda
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  8259. His corporate tax cuts combined with the 3 trillion in sales taxes will send the economy into a depression, there's a reason he's been bankrupt so many times.
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  8260. Seems like a minimum wage hike and including the food sector in it would have improved the playing field for everyone. A lot of places have been getting away with no fixed hours as well
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  8261.  @andyhawkins9541  Look up Rachael Reeve The Everyday Economy Million miles from hedge fund Tory Britain
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  8262.  @felixplucker8450  Why do they want Batshit crazy, we've had crazy and chaos
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  8263. since when did Corbyn apologies for letting he Cons get away with the car crash Brexit
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  8264. The right wing in this country wanted Brexit they conned people into voting for it now one of the consequences of that vote is a tight Labour market yet Right wingers are backsliding on the inevitability that shortages in Labour supply means they have to pay more to retain staff. There are over a hundred thousand vacancies in the NHS at 10% of the workforce and a Billion being spent on agency workers so wake up to reality and give people pay rises
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  8265. Net Zero reduces Energy costs by switching away from GAS Energy costs 2020 to UK consumers 30 Billion Energy costs 2023 to UK consumers 170 Billion I make that 140 Billion reasons to go renewable don't you?
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  8266. If he ever stopped lying his head would explode, he's so full of BS if you squeezed him it would physically ooze all over the floor
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  8267. Pivoting away from fossil fuel will help everyone I bought an ebike the 5 mile to work is a breeze no 2nd car
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  8268. The IMF the bastion of neoliberalism said Trickle Down didn't work in 2012 after the damage it did post banking crash
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  8269. You can't trust a word that comes out of the lying Toad's mouth you have politicians and the Gammons prostrating themselves in front of the Brexit Billshitt@r AGAIN will these people never learn he takes you for mugs and he's just full of BS
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  8270. Maybe it contained the dreaded woke mind virus A secret collaboration set up by Dr Fauchi brokered by Hunter Biden with China
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  8271. It saves money and decoupled your economy from world market commodity shock While we had 11% inflation Norway had 3% there 92% renewable
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  8272. I thought that is what your supposed to do? Then use the deposit to get a better property opening up lower price housing for others Bunch of snowflakes
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  8273. @pauldavies7251  this is the current system people voted for? I think far every council house sold the government should build a new one or the policy stopped but what has that got to do with someone upgrading under the current system? Nothing
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  8274. @seamusoflatcap  so what there the current rules always the same with you Tory boys double standards
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  8275. @seamusoflatcap  why? I'm for taxing the wealthy and wealth not work but I'm not going to go to the tax office and make a voulentary donation
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  8276. @jamonit7169  I'm not a socialist I worked in IT as a technical analyst till I retired and have an economics degree. We run a mixed economy but the tax system is rigged against work for wealth. A tax break is just as much socialism as unemployment benifit. The sell off of services privatised the profits and the government picks up the losses when they fail. I have an opinion on how it should work but use the current system to minimise my tax exposure, during the last budget wrote several times to my mp about unfair tax breaks for the wealthy. Calling someone hypocritical for playing the system as is not what it should be makes no sense at least I'm trying to change the agenda as is she. Labour policy is likely to create the biggest expansion in social housing in decades.
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  8277.  @leehenry5764  net-zero = energy independence and mass storage on the grid the fossil lobby want that squashing and will tell any lie to slow it down
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  8278.  @mushogi  we obviously don't value freedom much Sunak gave millionaire pensioners more in tax breaks in the last budget yet another trickle down waste of tax payers money
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  8279. ye who needs people voting after all they should just be treated as tax cows given no rights on how its spent and thrown out at a whim Oh dear there goes half my local hospital staff - No wait come back we didn't mean it
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  8280. To lead what? UK gdp down by 10 points Highest tax levels since ww2 Average wages have fallen by -3% in the last decade Fuel prices through the roof Triple lock abandoned with 3.1 rise with inflation at 6% Maybe the Cons are having a contest each leader is worse than the last one but I have to say Bodger is at a whole different level of incompetent
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  8281. Reform are just a worse version of the Tories If only we had some grown ups as opposition not shills to the billionaire class
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  8282.  @NigelHeath-gi7xg  It's a pretty blunt instrument non of the current fiscal tightening has had any effect on inflation which has been caused primarily by a combination of energy inflation and greedflation by multi nationals profiteering on global instability
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  8283.  @NigelHeath-gi7xg  The way to deal with some of it is to claw back a large portion of the 700 billion government spend from where it has trickled up to. Also apply sweeping windfall taxes. This is from the FT governments know where it's gone As the virus spread, central banks injected $9tn into economies worldwide, aiming to keep the world economy afloat. Much of that stimulus has gone into financial markets, and from there into the net worth of the ultra-rich. The total wealth of billionaires worldwide rose by $5tn to $13tn in 12 months
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  8284. he's spouting elite bollox because they can see their tax breaks disappearing
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  8285.  @stevehoogenakker9619  It's 23 weeks in most European countries and yes you will have a National Abortion ban if you Elect Trump the right have already worked out how to do it without changing the law and just with the Nod of the Supreme Court
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  8286. Why lie its just so purile Get back to your 7 bins and meat tax you really are a disgrace
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  8287. Probably because they see them for what they are populist charlatans wove been peddaling this cr@p for over a decade ​ @jeffsimon9594 
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  8288. As far as I'm aware nothing has been banned the Estate has withdrawn some titles I presume because they weren't selling. There a private company I thought Conservatives were all about the free market are they going to force the books to be published? The nothing burger of nothing burgers don't the GOP have anything better to talk about?
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  8289. we always had the power when we were in the EU to regulate how migration worked we chose not to use it because it could have required regulation ID cards and systems. An example is the GIG economy Osborne & Cameron allowed companies that payed no UK tax to recruit people on zero hour contracts from eastern Europe
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  8290. The stuff with the taxes is going to break round the same time this comes to a head, it depends on timing if the Senate vote is after primaries how much loathing and pent up anger at Trump will then be with Gop senators. Non will break before the primaries but Trump is getting that loathed by 60% of the population Republicans are looking at massive losses at state and house level
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  8291. I like Elon and his company but he has zero social skills and little to no understanding how the majority of people live. The US definitely needs rapid deployment of charging points it's let itself get behind in the ev revolution compared to Europe
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  8292.  @malmalhi007  The Russians have form on this go read this for a start Ivan Ilyin, Putin’s Philosopher of Russian Fascism Timothy Snyder Ivan Ilyin provided a metaphysical and moral justification for political totalitarianism, which he expressed in practical outlines for a fascist state. Today, his ideas have been revived and celebrated by Vladimir Putin. and this Red Famine : Stalin's War on Ukraine Applebaum, Anne In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the 20th century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events.
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  8293. I don't have an EV BUT Just to comment that battery prices fell by 20% last year There expected to halve in the next 5 years There also expected to double in capacity A battery typically makes up around 40% of a new EV's price. I would save £2000 a year on petrol by home charging given the Ultra low rate my provider gives me overnight I think a lot of people like me are hanging onto their old car till it drops to bits before changing to an EV, were on 100,000 miles and repair costs are starting to bite
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  8294. I have looked at the economics and no one outside the IEA and tax payers alliance thought this was anything other than irresponsible The Laffe out Loud curve has long been debunked and generic tax cuts generate around 20p in the £ for a loss to the Treasury of 80p The UK's international credit rating was downgraded and gilt rates went high increasing the cost of borrowing to eye watering levels yet faced with this impending doom scenario they continued. You can't alter the reality of what everyone can see from over a decade of economic data by being a believer
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  8295. Why the right wing in politics just look after the very rich. They say one thing to get your vote backed by corporate media then fk you over behind your back Look at Johnson a right wing populist like Farage promised to level up the country and control immigration instead Sunak's budget is for the Rich screws over graduates more than any other group and while they import skills from India on lower wages depressing wages down the chain further. Tice, Sunak and Farage all pedal low tax low regulatory supply side economics as did Cameron which has resulted in economic stagnation and negative wage growth and more right wing will see more stagflation
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  8296.  @LandRover300  since when we've had hard right wing economic policies for 12 years Low tax for the rich and businesses high tax for the workers running down physical and social infrastructure to get us to the current shyte state
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  8297. Don't you just love being dependent on world commodity prices No energy Independence for you UK as Sunak doubles down on GAS and slow rolls renewables
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  8298. Is what she's smoking legal and available I want some
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  8299. ​@keithparker1346 there's limited scope for borrowing from what I can gather there's private money for the green tech renewables which if Labour don't tap will go to the US or EU The main issue holding up new renewable projects will be the grid I'm presuming they'll reintroduce insulation standards and grants you can get household usage of solar panels up. I looked at heat pump last year there not really suitable for older properties you need to upgrade to 3 phase supply in most cases
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  8300.  @keithparker1346  by printing more money you increase supply which effects inflation, the problem we have is structural our economy can't grow because we have supply side shortages of Energy Food Housing Labour And a tax and government policy system which is acting as a firehouse at squirting the money we do have and are printing up to corporations and the wealthy The British gas excess profits of 800 million are a stark example and we have another 12 months of this at least the 1st thing that needs doing is turning the firehouse off I'm not against borrowing but currently it's only making things worse you need some long term solutions to the above including major tax reform
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  8301. If he hadn't frozen the 20% threshold it wouldn't be an issue the 12250 with inflation built in should be at least 15500 instead he went for a cheap trick in lowering NI which only benefited those in the 32k-55k bracket
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  8302. The Coup Crew that couldn't shoot straight The lot of them are completely incompetent, they could'nt run a sandwich hop between them no less a Coup or the government for that matter
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  8303. Trump doesn't handle rejection well Of the 5 stages of grief he doesn't get past anger then tries to bend reality round his world view. Were in for months of him spiraling about the Harris / Biden switch just like the election loss. He's already started crowds were AI, Democrats cheated, Biden will take back his nomination etc. When will the gop admit they nominated a mental patient?
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  8304. This is factually untrue, you will have already filled in this form or more likely your daughter or son to claim benefit already You won't be filling this form JUST to claim the fuel allowance
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  8305. what like the 3.5 million the tories get from the fossil lobby or the 100 billion in tax breaks that's wrapped around this
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  8306. Why so many touting REFORM? There rebadged Thatcherite economic policies are equally as toxic as the Tories if not worse? When Thatcherism is whats causing the majority of the countries problems voting for more extreme Thatcherism is dumb
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  8307. You were warned what would happen if we left the EU and stopped FOM but chose to ignore it and blather on with these rants. You got what you voted for now suck it up
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  8308. There isn't even a charge if your vehicle meets emission standards which is post 2014/5 vehicle I'm an asthma sufferer this is the way to go most final mile delivery vehicles will be EV within 3-4 years The only real argument is when it's implemented as in giving people an extra year to comply
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  8309.  @chrishart8548  vans are same as cars 2014/5 if it isn't its old stock registered and been stood after its come off the production line.
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  8310.  @don9100  ECHR isn't the EU It was set up after the last fascist power play in Europe
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  8311. You can't economically model the strategic benifits of moving the high speed links off the current system which allows for huge Increases in lo al traffic. Current links are clogged with London traffic
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  8312. So the story here isn't 14 year old bravery saves people's lives no charges it was self defence it's how did operatives get hold of sealed court documents of a juvenile? Should this be referred to the FBI for investigation. This doesn't even make him look bad in the eyes of most people, scandal dude defends himself against a druggie, what scandal?
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  8313. That is so tacky, how low does the GOP go.
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  8314.  @bipolarminddroppings  90% of vehicles in outer London are ULEZ compliant probably 100% of the Tory vote won't pay a charge
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  8315. Sham Zero hour contracts destroy proper jobs, they were a primary reason for mass immigration into the unregulated GIG economy during Cameron era undercutting domestic businesses offshoring profits and contributing to the Brex1t vote.
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  8316. Economy has been stagnant since 2010 and Osborne's Austerity budget. The growth parroting by successive Tory administrations was generated via migration, GDP per capita has fallen by 10% since 2010 Then There's brexit You'd need to be gandalf to turn the economy around it will take a decade at least
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  8317. They get worse week on week
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  8318. This only came up because Bozo was sponging off the state and getting them to pay legal bills so the Cabinet Office had to review all relevant documents. Its totally self inflicted by greed
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  8319.  @christinerussell113  we don't have a shortage of land, there are numerous disused ww2 airfields for a start all in green belt. The way to grow more food is cheap energy glass houses and hydroponics
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  8320.  @christinerussell113  well that's a silly comment now isn't it. Aside from the fact that Brexit was always going to increase migration what's your beef?
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  8321.  @timg1246  Eperts told you migration would go up with loosing FOM in 2016 and oh look they were correct. 50% of the visas are for dependants and there all now permenant something that wasn't the case with FOM. As for politicians being weak we have an economy that depends heavily on migrant labour switching it off without chenging economic policies would just stagnated it further.
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  8322.  @christinerussell113  you benefitted too in 2016 30% of your assets were wiped out when our currency fell. What drives migration is economic policy if you want to lower it tighten worker regulation and invest in the domestic workforce. FOM allowed businesses to expand and contract in all sorts of areas such as crop harvesting, major construction works. Now we have to dole out permanent visas We always had the ability to control migration while in the EU we chose not to do it.
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  8323.  @christinerussell113  FOM wasn't the cause of over 1 million gig workers coming to the UK on Zero Hour contracts it was a political decision by Cameron not to implement Labour laws which would have outlawed or controlled the flow. It was Osborne decision to cut nursing and doctors training places and also depressing public sector pay that has lead to huge number of foreign nationals in the NHS. There were a huge range of other ways to control flow but non were taken in fact the Conservatives continued to the end promoting policies which would lead to more migration not less. FOM was never the problem
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  8324.  @timg1246  they issued them because we needed the workers for the economy. That number is up on pre Brexit totals because of dependents which made up 50% of the total. I've explained why we need them when reffering to the NHS you can't simply switch it off a Nurse takes 4 years to train a Doctor 7. A decision that was taken over a decade ago will now take over a decade to reverse lowering the need for migrant labour in the NHS.
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  8325.  @timg1246  we didn't need extra people we got them because if you hire from 2000 miles away they want to fetch there dependants, wives kids husbands etc. Your also stuck with them People coming from the EU were statistically younger single and would move on they weren't tied to staying indefinitely.
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  8326.  @timg1246  that's easy because they are coming from 2000 miles away as well not the EU so fetch thier dependants. The universities rely on funding from foreign students or they'd go bust. This is a screw up entirely of the Cons making there is no easy way out of this
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  8327.  @christinerussell113  which bit about it's economics do you not UNDERSTAND? it's taken us 50 years to get to this point how do you expect it to be reversed in a whim. This is a feature of Thatcherism IT IS NOT A BUG You have had low tax for 50 years now your complaining?
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  8328. Better sex education and contraception awareness reduces teenage pregnancy and abortion rates go way down.
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  8329. ​@1violalass fiscal drag I'm paying +550 The effect of inflation and freezing tax and NI thresholds so everyone bar the 30-60k working bracket are getting a tax increase. + there reducing government support for councils and jacking up council tax
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  8330. First off the bill is over 10 years and its already been cut back to just over a trillion and in terms of subsidies I agree with the Elec Viking a graduated subsidy based on % of origin would be a better use of funds. Finally means testing wastes more money than it saves in administration and other costs a well off family may buy 1 EV if there's a financial incentive then the entire family will convert to EV's what we want is gas cars off the road. The US has fallen behind in EV's even though Tesla is a world leader, they have the Tech and the knowhow but like has been expressed here you need it built in the US and its easy for the politicians to let this slide away. The Republicans are beholden to the fossil fuel industry so currently you have 1 side arguing with itself on the best way forward.
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  8331.  @guslevy3506  You earn more than most multi billionaires
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  8332. Why do they memory hole the awful job he did during Cov? Both public health and the economy were a raging skip fire by the time DJT left
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  8333. That's because the voter base is men +50 low education and white, there fairly well spread out If you want to win elections you need proper policies and a broader appeal
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  8334. 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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  8335. there won't be blackouts its a scare story by the fossil lobby and there enablers so the gravy train doesn't stop Renewable energy became the cheapest on the Grid back in 2019 I've just had some renovations done and an extension and double insulated my house I can run it of solar and thermal solar for most of the time my energy footprint has gone way down The current barriers to it are lack of government long term commitment so the grid hasn't kept pace with innovation
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  8336. It's offshore owned and run to push biilionare interests
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  8337. Its neither GB (run by an offshore entity with links to a Libertarian billionaire sponsored think tank) nor News it's marketed as opinion at best and right wing propaganda and conspiracy mongering at worst. Its part of the Tufton street mob such as the IEA who pulled Liz Truss's strings nearly bankrupting the country Mayfair-based Legatum Institute, which advocates for free market economics has courted senior Government ministers through Shanker Singham, who led a self-styled ‘special trade commission’ for the organisation. The Legatum Institute was founded and funded by the Legatum Group, that has invested millions in GB News.
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  8338. GB News are just trying to stir up Transphobia because ratings
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  8339. Welcome to the New Leader of the Conservative Party once Sunak gets booted out as they rebrand Cruel Britannia how toxic can you be UKIP ification of the Tories will be then complete
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  8340. It's 5% of the population get real
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  8341.  @jeremyhards1911  you find it funny your so easily manipulated by the media?
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  8342. @jeremyhards1911  gbnews is owned by offshore billionaire interests with connections to the Legatum institute a Libertarian think tank in the same orbit as the heritage foundation. They push climate denial and other policthat help the global corporate elite They use wedge issues to piggy back ontop of thier economic agenda of low to no tax for the elite and corporations and no regulatory implications so they can polute as they please and no Unions driving up workers wages and benifits. So a 5% Muslim population against a backdrop of insatiable corporate media capture and greed I know what is more concerning to me
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  8343.  @jeremyhards1911  GBN is owned by an offshore billionaire with connections to the Libertarian think tank Legatum which is associated with the Heritage Foundation. These are the Elites of the world that don't want to pay tax and wish to pollute as they please.
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  8344. So they want to remove investment which will upgrade our grid making access to cheaper electricity keeping household costs down and spend it on uprating things like IHT So doing what the Tories have been doing for 14 years not investing and trying trickle down policies which have repeatably failed while increasing debt
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  8345. Why is the chancellor of the exchequer taxing ordinary people to the hilt and not closing tax loopholes that his wife uses and why isn't he taxing the vast amount of unearned income at the same rates as earned. NI is income tax rebranded what's worse is there's a ceiling for the rich after which they pay 3,5% Just keep doffing your cap and tugging your forelok sucker
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  8346. The Tories will never fund it and it requires that your organised
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  8347.  @paulgollum1  There was plenty of money left it was a joke Borrowing was 800 billion of which Brown was responsible for around 250 billion since 2010 borrowing has shot up to 2.4 trillion an increase of 200%
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  8348. The elite's are bricking it because there tax loopholes are going to get closed off, making up all sorts of guff to justify to their stance
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  8349. The more pressing issue is why he wrote off the fraud both under the VIP lane and other government schemes this case is just the most blatant, he will have been briefed over a year ago when all this started coming out
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  8350. There was never anything wrong with FOM in Cameron we just had a government that allowed low paid zero hour GiG recruitment from eastern europe in the millions at the same time they gutted public services shrinking the economy
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  8351. We're laughing at you Nige your a complete clown act who doesn't know what he's talking about
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  8352. Tax cuts dont generate growth We have 50 years of data telling us that. So nothing to do with timing just no one was prepared to lend her 130 billion on a guaranteed failure
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  8353. ​ @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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  8354. The floodgates are opening this is just the start of the revelations Today's trending rumor mill, Canada hairdresser pregnant, Boris blowjob, more Pincher allegations coming out
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  8355. biggest RHINO is Trump the MAGA base is several cards light of a full deck
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  8356. Patel Johnson Raab Javid Sunak etc. Are all children of immigrants As is the Queen and most of the Royal family Just pack in with the bollox arguments
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  8357. Why would you vote REFORM their Tory with added be evil to refugees Their economic policy is a cut and Paste from Lettuce Liz You remember her the one that single handily nearly crashed all UK pension companies and left a 60 billion hole in UK finances while bumping up interest rates by 1.5 points?
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  8358. He was getting the Cabinet office to pay his legal bills so all relevant documents went to the cabinet office for revue any criminal activity found by a Civil Servant MUST be immediately reported to the Police
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  8359. It gets printed by the government actually
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  8360. Our family is better off my son got a rise in minimum wage ​ @Norfolkandchance886 
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  8361. it isn't but that's a different argument
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  8362. give it a break the limit is 1 million for a couple
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  8363. The meaningless stunt bills? If you believe that junk you really need to broaden your reading and information sources.
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  8364.  @faithingod5533  what baby? The bills were pointless addressing something that doesn't happen same old made up GOP shite. They and you sit in your echo chamber playing at asylum candidates. Your nuts the lot of you, really plain weird.
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  8365. The anti Trump vote (pro Biden) is baked in I don't think there's anything he could do to turn it round, shooting himself in the foot by trying to get Churches open we'll see how many super spreader events turn up in 3 weeks
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  8366.  @Sidb26  Albert Einstein “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
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  8367. ​ @MCDONALD6969 if you hadn't noticed the Tories have doled out trickle down tax breaks like sweeties Last budget 4 billion on millionaire pensioners 8 billion on bankers 6 billion on yet another fossil tax break Just pumping money into the NHS won't fix it - example social care for the elderly Planning reform will have a huge impact from enabling quick roll out of grid infrastructure to new social housing, just moving away from developer led housing will have a big impact.
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  8368. My father fought as a paratrooper in WW2 to rid Europe of Fascism, the sort that cries out for bans on free speech demonises other religious groups and others minorities. He fought against oppression and the mass murder of millions of people not just Jews but Gypsies, the homeless, political prisoners and the LGBTQ community. He fought against the deportations the use of Eugenics and sterilization to create an Aryan race He certainly didn't fight to be pontificated to by a bunch of right wing tw*ts on talk TV who's no1 aim is to stoke division
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  8369. The swamp of weirdo's and nut jobs surrounding Trump gets ever larger A man so easily manipulated he was led round like a dog on a lead by Harris at the debate
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  8370. The issue is its not a Conservative party anymore Truss Mogg and that crew are Libertarian the answer to everything for them is deregulation and tax cuts no matter the cost to businesses The other main group are the dregs of ukip with all the hateful Rwandan stuff like a bunch of braying spectators at a hanging feeding off populist sewage The Tories may have pulled it back to some form of normality with Sunak but the whole buss is careering off a cliff its just how hard the landing will be.
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  8371.  @retrowatches1655  His only achievement in his last term was a multi trillion tax cut for the wealthy that went straight to US debt His limited tariff policy was already causing an economic slowdown and 95% of those collected were being paid out in subsidies to farmers who were the butt of retaliation loosing markets permanently that had taken 50 years to build. The slowdown was masked by the pandemic, this time he says he's all in on making america garbage again
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  8372. Labour aren't interested in getting more immigration given that they want to grow the economy cut waiting lists and get housing and transport sorted
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  8373. No he's not he will put tariffs on all imports cratering our US export market
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  8374.  @AndrewWilliams-kw6bc  no they aren't he'll just slap them on arbitrarily like he did last time then ended up destroying farming exports which he then had to use the bulk of tariff money in subsidies. Don't you get why he went bankrupt 6 times the ooo Trump's good at business is fake he's terrible
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  8375. 25 years is the normal rated lifetime for wind and solar its around 4 times cheaper can be installed in a year or 2 as opposed to a decade and can distributed among multiple smaller installations. As soon as there is enough EV penetration its game over you can run your house for 3 days off 1 We went to the moon, invented the smart phone an active mesh networked grid using EV batteries to load balance is a piece of p1ss @random2829 
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  8376. You can't tell weather Gram is delusional or a grifter? True
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  8377.  @russellnewton6660  Apparently she gets hay fever in the summer You know something is bad in DJT's medical records when he starts going on about her cholesterol levels, the guy just transparently projects his own weakness he is so dumb
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  8378. Yea more extreme Thatcherism like thats worked Not​ @sharonwashington8150 
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  8379. Every time there is a leap forward in technology new jobs appear, is there a finite point to this phenomenon. Whe.i started in IT in the 80's we had multiple support staff now those jobs are all high skilled in multiple software disciplines.
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  8380. Over 4 1/2 years but if you say it all in 1 go you can make it sound worse than it is. I'm more bothered about 2nd jobs and lobbying this stuff is usual generic greasing the wheels
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  8381. @nathaniziah  They are offering simplistic solutions to complex socio-economic problems Every time the Cons have adopted a ukip / reform policy its backfired Take for example removing FOM and introducing a Points based system the net result was legal migration quadrupled. Experts warned back in 2019 it would go up but we were told that we have had enough of experts
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  8382. @englishbob9492  brex1t got over the line as a consequence of Austerity and Camerons unwillingness to regulate labour markets especially in the GiG economy, near on 1 million arrived in a short period from 2010-15 working on low pay zero hour contracts for multi nationals who offshore all the profits. We always had the tools to keep migration at certain levels and the lack of regulation coupled with wage suppression sent it off the charts fueling UKIP. Migration is a feature of a right wing deregulated economy not a bug which is why it exploded when we left the EU.
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  8383. @englishbob9492  Your backing the Arsonists who started the economic fire in the 1st place. They don't have answers all of their policies would make things worse. Ex in their manifesto they had unfunded tax cuts to the tune of 100 billion, Truss tried this far right rubbish and wiped 425 billion off the value of pensions in 6 weeks. They get serious funding from the fossil lobby Our energy is the most expensive in Europe because net zero initiatives have been consistently rolled back since 2010 tying us to GAS not the other way round Etc
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  8384. @angelaregan475  EU carbon tariffs applied to 3rd countries from June 2026
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  8385. @martyy4073  what's normal about gaslighting and grandstanding your voters They get a degree in Bullsh1t?
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  8386. The issue is guns lack of licencing and vetting plus weapons of war in civilian hands. If you want to shoot an AR15 it should be at a gun club on a range not in a classroom where its effects were so devastating the children were identified via DNA
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  8387.  @Jason-fg9wn  You don't even know why you oppose responsible gun ownership
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  8388.  @Jason-fg9wn  an assault rifle's bullet travels at 3 times the speed of a hand gun its designed to tumble once it hits the target liquefying any organs it passes through shattering bone before leaving a hole the size of an orange out the other side
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  8389. @skullfc4215  battery prices have fallen again ICE cars are dead I worked out I can save £2,000 a year on petrol by getting an ev
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  8390.  @skullfc4215  You can still travel by penny farthing if you want ICE cars are becoming uneconomic very quickly
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  8391. @skullfc4215  I disagree, the EV is like the IPhone, we've had the gestation of the luxury end now with battery prices falling and economies of scale kicking in the take will be very rapid. There's always going to be specialist ice vehicles but we will reach 80% pretty quickly.
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  8392. how will they make it worse? Tax base has been 33% for 2 decades till Sunak took charge it's now 37% and rising There is no historical data to back your claim
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  8393. Johnson lies all the time when you allow a Rave to take place the night before the Queen buries her husband alone showing unflintching leadership your not big dog your terminally wounded dog limping along till someone puts you out of your misery. Aside from that the economy is going down the toilet latest report from a business survey returned 1 in 3 businesses expect to fold in 2022 citing trading difficulties with the mounting costs and delays caused by Brexit
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  8394. Just by getting rid of zero hour and other labour regulations the numbers will come down, if your talking health workers it takes 7 years to turn round a Doctor even if Labour set up more training places straight away.
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  8395. It's easy you make grand statements on tax which would cost 100+ billion and blag your way through then claim the deep state thwarted me when it all goes tits up
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  8396. We have an elected dictator for 5 years,. Why do you think we got sh1t brexit quadrupled migration, Liz Truss, taxes going through the roof then a 180 on renewable energy. You lived through all of that now your crying over a bit of soggy centrism Please spare me the tears
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  8397. For tax purposes you don't need to live somewhere to use it as your primary residence. Notice Dowden's careful use of language, they really fear her and thier media dogs will do anything to pull her down
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  8398. The more polluted the water the more energy it absorbs from the sun ​ @timothyhenderson1914 
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  8399. Brothers of Italy Fratelli d'Italia Ideology National conservatism Right-wing populism Neo-fascism Political position Right-wing to far-right So there not allowed to tell the truth now? Bloody typical of this station
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  8400. what union paymasters? Some MP's have union sponsors if you can't see the difference between what was in the 70's and how it is now then wrap the blue scarf round your neck and hopefully you won't freeze or die of hunger as you wait for the mythical Brexit unicorns Current poling shows 8% support for the Cons in the under 50's and there bleeding support in rural areas with their hyper focus on the City of London
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  8401. If your going to replace demand for Doctors and Nurses from abroad you need to invest in the UK population and it will take near on a decade to repair 13 years of damage, there is no quick easy solution to institutional vandalism at this level @kevtheargonut 
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  8402.  @PhilCarbone-wt5gj  Real GDP growth 2021 - 5.9% 2022 - 2.1% 2023 - 1st Quarter 1.1% 2016 - 2020 (The Trump Years) -3.6% Real GDP accounts for inflation
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  8403. There building mostly council houses
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  8404. I saw he lost in Georgia again that's 2-0 and trying for another recount I'd have thought he would be sick of loosing in Georgia soon to be 3-0 to Biden. Wonder if you could wind Trump up by saying every time Biden wins he gets another 16 electoral college votes so 48-0
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  8405. Why because the right wing press hate them so much, stop watching propaganda
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  8406. The FT article isn't paywalled By the way the share of RW over LW has moved very little in months add Reform and the Tories and your at 35% with labour greens and Lib-dems at 58%
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  8407. Debt to GDP was 62% in 2010 Austerity shrank the economy The OBR estimate was an economic multiplier of 0.5, for every £ cut you saved +50p By 2013 we had real world data that showed the economic multiplier was 1.6 for every £1 cut it shrank the economy by -60p Real world example defunding the Justice system (police courts etc.) is estimated to have increased crime by a % which over time has cost the economy in GDP around 1/2 a Trillion @2aph0d_b33blebr0x
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  8408. He doesn't understand economics he has economic beliefs that arent based in data That economic belief is trickle down supply side aka Thatcherism works We have 50 years of data proving its junk, Thatcher economy was built on Asset stripping, Oil Money and transfer of government capital (giving away council houses) is a 1 off. Its hedge fund vulture mentality which is why doing it over and over again is killing our economy
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  8409. Why are we asked to subsidise each private pupil to the tune of 6K taxpayers money is better pent elsewhere
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  8410. Men gamble on cr@p like this Odds are a reflection of the money put on.
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  8411. There off the scale Fully Faragified @richardhands904 
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  8412. Tax at 90% as it was then is different to tax at virtually zero which it is now
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  8413. The one thing they want more than anything is to not have to report on the death toll or the amount of long covid they also don't want to pay any money to people if there sick or for testing People should be able to get a test and need to stay at home if there sick and have access to quick interview with a medical professional and prescribed anti-virals if there needed.
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  8414. Reform are a vehicle for billionaires who want to stop the transition to an energy independent economy GBN is owned by a Libertarian billionaire with links to various think tanks funded by the fossil lobby and the migration stuff is a grift
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  8415. Reform are in with the fossil lobby they have no solutions to any of the UK problems and will continue the Con policy of foghorn gesture politics without workable policies to reduce net migration. If you think they are the answer I have a drum of snake oil to sell you
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  8416. Why would you vote for a party that isn't going to do anything for local services?
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  8417.  @gambrydew2059  The reason we have the awful choice thrust upon us is the cacophony of lies peddled by Johnson, a more vain opportunistic lying piece of garbage is hard to see ever being matched in politics. These are the death throes of those lies and the damage that it will do to everyone.
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  8418. There white and right wing
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  8419.  @SwatantraNandanwar  current polling and focus group data suggests the voters want to punish the Tories and by-election data suggest heavy tactical voting, come the election Labour Lib-Dems and Reform will lean into this narrative. There in for a wipe out
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  8420. ANTIFA doesn't exist its a made up term by the right wing media, there's no organisation like the Proud Boys. The guy was a right wing gun nut
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  8421. You serious do you have a spare 8 trillion for him to blow on nothing again oh yea there were the corporate tax cuts and he did promise all sorts of stuff but never delivered
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  8422. Corbyn wasn't popular with anyone but his online fanboys He was a Especially disliked by older voters you know those that vote the most
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  8423. The Trump administration was pure chaos and corruption The Biden administration is quiet competence Getting hooked on age and personality is a dangerous drug, if Bedien was incapacitated tomorrow his administration would tick on the same path, the economy would still keep improving and improving from good governance +14.1 million jobs, reshoring strategic manufacturing base, tackling net zero transition +5.2% gdp growing the economy Replacement of Trump with DeSantis is removing one Chaos agent and substitution another
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  8424. Sponsored by the billionaire fascist party who are quite happy to follow the orange would be dictator down the road to a totalitarian regime. There being taken for complete suckers doing the bidding of thier billionaire handlers who are more than happy to throw them on the plague cart as long as they keep on the treadmill. The billionaire class are also getting agitated because the only way to sort this out if it lasts much longer is with higher taxes
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  8425. Biden is not bad for an 80 year old As for Trump he has all sorts wrong with his brain, the ADHD, dyslexia, psychosis but to name a few
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  8426. 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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  8427. Ahhh but lipstick 💄
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  8428. A lot of plumbing work I'm Texas? The big freeze will have an effect on people's attitude towards passive housing and personal wind and solar
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  8429. Where COVID took hold and ripped through densely populated areas such as NY it had a catastrophic effect on mortality rates overloading the system. Also 47% of Swede's Live on their own The UK isn't Sweden in any shape or form their life expectancy is higher they are fitter less overweight have fewer instances of Asthma, Diabetes and they live longer. Its like comparing apples to a bucket of set concrete  @nicolascontentin4611 
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  8430. ​ @Imperial_Squid the US and the Biden administration are pushing for a global corporation tax set at 15% as is the EU the problem is level playing field and domestic companies unable to compete with multi nationals. Just look at how screwed over cab firms were with Uber, it causes domestic resentment pushing people to the far right
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  8431. There are loads of applications for mass storage in the system to replace standby gas generation. One near just got rejected after 6 years in planning because the council said it was non essential infrastructure and on green belt (ish) Just to put this in context a mass storage grid node will repay it's capital cost in under 12 months due to the high cost of peak top up power from standby gas. Don't you just love planning and NIMBY's
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  8432. He's up against Truss who's in the pocket of the ERG
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  8433.  @helentyrer3298  no he's just not as bad as Truss who is the female equivalent of Johnson lying all the time and boosterism
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  8434. Bulk of inflation is grredflation made possible by constant deregulation and weakening anti monopoly laws by the GOP And The Democrats are pushing renewable energy which is decentralised and local not relying on fossil who's price is controlled by multinational cartels. Also Climate change is driving up food prices get used to it, since cov I've been growing most of my own veg and salad
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  8435. 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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  8436. Its cheaper to go Net zero than stay as we are here are some facts 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 (this is why) 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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  8437. A party supported by the billionaire class run by an elite millionaire is going to do what for the general public?
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  8438.  @WookiRahh  Reform are backed by the Billionaire class don't hold your breath GBN and TalkTV are both subsidised by Libertarian Billionaires who have an agenda
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  8439. Galloway has more in common with the Farage crowd than he has with working people he's another bs merchant of the highest order He should join reform and show his true colours
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  8440.  @AA-uf3bl  It's not turning Labour because of her but because middle class younger voters are moving out of London into the suburbs, I'm not over happy with Starmer's inner circle doing what they can while they have maximum but this isn't Hakney were talking about.
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  8441. 2010 debt to gdp 62% 2023 debt to gdp 100% the Tories have borrowed continously for 13 years for what? Tax breaks for thier mates
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  8442. he got his rich elite bank account closed because he wasn't rich enough anymore He has a file of him because he is a PEP Politically Exposed Person He therefore comes within the realms of AML/CTF = Anti-Money Laundering / Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Bank Secrecy Act
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  8443. Farage is only popular with 20% at most the rest of the country hates him, thats proven in survey and polls
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  8444. Invest for the long term, how much of this is automated selling?
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  8445. She's not Conservative she's part of the ERG who are Libertarian nut jobs
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  8446. and why would we vote for more extreme tory policy which has failed for the last 14 years?
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  8447. ​@robertrowell7271 5% of the population are Muslim 48% are Athiest get a grip
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  8448. I like Chris he comes across well the best suggestion I've heard to is Martin Lewis the money saver expert guy maybe Reeve could get him in as an expert in his field Treasury Authodoxy certainly doesn't work they need some new brains in there and some fresh thinking economists
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  8449. 58% voted centre left what's your point?
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  8450. Yea right +2 million unemployed -3.6 GDP + 8 Trillion in debt Donald Hoover Trump @karmaandkerosene_music 
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  8451. The ECHR has nothing to do with legal migration and refugees were 62,000 last year, all this angst over nothing the Tories created the crisis in the 1st place
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  8452. The mouthpiece of Stupidity personified in a TV Blob
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  8453. ​ @libertasdemocratiam887 as someone on low income because of the insane amount pumped into the housing market by successive Tory governments thier only option is to use the scheme that is pumping the housing market. And CGT doest apply to your primary residence (hint you don't have to live there its a tax thing) Just to put house inflation into context prices have gone up since 2010 by 66% while average wages have shrunk by -7% and 50 billion has been pumped into right to buy by government. It's a completely broken system that means we're paying out 20 billion a year in housing support to private landlords
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  8454. When your government can't be bothered to address a public health crisis which has left 154,000 dead hundreds of days in half arsed lockdowns for the most part spent 40 billion on a failed test and trace strategy you have to ask yourself is the job just too hard for Javid. If it is he should resign and there should be someone put in place who Have to live with it? we've been living it to the extent that we have 1.5 million with long covid all his message is is get over it Plebs get back on the wheel
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  8455. Our economy is broken thiers isn't
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  8456.  @swellerbunion8867  our expected GDP is less by 5.5% GDP which is 44 billion less in tax receipts therefore you have to raise taxes to plug the hole Also successive Tory governments have failed to deal with our debt Debt to GDP 2006 40% 2010 62% 2019 92% 2022 99% 2023 projected 103% The chief culprit is Tory economic mismanagement Brexit acts like an economic multiplier it would be bad anyway but Brexit gives it a good push over the edge
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  8457. Prebuild in a factory assemble onsite I'f I were building my own home it wouldn't be with bricks
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  8458. This is a long haul problem, there is no magic bullet and if he doesn't get his act together the death rate won't be thousands it will spiral into 2/3+ million, I presume that Tucker and his elites will be in the. 0.9 % because they get priority on ICU BEDS and ventilators but without action what cost will it be to everyone else. There rationale doesn't even make sense with death rates at 2/3 % due to lack of healthcare what's actually going to be left, civil discourse and mass unemployment that requires the army to be deployed? What then martial law?
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  8459. Government budgets have ZERO similarities with a household budget Free economics lesson Every £ a government taxes or spends has an economic multiplier if that multiplier is > 1 it returns 1+ in additional taxation A blanket cut in corporation tax is 0.2 an investment in transport infrastructure is 2+
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  8460. Coal is dead already or have you not looked at the energy market in the last decade?
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  8461. All you've had is centrist policies Republicans big idea is more tax on the little guy courtesy of Rick Scott and removing people's medical rights throwing away obamacare and canning any policy that moves the US from fossil fuel to renewables and energy independence Did you know that if you stripped out energy and food inflation from the US numbers the rate would be 6.3% and the Oil market is an Oligopoly which sets quotas and enables itself to making super normal profits
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  8462.  @grahamgalloway4231  why is that?
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  8463.  @lifeisacarnival1359  but they don't actually look beyond their safe closed space which feeds endless misinformation that somehow despite every static saying otherwise that Republicans are good at economics. Look at the IMF projection for the G7 2022/23 top 2 by a mile are US and Canada with inflation down below 5% and gdp at near 4% the look at the bottom UK led by a Trump wannabe in Johnson implementing hard right Conservative fiscal policy the Republicans of favour with stagnant growth and projected 10% inflation
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  8464. You subsidies rail so it takes goods and people off the roads, less traffic on the roads means greater productivity for the economy less money spent on large road infrastructure and repairs better for the environment with less pollution in city's
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  8465.  @shadrana1  you mean the Windmill nonsense that has a contract price of a fifth of the current OffGem spot price? Or the NHS which is 35% cheaper than Germany's The Tories are trying to run it into the ground so they can claim it doesn't work and flog it to their mates
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  8466.  @shadrana1  it's not a subsidy it's a tax on fossil and it's used to improve insulation on pensioners homes plus its less than the giveaway tax cut to bankers in the last budget. Your only bitching about because fossil lobby Farage has poked your cage, every day the fossil lobby can slow down renewables is millions more trousered at everyone expense
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  8467.  @leighchristopherson2455  I worked in IT when I first started working on computers the entire floor of a house had less proccesing power than a modern day phone
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  8468. Sunak had Policy Exchange all over the backdrop, the think tank promoting low tax, abandonment of net zero and continued fossil subsidies Last year uk consumers spent 170 billion on energy in 2020 that spend was 30 billion and in 2023 the Government spent 78 billion in energy subsidies and Sunak abandoned HS2/3 which could have taken 350,000 containers off the roads
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  8469.  @snowyowel7961  He's watered stuff down rather than flip flopping and 2019 was a very different place to 2024 the Tories have added a trillion to the debt since then which now stands at 2.3 trillion.
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  8470.  @snowyowel7961  You Don't get it do you? Freemarket Global Britain aka Tory economic policy = limitless supply side migration. If you want lower migration you need a more managed economy, higher taxes investment in doctors and nursing training, higher public sector pay to stop the brain drain. Labour have never stood for high immigration Blair adopted a load of Tory policies to win the election the so called neo-liberal post Thatcher consensus which is completely out the door for Labour currently.. And Brex1t has doubled the amount coming in due to dependants.
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  8471.  @snowyowel7961  No you don't get it Immigration is a consequence of economic policy and NOT investing in the domestic workforce, Transport, Housing and Infrastructure. If you want less immigration you need a managed economy NOT a free market right wing one. Brexit increased dependants by a large margin if your coming from Nigeria your going to want to fetch your partner and children it's not a 1 1/2 hour flight to Malaga it's a 10 hour flight to Nirobi and the people coming over now are Older and non transitory there not going off back to Nigeria any time soon there here to stay.
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  8472.  @snowyowel7961  The Brex1t Ultra free marketeers sold you a PUP
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  8473. Get the sharpie out and rewrite history
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  8474. There is > than 50% voting for centre left parties The Tory vote of 23% was driven by fear, if you go watch some of the campaign videos if you believed the lies and fiction you'd be scared sh1tless you can see that vote share melting away in the forthcoming years The Reform vote was mostly media driven they have no platform outside the RW MSM and are a protest party with zero ground game, their 2 main backers TalkTV an GBN are owned by Libertarian billionaires with connections to the fossil lobby. Also Sunak spent 2 years promoting Rwanda which boosted reform's polling from 6% to 10% with Nige and wall to wall media adding +4
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  8475. what difference does political virtue signalling do? They've been at war in some shape or form since before I started voting 50 years ago
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  8476. The point is to to claim your doing something when in fact your 14 years of Austerity is the root cause Get with the gesture politics like we gave you a tax cut while freezing thresholds or we grew the economy while ignoring the +8 million to population and inflation Don't you know your 30% better off under the Cons and also I have this vat of snake oil to sell you
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  8477. Anyone with any sense is already vaccinated and business loves the mandate go ask Fox
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  8478.  @mermaidmomma3696 One that doesn't include unvaccinated people, the area I live in has very high vaccination rates. My work has mandatory vaccines as well so no chance of bumping into any of the great plague bearers by accident.
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  8479.  @mermaidmomma3696  90% of the covid icu beeds are taken up with the unvaccinated. Of people ii know who've had breakthrough cases it's been fairly mild. I get aa flu jab every year its no big deal
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  8480. Cruella was speaking at a US right wing Libertarian think Tank Imagine the IEA who pulled Truss's strings but into Christian Fascism as well Anti abortion, anti LBGTQ, anti trans who would gladly install a Dictator to further there so called agenda of zero tax and total population control
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  8481.  @mikefish8226  qoute The organisations involved in this collaboration between the US and UK radical right are partners in a global coalition of more than 450 thinktanks and campaign groups called the Atlas Network, which has its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Members of the network operate independently but also cooperate closely in fighting for their shared vision of ultra free markets and limited government. They call themselves the “worldwide freedom movement”, collectively they have multimillion-dollar budgets, and many of their donors, board members, trustees and researchers overlap.
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  8482. @mikefish8226  According to the Daily Express, Suella Braverman is described by colleagues as “Fu&*ing useless”. She is a member of the Triratna Order, a controversial religious sect founded by sexual predator Dennis Lingwood who went under the more exotic name of Sangharakshita until his death in 2018. She was inexplicably promoted to attorney general in 2020. Although she describes herself as a premier league civil rights barrister and a government lawyer for the Guantámano Bay Inquiry, no one has been able to find any evidence of this. Bizarrely for a lawyer she opposes judicial review and the Human Rights Act. A QC because the title comes with the job of attorney general, she didn’t earn it in her professional career. It’s thought her promotion was owing to her willingness to advise in contradiction to international law concerning the Northern Ireland Protocol. She is heavily involved in, and a former chair of Tufton Street’s ERG
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  8483. Death rate from Covid and long Covid, the Republican voter base is older the key demographic affected by the disease as in men are more likely to die from it than women. Deaths are round the Million mark in the UK they have lost 150k but the have calculated through data available from the NHS that they have 1.5 million long covid cases how many Republican supporters will be suffering the debilitating affects of long Covid and with additional voting restrictions what impact will that have on turnout?
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  8484. Why would labour bring chaos? And Why would anyone want another millionaire posh boy in charge
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  8485.  @Carlin2810  defund the social floor stops the capitalist ladder working Exhibit 1 the current Austerity driven economy Your basically deliberately making yourself poorer
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  8486. Cutting any government spending has ramifications for GDP because every dollar spent goes into the economy, Federal workers pay tax shop at walmart spend on stuff and housing
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  8487.  @maryrusso8417  The issue is people don't understand how government spending boosts the economy or how it works. I'm 68 old school economics as in John Maynard Keynes and the New Deal Every area of government tax and spend has an economic multiplier, every time governments have tried to cut spending they have also cut their own GDP reducing tax revenue
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  8488. There Tory centre right, they havent moved ​ @DS9TREK 
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  8489.  @keithparker1346  Its not as easy as flicking a switch and your covering the debt as well your looking at 100 billion and you'll be buying old stock that needs decommissioning. And its timing if Labour had been in power when all the retailers where going bust they could have hoovered up all the customers and started their own energy retailer. Run it as not for profit or low margins. Undoing 50 years of bad policy takes time unfortunately Blair left well alone
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  8490. @keithparker1346  no its not when the Government control an asset you need it bomb proof that it's impossible to sell off Labour spends 100 billion buying the energy network the Tories flog it off for 50 blame labour for wasting 50 billion and line the pockets of their donors
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  8491.  @Bobisalive  you have hardline Thatcherite economics with added trickledown, a bill that bans protests another bill that bans strikes a Rwanda bill that says black is white How right do you want to go?
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  8492. Cruella Out Dodgy Dave in Sunak has given up there just trying to shore up the Blue wall so there not wiped out by the Lib-Dems and tactical voting
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  8493. Christian Fascism basically imported from the US the problem they have is where a bit to secular and Gen Z + Millenials think there mental I read somewhere that the Cons are polling at 8% with younger voters Over in the states its 75-24% in favour of the Democrats
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  8494. On energy the GBEnergy proposal will renationalise production over time to about 60/70 % Water is a black hole due to the insane levels of debt piled into the companies (54 billion) the way to start the process of a move to public ownership is through regulation and also part of that needs to be debt reduction there are concerns in financial circles that the water companies could go bankrupt if rates rise due to debt servicing. With voting the proposal I've heard doing the rounds is lowering the age to 16 The railway will come back to public ownership as the franchises expire The number 1 priority for the next government is to turn the economy around look fiscally competent address the problem with public services otherwise they'll be a 1 term show.
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  8495.  @timelwell7002  1st off Brexit is an economic multiplier its not the cause of our Economic malaise all Brexit has done is highlight the huge fissures in our economy. You need to fix those before we go back into the EU because if you don't they will continue to fester away eating at the fabric of our society. In 2010 Cameron / Osbourne went all in on a completely deregulated zero hour contract low wage gig economy which displaced established better paid workers and resulted in a huge influx of low paid SUPPLY SIDE labour. It produced very little tax the firms running it offshored the profits. I have no problem with migration I do however have a huge problem with what the Cons did that allowed the rise of UKIP. This is one example of a deeply flawed economy. So lets tackle the thorny issue of ReNationalization. The 14.5 Billion is plain out wrong whoever is selling that needs putting in the stocks and subject to rotten eggs thrown at them. Lets say that figure is sort of right 14.5 Billion in 2019 that now stands at 17.3 billion but wait how much debt are you buying? Offwatt said the debt was 54 billion mid 2022 add inflation its now 57.2 billion. Your now looking at basically bailing out badly run water companies to the tune of 74.48 BILLION that figure could rise dramatically. That money goes straight to government borrowing you simply can't borrow on that scale for marginal benefit our GDP to Debt ratio is already 99% (3 Trillion) and borrowing costs are the highest they've been for decades. What's the solution its the tightening up of regulations forcing the water companies to do there job and also reduce debt over time, I'd also add there is every likelihood of 1 or more of them going bankrupt if interest rates keep rising. I'm sorry but privatisation is a complete clusterfk unpicking it isn't goint to be easy or quick this example is repeated throughout the privatisation industries. There is also no 1 size fits all. In terms of tax we have trickle down it needs to be progressive rather than regressive and any NON Tory (bar REFORM) will back that aim Labour Lib-Dems & Greens.
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  8496. @timelwell7002  I agree with most of what you're saying but from a political angle you have 1 aim when taking power that's how do I change the fortunes of my voters enough that they vote for me again. Spending 100 billion on water while a long term goal is extremely poor value as a political and fiscal proposition you will not get any political capital from it Also if I want a quick hit to growth I make Brexit work by realignment renegotiation of the TCA and get rid of huge mountain of red tape and paperwork for SME'S farmers and sole traders
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  8497.  @timelwell7002  There isn't an overwhelming majority of the Electorate who would support spending just under 1 Trillion on a program of renationalization. The polls you see include a huge number of people like me who believe that 1/ you wouldn't be able to borrow that money from the markets without another Truss type market meltdown. (Which is political suicide) 2 / If you did the project is that large expensive and complex that it would stretch over multiple parliaments provide little short term gain eat up huge swathes of parliamentary time and stop the real issues of government being addressed (Which is political suicide) If you want nationalisation to stick it has to be proportionate, over time and doesn't involve buying up private Debt Choose your battles - in putting forward GBEnergy the Country will create new renewable energy production and the estimate is 30 Billion per annum which over time will dominate the market and drive prices down. Why do you need to buy old clapped out coal stations? Water set up a regulator who will stop the sewage spills invest in infrastructure and reduce the long term debt to a point your buying an asset not feeding the CITY. There are no easy answers
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  8498. Taxes are going up
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  8499.  @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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  8500.  @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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  8501.  @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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  8502.  @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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  8503. Sunak has rolled back the 2019 manifesto HS2/3 abandoned Net Zero abandoned Leveling up smashed with a wrecking ball He has a mandate for nothing
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  8504. No one but the headbangers want the Rwanda scheme it's illegal and costing 600 million The economy is down the toilet this is the 1st 5 year Parliament on record where your standard of living has gone down. Since Sunak took over in 2 years it's dipped another -4.2% The idea that were out of recession and things are booming is BS if you pump 2 million workers into the economy over 2 years your headline GDP will go up but GDP per Capita has actually gone down with depressed wages from migrant labour and the expansion of zero hour contracts
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  8505. 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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  8506. There's a time lag on federal investment also private investment and small business incorporation are at record levels for 2023. This was all planned with the current interest rates, the Fed rate is a pretty blunt instrument and its primary role has been in the past to drive up unemployment and cool the economy none of which has happened yet inflation has fallen. We're in new territory methinks
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  8507. Energy costs have tripled because of our reliance on GAS, renewable sources were already cheapest on the Grid back in 2019 Switching would reduce costs but then Energy companies wouldn't be able to scalp 140 billion out of the UK market in Excess profits
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  8508. 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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  8509. If you put a Clown in the White House he doesn't become Presidential the White House becomes a Circus It's not like we don't know what that was like and the swamp people he surrounded himself with
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  8510. Currently Nuclear and Coal are per unit x 2.5 greater the cost to the grid of for example Offshore wind on a forward contract basis Last year the Tory government spent 72 billion on energy subsidies due to the international price of Gas to keep domestic consumer prices down.
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  8511.  @gregorymalchuk272  Cost of electric is dictated by the final mile cost which is Standby Gas Generation. Also our Base load is still mostly generated by Gas but we do have a decent amount of Nuclear (base load = 40%) Wind accounted for 26% in 2022 If you want to maximise cost savings to utilise always on power such as Wind and Nuclear you need to invest in mass storage to remove Standby Gas Generation.
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  8512.  @gregorymalchuk272  You've obviously not seen the price of coal recently. Coal like gas is subject to extraction, processing and transport costs + inflation and is a world traded commodity it's price doubled over the last few years and hasn't gone down.
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  8513.  @gregorymalchuk272  Coal isn't cheap anymore and even if you opened the proposed mine there are considerable costs + you need markets + transport links + processing. The US has it's own coal and any exports to the EU will be hit with tariffs given that they have their own coal mines. Your also tying yourself into world traded commodity costs and we know where that story ended up going with major economic Shock all across Europe rampant inflation and our own energy costs quadrupling.
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  8514.  @gregorymalchuk272  Our coal is deep mine coal and expensive to extract. Coal mines are shutting down in the US as well due to the fact that Coal Fired Power Stations can't compete on price with new renewable technology which gets cheaper year on year. That isn't a Republican or Democrat thing Coal production and jobs fell by 23% during the Trump era. And Texas is the leading state in wind farm deployment.
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  8515.  @ach3144  Lithium is being replaced with Sodium - ION plus other technologies (A Mass Storage site near Manchester is using Liquid Air) Build density is a fraction of that of a power station Shelf life is 25 years and 95% of the components can be recycled and Hydraulic Fracking consumes 100 million gallons of water per well turns it into toxic goop and needs relocating every 2 years with all the devastation it causes below and above ground to the environment. Stop with the fossil lobby BS
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  8516. I would add Battery Mass Storage such as Tesla Megapack is software driven and near on Maintenance free bringing huge cost savings in Grid stabalisation. Even if it currently does use Lithium and The US has just discovered the largest Lithium deposits in the world in very high concentrations in solidified volcanic mud.
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  8517. @johnboy14  current cost of nuclear has skyrocketed to a point it's build and runnihg costs are uneconomical against tidal and hydro. Did some numbers on hinkley C it's 40 billion to build with 35 years of subsidies at 40 billion, its taken 7 years in construction and its going to be another 2 years before it's commissioned. The equivalent cost of an offshore wind farm is 11 billion, which takes 2 years to build and produces electricity at 1/3 Rd of the cost per unit. For 30 billion, you could eliminate Gas peak standby generation and replace it with mass storage which is the biggest driver of costs on the grid.
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  8518. It will reduce your electric bill though
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  8519. There not when you dig into the MRP polling Reform are very marmite there the second most disliked Party after the Cons with Neg 60% the other parties are neg 40 ish
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  8520. Good hope you canvass round near me I'd be quite happy to explain what complete BS merchants these people are in detail
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  8521. @markennyee  if you remove FOM and move to a visa system which fetches workers from 2,000 miles away they stay permanently and fetch thier dependents its not rocket science
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  8522.  @Kushdeeskates  you read the FT watch Bloomberg Thought not Our economy is down the pan Quote What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? 25 Mar 2024 — ... worst period for wage growth since the Napoleonic Wars. “Nobody who's alive and working in the British economy today has ever seen anything like it.
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  8523.  @ZedChew  I mostly read the FT
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  8524. Alexander Zakharchenko, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people’s republic, was killed in a car bomb and replaced by the more reliable Pushilin. Zakharchenko’s death was a result of an operation by Russian special forces. “Zacharchenko had his own personal army, and the Donbas even had its own defence ministry – all of that has disbanded since. It was a clear signal that the rebels will only act according to Kremlin’s rules,”. So much for an independent Donbas
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  8525. Why would he comment on policing?
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  8526. Trump is insane and dumb to boot doesnt even understand what a tariff is ​ @TomNoles007 
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  8527. I'm out canvassing already our area is gettable by the Lib-Dems I have a 23 year old son well qualified happy at his job but its +20p over minimum wage things have to change the Tories have to go. I really don't care how the MSM try to drag Labour down at this point my goal is to do what I can to obliterate the Tory Party from politics at every level they and thier client media are a Cancer on this country
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  8528. My dad was polish he hated the Russians more than the Germans, probably his stay in a Gulag helped that thought train
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  8529. Why are Labour worse than the Tories? For a start they'd spend the 1/2 billion wasted on RWANDA on something useful like replacing RAAC and this is just a scare story to get you to vote Con
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  8530.  @an.american  the Democrats are barely Liberal, Biden in most western democracies would be a moderate Conservative, the only people trying to take your country away from you at the moment are the GOP they currently don't stand for anything but tax cuts for the rich and enabling the elite. Trump said bring back manufacturing - in his 4 years the US lost 150,000 manufacturing jobs Trump said coal is the future - record mine closures The list of say one thing do another is extensive if you believe the guff in right wing media you'd think Trump was an economic miracle looking at the 4 year term he was worse than Hoover -4 million jobs -4% GDP etc
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  8531.  @an.american  my father was born in Poland he was taken to a Russian Gulag with all his family in WW2 he was allowed to join the Polish free army when Germany attacked Russia and fought in Europe to rid it of fascism before settling in Chicago as Poland was part of the Eastern block, I'm 65 I known what fascism looks like and it oozes out of every pore in Trumps body. I suggest you read some history books to fully appreciate what your backing, maybe you don't care
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  8532.  @GiveMeLiberty221  he won because the alternative was way way worse, saying the election was corrupt is a lame excuse for Trumps complete inadequacy for high office. you can get states returns in downloadable form and run it through computer models they show state after state Trump bleeding votes with suburban counties
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  8533.  @an.american  How it starts the leader tells his followers that the Media is the enemy of the people they need to distrust them only he is the bearer of the truth. They vilify their opponents with names, why? the aim is to dehumanise the opposition once the opposition has been dehumanised in the eyes of the leaders supporters then violence against them is seen as a legitimate tactic as the Leader ramps up the rhetoric, there stealing your country always turning up the heat and inflaming his supporters. Politically I'm Fiscally Conservative but socially liberal and independent but the Trump train is way too toxic for me so much hate. By the way I thank you for your service, the dedication and courage of the people that serve is unquestionable.
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  8534.  @joboygbpedwards  the Muslim ban wins hands down plus being head of a party that is trying to disenfranchise millions of non white voters
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  8535.  @joboygbpedwards  Why would you even entertain voting for a candidate that promotes and supports anti vax anti science and who's sole aim is to implement more tax cuts for the wealthy. Republican politicians are bought and paid for by the Billionaire class and fossil lobby. They don't even bother to espouse Conservative values anymore their leader is a multiple bankrupt failed reality TV figure who's been shown to be a sex predator with 30 credible allegations of assault and 2 of rape
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  8536. He's better than Truss and Johnson the weakness stems from Johnson trying to kneecap him all the time not that he has any decent policis
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  8537.  @audreymcgready4329  no one voted for Truss either I'm pointing out the obvious that he has an 80 seat majority and it could be a lot worse also you vote for an MP not a PM. If you didn't we'd be stuck withe the blonde lying baboon for 5 years I agree roll on the GE but we're stuck with this shtshw till then
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  8538.  @audreymcgready4329  a cat registered to vote as a Tory member the entire Russian politburo could have voted for Truss as far as we know
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  8539. Reform are economically Libertarian with a bent for cruelty to refugees and immigrants The disaster capitalism of Lettuce Liz with the Cruelty of Cruella Braverman
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  8540. Older working class men have moved to a BNP UKIP nationalist agenda wowed by the simplicity of the message It's all Johnny foreigners fault so let's blame the EU Which is all a complete lie but pump enough GBNews TalkRadio into them and they'll believe anything
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  8541.  @wolfgangpreier9160  EV car production is one of the most automated production lines in the world. and Paying decent wages boosts the economy as well as spuring on innovation and competition
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  8542. Why is it his best week? He lied at a record rate at the state of the union, went on a senile ramble that gets most people committed in the Whitehouse, the GOP debased themselves with Craven arse licking in public, Susan Collins made a complete fool of herself again. The reaction to Romney was pathetic, the vinmam thing was petty small minder and this is supposed to be a good week? The guy is a complete nut job living in a fantasy reality.
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  8543. You just organize and have specialist units to deal with it its not rocket science as a specialist in certain areas of IT I can do in a couple of hours what would take a graduate weeks. The problem with the Tories is they look at everything as a hedge fund manager you get rid of that experienced specialist that costs a lot and replace him with a graduate or not at all to save money without looking at the impact to service levels or that your storing problems for the future
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  8544. so this is how much standard of living is falling on average and displays the CON that is the Tories taken from ONS data 1990 £32,638 2010 £38,263 +17.2% 2015 £36,507 -4.6% 2019 £37,247 -2.7% 2023 £34,963 -6.1%  @timwoodger7896 
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  8545. Mike revels in this sh1tst0rm that he and media like this have echoed lied about and peddaled for years
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  8546. Rwanda was always an illegal show Pony to divert the gullible into thinking they could do something and distract attention away from the post Brexit economy circling the drain. Meanwhile the government wastes 3-5 billion sat on its arse doing nothing while people on here wang on about Rwanda your mugs the lot of you
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  8547. In my opinion 1.Socially Conservative out of 10 2.Fiscally Conservative out of 10 Cameron 1=4, 2=8 Sunak 1=6, 2=8
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  8548.  Marcy O'Kweef  If you live in a fact free imaginary world you really need some help, I mean even the conference's title about Cancel culture wtf Trump tried to cancel an election the mob tried to cancel a vote by the senate and now there worshiping a tacky golden statue of DT
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  8549.  @PraiseReza  trump is the most unpopular president in us polling history how the fuk is he supposed to win an election when he aliantes huge swathes of the electorate. Trump lost because the suburbs deserted him in droves just look at the election return data. He ended up being represented by a drunk ex mayor of New York and a coupe of escapees from the local asylum in Wood and Powell
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  8550.  @gerrygunn5109  the Q stuff is nut ball right wing extremism baked in the usual anti semetism and facisistic rhetoric. Wake up its just a rehash of the junk that was going round in the 1930,s get out more read more don't get sucked into the Ultra right wing cesspool
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  8551. Why do you spout Right wing media talking point nonsense about Trans issues? There an extremly small group of people within the LBGTQ community who have a whole range of issues.
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  8552. Not difficult trashing him given how bad a state he left things in
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  8553.  @fuckamericanidiot  there is no such thing as small government it doesn't exist you either have government or you have anarchy, libertarians by their stance on multiple issues do not believe in government.
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  8554.  @minsapint8007  Corbyn never voted with the whip anyway so there isn't much of a loss if all he's going to do is vote against the party he's supposed to be in Quote Corbyn voted against the Labour whip on 428 occasions under Blair and Brown and 617 times in total since he became an MP in 1983 so not really a team player
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  8555.  @johnwright8814  He didn't vote 617 times against the war in Iraq you get elected on the back of the party and its manifesto not on your personal wish list.
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  8556. Habib and the rest of the Brexit Ultra's don't have a clue how international trade works and the importance of tariff free paperwork free red tape free VAT harmonised trade is or appear to grasp that it's costing over 40 billions in lost taxation alone and strangling small business growth who employ 60% of the UK workforce.
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  8557. They've been living in the field for weeks the thaw makes the ground boggy as well and the Eastern line is still stuck
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  8558. a man who loves money our Nige is bought and paid for by the oligarch class
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  8559. No we don't they offshore most of the tax breaks and lock it up in fixed assets, it then no longer circles round the economy in a cycle of tax and spend creating GDP Trickle down doesn't work
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  8560. They are on course take a look at the map of the gains. Lib-Dem wont get 20% in aa general What did happen was a lot of tactical voting
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  8561. More than 50% of the people will vote for anything rather than the Orange idiot
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  8562. Tories don't set up a publicity owned company in GBEnergy or renationionalise railways get a grip
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  8563. The bulk of people just want the indescrminent bombing to stop and have the water and electricity switched back on. It is the size of Birmingham with a population of 2 million Gaza is unfortunately under the total control of Hamas who have murdered any opposition to their rule and are more than willing to let all 2 million die for what they see as a religious Jihad The Isreali far right are also more than willing to ethnically cleanse Gaza
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  8564. Farage isnt the answer he promotes free market fundamentalism and trickle down, like the Tories economic policies it needs a never ending supply of cheap labour.
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  8565. If you examine the reasons for inner city problems they are years / decades in the brewing systemic underfunding with slum conditions lack of decent affordable housing lack of jobs then respond by militarising the police to the extent they can just lynch someone in broad daylight. Trying to blame a movement for social justice is a cop out you just want to bury your head in the sand and pretend decades of trickle down economics somehow works and hasn't lead to inner city slums and grinding poverty.
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  8566.  @dakota481  you've never studied social science or poverty how would you know all you do is spout right wing talking points of here's the answer let's retro fit the solution. Its pure garbage. The US had 14% poverty before the pandemic and a huge number living paycheck to paycheck the only way your ever going to pull people out of the poverty trap is by social engineering You want to get them to lift themselves up then fix the housing make it affordable, create jobs, improve schooling and college, increase the minimum wage to a level that pulls them out of the bread line What you don't want to do that you'd rather just pontificate about people being lazy on 7 dollars an hour working all hours God send just to survive in a never ending poverty cycle its just arrogance and ignorance.
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  8567. You need the migration if you run Supply Side Trickle Down Economics aka Thatcherism If you want to cut immigration you shouldn't vote for right wing parties there economic low tax low regulation model uses migrant labour to feed it To cut the need for migrant labour you need to change the economic model and invest in the UK and its workforce such as modern transport links free University
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  8568. But they might stop the chaos and the economy bleeding out
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  8569. ​ @MrAckers75 China deployed more renewable energy than the rest of the world combined last year And the reason for doing it is renewable energy is cheaper
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  8570. He will get burned A recent study on U.S.-China trade concludes that Trump's trade policies cost the U.S. economy nearly a quarter million jobs, not just the Federal government spent 23 billion on farming subsidies due to retaliatory tariffs. The farmers also suffered a sharp rise in bankruptcies and suicides
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  8571. What eu game playing? Johnson got the sh1test trade deal in uk history
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  8572. Labour decided to implode and appoint Corbyn just when we needed proper leadership
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  8573.  @gunnargundersen3787  Corbyn would have ended like Truss, Johnson only lasted because he lied to everyone including all the different factions in his party. The current economic mess was started by Osborne another Cultist who believes the spin that Thatcherism and trickle down works it doesn't her economy was built on oil money and asset stripping. Once the council houses are gone what then? 1/3 of councils in Britain are near bankruptcy in most cases housing support is nearing 50% of their total budget yet nothing is being done why everything has to be stamped by the ghost of Thatcher and signed off by Brexit Jesus
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  8574. The reason mail in is so safe as a voting method (0.0025% fraud) is there all Bar coded traceable signed verified and because there's a hard copy can be audited. And let's not forget that the states he intends to challenge have Republican election officials Republican state legislatures and if anyone hadn't noticed the current government is run by a Republican president so does that mean that republicans are that firkin incompetent that they couldn't organise a shag fest in a brothel answers on a mail in ballot to a local Dropbox near you.
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  8575. Reform are rebadged Thatcherism, the current Cons are the result of 50 years of Thatcherism get real
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  8576. People get confused with Fiscal Conservatism and social conservatism I think Starmer is centre on social issues and centre left on economic ones if you look at Sunak he's centre right on social issues (don't think he cares to be honest) and hard right on Fiscal scale Dodgy Dave was socially quite Liberal but Osborne's Fiscal policies were as hard right as Sunak's (Thatcherism + Austerity)
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  8577.  @royrj5517  Quote Voting intention by education Education likewise remains a key factor in voting intention, with people more likely to vote for Labour or a left wing party the higher a level of education they have.
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  8578. @jandavies4400  voting by educational attainment isn't a statistical anomaly there is a huge gap which your straw clutching has no explanation for
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  8579. @jandavies4400  data is just data, education and class have been used as analysis points for decades, this path started because it was intimated that Labour voters were thick. According to the data they are better educated under 50 and higher earners all the deep dive polls show roughly the same breakdown.
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  8580.  @jandavies4400  This is just total data if you look into the MRP polling on a seat by seat basis there are many individual stories. I live in an affluent blue wall seat which will go Lib-dem by a huge margin. The conservative brand is now completely toxic tarred with economic incompetence and it's shift to populism in chasing after reform voters.
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  8581.  @jandavies4400  Non of this is to say that these voting patterns are set in stone the current story is a big shift from the Cameron coalition.
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  8582.  @jandavies4400  The defining moment of this election cycle was the Truss fiscal event. All Sunak has managed to do since taking charge is dig the hole deeper
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  8583. Your tax burden is up by 1800 due to fiscal drag Cutting taxes doesn't cure RAAC in schools low pay in nursing NHS waiting lists congested transport systems lack of housing etc etc
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  8584. No it wouldn't nearly 40% of the NHS is outsourced. 10% of its admin budget is spent dealing with Private entities. Nurse pay has fallen in real terms by 30% since 2010. That affects the wider economy the restaurant they go to gets less visits the extension they need for the second kid gets delayed and pressure is on the builders to keep prices low. A privatized system would add +50% to the costs and the Government will still have to pay for the millions of Pensioners @alastairharris1866 
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  8585. There polling will get worse the longer they cling on The current mess isn't about Sunak though he isn't helping its the accumulation of 14 failed years In that time they've borrowed just under 2 Trillion and never once balanced to books, jacked us out the EU without a plan and appointed a Libertarian Nutter who was outlasted by a rotting lettuce. To cap it all they voted in the Mother of all Liars in 2019, herrr sunny uplands raa raa get brexit done
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  8586. Since when? The unprecedented 2 trillion investment over 10 years is renewing infrastructure and rewiring the US economy away from fossil fuels. small business Incorporation is at record levels Business profits are at record levels and employment is also at at record levels. Over 1 million manufacturing jobs have been reshored. Debt to GDP is down from its 2020 high of 132% to 120% 3rd Quarter growth was +4.9% GDP overall 2023 growth is expected to be 3%. + Inflation is down to below 3% with the Fed talking rate cuts this year. @jamonit7169 
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  8587. The 2 Trillion investment over 10 years is already reaping huge rewards for the US economy Their leading the G7 in economic performance with 4.9% GDP growth in the 3rd Quarter of 2023 over 14 million jobs created with 1 million manufacturing jobs reshored, small business incorporation at record levels and the US energy infrastructure is moving to renewable at a record pace. @jamonit7169 
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  8588. I voted for a Labour Mayor and lib dem mp Why would I feel guilty, the Tories are completly dysfunctional Labour have already deported 10,000 illeagal migrants which is more than the Tories did in the whole of 2023 Our economy is completly fked with brex1t and Truss, effing Sunak cancelling infrastructure projects to fix potholes in London
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  8589. 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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  8590. There looks to have been on average 2 parties a week at that time and BYOB Friday was a regular The question is how many did Boris go to and can we see the photo's now get it all over and done with and throw Big Dog into the puppy pound
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  8591.  @vtechead1  People aged 60-64 have the highest poverty levels among all adults. Trends suggest millions will continue struggling when they do retire. Over 1 million pensioners have no savings, over 4.6 million people aged 50+ have mortgages, and nearly 2 million aged 50+ rent – with over a third of those in poverty.
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  8592. The Conservatives have a policy? Immigration is +1.25 million
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  8593. His only chance of winning will be a low turnout election given there's Sex and HealthCare on the ballot you can't see that happening
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  8594. Cruz like a lot of Republicans is just a professional Troll, they have zero policies apart from spouting Private sector good - Government Bad
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  8595. Farage isn't Conservative why would someone on the centre right touch him with a barge pole
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  8596. He's not right at all but if your not prepared to go read what Labour's policies are its your loss
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  8597. They've never fought an election under Starmer so there's been no Manifesto Current ones that don't require lots of money and is the most important is reform of the Panning system. Hopefully there's an offer on council house building listened to Andy Burnham the other day he said with planning reform and government backing he could build 5,000 council houses straight off the bat @treadstone1970 
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  8598. Farage yanks your chain and you lap it up like a bunch of poodles He has form on being a Putin apologist reasons - the far right in Europe used to get sizeable donations from oligarchs and there not happy the gravy train has been turned off. quote That Russia serves as a reliable cash machine for Europe’s far-right political forces has long been an open secret. Back in 2014, for example, French media reported that the country’s far-right National Front party had funded its election campaign with loans worth €11m from Russian banks. The party
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  8599.  @Elbereth_TV  Read the full Senate reports, IG, reports, Muller report, transcripts of house investigations a not soak in disinformation from the Internet then you wouldn't start spouting garbge
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  8600.  @Elbereth_TV  The Manaford case is really interesting you should look at the documents plus supporting info on his case + General activities. There's also a ton of verifiable info on his work in Ukraine. I work in IT the data Manaford passed to Kalimnik was stuff used by the Trump campaign harvested by Cambridge Analytica through a loophole in Facebook upwards of 10000 data points on each person. There's also plenty of info on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook data harvesting is still toxic but they've at least plugged the third party leaks.
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  8601. Define woke To me and most people it means don't be a sexist homophobic racist arsehole So what's your point
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  8602.  @walsingham-xxiii  there's a fair old brain drain when the software company I used to work for relocated to Holland in 2019 a 1/4 of thee staff went over a few moved to the States and quite a few retired early like me. You can get a visa pretty easily for quite a few professions not that I'd need one Father was Polish settled in the UK after the war I got an EU passport last year.
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  8603.  @markohenry5891  no they haven't Type "ft uk business investment" into Google then click images, business investment has fallen off a cliff The reason is the bulk of our manufacturing small and large has a supply chain going through the EU and a market dominated by sales to the EU or it did have, nearly all our farm and fishery exports where to the EU our fertilisers and chemical components. We have an acute shortage of skilled and unskilled labour with now Stupid Brexit trade barriers the economy outside the City will keep declining there's an FT film on their YouTube channel. Why do you think the Traders told Kwerteng To go swivel over borrowing we have no growth no potential for growth and will be entering a contraction cycle for the foreseeable future.
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  8604.  @firsteerr  which is why the Company was relocating staff before Stupid Brexit came in And it really is Stupid because the things you were promised where never going to happen in fact it was always going to be the reverse. Keep out Johhny foreigner 1 we left the Dublin Accord and multiple other EU bodies and as a 3rd country are on our own over refugees 2 removing EU workers has knackered our economy that much Truss was talking open visas from India as part of her growth plan Sunny uplands and leveling up Brexit was always going to shrink the UK economy a by a large chunk the Brexiteers didn't want to talk about the estimate is 4/5% gdp or 40 billion less in tax revenue or 120 billion in lost economic activity and the economic pain is ongoing
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  8605. 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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  8606. The Tories went down to 23% last week and Labour were up 3 points to 47%
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  8607. Name me 1 policy that REFORM have any chance of enacting if they were elected that would improve my economic or the countries state? @scotiabound3547 
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  8608. no they won't Under Blair / Brown the average wage rose by +25% and services were well funded. since 2010 debt to GDP has gone up from 62% to 100% and this last parliament has seen the biggest drop in living standards in history The reason for the bad economic performance is right wing economic policy doesn't work @sharonwashington8150 
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  8609. In what way? Tice was banging on about nuclear power the other day while Hinkley C is years late (>12 years in constr5) and the energy it produces will be x 3 of the cost of the last wind farm auction.
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  8610. The uk economy is built on migrants from Empire to Now When we where in the EU they where European now the Tories are shipping them in from Africa and India Tbh you get what you voted for if you vote Conservative Free Market Global Britain means exactly what it says on the tin unlimited Supply Side Cheap labour
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  8611. You get propaganda free for on here BBC has real news and isn't owned. By off shore enteties pushing billionaire class priorities
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  8612. 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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  8613. We want to know real stuff don't care a minister resigned at the slightest whiff of scandal Ask proper questions not Westminster gotcha's
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  8614. he's already been found guilty of fraud and rape when do you realize he's a fake
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  8615. Food is being affected by two things climate change and Cartel behaviour by fewer and fewer suppliers Same story for energy Energy will get cheaper because of renewables but its going to take a few years
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  8616. There 20 years younger than the GOP candidate who's brain is that addled he doesn't know the difference between an Asylum seekers and Asylum Inmates
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  8617. Generals do general stuff, it's up to politicians to do politics.
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  8618. The economy isn't starting to turn round this is as good as it gets till 2025, there expecting inflation to go back up as we head to autum
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  8619.  @Jay_Johnson  so Iooked into Starmer about a year or so back, especially with all the noise from the Corbanistas who hate him more than they hate the Tories. You have a man who bought his retired parents a field to run a donkey sanctuary someone that did pro bono work on human rights abuse but someone who rose to the very top as head of DPP and who was lauded by Cameron for his exceptional work. The GBEnergy policy smacks of pragmatism, controlling MP selection smacks of ruthlessness and the way he allowed Rayner's and Reeve's speeches points to a leader who will lead a Team In contrast to Sunak whose HS2 announcement was as if he was a Dictator completely bypassing parliment undermining even his own party, the net zero thing as well is baffling the OBR put out a report in June stating the cost of NOT going to net zero as 13% drain on GDP due gas and oil price fluctuations over 10 years total cost of around 10.4 trillion versus capital cost over that period of 6% gdp to enact net zero around 4.8 trillion. So why is not going net zero such a drain so in 2021 we spent 30 billion on energy in 2023 that is expected to be 170 billion, renewable infrastructure would fetch that cost to pretty much 30 all things being equal
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  8620. The Green's will do that making sure that commitments to net zero and water sewage reform are kept. It also appeals to the Green Tories a contradiction I know but I live in a Tory town that votes in Green and Lib Dem councilors but turns Blue at GE time. Where even one of those seats that may still stay Blue on a Labour landslide @vincentvangogh8092 
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  8621. I'm pretty solid centre left was more of a centrist in my younger days I'm now retired so have time to do a fair amount of reading. That includes FT and Times as well as the New Statesman as well Politics Joe pubcast. The New statesman put out The 50 most influential people shaping Britain's conservative politics. 1. Nigel Farage 2. Rishi Sunak Even Centerists like The News Agents agree the Tory Parties UKIP ification is near complete. The last Centre Right PM we had was John Major, Cameron while being socially Liberal was fiscally a hard right Thatcherite with all the destruction that 13 years of Austerity has wrought you'd think they'd twig what was cratering the economy by now but no we have Thatcherism + Austerity + UKIP's Culture wars ontop  @aituk 
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  8622. what nonsense if your going to govern why would you want people that would derail any legislation because its not Pure enough as MP's Next you'll be telling me the 25%+ growth in average wages during the Blair / Brown era was a mirage @toyotaprius79 
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  8623. Austerity was abandoned even by the IMF in 2013 as the paper it was based by 2 leading economists was found to have serious flaws. The economic multiplier the OBR based it on was 0.5 and debt spiralling was seen as being real issue in 2010. Due to work on real data it was found the economic multiplier was actually 1.6 and that far from shrinking debt Austerity was shrinking the economy at a higher rate than the cuts. It was widely condemned by Labour at that time pointing to the research data. Osborne dug in and 10 years later here we are GDP per capita has shrunk by 10% since 2010 we've had zero growth in 13 years and now have a debt to GDP ratio of 100%.. UKIP couldn't enact its policies for the same reasons the Tories can't there unworkable. If you tried shipping people to France they could just blockade Dover. Rwanda is on a US ban list for supporting insurgents that recruit child soldiers the policy is a complete waste of time effort and money. UKIP is guff out of Power the Tories are Guff in power. what's the difference in populist rhetoric from the 30's and Braverman's Mosley tribute act? the only thing I can see is its being lapped up by old white boomers and doesn't seem to infect young people.  @aituk 
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  8624. That's your opinion on Braverman not one shared outside Conservatism even people in her own party have called her a Bigot. No one in their right mind would leave the ECHR last year nearly all 300 cases were brought against the UK government and its complete overreach it is the court of last resort. And were still signatories to the UN Convention on Refugees or are we leaving the UN now and giving away power as a permanent member of the security council? In the migration figures where 500,000 student visas which is a nonsense it's one of the few businesses that has managed to recover after Brexit contributing 42 billion to the economy. We also have a low birth rate our indigenous population declines by -350,00 every year on average. You know people came here from the EU because of jobs the Tories turned those jobs into zero hour contract low paid jobs not the EU. There where always levers for dealing with migration we chose not to use them and are now backed into a corner the Billy No Mates of Europe as we've retreated from all agreements.  @aituk 
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  8625. and why put down PoliticsJoe young people voicing their opinions speaking for their generation. A generation that's paying 40% of their take home pay on rent @aituk 
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  8626. The working class took a stupid pill and started voting for UKIP because of good old xenophobia and it was all the EU's fault People who vote Labour these days aren't the fkwits that think trans issues are somehow important electoral topics and jump up and down about dinghies as soon as the right wing yanks their chain like good serfs
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  8627. I'm retired I worked in IT all my life I've heard this story 1000 times yet it doesn't come to pass. When I 1st started there was a typing pool supporting a department, 3 shifts of operators 3 to a shift. The more things change the more they stay the same. The issue is wealth and the fact that money made from money and wealth itself is not taxed in any meaningful way but work is @ciaranhughes1199 
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  8628. Best government I've seen in well over a decade and a half get us on the right track away Thatcherite from trickle down cr*p
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  8629. For God's sake anyone who's looked at renewables has Tesla stocks, the company isn't just a car company it's a power company and nothing government does is going to slow it's rise it's about 7 years ahead of its rivals in software development it's developing mesh networks for load balancing. Its got giga Berlin giga Texas giga shanghai the company is the cutting edge across Europe and Asia for fuk sake get out more
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  8630. It's electoral suicide in the Blue wall who have been voting in Green are not ex Labour there centre centre/right fed up middle England. Priorities are schools sewage (environment) cost of living Anyone with 1/2 an education can figure the correlation between fossil fuel and the eye watering sums people are paying for energy
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  8631.  @RisewithMegan  He's just not as bad as Truss that is hardly a glowing reference, his economic policies are still garbage just not reckless garbage like Truss's. There will be the mother of all recessions no matter what now Truss's tax policies will make it deeper and longer
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  8632.  @RisewithMegan  for what the inflation? The 1.3 million vacancies and Shrinking workforce? The endless delays cost and paperwork involved in Export/Imports? The out of control housing market? The basket case that is the privatised energy markets?
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  8633.  @RisewithMegan  we only ever voted to leave the EU aka a full Norway Johnson only carried 42% and that was against Corbyn who by that time was as popular as a bowl of sick
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  8634. Farmers are going bankrupt thanks to Tory brexit
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  8635. Its politics the administration need the current gas producing companies to switch to EV and buy into them yesterday. Its also pointless trying to engage with Elon Musk he is hyper focused on his projects and has no concept of how the rest of the industry or life for that matter works.
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  8636. We issued 1.25 million visas last year with 50% being dependants, if you reduce the number of dependants to 100k because your recruiting from a pool of workers 20 miles away in the EU your net number goes down to 250k Instead of reducing immigration removing FOM tripled it to net 750k Which bit about snake oil salesman does he not understand
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  8637. There promising 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts we know where that goes
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  8638. Not if your dying because you can't get NHS treatment
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  8639. if you kept up with the tech renewables reached parity with gas on energy costs back in 2019 and EV's achieved cost parity with ICE this year and that's before economies of scale kick in. We have the worst insulated housing stock in Europe and the offer is what exactly get everyone up to A+ standards and save consumers 100's of billions? No way Tice's attitude is working people can fk off and keep paying outrageous amounts to the energy companies cos we don't care were not going to regulate to improve your life and wellbeing
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  8640.  @henben9215  go look it up yourself don't be lazy
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  8641. The Ukrainians fight so we don't have to imperialism knows no boundaries it never stops
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  8642. That's just putting it into the hands of elite global Billionaires
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  8643. It's for the alternative reality that is his domestic audience. He needs an explanation for Cargo200
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  8644. 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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  8645. God isn't laughing at me but it looks like he's given up on you, why do you hate people and women especially so much?
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  8646. Enough of the Sedition the conspiracy stuff is toxic keep stoking it and your Base will get smaller and more rabidly delusional Corporate America needs putting on notice to deny the Q tips funds and starve those advocating the overthrow of democratic processes oxygen, the industrialist's in Germany got into bed with the nationalists who were only 30-35% of the voting Base who then used mob and fear tactics to take power that road doesn't end well.
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  8647.  @0019808  you voted Thatcherism you got it full fat get over it More Thatcherism more imigration that's how it works
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  8648. @mleh-qx8mo  if you run supply side trickle down economics low tax and low regulation you don't train your local workforce because that costs money you use it for tax cuts instead import skilled workers while your domestic unskilled workers do low paid jobs Aka Thatcherism + a points based immigration system
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  8649. Everyone knows he's Alt-Right one of the elite pontificating from on high
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  8650.  @simonkramer9463  Because you can't retrospectively raise taxation, there is 1.5 trillion in off book savings. If you tried it would spook markets and this labour government needs stable markets Remember what happened with Truss, Reeve is a creature from the BOE
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  8651.  @andrewfrancis3591  You can't get the GDP data to support a theory that the economy is booming when you pump 2 million workers into it over 2 years and get 0.6% growth in quarter 9. GDP per Capita has shrunk from 50k in 2010 to 45k now. I'm also quite capable of working out that my tax has gone up by £550 per annum because of Fiscal drag. You can just use the BOE inflation calculator it will give you a threshold that should be £15500 not 12250 now frozen by 7 bins till 2028
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  8652.  @LondonMoneyCashEnterprise  and your problem with labour is what? Tax should have gone up in 2010, the Tories have completely stagnated the economy then kicked it in the head when it was down with Brex1t and Truss
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  8653. Infrastructure investment isn't a waste of money it has a return on investment in this case a multiplier of 1.6
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  8654.  @TerryHall-nm8gt  we have data on real world implementation of modern grid technology such as MegaPack Automated mass storage
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  8655. 20 billion of it is in an unfunded pre election NI cut to try buy votes and to create a scorched earth policy if they lost the subsequent election to stymie any labour spending plans There were rumblings in various circles that there was no money for tax cuts Also The public sector pay awards are around 10 billion There never was a plan to cover the NI cut
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  8656.  @riggingpots3453  it has a population of 40 million people and is about the same size as Spain. There's a 1k tax rebate this year and it's doubled its gdp in just over a decade. There's a recall coz republicans are a bunch of snowflakes
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  8657.  @balla4544  what's your point, people are far better off and pay more taxes in California? What's wrong with you people is basic math a forgotten skill in red states. The majority are far better off even after paying tax or they earn far less but pay little tax and are worse off.
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  8658.  @balla4544  who's socialist? Every western society runs a mixed economy the current GOP have moved too a kleptocracy which strangles the economy and pushes n money to the 0.01% The GOP have currently got you voting for your own Economic suicide and to line the Plutocrats pockets.
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  8659.  @balla4544  it's a popular state with plenty of social programs as I've said there are 40 million people in it the bulk of which are considerably by a big margin better off financially than every other state in the union but you can always do better. The overriding feature off a Republican economy is boom/bust and low wages. I'm 64 and retired I don't want boom/bust it will kill my pension
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  8660. There are a range of political views tbh I could debate Rory I couldn't debate Sunak or Farage because of all the bullsh1t and alternate facts
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  8661.  @elkpaz560  Given Starmerites are in control of candidate selection and the left of the party have been weeping and whaling like lost children over the number of moderates he's placed in what are now winnable seats how exactly are they going to replace him? As for all the wef nonsense you really need to read up on what goes on it's a rich mans talking shop nothing more
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  8662. Net Zero reduces Energy costs by switching away from GAS Energy costs 2020 to UK consumers 30 Billion Energy costs 2023 to UK consumers 170 Billion I make that 140 Billion reasons to go renewable don't you? That 140 billion comes out of Consumers pockets the estimated cost of net zero implementation is 40 Billion a Year a net saving overall
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  8663. That figure is wrong dunno which fossil lobby site you plucked that out of 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 @thehairygolfer 
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  8664. Yea but my view is renewable is cheaper I've fitted Thermal solar it pays its capital cost in year 8 after that 75% of my hot water is FREE. And that's how net zero stuff works up front capital cost with zero energy input cost @alexedwards6509 
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  8665. @alexedwards6509  I have thermal solar its capital cost is paid for by year 8 at which point I have FREE hot water 75% of the time this is the reality of renewable energy If gas prices and inflation keep going south it will be sooner
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  8666.  @1967deek  the bill sunsets laws by the end of 2023 its a desperate move to try destabilize the UK I presume he's betting against the Pound again with his disaster capitalist mates
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  8667. @barryking3677  no you won't you'll get a government not spending 8 billion on bankers tax breaks a government not giving billions in subsidies to the Fossil industry a government that gives a fk about the NHS Police etc.
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  8668.  @awwasson  Inflation is a product of the 750 billion the Tories spaffed during Covid its trickled up to the Millionaire Billionaire class who doubled their wealth during Covid but were now being asked to pay for it with Fiscal drag. Here's a maths question for you If I build a swimming pool and increase my electricity consumption by £9,000 how many people have to sit in the cold to equal the supply demand curve. The Bank of England can put up interest rates till the cows come home it will have ZERO affect on the Sunak's of this world who really don't care what the borrowing rate is or how much a product costs thus not mitigating their consumption.
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  8669. Solar and wind work best with mass storage nodes on the grid, the likes of Tesla MegaPacks do grid smoothing automatically through software no moving parts. The future is stuff like V2G and domestic battery storage of solar configured into a mesh network doing smoothing at a local level. 2055? We shall see battery prices and innovation in mass storage is still at the bottom of the S curve
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  8670.  @zcorpalpha2462  Investing a billion in mass storage when you have always on power or you want to time shift power (Nuclear, Wind, Solar) saves 1 billion a year in grid costs. It's software managed has no moving parts and is unmanned unlike standby Gas Generation. It's infrastructure costs are also still falling. Wind and Solar power are free once you've built the infrastructure, extraction, processing and transportation og LNG are all subject to rising costs and inflation. Those investing in renewables now will have cheaper power down the line well over it's half life so in 10 years or so and the price will continue to fall year on year in real terms.
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  8671. What like pots of gold at the end of the brex1t rainbow? Or Loose fom and migration will go down?
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  8672. He's an ex hedge fund manager Al they do is asset strip He knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing Look at fiscal drag he then spends part of it on 40,000 tax break for millionaire pensioners, if it was in peoples pockets it gets spent in the economy instead its going straight to pension assets to be locked up
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  8673. there's no mandate to further tank the economy and that's why Sunak is pretending to put it forward
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  8674. If you remove FOM you will increase legal migration because dependants if you deregulate you will turbo charge an already out of control situation by removing barriers to importing yet more cheap labour Reform & UKIP are the cause not the cure it's like an arsonist coming back and saying he'll help put out the fire
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  8675. FORBESBUSINESS Biden-Voting Counties Equal 70% Of The U.S. Economy Ceccesion is economic suicide
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  8676. Don't forget the Trump tax cuts that put 3.5 trillion onto debt
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  8677.  @haydenhoodless2055  like more scanners and analytical equipment?
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  8678. tax base under the last Labour government was 33% it stayed that way till Sunak took charge and will rise to 37% by 2027 (currently 35%) were also taxing work and not taxing wealth Hence Sunak only pays 21p in the £ on tax and voted to bring down CGT to 20% in 2016 One thing that desperately needs changing is council tax and business rates fairer share have proposed a land /property value tax quote According to research commissioned by Fairer Share, a campaign to abolish council tax, an average home in Easington valued at £88,000 could pay £1,498.53 a year in council tax – equating to 1.7% of the property value. An average home in Westminster valued at £1.2m would pay £1,127.07 a year – which is just 0.09% of the value of the property.  joce11 
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  8679. Maybe it was a masterstroke to shade Harris from the relentless personal attacks till their VP pick was locked in Dark Brandon strikes again perfect unity in the Dem camp
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  8680. Untrue, but I don't think she will last the course Her Gordon Brown style budget went down like a lead balloon
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  8681. 1/3rd of councils are on the brink of Bankruptcy and there not confined to Labour
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  8682. ​@nathd1748 she lives in the same disconnected to reality bubble you do Her opinions and her poll at 13-15% approval, she spouts populist guff blaming anyone and everyone for her rank incompetence This is the tail end of putting an utter clown in charge like Johnson and promoting some of the most useless people ever seen in government
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  8683. I'm 67 with a degree in Economics and a Masters in Information Technology and really don't care what you think of my English, my essay and report writing days are long behind me. . These where private schools providing public places. Direct grant grammar school The direct grant was phased out from 1975 and the schools were required to choose between becoming maintained comprehensive schools or fully independent schools @ascgazz 
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  8684. Probably a machine shop similar to a small garage business there aren't much in the way of records so it can't have been very big @terrapyn99 
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  8685. There population shrank by another 1/2 million, all of the advanced weapons needs western parts and their Soviet era infrastructure is crumbling because there a bunch of kleptocrats But hey believe what you will I'll stick to data
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  8686. 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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  8687.  @danmcgriff1421  Trump had the worst economic stats since Hoover the main reason the debt ballooned was the Corporate tax cut which went straight on the US credit card Trump ran the country like his business loaded with debt inches away from bankruptcy sugar hieing the Stock Market
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  8688. DJT'S Tarrif plans are effectively a 3 trillion sales tax And US exports will be badly affected by retaliatory tariffs loosing US jobs
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  8689. she's not woke or a lefty your perception of politics is completely warped by following this populist trash its not news and it isn't owned by anyone in GB Dan Wooton is ex Sun the toilet of news
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  8690.  @linzianderton2090  they wouldn't be worse you muppet they have a skills education and housing plan as well as a childcare plan Open your eyes You don't cure the imigration and economic problems we have with TAX CUTS
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  8691.  @linzianderton2090  n they wouldn't our current system of being cruel and incompetent is costing us 4 billion a year
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  8692.  @jennifersanders7764  reform have nearly the same economic policies that drive legal migration how does that work?
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  8693. RUSSIA HACKED THE SERVER YOU COMPLETE MUPPETS, no one but whack job right wingers that belong in a padded cell believe otherwise. Running the entire government to prove otherwise is Mental.
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  8694. The POTUS is in the best physical and mental condition? He's obese does next to no exercise drinks way too much diet coke to the point he hardly sleeps and appears at times on uppers, his Ingram interview was horrific if it had been a relative of yours you'd have taken them to the nearest mental health doctor, then Streisand's himself by tweeting about his health.
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  8695. It's the elites trying to scare you because Labour will have to rip out the Trickle down cr*p that lets them pay little to no tax
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  8696. There's only 14 million left due to the age profile of the voters and 70% of those that voted under 60, voted remain So you're asking the bulk of working people to implement something they didn't vote for don't believe in and think we were crazy for doing it in the 1st place. How does that work?
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  8697. Thatcherism is the root cause of increased legal migration and the failing economy so your in for a shock if Reform did get in.
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  8698. If they only get 3 why did they waste 1 on politicing to try stir up trouble in the Labour party? Surely Scotland has a cost of everything crisis too?
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  8699. 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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  8700. Thats a pretty low bar Both are promoted by the Billionaire class owning media who want low taxes on themselves deregulation so they can polute without consequence and maintain fossil fuels because god forbid we become energt independent ​ @countfosco8535 
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  8701.  @richtucker6083  There a bunch of Fash wannabees
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  8702. Iowa is controlled by the GOP no one but a Republican will be legitimized as the winner, they've changed the voting laws
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  8703. as result of this years extreme heat destroying crops food prices will go up + 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 but hey laugh away
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  8704. ​@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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  8705. What's wrong with wanting cleaner energy its cheaper and doesn't involve huge tax subsidies to global corporations When's the last time BP or Shell paid any uk taxes?
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  8706.  @thedave7760  Since when renewables have been the cheapest source of electricity on the Grid since 2019 the only thing holding it back is lack of investment in the grid which needs upgrading anyway
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  8707.  @g8ymw  The green levy doesn't go to renewable energy companies shows how much you know about the grid and the OffGem market. 1st off forward contract price for wind energy dropped to 38p per kilowatt hour in 2019 during the past decade the cost of renewables has dropped by 95%. We only have 17% wind capacity even without mass storage we could run 40/50% 2nd on a bad wind day that TOTAL UK capacity drops to 10% from 17% peak On cost Nuclear is around 100p per kilowatt hour as is Coal and Gas is currently the most expensive. Currently the windfall tax that Sunak put in the renewable energy companies pay the most and there was a 6 billion tax break for fossil in the last budget Quote Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced that renewable electricity generators will face a 45% windfall tax from January 2023 until March 2028. By comparison, the windfall tax for the oil and gas sector will be set at a lower rate of 25% to 35% Why are they facing a large windfall tax because the market is screwed and fixed for fossil providers
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  8708.  @danielwebb8402  the one £ is 30% down on the euro and our economy was 90% of Germany in 2016 it's 70% your the one that's cherry picking. Also disposable income is - 5% on average from 2010.
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  8709.  @lewis123417  Thatcherism +Austerity x brexit = a stagnant economy that's shrunk disposable incomes by 5%% below 2010 levels Get your info from the FT not the daily mail
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  8710. quote from Bloomberg Britain's Economic Stagnation Leaves Households £8,300 Worse Off. Fifteen years of economic stagnation have left the typical UK household £8,300 ($10,550) poorer than peers in countries like France and Germany, according to a major report on the state of the nation.3 Dec 2023 quote BOE A key driver for economic growth, business investment was now only 6% higher in real terms than in the second quarter of 2016, when the Brexit referendum was held, Ramsden said. “That’s less than 1% a year. Over that time, US business investment has gone up by over 25%,” he said. “You can see a break in the trend for UK business investment in 2016. It had been going up since the global financial crisis and then it flattened off from 2016 onwards.”  @danielwebb8402 
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  8711. BOE are predicting ZERO growth for 2024 even going into a technical recession in the 2nd quarter. Also The OBR doesn't take into account the full impact of Mortgage rate rises as people have to move onto new deals. The picture is pretty bleak for the average family.  @dogglebird4430 
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  8712. If your interested in a proper economic analysis head over to the Resolution Foundation and Read Ending Stagnation @danielwebb8402 
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  8713. so what
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  8714. Not according to focus groups the 20 seconds at the end sunk him completly and Tim buried the hatchet. Why was Vance there not Pence? Because Vance will say and do anything to gain power including breaking his oath of office.
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  8715. What ideas there for fracking its like an idea that's well over a decade old and just stuffs money in the fossil industries pockets
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  8716.  @katiewalker1880  you'll get a Labour government no matter which way you vote the Cons have pissed in the pool that much they're going to struggle to buy a seat. So it depends on how badly you want to damage the Tories for thier utter failure and lying incompetence, also the Lib dems want PR which is a route to more political diversity + with Labour you'll get HOL reform.
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  8717. all he did was stick the Tory party together to gain power his deal was a PR exercise hence the complete giveaway of NI and then he promised whatever the various Tory factions wanted they could have English Nationalist - No Immigration Leveling Up Libertarian - Compete deregulation unlimited immigration The guy would say anything to anyone to survive the next news cycle
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  8718. Since when Labour are putting together pro rural policies to help and assist farmers
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  8719. So Brexit = failure Visa system he proposed = Failure He supported Liz Truss economic policy - Failure How exactly does that work?
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  8720. ​ @PublicOpinion61 fiscal drag means there collecting +30 billion the NI cut cost. 9 billion. Your slightly better off if you earn more than 36k that's wiped out when you get to 50k. Pensions and graduates are the hardest hit by Sunak's tax rises. Green investment is Not a sunk cost it has a return of 1.6
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  8721. no they haven't Putin is a Kleptocrat and not a very subtle one Some people never learn guess you believed his bullsh1t about brexit lowering migration?
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  8722. Around 58% voted for left leaning parties despite the pro Con and Reform media
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  8723. One party rule is bad for business
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  8724. @wtfisthishandIebuIlshit day 2 RNC 14 million with puppy killer Noam, day 2 DNC 21 million with Michelle Obama
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  8725. ​ @EagleBill1 don't delude yourself Reform are Tory + a bit more deluded
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  8726. Is he doing a terrible job? Or is the border getting more pressure on it due to climate change and instability that brings to food in central America. He's been working night and day with Senators on a Border bill which gave huge wins to the GOP but Trump crashed it because he wants to run on Chaos
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  8727.  @billygreen2996  me too Check out these 2 articles A Keir Starmer government might be more radical than you think by Michael Jacobs Another must read article is by the FT which is backed up with graphs and data showing the trajectory of the UK economy under Austerity Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity A decade of Tory spending cuts left the country vulnerable to the external shocks of the past two years
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  8728. Yes
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  8729.  @psycho8927  bot yourself
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  8730. Trump is in severe mental decline, he doesn't handle the 5 stages of grief well and never gets past anger, we saw that when he lost in 2020 and tried to bend reality. He's doing the same over the Harris Biden switch and will continue to spiral into mental decline till November on full display to the public. It doesn't matter what Harris policies are when faced with running against a mental patient
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  8731. pretending the problem doesn't exist then paying 8 billion for the privilege doesn't work either
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  8732. The country as a whole is socially centre right and fiscally centre left, there's no buy in to sweeping social change, the Tories can get away with imposing all sorts on us with 36% of the vote Labour can not
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  8733. Starmer is targeting the smugglers not the smuggled cooperating with the people who run the border on the other side reclassifying people smugglers in the same light as organised crime and seizing their assets plus getting rid of the backlog that's costing us 8 billion The Tories offer is to shout a lot about the smuggled as if that will bring down the numbers hint it won't
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  8734. My vote is for Murdoch make him supreme being so his acolytes can rejoice in his toxic spew cut out the Tory and Republican middle men @juliegregory3900 
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  8735. German generals tried to assassinate their leader multiple times Also Because they purged thier hierarchy of the odd balls there war machine suffered from a lack of lateral and critical thinking
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  8736. Reform can't cut taxes same as the Conservatives can't we have a debt to GDP of 100% and borrowed 130 billion last year
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  8737.  @Cotswolds1913  If you roll NI into taxation you add 10% to pensioners who are mostly on low incomes to start with. A more foolproof method is a proper property tax the issue is London and the South East would hate it but it would level up taxation with the rest of the country
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  8738.  @Cotswolds1913  I agree but the south east would go into meltdown at having to pony up a bit of their wealth.
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  8739. Chief justice Roberts wants nothing to do with any of these political cases, he's said as much in the DACA case, the three Trump appointed justices want to avoid controversial election cases like the plague any sense of undermining democracy would set a raging fire off across the country. An analysis of Biden's voter Base shows its 70+% of the US gdp trying to legitimise and prop up minority rule would see widespread civil unrest including the possibility of a general strike, Trump may be able to get a bunch of rural Hicks to go around waving thier guns and juiced his support to the max but +7 million is the tip pf the iceberg there was wholesale voter suppresion in Red states and it will reappear on steroids in 2021.
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  8740. ​ @dannysummers4372 working class turned to Populism voted UKIP BREXIT Boris how's that working out? Labour are having to build a new base after the disaster that was Corbyn
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  8741. Your comments are one of the reasons driving up her support and the determination to vote
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  8742. What and another 5 more years of Thatcherism are you crazy?
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  8743. It was observation in one sentence which also contained Atlee and Blair Go read the full article ignore the headline and make up your own mind not be swayed by media spin
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  8744. Corbyn agenda was pure socialist fantasy it had no chance. Also his foreign policy was absolutely toxic.
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  8745. Plague and disease are very bad for the economy and business, Red states are shooting themselves in the foot then reloading the gun to shoot themselves in the other foot. By the way you can't reason with these people I was reading an article on mass psychosis, the driver is fear and the right have been pumping it out on steroids the GOP Base is literally having a Psychotic event akin to the hysteria that gripped Europe during the witch trails of the middle ages. It kind of explains the 6th and there complete detachment from the reality of the event.
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  8746. Why would anyone vote for a party whos central policy brexit quadrupled migration, tanked the economy and lead to increased taxation ?
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  8747.  @BAR-id4yz  It was the same policy UKIP then Reform were advocating. Leave the EU remove FOM and instigate a VISA system. You don't get to walkaway from a complete sh1tsh0w you created lobbied and got people to vote for. It wasn't me gov honest doesn't work because the policies they advocated for don't work FULL STOP. Experts told you they would increase NOT decrease migration and all we heard was we've had enough of experts. This is just as much Nige's mess as it is the Tories
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  8748.  @alexrobertbrian  according to Reuters, Bloomberg & the FT the Biden economy is the best since FDR I'll take serious economic comment from them rather than you
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  8749. SIPPS are exempt from IHT, you get a 325,000 allowance + 175,000 with property so 500,000 each from me and my wife + our pension pots. Your also allowed to push 40% of your salary tax and NI free into a SIPP so for high earners like me and my wife we've both taken advantage of the allowances. Bought our house in 1985 its been mortgage free for 20+ years Quote Under new rules for SIPP Inheritance, it is possible to pass your pension pot on to your beneficiaries without being liable for tax. If you die before the age of 75, and the funds are transferred or designated within two years of your death, the inheritance will be tax-free. @CastleHassall 
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  8750. The same losers that brought you brex1t and tripled legal migration dream on
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  8751. Why because you've bought into a narrative? Uk government spent 72 billion in energy subsidies in 2023 if we'd had a renewable grid that figure would have been zero It also fed into 11% inflation
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  8752. I'm sorry to inform you but it is, the economic reality of Thatcherism hitting the ground a project 50 years in the making. This is where you end up with supply side trickle down
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  8753. We have a huge problem with the Black Economy a lot of so called asylum seekers who are economic migrants disappear into it, I'm all for clearing the Asylum backlog but what about the cash only car washes and other businesses which creates criminal gangs and modern slavery. We also need voter ID a common system is now needed @jubear1493 
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  8754.  @stephenburt8426  They don't understand economics, if you want to lower migration you tackle the problem causing it not its physical manifestation which is high net numbers. What there proposing with deregulation will increase the pull factor for supply side cheap labour
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  8755. one word Austerity 13 years of it chasing a failed economic model that and trickle down
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  8756. What failure? Releasing short sentence prisoners at 40% rather than 50% The last Tory government just kept making more things illegal
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  8757. ​ @bobbailey7024 you don't want human rights? It was used to get justice for Hillsborough victims. Its the final court against government overeach Like Now
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  8758. Trump doesn't have any policies is running up a huge debt amplified by tax cuts for the rich and covid and the GOP sit there with their head in the sand about climate change. The climate change issue is infuriating the US is on the cusp of being a world leader in renewable technology, it would drive a revolution in power and transport just look at TESLA and renewables are cheaper than coal the latest battery technology will make short term gas generation stations redundant.
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  8759. Labour offer the stability of a funded NHS and Schools one of the current proposals is to write of student debt for both services to help with staff retention. Also a proper Net Zero program that will fetch down energy bills and move us away from relying on gas.  @d4v1do 
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  8760. ? you got Thatcherism what more do you want
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  8761. Truss is worse her tax plans will bankrupt the country
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  8762. Tear gas dictionary meaning - gas that causes sever irritation to the eyes. Pepper spray - capsaicin a chemical derived from the capsicum genus using ethanol which is then paired with an emulsifier such as propylene glycol then processed to act like a grenade and dispersed like smoke. Sounds like a lot of chemicals to me and it's not well regulated on how strong the stuff is. Anyone ordering this stuff deployed or deploying it needs to have gone in a room without protective clothing and had one of these set off so they know exactly what there doing and while we're at it fire some rubber bullets at them.
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  8763. No they don't the Tories gutted the environment agency there's litter to no enforcement
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  8764. what utter tory drivel, the election is over stop with project fear save your breath
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  8765.  @S-North  that's because the bulk of older male voters are susceptible to populist propaganda and believe the lies about migration from populist nut jobs So Right wing populist position Global Britain = unfettered migration Stop The Boats = limiting migration Basically you can't have low tax low regulation economy without access to a Supply side cheap labour pool which is now coming from India the Boats thing is purley a dog and pony show for the masses
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  8766. 5.6 million businesses were incorporated last year an all time record, infrastructure projects are going on everywhere and corporate profits are at record highs. Plus Record levels of employment Given the data your not going to get ultra low inflation like post 2008, the economy is too reslient and 2% is arbitrary anyway theres no economic science behind it rates should come down to match
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  8767. 46 Presidents before her haven't bore any children either
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  8768. Well that would improve our GDP by 5% and give us another 46 billion in tax bye bye black hole
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  8769. Bet Tice and Farage forgot to tell you that Legal migration is down to right wing economic policy and they have zero chance of lowering it?
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  8770. The EU zone is bigger now than before we left so its already increased by 2 trillion we on the other hand have a completely stagnant economy
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  8771. Truss has the backing of billionaire + fossil pharma lobby think tanks Tax cuts dont generate growth the return on £1 off tax is 20p so your pissing 80p up the wall 2 farmers plough thier fields with horses give 1 a tractor you improve thier productivity give them both a tax cut they have an extra pint at the pub
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  8772. The opposition has plenty of vision but we live in a media scape that is nearly completely right wing unless you go to the independents If you want to avail yourself on what Labour will do in government go read this article in the Guardian what rally annoys me is people bad mouthing Labour and having zero curiosity to find anything out if its not served on a plate by the MSM Quote A Keir Starmer government might be more radical than you think Michael Jacobs Don’t be fooled by Starmer’s conservative persona – his policies on the economy, devolution, workers’ rights and the environment now pack a punch Michael Jacobs is professor of political economy at the University of Sheffield
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  8773. Tories shouldn't have given a 20 billion unfunded tax cut with NI to the middle class to try bribe there way back into power then?
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  8774. Step out of the right wing safe space and read and digest real news and facts from multiple reputable sources. Your Parroting right wing conspiracy garbage who's lies can be thrown out with 10 minutes of research.
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  8775. No it doesn't that was ages ago
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  8776. So which law and policy passed through parliment fully debated and voted through both Chambers allows this toxic policy? It's done under a memorandum and is designed to do nothing more than get Partygate off the front pages it will never fly but will be used to drive hate and division and also to undermine bodies such as ECHR which everyone in this country can appeal to as a last resort
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  8777. Boris and the ERG Cons doesn't understand how the EU works or what they've put into motion. We don't have any cards in our hand when you leave the a trading body you loose all the benefits of that trading body, the lies spread about the benefits of Brexit run to volumes. After 4 years on Con lies and misinformation the rubber hits the road
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  8778. @jenniferjuniper12  don't be stupid and say stupid things whataboutism on steroids
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  8779. Right direction if you want to spread it as fast as possible, there blocking testing expansion nuf said
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  8780.  @none-d3c  The US is being undermined by Conservative Christian Fascism
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  8781. why do you think that? for the 1st time in 50 years were going to get a centre left government and they won't be at the beck and call of Tufton street dark money
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  8782. Pontificating about people's personal lives she may as well hang her boots up now her candidacy is over
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  8783. You learn to think critically at University and also become socially Liberal because your mixing in an educated multicultural forum. Your hardly going to be raging xenophobic if your girlfriend is from Asia and your Squash partner is Afro Caribbean and at an intellectual level your all the Same so a lot of the sexism dissappear as well Sunak claiming the sky will fall in if you elect Labour doesn't hold much sway either there are multiple sources to check against
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  8784. The continuity candidate just without the scandals You forgot the incompetence and the fixation on this weeks headlines
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  8785. There's only so many angry white men over 50 the lap up his BS
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  8786. The last time labour did this pay rose and businesses became more efficient and less reliant on cheap labour
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  8787. HMRC which is run by the Tories have cleared her your getting a bit desperate aren't you a sale from 2008 going through all her old social media posts to try make a non story have some legs?
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  8788. Maybe he's just sticking to an agreement signed by the tosser in Chief Boris You know the oven ready one that put a border down the Irish sea
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  8789. ​ @nigeltrigger4499 probably all the fake tax ones in project dystopia labour nightmare
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  8790. Delusional completely delusional
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  8791. Moscow Mitch will politically knife Trump if he can, my guess is he knows a lot of what's going on in the background and is manning the sharpening stone just in case.
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  8792. Stop talking Britain down its all the same with you leftie woke lawyer's always insisting on facts who needs facts what don't you get about you say the new fact and it's now the new truth If that doesn't work you spray the entire area with BS and whataboutism blame Labour and the EU Cmon get with the program
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  8793. Run during Tuckers program how ironic, 60 seconds of gut punches finished by an uppercut while sleepy Don's thumbs go into overdrive Given the parody on Regan it hits a certain age key age group especially hard
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  8794.  @TheCeiteach  I've an Ebike and when I was poor I didn't have a car. What we need is well funded public. I'd also add a different model for car usage especially in cities everyone having a personal car all the time is wasteful. If you think the Tories give a toss about poor people your mistaken all they think there good for is screwing as much money as they can out of them.
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  8795. ​ @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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  8796. he doesn't have a clue If you cut funding for training say doctors and nurses then suppress pay so your domestically trained ones are emigrating then what do you think will happen, the current situation is caused by 14 years of Austerity + brex1t
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  8797. @davidmt23  I'm sure they did, 6 years of Austerity, wages that were on average -3% than they were in 2010, Cameron and Osborne turbo charging the gig economy with zero hour low wage Eastern European workers and the companies they worked for offshoring profits. But these are all problems created by the Tories not the EU, and we could control the economic drivers of migration we chose not too and the likes of Farage took advantage of that
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  8798. 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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  8799. With that kind of immunity the Trump could just order all Democrats in congress rounded up and sent to git-mo, surely even a bent as a nine bob note Supreme court wouldnt buy it?
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  8800. He's as thick as mince your obviously unaware of his lack of knowledge on anything
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  8801. I work in IT the pandemic didn't have a negative effect on us we worked remote and due to the pandemic business boomed due to Cloud installations decentralised networks and a push to remote working as well as serious software infrastructure upgrades, stuff that companies were thinking about over the next ten years has been accelerated beyond belief. The economy as David said has a K shaped recovery but it's more fundamental than that it appears to have fractured completely into two different economies one that has taken on the challenge and run with the technology fueling the Nasdaq especially but you see echoes of fundamental change everywhere just look at the increase in cashless payments. That other economy needs investment change and at speed
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  8802. more like the fossil lobby
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  8803. The reason there failing is Thatcher economic policies its got nothing to do with them being left in fact they have gone further right
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  8804. 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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  8805. Starmer is seen as mostly harmless but in charge of his party Sunak is seen as mostly useless not in charge of his party Do you feel better off than 13 years ago? no way the greedy feckers have broken everything Labour hasn't sealed the deal ? anyone voting Tory has to be mental at this point my families Tax is £1800 higher and there spaffing millions on Rwanda and Billions on millionaire pensioner tax cuts
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  8806. The story is BS they want you to vote TORY for more trickle down millionaire pensioner tax breaks. Its a rounding up the sheep story😅
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  8807. You can clear the debt quite easily, close all the tax loopholes remove masses of tax exemptions including churches and employ tax inspectors to get everyone to pay thier taxes
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  8808. 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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  8809. Trump is never right the guy is a moron
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  8810. The plan is to use Green Hydrogen produced by off peak wind power you need a whole of government approach with a joined up industrial strategy to make it happen. ARC + WindFarm + Electrolysis + storage
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  8811. Trump had the worst economic stats since Hoover Debt +50% 8 trillion -3.6% gdp Balance of trade deficit +40% -6 million jobs Since Biden took office + 8 million jobs 400,000 reshored in 2022 debt to gdp down by 11% from Trumps 132% to 121% major investment in infrastructure and renewable energy. What's Trump going to run on?
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  8812. DT had Poodle Pence?
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  8813. Significant tax cut for who? You've frozen thresholds till 2028 which has currently up to now cost me personally £600 in additional tax You then spent part of it on giving millionaire pensioners £40,000 for no other reason than they have million pound pension pots meanwhile as a pensioner with a modest work pension + state pension YOU'VE DONE ZERO ABOUT RISING ENERGY PRICES Sorry I forgot You spent part of that tax rise on giving Fossil fuel companies a 6 billion tax break my Bad
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  8814. No one believes the Tories on tax after raising them to the highest in post war history and adding £13,000 to every household and Sunak was a partner at hedge fund TCI when it launched a campaign against Dutch bank ABN Amro forcing its sale to Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) triggering a chain of events leading to the 2008 crash. His role in TCI between 2006-2009 made him a millionaire in his mid-twenties. Also The pensions and NI cuts will be paid for by upping retirement to 68
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  8815. It was also on the leaflet i got from the Tory candidate with a list of other possible tax rises Along with Dont give Starmer a blank check Id also add over 50 % of the public are aware the Cons were fiddling the books ​@stevec6427
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  8816. There all Boomers
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  8817. nothing to do with labour the move to online has been the dearth of the high street for years and our economic slowdown is mostly brexit and energy related
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  8818. @Holcroft1969 Reform = fantasy Trussanomics Show pony migration policy youth indoctrination with Her Farage's British Values and removing your Human rights Oh and turning the North into an unlivable industrial zone with fracking
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  8819.  @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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  8820. Mortgages for benefits claimants has sub prime lending written all over it
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  8821. 90% of ehicles are already compliant of which the bulk of those that are not are Diesel
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  8822. The guy is either stupid or just shilling for big oil you don't need plastics for a whole range of applications and you can replace single use plastics with bio plastics Also micro plastics are entering the food chain at an alarming rate quote What foods have microplastics in them? Studies have found microplastics in beer, wines with polyethylene stoppers, rice, table salts, and honey. Microplastics can even be found in fruits and vegetables—like apples, broccoli, and carrots—with plants able to absorb nanoplastics through their root systems.
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  8823. And what? Vote for a crazy man that says you can have an abortion after a child has been born? Or doesn't know what a tariff is?
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  8824. and the mindless who followed him last time who he promptly shat on
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  8825.  @CarlEveriss  We've had the hard brexit Garage lobbied for what's the excuse now? He's the one that did the deal with Boris quote Nigel Farage has signalled that he will accept the EU trade deal struck by Boris Johnson, declaring “the Brexit wars are over”. RefUK we screwed you over in 2016 and 2019 now bend over and get rogered again
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  8826. Renewable will save you money on your energy bill. There also going to push retrofit insulation which agawill save you money
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  8827. They went hard right chasing reform votes and just stirring up a hornets nest Brexit is a complete failure there is no benifit to leaving only negative
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  8828.  @johnh1872  all of what you've just said is mostly rubbish. I've a net worth including all assets of around 2 Mill I pay very little tax don't have an accountant and what I do pay is at 20%. Sunak paid 20% on the bulk of his income via CGT all legal. Middle class and lower class are subsidising this and have been on an increasing scale since 2010. What's worse is there now making you poorer on an industrial scale last year the top 100 ceo got 22.5% pay rise the energy sector will make 170 billion in excess profits. The tax system is rigged for the rich to get rich
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  8829.  @entropy5431  Its 38% & that includes the NHS /Schools and Pensions You also have infrastructure transport police army. The right wings version of tax cuts is tax cuts for the rich They will never cut taxes for the low /middle paid it always has a disproportionately bad affect at the bottom
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  8830.  @entropy5431  the Tories have been busy Shrinking the economy everything is relative? Too high for what Exactly brexit has cost a small fortune as well as the pandemic? If you run down service levels things don't work they then inflict economic damage which further suppresses productivity
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  8831.  @robbeales5516  You pay more in Tax under a regressive system with front loading on purchase taxes such as VAT at 20% property taxes than you would do with Progressive taxation which is income /asset based
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  8832. There's something like 1.3 million vacancies we've had full employment for a while
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  8833. My area voted for the cons and nearly always does although the vote has been heavily eroded. If yo take those over 60 out of the population your looking at 25% of the working voters are Con backers, we also have a lot of light industry and tech companies if you work in the tech sector you've seen your company shift vast numbers of jobs over to Europe leaving a UK only workforce and if your in light industry your aghast at the car crash policies of hard Brexit which are going to lead to business closures and many people loosing their jobs. Looming unemployment and a lack of a future tends to make people hot under the collar
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  8834.  @stoptheworldiwannagetoff4780  No one is dismissing their views but there isn't the swell of Brexit supporters that you appear to believe exists. Brexit has cost jobs already and a hard brexit will crash small medium businesses who can't shift out of the country and can't afford to compete in a free trade zone with tariffs and who have an integrated supply chain joined at the hip with the EU. The Cons have had 4 years to sort out a deal and yet here we are with Bojo pedalling the lie a no deal is good and Gove building car parks all over Kent
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  8835.  @stoptheworldiwannagetoff4780  I worked for an IT company (Till Jan when I took voluntary redundancy and early retired rather than relocate to Holland) that was UK based with European offices they have shifted all but the UK support work to Poland and Holland over the last 3 years and are now operating the main office from Holland. The company my wife works for is small manufacturing they import parts from Poland and Germany with 50% of the finished products sold to pan European companies there expecting at least a 50% contraction in business. One of their main issues is cross certification with a no deal British Standards are no longer valid under reciprocal agreements and obviously the paper work and tariffs will cripple them as well. These types of companies would have been growth companies over the next few decades instead they will contract relocate and in some case go out of business. These are just facts why people like you seem to want to respin facts as narrative and opinion is beyond me.
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  8836.  @stoptheworldiwannagetoff4780  the Cons got 40% of the vote on your logic 60% of the people wore against Brexit of that 40% maybe 10% want the complete shitshow of a no deal.
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  8837.  @stoptheworldiwannagetoff4780  The last analysis by the Govt. during May's tenure showed a net loss of GDP by 7-10% of a hard Brexit with covid that figure is conservative due to the weakened position of most UK companies. That GDP loss will be felt by small/medium businesses and farmers leading to large job losses no one is expecting the city to carry the burden. Were facing at least a 15% loss to GDP ongoing till the pandemic is resolved. These aren't opinions what I have written is based on economic data and personal experience.
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  8838.  @susancurtis1651  There's actually an uptick in IT jobs, I worked in networking and security and could walk into 1 tomorow except I'd have to relocate to the City, there is increadable pressure at the bottom pushing down salaries though. In terms of NWO there simply not compitent enough as has been seen on a regular basis like who appoints Chris Grayling he is terminaly useless Boris is a complete slacker, he spouts some ideological garbage and hasn't a clue how to make it happen. The ERG members such as Ian Duncan Smith are carping on about the Brexit deal they signed bleating unfair, they voted for something they didn't read and just acepected Boris's BS there a complete bunch of clowns they don't have a clue its like Yes Minister on steroids. The only One who has anything about him of the current crop is Rhishi Sunak, the rest may as well not be there
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  8839. ​ @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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  8840. Of course she is denying it and the why is straight from the Top they don't want to spend any money that may reduce their ability to try a tax cutting bribe athon to get reelected
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  8841. Joe didn't sort the border quick enough and let it sit there brewing The cost of groceries and food staples has nearly doubled with rent going up 50% Harris got all the blame for inflation Gaza - whatever the Democrats did would p1ss people off, young voters were animated about it and the Muslim vote deserted them So here we are Make America Garbage Again
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  8842. Around 2 years 2016/17 are the fumes of the last administrations policies which he depressed with his tariff trade war, 2018/19 was fuelled by the debt bomb of the corporate tax cuts. Its estimated the fortune 500 did 3.5 trillion in share buybacks artificially boosting stock prices. The GOP are sh1t at economics no one noticed the poorest states are red?
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  8843. Not heard from Lev and Igor recently?
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  8844. ​ @davidhodgson3901 Corbyn is 80 parliment isn't a retirement home for washed up London elite champagne socialists
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  8845. A complete stream of bullsh1t from JD from the off Fact check him and everything he said falls apart
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  8846. @severinlourenco8355  your welcome to your alternative reality You do know people can check both sides claims off the Internet in 30 seconds And I'd put myself down as a moderate who expects higher standards in public office than those shown by Vance, the 2020 election was not stolen DJT'S data integrity guy Cribbs said it was the most secure election ever and Barr said so too Yet we have a senile old man barking at the moon and a slick slimeball who will say anything to prop him up
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  8847. Catch Covid and die to own the Libs? Just as an aside letting a pandemic rip in a state will tank the its economy, vaccinated states will be richer by a huge margin while unvaccinated economies will struggle for decades to recover. Plenty of data to back this up online from studies done on the black death and the 1918 flu pandemic
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  8848. We have a huge tactical vote and sniping from the left over everything including lying about Labour's Gaza stance Corbyn would never be PM under FPTP or PR, he was a protest vote in 2017 and lost by 62 seats
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  8849. Reform pedal the same Thatcherite trickle down nonsense the Tories are enacting so why bother switching from 1 bunch of useless elites to another
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  8850. 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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  8851. why they get the old fart vote already current polling shows only 8% of the under 50's supporting the Con's
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  8852. Yet but whoever is is delivering an economic boom
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  8853. I've just fitted a battery and solar system it will save me 1200 a year one of the main reasons is opening up cheap overnight tariff with my supplier and a lower day tariff Currently battery prices have fallen by 20% and they have been zero vat rated also business could reclaim 100% tax relief against capital costs
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  8854. He broke the Bank on lying and Debauchery signed the worst Trade deal in History and had mates with Kremlin connections apart from that which part of the Boris legacy did you like?
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  8855. So who then a National Populist party with empty short term popular solutions to problems that will make the problems worse given that they have been decades in the making? Our borrowing is currently at near 100% of GDP the IMF have recommended a wealth ta for countries to re-balance their books post covid, is anyone talking about it NO what we have is hikes in personal taxation and a tax cut for bankers
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  8856. They got a tax cut the NI taper increased taking many out of paying NI altogether
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  8857. yea there is there so wet and spineless though @ChrisPage68 
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  8858. @boota1979  it appears not quote The investigation comes after bombshell allegations by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accusing former Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield of directly colluding with OPEC and its affiliated OPEC+ to reduce oil output and deliberately drive up prices at the gas pump. Sunaks anti net zero turnaround comes straight from Policy Exchange who have a climate denial agenda, quote  · US groups raise millions to support rightwing UK thinktanks
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  8859. Trump has been propped up by the right wing media, the billionaire class that want their tax cuts and the Oil Barons that want netzero ditched He stands for 1 person only himself
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  8860. No they won't the reason we have this problem is because the legal routes for asylum have been shut off or made ludicrously difficult and stupidly lengthy eating up millions in a pretend show that were doing something. Process them quickly efficiently and deport the economic migrants instead of this sick inhumane theatre?
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  8861. They aren't a managed economy anymore there a petrol state run by a defacto mob boss, rule is by violence and corruption They don't have the logistics or manufacturing base to support the troops They have there now and the more men they pull out of the economy the worse it will get
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  8862. 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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  8863. Yea right his lettuce liz economics are just what we don't need
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  8864.  Doctah Wahwee  So here's the true picture if Bodger had locked down a week earlier like he was told to by the Sage comittee we would have been out of the 1st lockdown 2 weeks earlier if Bodger had put in a sharp break lockdown instead of the drip feed we had for months there would have been less restrictions over a continous period If Bodger hadn't canned the test system prenouncing that we were going full herd the U turning and throwing money to the private sector we would be 20-30 Billion better off. He couldn't have fkd it up any worse than he did bar just letting it rip
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  8865. ​​@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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  8866. Better than the Cons at least we had working services and wage rises under 13 years of the Cons the average household is £1000 worse off
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  8867. @donnaspeer2760  13 years were £1000 on average worse off the reason being Thatcherism doesn't work so how can it get worse. Austerity and Brexit are just adding petrol to the Tory economic skip fire
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  8868. If the world switches to renewables it will save trillions of dollars as well as reduce polution across the globe. There are numerous studies out there as wind and solar have been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 We spend huge sums subsidising fossil extraction and even more on environmental clean up Also 40% of shipping is dedicated to moving fossil fuel around The fossil lobby are terrified there huge global profits will go
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  8869. He's laying the propaganda war maybe some soldiers will see this maybe not Putin will though and remember 2/3 rds of the 200k troops are support staff, drivers mechanics cooks etc. not infantry and of the infantry that they do have only a small % are battle hardened. They've also been told their liberating their countrymen and have gotten a bit of a shock
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  8870. He's been coseted all his life Michelle hit it on the head and out of the park with her speech
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  8871. It leans centre right your Overton window is way off
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  8872. It's going to be a landslide the economic data will get worse rates have to rise further and Sunak has screwed up over energy The best thing that could happen is the Tories are wiped out completely however bad you think Starmer is the Conns are 1000 times worse
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  8873. They threw out the Sky reporter should have been the headline
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  8874. ​ @DDDoo-p7r and labour will what? Improve schools so pupils aren't in portacabins what's wrong with that?
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  8875. Close, not sure why though given the Democrats record on the economy and home they5turned round the dumpster fire Trump left
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  8876. allowance for a couple is 3 million with all tax breaks it just stops rich people like Dyson buying farms to avoid IHT
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  8877. Their debt to GDP has gone down from 132% in 2020 to 121% now borrowing levels are irrelevant, everything is connected to the size of your economy and the ability to pay Ours has gone up from 97% to 100% in the same period
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  8878. GBN a propaganda channel carrying water for billionaire friendly economic policy, its owner has connetions to the Legatum institute which has ties to US Libertarian climate denying think tanks
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  8879.  @karlhinze  statute of limitations on this is 4 years, HMRC can only go back 20 if its a deliberate pattern of behaviour, even then you don't have to live somewhere for it to be your primary residence for CGT purposes and Ange would have been on PAYE so there's no paper trail
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  8880. @karlhinze  The normal time limit for making assessments is four years following the end of the tax year. This is termed a 'discovery' assessment. The time limit for making an assessment on a person in a case involving a loss of income tax brought about 'carelessly' by that person is six years following the end of the tax year. The 20 year limit is for exceptional cases of knowingly repeated tax fraud
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  8881.  @eljay5746  The information we have is that for tax purposes the property was designated her primary residence so CGT doesn't apply (you don't have to live there). Being on PAYE there is no declaration or paper trail.
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  8882.  @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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  8883. since when? there policies are batsh1t not a single one is achievable and they know it as well
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  8884.  @benmarr352  100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts Fracking (60% oppose only 17% for wonder where they live?) Migration has tripled because we left the EU and removed FOM, Reform offer more show pony policies akin to the Tories without addressing the economic pull factors of a chronic lack of inward investment in social and physical Infrastructure and wage suppression over 14 years. etc.
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  8885. Im sure there well aware that Reforms 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts with zero migration isnt more cake and eat it fantasy policy ​ @michaelcoward1902 
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  8886.  @greyvoice7949  yes we've left, the only group that will get anything from deregulation is the City, the idea that deregulation will help manufacturing farmers fishermen SME'S is false all it will do is crater exports even further as more and more paperwork is needed to prove goods are up to standard. Meanwhile pollution will increase wages will be driven down by lack of regulatory checks to the point our current EU trade agreement will be suspended on level playing field grounds. Welcome to sweatshop Britain the Tory deregulated hell
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  8887.  @audreyblack8629  why won't you take any responsibility for what you caused? You voted for a thing that trashed our economy and quadrupled migration and now all you do is complain. Why aren't you happy this is what you wanted?
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  8888.  @kgriffiths2961  This is what you voted for in brexit a completely trashed economy and quadrupling migration why aren't you happy, you won get over it.
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  8889. @angelafirst38  350 million is peanuts to the 2-300 billion we've lost
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  8890. @oliverearnshaw6189  if you reduce the tax take by 60 billion with brex1t a year then yes it did
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  8891. @thomasjohnrobinson4658  if you don't pay public sector workers the going rate then you have a huge PULL factor for migration Also Your more qualified public sector workers emigrate for better pay and conditions amplifying the problem Usual dumb tory logic save £1 that then cost £1,000 to put right
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  8892. 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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  8893. The issue is inefficiency all over the system its not even fully computerised, you need to map out the processes to improve productivity by investing in the support infrastructure If you have a machine that reduces time and aleviate staff shortages BUY IT
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  8894. More like bots going vote reform, at least 50% I can't be arsed tracing them more than likely russian bot farms. There forever flooding right wing stuff trying to sow division in the west
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  8895. AR15 aren't sniper rifles it's an old model we don't even know if it had a scope on it or stand. Gun nuts are talking 90 yards with a 3 inch accuracy the shots were 140 and if it went anywhere near his ear he'd have symptoms similar to conccusion from the high speed displacement of air so close to his head
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  8896. Brown borrowed 250 billion during the whole of their tenure including the banking bail out have a guess at how much the Tories have borrowed since 2010? It's drum roll 1.6 TRILLION
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  8897. Don-Old Trump the creepiest pensioner in the west
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  8898. Reform are a worse version of the Conservatives, the more the Tories shifted to chase Reform voters the worse the economy got. Nige is preaching pretty much Trussanomics
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  8899.  @golfbulldog  Truss is the Johnson continuity candidate all the lies and boosterism but non of the scandals Sunak is the hard right Thatcherite Badnoch talks complete bollox to fringe minority of the country of culture war issues which infect the Westminster bubble and the rest of the country don't give a Toss about
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  8900. by tackling the root cause of our economic decline under the Tories? we've been going backward for 14 years
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  8901. Why would people switch to reform its the same tired Supply side Economics that's repeatedly failed for decades, to see how out of touch they are they back fracking. Might have been financially viable 10 years ago but there out on the range with that one its expensive dirty of f*** all use to the economy and no one wants a well any where near them.
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  8902. No one trusts Putin so till there is no Putin there is no peace He's kind of crossed a red line here the west aren't going to negotiate with a psychotic blackmailer with a fetishism for a wider Russian empire we may as well take our licks now and have done with it
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  8903. They don't have that high a tax level what they do have is progressive taxation the more you have / earn the more you contribute
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  8904. Blame Osbourne and Cameron they took over with 62% debt to GDP and by 2019 it was near 90% because of their tax cuts for the rich sorry I meant tax cuts to stimulate no growth.
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  8905. Brexit is an economic train wreck and is responsible for larger net migration due to increased dependants and refugees due to leaving joint agreements
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  8906. ​ @sheilatitchener-s6b labour dont need the muslim vote they've moved to the centre on most things bar economics. Only someone with Stockholm Syndrome would vote tory at the momment. If there that deranged then Reform is just as bad an option
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  8907. Not as useless as hu nt and sunak
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  8908.  @sammic7492  In better shape in what way? In 2023 the Tories gave the energy companies 72 billion in subsidies because they did nothing about the energy crisis or us being tied to gas. Not only did they do nothing but Sunak started cancelling renewable projects and dolled out another 10 billion in Fossil subsidies. I could go on the list of Tory complete fkups is endless way worse than a bit of employer NI in Reeve's soggy centrist budget.
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  8909.  @cnursery  family farms near me in Yorks cost around 2.5 Mill a couple can get 3 mill in allowances Stop parroting propaganda that helps the wealthy evade tax and increases land prices so real farmers can't even afford to buy a farm
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  8910.  @elizabethmair2948  family farms don't cost 3 million
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  8911. @KopperNeoman  why ignore the asset value? The deeper you look into this while the agri allowance is a bit on the low side for the South east you've had a huge bump in land prices because of millionaires buying up farmland. We have an area the size of greater London dedicated to grouse shooting, massive estates which are a block to new farmers
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  8912. Fracking polls 17% for 60% against 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts It's not difficult to rip their policies to shreds
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  8913. @Roger-mx1ff YouGov is an Outlier if you were going to do an average you'd remove the highest and lowest then average the others
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  8914. And why is that then? It will ruin their economic plans and spell certain annihilation of the party in the next election so put that in the bin with your other musings
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  8915. Why do rich have a right to become even richer at our expense adding no value to the economy The tax they save goes either offshore or into assets removing it from the economy Trickle down doesn't work this so called golden shower is little more than a dribble
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  8916. The lie about Starmer was started and promoted by far right white nationalist groups on Telegram and Gab 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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  8917. What's creating the demand for legal migration is the free market low tax low reg globalist policies championed by the likes of the Cons and Reform same turd different wrapper
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  8918. So the answer to the complete failure of NeoLiberal economics AKA Thatcherism is more Thatcherism because the Tories aren't doing it right? fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
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  8919. If Trump gets a second term he'll probably get to pick 2 supreme Court judges plus the damage and capture of the lower courts will see a roll back of moderate policies never mind getting anything progressive done for at least the next half century.
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  8920. GM definitely have a load of debt that subsidies would help with A lot of it is politics though the Chamber of Commerce have been lobbying against Democrats plans for moving to EVs in General a bit of pork gets Ford and GM pressuring other companies to cut out the negative shot there pumping onto the media airwaves
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  8921. ​ @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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  8922. Tax cuts don't encourage growth and most of the spending increases are self inflicted with Brexit Quick economics primer Supply-side economics assumes that lower tax rates boost economic growth by giving people incentives to work, save, and invest more. A critical tenet of this theory is that giving tax cuts to high-income people produces greater economic benefits than giving tax cuts to lower-income folks. Essentially, the more money the rich are able to keep, the more the whole economy will grow. But the evidence reveals two fundamental problems with this story. First, its primary prediction is wrong—giving tax cuts to the rich does not increase economic output or create new jobs. Instead, tax cuts for middle- and low-income taxpayers are much more effective at boosting macroeconomic activity. Second, supply-side theory misunderstands the actual mechanism by which tax rates influence macroeconomic activity. While supply-siders maintain that lower rates at the top incentivize people to earn more money, the evidence shows that tax cuts boost output mostly by putting money in people’s pockets and thereby stimulating demand. Opponents of supply-side economics argue that rather than increasing revenue for the government, lowering taxes will instead increase the deficit. As a result, the government will have to cut programs or raise other taxes to make up for this shortfall. Which is whats been happening for the past 12 years as they fail to tax high earners
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  8923. his popularity stank he handed the Tories the 2019 election on a plate he was never going to be PM
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  8924.  @catherinesmalley8587  propaganda is easy when you have so much material In 2016 the country needed leadership what we ended up with was a left wing populist and a right wing populist interspersed with May bot all 3 had the leadership qualities of a multi pile up car crash
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  8925. I'm happy
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  8926. For God's sake they were all right wing Boomers with decent jobs, bunch of self efacing assholes
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  8927. I would guess that was one the stole / captured earlier just sending the rockets back to the Russians
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  8928. Answer the f** question you idiot
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  8929. The ECHR is the last resort against government overreach why would you give it up?
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  8930. He's awful how much do you know about him his political leanings connections with the Radical hard right US Evangelical movement his ties to the Heritage Foundation a think Tank that is far right and sponsored by big Fossil interests?
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  8931. Harris has a 3 point lead in the latest polls They haven't moved since DJT got spanked in the debate It's now down to turnout with one exception DJT keeps p1ssing women off every time he opens his mouth
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  8932. 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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  8933. You sound like someone with Stockholm syndrome this is the first Parliament in history where people's living standards will be lower at it's end than at it's start
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  8934.  @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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  8935. 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.25 Jul 2023 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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  8936. You can't argue with the Numbers, renewable energy price wise was on par with gas back in 2019 since the crisis its been by far the cheapest energy source on the grid. the 140 billion in excess profits V 48 billion per year in Renewable infrastructure rollout. at the end of 10 years your not tied to gas or oil world commodity prices and your back to pre crisis price levels @Jack-fs2im 
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  8937. The cost of net zero is around 48 billion a year the cost of not going net zero is 140 billion a year. You achieve net zero by a whole host of technologies one is distributed manufacture and storage of energy. ex home solar + an EV using smart technology to use the EV battery for localised grid stability while charging it off peak. Another vital cog is insulation I've just done an extension and refurb to A+ standard heating went off in April still hasn't been needed bar a couple of nights in the TV room this month. that's only coz my mrs I'd quite happily sit in a room at 19 rather than 21  @tecnomagos.l.2684 
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  8938. Both were Trump voters the latest crazy said his dream GP ticket was Haley Vivek Mad as a box of frogs
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  8939. you freeze the turd in nitrogen saw it on mythbusters ;) @milsub59 
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  8940. The law used to sort out the riots was brought in by the Tories
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  8941. Spoken like a true cultist and conspiracy believer. You people need therapy
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  8942. Current estimate is a -6% hit to gdp and rising due to leaving the single market In context that's 60 billion in lost tax revenues
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  8943. No they won't and you know it
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  8944. It's a progressive curve as you get older and you add various Co morbidies. There's been a general improvement on survival rates with the more that's been learnt but Agent Orange is Obese 74 disgustingly unfit ( the lazy goat doesn't even walk playing golf) has high cholesterol (the stories about trying to get more veg in his diet) probably has hypertension has a bad diet and suspected heart problems. He's also been rumoured to have taken uppers in his Apprentice days. This is more like a 1 in 10-15 if it's gotten hold on the plus side they caught it early but if he's been on oxygen it's because it's got into his lungs and will take some shifting, my guess is he'll be debilitated for weeks if not a couple of months, if he try to be macho about it and not listen to the doctors advice it won't end well
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  8945. Walz nailed it on Fox and Kamala is getting stronger and more assured by the day Brett Bear may ask probing questions but it will be pretty much like 60 minutes he will be respectful and fact check her if necessary which it won't be. She will have a platform to explain to Fox viewers what a disaster Trump's tariff policy will be and how every economist thinks DJT's proposals are a dumpster fire for anyone but the top 5%
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  8946. ​ @clivet3252 there always better than Conservative ones Trickle down Thatcherism is an utter failure Energy bills through the roof Nurses coming from Nigeria Raw sewage in rivers Billions spent on housing support due to council house sell offs
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  8947. Below average middle manager failed upwards
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  8948. The membership voted for Truss enough said they should be banned from voting ever after that. and The Cons are more right wing than they've ever been since the war, Bojo expelled the last of the moderates who didn't believe in Brexit Jesus the party is full of right wing nutters @overcorpse 
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  8949. Why is the Labour Party the Lib-Dem Party and the Greens unelectable? We've had 12 years of economic stagnation culminating in the current bunch who are even worse than Cameron and May For the record Average wage growth under Blaire / Brown +25% Average wage growth under Cameron / May -3% Under Johnson its projected to be -3/4% with 8% inflation on what planet is the alternative worse?
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  8950.  @stephenhill545  it's a shame that he'll be judged on that rather than being an ex hedge fund manager who's primary qualification is an economics degree and no soul They are Asset stripping debt loading vampires who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing You can see it in the latest public sector pay proposals and the push to Austerity 2.0 (a Purley political choice)
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  8951. ​ @blacklisted4885 you gave up loads of sovereignty in the trade deals the current brain farts in charge made and we still have to follow EU rules to trade with them. Now where out the EU well get picked off by everyone the trade deal the EU did with Australia is a 1000 times better than ours so is there deal with Japan well be implanting laws to comply with cptpp The level of brexit stupidity knows no limits
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  8952.  @blacklisted4885  since when Quote The cost of food in the UK had rocketed by 25% since 2019, the researchers calculated, but if the post-Brexit trade restrictions were not in place then this increase would be only 17% – nearly a third lower.24 May 2023 Brexit has led to a decline in crops and fewer home-grown products on the shelves of Britain's supermarkets, farming chiefs have warned More than 200,000 pigs await slaughter. And all in a country which imports 60% of its pork. And as so often when analysing Britain's most struggling industries in 2022, the reason is Brexit. The pigs are being killed and their meat wasted because there is a lack of butchers to process them. Brexit has added to the UK’s mounting food supply crisis which has seen a “crippling” shortage of some goods in the supermarket, the nation’s farming union has said. The National Farmers Union (NFU) said current egg shortages “could just be the start” and warned that consumers could soon see a scarcity of tomatoes, cucumbers, pears and other fresh produce
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  8953. Firstly we lost around 1 million workers when we left, both EU and UK citizens that jumped ship. The lack of Butchers and Abattoir workers has lead to 10's of thousands of pigs being culled and burned. Lack of seasonal farm workers to pick fruit etc. And Government not treating Food as a National strategic resource which is actively encouraging farmers to stop producing crops @Lindy405 
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  8954. I presume there going to back off the culture war stuff this is to stop the bleeding in the blue wall Personally think it won't work Brexiteers hate him and those that voted remain and have watched the economic chaos that followed blame him for not just Johnson Truss etc but for Austerity as well
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  8955. we turned right 10 years ago uncontrolled migration is the fault of listening to gobsh1tes like Farage and electing a populist in Johnson
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  8956. They were a rave, rave's don't count or maybe you get special dispensation for Karaoke
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  8957. certainly
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  8958. Last time inflation was near 6% oil was over 100$ a barrel time before when it went to 12.5% oil was over a 100$ a barrel Investment in oil extraction is down because the costs involved don't support a low oil price in 2020 due to the pandemic it fell to just below 40$ and a load of smaller firms went bankrupt the breakeven price for US oil is 50$ As long as your economy is tied to oil like then it is what it is
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  8959.  @TWN321  Tesla are priced as they are not on EV sales or the EV market capacity that's the window dressing you see but have a large presence in solar and grid technology. What makes Tesla unique in its sector is an EV is a motor a battery and the rest is software they also develop all thier solutions from the ground up, if you look at other car manufacturers the big players don't have control of thier own software as they've gone the outsourcing route.
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  8960. Ouch cooperating with federal investigations that sounds bad, no sounds really bad and bully boy is still mouthing off about Yavonvitch
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  8961. Anyone with even half an education can see the correlation of double / treble energy bills and fossil fuel reliance We cant afford net zero? For fks sake we cant afford fossil you entiled right wing out of touch ex hedge fund me me me idiot? We also can't afford anymore failed Trickle down Thatcherism or outsourcing or consultants or privatised sewage
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  8962. Oversight = hoax in Trumpspeak also Witch-hunt = legitimate enquiry into my / our corrupt illegal activities When you know the code all is clear
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  8963. Their a tiny fraction of Legal ones around 62,000 a year and there refugees until their claim gets rejected at which point there illegal and deported If you want to reduce legal migration you need to invest in UK workers which they have said they will do by debt forgiveness of University fees for NHS workers. This will over time reverse importing Nigerian and Indian Nurses and their partners
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  8964. more deregulation resulting in more mass migration, fracking and tying us to multinational fossil cartels no thanks
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  8965. No one want's fracking NHS privatisation and Libertarian economics (we tried that with Truss) and a fantasy show pony immigration scheme except the crazies who want someone to blame for brex1t being a sh1tsh0w of biblical proportions
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  8966. They advocate for trickle down low tax deregulated Liz Truss style economics so theirs zero chance of either keeping the economy afloat or bringing down immigration Tice is talking absolute bollox
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  8967. In what way would labour destroy the country? Thier main aim appears to be to cut out all the Tory waste and tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations and funnel it into improving services and infrastructure How does making things better for the average person destroy the country?
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  8968. This comment just shows the crass level of stupidity in the English Voter. Central government (The Tories) have cut local budgets by 40% and sold off most of the council housing stock asset stripping councils at the same time. Councils then have to make draconian cuts to services and IF your a Labour Council in an URBAN area you have High levels of poverty requiring BY LAW you have to provide various services one of them is HOUSING. Instead of using your housing stock and get rent you now have to use an ever increasing amount of your Budget to rent from the Private sector. THAT'S WHY THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE IN URBAN AREAS GREEDY TORIES SCREWING THE SYSTEM FOR ALL THEY CAN  @andyroberts8754 
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  8969. We don't need rich people there a burden not contributors. They get massive tax breaks and filter the money off shore which does NOTHING for the economy. They buy Mayfair apartments again which pushes money into assets where its sits doing NOTHING for the economy For money to be of use to the UK government it needs to go round in a Tax and Spend circle generating GDP in the process. If its not doing that it might as well not exist due to it being a sunk cost so kick them out as far as I'm concerned @andyroberts8754 
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  8970.  @andyroberts8754  you don't need rich people there an economic drain The money they get in tax cuts gets off shored or put into assets removing it from the everyday economy It's the everyday economy that creats gdp which in turn creates taxation the government could use to spend on services
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  8971.  @andyroberts8754  if you reduce council budgets by 40% asset strip Council housing you'll get Urban decay and councils living hand to mouth trying to house people and run services Urban councils need more money because they have more poverty and more need for social housing but they get the same The level of disconnect to blame a Tory problem on labour is staggering
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  8972. Your tax is going up because of fiscal drag your threshold is 12250 it should with inflation changed in April to 14350 Also your NI threshold is the same as your tax threshold. I'm personally £420 worse off and being a pensioner on a low income that's a lot
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  8973. So Osborne comes in and institutes failed trickle down policy after failed trickle down policy, shrinks the economy and with Cameron allows unchecked migration into the gig economy then blaming the EU and migration and its labours fault? What planet are you on? Migration has quadrupled since brexit and all because of failed con policies
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  8974. Brexit is the main reason migration has tripled we now recruit from 2,000 miles away instead of 20 that means more dependants and is the difference between net 200k and net 750k Voting for Nige is like voting for an arsonist who's offering to come round and throw another can of petrol on the fire he started
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  8975. @Beornræd There just not that organized and you can trace the right wing connections really easily through the Think Tank groups
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  8976. what's your point I heard him on the radio this morning and fully agree with him this has nothing to do with what other countries do this is the quote Keir Starmer was quick to stress that the party has no “settled policy” during a phone-in on LBC radio this morning, but set out the case for widening the franchise to both groups. Starmer noted that EU nationals are already permitted to take part in local elections. “If someone has been here say ten, 20, 30 years, contributing to this economy, part of our community, they ought to be able to vote”. Starmer said EU citizens he had spoken to on the doorstep made that point. “That feels wrong, and something ought to be done about it.” On votes at 16 and 17, Starmer argued it was not such an “outlandish idea” given that it is already permitted in Wales and Scotland.
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  8977. they have a 10% shortfall on staff if they weren't public sector workers they'd be paid more its called supply and demand something the Tories are supposed to believe in free markets and all My mum had to wait for an ambulance before xmas for 5 hours with no strike Tory fkin shambles
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  8978. Legal migration isn't a tap you can turn on and off it's a fundamental part of economic policy If you want more home grown Nurses and doctors expand the training and make it free don't cut it with Tory Austerity etc. Reform are pedalling the same magic unicorn BS as the Tories
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  8979. ​ @DANNY35870 reform won't invest in anything its more extreme free market bollox
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  8980. But just think of the property price crash crisis in London if all the Russian assets were frozen
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  8981. Latest news is there going full herd immunity, it's going to be bad
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  8982. we have an energy crisis which needs investment in and REFORM are promising to lower taxes for the wealthy how does that work? If you pump 28 billion into renewable energy it has an economic multiplier of a minimum 1.6 which means for every £1 you put in it creates enough GDP to return £1.6 in additional taxation. As a pensioner this will help me enormously because it will lower energy costs and I'm home most of the day far more than any tax cut. Getting energy costs down to 2020 levels would be the equivalent to me of my tax going from 20% to 10%
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  8983. Your wrong, if you increase Renewable energy you decrease GAS usage + moving to Renewable sources needs associated battery storage which replace Peak demand Gas Plants (One has just been commissioned in East Yorkshire to support Dogger Bank Wind Farm.) Battery storage is fully computerised an installation has just opened up in California quote The Astonishing Economics of the Tesla Megapack By adding about 300 MW of storage, ERCOT will generate approximately $1 billion in savings in 2025. This is from a one time purchase of Megapacks for $750 million. These savings will also happen each additional year after 2025 - they are recurring!  @1carusjohn32 
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  8984. If you move to a renewable grid its supported by battery storage moving away from Gas Peak Plants which set the wholesale price Installation of supporting Tesla MegaPacks use software to to manage Grid smoothing, have next to no moving parts and are unmanned saving billions if they were installed now. We have one just being commissioned to support Dogger Bank Quote from the US The Astonishing Economics of the Tesla Megapack By adding about 300 MW of storage, ERCOT will generate approximately $1 billion in savings in 2025. This is from a one time purchase of Megapacks for $750 million. These savings will also happen each additional year after 2025 - they are recurring!  @1carusjohn32 
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  8985. There from the ONS so even with government massaging their bad so no there not false. Also our currency has dropped by 5% against the Euro since we left s its actually a lot worse than the ONS figures @hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo 
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  8986. your picking 1 quarter out of 14 years of data and were barely treading water and claiming a win? Our economy since 2010 has been stagnant Germany's grew by 15% Our average wages since 2010 to 2023 have gone gown by -6.1% Germany's has risen by 14% @timg1246 
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  8987. ​@Crunchy_Black he'll put people in place who will because he is weak. The circle of freaks round him already is dangerous Also his brain is fried your looking at President Vance within a year and he wrote the forward to project 2025.
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  8988. What you thought he could lie as well as Trump? Maybe it's his willingness to break his oath of office? The 20 seconds at the end buried Vance why was Pence not their
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  8989.  @SquidFox9  He claimed Violent crime was up, it is down refused to contradict Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election most Americans support draconian abortion laws, they do not He claimed Harris is some quasi Russian border Czar, this is as cynical a lie as you can get. Housing is unafordable and there is a shortage because of migrants, this is blatantly not true, the housing shortage started back after the banking crash when there was an oversupply. Claimed bipartisan support for universal tariffs, this is a lie.
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  8990.  @SquidFox9  The worst thing he did and continues to do is gaslight and memory hole the effect of adding 4 trillion to debt in corporate tax cuts and it's impact when the country hits a severe economic event. Pretending that rapid monetary expansion doesn't add fuel to the inflationary fire and promising to make the same mistake all over again.
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  8991.  @SquidFox9  Maynard Keynes developed the economic multiplier theory. Very act of tax and spend has an economic multiplier. The Trump tax cut has a long term economic multiplier of 0.2 for every tax dollar given in a tax cut it generates 20c in additional economic activity in taxation loosing 80c. The investment in the space program to go to the Moon had an economic multiplier of 7 for every dollar invested it produced real growth leading to increased tax revenue long term of +7$ These are 2 extremes but something likea generic federal worker has a multiplier of 0.8 meaning you'd need to sack 5 to save 1 workers salary. We have 50 years of varying data on this.
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  8992.  @SquidFox9  The bulk of the Trump economy was the tail of the Obama legacy the big change the tax cuts gave the economy what we term as a sugar high, a short term boost before your insulin levels crash and you get a sugar low. The fortune 500 companies spent 3.5 trillion in that short period till Cov doing share buy backs artificially boosting the stock price, handing out dividends and boosting CEO pay. All the time the economic multiplier of 0.20 was adding 80 cents in the dollar to the debt.
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  8993.  @SquidFox9  The results where -3.6% GDP and +2 million unemployed over 4 Years the worst economic performance by a President since Hoover? also -200,000 manufacturing jobs. A tax cut agenda which expands the debt in unfunded tax cuts is a boom / bust agenda. The rapid expansion of the money supply onto debt without expanding GDP added between +2-3% inflation to the post Cov recovery. It's a 1 trick pony and does nothing for long term economic growth which is why his 4 year numbers were so bad.
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  8994. If you elect the Tories again the NHS will be privatised the BBC sold off and they will chip away at pensions and try privatise that so there not like the Tories in any shape or form
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  8995. They didn't he fell out the box when the left went all in on Bernie and wouldn't countenance any sort of compromise, Warren was floated and the left trashed her because she was willing to compromise then they floated Pete again all the talk about sell out. I think that you could have got Warren over the line. You needed to consolidate on a candidate who would have pulled in some of the moderates and some of the Black vote. For the moderate and centre of the party Bernie is just as much of a problem as Biden is to the left and the sad thing is most would have coalesced round a centre left agenda such as what Warren touted.
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  8996.  @ancietman  and you'll want it as well its called trade gravity, especially after another couple of years of high taxes and zero growth weakening currency and high inflation
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  8997. I'm a data analyst, the statistical data and modeling available in this day and age would spot organised fraud from a mile off. You can get county by county returns in a downloadable format with breakdowns of how they voted and what method they used, the FBI will have run a team doing this as would both campaigns. You just can't run a scheme at any level that wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb
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  8998. ​@jamessouth3808 no it won't why would you give that amount of power to a party that didn't represent the majority. The ECHR was set up after the war to combat the rise of fascism error like what's happening now
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  8999. 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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  9000. We have high energy prices because we don't have enough renewables on the grid and the grid hasn't been updated to cater for them. Forward contract price for dogger bank offshore is 42p per kilowatt hour Ofgem price dictated by fossil is 300p+ Wind energy became the cheapest source back in 2019 So why don't you go demand your MP lifts the moratorium on onshore wind instead of blaming the cheapest source of energy on the grid by x7
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  9001.  @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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  9002.  @psn_philldutra7574  just look up hyper inflation and stop the garbage
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  9003. You fkin dick Boris you've caused this you and your verbal wanking
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  9004. He can remove all Fedral funding from abortion and family planning with huge numbers on Obamacare its a defacto ban by the back door The Christian right also believes he could do it through executive power and the supreme Court would wave it through
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  9005. M9st economists were talking up to 18 billion based spending going up with inflation, this is virtually another 18 billion on top
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  9006.  @kevinsheahan5449  If you look at Asylum the estimated (By most economists) was around 5 billion - turns out they've committed 7.5 billion. This isn't without the Rwanda scheme. There's around 3 + billion being spent on Consultancy
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  9007. Corbyn was useless the guy couldn't run a bath let alone the country he'd have an intellectual argument with himself about weather to walk the dog clockwise or anticlockwise round the park He was a populist that gave you fantasy socialism and nostalgia no more use than a right wing populist both doomed to failure
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  9008. They have given them huge tax breaks over the years which have been ploughed into assets, it's got to a stage where they can spend 100's of millions and not even touch their wealth capital
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  9009.  @baronsilverbaron757  why not make a serious comment
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  9010. Wouldn't mattered who was in charge because Brexit is an economic train wreck and 50 years of asset stripping Thatcherism has run out of road. Trickle down Austerity Brexit non of them are viable long term economic policies
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  9011. 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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  9012. Another Murdoc outlet pushing propaganda and an altered reality, how can spouting BS exude hope how can lying constantly exude anything but cynicism. His latest brain dead idea is were all going to die anyway so lest all catch Corona for the good of the stock market, the guy is psychotic and a complete moron.
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  9013. Its self interest for the company as its built on the intellect and skills of its employees, low turnover and happy workforce has rocketed the company forward, its more productive inventive and has a better shot in the down times. The panel looked like they wanted to burn him at the stake for heresy though, they are just so short term and small minded
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  9014. Politics of envy Trump -2 million jobs -3.6% gdp Biden 14.1 million jobs (1 million reshored manufacturing jobs 1st time in decades its not been negative) +5.2% gdp (+250 billion in tax)
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  9015. ULEZ standard for cars is 2008 for diesel its pre 2014
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  9016. Libertarians are deluded the main policies are pushed by the big special interests who see a killing in a deregulated market where they can poison without recourse asset strip without rules and they use the libertarian banner to pump out propaganda. Pseudo libertarian policies brought about the near collapse of the world banking system in 2008
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  9017.  @Andyreally  the problem with Corbyn was he was an elite intellectual and usless the last thing the country needed was a left wing populist up against a right wing populist Now we seem to have flipped the other way with the battle of the Technocrats Must admit didn't think Sunak would be as bad as he's been my hope is the spanking the Tories get put into 3rd place putting the Lib Dems as official opposition
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  9018. They probably are but the mess the Tories left will never be fully fixed
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  9019. And why is that then? We've had a decade where labour made themselves unelectable and now your within touching distance of power we start with the Purity tests?
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  9020. GBN is a opinion station at best most of the time it spews libertarian propaganda
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  9021. what reality are you living in? why should ordinary working people subsidise the wealthy?
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  9022.  @oliverearnshaw6189  Since when? Back in the UK battery prices and panel prices have plummeted and both are Zero Rated for VAT if done as an install. Plus Our energy prices are sky high for standard rate, if you have an EV you can get electricity 70% cheaper on an overnight tariff and the daily feed in tariff is double that. Your living in the past
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  9023. spoil your ballot and put non of these if you don't vote then no party will care to try and appeal to you
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  9024. The guy was an economic car crash -150k manufacturing jobs IN 4 FRIKIN YEARS +50% debt -3.6% GDP +40% balance of trade deficit -3 million jobs sole legislative achievement a tax cut for the super wealthy and corporate America, him telling you stuff and reality are 2 different things Quote from Bloomberg American firms are expected to reshore almost 350,000 jobs in 2022 -- an increase of 25% from 260,000 in 2021, according to figures cited in Deloitte's 'Future of Freight' report
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  9025. The Democratic nominee for President is chosen at the convention and Harris was on the Ticket Trump and his allies are already making plans to contest and disrupt the election and try force through what he couldn't achieve in 2020
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  9026. ​ @alexritchie4586 London South East I've worked in IT my entire life I could have doubled my pay moving down there at double the cost of housing
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  9027. how desperate are the Con's to cling onto power? Their grip on power and will do anything to hang onto it even produce performative legislation which will never be enacted but is designed to fuel grievance politics even if it means people getting killed by amping up the rhetoric. Othering minorities in Germany lead 1st to labour camps then to concentration camps then to death camps what is the rwanda policy anything other than othering refugees and putting them in a labour/concentration camp
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  9028. We don't have an election till 2029 how's that work?
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  9029. Biden isn't running for President
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  9030. It was just all talk for muppets like you to vote for the Conservatives
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  9031. The Tories are wasting billions in trickle down policies that don't work the next government needs to clean out the finances and get them sorted out that will take time Easy wins with minimal spending make the Apprenticeship scheme work properly its currently broken, change planning so houses can be built quicker look at modular factory built housing instead of bricks and mortar because we don't have the labour. So Starmers Missions one of which is grow the economy I read economics books and his mission statements seem to be based on this book by Mariana Mazzucato Mission Economy A moonshot guide to changing capitalism
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  9032. 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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  9033. Trump's tariff plan is a sales tax on the working and middle class it will trigger a new round of inflation coupled with the tax cut plan will create stagflation Your leader doesn't understand what a tariff is
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  9034. Around 58% voted centre to left so they may only have had 34% but there's a huge chunk of voters want even more than what Labour said they would deliver Also The Tories ran a pretty effective voter suppression campaign from which forms of voter ID was valid to corraling the student vote in university towns to claiming the election was over labour were miles ahead in an effort to split the left vote. Also of thier 23% many are a soft vote driven by the toxic dystopia fiction world they presented of a labour win.
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  9035. Who's pandering to black pe?
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  9036.  @GenghisKahnX  her parents were Jamaican and Indian what's the issue?
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  9037. Right wing economics got us here and you want more extreme Right wing economics How does that work exactly? If you don't invest in training up Nurses you need to import them, if your not in the EU they fetch their dependants with them it's not rocket science
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  9038. He got people kill on j6th and ruined 100s of people's lives because he couldn't admit defeat He's also responsible for Fake elector schemes in multiple States
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  9039. I totted it up i cant afford another 5 years of the Conservatives Tax rises Brexit Truss event Low wage economy for my son Etc.
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  9040. In 13 years they've turned the economy into a skip fire there are no long term redeeming features for it They've broken the On-Demand Supply Chain manufacturing wouldn't touch us with a barge pole car manufacturing is collapsing SME's are struggling to survive the blizzard of red tape and paperwork Farming and fishing is collapsing and its not even Turnip season yet
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  9041. There talking about national infrastructure investment guaranteed by government
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  9042. They never had trust in him the Cons never had a majority the fpp system institutionalised minority rule
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  9043. Its cheaper to go Net zero than stay as we are here are some facts 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 (this is why) 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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  9044. The ERG will still blow up parliament if they don't get there way on the NI protocol and Johnson supporters are itching to do a bit of score settling
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  9045. there are 19 other cases in progress Insurrection (7)Financial (6)Election interference (2)Sexual misconduct (1)Other (3) The guy is a walking crime wave
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  9046. The problem isnt Sunak its Thatcherism Lack of housing stock because of asset stripping councils Extortionate energy bills from a privatised monopoly Raw sewage in rivers from another failed privatisation Even the bulk of the NHS problems are down to trying to create a false market in a public service + outsourcing
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  9047. Why is the chancellor of the exchequer taxing ordinary people to the hilt and not closing tax loopholes that his wife uses and why isn't he taxing the vast amount of unearned income at the same rates as earned. NI is income tax rebranded what's worse is there's a ceiling for the rich after which they pay 3,5% Just keep doffing your cap and tugging your forelok sucker
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  9048. Stopping the strikes by increasing pay in line with inflation is hardly radical
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  9049. I feel sorry for these people that are so fragile they can't stand seeing a strong intelligent forthright women really take it to them Brett had a bit of smile on his face at the end of the interview he knew he'd gotten the better of then came out with a few excuses all FOX did was slip back into sanewashing DJT and the usual misogyny at Harris
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  9050. he really isn't the guy is as shallow as a puddle
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  9051. Not in a negative rate economy where inflation is higher than bond yields and both are at rock bottom
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  9052.  @Ghst-tl9ec  no its not your faced with 2 choices upgrade American infrastructure so it can modernise and compete on the world market or go into a permanent decline ceding the field to China
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  9053.  @Ghst-tl9ec  a large part of the budget is going on broadband upgrade, grid and also R&D plus training / retraining. Fossil is already uneconomic without subsidies
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  9054.  @Ghst-tl9ec  your just wrong on multiple points, green is cheaper but hey I only work in the tech sector looking at this stuff all the time crunching the numbers so what do I know
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  9055. Renewables achieved the status of being the cheapest on the grid status in 2019 your literally pushing against economics here who wants to build a Nuclear plant at X3 times the base cost per Kilowatt hour. Only thing holding it back is Grid connectivity the numbers for fossil don't add up
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  9056. Just call them what they are a bunch of Bleach drinking nut jobs who need flushing down the toilet of history
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  9057. ​ @andy_ppp they will the extent of the pain will slow down but tax threshold is frozen till 2028 and BOE rises still have to happen Frozen thresholds add £500 to your tax bill below 50k already + double+ on fuel +50% in food cost (my bill not what the government claim) Anyone still voting Tory must have Stockholm syndrome
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  9058. He did it last time why would he be unable to do it again? We know that the Trump Tax cuts of 2017 added 4 trillion to the debt and was a driver of post covid inflation
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  9059. The UK will never rejoin while the Tory party exits and the MSM is owned by billionaire non dom's who will fight tooth and nail lie about everything and anything to keep what they have created. Over in Turkey Erdogan controls the MSM in Hungry its controlled by Orban even with a failed earthquake response and hyper inflation Erdogan still got reelected
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  9060. Economic fantasy land We need a fairer tax system not this never ending wave of trickle down bollox that never works but oh if we just do this or we need that tax break Get a reality check she was the Billionaires bitch lock stock and paid for
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  9061. There's a move to electric vehicles, there's going to be a huge infrastructure move needed the republicans can bitch and wine all they want about Fossil but the transition to renewables was already happening . Grid storage solutions are due to come online next year spelling the beginning of the end for gas fired power and coal is on its last legs
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  9062. what's taking a job got to do with an impartial investigation? She will have been head hunted for the appointment with a fairly heft salary increase in Labour's anticipation of being able to hit the ground running if they get elected Did she vomit on the carpet at no10 after an all nighter have an ABBA party get that rip roaring drunk that she broke a child's swing And why aren't you mad at Lord Frost taking a job with the Con party?
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  9063. Tories shouldn't have salted the earth on the way out by instigating unfunded tax cuts There was an answer to higher energy bills in 2021 go full steam on renewables instead they gave the energy companies 72 billion in subsidies last year
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  9064. Its vapourware Same as Get Brexit Done (20 mile tailback at Dover with massive costs to business and government and its not fully done and its only Jan) Take Back Control (refugee crossings have exploded Borders have 2 sides DUH) Unleash Britain's Potential (a recent survey said that 1 in 3 small businesses could close by the end of 2022 due to harsher trading conditions caused by Brexit and rising costs)
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  9065. In what way? He proposed a freeze on QE QT he has no idea how the BOE works or government spending for that matter
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  9066. @ There's one thing in keeping government going there's another in collapsing the economy. He also doesn't understand how services such as the NHS benefit the ordinary people.
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  9067. It's 2.6 trillion we do pounds and 1/3 of it is Q/T owned by the BOE so around 1.5 trillion
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  9068. Inflation was nothing to do with Bidenomics 57% was greedflation by corporations that are way to big then there was the 8 Trillion of Trump debt + everything being in the wrong place post pandemic Bidenomics is just New deal economics where government investment kick starts the economy without it there would still be 6% unemployed
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  9069. And Farage going over funded by dark money isn't? These are just volunteers
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  9070. If you don't invest in anything but tax cuts and outsourcing for a decade and a half most stuff stops working
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  9071. Reform are Libertarian free market fundamentalist, they don't want to conserve anything The same policies that drive immigration in the 1st place
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  9072. My heating went off in April try insulating your house
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  9073. 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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  9074. Not true the main issue we have is Fossil inflation + Inflation caused by Brexit Norway doesn't have fossil inflation and its not shot itself in both feet by erecting trade barriers with its closest neighbours and it has 3%
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  9075. There all Fox/Facebook programed, independent thought is out the window Thier reality Biden is a communist who will take all your guns propped up by a cabal of lefties Actual reality Biden is a Centre right Democrat who struggle to get the US back on track due to Trump's complete incompetence
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  9076. So saying don't behave like a fascist asshole is now controversial? Migration is just a tool they use to rile up the proles it gives them something to blame while the real crimes are under their nose the government thieving taking away people's rights torpedoeing services and selling them off cheap to their mates
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  9077. ​ @michaelchristensen5965 Calafornia has the 5th largest economy in the world It's mean average tax take is 8% same as Texas its just Texas collects thiers via property/purchase/sales taxes which is regressive while Calafornia has progressive income tax Calafornia also spends near double on healthcare
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  9078.  @highcountrydelatite  as maybe but they have better healthcare and fewer homicides per 100k than Texas And as someone on low income and old the last thing I want is a plethora of stealth taxes and sky high medical, currently the Democrats are trying to get drug prices down the Republicans are fighting tooth and nail to keep the current insane price gauging levels for thier big pharmaceutical donors. Little wins but they all add up Have a nice day
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  9079.  @TheIndianaGeoff  I gave you the combined mean for both states
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  9080. Brexit has quadrupled the problem the right has no answers just ideology
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  9081. Gosh fans of brain fried Trump i take it She did 60 minutes, the Orange one declined because he would get fact checked, when JDV was fact checked in the debate he went off the rails.
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  9082. Yea you can put booze as a contributing factor
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  9083. If your deluded enough to believe in fantasy economics and fantasy immigration policies then why even bother? You can't compete against a Party with zero morals who promise the undeliverable and spout complete BS
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  9084. The Cons followed the UKIP tune and this is where it has lead
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  9085.  @SAHBfan  The reason the Tories are imploding is they adopted a hard brexit and followed the tune of UKIP and removed FOM and installed a visa system doing both has cratered our economy and tripled migration. There now trying to sell even further far right nutball ideas such leaving the echr and conscription
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  9086. If the numbers are nonsense report her to the parliamentary standards body for lying to parliament? what's that - tumbleweed
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  9087. Net Zero will lower energy prices and decouple the economy from world commodity markets and the economic shock price surges and global instability causes Put bluntly not going net zero costs more
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  9088. What drugs are you snorting? The Tories have borrowed 1.5 trillion over the last 14 years and have zero to show for it, nothing zip zilch
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  9089. 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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  9090. It's an alternate reality bubble, shame Biden can't pick her for VP and really blow some right wing fuses. Thier heads would literally explode like in Kingsman
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  9091. a term called fiscal drag your allowances are staying the same inflation goes up 700 billion went into the economy over covid it all trickled up millionaire billionaire wealth doubled the fix is a wealth tax to pull it out
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  9092. 1st off the debt to GDP is 100.1 % up from its 2010 total of 62% There is money for infrastructure spend on an economic renewable industrial strategy (reasons most of it private backed) The tax base is 33% rising to 37% by 2027 and The Tories are pissing away money left right and centre on trickle down policies with the vain notion that they will by magic increase GDP ex- around 100 billion in fossil subsidies in the next 5 years to cover exploration costs and cleanup costs in the North Sea 2.8 billion per annum on management consultants quote A review of tax “winners and losers” across every Budget that took place while Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were in Downing Street finds that the Conservative government had given at least £35.8bn to businesses in tax cuts, and £2.2bn to the wealthy, before they both resigned last month. So the 1st thing that needs to happen is to cut out all the trickle down
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  9093. Turn the country around from 13 years of it being throttled by Thatcherite trickle down economic policy
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  9094. ​ 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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  9095. They have turbines in the arctic the cheap skates didn't winterize and you can go along with a sweeping brush and remove snow from panels. Texas also has garbage insulation standards I watched a video of a guy who had a fully insulated home in Texas with solar and a Tesla who could not only heat his home quite easily but was running a cable to his neighbours your average Tesla has about 2 days of domestic energy in it if its not being charged
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  9096. ​@justinformed7367 why do you think that? This is a situation created over time mainly down to the last government not processing people amplified by brexit It will take years to even remotely clear up the mess left by Johnson and his cadre of brexit Ultra's
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  9097.  @steptay  Net zero saves money by reducing dependence on gas. Why are you remotely bothered about borrowing? No party will be allowed to just run up borrowing without an economic plan to reduce it. Policies workers rights - deal with zero hour planning - enable faster grid roll out, social housing (20 billion spent on housing support) Net Zero - reducing energy dependence on gas Eventual reform of the HOL Agri Deal with the EU reducing food costs paperwork and red Tape Deal with EU on performing artists Etc.
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  9098.  @eagle3676  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/20/bernie-sanders-pushed-contested-convention-2016-now-he-wants-avoid-one/ it really depends on how close it is, if Bernie gets to about 40% and there's still 6/7 in the pot then I can't see it any way but Bernie. All politicians have convenient memories
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  9099. Under Blair / Brown we had +25% wage growth and +3 million in immigration under the last 13 years of Tory rule we've had + 5 million, the expansion of zero hours contracts with multinationals recruiting gig jobs from abroad and disposable income has fallen We are paying 140 billion in Excess profits for energy a move to net zero would save us 7% of our GDP bringing bills down to 2021 levels of 30 billion
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  9100. There's only going to be so much money and less of it every day the Tories are in power our debt to GDP went over 100% I doubt this is to do with fiscal rules more to do with the bin fire of an economy For the record I follow the FT among other financial publications we are really fked as a country you think its bad now wait till next year Sunak is raising the tax base from 33 to 36 % and has around 100 million in trickle down policies that could should be cut quote A study of 500 educators found 72 per cent notice a significant difference between students who eat the first meal of the day and those who don't. Characteristics of those who don't have breakfast on a regular basis include giving up on tasks quickly, showing signs of tiredness, and being easily distracted I'm in for school food we need better educated kids and it makes a difference I'm retired but do some invigilating the kids are bad in a morning they need calories and I live in a well off area get em in early get breakfast down them. I despair there are soooo many things need fixing Appreciate the rant and understand it every passing day things seem to get worse Thames Water on the verge of going belly up no doubt will get a bail out
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  9101. How much do they have to steal from the working people to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy and how bad do the services have to be to be a true conservative?
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  9102. Course he could do better the Tories are like herding cats
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  9103. Its 9 million and the bulk of those are on in work benefit housing benefit free school meals etc.
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  9104. ​@ConradAinger no he couldn't why do you pedal this BS
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  9105. ​@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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  9106. Labours insulation policy will provide grants and help reduce bills as well as altering planning so new homes don't have to be retrofitted with insulation @markwelch3564 
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  9107. There's a podcast giving the emergence and misappropriation of the word worth a listen Woke the word that split the world By Origin Story
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  9108. Your allowed to claim CGT exemption for a house you don't live in by describing it as your primary residence for HMRC purposes So what exactly is the story here? Billionaire non-dom hates Labour perhaps?
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  9109. Warren is staying in because she hoped to draw Biden and Pete support, if the convention was contested in a 3 way split between say Biden and Bernie then she would be a bridge candidate. With Bernie at 40+ % that reality is a sinking ship, no one is going to accept a Bloomberg or Biden with 15% at best support or Warren as an alternative with a similar total. Biden/Bloomberg are sucking up to much of the oxygen in the other lanes of the party thier vapour wear candidates, meanwhile King Don drives more people to a Bernie nomination. Currently all the GOP propaganda and Bloomberg coming in has done is drive the youth vote into a frenzy of activism. They don't want the same old same old that was failing and caused the rise of Trump and everyone should be clear you'll get one chance to vote him out and even that is looking dodgy. Putting up an apathy candidate won't work your going to have to beat him with new voters and just get the numbers out. The 30/40% hardcore support he has are lost they don't live in any reality we know
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  9110. he's charged on Donnie's favourite crime Fraud Apparently he's been double dipping on his tax claims as well and will owe 120 billion + penalties
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  9111. ​@Noel-ji8nm if that's your opinion then they did 1000× better than the real thing
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  9112. Trump's polocies stink and his response has been pitiful at the outset he pitted states against each other undermining the CDC
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  9113. Let them work get them processed so 40,000 can be deported Our economy is on its knees because of right wing economic policies and burning through 3-4 billion because I dunno a migrant purity test is fkin insane
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  9114. since when supply side reform would bankrupt nearly all SME's and farmers flooding the UK with low quality cheap imports
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  9115.  @myndgodandpsyche  US inflation and it's economic recovery from Cov is the envy of the world, what has been done after the dumpsterfire left at the end of 2020 is nothing short of an economic miracle.
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  9116.  @Warp9Cat  just driven through Germany there's new solar and wind turbines everywhere, the tech is available to make it work now, the 1st of many tesla megapack installation is coming online.
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  9117.  @vknight7497  I've thermal solar and A+ insulation they certainly don't Free hot water Marvellous
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  9118.  @250914616672152  we build wind turbines in the UK, the recent deployment in Dogger bank came from Europe, the US is disconnecting its strategic supply chain from China as is the EU plan
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  9119. Since going off on one Cruella has bumped Tory polls down to 23% Labour is up 3 points too 47% Well done Cruella 😅
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  9120. Net zero targets aren't an issue wind is the cheapest source of electricity production in the UK by a country mile Forward price of Dogger Bank Offshore wind is £40 per kilowatt hour the OffGem spot price is well over £200 at 5 times the cost. The problem is the usual short term Conservative policies for example there's been no new Nuclear put on the table during the Con 12 year reign and they've vetoed every tidal project. The fossil companies will put out all sorts of bollox to slow renewable transition down including funnelling cash to our Nige here
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  9121. It was just a flag to rally round it was never meant to go ahead only Johnson was stupid enough to go full leave for political gain
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  9122. How much do they have to steal from the working people to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy and how bad do the services have to be to be a true conservative?
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  9123. 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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  9124.  @nihilistlivesmatter  what's a criminal offence? Inadvertently not paying tax is something you negotiate with HMRC ask Jeremy Hunt the current Chancellor or is there a different rule if your working class? Hunt said his failure to declare a business interest with both Companies House and the parliamentary register of MPs' interests was down to "honest administrative mistake"
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  9125.  @nihilistlivesmatter  keep tugging the forelock and getting gaslight by the Elite and wealthy. It gives the rest of us a laugh if nothing else
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  9126. DJT is the worst dealmaker on the planet 90% of the afghan debacle was down to his deal behind the governments back
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  9127. The majority of the uk are Athiest and were pretty chilled with you religious nuts
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  9128. ​ The turn away from Keynsian theory was done by Thatcher who followed the work of Patrick Minford, the same batsh1t economist Truss quoted Weve had 50 years worth of data all pointing to neoliberalism not working in fact Osborne was told back in 2013 by the IMF that his brand of Thatcherism and Austerity where the cause of the economy contracting. Quote The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said on Thursday that the poor performance of the British economy had left her with no alternative but to call on George Osborne to rethink his austerity strategy.18 Apr 2013 He went ahead with it anyway doubling down on a paper which was debunked by the nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman in 2013 they had made fundemental errors in their spreadsheet calculations blowing the whole thoery and reasoning for Austerity to pieces. Quote Labour said the chancellor's plans had lost credibility. "We warned that rapid fiscal tightening when the global economy is weak risked backfiring and that's what has happened. The idea of expansionary fiscal contraction has been exposed as total nonsense," said Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor. In the US, Nobel prizewinning economist Paul Krugman said the unravelling of Rogoff and Reinhart's paper was a hammer blow to Republicans who had campaigned for spending cuts to reduce Washington's 100% debt-to-GDP level. So 10 years on + Brexit there still doubling down on a failed economic strategy that was always going to shrink the economy and Truss is trying to resurect widely debunked economic therios on tax. IF YOU WANT TO GROW GDP GIVE MONEY TO POOR PEOPLE THEY SPEND EVERY PENNY it really is that simple you can argue the how and the work incentives but giving money to rich people goes straight to assets and starts a merry go round of untaxed wealth creation
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  9129. There just more extreme Tories that want to take away your human rights, treat refugees like sh1t and tank the economy with Truss style tax cuts while privatising the NHS
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  9130. When the MSM treat investment in strategic social and physical infrastructure as a SUNK cost and point blank fail to advise their audience that every investment has a return And At the same time refuse to make the CON's explain how they are going to pay for tax cuts (a clue is we borrowed 130 billion last year) then answering questions directly is pointless. @PrimusPete 
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  9131. Take the Green investment of 28 billion it will attract private investment as well probably totalling 60+ billion this has an economic multiplier of 1.6 your generic tax cut has a multiplier of 0.2 @PrimusPete 
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  9132. The MSM try and portray it as a sunk cost or subsidy and mislead the public about investment in social and physical infrastructure @PrimusPete 
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  9133. The media represent everything Investment wise as a sunk cost and don't question how you pay for tax cuts @PrimusPete 
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  9134. of course your wrong but why say that its odd surly you want the economy and country to move forward? Check out these 2 articles A Keir Starmer government might be more radical than you think by Michael Jacobs Another must read article is by the FT which is backed up with graphs and data showing the trajectory of the UK economy under Austerity Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity A decade of Tory spending cuts left the country vulnerable to the external shocks of the past two years
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  9135. Same mould as the other right wing elite in the Tory party
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  9136. A lot of the money raised is being used in infrastructure investment which creates jobs Renewables are the cheapest form of electricity generation on the grid have been since 2020, issue is we don't have enough of it and lack of grid investment. As for the ni rise the thresholds have been raised fetching large numbers of workers out of employers ni Mixed bag we will see
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  9137. @susanmills4843  wind and solar input energy is free Gas is not year on year it is subject to extraction, processing and transportation costs This is a slam dunk
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  9138. He won't get the money to back him in the real world he was the worst president on the Economy the US has ever had on Par with Hoover -150k manufacturing jobs IN 4 FRIKIN YEARS +50% debt -3.6% GDP +40% balance of trade deficit -3 million jobs sole legislative achievement a tax cut for the super wealthy and corporate America, him telling you Quote from Bloomberg American firms are expected to reshore almost 350,000 jobs in 2022 -- an increase of 25% from 260,000 in 2021, according to figures cited in Deloitte's 'Future of Freight' report
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  9139. Just under 1 trillion and ownership of a social media platform which he changed the algorithms to benifit trump
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  9140. So what you want is the trade barrier to Europe fully implemented even though at 50% its killing our economy and driving inflation through the roof?
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  9141. Wind on the back of battery technology is like a no brainer The next level mesh network to grid tech is coming in with EV's, the problem with nuclear is waste and always on, it's mind numbingly short sighted so...... Follow the money who gets to profit from this
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  9142.  @alphonsobutlakiv789  in the UK the first liquid air grid battery storage facility is due to come on line soon look it up its fascinating, the other method of grid storage is flow batteries, Tesla are still hung on Li ion but there's serious development in solid state silicon / carbon etc.. Gas as a top up for the grid is on its way out the only people pushing it are those with a financial interest in the stuff. Also in the UK gas engineers are cross training to do ground source heat pump instalation and maintenance Times are changing
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  9143. No it doesn't and its not mid term where 12 months away they would be crazy to let it drag with the OBR forecasting a 6% drop in living standards
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  9144. On what making people poorer I guess your a millionaire then @jayparmar2322 
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  9145. Georgia has now gone blue time for Mitch McTurlte to go tell Donnie cry baby to go sit on the naughty step, I've seen better behaviour from a 9 year old. There is no evidence of voter fraud, you have to go through an insane amount of hoops to vote by mail, the GOP have investigated mail fraud to death the current estimate is that there were 0.0025% fraud and all have been caught.
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  9146. There's no money debt to GDP is 100% and there borrowing 130 billion a year as it is + There is no way of growing the economy given were saddled with Brexit trade restrictions
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  9147. Southampton is where you were thinking he was born in Southampton
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  9148. A lot of things have been discussed on the centre left on how to raise more tax but the one that isn't is raising taxes on working people it would be counter productive to growth
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  9149.  @dianegriffen2756  what a stupid whataboutism. For a correlation between policy and outcome we need only look at the US if your a Republican your far more likely to die from Covid by a considerable margin than if your a registered Democrat. This ties in with mask mandates closing social venues to vaccine uptake. The more Conservative you are the more likely you will die of covid
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  9150.  @barneymagee3285  There's huge amounts of data and case studies out their from all sorts of academic angles I'm primarily a mathematician and economist. such as this one Quote The data speak: Stronger pandemic response yields better economic recovery Study of 1918 flu pandemic shows U.S. cities that responded more aggressively in health terms also had better economic rebounds. and this one For red and blue America, a glaring divide in COVID-19 death rates persists 2 years later Post-vaccine, death rates in red states were 38% higher than in blue states.
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  9151. There's no growth in the economy because over the last 14 years we have been bottom of the G7 for inward investment year on year and our public services have been hollowed out Tice's answer isn't to pump investment money into the economy to get it going it's to rack up 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts and The NHS is inefficient because of lack of capital spend and hollowing out local social services, there still using paper documents and records for fks sake
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  9152. She is Jamaican American / Indian Since 2016 to now mixed race in the US has gone from 3% to 10%
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  9153. A range of mortgage products have been withdrawn its not funny
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  9154. 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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  9155.  @seanbowe5529  Russia
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  9156. And why would you trust Reform there backing Fracking which has no benefit to any UK voter all it will do is feed the Fossil corporations profits
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  9157. What will of the people? When did we have a vote to remove my freedom of movement? It was taken away by a minority government which had zero mandate to do so FY
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  9158. any vote by us is just virtue signalling it has zero effect What would help is if we took Palestinian refugees but that is politically toxic I dunno why so much air time is wasted on this
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  9159. There giving tax breaks to Lord Sugar to start a new Airline called PorkAir
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  9160. In what way he's a narcissist, the family relationship is purely transactional he has zero empathy
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  9161. He could never attract the votes of older left leaning people like me who thought his economic policies where completely unworkable intellectual nostalgia and his foreign policies where a total car crash.
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  9162. We will get a centre left government for the 1st time since Wilson Good effin riddance to Thatcherism, the effluent in the rivers the sky high energy prices the unafordable housing, potholes everywhere and schools and hospitals literally falling down due to RAAC
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  9163. Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Taj,Truth Social etc
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  9164.  @richardlewis7498  given that the economic performance of the Conservatives over the last 12 years is the worst in 150 why anyone would vote Tory is beyond me you'd need to be one of the 1% or a masochist. Cameron / May stagnated the economy to a -3% drop in real average wages over 10 years give Boris and Co their due they've added another -3% in 2 and have inflation at 8%
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  9165. Mr Durbin noooooo you can't quote facts when Cancun Cruz is waxing his BS across the Senate floor
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  9166. Trump's tariff plan = 3 trillion sales tax if that doesn't scare you then why would barbecued dog?
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  9167. wish it was migration was a mere 200,000 in those days
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  9168. It's the Kings speech setting out the government agenda, it was nothing more than self serving gesture politics
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  9169.  @robertjones3613  Brown only borrowed 250 billion to sort out the banking crisis the Tories have borrowed 1.6 trillion since then and spent most of it on trickle down cr*p
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  9170. I'm so proud of the boys, they didn't play well but Philips Rice and Mount where in their first tournament, this is England's first appearance in a Euro final Congrats to Italy
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  9171.  @atomiccritter6492  I'm 64 to me there boys.
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  9172.  @atomiccritter6492  what a weird thing to say
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  9173.  @bobsocks7575  the bulk of them just take British gas for instance 900% increase in profits Due to the way the market works Octopus who supply mainly renewable energy through long term contracts still charge the regulated price making huge profits, the energy market in the UK is completely broken
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  9174.  @bobsocks7575  quote from last year Corey (@soper_mr) asked: "Octopus is putting our prices up, but claim to be 100% renewable. Did the price of wind go up lads? In response, the supplier said it was a fair question that they get asked a lot. The founder of the firm, Greg Jackson, recorded a video to explain the situation. In the two-minute clip, Jackson says: "In the current outdated system, the most expensive type of energy (usually gas) sets the price for ALL types of energy, including renewables. It's bonkers
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  9175. Do you work for the Fossil companies are you a lobbyist? How do you justify this or do you just wilfully tug the forelock for the Tories and their failed economic policies (including privatization) 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 @t-rod4456 
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  9176. That always happens problem is not enough new ones since brexit ​@user-ye7bf8sv6m
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  9177. 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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  9178. 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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  9179. 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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  9180. Quote Nikki Haley declared that the first US political party to retire its "80-year-old candidate" will win the election, resurfaced footage shows
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  9181. GBN are funded by an offshore billionaire Rupet also owns TalkTV another propaganda station
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  9182.  @Veyron1967  suppressing public sector pay adds to the pull factor for Migration, if you want lower migration you need to pay and train enough to attract the domestic population to work in them. The biggest cause of the last bout of inflation was corporate profiteering at 57% and energy. The privatised systems cost to UK public went up from 30 billion in 2020 to 170 billion in 2023 with 72 billion in government subsidies. A nice payday for British Gas whose profits went up by 950% . (Privatise the profits socialise the losses)
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  9183.  @Jonathan-h1w9j  If you look at tax overall the Tax Base never changed when Osborne took over it has remained constant for nearly 2 decades till Sunak became Chancellor. Osborne raised VAT by 5% which killed any chance of a recovery dead and started redistributing it into things like lower CGT. VAT is a very regressive tax it hits those on lower middle pay really hard as has Sunak's freezing of thresholds .
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  9184.  @olwenswan  where do you get this junk from? there around 5% of the population
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  9185. Why? People are on average 5% worse of than when the Tories took office in 2010 They have spent near on 1.5 trillion on trickle down cr@p never balanced the budget in a single year they have been in office The £ is now worth 30% less against the Euro + Everything is broken because of Austerity
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  9186. Republicans couldn't run a bath let alone an economy Renewable energy is x3 cheaper than coal or Nuclear the Tesla MegaPack in California cost 750,000 million amd will save 1 BILLION per year
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  9187. Make America Garbage Again - how quaint You can't escape the economic reality that renewable energy is cheaper those states embracing it will have a huge competitive advantage of cheap energy Will the sh1th0le red states just keep sponging forevermore?
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  9188. 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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  9189. @georgesdelatour  yet we've given away any sovereignty we gained plus a load more for 0.00 % increase in trade We still have to adhear to EU standards because they set world standards and we can't export We were never in the Euro but London will loose 3.5 trillion in euro clearing business We need to be in a common European alliance NATO The European Court still has final say on the TCA While in the EU we had power and a veto now we're a rule taker and will have to realign standards anyway to enable our economy to grow and SME'S to start expanding exports so the whole excrecise was for nothing. Labour have said they will grow the economy the only way to do that is to remove the trade barriers the Conservatives erected with their garbage deal
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  9190. we've already been down the tax cuts promote growth road with Liz, they do not so those shifting to Labour are doing so because they want things to work
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  9191. @@johnny71c-UK he's another elite who pedals the fantasy that tax cuts as if by magic create growth
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  9192.  @andromeda_25  I know zero people voting Reform all the Con voters are switching to Lib-Dem or doubling down with the Tories
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  9193. He made the wind blow harder for a month in the channel believe in Brexit Jesus its all they have
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  9194. This guys a fkin idiot the inflation is Supply Side Corporate profits driven on inelastic demand for key energy and food. Fed rate doesn't do squat just tax the big players and get it out of the system
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  9195. As someone who is 67 the Republicans constant war on climate change is disheartening. This is the 1st time we've seen a real push to change from a fossil based economy. The Republicans would drag us back to the smog ages and I have a son. I'd also add that my generation hasn't not noticed the 8 Trillion Trump spent 3.5 on corporate tax cuts and yet the Republicans talk of cutting Social Security and ObamaCare
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  9196. If you remove FOM and run supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism then you need migrant Labour and if its not coming from the EU then your giving permanent visa's to Indian and Nigerian workers who quite rightly won't come unless they fetch their families. Over half the immigration total is dependants If you want less immigration change the economic model institute an equitable progressive tax system and properly fund Social and Physical infrastructure to create a demand side economy The Tories can't fix it its baked into their economic ideology
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  9197. one of the jurors was a MAGA got their news from Truth Social and twitter when your own throw you under the bus time to give up
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  9198. Trump hasn't become normalised he's just tolerated
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  9199. There going to change planning and build, get generation rent into homes
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  9200. they don't talk to him much because he's a security threat the Russians will know all his weaknesses and he's still chummy with certain people and the guy is just too indiciplined
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  9201. there is no pro join party we left with the Tories shyte deal till the Conservative party are totally destroyed or they become pro european the argument is parked because with a vote total as low as 36% they can get a majority and undo anything Labour does. It takes far less time to destroy things than it does to repair or build them we face onward of decades trying to get our act together
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  9202. Why would anyone support REFORM its delusional right wing economic Thatcherism, the same trickle down cr@p we've had for 14 years?
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  9203. In the last 5 years the tax base has shot up from 33% where it was for 2 decades to 38% the question should be how do the Cons p1ss so much money away
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  9204. 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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  9205. We have a labour shortage so how does that work? Were here because of an unfunded pre election bribe by the Tories of 20 billion, whoever won would have had to raise taxes or cut costs or both
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  9206. Out of the 2 djt lied 33 times kh 1 He had more speaking time Both were asked hard questions He got dogwalked because he can't focus on message
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  9207.  @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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  9208. 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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  9209. If these Republican representatives live in the same closed loop zombie feedback media echo chamber that Orange jelly brain lives in then they just sound like thier spouting incoherent babble when they go on other networks. One of the reasons Trump lost was the amount of college educated voters he turned off with his campaign from the bizarre Republican convention to the insane conspiracy talk
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  9210. If they were tought financial management they'd understand Tory Trickle Down is a complete CON
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  9211. It enables the grid to run on ultra cheap renewable energy and removes highly costly peak Gas plants that run for mere minutes a day at exorbitant expense
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  9212.  @denisburgess2966  In what way? I have solar and thermal solar My hot water is free 75% of the time and I top the tank up overnight with a special overnight rate which is the same as my Feed in Tariff during the day for excess solar. Capital repayment cost is 8 years due to the energy crisis so just 4 years to go. And that's all net zero is money up front and various ways to store and time-shift energy usage to maximise usage at off peak and minimise cost at On Peak at Grid scale.
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  9213. Weve had 8 years with no effin brex1t plan time to turn the page on the biggest political failure in British history
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  9214.  @catherinemartin6258  no 5 years of the media moaning when 60% of the electorate voted for centre to left parties and rejected right wing hate mongering which they've been using to paper over their complete incompetence.
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  9215. Tariffs are sales taxes They cause trade wars The US export market is worth 3 trillion Go ask farmers what happened last time they lost export markets permanently they had spent 40 years building up, the goods he put tariffs on went up in price and 92% of the money collected went in farming subsidies
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  9216. Thier beef isn't about the process it's coz they can't control the narrative and it's just getting worse daily
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  9217. ​ @s0ycapitan Obama was highly educated and had to be a glittering star to become President and so is Harris
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  9218. 70% of counties by GDP in the US voted for Biden, Texas may be governed by the Republicans but it no different to any other part of the US.
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  9219. There is no firm proposal or policy from labour at this point in time on inheritance tax
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  9220.  @LandRover300  she's a site lot brighter than Naddine Dorrie ans she's not in the shadow cabinet any more so what's your point?
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  9221.  @LandRover300  who Dorrie?
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  9222.  @LandRover300  feel free to keep supporting the Tax and waste party highest tax burden since ww2 a decade and a half of Economic stagnation and falling wages and pensions in real terms. A budget for champagne sipping bankers.
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  9223. Why is the Labour Party the Lib-Dem Party and the Greens unelectable? We've had 12 years of economic stagnation culminating in the current bunch who are even worse than Cameron and May For the record Average wage growth under Blaire / Brown +25% Average wage growth under Cameron / May -3% Under Johnson its projected to be -3/4% with 8% inflation on what planet is the alternative worse?
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  9224. current number being talked about is 30,000 but Cooper has quashed the claim that Labour would sign up to it anyway where not part of the EU and cooperating with the people who run the border on the other side reclassifying people smugglers in the same light as organised crime and seizing their assets plus getting rid of the backlog that's costing us 8 billion sounds a better offer than the Cons
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  9225.  @zoobrizz  The Biden administration employees real economists unlike the previous incumbent with such lackeys as Steven (Wall Street asset stripper ) Manuchin and Larry (Fox drunk talking head ) Kudlow and not least Jared (Slum Lord ) Kushner Its the lot of Democrats to clean up the economic shitshow left by Republican administrations
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  9226. there right wing implementing Thatcherite policies which don't work never have
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  9227. He's focused on winning without power you can do NOTHING @davidbarlow350 
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  9228. Maniford was convicted of being a foreign agent His association with Oligarchs was widely known
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  9229. we had a slew of voter suppression tactics including the removal of automatic registration of University Students vote Corbyn's 2017 vote was a protest vote against the Tories and it still fell short by 62 seats
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  9230. New renewable projects do not get subsidised and haven't been since 2019 when they became the cheapest source of energy on the grid Oil and Gas companies haven't paid tax for years last year they got 10 billion in exploration subsidies and have 75 billion to write off against tax built into the system to decommission old Brent field infrastructure
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  9231. Trump is off his box, just show some rally clips
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  9232. Why do these people listen to this idiot he's a f**** moron with dementia and a speed habit
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  9233.  @IsakHashani  read On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Animal farm by George Orwell and A day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch While your at it try thee diary of Anne Frank God you people are lightweights
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  9234. ​ @ioeuropaganymedkallisto7204 Corbyn was unelectable and drove turnout in 2019, in 2017 he wasn't widely known by the base voter and his vote total was irrelevant he lost by 62 seats round a quite dismal Tory offering.
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  9235. Fox viewers are being softened up with a pre purgatory phase, maybe Fox is God's joke on the damned and Murdoc is one of Satan's henchmen?
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  9236. You mean the Flynn who sold out his country taking money from Turkey to get someone deported Not that he didn't fit in with crooks and grifters like Maniford Stone Bannon you wouldn't lend these people your library card never mind have them near government
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  9237. Existing economy is fine inflation is Supply Side Corporate on inelastic demand get away from fossil would be a good idea
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  9238.  @johndingle6293  tax the profiteers this is inelastic demand look at agricultural practices because climate change is here to stay promote energy diversity from fossil
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  9239.  @johndingle6293  Reagan crushed inflation with 13% unemployment 20% fed rate and off shoring to depress salaries in manufacturing
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  9240. Thatcherism is the reason the economy is in the Toilet, we've had it for 13 years when Osborne started GDP per capita was 50,000 similar to the USA its now 45,000 and the US figure is 70,000 (Obama, Biden both democrat + Trump) Under the last Labour government average wages rose by +25%you can man you can say what you like about Labour and Blair but they had a strong economy which outperformed Thatchers by a country mile
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  9241. 90% of the evidence given was 1st hand and the important stuff was him wanting people with guns waved through security and wanting to go with them. Everyone already knows he behaves like a spoilt 9 year old
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  9242. part of the Libertarian network worldwide that lobby for low corporate and wealth tax + deny climate change and want to turn human capital into disposable units. GBN billionaire owner is Libertarian with connections to the Legatum institute which in turn has links to the Heritage Foundation in the US bad bad people
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  9243.  @leecudmore-ray6697  Staples like pasta and flour have doubled this affects the low paid more although due to the last 5 years of complete incompetence it's biting the middle class
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  9244. He's as thick as two short planks Renewable energy gets cheaper every year and its already the cheapest source on the grid
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  9245. 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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  9246. Economists calculated Covid cost a 1 off 2% GDP for covid related economic activity BREXIT is calculated to be costing 5.5% GDP year on Year which equates to 44 billion less in tax receipts @contemplating1015 
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  9247. GDP was hit by 5% from Brex1t just rewinding the worst bits of it will see the economy grow
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  9248. What are traditional Labour policies? Just nationalising stuff won't work and will lead to Labour getting booted out at the next election unless your going to take the centre with you what's the point? As for fiscal rules I could change the tax system completely yet stick to the same tax base, I'd also add over an extended period the Tories have pissed money away like confetti the latest barge fiasco will cost 2.5 billion over the life of their contracts. I have no idea whether the Starmer cabinet will be transformational. I do know the current administration couldn't run a bath let alone a country so it will be a huge change.
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  9249. GBN is funded by an offshore billionaire to get you to vote against your own interests, it opinion at best but mostly propaganda.
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  9250. The great American Baking Show 😮
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  9251. They got the money for this by Fiscal drag which is frozen till 2028 and are raising council tax 5% year on year for the next 5 years, overall taxes are going up which is why Reeve said they wouldn't roll it back.
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  9252. I work in IT over the last few years our servers have moved to the cloud with this crisis were working from home, they've furloughed the the reception staff and are looking to close the office permanently. So 2 receptionists contracted out security staff and cleaning staff gone. There's no on switch these jobs are gone never to come back
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  9253. No your not another +5 years of the Cons will be 1000 times worse than even a Centerist labour
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  9254. The problem is the ongoing March to automation you needed less labour/hours , the amount of wealth generated is skyrocketing but that's all locked up at the very top, there has to be a reckoning that a redistribution in some shape or form has to happen. For those saying no history has one major way of forcing the issue civil unrest and war, it really is in the top 1% long term interests to not be so Fecin greedy.
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  9255. It's not its better by a country mile on the policy front But We could do without all the freebies even if it is legal
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  9256. Comes with a booming economy and full employment + above inflation pay rises at the bottom of the economic tree what's not to like
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  9257. You can't afford not to have a decent minimum wage, it saves billions out of public coffers and putting the onus on employers to stump up the money and pumps more money into the economy
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  9258. 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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  9259. Reform pedal the same economic rubbish the Cons do
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  9260. What did you think would happen? Nige has tub thumped the Aus like point system a lot as great and the solution to replace EU workers What the stupid numpty didn't realise was that it would have zero effect on net migration and result in importing workers into middle and higher incomes depressing middle class wages which has a knock on effect of depressing wages down the social chain.
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  9261. He has ADHD and has been on Aderol most of his life. He's also dyslexic and very stup1d He also surrounds himself with stup1d people. His one superpower the greatest con man the world has seen
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  9262. Everything is recyclable if the law says it has to be, they can be fed into a purpose built mangler and turned into Crush for building. If there not it's political weakness As an example of cost wind energy is x3-4 times cheaper to produce than coal or nuclear, grid scale batteries based on the Tesla megapack technology is minimum around ×1000 cheaper than a peak load gas plant
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  9263. the ECHR which underpins the Good Friday agreement and is the last resort against government overreach just as the Hillsborough families why would anyone of sound mind give up their human rights?
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  9264. Brex1t is a complete train wreck latest victim port talbot steelworks
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  9265. They've even got surveillance footage of them breaking into a voting machine even the Georgia Republicans aren't going to try save him
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  9266.  @illuminati1568  Reform the party of cranks crazies and far right fantasy economics
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  9267.  @tombrenemanMt  yea it's not that simple if the economy expands then it just gets absorbed. You've also got multiple countries doing the same. Plus there's been a tech boom during the pandemic once everything opens with stimulus your looking at an overall increase in economic activity what you don't want is contraction.
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  9268.  @mhartung8335  If you go for an Austerity type budget your ending up with high unemployment that causes a contraction of the economy which causes more unemployment. You still need to service the unemployed from Federal resources and your getting back less tax so you raise general taxation to fill the gap which again if its levelled at middle lower income earners contracts the economy. The Tea party wave forced a clamp down on stimulus back in the day which had the effect of killing off any recovery reducing it to a slow crawl over a decade.
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  9269.  @tombrenemanMt  I studied economics before majoring in IT Kenysian Ecenomic theory was a mandatory topic as was the great depression and the new deal. Hint the new deal wasn't a savings plan. Anyway what do you care about the children your quite happy poisoning them with unregulated industrial pollution and burning the planet
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  9270. Your economy would collapse has Brexit thought you nothing?
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  9271. what like not teaching them insulation saves money
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  9272. The chip shortage for many has meant that production of older models has ground to a halt, the older chips tend to be the ones that get cut when demand is high and you've intermittent shutdowns due to the pandemic
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  9273. Your still increasing borrowing so how do you propose to fund tax cuts? This is what blew up the economy last time there are no 2nd chances it will take years to just repair the Truss damage
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  9274.  @somethingintheair5373  the issue with Truss was the Gilts market and government borrowing If you want to fetch rates down you tax the expected excess profits of around 170 billion in the UK energy market @75 and give it back to all customers that don't own a private swimming pool
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  9275.  @jacquelineloaring2438  there all right wing populist parties rooted in magic thinking The reason we're in the current mess is short term populist simplistic solutions to comple and extremly interconnected structural ecenomic problems. Ex housing goes back to flogging off all social housing energy crisis has its roots in utility privatisation and strategic decisions by the Cameron govt. There's much worse to come
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  9276. no mate its just brexit is shyte and the muppets pedaling it don't know what there doing
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  9277.  @davidedbrooke9324  we voted to leave the EU not the single market Screwing over our economy was a Tory decision
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  9278.  @davidedbrooke9324  Norway aren't in the EU many Brexiteers where bigging up the virtue of a Norway deal Leaving the single market was never entertained until post vote
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  9279.  @davidedbrooke9324  “Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the Single Market” - Daniel Hannan MEP “Only a madman would actually leave the Market” - Owen Paterson MP, Vote Leave backer “Wouldn't it be terrible if we were really like Norway and Switzerland? Really? They're rich. They're happy. They're self-governing” - Nigel Farage, Ukip leader “The Norwegian option, the EEA option, I think that it might be initally attractive for some business people” - Matthew Elliot, Vote Leave chief executive “Increasingly, the Norway option looks the best for the UK” then there's all the lies
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  9280.  @davidedbrooke9324  what us deciding to make our economy 20% smaller is their fault? 2016 UK GDP 90% of Germany's 2022 UK GDP 70% of Germany's 2030 Poland set to overtake us in wealth per person You put your faith in people that were and are complete fkin idiots
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  9281.  @davidedbrooke9324  you people need to wake up and use your brain to work out who has really screwed you over and it's not the EU. Johnson's deal was purely political to stick the Tory party together it had zero regard for the hard working people in this country he didn't give a Toss which businesses he screwed over or how many farmers he forced into bankruptcy. Why do you thing the wheels are coming of in double quick time? Enjoy your Turnip
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  9282. @liberte.3.6.9  we went from leveling up to Sunak cancelling just about everything infrastructure wise and going backward to more trickle down. Also spending 2 years on Rwanda instead of resolving the energy crisis, which he eventually gave the sector 72 billion in subsidies because free market allegedly and he sat on his arse for 2 years.
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  9283. You voted for it And it's +1.25 million
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  9284. ​ @thomascain5313 the uk is one of the world's leading arms exporters Also Giving Putin 40 million people and land on European borders is an extremly bad solution for Europe and the world A diminished Russia brings peace in multiple war zones across the globe
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  9285. 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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  9286. Lucky you outside the London South East area we've had economic contraction and the economy is fked. Were not doing better than Germany and France because In 2016 the British economy was 90% the size of Germany's. Now it is less than 70%.” We've has 7 years of contraction and stagnation and your cherry picking a figure to suit a narrative @Roundhead75 
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  9287. Reform are run by Elites batting for the billionaire class They can also promise any fantasy policy they like because they will never get elected
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  9288.  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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  9289. We don't have high taxes compared to most European countries our Tax base was 33% under Labour stayed 33% under Cameron and is going up steadily and will be 37% by 2025 The average for Europe is 39% Its what you spend it on, if you look at the last 13 years its been on trickle down economic policies aka Thatcherism which has actually shrank the economy. Tories veneer of fiscal responsibility is down the toilet were it belongs
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  9290. An overwhelming example of how energy generation should be distributed instead of in big single plants
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  9291. @Dark_Bandon  don't need one I'm in the I'm fine category all my investments aren't in the UK at the moment
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  9292. It's there to stop the government behaving like fascist twats
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  9293. 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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  9294. are people on these boards just a load of nodding dogs, when your leader talks utter cr*p you immediately change your position and start nodding along? Our Nige and the European far right populists have all sorts of connections to the Russian Oligarchs
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  9295. ​ @sirmeowthelibrarycat you'll not get a wealth tax through parliment or the general public without 1st showing your fiscally competent. It's a complete no no for the client media without political capital and trust it stands no chance. Personally I'd look at other ways of taxing wealth you can keep the tax base the same just dice the cake a different way and there is so much waste embedded into our government after 13 years of the Tories with dodgy contracts outsourcing tax breaks for their mates etc.
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  9296. I gave up gas cooking decades ago Our house has had major refurbishment including secondary insulation to mitigate heat loss/gain You need plenty of airflow to burn stuff I've had to install a closable vent near the wood-stove
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  9297. Go read up up Stockholm Syndrome
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  9298. It's the blueprint for any GOP president you think Trump will last long he's a cheeseburger away from a coronary JD Vance wrote the forward for it.
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  9299. Abortion bans are a 65-35 issue in most states, Elect a Republican and you'll get a national ban
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  9300. This is why Sunak and the Tories will be totally fked and the longer they delay the worse it will get I'm betting on a low of 20 points 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@Mantastic-ho3vm
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  9301. She doesn't owe any
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  9302.  @msmrepo3271  your not looking after this country though are you all you want to do is shut down dissent I'm 66 my father fought across Europe as a paratrooper to put out the fire of this Nationalist toxic bilge, you and your ilk are strung along like performing monkeys by this crap with your fake patriotism
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  9303. Neither REFORM nor UKIP have any form of credible post Brexit economic plan because erecting trade barriers between you and your neighbour 20 miles away and destroying the Pan European On-Demand Supply chain was always going to have dire long term economic consequences and is fkin insane. We have left its shyte and where now in the throes of those consequences even if you could polish a turd its a turd
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  9304. first its not true you can recycle both you stick the blades in a big crusher and can use the the resulting crush in road building second wind and solar are 3 times cheaper than Nuclear and Coal In fact Tidal has now caught up in terms of capital costs due to all the subsides for nuclear
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  9305. There currently hard right they've never been near the centre fiscally since they got back into power that's why the economy is fked they don't understand how it works or how Austerity + Thatcherism is destroying it
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  9306. There all ultra nationalists round him
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  9307. What free stuff?
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  9308.  @Noel-ji8nm  I'm not I'm just pointing out that this is a problem created by the Tories, there were no small boats in 2010
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  9309.  @enigma_-_79  in what way? The Tories deal with problems by trying to Bury them and cut costs, you see this everywhere from defunding police and border agencies to defunding school budgets and not replacing RAAC. then applying policies that try push the problem into tomorrow until tomorrow arrives and we have a mess x10 times worse than it should be. The fundemental core problem is the gaslighting and gesture politics that give the illusion that we don't have to accept refugees At the end of the day numbers will be lower with labour because they will deal with the problem not pretend you can stop it by being as cruel cynical and stupid as possibe
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  9310.  @jamonit7169  left wing activists want? That's a figment of the right wing media. Starmer has already said he would beef up the border force which the Tories have defunded over time and negotiate with the french to criminally go after the gangs. The usual Tory method of standing on the beach and commanding the tide not to come in doesn't work
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  9311.  @prasanamcdonald7991  no he won't she still voted for loads of Tory cr*p
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  9312. so how will they pay for tax cuts oh crash the gilt market and bankrupt the pension system sorry been there not interested
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  9313. Trump can't change the trajectory because his Covid response is based on a decision he made 9 months ago and he won't change course because he just can't admit he's wrong which is why they are now listening to a Fox doctor pundit. It is what it is
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  9314.  @garrywynne1218  My point is brexit is an economic disaster of biblical proportions that neuters SME's especially the lifeblood of any economic recovery. What you see is stats based on the service economy of the city while everywhere else is in recession. That recession is pumped up with 1.25 million visas to hide it's impact as gdp per capita falls through the floor lowering everyone's disposable income
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  9315.  @garrywynne1218  we used to have an on demand supply chain as part of the EU, as an SME making value added products you'll get components from all over the place but here's the rub. The bulk of your east Asian supplies get landed in the EU and are distributed from in the EU to outside, there not technically EU products but are part of a multi trillion supply chain. Your goods now are subject to restrictions paperwork and red tape, everything will get more expensive take longer to get and the added value component is now subject to tarrifs if it goes back into the EU as a component for something else. Basically we will be back in some form of single market within 3 election cycles because SME'S can't compete like this and can't grow OR businesses that employ 60% of the population that have integrated supply chains will fold.
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  9316.  @garrywynne1218  FOM was never a problem there was nothing stopping any UK government regulating its own labour market, my brother lives in Norway they have FOM but have low migration because its regulated + has minimum wage & support for domestic workforce to both retrain and relocate. Look in 2010s Cameron made an active choice not to regulate the gig economy, Norway don't have zero hour contracts and any company trading in Norway has to be Norwegian, no off shoring. Uber were actively encouraged to recruit low wage staff on zero hour from Eastern Europe and OffShore profits. A taxi or cab drivers gdp is now undercut his job replaced with all profits going offshore out of the working economy The Conservatives and Reform both support free market deregulated economics People are also quick to blame Blair but he had to move to the centre and adopt the free market ethos of Thatcher to get elected, even then by having a robust minimum wage and an education program we saw immigration but not huge numbers and they were electricians, carpenters general trades people in my neck of the woods.
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  9317.  @garrywynne1218  in your opinion one that isn't backed up by economic data or the wider economic community, all your looking for is confirmation bias you don't care about the 10's of thousands of businesses you ruin or the damage its doing to the country
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  9318. The Russians have won a rubble site and taken at least 5-1 casualties for the trouble and the war isn't even over
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  9319. Mine have dropped by £1200 I fitted a solar and battery system which opens up cheap off peak tariffs with my supplier
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  9320. That is nonsense immigration has gone through the roof because of brex1t we told you so in 2018 Historic examples include Britain’s decision to end the unrestricted entry of Commonwealth subjects in the 1960s, Germany’s experience with admitting temporary “guest workers” from the 1960s, and the US ending its labour program for Mexican workers in 1965. Drawing lessons from those experiences, the SMF predicted that ending EU freedom of movement and restricting EU nationals’ right to enter and stay in Britain for work will have precisely the opposite effect on immigration patterns to the one many Brexit supporters say they want.
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  9321. There proposing freezing budgets for services so another dose of Austerity so its not spare at all.
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  9322.  @TheToryParty  Were broke and yet we aren't Yes the Tories have been stunningly incompetent but 1/3 of the debt is owned by the BOE due to QE and QT (money printing) and a big chunk of that was injected into the banks post 2008. The banks have on account with the BOE 680 billion and for some reason we decided to pay them interest at the going rate even though we created most of it to stabalise the market back in 2008. If you reduced the rate to base inflation your looking at 30 billion, this dents bank's profits but they've been creaming it in for the last few years anyway.
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  9323. No peace the Russians will fertile Ukrainian soil
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  9324. What damage while there not great there a vast improvement on the last 5 administrations
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  9325. we won't its scare stories from the fossil lobby More renewables means cheaper energy and a more distributed energy market rather than big multinational players dictating policy and price Wind forward contract prices for onshore reached parity with Gas back in 2019 and Gas has been getting more expensive ever since
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  9326. Tories shouldn't have salted the earth on the way out then. There was an answer to higher energy bills in 2021 go full steam on renewables instead they gave the energy companies 72 billion in subsidies last year
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  9327. 2 choices border down tthe Irish Sea or closer alignment with EU standards. Boris chose to lower UK standards and put the border down the Irish Sea no one else. Just face facts you elected a moron
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  9328. Your never a patriot in a month of Sundays There not illegal there asylum seekers, you can just sweep them away and pretend they don't exist they need processing and we don't take our share anyway It will get worse because of climate change so get used to it deal with it in a humanitarian manner and appreciate this country was built on wealth plundered from across the globe
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  9329. It's not biased in fact it gives complete idiots on the right a platform to guff off complete nonsense without be dragged through hot coals for lying thier faces off
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  9330. I have a lot of negative views about the Blair / Brown period but overall performance compared to what came before needs looking at in prospective. Osborne really did screw it up and laid the seeds for UKIP. The fundamental problem with the UK economy is Thatcherism. Its what's caused high immigration, lack of investment in skills and training ballooning Energy Costs Sh1t in rivers and a housing crisis caused by Right to buy and the near bankruptcy of 1/3 of English councils  @vincentvangogh8092 
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  9331. when your borrowing is 100% of GDP and you want to borrow 40 billion and simply give it to the rich with no discernible benefit what do you expect No fk off and by the way we don't want some of this debt we already have because your as mad as a box of frogs
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  9332. I get mine for free on the NHS my brother was seriously ill with covid this year funny thing is he decided he didn't need a booster. Has long covid now he should be OK but is recovering really slowly @pjj177 
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  9333. Highly infectious it was and we didn't have enough resources to deal with the numbers if it had just been left to its own devices. Lessons for future should be to make our schools safer instead of disease pits @yesmate78 
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  9334. And your going to what support the Tories? We're in recession, inflation is 4%+ average wages are -7% down from 2010 and portacabins are back in schools taking us back to the Thatcher years
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  9335. @BonusHole  new labour had average growth of 2.5% andwage growth of 20+% Brown's green shoots of recovery were strangled at birth by Osborne's Austerity
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  9336. and cost the treasury around 8 Billion in lost tax receipts why It would destroy the media ecosystem which having a public broadcaster has generated and also increase government spending on education (the BBC produces huge amounts of content for schools and the OU)
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  9337. Lack of anonymity does stop the Daily Hate Mail from spewing its toxic filth and lies
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  9338. 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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  9339. 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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  9340.  @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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  9341. Border force has been set up and is recruiting riots shut down in double quick time Rwanda Gone multiple renewable projects that had been sat on the shelf ready for Sunak to cancel have been expressed through Reading of the Clean Water bill last Friday start of a process to improve workers rights Putting forward plans to balance the budget for the 1st time in 14 years etc
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  9342. Current paye is high enough a load of the tax breaks for the wealthy need ripping out
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  9343. It's following the Dow All markets are interlinked I invest so follow this stuff
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  9344. we have a shortage of energy in the UK this puts energy into the world market and its not exported from the UK its all owned and run by global corporations when was the last time there was tax paid on the North Sea?
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  9345. To people on the Centre centre-right and centre-left it's about getting real and stop trying to promise a socialist fantasy Most people in that bracket would admit to Thatcherism privatised utilities as a semi failure but there not going to sign on to wasting 1 trillion renationalizing them
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  9346. Johnson is a complete Rake The guy is a serial liar and cheater with his partners how about the daily hate mail looks at that
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  9347. It's probably worse than the figures are currently showing the reason being young voters are breaking for the Democrats across the board in 2020 they picked up 70% of young voters. Also the GOP are keen on thier voters catching covid
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  9348. What uneducated bigoted and gulible?
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  9349.  @moiseshuerta3984  dream on the Ukrainians can rotate at the front line the Russians are stuck there fighting for what a piece of land that isn't there's Putin wastes his missiles on terror attacks the Ukrainians target logistics hubs and command centre's with data provide by the occupied residents. The sooner your conscripted the better it will get your foolish tongue off here
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  9350. KKK act how appropriate Discovery will be interesting
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  9351. You do know you would be voting for a Libertarian economic agenda that would primarily benefit the Billionaire class and Corporations especially the fossil industry?
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  9352. 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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  9353.  @tastypymp1287  True there's food and goods inflation vastly multiplied by Brexit
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  9354. NS is a centre/left if you want a Centerist view the The View is the podcast for you if you want Centre Right the the Times podcast GBeebies TalkTV etc will just rot your brain The current government are hard right and do fk all for anyone but the millionaires and billionaires as seen clearly in the budget they don't even give a shyte about SME'S and farmers anymore
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  9355. ​@dogglebird4430they all pay VAT
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  9356. @dogglebird4430  the Conservatives have asset stripped this country giving some of it to buy the votes of the boomers at the cost to the current young generation Times up were 100% debt to gdp that wealth needs u locking and putting back into the system. If you do not we will see an increasing rise in fascism but this time among the young not the sad half baked Reform version but more violent
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  9357. @dogglebird4430  boomers still vote Tory after being bribed with assets stripped from future generations, there needs to be more balance the only way to ensure more worker friendly policies is to dilute the pension vote.
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  9358. that would be nearly everyone you do know that all woke means is don't be a homophobic sexist racist arseh0le don't you? I could have added right wing as they seem to be the ones infected by a woke mind virus
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  9359. Brexit is an economic car crash and one of the reasons taxes keep having to go up @kevindare3113 
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  9360. Mordaunt isn't any better a history of lying
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  9361. If right wing economic policies are tanking the Economy and are responsible for the high legal immigration numbers why would the UK electorate vote for 5 more years of getting poorer and a completely failed points based system?
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  9362. @keithparker1346  the core problem is Thatcherism aka supply side trickle down + Austerity and we have a supply side shortage of Energy, Food, Housing & Labour Starmer has railed against a number of trickle down policies and the billions given in fossil subsidies + at the macro level is proposing GBEnergy to increase supply, reversing the current farming policy and housebuilding especially social housing Just by reversing some policies and chipping away at the above shortages by a few % points will have a huge macro economic effect the cost of the on demand gas generation for electricity is eye watering in price distorting the whole market there's just under 100 billion in fossil subsidies baked into the system etc.
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  9363. @keithparker1346  I've just said GBEnergy and you've put your fingers in your ears it may not be as much as people want but it's a complete reversal on current government policy increased energy supply will have a ripple effect throughout the economy if combined with planning reform. Gas spot price during winter is up to x6 more expensive than renewable the biggest problem is planning and grid connectivity at the momment
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  9364.  @fogellmclovin6278  Dubai hedge fund with links to a fossil lobby think tank also links to billionaire funded heritage foundation These people actually think there railing against the establishment when there just carrying water for the billionaire class
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  9365. 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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  9366. Even her own MP'S think she's a bigoted toxic witch
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  9367. Elon has an excuse he has Autism - something he coud do with therapy for Donald has ADHD and Dyslexia among other things but it's the alternate reality he creates around him that both the GOP and his supporters appear complicit with that is so strange
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  9368. I have to ask why if you want to lower immigration you need to change the economic model and invest in the UK that doesn't include lowering taxes scrapping regulations and turning the countryside into a Shale Gas wastelands
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  9369.  @jstewart4205  this is also not true the tax base was 33% under Brown, 33% under Osborne and 33% Under May, the tax base didn't start to go up till Sunak was appointed it's now 38%
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  9370. It's theatre the Rwanda scheme is illeagal on multiple levels the judgment made it clear you'd need to abandon nearly every intrrnational treaty and trade deal before getting close
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  9371. ​​ tax cuts don't generate growth. The low corporate tax rate went straight to share buy backs and increased ceo pay. Go look at the Data
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  9372.  @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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  9373.  @q9r8s7t6u5v4w3x2y1z0  ? they've nearly run out of smart munitions estimates are they have 20% left if that and all of the good stuff has western parts in it. By the way the inventory of tanks they claim they have is just everything that's been manufactured from the year dot to get it into the battlefield it needs regular maintenance which we know has been skimped on and the money gone to Mr Smirnoff. the Ukrainians are using layered defence you need 3-1 advantage to take ground and 5-1 to take ground in Urban areas
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  9374. You can make your own by the way if you have a sewing machine which is more than adequate and are not restrictive with a pocket to insert tissue papaer Instruction video https://youtu.be/9ljLYHedxyU
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  9375. Yet his policies have damaged our economy and his agenda if enacted would lead to economic collapse on par with Argentina
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  9376. Investment fell off a cliff after 2016 brexit vote there trying to generate anything they can to sell Brexit as a win because if you don't have large companies investing in the UK 7 years down the line after 2 external shocks its really difficult to hide the fact the economy is completely screwed The GDP they've got in the OBR is down to rising energy and food costs and everyone spending their entire salary at the bottom of the economy
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  9377. Biden's voter Base when analysed by district comprises of 70% of the US GDP so state funds as a % will proportionally by a large margin go to Red districts. The economy recovered months ago the only issue is it was in a K shape with as businesses transitioned to remote working the new factories with large spend on robotics went from strength to strength businesses such as Amazon boomed etc. That leaves a huge hole at the bottom of the economy the low paid across the board have taken a hell of a beating during the last year which this bill is mostly aimed at, how the GOP can claim to be for the working class is beyond me. There support among uneducated white males is weird as they are one of the hardest hit demographics by GOP policies it's like if the black guy gets it as well then no one should get it.
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  9378. I'd also add that this is a huge deal politically one of the key demographics that support Democrats is women especially working women with kids. This will solidify support but also becomes a rallying cry for 2022 to make the child tax credit perminent, smart policy
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  9379.  @buddha1736  The Cons have made that impossible by forcing a hard Brexit if you had the equivalent of the Irish Protocol or we were still in the single market it would be possible but now there shafted like everyone else.
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  9380.  @JohnDoe-hm2zz  Vote leave promised access to the single market Daniel Hannan and Nigel Farage both said we would be crazy to leave the single market and there not wrong. Thee rhetoric before the vote was of a Norway style deal. The Brextremists now want Singapore on Thames which is a complete fantasy based on the heady days of the British empire when we could force trade via gunboat diplomacy. Also the EU put plans in place in 2016 to decouple the City as much as possible from the single market. We are now stuck in limbo where farmers fisherman and manufacturing are getting crushed the City has had trillions in business yanked from it with no feasible plan to move forward bar endless worthless policy initiatives that don't have any money in them. Even refugee numbers have trebled duhhh borders have 2 sides
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  9381. With everything its spend per capita If you give out 1.25 million visas that's an extra 3.8 billion it needs at around 3k per head alone
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  9382.  @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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  9383. will he be the only president to be impeached twice then removed by the 25th amendment or is he going to just start a civil war.
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  9384. According to Oxford University researchers, ending fossil fuel use by 2050 will save the world at least $12 trillion (€11.3 trillion). The study disproves the fallacy that going green is economically difficult, says Professor Doyne Farmer, who led the study We are dependant on Fossil because the Fossil lobby want us to be and will do anything to stop the gravy train being turned off
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  9385. Renewables are cheaper free air and sun aren't subject to inflation and don't have 40% of world shipping dedicated to moving it around It's big downside is the multinationals don't control its price
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  9386.  @ML-xh1go  Reform are a protest party supported by the billionaire class to further a fossil agenda
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  9387. Their Neoliberal economic policies will drive legal migration same as the Tories
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  9388. 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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  9389. So your a billionaire with offshore interests then? Nice to know
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  9390. 75% of the media are seamless with the Con party there owned by billionaires and push billionaire interests Look up the piece by Byline Times The Billionaires Bitch Pulls no punches
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  9391. 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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  9392. Well at least it's easy for the psychiatrists to diagnose his multiple neurosis as there's plenty of material. The Qanon stuff is even crazy by right wing standards
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  9393. If you remove FOM and run supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism then you need migrant Labour and if its not coming from the EU then your giving permanent visa's to Indian and Nigerian workers who quite rightly won't come unless they fetch their families. Over half the immigration total is dependants If you want less immigration change the economic model institute an equitable progressive tax system and properly fund Social and Physical infrastructure to create a DEMAND side economy
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  9394. You position yourself so that you are seen as far to the Centre as you can be for the electorate then introduce change as the overton window moves under the pressure you put on it. Starmer has ruthlessly installed Starmerites he will be able to wield unlimited power in pursuing his agenda Sue Gray isn't a Blairite and he's handed Rayner a lot of responsibility
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  9395. One part of the green new Deal is to make houses as passive as possible so they use a fraction of the energy to heat or cool Events like this are a glaring foghorn on why a push for regulation on new builds and extensions should meet much higher standards for insulation and heat loss
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  9396. They save it money by reducing claims for sexism, racism & bullying
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  9397. It will take a decade to repair the damage the Tories have done to the economy and that is just to recover it to where it was in 2010
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  9398.  @TheShalalai  £1 of Public sector pay doesn't cost the treasury £1, by the time tax is taken and the cycle of tax and spend has taken it's course it costs the government around 20p in the £ Low paid workers spend all they get
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  9399. I've listened to the Bulwark they do focus groups on swing voters. Most think DJT is a Jerk and he's really p1ssed off women big style. Also these closing weeks he doesn't look appealing to parents especially if you have daughters.
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  9400. Meanwhile back on earth where covid rattles round for months if not years people adjust to thier new social distancing way of life, remember when you could go into a shop and browse as your next online order gets sent, those happy days when there were fans in stadiums and concerts were live not virtual. At least my diets better no pizza for a year now.
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  9401. 2010 corporation tax was 28% 2015 ish Cameron lowered it to 19% so 26% isn't that far what it used to be
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  9402.  @alanavery2002  The issue with low Corporation tax is it affects every company why would you say want major cash cow companies to only pay 19% Companies only pay tax on profit
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  9403.  @KJ-js7pi  It would help if everybody paid it and governments stopped allowing offshoring and tax shopping by multinationals The US are proposing a global minimum which Sunak was against by the way
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  9404. Nothing works because of right wing policies changing the Cons for a sh1ttier option isn't the cure quote Kwasi Kwarteng made the right decision in swiftly cutting taxes, Nigel Farage said, dealing a blow to global economic institutions which have warned against the economic policy.
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  9405. Its about oil and gas and the fact that Russia pays billions for the privilege of using Ukrainian pipelines Go look at a shale oil gas deposit map of Ukraine and what do you notice oh yea its mostly in the east and north look here there's lithium as well near Dinipro Its just piracy its about stealing Ukraine's mineral and fossil wealth and that's why he can't stop and why there won't be a ceasefire or meaningful peace talks
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  9406. 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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  9407. The FT did an economic analysis on it its basically the result of 13 years of Austerity pay cuts and increasing workload Part of that increase is severe staff shortages The Tories being the arseholes that the,y are would rather spend extra billions on supply and agency staff than fund proper wage rises After 13 years of Austerity multiple tax breaks for the rich a failed Brexit millionaire/billionaire wealth doubling over the last 2 years they now want to service that wealth by penny pinching the middle and lower class. Yet people like you come on and defend it tbh I think you and people like you have Stockholm Syndrome
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  9408. quote The Brexit cult that blew up Britain For a small band of libertarians, Liz Truss’ resignation is the final act in an 11-year project to remake Britain. It's over it was a lie all along supporting another Libertarian in Nige is a waste of time
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  9409.  @seanhedley8028  You voted for a border down the Irish sea at the general election remember Boris's oven ready deal
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  9410.  @JavaAndroid  more fool you taken in by a bunch of Con men Brexit's only goal was to unify the Tory party nothing else
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  9411.  @JavaAndroid  which EU law? There are no EU laws on the statute books
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  9412.  @JavaAndroid  in what way Brexit is a complete rudderless train wreck 7 years on still no plan no vision just rants from people like you about migrant workers. Why don't you turn your anger on the tossers that sold you this rudderless leaky boat of shyte instead of blaming migrant workers who came here to do low paid jobs
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  9413.  @JavaAndroid  we don't have any EU laws all laws on the statute books where voted in by the UK Parliament As for the ECHR why would anyone want to give up their right to a free trial, the right to freedom of religion etc you'd have to be barking to give it up Deregulation - in 2010 Osbourne/Cameron championed the gig economy and deliberately avoided regulting it or the companies that ran this model it saw and explosion of millions of low paid zero hour contracts jobs with millions being filled by Eastern European workers. It depressed wages across the board and produced zero economic benifit causing the political rise of UKIP and a steady shift to the far right by the Conservatives Do you think deregulation of workers rights and conditions will have any other affect bar suppressing salaries or change the government current practice of importing labour from the India Nigeria and the Philippines? They take you people for mugs and you swallow it hook line and sinker
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  9414. she is as thick as mince capital investment in infrastructure will reduce reliance on fossil fuel if you haven't noticed its being tied to fossil that is causing the cost of living crisis
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  9415. For what a good majority of the 20% left would never vote for the king of bullsh1t ever
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  9416. In 2021 Energy costs 30 billion in 2023 it will cost 170 billion Why the cost of GAS and a lack of investment especially the GRID infrastructure, renewable energy was cheaper in 2021 its multiple times cheaper than GAS now the Tories and Reform are gaslighting you over it
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  9417. why the last time they were in we had well funded services and wage growth
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  9418. Most are going on tax breaks for the rich This is Toryland why waste yet more money on more Consultants
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  9419.  @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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  9420. VAT, NI and Income tax aren't going up what is your problem? There was zero budgeting for public sector pay rises which both depress the economy and increase migration
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  9421. So here's my instinct, based on the science and data will work from home where possible get my groceries delivered and stay in social distancing mode till there's a vaccine.
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  9422. Taxes have gone up by 33% in real terms since 2010 My energy usage has gone down 80% since doing an extension and refurb due to modern insulation everywhere and moving to underfloor low temp heating It's not just energy production and storage its the whole package
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  9423. Eat less meat, I've started cooking more have more pulses in my diet and a couple of meat free days a week also cut out beef a lot due to my age and the time it's taking to digest. Feel a lot better off and have 3ven lost a few pounds
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  9424. Why would anyone on the economic left vote for another CON who is pedalling extreme Thatcherite Economics which is driving legal migration + there wanting Fracking and to Privatise the NHS?
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  9425. Have you read their Manifesto? Fracking - its about as popular round here as a dose of anthrax Deregulation? Our local river is swimming in sewage Low Taxation how? we borrowed 130 billion last year part of that was to cover the mess left by Liz More NHS privatization etc  @macca8562 
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  9426. Trump lives in his ow reality bubble the minute garbage comes out of his mouth its the new truth and he believes it. he's batshit crazy anyways.
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  9427. 750,000 is a result of hard Brexit and loosing FOM in 2019 we had net 200,000 an EU worker comes over here without dependants sometimes temporary in 2023 we have net 750,000 with wives husbands and kids coming from outside Europe REFORM & UKIP just turn off immigration they don't deal with the underlying economic model which will further contract the UK economy into a stagflation spiral.
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  9428. I take it your ideal state is North Korea then?
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  9429. Its owned by Murdoch what do you expect The 2 channels pushing this bilge are both owned by Libertarian billionaires and a lot of the so called experts they have on are from fossil lobby sponsored think tanks
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  9430. Which 2 ?
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  9431. There still getting on with stuff as for imploding it's media stuff There ignoring the really big bungs like Nige's 1 million a year
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  9432. Hire an EU Nurse and you get 1 Nurse Hire a Filipino Nurse you get her Husband and 2 kids 200,000 becomes 750,000 because of dependants and often times the EU worker went back home after a few years (200,000 is the 2019 level which the Tories promised to lower because hey Unicorns and Cakeism) People warned about removing FOM and they were ignored
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  9433. No they weren't the government took 80%
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  9434. No wonder the markets are spooked, there are 2 chances of him doing a trade dealing China fat and none, there is no trust in anything he says
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  9435.  @chrishart8548  My house has gone up from 30K to 500K since 1984 what's your point? In the last 10 years its increased by 30% while real wages fell by -3%
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  9436. Reform economic policies are the same rebadged Thatcherism + Austerity that's driving the economy down the toilet How much poorer do you want to get?
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  9437. There's suggestions on here about an alternate party instead of all coexisting in the Democratic tent. Elections are decided on a first past the post system, the Republican party could have split with the rise of the Tea party but it didn't they were absorbed and the party moved hard right. If you look at the UK where the vote is split between a number of centre left / left leaning parties the Conservatives have a huge majority with 40% of the vote the other parties combined are therefore in the majority but have no say. If I were in the GOP I'd really like the centre and left to split it would tilt the balance to Republican control for the foreseeable future, just saying Really enjoy your show David
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  9438.  @Patrick-bu5vy  That's on the back of them importing with Berlin not even producing yet. Where I live there's been marked increase in Tesla's you see on the road since about Aug/Sept
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  9439.  @mickzed6393  nearly all journeys are less than 30 miles the ones coming out of Berlin will do 300+ on aa charge? Went to Wales a couple of months ago only did 250 round trip what on earth are you talking about?
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  9440. That's not true in terms of return each EU worker contributed £80,000 more than someone born in the UK the figure for non EU migrants is only £20,000 though I suspect that figure will get revised downward. You need an additional £3,000 into the NHS for each extra body
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  9441. 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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  9442. UKIP Tories Reform what's the difference?
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  9443. Tice knows zero about economics the stuff he spouts has been debunked by over half a century of data He puts forward a belief system that's mantra is more akin with a cult than Economic reality
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  9444. The right wing media have hammered into the people again and again that it is tribal, the hard core Republican support has been indoctrinated into a belief that everything a Democrat does has to be opposed at all costs. They cannot be seen to have a win, the ultimate expression of this is Texas and Florida no matter how sensible and logical the covid response is they MUST oppose it. Biden cannot be seen to win even if it kills swathes of people and cripples state businesses he must be seen aa a failure at all costs. If they retake the house or the Senate it won't be gridlock anymore it will be revenge
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  9445. So should our parliment we have an extreme policy with no popular mandate the Cons got 42% at the last election most of which was a hold your nose we don't like Corbyn vote. So park the unelected
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  9446. Its cheaper for everyone to go green we stay with fossil because of the fossil lobby According to Oxford University researchers, ending fossil fuel use by 2050 will save the world at least $12 trillion (€11.3 trillion). The study disproves the fallacy that going green is economically difficult, says Professor Doyne Farmer, who led the study
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  9447.  @mattfinch3895  they are deploying more renewable capacity than any other nation on the planet there also adopting EV's at an exponential rate
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  9448. SME'S need a cut to Brexit paperwork which is costing 10 billion.
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  9449. The core issue is Supply side trickle down is a driver, don't invest in your domestic population and you need to import skills Plus Don't regulate your market as with zero hour low wage gig work and multi nationals will bend the system to breaking point The cost of your cheap uber is high net migration
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  9450. Immigration has quadrupled because of brexit get a reality check
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  9451.  @manvbees  the tax base remained at 33% for the last 2 decades till 7 bins came along what proof do you have that taxes will rise for the average person under Labour given you have no historical data to back that up?
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  9452.  @manvbees  Over the last 2 decades till Sunak took charge the tax base was 33% so what evidence do you have that a Labour government would be worse than the current lot in terms of taxation for the average person?
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  9453. GBN is owned by an offshore billionaire They are bricking it that the Right vote is split so badly it will leave Labour in power for a decade. They have 2 areas that will affect them with a Starmer government the 1st is the closing of tax loopholes for the very wealthy. If you look at the scare stories there putting up about Labour and tax if you look at IHT for example it shuts down being able to avoid the tax using complex offshore enteties. Second they want net zero gone as most have huge financial interests in Fossil whose price they can control via multinational cartels and the industry receives eye watering subsidies. I'm on the centre left of politics but have nearly all the same concerns over a variety of topics including migration, the right to me are all in on show pony stuff no real solutions to deep rooted problems Whatever side of the political debate you are on don't get locked into an echo chamber and always consider the other sides views
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  9454. Since when? Just because he's abandoned the fantasy agenda of the previous Labour leader?
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  9455. The current inflation is Supply Side Corporate Commodities with inelastic demand curves (essential food and energy) We need more energy and food independence now this should have been started to be planned for in February
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  9456. He did pro Bono work for human rights you didn't throw in leftie lawyer failing that there's always the Corbyn emergency lever
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  9457. Farage gets endless free publicity on TV, the Lib-Dems have huge numbers of activists getting the vote out on the ground as well as thousands of councillors. quote The Liberal Democrats have just over 3100 councillors across the UK, currently leading 69 councils across England and Wales.
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  9458. Don't worry Liz will come to the rescue of the rich with her corporate tax cuts loaded onto debt
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  9459. Baker is awful how much do you know about him his political leanings connections with the Radical hard right US Evangelical movement his ties to the Heritage Foundation a think Tank that is far right and sponsored by big Fossil interests? Non of the ERG are remotely Conservative
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  9460. People are spooked by the attacks on Warren and Bernie, CNN is very corporate and conservative.
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  9461. if you got rid of the ECHR you couldn't challenge any UK law that you thought was dodgy like the majority of the current policing bill, it was put in place post war to stop countries backsliding into National populist Authoritarianism. The thing is the Rwanda thing was never going to fly its a show pony question is why do they really want to get rid of the ECHR? we know Johnson is the Billionaires bitch Dorrie came out and confirmed it after the open letter in the Sun question is why do they want rid of it?
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  9462.  @rainman8619  Trump 4 years on is even more batsh1t than he was when he was in office and you get back to policy the Trump agenda is getting rid of all entitlement programs including Obama care and giving the money to his billionaire backers in tax cuts as well as raising taxes at the bottom as well as implementing the Christian rights agenda of a complete ban on abortion IVF and contraception
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  9463. Welcome to the land of Ludites Fartage gassing off again Smart meters reduce costs - the end
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  9464.  @oGrasshoppero  Putin was figuring he could destabilise NATO and get it broken up, Trump said he would withdraw in his presidential run in 2016 and credible reports that he would have in his second term. Bye bye Moldova Finland etc
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  9465.  @deeandrews7051  your blinded by party loyalty Trump has ADHD plus other personalty disorders is easily manipulated and has a low development age. His constant lying and trying to alter facts to suit his world view shows deep rooted signs of mental instability and psychosis. His constant pedalling of quack cures for covid his constant fixation on trying to dig dirt on political opponents his refusal to accept defeat in the election and the multiple attempts to cheat.
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  9466.  @johnnysalazar5163  no they weren't Trump was regarded as a useful idiot The fkwit had already been spouting Kremlin propaganda about ukraine being russian, with Trump it was like dealing with a petulant 9 year old the guy has severe ADHD
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  9467. He's just out of his time, the media want him as a front runner because he's conservative (not gop conservative) in relation to everyone else
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  9468. Quote Prosecutors provided new details about the weapons stockpile Oath Keepers had assembled at a Comfort Inn in nearby Arlington, Va. Quote Top Trump Official Was Ready to Use Military Against American civilians if they protested Trump's attempts to stay in power after losing the 2020 presidential election.  @Mellowyellow3 
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  9469. So true Vance is the billionaire choice the money is part of the package
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  9470.  @LB-eb2wx  there's around 13 million leave voters left, demographics and all with older daytime TV watching codgers no longer in the franchise.
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  9471. Yea right 1/2 her party are Nuts and stupid in equal measure praying to the Orange Jesus Trump is a plague the Republicans and there whako media brought on themselves
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  9472. ​ @marumaru6084 you do know it's right wing economics aka Thatcherism that's driving up legal migration amplified by Brexit don't you?
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  9473. According to Oxford University researchers, ending fossil fuel use by 2050 will save the world at least $12 trillion (€11.3 trillion). The study disproves the fallacy that going green is economically difficult, says Professor Doyne Farmer, who led the study We are dependant on Fossil because the Fossil lobby want us to be and will do anything to stop the gravy train being turned off
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  9474. No we don't were here because of 14 years of Conservative incompetence
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  9475.  @carlad2640  After the current global shocks the US under Biden is investing 2 trillion in renewable and infrastructure projects. Last year this reshored 1 million manufacturing jobs, created +3% GDP Growth and had population growth of 0.5% Last year the Tories collected record tax receipts and spent it on a slew of Trickle down tax policies which increased GDP by 0.3% at a cost of +1% to population growth.
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  9476.  @111111877  Averaged out through all Labour's years in office v Tories and excluding the Covid period Labour have borrowed a lot less and reduced debt by significantly more.
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  9477. @confederatenationalist7283  your talking Libertarian drivel The Cons are using the points based imigration system to import middle and professional class labour at <20% UK wages which is designed to suppress costs (wage growth) + they don't want to pay to train domestic workforce but spend it on trickle down tax cuts instead.
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  9478. @confederatenationalist7283  hardly relevant to today's discussion Quote from 1981 LONDON -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government unveiled plans for a $3.6 billion sale of state-owned oil and gas interests in the North Sea, confirming her determination to sell off industries nationalized by previous administrations Norway kept thiers and amazed a 1 trillion wealth fund
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  9479. @confederatenationalist7283  the general economic multiplier for generic tax cuts is 0.2 a £1 tax cut generates enough GDP to create 20p in additional taxation for a net loss to the treasury of 80p This was amply demonstrated by Osborne's corporate tax cut which generated 0.5% gdp growth for + 40 billion but cost the treasury 200 billion
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  9480.  @confederatenationalist7283  on your 2nd point labour want to invest in social capital ex training education childcare increasing the domestic workforce by allowing women to reenter the workforce
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  9481. @confederatenationalist7283  now your 3rd point on renewable energy the investment will lower electricity prices by quite some margin Octopus are already starting on the path of rolling out V2G tariff which is extremely low as the grid network changes that model will move to free. A Tesla MegaPack installation generates enough cost savings to pay for itself within a year, gas peak plant is the most expensive on the grid using grid scale batteries and EV'S connected for grid smoothing will save 10's of billions in costs + they are completely unmanned and software driven.
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  9482.  @confederatenationalist7283  vat was lower under Labour As far as I'm aware no tax cut generates > 1 how you distribute the tax burden is political ex raising the 20% threshold will be somewhere around 0.8 The lowest multipliers are from things like corporate tax cuts, bankers levy, fossil subsidies etc. Even zero vat rating is by all accounts very inefficient way of steering policy
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  9483.  @confederatenationalist7283  Labour's growth came from investment in social infrastructure, ex if you lower nhs waiting lists you have less workers off sick which increases gdp > than the cost of extra funding. Ex 2 increasing University places creates a higher skilled workforce pool that attract companies who need higher paid graduates who pay more tax than a grunt.
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  9484.  @confederatenationalist7283  cutting spending on services shrinks the economy Defunding the justice system during Austerity had an economic multiplier of 1.6 its estimated the increase in crime delays in processing lower prosecution etc and cost the economy around 500 billion in lost growth This cut services to save money creates its own doom loop, economy shrinks tax receipts fall less money for services so cut services rinse repeat if your economic policies create a low wage economy you'll get a low wage economy irrespective of migration hence +20% wage growth under Blair -7% to date since 2010 under the Cons see my answer on investment in social infrastructure. How does anyone pay for things through taxation the Tories have littered trickle down policies all through the system ex there's around 70+ billion in fossil fuel tax breaks The City has the nickname the London Laundromat
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  9485.  @confederatenationalist7283  So if I were chancellor tomorrow this is one of the things I would do Currently we spend 20 billion on housing support going to the private sector due to asset stripping policy of Right To Buy which doesn't replace the housing stock. 1st change the planning system to permissive development 2nd allow councils to buy then re-designate land 3rd allow councils to take loans to build council houses preferably in league with a private developer so we don't get a sprawl of social housing and the land sale will offset the social housing building cost. So the cost of building a small semi is 250k around 15-20% is profit and half the cost is land. If the council was in league with a builder to do a mixed estate your talking about borrowing for the council of around 100k per home or less, they could then rent it for 1/2 the current rate and use the money to pay the loan while reducing the housing support for 1 tenant to zero saving a huge chunk of tax payer money Do it at scale you have +20 billion to spend
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  9486.  @confederatenationalist7283  I take it you've never heard of agrovoltaiacs?
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  9487.  @confederatenationalist7283  why would bugs be on the menu? 15 minute cities are a good thing it means local shopping and well funded public transport as well as proper planning for schools hospitals doctors etc?
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  9488.  @confederatenationalist7283  15 minute cities are about planning and public transport please go read up on them not spout fringe conspiracy theory nutball stuff
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  9489.  @imbonkers3629  god your a muppet it works both ways people came here from the EU because we had jobs people leave here and work and traveled to the EU. Just because you put a fkwit like Cameron and Osborne in charge who broke the economy by refusing to regulate the Gig economy creating millions of low paid jobs and all zero hour contracts and screwed everyone with Austerity then blamed everything on foreigners. Along comes a bunch of twats from UKIP going look over there its all their fault while the Tories fleeced you rigid. now you think behaving like North Korea is some sort of win get a reality check
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  9490.  @mikeyacson9542  Tory policy is the disaster not Freedom of movement Quote from the Economist It is far too easy to run lawbreaking businesses in Britain The Tories are obsessed by small boats. They should stop the dodgy car washes and sweet shops instead Always judge a man by his shoes. What works as a rule of thumb for fashionistas also works for people rooting out dodgy employers in Britain. The best way to check whether a car wash is legitimate is to look at the workers’ feet, says Mary Creagh, the chair of Ethical Trading Initiative, which looks at labour abuses. A legal operation will have workers in proper boots, as they scrub vehicles by hand. A dodgy one will see poor souls scrubbing cars in soaking trainers. If a business is skimping on wellies, it is probably breaking other rules—whether paying below the minimum wage or hiring people who do not have the right to work in Britain. Hand car washes, of which there are at least 5,000 across Britain, are the archetypal example of Britain’s black-market economy. Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, fears that the tens of thousands of people who cross the Channel in small boats each year will “just disappear” into this economy unless something is done. The government has launched a crackdown on arrivals, signing a £479m ($575m) deal with France to stop migrants and announcing draconian new laws to detain and deport those who make the crossing. But as the government panics about small boats, it ignores the reason why many make the trip: the Conservatives have made it too easy to run a lawbreaking business in Britain.
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  9491. 60% of the vote went to pro protocol parties
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  9492.  @1969cmp  The dossier on the Biden's was right wing fan fiction, lookup Typhoon Investigations CNN is right wing biased it and other national and international outlets do check stories for being truthful and don't waste time on fantasy pieces. Trump takes you lot for suckers and marks to bleed any last dollar he can out of you, it's a con his presidency was smoke and mirrors with a vacuous cesspit of corruption underneath.
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  9493. The Westminster bubble just don't get why Corbyn and the Corbynistas were seen as metropolitan elite and out of touch with voters in the North. The voter base has really changed as over in the US older male uneducated voters flocked to the populist flag. Labour's new base is younger suburban and more educated and far more centrist than any of the pundits appreciate including the Left wing ones. If your paying rent and having to pay the student tax the last thing you want is for Taxation to go up.
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  9494. Its funded by off-shore Billionaire interests with connections to the Legatum institute a right wing think tank that's part of the Koch Brothers Libertarian climate denying network . GBNews is a at best an opinion show and at worst a Propaganda outlet using populism to support the Billionaire Libertarian agenda
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  9495. and there not affected by Tory inflation like everyone else? why brown nose for this collection of greedy Hunts and parrot Right wing talking points @williebobs3830 
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  9496. So who doesn't think DT could have turned the border camps into death camps with another 4 years in office the desensitisation was well under way
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  9497. clamping down on the Dysons of this world pushing up farm prices to avoid IHT what is obscene about that for a couple the new limit is 3 million
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  9498. Mines are closing because there not economic Coal generation is x 2.5 times more expensive than the latest offshore wind Our energy costs are the highest in Europe why Because successive Tory administrations have rolled back the renewable agenda to the point it takes 7 years to get a Pylon through planning, our homes are the worst insulated in Europe and you can't add mass storage to the Grid in multiple locations due to Old out of date grid software. Who pays you Nana oh right an offshore billionaire with ties to the fossil lobby enough said
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  9499. just go net zero and save money its easier 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.25 Jul 2023 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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  9500. you'll then have to fit air con I'd get insulating if I were you @Jack-fs2im 
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  9501. we have real world numbers on energy costs and I have thermal solar it provides 75% of my hot water based on current gas prices it will pay for itself in 7 years and after that hot water is mostly free. Pretty much how the cost of net zero technology works high up front costs covered by capital return over as little now as under 10 years @Jack-fs2im 
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  9502. Cost of energy produced from coal is 4 times that of renewables @paulnolan1352 
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  9503. There not the puppets of Libertarian fossil lobby think tanks - Truss IEA, Sunak Policy Exchange
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  9504. Most Asian migrants to the UK are deeply socially Conservative he's also from Kenya the Asians where taken over there by the British empire as Middle management
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  9505. No there not the Tories want you think that way so you turn a blind eye to ther corruption
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  9506. Most right wing government since Thatcher and your belly aching about being to Liberal? Pass the irony meter
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  9507.  @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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  9508. In 2019 the Nasdaq was 10,000 its now 17,000. Even with high rates if the Fed reduce rates it will break 20,000 before the end of the year
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  9509.  @williamwilson8582  There was a window of opportunity in 2019 the Tory rebels would have supported a government to sort out a deal and a 2nd referendum just not with Corbyn in charge. The only way for that to happen was for Corbyn and his supporters to swallow their pride and do what was best for the country they wouldn't do it and called an election instead with 2 years still left to run. What really winds me up is this constant ulegising of Corbyn he was was a complete failure when the country needed true leadership he went missing
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  9510.  @leshazell6050  He would have been removed there was no Tory majority. There was enough Tory moderates willing to back a national unity government to break the Brexit deadlock
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  9511. @SmartCookie2022  you obviously don't understand economics, renewable energy is cheaper than fossil the reason we pay high energy prices is that lack of Infrastructure investment. The reason taxes keep going up is lack of social and physical infrastructure investment by both government and the private sector it has nothing to do with green levies. Reducing tax doesnt generate growth investment does
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  9512. @SmartCookie2022  the bulk of new MPs will be Starmer picks he's taken control over selection in most areas, Rochdale is old school and likely loose the whip
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  9513. Don't be nieve Russia is a Mafia run state expansion is inevitable to feed the Oligarchs, as soon as crimea was captured businesses were confiscated and sold on the cheap to Putin's inner circle. There is no negotiation
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  9514. What's the difference between the 2 can't see any myself there both lowlife opportunists
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  9515. The answer to the economic mess caused by Thatcherism is more extreme Thatcherism? Not sure I'm following the logic here
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  9516. We've never gone for unfunded tax cuts before? what do you call Camerons from 2015 which pushed the deficit up to 92% of gdp by 2019
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  9517. Fake nationalism and a complete failure to take any responsibility for what theyve done
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  9518.  @areyoustupid.....  You do realise a privatised system would cost the government and the tax payer more? You'd still have to provide free medical for pensioners and families on in work benefits as well as those on long term sick and below the poverty line. By the time you've finished the bill wouldn't be much different to a state run universal system which currently covers everyone.
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  9519.  @lahtal1  very happy
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  9520.  @Nora.........  You know they could never raise the threshold don't you? There economic plan needs growth and you get growth through investment in social and physical infrastructure which needs MONEY. We are 2.3 trillion in debt and borrowing 130 billion a year Also If you want to get migration down you need to invest in social infrastructure training to your own so your not bussing in migrant nurses from the 3rd world. That means paying them properly and making tthe training FREE So call me cynical for not believing a word that bell end Elite Tice says
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  9521.  @Nora.........  we're 2.3 trillion in debt borrowing 130 billion last year Biden has invested 2 trillion in the US economy and they have +3% growth there gdp per capita has risen from 62k to 74k in 2010 it was 50k same as the uk our current gdp per capita is 45k. Tice and Co can't grow the economy by cutting taxes and neither can the Cons you grow the economy and lower taxation and immigration over time by investment.
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  9522.  @Eurobrasil550  we stopped training Nurses for free, we now fly in plane loads of Nurses from the 3rd world
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  9523.  @Tzhz  any private system would cost double the current cost and wouldn't reduce government budgets as the elderly and children would be paid for by the state. Privatisation does the following Privatised the Profits, Socialised the losses Look at water/ energy?
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  9524.  @Tzhz  We don't own any of our natural resources so no Fracking won't give us energy stability. It's controversial because it uses over 100 million gallons of water per site, blights the landscape around it and any leakage into the water table will poison the water for a large conurbation such as Manchester. It's also not cost effective the sites need moving on every 2 years with associated build and its estimated the price would have to be x3 the cost it was in 2019 to break even.
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  9525.  @robertlestylo6085  it's in there manifesto further use of private health care = privatisation Tthe singularity biggest problem with UK government services is the insane amount of money going out to outsourcing. Huge chunks of budgets go on needless paperwork managing it
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  9526. There will be not much of an option Dunno what brexiteers thought they could get away with if you trade into a market you have to follow thier rules and standards all they've proved is swimming up stream leads to standing still before exaustion sets in and you either go with the flow or die. If we don't hit our net zero targets for example in all likely hood goods and services will be excluded from US and EU markets if there going net zero they will force trading partners to comply
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  9527. Not true you can't get housing because the council housing stock has been depleted by 2 million by right to buy and money hasn't been spent to replace them
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  9528. We set it up post ww2 to stop countries backsliding into fascism You know like stripping someone of their citizenship or setting up a concentration/ labour camp that sort of insane populist Authoritarianism garbage
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  9529. nothing
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  9530. 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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  9531. ​ @thotmorgana why you'd just get depressed If your pulling in labour from outside the EU it's no longer transitory people have families it's permanent With FOM I could do contract work throughout Europe, for major building projects down south they fetched in loads of Eastern European workers who have since moved with the projects
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  9532. Reform aren't the answer there just rebadged right wing out of touch elites
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  9533. We're a signatory to the UN convening refugees go wash your brain out and start thinking No matter what they say or do at some point in time we will have to process the Asylum claim, no ifs no buts no Rwanda no b8tching at the French So this whole charade is theatre for the likes of you to get steamed up about. Go look up pavlov's dogs - thier yanking your chain
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  9534. You could do that by connecting more renewables to the grid Mmm hang on that would mean the government investing in infrastructure and sorting out the problem rather than private companies scalping consumers
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  9535.  @LukVik  when was he in power to disappoint you
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  9536.  @lydiamalone1859  I'll stick to the economic reports data and reality. If you want to go round claiming that Bloomberg Reuters the FT the BOE are all wrong and your right then good luck with that
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  9537.  @lydiamalone1859  The impact of Brexit on the UK economy will be worse in the long run compared to the coronavirus pandemic, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility has said. Richard Hughes said leaving the EU would reduce the UK's potential GDP by about 4% in the long term. FT The number of buyer-seller relationships fell by almost one-third. It also found that Brexit “increased average food prices by about 6 per cent Bloomberg Adam Posen said 80 per cent of the reason why the UK will see the highest inflation of any G7 country next year, as per the latest IMF forecasts, is due to the impact of Brexit on immigration and the labour market. Etc
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  9538. Since when did any Conservative or Conservative leaning party care about the working and middle class, your all deluded if you think Tice is other than some Billionaires pet or that Sunak cares if the roof on public buildings doesn't cave in
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  9539. The conservatives have had a super majority for 5 years with 80 seats and did sweet FA with it Were hoping we get the Lib-Dems as the official opposition that would be nice ZeroSeats
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  9540. So do they understand the toxic goop they push down the pipes into the ground to achieve fracking? One big spill into the water table and bam.
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  9541.  @juanortiz-nc1vn  the most corrupt potus ever 30 lawsuits 2 impeachment 100s of white collar criminals pardoned. The laziest with 300+ golf days. The stupidest - man woman camera tv The weakest, got pushed over by Putin and Kim Highest turnover and worst employer. Worst looser lost the popular vote twice the house the senate and the presidency. The list is endless
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  9542.  @5278ryan  an investigation into what? The only person pedaling this garbage was DT and a bunch of pscophants. You had 3 recounts + an audit of the largest democratic county in Georgia multiple audits in democratic strongholds and they've found nothing. Look at yourself nothing that's done will satisfy this insane narrative
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  9543.  @routmaster38  I've never bought a new car, in a couple of years your energy supplier will be giving you free off peak electricity if you sign up to V2G The tech saves them a fortune
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  9544.  @noelward8047  Net zero because it depends on some intermittent sources requires energy storage and a flattening of the demand curve. We now have the engineering and tech skills to do that. Once your not paying for very expensive peak production the wholesale price plummets
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  9545.  @noelward8047  looking at a high demand period last year average price was £200 kwh but the peak price was £6000. Its on the extremes but over £1000 in winter regullaly happens. Forward guaranteed contract price for Dogger bank offshore is £42. So storage and using smart tech has a huge impact on price.
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  9546. It would be better than 50% of the migrant labour fetching dependants which is driving up the numbers
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  9547. With the Republicans they have put forward that government is bad for so long and thier total abdication from governance is just on full display they deserve to get wiped out politically. They don't believe in anything except tax cuts
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  9548. 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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  9549. Subsidies? you mean as in tax breaks Let me remind you that worldwide fossil gets trillions in subsidies and an estimated 7% of the worlds GDP is spent on them The amount in comparison spent on renewables is a pittance in comparison
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  9550. He's offering something to centre left centre voters and pragmatic government to the centre right If your going to achieve net zero and get the country out of this housing gridlock you need a broad consensus I was pleased with the speech
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  9551. The left haven't missed a point they just don't care maybe we should join the EU to get guarantees like this If you are legally resident in an EU country you are entitled to open a "basic payment account". Banks cannot refuse your application
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  9552. Most economists have said the NI increase will have a negative effect but the businesses get full relief on capital investment now. In terms of investment will this jump start companies into improving productivity which has been sliding for over a decade and a half rather than relying on cheap labour a lot of which in the public sector is filled with migrant labour?
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  9553. And that was a CON he instigated hard right Thatcherite Economics coupled with Austerity which has only been accelerated under Sunak @timonsolus 
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  9554. Tice is just another elite CON man pedalling Thatcherism as the answer
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  9555. Rules for thee not for me {let them eat cake
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  9556.  @paulwainwright6903  what the party of fantasy economics who are continually boosted by a Libertarian offshore billionaires Propaganda station GBN Your having a laugh The same tw@ts that sold you brexit
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  9557.  @paulwainwright6903  GBN owned by an offshore Libertarian billionaire who has connections with us climate denial fossil funded groups is promoting them nuff said
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  9558. Planning Build houses Faster rollout of grid upgrades GBEnergy Renationalizing railways Build more council houses Change employment law Etc
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  9559. @zoltan-zq3xe  Venezuela is run by a Dictator
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  9560. 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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  9561.  @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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  9562. since when supply side reform would bankrupt nearly all SME's and farmers flooding the UK with low quality cheap imports
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  9563. 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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  9564. Not taxing them is a subsidy one which I do not wish my hard earned money spent on Why should working people subsidise the wealthy?
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  9565.  @NobbingNobby  What's that got to do with the price of fish Private tutors pay their taxes as do tutoring businesses yet were supposed to give the wealthy a free lunch to the tune of 6k per pupil. The bulk of the pupils at the nearest private school to me are foreign it's a business
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  9566. 110% of next to nothing is still next to nothing
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  9567. @casadellangelo It's the main reason Reform started rising in the polls you can track their polling lounging at 6% till brain dead Sunak started doubling down on it
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  9568. The coup clan of neo-fascists latest hobby bamboo sniffing Complete collective cult madness
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  9569. why the only people paying it are making a profit and not investing it in their business
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  9570. The reason the economy is going down the sh1t hole is right wing economics So Labour won't destroy the country they will invest in stuff like UK Nurses so we don't have to import them from Nigeria with their husband and Kids. Jeez you people are Mugs you don't have a clue what's driving legal migration do you?
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  9571. I hope the next debate focuses on corruption, this needs sorting out as Priority 1 coz sleazebag Mr Orange is going to cheat lie and steal at every turn to keep himself in power. Even with new laws its going to take 2/3 cycles to clean up both houses to get to a point where politicians are more prepared to engage instead of bowing to the will of their corporate masters.
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  9572.  @kinginthenorth5267  there's still 50 billion in unfundeded tax cuts debt to GDP at > 100% and a market response which has increased government borrowing costs by +2% in the last 10 days We have now thanks to this bunch the real spectre of housing market crash as the base rate is likely to go to 5.5% and borrowing rates will be 7/8%
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  9573. Biden can't take Warren as veep the bankers and money men will have a complete meltdown, tactic would be to bring her on board after the election as Secretary of treasury or commerce. Abraham will get a role in election reform. Biden may look a soft touch but he knows what needs doing and will be heavily influenced on leaving a legacy.
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  9574. The only plan that's important is getting the corruption and money out of Washington, anything else is a bonus, that's assuming there is an election in 2020 don't put it past the Orange Mussolini to suspend them or just ignore them and claim there rigged.
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  9575.  @hullabaloo9824  The facts are the facts even if you lean right DJT is a misogynistic race baiting A hole who is getting more outrageous as he declines mentally
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  9576. The economic outlook is that grim and the lack of any real policy that would deal with it outside of some great hope that Big Bang 2 could somehow regenerate the economy when in truth all it will do is widen the wealth gap between the City and everywhere else it would surprise me if the Cons win any seats outside the South East even then the Greens will get traction especially if the water companies start going bankrupt.
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  9577. Its nothing to do with taxes in India if your a resident in the UK > 183 days you pay uk takes unless your super rich then you claim non dom and avoid taxes altogether It's a loophole a Con a way for the rich to cheat
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  9578. We've seen record corporate profits and record remuneration to CEO's Thers a battle on with new technologies emerging driving down costs and disrupting the heels of the established players, the US economy is adjusting
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  9579. @christinalayzelle832   UK Needs Immigration Points System says Nigel Farage UKIP Leader We have a points system and have lost FOM Immigration has more than trebbled because workers outside the EU fetch over thier families It's like watching an exercise in Stupidity
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  9580. He's just shilling for the fossil companies who are screwing people for trillions Quote A multimillionaire Brexit donor funding anti-‘net zero’ campaigns is the director of a company with tens of millions of pounds invested in oil and gas. The revelation comes as chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to bow to pressure from the motor industry and cut fuel duty in his spring Budget statement on Wednesday. Investment manager Jeremy Hosking has given millions to political parties including the Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party/Reform UK, as well as Vote Leave. Recently, he has been bankrolling Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party, which has campaigned against ‘net zero’, and has been linked to a climate denial group.
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  9581. 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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  9582. Banks have internal procedures against money laundering fraud and Unexplained wealth if your politically active there are increased requirements It's for one of the above his account will have been closed not for being a populist bell end
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  9583. Yea right go with the biggest looser and worst president in US history Lost the house Lost the Senate Lost the presidency Laziest president ever 300+ days golfing Told the most lies of any president 40k + Worst recession in living memory Worst pandemic response in the western world 450k+ dead Worst deficit fueled by gigantic tax cuts to the mega wealthy and corporate America Most court cases for sexual assault (2 pending 1 for rape) coupled with another 30 allegations against the Predator in Chief Broke every promise he ever made to his supporters like the Mexican wall (yes you paid for it and there's a lofty five new miles of it gee wiz), brand new healthcare (never appeared and tried to strip millions of the cover they already had).
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  9584.  @Nikl0498  the truth hurts go back to your culture wars and pretending you weren't taken for a suckers by the biggest Con man ever
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  9585. Railtrack is already back under public ownership As an aside the railways made 500 million in profit last year curtesy of the government payed bosses bonuses and a 6% pay rise plus gave a fat dividend to shareholders In other news there is intense lobbying to get pay and bonus caps removed on City bosses as deregulated City pay is seen as a Brexit benefit
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  9586.  @stevec6427  I agree 100% we need a unified public transport policy this piecemeal privatised mess is unworkable Corbyn what a disaster and to think it could have been Burnham anyway
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  9587. 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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  9588. There advocating fracking so in the pockets of the fossil industry, as usual follow the money
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  9589. 58% of the country are voting for progressive parties and tactically voting in their droves
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  9590. Either way there hemorrhaging moderates and alienating younger voters
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  9591. we have 40,000 people here who should have been deported already and aren't because she does nothing. All the talk of ECHR and UNCR is a distraction. She was speaking at a right wing Libertarian think tank The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research mainly funded by big oil such as ExxonMobil These people dont give a sh1t about working and middle class there sole purpose of existing is to screw as much money out the system for the billionaire and corporate class there no different to the IEA who where pulling Truss's strings
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  9592. The Democrats can nominate who they want same as the Republicans its up to the Convention If its a turnout election Dems win by a landslide there is just more of them which is what happened in 2020, the gop campaign is nothing but negative trying to suppress the Democratic vote. They offer nothing especially given how good the economy is crime at record lows and border crossings too.
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  9593.  @MrBannystar  there eating the dogs There's 600,000 people of Hatian heritage in Florida And Roe is on the ballot And Women hate creepy lecherous grandpa
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  9594.  @MrBannystar  I would add that given his mental decline which is on full display his erratic behaviour threatening everyone and anyone, calling every one a cheat already as he descends into madness anything is possible.
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  9595.  @tbagandfriendschannel5466  last russian propaganda video I saw was them bragging about captured NLAW missiles the dumb idiot doing the filming panned round the front the tube covers were missing meaning they'd all been used NLAW is single use they'd collected all the discarded tubes.
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  9596. Fantasy economics been their with Corbyn who got shellacked in 2 elections
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  9597. Bought his mum a field next to her house to run a donkey sanctuary Done loads of pro bono work on human rights
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  9598. Nearly all of them Labour won a landslide after the war
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  9599. May's deal is a million times better than Johnson's We didn't vote to leave the Common Market We didn't vote to have FOM ripped away from us Norway aren't in the EU yet for Tory politics we've had Tory shyte brexit rammed down our throat by the biggest bunch of lying arseholes ever to grace politics
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  9600. We have eye watering levels of personal taxation due to Thatcherism = Supply Side Economics We have private utilities we have no control over because Thatcherism We have no control over our North Sea deposits because Thatcherism Osborne Sunak same old failed policies recycled Thatcher got away with it by bribing people with Oil tax money and a one off sale of Britain's assets its a total failure since Supply-side economics assumes that lower tax rates boost economic growth by giving people incentives to work, save, and invest more. A critical tenet of this theory is that giving tax cuts to high-income people produces greater economic benefits than giving tax cuts to lower-income folks. Essentially, the more money the rich are able to keep, the more the whole economy will grow. But the evidence reveals two fundamental problems with this story. First, its primary prediction is wrong—giving tax cuts to the rich does not increase economic output or create new jobs. Instead, tax cuts for middle- and low-income taxpayers are much more effective at boosting macroeconomic activity. Second, supply-side theory misunderstands the actual mechanism by which tax rates influence macroeconomic activity. While supply-siders maintain that lower rates at the top incentivize people to earn more money, the evidence shows that tax cuts boost output mostly by putting money in people’s pockets and thereby stimulating demand. Why is supply-side economics controversial? Opponents of supply-side economics argue that rather than increasing revenue for the government, lowering taxes will instead increase the deficit. As a result, the government will have to cut programs or raise other taxes to make up for this shortfall, unless it wishes to run a permanent deficit.
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  9601. It has to be so to break through the noise and create a conversation about social infrastructure. The right wing media echo chamber will denigrate and lambast any Biden initiative thier entire role in life is to make Republican supporters as angry as possible and to try make Biden fail even if it hurts them. This also sets the tone and while it may have no impact in Washington it creates space to talk to state and local leaders
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  9602. He shades Trump just by speaking and all The GOP have is naked hate and racism to a man who rises above thier pettiness and lack of inner strength like a beacon
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  9603. The country has had a stagnant economy since 2010, last time we had growth in wages was Blair
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  9604. It's cheaper which is why governments are keen to get it up and running
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  9605.  @Steve_Green  This comment really depresses me. It shows that the fossil lobby and there enablers in the media and government still have too much power over a false narrative, we are well beyond the One Day by years. Renewable Power per unit cost reached parity with Gas back in 2020 and since then is the cheapest on the Grid. Back in 2018 Tesla switched on a MegaPack facility in Australia. Quote Tesla’s 100MW/129MWh Powerpack project in South Australia provide the same grid services as peaker plants, but cheaper, quicker, and with zero-emissions, through its battery system. The giant battery cost ~$66 million and it reportedly already made up to $17 million during the first ~6 months of operation. It is estimated that Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced the grid service cost by 90%. it is estimated that Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced the grid service cost by 90%.
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  9606. Its neither GB (run by an offshore entity with links to a Libertarian billionaire sponsored think tank) nor News it's marketed as opinion at best and right wing propaganda and conspiracy mongering at worst. Its part of the Tufton street mob such as the IEA who pulled Liz Truss's strings nearly bankrupting the country Mayfair-based Legatum Institute, which advocates for free market economics has courted senior Government ministers through Shanker Singham, who led a self-styled ‘special trade commission’ for the organisation. The Legatum Institute was founded and funded by the Legatum Group, that has invested millions in GB News.
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  9607.  @Theforestbandit  I won't I've never voted Tory in my life
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  9608.  Phil_Mitchell  Ben Wallace did a 1/2 decent job The reason there flailing around is the economy what's driving it into a Doom loop is Thatcherism + Austerity × Brexit If your ideologically wedded to all 3 then come May if there's an election the Tories will have less than 100 seats Look this year will see UK energy consumers fork out 170 billion up from 2021 total of 30 billion, its unsustainable and Sunak's answer is more gas/oil licensing which takes 10 years to come through the system and is sold on world commodity markets anyway.
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  9609. cars from 2008 onwards meet the emissions standard
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  9610. why the numbers put the Trump economy on par with hoovers and then there's the 8 trillion of debt
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  9611. I plugged our GDP from 2010 into THE BOE inflationn calculator 2010 - 2.6 trillion 2023 - 3.1 trillion (Actual) 2023 - 3.6 trillion (2.6 + 13 years of inflation) Do people really want 5 more years of getting poorer? Anyone believing the Cons are fiscally responnsible is delusional
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  9612. Keep to policy and economics we saw the result of personal slurs yesterday, its easy to decend into a bad place
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  9613. Tice is an elite grifter his solution is give him the unlimeted power. We know whhere that ends dont we children
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  9614. These conspiracy theories have been doing the rounds for hundreds of years, people need to go read up on the historical evolution of this stuff Germany went down the rabbit hole way too much and the whole world got burned. Anti sematism is a huge factor in scapegoating people's fears onto a nefarious group or so called world order.
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  9615. 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.25 Jul 2023 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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  9616. @terryo5672  what nonsense we can run a house currently off near zero energy by adopting passive house standards yet according to you were decades away ? Net zero isn't 1 big supergrid it's thousands of small measures to eliminate fossil usage. Insulation of homes to reduce energy usage, move to more effective heating system using less energy such as underfloor, adopting solar thermal to supplement hot water generation, solar + battery to aid a meshed grid network, V2G for EV grid smoothing
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  9617. You don't seem to understand how any of this tech works or affects the grid or how quickly it will rapidly take over due to its substantial cost savings or how rapidly the development and the cost saving needle continues to fall. By adding about 300 MW of storage, ERCOT will generate approximately $1 billion in savings in 2025. This is from a one time purchase of 750 million (this is over in the states where gas prices are cheap) quote from Octopus who are also implementing a new FIT tariff With vehicle-to-grid, your EV can be used as a battery pack, letting you sell stored excess battery back to the grid when demand for energy is peaking. We’re trialling this tech now with our groundbreaking Powerloop bundle, one of the world’s first mass domestic V2G projects.  @teryd5672n 
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  9618.  @qetoun  They've already left gone from UKIP to Tory now flirting with Reform and all 3 are proper Neoliberal. We were never part of the Euro so our Austerity and fiscal policy was of our own making. There really wasn't much to dislike for us about the EU even the inward migration was down to government policy as can clearly be seen now.
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  9619.  @qetoun  all 3 had really high debt too gdp ratios before the crisis by 2010 Greece's had spiralled out of control. Our debt in 2010 was 62% borrowing is down to market for confidence. Bottom line for Greece was their politicians chose Austerity over Refotms
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  9620. Unemployment benifit like UBI is to pump money into the economy those at the bottom spend 100% of all income if you lock it up in executive bonuses and share options the middle gets squeezed and crapped on again. Unemployment is a temporary benifit who would roll the dice and not use that time to search for another job, has no one seen the queue for food parcels?
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  9621. Wind is 17% of the mix the issue is storage there isn't any including decommissioning our LNG store
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  9622. There's only so many white over 50 angry men thier vote has a cealing of around 15%
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  9623. Well over 50% of the US population hate his guts and actively voted against him, his popularity is 42% he even got a bump on that figure because of party loyalty. His odds of winning the popular vote was zero, he lost every demographic bar uneducated white voters his downfall wasn't the metro areas where he was always going to get burnt but the suburbs
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  9624.  @danielcuddihy4273  our exports by volume are down by 7% Was driving through Germany last month 100s of new wind turbines coming on stream. I use the Ft and ons for data Our economy is barely on life support headline data is bumped by importing 2 million workers in the last 2 years and the data your trying to fob me off with isn't adjusted for inflation
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  9625.  @danielcuddihy4273  The Conservatives' economic record since 2010 in 10 charts 2 Mar 2024 — The performance has been ranked as the worst period for pay growth since the Napoleonic wars ended in 1815. The IPPR thinktank estimates the UK has underinvested to the tune of half a trillion pounds, or 30 Elizabeth lines. Most visible in crumbling schools, hospitals and infrastructure, it argues this lack of investment is behind key reasons for lacklustre productivity gains – a key driver of economic growth.
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  9626.  @ricochet2977  it was tied to 60% gas generation even with a big renewable expansion you still need base load till mass storage catches up
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  9627.  @ricochet2977  because NI can never leave the EU due to the Good Friday agreement which guarantees open borders in Ireland
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  9628. He's been at it for a decade or more Nigel Farage has dismissed criticism of his praise for Vladimir Putin - insisting the Russian President deserves more respect than David Cameron.2014
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  9629. @choppsiepacino8181  Stalin killed 4 million Ukrainians during collectivisation latterly stole their wheat and starved them to death. Russia also invaded Poland with the Germans and carved it up. When Germany turned on Russia Stalin had 200,000 political prisoners murdered. Putin is of the same stock you don't appease kleptocratic bullies
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  9630. A stuffed monkey would do a better job
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  9631. World beating Stagflation The week that the cabinet decided to remove caps on fat cat City pay, manager of Birmingham Airport had a 49% pay rise, Heathrow Airport director got 85% pay rise and Manchester 25% If the fat cats get any fatter they'll be unable to move for all that money
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  9632. I have an 80 year old mother in law with it, Joe is just old this last year has seen him slow down quite a lot
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  9633. His covid response is killing people and he's running round like an infected lunatic. The guy is a complete and utter mental mess, if he were any where else but President he would have been relieved of his duties and hospitalised he's an actual danger to himself at the momment.
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  9634.  @MAHAMLW33  the travel ban didn't do anything, there were too many exceptions, far from banning travel there should have been mandatory 14 day quarantine but that would have impacted the business travelers most who were the ones exempt from the ban. Pandemic control and management is a complex and multifaceted operation best left to experts, one of DT's biggest failings is him wanting to inject himself and politicise every part of the process. If a vaccine becomes available it will need a huge logistics effort to get it manufactured and distributed and with DT in charge putting his fingers all over the process it's a car crash waiting to happen he is not a good businessmen or a competent leader, he's also got a habit of surrounding himself with fools.
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  9635. @archvaldor  Corbyn offered nostalgia the renationalisation program would have met the same fate as Truss's foray into unfunded tax cuts, he wasn't offering a bold vision just trying to rewind Thatcherism I agree Blaire could have done more but economic models show the 2 years of Brown + his policies would have seen a +15% rise in average wages from 2010 to 2019 instead of stagnation and tax cuts for the wealthy It wouldn't have addressed the underlying economic problems the UK has Blaire and Brown where Centerist, Starmer and Reeve are Centre Left the whole pitch at the next election will be transformation based on energy the devolution will be to remove Londons vice like grip on the economy and provide a mechanism which will block public asset stripping of the new renewable technologies. There's no instant nationalisation magic bullet it will be hated by the right and mocked by the left for not being bold enough As an aside Reeve is an advocate of Keynsian demand side economics the Tories run Supply Side Trickle Down the 2 are so polar opposite in the economies they produce, Brown ran a mix of the 2. At a macro level that's why the economy at the bottom was so different once the Tories took over.
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  9636. No there not round our way Con voters are sick to death of this absolute shower (Blue Wall) they want Net Zero and charging points for thier Tesla's And there disgusted at the far right culture wars while schools and the NHS go to RAAC and ruin. There also completly p1ssed off with BREXIT and having THIER freedom of movement taken away
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  9637. The only people I know reading the daily Mail are over 80 and the Westminster bubble. & The Guardian is to Westminster focused just on the centre left The voting public aren't that radical they'll generally vote for the nearest the Centre given a choice  @chesterdonnelly1212 
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  9638. Back from who? Brexit quadrupled migration that was Nige big idea?
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  9639. I think this is teeing up an attack line from Labour, vote Tory and you'll get Farage in through the back door as they ditch Sunak after the election and install a new leader again
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  9640. so you'd give away my human rights just to be an arse to migrants - no thanks
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  9641. Why Reform? They have zero ground game There was also a huge amount of voter suppression going on as well as tactical voting coupled with a Tory campaign of a dystopia fictional world designed to scare the cr@p out of previous Tory voters. You can see a good 7-8% deserting them when the NHS starts working better and the trains run on time
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  9642. Ahh Donald's favourite crime FRAUD he is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree
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  9643. At least they'll remove the 20% threshold freeze and tax excess energy profits with a windfall tax both of which are literally killing the working class @wallacewhybrow2705 
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  9644. Sunak needed to throw off the lies of the Johnson era instead he's pedalling his own whoppers were the party of tax cuts pffffffff 7 bins meat tax he couldn't even get his tax bombshell lie straight 2k over years is £400 a year
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  9645. You'd have got a rise in pension age to 68 further unfunded NI cuts and public service collapse with the Tories so stop carping, the alternative is an emergency budget and general taxation going up
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  9646.  @davide2975  quote Workers are about £11,000 worse off than if pre-2008 trends had continued, estimates the Resolution Foundation. After 14 years of Conservative Party rule.
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  9647. How was Sunak going to pay for the 20 billion shortfall caused by his unfunded NI cut?
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  9648. @abunawagbor6479  they weren't train drivers they were rail workers many on just above minimum wage, the raise they got still meant that they were getting less pay than in 2019 adjusted for inflation. The government habit of suppressing public pay, not dealing with the strikes then using the visa exception system to ship in low wage migrant labour has been badly damaging our economy and making things worse.
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  9649. Inflation set to go back up next month CPIH (+ housing) is still at 2.8 and RPI is running at 3% why do you think Sunak called an election things will get worse
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  9650. Why lie? It takes 30 seconds on the Internet to disprove your BS, are you that enthralled that you loose any sense of dignity and just prostrate yourself to your boss like some nodding dog?
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  9651. ​ @lochnessmunster1189 don't be a chump Common standards trade rules and tax made supply chains and trade down to a sole trader on amazon or a part time covers band doing the summer in France seamless. Replaced with tons of red tape delays tarrifs and a fked supply chain all of which is costing billions a nd crushing trade
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  9652. 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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  9653. ​ @allanbriggs9007 She is of the same ilk as Biden and moves to the political centre wherever that maybe. By being slightly centre left she has made it a turn out election in the Obama mould the campaign is all about moving forward firing up enthusiasm and offering a stark contrast to a bitter nasty old man
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  9654. spot on why don't his supporters get it
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  9655. DT sowing the seeds of doubt about mail in has galvanised people to drop off early and vote early its probably too late already.
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  9656. no they don't there economic policies are a complete car crash Low Tax Low immigration dont work go ask the Tories
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  9657. Both the EU and US are looking at Reshoring Strategic Production with Labour we will do the same
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  9658.  @Withnail1969  Not sell out the country to billionaire foreigners like Musk Teal etc and the Oil Barons
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  9659. net zero policies reduce energy costs why do you want to pay more?
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  9660. Delusional, Johnson and the DUP have already lost there's a de-facto border down the Irish sea weather they like it or not courtesy of trade gravity. Businesses love a frictionless border rather than the blonde twt's hundreds of pages of import/export documentation Vet certificates etc. The NI economy is completely aligning with the South, GB is being abandoned as a land bridge and ferry trade is routed through Cherbourg to Southern Ireland then North. The DUP won't have a majority in an election to sabotage or stop what's already happened in fact they will loose seats both the the fanatics to the right of them and moderates to the left
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  9661.  @leehenry5764  hgv shortages are about 8-10% in Europe and 25%+ in the UK plus the Johnson deal removed frictionless roll on roll off trade and ended cabotage so pick a number as to the real shortage some haulage firm are reporting up to a 1/3 of their fleet being off the road.
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  9662.  @leehenry5764  what's your point given there's a 50% pass rate and the haulage industry is loosing 8k per annum thev have an average age of 55? Current government policy will only make the situation worse.
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  9663. Why would you vote for a bunch of racist tossers who want to bring fascism back into fashion? There economic policies are even worse than the Cons and thats saying something
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  9664.  @davidbarrass5210  A populist on both sides of the spectrum is still a populist
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  9665. Republican registration is down to 25% of which only 3/4 are Trumpers. Indipendant voters make up the biggest block at 40% And Democrats gained to 32% Trump has never been popular his final day's has sealed his fate
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  9666. There not in favour there just not touching the tax system at the PAYE level till they sort out some of the Tory mess
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  9667. Lets be clear School fees have a TAX exemption on vat That exemption equates to 6,000 per pupil the cost to educate a pupil in public school is £9,000 Also In my area over 50% of private boarding school pupils are Foreign, Its become a business
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  9668. Badenoch lies a lot as well This skirting with the truth seems to have mushroomed with brex1t and Boris
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  9669.  @jimpaddy79  quote That Russia serves as a reliable cash machine for Europe’s far-right political forces has long been an open secret. Back in 2014, for example, French media reported that the country’s far-right National Front party had funded its election campaign with loans worth €11m from Russian banks.
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  9670.  @omikhan6411  Yea thousands in unmarked graves an economy in the toilet because he spent trillions on unfunded tax cuts trump by the numbers + 8 trillion onto debt (4 in tax cuts) -3 million jobs, -3.5% GDP, -150,000 manufacturing jobs etc. etc. And don't bleat on about Cov the economic impact has been calculated at a one off -2% to GDP
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  9671. Paying decent salaries is beneficial to the economy as a whole, one of the reasons the economy is stagnant and migration is high has been the depressing of public sector wages by as much as 30%
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  9672. I couldn't have ever voted for him nor would any of my family my Dad was a paratrooper in the war lost half his immediate family to Russian atrocities, there's no way a peacenik Socialist Intellectual idealogue who has never solved a political problem in his life or compromised to get anything done could ever persuade me to support him. I'm socially Liberal fiscally left leaning yet he was electorally toxic to a huge swath of the voting public especially elderly voters like me.
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  9673. Sunak has flip flopped more than Starmer there's the 23 tax rises for start of and there isn't a right lot Labour can do as The Tories literally salt the earth on the economy. Hunt has already broken his own fiscal rules they've been warned by the IMF and you can see another run on gilts if they push there luck
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  9674. so that when politicians fk up they can stop the economy melting
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  9675. 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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  9676. The man that sold you the bucket of sh1t that is Brexit which has driven migration to record levels and cratered the economy?
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  9677. he's lied and cheated his way through life so why will he stop now? He turned NO10 into a Frat house all that was left to do was have a TOGA party dancing round the lawns singing ogi ogi ogi while doing the conga The guy is an entitled untrustworthy slime ball you want to support that kind of Snake fine but on you it is
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  9678. Not that I'm not sympathetic to young people's plight in having to work in a low wage Tory economy
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  9679. @limpethead  no he its made up cr@p by the Tories to frighten you into voting for them It would crash the pension market as billions were withdrawn at the same time
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  9680. @limpethead  that's Tory scare tactics to get you to vote for them it would crash the pension market if they tried We've already had the Truss event wiping 425 billion off pension savings
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  9681. Why he's bulldozed Johnson's deal over the line Brexit was only ever meant to glue a fractured Tory party together which it did with great success but there was never a viable post brexit plan we will slowly limp back to regulatory alignment with our tails between our legs to some form of May type deal post 2024
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  9682.  @lewis123417  nothing that's the point the NI economy will flourish inside the single market while the GB one steadily spirals down the toilet. Fun fact EU gdp is greater today than it was in 2019 with uk as a member The GB economy in gdp terms is still less than 2019
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  9683.  @LowPlainsDrifter60  you'd have thought empty shelves and food rationing but apparently that's bad weather nothing to to do a completely broken supply chain that can barely hold it together with all the cards stacked in its favour the slightest nudge and it just falls over
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  9684. There a lot more British focused than the C9ns who are breaking up the Union
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  9685. QE is partly responsible but Energy is the chief driver in this case Its estimated that the UK energy market will make 170 billion in excess profits over 2 years the sooner we transition to renewables the better to be honest
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  9686. Bit of a contrast to Poodle Pence, wonder if there going to run the birther playbook, they've been running ads saying Joe is a tool of the far left and will defund the police, how are they going to do that at the same time as sledging her prosecutor record. The trolls will have thier talking points scripted they were all over CNN today
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  9687. Why all the bleating on here none of you are ever going to qualify for the higher tax rate Do any of you ever bother to read these proposals in detail? Between administrations on both sides over a couple of decades my tax burden has hardly changed and I'd regard myself well off middle class, Romney is worth a fortune and is just bleating on behalf of his rich buddies
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  9688. Sue Gray has a plan to shut the bars so they can't go on all day benders
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  9689. why do you repeat that transphobic shit He's given the legal definition loads of times
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  9690. Jeez you people don't half live in a bubble you really need to get out more There is no culture war other than the one you manufacture in your head out there in the wider world
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  9691. Port Tolbot is closing because of Brex1t, in 2026 the EU is imposing carbon tariffs colapsing our main export market. If we were in the single market they could keep going for another 5-10 years
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  9692. Why is removing yourself from an institution you set up in 51 post war to basically set up a penal colony in Africa costing a couple of hundred million for 300 people a vote winner?
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  9693.  @davidsummer8631  there's a British judge on the ECRH how do you know he didn't make the ruling? Removing human rights is for everyone it's not selective to people the media have pounded into your head relentlessly to hate And the only country to leve the ECHR are Russia, its not a good look especially as its embedded into the Good Friday Agreement.
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  9694. He'll just take control of the election process He, who counts the ballots wins the election- the Putin strategy
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  9695. ​ @ahmetkemal5918 in what way?
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  9696.  @MontyCantsin5  Like Starmer has any choice in this after the failed socialist fantasy project. If I were leader I'd have iron discipline because in the 5 years in office I'd want to push through as much as possible without my own MP's hand wringing and pearl clutching every 5 seconds. The complete and utter economic mess were in needs a united party with a clear mission. And don't get me started on working class bunch of feckless uneducated idiots that voted UKIP Brexit and Boris and are now swooning over Reform.
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  9697.  @MontyCantsin5  If I were Starmer I wouldn't want a load of weak pearl clutching fantasy socialists wasting parliamentary time. The economy is in a complete mess it needs a clear vision and determination to set it on a new course.
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  9698. The economy was broken by Osborne and a lot of the seeds of the current decline are due to Thatcher
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  9699. more Thatcherism with a bit of refugee baiting how uninspiring
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  9700. The case came up because of defamation if the fat slob had kept his mouth shut it wouldn't have gone to court
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  9701. There are loads of models around that use expected V actual, the more they try and hide it the more people will turn to other sources for data
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  9702. Send them back where? Get your brain in order you can't send anywhere if you don't process them the whole thing is manufactured there's always been refugees and migration has been happening since man learned to walk
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  9703. JHB one of the most ignorant presenters out there if she knew she new nothing it would be a start
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  9704.  @alizakessler  hint the Hunter story is BS and going nowhere - YOU GULIBLE MUPPET
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  9705. Stop the steal was a Roger Stone op put together in 2017 for the midterms I presume to contest a close race which was a Dem Landslide and was resurrected in 2020. Trump has been screaming fraud for 5 years even had a commission in 2016 which found squat.
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  9706. This is why Sunak and the Tories will be totally fked and the longer they delay the worse it will get I'm betting on a low of 20 points 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 @crayontom9687 
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  9707. Not coming from the Labour camp he sees ok to me apart from he's gone to far on the Centerism, Corbyn's policies where just elite socialist populism with zero chance of getting a working majority or succeeding if he ever did. At least Starmer is acknowledging where we are not trying to take us back to the 70's. As for traditional Labour values what are they exactly working class voted UKIP Brexit then Boris your stuck with the likes of me now a suburban retired educated soft left an the younger educated vote, move into Corbyn territory and that vote evaporates not to be replaced by the working class. Had an extension built last year the younger lads working on it don't vote and the older workers think Farage is the true Jesus  @gavinreid9184 
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  9708. his record is bad Failing schools quote Stanford University study of state-level standardized tests showed that Florida’s “learning rate” was the worst in the country — by a wide margin Failing housing policy median rent prices increased by over 30 percent across the state, from about $1,340 in February 2020 to roughly $1,760 in February 2022. One of the worst tax systems in the US New research by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) shows that Florida’s tax system remains among the “Terrible Ten” most inequitable in the nation, ranking 48th among all states. Florida’s reputation as a “low-tax” state belies the reality that it is, in fact, a high-tax state for low- and moderate-income residents. Floridians with the lowest incomes — those earning less than $18,700 — contribute 12.7 percent of their incomes to state and local taxes, while the wealthiest top 1 percent — those with incomes of more than $548,700 — contribute just 2.3 percent of their income.
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  9709. Neither am I, I always tactically vote for the party that will beat a Conservative. The Tories lost the Plot with Thatcher, how can selling off assets then leasing them back with guaranteed inflation proof rises at cut down price while wiping off their debts be good economics? Its dumb Add insult to injury She blew all the money on tax cuts we got nothing for it. @babylon_bob 
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  9710. No there not it's sad old men over 50 who don't want to believe brex1t was a complete train wreck that's tripled migration
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  9711. @NoNeed2No  reform have an upper cealing of around 15%, there economic policies are Libertarian straight out of the Truss playbook, they don't have a clue on economics or the energy market or how public services work and support the capitalist ladder. Their leader is marmite in the extreme, and in polling they are 2nd only to the Tories in net unfavourable ratings, but hey dream on
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  9712. @Archergoose  tired of expert opinion again are we?
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  9713.  @CarlEveriss  As we are? Starmer's Labour if elected will be the 1st centre left government we've had since Wilson in the 70's when we abandoned Keynesian economics for Thatcher's trickle down and the neoliberal consensus.
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  9714.  @StevenLong-sz4es  Had enough of Reich wing cr*p
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  9715. Step forward Rupert Murdoch this is on your back 12 years of constant lies and this is what you get Zuckerberg needs his feet holding to the fire as well
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  9716. Why would you vote for a Con light party all the bad policies rehashed
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  9717. You any idea on the scale and economic impact of the Eras tour on London economic? Try doing some research
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  9718. Why cant you get it into your head there are more Democratic voters than GOP and every cycle they increase as more young voters enter the rolls If its a turnout election Dems win, Trump got past the post by denigrating Hillary and ended suppressing the Dem vote same tactic they were pulling on Biden
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  9719. I don't think you understand how the Grid works Bills are going up because of the cost of Standby Gas generation NZ replaces this with mass storage, until that's done were at the mercy of the commodity markets
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  9720.  @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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  9721. There just a vehicle for the billionaires with a bit populist rhetoric to keep the serfs quiet
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  9722. The mission statements come from work done by leading economist Mariana Mazzucato who's ideas are of a whole of government approach combined with industry. It would radically alter how Whitehall works. With Green energy the current issue is the Grid and Planning not money. Check out Mission Economy A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
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  9723. Conservatives economic model is Trickle down supply side to work it needs globalization and a continuous supply side cheap labour force otherwise you need to invest in physical and social infrastructure with a fairer tax system which deals with wealth created by wealth which is pretty much untaxed. 750,000 is a result of hard Brexit and loosing FOM in 2019 we had net 200,000 an EU worker comes over here without dependants sometimes temporary in 2023 we have net 750,000 with wives husbands and kids coming from outside Europe
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  9724. If you don't fix the social floor including healthcare the capitalist ladder doesn't work Hence our economy has been stagnant for a decade and a half What's worse this time is the Tories have spent like crazy on right wing policies that have just p1ssed money up the wall debt is now 2.4 trillion up 1.6 trillion from when they got in
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  9725. They doubled with Brexit get used to Tory incompetence
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  9726. Osborne tried that and cratered growth causing more damage to the economy than the savings made. Small state doesn't work were left with a highly inefficient nhs due to lack of infrastructure investment and patching over problems with more staff Quote The UK has fewer CT and MRI scanners than comparator countries. CT and MRI scanners per million head of population
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  9727. Why will putting kids back into classrooms instead of portacabins be worse? Why will training more domestic doctors and nurses be worse? We've had 14 years of this Tory BS and everything is worse than it was in 2010
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  9728.  @Dollarg1-j3g  why? There going to invest in services and cut the trickle down cr*p that's bleeding our country dry. Sounds good to me
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  9729. She isn't even conservative she is spouting libertarian garbage as pushed by Minford and this mythical Singapore on Thames model screw everyone else. Professor Patrick Minford, one of the ‘Economists for Brexit’, argues that leaving the European Union (EU) will raise the UK’s welfare by 4% as a result of increased trade. His policy recommendation is that following a vote for Brexit, the UK should strike no new trade deals but instead unilaterally abolish all its import tariffs. Under this policy (‘Britain Alone’), he describes his model as predicting the ‘elimination’ of UK manufacturing and a big increase in wage inequality. These outcomes may be hard to sell to UK citizens as a desirable political option.
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  9730. Lol Dobbs is a disgrace who hires this guy on a business program he's a complete joke who hasn't a clue about business
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  9731. Not sure why the Tories don't give Reform both barrels there policies are laughable Fracking about as popular as cup of cold sick outside the South East 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts (Kwasi Kwarteng made the right decision in swiftly cutting taxes, Nigel Farage said, dealing a blow to global economic institutions which have warned against the economic policy.) Fantasy immigration policy NHS privatisation
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  9732.  @31Blaize  He's an MP for the home counties the South East and London are a different country in terms of investment and the political leaning is Centre/ Centre-Right. This was brought home to me when I saw the figures for transport investment it's something like 800 per person in London the South East and 300 per person in the North East.
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  9733. So the NBA is better run in keeping their players free from covid within the NBA bubble, the WH bubble seems to be not like a bubble more like your standard sieve. This sort of lends to the theory that the bunch in the WH couldn't organize an Orgy in a Brothel (if they did they'd all end up with VD).
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  9734. Depends what you mean by high and what your expectations are of lower Oil is one of the biggest drivers of the current high rate coupled with exceptional demand near record lows in unemployment causing a Labour squeeze so nothing that can't be factored in in the medium term. Most analysts are working on 4-5% inflation medium term and a 1.75 basis rate US manufacturing output rose in November for the 18th straight month the underlying indicators are of a booming economy
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  9735. Just because Don spews BS you have to trot out like nodding dogs spread it. Don't you get tired of all Don's lying?
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  9736. 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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  9737. @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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  9738.  @BOZ_11  If I had a budget of 1.5 billion to tackle child poverty I wouldn't waste on Universal benefit oh but wait we don't have a budget or a manifesto or even a mission. so lets put this clearly if we don't turn towards Europe and the Tories get in for 5 more years we will be hurtling towards a deregulated Trickle down privatised everything shithole whatever you think you know about labour the Tories will be 1000 times worse.
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  9739. what's democratic about a deal we never voted for and the reason being it would have never got 50%
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  9740. Getting Shogin sacked was Whitehouse, State Department, EU and All EU members state policy It was also called for by key Republican Senetors. The guy was taking back handers from Oligarchs in the oil and gas industry not that you couldn't have found this out before posting
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  9741.  @keithsmith2196  it's pretty easy to read up on this so why make false claims? There's detailed analysis of what was going on from multiple sources the conspiracy ridden right need to get a better play than this nothingburger, I'm surprised you're not embarrassed by the sheer incompetence and lack of substance on this it doesn't even get past 1st base.
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  9742. What sort of muppet gives up their human rights?
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  9743. Sunak is he's stopped the economic hemorrhaging, you may not like Supply Side Trickle down economics with tax cuts for millionaire pensioners and fiscal drag and fk all else for everyone else but the City Gilt and bond markets don't care who Sunak screws as long as the books balance.
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  9744. Raab is a idiotic idealogue just look at the brain fart ideas he's been pushing people like that want yes men because in their eyes you need to believe and it will happen no matter how insane the policies are
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  9745.  @capreston48  what misinformation is that?
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  9746. They haven't processed them so they don't know whose here illegally that's the point of this its to bypass the law and remove people without due process
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  9747. You don't get to be where she is without having to deal with the endless sexism and misogyny
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  9748.  @peterduff9281  When we left the EU we left the system that designated the country of arrival as a safe country were a 3rd country as far as the EU is concerned and safe countries no longer exist If you do stupid things you win stupid prizes
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  9749. ​ @alizainal9057  When you dig under the hood he achieved nothing Brexit is a complete mess he didn't develop a vaccine a private company in conjunction with one of our universities did and if you want to understand how bad and chaotic it was read Kate Bingham's book The Long Shot Johnson also missed the 1st 5 cobra meetings because he was busy getting a divorce he then disbanded the test and trace NHS team declaring we were going herd immunity before backpedalling a couple of weeks later. don't forget he also supported Truss because he knew she would fail Cummings was warning about Johnsons duplicity
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  9750. Its just billionaire propaganda most of the time dressed up with a bit of populism @imbonkers3629 
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  9751. And it doesn't matter how much money Tories have they always want more He didn't touch unearned income wonder why? and graduates aren't core Tory voters neither are the poor so screw em
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  9752. If your vote is predicated on fake Media culture wars it's pretty sad
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  9753.  @PerfectedInDeath  A free economics lesson if you cut government spending by £1 it doesn't save you £1 to spend elsewhere. The OBR ran the numbers on Osborne's Austerity and estimated it to be 50p in the end it was 0p due to having the side effect of shrinking the economy by 2% GDP and stunting growth thus shrinking the tax base.
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  9754. If it looks like corruption smells like corruption then it is corruption. So many coincidence what are the odds that this just keeps happening?
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  9755. 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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  9756. Target is meaningless the reason the numbers are going through the roof is removal of FOM and economic policy 50% are dependants because were shopping in the 3rd world and Labour will introduce new labour laws such as removal of zero hour which means it's not cheaper to ship people in and outsource
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  9757. ​@N13TheGeneral Corbyn gifted the Tories an 80 seat majority he was as popular with the general public as a pint of cold sick His fan boys need a reality check
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  9758.  @nighttrain1236  no its not you go look the budgets and OBR reports there getting billions to clean up their mess from the brent fields and billions in exploration waivers If you compare Norway to us they've extracted 500 billion more from similar quantities of oil even allowing for differences in tax base where 250 billion light in subsidies and write offs during the years
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  9759.  @nighttrain1236  Cost of Dogger Bank Wind farm which can produce 5% of domestic electricity was 9 billion infrastructure cost in comparison Hinkley C costs 33 Billion is 2 years delayed and will have 30 billion in subsidies pumped into it over 35 years and can produce around 5% of Uk domestic electricity. cost per kwh the wind deployment is x4 times cheaper currently Hinkley contract guarantees purchase price + inflation obviously Dogger bank is built and will get get cheaper over time given wind is free
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  9760.  @lloydnaylor6113  25 years there budgeted for and you're going to get maybe 5 more + once the infrastructure is built then replacement is a lot cheaper. Everything is recyclable even the blades they just need a big enough crusher then it can be used as crush for road & foundation building
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  9761. The issue with Republicans is they keep putting forward ideologues most people are moderate and the GOP are economically illiterate trickle down supply side economics (Reganomics) doesn't work it creates huge wealth inequality If you look at Texas they claim to be no tax which is a complete lie the tax burden is all on sales /property taxes the bottom 20% of the income scale pay 13% the top 5% pay 3.1% If your educated your also more likely to be socially Liberal and prioritise education healthcare and climate change
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  9762. Unlike Trump who is anti everything bar Trump
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  9763. You can't cut imigration if you don't invest in your current workforce, we have pitifully low productivity and 13 years of Austerity running down our services Also supply side economics aka Thatcherism needs a cheap pool of supply side Labour to even stand still choke that off and your economy will collapse
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  9764.  @vatsmith8759  if you don't have enough you die from lack of shelter warmth & food Meanwhile virtue signaling muppets like you appear incapable of basic economics
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  9765.  @everybodyknows5765  There was no parties Look we all know there was wine Friday Karaoke Birthday parties Leaving parties its the best not kept secret ever. The more worrying aspect is what was Lulu Lyte and Carrie Symonds doing in a restricted area they have security clearance and this goes back to hobnobbing with Ledvedev
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  9766. Its cheaper to go Net zero than stay as we are here are some facts 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 (this is why) 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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  9767. Tell that to the people that died on Jan 6th
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  9768. The answer to the failure of Thatcherism is extreme Thatcherism Really?
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  9769. Remodelling the economy means free market fundamentalism ran riot, so all the labour laws are going to go as are pollution regulations food standards and then the sell offs anything that they can get away with selling that will including the NHS. Then comes the globalisation big companies flooding the market with cheap imports driving down wages in the UK till the bankruptcies start because you can't compete with cheap far east subsidiesed goods all the while entrepreneurs are unable to trade with a market 20 miles away leading to a brain drain. Both the US and EU markets aren't going to let the UK be a conduit and staging point for cheap far east goods and neither are going to stand for the City being a laundering clearing house for the super rich
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  9770. They have the billionaire tech bro and fossil lobby money to try force through their agenda via the courts by disputing the election result
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  9771.  @josefandreou5687  there's English people in France doesn't mean it belongs to England there's a large Pakistani community in the UK doesn't mean it belongs to Pakistan Let's cut the bullshit shall we My father was Polish he was ethnically cleansed by the Russians to a Siberian gulag Russians where given his family farm this is Russia's model of operating invade install Russians cleanse locals been happening for 100s of years
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  9772.  @josefandreou5687  Russia lost this war 12 months ago at the battle of Hostemal all that's going on now is Putin seeing how much land he can grab, if he's going to hunker down for the long haul then he'll need loads more troops and equipment. We've seen the state of Russian equipment poorly maintained substitute cheap spares as someone skimms money corruption from the very top is endemic throughout the system. If your going to prosecute a war like this you need logistics will and commitment from the bottom up
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  9773. There's breaking the rules then there's doing it deliberately over a sustained period on an industrial scale
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  9774. @alexander92179  the thing that amazes me still is the cult like belief that the Brexit Ultra's were telling you the truth and that they understand how trade and economics work. Any trade we had outside the EU was subject to standards paperwork & red tape now all trade even to NI needs mountains of the stuff, we had FOM with zero red tape for workers now immigration is at its highest level and we have huge costs processing visas at both employees and employers end. At this point it has to be said your a bunch of nutball cultists whose wild claims of its not Brexit but just this one more thing and in 50 years it will all have been worth it needs professional therapy Flat earthers are sounding more rational
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  9775. ​ @terrancehall9762 25% is high enough the issue is getting companies to pay at the momment tax is optional for a huge chunk of the population
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  9776. Because sending people to a concentration camp in east Africa is inhumane
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  9777. Trump had the worst economic record since Hoover why would you re-elect him is that the best the Republicans can do a moronic failed reality star 4 year term -3.4 GDP, Unemployment 6.3% federal debt +50% trade deficit +40% manufacturing jobs -150,000 etc.
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  9778. A tax break is just corporate socialism I don't get these guys so narrow minded and we end up with broken systems because I don't mind the right sort of corporate socialism to steer the economy in the right direction but blocking a universal health benefits system is insane a healthy workforce benefits all businesses
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  9779. Vile bully especially against women women what's not to compare @armondtanz 
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  9780. Trump made the situation 10 times worse and his lackey Miller deliberately broke the system so there were loads of photo op's The Democrats process them and repatriate at record levels
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  9781.  @kiljoy3254  walls don't work ask the Chinese, all Trump did was bottle the problem up making it worse further down the line. Short term soundbite solution that didn't even address the real issue.
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  9782.  @kiljoy3254  The US economy and its wealth are built on Migrants, the Tech sector especially attracts people from all round the world, the wealthy like their gardeners cooks and maids etc. The US birth rate is only 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 Hungary is literately bleeding to death as a country its brightest and most educated can't wait to leave any occupation that's short in the rest of the EU has Hungarian workers in it. What's promised by Bannon and his ilk is a turning of the clock back but the thing is there was no golden age I remember Reagan's 13% unemployment Nixon's rampant inflation.
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  9783.  @kiljoy3254  It doesn't matter how many incentives Hungary pushes out if your permenantly denigrating the educated, higher education promotes critical thinking which the Right hates with a vengeance. Low betide you have a population that questions and is able to see through populist solutions as just being window dressing for the masses that barely deal with tomorrow's problem let alone next years or next decades.
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  9784.  @kiljoy3254  Only if you believe all that right wing populist BS, Fox is owned and run to put forward policies that the billionaires want and convince the prols by any means possible to vote against their own economic interests to do that they use scare tactics to blame migrants for everything and anything . Make up simplified economic stories that sound plausible but are designed to feed the wealthy. We had all that fascist garbage in the 30's and Ray was appointed by Trump confirmed by a Republican majority. The Dem's aren't the golden light but at least there not a bunch of fascist racist A holes
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  9785.  @beany2456  most politicians spin Doris is a pathological liar if he said water was wet I'd double check, Starmer is fine you'll get a bit of massaging but usual politics
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  9786. 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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  9787. Its because no one else in the MSM is challenging the Tory narrative and they can't stand being called out in public they wanted him silenced and when that wasn't going to happen they wanted him sacked. As well as being a disgusting show pony it won't work, Braveman has already been called out by a holocaust survivor for her use of language Lest we forget the sacrifices of everyone to defeat fascism or the millions killed in being othered dehumanised and demonised as not human These are not boats there people
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  9788. ​ @nathanwood5977 migration exploded under the Tories
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  9789. The crisis in the UK was Brown's fault in part and also Thatchers deregulation cost us dear
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  9790. quote Sunak is the living personification of modern finance capital. He has made money out of manipulating money; profited from the bankruptcy of others; ruthlessly exploited the leniency of regulators and the generosity of central banks. @31Blaize 
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  9791.  @chestikov2011  Corbyn wasn't skilled enough as a politician and organiser to break out of being seen as some out of touch out of date leftie. Naïve would sum him up and then Momentum wanted to make the same mistake all over again with Long-Bailey who actually has the fire in their belly and speaks human on the left Rayner perhaps?
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  9792.  @chestikov2011  Sorry but come 2019 he was just seen by the general public and quite a few labour supporters as fairly useless and uninspiring
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  9793. I just would like to point out stuff was at the Polish border for distribution. People seem to take Biden as a bit slow and old physically that may be the case but strategically he will have his ducks in a row for resource deployment.
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  9794. Cameron put a moratorium on Wind projects in 2010 and Con policy allowed us to be tied to short term gas as a solution. This is entirely predictable you can go back and trace economic stagnation via the world commodity price of oil and gas, Norway are 93% renewable are world leaders in EV purchases and have 3% inflation
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  9795. The Greek government didn't implement the structural reforms that were needed and ended up in the worst of both worlds. Unlike Greece we have the means if not the will to do something about it, what's clear with this defection is that FINNALY the home counties are starting to feel the pain of Thatcherism
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  9796. Its not half only 25% of the voting population are registered republicans of which 70% according to polls still support him so around 17% of the entire voting public. Given that Trump Lies Cheats and Steals and that to most people he appears as mad as a box of frogs plus his allies in congress are a barking Clown show its fair comment.
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  9797. More Tory than Tory but worse? fracking and more sewage great just what we don't need
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  9798. Have you any idea how much money the Tories have wasted here's a quick run down 2023 72 billion fuel subsidies, 10 billion in fossil subsidies What did they do to cut energy bills oh just sat on their ars3 and watched gas prices go through the roof are we still dependent on gas? is the energy marked still broken?
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  9799.  @mariafuccio5237  why would anyone use spray foam? I went into this in great detail the biggest heat savings where from the innovative superfoil materials which look like the stuff you'd make a space suit out of. Not only that there cheap to install and last lot I bought for the floor was £100 per 10m roll. You'd basically save what it cost in heating within a year or so
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  9800. What gets me is the toadies that cling onto his coattails like Mogg how subservient do you have to be to lie constantly to defend BoJo
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  9801. He talks complete shyte We chose the path were on the French don't care they've more important things to worry about
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  9802. While Trump boot licks Putin Starmer takes the lead
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  9803. So I need to have what little human rights that are left in this country taken away because dingies For fk sake give it a rest with this absolute bollox
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  9804.  @PaulBadman  What you need to understand is that the far right across Europe used to get considerable funds from the Oligarchs. They all want the sanctions lifted because - money.
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  9805.  @Mallarkey  He Still peddled economic Thatcherism which is the root cause of our economic malaise
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  9806. 20% of Republicans voted for Haley even though she had left the race and who is going to vote for a complete abortion ban and bans on contraception and ivf There insane if they think they will win
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  9807.  @batcollins3714  The Lib-Dems have over 3000 councillors and a huge ground game just think what they could have done with the media exposure and boosterism of the MSM
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  9808.  @michaeladkins6  we need factory built homes there isn't enough builders and trades people round period. And the Tories have used manpower to paper over lack of infrastructure investment in the NHS also did you know we have invested the least in the developed world in robots I'm not saying we don't need some migration but we have to find sustainable solutions to our problems
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  9809.  @incorectulpolitic  your Barking at the moon I look at data, I see data everywhere, excess deaths 200k, hospital capacity rates 100+% exponential growth curves, transmission maps, autopsy reports But hey there a conspirecy theory for everything these days don't forget your tin foil hat when you go out
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  9810.  @kristyclassie682  I guess you got that from the right wing echo chamber because the statement makes no sense to me, diversify turn off Facebook and Fox expand your reading more
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  9811.  @incorectulpolitic  Go read up on the flagellant's of the black death period, there's always people prepared to believe in the craziest of stuff during a pandemic
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  9812. He's a climate denying bigot and those are his good qualities
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  9813. Stopped what?
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  9814. Yea but it doesn't happen by jumping up and down shouting bullying and saying it will happen. To make it a reality you have to do the work, inward investment changes to the tax code to discourage outsourcing. The R&D part will be available to companies manufacturing in the US, Warren had come up with a way of both pushing the R&D and using the tax code and other mechanisms to make sure the benefits accrued into the US.
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  9815. Time to go green, stop and subsidising the oil industry
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  9816. Why do you want to give Rees Mogg extra child benefit? We have a cost of living crisis, poverty on the rise expansion of food banks + a credit crunch on government finances caused by printing 140 billion during Truss premiership and you want to waste 1.4 billion on untargeted spending I give up its dumb gesture politics box ticking on a Universal benefit why not use money more carefully and target the people that need it not throw it around like confetti
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  9817. They've already said they would address the economic pull factors the 1st government to actually tackle why we have high migration
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  9818.  @Slumbert  the ECHR which underpins the Good Friday agreement and is the last resort against government overreach just as the Hillsborough families
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  9819. There not liberal they've been pedalling thatcherism on steroids why do you thing migration is so high?
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  9820. They figured that one with the pandemic the global economy as was is dead
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  9821. 37 billion wasted on test and trace VIP lane siphoning of Billions 20+ billion of fraud written off eat out to die out Great record you run on it see where it gets you
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  9822.  @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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  9823. The migration crisis has exploded because of brexit, far from reducing numbers its turnover charged them the opposite way
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  9824. what's your point? Its what sticks with the public that matters I follow independent media the Tories are rotten to the Core funnily enough Sunak is one of the least corrupt he does it through cognitive bias rather than on purpose as far as I can see. Every time he makes a decision based on his ethos of Trickle Down Supply Side Economics he enriches himself and his family
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  9825. Britain is Full? Full of Tory BS National Debt 85% of GDP and growing 37 billion spent on a barley working track and trace with some tory donors instead of running it through the NHS 250 million to be spent on a floating Gin Palace for Doris's hols with his mates who have his number Why doesn't Swayne get his party renamed to UKIP xenophobic immigrant bashing is all this lot are capable of
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  9826. We could have had a major push for renewable energy 2 years ago when the price of gas went north but instead kept planning as it was and an onshore wind ban
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  9827. To the general public these stories if they even bother to listen defang the Con attack line he's a Corbynite in disguise and reinforce that Labour has rolled back to being moderate
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  9828. only by people like Talk TV who inhabit the same toxic airspace to spew their ignorant nonsense
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  9829. Right leaning in what way? The mess were in isn't just the fault of the current bunch its the end result of Thatcherism, while she could use assert stripping oil money globalization and giving away council houses to look vaguely economically competent selling out the future only goes so far? The water crisis - Thatcher The council housing crisis (20 billion spent on housing support bankrupting councils) - Thatcher The energy crisis - Thatcher
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  9830. renewable is cheaper over time, I have thermal solar its saves around £360 a year in heating hot water cost me 2700 to install so free hot water for me in 5 years.
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  9831. @@KeithBrighouse-zg2qv Starmer is the result of installing an out of touch elite populist in Corbyn If you wanted more socialist policies you should have elected someone was actually electable, credible and would appeal to the soft centre you didn't so we ended up with Bojo
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  9832.  @markjennings2605  if you say so
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  9833. The Tories don't want a solution they've nothing else to run on bar stoking fear
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  9834. ​ @JoAnne-yl4ll Trump loaded 4 trillion onto debt with unfunded corporate tax cuts before Cov started you were always going to get inflation through the rapid expansion of the money supply. His second term will be worse debt when he left office was 133% of gdp Biden has got it down to 122%, renewing the corporate tax cuts and instigating random tarrifs will make post Cov inflation look like a training exercise forcing the economy into recession.
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  9835. Not with people like you Andy bo9sting Reform which is an english nationalist party The level of capital spend in London and the home counties compared to the rest of thecuk has punched us down so much that economists liken it to east west Germany at the end of the cold war. If you want this country to succeed then invest outside the South East and reverse Brex1t which is killing my towns economy
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  9836. 9 billion is the whole of the public sector not just civil servants and under 12 years of Tory rule nurse's for example have had a 10% cut in average salary
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  9837. We've now opened the economy? The Dems don't trust the DT administration if they do a partial deal there's a real need for a deal till January so the republicans can't screw over the economy if DT and the republicans looses in nov
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  9838. The government spent 72 billion on energy subsidies in 2023 If we had a renewable grid with mass storage on it that figure would have been zero
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  9839. 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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  9840. Thiers a multi trillion dollar budget deficit, it's like spending on your credit card at some stage you need to pay it back, all that's been done is to punt economic reality into the future.
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  9841.  @60panhead1  a mere youngster I'm 64 just retired from a Lifetime working in IT. The US and the world are at an inflection point, renewable tech is the next big wave
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  9842. OBR says -6% to living standards over the next 2 years 26% today is only the latest low there's still a few points to go to the bottom
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  9843. If you run supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism your not investing in social and physical infrastructure so your constantly having to import labour Reform are going to run supply side with zero investment like the Tories AND choke of the Labour supply So how does that not completely collapse the economy? Fantasy immigration policy meets fantasy economics don't you get it were here because of right wing economics going further right will make it worse
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  9844. Thresholds are frozen till 2028 by Sunak so fiscal drag will remain whoever gets in Labours pledge is around not raising the % on paye If you vote Con and your a Pensioner you'll get sweet FA, and the NI cuts will be paid for by raising the pension age to 68 by them
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  9845. Reason the economy is down the toilet is brex1t so how does that work?
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  9846. I'm centre left but a wealth tax is unwieldy and unmanageable while not raising enough. If you need to raise more money then let councils re-band the council tax, it's not been re-banded since it was introduced
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  9847. Brex1t is dead it's a complete failure, no plan for 8 years and a disaster on the economy
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  9848. No we don't that's just spin from the Ultra's who want to distance themselves from the car crash they've inflicted on the economy If your referring to the removal of all regulations no one in their right mind would sign up to full open border globalisation and Hedge fund Britain, the gammons are repeatedly beating their chests about migration as it is
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  9849. Where were you in reporting on Farage connections to an offshore billionaire, johnson being a security risk with connections to russian Oligarchs or both Sunak and Badenoch financially connections to the fossil lobby
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  9850. Its every scam and con in the book
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  9851. 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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  9852. I hope he gets well But When he comes out of hospital he needs to have a full medical which is public the disease can and does affect multiple organs not just the lungs. Do I think he will do this no but then who do you trust is he healthy is he not, he's defiantly not going to be in good condition for some months he's obese with a heart condition and suffers from high cholesterol and is morbidly unfit.
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  9853. ​ @totalvoid6234 what's your problem?
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  9854. Why is there a discussion? The law is fkin insane like most of the GOP in Texas The Texas Taliban are obviously trying to outdo thier religious hard right counterparts in Afghanistan
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  9855. An alpha male is the one that empowers the women in his life to be the best that they can be
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  9856. Common regulations create a level playing field also common standards allow for interstate commerce. The Federal system is a designed to foster interstate commerce to benefit all parties.  @DrakeSmith-tn6ij 
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  9857. He's got an express ticket for the elevator and it's not going up, these people have no soul even the devil will struggle with them
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  9858. ​ @abcd-by6rw If you want to reduce immigration you need to abandon Thatcherism change the tax model and invest in the UK not continously pull in cheap labour from abroad If you vote for right wing parties then nothing will change immigration is a fundemental part of low tax trickle down supply side economics anyone promising you both is LYING
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  9859.  @williamwallace6508  a large chunk of money comes from Westminster that chunk has shrunk over the last decade. Your trying to fund more with less
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  9860.  @benlawrence309  Having worked in IT all my life and part in the public sector it doesn't surprise me. They'll have been developed at different times its central governments job to fund a compatibility project to link the 2 knowing the Cons they'll have skimped on it.
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  9861.  @williamwallace6508  And the Tories can? Cameron had the worst economic numbers in 150 years and Johnson is about to beat them by a mile. At the same time the Cons have hollowed out services with never ending rounds of funding cuts.
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  9862. Hopefully 16+ will offset the crumbly vote, pensioners also have near zero skin in the economy. Constantly pandering to home owning boomers is a prime reason were in an economic pickle
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  9863. We've still got crumbling Victorian infrastructure 40+ years after we were promised privatization would provide the capital investment necessary to rebuild our ageing system. The water companies are pumping out raw sewage into the rivers and sea at record levels this winter and the water companies are debt loaded to the tune of 50 billion causing real concerns that rate hikes will bankrupt a number of these companies with government picking up the bill and bailing them out. If you look at energy and rail then privatization is nothing more than a complete and utter failure.
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  9864.  @Thought_Processing_  The problem with the current debt is it is all in one big bucket Reeve has plans to move Infrastructure spend outside of daily government spend I presume to ring-fence borrowing and account for the value of the fixed asset it creates. Brown got seduced by Major's PFI which off booked debt Labour have already said they will in house services reversing outsourcing Also 1/3 of the debt is owned by the BOE so technically by the government due to QE and the banks have to keep deposits of 480 billion with the BOE which has interest payed at current rate one suggestion is that the rate the bank gets is the current rate or the rate of inflation whichever is the lower. There are no problems only solutions
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  9865. If you want to lower immigration invest in physical and social infrastructure by making the tax system equitable and progressive so your domestic workforce is trained If you go down low tax Tory supply side economics aka Thatcherism then you need to feed it supply side migration or it doesn't work
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  9866. It doesn't due to fiscal drag your tax has gone up +£400 if you have a supplement pension and Your heating bill has trebled because of government inaction on energy divestment from GAS and my sons tax went up £500 then will go down £50 with the NI cut, NI thresholds are still frozen
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  9867. They've been lying about Labour for decades so what's new
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  9868. Ublic Finances are much worse than the 20 billion. We're loosing 48 billion a year in depressed trade from brexit, we spent 120 billion last year on interest repayment due to tories increasing the debt by 1.6 trillion from 2010 and Truss's fiscal event increasing borrowing costs.
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  9869.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  the MAGA crowd shouted bring back jobs President Biden is bringing back jobs at a rate not seen before The MAGA crowd shouted make America great again President Biden enacted legislation to make the US the world leader in renewable technologies and strode the world stage like a colossus Irony truly is not dead He's also got unemployment that low businesses are complaining that it needs to be higher so they don't have to compete for staff and improve wages and conditions, who'd have thought doddering 80 year old populist Uncle Joe 😉
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  9870.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  They just show lax regulation, Obama era safety standards were scrapped under the Trump Administration. Capitalism unchecked will eat itself alive and descend either into Dictatorship on the Far right or Far Left. It's not far off the stage where large corporations need breaking up we dodged a bullet with not getting a Trump 2nd term
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  9871.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  and if he hadn't millions of normal Americans would have their lives destroyed
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  9872. Yea I mean who wants one of the fastest growing and fully recovered economy in the west with one of the lowest death totals per 100k Canada busts the myth that lockdown damages the economy its recovery was quicker and it is projected to have 3% gdp growth in 2022 oh look as is New Zeland what a coincidence NOT
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  9873. 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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  9874. Russia and it's ilk are not socialists it's a constitutional monarchy propped up by an oligarchy of supporters ex China, North Korea. Russia abandoned socialism virtually instantly after it got rid of the tzar and while we're at it Bernie isn't even a socialist by European standards he's a left leaning liberal Argggggghh how dumb are these people do they not study political history?
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  9875. Tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations paid for by milking the Middle and working class @joe2791990 
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  9876. Why would you v9te on immigration 90% of the population haven't a fkin clue on its economic impact or its link to wealth and general economic policy.
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  9877. @archvaldor  the Tories have spent over a decade engineering the economy to need migrant labour, pull the plug and the reccesion will be a depression it would take a decade to reverse
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  9878.  @Roatanlova68fmp71lliiiak  pull the plug and the economy will collapse. The Current crisis is the net result of Austerity & Brexit until you acknowledge the facts and stop listening to magical solutions the sooner a path to lower migration can be charted.
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  9879. Of course her peerage isn't in jeopardy we had a Russian agent in the Lords and Dodgy Dave is a China wannabee
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  9880.  @artemisjuno  Truss will be a complete and utter failure, Johnson surrounded himself with the utter dregs of the Conservative parliamentary party so there would be no visible successor. The Johnson wing are backing her because they see it as a route back for Boris the ERG are backing her because they think she will do as she's told and collapse the Protocol and the TCA
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  9881. How about we process them instead of doing this dance of if we make their lives miserable and spend millions doing it it will deter more boats you really have to be thick if you get conned by this because all the government is doing is wasting GOBS of taxpayer money making the problem worse 2010 people in the Asylum system 20,000, 2023 140,000 claims in 2022 ran at 60,000 peak claims where 2002 at 80,000
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  9882. Don't forget the billionaire class and the millionaire pensioners with their huge tax breaks
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  9883. You do know his economic numbers were the worst since Hoover in Trumps 4 years total it was -3 million jobs -3% to the GDP +4 trillion to the debt +40% to the trade deficit and on top of that record farm bankruptcies and record numbers of farmers committing suicide. Your basically lionising a complete failure why? Your not even moving on and trying to find someone competent to challenge in 4 years time
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  9884. These aren't gotcha questions its a mirror of down play happy talk the reporter is trying to get through to the Orange Idiot the gravity of the situation its developing into a logistics problem which needs leadership and a level of organisation he's incapable of you can't run this as a one man band constantly gaslighting its going to take a huge team effort coordinating closely with the federal government and the States.
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  9885. There an economic car crash hasn't your standard of living fallen enough?
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  9886.  @geraldandrew3289  if you want to curb migration you need to raise tax revenues skill your workforce and regulate the economy in a way that supports domestic workforce as well as infrastructure investment to improve worker productivity Reform are proposing to deregulate and lower taxes (Truss style) while choking off supply side Labour which will crash the economy at worst continue the same economic Doom loop at best
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  9887. Sunak paid 20% on the bulk of his earnings because it was CGT @ 20% which should match income tax at 40/45% he voted in 2016 to lower it and it has been recommended a couple of times to match it to income tax by the treasury people
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  9888.  @fjalics  there's work being done on solid hydrogen fuel cells, the application is thought at this stage to be for heavy machinery very large milage trucking, Sweden and other countries have been developing hydrogen tech for steel manufacturing, when your talking cost wind is now over half the cost of fossil and gearing up for peak you've plenty off peak electricity for say charging cars and production of hydrogen. Battery tech 8s on a roll though you can't see hydrogen in pumps like gas its going to be for specific applications
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  9889. why did you just post a lie?
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  9890. BREXIT is a complete economic failure erecting trade barriers with a market 20 miles away has had a catastrophic effect on millions of small businesses, farmers and fishermen with large numbers going bankrupt and the loss of markets for 10's of thousands
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  9891. Why bother Reforms economic policies are the same as Sunak's, Libertarian supply side globalisation that screw the workers over
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  9892. a lot more than senile boomers that keep voting Tory and blame everything on immigrants that's for sure @straightouttacornwall 
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  9893. 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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  9894. Goes back to Maniford
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  9895.  @banana_necessary  The Lib Dems have a huge ground game and dedicated activists I saw zero Tories campaigning and had 3 visits from a Lib-Dem including on election day to get out the vote. Reform are just a national foghorn that the media promote ceaselessly
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  9896. what difference does political virtue signalling do? They've been at war in some shape or form since before I started voting 50 years ago
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  9897. Why is that? of the new MP's Starmer chose most of them
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  9898. They obviously thought they had better and they were right man has no spine went running to be an independent selfish or what what a TEAM player (NOT) @markwelch3564 
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  9899. Why would you vote REFORM their Tory with added be evil to refugees Their economic policy is a cut and Paste from Lettuce Liz You remember her the one that single handily nearly crashed all UK pension companies and left a 60 billion hole in UK finances while bumping up interest rates by 1.5 points?
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  9900. So goodbye pre-existing condition legislation in the age of Covid Goodbye climate change legislation Goodbye civil rights
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  9901.  Tomás Muertos  What communists where?
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  9902. @horace sheffield if your into the tech your also conscious that making your house as passive as possible saves huge amounts of energy to both heat and cool.
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  9903. It's also leverage on the Roberts court and a clear signal that there will be consequences if they vote the ACA down.
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  9904. You got brexit it quadrupled migration tanked the economy and raised taxes by 5 basis points You were sold a crock of l1es
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  9905.  @ghostsintheforum  it's not free you pay your taxes and anything is better than nothing at all for millions of people. Also yours will lean heavily into prevention to reduce costs
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  9906.  @springerworks002  I don't think you even know what capitalism is? You've stood lived your entire life in a mixed economy. Look up to Socialism for the Rich Capitalism for the poor.
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  9907. Its all unfunded fantasy stuff so why should we vote for yet another liar?
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  9908. The legislation appears to be badly crafted but its design is to just cause an argument an act of an extremly desperate party trying to throw anything they can to stir up division and trouble why do Labour need to play that game?
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  9909. Osborne was told his brand of Thatcherism + Austerity was shrinking the economy in 2013 but they dooubled down on it anyway The widley debunked economics paper was by  Rogoff and Reinhart the data behind was on a spreadsheet that had serious calculation errors in it Paul Krugman nobel winiing ecomist tore it to shreds 10 years on where still stuck with economic thinking that was called BS a decade ago
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  9910. There's been pressure to change it for the last couple of decades Labour promised they would so Osborne countered with we'll do it but never did. Tax havens are a leech on the public purse our FPTP system means we end up with minority government though so no matter how much you pressure your MP they just vote with the whip
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  9911.  @DP-ic2lz  So what of the 13 million in dividends she got that's in an offshore tax haven in BVI using a non dom tax loophole?
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  9912.  @DP-ic2lz  My dividends come into my trading account at my brokers if there not in the ISA I have to pay tax there just income, doesn't matter if there Microsoft or PayPal shares I'm a UK tax payer. And I could claim Non Dom because my father was Polish Yes close down all tax havens its 2022 the world cannot afford the current levels of tax evasion by the super rich and large corporations
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  9913. Under Blair tax went down for the bottom 20% and went up for the top 9% plus average wages during the decade rose by +25% It wasn't enough in hindsight but 1 million miles from the raging hard right Thatcherite Austerity of Osborne and Sunak
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  9914. Global Britain was DOA The bulk of people that were persuaded to vote leave did so on keeping out Johhny Foreigner from stealing their jobs and women There not remotely interested in Supply Side deregulation which will bankrupt industry and farmers making their lives even worse
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  9915. If you can't spot a party in your own residence after half an hour of boozing your not going to notice blackmail
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  9916. Whatever he says he's lying
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  9917. don't forget the sexual predator bit possible paedophilia, tax fraud, theft, attempted election rigging incitement to violence on Jan 6th
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  9918.  joe smath  exactly who do you think there fetching out? The people targeted Are the educated not the rural bumkins
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  9919.  @OhioOwns  if you elect racist assholes into government to represent you then thats what the world sees. Me I think a majority get suckered into votiing Republican because they believe the constant stream of lies and BS that's spewed out by the right. Take covid for example if you live in a heavily red county your twice as likely to die from it than if you live in a heavily blue County. This mirrors Ecenomic recovery and growth you can always find examples outside this.
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  9920.  @revealingserendipity9840  The wonks in the Republican party and it's media allies feed the hysteria this appears to have morphed into a Cult like following extremely tribal and bordering on mass psychosis. It doesn't matter if your educated or not you can still get sucked down the rabbit hole. The question is to talk these people down find a grain of common ground and work them down from the precipice.
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  9921.  @stephenburt8426  Farage worked as a commodity trader he's completely clueless on economics if he wasn't he'd realise getting rid of FOM was always going to increase migration not decrease it.
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  9922. That would mean another 5 years of Tories so no
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  9923. And what Have Lettuce Liz style fantasy economics again No thanks
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  9924.  @paulsmith8858  there just another version of Boris's fantasy politics, telling you they can do x y & z to get your vote if you tried implementing thier policies it would completely tank the economy There completely utterly clueless on how trade the economy or public services work and interact with regular people s lives
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  9925. She's 70 it's time for her to stand down anyway Lack of judgement is that down to age? She's been an MP since 1987 The Corbyn clique all in there 70s trying to turn back time
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  9926. The reason Elphick left was the abandonment of the 2019 economic manifesto promises Net Zero - gone Levelling up - gone Social care - gone housing and planning - gone HS2/3 - gone replaced with Rwanda and an NI tax cut
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  9927. People stand there and lap this crap up, it's like verbal diarrhea vomiting across the crowd infecting thier brains. Every time he speaks he appears to occupy a space of time yet say absolutely nothing it's all word salad, no policies no vision no substance no clue
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  9928. Vaccines protect against measles mumps rubella wooping cough TB smallpox etc. If parents have been rotting their brains with anti vax garbage it's time for the kids to take control and say no to life threatening diseases
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  9929. Vaccines protect against measles mumps rubella wooping cough TB smallpox etc. If parents have been rotting their brains with anti vax garbage it's time for the kids to take control and say no to life threatening diseases
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  9930. Your tax is mostly subsidising the Rich Ex fiscal drag has added £420 to everyone on 20% threshold in real terms this scalped +20 billion last year in the budget was a 4 billion tax break for millionaire pensioners 8 billion for Bankers and 8 billion in additional fossil subsidies
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  9931.  @johnburrows3385  selling off assets then leasing it back to fund tax cuts has got to be the dumbest thing this country has done bar Brexit The idea that Trickle down even remotely works is completely busted by 13 years of economic stagnation quote from a US study 2012 Three Decades of Empirical Economic Data Shows That Supply-Side Economics Doesn’t Work When put to the test in the real world, supply-side policies did not deliver as promised. In fact, by every important measure, our nation’s economic performance after the tax increases of 1993 significantly outpaced that of the periods following the tax cuts of the early 1980s and the early 2000s.
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  9932. How salty can Krystal get?
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  9933. 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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  9934.  @florj6279  The world had inflation the US was higher because of the Trump tax cut which added an additional 3.5 trillion to debt, economists put its affect at +2.5% Food will continue to rise as global warming has more and more affects on food production The US had the best economic outcome of the G7 over the last 4 years by a country mile and has been reshoring manufacturing for the 1st time since Reagan with +2 million over the 4 years and it would have been more but for Republican opposition. Trump's 4 year total was -150,000
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  9935. double no
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  9936. 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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  9937. There are 19 other cases pending Insurrection (7)Financial (6)Election interference (2)Sexual misconduct (1)Other (3)
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  9938. He's miles healthier than Trump who won't release anything His glucose cholesterol and heart rate are on par with mine and I'm 20 years younger am in peak health and have exercised all my life jeez that's amazing at 78
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  9939. 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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  9940. Is your car older than 2008?
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  9941. I wouldn't believe anything IDS says the guy is terminaly wrong on multiple topics, quotes feelings as facts on multiple occasions and like a load of Cons is only interested in money
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  9942.  @cmdrreggit  your talking about 18 year old cars and a disease for life get real
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  9943.  @cmdrreggit  If I were relying on an 15 year old car with no money to repair replace I'd be looking for another job You actually checked your car isn't ULEZ compliant by the way
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  9944. We are in hock to the markets for over 2.7 trillion and they took umbrage at Truss pissing away an extra 70 billion on the billionaire class exactly why is she still in office having cost the government an extra 12 billion in interest costs ad being responsible for mortgage rates rising permanently?
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  9945. At least you may be alive and have a bit of money to whine about Biden
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  9946. mate there promoted by billionaire interests they don't care about you or migration
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  9947.  @redvermont1558  How's the fed supposed to control oil prices or the bad weather events that have affected food and livestock? If they hike up rates it doesn't cure fossil or food inflation
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  9948. 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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  9949. Reform sold you the train wreck that is Brexit You'd need to be a masochist to even go there
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  9950. Lithium home storage has plummeted in price in the UK
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  9951. no it wont where here because of 13 years of relentless Thatcherism that's completly fked the economy
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  9952. You store it in water
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  9953. And get what climate science denial, fracking more sewage in our rivers?
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  9954. Renewable investment = cheaper electricity also insulation programs which will help reduce bills
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  9955. Not True as soon as you present a hard left leader you alienate a huge chunk of the electorate and squeeze the votes of the Lib-Dems as Tory areas that could go more towards the centre revert to type scared off by the left Take nationalization for instance a more pragmatic view is to create a government competitor in the energy market who would hoover up all the customers from the failed smaller energy companies and provide real competition. New Nuclear and tidal systems could be state run as projects come on stream they already need huge amounts of public money
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  9956. You can have lower immigration but you need higher taxes to pay for the social and physical infrastructure needed to support it Its a much more managed economy completely Alien to Conservative Thatcherism
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  9957.  @dorianshadesofgray  so basically you haven't looked up the current storage systems in trial there all quickly scalable The government stick their head in the sand you need to pay for storage which is why we have zero gas storage
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  9958. Sigh - he has the attention span of a gnat. Continously spewing nonsense, the media needs to be not sucked into the constant world salad and just accept he's a moron
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  9959. Yes we want change not anther version of Blue thank you Ben so go away
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  9960.  @cathywilson3146  You've had 14 years of Thatcherism why would you want another 5 in a different shade what do you think is causing this economic doom loop?
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  9961. quadrupled migration tanking economy rising taxes They have plenty to moan about
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  9962. @majorsheen  what sovereignty did you loose?
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  9963. The odds in the betting market was 100-1 for Trump to win the popular vote so basically zero. On analysis Biden's voters account for 70% of the US GDP, if they create a situation where there going to force Trump on the people the fallout would be apocalyptic given his revenge driven agenda, screw the Hicks with thier guns the economy would fall off a cliff.
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  9964. This didn't prioritse the economy it just spread the disease quicker
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  9965. True that because of this and testing being a mess the xmas lockdown was inevitable
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  9966. Anyone beyond GCSE cab see the correlation between Fossil and soaring energy bills The Blue wall are voting in Green councilors the Tories will get rinsed by the Lib-Dems for this even if they cling to a couple of Red wall seats because there the ones buying EV's and wanting Charging infrastructure. I live in a heavy voting Tory area and there's Tesla's everywhere and the Mums are really p1ssed over RAAC
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  9967. The IRS guy who was in congress the other day said they could get a Trillion PA if the top players paid what there liable for Infrastructure spending is rated by economists to generate 95 cents return on the dollar tax cuts are rated at returning 25 cents on the dollar
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  9968.  @MnemonicCarrier  Renewable energy was still cheaper then we just haven't bothered to invest in the grid
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  9969. @MnemonicCarrier  I looked at all this back in 2020 when there was lots of noise in the trade papers when I think it was Dogger bank had a forward contract price on parity with Gas. North Sea is an ideal place as its at the confluence of multiple weather systems. There's parts of Scotland where the same turbine as down South will generate double the power. The input energy into renewable is free fossil is subject to extraction processing and transport costs x inflation.
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  9970. @MnemonicCarrier  I had a home solar and batteries installed this year it will pay back capital costs in under 6 years. 3 years ago that would have been 15
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  9971. They have to find 18 billion to stop planned cuts 1st
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  9972. Murdoch doesn't hold as mu h sway as he used to. Farage will eat the Tories from the inside. Reform want PR
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  9973. @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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  9974.  @NONAMENEEDEDOK  Free Market Fundamentalism and the think tanks that support these bozo's are nothing more than special interest Multi Millionaire and Billionaire groups tht will make billions of short term policies that will crater the GB economy. You name it they'll sell it off or bankrupt it
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  9975. Same pile of economic bs the Cons sell If your voting based on migration promises don't hold your breath the main drivers of legal migration are the economic polices thier pushing
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  9976. For what reason ? Every labour government has borrowed less and payed back more This lot have p1ssed away 1.8 trillion on fk all
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  9977. It only applies to companies with more than 250 employees ( the additional reporting) We've had lorryloads of red tape thanks to brexit
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  9978. The FBI were swamped with information, they didn't sort the wheat from the chaff and focus and build data on likely and known groups. A good few of the organised groups are going to be prosecuted for Sedition how does a new nebulous terrorist designation help? It's not like people don't know who the hardcore are
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  9979. How there economic policies are nearly the same as the Tories which are driving legal migration? @hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo 
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  9980. 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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  9981. A market is only free when there is a level playing field and plenty of competition We have a war on in Europe and are emerging from a global pandemic which impacts supply chains, too many multinationals with too much power
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  9982. ​@michaelkennedy3372 he'll end up calling her Hillary, his brain is fried or haven't you heard him speak recently
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  9983.  @RedToriesBlueTories  Reeve is in charge of the Treasury and she will remove the 91 billion in the last budget on Trickle down policies that do sweet FA for a start.
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  9984. The Insane economic policies of Lettuce Liz with the Batsh1t immigration policies of Braverman Hello Argentina on the Channel Its fantasy economics meets fantasy migration policy, meanwhile the cost of Tory crisis continues
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  9985. So lets take this bare faced lie at face value £2000 you say mmm isn't is that £400 a year over a 5 year Parliament, or did you conventionally forget to mention that? bleedin Tory maths for you no wonder they want extra at school if they all turn like this. Let me think how much is fiscal drag imposed by Sunak costing me why £560 this YEAR rising with inflation
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  9986. 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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  9987.  @J.C.1960  so how come 54% aren't owned by families? at 3 million your arguing for rich people not to pay tax and you subsidise them. Even then > 3 million only attracts 20% tax payable over 10 years and It will depress land prices because it's no longer a loophole for the rich allowing more genuine farmers. Your problem is we have a huge generational wealth gap from multiple tax breaks like this which means at the other end taxes have been steadily rising to compensate
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  9988. it is you just don't like what the governments doing
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  9989.  @eagle3676  yea Bernie said it and should have just owned it, the sheepish way he went about it, loads of people have said old white men are more electable than women, Bernie is a pretty straight shooter in general but didn't want to engage on the topic. I think female candidates have a right to go full nuclear on the topic it's demeaning, condescending and wrong and you'll generally get that it's always the woman who is lying or spinning it which just makes it worse. I don't think any worse of Bernie for it and Warren found someone to really vent her frustration on the topic, we also got PowerPoint Pete and post it note Amy, unlike the media I thought it was a debate that needed to happen made the previous ones pretty tame.
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  9990.  @eagle3676  If Bernie was a poker player he'd be cleaned out in seconds, he reacted and didn't want to talk about it. It doesn't change what he stands for or his attitudes in general. Stop defending him for the sake of it! and its not defending Bernie that winds me up its people slagging off Warren and coming up with 100 reasons why he couldn't possibly have said it. Watch the encounter watch the sidebar reaction, he said what he said coz he didn't want to talk about the subject.
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  9991. Your always going to be butting up against the moderate majority, where progressive policies have happened in the western world it has been by pulling in the moderates for a joint vision. The US is extremely right wing if you have a group of 35/38% who will vote en block for anyone with a GOP sticker you need to break through the noise otherwise the right peels off enough scared moderate voters.
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  9992.  @immortalsofar5314  With m4a you have a perfect example of American dysfunction, part of the country still hasn't implemented the ACA even though it's better than what was previous, most Democrats would move to m4a in a flash. You need to get from one to the other before the GOP burn down health care completely and you have a 50 state solution which can't be implemented. Green isn't an option the world is turning off fossil fuel due to cost and oil prices are well dodgy, the US oil producers aren't economic without market rigging. Without kneecapping corporate donor influence your not even going to be able to have a sensible conversation.
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  9993. She contributed +300 million to Londons economy and had an Austrian concert cancelled because of security fears.
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  9994. which taxes other than the ones you pay through PAYE and vat would affect you personally? If the Tories get n by some miracle then they will raise the pension age to 68 to pay for the NI reduction
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  9995. Is that the date the Russians run out of supplies and have to give up?
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  9996. The economy is down the toilet and there is nothing Sunak can do to change it even if he had 5 more years things would just get worse even with Labour taking over it will take atime to mend the damage of 14 years of Thatcherism
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  9997. And a group of Cons are trying to can the net zero commitment so fossil companies can continue to leech off everyone
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  9998. They have some Con apologists on Nik Ferrari Iain Dale Rachel Johnson Even if your right leaning why you wouldn't rip into this complete shower is beyond me the current migrant policy is for optics nothing else it doesn't deal with the problem in any shape or form
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  9999.  @darrenwilson146  There's opinion and fact the main issue is right wing spouting opinion when it contradicts known facts Fact Brexit will severely damage our economy so why come on a radio station and argue otherwise. Fact Sunak's small boats bill will do nothing its purley for optics
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  10000.  @dave07drummer  he's a rampant leftie just coz he thought the Corbyn agenda was completely unrealistic? Corbyn would never deliver a majority even in 2017 he was 64 seats short before his disastrous 2019 showing. His foreign policy stank to high heaven he had zero chance of attracting moderates by 2019 he was an albatross round the party
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  10001. So Clarence is completely bent and in the pockets of the donor elite what a surprise
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  10002. Mogg is a Libertarian he's about as Tory as a member of the communist party
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  10003. Boris Johnson and cronies the people that put CON in CONservative
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  10004. 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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  10005. Chris Failing the only MP that could botch a rigged election :) On a more sombre note "London Laundromat" Boris has been sat on this for 10 months he is a useless sack of wind the impact of Russian money through Oligarchs is a well known tactic employed by the Kremlin to buy political favours as in oh I don't know a blind eye to money Laundering maybe. This is serious and not a party issue but a major problem for this country, and the disinformation campaigns and hacking from the GRU needs dealing with ex;- what happens if they succeed in an anti-vax campaign against a covid vaccine there already responsible for a lot of anti-vax conspiracy garbage.
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  10006. 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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  10007. The reasons the economy is a raging skip fire is Supply Side Trickle down economics aka Thatcherite policies which have been applied for 13 years on the basis of its not working so we will do it harder. Quote In a 2020 research paper, economists David Hope and Julian Limberg analyzed data spanning 50 years from 18 countries, and found that tax cuts for the rich only succeeded at increasing inequality and making the rich wealthier, with no beneficial effect on real GDP per capita or employment. EndQuote So by NOT doing what the Tories have been doing for 13 years the economy and your life will get better and Rachel Reeve has already spent considerable time in the states looking at and talking to Democrats on how Bidenomics is working over there a Bottom UP Middle OUT policy.
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  10008. Tariffs are a sales tax, you need to be wealthy to gain any benifit from moving from income tax
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  10009.  @gloonnug4797  I'm a retired IT guy who has spent his life with DATA. I check all my sources and tend to use specialists for corroboration. If you want to know what's happening and why with the economy then go to the likes of the FT and Bloomberg don't spout propaganda from Fox. As for Hunter no one cares but the MAGAverse, It's a nothing story.
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  10010. Mike doesn't have a fkin clue about economics If your workforce is sick and dying doesn't do people's businesses any good
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  10011. What he thinks and what is possible are 2 different things I believe all public services should be publicly owned would I renationalize them no for the water companies I'd want to regulate the 60 billion in debt out of them 1st why are we socializing the losses and privatize the profits?
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  10012.  @gio-oz8gf  life is too short you obviously understand enough to waste time on it.
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  10013. Well it's not our fault you believed that leaving the EU and getting rid of FOM would have completely the opposite effect to the one you you've got yet your still believing the muppets pedalling the notion. We always had the power when in the EU to control migration through our labour laws we chose not to now were stuffed because the people coming want to fetch dependants and unlike being in the EU they won't go back home there permanent. You were told yet labelled it project fear so welcome to project reality
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  10014. The Corbyn project brought itself down
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  10015. He negotiated the protocol in the first place the whole tory party voted for it, it may be garbage but its now law you can't walk away from
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  10016.  @mal6232  There isn't a problem though so how can you talk about something and resolve it if it doesn't exist. There's nothing in Article 16 about Unionists hurt feelings.
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  10017.  @Tomas_Pita  I thought he'd be steady away, you've hardly seen anything yet the investment programs have only just started to kick into the economy.
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  10018. 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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  10019. ANTIFA isn't an organisation so you can't declare it as a terror threat The Proud Boys are an organisation which Canada have declared as a terror organisation
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  10020. There's full employment and 1.5 million vacancies 1.5% of unemployed are disabled or special needs 1.5% are fekless (drunks druggies homeless criminals pick your favourite) Leaving a few in the wrong place wrong skills too old too young not qualified transitioning jobs etc. So stick your worthless opinions where the sun don't shine your not getting a 50 year old out of work man with a family from the North to go bunk down and work in the south east on cripplingly low wages
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  10021. Its the court of last appeal against government overreach quote after 27 years of fighting for justice, the Hillsborough families were able to use the Human Rights Act to uncover the truth about how their 96 loved ones died  @davidseals4898 
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  10022. Alcohol impacts the immune system, at this point in time everyone should be on fresh fruit and veg to boost it not beer and pizza.
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  10023. There not being promoted based on ethnicity there being promoted because there not seen as viable challengers to the leader + there nutball hard right If they were in place as the best person for the job the entire cabinet would have to go
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  10024. Why there refugees and we have a labour shortage to the point where the government are going to start importing workers from Nigeria and India.
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  10025. Wishy Washy has about as much inspirational skill as a doormat The sooner him and his band of nobodies is gone the better
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  10026. Why are they even allowed to drink on the job? And the main reason is to stop the high levels of inappropriate behaviour
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  10027. There a bunch of elites pedalling Libertarian economics with the Populist gloss of fantasy immigration Legal migration is driven by low regulation low tax economy which both the Tories and Reform stand for
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  10028. He has ADHD, this stuff isn't difficult to do its just people have always treat him as normal Push the right buttons and he's like a cat chasing a laser pen
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  10029. It will cost 40 billion a year over 10 years Volatility in gas prices is costing UK consumers + 140 billion in excess energy costs Going net zero is a no brained on economic grounds alone
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  10030. It's just a more extreme version of the failing policies we've had for 14 years. When the problem is neoliberal economics More extreme neoliberal economics isn't going to cure it
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  10031. @arfurdaylee  low tax means no investment in UK social or physical infrastructure = stagnation economy propped up with high legal migration Low reg means polution removal of workers rights bucket loads of red tape costs and paperwork for export/import + The ECHR is the last refuge from government overreach as used by the Hilsbourough families
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  10032. The guy is literally torching the place to the ground aided and abetted by closed loop propaganda operation that knows how much criminal behaviour is going to get uncovered when he looses and the media are still well both sides hum de hum, NO the guy is a complete narcissistic lunatic with the mental age of a 9 year old and ZERO morals. Stop trying to pretend he's anything but the idiot who goes around saying Man Woman Person Camera TV and signing up to bleach drinking conspiracy theories.
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  10033. about as much as it needs Liz Truss back, zombie economics at its finest
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  10034. were paying the the oil and gas companies upwards of 75 billion in rebates to clean up the mess they left in the Brent fields
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  10035. Right wing economics needs migration to work If you want lower migration you need to put taxes up invest in your domestic workforce and properly regulate the labour market. Farage is promising low tax deregulation as well as low migration these are mutually exclusive, he wold turn the economy into Argentina on the Channel trying
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  10036. @DoggleBird  sorry to burst your bubble but high migration is the result of decades of Thatcherism You can't run low migration with a low wage deregulated labour market with low tax. We're already seeing a huge brain drain then having to replace skills with migrant labour.
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  10037.  @DoggleBird  Yes it does if you want low taxation and low regulation. EX the GIG economy under Cameron - no regulation of gig work so over 1 million came in from Europe and tripling student fees so we went down from a 38% high to 35% now and have been moving inexorably to a low wage economy.
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  10038. If it wasn't for his complete incompetence he'd have stolen the last election.
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  10039.  @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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  10040. I wouldn't be mind it's barely Liberal and while it seems like a lot under investment over decades Mount's up
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  10041. The real question is why are you so easily led to believe anything this m0ron says Clue is in the title and the answer is Yes
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  10042. ICE sales will fall off a cliff a large % of people will hang on to thier old vehicle it's not going to be a transition in the 5-10 year sense, either they build new automated plant and get production ramped up or they will go bankrupt There is no brand loyalty if your switching to EV look at Rivian a startup it's producing final mile delivery trucks for Amazon as well as a pickup
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  10043. His retail offer is to the Centre left and centre for the centre right his pitch is stable leadership Reeve is following the Democrats playbook trying to copy Bidenomics just on a more limited budget which is the abandonment of Austerity and trickle down When the Tories try to out UKIP the Reform party your analogy looks more like your comparing syphilis to a common cold both are diseases...... The last time the Cons had a centre right candidate was John Major, Cameron ws socially Liberal but a hard right Thatcherite with added Austerity
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  10044. He's taking away your human rights and setting up his own indoctrination programme for your kids remind you of anyone in History?
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  10045.  @GamerX13X  Paxton is trying to scare minorities into not voting, his goons have been raiding Latino activists homes
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  10046. They'll add online balloting and a number of other measures the Unions would like
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  10047. I want independence for Yorkshire
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  10048.  @BobBobOnYouTube  Disagree all you like that's what polling says
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  10049.  @BobBobOnYouTube  economy & NHS consistently score above 50% in every major poll. The next election will be a Labour landslide because of those 2 issues.
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  10050. @BobBobOnYouTube  I'm not saying the +1.25 million visas issued isn't economically problematic on multiple levels but its the result of Tory free market fundamentalist economics driving supply side labour, the only way to reverse it is we start investing in our domestic population. If you add last and this years net migration then nhs needs +4 billion and this spills into needing more housing, police etc. Anyway fix 1 problem at a time get rid of the architects of this complete screw up.
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  10051.  @cordoroy9515  The current economic situation is that we are in a recession and have been for 2 years. The headline GDP number is masked by a large increase in migration our REAL GDP per Capita has fallen 8 quarters straight. Brex1t truly is the gift that keeps on giving
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  10052. My dad was polish he wouldn't piss on a Russian if he was on fire hated them more than the Germans
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  10053. Here's an election loosing strategy give Millionaire Pensioners a tax break and screw over the middle and lower class to pay for it
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  10054. The thing that comes out of it is western democracies are going to have to implement some form of UBI
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  10055. If you run Austerity for 14 years and don't invest in anything then your maintenance bill is gonna be a lot higher than fixing things as you go along
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  10056. There soggy centrist at best
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  10057. how can the democrats pack the courts? there not in power which senator ass-hole Cruz said they'd keep a supreme court seat open for 4 years if Hillary got in? get out of here whiny hypocrites the lot of them
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  10058. Below inflation pay rises don't fuel inflation above inflation ones do how fkin stupid are these presenters do they not check anything? Current root cause of our inflation is inelastic demand for commodities traded on the World markets (energy and food) plus corporate price gauging If you want to lower inflation move energy to renewables and subsidise farmers to grow more crops
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  10059.  @JelMain  The Tories are bricking themselves over this there was a lot of tactical Anti Tory voting
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  10060.  @englishpaper3636  Corona virus was and is studied all over the world since bird flu why does 2+2=7 with you people what conspiracy are you gonna come up with next?
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  10061.  @englishpaper3636  the CDC funds thousands of projects why do you think they were aware directly? The corona virus was being studied in Oxford for example which is why they had a vaccine within 48hrs of getting the dna sequence. Here"s my theory a guy got bat shit on his hands and poked his nose at the wet market where they were selling them for Chinese medicine
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  10062.  @englishpaper3636  look I ain't dissing the lab leak theory out of hand but there's a fundemental problem with right wing think. They start at the top of the pyramid with a solution and reverse engineer and cherry pick rhe facts to shoehorn it in. Scientifically you start at the bottom and collect the thousands of facts and work your way up slowly and methodically. You end up with extremes like pizza Gate and 99% of the Anti-vax BS. Lab leak a solid 0. 002 out of 10 chance Batshit wet market a solid 9 out of 10.
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  10063. What about people with Autism and special needs?
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  10064.  @DavyMcKay  it's just gay hate recycled into transphobia Don't you feel used for believing this crap matters?
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  10065. Of course it's extreme right that's why labour have a 20 point lead
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  10066. Named after a famous Labour politician James Keir Hardie (15 August 1856 – 26 September 1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician. He was a founder of the Labour Party, and served as its first parliamentary leader from 1906 to 1908 and He got a scholarship to a private school so did I my parents were also working class
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  10067. I think he started off working class and his family bettered themselves as did my parents. By the time I became aware of class I was already at a private school with a scholarship and the fee paying boarders were pretty aggressive at singling out the scholarship pupils. Then Thatcher destroyed the working class what's left of them voted Brexit and UKIP. My son is a gardener very well educated 9 GCSE's 4 A levels a distinction in Horticulture get 30p above minimum wage. A just graduated nurse pays 50% in tax. Pensioners are starting to go into the 20% tax bad through fiscal drag if they have even a small secondary income. Meanwhile the wealth Class are licking up the cream, Millionaire pensioners given a 40,000 a year tax break. Bankers given 8 billion. The likes of Hunt, Sunak paying 20 p in the £ on earned asset wealth their latest wheeze remove IHT which only 4% pay Welcome to Tory Britain the asset class and every else that supports them @shughy1 
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  10068. Trump tore up the Iran agreement, there's no plan it's all of the cuff
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  10069. 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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  10070. If you put a Clown in the Whitehouse he doesn't become presidential the Whitehouse becomes a Circus
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  10071. @bieituns  shock therapy could work His last term was a complete freakshow
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  10072.  @pm6550  your on 400k plus?
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  10073. Tax cuts don't create growth its completely delusional Osborne's corporate tax cut was spent on share buybacks increasing CEO pay in the bargain If you want to grow the economy you invest in physical and social infrastructure and get money into the pockets of the working and middle class Bottom up middle out as in scrap Tory Austerity and Trickle down policies
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  10074. This clip is going to be played back time and again if Pompeo tries a WH run the guy is a joke
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  10075. Timline 2017 Trump tax cuts putting 1.5 trillion into corporate America 2019 tax cuts causing fed debt to spiral 2020 pandemic with debt still rising Fed prints trillions to ease the recession 2020-present nearly all those trillions have spiralled up to the 1% causing the inflationary pressure. So until the Republican Senators stop blocking tax reform we will have an ongoing issue inflation. Their answer is to cut services infrastructure and other programs which will jack up unemployment and push the US into recession
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  10076.  @perryd765  What is to do with Biden is to get the tax on the millionaires and billionaires or were in for a rocky ride. It would be worse with a Republican we know the 1st thing they'd do would be to cut which would drive up unemployment and push the economy into recession.
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  10077. no there not its mostly the intellectual left who carp on about socialist ideals etc. and are actively trying to get Labour to loose because they got rid of their precious Corbyn so they can say I told you so. Most people want the pain of the cost of living crisis to stop and have a reasonably funded NHS Schools and a decent place to live they don't care how its done they are really afraid and dont give a Toss about your socialist purity tests
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  10078.  @razorednight  Sunak's policies will self immolate the lot of them I can't see a Braverman being electable in any shape or form. Or any of the Fashy bunch they'll turn too The problem they will have is current polling suggests a mean of 100 seats there's not that many moderates to start with so you'll be left with the likes of Desmond Swain Marc Francois etc Even Mogg's seat doesn't look safe to tactical voting
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  10079. Moving from one set of right wing grifters to another marvellous The root cause of the majority of this countries problems is Thatcherism
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  10080. Family farms in Yorkshire near me cost around 2.5 million Well under the 3 million a couple
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  10081. Reform are the worst versions of Tory policy there Libertarian not Conservative and deluded in everything they propose
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  10082. Renewables are cheaper Tories didn't change planning to get grid rollout
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  10083. 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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  10084. since 2019 the Conservatives have put up tax per household by 13,000, 2k sounds like a bargain. by the way Sunak's pension tax pledge will be paid for by raising the pension age to 67 enjoy
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  10085. High immigration is the result of NeiLiberal economic policy If you want it lower Stop Voting Tory
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  10086.  @a13xdunlop  language matters
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  10087. @brucecurtis6281  why are you not happy you got a motion for a ceasefire?
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  10088.  @GF_MF  it was a convention not a rule
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  10089. Net zero makes energy cheaper
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  10090. @originalshadowfax  fitted thermal solar couple years back 75% of my hot water is free capital cost paid back within 6 years because of inflation and high gas prices. Also Added secondary insulation with new extension heat loss is around 2 degrees every 6-8 hours Don't be a chump and believe populist guff from tw@ts whose sole aim is to keep you poor and promote the fossil industry
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  10091.  @originalshadowfax  @originalshadowfax  fitted thermal solar couple years back 75% of my hot water is free capital cost paid back within 6 years because of inflation and high gas prices. Also Added secondary insulation with new extension heat loss is around 2 degrees every 6-8 hours Don't be a chump and believe populist guff from tw@ts whose sole aim is to keep you poor and promote the fossil industry
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  10092. Reform would make both legal and illegal migration worse Their economic policies would turbo charge legal migration and their solutions to illegal migration are FogHorn grandstanding same as the Tories
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  10093. Everything is more popular than Donald, there clinging to dodo views and presenting zero policies
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  10094.  @Travel_Cebu222  I get my info from places like the official labour statistics, economic reports from federal and university study sources not farted out of Donald's brain and cherry picked by Fox and it's allies. The underlying economy even before covid was in a mess you had 40 million in poverty (official federal Statistics) increasing personal debt levels ( official federal statistics) increasing health insurance costs added to unchecked ramping of essential drug prices. The guy has done nothing but spew hate and gaslight for 4 years his marquee bill was a huge tax cut for the rich and corporate America which ballooned the debt.
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  10095.  @Travel_Cebu222  you stimulate the economy by pushing money into the bottom and middle generating growth and demand, all the money pumped in at the top was pissed away on share buy backs. Small/medium businesses get screwed by this as well. Its zombie economics 101
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  10096.  @Travel_Cebu222  Stimulating the economy from the bottom up has been standard economic theory since the new deal. There isn't much point expanding at the top if there's no demand so they don't and you get into a cycle of economic depression. Round 50% of employment was till the latest crash from sme's and they generally account for 60-70% of the jobs growth when things pick up.
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  10097.  @ChrisMurray-iw9ij  it will just go to tax model it brings in to much to the Treasury
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  10098. Projection the refuge of the weak
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  10099. Starmer isn't hanging about with a decent majority they will go into overdrive expect planning reform day 1
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  10100. Yea because the Blair / Brown era brought +25% in real wage growth we can't be having people with more money in their pocket much better Cameron / May's real -3% in real wages and Bojo's -5% The Cameron / May / Johnson era has seen the biggest shift in wealth to the 1% ever recorded as the poor and middle class pick up the tab for spiralling asset values of the super wealthy and lavish pay-outs to corporate bosses.
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  10101. Makes Burning it seem like a waste then
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  10102. And ref9rm are infested with billionaire money
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  10103. We need a second line for intercity traffic, current one is full should nave been built back in Thatcher day
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  10104. @Health is wealth Got nothing to do with immigration don't be such a patsy for the National populists
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  10105. Tax thresholds are frozen till 2028 that's costing me £40 a month
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  10106. ​ @lady12roses why would anyone consider another Thatcherite economic leaning party after 14 years of it producing stagnation? High legal migration is the result of not investing in your own population, high rents not investing in housing, clogged roads not investing in transport etc
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  10107. It's not even enacted and was due 2025 there is no budget for it
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  10108. Its nothing to do with Biden, in 2020 at the height of the pandemic oil futures went through the floor Trump used the threat of troop withdrawal from Saudi to strongarm MBS to cut oil production (at the time they were in a price war with Russia). Production by the Saudi's is still at lower levels than before the pandemic. Oil is kept artificially high its run as a Cartel the impetus is to make sure it doesn't go below 50$ barrel (ExonMobil's magic number) As a side note the Saudi's can produce it at 12$ a Barrel and still make a profit its a completely rigged market
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  10109. ​ @space.youtube Bernie has tirelessly campaigned to raise the minimum wage and expand healthcare access to low paid Americans as well as fight for decent regulatory standards and have a fairer tax system. One of the drivers of Bidens green agenda which will transform the US economy Working class middle class who cares he's an absolute hero
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  10110. Why do you want a foreigner buying the uk election? Billionaires want tax breaks and government contracts for their donations
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  10111. The problem with that analogy is the Republicans are climate deniers and the next tech wave is renewables in fact it's here already as can be seen with Tesla. The stock market is soaring despite Trump not because of him.
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  10112. ​ @Mitjitsu could do with open primaries like in the US. You register with a party and get to choose your rep
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  10113.  @markcrouch9047  The industry provides no where near the number of parallel jobs you would gain from a domestic renewable and green energy system + we are then insulated from world commodity shock. It also has next to no effect on the world market and we are giving out huge subsidies and tax breaks to maintain it. There is zero economic argument for maintaining the status quo when we can produce energy more cheaply and not have it transported with all the environmental hazards that brings. I'd also add the next round of exploration and extraction will be more costly thane the last further increasing costs as renewable prices keep going down.
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  10114.  @markcrouch9047  Its got nothing to do with being a good citizen and going green renewables are cheaper period. The grid is aging and due for refurbishment anyway as coal stations reach end of life the only thing holding it back is government inaction. A grid that is renewable based is a lot more decentralised you can already mesh network Domestic EV's for grid balancing the same smart technology makes better utilization of domestic solar. Domestic Batteries are starting to appear on solar installations as prices keep falling You can reduce UK gas usage by improving insulation standards and retrofit + the current network can support a 20/80 Hydrogen / NG mix So in 7/8 years that oil / Gas field we spent billions subsidising getting on line could well be redundant as prices fall. Current Brent crude costs 60$ a barrel to break even Saudi / Iran / Iraq 30$ most US production 50$ Ural 65$ Nigeria 50$ etc.
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  10115.  @markcrouch9047  Why is Texas the King of US oil the King of Wind Farm deployment in the US with 20% Oil is a multi trillion dollar business there are too many vested interests involved in any sort of transition away from it if they can possibly help it. You keep repeating renewables are not cheaper but that is an outright lie these are from economics publications Quote 2023 Switching over to clean, renewable power — and away from fossil fuels — could save trillions of dollars by 2050, a new study finds Quote 2020 In most places in the world power from new renewables is now cheaper than power from new fossil fuels Quote 2021 Renewables are now significantly undercutting fossil fuels as the world's cheapest source of power, according to a new report.
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  10116. @poolplayerpoolplayer7430  which bit of we're giving billions in subsidies and it takes 7+ years to come to the international market + renewables are still falling in cost will affect prices in the next couple of years?
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  10117.  @yousausage  GBEnergy is a proposed to be a renewable energy company which will add competition to the market by providing pressure to lower prices. In the current outdated system, the most expensive type of energy (usually gas) sets the price for ALL types of energy, including renewables. It's bonkers
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  10118. You got Brexit that's why the dependants are going up muppet
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  10119. @tonyc2837  course we have your just in denial with of the consequences
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  10120.  @timmayers4965  a capitalist ladder only works with a socialist floor. Lower the floor too far and the ladder for many disappears. The most valuable economic commodity a country has is it's workforce.
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  10121. They are conservative we've had 14 years of failed Thatcherism
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  10122.  @sparkyinsertnamehere6673  Cameron was small state low tax Austerity was a political choice Million n miles from Blair/ Brown Your VAT shot up straight away under them corporate tax and CGT went down
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  10123.  @donvickers8507  wagner are the biggest neo nazis on the block Zalensky is Jewish?
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  10124. Abbot is part of Corbyn's peacenik crowd who were slagging off Nato - Diane Abbott: Keir Starmer's 'deranged' Nato support risks 'catastrophe' in Ukraine I'm retired my father came here during the war joined as a paratrooper from poland via a russian gulag, they have no idea and I would never vote for any of Corbyn's inner circle peacenik crowd
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  10125.  @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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  10126. Employers NI wasn't ruled out Check the Tories list of possible tax rises in their pre election scare the cr@p out of the electorate and v9te for 5 more years of incompetence leafleting
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  10127. You don't give in to an extortion racket Putin and his ilk are a criminal enterprise  @aclark903 
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  10128. that's a dumb statement the US aren't going to deploy troops in Ukraine
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  10129. what do you mean by increase? Debt to GDP has been going up year on year by the Tories from 62% in 2010 to 100% now If Your going to decrease the debt you can't do it with taxes or cuts you have to increase GDP per Capita which Blair/Brown did
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  10130. she's useless we have 40,000 who should already be deported if they did there job and process them wasting 100's of millions on Rwanda your a mug if you believe that A it will happen and B 200 people would make the slightest bit of difference @libertasdemocratiam887 
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  10131. Where do you get 20% from? Inflation impacts everyone differently me I own my own property and we've sold our second car because I work remote bar 2 days a month and moved to an Ebike and our costs are going down.
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  10132. Reform are a vehicle for the billionaire class to slow and stop our energy independence transition, the migration stuff is a con Reform's economic policies would just drive legal migration higher its a feature of right wing supply side trickle down
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  10133. Harris is starting to take a slim lead on the economy Still can't figure why people believe his Tariff bull when economists have all said it will cost consumers 3 trillion over 10 years and even the right are freaking out about it notwithstanding retaliatory tariffs which will decimate US exports Hey Ho
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  10134.  @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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  10135. You do realise the people yanking your chain and filling your head with propaganda like GBN are vehicles to promote Billionaire interests NatCon isn't Conservative and was sponsored by an oil and gas funded think tank Always follow the money
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  10136. no we don't haven't done for years the latest round has around 100 billion in tax subsidies in them tax from oil is a 80/90's thing
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  10137. @dogkicker100 given most have been vetted by Starmer then no
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  10138. there's 2 cars and a campervan in my family all of them not new and they all comply go look up the standard its pretty lax
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  10139.  @ethalminiellis3032  why won't it? Ulez standard is the same as in other European cities. EV's will phase in as ICE production stops and prices get cheaper EV Crate engine conversions will start to become available for people wanting to keep their old vehicle but run it on electric Things don't stand still and the whole point of ULEZ is better public transport cleaner air and less cars on the road and it will always be around the 90% plus compliance mark before they change it I changed a lot of my travel to an EBike a year or so ago I want more cycle lanes
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  10140.  @dannyBtech  A 2008 car is a money pit average mileage would put it at over 100,000 miles on the clock and poor people don't drive they benefit most from better and cheaper public transport. Hardest hit will be diesel lorries and vans and if there are any tradesmen left after Brexit
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  10141. Putin, The Oligarchs & The Russian Mafia are interchangeable its a system built on patronage and corruption as long as the top boss gets his 10% then the Oligarchs get a free hand. When Russia invaded Crimea all the prime assets were stripped from Ukraine and Ukrainians and sold cheap to the Oligarchs the current dispute isn't ethnic or about NATO. There more than happy to let unlimited people die for their cause there is no negotiating with animals @ФедорСоколов-и4н 
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  10142. Blair / Brown +25% on average wages services that work Cameron /May -3% on average wages Johnson Truss Sunak -?? services that are run down to the bone and are on life support The tax-to-GDP ratio in the United Kingdom has increased from 32.7% in 2000 to 33.5% in 2021 debt to gdp rom 62% to a projected 103% in 2023 (don't blame the pandemic it was 92% in 2019) So debt has gone up with the Tories Tax has gone up with the Tories the only thing that's gone down is real wages so Labour landslide here we come
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  10143.  @T5Zplayer  so a true forelocktugger enjoy your poverty and serfdom
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  10144. I know beats me why all the noise Starmer is targeting the smugglers not the smuggled cooperating with the people who run the border on the other side reclassifying people smugglers in the same light as organised crime and seizing their assets plus getting rid of the backlog that's costing us 8 billion The Tories offer is to shout a lot about the smuggled as if that will bring down the numbers by magic
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  10145. renewable energy is cheaper than fossil and over the last decade we've poured over 200 billion in subsidies towards the industry
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  10146. For tax purposes you don't need to live somewhere to use it as your primary residence. Also There's nothing connecting your address for voting to your tax address That's why Dowden was careful to say primary residence, the whole thing is a mud slinging exercise which you appear to have bought into
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  10147. Because the Moderates are forever pandering to the hard right in theory to stop the party splitting Problem started with Johnson culling the Moderates and new MP'S had to worship Brexit Jesus, Brexit is and always will be an economic car crash
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  10148.  @1958PonyBoy  First off they can strip lithium from seawater https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/seawater-could-provide-nearly-unlimited-amounts-critical-battery-material Secondly I'd expect the current battery technology to be replaced within 10 years Li-Ion is at its max and there are a number of alternatives the nearest to production is solid state. There's also some grid scale alternatives such as liquid air. https://youtu.be/yb1Nuk3_t_4 There are also numerous small scale projects that build on a distributed network. The advantage of nuclear is its always on the problem with nuclear is its always on and waste. Electrification is already happening in cities with last mile delivery trucks and urban buses being the biggest switchers.
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  10149.  @1958PonyBoy  so ups are converting https://youtu.be/I781itRPJH8 And there's a grid scale liquid air battery currently under construction in the UK with a proposed unit in New York, the UK one will notably store excess wind energy but the area is serviced by nuclear.
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  10150. Stop talking like a cranky old woman man up and stop talking shyte
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  10151. economy is shrinking because we keep cutting services ex defund the criminal & justice system you get more crime which results in a drop in GDP duplicate that through the economy and we get a shrinking tax base as GDP per Capita shrinks
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  10152.  @MinkieWinkle  yes they do if you built a modern east west train line it would expand the commuter belt for leeds Liverpool and Manchester. That in turn creates further demand in those areas for shops resteraunts etc. Link it to Hull and you can catch the overnight ferry to the continent. If you cut funding to youth service and you get increased youth crime that leads to a decrease in. Gdp and the State ends up with a bigger bill for prison police and justice Narrow thinking for short term is why we are here
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  10153.  @IansOddInterests  your calling rwanda an achievement its nothing more than a 600 million advert for them being useless
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  10154. Why would they stand down? Reform aren't Conservative in any shape or form and educated centre right voters won't touch Nige with a barge pole
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  10155.  @ricochet2977  so a party instigating 14 years of Thatcherism is somehow not Conservative and a Labour party that will nationalise rail isn't socialist Give yer head a wobble
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  10156.  @stevegarrett2366  what utter nonsense they've moved further and further right to the point there not even rcognisable by the Centre right faction as a viable voting option.
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  10157. Your not subsidising offshore wind farms no idea where you got that nonsense from Currently gas generation is x7 times the cost of wind and controls the spot price because the Tory energy matket
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  10158.  @lawsonspedding6136  the shelf life of offshore wind is 25 years The issue with private companies building public infrastructure is they refuse to take risks, Dogger bank offshore has a guaranteed contract price of 42p Hinkley C is around 120p with inflation guarantees for 35 years. Because the cost of borrowing has gone up they were looking for 52p To put this in prospective peak Gas demand has reached a spot price in September 2022 was 580p
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  10159. So he's resigning over Sunak breaking the 2019 Net Zero manifesto pledge Is this correct a Tory with a spine he needs to be expelled from the party asap
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  10160. There both talking bollox there's never been a country in history that's decided to erect trade barriers and sanctions on itself and for good reason it's sending our economy down the plughole
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  10161. This only came up because Bozo was sponging off the state and getting them to pay legal bills so the Cabinet Office had to review all relevant documents. Its totally self inflicted by greed
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  10162. The Tories got rid of STV and introduced voter ID to suppress the vote of poorer people and the young as well as running a campaign full of lies and the the voters rejected and voted for the candidate with the better policies.
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  10163. 408k used her pass through link to register to vote within the 1st 48 hours. Y9ur obviously unaware of her following
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  10164. Companies don't pay tax if they don't make any money and also get jenerous forward tax write off provisions when will zombie trickle down finally die how many reports on the subject that basically say 'it doesn't work you muppet' does there have to be.
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  10165.  @johntooth1886  I'm 66 you know as long as I've been voting people have been scapegoating migrants trying to blame them for everything under the sun. There going to have to process them anyway so why all the theatre and last time they had spare cash the Tories blew it on a tax break of 8 billion for bankers so your OAP wish has 2 chances of happening Bob Hope and No Hope
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  10166.  @polaris7122  no I'm not 80% of the applicants are granted so where housing around 40,000 economic migrants for no other reason than the government can't be arsed to get their finger out of their backside and process + deport them
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  10167. why we live in a Parliamentary democracy not a Presidential, we'd not be able to get rid of King Boris and Princess Nut Nut if we had
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  10168. ​@johnosullivan3924 she's a Libertarian the IEA are funded by billionaire interests there is nothing they wouldn't do for a tax cut lie cheat steal murder
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  10169. Biden has turned round a flailing US economy bringing down unemployment to below pre pandemic levels while still reducing inflation and starting a manufacturing boom with over 1 million jobs reshored. This turns round decades of economic consensus on how to curb inflation, the last time inflation was out of control unemployment was deliberately set high with fed rates reaching 20% in the Reagan era and unemployment at 7%
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  10170. The scare stories are from the Fossil lobby they have been near on printing money recently A tilt to renewables makes the grid a lot more distributed its also cheaper but has higher capital costs against say a gas generator which is capital cost cheaper but way more expensive over time and is also a cash cow for the owners.
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  10171. So a laptop happens to come into Rudys hands that's from a Trump supporter with impaired vision from a state/place Hunter doesn't live and the masterminds of this big reveal are Rudy (a known drunk and wack job who's been cavorting with Russian and Ukrainian Oligarchs as well as Borat) Steve Bannon (under indictment for fraud stealing from gullible Trump supporters) and chief Trump bootlicker Hannity. The story of where the data came from is bogus and how much of the data is even real? a clip I saw had texts with a Russian carriers mark where you'd expect t-mobile or something How it was found was a lie how much of the rest of it is?
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  10172. what moving away from fossil is somehow failed policy when being tied to world commodity markets is a major inflation driver and the less where dependent the fewer economic shocks we'll get. Yea right what a dumb thing to say Ill stay with my solar and battery
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  10173.  @chrishartley1928  failed in what way? Last time the US was Economically great was the space race where still benefiting from the massive government investments in research and development Biden has put a 2 trillion program together over the next 10 years which comprises of Infrastructure CHIPS and IRA which will transform the US economy into the renewable tech hub of the world. And that pivots the economy away from fossil. Anyone involved in fossil is pouring endless sums of money into trying to castrate the programs, follow the dark money of the Koch brothers & the Mercers Fox is also owned by a billionaire arseh0le who pedals climate denial
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  10174. There's a lot of angst over the debt on the right, my feeling is the Dems are keeping thier powder dry over how to fix it because they don't want it as an election issue, so wealth tax anyone with a one off 5%.
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  10175. When has reality ever been a thing in Trumpworld, the shit Trump has pulled and it's got foxsplained away I mean what's the worst BS they've been fed with? The Republican party are going to use this election scam to introduce all manner of voter suppresion tactics and use it to justify gerrymandering on a nuclear level but let's be clear minority rule does not work it will completely blow up in thier faces.
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  10176. It started with Thatcher this isnt just 14 years of work
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  10177. 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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  10178. Working people don't pay CGT well of retirees like me don't pay CGT the likes of Hu nt and Sunak do
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  10179. @dianecameron137  one who's sorted out his tax affairs, your paying cgt on selling 2nd properties primarily, or your income is derived by selling shares outside a pension wrapper (SIPP) or ISA as Sunak's is
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  10180. @dianecameron137  I don't do the faux outrage the media tries to spin, the issue with the freebies is the rules all MP'S accept them my Lib-Dem mp was waxing lyrical about meeting local business leaders at the local 2nd division football club and getting hospitality at the WI. The stories by the right wing media are designed to ensure you don't look at what's really going on in detail and to create false equivalence. Starmer has a rich friend, Badenoch ran her campaign for leadership from a house donated for the task by a prominent fossil lobbyist now there's a proper story Quote Kemi Badenoch Manifesto Uses Climate Denial Group Research to Attack Net Zero The Tory candidate is running her campaign from the home of a prominent anti-green activist. And let's dig further Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election He received over 1 million last year from an offshore billionaire with ties to the fossil lobby through GBN
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  10181. @dianecameron137  so my detailed reply was deleted here is a synopsis of how I feel about influence in politics The fossil lobby pour millions into the Cons through various means, this lead to delayed and abandoned insulation targets, renewable infrastructure cancelatons and an onshore wind ban plus delayed grid roll out costing the country and consumers 100's of billions in total over the energy crisis.
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  10182. @dianecameron137  the fossil lobby are also pouring millions into reform by various means as well
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  10183.  @dogpoofairy2517  Using government programs to blackmail a foreign country to target your political enemies and trying to get congress murdered so you can declare marshall law is about as unpatriotic as you can get. Were still waiting to see why the Saudis gave him 2 billion via Kushner
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  10184. So you think supporting a pointless amendment that doesn't do what everyone claims it does because it's written wrong on your 1st vote after 14 years out of power is a smart move?
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  10185. Planes will be electric by the time its built, nasa are already developing batteries for aircraft
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  10186. Have they not read project 2025 There getting a national abortion ban as well as a contraception ban weather they like it or not as well as gay marriage will be outlawed and a return to far right christian values
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  10187. only one of the cheapest sources of energy on the grid at 2.5x less the cost of nuclear
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  10188. Why is everyone not trotting out the work of Keynes He argued for governments to stimulate faltering economies with public investiture. Even a small increase in government spending could net sizeable results, creating economic and social stability. In the interwar years between WWI and WWII, right-wing strongmen rose across Europe as a response to faltering economies and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Keynes understood that factors like economic deprivation, deflation, and inequality lead to dictators. The Tories are gone they will not recover what is coming is a rise of the far right and not under Farage, already your hearing Reform voters swing behind people like Tommy Robinson.
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  10189. She isn't president and the Democrats don't have a majority in the house Pos election then that will change
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  10190. Lock downs, masking and social distancing saved lives and there are stats out there to prove it
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  10191.  @dannyblanchflower1882  and when would a rejoin referendum be 2050? by that time all the old farts that drunk the Brexit coolaid will be dead
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  10192.  @dannyblanchflower1882  and when would a rejoin referendum be 2050? by that time all the old farts that drunk the Brexit coolaid will be dead
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  10193. Why would it go higher the peak of oil prices has past for the next few months also we've had record retail sales well over normal. 4th quarter company results will be at all time highs for a lot of companies. Interest rates should be 1 to 1.75 anyway zero is not a sustainable level
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  10194. Maybe someone should point out to him and his followers they are on a long worn path of deniers that has its parallel from the Black Death through the 1918 pandemic History teaches us many things including people making the same mistakes over and over again
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  10195.  @j.sumner6999  Battery prices are estimated to halve in cost and double in capacity over the next few years + advances in regenerative electricity from just running.
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  10196. we have an energy crisis which needs investment in and there promising to lower taxes for the wealthy how does that work? If you pump 28 billion into renewable energy it has an economic multiplier of a minimum 1.6 which means for every £1 you put in it creates enough GDP to return £1.6 in additional taxation. As a pensioner this will help me enormously because it will lower energy costs and I'm home most of the day far more than any tax cut. Getting energy costs down to 2020 levels would be the equivalent to me of my tax going from 20% to 10%
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  10197.  @robertgaraboncias8852  laziest president in us history with 300+ golf days.
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  10198. 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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  10199. I had heard on another channel that Ukrainian special forces had night vision maybe propaganda but given what you've said its a devastating advantage if they can move and clear at night
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  10200. My dad came here during the war from Poland he fought across Europe before seeking asylum in this country as a refugee because Russia had annexed his home, back in those days refugees were allowed to work and were welcome in the community your looking now at policies that you'd thought were lifted from the National front and BNP as Patel and co cosplay being fascist A holes.
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  10201. Country needs investment NOT more unfunded fantasy tax cuts
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  10202. Sweden has 63% renewable energy which is why they don't have a cost of living crisis and why there energy bills aren't the highest in Europe As self owns go its pretty dick comment
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  10203. Here are reasons for your account suddenly being closed Money Laundering perhaps? Sudden Unexplained wealth? Tax Evasion?
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  10204.  @moonraccoon1388  The push by the GOP to repeal the ACA is down to getting rid of the underlying tax that funds it. They don't give a toss about healthcare. Same with social security its all about reducing employers tax
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  10205.  @moonraccoon1388  you don't get it do you for Trump its all about reducing the payroll tax for his businesses. The GOP are all about big business and screwing as many tax breaks from the system as they can
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  10206.  @moonraccoon1388  He can't think beyond his own self interest, he is completely incapable of dealing with branches of government and treats executive orders as whims of the king. There is no deal he can make with Congress because he completely refuses to negotiate. Just look at the bunch of incompetents grifters and toadies he has around him, Kudlow as an economics adviser (2 bit Fox TV pundit divorced from reality) or Betsy Design Vos who's trying to dismantle public education and make it all private the list is endless.
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  10207. Inflation is a product of supply and demand, during the pandemic you couldn't give oil away if you average it over three years and don't just compare it to a pandemic year it's running at an average of > 3% There are also global supply chain issues, living in capitalist system the government can't just appropriate resources to cure it overnight. Senator Kennedy knows that he's highly educated and has a degree from Oxford he just plays dumb for the plebs to rile them up make sure they don't get a living wage and have to work 3 jobs just to get by.
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  10208. In the last 2 and 1/2 years our living standards have fallen 4.2% most of it under his watch and cumulative inflation is 20% Also Food staples have doubled And Over 14 years rent and housing has risen by 66% whilwages have stagnated or declined
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  10209.  @willrichardson519  the bulk of the inflation is Supply Side Corporate on inelastic commodities (essential food and energy) the issue is zero control of the supply chain with large multi nationals essentially able to operate in Cartel conditions We need to ditch fossil and produce more sustainable food instead pig farmers are going bankrupt and we're going to start fracking
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  10210. Why have they been treated badly? Their fantasy project brought about Labour's biggest defeat if you look at the final figures but for a couple of thousand votes Labour could have been wiped out so badly the SNP would have been the official opposition. The bulk of voters are moderate and don't want the odd trillion spending on rewinding Thatcherism
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  10211. ​ @johnsincek9636 border is pretty much the same just more people trying to cross every year Republicans won't deal with it, Joe deported more illeagals in 18 months than Trump did in 4 years, they've been offered numerous deals and turned them down they just want the fight.
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  10212. Even if it was it isn't the Blair/Brown years saw the highest rise in average wages post war at +25% with well funded services such as police and NHS It's like saying oooo don't vote for him he'll make you better off
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  10213. and how did Blair smash public services? Oh he gave them too much money paid the staff to well had too smaller class sizes didn't employ enough outsourcing to Tory cronies? And wages you can't be having wage rises non of that +25% in average wages how horrible people getting paid more
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  10214. Anyone stupid enough to believe Fracking is the answer to anything needs therapy, its elites funneling money to big Fossil as usual, cue Sunak's tax giveaways for North sea exploration  @Bobisalive 
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  10215. So Reform are claiming they can bend reality? Look how that's going for Tories
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  10216. Sue Gray plans to shut down the Bars to stop the drinking culture
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  10217. It was a Cummings idea supposed to be used as a political distraction in case of emergency Picked up by Patel as part of operation Save Big Dog, Sunak has been to weak politically to can it which is why Starmer has ripped him to shreds at PMQ's over it. The escalating costs alone will drive voters away from the Conservatives there dead men walking
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  10218. And 5 more years of Thatcherism are you crazy?
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  10219.  @James_36  can't wait looking forward to it sick oh 14 years of ever spiraling Thatcherism + Austerity killing this country
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  10220. Farage is the FogHorn of ignorance everything he has pushed for has increased legal and illegal migration by a factor of x3
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  10221. There's no overseas deployment in war zones hasn't been since the Afghan withdrawal
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  10222. Whatever your political stripe putting a 78 year old mental patient in the Whitehouse is not a good idea We still don't know what he did with nuclear secrets he stole and kept in his bathroom
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  10223.  @segue2ant395  The Big Bang was the deregulation of financial markets effected by UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1986. Quote Prime minister Gordon Brown has apologised for reducing regulations on banks in the years leading up to the financial crisis, admitting that the Labour government ‘should have done more’. Its kind of 1 - 1 on responsibility the Tories where all for Brown's approach what made it so bad for the UK economy was the heavy reliance on the service industry after the Thatcher years. The Tories have been talking about Big Bang 2 so there's plenty of mud to sling given the Tories seem to have learned nothing about deregulation and its consequences
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  10224. Ruthlessness is a good trait in a leader the rest of his Act needs sharpening up though his missions seem to be based on this book by Mariana Mazzucato Mission Economy A moonshot guide to changing capitalism
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  10225.  @keithparker1346  no its not too many wilt at difficult decisions and run to the nearest management consultant Current scenario The Tories have to be kicked out at all costs +5 years of Tory rule will see A private NHS Fossil on overdrive net zero gone further deregulation causing the collapse of sme manufacturing in this country pivot in education to Charter schools (outsourcing)
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  10226. It just shows what a dumb message "where going to open the economy" is without a vaccine a lot of people are going to adopt a necessary contact only strategy, work home and that's about your lot. The idea everyone will start milling round crowded airports going to crowded sports events at the flick of a switch isn't going to happen.
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  10227. Thatcher reforms where paid for by Oil revenue Asset Stripping Globalisation and giving away free houses tax cuts have never worked it funnels money to the asset class and corporations put it into share buybacks returning somewhere in the region of 20p in the £ its a complete CON Here's how successful 13 years of Thatcherism + Austerity has been 2007 GDP 3.093 Trillion 2023 GDP 3.113 Trillion Disposable income 2007 £6554 2023 £6053 Debt to GDP 2007 40% 2023 100%
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  10228.  @LetsgoChampTV  a tax fraud and sexual predator a great friend to the UK are you joking?
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  10229. Vigina vigilantes they need there own uniform Red cowboy hats seem appropriate They could enact mandatory period tracking for all women
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  10230. So replace someone with vast experience of running a government department with people with zero experience and expect them to change anything? I just don't get where the logic to have a wasted 5 years of Labour infighting comes from?
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  10231. So if you remove 20k hgv drivers from the pool, reduce the recruitment pool from 550 million to 65 million stop cabotage and abandon a roll off roll on frictionless market and replace it with a car park in kent with only a drainage grate to piss in and thousands of pages of documents adding untold delays but non of that is affecting the shortage or speeding up retirment and wastage in the sector? Interesting theory not
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  10232. They had to go into the wilderness to find themselves and conduct the militant experiment with the shiny Momentum one Meanwhile the Cons have been experimenting in Nationalism and Thatcherism and Still haven't found what there looking for
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  10233. Its in the agreement if you bother to get a unbiased synopsis ​@NoidoDev
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  10234. ​ @tonyb9735 he was completely useless and disconnected from reality it doesn't matter it was born out of intellectual conviction
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  10235. He left snowflake at home surely a bigger crime
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  10236. I've been going into the Georgia and North Carolina numbers on sixthirtyfive there not fixed yet the votes left for counting are from metro counties. They could go either way
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  10237. Its a show pony for the masses if your taken in by it more fool you If they processed the claims 40,000 would have already been deported and 3 billion saved 62,000 a year asylum seekers given residency is a nothing number against a population of 70 million
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  10238. Borrowing trillions to fund tax cuts and not hiring anyone in the administration that understands home economics never mind the USA domestic economy what could go wrong? Oh yeah maybe he could bankrupt the US same as he's done countless businesses he's mismanaged. The Chinese have his privates in a death grip in terms of a trade deal with a slowing economy and an economic strategy build on quick sand he's going to have to do the worst trade deal ever which will be even stinkier than nafta 2.0
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  10239. A prime example of how toxic Trump is these woman are at each other with a vengance
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  10240. I'd call it a healthy debate on how to get an economy going again that's been stagnant for a decade and a half and its population getting poorer over that period
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  10241. what's hard left about making people pay their taxes if your on payroll you get no choice @malthusXIII-fo3ep 
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  10242. Tory economic policies tarted up with Populism how does that make things better not drive the economy further down the toilet?
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  10243. Trump won't stand a chance if he goes against Biden the Dark Money backers who fund republicans won't touch him because he's batsh1t crazy This lot are just kin useless as Trump is
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  10244.  @myla6135  you can raise tax by getting rid of all the paperwork involved in exports with a proper deal with the EU + There's a loss of 7 billion from touring artists a proper deal could be struck Your talking about a fiscal drag year on year of 5% of GDP worth upwards of 40 billion in tax Biden through tthe G20 was proposing a world wide bottom rate of corporation tax of 15% which has been estimated to raise around 20 billion for the UK
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  10245. given the hand he's been dealt with he's done OK, the China stuff you people keep trotting out is pure fantasy. The US was the laughing stock of the world under Trump he got rolled over that many times you should nik name him barrel I'd stop whining about the border its the same old same old R in everything is great D in all of a sudden its hell on earth simple fact is nothing changes aside from not wasting billions on a stupid wall that Mexico never built
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  10246.  @kevr8482 Justify green energy? Its half the price per kilowatt hour of fossil and a third that of Nuclear the reason there isn't more of it is Utility Monopolies and the Grid is FKD so you can't move it around. Justify EV's? Their running costs are a fraction of an ICE car and costs have come down comparable to Gas cars and they will get considerably cheaper in 22/3 as economies of scale ramp up. Being a bit of a stats person 90% of ICU beds with covid are the unvaxed and 95% of the deaths, if your a die hard Republican your 3 times more likely to die from covid (27 per 100k as opposed to 7.8 for heavily Dem counties) that doesn't even take account of the fact that blue states got hit hard before there was a vaccine. Oil - Nothing Trump did would have affected its price or production quantities it takes 4-10 years for government policy to wind its way through the system the decisions made during the Obama era would be responsible. Likewise any long term Oil policy decision done now won't affect production exploration or price for up to a decade. It takes on average of 7 years from exploration to a fully functioning and producing well.
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  10247.  @kevr8482  Trump rode the coat tails of Obama's economy for 2 years, I ain't blaming him for the economic fallout from the pandemic but you inherit a stable growing economy then blow your advantage on a tax cut for the rich, if he'd shored up what had been done to reduce the debt the country would have sailed through and he'd still be Pres instead of being considered as the worst POTUS ever.
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  10248.  @kevr8482  Venezuela is an Authoritarian dictatorships which has 1 party rule and rampant corruption at all levels the US would have descended into something similar if the Trump coup on Jan 6th had been successful. Take Texas for example by extreme gerrymandering your getting ultra right candidates who would otherwise be unelectable who then have to maintain an unrepresentative system or their out of power and subsequently more and more extreme right wing policies are enacted. In terms of crime wars etc your a victim of your information media silo who denigrate the opposition and sicphantically fawn over and praise their chosen one no matter how corrupt incompetent and stupid he is. Crime in the US has gone down slowly over the last couple of decades there is no correlation between Crime and R or D there is one between Crime and poverty, deprivation and slum housing.
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  10249.  @kevr8482  just to point out that the origins of the anti-vax movement was bolstered by the medical freedom movement an organisation sponsored and set up by the Koch brothers why to stop Obama care because Taxes the greedy fks don't care if people live or die along as they make an extra dollar
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  10250.  @kevr8482  I'm 65 2 people I new died in the 1st wave since then no one I know has died the vaccine has stopped breakthrough cases becoming fatal or them needing hospital treatment 90 % of the covid icu occupancy is the unvacinated statistics don't lie
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  10251.  @kevr8482  it's gotten to the stage where the disparity in death rates between R and D will affect elections if you combine that with the fact that older you are and the more comorbities you have plus the closeness of multiple congressional seats the Dems may win the midterms just on Republican stupidity alone. Just a thought
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  10252.  @kevr8482  96% of democrats are vaccinated 52% of Republicans and 76% Independents 95% of the deaths from Covid are the Un-Vaxed The daily average deaths is 2000 if you extrapolate the figures the bulk of people now dying from Covid are Republican or Republican leaning its not inconceivable that the Republican party could loose well over half of a million voters over a year. Also the youth vote skews 20-80 to the Democrats As political strategies go its pretty dumb, there has always been public health mandates for all sorts of reasons. True oppression is what my Father went through during the war you don't know your born or how lucky you are
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  10253.  @grapentine739  how can you disude people who have the memory of a goldfish Trump gop stats + three million unemployed + 4 trillion debt + 40% trade deficit HOW FKIN BAD DOES IT HAVE TO BE The guy did what he does with his business spends unsecured money the fkin tax cut screwed everyone
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  10254.  @CharlieBrown723  only if you believe the stick the GOP sell
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  10255.  @timothypopik2288  Tesla have built a new factory in Texas and Arizona the Calafornia plant has expanded, Intel are building a chip factory in Arizona GM and Ford are building plant in the US. The wall is a complete waste of money the smugglers climb over it cut through it and dig under it, its badly made and sections have collapsed already due to gulf storms. The US has an aging population, the Democrats proposed expanding the workforce by enabling more women to work the Republicans and pressure groups have said no The only way of killing inflation completely is with tax hikes and higher interest rates, you go back to the Regan big tax cut to see what happened but that is politically impossible with Senate deadlock and you'd kill job onshoring dead with unemployment rising if you really hiked interest rates, also if you put in cuts you'd end up with stagflation. You don't want supply side economics the Democrats don't either its just big business trying to ram it through and keep the status quo a wall street analyst was on salivating over gridlock
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  10256.  @timothypopik2288  Tesla is expanding in Calafornia even as its hq moves to Texas By the way did you know Tesla is banned from selling cars in Texas the state has a law stating you have to sell through dealerships, Texas also bans municipal broadband partnerships. So much for free enterprise usual Republican shills bought and paid for by big business fk the little guy
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  10257.  @Mister8224  ? not according to the economic figures also he's promoting the switch to EV which will help decouple the US economy from the world oil commodity market with infrastructure investment. The economy is at a stage that it can reduce oil dependency in the next couple of years, the likes of Amazon are moving to electric final mile delivery vans as is UPS It wouldn't take much of a consumption drop to make the US an oil exporter again at a convenient time when Europe doesn't want to buy from Russia
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  10258.  @Mister8224  the US under Biden has the strongest economic recovery in the G7
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  10259. Let's look at Sunak's record Canned HS2 creating a train that didn't go to Birmingham and didn't go to London either +10 billion to the fossil companies in tax breaks we now pay Shell and BP to extort money from us from our own resources +8 billion in tax breaks to bankers reducing the banking levy +8 billion to millionaire pensioners in tax breaks Instead of fixing our energy market the most costly in Europe and addressing the fact that we have the worst insulated homes he spent 2 years on effin RWanda while giving the energy companies 72 billion in energy support. Then he decided to spend 20 billion on an unfunded NI cut to bribe his way back in or just salt the earth for Labour
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  10260. The Tories will be out for over a decade and She'll loose her seat in the next election anyway After 13 years of Austerity and trickle down Thatcherism + Brexit the economy is completly fked for 90% of the population the longer Sunak puts off an election the worse it will get and the heavier the drubbing
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  10261. There are no left of centre conservatives The centre right doesn't want Farage he's toxic
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  10262. It's the path to decouple your economy and take back control from faceless multi national corps that control world fossil prices
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  10263. 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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  10264.  @dylaninterval6355  This channel is centre right bias, same facts just opinion is differently, try the New Statesman same facts just opinion is centre left Fox is propaganda, Goebbels would be proud of what Rupert has achieved
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  10265. The last election was fought on the Johnson manifesto, leveling up, Hs2/3, net zero, no tax rises & get brexit done Brexit is a complete mess and Sunak has abandoned all the manifesto pledges + the Truss experiment will add to debt costs for decades
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  10266. 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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  10267. This equates to +250 billion in tax revenues
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  10268.  @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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  10269. There are no EU rules in the UK were not in the EU anymore all rules in place are UK rules voted by the UK parliament. Businesses still have to produce goods to EU standards if they wan to export to the EU and there not going to run 2 production lines just go get drunk or something Nige and spare us your crap
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  10270. It's like MP'S only started taking freebies this month and we have Tumbleweed over Nige getting bunged over a million from an offshore billionaire
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  10271. You really going to vote for dirty senile grandpa and then look your kids in the eye and hold him up as a role model ? ​@alil1971
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  10272. In a tight Labour market you can readily switch jobs. Also Remote working in many sectors allows you to live 1 place work another
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  10273. +16 million young people will have been added to the rolls since 2020 by 2024, they vote 8 democrat to 2 GOP due to the elite Arseh0les in the GOP wanting to remove bodily autonomy and are Climate change deniers and the only thing they appear to want to do in congress is gut the IRS so their wealthy donors can continue to cheat on their taxes  @Pleasesaveamerica 
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  10274. We ended up in lockdown 2 due to the sh1tsh0w that was the johnson government at the time. Its not improved under Truss or Sunak The economy can function fine without hospitality gyms cinema
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  10275. The figure is bollox anyway but if it wasn't when you dissect it over a full parliament its £300 a year per tax payer Sophie Ridge has just obliterated the Tories over on sky she had her researchers calculate how much tax has risen per household since 2019 it's £13,000 talk about boiling the frog
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  10276. We have a mandatory private pension system on top of the state pension I'm retired I have state + a final salary + a SIPP what's hurt everyone is the failure to recover post banking crash in 2008 since then the economy has been stagnant till 2019 when it started going backwards
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  10277. Reform is just a vehicle for pushing billionaire economic interests, follow the money
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  10278. The results from the continuing Corona Fiasco in the WH isn't even factored in also DT can't change the topic from covid its covid 24/7 till the election, Trump in his madness has just owned the breakdown of talks over another stimulus bill.
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  10279. I found the affair disturbing a rich powerful old man grooms a young intern, people in positions of power have a responsibility. Yea I know Trump is a predator but that's not an excuse and you know what fox is its a propaganda machine for the right how anyone watches that channel and believes the conspiracy theories and crap they spout is unfathomable
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  10280. Why would the public been onboard for the complete hellscape of deregulation Supply Side Economics It will remove workers rights open up GB markets to be undercut by cheap low quality foreign imports putting out of business farmers and what little industry we have left, like in the Thatcher era unemployment outside of the City and home counties would soar to 10%+ Unlike the Thatcher era there is no magic money tree to plunder no assets to strip no oil money to use to bribe people with tax cuts and you'll get a lukewarm reception to big bang 2.0 no one wants another banking crisis
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  10281. If they did succeed in grid locking the legislature over alternate electors the fall out would plunge the US into a crisis even DT's BS wouldn't be able to cope with. Trump lost by 7million votes he's hated outside his safe space, states that didn't respect the vote you'd think major demonstrations and a likely general strike
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  10282.  @spiderbootsy  Levelling up it gets even better
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  10283. So what's that got to do with it loads of the over 70's vote based on daytime tv and are senile how about stripping the vote from them they don't pay taxes at least not enough and they don't pay NI either
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  10284. What's left got to do with it? People vote left because they want a better economy housing cheaper energy & clean drinking water
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  10285. we are moving to renewable energy because it's cheaper offshore wind from Dogger Bank for example has a forward contract price that is well under half that produced by a Coal Power Station. Last year the Tory government subsidised the energy providers to keep consumer costs down by 72 billion because of the volatile price of GAS
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  10286.  @audreysuter4315  and how do you know? Have you looked into the economics of a renewable grid or how much adding Mass storage would save consumers?
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  10287. So this alone should give Democrats a landslide Trump ran the economy like he runs his business on other people's money except a nation state can't declare for bankruptcy like The Donald has done on multiple occasions Quote Trump’s most enduring legacy is the historic rise in the national debt It rose almost $7.8 trillion during his time in the White House — approaching World War II levels, relative to the size of the economy. One of President Donald Trump’s profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. 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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  10288. The Fed are printing money and buying the debt, by the way this is happening worldwide in nearly every economy not just the US's
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  10289.  @jesusdiaz1602  Greece Italy UK that's just without checking Kenysian Economic theory is mandatory module at college go read up on it instead of taking your talking points from some random ignorant right wing pundit
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  10290. methinks the right has a woke mind virus
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  10291. Even in the 80% there's going to be a percentage who are going to be seriously ill but not need a hospital bed, pneumonia being one of the more severe side affects.
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  10292. ​ @THX829  The BOE had to bail out the Kwerteng budget to the tune of 130 billion in quantitative Easing along with the 700 billion printed through the Covid period you have a case of too much money sloshing round the system all of which has trickled up. Its why inflation has been so sticky a lot of it needs taxing out of the system the wealthy are on a spendathon bender quote Luxury goods boom in Britain as super-rich youngsters buck the recession Rich kids fuel sales of brands such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci They’re young, rich and mortgage-free, and the scions of the 1% are having a roaring twenties. Despite the economic gloom currently shrouding the UK and many other western countries, sales of luxury brands have been booming and growing numbers of buyers are young adults. Swiss watches, Louis Vuitton trainers, rare Birkin bags and 81-year-old whiskies are among the products that are fuelling impressive growth in the bottom lines of luxury brands such as LVMH, Burberry and Kering.
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  10293. as soon as campaigning begins people will be reminded what an economic clusterfk he was -2 million jobs -3.6% GDP +8 Trillion debt 3.5 of it in corporate tax cuts to the wealthy Then there's 3 supreme court picks who overturned Roe v Wade and The republicans insane crusade against woman's rights The plans to dismantle Obamacare He's also said he plunge the US into a trade war and will try dismantle Biden's infrastructure IRA and CHIPS act plunging the US economy into recession and sending inflation through the roof @Fastbikkel 
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  10294. Your missing the irony whatever law was introduced was done by a Conservative government not sure why PM Smug thinks its a gotcha Anyone digging into the crime stats can see that crime goes down to a new low by 2013 before starting to rise and keep rising over the next 10 years what happened in 2013 Starmer left the dpp
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  10295. 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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  10296. You have a vote because the founders of the US fought and died to create a democracy, people need to take a step back and reflect on how entitled they are, use it as you wish but vote.
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  10297. No they don't they propose NINMBY unworkable solutions to highly complex problems feeding on the poor and disenfranchised
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  10298. ​ @ravd8082 if you put up trade barriers you increase red tape and paperwork that cost is passed on to the consumer. We also have less choice again that raises prices we trade less so less GDP that raises taxes
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  10299. Inflation is 2.5% the rate should have come down earlier.
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  10300. And Reform are the Billionaires choice, there backed by gbn owned by an offshore Libertarian Billionaire who is connected to the Legatum institute who are a network of think tanks funded I part by the fossil lobby Can't be having this net zero creating energy independence and destroying our business model. The migration stuff is just for the gammons, how does it feel to be used?
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  10301. Tories were past thier sell by date in 2016, only won because they lied about Brexit and labour had Corbyn
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  10302. You don't get lower bills if Gas or Oil is discovered the Government sell off the land lease rights and it goes on the international commodity market anyway. There will always be a chance that the entire Manchester Leeds water table may end up with toxic chemicals in it due to quakes and fracking chemicals really are toxic
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  10303. We're getting an over inflation rise of 400+ this year
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  10304.  @supremeworld87  Pensioners are getting £460 in April 8.5%
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  10305. ​ @tillyt4054 Tories defunding education what do you expect
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  10306. ????? absentee ballot = mail in ballot WTF are they talking about it is more secure than voting in person due to a paper trail
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  10307. 140k isn't that many seeing as 20% get deported
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  10308. Record highs is 10/11 % 6% with high worldwide commodity prices and pent up retail demand what do you expect
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  10309. Quote The UK is "sleepwalking" into a food supply crisis and the government must step in to help farmers, the National Farmers Union (NFU) has warned. Yields of tomatoes and other crops will likely slump to record lows this year, it said, with potential supply problems ahead as already seen with eggs So no its not easily explained and the Supermarkets maybe gauging but the whole thing revolves round government post Brexit policy and to an extent Brexit itself. The CAP is gone we've erected unbelievably stupid trade barriers at the point where we depend more and more on imports
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  10310. Yea right 20+ poll lead after the car crash that was Corbyn
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  10311.  @batmanlives6456  since when? Average milage UK is 142 miles per week. Octopus are offering cheap off peak if they can use your car battery for V2G and grid load smoothing
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  10312.  @Kededian  Its currently less than an ICE car and they will do 400,000 miles on current battery tech. there's 40 moving parts compared to 4,000 average usage in the UK is 20 miles per day + If your with Octopus you can take advantage of off peak V2G tariff The vast majority of people don't do large milage. I've switched to an EBike my commute was 3-4 miles we haven't bought an EV were running our current car into the ground as the Tech is moving so fast and all my friends are doing the same keeping their current car till it dies
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  10313.  @batmanlives6456  Why would anyone commute 200 km per day by CAR? And Even in Australia people don't do anything like that the average is 232 KM per week round 33 km per day. Tesla model 3 has 300 miles of capacity which is 482 km And you will get V2G and low overnight rates for no other reason than it solves a huge problem with the Grid by mesh networking load balancing and vastly reduced power companies need for instant on demand load. Any grid with high production at night (Nuclear and Wind) needs to either offload it or store it. And over the next few years its expected that battery prices will halve and capacity double.
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  10314.  @batmanlives6456  Urban population (% of total population) in Australia was reported at 86.49 % in 2022 So what your arguing is because 13.51% of the population with current tech aren't ready to even look at EV's then everyone else in Aus should boycott them?
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  10315.  @batmanlives6456  Prices aren't rising because of renewable energy there rising across the globe because of Fossil anyone claiming otherwise is lying In the UK Solar is the cheapest on the grid then Wind, in comparison Nuclear is the next cheapest at x2.5 more expensive and coal is even more expensive than that but similar followed by GAS which has been up to x7 price per kilowatt hour UK 42p OffShore wind 101p Nuclear 150 -> 600+p Gas V2G and domestic battery storage will happen in Urban areas because it vastly reduces the requirement for peak demand plants and can use off peak renewables.
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  10316.  @batmanlives6456  what green stupidity? Its cheaper all the campaigns against it are from the fossil lobby. and Its not cheaper by a bit its cheaper by a lot in the UK its never been subsidised all they did 10 years ago was give them a guaranteed price which was pretty near the guarantee they give Nuclear that's fallen to below what Gas was before the current crisis Currently the Fossil companies get billions in tax subsidies in Aus as well your tax dollars are paying to keep prices high. Quote about Aus subsidies Fossil fuel subsidies over the forward estimates have increased to a record breaking $57.1b, up $1.8b from the $55.3b slated in 2022 budgets Everything a government does in tax and spend terms is subject to an economic multiplier >1 it brings in more tax than the spend < 1 you receive less tax than you spend Quote The point estimates of the multipliers are 1.1-1.5 for renewable energy investment and 0.5-0.6 for fossil fuel energy investment, depending on horizon and specification. So basically Aus are pissing 30 billion $ up the wall on fossil subsidies and anything they invest in renewables has a positive tax gain of +10-50 cents on the dollar.
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  10317. UK law is embedded in the 4000+ laws there guffing on about they cover everything from sewage in the rivers / seas to paid holiday leave to food standards plus gobs of employment law. If you think the markets blew up over the Truss budget pass this bag of right wing shyte and watch the uk economy tank at a vast rate of knots as the bond markets bail
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  10318. And theyve gone on to prove how stupid they really are ​ @insertnamehere5146 
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  10319. So mr multi millionaire whats your crackpot unfunded tax policy? Ahh the lettuce Liz approach
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  10320. 70% of counties by GDP in the US voted for Biden, Texas may be governed by the Republicans but it no different to any other part of the US Your living in lala land if you don't realize that secession would turn Texas into Mexico @Si_Mondo 
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  10321. They'd get around a day before the Tex dollar went into full Argentina mode @johnkitching2248 
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  10322. 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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  10323.  @ashleyrayner7949  What drugs are you on?
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  10324.  @ashleyrayner7949  so were down to Brexit as a Cult belief system You kind of need to get deprogrammed read and listen to a range of views on the topic not just rattle round your own echo chamber
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  10325.  @ashleyrayner7949  we've gone from collapse of external investment to food shortages in 7 years what next for your brexit purity cult ration books? After you've set fire to the economy burnt down our right to live and work in 27 countries crashed our on demand supply chain what have we got to show for it with a bunch of swivel eyed brexit lunatics in charge is the highest taxes since ww2 and empty shelves.
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  10326. Don't you just love the passion of these black women go girl
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  10327. 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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  10328. The reason the economy is going down the toilet is Austerity +Thatcherism x Brexit Removing regulations increases paperwork and red tape to ALL Markets outside the UK making UK companies noncompetitive Low Tax = no investment in UK population = mass immigration to plug skills gaps
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  10329. The faux 2nd jobs are far more of an issue, Nige is trousering over a million, GBN is loss making with an offshore billionaire bank rolling it
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  10330. Removal of pollution from our waterways
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  10331.  @timothykozlowski2945  The Republicans are god awful with the economy 4 years of Trump his only achievement was a corporate tax cut that got debt loaded and is one of the underlying reasons for part of the current inflation. There only answer to inflation is to cut government spending which increases unemployment depressing wages and if they cut taxes as well it will increase interest rates even further. Reagan cured inflation with off shoring jobs sky high interest rates and 13% unemployment.
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  10332.  @zogar8526  We have predominantly supply side corporate inflation on essential commodities (fuel and food) there is also a portion which is caused by the Trump tax cuts which were debt loaded increasing the money supply. There would have been inflation no matter what, the Democrats have actually averted a deep recession we've had a couple of static quarters as you say employment is high and inflation is dropping the forecast is 2.4% going into 2023. If you could disconnect your Fuel from the world commodity market then ?
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  10333. CGT is taxing the elites
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  10334. Vacuums are going cordless and are thus getting more efficient to save power
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  10335. Why? Who would be stupid enough to believe believe the bilge Nige & Richard are pedalling?
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  10336. One of 12 get real
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  10337. I've got a Swytch conversion kit for mine it's between 400-500 $ I built my own bike a while back from parts but have had a knee replacement op since and struggled to ride.
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  10338. Why is that? My local hospital is getting money to replace the RAAC in it Public sector strikes have stopped and the Asylum waiting list is starting to be dealt with + numerous renewable projects Been put through
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  10339.  @keithparker1346  One of the reasons we have high immigration is the pull factor of wage suppression in the public sector. The government shrugs it's shoulders and just recruits from the 3rd world as well as allowing outsourcing. If they don't deal with it Farage will continue with his foghorn of ignorance. Streeting is doing well on the rounds, not that I agree with what he is saying. I've worked in 2 companies that have outsourced service functions it has reduced my productivity quite significantly.
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  10340. ​ @PostingCringeOnMain it's the Conservatives economic model (supply side trickle down aka Thatcherism) you need to constantly feed it Supply Side Labour To reduce migration you need to raise taxes preferably on wealth not work and invest in the countries physical and social infrastructure and abandon Thatcherism
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  10341.  @dschoene57  the population stabilisation argument, if you didn't have supply side economics you wouldn't need the huge number of migrants First because we tax work not wealth there's a huge taxation shortfall 2nd because we don't invest see 1st there's a huge productivity shortfall I worked in IT all my life now retired the NHS still uses paper records, systems don't integrate equipment isn't standardised huge chunks of the budget go on admin to liase with outsourcing. Thatchers Britain is a mess of half baked failed economic ideas glued together by a hedge fund mentality During lockdown we saw who the true essential workers where and it wasn't fkin merchant bankers and hedge fund managers
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  10342. It will cost 40 billion a year over 10 years Volatility in gas prices is costing UK consumers + 140 billion in excess energy costs Going net zero is a no brained on economic grounds alone Sunak is just pushing costs onto the consumer so the energy companies keep making huge excess profits
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  10343. Democrats left are mildly centre left at best
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  10344. No there not So isas 1st H unt has looking at capping lifetime allowance to 100k Both are closing the tax loopholes for offshore trusts and IHT The Tories Will increase the pension age to pay for ni tax cuts
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  10345. The US already produces more than it consumes and the Oil companies won't produce additional oil because the current price per barrel is $71 and the US break even point is $65 Does signing onto maga include divorcing yourself from real world economics?
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  10346.  @shaunusmaximus6399  incorrect the billionaire and fossil industry are ultra fond of deregulation and no tax, there's a whole slew of think tanks sponsored by them pushing far right ideology across the globe. Why because they don't care about the people they hurt just the bottom line
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  10347.  @ЗаСталина-н7л  City is pushing it it looks more like a village and there using what's called layered defence which exhausts the attackers resources requiring a 5-1 advantage loosing boat loads of men and equipment for every kilometre forward. Maybe you should club round the bot farm and buy Putin a copy of the Art of War
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  10348.  @ЗаСталина-н7л  tell your comrades too stop smoking next to ammunition dumps You know what they say smoking kills
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  10349. Loffler is as charismatic as stepping on a dog turd Perdue isn't much better is this the best of the best in the Republican party?
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  10350. There aren't enough kangaroo arseh0les in AUS that I'd like him to eat Lying conman
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  10351. You need to get off the drugs Borders have 2 sides where going nowhere with the Tories who just keep spending billions on stuff that doesn't work and makes the problem worse
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  10352.  @jaydon707  The US are succeeding in driving down the price of Oil the EU are planning for the worst which is a gas shut off. Russia has a break even point of $60 a barrel the US and Brent crude is $50 once central banks drive demand down then Russia will be selling at negative, the Chinese and Indian government are already screwing Putin over for a 20% discount. There economy is already in the doggy doo its just a matter of time
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  10353. its more like 5% your tax threshold should be 15250 at 20% not 12250
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  10354. the Bill for the Rwanda farce should go straight to the CONservative party its an election stunt
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  10355. Brexit was a pack of lies get used to the red tape escalating costs shortages decreasing business opportunities Every time we diverge from EU standards introduces more red tape and more compliance paperwork
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  10356.  @Robin-cf9ts  They'd do a lot better with growth and a vibrant economy I guess its just narrow minded greed
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  10357. if you put money into public sector pay it goes round the economy in a circle of tax and spend your looking at it costing the Treasury 20% of the headline figure while boosting GDP. It will also reduce the pull factor for migration the Tories depressed public pay then put all NHS posts on the visa exception list
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  10358.  @Bradbry1  diluting in what way were not borrowing to pay for it there are multiple ways of raising more money like actually collecting the 42 billion that was unpaid last year. quote The government has been accused of losing "staggering amounts" of money for public services "through incompetence" after a report found £42bn is owed to HMRC in unpaid taxes.
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  10359. @Bradbry1  Money printing isn't the root cause of energy and food inflation. Dependency on world traded commodities with cartels controlling prices using the situation with the complicity of the Tory government to profiteering on a massive scale is the main factor. There is no reason to borrow more when you can address one of the major issues by transitioning to renewable energy independence. The government failed to collect 42 billion in tax owed last year due to incompetence according to a government committee report.
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  10360. @Bradbry1  if you defund department's they become inefficient costing you more in lost productivity than the initial savings benifit. You can see this all over the economy, millions of sick days lost due to nhs waiting lists, tax not collected due to not enough hmrc resource, people in jail on remand for over a year waiting for a trail, over 180,000 asylum claims backlog cost around 5 billion.
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  10361.  @rodneyfungus8249  the guy lies all the time why are you defending his latest BS he takes people for MUGS just like Johnson a populist full of hot air
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  10362.  @ArranLaPaul  I like facts and data Trump is just a bullsh1t machine. Read the transcripts he needs therapy he is seriously mentally ill.
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  10363.  @dirtydawg448  yes the only fit position for a Con is the unemployment queue, not that they would need it with their second and third jobs This is the worst government this country has ever had they've bust about every low in the book plus a load that aren't, their economic record is appaling the NHS is underfunded and falling apart deliberately so they can sell it off cuts to education lowering clean water rules so raw sewage is being pumped into our rivers and seas. Etc etc
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  10364. I disagree it makes him look small minded and afraid, Joe Biden has the same amount of experience of being president as every other nominee zero. If he wants a proper troll job he needs to go gets some tips frome Bloomberg that anti Trump ad is stunning.
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  10365. Love his acting work always makes me laugh
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  10366. Older voters skew Republican younger voters skew Democrat Polls are weighted All the Democrats need to do is drive turnout
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  10367. oh boy did a quick calc the other day its worse than you think 2010 GDP = 2.491 trillion USD 2016 GDP = 2.700 trillion USD 2023 GDB = 3.131 trillion USD 2010 Figure adjusted for inflation would be 3.645 trillion we are 500 billion worse off than in 2010 2010 GDP = 2.491 trillion USD + due to fiscal drag where paying around £500 more per person in tax figures below adjusted for inflation 2015 2023 2023 Equivalent Actual 20% £11,001 £14,176 £12,571 40% £42,386 £54,621 £50,271 Everyone should be getting Equivalent
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  10368. 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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  10369. If you have faith why the burning need to spread your disease to your congregation
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  10370. Why do they need a coalition you can rule by consensus in a bipartisan manner. The idea that you can force through policy when you represent a minority is the root of uk electoral problems
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  10371.  @piccalillipit9211  it has nothing to do with where you live or the Overton window He's extremely centrist on social issues and centre left on fiscally policy. Dodgy Dave was Socially Liberal and a very hard right Thatcherite on economics. Sunak is a hard right Thatcherite and socially clueless
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  10372.  @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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  10373.  @michaelwells6797  I'm paying +£560 in tax as a pensioner due to fiscal drag which Sunak used to reduce NI Government accounts are a complete basket case atm
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  10374. let's invent some existential crisis to be afraid of then tell the poor saps if you vote fore us well stop it all the while screwing them over. so what shall we call it, I dunno political correctness didn't work I know those black guys call people who aren't sexist racist homophobic A holes woke let's pretend it's really scary and jump up and down about it no one will figure what where doing
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  10375. 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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  10376. No one I know is interested in her culture war bollox There concerned about RAAC in schools the state of the NHS the tanking post Brexit economy with the biggest drop in living standards in 1 Parliament in history Last week the Tories lost another couple of points in the Polls down to 23% Labour up to 47% @anonnemo2504 
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  10377. Sunak has just announced new Gas Stations pandering to the climate denying nutters + 1.25 million visas means there propping up gdp with migration
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  10378. They culled the Conservatives in the party because they wouldn't back Boris's fantasy no deal which would have plunged Northern Ireland back into sectarian violence They then absorbed the dregs of UKIP so you've an English Nationalist wing the ERG who were never Conservative in the first place their Libertarian nut jobs completely divorced from economic reality.
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  10379. He wanted to radically alter our entire economy which would have sparked a run on Gilts as he tried to borrow 1.2 trillion that would have seen the Truss market meltdown look like a training exercise. Populism on the left doesn't work either
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  10380. His speech on Monday was given behind a Policy Exchange screen they are a climate denying low tax for the wealthy abandon net zero fossil lobby funded think tank He's doing exactly what his handlers have asked him to do including billions in fossil subsidies, billions to bankers, billions to millionaire pensioners, canning net zero etc.
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  10381.  @El.Cid17  I read the serious media FT Reuters Bloomberg not your fantasy cheerleader types our economy is fked As for migration people only came here because there were jobs Cameron/ Osbourne were all in on the low paid gig economy which exploded the workforce and lowered the corporate tax rate disencentivizing inward investment which improves productivity. Brexit impact so far since leaving is 5.5 % gdp Long term since 2016 our economy is over 10% smaller than it should be Since 2016 investment in UK plc has fallen off a cliff We now have a serious brain drain because graduates can get better paid jobs over in the EU who allow migrants in for certain skilled jobs
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  10382. China also has half the world's offshore wind capacity
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  10383. The media pick the highest paid and laud it as the norm the vast majority of rail workers earns 15 pounds an hour down to 11 the rail bosses got 6% in September they've had a pay freeze for 2 years. What happened to Johnson's high wage economy?
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  10384.  @Barbarapape  they've had a pay freeze for 2 years and this isn't ab9drivers wages but the vast majority doing maintenance at all hours on betwee 11 and 15 an hour 5he rabosses got 6% in September
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  10385.  @steveday6671  why did she ask her civil servants to lie about it then? The ticket isn't the story its the lying and incompetence around it that is.
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  10386.  @Maximustard  if you bother to follow middle east politics you'd know that the free pass the Trump administration gave to Netanyahu has emboldened him and the right wing zealots. The current conflict is mostly down to Netanyahu trying to Stoke up war so he can form a coalition to avoid getting prosecuted for bribery until a week back he was heading to jail now he's been poking Hamas the whole area has flared up and the opposition coalition are arguing among themselves. What's worse is the amount of division he's prepared to Stoke in his own country to cling to power you've got real internal problems in Israel itself. Everything Trump touches dies
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  10387. ​ @DJFAmenHeavy  a mandate for what? Brexit is a complete economic shtshw Austerity 2.0 will tank the economy further and there going to spend 2 years pretending they didn't create a border down the Irish Sea and that the energy utility market they've designed isn't fit for purpose and is a complete skip fire
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  10388.  @DJFAmenHeavy  The economy was already recovering by 2010 Cameron and Osbourne shut it down with Austerity. Instead of mouthing off media talking points go look at the data I was pretty shocked myself when I started looking at how badly run the economy was from 2010 onwards and by 2012 academic studies where pointing out the devastating lomg term economic affect Austerity was causing. This was made worse by the unfunded Cameron tax cuts which where supposed to stimulate the economy but did nothing. Back in 2012 leading economists where pointing out to Osbourne that the multiplier factor for removing public money for the system was 1.6 so for example paying for an extra nurse every £1 you spent it generated £1.60 in the local economy so at this point Austerity becomes a political choice. Cameron and Osbourne as well as decimating public services oversaw an increase of 7% in the population but this isn't the full picture because we have a birth rate of 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 what we where getting was large numbers of EU workers to fill vacancies causing huge pressure on public services. This was heavily played on by the Farages of this world blaming migrant labour for Conservative political Dogma that wasn't evidence based Yet here we are with Austerity 2.0 the same closed mindset and inability to see how much damage to the economy the Tories are causing, the FT have just done an excellent video on the economic damage of Johnson's Brexit I suggest you watch it.
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  10389. Utter drivel You've had hard liners in charge for years devotees of the great Cult of Brexit and still its shyte and your bellyaching looking for someone to blame how about yourself for believing this bollox
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  10390. At least he's finally got a policy for his second term He could create a new disinformation and suppresion department headed up by his cartoon Goebbels Rudy Guiliani
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  10391. Its going up because of Brexit and delays in delivery
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  10392.  @dogbreaththe3rd851  the net zero argument was lost in 2019 when renewable energy became on par with gas generation. Keep up
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  10393.  @Philiptanzer  300k net was the projected figure from the government to run a stable economy under Conservative Supply Side Economic theory which would grow the GDP enough. So at some stage the Tories will find a way of getting the immigrants in one way or another because if they don't the economy will implode and Labour will get voted in to fix it.
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  10394. Letuce liz economics repackaged with fantasy imigration policy What could possibly go wrong? Oh yea the Tories have tried both and they were catastrophic failures
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  10395. Average wage is 14.62 an hour average nurse salary is 17.81 The media pick the driver's out forget the 99% of other workers
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  10396. Freedom to do what exactly? Money Laundering perhaps? Sudden Unexplained wealth? Tax Evasion?
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  10397. It is when your interest rates are 5% and you have persistent core inflation and ZERO growth. We will continue to have stagflation till the economic policies are changed away from Supply side Trickle down. quote Japan's economy shrank at its fastest annualized quarterly pace in two years in the July-September period, provisional government data showed Wednesday, as rising domestic inflation weighed on consumer demand, adding to export woes as demand waned.14 Nov 2023 @deeznoots6241 
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  10398. The government aren't making headway on the cost of living crisis and Hunt forward spent 20 billion he didn't have on tax cuts in April he'll have to cut budgets by 10% on top of 13 years of Austerity , portakabins in school playing fields RAAC all over the place. Also In 2021 Energy costs 30 billion in 2023 it will cost 170 billion Why the cost of GAS and a lack of investment especially the GRID infrastructure, renewable energy was cheaper in 2021 its multiple times cheaper than GAS now and fk all is being done And why do we have a train from Birmingham to outside London where is the Northern Powerhouse it doesn't have to be high speed it just has to exist. I put the figures into electoral calculus and amped tactical voting the Tories ended up with 50 seats
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  10399. what truth that she's Islamophobic? bigoted? Her greatest skill is her sheer incompetence and this is just to deflect how cr*p she is at her job
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  10400. that's been disproved multiple times at multiple levels by both Republican and Democratic state bodies, you people really are gullible
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  10401. reforming planning Lowering energy bills by moving to renewables + other stuff More than you'll get with the Tories
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  10402. It's not a net zero initiative
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  10403. In 2016 US debt to GDP was 80% by 2020 it was 132% You basically can't afford another Trump term if he tries his tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations again it will damage the US bond market and start an inflation spiral.
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  10404. It got this bad because we've had 13 years of Thatcherism aka trickle down economics + Austerity x Brexit Example Osborne cut Nurses Bursaries in 2010 and rolled it into University wich resulted in fewr people taking up nursing roll on 2023 and we have a Nursing shortage so your getting a Nurse from Nigeria because we've left the EU and she won't come without her Husband and kids hence 1.25 million immigrants last year with 1/2 dependants Example Sunak gave 2 billion in tax cuts to millionaire pensioners paid for by fiscal drag adding 1800 in tax to the average family, that money goes out of the economy straight into pension assets
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  10405. If your going to start another middle east war at least have the decency to lie properly, c'mon put some effort in this is pathetic
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  10406.  @Spearhand00  he's working on it
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  10407. Trump Core are Crazy why would you want those people supporting you
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  10408. There's a vaccine under test which is supposed to immunise against all variants, not sure how that works but it should be available as a top up shot round September. Its an MRNA development, people need to realise the leaps in medicine that MRNA has opened up this tech has been decades in development
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  10409. Johnson was drunk most of the time as well and that didn't end well
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  10410. And way more food banks don't you just miss the bad old good old days  @willscathlocke2512 
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  10411. You can build good quality homes in a factory these days for onside assembly
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  10412. Its about as Victorian and outdated as their economic policies
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  10413. There's a clip of Faucci explaining why development of corona vaccines never got off the ground after sars, it goes along the lines of well it's in animals and there's no profit in developing a vaccine that may never be used, looks like there needs to be a worldwide sea change in government support on research and development.
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  10414. It's all Biden's fault for having such a good economy
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  10415. In what way Tice's manifesto is fantasy land from 100s of billions in unfunded tax cuts to unworkable migration + blighting the land with fracking
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  10416.  @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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  10417.  @keithparker1346  Blair was an avowed centerist Thatcher before him was on the hard right economically as was Osborne after him However much you think you hate Starmer or whatever concoction about him being a closet Tory you have in your head the alternative is x1000 worse Whatever my antipathy for Bair is and there was a lot I disagreed with again the alternative proved to be catastrophic the damage Osborne has done to this country and the chain of events created by his policies has literally taken us to the cliff edge. If you want to get a glimpse of how insane the current Tory party is go listen to Lord Frost parrot the fossil lobbies rambling fed him by the Tufton Street Crew. We may have gotten rid of Truss but that economic model of a deregulated low tax zero service Tory economic shyte hole that serves the 1% is currently where we are heading.
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  10418. Bungled? He did what he said he would withdraw, the war against the Taliban was lost over a decade ago, Trump releasing 5000 Taliban prisoners in 2020 and committing to withdrawal by May just hastened the day. So Nige oh expert on everything how would you have withdraw? You were busy bootlicking Trump last time I saw you.
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  10419. that didn't age well were bottom of the G7 growth pile only G7 country whose net workforce still below 2019 levels GDP not expected to get to 2019 levels till 2024 err last and last
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  10420. Trump is a complete circus. When will the Republicans move on 4 year term and all he achieved was a tax break for corporate America, which piled on debt, adding to an explosion in inflation Quote One of President Donald Trump’s lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. The financial burden that he’s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt. The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. That’s nearly twice as much as what Americans owe on student loans, car loans, credit cards and every other type of debt other than mortgages, combined, 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.
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  10421. Thats through lack of investment in mass storage and problems with planning ​@harryw29
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  10422.  @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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  10423. ​ @gerrytowie9618  the lying arsehole service
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  10424.  Eric Matthews  Unlikely what freaked Europe out was how contagious it was and how overloaded the healthcare sytem got so quickly, a mild outbreak causes massive demand for icu support and ventilators without both the death rate spirals. The GOP states who reckon they can ride it out are in for a rude awakening, stupidity kills and science is real.
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  10425.  @johnrussell3961  government debt has a number of main components. Its size relative to your economy (% debt to gdp) What that debt is invested in + Your ability to service that debt. The issue is Austerity has shrunk/stagnated the economy so your debt to gdp has risen and the debt itself was used on trickle down tax cuts NOT infrastructure. The easiest way of lowering the ratio is tackle the energy, housing and transport crisis but to do that you need to invest in infrastructure. What costs more than an infrastructure project with escalating costs? Cancelling an infrastructure project with escalating costs Reason it needs doing in some firm anyway
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  10426. Blair's legacy was education, generations lifted to higher paying jobs
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  10427.  @muckle8  I'm retired graduated in 1980 The sorry state of the economy is down to Thatcherism. Any sort of post banking recovery was strangled at birth by Osborne's Austerity
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  10428. So Cameron brought us Austerity and brexit May was a non event Johnson brought us wholesale corruption and the worst trade deal in UK history Truss tanked the economy wiped 24% of the value of pensions Sunak cancelled all our infrastructure projects and left with an unfunded tax cut because politics after spending 2 years on Rwanda NOT the energy crisis A long way to beat any of that lot
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  10429. No you didn't you voted to leave the EU that was always going to increase both legal and illegal migration but no you've had enough of experts Karma
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  10430.  @WhatDemocracy  there is only 13 mill left and you certainly did get it, hard Brexit and all it's problems. We told you so but you labeled it project fear
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  10431.  @WhatDemocracy  we are no longer part of the EU We have hard Brexit trade barriers our government now imports workers from the 3rd world Whatever you were promised it was always a pack of lies.
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  10432.  @multiks2200  they may go to a 1/4 point maybe as high as 1/2 by next year so yea defiantly a total collapse of civilization as we know it, the total end of cheap borrowing (NOT)
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  10433.  @jaylenbrownfan2112  Inflation will stabilize but its unlikely to get below 4% interest rates are still near close to zero
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  10434. Free Market Economist? Supply-side economics assumes that lower tax rates boost economic growth by giving people incentives to work, save, and invest more. A critical tenet of this theory is that giving tax cuts to high-income people produces greater economic benefits than giving tax cuts to lower-income folks. Essentially, the more money the rich are able to keep, the more the whole economy will grow. But the evidence reveals two fundamental problems with this story. First, its primary prediction is wrong—giving tax cuts to the rich does not increase economic output or create new jobs. Instead, tax cuts for middle- and low-income taxpayers are much more effective at boosting macroeconomic activity. Second, supply-side theory misunderstands the actual mechanism by which tax rates influence macroeconomic activity. While supply-siders maintain that lower rates at the top incentivize people to earn more money, the evidence shows that tax cuts boost output mostly by putting money in people’s pockets and thereby stimulating demand. Why is supply-side economics controversial? Opponents of supply-side economics argue that rather than increasing revenue for the government, lowering taxes will instead increase the deficit. As a result, the government will have to cut programs or raise other taxes to make up for this shortfall, unless it wishes to run a permanent deficit. So free Markets don't work for 99% of the economy
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  10435. True But add homaphobic sexist racist AH
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  10436. we tried Trusanomics it crashed and burned or have you forgotten already?
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  10437. No there not there way off to the right,
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  10438. Tax cuts of the Lettuce Liz fantasy variety which will cost over 100+ billion and are completely unfunded and if enacted would crash the economy again do you people never learn?
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  10439. Part of the worst government in UK history and now Moving the party further right to anti netzero, ant woke, anti immigration and batsh1t libertarian economics Why vote for reform lite when you can go full brain dump and go for the real thing? where do all the semi sensible one nation lot go? RIP tories
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  10440.  @stanleypines1026  better than being run by criminals and having a stagnated economy and rip off taxes while the wealthy Party
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  10441. Trump brings out the inner arsh0le in his followers The behaviour will drive the women's vote through the roof
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  10442.  @barriewilliams4526  I'm voting tactically as always to kick out the Tories my choice is lib dems only viable alternative under fptp in my area Anything but Thatcherism the witch that burnt down the North the worst pm of all time
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  10443. @barriewilliams4526  have a conversation on why legal migration is so high, the main driver is Supply side trickle down economic policy the same ideology pushed by all parties on the right of politics Also a conversation on who funds channels like talk TV and GGNews, both are owned by billionaires with connections to right wing groups pushing climate denial deregulation and lower taxes on the wealthy
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  10444. You've got it completely wrong there is no higher taxes the last budget gave a tax break to millionaire pensioner another to Bankers and the fossil industry the 1% doubled their wealth over the last 2 years Trickle Down Supply Side Economics is doing exactly what its designed to do. Look at Sunak he payed 20% on the bulk of his income because CGT doesn't match income tax and even then if your salaried your paying NI as well. They even have the word in their party name CON-servative Quote Luxury goods boom in Britain as super-rich youngsters buck the recession Rich kids fuel sales of brands such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci They’re young, rich and mortgage-free, and the scions of the 1% are having a roaring twenties. Despite the economic gloom currently shrouding the UK and many other western countries, sales of luxury brands have been booming and growing numbers of buyers are young adults. Swiss watches, Louis Vuitton trainers, rare Birkin bags and 81-year-old whiskies are among the products that are fuelling impressive growth in the bottom lines of luxury brands such as LVMH, Burberry and Kering. Imports of Swiss watches to the UK were up by 31% in the first half of 2022, according to the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry – the average spend at the Watches of Switzerland group being about £6,000. Meanwhile, sales of watches below £2,500, sometimes referred to as “mid-range”, are falling.
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  10445. Corbyn completely unelectable 62 seats short on 40% While Starmer coalition looks thin it was watered down from the hard left coalition of the corbynistas which allowed electoral success across the country including the South and Scotland
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  10446. The solution is to reform modernise and rip out all the outsourcing 10% of the admin budget goes on liaising with the private sector We still have paper records etc. @Human_Herbivore 
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  10447. Were broke and yet we aren't Yes the Tories have been stunningly incompetent but 1/3 of the debt is owned by the BOE due to QE and QT (money printing) and a big chunk of that was injected into the banks post 2008. The banks have on account with the BOE 680 billion and for some reason we decided to pay them interest at the going rate even though we created most of it to stabalise the market back in 2008. If you reduced the rate to base inflation your looking at 30 billion, this dents bank's profits but they've been creaming it in for the last few years anyway.
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  10448. Steel is closing down in the UK because of Brex1t These people were warned in 2016 that manufacturing in the UK would be largely closed down if we left the EU On June 30, 2026, the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will be fully operational. (CBAM) applies a charge to carbon emitted during the production of imported carbon-intensive goods, such as aluminium, cement, iron and steel. Due to tariffs our exports become uneconomical Why did Lee forget to mention that? Does he have an agenda perhaps such as his party gets large donations from the fossil lobby?
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  10449. Can't they strip the word News from Fox on the grounds of false advertising?
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  10450. ​ @Cherrytune386 same Thatcherite economic policies that drive high levels of legal migration
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  10451. They pretend Cov never existed and that unfunded corporate tax cuts aren't huge drivers of inflation
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  10452.  @raad684  Gas prices are controlled by multinational cartel and state actors in a state full of inflation proof solar energy you'd think they would get it.
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  10453. his vote share is around 16%, Reform are the 2nd most disliked party at -60 of course it's hostile that 60% believe he's an ar5ehole for brex1t and rac1st to boot
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  10454. For a family couple it's 3 million How much tax relief do you want. Dyson has been buying farms then renting them out pushing up prices so he can avoid IHT
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  10455. 50+% of white males are still with this creep, white women are down to less than 40% which begs the question of what sort of abusive behaviour could ever sway them from not voting for him. You could say it's a combination of racism and Stockholm syndrome that keeps them in line. Trump is not a Republican it's purely about lining his own pockets and power filling a vacuum created by Gingritch and then McConnel and the warping of the party by big money interests.
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  10456. ​ @suzann2531 all uk £ belong to the government they print it in the 1st place The issue we have at the moment is a rigged for the wealthy tax system and money that should be spent on services getting outsourced to Tory mates
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  10457. Pffff everyone knows he's not got the Chops to control the infighting The membership hate him and a third of his party want to reapoint Lettuce Liz while the membership would vote for Braverman in a heartbeat He may as well call an election now because its going to get worse YouGov today Tories 23% Labour 48% Lib-Dem 10%
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  10458.  @matthewcunningham1190  Harris and the Democrats are centrist at best, has it not occurred to you when a business has a fit healthy well educated workforce then that business makes more money or that investment in infrastructure allows business to have the resources to expand?
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  10459. Are we getting this nonsense for the next 5 years Just to remind everyone Nige is being bunged over 1 mill by an offshore billionaire
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  10460. Trump was a dumb in 2016 he's only gotten stupider and even more embarrassing and JD has no self respect to grovel like that is pretty spineless
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  10461. Bernie and Warren aren't left wing there slightly left of centre, Bernie's democratic socialism tag comes from Western Europe which in US terms translates to Liberal. Capitalism thrives best in a mixed economy. When you have the monopolistic capture to the level the Republican right wing have crusaded your heading into the current Russian model just change Oligarch for Billionaire. Biden is Conservative by most countries standards. Repulicans seem unwilling to accept the basic tenants of collective responsibility which benefits all, healthcare, infastructure, control of pollution & climate change.
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  10462. heat pumps aren't the answer in a lot of cases you should be looking at infrared panels, also my brother lives in Norway he has a small air blow heat pump to heat a 3 bedroom house the reason being its insulated to within an inch of it's life. The government should be focused on getting the UK insulated which would get rid of mould in older properties so they consume a fraction of the energy that is currently needed
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  10463.  @cashkitty3472  my house was built in 1935 its now up to A+ standard you can start with the floor and roof both of mine are double insulated, new windows with the latest glazing. Secondary insulation is Breath Quilt from YBS I found another product which I've used in the upstairs bay windows which are single skined called Ultrotherm I was at the point of needing complete refurbishment but most of what I've done with multifoil products isn't massively expensive and you can retro fit on a DIY basis
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  10464.  @cashkitty3472  mine was built in 1935 I've used something called breather Quilt by YBS and also another product called Ultrotherm.
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  10465. We have a fairly full water table after the last few weeks + further expected rainfall which means you can expect severe flooding this winter
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  10466.  @MsJackcool69  so you want to reuse drips how unhygienic is that? Just be grateful you got one at all and didn't have to pay a charge for every bag they connected. Why do you think it would be any different if it's private, the only consequences would be you wouldn't go into hospital in the first place because you couldn't afford the insurance premiums
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  10467.  @paulwainwright967  letting business people any where near it is the last thing it needs and don't regurgitate crap from the daily papers they don't have a fkin clue what there talking about and Blair has been out of power over a decade any problems are the Cons fault.
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  10468.  @edmundblackaddercoc8522  and you know how? Because it's regurgitated in the Daily hate Mail or the Bun If you want to know how efficient it is compare it's throughput with cost verses other countries systems or just don't spout tabloid crap
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  10469. 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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  10470. If you want to crater the UK economy quicker than the Cons currently are then I guess
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  10471. 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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  10472. why his popularity is still in the -70's
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  10473. And people will see the stark difference between an Elite class who wallow in money and a fiery norther woman who pays PAYE I dunno why the Tories think this is such a gotcha when there prosecuting carers for over payment and the 20,000 will bankrupt them
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  10474. majority on the committee was Conservative Lying on an epic scale and his only plea was stupidity
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  10475. 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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  10476. Labour will remove all the billions in trickle down policies and end Austerity which is killing the country and the economy @eightiesmusic1984 
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  10477.  @ShaneJoshua1980  it's been in the FT Reuters Bloomberg why do you think the City went apeshit over Truss's budget there fairly amoral they don't care how the budget balanced but as we're over 100% debt to gdp but to balance on that scale you'd have needed to sell off the NHS and the State Pension
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  10478. It's a fantasy Libertarian economic wish list with a show pony migration policy
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  10479. Nice one Barack let's have one a weekend to wind the Orange one up
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  10480. just another BS talking elite @Anonymous56657 
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  10481. Both legal and illegal immigration has gone up because we stopped FOM and left the EU, experts told you that would happen but you labelled it project fear The Rwanda scheme is illegal under UK and International law and is there to Con Mugs like you
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  10482. ​ @zotter2542  she's a Brexit Ultra The problem has quadrupled since Brexit It's as if working together with your neighbours and partners for the common good has benefits 40k instead of 10k is a brexit benifit
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  10483.  @markcosenza3274  Being normal not an escapee from a Psych ward
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  10484. Of course labour will raise tax just not on ordinary working people that includes all those on the 40k tax band as well Id also add labour are the only party to have reduced VAT every time the Cons have got in its gone up
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  10485. Drip Drip Drip how low can there polling go drip
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  10486. JD Vance wrote the forward for it Multiple cabinet members have written and appeared in training videos for it
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  10487.  @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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  10488.  @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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  10489. It depends what there investing in, I'm guessing these will be trusts and work as a normal pension investor but getting a return on capital projects
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  10490. I'm a pensioner the biggest hit to my wallet has been the Tories, never have a party managed to squander so much money in such a short period
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  10491. Polling put her on +17% during her hissy fit week the Tories dropped 2 points to 23% Labour gained 3 to 47% You need to get out more you've gotten yourself into a bubble
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  10492. One of the issues is the MSM is just totally captured by the right Labour have been doing launches every week remember Immigration week with Elphicke crossing the floor and Dan Poulter during NHS week and Voters for the most part don't engage in politics unless they have to
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  10493. what a load of cobblers The Conservatives run supply side trickle down economics to even vaguely work it needs and endless Supply Side pool of cheap labour to import Their economic model doesn't remotely work if you shut down immigration and why anyone would think they would try given there all in on Globalisation (Global Britain anyone) is beyond me
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  10494.  @mhall801  Its facts spun into moderate right wing opinion. As opposed to Fox which is an alternate reality
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  10495. I'm a pensioner never voted Tory but saw Thatcher bribe a generation with asset stripping then Cameron pumped billions into right to buy, do they not get that this removes an asset and income from the state? Tory economics has always been broken long term.
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  10496. Thatcherism is the root cause of this mess
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  10497.  @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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  10498. Why are you getting in a froth over American politics? There's currently a game going on in Washington called kill Joe Biden and the Democrats EV push and green agenda at all costs. Most of the stuff coming out is to change perception in the US market
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  10499. what a nut job why is he even in spitting distance of winning?
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  10500. The political appointees are the ones leaking at every turn, Kelly Ann is always at it, the professionals don't behave like that raising a complaint through the proper channels, you get the odd one speaking out but they know they will get busted big time if there caught the political appointees don't care and You can't get NAFTA2 through coz it's actually worse than NAFTA1 and has a load of giveaways to big pharma, do these guys think everyone can't read?
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  10501. Oh yes they are We're seeing the culmination of Thatcherism as it enters its death throes, increased immigration to paper over the cracks of lack of investment with rising taxes to paper over all the asset stripping that goes into paying for it
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  10502. sucker
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  10503. Economies take years to get to this state Reeve's main budget measures don't come into effect till April 2025 The bulk of this is brexit related why are you being so disengreneuos ?
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  10504. The right just buys all the media and uses it to pedal tax policy for the wealthy while poverty rates go through the roof
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  10505. The reality always was he was a media pick with name recognition which got him a ticket, his performances since joining the race have been tepid to say the least and policy wise he's as conservative as you can get and still have a D in your locker given his past voting record. No one is dissing his service in the Obama administration but you can't make that the sole reason for voting for him I'm conservative enough to beat Trump you need more bullets. The anti mayor Pete ad acording to the media was brutal I thought it was sad and a turn off, his digs at Bernie got a so what.
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  10506. The US is reshoring strategic Manufacturing 1st time in decades with + 1 million jobs, there's a renewables program which is leading to an oil glut and slowly moving the economy away from fossil dependency. Low inflation Low unemployment and 5% gdp growth last 1/4 with 3% annual when the predictions where recession +6 million unemployed What did Trump do 6 million Unemployed 8 trillion to debt of which 3.5 was corporate from his tax cuts a trade war that sent the deficit soaring +4 million without health insurance & A second Trump term would see the abolish-ion of ObamaCare a nationwide Abortion Ban an immediate trade war sending inflation spiralling through the roof, dismantling of the Biden investment sending Unemployment through the roof.
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  10507. If they work on major roads and highways you can drop a lorry onto a freeway have it self drive to a pick up point a couple of hundred miles away.
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  10508. World beating partying during lockdown World beating cost of living Crisis after With world beating inflation and World beating broken electoral promises When is a party not a party When its a Rave
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  10509. Tucker is just evil be doesn't believe any of this horseshit its all for ratings
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  10510. ​ @imSatnav The turn away from Keynsian theory was done by Thatcher who followed the work of Patrick Minford, the same batsh1t economist Truss quoted Weve had 50 years worth of data all pointing to neoliberalism not working in fact Osborne was told back in 2013 by the IMF that his brand of Thatcherism and Austerity where the cause of the economy contracting. Quote The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said on Thursday that the poor performance of the British economy had left her with no alternative but to call on George Osborne to rethink his austerity strategy.18 Apr 2013 He went ahead with it anyway doubling down on a paper which was debunked by the nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman in 2013 they had made fundemental errors in their spreadsheet calculations blowing the whole thoery and reasoning for Austerity to pieces. Quote Labour said the chancellor's plans had lost credibility. "We warned that rapid fiscal tightening when the global economy is weak risked backfiring and that's what has happened. The idea of expansionary fiscal contraction has been exposed as total nonsense," said Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor. In the US, Nobel prizewinning economist Paul Krugman said the unravelling of Rogoff and Reinhart's paper was a hammer blow to Republicans who had campaigned for spending cuts to reduce Washington's 100% debt-to-GDP level.
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  10511. ​ @bobbugwithoneeyeskingiskin8974 delisounal all they offer is Johnsonian levels of chaos. They have no answers just scratch the surface and every single policy spells chaos and unworkable
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  10512. You now get it if you receive any form of supplementary benifit
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  10513. The dementia tag is a bit moot, my mother in law has it at 80, if he is it's very early onset.
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  10514.  WalterRamjet HeroOfOurNation I believe you started the insults with the 1 brain cell remark no matter. That POTUS constantly behaves like a spoilt entitled 8 year old is without question and what puzzles people is why its defended I've seen glimpses of the Fox / Facebook right wing propaganda machine and its a scary and addictive place, conspiracies everywhere, grievances of the most trivial things amplified to a level that has people marching in the streets with guns and placards. Be aware that Fox is owned and run by one of the most corrupt and Nihilistic people on planet earth in Rupert Murdoc. The millionaire/Billionaire class use Trump for their own ends. They get you to believe everything is fake but them we are the keepers of the truth don't believe your lying eyes. The machine grinds on the next pivot is going to be its China's fault even though every respected Virologist on the planet has said the DNA is natural. You'll be told its not as bad as everyone is making out even though you can get reports from multiple countries saying the opposite and even check the data at the Jon Hopkins University website. So why do they keep feeding you this stuff, power control big oil and coal self interests, pharma companies and they really do want to keep their Tax cuts and keep filling their boots at your expense.
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  10515. They are, which begs the question if Conservative policy is driving the economy into the toilet why would you vote for more extreme Conservative policy? Do you want to get poorer quicker?
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  10516. ​@andyquelch5754 In what way this stuff we've known about MP'S for years ever since the expenses scandal Meanwhile the government of the day are getting on with their agenda Do you have a complaint about Rwanda being scrapped or how the riots were shut down in double quick time or their Renewable agenda?
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  10517. There's 2 million pensioners in poverty already (20%) and 4 out of 10 retirees joining them also 1 million over 55's rent And We spend 20 billion per year on housing support So raising thresholds would also help low paid and those on in work benifits, the freeze and NI cut give money to those on 32-55k the sweet spot being 50k
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  10518. There appears nothing the Tories can't outsource maybe Nigeria could do it on the cheap
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  10519. why my father was deported from poland in 1940 and sent to a gulag in Russia what's the difference in the Rwanda policy its mass deportation to a labour / concentration camp the comparison with 30's Germany seems apt othering a social group using endless propaganda to soften up the population to accept that these people are not human beings then pack them off out of sight
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  10520. 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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  10521. If you define the mission to rewire the economy from fossil to renewables detaching it from world commodity prices by investment in the renewables sector that drives innovation it would be more apt. The levels of investment are akin to that spent on the space race putting a man on the moon, the resulting innovation from that period are still big economic drivers today. Also add private funding is matching public funding If you put were getting rid of fossil then you'd get a complete meltdown from people with an interest in keeping the economy tied to fossil
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  10522. I hope so, were desperate for leadership after Boris and Corbyn the worst faces of Populism both at the same time
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  10523. Its called compulsory purchase so its nothing more than hot air coming out of Johnson's arse, they'd have to pay full market price then what? And people on benefits buying property look like the sub prime market that fetched the banks to their knees in 2008
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  10524. They can't the economy needs a steady supply of cheap migrant Labour as the Tories implement something called Supply Side Economics. If they don't have the labour to boost the GDP the economy will implode and spiral into stagflation
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  10525. ​@clarevoyant6322 Economically it's now worse than 2006 if you look at the macroeconomic data The killer was Austerity which started contracting the economy in 2010 add 13 years of trickle down Thatcherism and we get Rhishi a below average middle manager who's failed upwards. Trying to run the government off a spreadsheet + an ideology in Thatcherism which treats public sector workers like dirt
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  10526. Half a story as usual, small businesses employing 4 people on minimum wage will no longer pay NI To help mitigate these additional NICs costs for smaller employers, the employment allowance (which allows businesses whose annual NICs bill is less than £100,000 to reduce their NICs costs) will increase from £5,000 to £10,500 per year and will apply to all businesses as the £100,000 threshold will be removed. I'd also add that the low wage economy created by the Tories has stifled investment to enable higher productivity it's too easy to paper over the cracks with a low wage employee
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  10527. no its not get a grip 80,000 last year claimed asylum of which only 62,000 will be granted Red wall businesses have had their livelihoods killed by Brexit and its fallout
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  10528. His domestic plans where unachievable and his foreign policy stank he sold nostalgia take us back to pre Thatcher CND rarara
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  10529.  @TruthTortoise81  he could not achieve any of it you need money to buy back assets a lot of it Blair was came to power with a decent economy and was mostly 40% debt where in 100% territory
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  10530. The rest of the world thinks the US is racist something that was brought into sharp relief when the US elected a white nationalist as POTUS
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  10531. BOE owns 25% of all UK debt Banks also have to deposit a % of their funds
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  10532.  @nightowl7459  Osborne cut bursaries in 2010 as part of Austerity, all further education should be paid for by the state as far as I'm concerned, its an investment in social infrastructure. Osborne Cameron also refused to regulate gig work or clamp down on low wage zero hour The cost of a cheap Uber is high migration and offshore profits
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  10533.  @nightowl7459  in the example I gave you multi nationals fetched in EU workers on low pay which undercut domestic business not only was it fueling migration it was removing economic activity from the UK economy off shore. I'm retired but do zero hour as an invigilator at school reading for special needs kids. I'd suggest a job has to be certified as casual by a government agency in line with trade union and public representation discussions. And if your doing more than xxx hours over a 6th month period it automatically doesn't qualify. As for seasonal you get a contract for the season.
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  10534. By investing in renewable energy it onshores jobs, also its harder for companies to then move profits offshore. This has a net benefit to the economy increasing GDP and improves productivity. We currently have an almost tsunami effect of 14 years of Tory government to turn it round takes time and a conversation into what the drivers are as well as the positive and negative long term effects.  @nightowl7459 
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  10535. ​@stanguy4491 no there not non of them will raise taxes but there's a huge range of options on how you keep the same tax base but slice it differently There's 13 years of trickle down tax and policy to rip out the system outsourcing consultancy the total Tory grift
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  10536. Starmer is an Arsenal season ticket holder has been for decades
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  10537. ​ @yatesy117 scrap vital infrastructure? It's going to have to be built and people sitting on their arse and not getting it done sooner with perpetual can kicking is the issue HS2 was always the most expensive part and the least bit needed the northern triangle of Birmingham Manchester Leeds should have been the priority with hs3
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  10538.  @ruthcollins2841  I don't think there's anyone who has looked at this in detail and on delivery mission would not agree we should have started Birmingham Manchester Leeds triangle But 20 mind isn't the issue it's creating a 2nd line to relieve congestion on existing lines
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  10539. It is all to do with tax if you reduce it you have less to invest in say nursing training so you need to import more Reform are talking utter BS when they say they will reduce tax and reduce migration
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  10540. Of course you are only just learnt the Internet existed 4 months ago?
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  10541. Am signed up looking forward to it
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  10542. 1 v 20 with 96% Dems vaxed 54% Republicans that's a lot of dead Red voters Maybe he should be concerned about the death rate In his audience And anti maskers sound just like anti seat belt wearers same dumb arguments about safety equipment
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  10543.  @GlennLeinster  The Greens campaigned against ULEZ in UXBRIDGE. Corbyn was the reason the Labour party crashed and burned the last election with his fantasy manifesto. The guy has never passed any sort of policy in his life you need to get yourself a proper hero and stop venerating a left wing populist there just the same as right wing populists promise everything deliver nothing.
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  10544. @keithparker1346  why do you do that your completely wrong yet its deliberate? The greens round my way wanted to close down development of a proposed cycle way expansion in the town because it chopped a few trees down
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  10545.  @keithparker1346 I catch up with news views and opinions from the left to the right. If you sit in your own echo chamber all you hear is bias reinforcement. Maybe they are overcorrecting to the centre we shall see, the right wing media while disheartened with the Tories really want to lay into Labour on anything and everything they possibly can, they even gave Sunak a soft ride on expanded oil licences even though there's something like 70% broad approval for nett zero.
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  10546. There is no green tax What are you talking about?
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  10547.  @deanbryce8263  Where and on what?
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  10548.  @deanbryce8263  Its just a tax the clue is in the word TAX like NI is a just a tax the Cons never live up to their promises ANYWAY Fossil costs trillions in all manner of ways it is one of the most subsidised industries on the planet from increased health issues environmental spillage and clean up costs environmental destruction of remote fragile ecosystems to huge tax breaks and economically destructive cartel predatory pricing. Did you know fossil is the main reason multiple countries round the world have authoritarian government's they are propped up by the profits of oil and western government policies that turn a blind eye to huge money laundering while their citizens wallow in poverty. Here's something to fry your brain EDF invested in a tidal system 12 years ago for the past 2 years it has been generating free electricity as it paid off its capital cost in just 10 years. Or how about this one Dogger bank wind farm will come online this year and can produce 20% of all domestic electricity requirements It needs public investment because the fossil industry will try bury it and people like you fall for the Con
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  10549. If Trump wins your looking at President Vance, DJT is obese 78 and has a junk food diet and is suffering brain rot
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  10550. Exports of goods fell by 4.6% in real terms the London service economy is fairly Border-less even so it should have done better synopsis London is OK the rest of the country is still in a deep post brex 1 t recession
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  10551. Lying toad Taxes HAVE GONE UP fiscal drag will result in the average family (after NI cut) will be £1800 worse off With that money there paying 3-400 million on the Rwanda reelection scheme, 2 billion on subsidising millionaire pensioners by 40,000 each, an 8 billion windfall for bankers, and 6 billion extra in fossil subsidies
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  10552. The FT described Brexit as an economic slow puncture every now and then someone kicks the tyre and makes it go down a bit faster ex Covid UKraine Truss's Budget but it settles to normal but still keeps going down. Most visible manifestation of frog boiling is the tax keeps going up the tax basis was 32% in 2019 then 33% in 2022 now rising again and until 2027 where its expected to be 38% You can also see it in car manufacturing which is in steep decline the big issue with manufacturing is Brexit broke the on-demand supply chain permanently items that were delivered next day can take weeks and your having to keep additional stock or simply move your manufacturing to Europe Enjoy your Turnip
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  10553. since when is spending 8 billion on a Bankers tax cut the same as funding NHS pay awards or a 4 billion tax break for millionaire pensioners instead of repairing RAAC in schools? @chriscurtain1816 
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  10554. Cheaper electric and a disconect from economic shock due to fossil commodity Volatility Did you know that the UK government spent 72 billion on energy subsidies last year and that energy costs for UK consumers jumped fro 30 billion in 2020 to 170 billion in 2023
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  10555. @marumaru6084  new renewable builds don't get a subsidy and haven't done for around 5 years, there the cheapest source of energy on the grid they reached parity with gas production back in 2019. Since when did you become an expert I used to work for 20 years for a generating company
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  10556. May changed the rules so Asylum applicants couldn't work there sat in limbo for years by design, its set up for maximum political theatre Public sector pay is nothing like a household budget every £ they give the Nurses only costs the Treasury around 20p after the tax and spend merry go round as it wheels through the economy. If you take into account costs of agency staff and lost working hours from patient waiting lists the overall economic cost may well be net positive
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  10557. ​ @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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  10558. just getting rid of the Tories would improve the economy straight off
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  10559. The only way we will be better off is to invest and grow the economy our GDP per Capita has fallen since 2010 from 50k to 45k and the last 2 years has seen the sharpest drop in living standards in UK history
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  10560.  @faithlesshound5621  Why is it the BOE who are to blame for Truss rank stupidity we have high interest rates today not just because of the 140 billion black hole she created but also the total lack of government policy on supply side inflation on Energy, Food & Housing. Interest rates are a demand side tool dealing with government incompetence
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  10561.  @kenoverton7918  you never know 400,000 jobs reshored in 2022, the IRA and CHIPS acts require that it's 60% made in the US.
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  10562. ​ @davidbrown5411 that would be the same EU that when we were a member we had a fraction of the legal and illegal migration than we have now Experts said it would go up if we lrft not down
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  10563. no the cost of a private health scheme will cripple the low paid and also its cost will be almost double what you pay now through taxation
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  10564.  @JMB1891  The NHS costs under 8% GDP for the UK a comparable system in Canada costs 10.5% GDP the US spends 17%+ gdp on private healthcare with millions uninsured and people regularly going into bankruptcy due to excessive health costs
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  10565. 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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  10566. Money is money and despite sanctions there's still plenty of Oligarch money swilling around. Like in 2016 Putin is desperate to end sanctions and the swamp around Trump would sell out for a dollar as would he.
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  10567. ​ @James_36 what sort of damage? Repair the economic train wreck left by the Tories? 13 years of complete and utter incompetence you'd have to go back to the Napolionic war era for comparison?
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  10568.  @James_36  the US currency is the world currency everything is quoted in Dollars also its economy has and is growing In 2010 GDP per capita (approx) US 50,000 UK 50,000 2023 UK 45,000 US 72,000 Quote Is the UK economy worse now than in 2008? Prior to the 2008 global financial crisis, the UK had been a strong performer among the Group of Seven countries. But this momentum was lost in the middle of the last decade. By 2022, real business investment was still slightly lower than in 2016—in contrast to the 14 percent increase among other G7 economies.11 Jul 2023 We also have zero plan to service the debt or grow the economy so can't expand borrowing ex- the Truss debacle
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  10569.  @James_36  REFORM aren't both Jermy Hunt and Rachel Reeve where to the recent presentation by the Resolution Foundation who presented a paper called ending stagnation authored by leading economists, Tice, Farage where nowhere to be seen Not that Hunt is going to do anything about it because the proposals are interventionist
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  10570. Brexit is going well is it? Only lost near on 1 trillion in GDP since 2016 and is about as dead as Sunak's chances of winning an election?
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  10571. In Macroeconomic terms it's moving slowly, problem is due to 14 years of trickle down only the wealthy will feel it
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  10572.  @dragonfly6908  So to shit on people without much money you'd take an economic hit to your own standard of living and have NHS waiting lists through the roof. How stupid are you?
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  10573. It will be as late as he can get away with The Tories have broken the economy because Thatcherism Sunak is doing more Thatcherism our Tax is going up he's cutting squat current 20% threshold = 12250 if it had gone up with inflation it would be 14350 that is the NI threshold as well
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  10574. He lied straight out the block there was no ddos attack, why is Elon supporting Trump ? Tax cuts , tarrifs on Chinese EV's and deregulation of cry0to and AI
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  10575.  @TimComley  statute of limitations on this is 4 years, HMRC can only go back 20 if its a deliberate pattern of behaviour, also you don't have to live somewhere to claim it as your primary residence & Ange would have been on PAYE so basically this is all Tory froth and nonsense
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  10576. Were heading in the opposite direction because we have seen how incompetent the Right is at just about everything including migration
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  10577. High immigration was inevitable with a hard brexit your getting labour from 2000 miles away who want to fetch their dependants not from 20 miles across the channel
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  10578. 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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  10579. Were out the EU what were you expecting?
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  10580. Reform are Libertarian nothing conservative about them same old Truss rubbish
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  10581. 14 years and average wages now lower than 2010, 8 million + on net migration lets make it zero seats Highest tax burden since the war
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  10582. Worst case well stay stagnant best case the public sector pay rises and capital investment will inch wages and growth up. GDP isn't the issue its GDP per Capita and the fact its been going down with the Tories wages suppression and reliance on migrant labour
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  10583.  @paulhillman400  That's not the social care cap that's the Upper Capital limit There is no social care cap at the moment
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  10584. You have an offshore shell company to avoid IHT completely?
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  10585. The anti Trump vote is baked in he has no chance of turning it round.
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  10586.  @davidtuer5825  It's already failed the bond market has dropped interest rates will go up.
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  10587.  @davidtuer5825  we've been in a rolling catastrophe since Johnson's Brexit deal and the decline started after the Brexit vote the UK pound has slumped from €1.50 in 2016. Camerons unfunded tax cuts didn't produce growth and where the reason the debt to GDP had climbed to 92% in 2019, you borrow when rates are low to improve your social and physical infrastructure not piss it up a wall on tax cuts that produce a short term sugar rush to the stock market but even this didn't happen and will not. We also have acute labour shortages over 1.3 million vacancies and crushing export tariffs and paperwork which has seen a steep decline in exports.
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  10588. Reform aren't a party there a billionaire pressure group same as GBN who support them
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  10589. you need to take out the numbers for students which is around 500,000 as their transitory and a real money earner unless your happy depressing our economy further @youkosm 
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  10590. quote Kwasi Kwarteng made the right decision in swiftly cutting taxes, Nigel Farage said, dealing a blow to global economic institutions which have warned against the economic policy. Vote for the economically illiterate party are you all there?
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  10591. The issue is the Myriad of trickle down tax breaks introduced over 13 years to so call boost the economy they don't work but the Tories are wedded to them. ex millionaire pensioner tax break in the last budget cost 2 billion you know give that 2 billion to student nurses they spend every penny of it in the economy give it to millionaire pensioners and it goes straight into assets with ZERO growth
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  10592. Her opinions poll at 15% The bulk of the 85% think she's an incompetent far right populist headbanger
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  10593. If you pump 28 billion into renewable energy it has an economic multiplier of a minimum 1.6 which means for every £1 you put in it creates enough GDP to return £1.6 in additional taxation. As a pensioner this will help me enormously because it will lower energy costs and I'm home most of the day far more than any tax cut. Getting energy costs down to 2020 levels would be the equivalent to me of my tax going from 20% to 10%
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  10594. Firstly thank you for responding and people need to discuss this on a Macro Economic level rather than the dumbed down myopic version the MSM and Tory client media feeds us. The government budget is nothing like a household budget everything it does on tax and spend has a multiplier. We borrowed around 130 billion last year and your correct we are spending a lot of money on debt servicing. But A key component of the current core inflation figure is Energy. Reduce energy costs and you reduce inflation, reduce inflation and you reduce interest rates, reduce interest rates and you reduce government debt payments + reducing energy costs AND inflation will create more tax and spend in the economy creating additional tax revenues. So This is a quote from the US but we have just commissioned a Tesla MegaPack in the UK and reflects some of the savings you get with a renewable grid quote The Astonishing Economics of the Tesla Megapack By adding about 300 MW of storage, ERCOT will generate approximately $1 billion in savings in 2025 at a 1 off cost $700,000. @anonnemo2504 
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  10595. Just for comparison cost of Dogger bank wind farm was 11 billion, the supporting MegaPack in east Yorks is 350 million both come online this year. Hinckley C will produce about the same amount of electric when it comes online current cost 33 billion with 35 billion in subsidies over 35 years 10 years is a decent return on a domestic infrastructure outlay if you have the capital and aren't moving. Year 11 you have free electric and that's not counting inflation when I plugged in the figures recently I got it to 8 Years +5% inflation. If there was a government subsidy production would ramp up and costs fall further. @JamesBond-vn1gh 
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  10596. Vaccine due in 6-9 months me I'm wearing a mask social distancing and my mates come round for a beer once a week we chew the cud outside round a fire pit. Went to a restaurant last week with a great outside area with some space heaters reminded us of skiing trips, you know I'm 64 my mom is 90 were all planning on taking a pass to this bunch of nutbucket ideas the WH is chaos central it's no wonder he went bankrupt 6 times.
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  10597. Why there not Conservative in any shape or form
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  10598. @Prognosis__  if they were a country 1st party they would have policies that actually fetched migration down not make it worse
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  10599. Corbyn was a foreign policy car crash
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  10600. 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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  10601. speech has consequences, in this cas a licenced TV station is promoting Bullying and demeaning women through lewd sexual depraved ranting
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  10602. And vote for right wing economic policies that are already flat-lining the economy making you poorer - no thanks
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  10603. Nige is responsible for a lot of it dragging the Tories to the right getting them to adopt Brexit pushing a points based migration system then blaming them because it fails @strangemagic5502 
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  10604. Corbyn was a populist like Truss and Johnson would have suffered the same fate driven his party into oblivion
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  10605. I'd agree but the OBR needs reforming as does the Treasury, just look at how Sunak was able to GUT a major infrastructure project with the click of his fingers, we now have a high speed train that doesn't go to London and doesn't go to Birmingham. And look at infrastructure spending on net zero its calculated that it's twice as expensive to remain on Gas as it would be to transition to renwables yet he's allowed to sign up for more gas stations
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  10606.  @97henrik041  I'm looking forward not back, a Labour government will have to make it more visible as well as changing the way infrastructure investment is allocated and accounted for. What we see with Truss and Sunak is neither had a public mandate for any of their policies.
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  10607. Untrue Labour clear the backlog and deport around 40,000 legally that are just sat there because of Tory incompetence costing 3.5 billion @rightray7463 
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  10608. Its neither GB (run by an offshore entity with links to a Libertarian billionaire sponsored think tank) nor News it's marketed as opinion at best and right wing propaganda and conspiracy mongering at worst. Its part of the Tufton street mob such as the IEA who pulled Liz Truss's strings nearly bankrupting the country Mayfair-based Legatum Institute, which advocates for free market economics has courted senior Government ministers through Shanker Singham, who led a self-styled ‘special trade commission’ for the organisation. The Legatum Institute was founded and funded by the Legatum Group, that has invested millions in GB News.
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  10609. "I've been paying my own way" pass the sick bag if he said that today everyone would just vomit
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  10610. ​ @colinsixhitter3303 I do yougov polls just stop oil are extremely unpopular Your classic older voter don't want any of it at the moment. The media are also ttryiing to drum up a narrative of against net zero. Dowden quoted a Mail piece claiming going renewable under Labour would ost every household >1000 per year People are genuinely scared
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  10611. How can you steal open source if your product is open source?
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  10612. Tampon Tim Staunching the Red Wave Mopping up the lunatic drivel that flows endlessly
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  10613. Sunak makes him look like a giant in comparison just count up his Uturns on everything from tax to leveling up
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  10614. ​@CARLTULLY-tf5qu scrapped Rwanda and deported 10,000 illeagal migrants already And That's 1 of several things
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  10615. Undecided about what? Musk and the billionaire class are pimping a Mental patient because they want further corporate tax cuts + deregulation. They don't care about workers or the truth. Vance was chosen because the tech billionaire money comes with him because everyone realises Trump is one junk food meal from a coronary
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  10616.  @Air7Rhythms  The Trump economy was a smoke and mirrors affair built on debt. Around 3.5 trillion from 2017 to 2019 with the corporate tax cut package the bulk of the savings companies made went into share buybacks. The debt also fuelled the post Cov high inflation rate. Biden has invested in strategic long term infrastructure which created incentives to re-shore critical supply chain components as well as building short term boosts to local economies such as improved broadband. There is currently record levels of private investment exceeding Government investment in renewable technologies which will power the next tech revolution AI You also have a pro Union stance at the same time Companies are making record profits, this not only improves those workers pay and conditions but boosts the surrounding economy. Trump 2.0 out of ignorance and spite will dismantle long term infrastructure investment policy and go back to short term tax cuts both cooling growth and fuelling debt.
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  10617. @Air7Rhythms  there reducing it, debt is measured as a % of your GDP, because Biden has grown the economy by an average of 3.6% every year the ratio has gone down 11 points from it's Trump high of 133% debt to GDP to 122% under Biden. Structural infrastructure investment will continue to grow GDP thus shrinking overall debt Any further tax cuts onto debt will raise the ratio and spark another round of inflation
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  10618. @Air7Rhythms  Your observations of Biden are tainted by the fact the right wing media have spent 4 years trying to paint him as a bumbling old fool. He got through Medicare negotiating drug prices something that successive administrations have been unable to do for 20+ years. A lot of the infrastructure projects are in Ruby Red areas especially rural broadband so even though GOP voted against all the measures the Democrats didn't play pork barrel politics.
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  10619.  @Air7Rhythms  Debt to GDP ratio has fallen from the Trump High of 133% to this year 122% If you want the deficit to disappear just remove the Trump tax cuts
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  10620.  @Air7Rhythms  I've been studying macroeconomics over the long term recently. One of the other reasons for the debt ratio reduction is inflation. The core inflation is caused by supply chain and corporate consolidation issues as well as money supply expansion (excluding food inflation). What is happening under the Democrats is a realignment of supply chains with domestic investment. There is no real way around the short term inflation from relocating production from overseas. The Trump answer is tax cuts and tariffs which won't work and will start another inflationary cycle. It's very rare to see a long term economic strategy your normally looking at politicians making extremely short term gains (ex- tax cuts)
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  10621. We still have the lowest tax base in major European economies.
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  10622. Most people I know are not changing because there going EV when they do. Also The IHT change will make rich pensioners like me spend more, fitted solar + battery this year buying an ev next as well as a few holidays.
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  10623. Only the economically illiterate are or those with the memory of a goldfish given what Libertarian unfunded tax cuts did to the economy lst time
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  10624.  @JimHighlander357  Your all in on tax hikes till 2027? Your wanting stagnant wages crumbling health system, justice system up the creek broken immigration system. And Do tell why you think being 6% worse off by the election is a vote winner? (according to the OBR)
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  10625. Brothers of Italy Fratelli d'Italia Ideology National conservatism Right-wing populism Neo-fascism Political position Right-wing to far-right So there not allowed to tell the truth now? Bloody typical of this station
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  10626. housing, accelerated Grid roll out, new labour laws, devolved power to mayors with some form of regional levelling up, NHS reform But hey play the MSM game
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  10627. His speech on Monday was given behind a screen promoting Policy Exchange, a think tank that is pro climate denial anti net zero and promotes low tax for the wealthy. Since becoming PM he has ditched Net Zero, signed off billions in fossil subsides, ditched HS2/3 (it's estimated it could have removed 350,000 containers of the roads) and sabotaged future offshore wind farm building.
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  10628. There are only 5% of the population define them themselves as Muslim what's your point
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  10629. so why are 31 of his senior staffers from 2020 involved and even his proposals that he's touting at Rallies would depress the economy increase inflation and unemployment Also the 3.5 trillion in corporate tax cuts ended up on debt which fuelled additional inflation. Biden has used spending for infrastructure which is returning a robust GDP growth, Trump's tax cuts are a sugar high that were starting to tick up inflation just before Cov hit. His economy was built on debt which should have been paying down during the better times not playing casino politics with the tax code
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  10630. 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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  10631. There are 19 other cases in progress aside from this one young Donald has been a very naughty boy Insurrection (7)Financial (6)Election interference (2)Sexual misconduct (1)Other (3) Tax evasion, money laundering, rape, inciting a riot, treason, theft it's quite a charge sheet
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  10632. We had our shift to the right 10 years ago look where it's lead us to now Out of control migration and a shafted economy Europe should look over at the state of the Uk after it listened to gobsh1tes like Farage and voted for a populist in Johnson
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  10633. decent reply best on here still doesn't mask the fact Trump ran up 8 trillion in debt and had Hoover era economic numbers
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  10634. A 2 state solution has been the recognised international position for 50 years Given the current Isrealie government are sanctioning ethnic cleansing what's your bright idea to force their hand to stop?
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  10635. why is the law a problem? its only when you repeatedly try and break it
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  10636. 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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  10637. 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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  10638. You can still milk the educated and women who are high propensity voters to the last drop
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  10639. ​ @JonathanBird-m8s fracking Not taxing billionaire wealth
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  10640. Fox is just a propaganda outlet when is it going to be banned from government property The level of disinformation is on a par with Putins state media its only a special operation
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  10641. The reason we have high personal taxation is because the Tory boys don't want to touch taxation at the top or on unearned income or on wealth so pile it all on those with lower earnings. Thatcherism = Supply Side Economics the root of 12 years of Austerity and the collapse of northern industries + now the collapse of SME's thanks to Brexit Supply-side economics assumes that lower tax rates boost economic growth by giving people incentives to work, save, and invest more. A critical tenet of this theory is that giving tax cuts to high-income people produces greater economic benefits than giving tax cuts to lower-income folks. Essentially, the more money the rich are able to keep, the more the whole economy will grow. But the evidence reveals two fundamental problems with this story. First, its primary prediction is wrong—giving tax cuts to the rich does not increase economic output or create new jobs. Instead, tax cuts for middle- and low-income taxpayers are much more effective at boosting macroeconomic activity. Second, supply-side theory misunderstands the actual mechanism by which tax rates influence macroeconomic activity. While supply-siders maintain that lower rates at the top incentivize people to earn more money, the evidence shows that tax cuts boost output mostly by putting money in people’s pockets and thereby stimulating demand. Why is supply-side economics controversial? Opponents of supply-side economics argue that rather than increasing revenue for the government, lowering taxes will instead increase the deficit. As a result, the government will have to cut programs or raise other taxes to make up for this shortfall, unless it wishes to run a permanent deficit.
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  10642. In 5 years we will have economic growth for the 1st time in 14 years so why would we go back to shitty Tory policies
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  10643. @AconcernedUKcitizen  in 5 years the economy will have grown in real terms for the 1st time in a decade and a half because we're finnaly going to move away from trickle down to investment in social and physical infrastructure.
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  10644.  @leemccccccc999  nope voted Lib-Dem
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  10645.  @jimmynich4791  You can get more pay in the private sector and it's a tax efficient way for the government to keep staff and stop Churn. The cost of rehiring and retraining is exorbitant
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  10646.  @davidberry1226  60% of people employed are employed by small to medium businesses all UK based and UK owned. Any economic recovery is driven by them not the big manufacturers Small become medium -> Medium become Large Your fundamental problem is that brexit shrank the whole sector because of one indisputable economic fact TRADE GRAVITY Definition The gravity model of international trade in international economics is a model that, in its traditional form, predicts bilateral trade flows based on the economic sizes and distance between two units. Research shows that there is "overwhelming evidence that trade tends to fall with distance."
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  10647. He talked utter bullocks before the election and when he was running to lead the Cons, the parliamentary party must know what a dipshit he is but still they made him thier leader? Amazing
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  10648.  @MrsZambezi  what's Boris being a usless bag of wind got to do with labour? Anyway the cons only got 40% of the vote its not what I would call a mandate of any sort.
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  10649. It was a mehh Brown budget The issue here is you wouldn't trust Reform with a charity stall, anyone praising the Truss budget is a straight no under any circumstances
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  10650. @Phylicity  least worst option Starmer is OK, Reeve a bit meh Still 100 times better than anything the right have to offer at this point in time
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  10651. If you want migration to fall you need to increase taxes to invest in the domestic workforce and infrastructure as well as regulate the labour market and raise the minimum wage. Yet You bang on about the Cons and Reform both of whom push economic policies that increase the need for MORE migration - go figure
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  10652. No your not a christian at all and yes your homophobic
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  10653. There only costing money because the Tory Party wishes to use them for political gesture politics. If they processed them 20,000 would be sent back and 60,000 would be working in the economy per year. Processing them saves 6 billion a year and having those who are accepted working generates GDP on top we have a population of just under 80 million 60,000 is nothing but a rounding error to put it into context 500,000 UK residents emigrated last year @rfurdaylee 
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  10654. If only theyd focus on governance
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  10655. 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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  10656. You can't negotiate with the Russians, you've obviously learned nothing from the last 2 years
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  10657. Even without the measures the Queen would have isolated, Sweden who didn't have a lockdown the elderly shielded their population density and medical facilities where also other factors If we hadn't locked down we would have had the fridge vans full of dead bodies same as NY in saying that the whole thing was badly handled we could have opened up a lot more if we had stopped international travel same as NZ were an island
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  10658.  @roberttucker805  which over time reduced the death rate per 100k from the top in the US to near the bottom in comparison to other States.
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  10659.  @chrisspencer6502  any chance you can translate that into english I don't speak gobbldygook
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  10660. what do you mean by sensible? we have supply side inflation on the following Labour Energy Housing Food As a government you can increase supply in all 4 areas that's why the BOE and economists where predicting rate falls but this is the Tories they've done fk all over the last 2 years to deal with this energy prices where rising in 2021 still no plan bar GAS Food inflation - there actively getting farmers to produce less Labour shortages - since Brexit and the pandemic Housing - current estimates are we need +5 million homes they've reneged on targets and weren't pushing social housing anyway
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  10661. It's hundreds of years of overgrazing the surrounding land is rock hard the water doesn't sink in 5hen runs off and floods
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  10662. The shadow chancellor has a vision for social democracy in an age of economic shocks and uncertainty – New Labour this isn’t "Rachel Reeves speaks at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC" from 2023 and The Labour Party has announced a proposal to cut NHS waiting lists by paying staff to take on extra out-of-hours overtime shifts, they would introduce a £1.1billion overtime fund to create an extra two million appointments. There is a huge amount of waste in a Tory system through outsourcing, consultancy and a host of trickle down tax breaks 20 billion by Sunak alone in the last budget
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  10663. It's finnaly dawning on them that Con economic policy is useless ideological mumbo jumbo
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  10664. 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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  10665. He was part of a government that pushed ULEZ expansion he's talking out of his arse because its politically convenient
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  10666. Read Mission Economy By Mariana Mazzucato World renowned economist, if your going to get out of this Tory mess you need a whole of government approach combined with the private sector. The UK does not have the fiscal headroom to do squat after 13 years of the Tories pillaging the economy
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  10667. No they won't and why come on here and lie?
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  10668. Argggggh the reason pensioners are going to pay income tax is because you muppets froze the 20% threshold, you have already cost me an extra £560 last year in additional tax through fiscal drag and My wife is nearing retirement age you will cost us 12,000 straight off the bat because your going to update the pension age to at least 67 rumours say 68
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  10669. The London concerts increase gdp by 300 million
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  10670. this is the culmination and embodiment of Brexit Truss is the champion of the ERG and the Brexit Ultra's, Kwerteng is the vehicle of the ultra right think tanks wanting to move to this utopian free market City vision of Singapore on Thames. Both visions are economically unworkable and batshit crazy what Johnson did was play the English Nationalist off against them his mistake was hollowing out his party of one nation Tories and absorbing the dregs of UKIP. The Tories have a major problem the longer blunder Truss and Kami Kwasi are in power the more damage they will do to the UK and possibly world economy
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  10671. Just get a vaccine and stop being a cry baby sonwflake
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  10672. We've been in recession 7 quarter straight if you look at GDP per capita, headline GDP is boosted by 1.25 million Visa's Tax has gone up and tax base has risen from 33% to 37%
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  10673. Working with your neighbours for the common good has real world consequences In this case 30,000 Irony truly is not dead when the sht hits the fan on a Brexit Ultra's watch the very thing they campaigned would make it better turns out to make it worse 4 times as worse or 30,000 times if your counting migrants
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  10674. All the Trickle down tax cuts and breaks don't pay for themselves ex millionaire pensioner tax break in the last budget cost 2 billion you know give that 2 billion to student nurses they spend every penny of it in the economy give it to millionaire pensioners and it goes straight into assets with ZERO growth and the energy market has been rigged by the Tories to squeeze us dry for corporate profit 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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  10675. 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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  10676. You can get help for following a cult you know quote The Brexit cult that blew up Britain For a small band of libertarians, Liz Truss’ resignation is the final act in an 11-year project to remake Britain. It's over it was a lie all along
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  10677. A skid mark on the underpants of history. Soiled uncomfortable time for a change
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  10678.  @dragonfly6908  who cares
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  10679.  @daveed1797  "Non Believers" ????? what have you been smoking
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  10680. @Justin Elliott the EU are talking about a reset to green energy the great reset is koo koo ka ka conspiracy garbage which just pedals and recycles nationilsm (fascism) and racism
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  10681. It's the cover up and the brazen lies that get them She could have virtue signalled her way through an online course
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  10682. Hopefully hes reversing brexit so our economy can grow again
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  10683. 46 presidents before her haven't bore children either
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  10684. The Fins are Storring energy as heat in sand batteries and there's a liquid air battery facility being built near Manchester as well as deployment of Tesla's MegaPack technology, we should be investing in tidal for base load.
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  10685.  @brendanpells912  Tidal doesn't mean masses of concrete you can use slow turn wind turbine like propellers. Look up Orkney Tidal System and check this out its another propeller based system Nova Welcomes Grantham Institute Report Nova welcomed a ground-breaking new report that urges the UK Government to take a global lead and put tidal stream energy front and centre of our drive to become a net zero economy by 2045.
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  10686.  @brendanpells912  I'm more a small scale devolved mesh network person myself. We have the smart technology to do it. Blade tidal systems are available. I've a thermal store at home a high capacity heavily insulated water tank connected to thermal solar.
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  10687.  @brendanpells912  The answer to the renewable problem isn't one big thing it's a diverse range of technologies and solutions. Solar thermal works well with heat pumps reducing the energy needed to heat up the water for a wet system. The tanks loose around 2 degrees a day if left unused.
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  10688.  Jwoeje Splasj  that whole statement is false on multiple levels, ditch Fox and right wing spin and go look at the underlying data at John Hopkins university
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  10689. REFORM promote the same NeoLiberal economic policies that drive legal migration get real
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  10690. 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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  10691. So you want us to vote for a nut job Libertarian hellscape economy that serves the 1% instead?
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  10692. 800,000 manufacturing jobs have been created and a lot of people have moved off GIG work to the normal economy
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  10693. He's basically led you up the garden path so far leaving the EU has exploded migration
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  10694.  @YakovShani  Lettuce Liz economics just what we don't need
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  10695. When they come to jail him the insanity plea is nailed on. He can't remember a cat 5 has already happened then he went full senile grandpa with his hurricane forecast because he can't ever be seen to be wrong then went back to threatening the Chinese. His staff are just letting him do whatever he wants because no one wants to pull the 25th.
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  10696. No she doesn't she's part of the elite and will say any old shyte and present complete bollox solutions to get ratings
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  10697.  @trevormappley  How do you know she voted for Brexit? What is being presented here is fodder for the gammons to keep the juiced. Refugees and immigration combined with demographics birth rates and structural investment in the economy have a complex interaction. She is supposed to have studied business and finance at University and had a career in TV before morphing into a talking head on GBNews. GBNews funding reveals it to be just another attempt by right-wing millionaires to control public discourse. It has connections with right wing think tank Legatum which pushes Supply Side Economics (low taxes for the rich fk everyone else) set up by billionaire Christopher Chandler
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  10698. Why would anybody vote reform thier agenda is pure fantasy And Fracking got shut down because of a 2.9 quake in Blackpool of all places there just shills for the fossil lobby
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  10699. Tax cuts are mind numbingly inefficient at stimulating growth the return on 1£ is about 20p its like pissing 80p up a wall and chanting growth 2 farmers plough using a horse give 1 a tractor you improve productivity give both a tax cut they have an extra pint down the pub
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  10700. 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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  10701. Given how sunny it is there I'm amazed that Nevada isn't a leading state in solar energy given the one big takeaway from the current situation is renewable energy input is free and inflation proof.
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  10702. no they wouldn't The fundamental reason the economy needs high levels of SUPPLY SIDE CHEAP LABOUR is the Conservative economic policies are supply side trickle down aka Thatcherism If you invest in Social and Physical infrastructure up skilling your own workforce adding more automated processes through investment you need less migrant Labour
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  10703. anyone criticizing the Alt Right is a Liberal in their eyes My opinion is there a bunch of nutters with too much money @RyanB0306 
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  10704. Since when was Trump ever a Republican the goat was always the biggest RINO in the party McCartney is a lily livered spinless wimp go Liz
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  10705. 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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  10706. 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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  10707. Watch Fox news and Newsmax His Tariff plan should be all over all media it will add 3 trillion to costs over 4 years
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  10708. What do Reform believe in? Their tax proposals are low tax twaddle aimed at helping the billionaire class and Their environment policy will turn areas round me into slag heaps as they frack for gas
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  10709. I don't have any lefty mates most are centrist at best. The UK is currently borrowing 130 billion a year as it is the economy is stagnant and no amount of tax cuts will increase growth because its never worked in 50 + years of trying. So if you can't grow the economy to pay for trickle down tax cuts you'll have to shrink services and depress wages further. Not investing in social infrastructure creates more and more skills gaps creating higher demand for migrant labour. and Fracking will only scar the landscape and produce no economic benefit to UK voters So basically there talking bollox on tax and immigration  @The_Dan_of_Kent 
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  10710. I don't have lefty mates there centrists at best If you don't invest in anything just cut tax you'll increase the demand for skilled migrant labour and increase Debt. If you shrink services further under the misguided belief it will help pay for the tax cuts you'll actually keep shrinking the economy. This will reduce overall tax revenue Economic Facts aren't left or right  @The_Dan_of_Kent 
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  10711. You do know there economic policy is rebadged Thatcherism the very thing that's breaking this country?
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  10712. The exec order Trump signed did nothing it was for show, the legislation passed allowed medicare to bargain directly as a consumer and capped insulin ​@salortiz6548
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  10713.  @chirawanphung  ahh but we are How Human Rights Secured Victory for the Hillsborough 96 UK Political Parties Should Vow to Keep, Not Ditch, the Human Rights Act The act has also empowered victims, by requiring proper investigations into deaths apparently at the hands of the state or due to the negligence of state officials. Without this, the gross negligence behind the deaths at Hillsborough would never have been uncovered – a case made with great eloquence by Barry Devonshire, whose son Chris died at Hillsborough. There is surely no better example of how human rights laws protect ordinary UK citizens.
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  10714. The FogHorn of ignorance rides again to dupe his minions Removing FOM vastly increases the pull factors for migration the net number is just its manifestation Polls show the less well educated you are the more likely you will vote for this gasbag
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  10715. So what does Rhishi look like oh yea a heartless merchant banker that knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing
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  10716. I was quite Centerist in my younger days as I've got older I've moved to the left. While I've enjoyed the fruits of free University education we now see Graduates taxed to the hilt. My son didn't go to University ended up with multiple A levels and a distinction in Horticulture and after 5 years full time work he is on +30p above minimum wage. There is no way on this earth I would ever vote Conservative Thatcher destroyed any path that would garner my vote. I vote tactically but viewing Starmer he gets better at every outing, he was extremely awkward when he 1st became leader. We need a government that focuses on people that work not boomers they bought off with free houses and frighten with talk of migration  @Sidb26 
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  10717. its populist propaganda disguising billionaire economic policy but hey you keep fooling yourself this bunch of elites give a sh1t
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  10718. SME'S are subject to trade gravity and are the drivers of economic recovery. If they can't expand into medium sized companies because of trade barriers with thier closest markets they stay SME'S with slow internal market growth. Sorry I'm an economist boosterism isn't something we factor in. Br3xit was a belief system sooner people accept reality the better stay poor or realign with your closest market by the way its barely implemented it will get worse and the bankrupcies will pile up people's businesses and lives destroyed
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  10719. He lost as soon as Harris walked over to him and shook his hand he couldn't look at her. Just a complete aura of dominance and command we've not seen since Obama.
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  10720. ​ @sidneyjones2101  the Republicans have no plan for inflation bar yet more corporate tax cuts and blocking attempts to legislate against corporate price gauging (67% of the total) And let's not forget the 1,5 trillion the Republicans put on the US credit card for corporate tax cuts which is an inflationary driver or climate change which is fueling food inflation which the Republicans claim doesn't exist
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  10721.  @beycarter1860  San Fran and New York are in 2 of the richest states in America The States with the highest murder rates are all red states NY for example has between 2-4 per 100k Texas has between 10-12 per 100k loads of red states with over 10 Calafornia has only 4-6 per 100k Stop watching Fox news it's just opinion go look at the data before shooting your mouth off
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  10722.  @RandyCapor  There probably sick of being told the answer is more corporate tax cuts, Republicans have been blocking legislation to stop price gauging which is responsible for 57% of the current inflation There also bought and paid for by the fossil lobby and aren't interested in climate change or moving to renewables
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  10723.  @beycarter1860  one of the contributing factors to less murders in blue states is tighter gun control Let's look at some specific areas on crime and what needs to be done first the bail bond system is just racketeering in disguise it fuels the prison population, the US has 300% more people incarcerated than in Western Europe that is a huge indictment of a system which Republicans want more of. If something is failing you don't double down on it you look at the underlying causes ditch the macho tough on crime rhetoric and try solve the problem. Firstly the number one driver of crime is poverty and with poverty comes squalor poor housing drug and alcohol addiction etc. Round my way the local politicians decided to save money and closed a local youth service subsequently crime went up so they spent way more than the cost of the youth service on extra policing which created more criminals needing more prison space Each area has its own problems but the Republicans big stick fits all solutions just make things worse and I don't have that much faith in the Democrats but at least there more open minded to change such as the child tax credit
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  10724.  @Crusader-777  Trump is as mad as a box of frogs, our Donald has a serious case of ADHD, it's often been speculated he has dyslexia as well. What he did with the sharpie and the Hurricane map and the way he pressured government departments to try bend reality the guy is not playing with a full deck
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  10725. she's useless and part of the problem Rwanda is just p1ssing money up the wall we need migrant labour because our ruling party runs supply side economics aka Thatcherism so needs Supply side Labour if you just cut it off without major internal investment which needs higher levels of tax you'll shrink the economy So vote left wing if you want less migration there the only ones who will invest in the UK
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  10726. I'm always amazed at the people who vote for right wing populist against thier own interests
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  10727.  @Peter-ov6xh  Farage's nodding dogs have already changed tack and supporting Russia, he yanks your chain you then you go over social media spouting his latest pile of cr*p
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  10728. Why would it reduce the mess thier in, it's thier economic policies that are killing the economy the longer they leave it the worse it gets
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  10729. you should be praying he doesn't win his Tariff policy will cripple our US exports
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  10730. Tired old tropes Food Banks and regressive personnel taxation are a feature not a bug of Sunak's Supply Side Economic policies and it will get worse as he doubles down on them
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  10731. How can they lower taxes? Their economic record on growing the economy is a big fat zero after 14 years gdp per capita has fallen 10% since 2010 quote Sustained economic growth increases average incomes and is strongly linked to poverty reduction. GDP per capita provides a basic measure of the value of output per person, which is an indirect indicator of per capita income.
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  10732. There is still no national strategy, the whole pandemic response should have been run on a war room footing from day 1 the lack of central strategy and guidance makes announcements like this frustrating. The current WH strategy is to interfere and politicise the CDC guidelines, massage the data to try not look as bad as it is, push through a bill that would exempt employees from liability for thier employers getting covid raid the social security and medicade funds to a point whee they are dry and watch while small businesses go bankrupt record evictions take place and poverty food lines hit levels not seen since the great depression. Oh and distract from the fact that Agent Orange is bankrupt own God knows who over half a billion is liable for hundreds of millions in back taxes and penalties and couldn't run a sandwich shop without going into debt, the guy is an economic car crash.
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  10733. The only reason he's safe is Big Dog has knifed Sunak and surounded himself with AssClowns like Truss Mogg and Dorrie
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  10734. Limbar and Trump would screw anything with a pulse the pair are so morally corrupt it makes you realise what a cesspit the Right have become. Love or hate Pete as a politician the way he's spoken openly about his relationship and the harm that people inflict with thier intolerance has certainly opened my eyes to the damage religious bigotry causes. I'm not religious in any shape or form but using it to harm other people is sickening, anyone using the Bible as thier justification are just morally bankrupt
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  10735. Go girl Keep highlighting big Fossils agenda As for people on this board tugging the forelock to multi nationals disinformation and propaganda campaign smell the coffee Big Fossils time is up
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  10736. There's a teardown of an Orlan drone look up "Disassembling orlan-10 to uncover russian secrets" It's a bit of a surprise
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  10737. Guiliani is the worst minister of propaganda DT could have hired a cartoon Goebbels who's too farcical to be even a scooby doo villain His credibility is even further down the toilet after getting rolled by Borat
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  10738.  @butters-vs-chaos  the substation is on the East Coast in Yorkshire Dogger Bank comes online 2022 which will power 6 million homes when fully operational 20% of domestic consumption. There's a tidal project off Orkney already over supplying the island they should be deploying more this year, EV purchases hit 20% of registrations in December but the fossils on this channel are bought and paid by the fossil fuel lobby and Con their viewers. This is all about tanking the net zero pledge because God forbid were energy independent and have long term lower bills and a greener future
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  10739. @Discoworx  renewables lend themselves to decentralised mesh networks using domestic batteries for grid smoothing takes away a lot of issues with new powerlines and grid scale storage. What you want is a mixed system Currently the fossil companies are fighting tooth and nail to stop it happening, the worldwide fossil subsidies last year was calculated at 7% of global gdp
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  10740. @Discoworx  current nuclear costs x 4 the price of renewable and a lead time to build of 12-15 years In the last 10 years the cost of renewables has dropped by 95%, while I don't expect the same again battery prices should hit the 90% mark Nuclear is cost wise on par with hydro and tidal both have a 100 + year life span and NO decontamination issues or costs
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  10741. @Discoworx  you can run tidal like offshore wind using a slow moving blade like proppelor Their are some trail installations but we haven't invested in it, private companies won't it needs government backing once fully developed it would be an export hit If you install domestic and grid scale batteries you change the demand curve lowering costs by at least 1/2
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  10742.  @Discoworx  Hinkley C is now in it's 12th year of building isn't due to be opened for another 3 years and will have a total cost over 35 years including 40 billion in subsidies of 80 billion. The electricity it generates will cost 3.5 times as much as that from the newly opened Dogger bank offshore. To remove peak gas standby plant and replace it with mass storage would cost 30 billion. It would save 30 billion in energy costs in 12 months and every year there after. Octopus offer an overnight rate of 7p per Kwh instead of the daily rate of 20p I have home solar and batteries and any grid electricity I consume even in winter is at the 7p rate. The reason the overnight rate is so cheap is our energy consumption is up to 75% less in the middle of the night as to peak time of 4-7pm with usage being described as a Duck curve. Wind and Nuclear are always ON and it pays to offer people incentives to time shift consumption away from peak periods. The flatter and fatter the duck curve is the cheaper the electricity becomes
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  10743. Net zero reshores energy jobs detaches the economy from world commodity prices Why do you think there's so much lobbying against it?
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  10744. Since when did either Labour or the Cons have any political power over Isreal? Everyone has been coling for a 2 state solution for decades Owen calling for gesture politics as usual
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  10745.  @zoltanbarath7371  that's >100 years ago
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  10746. He's a lying toe rag that will literally say anything if it's expedient
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  10747. initiating trade barriers against yourself is a monumental act of self harm to the economy the OBR estimate was -4% GDP last study put it more like -6% that's the equivalent of a 6p tax cut on the 20% rate
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  10748. The economy is in serious trouble and the Conservatives can't fix it due to ideology so it will get worse. The autumn statement baked in 10% budget cuts to services in April after 13 years of cuts RAAC in public buildings infrastructure and net zero abandoned its just another year of decline. Any further tax cuts will also be unfunded and we're borrowing 130 billion ayear while serving 2 trillion in debt as it is. When the cause of a problem is Thatcherism then more Thatcherism will just make it worse
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  10749. 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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  10750. Reform have no Credible policies especially on tax and migration
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  10751. Reeve is she was talking about Bottom up Middle out been talking to the Democrats in the US
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  10752. What's not practical about going for the cheapest energy source?
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  10753. Only Wakeford out of the 3 defections is standing and he did so back when the polls weren't so bad Labour have already selected all their candidates and the last 2 defections had thier own reasons
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  10754. He's disconnected from our reality because he's an ex hedge fund private equity manager First you need to have no soul to do that job Why there a bunch of asset stripping leeches that take profitable businesses outsource and sell off anything they can make as many people redundant as possible before loading them with debt and walking away with a sack of cash
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  10755. Not as much as Musk and the Tech bros to Trump who want huge tax breaks and zero regulation over AI Or The fossil lobby who want rid of the green agenda
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  10756.  @hgservices5572  Trump had the worst economy since Hoover. Before Cov even started he'd pumped nearly 3.5 trillion into debt via corporate tax cuts and was a prime reason inflation shot up so sharply when it finished. At the end of 2019 the inflation rate had ticked up to 2.1% and you were looking at impending hikes to the Fed rate, we saw the same thing with the Bush and Reagan tax cuts the GOP never learn it's really short term. This is in stark contrast to the Biden agenda which pumped money into infrastructure which has a long lasting tail effect to growth and doesn't cause contraction the instant you have any sort of pressure put on it.
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  10757. Part time workers with a high proportion of women with kids, semi retired and students have left the job market completly, you've also had a huge number of people die and get sick. Kids are still not vacinated and grandparents used to be relied upon to do childcare for full time working women. If you now have to pay for childcare it's not worth it there's a dearth of after school clubs etc. Non of this has anything to do with unemployment benefit by the way when the stats start coming out you'll find Blue states who have better social programs recovering at a disproportionately higher rate. Also population growth has plummeted to zero, imigrants have been used for years to boost and keep the economy going, for all the smack talk the GOP spins on the border thier donors businesses rely heavily on imigrants labour.
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  10758. Times is centre right and owned by Murdoch
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  10759. The answer to Conservative mismanagement is a more extreme version? You OK do you need a lie down
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  10760. 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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  10761. Gop = raise taxes and cost on the low paid give huge tax breaks to corporations Dems = more healthcare stable economy move to renewable energy I5s not changed much since Clinton
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  10762. ​ @Leo555ZZZ your sentence makes zero sense do you want to reword it?
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  10763.  @anthonybartlett6924  last by election
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  10764. Its the final nail in their coffin if you kept up with the tech renewables reached parity with gas on energy costs back in 2019 and EV's achieved cost parity with ICE this year and that's before economies of scale kick in. We have the worst insulated housing stock in Europe and the offer is what exactly get everyone up to A+ standards and save consumers 100's of billions? No way Tice's attitude is working people can fk off and keep paying outrageous amounts to the energy companies cos we don't care were not going to regulate to improve your life and wellbeing
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  10765.  @juliamacdonald294  you do know that capital expenditure on net zero will reduce your 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.
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  10766. Doesn't really work for 100's of kids + staff in a school  @kynchan3332 
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  10767. net zero will save money the longer you delay the more it will cost 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. read OBR report at gov website Fiscal risks and sustainability – July 2023 @Christophers-Assorted-Stuff 
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  10768. The Insane economic policies of Lettuce Liz with the Batsh1t immigration policies of Braverman Hello Argentina on the Channel Its fantasy economics meets fantasy migration policy, meanwhile the cost of Tory crisis continues
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  10769.  @evolutionistheflyingspaghe2702  Men have children and especially those with daughters don't want a lecherous senile granpa who talkes about a golfers junk size as a role model. Also his tariff plan will cause a trade war depress the economy and increase inflation
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  10770. Right wing economic policy of low tax and under investment in the UK social infrastructure drives ever higher levels of immigration Now that's common sense
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  10771. The US is top of the G7 in economic recovery from 2019 to present so what the fk are you smokin
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  10772. He'll get hauled up in front of the ethics committee they have the power to Suspend him if they do his constituency can petition for a by election job done but with maximum damage to the Tory brand
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  10773.  @pipins3616  what votes are they the activists are leaving in droves as the Tories career right chasing reform and their insane policies. Points migration system how did that work oh just quadrupled legal migration How about Brex1t oh just cratered our manufacturing an export economy even subdued our service sector
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  10774. Its economic strategy with climbing fossil fuels cost if you hadn't noticed, we've gone over the event horizon where renewables are massively cheaper OBR said Going Net zero Costs 6% GDP Not going Net Zero costs 13% GDP That 13% will climb steeply the longer we delay due to said fossil fuel costs
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  10775. Well have a labour government soon there not obsessed with outsourcing
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  10776. 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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  10777.  @veryhappychappy12  Mine was a builder we both had scholarships to what became private schools, he's done a bit better than me but not by that much I've still had a successful career Both the first person to go to university in our family At the time University was for the top 14%
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  10778. you need to pay for your staff, running everything as outsourced on a shoestring as we do now has major downsides
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  10779. There's mandatory workplace pensions I'm retired and have 3 pensions one being state pension
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  10780. Haven't you worked out yet that the high legal migration is because we removed fom and don't invest in our domestic workforce And That reform will follow the same economic model How do the Right get Turkeys to vote for Xmas Tell them migrant chicken will steal thier jobs
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  10781. Over 14 years they have borrowed 1.3 trillion and Real GDP has risen by a mere 100 billion to achieve that paltry rise they increased the population by 8 million making gdp per capita sink from 50k to 45k Everything is worse than 14 years ago
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  10782. You only pay it if you don't know the system If you have a SIPP its IH free I do think it needs looking at re primary residence
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  10783. They have 5 missions on thier website one of which is grow the economy
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  10784. 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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  10785. Brexit ultras have been in charge for 8 years and the country is going bankrupt we have a hard brexit which isn't working the deal Frost made was a political fudge to stop the Conservative party imploding even the vaunted taking back control of our borders has been proven a complete myth
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  10786. The vote in 2016 was all things to all men from a full Norway to the hard Brexit we ended up with In 2019 Boris got a vote of 43% mostly on the back of Corbyn Since 2016 its estimated that 2.3 million leave voters have died and if you take the new voters would vote remain 70-30 the current state of the electorate based on the 2016 result would be 55% remain 45% leave just on demographics alone. Mogg doesn't have a clue on how trade works or if he does he's gaslighting our economy is sinking fast this is just another nail in the Brexit coffin
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  10787. The reason the economy is in the Toilet is lack of infrastructure spending over 13 years of Tory government with constant cuts which have shrunk the economy. If you cut more your entrenching economic decline into the fabric of the economy.
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  10788.  @Paul-eb4jp  as if anyone with half a brain cell can't figure the Oil goes straight to the world commodity market and does nothing for UK plc
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  10789.  @evolassunglasses4673  since when Biden just pumped 2 trillion into making the US the renewable energy tech leader in the world The EU are flailing with maybe 600 billion and were doing fk all
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  10790. Corbyn ran a very loose ship there was little to no discipline Starmer comes along with Iron discipline his nickname with the left Stalin Starmer because he's having non of the loose cannon behaviour This is a sample from Abbot Labour MP Diane Abbott has said the UK and US are responsible for any breakout of conflict in Ukraine Diane Abbott: Keir Starmer's 'deranged' Nato support risks 'catastrophe' in Ukraine Even as a Labour supporter and member if she were my MP I couldn't vote for her and why I have no time for Corbyn and his peacenik lackeys, my Father came here during the war via a Russian Gulag he is Polish and fought in the free Polish army.
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  10791.  @douglasmacari8707  since when Tories won't touch any of Starmers manifesto with a 12 mile long barke pole
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  10792. The Tories spent 1/2 a billion promoting Reform by trying to out Fach the Farage with Rwanda all it did was drive the nutters crazy
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  10793. What did you think would happen? We need labour in the care sector Before Brexit an EU nurse would come over a few would stay Now your Phillpino nurse fetches her husband and kida Hence 2019 200,000, 2023 750,000 This idiot can't fix it he's part of the problem
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  10794. Sunak is a Thatcherite we have Thatcherite trickle down policies with Austerity not a socialist policy in sight
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  10795. 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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  10796. Reform are a bunch of elite populist nutjobs Fracking - for god sake who wants that Immigration - believers will be in charge welcome to echoes of the black shirts get a reality check
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  10797. so we learn DeVos is behind groups putting money into this, what a surprise right wing (fascist) hate machine funded by the ultra wealthy who play their base for complete suckers preaching collective genocide so they can live in their gilded castles. Screw everyone who isn't prepared to get back on that treadmill and line their pockets, just throw your elderly on the plague cart while your at it your kids with asthma, diabetics and anyone else they can't be bothered to save. Trevor Noah Fox Montage https://youtu.be/oTCHGooLdGA
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  10798. The GOP Whitehouse laundromat At this rate they'll burn out the motors on the Grift machine
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  10799. ​ @psy-op certainly last time lwere in we had well funded services and wage growth +20% Wages since 2010 a4e -7%
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  10800.  @misshs656  stupid thing to say
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  10801. @MrSirusDvirus  I'm 67 the Palestinians and Isrealies have been at war in some form since I first started voting at 18 why should I base my vote on which side a party takes? My concern is the high cost of energy, fiscal drag eating into my pension, RAAC in the local hospital and sewage in the river.
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  10802. 14 years of hard right economic Thatcherism + Austerity and there to left - deluded doesn't even come close
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  10803. what is your beef there is no cap currently?
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  10804. I looked a bit deeper into this basically the Tories broke the Asylum system starting with May who seems to be the instigator of the most damage. They've stopped claimants from working They've slowed the process down to a crawl they've blocked off nearly all legal methods of claiming asylum bar treading on British soil They lied about Brexit taking back control (its way worse now than its ever been) And now there deliberately presenting legislation which will fail in the ECHR to try and convince you to give up your human rights we know the Tories are in it for their rich mates but c'mon stupid evil as well
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  10805. These guys aren't the A team or even the D team there more like the Z team they can't even crime well.
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  10806. America's Assh0le He cant tell the difference between Asylum seekers and Insane Asylum inmates thats why he mentions Haniball Lector
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  10807.  @brianlaudrupchannel  since when? We have low tax (for the wealthy and corporations) being subsidised by ever increasing tax burden on the working and middle class, a classic sign of Supply Side Trickle Down economics aka Thatcherism unwinding as its numerous failures hit the economy. Lack of structural investment in the domestic population requiring ever increasing immigration to paper over the cracks Right wing economics eating itself alive
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  10808.  @IanMay-g5u  in 2010 Osborne reduced bursaries for Nurses and reduced training places for doctors This is social structural investment by year 4 you have a requirement for more nurses than you produce as the cuts filter through the system these cuts mean recruitment of foreign nurses By 2023 the cuts have caused a flood of migrant medical staff into the NHS primarily from Nigeria and India who fetch thier partners +200,000 net migration in 2020 becomes +500,000 in 2022 and +750,000 in 2023 Thatcherism and right wing economics at its finest, invest in nothing wast billions on trickle down tax cuts patch the holes with migrant labour rinse repeat except they've been at the wheel too long nothing left to plunder
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  10809. League tables and endless assessment and reporting are making teachers quite en mass due to excessive long days and pressure. My brother teaches in Norway now when he was over here it wasn't uncommon to do 14 hour days he gets paid more over there and does 7.
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  10810. When we had FOM the numbers were around 200,000 Now the essential Labour you need brings over dependants because they come from India, Nigeria the Philippines Immigration and the accelerated need for more is the result of running a supply side trickle down Thatcherism economic model If you want lower immigration you need regulation and a move to a Keynesian demand side model, that will never happen with the Tories their mates will have to pay tax for a change because you need to invest in physical and social infrastructure Tory Cake-ism just doesn't work
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  10811.  @markmoran916  it has destroyed the Conservatives ending 14 years of Thatcherism
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  10812. ​@melb5996 my dad jumped out of a plane and fought fascism in Europe to gain those rights and you want to p1ss them away for what?
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  10813.  @melb5996  since when? Who holds the government to account when they breach my human rights? Not this bunch that's for sure get real What's your beef about paying less for your energy and stop lining the pockets of fossil fuel multi nationals who want to squeeze every last £ out of governments and your pocket
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  10814. What do you use for brains?
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  10815. Jeez Republicans are as thick as mince
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  10816. The economy is booming not because of quantative easing that will have an effect 2/3 years down the line
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  10817. If Shell are investing its more than likely they see this tech as a storage bridge to running recharge points. Shell have already said there making a lot of money from car charging, people forget charging stations have large battery capacity for the on/off demand
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  10818. net zero policies reduce energy costs why do you want to pay more?
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  10819. Net zero also means fully insulated to A+ standard homes, offices and public buildings so are they going to charge you for NOT putting the heating on as well? @dungareesareforfools 
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  10820. There hiked to bail out the energy suppliers that went bankrupt in the failed Tory energy market system Quote biggest part of the increase is from the “supplier of last resort” scheme – every household is expected to pay the billions that have gone into rescuing customers from failed companies. @dungareesareforfools 
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  10821. @roccoparks  it costs +10% on build costs to uprate insulation to A+ standards in new builds back in 2019 the savings were calculated to be 10 years on capital cost, since then energy prices have doubled and we've had record inflation I refurbished the old part of my house when I built an extension the ground floor and all the windows are up to A+ standard the price tag was around 20k that includes labour a new door and materials for underfloor heating. Heating came on in the TV room this week 1st time any heating has been on since April So yes net zero = cheaper energy you've just got to pony up the capital cost
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  10822. @dungareesareforfools  how do you know that? At the moment the Tories couldn't give a fk if we get screwed, Labour on the other hand have already said they would beef up regulations
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  10823. Gas sets the price of electricity, because the electricity price in every half hour period is set by the marginal cost of the last generating unit to be turned off to meet demand – which is invariably a gas power plant with high marginal costs. So along with renewables you need to move away from the GAS peak delivery plants and I'd also comment 38% of generation is still GAS We have been well and truly caught with our pants down, Cameron's getting rid of the green crap has cost customers 10's of billions. To replace PEAK delivery in a renewable ecosystem you use these Quote ‘Europe’s biggest’ battery in East Yorkshire opens The project has the capacity to store enough energy to power around 300,000 homes in Yorkshire for two hours EndQuote In California they have a much larger version it costs 750 million and saved 1 Billion in marginal costs in its 1st year All of this is down to privatisation, penny pinching a complete ideological blindness to the GOD Private = Good, Public = Bad that the Cons have followed There Visionless ideology is now crushing 170 billion in EXCESS profits out of UK consumers  @dungareesareforfools 
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  10824.  @clivemarriott7749  Our prices are tied to Gas It comprises of 38% at peak
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  10825. 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. 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.  @clivemarriott7749 
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  10826. ​@asouthernhaus Harris changes it to a turnout election and there are more Democratic voters than Republican, not surprising as all the gop want to do these days is interfere with your sex life ban books and give money to exceptionally wealthy billionaire and corporations
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  10827. Commercial conversations? spaffing millions up the wall on fk all they should be in prison for fraud Final deterrent effect of sending 0.2% of refugees without due process to a concentration camp in east Africa foreign country = ZERO returns of Albanians coming by small boars 2023 is 500 you lying little toad
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  10828. @chrisholland9124  latest budget 2 billion to millionaire pensioners 8 billion in tax breaks to bankers another 6 billion to fossil industry loads of others in there 2 Penny pinching the money from the lower middle class with fiscal drag and deliberately running down public services You could raise 15 billion from making CGT = to income tax rates that tax that Rhisi pays at 20% on his earnings rather than real people at 40 & 45 anyone voting Con deserves to be poor for believing the trickle down bullshit
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  10829. He's been a Putin apologist for over a decade this isn't new
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  10830. What you mean the Republicans who are trying to suppress votes at every opportunity?
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  10831.  @sysasst670  Net Zero is a lot more than removing fossil from our energy mix. Also your asking private companies to build uneconomic Fossil plant that will be obsolete within 10 years. How much subsidy will that cost? I will tell you not investing in the grid now to make it renewable friendly will cost DOUBLE the cost of staying as we are over the next 10 year period. We will also face increasing tariffs and bans for exports to the 2 main trading blocks for producing carbon intensive goods.
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  10832.  @sysasst670  Nuclear and Hinkley C are 3 years late and about to become the most expensive white elephant in history with a combined cost of 80 billion. You can build 7 windfarms all producing the same amount of energy as Hinckley for that price and in 2 years not 17. As for demand you use smart tech and mass storage to flatten and fatten the demand curve. Ev's have only 40 moving parts as opposed to 4,000 and battery prices are falling and expected to 1/2 in price and double in capacity in the next 2 years. If you contract with companies and allow V2G the overnight electric for charging is free
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  10833. true a man of the elite and a man of the sun
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  10834. 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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  10835. My constituency went Lib-Dem so why there chasing after Reform voters beats me they only got 5% in my seat and have completely batsh1t unelectable policies
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  10836. It's not just abortion there is talking Christian crazy shit like day after pill contreception IVF being banned.
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  10837. The numbers are all wrong? He's leveraged to the nines he owes 100 million to the IRS before tax fraud investigations he's in hock for 1.1 billion just the 400 billion is due in the next 4 years. You can get a clearer picture of how much money his properties are hemorrhaging by looking at the tax filings for his uk/Ireland properties
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  10838. Everywhere is worse since the Tories came to power and started slashing budgets
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  10839. Meanwhile Boris gimme a loan Johnson is deliberately trying to undermine Sunak's Protocol deal in the powder keg that is NI for nothing more than political gain The man who put a border down the Irish Sea sees political advantage in ripping his agreement up and further the chaos over there There is no justification for this but we've been here before
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  10840.  @kayla-Rey22  and yet your more than happy to spout rubbish put out by a right wing media who would struggle with to list one positive achievement by the Tories in 14 years
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  10841. Her housing policy document could have been written by someone on the centre left
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  10842. Reform will keep all the right wing trickle down tax cr*p that is blighting the economy and won't invest in UK skills and infrastructure same as the Tories
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  10843. ​ @BH-xp8ic MAGA cried bring back jobs Joe responded by promoting reshoring with 400k in 2022 MAGA cried make America Great again Joe responded by pivoting the economy to renewables and making it the green tech hub of the world Irony truly is not dead
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  10844.  @robinburn4974  I'm looking forward to an Agri deal and the government supporting farmers again instead of throwing them under the brexit bus and dancing as they have to plough in or burn produce
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  10845. Ipsos had them at 5 they got a 2 point bump to 7% because of the never ending Psychodrama in the Tory party on migration Based on By elections this is pretty generous Not that they have real workable policies so its a bit pointless voting for them
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  10846.  @nigden1  bs do you trust a government to do the Right Thing I certainly don't Hillsborough being a prime example Giving up your human rights to be a complete sh1t to boat people is insane
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  10847. @user-pf5th3hx1f  I've given up checking these stories from the likes of the Daily Fail and GBN there either entirely fact free or spun to an insane level, my advice to you is check the source then check the detail. And it's irrelevant I'm no giving up my human rights and you'd be dumb to trust any uk government to do the right thing just look at Horizon, Hillsborough the infected blood scandal etc.
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  10848.  @John-c2u3j  and where did you get this story from GBN the Daily Fail. I'm don't bother checking thier stories anymore there's that much spin goes into both those sources. And I've no intention of giving any government in this country the final say on my human rights
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  10849. 62,000 refugees will be given the right to stay 1.25 million legal migrant workers brought in with 1/2 dependants I mean it was way better when we were in the EU at around 200,000 net because there weren't loads of dependants refugees aren't the problem the government and their policies are
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  10850. Its neither GB (run by an offshore entity with links to a Libertarian billionaire sponsored think tank) nor News it's marketed as opinion at best and right wing propaganda and conspiracy mongering at worst. Its part of the Tufton street mob such as the IEA who pulled Liz Truss's strings nearly bankrupting the country Mayfair-based Legatum Institute, which advocates for free market economics has courted senior Government ministers through Shanker Singham, who led a self-styled ‘special trade commission’ for the organisation. The Legatum Institute was founded and funded by the Legatum Group, that has invested millions in GB News.
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  10851. There getting justice just a bit faster than everyone else because there special so very special
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  10852. He won't he'll just siphon off votes and let the Tory in serves him right
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  10853. So how well do you understand macro economics? For the capitalism ladder to work it needs a social floor and the more comprehensive that floor is the better the ladder works. All this does is further crater economic growth
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  10854. Fossil development takes around 7-9 years from exploration to production. Over the past 5 years the North Sea Fossil companies have paid zero tax and renewable energy became the cheapest on the grid in 2019, renewable costs are expected to fall further by a considerable margin as it becomes a mainstream technology and its expected that battery prices per gigawatt hour will halve over the next 5 years. Labour will reintroduce insulation subsidies and new building regulations to improve home thermal efficiency If I where you I'd be more worried about the Tories getting in and this relentless push to keep us burning as much Fossil as possible prices are never going to go down to 2018 levels
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  10855. no they won't because that would be politically toxic, the guy is a top barrister that used to run DPP unlike the Tories he respects the rule of law
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  10856.  @woodyforest7308  That's been debunked many times over and Lets not forget who knighted him and who gave him access to Broadmoor
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  10857. You must be joking you don't have a clue as to what their real agenda is. If you think you got poorer under the Tories it's nothing on how badly ReFuk could damage your finances
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  10858. Corbyn ran a loose ship Starmer does not no loose cannons no midnight posts no retweets of complete crap and engage your brain before you do anything
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  10859. Clearing the backlog getting 40,000 deported finding all those that have disappeared into the black economy and prosecuting the smuggling gangs + seizing their assets All the things the Tories should be doing instead of wasting 1/2 a billion on Rwanda show pony
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  10860. Reform spout Libertarian economic nonsense + a dose of Populism get real
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  10861. DJT'S never got 48 in his life hes a 45 man 46 at most, 53% of the electorate will not vote for him under any circumstances
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  10862. Why support the Cons? I'm middle class and no corbynite but even I can see the economic car crash that is Thatcherism
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  10863.  @Bungle-UK  certainly is after 13 years of Tory misrule
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  10864.  @fieldflower7916  corporate capture of the wheels of government makes the situation even worse sas they skim off money which could be used for public benefit. There is zero social benefit to allowing companies the ability to engage in the democratic process its one person one vote not one dollar one vote.
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  10865.  @fieldflower7916  The solution is to have a government that reflects your values (which to most people means no corruption) . We live as a collective and need to cooperate. You can argue where the needle should be forever but there's always going to be a certain amount of waste in the government which your never going to be able to clear,, privatising those parts and introducing rampant corruption doesn't solve the problem.
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  10866.  @fieldflower7916  The reason drug prices for example are not negotiated is directly down to the votes cast for politicians who don't want that to happen its everyones responsibility to shape the government that represents you.
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  10867.  @anglewoden  The illegal migration quadrupled when we left the EU, as a 3rd country we have no leverage with France so now the EU don't give a toss. Funny how working in tandem on common problems is mutually beneficial? brexit solves nothing it just makes us poorer or had you not noticed the economy has been stagnant for 3 years and your taxes have been steadily rising?
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  10868. we have 40,000 people here who should have been deported already and aren't because she does nothing. All the talk of ECHR and UNCR is a distraction. She was speaking at a right wing Libertarian think tank The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research mainly funded by big oil such as ExxonMobil These people dont give a sh1t about working and middle class there sole purpose of existing is to screw as much money out the system for the billionaire and corporate class there no different to the IEA who where pulling Truss's strings
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  10869. ​@Jimfrey-g1z that's completely incorrect The great post war boom was done on tax and spend The current malaise is the net result of 50 years of Thatcherism
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  10870. I saw a stat that 15% of those voting had sat out 2016 you also get the impression whole families are voting from the news coverage
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  10871. Why watch an interview with a criminal that constantly lies? Putin -it's all NATO'S fault Real reason - Putin , the Oligatchs, the Russian Mafia are one and the same Ukraine is just theft, invade steal and reward Oligarchs use extreme violence if you have to
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  10872. The biggest looser in decades no thanks
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  10873. @keithparker1346  Populism on the left with Corbyn would produce the same car crash results as Populism on the right has with Bojo and Lettuce Liz has
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  10874. He needs to STFU he's completly ignorant
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  10875. Greens are polling 6% there a bunch of middle class nimby's My brother lives in Norway they run a centre left regulated labour market and economy and have minimal net migration roll on labour
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  10876. The party pro billionaire who want to turn the economy into a Libertarian low wage sh1thole for the 90% while the elite's have unbridled wealth?
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  10877. If you want lower migration abandon Thatcherism stop voting in right wing parties raise taxes and invest in physical and social infrastructure Example Osborne cuts nursing busuries less nurses trained in uk Tories squeeze public sector pay experienced staff start leaving EU graduate nurses start filling gaps Brexit Number of nursing vacancies starts to exlode 2023 nurses recruited from Nigeria no fetch husband and kids with them
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  10878. Renewables are the cheapest on the grid we need to get off Gas which is driving energy prices through the roof and aren't sustainable
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  10879.  @stuartparker6838  it's a relic of empire and the original residents ended up in Mauritiam shanty towns with no compensation
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  10880. Small businesses are now exempt they increased the thresholds read the small print This primarily affects the big paying high salary service sector
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  10881. your joking right this is important to you I have one thing to say your speaking for no one but yourself Get A Life
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  10882. All they've done is scale back spending If you want a true flip flopper look at Sunak No tax rises - 23 and counting Net zero -abandoned Leveling up - now punching down Triple lock - removed last year Etc
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  10883. he's fine while not the new Blair he's a million miles better than Sunak
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  10884. 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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  10885. ​ @SmartCookie2022 And what would Major have done with that inheritance certainly not rebuilt the NHS and Education system which after years of Tory rule was on its knees again. The Tories simply refuse to invest in the UK public siphoning of money into schemes that benifit the wealthy Case in point Sunak pa8d 20p in the £ tax on millions in income a graduate nurse pays just under 50% 4 billion in a Millionaire pension giveaway of 40,000 per person paid for by frozen tax thresholds
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  10886.  @jenlong8568  I had a system installed a couple of months ago prices have come down and efficiency has gone up, according to my figures I won't need the grid for 70% of the time, it's a small system as well, it will save me around £1300 a year.
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  10887. @SIMONWINTER-m6d  They can't tax the energy I produce time shift and consume at home And It's more expensive for the energy companies to turn off or dump excess power than to sell it cheap off peak, during Cov prices went negative at certain times during the night.
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  10888.  @SIMONWINTER-m6d  You'll find there are certain things where it costs more to do something than what you get in return this is one of them.
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  10889. It's a complete clown show Vip lane for crony contracts worth billions 37 billion wasted on track and trace 13 billion of fraud written off Biggest cost of living crisis in 150 years A budget that Breaks the pension triple lock Puts taxes up for workers Gives bankers a 2 billion tax break And we have leaders that are a complete joke if they told you water was wet you'd double check to see if they were lying Oi Tory boys clean up your Big Dogs stinking mess NOW
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  10890. ​@sethabel4315 Trump will either not be running or if he is won't get funding from the dark money crowd who know he's batsh1t crazy and not controllable
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  10891. they get the same pot of money to run things as everyone and else their waiting lists are less and they have cleaner water
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  10892. They haven't had a rise, all they've got is enough to match inflation
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  10893. China deployed more renewable energy output last year than the rest of the world combined
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  10894.  @boofuu3145  there are Trillions pumped into fossil subsidies around the world including the UK There's around 100 billion on the uk books over the next few years money better spent on going to renewable energy
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  10895.  @yolandascholten2012  Their infrastructure is falling apart loads of municipal heating systems broke down this winter with no parts and no engineers to fix them
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  10896.  @socratesrocks1513  Current chemistry is moving to Sodium Ion and solid state for vehicles. The largest lithium deposits in the world have been found in the US embedded in clay. A US company has come up with a process of removing Lithium from salt water without the evaporation process and are testing it currently Flow batteries sand batteries and liquid air batteries are coming on-stream as different countries come up with new tech for grid scale mass storage. CATYL stopped using cobalt 2 years ago Like everyone anti net zero your information is either 5 years+ out of date or from the fossil lobby or both If you want to get up to speed try YouTube Channel Just have a Think
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  10897.  @shaunluckham1418  Total subsidies on renewables since the entered the Market is 80 billion Total Fossil subsides through the life of the Brent field is around 500 billion (you can compare the tax take from Norway's identical field to get an approximate figure) The Current figure of near 100 billion over the next few years is made up of subsidies for exploration and decommissioning old plant there's also lost tax revenues. Your then tying your grid to world commodity prices of which you have no control. Given the escalating cost of nuclear it's now cheaper to build tidal systems
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  10898.  @shaunluckham1418  Renewable energy became the cheapest on the grid back in 2019 also grid scale storage saves 10's of billions to customers by removing the requirement to have expensive large power stations on standby.
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  10899.  @boofuu3145  There are no subsidies on Renewables as they come online. You have a guaranteed contract price on generation plant. Dogger bank which comes on line this year has a forward contract price of £42 the forward contract price for Hinkley C is around £120 just to put it in comparison. In the States there replacing Gas peak generation plant with mass storage each saving around 1 billion USD to the energy supplier per year.
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  10900.  @boofuu3145  quote Rishi Sunak has been accused of risking Britain’s reputation as a climate leader by announcing tax relief measures that will encourage energy firms to invest in fossil fuel extraction during a climate emergency.
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  10901.  @boofuu3145  I really don't get why you want to pay more for your energy? The numbers flipped in 2019 even the likes of Texas is deploying a huge swathe of onshore wind turbines simply because the electricity they produce is cheap.
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  10902.  @boofuu3145  Norways grid runs on renewables and thier prices are low in comparison to salaries. They also have high ev penetration and low charger prices compared to petrol
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  10903.  @timmyg44  It's common knowledge head of GWPF sponsored Badenoch's leadership campaign. quote The Global Warming Policy Foundation, big oil and dark money The UK’s Global Warming Policy Foundation think tank sits in a web connected to US billionaires with ties to the oil industry and dark money
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  10904. Open up planning get building council and other housing stop land banking, realign standards to cut red tape and paperwork, new performance artists deal with the EU We've lost 5.5% gdp from B r e x I t 9 billion a point in lost taxation
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  10905. If elected there going to install Musk who will do the same to the US economy that he did to Twitter, halve it's value by taking a chainsaw to government departments and investment. DJT is such a sick puppy he will undo everything Biden did to clean up and push forward infrastructure and manufacturing crashing the economy
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  10906. What's left of thier voter base is moderate only glued together by the dystopia fiction of a Labour government. That will fracture given that if nothing else Starmer intends to govern not spend 5 years posturing and infighting. Since 2010 the cons have put party 1st people are sick of the chaos
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  10907. 2 too many we don't have a presidential system which is why 7 bins is there in the 1st place He's canned the majority of the 2019 manifesto and now wants debates he can go f himself
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  10908. Tories have no morals how does that work
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  10909.  @James_36  that would be good for the majority of us given the abject failure of Right wing economics
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  10910. why do you tag along with this BS it's Russian propaganda
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  10911. The economic data is dire it is going to get worse and since when is being poorer popular? There on for a drubbing now in 12 months they'll be lucky to win a single seat what are they going to promise in a manifesto vote for us the other parties might not be so shyte and you don't want clean rivers and seas
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  10912. 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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  10913.  @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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  10914.  @PFB-yo6wi  Its a plan it will never get enacted because we are 2 years away from an election If they were or had been in power we would have had a more resilient generating profile and better insulated homes this is from carbon brief 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.
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  10915.  @johnsartmaterialguidestuto7757  I did read it properly. The Tories promised the business community a Utopian land with brexit, this would be better than Thatchers big bang the remaking of Britain. We are all aware now that they didn't have a plan still don't have a plan and that Boris is a big gasbag. Contempt for the conmen, compassion for the conned even if there multi millionaires
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  10916. Hardly most outside the right wing echo chamber can see we get no economic benefit from subsidising multi national fossil companies to the tune of billions when it's cheaper to run renewables that we control
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  10917.  @janicebirch7522  1st off the fossil lobby bung the Conservatives a butt ton of money second its been labour policy to stop oil development for the last 5/10 years and move to renewables.
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  10918. Jenerick was part of the worst government in uk history (economics wise) for the 1st time we were poorer after 5 year term than at the start And He is part of the economic managed decline of the uk since 2010 as well as raising taxes to thier highest to pay for all their botched policies
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  10919. Kwasi Kwarteng made the right decision in swiftly cutting taxes, Nigel Farage said, dealing a blow to global economic institutions which have warned against the economic policy.
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  10920. 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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  10921. 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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  10922.  @Ahdbfbfbeh  he was crazy 4 years ago Trump is completely nuts now
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  10923. Someone competent without an ideological axe to grind who will turn round the economy would be my wish
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  10924. He's teeing up a campaign attack line vote Tory get Farage through the back door, Farage is deeply unpopular except with his cultists.
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  10925. You spelt it wrong FreeDumb
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  10926. Wow who took this nutball off his meds, please find some room in the asylum and get him some treatment
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  10927. Reform run extreme Thatcherism the same economic ideology that's been killing our economy
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  10928.  @jjefferyworboys8138  Why are you trying to propagate a lie that he had personal responsibly in the case?
    1
  10929. You've had 8 years to come up with a plan so far we've had zero benefit and a train load of economic pain Btrex1t is dead move on
    1
  10930. She talks about the American dream but the GOP are killing that dream by crushing the middle class, a vibrant middle class which has a broad Base will turbo charge the economy it's small/medium businesses that will pull down unemployment at a record pace. But hey your top one percent taxes would be at risk.
    1
  10931.  @hughfawcett4333  Net zero is a driver of economic growth through infrastructure investment
    1
  10932. The BOE had to bail out the Kwerteng budget to the tune of 130 billion in quantitative Easing along with the 700 billion printed through the Covid period you have a case of too much money sloshing round the system all of which has trickled up. Its why inflation has been so sticky a lot of it needs taxing out of the system the wealthy are on a spendathon bender quote Luxury goods boom in Britain as super-rich youngsters buck the recession Rich kids fuel sales of brands such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci They’re young, rich and mortgage-free, and the scions of the 1% are having a roaring twenties. Despite the economic gloom currently shrouding the UK and many other western countries, sales of luxury brands have been booming and growing numbers of buyers are young adults. Swiss watches, Louis Vuitton trainers, rare Birkin bags and 81-year-old whiskies are among the products that are fuelling impressive growth in the bottom lines of luxury brands such as LVMH, Burberry and Kering.
    1
  10933. ​@Ayat78yea right like you appear to know fk all about labour policy and economic strategy
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  10934.  @dianeirvine7624  the main reason for renewable infrastructure is it's cheaper. Once you build the infrastructure the input energy is free and it doesn't go up with inflation or suddenly treble when a war breaks out
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  10935.  @partlyawesome  I've voted against the Tories since Thatcher there asset stripping vultures
    1
  10936.  @imbonkers3629  Ours was 14 years in the making a combination of Austerity and Cameron getting rid of the green crap as well as the dash for gas Policies that made it worse Onshore wind ban Removal on insulation requirements for landlords planning not changed to allow speedy grid rollout decommissioning backup GAS store watered down new building standards re insulation etc The list is pretty endless
    1
  10937.  @gregjones-x8c  So how much do you know about how the Tories run our finances and what the media doesn't tell you? Taxes will rise because Sunak froze tax thresholds till 2028 which is why he is now panicking about pensions getting taxed Since 2010 they have changed the tax policy numerous times to put in their stupid trickle down ideology into the tax code here's a few that will go Millionaire pensioner tax break 8 billion, additional 6 billion in fossil subsidies, 3 billion in non dom etc. it will take time to unpick all the cr*p Then there is 42 billion in uncollected tax due to a badly resourced HMRC not spending time on chasing up rich people a ban on consulting 2 billion fetching as many NHS staff in house as possible to reduce agency staff 3 billion + We paid 120 billion in interest on borrowing last year and Gilts are indexed linked so if the interest rate falls then debt repayment falls
    1
  10938.  @gregjones-x8c  it doesn't wash the tories have borrowed 1.5 trillion and we have nothing to show for it and PFI was a Major idea and continued till 2018 (fkin stupid one Brown shouldn't have touched with a barge pole, usual Tory outsourcing cr*p)
    1
  10939.  @jasielm5258  this time we have the tech to move away from fossil EV's where coming anyway and renewable is half the cost of fossil per kilowatt hour before the current crisis. Even texas has 20+% renewable energy with another +5% being added this year
    1
  10940. 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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  10941. They want to leave the ECHR which underpins the Good Friday agreement and is the last resort against government overreach just as the Hillsborough families
    1
  10942. That's fine kick them out of the Premiership
    1
  10943. There not the GOP anymore, there MAGA this election becomes the great realignment when staunch Republicans finally give up on the nostalgia that it is the party of Reagan and Bush The people joining the cult aren't Republicans
    1
  10944. How about just process them quickly there where 80,000 applications last year around 80% will be granted asylum All this soapbox chest thumping is costing us 6-7 billion a year and changes nothing
    1
  10945. Its not a critical issue for you loosing the election that's long gone. So your answer to people trafficking is to do illegal people trafficking
    1
  10946. since when is he sensible he's still pedaling supply side reforms which if enacted would remove workers rights enable low quality foreign imports of food and goods cratering home grown business creating high unemployment with reduced labour laws your into a zero hour low wage economy centered round an elite service sector we need industry and farming and outside the City and home counties not more shyte in our rivers and seas with unfit for human consumption meat from tim buck too People seem to have little to no idea how supply side reform will bankrupt most UK SME's and farmers and remove all worker rights
    1
  10947. There the ones that benefit from trickle down
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  10948.  @loopdigga45  O/D ing on right wing media is bad for your mental health, your alternate reality simply doesn't exist
    1
  10949.  @loopdigga45  I do my own digging, if I want medical knowledge I go to medical sources if I want financial information I go to the financial journals. The central issue with GOP information is it has strayed beyond opinion into making things up. Project 2025 will be a financial and personal welfare disaster for the vast majority of Americans. The drug price reductions will be gone, socially security run down and ended, Obamacare gotten rid of. A move to regressive taxation targeting the lower paid and students.
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  10950. He's already up there and will be considered one of the best with an economy and cov recovery unmatched in the world Quote 28 Jan 2024 — Falling inflation, rising growth give U.S. the world's best recovery | Capital Economics
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  10951. not more trickle down please 13 years of this imbecile policy and still people buy the coolaid
    1
  10952. Reform the party of 100 billion plus in unfunded tax cuts fracking and sponsored by a billionaire offshore owned TV channel with connections to Libertarian climate denying think tanks? Pass the lettuce
    1
  10953. why there giving them 100's billions in tax breaks to do it it then it goes on the world commodity markets we get fk all benefit the UK energy sector is fleecing us for 170 billion over the current crisis because where tied to Gas prices for generation If we invest in renewables its cheaper and stays in the UK under the control of the UK
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  10954. @Twilleh  what like? Labour's offer is better public transport Better water quality Better nhs Better housing Cheaper electric And An end to outsourcing which is a huge waste of Taxpayers money
    1
  10955. She could start a fight in an empty room Zero temperament for leadership And Part of the worst government in this country's history So Dream on
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  10956. Renewable energy per unit is the cheapest on the grid Our energy is expensive because of lack of investment we still use standby gas generation at peak and the marginal cost of last mile energy dictates the eventual price
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  10957. Yea just those worth more than 5 million
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  10958.  @davem4131  who has a family farm worth 8 million? You need a crash course on tax law
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  10959. You voted in the Tories which bit about controlling migration don't you get?
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  10960. In what way? Galloway is an opportunist with about as much principle as Farage and round my way the Greens are a bunch of moaning middle class NIMBY's
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  10961. Shore up the blue wall because Cruella was bleeding them poll points
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  10962. Gas was cheaper by more than half till the current crisis
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  10963. A contractor in a GOP controlled district with a state GOP Election Official with a GOP President in charge of the wheels of power and they cant fund and run an election properly and by some magic 9 ballots are now millions and its all the Dems fault there so frikin incompetent. There completely useless, they couldn't get their story straight 6,9,7 how many then the election officials broke the law by declaring who the votes were cast for (Its a serious offence not that Barr will do anything) blabber mouth Barr goes fuels up Agent Orange who spews deranged crap on Fox. He can't even cheat properly without blabbing about it all over the shop the guy is such a whiny bitch looser.
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  10964. Tax cuts don't grow the economy the return is around 0.20p-0.30p in increased GDP growth so for every £ you cut in tax it generates 25p All there has ever been is the wealthy claiming it works we have 50 years of data which spells bullshit
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  10965. Brex1t increases legal and illegal migration you were told and called it project fear
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  10966.  @marumaru6084  we have historical data proving otherwise they were right your wrong. from 2018 Historic examples include Britain’s decision to end the unrestricted entry of Commonwealth subjects in the 1960s, Germany’s experience with admitting temporary “guest workers” from the 1960s, and the US ending its labour program for Mexican workers in 1965. Drawing lessons from those experiences, the SMF predicted that ending EU freedom of movement and restricting EU nationals’ right to enter and stay in Britain for work will have precisely the opposite effect on immigration patterns to the one many Brexit supporters say they want.
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  10967. You being sarcastic? ​@Sandi80-y3f
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  10968. @dm32904  it's politics And What have they been dishonest about?
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  10969.  @dm32904  what's in the manifesto is what he was elected one, no one gives a t0ss about internal Labour politics. Especially when it left us with 2 completely unelectable leaders when we needed to boot the Tories out.
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  10970. Blair / Brown +25% on average wages services that work Cameron /May -3% on average wages Johnson Truss Sunak -?? services that are run down to the bone and are on life support The tax-to-GDP ratio in the United Kingdom has increased from 32.7% in 2000 to 33.5% in 2021 debt to gdp rom 62% to a projected 103% in 2023 (don't blame the pandemic it was 92% in 2019) So debt has gone up with the Tories Tax has gone up with the Tories the only thing that's gone down is real wages
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  10971. Reform aren't Conservative Libertarian economics with National populism. The bulk of the Con base is modetate the bulk only stuck with them because of project dystopia fear on a labour win plus thier over 65 vote will wane
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  10972. Hamas are an Iran backed terrorist organisation bent on the destruction of Israel, this is no NI The answer isn't invasion, carpet bombing or ethnic cleansing either but it's quite clear Hamas actually want to turn Gaza into a bloodbath
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  10973.  @matthewcarder9482  If you don't collect the taxes in income tax you'll have to pay in purchase taxes If you do then the middle and lower income classes pay more the upper and wealthy pay less the tax system is already skewed to the wealthy this would be the same but on steroids
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  10974. Leave it out everyone is tired of Trump's alternate reality and have no interest in furthering his Billionaire and Oil Baron's funders interests.
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  10975. She a qualified economist, exactly what is your solution to Tories spending 14 years never reducing the debt once and adding 1.6 trillion to the debt and shrinking peoples standard of living?
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  10976. In what way our defence capability has been hollowed out by Tory cuts to the point you'd expect the Con's to outsource it to he Wagner group
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  10977. @threedoodles  Pat McFadden was in charge of the campaign and the Arch centrist Blair and Mandelson wouldn't touch Labour Reform, rail nationalisation and GBEnergy with a barge pole
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  10978. Brexit is done well and truly this is its reality its time to stop pretending there's magic unicorns just round the corner
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  10979. The mission statements come from work done by leading economist Mariana Mazzucato who's ideas are of a whole of government approach combined with industry. It would radically alter how Whitehall works. With Green energy the current issue is the Grid and Planning not money. Check out Mission Economy A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
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  10980. It has 2 councillors and is mostly promoted on these wack job channels If it wants to be taken seriously it needs serious policies not fantasy economics and fantasy immigration policy
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  10981.  @Phil-bc2sd  Your tax is going through the roof with fiscal drag the tax basis in 2019 was 32% it will be 38% by 2027 Your also getting screwed with energy the Tories are letting the UK energy sector milk 170 billion in excess profits out of you Budget saw an 8 billion giveaway to bankers and 2 billion to millionaire pensioners as well as a tax cut of 6 billion to fossil fuel companies So bring on the Labour clowns I say we need some professionals on the job
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  10982. The whole of the MSM tries to paint labour as the worst
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  10983. War on science now war on math it's time us geeks rise up and bore these idiots to death with real math real statistics and real probability You could see what was happening from the fivethirtyeight website at three am Trump was starting to hemorrhage suburban county mail in votes he'd juiced out all the rural counties who blindly vote GOP no matter what.
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  10984.  @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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  10985.  @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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  10986.  @anniehovsepian6173  they will do because of public interest but it could take over a decade, the complexity of the shady dealings is pretty breathtaking I've been hoping the tax leaks would be on full display and an open source project could deep dive them
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  10987. And Trump giving out tax cuts to the wealthy will solve that?
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  10988. Yea but that opinion is based on Nige telling the truth something he's very Liberal with I'd certainly check this one from multiple sources
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  10989. Why will not wasting billions on trickle down cr@p be worse?
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  10990. The Tories are riddled with offshore money, they have numerous connections to US right wing think tanks who are funded by the fossil lobby so are Reform
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  10991. 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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  10992.  @briancoogan7732  The economy is booming there's planned investment to turn the US into the Renewable Tech Hub of the World and jobs are being re-shored - basically all the things the MAGA crowd have been holloring for. If you decouple from China and start fetching the supply chain back your going to get a certain amount of inflation and to be fair its pretty low. Biden has done more for Republican States than Democrat especially with infrastructure
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  10993. At last an end to Thatcherism and a centre left government the 1st since Wilson. Zero seats cmon you Lib-Dems
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  10994. If its so useful why are we wasting it by burning it then?
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  10995.  @ddoherty5956  You can make plastics from cellulose and other non oil based products
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  10996.  @Thurgosh_OG  we don't need oil for fuel the cost event horizon was back in 2019 since then the fossil industry have been fighting a rear guard action to slow down electrification and renewable deployment. With each 1/4 we see further developments and cost savings in both battery and renewable energy people seem to be under the illusion that companies like Tesla are new there not they started up 19 years ago the 1st wind farm deployment in the UK was 1991 where well along the S curve
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  10997. its probably from the Cabinet office the Civil servants aren't that leaky its SpAd's going in on Blue on Blue action Braverman is an absolute disgrace dunno why people on here even remotely support her she's not Conservative would be more at home in the BNP or UKIP
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  10998. WRONG So why is it low paid oh I don't know maybe its got something to do with Tory policies shting on workers and unions all the time with such hits as Tupe and Zero hour contracts, lets not forget selling national assets off to our mates. Maybe investing (as has Germany) in a network of locally run truck stops with sanitary facilities and cheap overnight secure parking? oh lets instead just build a car park in kent and let the piss all over it and sht in bags
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  10999.  @joyduncan9434  Azov got integrated into the main Ukrainian Army years ago and stopped being a Militia catch up on your history and Wagner Group are Neo Nazi this from the Spectator The latest unit to hit the news is Rusich, a unit affiliated to the infamous mercenaries of Wagner Group. Its name simply means a member of the old Rus’ people, and speaks to its inchoate ideology, a mix of traditional Slavic (and Viking) paganism, Nazism, and extreme Russian nationalism.
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  11000. The Tories are going crazy look at the Rwanda plan nearly 1/2 a billion on nothing there a complete skip fire
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  11001. I'd agree there trying to drag Labour to the Centre as much as possible or just give the impression that its OK to vote Labour because there the centre party now while the Con's go off on Right wing LaLa land They've committed to GBEnergy which Blair wouldn't have touched with a barge pole and even the IMF have admitted that Thatcherite Neoliberal economic policy just drives the wealth gap and doesn't work. we'll see
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  11002. so they doubled the threshold so if your only employing 4 people your going to be exempt in most cases and upping minimum wage and doing this will push companies to invest to be more efficient our productivity has gone down by 5% since 2010 in the Tory low wage economy
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  11003.  @imbonkers3629  what huge energy price increases? Experts say going renewable will save billions or have we had enough of experts again? It didn't end well last time
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  11004.  @aliskiron4778  The Tories are rotten to the Core funnily enough Sunak is one of the least corrupt he does it through cognitive bias rather than on purpose as far as I can see. Every time he makes a decision based on his ethos of Trickle Down Supply Side Economics he enriches himself and his family by default The last budget was the Trickle down budget from hell tax cuts for millionaire pensioners bankers and Fossil fuel companies handouts for so called retraining and childcare policies that will never happen with £1000 extra put on to average workers and ZERO for public sector workers who have been squeezed for 13 years now.
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  11005. Anyone voting for more right wing economics obviously doesn't understand cause and effect Don't invest in your domestic workforce or infrastructure patch up the economic holes with migrant labour, rinse repeat What was it now 1.25 million immigrants last year rising year on year?
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  11006. You could vote Labour who have said they will train our own Doctors and Nurses instead of importing them?
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  11007. There's only 1 way of paying for such massive tax cuts and that is to cut the big ticket items that is Cutting Social Security Cutting Medicare and MediCaid Cutting for example IRS staff decreases revenue not increases it yet on every budget they try defund it
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  11008. Elect clowns you get a circus The bunch that put CON into Conservative
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  11009. Its the MSM right wing bias they just lie basically If you pump 28 billion into renewable energy it has an economic multiplier of minimum 1.6 which means for every £1 you put in it creates enough GDP to return £1.6 in additional taxation. As a pensioner this will help me enormously because it will lower energy costs and I'm home most of the day far more than any tax cut. Getting energy costs down to 2020 levels would be the equivalent to me of my tax going from 20% to 10% A Labour government will be better tax wise than a Tory one for the majority of people as they focus more on lifting up the lower paid which moves them off income and housing support. 40% of benefit claimants are now in work
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  11010. won't
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  11011.  @Titus9508  In what way? He'll change the planning system Tories won't He's gonna set UP GBEnergy - all we'll get from the cons is more fossil subsidies There's workers legislation etc.
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  11012. No they won't there economic policies are just rebranded Thatcherism the same policies that are driving us over the cliff
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  11013. Yet the GOP standard bearer is a mental patient
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  11014. A crusty old fart that got people to vote for quadrupling migration then claiming it wasn't brexit wot done it?
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  11015. Reform aren't Conservative and the reason you lost so badly was chasing after their voters with mad bad ideas, they believe in crazy stuff You all but junked net zero tying us to fossil fuel for more years gave out a 20 billion unfunded tax cuts as an election bribe Implemented the epic fail that was Rwanda
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  11016. I can't see Boris lasting till Xmas at the rate he's going How are they going to sell hard brexit when it's going to cost me and a load of other people thier jobs, no Deal kills small/medium business manufacturing
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  11017. They will leave it till the last minute Energy prices will have fallen in real terms because of Green investment and they will offer to rejoin the EU single market and win in a landslide
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  11018. Your kidding me aren't you do you have any idea how incompetent populist right wing governments are?
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  11019. @tonyjefferson3502  Dogger bank has a forward contract price of £42 if your looking at the wholesale market the price gets pulled up. Hinkley C if it ever comes online has a forward contract price of around £120 at the moment The Grid battery uses off-peak to charge discharge during peak demand The last round of offshore bids that didn't get taken up had a guaranteed price of £52 You need to look at the forward guaranteed contract price is not the rigged Tory market price to get an idea of costs
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  11020.  @altrusianwolfdog2564  World leading Expert in Financial Regulation and corporate governance living the American dream highly critical of Crypto. Like we need another 2008 crash don't you just sigh with relief we don't have to endure the rantings of the likes of dumb as f*** Larry Kudlow and his ilk. Anyway if she was installed its likely that J Powell would get a second stint
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  11021.  @altrusianwolfdog2564  Throwing party politics aside strong oversight after the debacles we've had in the banking system over the last few decades is a good thing and Yellands plan to introduce a global minimum tax rate can only benefit everyone. We've also had the Pandora papers turn up a treasure trove of haven dirty dealings. Sorry about the Kudlow thing bit of a low blow have a nice day
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  11022.  @altrusianwolfdog2564  I looked it up and did some supplementary reading on it. If it had been a in force it wouldn't have made a difference, the collapse was down to sub prime dodgy property loans high risk and too much of it. When the defaults started to mount boom. Been reading Arguing with zombies byyy Paul Kruger fascinating insight
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  11023. They didn't even understand what they were voting for the 2 child limit is a universal credit not a benefit, anyone on benefits has different rules applied
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  11024. They wouldn't have us We do need frictionless trade though that thing the Brexiteers promised us would never happen that is no screwing over business exports and imports at every level
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  11025. 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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  11026. They lost 2 more points in the polls Labour gained 3 last week its a sign there at least trying to shore up a few blue wall seats before the election wipe out
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  11027. They live in a Fox right wing media bubble, we've seen the clips the junk is what they all believe in.
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  11028. Hey right on lets elect a Fascist what could possibly go wrong
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  11029.  @b1bbscraz3y  I don't really know Stacey Abrahams is well thought of. I don't think bernie would make a good vp. The women to me in this cycle seem really driven
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  11030.  @Lorgar64  Thatcher started the immigration push and spending under Labour is a fraction of what has gone on under the Cons Brown bailed out the banks at 62% gdp by 2019 we were at 92% GDP because Tories
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  11031. What cards what sovereignty if you trade with the EU you follow their rules if you trade with the US you have to abide by theirs. And soon you will be loosing the right to protest
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  11032. we run a mixed economy pure Capitalism doesn't work neither does pure leftism Go too far right and you get monopolies and Oligarchs with low paid workers @u2mister17 
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  11033. There's no such thing Keep deluding yourself though it's entertainment
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  11034.  @ScottishRoss27  what sort of idiot would vote for independence after the car crash that is Brexit?
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  11035.  @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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  11036.  @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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  11037. As political operatives go McCarthy is a complete novice the wish list is pure fantasy
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  11038. Migration is the result of Conservative economic policy If you want lower migration change the economic model
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  11039. ​ @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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  11040.  @korayven9255  you will get large numbers of local activists abandoning them, I live in what was a blue wall seat that went lib dem The Tory ground game has already fallen apart any further erosion will see it become electorally irrelevant and its numbers dip further. Farage isnt Conservative
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  11041. probably outsource the job to Ukraine
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  11042. There not doing anything on the energy bills that makes sense the bulk of the cost should be on taxing Super Profit and why are we giving energy subsidies to companies such as Octopus that are providing 100% renewable energy which is a fraction of the wholesale gas price?
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  11043.  @Alex-cw3rz  It will produce huge productivity gains if done right
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  11044.  @michaelrch  You can get growth through increased productivity we are entering the 4th industrial age automation here we come
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  11045. 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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  11046. The Tory brand is Completely Toxic it's been taken over by UKIP ification. The SNP also have a competency problem People just want things to work
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  11047. Who pays it? The bulk will be 2nd property owners and people like Sunak & Hu nt
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  11048. The government create the money I the 1st place its not yours to start with
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  11049. The last period of labour government saw the largest wage growth the highest sustained gdp growth and the largest gdp growth per capita of any government since its inception in 1900
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  11050. Why does the economy need loads of migrant labour? Economic policy, supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism needs supply side labour, deregulation makes it worse ex- gig economy and low wage zero hour Tice thinks he can work an economic miracle by just shutting down migrant labour without dealing with the policies that create a need for it hes living in lettutce liz lala land Why anyone would vote for right wing economic policy is beyond me after the carnage Thatcher did who in thier right mind thinks asset stripping is a long term solution?
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  11051. Straight from the donkeys bottom you couldnt script it The GOP have been infiltrated by complete morons
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  11052. We know the Trump playbook he's been calling it in rallies to use the courts to win no matter what, the only way round this is to vote in record numbers and leave him no pathway to challenge the election.
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  11053. More like how this k you are Our economy has been stagnant since 2010 and the Osborne Austerity budget. Any growth you've seen is down to migration. Reeve's budgets main items don't come into effect till April 2025. The current situation is a combination of Tory budgets and Brexit
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  11054. He's just going to get ripped to shreds if he's the nomination, performances have been tepid at best he should have ripped into Trump for what he did.
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  11055. You don't save money by scrapping net zero because you have to build the grid infrastructure anyway as ageing coal plant and gas plant gets replaced by renewables because they produce electricity at half the cost. We already have an economy blighted by lack of investment
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  11056. We peddling that Lie not Conservative enough? How much do they have to steal from the working people to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy and how bad do the services have to be to be a true conservative?
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  11057.  @LetsgoChampTV  Nige is keen on full privatisation even the interim model is completely broken and would add thousands in costs to each family
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  11058. the GOP doing God's work in Campaigning for Biden and the Democrats
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  11059. Please be polite I'm sure she has different circumstances to yourself Labour haven't crowned themselves with glory with the false Prophet Jesser who blew a decade going down a dead end Starmer is pragmatic with a big majority he may well surprise you Valerie always keep your mind open the last 14 years have been a disaster @joesoy9185 
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  11060. They shouldn't need housing if you process them This whole shtshw is because the Tories want it this way they've taken resources away from sorting these people out deliberately to create a crisis so fk em go put em up in Tory heartlands it's thier mess
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  11061. 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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  11062. yea right I wouldn't believe anything Hunt says or the Tories By the way if you staffed HMRC properly they could collect an extra 42 billion in uncollected tax that's before shutting down loopholes
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  11063. Biden gave the gop what they wanted in an immigration bill which they then refused to vote for They want the issue to run on there's no real will to deal with it
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  11064. Trump surrounds himself with grifters and yes men, even the non cov years where chaos
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  11065.  @bobsocks7575  Back in 2012 multiple Economists where flagging that the UK Austerity program was strangling the economy. Instead of an Economic Multiplier of 0.5 as originally forecast by the OBR the actual figure was found to be 1.7 and the IMF of all people where telling them. At that point with no plan B Austerity became government policy to shrink the state rather than recover the economy. quote from the IMF in 2012 The damning new report from the International Monetary Fund makes it clear that the UK recovery has stalled and will prove to be a major blow to Chancellor George Osborne, especially following the downgrading of forecasts for growth in the UK economy to just 0.2%. The stark warning from the IMF is Plan A isn’t working and they appear to have given the Government until Christmas to change course. Where still with PLAN A the Tories haven't moved on from Thatcher and the result is a skip fire for an economy. I've read Reeve's speeches the woman knows what she's talking about and its not radical its a take on Keynesian demand side.
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  11066. Why they will invest in services
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  11067. ​@DM-ki1bs net zero means it cost you bugg3r all to heat your home, stations like this campaign against it because there tied to the fossil lobby Or Maybe Ben is just stupid
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  11068.  @christopherckarkson5605  net zero makes energy cheaper, renewable is the cheapest on the grid since 2019 and to run them effectively you need mass storage and smart tech to time shift demand.
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  11069. He was convicted of fraud something he has done all his life including cheating on his taxes and even robbing his own niece
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  11070. They hate everything including themselves Another vote looser, thier family values need burying in a pit with 6 feet of soil on them, the world has moved on
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  11071. The reason Labour had such voter efficiency was down to tactical voting and a relentless ground game, same with the Lib-Dems, thousands of activists treading the miles talking to voters and dispelling MSM hype BS and talking points Until reform does the hard work and has associations across the country with established councillors they will remain at 14 % and 4 seats
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  11072. Yea right he's loosing by 21 points with women, he's trashed Haitians, Puerto Rican's called anyone not supporting him the enemy within threatened concentration camps for migrants and will trash the economy with tariffs
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  11073. ​ @tompearce3610 Corbyn sank Corbyn he was unelectable to large swathes of the population His popularity when he handed an 80 seat majority to the Tories on a plate was at Truss like lows
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  11074. ere doing mostly WTO now and if your part of the English nationalist crowd why do you care about NI? They actually wanted to stay in the customs union you've got your Brexit why make their lives an economic misery as well
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  11075. what's Conservative about lying about a protest and getting a bunch of Yobo's all riled up with 6 policemen injured
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  11076. Or the 2 Billion he spent on a tax cut for the Bankers or the 20 Billion in unrecovered fraudulent loans or the Billions wasted in PPE contracts to Tory Donors or the 37 Billion wasted on test and trace or the billions wasted on Eat Out
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  11077. China won't give Russia weapons it may sell them to them at inflated cost, China doesn't do favours
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  11078. quite a bit of the issue is Brexit and government policy of managed decline in home produced food with the notion that Global Britain will somehow sail into a new age. Enjoy your Turnip Oh I forgot Thérèse Coffey’s ‘eat turnips’ message leaves bitter taste after UK’s biggest grower gives up Coffey said people should “cherish” specialist British produce, she seemed unaware that Britain’s biggest turnip grower was in her constituency – and had stopped growing them months earlier.
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  11079. and how did he do that instead of reducing immigration his policies have tripled it and left the cons in the mess they are in today
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  11080.  @richlc  if you recruit from 2,000 miles away instead of 20 they will fetch more dependants its not rocket science hence net migration has tripled. Neither reform or the cons have any plan to reduce the economic PULL factors that drive it in the 1st place such as training your own doctors and nurses and banning zero hour low wage while Labour have.
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  11081. Truss was but he's fekin useless it has to be said
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  11082. Worse because what? There not spending billions on trickle down cr@p but using it to improve services
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  11083. They lost another couple of points in the polls last week they've given up its to try shore up some blue wall votes
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  11084. There currently in session
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  11085. Trump is a 1 man lying hate machine and what do you call someone that want's to set up concentration camps and round up immigrants? have you not been following his rhetoric
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  11086. It should be the Foreign secretary that's dealing with it mostly but she's as clueless as Doris and Patel is making the visa scheme so hard to get round people are just giving up putting her evil witch interior into sharp focus Going to Ukraine to have a photo op whatever hope he took some NLAW's with him as blood payment for doing fk all about money laundering in London and the myriad of secret shell companies that mask the oligarchs money
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  11087. the guy has willful blindness towards anti semitism same as a lot on the left what do you do?
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  11088. Real world average wages are down -4% this is in stark contrast to European and other developed economies whose figures are worse with the fallout of Covid relief money squirted into the system. To tackle that problem you need more taxes on the rich There is Greedflation brought about by endless corporate consolidation and pandemic + war profiteering In the face of all of that the economy is firing up like never before 400,000 jobs reshored last year and the birth of NEW manufacturing renewable energy and broadband projects new bridges AND inflation is coming down. The GOP answer is savage cuts to spending sending the economy into recession and massive unemployment (Reaganomics with 7/8% unemployment high interest rates crushing working and middle class)
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  11089. There's 70 + billion in the system in fossil subsidies CGT could gain 15 billion Rolling back millionaire pensioners tax break 4 billion Review of banking levy tax cut 8 billion Waste on consulting 1 billion Waste on agency staff 4 billion Windfall tax 100 billion
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  11090. Migration both legal and illegal has skyrocketed because we removed FOM and left the EU you were told by experts this would happen but you labelled it project fear and yet your supporting doubling down on what's causing the rising numbers, Why? 2018 Historic examples include Britain’s decision to end the unrestricted entry of Commonwealth subjects in the 1960s, Germany’s experience with admitting temporary “guest workers” from the 1960s, and the US ending its labour program for Mexican workers in 1965. Drawing lessons from those experiences, the SMF predicted that ending EU freedom of movement and restricting EU nationals’ right to enter and stay in Britain for work will have precisely the opposite effect on immigration patterns to the one many Brexit supporters say they want.
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  11091.  @anthonybartlett6924  the made up criteria by the right wing media? It's not a thing never was there allowed to claim asylum as soon as they enter uk waters its in a treaty we signed after WW2 Tying yourself in knots pretending otherwise is pointless
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  11092.  @davidtikwa423  They've still not cleaned up Londongrad the money laundering capital of the world and the Ukraine visa scheme is designed to deliberately fail if its not then WHY is Patel still in office. As for Brexit no one else in the world deliberately puts trade sanctions on itself declares its going global to make up the trade deficit at the exact time shipping costs go up by 600% and air freight doubles and dumping exporters with a 10 billion bill in additional admin costs and paperwork.
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  11093. The last 46 presidents haven't born kids either
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  11094. He's garbage at lying and the school thing is going to blow up big style And the figures thier officially putting out on deaths are junk they don't tie with mortality rates anywhere else in the world your gonna have to look at excess deaths to get a true picture.
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  11095. If REFORM canvased round here they'd get the door slamed in thier faces fracking and deregulation to put more sewage in rivers is about as popular round here as a dose of the pox
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  11096.  @91Durktheturk  no they didn't loose huge sums and they can offset losses against tax so your arguments Junk, this just taxes super profits
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  11097.  @danielcollinson4456  never a truer word said right on the money
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  11098.  @newman_1  So what philosophy does the Wagner group follow? Putin is a fascist following a fascist philosophy employing fascist mercenaries Go read Putin's essays there ultra nationalist fascist drivel littered with homaphobic xenophobic misogynistic rants The Azov battalion are a minute fraction of Ukrainian forces fighting for the right to be right wing A holes in their own country non of Putin's fkin business and he can take his greater Russia and FSB purges and stick them where the sun don't shine
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  11099.  @janickpauwels3792  I could run 90% of the time off grid if I had a battery How you may ask I added an extension last year and refurbished my house to A+ standard double insulated + underfloor heating on the ground floor which hasn't tripped on since April. My solar far outstrips usage at the moment (I have gas heating but hot water is solar thermal) It's not just about big windmills there's tech around to use EV batteries for grid stabilisation with V2G offering low off peak in exchange
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  11100.  @spotcatsteve3752  indeed apply logic I installed thermal solar last year 75% of hot water is now free. Accounting for capital costs it's paid for itself in 8 years aaaand less if inflation keeps as it is. This is the economics of net zero
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  11101.  @tyromenobber-fb2ls  that whole tirade is completely delusional. Our economy isn't growing. We have a whole service and banking sector disconnected from 90% of the population. Who cares if banking profits are up and let's also be aware that part of that economic growth is the increase from 30 to 170 billion spent on energy costs.
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  11102. It takes years to get stuff through the courts, if the Dems had a majority in the Senate they could pass a bill with an expedited legal process. Did you know that the minimum representation needed in the Senate for a philibuster for the GOP is down to 25% of the population so 40 senators representing a mere quarter of the electorate can grind legislation to a complete halt and 100% of Democrats don't see this as a major issue?
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  11103.  @Scion3Sevens  The bulk of our US trade is in the service sector where nothing will happen Our supply chain for physical goods goes through Europe
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  11104. If you crowd people together and one has an infectious disease they all catch the disease of which a proportion will need hospital treatment or they will die and some will die even with treatment. You slow the spread of the disease by not crowding together so you never exceed your hospital capacity
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  11105. He's going to put JFK in charge of Health and Musk to start the same Austerity that has halved Twitters value in 2 years You must be effin JOKING?
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  11106.  @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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  11107. Why there not in power it will never be enacted if they were in power now they'd have straight off nationalised sectors as they went broke rather than continuing trying to prop up a failing market. The Tories are going to straight up waste 30 billion in tax cuts next year this is a what you could have had for that money
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  11108. Biden does stuff so how is that a comparison
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  11109. I wish Labour were a bit more left sadly they have embraced a lot of centrism to get elected
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  11110. You'll get lower fuel prices with renewable the high cost on electric is down to using gas to generate electric especially the short term demand Offshore wind £40 per kilowatt hour contract price Nuclear £92 OffGem spot price £200+ The fossil industry will pump out all sorts of bollox to keep its cash cow delivering trillions in record profits Quote A multimillionaire Brexit donor funding anti-‘net zero’ campaigns is the director of a company with tens of millions of pounds invested in oil and gas. The revelation comes as chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to bow to pressure from the motor industry and cut fuel duty in his spring Budget statement on Wednesday. Investment manager Jeremy Hosking has given millions to political parties including the Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party/Reform UK, as well as Vote Leave. Recently, he has been bankrolling Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party, which has campaigned against ‘net zero’, and has been linked to a climate denial group.
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  11111. Only the most successful president 9f the modern era 48 bills many bipartisan passed in 2 years Reduced the debt from 132% gdp to 121% after the disastrous Trump term Reshored 400,000 jobs in 2022 with his policies The media have a narrative its generally a Conservative one try looking for a change instead of lapping it up
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  11112. I have lots of sense a degree in IT and a masters in Economics explain to me why a Startmer government would be a disaster I really am interested? Most of this mess isn't down to the current incompetence it's just amplified by it, please stick to one topic preferably in the area of economics
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  11113. So why was +25% average wage growth during the Blair/Brown years a disaster? or well funded services? or The minimum wage? or The expansion of higher education?  @brianthirling9260 
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  11114.  @benachiesween  Long-Bailey got thrown out for anti-semitic posts by association
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  11115. Study after study puts mail in fraud at around 0.0025% there sending out ballot applications The mail in ballots have to be counted manually - Duhhh They are safer than doing it on machines because DRUM ROLL 🍥 there's a paper trail you can audit if you find anomalies you can do a deeper dive as an election commissioner Case closed
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  11116. NI taper went up most small businesses don't now pay employers ni at all
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  11117. Your comment drips with fake Nationlism you dont give a crap about this country or you wouldn't post such rubbish
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  11118. There was no budget for the public sector pay rises and the asylum system was costed to be deporting thousands, the care cap in 2025 didn't have a budget neither did most of the hospitals.
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  11119. @nickbarton3191  if you put a Clown into Government the Clown doesn't become a Leader the Government becomes a Circus Starmer's current aim is to win by as big a margin as possible & his mission based approach is based on a book by world renowned economist Mariana Mazzucato called mission economy A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism My one worry is Reeve will not clear house at the OBR and Treasury and fetch in some modern economists and get sucked into Treasury group think, it appears the Treasury hates infrastructure
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  11120. Steel closures are down to brex1t our decarbonisation of steel was set at 2050
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  11121. Im-POTUS strikes again its not like he doesn't have form for running his mouth like this Just look at the way he treat MCain The Khans Vindman, the way he spoke about the injured with shell shock.
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  11122. Why would Independents vote for removing women's rights and a Christian Theocracy?
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  11123. ​ @fatnurse 3 day week was during Ted Heath's government Unions were too powerful now there not powerful enough in the end destroyed by Thatcher who went on to asset strip the country and sell it off
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  11124. Reform don't give a sh1t about the working class bar conning you to get your vote Same old Trickle down Right wing cr*p different wrapper
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  11125. The dumbest Pres there ever was or will be calling someone stup1d Ahh what an intellect one can wonder Idiocracy was supposed to be a comedy film not a blueprint for the 47 president and his team
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  11126.  @stevec6427  2 billion splashed on millionaire pensioner tax break and 8 billion on banker tax break in this budget alone
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  11127. The Biden infrastructure investment has reshored 2 million jobs the 1st time since the Reagan era a real turnaround and is making the US the Renewable Tech home of the world both things Maga claim they want? How's that destroying things?
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  11128. @alanhat5252  go read the labour motion that was passed, I don't get what you people want?
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  11129.  @alanhat5252  Owen is a champagne socialist London elite he needs to realise that a lot of working class people are socialy quite Conservative especially the older ones and stop trying to ram a paecenik has been in Corbyn down their throats.
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  11130.  @alejandropalazonurtubi3520  The reason for banning older cars is the levels of pollution related illnesses in urban conurbations
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  11131.  @Srb1973  They care about the costs to the health service which gets funded through taxation
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  11132. Free energy What's not to like Oh It breaks the fossil industries profit model so they pump out propaganda at an industrial rate which plebs like you echo like nodding dogs
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  11133. @EnglishTMTB  why are you so anti cheap energy?
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  11134. @EnglishTMTB  it works because of batteries, I'm already getting an overnight rate of 13p instead of 24p It always blows somewhere round the uk due to the temperature missmatch between sea and land Nuclear takes 10 years + to build my solar + batteries took a day It's capital payback is < 6 years for me
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  11135. @ Wind like Nuclear is always on You need to time shift consumption using storage. Your fundamental problem when arguing against renewables is that Capital costs are still falling as it is a new technology and The input energy into them is free Fossil is always subject to (extraction, processing & transportation costs) x Inflation and Nuclear escalating build costs x inflation. Renewables reached price parity in 2020 and the difference is only going 1 way. Did you know the government spent 72 billion on energy support in 2023, reason were tied to GAS.
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  11136.  @wavell14  I saw my gp and my mother saw hers the other week, we have overflowing waiting lists because there isn't enough capacity to cater for the number of covid patients and all the elective surgery. Germany has less people with Covid therfore more capacity to run as normal the NHS has been underfunded and run on a shoestring for the last decade under the Cons who have quite frankly no fkin idea how to run anything. Private healthcare cost a fortune in personal and family premiums the Cons would like nothing more than to sell it off and leave the workers to carry the can for thier persistent failure
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  11137. They couldn't do any of it is usual populist BS ex Everyone knows tax cuts don't grow the economy, last person to try it lasted less time than a decomposing lettuce.
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  11138.  @Helen-nl9lv  He's a multi millionaire serving multi millionaire interests. GBN is their propaganda tool
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  11139. There filthy rich and want thier tax cuts
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  11140. They don't have the money for tax cuts last year they borrowed 130 billion and they spent 20 billion on NI, that really p1ssed off pensioners who are getting creamed by the threshold freeze
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  11141. 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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  11142. Since when he's sticking up for a lying toerag with the vision of Stevie Wonder
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  11143. If the morons rioting had been black they'd have opened fire straight away
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  11144. My provider is offering an Ultra low rate for charging overnight, the more renewables you put on the grid the lower the off peak price will become
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  11145. another deposit he'll loose
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  11146. nother deposit he'll loose
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  11147. In the Boris Johnson levelling up government ooop
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  11148. They've deported 14000 already Amazing what happens when you process people The Tories did nothing and Reform would do the same neither believe oin government or governance
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  11149. I don't think Biden will run again
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  11150. She was on a low salary paying PAYE when she bought the flat becoming an MP in 2010 and still being on PAYE when she sold it Only rich people involve themselves in tax returns and you don't need to live in a house to claim exemption from CGT People will see very rich people getting away with millions while the state hounds working class people for a few pennies as in the latest scandal with carers, this isn't the Gotcha the Cons think it is it just alienates Tories even further from the working class
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  11151. College people pay way more in taxes over their lifetime they more than cover the money spent on them
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  11152.  @MICHAEL-vy3ch  If you were basing your decision on GDP growth and economic benifit to the whole you'd make it free. Middle to high middle income earners power a lot of the economy because they spend most of what they earn this lifts salaries in service sectors and construction. Give a $ to a billionaire and it ends up in an offshore trust fund
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  11153.  user-mz2uk2tj2r  Trump has an even worse circle of weirdo's round him now, he's a 7 times Bankrupt reason inflation got so high was the Trump tax cut flooding +4 trillion into debt with rapid expansion of the money supply. His Tariffs will add 3 trillion to consumer prices over 4 years.
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  11154. He needs a slogan How about Get tanking the Economy done Or Hands face Boris is a waste of space Or just come up out and say F**c business
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  11155.  @fatherjack1148  there will be a world of difference 28 billion on renewables planning reform refugees processed freeing up 6 billion in wasted money reduction in waiting lists for the NHS etc. This story is from a Murdoch paper there will be a never ending stream of them
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  11156. @keithparker1346  improve process flow get nurses and doctors doing their job not chasing their tails dealing with never ending crisis Even the Tories under Johnson identified the removal of social care places by councils had caused bed blocking I presume their plan was to pump money into the private sector to deal with it but its shelved now.
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  11157. @keithparker1346  you can throw that back at me IF Labour get into power Funnily enough the MSM are having a reboot of Sunak is turning this round we know he can't on the economy and energy specifically due to ideology - Brexit Jesus + Thatchers Ghost won't let him. I'd also add that I'm retired but am on a zero hour contract with the local school I do 1-1 invigilating at exam time for special needs pupils if you get the wording wrong on legislation you'll screw up vocational occasional work like this.
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  11158. Tax wise I can't afford another Tory government I've got absolutely hammered this last 5 years and There NI cuts will be paid for by raising Pension age from 66 to 68 costing my household £25,000
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  11159. why would a centre right Tory touch Reform with a barge pole, the biggest grouping of Con voters all in Remain blue wall constituencies
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  11160. Clacton is one of the most deprived in the country, lets hope Kier can turn round places like this that have sunk into the Abyss under the Tories
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  11161. Its cheaper to go Net zero than stay as we are here are some facts 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 (this is why) 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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  11162. What did you vote for? The clueless shambles the Tory party have presented us with? The fictional world described by Nige perhaps? So down to brass since the Referendum in 2016 there is no longer a leave majority in the UK and looking at demographics that happened round about 2018 also Your asking a section of the public as in working people under 60 to implement a fictional pie in the sky policy that working through the demographics is supported by around 30% of them and with a majority thinking your crazy for believing in what they were selling you in the 1st place. Look at what loosing FOM created a quadrupling in migration
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  11163. That's not Tice there economic policies are even worse than the Cons
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  11164. 1st off there's no traps that the Conservatives can set only own goals on Tax If you reduce tax at all who's getting it and who is paying for it? Last budget it was millionaire pensioners with 2 billion paid for with Fiscal Drag so people at the bottom paid for it This budget IHT 8 billion so paid for with part fiscal drag and a squeeze on benefits so people at the bottom will pay for it Then the own goals come - Why aren't you spending it on RAAC, Asbestos removal the NHS increasing the 20% threshold more police to cut crime social housing energy subsidies and why did you waste 100 billion in 4 years
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  11165. They put a 90% windfall tax on the energy companies and redistributed the money to customers lowering core inflation Error No wait that was Labour's plan thy elected Liz Truss instead
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  11166.  @williamalexander9485  its called layered defence the tactic is to exhaust the attacker not keep a solid line here the Russians can hardly crawl forward
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  11167.  @huntergatherer7796  when they counter attack they'll push a spearhead through the lines and cut off supply lines once thr9ugh they'll do another mad max run
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  11168.  @williamalexander9485  your having a laugh aren't you there Mobics no body armour soviet era weapons zip training nothing cautious about them just as likely to die from hypothermia or friendly fire as from Ukrainians
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  11169. The green new Deal would actually help solve Texas's problems Making a house passive uses a fraction of the energy of a standard house Installing solar into as many homes as possible and fitting a small wind turbine to those that are big enough creates a huge distributed system with software control it's far more resilient to total failure. You can install a powerwall for short term grid independence. There are ongoing projects for grid scale storage such as liquid air batteries There are ongoing projects for tidal slow turn generation
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  11170. In soup brain's mind a vote for Biden is now considered cheating how could anyone not adore the wondrous orange Turd and want him to stay forever so he can crash the economy even further turn the national parks into open cast mines strip away healthcare inflict herd mentality on everyone
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  11171. Its central government policy ie Tory policy JRM is a weasly lying AHole
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  11172. ​ @Jetty-hs6kx djt's tariff plan will increase costs trigger a tariff war on 3 trillion of US exports and by the way a large % of labourers involved in post hurricane reconstruction are migrants
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  11173. What lie is that? Trump openly said he was disbanding the depth of education in the Musk interview, he's increasingly unhinged about renewable energy, the Oil Baron's and billionaire class are pumping thier untold wealth into his campaign. A future where educational standards fall further, abolition of pollution controls and rising energy prices as the US ties itself to a failing commodity?
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  11174. you'll get 2.5 Dogger bank wind farms enough to generate 12% of UK demand but that's beside the point it will be in conjunction with private sector money so your talking 50-60 billion total investment total in a whole range of schemes
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  11175. The election will be about the economy the Tories have increased borrowing 13 years straight The issue is current interest rates are climbing and our economy is shrinking we're in a period of stagflation
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  11176. 1st it's not a criminal investigation if it's by HMRC 2nd your talking about investigating someone who was on PAYE not deliberately screwing the system for millions with offshore accounts, this isn't the gotcha the Tories think it is with the Carers scandal just emerging it shows a system that hounds working people for pennies while allowing the elite to stick 2 fingers up at us.
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  11177. Obviously has all the qualities to be the GOP next Presidential candidate
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  11178. I priced Hinkley C up recently with overruns and subsidies over 35 years its up to 70 billion its cheaper to develop Tidal, high up front infrastructure costs but if we modulrise it costs will come down and most Dam systems are good for 100 years
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  11179. Why is the Labour Party the Lib-Dem Party and the Greens unelectable? We've had 12 years of economic stagnation culminating in the current bunch who are even worse than Cameron and May For the record Average wage growth under Blaire / Brown +25% Average wage growth under Cameron / May -3% Under Johnson its projected to be -3/4% with 8% inflation on what planet is the alternative worse?
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  11180. Sadly this won't happen too many people think government money going out is a Sunk Cost The Tories are really happy to pedal the myth of a household budget and stoke fear of government spending while at the same time handing out massive tax breaks to fossil companies
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  11181. Stock market goes up and down its cyclical and doesn't connect to wages, if the tax cuts for corporation hadn't come in it wouldn't have gone up to the extent it has all that has happened is a companies have done share buybacks which has boosted the share price. Money is then given to executives who's incentive packages include shares going up, what's worse is deregulation is going to lead to another crash your already seeing record fines on banks for shady behaviour. Economics wise Trumps trade war is choking off investment, when large scale investment is happening say in companies such as Tesla the factory is built abroad and supplies a non US market instead of importing components and building in the US then exporting, Tesla is planning a gig factory in Europe. By not supporting education and infrastructure or subsidising research the US is also falling behind its previous immigration policy took in some of the brightest minds to fuel the tech boom now they have to be white and well off, in computing India has been a huge source of technology labour. I could go on but the current Republicans strategy isnt just short term in like the next decade it's literally like thier plans don't extend beyond a couple of years, it's destructive and just sheer greed.
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  11182. Renewable energy has an economic multiplier of 1.6 for your 28 billion you get back 44 its not a sunk cost as well as generating income your also getting businesses starting up were the energy is the cheapest for offshore wind that's the landfall point.
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  11183. I store mine in a 500ltr hot water tank (I have thermal solar. The MegaPacks are made by Tesla we have one coming online this quarter in East Yorkshire it 350 million and will save around 1/2 a billion a year.  @marumaru6084 
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  11184. Why do we have such a crass AssClown as our prime minister?
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  11185. Why would Warren want Sanders on the ticket?
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  11186. It's shifting Labour because of high rental and remote working in London pushing out younger voters into the suburbs so it will become a safe Labour seat purely by demographics. This is not like Abbot's seat at all the influx of labour voters is young middle class income people. quote 48 per cent of children in Hackney were living in poverty after housing costs. It is the fourth highest rate in a local authority area in the UK after Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking & Dagenham
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  11187. ​ @EmaryTegan that was years ago we've had a pandemic and a war since then with the Tories printing 700 billion and squirting it into the economy Which is a total fkin shtshw and skip fire And he's going to nationalise energy production its just on a 20 year timescale
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  11188. On the labour website this is just a campaign brief
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  11189. jeez your such a mug the guy is an elite lying toad
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  11190. If you want to avail yourself on what Labour will do in government go read this article in the Guardian Quote A Keir Starmer government might be more radical than you think Michael Jacobs Don’t be fooled by Starmer’s conservative persona – his policies on the economy, devolution, workers’ rights and the environment now pack a punch Michael Jacobs is professor of political economy at the University of Sheffield
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  11191.  @Crouchy232323  The info for that piece is freely available from Labour sources there is no spending commitments but the Green energy thing has to happen for a number of reasons The GBEnergy and Wealth Fund are copied from Norway who did this with their oil and gas and we are sat in one of the best places on the planet for offshore wind and tidal due to topography and competing weather systems. Finance wise its a complete no brainer and would push down the cost of energy in the UK even if you borrowed large amounts of capital to do it as it would pay itself back 10's of times over. Wind energy offshore projects are quick to build compared to stuff like Nuclear
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  11192. The government know about this but prefer to not engage and are trying to remove as many rules and safeguards as possible. Its the ideology of the small state and low regulation you'll get it with all right wing parties and if they have a populist bent you'll get the unworkable shit solutions that cost a fortune like the current Cons are proposing. Don't think UKIP or REFORM would be any better its a mindset that offers populist rhetoric instead of real world solutions.
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  11193. Thatcher the architect of the current energy and water crisis and the person who destroyed whole towns outside of London, I get we needed to move on from heavy industry but to shut whole industries down then abandon the people tat worked in them was beyond Cruel. Under Thatcher wealth inequality became a cottage industry reintroduced by Cameron in 2010 Why did the Turkeys vote for Xmas? Because the Tory Candidates told them Migrant Chickens would steal there jobs.
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  11194. Net zero reduces electricity costs and training additional doctors and nurses reduces net migration it sounds infinitely better than the Tory offering
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  11195. Blanket tax cuts don't create growth the just create more debt
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  11196. Is this clickbait? Harris was calm, competent and had an air of knowing what she was talking about
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  11197.  @HonestBottom  I agree about the illegal part The Cons being in power for 13 years is the core problem they don't believe in government, if you don't value your staff or are always blaming them for your failures + wage suppression then what incentive is there? We're also seeing the fallout from the failures of the Thatcher era, raw sewage in rivers, astronomical price gauging in the energy market and years of pumping billions into right to buy stripping councils of vital housing assets leading to budgets of up to half being spent on housing support.
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  11198. The lot of them are fkin useless there the gang that couldn't shoot straight, we saw how the 1st Trump term collapsed into a farce with hair dye running down Rudi face and a speech outside a funeral parlour. Man this will be worse and they will be more incompetent
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  11199.  @DaleGribble1  Why? the economy crashed like a sack of potatoes falling off a lorry because of the economic policies perused before the pandemic. It also had a bigger impact because of the sheer ineptitude of the administrations response. The Trump economy like his businesses that went bankrupt was built on debt and shiny things to get people to not notice how incompetent his administration was. The US will pay a heavy price whoever is in charge for years to come for the 4 Trillion Trump pissed away
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  11200.  @DaleGribble1  My Father was Polish was deported as a teenager with his family to a Gulag in Siberia by the Russians ended up as a Paratrooper in WW2 before settling in Chicago
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  11201.  @mariobaculli4975  Regan was the Architect of supply side economics and whose polocies out sourced manufacturing to China. If your going to have a rant on a topic at least read up on some economic history. Trump pumped 4 trillion in debt increased the deficit by +40% into the economy now your claiming its all the dems fault gimme a break Republicans are responsible for every reccesoion in my lifetime. Usual boom bust followed by a Democrat to clean up the mess
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  11202.  YouTube WantsToSilenceMe  bad in terms of what? Inflation is high in all Western economies due to winding down because of huge bouts of disease then gearing back up again, long supply chains with consolidated production plus huge rises in shipping costs. We're also on the back of weather events which have affected last year's crop yields, before the pandemic there was very little slack in the on demand supply chain.
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  11203.  @bigverybadtom  stagflation started with Nixon, Carters inflation hit records due to oil with the Iran revolution growth was also slow but nearly all his economic numbers are on par with Regan who had higher unemployment and doubled the deficit. Currently worldwide oil again is spiking inflation but the US has high growth and has increased its efficiency plus low unemployment the economy is far from stagnant
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  11204. Yes it was And Economic experts have been saying that there was a budget shortfall
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  11205. ​@richardgallagher4088 reform are pedaling more extreme nonsense than the Tories You can't pull 50 billion out of taxation with brex1t and not suffer consequences
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  11206. Among a caucus of snivelling weak men he truly lowers the bar to craven levels Even Grima Wormtongue had more spine
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  11207. Investment in social infrastructure which boosts the economy for everyone @andrejensen7837 
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  11208. Brexit was only ever done to unite the Tory Party any lie would do to get it over the line They never had a plan never explored the consequences of any deal or action and there still in reaction mode now Trade Deals TCA = -5.5% gdp and counting JPN NZ AUS CPTPP = +0.0% gdp 1% GDP = 8 Billion in Tax receipts
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  11209.  @joecater894  by 2010 it was turning round Austerity basically gutted any chance of a recovery and at the 1st chance they had Tories lowered corporation tax from 28 to 19% while at the same time seeing debt to gdp rise from 62% in 2010 to 92% in 2019.
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  11210.  @joecater894  2010 debt to GDP was 62% for the bulk of the Blair era it was 40's. Lets be clear the number as in Trillions is irrelevant its what % of your economy you run it at and the rise from 40's to 62 was due to the banking crisis. Various economic papers have put to bed the need for Austerity by 2012 it was harming our economy and it became a political choice. Choosing to lower corporation tax and not tighten up on tax loopholes also became a political choice which resulted in the debt creeping up to 92% in 2019. Economics wise its been calculated that if we had stuck to the same policies as in 2008-2010 for that decade our economy would have been 15% larger and the debt to GDP ratio would have been down to the 50's again
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  11211. What's at stake in Trump second term? The US going into administration and bankrupt
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  11212. There closing early poling stations in metro areas, so much for a free and fair election Let me guess its a coincidence Not
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  11213. Government borrows money for capital projects and said projects return higher GDP which = increased taxes and net zero isn't nonsense it allows you to connect ultra cheap renewable energy in a reliable way onto the grid
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  11214.  @345seadog  they would be far worse Lettuce Liz economics with Fantasy immigration policy The reason immigration is so high is lack of structural investment in the UK population, doubling down on low tax and zero investment + chocking off immigration which is the only thing keeping this right wing Libertarian model afloat would contract the economy that badly we'd be labelled Argentina on the Thames
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  11215. That is one Fox right wing programmed woman, the power of propaganda over facts and science, the raw naked hate and fear over logic and reason
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  11216. So I've actually looked at Starmer's missions, the mission approach appears to taken from this book by Mariana Mazzucato Mission Economy A moonshot guide to changing capitalism A while back I looked into his role with the DPP his spell there appears to have been very successful he appears to have been an excellent man manager for which the Conservative government at the time gave him a knighthood. On a podcast someone that is close to him got a bit bristled when it was claimed Kier was a bit wishy washy his comment was that he is ultra competitive. I think there's a lot more to Mr Starmer than we see but he does come over as a bit of a technocrat anyway Sunak is toast the economy will get worse not better we've not seen the last of the BOE rate rises.
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  11217.  @duality5503  there's no roots to go back too, Thatcher moved the needle so far Right that to gain any success at all the Labour Party needed to be centre left rather than left. She spent over a decade bribing people with windfall money from oil and privatisation now non of that is left My mum is 92 she voted Labour Post war they bought a house had a family and she then slid to voting Tory, a load of post war people became disillusioned with the endless strikes, there never will be a keep the red flag flying government ever again we need to get rid of the Tories and move to a centre left government then move the needle as left as the majority will allow. Reality
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  11218. @Codheadd  Galloway is a populist who's achieved nothing Farage changed the CON party into the unelectable pile of populist garbage it is today
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  11219. How about we process them instead of doing this dance of if we make their lives miserable and spend millions doing it it will deter more boats you really have to be thick if you get conned by this because all the government is doing is wasting GOBS of taxpayer money making the problem worse 2010 people in the Asylum system 20,000, 2023 140,000 claims in 2022 ran at 60,000 peak claims where 2002 at 80,000
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  11220. Wow a woman with a brain who has a career and is a Dr. Surly they could go with the sexist she's not a real Doctor stint again
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  11221. Reform and the Tories run low tax supply side Trickle down economics it needs Feeding supply side Labour to work Aka Thatcherism Reform are fantasy lettuce Liz economics meets fantasy Braverman immigration If you want lower imigration you need higher taxes preferably on wealth and major investment in UK plc
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  11222. Billionaires telling us what we need how does that end?
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  11223. ​ @chrimbus71 Anyone voting Lib-Dem or Labour will vote tactically to get the Tories out
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  11224. ​ @Lorraine-p4r and that's bad why? Its not like reform policies are any more workable than the Cons
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  11225.  @robbiegrant1449  Vance was always going to be VP it was Peter Teals Money that swung it The billionaires want their tax cuts at everyone else's expense
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  11226. It's no where near as bad as the one Jenerick was in if you look at the economic data
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  11227. China plays it's own game Xi will expand China's borders when Russia collapses
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  11228. Statistically Jenerick was part of the worst government in uk history Never before have people been worse off after a 5 year term than at the start so Labour have a way to go yet
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  11229. That's because it was all lies by a section of the political elite who are still pedaling a false narrative that If Only then it will work The actual economic costs are astronomical hope you've got savings you'll need them
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  11230. whats patriotic about turning the UK into the North Korea of Europe I've never heard anything so stupid The Brexiteers promised Singapore on Thames they delivered Argentina on the Channel
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  11231. Your basic rate tax went up by £600 under the Tories. I don't need an allowance I need the freeze on threshold to go. The NI cut screwed nearly everyone over
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  11232. Why is that then? I worked 4 days for 7 years before I retired many older workers will go long into their 60's if given the opportunity to go down to 4 days
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  11233. Your supporting billionaires supported by billionaire money to push a billionaire agenda
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  11234.  @rinaa6865  try reading the FT instead of comics like the Express Bloomberg Reuters FT have all published numerous articles on the UK economic decline because of Brexit How stupid do you have to be to think that destroying the on demand supply chain and erecting huge trade barriers with a market of 430 million 20 miles away wouldn't lead to a severe economic contraction
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  11235.  @rinaa6865  I didn't use the Sun because all it bangs on about is migration same with the Mail If you extrapolate the measures and budget put in by Brown the economy would have been 15% better off by 2019 these are what ifs in the end we ended up with Austerity causing economic stagnation a deliberate lack of regulation on the emerging low wage zero hour gig economy which saw a massive influx of EU labour with little to no macro economic benifit and the rise of UKIP leading to 2016 At that point our currency devalued by 30% and large scale international investment ground to a near halt
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  11236.  @stephenrichards5386  if you look at the overall growth graph its the highest recovery from the biggest post covid fall UK gdp is below 2019 and isn't expected to reach that level till late 2024 every G7 country bar us has already exceeded that Numbers of people in full time employment is 200,000 below 2019's total our tax base has shrunk We have over 1 million vacancies with 130,000 in healthcare alone We're an economic basket case
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  11237.  @davidbond5448  one group voted to kick out Johhny foreigner from stealing thier jobs and women and wanted state aid to level up another group believed in the delusional idea of a deregulated global Britain. Both ideas are at complete odds with each other you can't have both There is no atyipical leave voter it was always a miss mash of contrary wishes and ideas
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  11238.  @stephenrichards5386  When you say EU - UK trade is up take away North Sea oil and gas and exports are down by 14% So if your a North sea oil and gas producer that pays no tax then hey the sun is truly shining
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  11239.  @stephenrichards5386  Every report I've read has shown exports in goods and services have fallen by between 14% - 22% Export of gas has jumped up by a large margin the underlying economy is contracting.
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  11240.  @stephenrichards5386  The Russian economy is screwed exodus of 1.5 million workers Plus conscription plus sanctions You can keep a zombie economy going for a while with currency reserves but Russia is not the USSR by a country mile it can't even service its own oil wells properly it used to import oil engineers. The UK economy is highly service based those services have been bleeding away since 2016 in drip drip fashion. The economy outside of London and the south east has large numbers of SME's with integrated supply chains into the EU and used to export a lot of product. For small traders that business went overnight when we left the imposition of draconian levels of paperwork has reduced exports and also had a big effect on the supply chain which used to operate on-demand throughout Europe with turnaround of 1/2 days that's morphed into weeks if not months in some cases. Large scale investment to replace say car plants will no longer be made in the UK and a large slice of any economic recovery is done by SME's who are handcuffed at every turn. Onto energy Germany has pivoted away from Russian gas which it was a customer to the tune of 40% building a new LNG terminal and making structural changes to its energy policy and the UK government has done sweet FA Onto the US they will invest 1.75 trillion in green energy initiative pivoting their economy away from fossil and also relocating key industries to the US Compared to the UK government which is zero on renewables
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  11241.  @stephenrichards5386  Russia is manipulating thiers and it will stay the way till it doesn't and collapses completely. Russia is an Oil Company running a state and is completely riddled with corruption
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  11242. Oil is in decline for a number of reasons not that you couldn't turn a profit on it though but the price will be volatile
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  11243. 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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  11244. Just move on from the sexism get some self respect instead of debating yourself like this
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  11245. New York have control of the pandemic, it's about mitigation strategies to reduce the death toll till a vaccine arrives. Masks social distancing and an aggressive testing regime. Solve the health crisis and the economy will recover trying to plow through with huge levels of sickness just depresses it further and further, Germany have quarter full sports stadiums it just takes a plan and effort.
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  11246. And what price would the shale gas be sold at? Currently given the cheapness of renewable energy it's not cost effective and the government are already giving around 10 billion this year in fossil subsidies (which Reeve will stop) + the environmental damage is off the scale each well last 3 years and needs over 100 million gallons of water once used becomes a toxic goop just waiting to fracture into the water table
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  11247.  @111111877  so one is spending 1/2 a billion on Rwanda the other will save 3 billion by processing the refugees One has instigated 20 billion in trickle down tax breaks the other proposes debt forgiveness for NHS nurses to cut the churn and cost of agency staff There are hundreds of differences you just don't want to look and sit in your blinkered media narrative bubble
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  11248.  @111111877  there are hundreds of differences if you care to look if your going to walk around with blinkers and spout a media narrative like a nodding dog then that's your problem
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  11249.  @SmartCookie2022  we don't have the skills in the public sector since the Thatcher asset stripping years to manage public projects and we don't have the borrowing capability since 2010 debt to GDP was 62% its now 100% plus Truss killed off the ability for borrowing expansion and Hunt/Sunak borrowed 130 billion last year using part of it on magical tricle down tax cuts that are driving gilt yields South. On PPP it was stupid of Brown to do it because interest rates were low now we have no choice if you want investment
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  11250.  @rfurdaylee  trickle down tax cuts Last year my tax went up by +£400 that was used partly to fund a tax break for millionaire pensioners of £40,000 per annum That money out of my pocket went straight out of the working economy into a rich basts asset pot because I would have spent it and as a pensioner I do not want to subsidie millionaires
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  11251.  @rfurdaylee  they get the door slammed in thier faces round our way no one wants fracking or deregulation with more sewage in our river
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  11252. Why would you vote REFORM their Tory with added be evil to refugees Their economic policy is a cut and Paste from Lettuce Liz You remember her the one that single handily nearly crashed all UK pension market and left a 60 billion hole in UK finances while bumping up interest rates by 1.5 points?
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  11253. So wrong, the NHS is funded with < 8%GDP the lowest in the western world A comparable system in Canada is funded with 10.5% GDP a privatised systems typically consumes 12.5% plus GDP the worst offender is the USA with 17%+ and millions uninsured
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  11254. and what madness is that? Renewable energy is the cheapest on the grid and the more always on such as wind turbines you put on the grid the cheaper overnight tariffs become for off peak charging
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  11255.  @ach3144  incorrect, Fossil is heavily subsidised more so than renewable. Per unit renewable energy became the cheapest on the grid back in 2019. Our issue is grid infrastructure buffering and the lack of mass storage. So basically future investment like everything in this country pot holes anyone?
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  11256.  @ach3144  What's your point? I have thermal solar it's capital cost is payed back in a couple of years due in part to high gas prices but also due to inflation. So 6 years in 75% of my hot water will be FREE for the next 19 years of it's expected life. Current cost of renewable energy per unit to the grid is currently less than gas and has been since 2020. Gas has Extraction, processing and transport costs all of which rise over time and with inflation + it is also has an unstable price due to it being a world traded commodity. In terms of cost per unit every other source (Nuclear, Coal) is at least x 2.5 the cost and again linked to inflation
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  11257. Rising Corporate profits are 50%+ of the inflation total and less than 10% is due to wages The top companies have seen profits rise by 12.5% the rail companies made 500 million in profit last year. The money supply has been expanded, giving people wage rises and not squeezing profits is a deliberate choice and the government narrative about greedy workers will be all over Tory media
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  11258. we've pumped in over 500 billion in oil subsidies over the life of the Brent fields 42 billion over a decade is not a lot and Renewables hit price parity with gas generation back in 2019 so non of it is now subsidised all wind and solar forward contracts are fully subscribed to
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  11259. Net zero conversion will cost 4 trillion over 10 years. Staying as we are so I'll give you the current numbers I have energy spend in 2021 was 30 Billion projected spend in 2023 is 170 billion due to gas price volatility. If you Multiply the Current Excess figure over 10 years that's 14 trillion. The question is do you gamble on not going net zero in the hope that a commodity traded on world markets that you have ZERO price control over will come down enough and remain stable enough in the next 10 years. @andrewcoxhead6451 
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  11260. What else have they to run on if there not careful theyll loose the bigot vote as well
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  11261. What's wrong with a straight talking northern woman? Getting the sexism and snobbery in early aren't we?
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  11262. 8 years on no plan from the Cons and because of demographic there's only 13 million left It's an unmitigated failure
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  11263. There economic policies are identical to Liz Truss's minus the supply side Labour And We know how that ended
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  11264. She asset stripped the country of in today's money around 1.2 trillion to the private sector. If you have an asset such as a house power station, water company, you're expecting a % return on that asset. 5% of 1.2 trillion is a huge amount to pull out of an economy much of it going offshore.
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  11265. @@woof5185 no it won't and if you understood what Neoliberalism is you wouldn't have made the comment Even Blair's centerist way wasn't neoliberal as such he just didn't reverse privatisation and that's all the left seem to care about if your not for instant nationalisation your neoliberal which is completely BS
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  11266.  @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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  11267. It would lower electricity prices because we wouldn't be tied to the world commodity market and reliant on large fossil companies its a win
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  11268.  @Bob-dt7vt  New tech is coming on line all the time one of the things that would really help is to devolve the grid making a substantial portion of it domestic solar and wind tied to storage, basically your middle class buying in to charging their EV and being "green" and fairly energy self sufficient. I've just built an extension and used up to date insulation techniques plus converted to underfloor heating plus use a solar thermal panel for hot water cost me +5% on my build saves 95% on heating and hot water. My payback is still 10 years at current prices though by November that will change to 8 by the look of it. The government should be tax breaking and pushing this stuff it saves huge gobs of energy, reduce demand and the price will fall
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  11269.  @PaulineLittlewood  The form is a generic claim benefit form, you will already have filled it in. You wouldn't qualify based on fuel payment alone
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  11270. Polling just put Labour backup to 48% and Conservatives down to 23% Meanwhile Tories eat thier own
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  11271. I mean why do you parrot this stuff the largest group in the UK is Atheist at 48 % Islam crawls in with 5%
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  11272. 20% of the US workforce are migrants, the country is built on them
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  11273. 31 of Trump's senior staffers from 202 are involved and the there already recruiting for inauguration day
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  11274.  @marksavage1108  58% support centre left 20% support thhe Tories who he is trying to destroy.
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  11275.  @marksavage1108  I checked out his personal ratings in the polls (done prior to the latest racists outburst and pre Ukraine comment) Favourable +30 Negative +60 rest don't know Sunak was +18 but we know why
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  11276. Wouldn't mattered who was in charge because Brexit is an economic train wreck and 50 years of asset stripping Thatcherism has run out of road
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  11277. This is just recycling the dead story about Barisma which was debunked as fake news during Trump's 1st impeachment Biden publicises his tax returns has done for 20 years
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  11278. There are loads of applications for mass storage in the system to replace standby gas generation. One near just got rejected after 6 years in planning because the council said it was non essential infrastructure and on green belt (ish) Just to put this in context a mass storage grid node will repay it's capital cost in under 12 months due to the high cost of peak top up power from standby gas. Don't you just love planning and NIMBY's
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  11279. Trump wasn't going to win anyway his 4 year term was a disaster +8 trillion debt -2 million jobs +40% balance of trade deficit
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  11280. Right wing economics got us here and you want more extreme Right wing economics How does that work exactly? If you don't invest in training up Nurses you need to import them, if your not in the EU they fetch their dependants with them it's not rocket science Tice is selling Right wing fan fiction nothing more it doesn't work we've had a spell of 13 years showing how badly it doesn't work
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  11281. The deal with the EU finishes in 2026 at which point all uk exports to the EU must meet the 60 % threshold of made in the UK The uk doesn't have a battery plant Labour are more pro EU so something maybe worked out but large manufacturing is dead in the UK till we have access to the single market
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  11282. they want to spend the 8 billion wasted on not processing asylum claims and not shipping 40,000 illegals back home on useful stuff like proper concrete for schools
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  11283. Hush the change to renewables will lower bills It's the same old Con invest in nothing blame everyone else Reform are a worse version of the Tories
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  11284. I call him Wishy Washy
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  11285. Why the stats show an increse in productivity from home working You know who's moaning and bitching to get people back its the Papers peolple don't buy them to read if they don't commute, its te big property owners who wil see their precious office space empty Also your able to recruit from a wider pool of people because they no longer have to live near the main centre the old way is dead welome to the Tech revolution
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  11286.  @garagenigel  More like kitchen tables and spare bedrooms On another note I live in a well off area and loads of people have been building extensions and garden rooms, people in well paid jobs that can remote work are embracing it as the new normal.
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  11287. The tax system was exactly progressive when the Cons took over 13 years of regressive trickle down supply side economic policy + 2 explosions in public debt has created the current storm with Sunak doubling down on Trickle down and trying to pound the pennies to pay for it from the lower / middle class. A/ it won't work and B/ It's obscene Sunak paid 20% CGT on his vast income last year a more plain as day example of a broken system with millionaire pensioner tax breaks you'd be hard to find unless you looked at the US
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  11288. 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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  11289. There going to run a legal campaign in Pennsylvania to try and invalidate the vote based on whatever and win through the courts Just to remind everyone that three of the current supreme Court justices worked for the Republican party on Bush v Gore The only real way round it is to rack up the votes by such a margin across the country that it makes court challenges toxic, while Trump may think he can get a decision past a certain point even his enablers will slink away.
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  11290. Dominion is a paper system it prints your ballot WTF you muppets how does a printed ballot get altered with tippex and a sharpie? Idiots complete idiots.
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  11291. Net zero reduces energy bills by disconnecting your economy from fossil commodity shock, fossil is traded on world markets with prices set by cartels
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  11292. They shouldn't keep making stupid dumb as fk ones then Parliment might consider governing for all the people not just the fkwit science denier crowd
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  11293.  @Rossi593  government that doesn't care about the law is the problem
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  11294.  @Rossi593  no they don't if you had Politicians appointing them they would Your just pissed because you've been fed a load of bullshit about leftie lawyers and judges getting in the way. The policies the government are putting forward are designed to fail first so they can blame somone else and if your stupid enough to tag along remove the indipendence of the judiciary so they move to an Authoritarian model.
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  11295. He'll destroy the country if he ever got to enact that pile of Cak
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  11296. Housing is a state issue all the federal government can do is provide the structure and direction
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  11297. @Chitown18  housing needs to be in the right place, a better model is state owned cooperative housing built to the latest eco energy standards Even if there was a federal budget for it do you think that Republican states would buy into either the state run cooperative part or even the eco part?
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  11298. No it isn't the big issue is processing them in a timely manner 80% are given asylum anyway and they just clog up the immigration system for over a year in most cases
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  11299. They wear masks regularly over in Asia cuts down on flu colds and smog in crowded spaces so they ain't going away. You ridden the tube in London?
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  11300.  @anthonydoyle7370  You forget the elite cabal have moved up several notches to the elite hedge fund manager and foreign business billionaire. One look at Rhishi's budget should give you a clue anyone under that can be horse traded
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  11301. The current lot have been over for a course
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  11302. For the capitalist ladder to work it needs a social floor The more comprehensive that floor is the better the ladder works This has been repeatedly proven by economic study after economic study yet here we are again stunting economic growth by p1ssing on people who have very little
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  11303. Corporate profits march on not sure why the markets are running around like headless chickens
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  11304.  @stevecohen11  5 year long term plan don't play the markets short I've a fairly heavy Tech portfolio even with the current dip I've not lost all 2021 gains a lot of the marque tech stocks are swimming in cash the pandemic has been good for them.
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  11305. @amcc5887  the Tories and FPTP They had an 80 seat majority with 42% of the vote Cameron had only 36% twice It needs to be cross party before we even start talking about
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  11306.  @keithparker1346  Johnson was offered a recipricol performing artists agreement within the framework he wanted as hard a Brexit as possible and its still possible within the TCA. The visa system is completly broken if you need fruit pickers your mired in paperwork and the visa length doesn't cover the season. No service sector agreement
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  11307.  @keithparker1346  unless you have a tug to pull us round to pacific then trade gravity will drag us back into some form of single market and 3.5 trillion trade in Euro futures isn't meaningless stuff or the 10 billion lost in performing artists 61% of the working population is employed by SME'S thier only for growth is their nearest market the EU we either move back towards Europe or we don't grow
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  11308. accept what? we will move toward Europe for trade that's the nature of Trade Gravity. It isn't interested in meaningless slogans empty rhetoric all your doing trying to defy it is wasting energy and causing Economic pain. So how much economic pain do you want to inflict before the inevitable turn back to Europe because our Current course is economically unsustainable. The Brexiteers promised Singapore on Thames they Delivered Argentina on the Channel  @keithparker1346 
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  11309. 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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  11310. No ones coming for your car how thick do you have to be to believe something like that?
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  11311. Before the Tories asset stripped councils of housing that Asset would have provided the council with an Income Now housing support is costing around 20 billion Selling off the family silver and using it for tax cuts Here we are Rubber meets Road the collapse of Thatcherism
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  11312. There will be an Autumn statement
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  11313.  @krishtaylor4207  you prepared to give away UK territory if it was invaded by France?
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  11314. One of the small advantages of fptp we don't get this t0sser in parliment
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  11315. Cummings is Part of ultra right wing groups across Europe and the US, he is out but not gone and the push by the likes of Farage, Robinson and across the pond Bannon to push insane hard right undemocratic authoritarian polocies will continue. The current government is completely unsupervised by its mp's
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  11316. 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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  11317. No ones going anywhere till there's a vaccine, even for healthy people death is still a prospect and seniors are going to shelter in place wherever possible
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  11318. This isn't about migration it's far right thuggery and The Cons have been amping up the hostile environment for over a decade and a half plus this tw*t wants to fetch back Rwanda
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  11319. Liz was delusional It's overall Conservative economic policy that's the problem wouldn't matter who they put up bar the crazies like Liz
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  11320. She's just an incompetent ideologue
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  11321.  @brianf3207  In today's money she asset stripped the uk of 1.3 trillion, under taxed north sea oil by 1/2 a trillion and spent the equivalent of 3.5% of gdp in oil receipts on tax cuts. Right to buy has stripped 2 million homes from the public sector with rent and property prices rising by 66% from 2010 to current with zero wage growth Councils are spending 20 billion a year on housing support to the private sector and energy customers spent 170 billion in 2023 up from 30 billion in 2020, oh and our rivers are full of sh1t This is Thatchers legacy
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  11322.  @brianf3207  she bribed a generation with thier own money and asset stripped the country for future generations as well as wasting an oil legacy on unrepeatable tax cuts instead of investment in infrastructure. Lack of housing costs councils 20 billion in support a year and selling off utilities creates a 50 billion black hole in government budgets as well as burdening uk customers with high utility bills. Public transport is a joke this is Thatchers legacy.
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  11323.  @brianf3207  as for smashing the unions the north south divide is now that big economists compare it to the difference between east/west Germany at the start of reunification and since then Germany has spent 2 trillion on leveling up. We've had successive Tory governments pounding the economy into stagnation trying to recreate a low tax model that is un recreatable resulting in the fantasy that is brex1t
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  11324.  @brianf3207  the capitalist ladder only works with a proper social floor, defund the floor and the ladder becomes unobtainable for millions. It's an act of economic self harm in that money spent on that social floor is amplified many times over in increased GDP. That floor includes housing, public transport, investment in education, childcare and infrastructure. People bang on about welfare but 40% of claimants are in work, people out of work can be unemployed for a variety of reasons including mobility inability to relocate because of housing and transport, Ill health needing treatment or disabled needing in work support as well as retraining and skills update. My 1st job was in Doncaster in the early 80's Thatcher just left people to rot, Blair repaired the social floor then Osborne and Cameron cut it to the bone and promoted low wage eu migration into the gig economy. People from the 80's who had picked themselves up gotten by as private hire drivers saw thier jobs gone again breeding the rise of u k I p.
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  11325. The vaccines saved millions of lives including mine You can find no end of epidemiological data over in the states which show excess deaths at far higher rates in Trump/Republican supporting counties the more you believe in vaccine denial the higher the death toll. The cause of excess deaths in the UK is a combination of factors not least an NHS that has been completely hollowed out by Conservative policies trying to run it as a hedge fund manager would increased poverty from a decade of Austerity, cost of living crisis with people reducing their spend on fuel and food. You need to be a wack job to believe its due to vaccine take up.
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  11326. So the age of Darkness begins How did high tariffs lead to the Great Depression? Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act | History, Effects, & Facts | Britannica It raised the price of imports to the point that they became unaffordable for all but the wealthy, and it dramatically decreased the amount of exported goods, thus contributing to bank failures, particularly in agricultural regions.
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  11327. 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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  11328. 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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  11329.  @paulchambers6537  most of it in services which won't change our trade in goods is better served 20 miles away leaving the single market broke the on-demand supply chain
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  11330. The reason they got worse is the rise of Populism on the back of Cameron/ Osborne and thier economic agenda Austerity + Thatcherite trickle down economics + Unfettered foreign recruitment into a completely unregulated zero hour gig economy who's owners offshored profits undermining established UK businesses and providing no real benefits to UK gdp
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  11331. ​@rajarshisarkar999 if you can't get by on a 5 million tax exemption then tuff
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  11332. A Turnip tax which will fund the Unicorn industry as the poo has magical qualities and makes economies grow as if by magic Really what I know already A reduction in the banking levy giving the banking sector an 8 billion tax cut Prioritisation of tax cuts in a future budget over working and fully staffed public services Loopholes all over the windfall tax so the Fossil companies don't pay them
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  11333. He kept records and mailed internal personal of communications Why would you believe anything the woman says she does the news rounds and claims a zero % increase in gdp trade deal while lowering import standards is good for the country
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  11334. renewable energy is cheaper we have a load of spare capacity of always on energy as well because the system is designed for peak load at between 4-7pm If you have domestic batteries you can import at near half the price and use it during the day because it will open special tariffs with your supplier
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  11335.  @ab-ym3bf  I used physical infrastructure as an example rather than social infrastructure If you want an example of social infrastructure then just fix the apprenticeship scheme and make it function like its supposed not the convoluted pile of cak it is now.
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  11336.  @BobSmith-fx9sz  Just bought a book by Mariana Mazzucato called The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies She's a well known economist Been made redundant twice on the back of consultancy and outsourcing firms didn't end well for the companies I used to work for either them
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  11337. ​ @Arsenalista101 my hospital getting money to remove RAAC
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  11338. My tax has gone up by £550 because of fiscal drag, I have a small works pension, my new take home with both added is still low income level my real pension increase is £450 not £900 food inflation is running at 7% and has been over 25% over the last few years, your also +5% council & water so a real term cut in living standards again.
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  11339. ​ @James_36 it won't because the economic model that's shrinking the economy and driving up legal migration will change from Tricle down Thatcherism to a Keynsian demand side. Slowly at 1st and all reform offer is turbo charged Thatcherism the model that's killing the economy at the momment
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  11340. spaffing millions on an illegal show pony The tories are an utter disgrace the economy is going down the toilet and there wasting time on trying to get people deported to a concentration camp in east Africa
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  11341.  @heathercooper6043  A problem shared is a problem halved. Working with your fellow Europeans to tackle common goals who would have thought that not doing so would double the boat problem. You were told and laughed it off as project fear You were told loosing FOM would increase migration again it was labelled project fear. My brother lives in Norway their Labour market is tightly regulated and they have minimal net migration even though they have FOM and are in Shengen. The we have to leave to take back control is seen as the MYTH it always was. You voted for this sh1tsh0w own it
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  11342.  @heathercooper6043  from 2018 Historic examples include Britain’s decision to end the unrestricted entry of Commonwealth subjects in the 1960s, Germany’s experience with admitting temporary “guest workers” from the 1960s, and the US ending its labour program for Mexican workers in 1965. Drawing lessons from those experiences, the SMF predicted that ending EU freedom of movement and restricting EU nationals’ right to enter and stay in Britain for work will have precisely the opposite effect on immigration patterns to the one many Brexit supporters say they want.
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  11343. Historians think Donald was the worst President ever Economists think he had the worst economy since the depression & Hoover
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  11344.  @mikegolfwhiskey71  we starting on the sexism are we? That didn't take long
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  11345.  @thomas6069  an Oxymoron those big words again or we could go with just plain moron
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  11346. @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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  11347. @angelafirst38  tax base rose from 33% in 2019 to 37% this summer. The OBR prediction is it will rise to 38% by 2030. Personally my pension will go up with inflation, my wife's tax hasn't changed and my son got a bump from the minimum wage going up. My local hospital got 22 million to remove RAAC. The people making all the noise about tax appear to be rich with loud voices on the media. So why do you echo thier voices?
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  11348. You've gotta laugh at the faux outrage
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  11349. 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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  11350.  @massivehero4871  I've lost £560 because of Sunak's fiscal drag We've applied for various benefits for my Mother in law who has dementia you just need to fill in the forms
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  11351. It will mean a lot of resource connected to the grid through smart meters to manage peak demand and grid stability there's about enough electric to run your house for 2 days in your average car.
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  11352. 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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  11353. DJT has always benn a wannabe dictator, if he wasn't so effing dumb he would still be President today his stop the steal was manned by complete morons like Powell & Julianni
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  11354. Drive less use one car, I live in a middle class area 2/3 cars per family really large gas guzzlers so that mommy takes kids to school instead of walking or catching the bus This isn't new we've been here before and didn't address the problem last time the reason we're in this hole is because we waste tons of energy because it's cheaper than building fuel efficient homes and cars well not anymore
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  11355.  @pinkcrayon1382  the car industry has deliberately lobbied against susidised urban public transport infrastructure projects that would save a phenomenal amount of money at a stroke reducing fuel usage and congestion. I utterly dispair at the lack of critical thinking the recoup with lost costs from road maintenance lost work hours due to delays etc. Anyway I bought an ebike conversion kit last year it been a revaluation even have a trailer now to do the weekly shop I'm over 60 if I can do it then so can a lot of people.
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  11356. Dream on the Tories are out in ukip range
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  11357. Yea FU to Boris how many dead is that now Boris oh only 136k and us being an island an all and how many billions have you siphoned off top your mates in uncontested contracts? You should have agreed to pay them in fish now we can't export any
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  11358. I'd get some therapy for the conspiracy nut stuff your not well
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  11359.  @Mark_Dyer  there is no argument you've presented a word salad of gibberish for example 49% of the uk define themselves as Athiest 5% only as Muslim If you want to know what others think of your cookbat rantings try a podcast by Origin Story Conspiracy Theory : What There Not Telling You
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  11360.  @Mark_Dyer  if you pick the episode up there's a further reading list on the topic and why people fall for this stuff
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  11361. Loomer 1st Lady Concubine GOP and morals how will the Christian Right blow this one aside?
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  11362. You can get 2 part authentication with your smart phone, pay then the banking app will ask for verification through your phone. Mine has fingerprint authentication and my bank does facial for foreign transfers through IBAN
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  11363. She needs to grow up, why are Trumpists so infantile
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  11364.  @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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  11365. She's an out and out disaster capitalist, her economic viewpoints are completely toxic to 90+% of the workforce
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  11366. 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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  11367. 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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  11368. 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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  11369. ​@Theforestbandit why would anyone vote for the bandits that were ukip? Bunch of elite populists
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  11370. Boris the plank Johnson and his mindless drivel at conference and yet talkRADIO is giving the Cons a free Pass HGV shortages Petrol Shortages Supply chain crumbling Food left to rot in fields Pigs being destroyed and burned Fishing fleets in port because they've lost rights to Norwegian waters (Cod) Taxes up (NI)
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  11371. There are no positives except getting rid of the worst government that's ever been in power in this country for lets hope a couple of decades The CONservatives haven't got a fkin clue
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  11372. Spoken like a true UK Billionaire Media owner @jamesgriffithsmusic 
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  11373.  @katmayful  The standing charge pays for bailing out companies that go bankrupt in the Tories quasi artificial market in a public monopoly.
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  11374.  @aclark903  he has repeated the legal definition multiple times being a Lawyer and all Female human being; a person assigned a female sex at birth, or a person who defines herself as a woman.
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  11375.  @aclark903  Urghhhh don't be ignorant please Sex does not = Man/Woman Sex is the trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes
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  11376. a green grid is cheaper than a fossil one by a long way and our current grid isn't fit for purpose anyway
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  11377. The market was hot to start with and may well have had a major correction without this, the real problem is he spent his contingency money on a tax cut for the rich, when this wanes you'd need a stimulus package like I know major infrastructure bet you he asks for bailouts for his buddies instead. Maybe he's that hocked in debt this will bankrupt the Trump organisation, you can but hope? Then hit with a mega tax bill after the March hearings.
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  11378. you can't do anything with them if you don't process them Starmer is targeting the smugglers not the smuggled cooperating with the people who run the border on the other side reclassifying people smugglers in the same light as organised crime and seizing their assets plus getting rid of the backlog that's costing us 8 billion The Tories offer is to shout a lot about the smuggled as if that will brig down the numbers hint it won't
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  11379. The guys a sycophantic Johnson apologist, His job as a turd and polisher isn't going well
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  11380. ​ @parallaxview2143 Greens are just NIMBY s total A holes in my area completely fkin useless the local Lib-Dem candidate has my vote As for labour I'd take them any day over the Tories
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  11381. cancelled HS2/3 abandoned the green agenda Put in no end of trickle down tax breakes Hiked taxes up to post war levels What could he have done? Removed block on onshore wind, changed planning to allow rapid deployment of the renewable grid, increased insulation requirements on new builds and extensions, turb9 charging our push to renewables which would have reduced the 72 billion spent on energy support
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  11382. We have supply side inflation corperate on inelastic commodities, rate rises combat demand side, government policy isn't tackling it either side side this is nothing to do with BOE policy they only have interest rates
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  11383. @Finderskeepers.  how can trying to stop people buying cars reduce supply side inflation on inelastic commodities such as food and energy? We have SUPPLY SIDE INFLATION NOT DEMAND SIDE INFLATION Our economy is a complete wreck to tackle supply side inflation on inelastic goods in energy food housing and labour you INCREASE SUPPLY people are already on the edge with food and fuel renters are on the verge of homelessness and businesses are forced to downsize or leave crops rotting in fields due to labour shortages.
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  11384. @BUZZ-LIGHT-YEAR  when is the last time you opened an economics book? Here are the 5 main causes of inflation? Demand-pull. The most common cause for a rise in prices is when more buyers want a product or service than the seller has available. ... Cost-push. Sometimes prices rise because costs go up on the supply side of the equation. ... Increased money supply. ... Devaluation. ... Rising wages. ... Monetary and fiscal policies If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail
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  11385.  @Derek-Trotter  We have an energy shortage you can increase the amount generated from NON fossil sources within 1-2 years by a percentage big enough to reduce demand for gas that will see the wholesale prices fall quite markedly, this should have started in 2021 2 years on Crickets. I agree QE has seen over Covid 700 billion the Truss 130 billion printed all of which has trickled up and should be taxed out of the economy with wealth taxes and windfall taxes instead in the budget was 2 billion to millionaire pensioners 6 billion to fossil companies and 8 Billion to bankers MAKING IT WORSE. Non of the above involves the BOE or interest rates all the BOE will succeed in doing is shrinking the economy and sending it into a spiral which won't be broken till the government addresses the fundamental causes. Every developed economy on the planet undertook QE and NON of the ELITES wan't to pay a scrap in extra tax to sort it out
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  11386. He's just a cr@p Tory same as the rest Do you fix RAAC in hospitals and schools with a tax cut for the upper middle class?
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  11387. When the Times calls you out your really are hitting rock bottom He's prepared to deliberately lie for political gain then when called out about it double down and call black the new white rather than say sorry
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  11388. Shutting and defunding youth services, reducing school budgets, defunding the Police and justice system. 13 years of constant cuts to public services a tanking economy where the low paid are getting poorer with rising poverty levels what do you expect?
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  11389. ​@ridleyclayburn4599 business is better if you have a fit healthy well trained workforce with good transport links and are able to trade freely with your neighbours
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  11390. 5/6% inflation is chicken feed to what it has been and 2% of that is fossil AND Food is up because climate change we've had polar vortex events and flooding iin EU and and US plus droughts iin central band countries
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  11391. At least he's intelligent at 100% debt to gdp anyone proposing tax cuts is piling on debt
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  11392. 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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  11393. Our economy is tied at the hip to fossil commodity prices how about we have a concerted effort to disconnect that link
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  11394. It's worse than that, one of the reasons councils are going bankrupt is they still have a statutory duty to house people so last year spent a combined 20 billion on housing support going to the private sector also when they owned the council stock they got a rent which went into reducing council tax required
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  11395. Its being under reported you'll only know when the data falls out the can and compare actual death toll for the months versus projected, there's a load of at home deaths which aren't being recorded as covid. The sickening "they would have died anyway" I don't know how they can do it, you've got to be completely heartless and devoid of a soul to take that view. Murdoc truly is Satan's agent on earth, its not just on Fox his outlets are pedalling crap thats going to get people killed across the globe.
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  11396. Its Jonson's cakeism on roids @gio-oz8gf 
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  11397. If you increase public sector pay you reduce the economic pull factor for migration, the Tories have put most NHS jobs on the visa exception list because it is increasingly difficult to recruit UK workers
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  11398. You know Foot and militant tendancy taught you people nothing, older voters aren't interested in a keep the red flag flying intellectual peacenik Starmer is the result of electing a completely unelectable washout leader, and then who was the lefts hope long Bailey get real
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  11399. there wanting to strip us of our rights under the ECHR most of the policing bill which bans all sorts is probably illegal under it. Raab Johnson and Co want to subvert the courts and strip away any separation of power basic playbook on how to create legally a fascist one party state. Other moves they've made was to strip out transferable voting where it existed and there will be a rejigging of the constituencies and they've pulled independent power from the independent electoral commission it now resides with a minister. Adopt ID checks for voting etc..
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  11400. 1st off if you don't own the Utilities the only method of getting policy through is with grants and taxation Gas is cheap up front costly long term Wind is expensive in infrastructure up front costs cheaper long term So called Green taxes penalise fossil generation to promote cleaner alternatives the money raised is less than 2 billion which is the same as Sunak's budget tax cut for bankers. There is currently plenty of capacity on the grid the issue with EV'S and structural changes to energy is load balancing this year alone Hinkley C will come on stream with capacity to supply 7% of the UK domestic electricity and Dogger Bank wind 5%. You can save vast amounts of energy using the EV'S themselves to do localised load balancing using smart meters and vehicle to grid technology. Heat pump technology is not here yet and is also unsuitable for 99% of uk homes Vacuums are all going cordless with inivotive designs to make them highly efficient and using a fraction of the power needed for a corded version As an aside Dogger bank forward contract price is £40 per kilowatt hour Hinkley C £92 and current OffGem price is 200+ with fossil in the mix if you want to fetch the price down quickly insulate the 19 million sub par homes which will instantly reduce the demand causing the market price to fall
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  11401. Great clip of KH the next Pres of the USA She gets more Presidential as the Campaign unfolds
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  11402. Just a point on green energy. I have a solar home battery system and diverter but I just want to focus on the batteries. 1st having batteries opens up cheap off peak tariffs If I just used my batteries to import at off peak and use them during the rest of the day I would pay 13p per kwh unlike the 24p I was paying prior to the install, based on capital cost the batteries would pay for themselves in 5 1/2 years. If I had an EV I can get an 8p overnight tariff. This would apply equally to our National GRID we have a lot of cheap always on capacity as the whole system is sized for usage from 4-7pm putting on a load of mass storage at grid level would pay back in a couple of years and vastly reduce bills.
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  11403. Trump's done sod all on the economy aside from starting a trade war with China and racked up a ton of debt with a tax giveaway to the wealthy. His administration is a mess Just look at Kudlow the guy hasn't a clue he was on Fox the other day spouting utter tripe.
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  11404. Have you looked at Labour economic policy? It's lightyears different to the Cons
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  11405. Reform policies are worse versions of the Cons. How does that work?
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  11406.  @digitd4663  If you remove the immigrants from your economy it will collapse They account for 18% of the workforce and huge % in meat packing / construction / hospitality / farm hands etc. Be grateful for the lifestyle they enable you instead of being ignorant and xenophobic.
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  11407. no we don't we want the refugees processing so where not wasting 6 billion a year on housing them and harbouring 36,000 who should have already been deported. All your doing is supporting Incompetence
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  11408. According to polls done before the Racist incident and the Ukraine stuff only 3 in 10 people had a favourable view of Nige 6 in 10 actively disliked him so why would you fill the audience with sycophants?
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  11409. the problem with the conservative party is Thatcherism aka Trickle down low tax supply side economics It feeds on migrant labour or does she not support low tax (for the wealthy) low investment economy?
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  11410. And the Tories are tainted with Thatcherism the worst economic policies to ever hit this country now fueled with Austerity while praying to Brexit Jesus. Labour have lurched towards the centre there is no money to do Corbnyesque rewiring the economy or apatite among the bulk of the party All the new MP'S will be Starmer picks so corbyn has gone and good riddance
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  11411. Cleared by hmrc and a senior tax expert and its from 2008 when she wasn't an mp but hey nothing like trying to avoid the topic
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  11412.  @HallowedMiscreant  but why? If your registered at an address with HMRC as your main residence it doesn't matter if you spend 99% of the time at your boyfriends. And what you post on social media is completely irrelevant its a complete non story.
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  11413.  @peterg791  I've looked at Dan Neidle's thread on it as long as her residence was nominated as the main residence even if she wasn't living there there is zero tax to pay.
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  11414.  @MrThewillows  there are a myriad of tax breaks in the code for the wealthy which need removing which is why the tax base has shot up in the last 5 years from basically being stable for 2 decades. The Conservatives are not the party of low tax they are the party of low and no tax for the wealthy
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  11415. ​@steveb951 we need mass storage to smooth demand so we're not using standby gas peak plant
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  11416. Headline figure on debt iss meaningless. Debt is relative to the size of your economy. Debt to gdp ratio 2020 132% Debt to gdp ratio 2023 121% Debt in real terms is coming down
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  11417. It's centre left the main demographic is suburban younger The uneducated older male voters believe in the bulsh1t pedalled by UKIP there a lost cause
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  11418. It's a distraction while the right push thier feed the rich more money agenda Gives the plebs something to blame for the misery they heap on them then like nodding dogs they pull the blue lever again
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  11419. This is a centre right station what do you expect there trying to drag Labour further to the Centre Labour aren't going to pursue Blair's soft centerism because it won't work this time that's why the renewable and house building agenda is so important
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  11420. Sunak may have edged it last night slightly but clips going viral on social media are Sunak getting laughed at about the NHS and tory MP's getting roasted in the after debate spin by the likes of Derbyshire for lying about the 2k being independent After the budget when they claimed taxes were going down then they went up Sunak claiming he supported net zero while gutting commitments An last year claimong a meat tax and 7 bins It just reinf9rces why No One Belives You Anymore
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  11421. Net zero prioritises the British people @jaybee4288 
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  11422. because its funny, he is not only a small man but small minded and politically weak  @jamesbyrne9312 
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  11423.  @rexxx777  He installed 3 judges who overturned decades of precedent in Roe v Wade and seem keen on removing other hard won rights as well. He was also rather keen on installing himself for a 2nd term even though he lost the election
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  11424. God clapping seals behind him
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  11425. A chancellor that wants to balance the books for a change?
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  11426.  @El.Cid17  we've been in recession for 2 years you get one quarter of growth of 0.6 and all of a sudden were world beating and this quarter it's back down to zero as for exports you really need to get your facts sorted quote UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times 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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  11427. 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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  11428. The tax base was the same for 2 decades, Osborne just shifted it round to indirect taxes which hurt the low and middle class more while lowering the tax burden on the wealthy and corporations. Sunak has had a field day putting them up and spending it on trickle down cr@p that's done nothing for the economy
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  11429. ​ @DRSHANKER I'm not against spending on defense my point is that due to Tory incompetence were now paying 15% of our GDP in debt repayment, a consequence of 14 years of failed economic policy + Liz Truss. 2010 borrowing was 800 billion its now 2.6 trillion, we need an election ASAP before the Tories do any more damage
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  11430. 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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  11431. There paying near zero now that's 55 years ago
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  11432. Public sector pay has an economic multiplier of at least 0.8 any pay award costs the treasury 20p in the pound if not less
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  11433. We have a labour shortage so how does that work?
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  11434. 2 days later and Ukraine have retaken most of the captured ground their On another note saw a video of some captured Russians they seem to be all conscripts no body armour no helmets no tactical webbing odd boots the Ukrainians guarding them were in full tactical gear.
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  11435. The Orange turd has a ceiling of 42% the rest of the US hates his guts Priming for minority rule will cause complete and utter chaos
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  11436. He lost Labour 2 winnable elections and allowed the Cons the mother of all car crash Brexit But hey blame everything on everyone else
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  11437. Trump is a dribbling wreck you seen his hate fuelled speeches lately, from dead birds under windmills to Hannibal Lechter then electrocuting yourself if you own an EV boat and fall in the water. Not playing with a full deck by a long way
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  11438. You have to behave in a professional manner as a manager your responsible for every staff member under your control Stop getting sucked into a media narrative that it's everyone else's fault
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  11439.  @AwkwardTruths  An old man in his 80's starting to have a few bad days. The Biden that gave the address at the state of the union wasn't the Biden at the debate or the Biden that was on the picket line.
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  11440. So one lying right wing arsehole gives his opinion on another right wing lying arsehole Yea right
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  11441.  @HenryHobson-uc2bk  working class patriots? Is that code for Brexit cultists who've single handedly managed to triple legal migration?
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  11442. Most cost effective thing anyone can do is insulation and yet the government are so lax on it. We where 5% russian gas what if the government had put thier back into reducing energy consumption by driving up insulation standards and retro fitting public buildings to A+ standards as they dealt with RAAC InActionMan does it again so policy hollow he could double as a balloon
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  11443. What if as part of the RAAC refurb the government spent +10% and fitted A+ insulation + solar panels on the roof how much would that save a school in heating and electricity costs? The payback on capital expenditure V running costs is what 2 years MAX Just a thought @rebeccarussell9618 
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  11444. Tesla stopped using cobalt in batteries last year, Cobalt is used in refining petrol which is non recyclable. Battery tech is on a rollercoaster and will double capacity and halve costs within 5 years. Perovskite solar is due to hit the shelves next year bringing printable solar to the market. Energy charging can be done off peak go look at the consumption curve in fact EV's will save the energy companies billions due to V2G technology go look it up. et etc your kind of 5 years out of date @steve10 
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  11445. ​ @stevioc3592 cure the problems of Thatcherism with more extreme Thatcherism no thanks
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  11446. There's a labour shortage in sectors of the economy. Take the Springfield example they had at one point a population of 175k over the years its declined to 113k, how are you supposed to run a factory with no workers? On average families have 1.6 kids in developed countries you need 2.1
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  11447. I want net zero and lower energy bills @sebastionlucas7477 
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  11448. Obama had huge inner strength who's actions strode the world stage like a colossus, Trump runs around the world stage like a demented clown and is treat accordingly. Obama was respected Trump is sneered at the SNL sketch where they stuck impeach me to his back sums up his standing in the world. GOP Alpha-ness has piss poor standards
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  11449. If you defund the Police Justice System Prisons and Councils you'll get more crime which in turn blights the economy to the tune of billions. What is it with you small state people that empties your brains out on cause & effect?
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  11450.  @rogerwoodhouse7945  You don't get it the Cons are just the arms of the Millionaire/Billionaire class The think tanks spouting low tax connected to the government are Lobby groups including the Fossil industry. Back in 2019 Renewables became the cheapest energy source on the grid but we have the Fossil lobby to thank for slowing to a crawl adoption and got a 6 billion tax break in the last budget. Debt to GDP in 2010 was 62% it was 92% in 2019 and just under 100% now the Tories are an economic disaster for the Low and middle class
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  11451. ​ @cassandrade-wolfe6926 I don't need it as do 80% of us
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  11452. She's more an adult than you sat back and doing nothing about global warming bar bad mouthing someone with real conviction
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  11453.  @geoffreymollart7311  she's Autistic her world view is different why people slag off what they clearly don't understand beats me the lemmings on this channel that swallow the guff the Fossil companies pedal and spoon up drivel from idiots like this who clearly hasn't a frikin clue what he's talking about Quote Switching from fossil fuel energy to renewable energy sources could save trillions, a recent report involving the University of Oxford has found. Furthermore, the faster we make the switch, the more money we will save.
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  11454. Cruella has dragged them down to 23% in the polls there going to loose the Blue wall at this rate and be left with under 100 mp's This is to shore up the moderates
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  11455. @voice.of.reason  give it a rest Thatcher threw millions on the dole in the pursuit of Globalisation and tax cuts for the wealthy The 1980s saw the biggest transfer of wealth from the public to corporations leading to sh1t in the rivers and astronomical energy bills, the entire North Sea legacy was blown on tax cuts nothing for the future.
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  11456. @voice.of.reason  Thatcher asset stripped the country turned whole towns in the North towasteland and used the money + oil money for a one off tax giveaways and is one of the main reasons things are so sh1te today
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  11457. There are no benefits of Brexit never was never will be it was and always will be a complete economic car crash currently costing our economy over 100 billion a year which is a loss to the treasury of over 35 billion in tax and that's just the ongoing damage. Car production has halved in the last few years long term investment halved after 2016 People telling you there was a pot of gold at the end where lying or stupid or both
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  11458.  @DisaffectedLiberal  Texas has a serious brain drain. In terms of taxes for ordinary workers they are higher in Texas than CA which also has worse conditions. Tax compared = ALL state taxes
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  11459. the immigration bill will stop nothing if you think so your delusional
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  11460. If you pull the tax breaks and subsidies from them 90+% won't happen the marginal costs are slim. 99% of this by Sunak is posturing people shouldn't be angry about the licences but about the 10s of billions of tax subsidies
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  11461. It's hundreds of years of overgrazing the surrounding land is rock hard the water doesn't sink in then runs off and floods
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  11462. Given DJT's tariffs will cause a trade war and a recession your stuck with voting for her
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  11463.  @salkoharper2908  build some more. We have an economic problem in that we need around 5 million homes many need to be council accommodation. Hastings council for example use 1/2 thier budget on housing support
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  11464. People voted to leave the EU not the Shengan Area or the single Market We have next to no trade deal on goods and zero trade deal on Services Norway is not in the EU neither is Switzerland both have access to the market
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  11465. He has over 25 other accusers who have put on record his sexual predatory behaviour including 3 accusations of rape Hed screw his own daughter given 1/2 a chance ​@Mizzkan
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  11466. He didn't have a plot to loose, he's been propped up by the right wing media, the billionaire class that want their tax cuts and the Oil Barons that want netzero ditched
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  11467. Working class voting for Toffs peomisinng magicc unicorns again. Gullible or what 😂
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  11468. If people don't know Trump is mentally incontenant and lives in an alternate reality by now then give up
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  11469. why don't you want cheaper energy?
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  11470. ​ @ledzep3692 you can't address the wealth gap without Democratic solid majorities in both houses
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  11471. ​@rampz826 left wing economic policies would reduce migration by investing in physical and social infrastructure Right wing economics needs a constant supply of migrant labour to work Maybe one day the penny will drop but till then you can stick your toxic lying farage where the sun don't shine
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  11472. 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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  11473. They've taken to punching themselves in the face because Orange Jesus says so The most do nothing House of Representatives in political history
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  11474. You don't think Sunak's +23 tax rises aren't a bit of pot kettle and black+
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  11475.  @richardmaclean4519  not as much as you'd think
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  11476. Labour did themselves no favours with a leftie populist in Corbyn
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  11477.  @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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  11478. If your low wage you will pay on average less middle around the same it's more for wealth generated from wealth and an equalization of the tax burden
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  11479.  @lizdocherty3067  Reform policy that's a bit of an Oxymoron who would vote for Giving up your human rights fracking privatised NHS indoctrinating my grand kids with Her Farage's version of British studies Liz Truss style tax cuts Privatise the BBC it's completely off the charts right wing insanity
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  11480. 7 Bins would be ordering rate cuts if he could economy be damned to get reelected
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  11481. He's a nieve out of touch peacenik from the 70's, he was on about Russia and Ukraine having peace talks Sunak doesn't have much of a leg to stand on though he was part of the banking sector that broke our economy in 2008
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  11482. Why? There is no political advantage to doing interviews at the momment and even MSNBC has a centrist centre right bias
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  11483.  @crawford1083  brexit is a con job by the billionaire elite look up Tufton Street think tanks - byline times These people are the elite robber baron's of our age
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  11484.  @LettsBclear  stop believing propaganda, it was illegal legislation designed as a show pony for mugs like you
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  11485. The government is pissing billions up the wall on agency and supply staff because of the shortages Why is that not the main issue your just trying to justify the government making people poorer why?
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  11486. They also want fracking so basically a destroyed countryside with no pollution regulations, I presume they will ignore the sewage crisis as well  @brettsinclair4957 
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  11487. He's a Putin apologist always has been, the far right in Europe are wanting the Oligarch money back which Putin used to spread around
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  11488.  @art-gx7qp  why would people want to go back for 2/3 dollars an hour plus tips on a casual contract? There was a minimum wage proposal but it was tanked by the GOP
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  11489.  @art-gx7qp  people don't not work because of unemployment benifits they have more self respect than that. How about a living minimum wage so the argument is moot?
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  11490.  @art-gx7qp  one that pulls you out of all federal programs including UB Why should govt keep subsidising poorly run businesses.
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  11491.  @thereselite  Older voters even if they are left leaning don't want anything to to do with a peacenik London elite wannabe socialist talking shop My mum voted for Atlee post war she thought JC was a complete joke wanted nothing to do with him wouldn't even vote labour switched to lib dem
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  11492. Huge portions of his PAC money goes into his pocket, when president businesses were expected to buy rooms at his property even if they didn't use them Billions flowed in especially from the Saudis and the Oligarchs
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  11493. The fish rots from the head down when they turned a blind eye to Johnson's scandals and corruption now its endemic in the party Sunak may as well have an election its like every week it just gets worse for them
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  11494. @palerider955 3 million have left this mortal coil due to ageing out, we got dragged into an economic sh1tsh0w because loads of old people with no skin in the economy got duped. You also have 3 million young people at the other end Your currently trying to force people in the economy that at least voted 65-35 to remain to implement an extreme version of brex1t
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  11495. Trump won't go if he does Obama will be turning out and as his chief heckler it's going to drive DT mental Why would the republicans vote for a couple of fill your pockets Plutocrats there as exciting as walking around with a wet towel on your head
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  11496. The numbers are rising because the Tories don't invest in things, defund the home office get thousands waiting to be processed defund the border force and leave the EU get more boats coming over
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  11497. You can put a Clown into No10 it doesn't make him a Prime Minister it Turns No10 into a Circus
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  11498. The left haven't missed a point they just don't care maybe we should join the EU to get guarantees like this If you are legally resident in an EU country you are entitled to open a "basic payment account". Banks cannot refuse your application
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  11499.  @SaraSara-kr6sp  They can reduce the retail price for a start there making 30% profit at the moment you'd expect 10%
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  11500.  @SaraSara-kr6sp  competition benefits everyone, the reason the US is sliding down the way it is is lack of competition, regulatory capture by monopolies. A vibrant company 8s one that is trying to stay ahead with innovation not using its market dominance to buy out its rivals and sink into a monopolistic spiral
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  11501.  @SaraSara-kr6sp  Constant competition drives innovation one of the problems with western economies is the growth of near monopolies that stifle innovation and use money that should be used for R&D to pay off governments to turn a blind eye to uncompetitive practices such as killing emerging companies that may compete. Tesla is wining by innovating always staying ahead of the market by a good few years and therefore creating a bigger overall market, everyone wins.
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  11502.  @randyschwaggins  No he wasn't he just got pilloried by the right wing media
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  11503.  @paulagilbert1982  hope you have plenty of money to pay Trump's Sales tax if he gets in and your jobs secure when the layoffs start
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  11504. He's a false prophet who is either lying deliberately or stupid If you want to reduce net migration you invest in your domestic workforce rather than importing say doctors and nurses, you invest in robotics, smart tech etc.
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  11505. Look on the bright-side they are so effin incompetent they will make Rudi look like a Shakespearean actor
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  11506. Lying about the march and getting a load of Yobo's to turn up to the Cenotaph where they got into a melee with police injuring 6 with 100 arrests. which bit of that is strong or outspoken?
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  11507. I'm sure the injured policemen don't think so @Boobobear 
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  11508. Johnson's Brexit is a complete economic disaster well done for voting to make yourself poorer
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  11509.  @chris-4566  we had the hardest Brexit possible bar no deal Musicians can't tour Europe because of Brexit Companies are swamped with red tape paperwork and additional costs because of Brexit Each and every small economic dagger kills a part of the economy in a death by a thousand cuts
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  11510. This space is gone for anyone that didn't start 3/4 years ago you can't buy time no matter how much money you throw at it
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  11511. Rich boy has a servant hold his brolly, bad optics whatever he did, Steve Bray with his boombox was just Karma, no coming back from this ​@charleswhite758
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  11512. I voted for more renewable energy, Lib-Dems are on board with it as well It reduces long term costs
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  11513. After 2016 I started looking at the media in greater detail, my background is IT now retired but the level of disinformation both online and in mainstream had gotten off the charts. The Times isn't bad though centre right biased but the rest like the mail and the Torygraph are basically propaganda sheets Goebbels would have been proud of. How did we get to the UKIP ification of the Tory party with the most influential man on the Right being an unelected G0bsh1te in Nigel Farage?  @royboy565 
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  11514. My Father was a tolerant and kind man who fought as a paratrooper in WW2 to rid Europe of Fascism, the sort that cries out for bans on free speech demonises other religious groups and others minorities. He fought against oppression and the mass murder of millions of people not just Jews but Gypsies, the homeless, political prisoners and the LGBTQ community. He fought against the deportations the use of Eugenics and sterilization to create an Aryan race He certainly didn't fight to be pontificated to by a bunch of right wing tw*ts on talk TV The march needed approval by the police as well as probably the home office go look there for your demons
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  11515. The free market ? There is no such thing utilities are a privatised monopoly We know where this is lading zero investment milking customers and the companies as cash cows till the old plant is on it's last legs. ex - Water A net zero grid will reduce energy costs by a LOT and gain energy Independence from world fossil commodity shock EVEN its own government advisers says so
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  11516. Presenters aren't even pretending he's anything but a BS con artist and are calling it
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  11517. Did a party happen? Yes 3 parties happened in no10 one of which was in the personal residence of the PM. There were a number of other parties at Whitehall run by other ministers Stratton is part of the insider elite the right wing media will cover for her she has connections all over the cabinet
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  11518. Habib and the rest of the Brexit Ultra's don't have a clue how international trade works or economics for that matter and the importance of tariff free paperwork free red tape free VAT harmonised trade is appear to grasp that it's costing over 40 billions its costing in lost taxation alone and strangling small business growth who employ 60% of the UK workforce Our economy is shrinking fast
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  11519. Sending people to Rwanda is utterly wrong inhumane and needs to stop, behaving like fascist assholes just coz a bunch of Mosley wannabe politicians think they can use refugees for political is sick
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  11520. And how thick are they? Vote for brexit get 3rd world migrants + dependents instead of European
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  11521. Food went up worldwide the massive consolidation of US firms just made the problem worse and corporate profiteering accounted for 57% of the total
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  11522.  @jmw-qt2ih  Given the narrow demographic they appeal to the vote is very spread out
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  11523.  @jmw-qt2ih  YouGov do in depth polling by age, gender and social grade and support peaked at 24% male 65+ There's support elsewhere but it's averaging 8% in under 50 and again there's a -4 point difference with women. This is a similar problem the Tories have and why there seat share could completely collapse. They don't have the male/female disparity and their support is slipping at around 35% in 65+ bracket
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  11524. You'd soon start moaning when bread prices double an we have to dedicate 5% of gdp to rearming
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  11525. His insane plan to instigate 3 trillion in sales taxes has.
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  11526. He's standing down at the next election
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  11527. The Con brand is toxic Complete economic failure with Truss and brexit Complete failure on immigration And Immigration is a consequence of right wing low tax low wage deregulated labour market, both Con and Reform reckon you can have your cake and eat it, all they'll do is wreck the economy further trying.
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  11528. We had a referendum on the EU look how that ended an economy swilling down the toilet bowl and 750,000 net 1.25 million gross) when we had FOM it was 200,000 Of the 1.25 million 1/2 are dependents And the 500,000 leaving are the highly educated who have given up on broken Tory Bexit Britain
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  11529. If it's close Trump will steal it
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  11530. We don't have the social infrastructure to move people around. You'd need a huge investment in social support, housing and transport
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  11531. renewable is cheaper over time, I have thermal solar its saves around £360 a year in heating hot water cost me 2700 to install so free hot water for me in 5 years. I have a large 500ltr water tank hat's used as a heat store and it can be supplemented off non peak electric or from my gas boiler Renewable is cost heavy up front free energy down the line shame JHB cant do Math
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  11532.  @JI7NKJ  they'll stay poor if they keep voting in right-wing parties that won't invest in social and physical infrastructure
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  11533. if you want to curb migration you need to raise tax revenues skill your workforce and regulate the economy in a way that supports domestic workforce as well as infrastructure investment to improve worker productivity Reform are proposing to deregulate and lower taxes (Truss style) while choking off supply side Labour which will crash the economy at worst continue the same economic Doom loop at best
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  11534. If we were a truth loving nation Johnson and his Cabal would have had the drubbing of a lifetime at the election instead they elected a lying con man and his handler
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  11535. Not so the cost of renewables has plummeted as the tech matures. There's also a transition away from gas for heating and more effective insulation. And The new grid relies on storage and tech to timeshit consumption once you do that electricity prices tumble because your not running say a gas peak plant for 1/2 an hour at peak demand time
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  11536. So he has a chance even though His policies will Imprison millions of migrant workers many who are settled with US families in concentration camps many of whom would work on disaster relief reconstruction Take away womens healthcare and repeal the affordable care act going back to discrimatory healthcare and unfettered drug prices Crash the US economy with Tariff wars that will crush the 3 trillion in US exports causing a world economic deppresion So this guy a convicted sexual predator is still in with a chance? Do they have education in the US or are all the.clever people migrants (Musk excepted)
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  11537. Given the alternative of an anti vax nut job RFK directing health policy and Musk taking his slash and burn ethos that's halved the value of twitter to government and would crash the economy I'm surprised JDT gets a single vote.
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  11538.  @s.w.warbirds4126  your getting RFK in charge of healthcare and Musk using his twitter style slash and burn tactics to government what could possibly go wrong bar major outbreaks of disease and an economic crash?
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  11539. Bernie is 78, Biden is 76, Trump is 73 and Warren is 70, Trump is showing increasing signs of physical as well as mental decline, Biden's energy levels don't look on a par with Warren or Sanders a year out you need to see who is physically and mentally up to the task. I don't think people realise how much damage Mitch & DT thave managed to do under the surface in dismantling government from the inside anyone taking over has spiraling gov debt, an economy on the verge of collapse, infrastructure education environmental and healthcare policy completely unfit for purpose.
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  11540. It was a fed question from the campaign through one of the trump friendly reporter. This sick stuff is all on his campaign If he wants to turbo charge non white turnout against him he's going the right way about it.
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  11541. Hamas is a terrorist organisation, what's the issue.
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  11542. 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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  11543. @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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  11544.  @patriciafurlongifi  And replace with what exactly?
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  11545. Octopus do a night tariff with V2G capability they use a smart switch to use load off your battery for grid smoothing (saves them buying gas generation) your then getting spare Off Peak energy at knockdown prices
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  11546. @alainlefebvre9860  the thing is money talks in economic terms apart from the usual suspects in the fossil sector and big pharma Trump is bad for business He's promised to start a trade war with everyone by putting tarrifs on everything that will have a nock on effect on inflation, he'll try destroy all of Bidens' investment programs by cutting funding which will affect employment. He really doesn't know what he's doing. The donor money is pouring in for the Democrats at the moment the Big Republican mega donors are wary of funds being siphoned by Trum to use as a piggy bank
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  11547.  @JulieMalone-oy1ll  You really need to stop going down the conspiracy rabbit holes. Labour have already done multiple things on my want list Prison reform Rwanda scrapped Onshore wind ban lifted we'll see if he can make headway with the people smuggling trade it's something no one country can tackle on it's own it's a worldwide business worth $250 billion and why Rwanda was a complete waste of money
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  11548. 80% are given asylum so its a political show pony costing millions to whip up hate against refugees and deflect from the appalling performance of the government. Simple fact refugees in the system in 2010 was 8,00 its now 80,000 the 150 odd million that's going to be wasted on this could have been used to help clear the backlog
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  11549. Boris will do ANYTHING to cling to power
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  11550. There not interested in trying to woo back stupid people who drank in all the lies peddled by the Brextremists its pointless If your dumb enough to believe that putting trade sanctions on yourself making companies fill in thousands of pages of paperwork which in itself cost billions as well as the billions in lost trade because flags then really there's no point trying to talk to them
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  11551.  @quinnishappy5309  so the worst government in 150 years is better than labour who didn't even exist 150 years ago? that is a pretty stunning statement devoid of logic
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  11552. ​ @therealrobertbirchall it would be an economic train wreck that would make Brexit look like a training exercise
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  11553.  @therealrobertbirchall  47% according to polls
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  11554.  @therealrobertbirchall  as soon as people start pointing to the Car crash that is Brexit support will go down. You could have been semi Indipendant in the EU outside Scotland is completely screwed
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  11555. What for stupidity and grifting?
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  11556. The reason we ended up in this mess in the 1st place was Osborne and Cameron's Austerity (The tax base never dropped below 32% and debt climbed year on year with frozen wages ). They were all in on the GIG economy with Zero Hour contracts and multi nationals offshoring profits leading to a stagnant economy. People saw large numbers of foreign workers taking low paid zero hour jobs and the likes of Farage made hay with it leading to the biggest economic car crash in Brexit
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  11557.  @leecullen759  the rise of UKIP was a direct result of Cameron's economic policies. Migrant workers come here because of jobs if the government deliberately create low paid zero hour ones which undermine existing businesses it creates social resentment. As for Austerity it has been widely proved by economists that for every £ saved it cost the wider economy 1.6£ Example defunding the police and justice system has increased crime and wait times to an extent that it's impacted the wider economy by around 1/2 a trillion in GDP over the last decade. In 2010 gdp per capita was $50,000 it's now 45,000 while decline is inevitable since Brexit its main culprit is Austerity and lack of investment. My point about gig work is socioeconomic the government have always scapegoated foreigners for thier economic policies. Allowing multi nationals to import cheap labour on zero hour low wage contracts was always going to stoke resentment. It was also a political choice we always had when in the EU the ability to regulate or ban zero hour or a whole host of other things to do with migrant labour.
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  11558. There's a reason Florida is known as the most politically corrupt state in the Union and it ain't because it's run by liberals Maybe he's pissed because Greeberg's parties have been shut down
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  11559. The October surprise was DJT's Christo-Fascistic rally at MSG and Musk admitting on a conference call that DJT and him will crash the economy by instigating Austerity on steroids quote Elon Musk has offered a sobering preview of Donald Trump’s economic plan for America if he is re-elected, revealing that a period of intentional “hardship” is on the horizon for American households. Rather than cautioning against it, Musk described this hardship as necessary and inevitable, supporting Trump’s blueprint for restructuring the economy by slashing government programs. Musk’s remarks, shared in a Telephone Town Hall organized by his America PAC, indicate that he and Trump see economic pain to average Americans as a necessary cost of their policy goals.
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  11560.  @domispablo7992  the Blair project created 40% of school leavers to graduates and while the Tories are actively trying to get that number down education creates a more critical thinking Liberal mindset which the right are actively trying to put down. Yougov put the demographic switching to Reform as 50+ male uneducated basically your older working class
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  11561. Water bill 1st reading last Friday There discussing a labour bill which will take probably a year to reach final stages Cooper has already set up a unit and are recruiting to tackle smuggling NHS is complicated, the Tories outsourced a lot of it loosing control, under investment in infrastructure such as IT, scanners, buildings meant they threw bodies at it in the final years to paper over the cracks it will take near on a decade to sort it out properly
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  11562. I'm not repentant
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  11563. There still dreaming of their precious Brexit it will be another loon propped up by the ERG crazies Lets face it Tom is in the Rory Stewart mould he tells the truth this lot got in on a pack of porkies so large it eat Johnson alive, this isn't the straw that broke the Camel's back its the car crash economy and rural voters turning on them in droves in the recent by elections.
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  11564. He was right about Brexit its a complete fkup that's one more right decision than Sunak
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  11565. Its not EU red tape its UK red tape and there will be more and more of it if you diverge
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  11566. No they won't there an economic car crash waiting to happen
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  11567.  @joecater894  The Tories are failing because of Core Tory policies, they've been banging on the Thatcherite Austerity drum since 2010 and its sending the economy into a Doom loop The more you cut the more it shrinks the economy providing less tax revenue so you cut some more rinse repeat Reform are promising the same Thatcherite supply side policies without a supply side source of Labour, the Tories have had to keep migration up to stop the economy collapsing altogether If you want low migration you need a managed economy higher taxes more regulation the exact opposite to what right wing parties are offering
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  11568. Its saving money now V costing double treble down the line Going Net zero Costs 6% GDP Not going Net Zero costs 13% GDP That 13% will climb steeply the longer we delay
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  11569. Biden has a warchest of 130 million and more pouring in all the time Trump has 0 he's burning through funds on his court cases + The big donors know he'll just pocket most of it for himself
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  11570. Its all spiralled up to the 1% which is why you need to tax them to take some of that money out of the supply and take down the debt
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  11571.  @MaybeNextTime0  lawyers and doctors aren't the 1% it's the millionaires and billionaires with masses of unearned income and huge fixed asset wealth The minimum net worth of someone in the 1% bracket is 10/11 million The more unearned income you have the easier it appears to be to shift it round using various corporate financial vehicles avoiding taxation altogether, the problem is tax policy hasn't kept up with globalisation thers loads of academic papers on it as well as the usual sensation newspaper blockbuster
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  11572. ​ @veyronlh512 if you call normal a 4.2% drop in living standards and a pice hike of 20% across the board over 2 1/2 years while the government did nothing then when it did do something it spent 600 million on rwanda
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  11573. He has no Chance his economic record was as bad as Hoovers and The Republican Mega donors won't give him money because he siphons it off for his on uses
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  11574. There not subsidies there investments in GBEnergy a publicly owned company that will help leverage wholesale energy costs down. It will generate income. If it were me I'd target the Peak demand market as its the most price gauged @deltadom33 
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  11575. Its not subsidies its Creating a competitor in GBEnergy to push the wholesale price down. Other initiatives such as insulation subsidies just make economic sense, more money in people's pockets to spend in the economy if there not shelling out as much on energy bills @deltadom33 
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  11576. There not giving out subsidies there building infrastructure @deltadom33 
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  11577. Its not subsidies its investment which isn't a sunk cost it has an economic multiplier of 1.6
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  11578.  @111111877  Reform's tax policy is 100+ billion in unfunded cuts, Tice doesn't have a fekin clue how the economy works
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  11579. And why would that be we had 8 years of endless Tory psychodrama with nothing getting fixed
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  11580. The worst government in UK political history and they still got 23% wonder how long that total will stand up when they find out all the negative campaigning and lies about labour were a complete work of fiction? He said he was fetching integrity back to the office then lied his face off at every opportunity as did his cabinet about Labour truly pathetic
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  11581.  @sueburgess847  The Tories will The Conservatives don't want to admit that removing FOM means the visas are permanent and there having to allow 50% dependants to get people in. It would be 200k if we were still in the EU
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  11582. 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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  11583. What's wrong with you people have you had your brains fried or what? Without a smart meter I cannot access my ultra low overnight tarrif of 7p per kwh instead of the standard 24p per kwh What have you guys been smoking?
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  11584. @GT380man Why would I pay 70% more for my electric. I run the washing machine and charge my domestic battery off the tariff as well. That's how net zero and renewable energy works by time shifting usage and storage.
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  11585. Its estimated energy companies will make 170 billion over 2 years in excess profits
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  11586.  @davidjohn64  there's plenty of escorts in Italy
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  11587.  @AndyBanner  Reform UK plc Ref UK ReFuk
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  11588. no it isn't, Sunak has already spent 20 billion on 2 NI cuts as well as freezing the thresholds, pensioners are already paying +£550 in tax because of it and that 20 billion is unfunded there is no fiscal headroom we borrowed 130 billion last year and payed out 120 billion in interest on borrowings of 2.3 trillion
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  11589.  @jasonuren3479  Rail not striking and being nationalised into a coherent transport system what's not to like
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  11590. Talk about getting owned, I'd ask for my money back if I was paying Castor, she's given everyone the full enchilada in a simple understandable soundbite
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  11591. They never stood for the normal people anyway, the Thatcher era was built on pissing away money from the North sea and selling off public utilities (mostly to the French) The current lot of Tories just piss away money and tell you to kiss the ring piece
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  11592. Fox is populated with complete morons Last time I saw Biden he took the piss out of Steve Ducy
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  11593. we have an energy crisis which needs investment in and there promising to lower taxes for the wealthy how does that work? If you pump 28 billion into renewable energy it has an economic multiplier of a minimum 1.6 which means for every £1 you put in it creates enough GDP to return £1.6 in additional taxation. As a pensioner this will help me enormously because it will lower energy costs and I'm home most of the day far more than any tax cut. Getting energy costs down to 2020 levels would be the equivalent to me of my tax going from 20% to 10%
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  11594. Why is that? Under Blair/Brown was the last time the country was well run We've had 14 years of asset stripping and a Tory debt spending spree that would make Emelda Markos blush of 1.5 trillion
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  11595. You don't have to live somewhere to claim CGT on it, it just has to be designated as your primary residence and after a year you can't be prosecuted for CGT irregularities anyway. So why all the noise from the RW propaganda outlets? This has already backfired and is seen by many as rich people trying to screw over the working class while they coin it in
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  11596. Why there all in on States rights
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  11597. 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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  11598.  @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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  11599. Those godam Dems are soon clever bio weapon election fixing BUT SO FUKIN DUMB THEY WONT PASS AN ELECTION INTEGRITY BILL AND STACK THE SUPREME COURT
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  11600. Over in Europe they think Biden is strong he's mobalized NATO and Zalenzcy has a real spring in his step who is really annoying Putin who's usual divide and conquer and info war isn't working There no one holding up Missile for political dirt on their enemies either
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  11601.  @mhall801  Your supporting a mental patient who will become increasingly unhinged over the following months there are 5 stages of grief if we look at Trump's reaction to his loss in 2020 it goes Denial, Anger then gets stuck in a loop on Anger where he tries to bend reality. We are seeing the same reaction over Biden dropping out and Harris being the Democratic nominee, the fantasy attempt to explain her crowds as AI His brain is glitching and it will just keep going round in circles
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  11602. Gotta laugh I will probably make around 1/2 million from my Tesla investments while Musk Makes America Garbage Again It's going to be a long 4 years
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  11603. Sunak is a below average middle manager that's failed upwards Anyone with 1/2 a brain would have scrapped Rwanda on day 1 on cost even if he was on board with Stupid Evil
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  11604. Why would anyone vote Conservative at all there 12 years in power has seen 2 drops in the standard of living a decade and a half of Austerity and for what shrinking pensions the highest personal tax burden since WW2? They are incompetent and totally wrapped up in political dogma in terms of economics, Thatcherism hasn't worked in 10 years I know let's do it harder, the issues we face today are excacbarated by the sell off of utilities and the bonkers artificial market the housing shortage is related to housing sell offs for peanuts without replacing the stock.
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  11605. Since when? All the proper polls give them 20% at best
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  11606. Why do you lot do this he yanks your chain and you take to post apologist rubbish like a load of nodding dogs The last thing we need in this country is a Putin apologist spreading Russian propaganda
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  11607. what difference would that make?
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  11608. There is some data going round that up to 10% of registered Republicans may vote Harris at top of the ticket Dobbs Dads Haley Voters for Harris Republicans for Harris and Daily drops from ex cabinet members about Trumps unsuitability to lead
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  11609. All Putin understands is raw power there is no negotiating
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  11610. @joek600  your not being serious are you? On what planet was the west ever going to invade Russia 1 they have Nukes 2 Europe had a skeleton army at best There was never any intention of NOT invading Ukraine he needed it for his imperial expansion to dole out land and favours to his Oligarchs and absorb 40 million people into his empire. Belarus is next with or without Lukeshenko
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  11611. Once an Aseh0le always an Aseh0le He never fails to disappoint there is no bar too low
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  11612. Its empty promises you can't make Brexit work it was only ever designed to patch the Tory party together its an ideological dead end Nothing alters the fact that due to trade gravity Europe will be our biggest importer and exporter so putting up trade barriers then hiring millions of staff from India to plug worker shortages then pretending you can suddenly sell stuff half way round the globe at a competitive price is completely delusional. The Tories have totaly fked the economy now we're paying with higher taxes and higher food prices there's a de facto border down the Irish sea and double the number of Asylum claims. Claiming that there not doing it right is bollox Global Britain = Complete globalization unfettered market access to any country round the world to our economy and unlimited inward migration to suppress wages the rich will get disgustingly wealthy and fk everyone else
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  11613. A party run by elites with a pro fossil and billionaire economic agenda? You serious?
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  11614. @georgesdelatour  multi national tax shopping on a race to the bottom is precarious at best they could leave overnight and I have no data on net benifit. Osborne's corporate tax cuts cost 200 biliion generated 0.5% increase in gdp creating 40 billion at a net cost to the treasury of 160 billion, Osborne did want to take it down to 10% but all he did achieve was a low wage economy for the working class. The issue with low to no tax is the big cash cow companies don't invest it they spend it on share buybacks, dividends and CEO pay this removes it from the working economy into a fixed asset which just sits there doing nothing. What's worse is we don't tax the increase in its value at the same rate as paye
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  11615. @lamestreammedia3154  India has huge wealth inequality its not going to be stable
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  11616. ​@vigilante8374 Sunak paid 22p on the pound in relation to income the same as a nurse on the bottom rung This was according to a tax expert taking all allowances into account In 2016 he voted to reduce CGT as part of the budgets he's overseen he's refused to touch CGT and align it with income tax and his wife is non dom
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  11617. they got a 4 point boost in the polls and rolled out scrapping Rwanda, the MSM have been gearing up with stories about Ireland and how it's working already instead the week was dominated by the defection of the MP from Dover. Wonder who it will be this week?
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  11618.  @kevinb9830  free movement wasn't the cause of the wage depression it's government policy. There doing it now with the points system for anyone around the world to come here undermine professional and middle class salaries
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  11619. @kevinb9830  it's still government policy under Labour average wages went up by 25% minimum wage when it was introduced jumped it 15% in one go under the Conservatives fire rehire was tolerated as was the expansion of zero hour deregulated gig economy which replaced better paying jobs through offshore companies who paid zero tax and a huge very low paid migrant labour influx. Don't blame migrants they just go where the jobs are we've always had the power to regulate the labour market blame government
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  11620. 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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  11621.  @oldfogey4679  If you really were a Dem you'd vote for a dog with a blue rosette over trump
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  11622.  @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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  11623. There policies are governed by spending controls from Whitehall the Tories don't want to invest in anything all you hear is tax cut tax cut meanwhile schools and hospitals are falling down
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  11624. They sounded like they read the Daily Mail or frequete other right wing media sources all the stuff was the same stuff the Tory propaganda rags have been pedalling. As an aside the Budget was horrific how they can even think Sunak is somehow remotely competent is beyond me it was trickle down all the way Key takeaways 2 billion tax break for millionaire pensioners 8 billion tax giveaway to Bankers an extra 6 billion tax giveaway to fossil industry Fiscal drag that will add £1000 to average persons tax bill by 2027 and tax basis going up from 32% to 38%
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  11625. ​@paula-jj5gd border same as normal if you look at the figures Remain in Mexico just bottles up problems into future years and Republicans are p1ss poor at deporting people Biden past Trumps 4 year total in 18 months
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  11626. ​@paula-jj5gd you wanted to make America Great Biden is turning the US into the world leader in renewable technologies You wanted jobs reshored Biden has done 1 million so far firs time serios manufacturing has been reshored in decades
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  11627. ​ @markscript5746 I'm trying to figure out what he did wrong the government bill is just theatre to throw red meat to the extremes of their party It's been condemned by just about everyone and the Tories are increasingly using language that resembles the othering dehumanisation and outright xenophobia seen in the 30's
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  11628. As a leader Corbyn was worse than useless his biggest failing was allowing himself to be manipulated by those around him. The guy is an intellectual stuck in 1980 selling nostalgia The country needed leadership and it got Corbyn May bot and Bojo Don't come back and say but principles he was still useless get a proper hero for the left someone with vision and leadership who can compromise and actually get things done
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  11629.  @madrab73  The other party is pissing away money on fossil subsidies bankers tax breaks millionaire pensioner tax breaks etc There was 91 billion in trickle down policies in the last budget that's 91 billion pissed up a wall as far as I'm concerned
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  11630. when the conservatives spend money like water on trickle down tax breaks then bring Labour on, REFORM are just repackaged Thatcherism
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  11631. A man who knows nothing about anything Further NHS privatisation would be a disaster near doubling the amount of GDP spent on health, example Water Net zero, a renewable grid will remove the economic shock of being tied to fossil fuel in 2020 energy costs UK consumers 30 billion in 2023 the cost was 170 billion with the government shelling out 72 billion in energy support.
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  11632. 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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  11633. Speak out about what? Vaccines save a few people have adverse effects for every 1 death from Covid there are 10 cases of Long Covid over 200,000 people have died from Covid This is from the government website All vaccines and medicines have some side effects. These side effects need to be continuously balanced against the expected benefits in preventing illness.
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  11634. there all to do with standardisation you know that thing that makes trade easier so you don't need truck loads of paperwork and red tape. You people are just thick all we've got from leaving the EU is a failing economy higher prices and higher immigration @yamyam3905 
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  11635.  @I999-g2s  why would he not follow up on his agenda? The economy is depressed by 5/6% by trade barriers if you choose regulatory realignment a deal on performing artists etc you can generate around 50 billion in extra tax close non dom 3 billion reinstate bankers levy 8 billion shut down tax breaks and tax loopholes align unearned tax to the same as earned income Where at a high tax level just enforce it as well as the windfall taxes While Obama failed and there are a host of reasons for that Biden has not he's passed the IRA and CHIPS act reshoring jobs and pumping 1.75 trillion into renewable to make the US the world leader in green tech
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  11636. The polling companies do what's called poll weighting to try and make them as accurate as possible this is done off census data I have a theory that Covid deaths and long Covid will depress the expected Republican numbers, Republicans have embraced anti vax and are disproportionately affected by the disease and studies have shown 10 long Covid cases to every death. Obviously roe helps and their candidates being crazy we shall see
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  11637. you could join the single market and introduce FOM no voted to leave either Norway are not in the EU yet we've had the hardest possible brexit rammed down our throats because you believed in complete lies
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  11638. Better than Putin having control of all that land and 40 million people to conscript
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  11639. ​ @MrSamurai137 the mess and what fueled the vote was Osborne's hard right Thatcherism + Austerity which stagnated and started shrinking the economy + Cameron and Osborne were all in on the gig economy allowing multi nationals to off shore profits while importing labour on zero hour low wage contracts What's worse is we always as an EU member had the power to control migration through economic policy and other means we chose not to do it. I despise Cameron and Osborne the slimes pair still won't admit they were wrong back in 2013 when they were shown the evidence that not only were thier policies failing but it would lead to long term economic contraction
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  11640. Trump doesn't have a clue the reason you got such high inflation in the 1st place was the rapid expansion of the money supply with 4 trillion in tax cuts straight to debt. If he's allowed to do it again it combined with his sales tax tarrifs it will increase inflation cause a debt bomb that will plunge the economy into a depression the likes you've not seen since Hoover.😊
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  11641. They've spent 3 years gutting the government and are now in purge mode and will shut down information, already Fox is in full conspiracy mode blaming the fake News undermining the scientific community and saying it's the Dems fault that the markets crashing.
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  11642. He's completly Barking stark raving nut bucket box of frogs mad. The reality outside is seeping into the inner reality bubble watch out for the implosion
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  11643. 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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  11644.  @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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  11645. She is up against a mental patient who is trying to bend reality and get everyone to believe he's still running against Biden. His mental state will get worse
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  11646. ​@bridgetholbourne6849 they'll reduce migration, the issue is Conservative supply side trickle down economics you need to constantly feed it migrant labour You can't reduce migration without investing in physical and social infrastructure and moving away from the low tax on the wealthy model
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  11647. ​ @loracle540 no they won't the problem with the economy and migration is Supply side trickle down low tax (for the rich) economics you need to feed it constantly with migrant labour To get migration down you Need to invest in the UK the Tories have cut it to the bone
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  11648. I'd have thought having a Chancellor with a degree from the lse and boe experience was a good thing?
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  11649. no he won't there's an issue with rewiring the system and short term your going to have to funnel routine ops through the private system to clear the backlog
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  11650. Why would you ever vote Conservative I'm curious since the age of Thatcher they have pushed Supply Side Trickle Down economics that has devastated large parts of the country and Reform are a more extreme version. Germany managed to keep large parts of its manufacturing during the change we just boarded ours up, the Thatcher economy was kept afloat by Asset Stripping, Oil Money and Council House giveaways with the money plowed into bribing a generation. Blair / Brown slowed it right down as soon as Cameron came in it was back to Supply Side Trickle down with devastating effects which are going to see 2 decades of economic stagnation. As an example 2 billion was in the budget for millionaire pensioners that had to be paid for by freezing tax allowances at the bottom This is what you kept voting for quote Luxury goods boom in Britain as super-rich youngsters buck the recession Rich kids fuel sales of brands such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci They’re young, rich and mortgage-free, and the scions of the 1% are having a roaring twenties. Despite the economic gloom currently shrouding the UK and many other western countries, sales of luxury brands have been booming and growing numbers of buyers are young adults. Swiss watches, Louis Vuitton trainers, rare Birkin bags and 81-year-old whiskies are among the products that are fuelling impressive growth in the bottom lines of luxury brands such as LVMH, Burberry and Kering. Imports of Swiss watches to the UK were up by 31% in the first half of 2022, according to the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry – the average spend at the Watches of Switzerland group being about £6,000. Meanwhile, sales of watches below £2,500, sometimes referred to as “mid-range”, are falling.
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  11651.  @chkldstgee2433  Reform are just Old Elite white people completely out of touch with reality pedalling the same shyte Trickle Down Supply Side Economics that has blighted the economy for 13 years.
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  11652. @clark kent  this piece is designed to make you outraged it presents a tub thumping solution which is completely unworkable and unobtainable while rolling you up about immigrants I'm a Technical Analyst when all the migration rhetoric started getting heated before the referendum I did a deep dive into the topic, historical, social and economic So here's a few facts which people like Nige don't want to talk about The UK birth rate is 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 to maintain the current population I did a quick calculation we need about + 250k to remain stable An EU migrant pays approx 80,000 more in tax than someone born in the UK to the exchequer and a non EU migrant 28,000 Without a stable population the tax burden on workers will steadily increase to cover the shortfall of an aging shrinking population What we need is an adult conversation about where we get the 250k what skills we require no migration at all isn't an option and then another adult conversation about do we want to expand our economy if so is there a case for more migrants. The Tories saying one thing then doing another isn't a surprise big business will be pressuring them and they think they can get away with throwing some red meat into the debate to distract with Rwanda
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  11653. The Tories are UKIP with a new name. The public will vote centre a bit left or a bit right Johnson got in because Labour had Corbyn and lied through his teeth
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  11654. We had well funded services and an increase in average wages of +25% under Blair (tax Base was 33%) Tax Base under Thatcher was 28% because she used Oil Money, Globalisation and Asset Stripping Utilities to pay for it + a lot of her wealth creation was done through giving away council houses The reason we ended up in this mess was Osborne and Cameron's Austerity (The tax base never dropped below 32% and debt climbed year on year with frozen wages ). They were all in on the GIG economy with Zero Hour contracts and multi nationals offshoring profits leading to a stagnant economy. Since the referendum is been a total Clown show with Bozo leading the charge  @georgesdelatour 
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  11655.  @richardwalton6993  There's no public mandate for this and the only people pushing for this are the nut job Ultra's and people like you who either don't understand or are deliberately choosing to wreck the UK economy.
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  11656.  @Casual_laughter  Taxes are not high by European standards and the rich don't pay any in the UK anyway. Monopoly supermarkets + brexit have seen a +7% inflation over food prices in the EU What happens with independents closing is Mainstream companies price gouge Yer not over bright?
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  11657. No one is afraid of Nige, the man whose central policy tanked the economy and quadrupled migration and who's economic policy appears to be based on monopoly money And lets be clear I canvas for the Lib-Dems at election time and am quite happy to explain how he has blighted everyone's lives and made them worse. Your living in an online bubble if you think that failure has any chance in the elections
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  11658. Saved our lives by providing a vaccine you mean
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  11659. We've had a stagnant economy for 16 years, the current state is down to the last budget in April the Autumn statement announces changes for April 2025
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  11660. There promoted by a propaganda station in GBN that's owned by an offshore Libertarian Billionaire they care about paying taxes and not having regulations so they can pollute to their hearts content
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  11661. The ni cut is being paid for with fiscal drag
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  11662. And yet non of thier policies stand up to serious scrutiny A fantasy agenda for people who can't come to terms with the utter failure of Right wing policies
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  11663.  @Peter-q8v6v  there elites pretending to care while pushing billionaire tax and regulations policy
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  11664.  @dudeyfeb88coach  bottom 20% by income in both those states pay around 13% tax through a combination of sales and property taxes They also have far fewer employment rights
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  11665.  @morganyu3838  the Tories are way right. Low tax small state investment in nothing
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  11666.  @rockydudequasardude  Republican states have a brain drain due to right wing policies, educated people move elsewhere
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  11667. If you want to deal with the migrant caravans they need dealing at source with the originating country with a political solution approved on a bipartisan basis. There's no one size fits all solution and that encompass stopping companies hiring on the fly and a proper pathway to citizenship
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  11668. So your moving from one bunch of fantasist to a more extreme version? The cons not deluded enough for you now?
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  11669. Why are you promoting a Libertarian arsonist who will do exactly zip for you and has made your life progressively worse by forcing the Tories further and further right?
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  11670. 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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  11671. You need to look at this in conjunction with water recycling
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  11672. There also deploying wind and solar at a phenomenal rate as well
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  11673. Harris is a centrist at best enjoy your sales tax if DJT gets in it will really hurt
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  11674. The Conservatives are loosing their grip on power and will do anything to hang onto it even produce performative legislation which will never be enacted but is designed to fuel grievance politics even if it means people getting killed by amping up the rhetoric. Othering minorities in Germany lead 1st to labour camps then to concentration camps then to death camps what is the rwanda policy anything other than othering refugees and putting them in a labour/concentration camp?
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  11675. economy is knackered it doesn't take much to see it Most visible sign our incompetent leaders don't know how to fix it is the tax basis keeps going up it was 32% in 2019 it will be 38% by 2027 when fiscal drag is finally ended
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  11676. Cooper says we're not, Starmer is talking about reclassifying smuggler gangs along organised crime lines seizing their assets and the quota os only 30,000 we had over 80,000 apply last year and its going up this year
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  11677. Current inflation has got nothing to do with the infrastructure bill Supply chain issues and an increase in container costs from the far east (up 300+%) World Oil and natural gas prices rising on demand Food production affected by climate change (Storms and droughts in Central America) Unusual weather events in the US Labour shortages Everyone spending money on physical goods with less spent on services putting even more pressure on the on-demand supply chain
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  11678. The person who transfered his companies to the EU after he got you to vote for Brexit? we have 40,000 people here who should have been deported already and aren't because she does nothing. All the talk of ECHR and UNCR is a distraction. She was speaking at a right wing Libertarian think tank The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research mainly funded by big oil such as ExxonMobil These people dont give a sh1t about working and middle class there sole purpose of existing is to screw as much money out the system for the billionaire and corporate class there no different to the IEA who where pulling Truss's strings They use imigration so they can get voted in to screw the working and middle class for the benefits of the billionaire and corporate class They don't care about migration only the political opertunity to use it to gain power
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  11679. No Nige your the one that hates GB and want's to take us back to the 1930's you Mosley wannabe
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  11680. There trying to spend 300 million on a nothingburger giving other parties a big stick to batter them with
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  11681. His tarrif policy will cost consumers 3 trillion over 10 years And The retaliatory tariffs will cripple US exports ask the farmers.
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  11682. Climate denier in the pocket of big oil, election denier, hates gay people and women Fairly par for the course in Republican circles
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  11683. Its the supply side economics that she is pedalling that is stagnating the UK economy Sunak did it again the Budget was horrific it was trickle down all the way Key takeaways 2 billion tax break for millionaire pensioners 8 billion tax giveaway to Bankers an extra 6 billion tax giveaway to fossil industry Fiscal drag that will add £1000 to average persons tax bill by 2027 and tax basis going up from 32% to 38%
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  11684. Why does he lie so much
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  11685. Someone who's sane is part of the problem get a reality check the majority of the country is sick to the teeth of stupid evil
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  11686. Pre K and other programs unlock women into the workforce, you can make up the worker shortfall with migrants instead, there so dumb on Fox.
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  11687. You'd need to be suffering from Stockholm syndrome to want 5 more years of this lot, worst economy in UK history, constant infighting etc
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  11688. who cares about Londoners the rest of the country doesn't@charleswhite758
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  11689. People with an economic background have already called his defence spending plan an unfunded work of fiction, the numbers presented to make up the 75 billion were taken from 2 different data sets. When Brow tried it back in early new Labour days he got rightly hauled over the coals for it.
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  11690. They didnt vote against measures to stop illeagal crossings because all the legislation was purely for show and had zero effect on crossings. At which point i stopped watching because you appear to have an agenda not based on facts
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  11691. Trump gave an audition for the lunatic asylum, the surprise is a group of doctors didn't rush out with the straight jacket and cart him off in an ambulance.
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  11692. ​@ianashton1593 why would anyone vote for Nige's crusty clueless has beens
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  11693. @heatherbatty  the naz1 lite candidate got 5% in the GE not enough stupid people live round here His brex1t was a complete sh1tsh0w quadrupling legal and illegal migration or hadn't you noticed?
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  11694. Tory activists that do leaflet drops and canvassing would abandon the party in droves if Nige is welcomed in The voting core they have left get warm and fuzzy over Thatcher and are Cameron like socially Liberal, Badenoch and Jenerick are a gift for the other parties
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  11695. ​@world684 There are no advantages to erecting trade barriers to your nearest market of 440 million The Brexit promise was Cakeism still is you can have all the advantages of membership without paying any cost, its untrue then and is untrue now because of that the economy has lost around 1 trillion in gdp since 2016 and we have escalating imigration to patch the holes.
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  11696. Employers NI was in the Tory scare list of Labour Tax rises in their election material I kept a copy
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  11697. You read her CV?
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  11698. ​ @Please_allow_me last period of Labour government saw +20% Average wage growth since 2010 Average wage growth has declined by -7%
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  11699.  @paulhurt71  Vote Reform get Tory + Argentina on the Thames
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  11700. The main problem with the US response is lack of federal leadership which has resulted in a spotty patch work of disparate responses. There's no guidance to how to open safely aside from a few vague guidelines which are discretionary and all of this will lead to a rolling death toll where your always on the back foot. The figures show a plateaus of between 2/3k deaths per day and that figure is going to remain pretty constant for the foreseeable future.
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  11701. The number Bernie got was probably based on data coming out of Europe, excess deaths are way different in some countries by nearly 50% UK is 30k recorded V 50k excess draw your own conclusions
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  11702. Corbyn voted against the whip 400+ times not exactly a team player and how do you know what's in the next manifesto in terms of tackling poverty? Child benefit is a Universal payment its untargeted so Jacob Rees Mogg would get it your just throwing money around like confetti hoping some of it lands on the target
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  11703. so your happy to go along with sewage in the rivers, public buildings literally falling down and potholes everywhere?
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  11704. Which of the tax rises will affect you? The Tories ran a budget deficit for 14 years straight
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  11705. not the fossil lobby that's for sure According to Oxford University researchers, ending fossil fuel use by 2050 will save the world at least $12 trillion (€11.3 trillion). The study disproves the fallacy that going green is economically difficult, says Professor Doyne Farmer, who led the study
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  11706. And to think its not the 20 mile tail backs at the ports the billions British Business has to pony up for dealing with Johnson's trade deal with Europe or the 40 billion wasted of track and trace not even the VIP fast lane to contracts to Tory donors Why the debacle with the covid response with 156,000 people dead or 1.5 million estimated with long covid plus the on off restrictions and failed messaging. The complete incompetence over Afghanistan or the string of broken election promises no levelling up with HS3 cancelled triple lock broken taxes up. But a party not just any party but a Big Dog party
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  11707.  @wobblywally-0  Probably doesn't even know Thatcher knighted him and Edwina Curry gave him unfettered access to hospitals
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  11708. She was worse than useless 2 billion contract on barges hundreds of million for a 200 places for an illeagal concentration camp in East Africa There's around 40,000 who would have already been deported if she just did her job
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  11709.  @TheoriginalANGEK439  why? They spout the same failed Libertarian supply side globalist shit economic policies that Sunak loves so much
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  11710. That's a red herring detaching our economy from fossil would solve the bulk of current inflationary pressure. We should be busting a gut to get there sooner oil and gas are going to continue to rise
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  11711.  John  if you made 10% PA you'd need to invest > than 10 million If you have 10 million in investment your neither middle class and definitely not poor
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  11712.  John  what argument there is non the tax increase affects mostly CEO's paying themselves with share options to avoid income tax. Anyway you only pay it when you cash in plus it can be annualised plus its on sums > than 1million
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  11713.  John  It doesn't, investment capital isn't done through individual high rollers playing with their monopoly money. Its done through Merchant banking and or Investment and Venture Capital firms etc.
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  11714.  John  Its a personal tax item companies and investment firms don't pay it.
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  11715. ​ @chrisj9700 this is capital expenditure dolled out by Whitehall
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  11716.  @jod7633  the 2017 manifesto didn't roll it back there where 9 billion of cuts of which 2 billion where to be rolled back 2 child wasn't one of them Corbyn did vote against it in 2015 though you need to stop treating Corbyn like Jesus and the second coming and move on get a true hero for the left someone who is prepared to compromise and stop doing all the purity tests
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  11717.  @NickSBailey  he's probably against it now he's just not rolling it back
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  11718.  @GolfingInParadise783  We have lots of money it's how we choose to spend it or tax it. Of the 2.3 trillion of debt 1/3 is held by the BOE due to QE / QT. Also the Banks have on deposit with the BOE 480 billion. For whatever reason we have reduced the banking levy and paid out interest at the BOE rate. There are a number of articles on how this could be restructured in various financial publications including the FT. Thee are also a whole slew of deliberate tax loopholes and trickle down policies + last year we failed to collect 42 billion of tax owed to the exchequer. You can reduce migration at a stroke by reintroducing FOM the huge escalation from what was 200k is down to dependants because were shopping from 2,000 miles away not 20. To get it down further you need to increase productivity and wages. When we were in the EU we could always control migration we chose not to and it is something that will take a long time to turn around there is no quick fix.
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  11719.  @nicolaallen7698  The costs to companies engaged in bullying can be significant, including the costs to rehire and train new employees. Companies can also face reputation damage, a loss of sales, lower morale, and reduced productivity. The cost to the UK runs into the 10's of billions
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  11720. @arron1906  People who are good at thier job don't need to resort to bullying, the reason so many Tories get cought out is they insist they can break 5he law
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  11721. Tightening up labour laws and regulations will reduce migration, net numbers are meaningless you need to resolve the economic pull factors. Why do you think the Tories have made such a pigs ear of it
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  11722. no he won't it the usual right wing media bullsh1t he's proposing cooperating with the people who run the border on the other side reclassifying people smugglers in the same light as organised crime and seizing their assets plus getting rid of the backlog that's costing us 8 billion which sounds infinitely better than do nothing Tories
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  11723. ​@craigjohnson8240 the term woman isn't fixed to sex as in don't sound like an old woman
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  11724.  @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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  11725. With FOM people could come and go now your talking permanent migration Permanent migration = families What did the Brexit Ultra's think would happen the government would shut down the economy to placate them Brexit was always a pack of lies
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  11726. I know a couple of trans people there extremly self conscious and use the disabled loo Piers needs to just STFU if he has nothing constructive to say few clips from this TV station and its just rage TV what can we whine and moan about like a bunch of old salty pensioners claiming in my day this would have never happened the young have all gone to the wall
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  11727. The UK is in the mess its in because it is totally reliant on Gas, if the Conservative government hadn't abandoned Labour Green policies in 2010 then we would have a more diverse portfolio of energy which would be saving us billions. Estimates for 2021 are 22 Billion in additional costs to consumers
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  11728. Sunak is a Thatcherite free market true believer Which is why where heading for a recession next year they can't change leader again without an election its now a question of how badly do they loose when one is called
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  11729.  @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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  11730.  @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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  11731. the only solution to this is processing the claims anyone claiming otherwise is lying the only way to stop the boats is to set up safe and legal routes for asylum applications which pulls the rug from under the traffickers business model anyone claiming otherwise is also lying
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  11732. Someone who was a conspiracy nut was riding up a crowd to try start a riot and was jailed for doing so Personally I would have liked to have seen him get mental health treatment but that's not we do in our overloaded justice system
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  11733. It really does astound me the lack of knowledge on how taxes are collected and how they affect individuals ah but income tax is low / high yea whatever tax comes in all varieties sales taxes are regressive affecting middle and lower income earners + Retirees while income tax is progressive biting at the insanely wealthy the most. Quote Is Texas tax burden higher than California? Though Texas has no state-level personal income tax, it does levy relatively high consumption and property taxes on residents to make up the difference. Ultimately, it has a higher effective state and local tax rate for a median U.S. household at 12.73% than California's 8.97%, according to a new report from WalletHub.
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  11734.  @freshmclovin4593  quote from US Chamber of Commerce A record-breaking 5.5 million new business applications were filed in 2023. quote 'This just isn't going to add up': experts warn Trumponomics ... 15 Jul 2024 — Trump says he has plan to immediately lower inflation. Economists predict high tariffs and tax cuts would raise it. Quote Over the course of President Trump's four years in office, the gross national debt grew from $19.95 trillion to $27.75 trillion – a $7.8 trillion increase quote Trump's 2017 tax cuts helped set stage for today's inflation. ... When tax cuts pump more money into the economy, it increases demand, which drives up prices, makes inflation worse and prompts the Fed to increase rates
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  11735. @manoo422  your a good few years out of date renewables reached parity with gas prices back in 2019 and have been getting comparably cheaper since Quote from Bloomberg Is offshore wind 9 times cheaper than gas? This assessment yielded the result that the average price of offshore wind power deriving from the most recent round of Contracts for Difference auction process was around nine times cheaper than the international price of natural gas prevailing in August 2022.15 Jun 2023
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  11736. @nuancematters  our peaker plants run on gas they need replacing with storage for grid smoothing A Tesla MegaPack over in Calafornia has replaced old standby stations saving a Billion a year (cost 750 million)
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  11737.  @brynleytalbot778  proper doomster we are aren't we. Just refurbed and extended my house added double insulation and new windows (it needed them anyway) + underfloor heating which hasn't tripped in since april /may Gonna add solar and a battery when the roof gets done in the next couple of years already get nearly all the hot water from solar thermal Just insulating homes properly including new builds would save huge amounts of energy
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  11738.  @brynleytalbot778  secondary insulation was done with superquilt its under 100 per 10 square meters stops condensation stone dead there's no sweating or anything with it its batten (airgap) Quilt Batten (airgap) Plasterboard I added an air exchange to stop negative pressure at £100 Its made by YBS go look it up you just staple it onto battens and tape over the seams. So £500 for the whole extension just £200 if you did your loft I did the floor as well but with FloorQuilt there's no thermal bridge with it They where developed on the back of space suit material As for waste you crush it and use the crush in roads its never been a problem just governments don't mandate it
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  11739.  @jonathanlake6053  Who cares but at least if your French you can go work elsewhere without having to go through endless bureaucracy. I'm retired my money is invested not in the UK you could see this shtshw of an economy coming after 2016 I've also got an EU passport as well as a UK one. I think your a bunch of complete morons you where sold a magic solution if only you left the EU, 7 years on Refugees numbers have doubled there are food shortages and Food inflation at 16.5% and twats like Coffey telling you to eat Turnip and twats like Sunak stiffing you for an extra £1000 in tax while laughing at you as he doles out tax breaks to millionaire pensioners.
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  11740.  @xMohJeex  Its a bit more complex than that the cost of container shipping from the far east has gone up 330% actual demand is up because less money is being spent on services and people like me have saved a small fortune by now working at home and not having high transport costs I've also not taken a holiday in a while especially abroad. You've also got a crunch on oil it hit 90$ a barrel today and a labour shortage the economy is doing some adjusting and becoming less reliant on fossil would be helpful
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  11741. What's the difference between the Tories Reform & UKIP NOTHING
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  11742. If you look at those in the red wall who were voting UKIP Brex1t, Boris they were male uneducated and over 50 just with the march of time that cohort is declining given a push with Cov
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  11743. So popular that she nocked another 2 points off the Tories polling to go down to 23% and added +3 to Labour
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  11744. Yea but he is totally cr*p at economics if you follow the ideology not the data your not going to fix anything just make it worse which he has done
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  11745. ​ @YEWGYZE reforms agenda is just as delusional as the Tories We're here because brex1t and Truss have tanked our economy after Austerity got people to believe the delusional illusion sold by ukip
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  11746. What drives migration? Right wing supply side trickle down Thatcherism which needs a cheap supply side Labour pool So why the nonsense about the left? Does it suit the elites to find something to blame for their economic policies?
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  11747. Leaving the single market was an act of economic self harm. Trade barriers extra red tape tariffs small businesses market collapse supply chain issues. The true cost to the economy is astronomical since 2016 with a 30% dip in currency but since we left its 175 billion
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  11748. The reasons the economy is a raging skip fire is Supply Side Trickle down economics aka Thatcherite policies which have been applied for 13 years on the basis of its not working so we will do it harder. Quote In a 2020 research paper, economists David Hope and Julian Limberg analyzed data spanning 50 years from 18 countries, and found that tax cuts for the rich only succeeded at increasing inequality and making the rich wealthier, with no beneficial effect on real GDP per capita or employment. EndQuote Everyone bar the Tories acknowledges this but we've another year of this till election time sadly and they will double treble down on current policy The markets are expecting rates to peak at 6.5% next summer if you think things are bad now for the government there about to get worse Electoral Calculus are predicting a mean of 100 seats for the Tories 475 for Labour 23 Lib Dem and 28 SNP what does worse than 100 for the CONs mean?
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  11749. Nothing matters Trump and Republicans live on earth 2 a parallel universe where truth is the new lie they need to read 1984 several times
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  11750.  @JohnnyRingo-c5v  58% are breaking centre left, 35% are breaking right. Even with Corbyn in charge the left vote was >50% if you add up all the parties on the left
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  11751. 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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  11752. 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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  11753. ROLL UP ROLL UP LAST TIME WE GAVE YOU 8 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT MAN NOW WITHOUT FURTHER ADIEU MAY I PRESENT THE 1 AND ONLY I LOST TO A WOKE MOUSE MAN yea Ron you can take off the Klan hood now its a photo op and please don't kiss the baby we had enough trouble with the last guy and if its a boy you'll need to go for therapy no male on male action
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  11754. that's disgusting you should be ashamed of yourself
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  11755. The reason our energy prices are so high is partly down to Cameron scrapping green initiatives such as retro fit insulation targets and renewable energy projects further compounded by the dash for gas under investment in grid infrastructure and a failure by the Tories to diversify and catch up when the energy crisis hit. They doubled down on gas and shelled out 72 billion last year in energy subsidies.
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  11756. It's to move the high speed commuter trains to a new line because capacity is full, you can then run loads more local services Our local commuter train is rammed
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  11757. The ECHR is the last refuge against government overreach The Tories won 42% of the vote last election and the vast majority of those were brain addled daytime TV watching Pensioners
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  11758. Fastest growing economy in the G7? Were 6th out of 7 if measured from 2019 to present our economy dropped by 11% in 2020 and only gained 7 in 2021 so -4% for the 2 year period THIS IS BEFORE YOU FACTOR IN INFLATION Our economy is truly fkd under the Cons
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  11759. Next you'll be telling us the economy works like the household budget
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  11760. ​ @robmule4647 the more renewable you have on the grid the cheaper energy is Norway no energy inflation and is 93% renewable The major block is the Tory privatised system
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  11761. He doesn't buy anything
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  11762. Of course he will end the problem what sort of fkwit wants to pour 6-8 billion on a propaganda stunt to make the racists foam at the mouth That's 6-8 billion that can be invested in our crumbling infrastructure
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  11763. Reform are just a worse version of the Tories Everything the Cons tried out a Reform/ ukip policy it was a disaster
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  11764. It's been stagnant for a decade and a half if you look at the macroeconomic trends Sunak and Hunt are just doubling down on economic policies that have lead us here
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  11765. do you want the 6 million unemployed and -3.6% to GDP + 8 Trillion of debt to go with tat? @usedtolovepotatoes8197 
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  11766. 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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  11767. No it won't the Tories have borrowed 1.5 trillion over the last 14 years with zero results were worse off now than we were 14 years ago
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  11768. Its an abortion election once the parading is over the Democrats will win by a landslide The current GOP house couldn't organize a p1ss up at a brewery
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  11769. Why grim? Biden has put the building blocks into the economy for the next decade. Massive infrastructure upgrades and setting the US to be the renewable tech hub of the world. That sort of structural investment has a long tail
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  11770.  @Yawnyaman  No Republican has won the popular vote in decades. Never Trump = 53% the only way he can win is to denigrate his opponent and suppress turnout. The reason he was ahead in the polls was the narrative that Joe was too old. The reason he will loose big is women hate him.
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  11771. James Dyson or Clarkson
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  11772. DJT'S tariff plan will result in a 3 trillion sales tax on consumers and instigate retaliatory tariffs leading to US job losses
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  11773. The USA is in a much better position? Britain is in a half in half out state and cases have surged to 4,000 so things are being pulled back to make sure they don't explode and deaths were 25 TWENTY FRIKIN FIVE not greater than 1000 per day day in day out
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  11774. 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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  11775. FOM brings less migration or hadn't you figured that out yet ?
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  11776. Our deal with the EU lapses in 2026 and ev has to be 60% made in British or it gets tariff Port Tolbot was the same coked steel ​ @rb1062 
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  11777. Thatcher gave Jimmy a Knighthood and Currie gave him open access to Broadmoor the Head of the CPS is BANNED from reviewing cases except those tagged NATIONAL SECURITY. The reason is you don't give that political appointee the power to prosecute s so he can't engage in political prosecutions thus you have separation of powers between the Judiciary and Parliament
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  11778. Thatcher gave Jimmy a Knighthood and Currie gave him open access to Broadmoor the Head of the CPS is BANNED from reviewing cases except those tagged NATIONAL SECURITY. The reason is you don't give that political appointee the power to prosecute s so he can't engage in political prosecutions thus you have separation of powers between the Judiciary and Parliament
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  11779.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  The CPS engages in 11000 prosecutions annually calculate the amount of time it would take for 1 person to review all 11,000 cases and write your answer on the back of a neo nazi right wing conspiracy theory pamphlet?
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  11780.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  The so called extra scrutiny results in form filling and arse covering at the bottom of the pile in some cases just making things worse by reducing the time professional people in the system actually do their job. One man's refugee is another mans opportunity to exploit their misery by demagoguing their plight by claiming that making their already miserable lives even worse will alleviate the problem when in reality it will make things worse and will swallow large sums of money. Your being conned if you think the refugee problems can be fixed the west is involved in too many conflicts due to its insatiable thirst for fossil and minerals and the refugees are the price of that thirst and the corruption it brings.
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  11781.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  All woke means is don't be a misogynistic racist homophobic A hole. Its been taken over by the right to mean that black is the new white and up is the new down. Refugees will happen no matter what, you can do something about it like process them and deport the economic migrants or play gesture politics like Patel and Co . The conservatives and other right wing parties will simultaneously demonise and decry refugees then propose unworkable solutions to garner your vote the central premise being to make you more afraid of refugees and not look at the shit state of their economic policies or how crap they are making your life with them If you accept as I have that refugees are an unsolvable problem and are just a political distraction from the real issues in life such as why are my heating bills going up and why am I paying more tax then proposing lunatic ideas like an island detention camp making them all criminals makes sense as just the latest raging red meat boner thrown to the plebs to keep them distracted.
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  11782. Because all Reform have to offer is a fantasy migration policy with 100 + billion in unfunded tax cuts + fracking something that's as popular as drinking baby sick with the majority of voters
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  11783. His policies are nothing like Labour or Liberal deregulate water oversight so water companies can pour raw sewage into rivers and sea criminalize protests criminalize asylum seekers remove regulations governing award of contracts to enable money to be funnelled to donors Tax cut for bankers Screw the poor with a tax hike and push the cost of fuel deregulation on the consumer What do you expect when you vote for a Con
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  11784.  @theurg4504  You got what you voted for and your now pissed why? Boris is everything you could want in a tory duplicitous, corrupt and a liar. Its not like he's changed at all across his political career
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  11785.  @theurg4504  During the Blair / Brown period average wages rose by 25% the average wage increase since Cameron / May / Johnson is -4% Average disposable income under the Tories has fallen from 22% to 18% not counting 2022 when economists anticipate another fall.
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  11786.  @theurg4504  Bankrupted the country pfff The current government have the highest debt level since the 60's (and that was falling consistently during post war reconstruction) Were going to have the highest taxation levels since WW2 The Con government is corrupt as fk dolling out billions during the covid crisis to their mates on VIP lane contracts A raft of broken promises as long as your arm The economy is stagnant with negative growth over the last 12 years due to get worse a feat not accomplished since the Napoleonic war.
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  11787. Democrat vote skews younger and younger people are less reliable On the other hand Trump polls well with uneducated male voters who are even more unreliable to turn up. There will always be more Dems its do they vote and in enough numbers in the swing states
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  11788. Yea yea yea NothingBurger ALERT Any chance of doing some real work and not spinning endless conspiracy theories
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  11789. You reduce the need for migration by investment in your domestic workforce, the notion that it went up dramatically under Blair is a myth you can check the stats at the HOC. If you cut investment and prioritise tax cuts you need to fetch the skills in from elsewhere
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  11790. @S-North  The economy needs some migration but what we have now is the result of 14 years of under investment in our domestic population, I'd rather home educated kids get the higher paid jobs and supplement the workforce at the bottom with a gradual taper of net migration. Our birth rate is low and we have an aging population what the net figure is can be debated but +1.25 million is too high
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  11791. There all Boomers guess they don't care about the carnage the orange goat is causing, his latest prank invalidate Obama care during a pandemic and rolling back pesticide and pollution regs
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  11792. its only 62,000 per annum of a population of 70 million why all the fuss and angst Oh I know the government need to distract you from the real problems in your life like the cost of living 13 years of stagflation and your reduced spending power. Oh and 500,000 emigrate from the UK every year permanently Jeez you people are mugs
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  11793. These are organised by right wing millionaires funnelled money and done through pacs the whole point is to use these saps to try undermine Dem governors like covid is some political game. Thier Base lap it up like they don't even realise thier being taken for complete suckers by thier masters who live in thier gilded cages. How stupid do you have to be to fall for this shit grievance politics every time and follow your masters every bark and call
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  11794. It's the supply side trickle down model, anyone saying pay higher taxes especially the wealthy and train your own workers gets shouted down as a leftie. You get what you vote for
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  11795. There's been links with the Oligarchs since UKIP started he wants a return to be able to tap into Russian money. Putin funded multiple far right organisations across Europe
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  11796. renewable energy is cheaper has been since 2019 The current energy crisis is caused by our dependence on fossil fuel if we had more renewables we wouldn't have this problem
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  11797.  @Wemdave  don't talk rubbish As of 1 April 2022, the main levy stood at a rate of 0.775p per kWh (kilowatt hour) for electricity and 0.568p per kWh for gas. Current subsidised price is 34p so your out by a lot The carbon levy is just another form of tax anyway For rate comparisons wholesale cost Solar park and wind farms' typical operating costs are 2p/kWh. Current price should be 52p per kWh due to our reliance on Gas. In the last 12 months the government have spent 12 billion subsidising fossil energy prices
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  11798. ​@mcjeebus he's a decent record to run on from being head of DPP
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  11799. The UK has the lowest tax Base in Europe how it collects those taxes and who is paying is another matter entirely. And Capitalism doesn't grow the economy people do. In the States the reason the economy is starting to Boom is the 2 Trillion investment in infrastructure Biden has made over 10 Years the biggest state injection since the Great Depression and a welcome return to Keynesian economics. Both US and the UK Cut corporate tax and it went straight to share BuyBacks and did squat for both economies bar load 3.5 trillion onto the US and 140 billion onto the UK and did squat to economic growth. Everyone I know is sick of right wing Trickle down and this Socialism for the Rich Capitalism for the poor Malarky  @DS9TREK 
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  11800.  @flabbybum9562  our productivity has plummeted as well, your sort of right about loosing experience having a role but the biggest factor is outsourcing and agency/supply workers. If as a business or in public services don't have clear goals but end up getting run off a spreadsheet by someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing then we end up here, it's trying to run an economy as a hedge fund, asset stripping, outsourcing and not looking at true value. I'll give you an example before retirement I worked in IT I could get test servers setup in minutes, the support was outsourced to supposedly save money so I had to raise a ticket wait a couple of days for a response then have a long conversation with the support person instructing them in detail how to set the environment up. So 5 to 10 minutes went into 6 to 7 hours of lost time and my time cost the company an arm and a leg
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  11801. It's still a low tax economy its just very unequal with the wealthy paying less and less
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  11802. no doubt but this story isn't true before committing to comments I always fact check
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  11803. The UK is in the mess its in because it abandoned Green energy Policies back in 2010 under the Conservative government our energy costs are totally reliant on GAS 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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  11804.  @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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  11805. Current situation is the result of Thatcherism If your so dyed in the wool Tory you should be be happy. Reform are all mouth not 1 workable policy
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  11806. And risk their pensions a 2nd time 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.
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  11807. Only the most successful president of the modern era 48 bills many bipartisan passed in 2 years Reduced the debt from 132% gdp to 121% after the disastrous Trump term Reshored 400,000 jobs in 2022 with his policies The media have a narrative its generally a Conservative one try looking for a change instead of lapping it up i
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  11808. The Tories run an economic model called Supply Side Trickle Down economics aka Thatcherism as ably demonstrated by the current budget and millionaire pensioner giveaway Labour run Keynsian Demand Side Economic model which invests in social and physical infrastructure to put more money in at the bottom thus growing the economy by creating demand. So basically fk off with there all the same the 2 models produce drastically different economies
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  11809. Even by GOP terms Scott is a slimeball Why do even conservatives put up with this piece of cr*p?
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  11810. Why would anyone vote Tory there completely in it for themselves, Thatcherism is an economic deathwish
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  11811. Trump runs on issues? news to me
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  11812. He wasn't running a Friday night rave
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  11813. ​@Cruzeoc101 Trump voters are mostly uneducated, of the counties that voted for Biden they comprised of 70% of us gdp And Trump rallies are God awful its like a pensioners clan rally of cultists
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  11814. The Tories haven't balanced the books in 14 years in power adding 1.6 trillion to the debt Just to give you an idea of how bad things are here are some numbers 72 billion spent last year on energy subsidies because we're tied to GAS 120 billion on interest payments The Truss event cost pensions 425 billion Councils spent 20 billion on housing support (2 million council houses not replaced) Water companies are on the verge of bankruptcy yet are still paying dividends Etc
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  11815. Reform have serious policies? Where did they find that joker from? Quote An earthquake with a magnitude of 2.9 has been recorded near the UK's only active shale gas site in Lancashire. The tremor near Blackpool was stronger than those that forced Cuadrilla to suspend test fracking
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  11816. In 14 years it grew from 800 billion to 2.4 trillion with zero real growth Debt is irrelevant its the size relative to your gdp that's important Infrastructure investment increases gdp and reduces the debt ratio
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  11817. You've had half a brexit at best the worst is yet to come
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  11818.  @christinerussell113  there's no such thing we have to deal with the reality in front of us. If you don't you end up with the mess the country is In on all fronts.
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  11819.  @christinerussell113  what's your problem? Constantly trying to blame anything and everything for constant failure and lack of delivery.
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  11820. Net zero would cut your energy bills by around 2/3 rds and detach our economy from world commodity shock 2020 UK energy customers spent 30 billion 2023 UK energy customers spent 170 billion Why GAS price volatility There's also a war brewing in the middle east so Oil prices will go south again Renewable energy has been the cheapest on the Grid since 2019 the Tories don't want to pony up the money to expand and update the GRID they would rather customers keep having to pay extortionate bills
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  11821. Bothered economic imbeciles
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  11822. common sense is insulating your homes to A++ standard to save yourself money instead over the next 2 years the energy companies will make 170 billion in EXCESS profits that's not NORMAL profits its NORMAL + 170 Billion
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  11823. If you look at the past 25 years the tax base hardly moved from 33% till Sunak took charge in 2019 since then it's jumped to 38% , the big change was Osborne adding +5% to VAT to start on the relentless rounds of trickle down tax changes which were supposed to stimulate growth but never did. Sunak has followed the Osborne playbook to a certain extent there's billions salted away in what I'd regard as trickle down cr*p and cuts to public services including capital investment in rail and energy. Everyone also needs to be aware any Tory tax cut is going to be paid for by shifting the pension age to 68
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  11824. Head over to fox put your ear pad on then if you need some
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  11825. Put this woman in charge NOW
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  11826. The second hand car market iis suffering from lack of stock pushing up prices. A lot oof people ii know me included are hanging on tto our cars and waiting for EV's to come more into the market Rising gas prices will only Increase the numbers looking to hang fire on a new car
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  11827.  @RogerYeahmon  yea but it doesn't work in an environment where the govt deliberately keep hammering the unions and encourage outsourcing at every opertunity which undercut pay and conditions at every turn. The answer is robust labour laws a decent minimum wage and investment in skills training and infrastructure Brexit company problem hotline outsourced to India New passports contracted out to a firm in Holland This bunch are a joke
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  11828.  @RogerYeahmon  I used to work in IT got a degree in computer science back in 1982. Had loads of interaction with Indian outsourcing really nice people pleasant too work with but a complete waste of time its not thier fault but outsourcing escalated dev times What would have taken 15 minutes in house escalated to days before outsourcing I'd walk over and clear stuff up with the Architect
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  11829. 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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  11830. Under Blair tax went down for the bottom 20% and went up for the top 9% plus average wages during the decade rose by +25%
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  11831. It is it will be all down to turnout What may turn it into a Harris landslide is how many women djt has p1ssed off every time he opens his mouth he looses more of them
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  11832. Warren cut his legs off with a chainsaw before he'd uttered a word. Yer burnt to the bone. Liz showed him how she treats bankers etc when they come in front of her Senate committees
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  11833. You need to get out more, your echo chamber is really distorting what's happening in the real world
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  11834. What wins were those ? Hes lost most of his court cases, even a die hard Trump fan found him guilty of fraud on the evidence presented ​@Cruzeoc101
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  11835. Currently the Cons are spending billions on trickle down cr@p 4 billion millionaire pensioners tax break 8 billion bankers tax break +6 billion fossil subsidies on top of 74 billion in long ter subsidies So lecture me not you Hunt
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  11836.  @tajsandhu7914  The 2 vaccines currently used in the US are synthetic mRNA and were developed on a computer there not grown. The death rates from covid can be tracked using excess mortality rates over normal 300k by Oct for the US and there are accurate charts for Europe and better data on hospital capacity. Even the more traditional vat grown vaccines use a clone of a clone of a clone they've been no where near a fetus, if it bothers you that much take one of the mRNA variants. Don't spout half baked theories you've read on the internet though
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  11837.  @tajsandhu7914  the local hospital in my town has just got over its third surge of max capacity at the end of Jan, I know a few people that work there it's been manic we've lost a couple of people from my local tennis club to covid both in thier 60's. We've had some severe outbreaks in local care homes, glad to see you live in a virus free part of the world as for me I'll be taking the vaccine same as I take a flu shot every year. Covid and it's fallout and consequences are on my local towns doorstep
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  11838.  @alien4422  Oh yes it is +6% of food inflation is down to leaving the EU a couple of examples Pigs have been culled in large numbers due to the unavailability of Abattoir workers and the need for vet certificates to export Same with Poultry combined with bird flu UK food production has gone down as the government backs replacing home grown produce with foreign imports including fish and well foreign imports have increased in price with fuel costs rising substantially.
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  11839.  @alien4422  I've studied economics for like forever in one form or another and its down to the Government. The government set regulations, the government set tax policy where to tax who to give tax breaks to which firms win which loose. You don't train workers if its government policy to ship them in form an external Labour pool to deliberately suppress domestic wages through Supply Side methods. Those methods are Deregulation, Tax policy, changing the law over unionisation and collective bargaining that rewards such behaviour and penalises those that train their own staff. Penalises long term investment in robotics by allowing cheap Labour to undermine investment. For example we have had a shortage of seasonal fruit pickers even before Brexit which is now just off the rails. Why isn't the government investing in those farms to convert them to mechanised fruit picking? We have shortages in the Care system how about investing in AI and robotics to remove mundane tasks for Carers. Our Tax system was used to reward a transition to renewables under Labour if it had been kept UK energy consumers would have saved 100's of Billions it now rewards with huge gobs of cash fossil fuel companies and not only that deliberately allows them to profiteer and rinse us dry.
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  11840. They've changed the way the figures are counted so its technically not a lie I believe they've cut out Fraud also they use a comparison of latest figures to when we were in lockdown rather than the overall trend from 2010. Labour have also done an analysis of the costs of defunding the Justice system its hundreds of billions over the full Tory 13 years + the social Trauma
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  11841. Both parties have to abide by international Law which is why same old same old
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  11842. He's not got a clue, until a vaccine is produced then no one is rushing to disneyland where his brain appears to be
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  11843. Reforms economic policies are a work of fiction There migration ones are as well I guess some people are taken in by it
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  11844. Hamas are quite willing to sacrifice 2.3 million people as human shields and parts of the Isreali government are more than willing to oblige 2 wrongs don't make a right this is just gesture politics the vote has zero meaning meanwhile the US and Blinken are using every lever they can pull to try defuse the situation and get hostages freed. My father was a guest in a Russian gulag during the war 1/2 his family died in 1 after the war they couldn't return to Poland all of thier farm had been siezed when he became a paratrooper he was effectively fighting on the same side as the Russians Post election Starmer will have to deal with Isreal geopolitics is brutal
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  11845. its only 62,000 per annum of a population of 70 million why all the fuss and angst Oh I know the government need to distract you from the real problems in your life like the cost of living 13 years of stagflation and your reduced spending power. Oh and 500,000 emigrate from the UK every year permanently
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  11846. They would work given the chance this is all manufactured theatre for the masses. Its just Stupid Evil You must be a complete mug to believe anything the current government says they defunded the home office because Austerity cuts and process around 13% of the Total applications last year  @jenniferparry8709 
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  11847. We've had 12 years of economic mismanagement and your bad mouthing Labour? If the Cons had kept Labour Green policies from 2010 the nations energy bill would have been 9 billion less in 2021 Q3 and 13 billion less in Q4 The housing planning insulation standards are pathetic the Energy fiasco says it all there totally incompet and short term taking a budget deficit of 62% gdp ratio in 2010 to 92% in 2019
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  11848.  @chrisharborne7804  The Corbynistas believe you can just turn a tap from right to left and everything works as if by magic If the Corbyn agenda had been on the table it would have met the same fate as the Liz Truss agenda unfunded spending on a massive scale with huge borrowing requirements would have tanked the market in Gilts. You also can't unpick overnight 13 years of Trickle down Fiscal and Economic policy each change and the impact of reversing it needs to be taken into account. I think the government owned renewables project is a great start to introducing state competition which will pressure the market prices down the more it ramps up The problem with nationalising stuff is the cost for water the ticket price is 18.5 billion OH but wait your also going to have to find 62 billion to service the debt that's been allowed to be pumped into the business. Privatisation is a complete disaster though.
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  11849. He has a hedge fund mentality knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing There just asset stripping vultures
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  11850. It has a failing economy and debt to GDP level of 263% which is where we are going with a right wing government UK debt to GDP 2010 62% 2016 82% 2019 92% 2023 100% 2027 107% (projected)
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  11851. They've had a pay freeze for 3 years while the guys at the top got 6% in September What happened to Johnson's high wage economy? Oh dear we've pissed all the money away on a privatised failed test and trace system and vip ppe contracts for our donors now the rest of you can eat cake?
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  11852. Fiscal drag with frozen threshold should be 14500 8nstead of 1250 £500 extra from the bottom
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  11853. And an increase in tax due to fiscal drag of £550 + Pensioners are affected more by food and energy inflation as the average pension income is 18,000 with 4 out of 10 reaching 66 and retiring into poverty
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  11854.  @allip4226  I've lived where I am since 1985 and aren't going anywhere but agree I should pay for that decision. 2 million houses have been flogged off on the cheap and not replaced this will increasingly affect pensioners thers around 1 million people over 55 currently renting
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  11855. That was 8 years ago 4 million that voted leave have left permanently and 75% of the working population think its a Croc of sh1te
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  11856. WHy would anyone vote reform its a vehicle promoting Libertarian Billionaire interests hiding behind populism promoted by a channel in GBN owned by a an offshore Billionaire that runs at a 40 million £ per year loss
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  11857. Give it a rest we've sent a man to the moon invented the IPhone a renewable Grid is a piece of cake The reason its not happened is the Fossil Lobby spend on energy was 30 billion in 2020 its now 170 billion in 2023 they are literally making 140 billion in excess profits out of the UK economy
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  11858. looking at polling it's about right Nige isn't very popular outside his fan-base of 20%
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  11859. That will be a failed PM lecturing one that's failed even more than she did, on the grand scheme of abject failure Boris is about as bad as it gets Signing up to a deal he purposely rushed through Parliament so it didn't get much scrutiny, lying about a hard border in the Irish sea spinning a load of BS about an oven ready deal he had no intention of keeping.
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  11860. This is why Sunak and the Tories will be totally fked and the longer they delay the worse it will get I'm betting on a low of 20 points 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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  11861. lurch to the right get a gubbing he's not wrong
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  11862. Both would be assassins were cookoo whack jobs Hes been told about not using certain courses because there too open ​@HollywoodGentile
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  11863. The best thing a judge could do is deman a Psychological examination to see if he is mentally fit enough to serve a sentence?
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  11864. not according to the economic numbers his Presidency ranks as one of the worst on par with Hoover's
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  11865. The Media seem to be sick of the Tory Cr@p, 7 bins, 15 minute cities conspiracy theory, meat tax, Claims infrastructure investment causes inflation, The Oswald Mosley Tribute act, where the party of investment and low tax and don't forget children voting labour causes cancer
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  11866.  @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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  11867. @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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  11868. @T5Zplayer  what was the wrong thing to ?
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  11869. Polling puts support for right leaning Parties (Reform + Con) at a constant 35% and left leaning party support at around 58% this has hardly moved in months only the distribution has changed
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  11870. After this interview he's likely to loose another couple of points off his approval ratings
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  11871. Tax cuts don't generate enough growth to warrant the tax cut. Example Tax cut of 40,000 for millionaire pensioners that money goes straight out of the working economy into assets. Doesn't attract tax or any GDP growth. Corporate tax cuts just got spent on share buy backs near zero value to the economy. So were stuck till we have a government that will invest in social and physical infrastructure instead of draining money from the system @thejdemon 
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  11872.  @jgi-o6w  At least she listens to experts, Trump blew 4 trillion onto debt for a corporate tax cut as soon as Cov hit poof any benefit gone with rapid expansion of the money supply adding to inflation His tariff and corporate tax giveaway will start a cycle of stagflation
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  11873. There's 1400 to add to the 600 in the Biden budget plus a whole host of stimulus moves?
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  11874. Errr every study put out says poverty and crime are connected as is healthcare and crime it's just the facts disagreement with right wing narrative, what's new
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  11875.  Bryan Halstead  Right wingers are constantly moaning about government spending but seem more than happy to flush trillions of dollars down the toilet on extra prisons and over policing when dealing with the problem is actually cheaper. Just look at the socio-economic science of it instead of farting out grievance politics and you'll find being nice to people is cheaper for everyone and being an arse all the time costs more money.
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  11876. Im surprised Putin didn't get 110% given how popular his mafia state is? Who doesn't want to get sent to certain death or dismemberment in a foreign country for the vanity of its leader
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  11877.  @malcolmalexander5246  He was a hedge fund manager there asset stripping locusts no country needs them The billionaire class contribute sweet FA they hide all thier assets off shore and pour money into the Con party to make sure the rules never change
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  11878. 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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  11879.  @dinodudedanny6324  Your talking modern weapons and well trained motivated Ukrainians against largely Mobiks, modern day semi automatic ammunition travels at 5x the speed of say your old style rifle and is designed to kill and maim by spinning as it hits the target pulverizing bone and liquidizing internal organs. Lack of body armour helmets cold weather clothing reducing mobility and efficiency food shortages nothing but vodka to spruce them up and those that have been on the front without rotation are completely wired. That's not to say the Ukrainians aren't taking casualties but this is not WW2
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  11880. Net Zero reduces Energy costs by switching away from GAS Energy costs 2020 to UK consumers 30 Billion Energy costs 2023 to UK consumers 170 Billion I make that 140 Billion reasons to go renewable don't you?
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  11881. 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 @kennethslade8468 
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  11882. You don't believe anything a fossil fuel company tells you, just assume thier lying The grid needs modernising all over the US if they don't you'll get the same patchwork as is currently in place with broadband. Now there's a thing the richest country in the world with one of the worst broadband infrastructures
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  11883. Starmer is targeting the smugglers not the smuggled cooperating with the people who run the border on the other side reclassifying people smugglers in the same light as organised crime and seizing their assets plus getting rid of the backlog that's costing us 8 billion The Tories offer is to shout a lot about the smuggled as if that will brig down the numbers hint it won't why all the noise sounds what he's doing is a really good step forward
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  11884.  @LosSantosFIB  Analysis by leading economists shows that voting GOP is bad for your wallet unless your very Wealthy This isn't a one off either you have worse healthcare in Red states, worse workers rights as they are anti union. Yet The words Turkeys voting for Thanks Giving comes to mind
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  11885. Spreading toxic disinformation is dangerous, governments in western Europe have got Facebook to ban and remove dangerous content
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  11886. This is Liverpool home of Militant Tendency They make Momentum look Right wing everyone's a champagne socialist to them
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  11887. The Polls put the Tories on 25% I look round everyday in wonder thinking 1 in 4 people still believe in the Cons. By election evidence is showing a huge swing to tactical voting @tonycowin 
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  11888.  @jowallis8  if you trade with the EU you have to comply with EU standards and rules the fact that its 20 miles away means trade gravity will always make it our main import/export market So Johnson's Brexit is just Kabuki theatre for the dumb proles
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  11889. 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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  11890. ​@ChristineRead-ck1uq immigration hardly changed till 2008 go look it up there are charts at the House of Commons, post banking crash it started to rise before it began ballooning post 2010. If you want lower migration you invest in your domestic workforce which is what Labour did with thier big education push creating a well paid middle class workforce
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  11891. It should read Trumps ex staff slams Trump These comments are from those thar served in dirty grandpa's last administration Given how he p1sses women off every time he opens his mouth the world will be glad to see the back of the lecherous senile moron
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  11892. One of the reasons he's not doing rally's is he doesn't pay his bills, there are only so many large venues in swing states + you will get comparison crowd size also This is why he switched to outdoors to stiff a different set of venues now the Secret Service don't want him outside
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  11893. What's that supposed to mean?
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  11894. I'm not really into it not sure why they did it the only reason I can think of is to Troll the likes of the Con propaganda media like here The reason the Tories are a complete failure at justice law and order by the way is they DeFunded the Police Courts and Councils Its Austerity coming back to bite them in the bum
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  11895. They haven't delivered anything for anyone but the rich in 12 years why should they start now?
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  11896. He will try and sabotage the entire country
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  11897. ​@hevchip741 how Dumb do you have to be to give away your human rights the last Bastion against government overreach to do Stupid Evil
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  11898. Its neither GB (run by an offshore entity with links to a Libertarian billionaire sponsored think tank) nor News it's marketed as opinion at best and right wing propaganda and conspiracy mongering at worst. Its part of the Tufton street mob such as the IEA who pulled Liz Truss's strings nearly bankrupting the country Mayfair-based Legatum Institute, which advocates for free market economics has courted senior Government ministers through Shanker Singham, who led a self-styled ‘special trade commission’ for the organisation. The Legatum Institute was founded and funded by the Legatum Group, that has invested millions in GB News.
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  11899. No it isn't its just realising that we all have skin in the game if we pay our taxes Currently if your working in the UK from the commonwealth you can vote in the general dunno what the rules are for local elections but long standing eu citizens can
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  11900. The Conservatives are loosing their grip on power and will do anything to hang onto it even produce performative legislation which will never be enacted but is designed to fuel grievance politics even if it means people getting killed by amping up the rhetoric. Othering minorities in Germany lead 1st to labour camps then to concentration camps then to death camps what is the rwanda policy anything other than othering refugees and putting them in a labour/concentration camp?
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  11901. Course he won't anyone debating Trump will just say liar every time he opens one of his orifices Anyone schooling Biden for a debate would get a psychologist in so that he pushes all the wrong buttons Trump will just explode with absolute drivel and go full mussolini
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  11902. Is the Crash Coming - it may well come to those businesses that are poorly run and have a lot of leveraged debt, if your portfolio is well managed then you won't have invested in those companies so when the market drops you will see a smaller drop and a bigger rise on the recovery. Is inflation going to get worse? World commodity prices are driving inflation across the globe especially Oil and everyone wants to buy stuff instead of spending it on services.
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  11903.  Democrats are Stupid  Joined 22 Apr 2021
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  11904. we can tax property fairly its not hard and There provisional agreement between the US and EU moving forward on a global corporate tax rate. We can't go on like this because the state needs more money to pay off the 100% debt to GDP hole were in @khar12d8 
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  11905. pack it in with the transphobia and don't be ignorant
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  11906. No it wasn't a diversionary operation the Kherson attack is cut the supply lines starve out the troops of food ammunition and water by keeping constant pressure. ukraine mobilised in Feb there troops have been in training for months
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  11907. 58% of current polling shows those people voting for left wing parties 19% for the Cons who he is trying to destroy if it's representative of the public of course it's hostile
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  11908. Its because its a nice thing a competent top notch administrator and they can't have it so they want to destroy it, there complete incompetent delusional arseholes who believe they were born to rule
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  11909.  @sheilaroddick5853  I recommend a podcast if you want to know the full story PartyGate the inside story by ITV NEWS Sue Gray touched on about 1/3 of what went on
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  11910.  @robshirewood5060  Were talking energy Fossil is one of the least efficient ways to generate electricity and it gets more expensive every year. A lot of that expense is down to investment same old same old with the Tories invest in nothing leave it to someone else to clean up
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  11911. Get a reality check Truss had a mandate from who to do crazy sh1t oh yea 175,000 Conservative members Love him or Loath him Johnson's manifesto had a mandate not the batsh1t meanderings of Liz
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  11912. So Sunak is telling us Labour has no plan and this goon from is saying their plan isn't credible which one is it? for the record CPS - founding principles of: free markets, "small state," low tax loosely translated don't invest in anything but trickle down tax cuts and let your worker units expire at end of life
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  11913. The gold thing is a red herring Debt in 2010 was 800 billion its now 2.4 trillion PPI was a Tory idea under Major which was sh1t then and still sh1t in 2018 when it was finnaly axed (current estimates are 200 billion) Austerity didn't cure anything it shrank the economy and shrank tax receipts and by 2016 debt to gdp had shot up from 62% to 82% by 2019 it was 92% Let's be clear no matter your spin on New Labour the last 14 years have been the worst in the economic history of this country to get comparable figures your going back to the Napolionic wars.
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  11914. If you fall for the Trans sideshow look over there distraction you deserve everything this government throws at you
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  11915.  @free9200  it's odd that in a country of 66 million a few people on the edge of the LBGTQ community are suddenly your no 1 prioriiy. I remember in the. 90's the right wing getting into a real lather over gay marriage another nothing burger
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  11916.  @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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  11917. Renewable energy is cheaper than fossil
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  11918.  @davidfoster1055  I have one it's good for top up heating my house is now A+ insulated with underfloor heating on the ground floor. I't's not really cost effective to push the heating right up for a couple of hours while we watch TV and a fire is nice.
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  11919.  @MinkieWinkle  Renewables have been the cheapest on the grid since 2020 before the energy crisis. In 2023 Sunak spent 72 billion on energy support because we are tied to GAS. The reason renewables are now so cheap is the cost of domestic battery storage has fallen dramatically enabling time shifting from an always on resource. Not only that they are zero VAT rated. It is in the best interest of the Customer, the Supplier, the Generators, The Grid and the government to both insulate homes and time shit electricity usage.
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  11920. @MinkieWinkle  batteries aren't expensive for what they do. A mass storage grid node will repay it's capital cost within a year. Your really out of date maybe 5 years ago you might have had a point but capital costs for renewables keeps coming down while other energy sources keep rising. As for nuclear forget it Hinckley C is still not commissioned is further delayed and build costs are now up to 40+ billion It's estimated that it would only cost 30 billion to remove standby gas with battery storage saving 30 billion a year
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  11921.  @MinkieWinkle  I agree there is still too much red tape but even without it Hinkley would cost a small fortune to build. These are quotes from last year since then battery prices have fallen especially by Tesla's competitors. The second quote shows why battery storage saves so much money compared to standby gas The Astonishing Economics of the Tesla Megapack By adding about 300 MW of storage, ERCOT will generate approximately $1 billion in savings in 2025. This is from a one time purchase of Megapacks for $750 million. These savings will also happen each additional year after 2025 - they are recurring! National Grid paid some of the highest prices this winter for gas-generated power on Tuesday night as it scrambled to keep the lights on during one of the coldest weeks of the year. Data from the electricity system’s administrator, Elexon, showed the Coryton power station in Essex had bids accepted to produce power at £1,950 per megawatt hour (MWh) on Tuesday evening. The sums are well above average prices of between £200 and £400 per megawatt hour, although they remain below those paid on 12 December, when National Grid paid £27m in a single day to get power stations to crank up supply. In December, Rye House power station in Hertfordshire received a record £6,000 a MWh.
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  11922. no he wasn't your just trying to justify why Farage is a lying Toad the guy is so full of BS and mugs like you lap it up
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  11923. No he's not its the same neanderthals that voted ukip
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  11924. Taking care of the elderly is now radical? Kilmeade is really snorting some strong stuff
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  11925. 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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  11926. So your switching your vote from the party who only support the wealthy to a party that are pushing an economic agenda for the billionaires and corporations especially fossil fuel? That makes no sense but each to their own
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  11927. They've frozen thresholds till 2028 then screwed over pensioners by cutting NI
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  11928. ​ @Matt-ou7tu whatever you think of Starmer he's his own man
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  11929.  @zSilverWingz  let's be clear any form of economic recovery depends on not just big business buying into the Starmer project but expansion by SME'S Also the expansion of northern cities and the link up of Birmingham Manchester and Leeds with a east west link
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  11930.  @Matt-ou7tu  Quote Tax cuts and deregulation don’t grow economies – investment does, both private and government. The OBR confirms that the investment multiplier is around three times greater than the tax multiplier.
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  11931. You need the migration if you run Supply Side Trickle Down Economics aka Thatcherism If you want to cut immigration you shouldn't vote for right wing parties there economic low tax low regulation model uses migrant labour to feed it - example Cameron's GIG economy fuelling immigration with zero hour low paid work, Osborne then spent the extra tax on lower corporation tax and they spent it on share buy backs To cut the need for migrant labour you need to change the economic model and invest in the UK and its workforce such as modern transport links free University
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  11932. Since when has a right wing gun nut been anything to do with the Dems? ANTIFA doesnt exist its a made up term to try collectivisation of various groups ​@Scratchy-w4d
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  11933. The poll is an outlier the polling average have Labour +18 and once the fuel crisis ramps up this winter because of do nothing 7 bins InaActionMan then that lead will widen 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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  11934. 20% get rejected the current government are sat on 40,000 people who should have already been deported
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  11935. What do you think Conservatism stands for? at the moment its bleeding the working and middle class dry and shoveling great gobs of money to the wealthy while shrinking the economy. its gotten to be purely a belief system with no actual benefits just downsides for 99% of the population. And Sunak isn't loosing the Conservatives the election 13 years of complete incompetent economic management is.
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  11936. They kicked out the experienced ones and filled the place with the dregs of ukip what do you expect
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  11937. 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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  11938.  @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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  11939. What's controversial protecting people from lunatics threatening them with garbage they've heard from the likes of Tucker and other idiots spreading disinformation?
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  11940. ​ @khar12d8 Owen is an elite who lives in the corbynista bubble They dragged the labour party into electoral oblivion
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  11941. + swifties + Black women +800,000 polish descent in Penn + Hatian descent 600,000 in Florida Etc and around 2 million enter the voter rolls every year The myth that DJT was a strong man got busted at the debate.
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  11942. 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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  11943. Austerity is a political choice not a necessity
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  11944. Since when did we get any socialism? News to anyone left of centre
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  11945. Tories promised not to raise taxes in the 2019 manifesto yet every household got walloped by +13,000 Tax base is 38% Labour need to see what the Tories have p1ssed all the money away on
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  11946. Investing in infrastructure lowers bills
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  11947. This bunch of Tories are the worst in political history by a mile and you want us to scared of a bit of centrism and centre left economics. Wow that is one hell of a bubble your in
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  11948. There's 4500 troops in Afghanistan and the situation is really complicated, there mostly involved in intel and support plus there are troops from other nations there. If they pull out the taliban fill the vacuum instantly and who knows where that thread ends. Damned if you do damned if you don't
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  11949. The BBC have right wing economists on that spout complete bollox about taxation trade and debt completely fact free and unchallenged. If you two sides everything even when 1 economist says utter bilge and 99 disagree with him and have the recipients to prove it he still gets to go on the political shows and pretend the guff he's spewing has wider academic support. And they have the cheek to lecture about a comedian holding up a mirror and showing the world what a space cadet our new PM is please spare me
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  11950. Price capping and taxing super profits n fossil won't affect the vast majority of pensioners, your funds are slowly transfered to non volatile investments as you get to retirement. If your pension investors have dabbled with fossil you'd have already filled your boots to overflowing and your 10+ years away from retirement
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  11951.  @BILLYRFCNO1  The majority is down to 1 if he hadn't moved the bill he would be toast, maybe the Orange Ar5h0le had a lucid moment doubt it.
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  11952. Sondland is screwed whatever he says, Jordan is a joke
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  11953. It's worse than that they get death threats from the Militia's, there homes get published in the web the names of their children's schools where their wife works etc. @franceyneireland1633 
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  11954. Right wing economics is destroying our economy and you want more of it but on steroids? the only change you'll get is you'll get poorer quicker
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  11955. he had an appalling record on the economy He lost 150k manufacturing jobs in his 4 year term Biden has added 400k in 1 year Trump expanded the debt by 50% to 134.54% Biden has decreased it to 121.1% On top of that he's passed legislation to turn the US economy into the Renewable Tech hub of the world Trump passed a tax cut for the rich and rescinded regulations one of which was electric carriage brakes on hazardous substances He'll get obliterated in any ad campaign just by putting the 2 records side by side his jobs figures are kin awful
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  11956. Sending NLAW's has got to be the best marketing uk arms industry has done
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  11957. She's not even Conservative most of the garbage she spouts is English Nationalism with a strong libertarian accent. The Current tories are about as unpatriotic as you could get there tearing the Union to pieces to try set up Singapore on Thames fk everyone else.
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  11958. What the hell are they doing nominating an economic flat earther to the Fed board??????
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  11959. Given his high cholesterol diet I'm surprised he's still here
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  11960. A court packed with ultra conservatives chosen by the Libertarian Billionaire Class
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  11961. Crime is related to poverty, bad housing and youth crime is related to both including Austerity and the defunding of Youth services quote The study also states that “following a decrease in youth expenditure in the year preceding, local authorities tend to see increased incidences of bike theft, shoplifting, possession of weapon offences, and a higher proportion of young offenders who re-offend”.
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  11962. She'll stay and Hunt will run things if she makes too much of a fuss then she will be out
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  11963. Such as take on Elon's Libertarian nutball ideas?
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  11964.  @ogzombieblunt4626  Trickle down was insane to start with the fact you could sell it to a public just shows how dumb some people are
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  11965.  @avgjoe5969  speech is never free there's always a price
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  11966.  @icosthop9998  pretty delusional speel there peppered with right wing hate speech given the fastest growing economy in the G7 despite all the odds But hey you want a toilet economy vote Republican you want recession vote Republican you want lower wage growth vote Republican you want higher unemployment vote Republican
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  11967.  @icosthop9998  Elon is Autistic his view of the world is odd its unrestricted by boundaries of time and imagination If your talking to him it's vital you keep him on track and engaged and able to see the minutiae of details that can distract him As far as I'm aware he's a good boss with good perks for his staff he doesn't see though a time when his company is the usual bloodsucking corporate behemoth
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  11968.  @icosthop9998  twitter isn't left wing it bans insane shit the hard right seem to indulge in on a daily basis such as Ivermectin, Italians used a sattalite to steal the election etc
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  11969. He's being propped up by idiots in the media why are you even running stories on this guy he's a non event would loose his deposit if he ran for election and whats Sunak behaving like a lapdog for did he interfere when NatWest didn't pass on interest rate rises? Did he interfere when they got massive bonuses when he was telling everyone else to eat crow? Did he fk the useles toe rag
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  11970. Why do Australians subscribe to this right wing Murdoch for the billionaires channel, the guy is talking complete bollox Biden +6 million votes +1/4 million votes in swing states and counting +4% overall +74 electoral votes law suits 26 wins 1 (minor) 25 tossed out and all that's left of DT's legal team is a gibbering conspiracy theory moron Rudy Guilliani To remain in power DT would have to cheat that substantially that there would be a general strike till he got his fat Orange ass out of the WH
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  11971. Sorry but it is Brexit is a force multiplier if you have an economic shock then Brexit makes it worse ex food is +6% more expensive because of Brexit We used to be a major pork producer for the UK and Europe market the EU market has dried up they can't get the staff for the slaughterhouses so they have been culling pig herds burning the carcasses and subsequently prices are rising. There are 100's of thousands of these stories up and down the economy the small firm my wife works for has seen profits fall by 30% due to the now broken on demand supply chain increased costs additional paperwork and mountains of red tape.
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  11972. They don't when you replace someone because they consistently lie with someone with a track record of lying she will get destroyed because of it. You wouldn't trust a member of the ERG (Kemi) with a toy water pistol never mind the government there all totally insane
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  11973.  @jonathanhodgson2142  I was referring to Mordaunt Kermi is a climate denier member of the ERG, the ERG are hell bent on collapsing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement sending us into a Trade war with the EU sending 10s of thousands of especially small to medium businesses into bankruptcy and restarting the Troubles over in NI. It's the old Batshit crazy Singapore on Thames policy fk the rest of the country
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  11974. 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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  11975. Then how come the Tories bled another 2 points in the polls last week with her antics Not only is she out of touch with the British people but so are you
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  11976. A year on the following has happened Semi retired workers have left the labour market completely Women with children have left the labour market 650k + have died (plus) the rest Hospitality workers are transient and a lot will have moved The US has an aging population that isn't expanding and it's labour market is in desperate need of young low paid workers
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  11977. Nobody poked anyone the guy is a Kleptocrat plain and simple
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  11978. Legal immigration is but that's high to paper over the cracks of the failure of right wing Thatcherism an economic model that's turning this country into Argentina on the Channel
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  11979. We all know he's a narcistic crazy grumpy old guy that needs serious medical help
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  11980. There were vetrans in the peace march, let's be clear everyone condems the violence on both sides
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  11981. He's the biggest Thatcherite among them The issue is Thatcherism itself doesn't work, thatchers economy was propped up with Oil money asset stripping and globalisation
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  11982. They have a system of sales taxes to pay for stuff which keep people poor.
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  11983. There completely fkin nutz every last one of them There all complete morons as well its like Trump came along and everyone had to be as stupid as he was
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  11984.  @gdfggggg  Ahh your an expert now are you? The Tories haven't removed any of the economic pull factors that drive migration if you close off FOM your not getting net 200k from 20 miles away your getting net 750k from 2,000 because 1/2 are dependants. People aren't going to come here permanently and leave their wives, husbands, kids. So until someone changes the economy to not need doctors from the 3rd world because we don't train enough and ours are leaving because of low pay your stuck with importing planeloads from the 3rd world ENJOY
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  11985. With Roe on the ballot and Trump looking more like an escaped mental patient your going to get all sorts of strange results
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  11986. Totally naive if you think Israel is remotely interested in a ceasefire either the far right who make up part of the current coalition want the west bank and gaza ethnically cleansed Also Israel doesn't have the ground troops to subjugate an Urban area the size of Birmingham with 2.3 million people in it @SueCarr-q8n 
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  11987. If he had his rallies he could start up the send her back chant again somehow squeeze her into the squad or maybe get a congressional investigation going into her being the head of Antifa. Someone needs to do a parody of Conservative heads exploding as they trot out racist tropes, they could use the footage from the Kingsman
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  11988. ​@wyattfamily8997 given all historical evidence a Labour government will be infinatly better. Wages grow more under Labour, on average they borrow 1/2 what the Tories do and pay back double Comparing the current Tories to the last labour government you even pay less tax
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  11989.  @countfosco8535  100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts, free reign for fossil companies to turn the countryside into an industrial site, deregulation removing workers rights and abolishing pollution regulations
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  11990. If you have assets they accumulate, my SIPP pension has risen by. 11% in value since Jan due to the stock markets around the world rising, the question is at what point do you pay tax and by how much? We need a meaningful property tax not the post poll tax fudge we have and CGT needs to reflect income tax, also stop offshoring and offshore trusts
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  11991. Apparently Democrats are listening to you with record numbers doing early and mail in voting
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  11992. Starmr is talking about the 6 billion in subsidies to the Fossil fuel companie. I'd add that the reason non of the OIL/GAS companies have been paying tax has been to do with them being able to write off against tax cleanup costs in the North Sea which is estimated to be around 75 billion. Every time I get someone going on about renewable subsidies and net zero I get really angry the Fossil industry gets gobs of money in subsidies and tax breaks beyond your wildest dreams. Renewable energy has been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 yet we see yet another Fossil handout
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  11993. Why would they switch to reform its the same tired Supply side Economics that's repeatedly failed for over a decade, to see how out of touch they are they back fracking. Might have been financially viable 10 years ago but there out on the range with that one its expensive dirty of f*** all use to the economy and no one wants a well any where near them.
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  11994.  @greyvoice7949  Same policies? there not rolling out an insulation policy there not taxing windfall profits there not addressing the housing crisis they've given the bankers another tax break? Do you even look at Labours polices?
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  11995. 90% of vehicles in the area meet the requirements its post 2008 for a car post 2014 for diesel the Cons ran a lie and blame Khan strategy when it was a Tory policy anyway
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  11996. 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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  11997. No it won't Let's reflect on why we are here shall we? The Tories have pumped billions into right to buy without building any new council stock Last year councils spent 20 billion on housing support and its around 1/2 thier government grant which has been halved over the last 14 years That money was then used to artificially keep taxes low and pumped into other trickle down policies Basically we're at a point where nearly every council is near bankruptcy due to Tory policy it will take years to sort this mess out
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  11998. Aus had issues getting a vaccine and they have a primarily govt system if you hadn't noticed government that runs the health system are a lot keener on keeping people out of it with preventative measures.
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  11999. Were borrowing 130 billion in 2023 and there's money for tax cuts? How stupid do they think we are?
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  12000. You'll get lower fuel prices with renewable the high cost on electric is down to using gas to generate electric especially the short term demand Offshore wind £40 per kilowatt hour contract price Nuclear £92 OffGem spot price £200+ The fossil industry will pump out all sorts of bollox to keep its cash cow delivering trillions in record profits Quote A multimillionaire Brexit donor funding anti-‘net zero’ campaigns is the director of a company with tens of millions of pounds invested in oil and gas. The revelation comes as chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to bow to pressure from the motor industry and cut fuel duty in his spring Budget statement on Wednesday. Investment manager Jeremy Hosking has given millions to political parties including the Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party/Reform UK, as well as Vote Leave. Recently, he has been bankrolling Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party, which has campaigned against ‘net zero’, and has been linked to a climate denial group.
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  12001. Your heating bill has trebled because of government inaction on energy divestment from GAS
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  12002. Another self righteous privalged Toff whiney about using xenophobia with his pals in the daily hate mail to screw the country over with disaster capitalism. Yes you used racism to further your political agenda now live with it.
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  12003. ​@redbeard3923 it's a bit lame 65% of the country don't support right wing parties Doesn't make them left wing just means they can see past the populist right wing Guff
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  12004. A net carbon house is possible now and saves you money, you design it from the bottom up and average the cost over 10 years. Developments in Insulation solar wind and battery capability are forging ahead.
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  12005. My Lib-Dem mp had a free afternoon tea at the WI this week even wrote about it in his news letter, very proud of it he was.
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  12006. @terrytunney4089  my father was a paratrooper, everyone needs a tour round the Holocaust museum to appreciate what he saw as he freed Europe.
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  12007. Ahh net zero that thing that will give us energy independence and that the right want to stop at any cost because the fossil lobby and you'd need to be insane to give up your human rights the ECHR is the final recourse against government overreach
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  12008. It's a result of Supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism If you want lower immigration then you need to invest in the UK like free further education
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  12009. So it now comes to pass that a couple can not only get IHT + Agricultural allowance but also business relief wich in total = 5 million I'm a Lib-Dem voter I've written to my MP about this it's pure posturing for electioneering purposes, he knows he's not going to back down so is milking it for votes at the local elections
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  12010. Anyone could do better as long as thier not Tories
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  12011. @susanwhitfield2235  last time they were in power they delivered funded services and wage growth of +25% over the decade 100 million miles from what the Tories have achieved who've now set the record for the longest period of economic stagnation in recorded history
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  12012.  @susanwhitfield2235  Blair got a better economy Major actually cared and didn't pull the sh1t that Hunt is trying. The underlying problem we have is the increased taxation on work with decreased taxation on wealth and wealth generated from wealth this has gotten worse over the 13 years of Tory rule through a whole slew of tax changes. The other fundemental issue is planning, we need council homes lots of them, and grid infrastructure plus an East West rail link
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  12013. 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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  12014. There all on for nuking social security and repeal obama care in a pandemic way to go on the popularity stakes :)
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  12015. There are splits in the economy the overall charts don't really show what's going on you need to look by sector and detail within that sector, the new economy never blinked during the pandemic in fact it went into turbo drive with business adapting to remote working, my company aren't going back to everyone back at thier desk it's going to reduce its office space by 2/3 and run hot desks only plus meeting rooms. Other areas such as PayPal and Amazon are booming but there are some real looses in there
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  12016.  @thelimey351  past +15-20 the number has not much information on relevance. What's more relevant is the left - riigh share
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  12017. They have lots of plans all better than the Cons
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  12018. 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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  12019. Tice is lying about international treaties
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  12020. What's the point? This sh1tsh0w has been 14 years in the making
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  12021. If you want to know why people are disgusted with NatCon then follow the money it's a vehicle for Billionaire interests, there simply using populism to promote an economic agenda that would strip away your rights and create a serf class
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  12022. 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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  12023. It's no wonder he went bankrupt 6 times
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  12024. 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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  12025. No Conservative understands the working class they just pretend that there your friends
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  12026. he can barely read an auto cue
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  12027. whatever he's the most successful US president in modern history the Infrastructure, CHIPS act and IRA are rebuilding America debt to GDP is down from its Trump high of 132% GDP to 121% the longest and strongest job growth in US history quote from FT Since Biden took office, US manufacturing employment has grown by slightly less than 800,000 positions, contributing to the more than 13 million jobs overall
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  12028. Read Mission Economy By Mariana Mazzucato World renowned economist, if your going to get out of this Tory mess you need a whole of government approach combined with the private sector. The UK does not have the fiscal headroom to do squat after 13 years of the Tories pillaging the economy
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  12029.  @stella9624  your just mainlineing whatever grievance the Murdoch media feeds you then spout it back as if it's some hallowed cultural invasion of your very soul.
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  12030. They've put forward an economic stance under Rachael Reeve "The Everyday Economy" Its a million miles from Thatcherism and low taxes for the top They've put forward a stance on Brexit which is more alignment with the EU to vastly reduce the paperwork crippling business a Veterinary deal alone would sort out the NI protocol And a green new deal to move from fossil (Norway has 93% renewable and 3% inflation) Johnson and his client media suck nearly all the media Oxygen out of the system, the same happened with Trump over in the US
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  12031.  @JakobFischer60  There may well be a labour shortage but if your paying decent wages and conditions you'll get the staff. If you try and foster a sense of community at these new facilities and factories then you'll get people queuing up to work there treat them like a commodity to be dumped at the first whiff of cheaper labour elsewhere and you'll have a rolling labour shortage.
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  12032.  @strictnonconformist7369  your looking at increases in more localised jobs if you move from fossil fuel to greener electric a fair percentage needs creating in a decentralised way. Your also needing more tech workers plus other skilled people and so the cycle continues they generate service jobs etc.
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  12033. What happens when Sien Fein come first and the Alliance party come second? What are the old sectarian out of touch crusties going to do then?
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  12034.  @ryanr5541  thanks for the info
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  12035. You need to look at this from the prospective of a narcissist, simple text he can't cope with people who disagree with him because why??? He's always right why are they disagreeing??? There unpatriotic there nasty etc etc throw in the racism xenophobia and he's a bigot as well and it's not a good cocktail. Look at the interview after the Muller hearing it's text book he needs to be in control. Anyone trying to understand him needs a crash course in mental illnesses. Mitch on the other hand is just evil.
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  12036.  @jacoblee5796  what is it with you guys turning yourself inside out to justify the untenable. Just own what he is and why he behaves like he does. Even the one thing he has going for him in the economy is built on sand and has every chance of crashing due to his complete ineptitude borrowing is at astronomical levels. Don't look at the noise look at what's going on
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  12037.  @jacoblee5796  you need to drop the noise words left, Obama and focus on the result of the changes at the border. So gone is the fast processing release then court then deportation, gone is the aid to central American countries. Now is a policy of hold at the border don't release don't process stop legal applications, creating a major crisis, the worse it gets Trump ramps up the cruelty coz that will deter them? You have that against a backdrop of the US and Mexico border economies intertwined it's impossible for DT to build a new Berlin style wall. The guy is a racist as well as being completely incompetent it's no wonder he's had so many bankruptcies.
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  12038.  @hgservices5572  That's because there won't be any to tax or they will raise the age you get it so most are dead
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  12039.  @barrydavey7188  19% of the US labour force are migrants both legal and illegal. It doesn't take a genius to work out what would happen if you started pulling millions out of the labour pool
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  12040. And what's so attractive about Reform? I had a look at thier manifesto 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts creating economic growth from thin air we tried this route before Sunak it was a complete failure
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  12041. Its easier than that trickle down tax cuts dont work and don't boost growth Of the huge sums in corporate tax cuts in the US & UK pre pandemic they nearly all went on share buy backs boosting the Dow and CEO pay ​@lordnoodle2146
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  12042. And GBNews is propped up with it, it would have gone under within weeks without outside funding propping it up
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  12043. Shutting and defunding youth services, reducing school budgets, defunding the Police and justice system. 13 years of constant cuts to public services a tanking economy where the low paid are getting poorer with rising poverty levels what do you expect?
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  12044. Only hope of what? going completely bankrupt we can't afford any more right wing magic unicorn policies
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  12045. Since when has sending people to a concentration camp in East Africa been Christian?
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  12046. reducing the size of the state by Osborne shrank growth, if your workforce isn't healthy or trained or is blighted by unsolved crime because of cuts is counter productive. Deregulation means increased red tape and paperwork for exports we can't reduce tax because last year we borrowed 130 billion and will do the same this year If you want to grow the economy invest in physical and social infrastructure no right wing lala land fantasy
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  12047. If Trump gets a second term your vote won't count for decades, it will be Trump for life as he guts the courts further and the GOP go into full minority rule mode. I was fully expecting Matt Bevin to not stand down in Kentucky and there's no guarantee they won't scream rigged and nix some of the states electoral votes. Democracy is a hard fight to win but can easily be lost
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  12048.  @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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  12049. No one in my area seems dumb enough to support them? Some people never learn
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  12050. The right wing are unhinged, Dominion needs to sue Trump and his bunch of grifters into oblivion Paper paper paper
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  12051. Its no wonder the Ukrainians are calling the Russians ORCS
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  12052. Sice when I don't want a load of far right BNP nutters with swastika tattoos anywhere near the cenotaph
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  12053. If he was labour would be running on tax cuts now give your head a wobble
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  12054. If the GOP get in they can kiss goodbye to either of those being sorted + bans on abortion contraception IVF gay marriage and a destruction of the separation of church and state.
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  12055.  @jonathanj.7344  If you want lower migration you invest in your domestic population, Osborne cut bursaries and funding for Nurses and doctors your seeing record levels of 3rd world recruitment. The result of small state low tax Conservative policy
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  12056. with extreme heat comes climate disaster in the form of ruined crops therefore food shortages glad your OK with spiralling food prices stop listening to the propaganda and use some critical thinking this is about money and power renewable energy has been cheaper than the alternatives since 2019 the current energy crisis is siphoning 170 billion in excess profits out of our pockets to the energy companies aided and helped by the UK government
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  12057. Bernie is not left wing he's liberal you have a shout for him being left of liberal but the meter is so jammed hard on the right it's in the fascist red zone, when will conservatives wake up wealth inequality through oppressive taxation policy will cause civil unrest which will promote an extreme reaction on the right in its current form. It's a loose loose situation for everyone.
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  12058. Only in Tory Britain Their motto "Lets run it on a shoestring with not enough staff no safeguards and pay Cheapest price for wages" Wouldn't have surprised me of they'd outsourced it to Bulgaria ! oh Wait they have 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  12059. No thanks
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  12060.  @gregjones-x8c  The 1st positive quarter in 2 years on the back of 2 million visas give your head a wobble
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  12061.  @jonathanyoung4682  The GDP of the city of London is larger than Ireland and Greece combined, it lost 2 trillion in deposits over the last few years and is due to loose 3.5 trillion in euro clearing business and yet is still growing while the rest of the UK economy turns to sh1t.
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  12062.  @mattmichaela  And what points does he make? His view on trade could have been debunked by a GSE economics student. He and the elite class he represents simply don't understand what there talking about. He doesn't understand how migration works or how you increase / reduce it or how FOM has made the problem infinitely worse. He doesn't understand that outsourcing and privatisation of the NHS will send costs up by well over 50%.
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  12063.  @gregjones-x8c  Your joking still pedalling that nonsense 14 years on? PFI was a John Major initiative that Brown ran with and wasn't stopped till 2018. Cr*p policy but you need to get some facts straight. Current cost across all parties is estimated to be around 200 billion to put that in context the Tories have borrowed 1.6 trillion since 2010. The social floor allows the capitalist ladder to work defund it and you have what we have now rampant stagflation. 2010 debt to GDP 62% 2019 it was 92% 2023 it was 100%
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  12064.  @whysa4  GDP per Capita has been negative for 8 quarters straight, our overall GDP is bottom of the G7 averaged out over those 2 years. We always average 4th because of gold and services 7th is a blip Our export in physical goods by volume has dropped by -7% from 2019 the worst average 5 year fall on record The ONS figure you quoted is 1 Quarter and the trade is out of context our economy is a basket case in free fall at the moment even inflation is set to rise try harder
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  12065. @robertpayne4033  you've added 2 million migrant workers to the economy for 0.7 gdp in one quarter. Was it worth it? Exports by volume are down -7% from 2019 This is the 1st time in history you will be worse off at the end of a 5 year term than you were at the beginning, GDP per capita has fallen and was falling for 2 straight years
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  12066.  @clinteastwood8230  US GDP per Capita has gone up by 10% ours has gone down. We've been in recession for 2 years if you use per capita and account for 2 million migrants
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  12067.  @kevinadamson5768  You pay money to Reform plc and also your deposit which you will loose at the next election. Their campaigning is mostly boosterism from GBN (owned by a Libertarian billionaire with ties to the fossil lobby) and TalkTV (owned by a different Libertarian billionaire with ties to the fossil lobby) Their primary purpose is to pressure the Cons in getting net zero watered down, fracking reopened and taxes and regulation on businesses and the rich kept low.
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  12068.  @BH-fi1sb  its not just Tesla they just happen to be at the forefront, there are multiple trails going on with two way mesh networks where an electric vehicle when connected to the grid is both a receiver and a provider of energy. The grid can smooth out demand by pulling a small amount from thousands of sources and with the software development going as it is the same vehicles can be used as short term batteries for buildings.
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  12069. 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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  12070. Corbyn was the epitome of elite socialist populism doomed to failure as was right wing populism both promised to take us back to a time when everything was better, at least you got to see how Right wing populism tore the Con party to shreds  @SonOfExcess 
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  12071.  @gingerbobful  No they won't they will just process them faster so it doesn't waste gobs of cash trying to be an arsehole on Asylum This mess was entirely predictable post Brexit no we'll probably have to accept double the number of Refugees than we used to pre Brexit
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  12072. The government is spending near on 6 billion a year NOT processing asylum claims NOT deporting 36,000 illegally claiming asylum and NOT allowing legitimate claimants to WORK. How fkin incompetent do they have to be before people jump ship on the Tories and not realise this for what it is money spent on political theatre to demonise others to drive fear because they have Fk all else left to run on.
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  12073.  @Bungle-UK  Its a job she doesn't have to be a Labour supporter to do it. If you'd seen the clusterfk government break everything over the last decade maybe you'd like to take a pay rise and an opportunity to fix broken Britain
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  12074.  @Bungle-UK  last survey I saw had Tory support at 8% with young people which dunks your family trait theory down tthe nearest toilet
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  12075. ​@paulhoughton1691 the Gop have cornered the market on brain dead. I'll give them that
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  12076. We need to work harder for zero seats stoptheconservetives dot vote
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  12077. ​@SillySausage2024 he's a elite pushing Libertarian economics wrapped in fantasy migration policy If you want lower migration invest in the domestic workforce not unfunded tax cuts
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  12078. ​ @hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo Reform aren't centre right thier looney off the scale right Not one of thier policies is workable
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  12079. An out of touch millionaire with Lettuce Liz economic policies your having a laugh
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  12080. My takeaway was there was a lot of tactical voting and the Tories will go full climate denial because ULEZ stemmed the bleeding Labour, Lib-Dems & Greens need to do a full on assault on the media pointing out the billions in fossil subsides and that its the Tories that have tied our market to Gas prices and that renewables are miles cheaper.
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  12081. Yea that's what they said in Germany that didn't end well
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  12082. Kemi is a useful idiot of the Fossil lobby. Reform are just as bad
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  12083. The new flagelants of the age, history lessons all round about the plague
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  12084. Collective failure of the media when Computer Wheekly iis doing your job for you and you can't.bee arsed
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  12085. Yea but renewables are cheaper and if you change the way the credit works cheaper still
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  12086. It's elite bollox to scare the masses because they don't want to loose their tax breaks If Labour are to do anything then they will have to rip out ll the trickle down cr*p
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  12087. Labour are barely left of centre Sunak is hard Thatcherite what sort of Conservative do you want?
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  12088.  @stevefoster5789  It's not other people's money the Government create it in the 1st place through the BOE. Without taxation to pay for services you'd have a tiny % with all the money and everyone else would be in economic slavery
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  12089. @timmo491  a grudge isn't just for xmas
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  12090. How is Trump going to win ? Have you seen him on the stump recently he is completely insane and where are they going to find another 4 trillion for him to spend The CBO estimated in a report issued Wednesday that the extension of parts of Trump’s tax cuts set to expire after 2025 would add another $4.6 trillion to the national debt through the year 2034.
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  12091.  @NB-nk1qy  why define yourself as right wing? The reason the economy is in the toilet is Ideology and following it no matter what the data. The state of the country is in is because it's been hollowed out for 14 years trying to get a tune out of Thatcherism, all Reform promise is the same on steroids
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  12092. If you follow US politics then Corbyn is a nothingburger compared to Bernie the guy got things done All Corbyn did was ruminate endlessly try sell nostalgia for a world pre Thatcher and loose 2 elections he achieved ZERO ZIP NADA
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  12093. ​@oldshiny3012 the state of the economy just keeps deteriorating, Sunak & Co keep spending money they don't have on trickle down cr@p Ex 4 billion on millionaire pensioner tax break 8 billion bankers levy reduction +6 billion further fossil subsidises
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  12094.  @pip1723  hundreds - +23 tax increases alone under Sunak
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  12095. Migration is the result of economic policy If you want to reduce it then you need to invest in UKPLC with free higher education, retraining programs, improved NHS, more housing, public transport NOT TAX CUTS
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  12096. The Pentagon's always talking to thier counterparts from all over the world, I think the book is spinning this story way out of what was planned. The doj crew were ready to do a mass resignation, Milley would have had to carry out a lawful order or if he thought DT was insane resign and convene the gang of 8, I presume the plan was to slow roll any decision with staggered resignations so Congress and the Senate could get involved. Even with the extraordinary power of the presidency you still need Congress approval to declare war on another country
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  12097. Delusional Tory economics d8fferent wrapper
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  12098. It doesn't matter who leads the Conservatives the problems are caused by Tory Ideology so they can't fix them Trickle down doesn't work
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  12099. Gas prices aren't controlled by a country there set by Multi-National Cartels The sooner the US detaches from international fossil prices by switching to renewables the better and by the way the US produces > 100% of its own oil consumption and before you start bleating on about how unreliable renewables are the US sent people to the moon and developed the IPhone, created the Internet a renewable GRID should be a piece of Cake @johneustrom275 
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  12100. Thatcherism for you asset strip all the way
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  12101. It's been on the go for the full 14 years
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  12102. 2 wrongs don't make a right Hamas is a terrorist organisation
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  12103. really good discussion top marks
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  12104.  @djayjp  as the gap grows so should the money supply. I'd add know one really knows what a lot of the new tech companies are worth from robotics to the cutting edge of energy generation the pace of change is acellerating at a near exponential level. The times they are a changing
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  12105. The tax will be paid by big landowners trying to dodge iht 3 mill per couple puts all but the really large farms outside of tax
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  12106.  @jasonjervis1077  Only 5% of farms are liable for this if you take the full 3 million. Pressure on farm prices bought by the rich to avoid IHT should see a cooling of farm prices. Dyson owns 36,000 acres
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  12107. Sounds a reasonable position to take to me, Gribalter can't exist without Spain's cooperation
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  12108. The Brexiteers promised Singapore on Thames but delivered Argentina on the Channel What's he going to reinvent himself as he's already got the nickname 7 Bins after making a total fool of himself the other week His long term idea cut IHT would net his family personally around 400 million yea great the top 4% need some more money here's a suggestion lower the frozen thresholds to pay for it poor people only waste money on heating and food you never know if we have a bad winter it may free up some pension money for tax cuts as well
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  12109. Right wing economics got us here and you want more extreme Right wing economics How does that work exactly? If you don't invest in training up Nurses you need to import them, if your not in the EU they fetch their dependants with them it's not rocket science
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  12110.  @johnosullivan7710  so you believe the stuff pumped out by Billionaires for Trump and Oil Barons for Trump?
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  12111.  @colinhead8118  Trump's growth was built on tax cuts most of it on debt Biden's is built on Infrastructure investment. Difference being infrastructure keeps paying back many times over in future years tax cuts are a quick hit which fizzles out.
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  12112. Wasn't it the Tories that spent 14 years defending and outsourcing the Justices System?
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  12113. @craiga657  what are MP'S supposed to do to with regard to talking to industry leaders not engage in corporate hob nabbing Also for the likes of Starmer he's a publicity known figure he's not going to holiday at Butlins And 20k in freebies buys what exactly a mere few hours for various interests to put thier points over. The problem is fake 2nd jobs not some tickets to a corporate box or free use of a holiday apartment and why now this has been par for the course for like forever
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  12114. We've had 14 years of Thatcherism + Austerity how hard right do you want it?
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  12115. @chickenminute8195  pff since Osborne its been hard right Thatcherite small state A million miles from Blair
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  12116. the ECHR which underpins the Good Friday agreement and is the last resort against government overreach just as the Hillsborough families Why does right wing want to take our rights away, remove our right to strike and ban people protesting?
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  12117. If you move to renewable the it re shores energy jobs + the tax it creates
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  12118. Renewable projects of which you'd count a house's solar panels to a small Turbine on a farm as well as the big installations are shore based they pay tax on the generation and employ engineers and electricians for maintenance. There's a liquid Air project outside Manchester for storage Also we could make 2nd gen batteries if there was government will there Sodium / Ion cheaper and ideal for home deployment  @jumblestiltskin1365 
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  12119. Tax cuts dont create growth. This was busted back in 2029 by a major study looking at 50 years of data going back to the Reagan/Thatcher period They did find they increase inequality Take the ni cut as an example since 2016 thresholds have been frozen or not raised in line with inflation it should be 14350 instead of 12250 Factor in the NI cut and anyone over 44,000 gains anyone under looses yet again screwing the poor and middle class Boe says the economy is flat
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  12120.  @SF-ww9xe  Top states by GDP are Democratic, Democratic president create Jobs GOP one's don't, the economy always does better under a Dem Pres Simple facts for simple people
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  12121. Polls use census weighting the thing is no one knows how Covid deaths and long Covid will affect the data over 1 million deaths which are weighted towards elderly and unvacinated studies have shown 10 - 1 ratio of long Covid to deaths. Politics affects the result in the fact that Roe will energise the Democratic base and also focus Moderates minds for a higher turnout than normal plus all the crazy Republican candidates creates fear
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  12122. Green not going to be ready for decades? Pffff green has dropped to half the cost of fossil per megawatt and it costs 5 cents a mile to run an EV as opposed to 25 for a gas car Amazon are converting their entire last mile fleet to electric in the next 5 years
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  12123. Labour would process the backlog saving 6 billion because they want to spend it on real stuff not showboating for the racists
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  12124.  @mertonsardeen2242  The Conservatives or whoever gets in power will have to process the Asylum claims eventually there is no other option. We are signatories to the UN convention on Refugees and you need to get some facts and stop parroting rubish you get from the media. Were paying 8 billion for nothing more than political theatre so people like you can whine on about foreigners because its always easy to blame the other for your problems.
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  12125. Biden has reduced it from its Trump high of 133% of GDP to 122% Part of that reduction is attributed to inflation and the rest to average growth of 3.6% gdp The Trump tax plans will wreck the economy, tariffs are essentially sales taxes which are highly regressive taking money from the bottom and the middle while lowering tax at the top. People at the bottom and middle spend most of their money People at the top your lucky if it's 20% net effect recession
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  12126. So this alone should give Democrats a landslide Trump ran the economy like he runs his business on other people's money except a nation state can't declare for bankruptcy like The Donald has done on multiple occasions Quote Trump’s most enduring legacy is the historic rise in the national debt It rose almost $7.8 trillion during his time in the White House — approaching World War II levels, relative to the size of the economy. One of President Donald Trump’s profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. Unlike George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln, who oversaw the larger relative increases in deficits, Trump did not launch two foreign conflicts or have to pay for a civil war.
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  12127.  @physiocrat7143  if you'd not noticed the previous government suppressed pay in the public sector then used the post brexit visa scheme to recruit into the lowered wage jobs. This puts downward pressure on private sector pay. If pay is increased then businesses have to increase productivity by investing to maintain profits.
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  12128.  @physiocrat7143  replacing investment with cheap labour has been happening since 2010. Businesses have got used to it especially since leaving the EU has given them an even cheaper pool of labour to draw from. Both the Tories and Reform claim they can run the same moneterist policies and have lower migration. But migration is a necessary feature of their economic mantra not a bug.
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  12129. Government money is just a promise to pay note replacing the barter system the relative price off that note is set by the market
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  12130.  @JeikuAnimeReview  in 1980 oil prices rose to 107$ a barrel inflation was 10% in 2008 oil rose to an all time peak of 149$ inflation was 5.5% the economy was depressed by the banking crash otherwise it would have been double digits. Crude is going up again spot prices have been at a high of 85$ and inflation has crept up to 6.2% The current inflation rate given world commodity prices and a worldwide pandemic is about as good as you could get for the US economy The long term answer is to stop dependence on oil which Republicans and the fossil industry are fighting tooth and nail its like they want an economy that's tied to oil and let's be clear the medium trend would see 150$ a barrel there is little that the Republicans could do bar raise interest rates to 5/6% if there not addressing the underlying cause.
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  12131.  @JeikuAnimeReview  the US produces enough oil for domestic consumption and enough land leases for the next 30 years. EV adoption in Europe hit 20%+ of New car registrations Oil prices are only going one way
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  12132. God Johnson is such a sad f!"£ these days is that all he's got petty schoolyard taunts This isn't Oxford hoorah Henry college get out your tackle and wave it about slap up drinks down in one ogi ogi ogi PA THET IC
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  12133.  @HarryNottings  This deluded liberal has already invested in insulation upgrades + solar and a battery, fk em let them freeze and leave this mortal coil from heatstroke
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  12134. If you do that you loose all your human rights as well Just to note Russia is the only country to withdraw I don't really think you understand the power play here. This isn't about the refugees its more to do with legislation passed such as the policing bill and other legislation under the ECRH you have the right to a fair trail, the right to freedom of religion etc.
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  12135. when your borrowing is 100% of GDP and you want to borrow 40 billion and simply give it to the rich with no discernible benefit what do you expect No fk off and by the way we don't want some of this debt we already have because your as mad as a box of frogs was there response
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  12136. ​ @AlexandraK1 as soon as he'd gotten crimea everything was confiscated by the state and sold to the Oligarchs, its a Russian Mafia run state where people dissappear for not towing the line. The far right across Europe want the conflict to end because the gravy train of oligarch money has dried up
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  12137. It does matter if he lies because the guy is the General of a sovereign state who he had assassinated in a country the US is a guest in without consulting anyone, not Congress not his allies. He's set back relations with Iran, Iraq and the coalition to the point of no return. No one will trust the US not even thier staunchest allies, the guy is a complete and utter moron.
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  12138. Lettuce Liz economics with fantasy immigration policy we know how that ends don't we children
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  12139. We've had 14 years of trickle down policy after trickle down policy implemented in the tax code raising the base from 33% to 38%, no end of outsourcing and zero growth, Reeve reflected on this in her Mais lecture The question is how have the Tories managed to p1ss away so much money as they have also borrowed an additional 1.6 trillion to boot. I don't think taxes need to go up you just need to rip out all the Tory trickle down cr@p and in source the work so you have full control which will massively boost service levels.
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  12140. Such as he's not produced a manifesto yet
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  12141. He knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing He's a devout Thatcherite who can't see the destruction short term Thatcherite thinking has done Why have our energy bills trebled? Why are our rivers like open sewers? Why is the housing support bill 20 billion last year? We flogged of and asset stripped council houses so now pump 20 billion a yearintonthe private sector
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  12142.  @iamthestog  when governments either do nothing or do something they don't have a fkin clue what it will effect the BOE does cleanup we've had 13 years of the Tories claiming their balancing the books yet every year they borrow more and more all Truss did was expose the massive borrowing and total lack of a plan on how to pay it back debt to GDP 2010 62% 2016 82% 2019 92% 2023 100% projected 2025 103%
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  12143.  @anthonyluna352  It's £2.4 trillion we don't have dollars, the BOE owns a 1/3 of it due to QT / QE and a massive amount of money created was injected into the banks post 2008 to stop them collapsing, they hold on deposit 680 billion with the BOE and for some reason we pay them interest on money we created. Even Reform were talking about tapping into this and reducing the interest payments freeing between 20-30 billion just by paying 2% instead of 5.5%
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  12144. The company I work for has already said the long term is a mixed model with remote and a reduction in office space to hot desks only. Your only going to be in the office maybe 1 day a week at most if you want to and for some it will be as little as 1 day a month
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  12145. It's media hype without reading the detail The updated relief can in fact be even more generous for true family farms than the £1m headline. A married couple owning a farm together can split it in two, meaning it qualifies for £2m of agricultural property relief, plus another £500,000 for each partner if a property is involved. That means a farm worth £3m might pay zero inheritance tax, said Arun Advani, associate professor of economics at the University of Warwick and a director of CenTax.
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  12146.  @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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  12147. Pete and Bernie slay it on FOX
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  12148. Everyone it affects your Tax and the level of Services the Government can provide. 1% of GDP = 8 Billion in Tax The reason Taxes have gone up to an all time record is the -5.5% GDP hit because of BREXIT which = 44 Billion loss to the Treasury which Sunak is clawing back by cuts and increased taxes. @OceanGateEngineer4Hire 
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  12149. He has a cealing because 55% would never vote for him, his polling v Joe was down to apathy for an 81 year old + Tariffs are sales taxes which hit middle and working class very hard, his base may lap up his ignorance but most will be aware by election day the inflationary consequences of his economic policies. Also its now being reported that canning the move to net zero will loose 2 million jobs and further damage the US economy
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  12150.  @keithmarshall8796  The schools near me have high numbers of foreign pupils there a business and one I have no wish to susbsidise to the tune of £6000 per pupil
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  12151. Tucker is the embodiment of Lord Haw-Haw it should be his new nick name William Brooke Joyce, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II.
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  12152. 1/3 of councils are on the brink of bankruptcy and it's not because of how there run but constant cuts from central government shrinking their budgets
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  12153. difference is the Toryies talk the talk Labour will actually fund stuff and not gaslight so no there polar opposites
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  12154.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  reduced waiting lists, investing in insulation for domestic properties, green lighting Mayors to build council houses
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  12155.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  every economist outside of Tufton street thinks Austerity is the Root cause of our economic stagnation lowering living standards. All the think tanks that Reeve and Starmer consult with are on the same page with regard to reversing Austerity opening up Transport in the North and kick starting a full scale house building program.
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  12156. We have 50 years of economic data showing that trickle down is a fairy story invented by rich people
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  12157. Reform are just rebadged Neoliberal economics serving the billionaire class
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  12158. Populism in like what Johnson promised all smoke and mirrors. Makes you feel good for a bit then you get angry coz nothing changes @BRMCaptChaos 
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  12159. there not Tory light the current Tory party given 5 more years will x1000 times worse than any Starmer administration
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  12160. There bricking it because the privileges committee will find him guilty and recommend a 30 day suspension triggering a recall petition and Boris loosing his seat
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  12161. They support the EU because there is a mutual reason to do so there after European resources as they pump 2 trillion into their economy to transition to renewables and pivot from China
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  12162. We give them huge tax breaks then they offshore most of it and lock up large portions of it in property and assets what benifit to the economy is that? Give a poor person £100 and they spend every penny in the econmy we want bottom up and are sick to death of the trickle down golden shower
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  12163. You've got ultra Right wing Tory hell stop complaining there nothing to do with liberal Corruption - check Contracts to donors - check remove water regulations so the water companies can dump sewage everywhere - check shrinking economy - check underfunded NHS - check Broken election promises - check
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  12164.  @BrianV-ie4mw  were into propaganda territory the aim is to scare the prolls into voting for a Right or far right party with the aim I presume of trying to push us all to Authoritarianism
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  12165.  @ricky7396  what's the problem in that more money into the economy
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  12166.  @sidgibson5414  He's force deported over 10,000 already it's probably more than Sunak did in 2 years He was DPD and understands how government works and how to get things done
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  12167. Here's an interesting podcast on hydrogen https://youtu.be/ztb5kmVs6FQ It's from the angle of a complementary fuel and looking at heavy industry plus long distance
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  12168.  @tinaforbes1059  go look at the demographic figures yourself there freely available Last year the Russian population shrank by 700,000 this year alone 300,000 have left by the end of the war the net effect on the child producing age range will be -500,000 The fertility rate was already dangerously low inflation and increased poverty will also have an impact.
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  12169. Sunak is a dyed in the wool Thatcherite Truss isn't even Conservative she is Libertarian
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  12170. ​ @ChrisAndCats his asylum claim failed they could have deported him without giving him 3 grand
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  12171. Its nothing to do with big business its the economic policies that drive this and Reform would in many ways be even worse If you cut migration and your still running supply side trickle down aka Thatcherism your economy starts to contract, tax receipts get lower and you have to squeeze the lower middle and professional class more (those people that actually work) to prop it up Deregulate and try lowering taxes and you'll blow up the economy if you cut off migrant Labour as well you'll get spiralling stagflation If you want to lower migration you need to invest in Physical and social infrastructure that means a fair and equitable tax system with the wealthy dipping their hands in their pockets not freeloading as they currently are of people that work
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  12172. A lot of it is down to Thatcherism 3nergy costs in 2020 were 30 billion last year they were 170 billion - why Gas and no incentive to fetch costs down in a privatised public monopoly This feeds into inflation which is going up and the inflation figure from the ONS is a con it doesn't include real Mortgage spend
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  12173. ​ @stevebird7265 Another scare story from a Tory shill The Billionaires channel shows its true colours
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  12174. @lynnevenables7193  get out of your echo chamber and watch / listen to a variety of opinions all your doing is confirmation bias reinforcement There's no doubt that Labour need to pivot to a more centre left position to get elected but the media in the UK is owned by offshore billionaires who want to keep the Tories in power at all costs. I read the FT and sometimes the Times when I go down the library it's generally not that biased with a centre right slant the hit pieces stand out like a sore thumb. Have a go at Starmer for what he is not what the MSM make him out to be
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  12175. 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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  12176. Starmer won't ask and Murdoch won't forgive Starmer for trying to prosecute over the phone hacking scandal and Brooks The only Blaire like thing he'll do is not try and alienate centre / centre right voters who are turning on the Tories and who may well desert on the centre right to the Lib Dems and Labour and the Hard right to Reform
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  12177. @Truth-And-Freedom  the occurance of extreme weather events is increased and you can get sudden wild swings in temperatures
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  12178.  @chatham43  because they've destroyed the economy doing it average wages are -7% since 2010
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  12179. Inflation figures don't include housing and food inflation is well over the core inflation mark
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  12180. Your joking she has more real life experience than the entire Tory party who I may remind you just elected yet another clueless leader.
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  12181. He's a hard core Thatcherite the last budget was pure Trickle down I don't like it but if your Conservative what are you bleating about
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  12182. My brother lives in Norway just north of Oslo its been up to -28 The problem is our infrastructure isn't designed for ultra cold or over hot or monsoon conditions even in Norway this is strange weather but at least they have appropriate levels of insulation
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  12183. His policies are garbage He's going to put JFK in charge of Health and Musk to start the same Austerity that has halved Twitters value in 2 years
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  12184. Faux nationalism if they cared about democracy or thier country they wouldn't fill thier heads so full of shit*
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  12185. Until the money is pulled out of Politics you'll not get a health care option he may as well keep on the good side of the lobbyists, the problem is the tsunami of negative advertising there allowed to deploy that spews toxic lies about social healthcare. Why would Joe back himself into a corner and supply endless attack ad material just to make the left feel warm and fuzzy There's also a real issue on how to get all 50 states to go in the same direction on this issue at the momment the ACA is hanging by a thread
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  12186. They've always been out of touch with 95% of the population they only serve the elite the clue is in the name CON servative
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  12187. The working class over the last 10 years have voted UKIP then Tory and fawn at the feet of Farage and believe in Brexit Jesus They overwhelmingly rejected the Elite Socialist stuck in a time warp back in the 80's Corbyn couldn't lead a dog round the park without having an intellectual argument with it let alone a country, in 2016 we needed TRUE leadership in the end we got a left wing populist a right wing populist battling it out in 2019 I've had builders on and off working on an extension the older ones are lost gone UKIPified full of populist right wing guff so cut the credible working class leader BS to them Nige is the man
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  12188. Why would anyone take them seriously? Thier policies would crash the economy faster than you could say Liz Truss
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  12189. 8 years on brex1t is dead in the water We spent 50 years integrating our supply chains and transport and we see the chaos and fallout all over the economy
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  12190. There where the credible opposition years. Corbyn wasn't seen by the public as such. Starmer is seen as yea whatever
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  12191. It's likely the reason the guys are there is to find Intel to poison the Russia investigation well or and get dirt to use after the election.
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  12192. who doesn't want fracking on their doorstep instead of a wind turbine?
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  12193. Rwanda is a billion £ dog and pony show
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  12194.  @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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  12195. Aside from his continuous attempts at extortion in this call is the fact that it's like thier talking to a complete imbacile. If I were Pelosi I'd play this tape after the Republican caucus object to the election on the 6th and make them listen to thier idiot of a leader.
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  12196.  @dalegribble9101  You have no idea how Thatcher's economics works it would take over a decade to change from a low tax high migration to high tax low migration model
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  12197. It's stagnant has been since 2010 Reeve's budget doesn't take affect till Apr 2025 so this is the tail end of Sunak and Co
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  12198. If anyone tells you how good the economy was under Trump quote them the REAL numbers People have a selective memory Trump in numbers on of the worst POTUS on the economy that's ever lived this is his 4 years Trade deficit +40% People without health insurance +3 million Unemployment -2876000 jobs unemployment rate 6.3% Economic Growth -3.4% Manufacturing jobs -154000 Coal Jobs -8500 All the good times they opine about built on this Federal Debt held by public +50% (4 trillion) One puff of wind and the entire thing collapsed on itself built on smoke mirrors and debt like all his businesses Its going to take a huge lift to clean up Trumps mess but hey its the same old same old Republican come's in promises the world then blows up the economy, they can whine about the pandemic but they spent like crazy to sugar high the economy like I said selective memory and smoke mirrors and DEBT
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  12199. Johnson appointed a hard right Thatcherite in Sunak to the Treasury You believed what Boris said? Mug or what
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  12200.  @chesterdonnelly1212  we have the lowest tax base in Europe which was 33% It has now risen to 36% The bulk of which is levied through work, tha asset class pay very little if no tax at all. Sunak for example paid 21p in the £ There are huge swathes of Trickle down and supply side tax breaks in the system and when Thatcherism stops working you need to tax more at the bottom end to maintain the tax breaks at the top. So it's an extreme Thatcherite economy that over the last 14 years works for less and less people
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  12201. Of the additional 20 billion in fiscal drag you and I contributed to (I'm assuming you pay tax) in the last budget 8 billion went on lowering the Banking levy so an extra bunch of cash for those hard up bankers 4 Billion went on a millionaire pensions tax break giving them 40,000 for no reason and 6 Billion went to the fossil fuel companies for being fossil fuel companies Thatcherism at its finest take from the poor give to the rich @chesterdonnelly1212 
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  12202. @quintuscrinis8032  he's only increased taxes for the likes of you and me the millionaire and Billionaire class have never had it so good. Which bit about Trickle down and regressive tax being Ultra Thatcherite don't you get? Quote Rishi Sunak is the UK’s most Thatcherite prime minister since Thatcher herself 25 Oct 2022 — Rishi Sunak has pulled off a silent coup. The former chancellor has become prime minister without a single speech, interview or debate Since taking power he's abandoned HS2/3 Renaged on net zero And stuffed the rich pockets with trickle down policies
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  12203. What's the point in principled politics if your messages are drowned out by constant messaging from right wing media on boat people Its been wall to wall for weeks Rhishi does this Rhishi does that when in fact he's done fk all bar give us a +£1000 tax bill with the budget NHS broken Justice system defunded and broken Asylum system broken Economy Fked While I may not agree with it I get why here doing it the MSM are trying to rebrand Sunak as the brave new future not someone who is carrying out the same shyte policies that got us here in the 1st place
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  12204. wealth taxes are notoriously hard to collect and administrative cumbersome easier to reband council tax and have a share transaction levy
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  12205. 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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  12206. for what publishing his tax returns every year
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  12207. If you privatize it costs to the public will double and the State will end up paying more because it has to cover Pensioners. You'll basically strip assets from the government for No benefit and end up not owning the Asset so have higher costs EX Water companies @mogznwaz 
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  12208. We're borrowing 130 billion there not exactly being mystic meg here anyone outside of government knows its fkin stupid
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  12209. ​ @swingro2011 he doesn't understand the anti net zero mob are paid shills for the fossil industry or that we've given 500 billion over the years in fossil subsidies over the 80 billion to advance renewable deployment
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  12210. how's brex1t going? it only quadrupled legal and illegal migration so what other brain fart ideas will nige saddle us with?
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  12211.  @patricia49509  there flagship policy quadrupled migration and there bought and payed for by the fossil lobby
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  12212. Take an economics class for fks sake What is it with the right wing have they never studied economic history ?
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  12213.  @pigofapilot1  You trade sovereignty for trade access what little we got back has already been thrown away the illusion that you will get anything different after leaving the EU bar being poorer is delusional
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  12214. No, forcing people because of your ideology is a stupid idea
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  12215. He's an idiot we can't leave the ECHR it underpins the Good Friday agreement and the T C A Even trying is dragging our countries name through the mud ​@gg-sr9lq
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  12216. The guy is a conspiracy theorist and general fukwit you seen his piece on Hungary completely demented
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  12217. We'll call it the Billionaire were all right Jack club instead of parroting trickle down BS they could stop lying and just say were stealing from the poor and middle class to give to the rich
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  12218. No one I know wants 1/2 a billion wasted on Tory political posturing and Quote A little-noted clause in the Rwanda agreement commits the UK to resettling an unspecified number of refugees from that country to the UK All this does is fire up the gammons and boosts the nutters to go to reform
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  12219.  @tonymaurice4157  border crossings are below the last few months of the Trump regime, violent crime is down by 15% and Trump pumped 8 trillion into the economy with 3.5 trillion in unfunded tax cuts guess what happens next?
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  12220.  @arnoldlinder8736  There a sales tax by another name, sales taxes are regressive the less you earn the bigger a % of your income is paid in tax
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  12221. The number of cases goes up due to the Orange idiots lack of a brain
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  12222. 200k dead of covid no plan from Trump except herd immunity and packing the court to strike down the ACA and invalidate pre existing conditions provisions. His one policy is to kill off payroll tax Ergo social security Do his supporters actually know what he's done and is doing and the ramifications of his policies which will lead to a total economic collapse and a depression that will last decades?
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  12223. 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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  12224. @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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  12225. Compared to the Lincon Project ads it looked lame tame and done by a schoolkid
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  12226. He meant build back burger by the look of his waistline
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  12227. Greatest economy ya de ya same economy as it was before till it crashed Greatest Deficit Increased illegal border crossings Increased crime (even chipping in from the WH) Covid worst in the western world all of Europe yesterday 50 US 1200 deaths Chaos on the streets coz he perpetually picks at the scab of racism and pours gasoline on it at every opportunity 60+ days to go till the election that's another 60,000 projected to go on the plague cart
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  12228. and how much would that policy cost is it a priority of a Labour 1st term would the 15 or so billion be better spent on schools healthcare etc. There is a small pot the city will not let the government borrow for the sake of it the Tories have blown the economy up odds are they will try and bribe the electorate with an unfunded tax cut pre-election
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  12229. reform are just pushing billionaire friendly policies why are you a billionaire? they don't give a shyte about your average guy
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  12230. Every month he puts it off 100,000 people renew their fixed rate mortgage and refuse to vote Tory ever again + 50,000 leave the electoral rolls at one end and get replaced at the other Tory popularity with the under 50's is 8% at the last yougov poll
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  12231. If you remove FOM and can't recruit from 20 miles away your recruiting from 2,000 the issue with that is your getting 50% dependants so your 200k explodes to 750k
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  12232.  @Matthew-mw9nf  No POTUS has much in the way of leverage over world commodity prices especially Oil. Decisions by Oil executives made 2/3 years ago affect prices today and exploration to production takes 7 years. Renewables cost half per megawatt hour of Fossil and a third of Nuclear. The tech is being rolled out to run Vehicle to Grid and Grid upgrades are priceless. As for violent crime it's not moved much in total numbers when you look at percentages the murder rate went 1.1% up under the Trump presidency but its states to run their police. You also need to look at the rate rather than listening to wild claims on right wing media. The highest murder rate in the US is Louisiana at 12.4 per 100k NY has a rate per 100k of 2.8 per 100k not that violent crime in the US isn't an issue its not the black / white tub thumping chaos Fox and friends make out. Listening to the rubbish on the right about renewables is to be expected given there totally captured by the fossil lobby.
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  12233.  @Matthew-mw9nf  And you measure crime by emotional responses through right wing media where blue team bad red team good the more they can bombard you with emotional content to make you as tribal as possible the better. I come across some of the fox stuff occasionally if I watched it all the time I'd be suicidal it's a whole alternate dystopia reality. I work in the tech sector renewable and supporting technologies are here now as are EV's not some way off time in the future, the times they are a changin
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  12234. What a short memory you have we've had far right economic policy destroying the economy for a decade and a half which is a million miles from any soft centrism
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  12235. The Insane economic policies of Lettuce Liz with the Batsh1t immigration policies of Braverman Hello Argentina on the Channel Its fantasy economics meets fantasy migration policy, meanwhile the cost of Tory crisis continues
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  12236.  @webiplus  he's not a Blairite no one is that era has gone even if Corbyn is gone the party as a whole has moved left including those more to the centre
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  12237.  @dragonfly6908  why would anyone be deluded enough to think brexit is a good idea or believe the absolute bilge pump of lies peddled by the Cons about it There going to kill 10s of thousands of pigs and burn the bodies because of Brexit, one in three businesses say they may not survive 2022 because of Brexit the government are spending more on customs officers than the annual bill to the EU there 20 mile ques at Dover and its only Jan (slow season) its a complete fkin disaster run by a bunch of clowns.
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  12238. 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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  12239. Why is the chancellor of the exchequer taxing ordinary people to the hilt and not closing tax loopholes that his wife uses and why isn't he taxing the vast amount of unearned income at the same rates as earned. NI is income tax rebranded what's worse is there's a ceiling for the rich after which they pay 3,5% Just keep doffing your cap and tugging your forelok sucker
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  12240. The bulk of blue wall voters don't want anything to do with Reform given they voted remain and think Farage is a lying pile of cr*p
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  12241. Nasdaq was 10,000 after the election in 2020 even with the fall its 16,000+ Inrerest rates are too high were no longer in the world of ultra low inflation for better or worse it will bounce along near 3%
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  12242. You know with the ulez thing the Cons will go full climate denial
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  12243. He got knocked off the right wing rags by Starmer employing Sue Gray and the Johnson Circus dropped a bomb today The economy is still shyte it needs a complete overhaul to turn it round more right wing guff will just make it worse how the fk do they get ever get a tick for economic competence
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  12244. Tosh we've had the same Thatcherite trickle down cr@p as they've moved ever right
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  12245. Hunter has done mild nepotism and he's getting his taxes investigated! Yawn it's not even a story at this stage and like who gives a f*** what Hunter Biden does the guy is middle aged and not under his father's control. We could talk about Don jnr looking like he's hyped on speed or Melania swearing about Xmas or Kushner being implicated in the Koshogi murder or Ivanka being as big a crook as Daddy!
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  12246. they why vote for a cheap knock off when the original has completely failed?
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  12247. 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts in thier manifesto + fracking Been there watched a lettuce decompose
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  12248.  @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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  12249. Not a touch on the Con's outsourcing the probation service and its cost to fetch it back in house. Didn't think it was a good idea then don't now. @maccagrabme 
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  12250. Whoever takes charge after the next election will be fiscally constrained, Liz Truss has torched any wiggle room on borrowing The way of driving forward a new agenda is with things like planning reform, the promise is new towns, there needed in NIMBY Tory voting constituencies. And Planning reform will speed up Grid roll-out were desperate for new connectivity + 1/3 of councils are on the edge of Bankruptcy while dwindling budgets are a factor a bigger one is the amount there shelling out in housing support to the private sector mainly due to the right to buy schemes the Cons keep pumping money into. Some are up to 50% of their budgets.
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  12251. Reading of the water bill last week to clamp down on sewage spills But that doesn't get clicks
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  12252.  @steevoh7186  older male fed up people that consume too much media rubbish and fell for the brex1t con who don't want to admit they were sold a pup.
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  12253. It's 1.25 million And It's driven by right wing economics that doesn't invest in its population If you want lower immigration invest in free further education creating more home taught doctors for example rather than p1ssing money away on trickle down tax cuts
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  12254. Tories have asset stripped Council housing for decades and is one of the main reasons 1/3 of councils are on the verge of bankruptcy You can't keep plundering public assets indefinitely the sh1t is really hitting the fan now
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  12255. The SALT Tax changes introduced in the Trump Tax cut were deliberately designed to hurt Democratic states with higher taxes and better services
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  12256. It will mean a lot of resource connected to the grid through smart meters to manage peak demand and grid stability there's about enough electric to run your house for 2 days in your average car. You can already see these collaborations with urban Bus companies that are sharing their batteries onto the Grid when not in use
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  12257. He could just plead insanity
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  12258. She's deluded it's her parties economic model that drives migration by running a low tax don't invest in anything economy
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  12259. Were keeping ours till it dies as we are waiting for more choice on an EV which will be our next purchase. Talked to a couple of friends about it there doing the same
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  12260.  @evolife1044  aren't we all
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  12261.  @soberanisfam1323  sold our 2nd car and got an E-Bike conversion kit, only go into the office about twice a month these days work remote the rest of the time.
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  12262. statute of limitations on this is 4 years, HMRC can only go back 20 if its a deliberate pattern of behaviour Anyone looking at this can see it's just political and will backfire
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  12263. Opposition hardly NatCon has a clue in the word CON, It was sponsored by a fossil industry think tank
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  12264. @robertelliott2216  why deliberately misspell something if you have a point make it without being childish
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  12265.  @reeling-in  If you vote Tory your either a Billionaire / Millionaire or delusional they don't even support business anymore
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  12266. I can't afford the Tories dunno how you can per household taxation has gone up by £13,000 since 2019, if your going to start with dodgy figures you'd best check your own history because you know maybe people will look
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  12267. Yea it's like the Lib-Dems didn't spank thier ar5e in blue wall land So why did my blue wall constituency turn Lib-Dem Coz the river is full of sh1t, the roads full of potholes and the hospital which is the main care centre for miles is full of RAAC
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  12268. Reform are the same failed right wing economic policies that needs immigration to feed it If you want to cut imigration you need to invest in structural and physical infrastructure not cut everything to the bone deregulate so we get even more sh1t in the rivers
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  12269. One of these alleged parties was in his own private no10 residency. Your telling me that he didn't notice?
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  12270. Look mate if your health care provides it get some mental health therapy, don't 5hrow your life away on conspiracy cr@p
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  12271. 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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  12272. Labour have plenty of plans Shut down tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations and get the countries finances in order being number 1
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  12273. I think what we learned was there's a lot of men that can't distinguish between fact and pure bullsh1t
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  12274. 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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  12275.  @montanamountainmen6104  why would you vote to increase costs on yourself? Republicans have been robbing the piggy bank since Regan every short sighted inaction piles on costs.
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  12276.  @montanamountainmen6104  your not going to pay higher or lower taxes unless your a high roller. The big republican tax cut put what 20$ pa in middle income pockets for a two trillion deficit. If for example you don't upgrade the grid you'll get a continuation of rolling blackouts which pushes up electric prices and screws you over your fridge is off food spoils in the summer you freeze in the winter. It hurts business and pushes up costs and prices across the board.
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  12277. The economy is fked by Thatcherism Its relentless drive to cut services and not invest in the uk population is driving immigration through the roof and the economy down the toilet
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  12278. There are rules on impartiality and campaign contributions. GBN is run at a loss by a billionaire with the purpose of bypassing the ballot box and political campaigning restrictions.
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  12279.  @catfishfortesque-smythe437  Using government to enrich himself by diverting planes to refuel in Scotland then have the crews stay at his Golf Club on expenses. Block sale of the FBI building to a real estate company for development of a Hotel which would have rivalled one of his Use government aid to blackmail Ukraine Use the IRS to have audits done on his enemies These are just the tip of the iceberg he basically thought government was his own self enrichment tool
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  12280.  @catfishfortesque-smythe437  you tend not indict Presidents but you have to say he's giving it a good go and aside from that the stuff I mentioned is both illegal and well documented. He'd pass an insanity defence no trouble anyway Person Woman Man Camera TV
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  12281.  @Grokku.61  He's a complete A hole like Trump and would do nothing for the economy
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  12282. What anti Russian propaganda is that? The Ukrainians want to be Ukrainians Putin is following the age old Fascist playbook Putin has purged dissent and eliminates enemies at home by any brutal means possible and does so in controlled and captured territories installing his FSB thugs along the way to suppress the local population. They will loose lives but retain their country if they fight They will loose their country and lives if they surrender The central problem here is Ukraine is an independent country and because of Putin's actions will never turn east again he's blow it completely
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  12283. Mean tax average in Calafornia is 8% Mean tax average in Texas is 8% All the noise is from the wealthy as the bottom 20% in Texas pay 13% and the top 5% pay 3% Calafornia tax system is progressive the more you have the more you pay Texas is regressive the less you have the more you pay
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  12284. Depends if your rich or not, the reason you hear so much about Texas is the wealthy also go on the media and bang on about taxes which there only paying 3.5%. People are also stupid and don't look at all the other costs as in purchase taxes property taxes cost of getting sick etc. @ags3066 
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  12285. So your all in on a hard Brexit that's so far cost our economy hundreds of billions in lost taxation shrinking exports and GDP and leading us into the highest inflation in the G20 bar Russia But hey Flags
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  12286. The Republican backers spouting Russian propaganda is crazy, Trump is a straight jacket case he has been for a while
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  12287. It's not just Blue states its Red as well but they've probably got some slush fund for them
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  12288.  @bigfisher4354  Joined 5 Mar 2024 = tory troll. Tax base = 33% during Blair / Brown so it has as much credibility as 7 bins and meat tax
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  12289.  @bigfisher4354  propped up by oil Money and Asset stripping the Tories blew the lot on tax cuts. 2010 to 2019 base was 33% Osborne repeatedly tried to cut tax with zero economic success all he did was blow a 1 trillion hole in public finances.
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  12290.  @bigfisher4354  we are now 8 Quarters straight of negative Per Capita GDP growth
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  12291.  @bigfisher4354  The consumer spend on energy in 2020 was 30 Billion in 2023 it was 170 billion equivalent to increasing the 20% threshold to a 40% tax rate
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  12292.  @inspectahwoke5746  creating a state owned power generation company you know red is the new blue :) joking aside You can't unpick overnight 13 years of Trickle down Fiscal and Economic policy each change and the impact of reversing it needs to be taken into account. It needs doing but if your doing it like Mogg is doing the EU law bill it will just blow up with unexpected consequences. I dunno why they get into their heads that somehow its a rebadged Tory you hear it on the media and I suspect its a narrative to try dissuade people to vote Labour. Blair was an arch centrist and his economy was light years different to the last 13 years with pay growth well funded services and the wealth gap stagnat. Cue Torygeddon and a wealth gap that isn't just a trickle of money going to the wealthy its like a firehose.
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  12293. Sunak is a dead man walking All the Rwanda nonsense has done is whip up the crazies who will go to more extreme parties while Labour squats in the centre Even your average Tory centre right voter have deserted them
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  12294.  @ThomasMadden-hd1oz  It's pointless printing money if you spend it on cr*p like the Tories have with endless trickle down tax breaks that do fk all to create growth
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  12295. ​ @GoodKingMort Corbyn was an elite out of touch populist His foreign policy was pure peacnik fantasy land His nationalisation program would have taken 20 years for very little benefit bar racking up huge debts and derailing the push to net zero A man so arrogant he handed the Tories a huge majority on a plate enabling the worst trade deal in history
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  12296.  @sebastianguerre6868  The laffer curve and Reganomics have been debunked so many times by 40+ years of real world data its regarded as junk Read Arguing with Zombies by Paul Kruger Nobel winning economist Recent examples 2015 Cameron tax cuts - result debt ballooned to 92% GDP economy stagnant 2017 Trump corporate tax cuts - result sugar highed the stock market which has since self corrected by - 1/4 ballooned the debt and the increased money supply is sloshing round the economy causing part of their inflation. Recent study by the LSE Keeping tax low for the rich does not boost economy Major reforms reducing taxes on the rich lead to higher income inequality but do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment, according to new research by LSE and King’s College London. Researchers say governments seeking to restore public finances following the COVID-19 crisis should therefore not be concerned about the economic consequences of higher taxes on the rich. The paper, published by LSE’s International Inequalities Institute, uses data from 18 OECD countries, including the UK and the US, over the last five decades
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  12297.  @ancietman  How can we rejoin, your just logic twisting yourself into a pretzel. Beergate is a nothing I was a campaign worker, there was a pdf from the government with advice on a safe campaign. People were coming and going all the time I'm not even sure that Starmer and Rayner where there at the same time .
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  12298.  @Peter-Ac  I wasn't there I was here but campaigning non the less. Its a non story
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  12299.  @Peter-Ac  just to expand I was campaigning for the Lib-Dems in my home constituency the pdf we got from the government declared campaigning a work event there were few restrictions on working anyway by April even less. Up and down the country similar gatherings were going on phone banking leaflet distribution loads of people coming and going and working late. Johnson got done because there were people in the cabinet office who didn't work in government but had been invited round to his birthday bash such as his decorator Lulu they were also in tier 2 lockdown pre vaccine
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  12300. Reform economic policies are the same toxic Thatcherism that got us into this economic mess
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  12301. The type that don't believe in magic unicorn solutions and who pay attention to experts and aren't mired in cult like behaviour because foreigners and flags.
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  12302. Its politics the Admin are trying to get the legacy makers on board.
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  12303.  @earnesttbass8107  Debt is it's a way of controlling the population. If educated people were debt free they may choose to become philosophers, writers ,musicians, take up travelling and expanding their horizons or even set up new innovative businesses. Saddle someone with debt and there forever paying the Man.
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  12304. the tin foil hats are out today
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  12305.  @alexrobertbrian  What that I actually read policy documents like the 15 minute city thing. Finally someone doing something to improve the lives of people in Cities by improving public transport enabling more local services and shopping options. My Mother in law is now unable to drive I have to take here everywhere from medical appointments to shopping and nut balls like you bleat on about measures to improve people's lives that don't own cars because somehow a CAR is more important than a person Get a sense of prospective
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  12306. Fascism is Authoritarianism Like Taking away people's right to Strike (minimum service levels bill) Taking away people's right to protest (policing bill) Taking away people's Human Rights
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  12307. Tax cuts dont grow the economy after 13 years of the same Thatcherite drum and it failing every time youd have thought theyd twig by now Squeeze 1 billion off people on benifits who spend 100% of that money in the wider economy and give it to the top 4% who will lock 80% of it up in assets shrinking Gdp & reducing the overal tax take. Voila, you've just removed 800 million from the economy
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  12308. Trump tariffs are a sales tax on the wotcha and middle class, he doesn't understand they will trigger stagflation
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  12309. Trump is currently laundering campaign money through his businesses the guy is and always will be a Con man Trump University bankrupt Trump casinos bankrupt stiffing contractors for millions The list is endless
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  12310. Its his party he took over candidate selection so when elected they can pass stuff instead of spending 5 years infighting like the Tories have
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  12311. @KateWandless  yes they were and this 8s fr9m 2019 you not nowhere in 2025?
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  12312.  @rockerjim8045  It now transpires that the amendment the Tories put forward and Reform supported did NOT add a requirement for a new inquiry instead it killed the bill completely. If anything showed more evidence of grandstanding at this scale then you must be blind and deaf
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  12313. It's the right wing media ecosystem that constantly stokes fear and hate, they use the fight and flight reaction in people's brains Facebook has a lot to answer for
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  12314. So have I the last 13 Years are even worse than the Thatcher years and they were grim the best period of economic growth including average wage growth of 25% was Blair / Brown  @seantaylor9758 
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  12315. ICE cars spontaneously combust at a far higher %
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  12316. Yes by the look of it but here's the rub This will wash in the red wall because they are stupid older male ukip/Brexit/Boris uneducated and older working class On the other hand It will go down like a case of syphilis in the blue wall And ask yourself Who is buying top of the range Tesla's is that group of voters going to support not building infrastructure
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  12317. It's the elites trying to scare you because they will loose loads of tax breaks How many people use off shore tax haves to avoid IHT ? How many people have a 2nd property and exceed their CGT allowance?
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  12318.  @willhall4037  It's an unfunded tax break costing around 60 billion. Reform are not going to put up taxes on the wealthy to pay for it so your into Truss levels of economic instability. In fact there's another 60 billion in unfunded tax cuts for them as well.
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  12319. No one is blaming him for the virus, the divider in chief is imploding and he needs to stfu and let scientist's do thier job The markets crashing aren't totally down to him either but lack of leadership makes things worse, no one trusts him including all those that get fat off the stock market, can't Fox news just be truthful for once
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  12320. Pass the sick bag are you serious
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  12321.  @R3tr0v1ru5  so the economic lift that Labour gives the economy is just a coincidence? All you get with so called Conservative or what are called pro capitalism is Socialism for the rich with endless tax cuts and breaks paid for with capitalism for the poor who are locked into paye.
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  12322.  @Cosylyc-u-5-4  Sunak has done zero to affect inflation and has no plan but a set of flailing promises to try keep his backbenchers from oustinghim. 1st any tax cut won't create growth and is unsustainable with borrowing last year at 130 billion and debt to gdp rising, second to actively cut inflation he'd need to address the energy crisis. 2 years on the price gauging by the energy Companies is at an all time high with British Gas recording 950% increase in profits in a closed public monopoly market thanks to Sunak and the feckless Tories. You wanna be poor keep voting for the likes of Sunak whi is clueless
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  12323.  @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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  12324.  @TooDarnSoulful  it's debt tto gdp is 100% We borrowed 130 billion last year and repayments are 120 billion Were in a Tory borrowing Doom loop
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  12325.  @TooDarnSoulful  Major left debt to gdp of 45% for most of Blair period it was 40% Since 2010 it's gone from 62% to 100% now wth1. 6 trillion in borrowing
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  12326.  @TooDarnSoulful  2% one off hit to GDP 2019 debt to gdp was 92 % 9 years of never balancing the books
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  12327. quote Labour sets out plan to “rewire Britain” and build the clean energy grid the country needs, unlocking £200bn of private investment. where currently paying +140 Billion in excess profits to energy companies and you reckon it won't make any difference ? Stockholm Syndrome or what @Bobisalive 
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  12328. There vote is too spread out and there a bunch of old angry white men anyway pretty narrow voter pool
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  12329. she was sacked for lying and continuing to tank the Tories in the Polls last week they lost another 2 points
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  12330. why ? are you keen on more trickle down haven't the Tories screwed you over enough?
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  12331. Sunak is a below average middle manager that's failed upwards Anyone with 1/2 a brain would have scrapped Rwanda on day 1 on cost even if he was on board with Stupid Evil
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  12332. They'll process them faster which is a start
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  12333. When the problem is Conservative Ideology why would Labour not improve things by investing in UK plc instead of trickle down tax cuts
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  12334. When Osborne cut bursaries for nurses why are people surprised that were importing thousands? There are no end of Cause and Effects going on to the current problems. @sgb6476 
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  12335. ​ @James_36 Thatcher screwed the country over her economy was built on Asset stripping and oil money Norway own thier own oil fields have a 1 trillion wealth fund and have collected 1/2 trillion more in tax from that asset Thatcher p1ssed it all away on short term tax cuts, not content with giving away the countries assets she stripped councils of millions of homes, last years bill for housing support was 20 billion, energy prices have trebled with the likes of British gas making 900% increased profits and the rivers are turning into open sewers. That's Thatchers legacy not some rosy eyed right wing fairy story
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  12336. N95's do and its to stop those infected spreading the disease primarily  @AnnyOKtoday 
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  12337.  @manmaje3596  we didn't stop economic activity is we shut down parts of the service economy. Large parts of the economy also went remote
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  12338. let the right eat itself I say there both talking complete bollox
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  12339. The on demand global supply chain broke in multiple places due to the pandemic some companies are changing supply locations and there's fossil inflation given that I'm surprised things didn't break even more than they did.
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  12340.  @OffTheCover  Inflation is below 3% and illegal crossings are lower than Trump's final months
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  12341. No taxes on overtime? Project 2025 says no pay for overtime So you pay zero tax on zero?
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  12342. What's common senses? Sitting on 40,000 people and not deporting them because you haven't processed them She was speaking at a right wing Libertarian think tank The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research mainly funded by big oil such as ExxonMobil These people dont give a sh1t about working and middle class there sole purpose of existing is to screw as much money out the system for the billionaire and corporate class there no different to the IEA who where pulling Truss's strings Jeez you people are mugs listening to elites like this yank your chain
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  12343.  @sherbertufo5247  rejoin the single market then
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  12344. @sherbertufo5247  untrue, an economy recovers and grows with its small and medium businesses Take performing arts a multi billion £ industry cut off from its main market with no alternative Port Talbot closing because of 3rd country status Supply chains going from on demand to next month if your lucky Stick your head in the sand if you want but it's economic term is trade gravity which never alters and the only way of fixing our economy is to revers as much of brexit as possible
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  12345. sold their soul so now there all in with a false prophet Not a believer but if you were then satan has a mighty role call from DJT one of his most successful agents on earth
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  12346. If Tice's guff filled elite populist Reform are the answer what is the question?
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  12347. If you dont want younger people to vote Blue try offering them some policies instead of going round banning abortion, books, healthcare Putting up pointless lawsuits to stop student loan forgiveness etc.
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  12348. The question is why? In 2010 they should have increased tax and borrowing instead of shrinking the economy by 2% In 2016 we should have voted remain instead of shrinking our economy by 5% And never have elected Truss So here we are.
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  12349. Bases named after traitors that's a strange hill to die on
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  12350. 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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  12351. My son has Autism, it took nearly a year of hard graft from me and I'm retired to get him a job, his main issue is he can be very non verbal. I read books went through online material putting together a package for a prospective employer, got him some voluntary work for experience and then wrote around. He is now 4 years employed been employee of the year and is happy, BUT he needed so much support to get there this year at 25 he past his driving test thanks to his boss insisting he needed to take it to drive the estate machinery. H now drives to work and is nearly independent. I retired early and had endless time and resource to throw at this but without support with detailed knowledge of Autism a plan for employers this would never have happened. People with special needs NEED support not kicking off the benefit system because they don't have it.
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  12352.  @hoxtondave9619  the 2 countries that locked down properly NZ and Canada are on for 3% growth next year so stick your lockdown theories the nearest garbage bin The UK and Russia are the only 2 countries in the G20 who won't have growth the connection being one is under sanctions and the UK put trade sanctions on itself with Brexit and there both suffering a brain drain
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  12353. Yes they get gas and oil from Norway as well but you need to reprofile energy consumption to renewables currently wind is the cheapest and we really need major investment in tidal
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  12354. There an economic car crash hasn't your standard of living fallen enough?
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  12355. I you want to lower migration you need to raise taxes to build social and physical infrastructure which educates your domestic workforce and improves productivity across the board. You also need additional regulations to manage your economy which needs protectionist policies to sustain certain strategic domestic industries. Reform are advocating a Truss style model of unfunded tax cuts & deregulation while chocking off supply side labour to a supply side globalised economic model hello Argentina  @YMC1955 
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  12356. ​ @MasterJTLS after Blair? The guy that delivered +25% average wage rises, well funded schools and hospitals? Your sitting through the biggest contraction in personal wealth in history and your bad mouthing the most successful PM in post ww2 history are you sane?
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  12357. Stop being ignorant and putting labels on an entire population of young people
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  12358.  @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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  12359. She was completely incompetent
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  12360. The aid stops the flow of migrants otherwise it would be even worse
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  12361. Don't worry DJT hates everyone your just getting extra's because he's a racist
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  12362. Loeffler is such a garbage candidate is this the best they can do? go Rev go She just stood there for the whole show going He's commie She should have said Socialism for the Rich Capitalism for the poor
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  12363. You do know why taxes have to go up don't you? You can't pay for those mythical trickle down tax breaks with vapour, how will the millionaire class survive if they don't get their tax breaks. Socialism for the rich capitalism for the poor
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  12364. ​ @THG_101  There was a registration surge among women in 2022 after Dobbs and a huge surge when Harris took over the ticket this was also boosted by the Convention and the Swift effect. The tab data from polling is showing somewhere in the region of Harris having a 21 point lead over DJT with women Early voting and mail in is male 44% Female 56%. Polls are a reflection of past elections An incumbent who was defeated has never run again an incumbent has never passed on reelection passing to their vice president to run a Black women has never run as the nominee of their party before
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  12365. Mogg is a Libertarian there isn't a Conservative bone in his body
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  12366. ​ @kalex381 I get cheap renewable power I'm with octopus if you have a solar / battery system you can fill up on cheap overnight renewable energy. Standard tariff 24p per kwh Overnight tarif 13p Off-peak 21p Overnight ev tarrif 7p
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  12367. ​ @kalex381 our standard price is high because we don't have mass storage to flatten the demand curve but use standby gas peak generation at eye watering costs This year the uk government zero rated batteries bought as part of a solar install, just had mine fitted, I don't use grid electric between 4-7pm now and have access to cheap overnight tarrifs
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  12368. @kalex381  a renewable grid is miles cheaper than one based on fossil Reason Air and sun are free so cost benifit over time increases Fossil increases over time as costs of extraction processing and transport increase x inflation + Wind is always on you put mass storage on strategic grid nodes to remove eye wateringly expensive gas peak plant
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  12369. 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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  12370. Liz Truss was completely wrong we have 50 years of data since Reagan & Thatcher which shows Tax cuts DON'T create growth The average growth rate with Osborn's corporate tax cut was 0.5% GDP increasing tax receipts by around 40 billion till it went up this year at a cost of 200 billion in lost tax receipts. All the data we have points to companies using the bulk of tax savings on share buybacks in turn increasing executive pay If you process the Asylum claims you will deport 40,000 staying here illegally and save 6 Billion in costs as well as boosting treasury receipts by 2 billion due to the enhanced economic activity of the granted applications
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  12371. The approach is a partnership between government and the private sector where the government greases the wheels to direct certain economic outcomes It's based on world renowned economist Mariana Mazzucato s work Mission Economy
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  12372. State operation? Gearing up for an excuse to Nuke Ukraine then
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  12373.  @busherstudios  I see Ukraine fighting for it's freedom and also US companies minting it in arms sales as the Russian arms exports collapse. Europe are re arming because no one wants Russia to control Ukraine it's resources, it's wheat, it's population and arms industry. Israel and the arab nations have been at war ever since I started voting 50 years ago.
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  12374. I'm still voting Labour, 24k a year in freebies is slightly over average for someone not in Government and he is the Leader after I looked into it. The big gravy train numbers are on the Tory side in government.
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  12375.  @jezdye3615  I used to work for the GEGB then National power before going to pastures new. The demand curve for electricity is called a duck curve the cost of UK energy is calculated on the cost of the most expensive unit at peak demand time. If you flatten and fatten the demand curve energy prices start to plummet you do this by replacing Gas Peak plant that runs for minutes a day with mass storage.
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  12376. 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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  12377. You can't have a low tax Tory economy without the low wage supply side immigrant labour source that fuels it Reform pedal the same supply side trickle down deregulated garbage that Tories like Liz Truss do except their going for fantasy immigration policy too @erikaclose5998 
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  12378. 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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  12379. Around 500 Trump believers will have thier lives ruined, thier families lives ruined in the name of the Big Lie all because one man is such a Craven coward he can't admit he lost. To him these people are suckers and marks to be used fleeced and tossed away, the representatives who support an alternate reality do nothing more than embolden the liar, how many more people's lives will this man ruin Because Everything Trump touches dies.
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  12380. ​ @DilbertWhitehead it's a better idea than the hotchpotch of building we currently have and would avoid current issues like creating ringroads through built up areas
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  12381.  @DilbertWhitehead  There's plenty of space on it the issue is the South East and London and lack of investment in transport, housing and infrastructure nimby, boomer by any chance?
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  12382.  @DilbertWhitehead  we have a million over 50 renting coming up to pension age, the government spends 20 billion on housing support, multiple generations are stuck renting with no possibility of having a secure home to start a family and a deliberate government policy to restrict supply and not invest in transport has sent house prices soaring by 66% in the last 14 years while wages stagnated. People's lives are being destroyed and your worrying about a view get a reality check
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  12383.  @DilbertWhitehead  You were told leaving the EU would increase illegal migration you claimed project Fear. You were told loosing FOM would vastly increase legal migration and again claimed project fear. If you want to lower legal and illegal migration how about campaigning to rejoin the EU and take some responsibility for the sh1tsh0w you've put the country in?
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  12384.  @DilbertWhitehead  from 2018 Historic examples include Britain’s decision to end the unrestricted entry of Commonwealth subjects in the 1960s, Germany’s experience with admitting temporary “guest workers” from the 1960s, and the US ending its labour program for Mexican workers in 1965. Drawing lessons from those experiences, the SMF predicted that ending EU freedom of movement and restricting EU nationals’ right to enter and stay in Britain for work will have precisely the opposite effect on immigration patterns to the one many Brexit supporters say they want.
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  12385. No Thatcher era policies were specifically designed to offshore the industry at its cheapest price undercutting domestic businesses. By creating high unemployment you hammer down inflation rather than dealing with it
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  12386.  @scendalbymodelrailway  I think you will find that your wrong I was there they needed investment not having the rules changed to deliberately sink them.
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  12387.  @scendalbymodelrailway  so because there was behaviour by the unions that you disagree with the only solution was to deliberately make them unemployed and trash the business they worked in?
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  12388.  @scendalbymodelrailway  Fix the system then what Thatcher did to most of the North was deliberate and way beyond just fixing Unions
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  12389. REFORM are just another right wing guff machine selling unworkable populist solutions to a gullible audience the solution is simple you process them not sit on your arse and shout about how cruel your going to be If you process all the asylum claims you get to deport 40,000 people and save 6 BILLION Those that have a right to asylum when working in the economy will generate another 2 billion in tax
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  12390. We had 14 years of Tory catastrophic government see you in 5 years
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  12391. Keir received his knighthood for "services to law and criminal justice" in 2014, following his time as Head of the Crown Prosecution Service from a Tory Government who thought he was Marvelous @JoelJoel321 
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  12392. And why would you trust Reform there backing Fracking which has no benefit to any UK voter all it will do is feed the Fossil corporations profits
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  12393.  @captango  So we go with the dregs of an English Nationalist party in UKIP who where aiming to hoover up the BNP National front crowd with toxic rhetoric over migration and freedom of movement, no thanks
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  12394. Renewables are 2.5x cheaper on forward contract than Nuclear the argument against net zero went over the event horizon in 2019 when they achieved parity with gas priced electric. The uk is paying out tens of billions in tax subsidies to the fossil industry And we don't own any of our fossil resources they go onto a Cartel controlled world market
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  12395. Trump was never going to win the popular vote it was always going to be could he squeak a narrow path through the electoral college. Why do Republican mouthpieces think DT is popular he got booed every time he showed his face outside of his safespace
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  12396. “Endorsed candidates received an aggregate vote share penalty of approximately 1.5 percentage points.” @abvevo6406 
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  12397. How about it's not about immigration but Sunak abandoning every economic policy that Boris stood on in 2019 Net Zero - gone Levelling up - gone Social care - gone housing and planning - gone HS2/3 - gone Boris didn't stand on a low tax free market agenda he was economically Liberal
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  12398. Yes exactly economic growth powered by renewable energy
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  12399. what's with ths stupid as fk transphobia He's given a definition loads of times if you don't like the legal definition then tough the guys a lawyer after all
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  12400. Sunak and H unt salted the earth on the way out with unfunded 20 billion NI cuts to try back Labour into a corner where there 1st 2 years would have been effectively wasted This man is a vulture capitalist partly responsible for the banking crash in 2008 I hope the little tw*t just leaves
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  12401. The Colorado joke is dumb as an example they have drive through voting as well as unrestricted mail in and hundreds of drop boxes, they rank second in voter accessibility. As for which of those twenty somethings is the most racist the GOP bar is so low its hard to tell
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  12402.  @MICHAEL-vy3ch  This isn't exactly true it's a culmination of debt that is a drag the extra +$100 a month on top of other debts on around 30% of the working population
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  12403. The answer is get the youth vote out not dwell on conspiracy theories about an establishment cabal. The numbers showed Biden swamped it with older voters and was nothing to do with the DNC.
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  12404. DJT'S economic policies will bankrupt the country Latest estimates put his sales taxes as costing working people 3 trillion over 4 years, then there's the retaliatory tariffs on US exports which will cause lay offs and closures.
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  12405. desperate liar it's what he called him 38 billion is 9.5 billion a year or 295 per taxpayer or 1 year's worth of fossil tax break and the figure isn't even true
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  12406. ​@concernedcitizen12577 we had a vote for pr it was rejected in 2016
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  12407. That's what net zero does from new insulation standards to flattening and fattening the demand curve
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  12408. There going to try claim all the inflation was the fault of the Democrats even though the same has happened in nearly every country and the US was the only one not to fall into a recession
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  12409. there on the side of the law wish the government where
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  12410. Yea but the trolley is an easy target
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  12411.  @YouTube-are-Trump-Toilet-Crud  I rerad Animal Farm the other day fascinating psychological insight the parallels are scary
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  12412. Right wing policies over the decades have done zero for the economy or to create jobs Neoliberalism has been a complete failure we can see the same in many western economies
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  12413. Jeez what a load of right wing tub thumping nonsense, Murdoch is a complete Pariah
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  12414. It needs fixing not sure its cost of just wiping out fees is the right one what about those paying off their student debt?
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  12415.  @deanjames2476  Truss has put many spanners in the government works with her Budget as well as holes and Boris bled the coffers dry during Covid I had a look at cost its pretty eye watering measured 12 billion in 2017 probably now near 18 billion It needs a long term solution I'd set up a working group to look at it and come back with a range of alternative solutions remember there's student debt to deal with as well it needs converting into some sort of proper tax rather than this convoluted loan system. There is so much economic repair work needs doing and you know a tax cut announcement pre election is coming
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  12416. It's been made worse by Brexit and Labour will at least clean up the Tory mess and not spend billions on deliberately stalling the system. Reform plans are just another show pony and if you think I'm giving up my human rights to that clown you have another thing coming
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  12417. yea he pointed out the law why are you so keen on giving up the right to protest?
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  12418. @_NoHandle_  indirect taxation always screws the working and middle class when will people wake up and there also wanting to remove taxes on wealth such as inheritance tax
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  12419.  @AndreS_22246  why did he mess up? 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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  12420. Net zero isn't the problem Fossil fuel is if you let idiots like Mogg distract you with blather about fracking your just buying into the Con Any gas cracked from shale will go onto the world commodity market we have zero control over its price and fracking is dirty dangerous and destructive to local environments. Electricity from wind is a fraction of the current retail price and there's a host of greener distributed technologies he's just talking bollox
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  12421.  @nemosays6337  they have already switched from cobalt in batteries lithium comes mostly from Australia and refining oil uses way more cobalt plus its unrecyclable On top of that graphene is being mined in Canada please don't spout Fossil propaganda it makes you look like gulible, if your going to Diss EV's at least do some proper research
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  12422. ​@californiadreamin8423 it's the ni bribe they costed it with fantasy cuts
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  12423. Had as far as I'm aware Went and had surgery 2021 doesn't seem to have altered his kleptocratic psycho side still stealing still crazy Rumors he had parkinsons as well he's absolutely paranoid about covid
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  12424. The mines will close whoever is in charge, Trump will screw you he lies all the time just ask the car industry
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  12425. what truth bomb? you would need to be insane to let that kleptocrat control the majority of the world's wheat production as well as all the mineral wealth + an additional 40 million people to conscript
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  12426. ​@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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  12427. It's around 2.5 times more expensive to produce energy from coal than an offshore wind farm Reform and it's leader are bought and paid for by the fossil lobby who don't want us to have energy independence it breaks their business model
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  12428. @minicheddarsarebest We have some near us there not a problem at all. I drive past Drax regularly it's a complete eyesore on the landscape
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  12429.  @goffthomas2554  you seen the size of the site it's massive there is no space saving and it's an effin eyesore
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  12430. Tits like you keep boosting the Tories Its going to take decades to fix 14 years of these complete fkwits you keep brown nosing
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  12431. 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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  12432. There is no centre left core there all right wing nut jobs
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  12433. any vote by us is just virtue signalling it has zero effect What would help is if we took Palestinian refugees but that is politically toxic, with Labour on a +20 point lead the MSM need to try make it look like the next election is some sort of contest
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  12434. from a climate denying group
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  12435.  @Tydurden2025  there herding in the sheep just in case they vote for another party Sell them scare stories shout Rwanda at the top of your voice and cross your fingers the plebs vote for more Trickle down economics which screw them over
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  12436. the ones voting against ULEZ are the likeliest to be compliant 2008 for a car Labour messaging is all over the place if I where Kier I would have just said we need to re look at the scrappage scheme which has money provided by central government and carpet bombed the area with activists who would explain what ULEZ was.
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  12437.  @alangardner8596  Reform's voting pool is broadly white male uneducated and over 50 according to polling
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  12438. ​ @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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  12439.  @simondavies2262  They've been pumping billions into right wing politics to try derail net zero including in this country It breaks their business model if a country has control of it's own energy ex 40% of world shipping is dedicated to moving fossil around
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  12440. Its a cult dunno what independents think the guy is unhinged the slurring is getting bad
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  12441. 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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  12442. What a stupid person, right wing support in the under 50's is around 10% thats both parties combined. That will drop further with the national service brain fart
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  12443.  @waltermcphee3787  Our peak load is supplied by ON Standby GAS. All prices are connected to the last mile price
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  12444. ​ @davzer3773  Why do you keep changing the goalposts and we don't need batteries for a month just between 4-7pm Also they don't have to be lithium, there's a liquid air battery over in Manchester a sand Battery in Finland and also liquid metal ones in the states. + Pumped hydro is a glorified battery as well
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  12445. Asylum claims have quadrupled since Brexit It's almost like working together has value I don't want to say this but we told you what could happen and we're told it's Project Fear It's your shtshw so own it
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  12446. General political push from all parties has been a 2 state solution for decades none have any power over Isreal
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  12447. Thatcher destroyed the blue collar base that was part of her strategy to ensure Labour could never win another election. Blair also created a system which saw 40% go to university quite a few turned and voted for Cameron Times change only 8% under 50 will vote Tory at the next election
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  12448. ]Its PMQ's not SPMQ's and he's answered it loads of times and why be so fkin ignorant and transphobic pushing a media agenda that's designed to get you to hate on Trans people because thats all this bunch of robbing Tory b'stards have
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  12449. Trump V the Swamp? He is the Swamp, mired in it up to his neck So what did he do Incited a riot on Jan 6th with his endless lies which got people killed and ruined hundreds of people's lives Incited violence against poll workers across the country who were trying to count votes by endlessly claiming he'd won when he had not Multiple faked elector schemes Attempts to block the certification of Biden with other numerous schemes
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  12450. 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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  12451. more than you think given the way Mortgage rises aren't calculated properly @Charlie-o1r4p 
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  12452. 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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  12453. Our economic plight is the result of over a decade of Supply Side Trickle Down economics aka Thatcherism as its death throes turn the UK into Argentina on the Thames Rising immigration to paper over the cracks of ever decreasing structural investment Thatcherism + Austerity × Brexit the economic doom loop of right wing economics
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  12454. Billionaires are fuming over Biden's tax plans to claw back money pumped into the economy during COV and it's also said there rallying behind getting every piece of climate legislation dismantled. Think not what you can do for your country but how much you can personally take from it ahh the greed goes unbounded Days after laying off 14,000 people Musk has his board of sycophants try to reinstate his $56 billion pay deal
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  12455. Leaving the single market is an utter failure instead of the sunny uplands businesses are being crippled with thousands of pages of red tape and have to follow hundreds more rules. The current course of action will see thousands of small businesses especially in the North go bankrupt
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  12456.  @farmerned6  there was a vote to leave the EU not the single market or free movement area the best anyone has managed was 42% on the back of a boat load of lies. There selling you snake oil when they talk about British identity 70% of people born I the UK over the last half century have a parent or grandparent who wasn't born here. Live in your fantasy world the rest of us will pick up the pieces of your stupidity in listening to complete idiots like Farage and Johnson
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  12457. Wind is the cheapest on the grid by a huge margin why wouldn't you expand that 1st onshore has a lead time of 1/2 years nuclear is around 7 as is fossil exploration
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  12458.  @Youtubedeletes  by the time there mandatory they will be a fraction of the price they are now an EV has 40 moving parts an ICE has 4,000 economies of scale are going off the charts and Tesla currently make 20% markup look at it like what happened with the IPhone there's a premium model then within 5-6 years the market is swamped with cheaper options Solar panels are going the same way 2 major developments in the pipeline
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  12459. Reform are bought and paid for by the Billionaire class Promoted by GBN which is owned by an offshore Libertarian billionaire Libertarian billionaire
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  12460. Brexit the biggest driver of migration ever implemented 2 years 2 million visas go figure
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  12461.  @EagleBill1  Experts told us in 2018 migration would go up in fact it's quadrupled reason - dependants and getting labour from thousands of miles away Experts 4 Brex1t ultra's 0
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  12462. ​ @NPC--666 woke = don't be a racist sexist homophobic arseh0le Used by the right wing to target minority groups such as the trans community who's teenage population have record suicide levels and spread HATE
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  12463. quote It is quite common for a person with dementia, especially in the later stages, to spend a lot of their time sleeping – both during the day and night
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  12464. It's 62,000 a year and your paying for 60,000+ who should have already been deported but haven't because the government is cr*p
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  12465. No it won't it's a n electoral gimmick at taxpayers expense we want our 155 million back and the Tory party can pay. Its your useless stunt
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  12466. Who would want someone like this as thier congressional representative so steeped in conspiracy theories there eating him from the inside.
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  12467.  @markblance8492  He has a mortgage The plan is to move to a permissive system which will unlock the Grid backlog for one thing, the Tories have spent years arguing about Pylons and windmills. There's a huge level of stored development that's mired in red tape and NIMBY ism
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  12468. @markblance8492  why would he tax middle England more Sunak has baked in rises till 2028? The sorts of money needed will be from the myriad of trickle down tax breaks and subsidies to corporations embedded over the last 14 years. Planning will change to permissive, councils will be empowered to build with the private sector, land banking banned with use it or loose it. The Tories have created an economic doom loop of cutting services which shrinks the economy then boost gdp with migration without repairing the damage to services, rinse repeat
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  12469.  @markblance8492  tax base has been pretty constant these last few decades at 33%, currently its going up because from 2010 to 2019 the Cons kept borrowing in 2010 debt to gdp was 62% 1,6 trillion later in 2019 it was 92%. Come cov then Truss they've really blown up the debt to 99% of gdp. We borrowed 130 billion last year and have interest payments of 120 billion, the Cons couldn't run a bath let alone the economy never could
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  12470.  @wakeup6060  Russian BOT
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  12471. If you where investing in the future of this country university would be free
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  12472. Don't parrot junk reporting and opinion stick to facts The right wing media are in a constant cycle of bedwetting at the moment looks like there having a day off attacking Ed This is from carbon brief The UK’s right-leaning newspapers have unleashed a huge wave of editorials attacking energy secretary Ed Miliband since last year’s general election, Carbon Brief analysis reveals. In the first half of 2024, newspapers published 16 editorials – articles that are considered the newspaper’s formal “voice” – attacking Miliband. In the second half of the year, since Labour’s election win, this increased to 45 – roughly two every week. Right-leaning outlets such as the Sun and the Daily Mail repeatedly called Miliband an “eco-zealot”, a “madman” and a “hysterical eco-obsessive”, due to his support for net-zero policies.
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  12473. I had a look at the Dominion stuff it's absolutely top notch, it creates a paper trail you get a print out of the ballot, they even did a hand count of the paper backups
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  12474. Refugees count for 62,000 of the 1.25 million total also 650,000 dependants
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  12475. Showing a bit of of ignorance there calling an economic hard right Con party socialist? Wherever you been for 13 years?
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  12476.  @stan_austin  what do you call 13 years of extreme trickle down Thatcherism + Austerity then?
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  12477. ​ @julianshepherd2038 in 2019 we where still in the EU and our debt to gdp was 92% Today we've applied severe trade sanctions with our closest market leading to a hit to GDP of 5.5% (or = 50 billion in lost tax revenue) the economy resembles a skip fire with raging inflation from supply side shortages of Energy Food Housing Labour + The current government's position is to let the BOE apply a demand side policy to crush the UK economy further if you think its bad now wait till next spring when rates will be 6.5% because Sunak is doing fk all to increase supply of any of the above
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  12478.  @chrisj9700  Your having a laugh the paperwork red tape and tariffs has destroyed the On-Demand Supply chain we used to have through Europe were now the customer of last resort for many firms delays are in weeks before we got goods overnight or next day. were completly fked as a destination for large multinational businesses. as an example my wife deals with multiple countries in the EU each one has different systems for trading with a 3rd country (UK) the paperwork regarding VAT alone is the stuff of nightmares its gone from 3 VAT rates to 27. The waste is in the 10's of billions and its only 1/2 implemented there is worse to come
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  12479.  @chrisj9700  inflation Quote Adding up the impact on all British households suggested they had paid an extra £6.95bn as a consequence, they said. “Between December 2019 and March 2023 food prices rose by almost 25%. This analysis suggests that in the absence of Brexit this figure would be 8 percentage points (30%) lower,” the report found.
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  12480.  @TomMAF4  I wish the public where more active in finding out how there getting skinned senseless by Thatcherite trickle down policies + Austerity but they've voted the Tories in 13 years straight. The IMF recommended a post pandemic wealth tax way back wrote to my MP about it Crickets in the political ranks and crickets in the Media. I have very little faith in the public sad to say
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  12481. he knows zero about our energy market Bills are high because were tied to Natural Gas so why is he doubling down on stup1d?
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  12482. @jamesleeson6970  Anyone can answer a question if they just make stuff up, people have pointed out to him he is wrong on multiple occasions but apparently facts don't matter
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  12483. @jamesleeson6970  he claims you can order the navy to dump refugees in France, Boris tried it they told him to get stuffed as it was an illeagal order under maritime law. Leaving the echr has no bearing on being able to dump on asylum seekers Our energy is expensive because we're tied to Gas and get grid standby load from on demand gas power stations - he wants to ban battery mass storage which will save a small fortune. Etc As I said anyone can answer questions if they make stuff up then get people to believe the bs thier spouting
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  12484. World Oil commodity prices are all Powell's fault? Hang on weren't they Biden's fault yesterday and Fauchi's fault the day before
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  12485. The stupidest senator in Washington claims what exactly? He could put additional funding in it tomorrow if he wanted but the GOP want it privatised
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  12486. To get from where you are to a single payer system is a monumental task, red states are still bitchin about Obamacare. The way it's paid for is an anathema to the GOP thier main goal in life appears to be in stripping out the tax system that pays for it. They will lie steal and cheat to achieve that goal. Maybe the answer is a framework that supports a state sytem. Job number one is to get the money and corruption out of politics.
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  12487. He had the bankers and the millionaire pensioners to think of as well as handouts to the fossil lobby
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  12488. Economy is booming on the back of the infrastructure bills Harris's job was to sit there in case the big guy croaked As for Trump's economic policy its the same rubbish unfunded tax cuts for corporations, this time it will start a sell off in the bond market given how much debt he ploughed into the system during his 4 years
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  12489.  @evolassunglasses4673  He lost 150k manufacturing jobs in his 4 year term Biden has added 400k in 1 year Trump expanded the debt by 50% to 134.54% Biden has decreased it to 121.1% On top of that he's passed legislation to turn the US economy into the Renewable Tech hub of the world Trump passed a tax cut for the rich and rescinded regulations one of which was electric carriage brakes on hazardous substances
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  12490. They'll fund services instead of spending it on trickle down cr@p
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  12491.  @rb1062  + 4 billion reversing millionaire pensioner tax break +8 billion reversing bankers levy reduction + 6 billion Scrapping latest fossil subsidy + 15 billion raising CGT to 28% + 2 billion vat on private schools +2 billion Scrapping nondom +1 billion banning management consultants +3 billion removing agency and supply staff from public services Then there are the myriad of outsourcing contracts and this is just a starting list,
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  12492. It got this bad because we've had 13 years of Thatcherism aka trickle down economics + Austerity x Brexit Example Osborne cut Nurses Bursaries in 2010 and rolled it into University wich resulted in fewr people taking up nursing roll on 2023 and we have a Nursing shortage so your getting a Nurse from Nigeria because we've left the EU and she won't come without her Husband and kids hence 1.25 million immigrants last year with 1/2 dependants Example Sunak gave 2 billion in tax cuts to millionaire pensioners paid for by fiscal drag adding 1800 in tax to the average family, that money goes out of the economy straight into pension assets
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  12493. Interviewing Tucker isn't good journalism its lazy the guy is a trust fund entitled idiot off fox a channel that pedals billionaire garage
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  12494. There's no fire to small DT couldn't pour gasoline on and make worse, no slight to insignificant he couldn't dwell on till it eats at his rotting soul, for F sake he even got jealous of Dr Faucci being more popular than him such a small mean petty individual
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  12495.  @smoothbeak  there's been surveys of information sources, those outside the the right wing bubble get thier news and information from multiple sources those inside the right wing bubble get thier news from one or two. The only news and information source I distrust entirely is anything Murdoc related he's a parasite.
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  12496.  @roland1912  I've started reading books and papers as well as in depth articles on topics rather than diving into an opinion straight away. Like why did the RNC change its stance on Putin, anyway a fun fact from that reading the GDP of Russia is two thirds of California's. The media portrayal of a colossus on the world stage is complete fantasy.
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  12497. Just this one is disinformation go fact check it
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  12498.  Joe Maleski  you'll create more jobs by funding unemployment, people on the very bottom rung spend 100% of thier income, everyone is in this together getting a tax cut is the last thing you'd be looking for.
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  12499.  Joe Maleski  you give the unemployed money which feeds the economy at the grass roots, longer term the Roosevelt model of stimulus with employment coming with a rebuilding of infrastructure, your not going to be able to Jack the economy up as was done in the financial crisis the paper thin recovery at the bottom is completely blown. As someone on a middle income my spending has nose dived and will stay depressed till there's a vaccine, no restaurant's ball games concerts holidays etc..etc so a tax cut does nothing, same as cutting tax at the top it just goes into yet more savings.
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  12500.  Joe Maleski  people in the middle are reducing thier spending people at the top don't care, a tax cut or break takes money out of the economy which will make it contract even more
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  12501.  Joe Maleski  I don't disagree with you on most stuff tbh government waste makes me want to grind my teeth as well I just take a more pragmatic view, nice talking to you.
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  12502. Port Talbot is closing because of brex1t in 2026 the EU will implement Carbon Tariffs on non green steel it is uneconomic to keep it going
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  12503.  @schrodingerscat1863  I don't see what your point is? Port Talbot would still have a future if we were still in the EU
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  12504.  @stevejones2310  There are 2 markets the EU and the US were cut out of both as both look inward. Smell the coffee, the worst deal at the worst time by the worst government in UK history.
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  12505.  @michaelhart895  In 2026 we are faced with a carbon tax regime to import to the EU Our total sales and exports of physical goods by volume has dropped by 7% since 2019 the biggest fall on record. We are so totally fked
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  12506.  @kevinneedham9643  the biggest impact you'll see is in local buses and last mile delivery, firms like UPS and Amazon will be all electric within a few years, on the flip side more and more generation will come from small scale units as the tech and software is able to handle a smart grid. In conjunction house building is going to become more passive and after what happened in Texas and Calafornia this year retro fitting homes from heat and cold to make them more passive is a priority.
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  12507. The full effect of trade barriers with the EU are starting to bite, we get most of our food from them what did you expect with lorry loads of paperwork vets certificates 72 hour queues at the ports it will get way worse we've barley implemented 50% of Brexit.
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  12508. 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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  12509. Its a fossil scare story so the gravy train doesn't dry up quote from octopus The energy network of the future Powerloop is a revolutionary way of taking green energy in the middle of the night and storing it in the battery of a Nissan LEAF. Using a bi-directional charger, the Nissan LEAF connects back into your home to provide your house energy during peak times when energy demand is at its highest. Using car batteries as energy storage devices enables us to keep intermittent renewable energy for when we need it most. This makes our energy system more efficient and moves us to a green economy faster.
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  12510. Things are bad enough without yet more Conservative grifters selling snake oil
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  12511. That's pretty delusional given how right wing the tories are and their main problem is they've moved to far across to the right chasing the nutter vote?
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  12512.  @Jay-cp9kd  Gaza is the size of Birmingham with over double the number of people in it blockaded at every side. (2.3 million as opposed to Birmingham at 900,000) There is nowhere to go
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  12513.  @JamesThompson-p4r  In your dreams most of the male population is dead used as 1st to the front meat waves by Wagner
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  12514. In the UK were in the mess were in because Green policies where abandoned we should have at least 3 working Tidal systems by now. 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 Labour 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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  12515. 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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  12516. Yes it dide. we've had 8 years of no plan and economic chaos. Enough of the nonsense
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  12517. It will cost 40 billion a year over 10 years Volatility in gas prices is costing UK consumers + 140 billion in excess energy costs Going net zero is a no brained on economic grounds alone Sunak is just pushing costs onto the consumer so the energy companies keep making huge excess profits
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  12518. Proud boys had an arms cache across the river they've been busted on seditious conspiracy The J6 crowd were armed with all sorts Tazers Bear Spray etc. the reason it wasn't stopped was Trump didn't want it stopped and wouldn't authorize the National Guard in the end Pence did it quote “There were two or three calls with Vice President Pence. He was very animated, and he issued very explicit, very direct, unambiguous orders. There was no question about that. And I can get you the exact quotes from some of our records somewhere,” Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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  12519. The next big Texas scandal the right won't want to talk about will be the price gauging that will be through the roof.
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  12520. If you want lower imigration you need to pay public sector workers the going rate And Pay suppression as well as creating a high migration PULL factor also suppression wages in the private sector
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  12521. If you have low wages the government and in that respect taxpayers are subsidising companies. By the way a feature of poverty is a poor diet, who in low income can afford a balanced diet.
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  12522. The lockdown was a blunt instrument to enable test trace and isolate the Cons just couldn't get thier act together we should be in recovery on the other side but thier still floundering.
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  12523. Dream on the EV revolution has only just started Over the next few years I want to see a ban of fossil subsidies currently in the UK there's around 100 billion in the system quote Goldman also forecasts a 40% reduction in battery pack prices over 2023 and 2024, followed by a continued decline to reach a total 50% reduction by 2025-2026.6 Mar 2024 That's another 6k off the cost as well as economies of scale
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  12524. There are girls coming forward all the time and there's a lot of interest in where her money came from and she appears to have buckets of the stuff. The woman who have come forward have made the point they fear for thier life if she is outside as she will use her huge wealth to come after the witnesses
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  12525.  @danielgoring1328  if you got rid of the ECHR you couldn't challenge any UK law that you thought was dodgy like the majority of the current policing bill, it was put in place post war to stop countries backsliding into National populist Authoritarianism. The thing is the Rwanda thing was never going to fly its a show pony question is why do they really want to get rid of the ECHR? we know Johnson is the Billionaires bitch Dorrie came out and confirmed it after the open letter in the Sun question is why do they want rid of it?
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  12526. It's Truss shooting her mouth off where supplying no end of anti air anti tank equipment
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  12527.  @thetragicyouth  Go listen to the latest podcast by the New Statesman featuring Alison McGovern Shadow Minister for work and Pensions. There's another podcast by the Two Matts discussing Reeve's economic philosophy Your spouting media dross from people too lazy to look
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  12528.  @archvaldor  There's 100's of differences if you just choose not to look and not rely on a lazy media narrative.
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  12529. @archvaldor  thier net zero plans are intact they just removed the 28 billion pledge, the total committed was around 10- 12 billion the extra was unallocated to be used for future Energy development. You can't kick start housing and revive councils without a drastic change to planning it also facilitates grid roll out, were paying 20 billion a year in housing support 100's of differences, night and day, chalk and cheese etc. Wake up
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  12530. There extreme right economically
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  12531.  @spacemonkey200  you lot are deluded
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  12532. His speech on Monday was given behind a Policy Exchange screen they are a climate denying low tax for the wealthy abandon net zero fossil lobby funded think tank He's doing exactly what his handlers have asked him to do including billions in fossil subsidies, billions to bankers, billions to millionaire pensioners, canning net zero etc.
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  12533. HOL is his only route there's very little likleyhood he'd get in, he is activley disliked by the public
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  12534.  @jonessmith3997  technically yes
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  12535.  @arkroyalrifemoonbasealpha6101  how are you going to do that given it's driven by thatcherite economic policy?
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  12536. Give it a rest Lettuce Liz economics we know how that ends Reform are a brainless bunch of elites your a mug to even go there
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  12537.  @stequality  no they won't the bulk of Labour's vote is middle class younger educated voters this points based system completely screws over the middle class depressing their salaries.
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  12538.  @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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  12539. How deluded moving from Tory to extreme Tory the man who sold you the failure that is brex1t here again to claim migration numbers tripling is nothig to do with him So what did the experts say backmin 2015 oh yea that was it if you remove FOM the numbers will go up not down
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  12540. They were all Boomers nuff said
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  12541. Nuclear takes to long to build and deploy around 10 years minimum at x 4 times the cost You could put Solar and a battery that would last a couple of days for free in around 300,000 homes for the same Capital cost
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  12542.  @LILLYB8328  got nothing to do with net zero targets the Nordic countries with high levels of renewables are isolated from supply side energy commodity inflation Denmark's has gone down to 2.9% The US inflation is going down due to a number of factors but your also switching to renewables for electric
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  12543.  @LILLYB8328  Texas is the leader in wind turbine deployment renewables reached cost parity with gas generation back in 2019. With recent rises there is no economic argument to not deploy renewable energy it's just cheaper by quite a margin. The only thing going for gas is it's ease of use and cost effectiveness for heating. Your rehashing arguments from 5/6 years ago over the last decade renewable costs have dropped by 95%
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  12544.  @LILLYB8328  China deployed more renewable capacity last year than the rest of the world put together Danemark runs 60% 40% wind and is going further Norway is 93% renewable Danemark inflation is 2.9% Your years if not a decade behind the curve
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  12545.  @LILLYB8328  Coal costs approximately x3 times as much to produce 1 kilowatt of electric as for instance wind. And what's China got to do with the UK energy market I'm all for renewables based on Cost reshoring jobs and controlling our own energy supply not have it at the whims of some Foreign corporate Cartel
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  12546. Debt has been rising every year since 2010 at some point tax has to = spend
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  12547.  @shirleywilcox9371  why would they vote for a Fascist if they decided not to vote at all? Le Pen dressed herself as a lot more moderate and populist this time but there's the same old batshit crazy far right policies under the hood
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  12548. He got in on Clinton fatigue, the Democratic elites really need blaming. Was this dark Brandon's biggest chess move to sidestep them? Harris was not their choice and at one stage they had been pushing for her to be replaced as VP. Biden drops the hammer and a few phone calls later she is the nominee.
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  12549. If you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail Interest rates wont cure UK inflation because its not demand driven its supply on inelastic world commodities If you want to bring down inflation tax the 170 billion in windfall profits @75% and push it back to consumers and businesses that don't spend 9k a year on personal heated swimming pools also stop giving handouts to the likes of millionaire pensioners bankers and the fossil industry
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  12550.  @mariem1867  First there not illegal there refugees second its a fraction of 1% that goes to feed them why are you hell bent on killing children what's wrong with republican's these days are you O/Ding on FOX too much?
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  12551. Trump fuelled an unsustainable stock market run by giving out corporate tax cuts which he loaded onto debt and is part of his -8 trillion legacy The fortune 500 companies spent a combined total of 3.5 trillion in stock buybacks. Pumping that much liquidity into the system in such a short time was always going to fuel inflation and cause a depression, the question wasn't if it was when. We saw the same boom/bust effect with the bush corporate tax cuts If neither had occurred the USA would be debt free
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  12552. They won't it will be a steady death toll flaring up in various places, dying down in others, masks and social distancing will slow it down even if 20% don't do it. So far elected officials have lucked out and no one has died yet a few state officials dying will put the fear factor into the system. Also the economy won't recover in the way Trump wants there are no plans for fans in stadiums till 2021 at the earliest and that's going to be a stark reminder every time someone watches sport
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  12553. The Republicans could try some women friendly youth friendly policies?
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  12554. 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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  12555.  @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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  12556. Why is the chancellor of the exchequer taxing ordinary people to the hilt and not closing tax loopholes that his wife uses and why isn't he taxing the vast amount of unearned income at the same rates as earned. NI is income tax rebranded what's worse is there's a ceiling for the rich after which they pay 3,5% Just keep doffing your cap and tugging your forelok sucker
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  12557.  @missaj5623  The Conservatives have inflated the property market by pumping billions into right to buy to the point anyone on low medium income it is now the only way of ever owning your own home. Cameron pumped billions into the scheme and since 2010 house prices have risen by 66% while real wages average have fallen by -7%
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  12558. 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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  12559. job growth is good only bosses bitching about paying higher wages are complaining
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  12560.  @jerryhazeltine9849  A lot of it is from the Tax cuts in 2017 which were unfunded and went into US debt add in Covid and over the last few years billionaire wealth has doubled. Your also looking at corporate huge corporate profits from fossil they wound down old plant and wells early when the economies started up again there was a shortage hence Super Profits
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  12561. They got hammered because they moved even further to the right Thatcherism doesn't work it was propped up with asset stripping and oil money
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  12562. This will last 2 months the fallout will be so severe that the bond market will be on the brink of collapse, the Fed will be printing money to try prop up the system and even the GOP senators will be forced to Impeach the President for being a fkwit People have 401k's this will wipe them out
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  12563. Socially Liberal fiscally harrrrd right
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  12564. Last time Labour were in average wages rose by 20%+ and services were well funded so spare me the rhetoric @maccagrabme 
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  12565. China deployed more renewable energy last year than the rest of the world combined
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  12566. Trump tax cuts onto US debt mostly.
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  12567. That's not really a good sign Your 1st vote was to make yourself poorer and strip away your economic rights to work live and retire across Europe Marvellous no wonder the country is going to the dogs
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  12568. Corbyn isn't even in Labour he's had the whip withdrawn
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  12569. He's a manager of a team by all accounts a very good one that delegates and takes responsibility he does come over as dull which isn't a bad thing Look at what Milliband Reeve and Nandy are talking about the issue is also non commitment on spending not surprising how fked the economy is they will have to deliver or he'll be a 1 term pm
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  12570. Whatever Biden does is the new moderate. Because he is seen by the public as a moderate the view is completely disconnected from liberal economic policy
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  12571. 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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  12572. What a surprise Jonson is a lazy lying self absorbed A hole Who would have thought And he's going to change pull the other one
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  12573. That's all conspiracy junk Trump got his ass creamed because he treat covid as a messaging problem and tried to deny reality. Aside from that DT is a moron he released 5k Afghan fighters and their leader and got nothing in return but a soundbite on Fox
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  12574. A lot of the voter suppresion tactics seem to be backfiring, with Trump being so universally hated it's driving turnout on the Dem side and the the fact that the GOP are trying to stop you is just getting tons of free mainstream media in numerous states. The Greg Abbot decision is all over Texas media and has literally set everyone's hair on fire with the screw you GOP with additional stories of long lines at ballot drop off points add that to Typhoid Mary Don's antics and everyone is really pissed
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  12575.  @waynebutler7602  It's not the whole brexit reason by the elites was to turn the economy into Singapore on Thames basically a libertarian sh1thole for the 90% unlimited wealth for the 10% Ben is part of that as are Reform, the Libertarian champion Truss got ousted because she went off the rails
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  12576.  @Iamtilersscreeminganger  you don't need to leave the ECHR to lower migration These people sold you braxit as a means of lowering migration its now gone through the roof Also Small boat crossings are through the roof since leaving Yet They want you to now vote to leave the ECHR because that will definitely do it this time?
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  12577. Woke means to be socially aware especially in term of race and gender (dictionary definition) Translated for the right-wing in language they can understand it means Don't be a racist xenophobic sexist pig
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  12578.  @alabamaman5994  quote Most Republicans in the House and the Senate opposed the Respect for Marriage Act, but it nevertheless passed with a fair amount GOP support in both chambers. As we discussed soon after, the measure is part of a larger series of bipartisan wins, which includes an infrastructure package, the CHIPS and Science Act, an expansion of veterans benefits in the PACT Act, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act — the first major legislation to address gun violence in nearly three decades — and even the Postal Service Reform Act. Joe has passed more bipartisan bills than any other modern day President people don't get how transformative some of this stuff will be the US is reshoring jobs at vast rate of knots pivoting its economy to be the world's leader in renewable tech The squad are just 4 City based urban progressives out of a large diverse Caucus
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  12579.  @alabamaman5994  political they wanted the other package tied to it the one with child tax credits pre K The US is short off workers you can import them or free up working women
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  12580. we have an energy crisis which needs investment in and there promising to lower taxes for the wealthy how does that work? If you pump 28 billion into renewable energy it has an economic multiplier of a minimum 1.6 which means for every £1 you put in it creates enough GDP to return £1.6 in additional taxation. As a pensioner this will help me enormously because it will lower energy costs and I'm home most of the day far more than any tax cut. Getting energy costs down to 2020 levels would be the equivalent to me of my tax going from 20% to 10%
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  12581. What dip? You'll get a couple of points then by the time you've thought about it it's up 5
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  12582. they have doubled the threshold you can take on 4 apprentices now
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  12583. Roe Connor has a bill to employ more tax inspectors to focus on the rich and super rich it's estimated that with thorough auditing the govt will net 1.5 trillion over 10 years. That's without shutting down the loopholes that let's the likes of Amazon pay nothing. Warrens wealth tax would wipe out the deficit so stick that suckling pig on the barbecue and let's have a hog roast
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  12584. business is the last thing a service needs to be run like its because some pencil pusher has been told to run it like a business you get to do the 60 mile round trip
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  12585. Fartage has form on this going back over a decade, the far right all over Europe are crying coz the Oligarch money that Putin spews around has dried up, all little fascists together
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  12586. How detached from reality do you have to be to believe that turning the UK into the North Korea of Europe is somehow a good thing? The Brexiteers promised Singapore on Thames they delivered Argentina on the Channel
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  12587.  @emissary_of_aldebaran  pff you'll be well miserable with no one to work in the hospitals, pay tax work in farming
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  12588.  @emissary_of_aldebaran  you don't get it we have an aging population we have loads of old people who don't work who need pensions and looking after where already suffering economic contraction through lack of workers. Old people are the main users of the NHS you can't just shut of migration it breaks the economy not enough people paying tax or wiping old people butts
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  12589.  @emissary_of_aldebaran  over 60% are on in work benifit and we have full employment the ones claiming full benefits are mostly disabled in some way or unemployable 95% of people with Autism and Downs are thrown on the out of work scrapheap through lack of government support so go stick your BS where it belongs in the bin. I'm sick to death of hearing BS talking points that have zero basis in economic reality.
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  12590. yes but this isn't true go fact check stuff
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  12591. ​ @JetTech1992 the only reason trump is even in the race still is the billionaire bankrolling his campaign
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  12592.  @Clyde  interest rates going through the roof to choke demand would hurt worse
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  12593.  @angelathurston8663  it's a fine line but the GRU fed Assange data to drop during the 2016 election in an extremly coordinated way. They also had contacts in the Trump campaign through Maniford who dropped a Hugh cache of voter data that had been gleaned through Cambridge Analytica interfering in US elections is like using a hornets nest as a football as for our role the deportation treaty sucks A better example of public service journalism is the Pandora papers and the collaborative work done by Bellingcat
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  12594. You can't grow the economy while at the same time contracting it with Brexit There's a reason Hunt is in power its because the city knows Brexit for what it is a complete economic car crash that no one will lend money too. This stuff is of an economic fantasist talking to the cult faithful just believe and your dreams will come true
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  12595. that's because there's a lot of people who believe in utter rubbish promoted by populists on the right Global Britain always needed unfettered supply side cheap migration to work you can't have limited migration & what is Supply Side Trickle down economics we can see the results with taxes going up trying to prop up the system
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  12596. He either doesn't pay them or only pays bare minimum No decent law firm will touch him hence he gets the clown car lawyers the dead beats the has beens, he also orders the lawyers to break the law at least 3 have been disabled and 2 so far have seen prison one before he was even president
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  12597. There voting labour because there not going to be running Thatcherite economic policy which is tanking the economy.
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  12598.  @NHLblkgurl  Don't drive a gas car or don't drive as much, do you have any idea how much gas the mommy school run drop off SUV guzzles? What is the cost of not having an affordable public transport policy on energy usage? How much does it cost a household to heat/cool a house in additional costs that are not properly insulated? We are at an inflection point back last year I spent a large sum on house improvements and an extension bringing it up to the best energy efficiency one of the main drivers was seeing 700 people freeze to death in Texas last year. I've a small wood stove that will heat the house in case of emergency and I also have solar and a microgrid. I started preparing to reposition to lower energy usage and an eventual move to an EV at the beginning of 2020 I'm 60+ and can afford it but we've seen the way the wind has been blowing with this for well over 5/6 years and I also remember the previous 2 oil crisis and inflationary periods.
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  12599. If you had listened to him you wouldn't have lost 60 seats to the LIB-Dems and a bunch of other sto labour
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  12600. You currently have a vote that counts you need to use it while you can there are many countries round the world who's votes are meaningless and the US will be one of them after a Trump second term he will have subverted the courts and rigged the system, he cheats and will do it on a massive scale
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  12601. Why? Read Mission Economy By Mariana Mazzucato World renowned economist, if your going to get out of this Tory mess you need a whole of government approach combined with the private sector. The UK does not have the fiscal headroom to do squat after 13 years of the Tories pillaging the economy
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  12602. All government spending is subject to an economic multiplier here's a recent example worked out that a 10% pay rise for NHS staff had an economic multiplier of 0.81 for every £1 spent the Treasury recovered 81p. The 1st hit is with the £1 getting hit with both income NI and student tax the remaining money is spent in the wider economy generating more GDP hence tax there is also every likelihood of reduced staff churn which generates savings and less money spent on Agency staff. This excludes benefits from having a fitter healthier workforce. Onto Truss's tax cuts in general these would have generated for every £1 cut between 20-30p in additional income through GDP growth because the economic multiplier is around 0.2-0.3 so its no wonder the markets freaked out. We have 50 years worth of data to back this up
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  12603. I looked up the detail it's +£95 in 2025 as pensioners we got nothing from the NI cut the thresholds are frozen till 2028 and I'm paying +£560 extra on that alone
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  12604. Politics hasnt realigned you have a bunck of populist like Johnson Trump that when they have the power to gevern make a complete pigs ear of it. The last thing you need if you REALLY want to fetch down migration is a NeoLiberal Thatcher/Reagan era trickle down it drives migration through the roof
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  12605. Read Mission Economy By Mariana Mazzucato World renowned economist, if your going to get out of this Tory mess you need a whole of government approach combined with the private sector. The UK does not have the fiscal headroom to do squat after 13 years of the Tories pillaging the economy
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  12606. The emergency Corbyn lever Republicans in the US are still blathering on about Hilaries EMails What's the campaign going to focus on Starmer is too boring look he did pro bono work on human rights bought his mum a field to run a donkey sanctuary
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  12607. The Minister for BO How does that smell ?
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  12608. If you process all the asylum claims you get to deport 40,000 people and save 6 BILLION Those that have a right to asylum when working in the economy will generate another 2 billion in tax
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  12609. Islam is 5% only get a reality check and stop reading the likes of the DailyMail and Express
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  12610. coz it was a dumb as fk question with agri and IHT relief the total before it becomes taxable is 3 million
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  12611.  @savannahglebe5165  The tax is designed around stopping rich people buying farms to evade IHT. Bad actors chasing IHT allowances increase farm prices such as Dyson and Clarkson 3 million joint allowance is enough for everyone
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  12612. @a.s.j.g6229  in what world is 3 million not enough? Anything over is only at 20% and you get 10 years to pay There are hundreds of Tennant farmers who have been priced out the system because rich arseh0les push up prices using farming as an IHT LOOPHOLE
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  12613.  @URBeingLiedTo  you can check the death toll via mortality rate it maps pretty closely The NHS has been run down to bare bones over the last 12 years there was no slack
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  12614.  @URBeingLiedTo  you can check the death toll via mortality rate it maps pretty closely The NHS has been run down to bare bones over the last 12 years there was no slack
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  12615. Only 4% pay iht A vast majority of the land is owned by large estate owners. If you want more family farms and homestead they need breaking up. The exemption has lead to an explosion in land prices
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  12616. ​ @TheTruth-r2s there's only 5% of the country who are Islamic US Atheist types get p1ssed ofwith your histrionics and fact free posting. You want to vote Sunak fine the pair of you are garbage at lying when it can be fact checked in seconds
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  12617. What's your point? This is our own fk up what did you think would happen when we became a 3rd country outside the EU And don't say send them back France could shut our economy down in hours
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  12618. All Bone wants is low taxes for the rich a continuation and a of tax havens. Over a decade of Tory Austerity and we have an ever expanding trade deficit a borrowing level that is off the charts, does Bone want the NI cap of 50k abolishing? Of course not he's one of these right wing idiots that think the free market is everything and would flog off the NHS to his rich mates. UK spends < 8% of its gdp on it The US spends 17%+ of its gdp on private medical care with tens of millions of people ending up uninsured and people going bankrupt coz they can't pay the medical bills That's the sort of free market hell he's lobbying for
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  12619. Nick Ferrari actually holding the Cons to account things must be bad The level of tactical voting was off the charts and no one expects the Lib-Dems to get 20% in the General or the Greens to get much at all so vote share is irrelevant
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  12620. There polling will get worse the longer they cling on It also stops the country moving forward from 14 years of failed Thatcherite policy
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  12621. What the orange idiot is doing could trigger world war 3, Ukraine is the flash point for war in Europe which has the potential to escalate out of control "THIS IS F!"£$%^ SERIOUS"
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  12622. do some research into the cost of fossil v renewables (hint renewables are cheaper by miles) here's a starter for 10 This is from an independent report people need to know the true cost of fossil fuel and how were being screwed Quote Norway has amassed a trillion dollars in its state petroleum fund from extracting 43 billion barrels of oil. The UK has extracted 48 billion barrels but has no such fund, he points out, because “it elected to channel its petroleum windfall to fund tax breaks for oil and gas companies.”
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  12623.  @okbutthenagain.9402  your getting burned senseless by Fossil subsidies and extortionate fossil prices as the government takes you to the cleaners to feed money to thier donors and rich mates and your distracted by a small bunch of activists? All I can say is your easily distracted away from the true criminals in this case the government, Cameron cutting Labour's Green policies on energy and insulation has already cost consumers 10's of billions propped up by the Tory Party the UK energy sector will make 170 billion in excess profits over the next 2 years with NO meaningful windfall tax. What are you going to do about it just cross your fingers and hope gas prices come down?
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  12624. Why cant she do her job? She was speaking at a right wing Libertarian think tank The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research mainly funded by big oil such as ExxonMobil These people dont give a sh1t about working and middle class there sole purpose of existing is to screw as much money out the system for the billionaire and corporate class while removing any public services You want a pension well FU no state one You want healthcare wheres your insurance payments You want a pay rise heres some police to beat you up didnt you know striking is illeagal now
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  12625. Labour will win by a landslide Why The economy is a total mess, Sunak and Co are spending billions they dont have on all sorts of trickle down cr@p that doesnt work making the problem worse month on month. We are in reccesion with high inflation, high interest rates contracting public services and still borrowed 130 billion last year with gdp to debt at 100%
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  12626. Just wait till they have 14 years of a right wing government and discover what a sh1tsh0w they make of the economy
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  12627. There just dishonest he's cloning his Lord and master whiney bitch boy, how many times can you say radical left in a minute. Get money out of Politics so people can have policy discussions
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  12628. That's because this stuff is propaganda by the elites and thee wealthy.
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  12629. It's all RW propaganda, if you dig into some of the detail there shutting down offshore tax havens used to avoid IHT for example It's elites trying to scare you into voting for their choice
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  12630. Nobody allows abortion till birth why do they pedal this lie that is so easily disproved
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  12631. There not illeagal till you process them Ive an idea we could rejoin the EU legal migration would go down to 200k as before and illegal would plummet to pre brexit levels as well
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  12632. I've a global equity tech fund instead of individual stocks it's always volatile but goes up over the longer term, if your not buying and selling every nano second this is just a market correction hopefully the big players will get their shorts and longs wrong get their fingers burnt and stop trying to manipulate the market. Just for reference Tesla record profits, Microsoft record profit, Google record profit Yawn tech is dead
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  12633. Yet did they have prior knowledge of the public sector pay review? The Tories have been suppressing public sector pay for 14 years and increasingly filling the posts with cheaper migrant labour so do you want Labour to start fixing things or not?
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  12634. You mean give it to the Elite and Billionaire class mug
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  12635. No there not there Libertarian elites using Populism to push a Billionaire economic agenda
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  12636. Did you listen to her Mais lecture
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  12637. 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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  12638. We can grow through productivity Since 2010 our productivity has fallen, there is no reason why that cant be reversed with technology and investment. Our transport system is clogged and out of date Our healthcare is not up to standard Our energy grid is inefficient as is our water system You can also get more disposable income, for the past 3 years, I've been improving insulation and investing in renewables, lowering my outlay on energy by 90%
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  12639.  @johnf3885  current tech means they turn at as low a speed as 8mph we only have 17% wind in the system you need 40% base load where not even close with any of this where it even matters for grid stability. By the way while your off on dumb rant mode look up V2G
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  12640. Because you want them to have better jobs in 5he economy instead were importing higher paid workers to undermine the middle and professional class. This Has a nock on effect in pushing more uk workers into lower skilled jobs And Suppressing wages at the bottom by squeezing wages in the middle ​ @judejudeu6344 
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  12641. We have a low tax economy for the wealthy at least. Let me give you an example Government has a VIP Lane for PPE instead of awarding contracts to UK firms money goes to an insider 200+ million. They use a variety of shell companies to purchase overseas. The 60 million profit also goes through offshore shell companies into tax exempt trusts. Aside from the blatant immorality and corruption non of the 200 million benefit the wider economy its a straight sunk cost. There's no tax paid on profits no UK companies generating jobs nada @HankD13 
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  12642. JHB knows nothing about anything, a more opinionated fact free slice of media is hard to find. There are independent media outlets out there but Talk TV and GBN aren't them there owned by billionaires who run them at a loss to push thier own narratives which is currently trying to get net zero abandoned or watered down Quote  Former GB News chairman Andrew Neil slams his former channel, saying it will never make money and looks like it was filmed in North Korea
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  12643.  @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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  12644.  @aclark903  no he won't they want unfettered visa access all he'll be interested in is the City
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  12645. 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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  12646. Too late Trumpty Dumpty we've gone over the event horizon with it at least 4 years ago
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  12647.  @NorthernMouse52  Reform are all mouth and no trousers. Its policy by FogHorn If you want an example of how bad Reform would be on migration look no further than the Rwanda policy another shouty we did stuff but err people wouldn't let us do stuff so we need to err take away your human rights and the maybe we can do that thing but.... etc
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  12648. yea because transphobia is really high on everyone's agenda at the moment (NOT) I mean cost of living crisis what crisis lets vote based on what idiots like JHB say someone who is a climate denier and still thinks we have an empire and the world owes us a living
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  12649. That's because we still need the skills but to get people over we have to give Visas to dependants a lot more which made up 1/2 the 1.25 million total  @steveb951 
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  12650. If you run an economic model which doesn't invest in the resident population but prioritizes tax cuts you need mass immigration to plug the skills gaps and the economic shortfall form lower tax intake its a vicious circle @marumaru6084 
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  12651. Why are GOP supporters coming on here trying to defend Geatz the guy is a complete tool that does nothing for his constituents, he's a spoilt money brat that just trolls on social media. His excesses have been known for years the guy he's been hanging around and partying with Joel is a Grade one crook the charge sheet was 32 indictments last time I looked.
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  12652. Trump can barley string a coherent sentence together, his usual diatribe is completely lie ridden plus he froze for 35 seconds the other day and has been sleeping during the day another sign his dementia is worsening
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  12653.  @rogerphelps9939  The instigation of a low wage economy by the Tories will take it's toll and you'l get angry young men to replace angry old men
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  12654. The Tories have wasted 14 years on infighting which is only going to get worse. Lib-Dems for official opposition id say
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  12655.  @keithparker1346  since Starmer became Labour leader the Tories have spent 3/4 trillion and crashed tthe economy. People are afraid in the biggest cost of living crisis in UK history. You would need to go back to the Napolionic Wars to get anything comparable The last thing people want at this point in time is false hope
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  12656.  @keithparker1346  which manifesto pledge that he put to the country has he broken?
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  12657. @jollygolly-f4m How is privatising the NHS running the biggest tax break in uk history for the wealthy and binning net zero which will save and is saving me money in favour of Nuclear at 3 times the cost and and an average wait time of 10 years to build a reactor? Tice and Farage are a clueless couple of crusty old farts who know nothing about anything.
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  12658. They are Conservative which is why everything is falling apart
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  12659. how do they reconcile Christianity with this, totally unbelievable They've been brainwashed weaponized and propagandised
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  12660. 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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  12661. The easing the Fed did ended up. In the pockets of the 1% inflation will never be bought into Control until the greedy rich pay their share
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  12662. Its wishful thinking. +16 million additional young people are on the rolls since 2020 Trump and the Republicans offer them nothing
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  12663.  @wethepeople720  what's misinforming? The economy is repositioning to renewable and energy. The US under the Dems are positioning themselves as the renewable world tech leader. I thought you lot wanted to make American great again? Joe has put in the building blocks to do that.
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  12664. Your welcome You do know 90% of what he said was made up
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  12665.  @MartinParsons-tr6wi  I read the manifesto
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  12666. Is 3 million not enough? without the tax people like Dyson will keep buying farms and pricing out new farmers to avoid IHT
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  12667. The war on the people never stops which part of when you make things illegal the vacuum left is filled with criminal gangs do they not understand? The sale of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, to the public will be banned and the police will be given enhanced drug-testing powers as part of Rishi Sunak’s attempt to crack down on antisocial behaviour “with urgency”. The levelling up secretary, Michael Gove, said the proposals would stop parks being turned into drug-taking arenas, and would help ministers stamp out antisocial behaviour. The ban comes a month after the independent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) warned against one and said it would be disproportionate with the level of harm associated with nitrous oxide. It said such control could create “significant burdens” for legitimate uses of the substance.
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  12668. It facilitates the advent of cheaper electric it's already started to drive a manufacturing boom in the US
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  12669.  @alexedwards6509  I worked a good few years ago for National Power so understand how the grid works. And You can easily find the forward contract price for Generating installations renewables come out as the cheapest by a considerable margin. The issue is capital investment in a renewable grid, sticking with gas will cost double long term and that's before the savings from not having Gas Peak plant on idle for just in case and Time shifting using smart tech.
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  12670.  @tonyjefferson3502  Off shore price of Dogger bank forward contract is £42 which is the latest to come online. The last Auction by GB fell through at forward contract of £52 Gas prices vary as you well know because of Peak plant volatility which net zero removes. quote On the morning of Dec. 12, as plunging temperatures left poorer Britons struggling to heat their homes, traders for Vitol Group’s VPI Power Ltd. abruptly served notice that one of the London area’s largest power stations would begin turning off just after midday. This change of plans left Britain’s power grid at risk of running low on electricity. But the traders had another offer on the table: They’d keep running their plant for as much as £6,000 ($7,340) per megawatt-hour, four times more than the regular market rate. With little choice, the grid operator paid up, an £11 million tab that was ultimately passed to UK consumers, many of whom are already contending with prices that have more than doubled in the last two years.
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  12671.  @tonyb3629  Independent by whom? Removing peak plant volatility alone save's billions quote The Astonishing Economics of the Tesla Megapack By adding about 300 MW of storage, ERCOT will generate approximately $1 billion in savings in 2025. This is from a one time purchase of Megapacks for $750 million. These savings will also happen each additional year after 2025 - they are recurring!
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  12672. Well she has a nickname now No Mercy Harris
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  12673. And the Tories won't get rid of the Islamophobia + the more fachy wing
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  12674. There is no Reform surge they are pretty much at thier cealing You'd need to be pretty clueless and pumped full of propaganda to vote for the Billionaires choice
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  12675. Your falling for simple solutions to wide ranging macro economic problems Our economy and politics is being driven by the new oligarchy the billionaire class who think they can buy anything, and basically thats fairly true. Look at GBN a propaganda station owned by an offshore billionaire with a but ton of oil shares which pedls climate denial. Musk who owns his own social media platform and wants to buy the next uk election.
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  12676. ​@earthbible9393 I'm sorry but he is If you look at the portable anti tank missile the US makes it has components from 7 countries, that's why Russia doesn't have anything comparable Same goes for just about everything modern, Tesla buy there gigapress's from Italy, the US gets its petrol oil from Canada, DJT is a complete mor0n
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  12677. The US is making the energy transition were not As renewables come more online thier manufacturing costs will fall dramatically
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  12678. What really irks me is that renewables are cheaper by a country mile than fossil and we've given hundreds of billions of pounds in subsidies to the fossil companies in subsidies and tax breaks but non of that is ever brought up.
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  12679.  @stuartwood5448  ev charging can be next to zero or if you have domestic solar zero Octopus do a V2g scheme which gives you cheap overnight charging
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  12680.  @stuartwood5448  Quote Norway has amassed a trillion dollars in its state petroleum fund from extracting 43 billion barrels of oil. The UK has extracted 48 billion barrels but has no such fund, he points out, because “it elected to channel its petroleum windfall to fund tax breaks for oil and gas companies.” Jeez you people are so gullible
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  12681. @stuartwood5448  the current windfall tax rate introduced in the budget this year is 35% and 45% for renewables but they can write it off against exploration costs expected to be 6/7 billion and decommissioning old North Sea plant the cost estimates for that are 55 - 75 billion over time. Shell and BP where a net drain on the exchequer for the last 3 years not only did they not pay tax but in 2021 Shell got a rebate of 91 million all of this is documented in government papers and reports. Hunt has also said if Brent goes below 71$ a barrel there exempt from the windfall tax. Like I said ALL this information is freely available in government documents yet people wish to believe a fact free alternative narrative pushed by the fossil industry and there enablers in government Historical data on oil revenues are available from the OBR as well as most of the data I've quoted
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  12682. better than the +10-20 billion in rebuilding our armed forces to defend against Putin invasion
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  12683. 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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  12684.  @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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  12685.  @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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  12686. Let's be clear Democrats believe in government Republicans don't Joe already had boots on the ground BEFORE the Hurricanes hit.
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  12687. ​@johnrussell3961 no they won't those that are in the blue wall are going to vote Lib-Dem and Starmer is seen as mostly harmless
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  12688. Is this sponsoreby the Tories?
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  12689. renewable energy is x3 cheaper than coal x4 cheaper than nuclear and x7 cheaper than gas So how does going green put prices up not down?
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  12690.  @marumaru6084  no they don't renewable energy has been cheapest on the grid since 2019. During the last decade it's had 50 billion in subsidies Fossil has had 500 billion in subsidies. Hinckley C will get 35 billion in subsidies alone at an initial cost of 33 billion. Go do some proper research and stop spewing propaganda
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  12691.  @MyName-cw4yr  Decommissioning costs The regulator found the costs would be between £45 billion and £77bn. These can be written off against tax basically cleaning up the mess they've made. This is a small sample of the stories round fossil subsidies Quote Shell and BP paid zero tax on North Sea gas and oil for three years Firms defend paying no corporation tax after government handed out billions to energy giants Shell and BP, which together produce more than 1.7bn tonnes of greenhouse gases a year, have not paid any corporation tax on oil and gas production in the North Sea for the last three years, company filings reveal. Endquote Quote More than £8bn of North Sea energy projects could now be given the green light rapidly as fossil fuel firms take advantage of a tax break in Rishi Sunak’s windfall tax, analysts have forecast. EndQuote
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  12692. 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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  12693. @logandashiell2584  no they don't go look at its demographic tree and it's ultra low birth rate, the war is strangling the country into oblivion.
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  12694.  @Dudush90  War manuals put attacking at a minimum of 3 - 1 on casualties. Dunno why you people delude yourself the Ukranians know exactly what will happen when the Russians take over territory their like the plague visiting.
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  12695. Nancy is trolling him, and he's on for a double digit loss after carrying on like he's on crack the last few weeks.
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  12696.  @Walt85DMC  not anymore thanks to Typhoid Mary Don, the way he's going it will be the G6
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  12697. Their greener than an ice car but a lot depends on how you charge them there's a couple of Tesla's on our road both houses have solar
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  12698. ​@woodstockxx they do when existing transport links are already clogged to breaking and get told you can't have infrastructure because we need dosh for a tax cut for rich people in IHT
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  12699. Your NI vat and basic rate aren't changing what's your gripe?
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  12700. They frightened previous voters sh1tless with a dystopia fictional view of life under labour to get that 23% when it doesn't apeear there's a chunk of that figure will peel off
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  12701.  @greattime860  appeasement never works Putinn wants Ukraine oil and gas wealth
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  12702.  @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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  12703. His leader Nige is getting a mill a year from an offshore billionaire This stuff is nonsense
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  12704.  @philbrainy2399  he doesn't understand anything like all the Reform crowd.
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  12705.  @stephan5673  we've had 20 years of Putin his FSB murder squads to know what true evil looks like, a man who deliberately unleashes nerve agent that if it got into the water system could kill thousands. Deliberately chosen to display to the world violence and repression The invasion of Ukraine has been in the plan for 8 years logistics experts have put together the buildup plan and how equipment and men have been deployed and also the expansion of the Russian forces from open source material. This is Putin's war and the deaths on both sides are on his hands
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  12706. ​@jackarcher9652we've had 14 years of Thatcherism + Austerity that's driven the economy into the toilet and sent migration sky high. No difference my ar3e
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  12707. No there not there a million miles apart Cheap jibe parroting the rubbish of the likes of Tice
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  12708. Shifting into a mitigation Phase? more like a BS spin phase but don't worry the earth is flat its all a democratic hoax and everyone that isn't a sycophantic boot licker is out the WH.
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  12709.  @johnrudd9550  Reform have a ceiling of around 15% there older white and the bulk of the red wall ones uneducated working class
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  12710. We've had 14 years of Tories running up debt a stagnating economy hammered by Brex1t and Truss. What's your solution? Tax should have gone up in 2010 instead they introduced Austerity and shrunk the economy.
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  12711. It's Half a story as usual, small businesses employing 4 people on minimum wage will no longer pay NI they have upped the threshold
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  12712. so your saying in layman's terms He's a bullsh1t artist
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  12713. 20% is around the % of the population that have prospered under the Tories in the last 14% years, what is starting to bite into that number is healthcare
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  12714.  @domispablo7992  If voting for complete failure is regarded by you as the only option maybe you should reevaluate your political leanings? Try these websites Resolution Foundation Joseph Rowntree Foundation and these publications New Statesman New European Byline Times
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  12715. Of course he should resign the story isn't over there is more to come staying as an MP just sprays more manure all over the Tory Party His wife got unsecured loans of 30 Million I wonder who from?
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  12716. There promising +100 billion in unfunded tax cuts and Fracking the worst of all worlds
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  12717. In what way the Cons haven't balanced the books or grown the economy in 13 Years and if you don't do that then working and middle class people's lives won't improve. and even following a more centrist agenda won't turn the economy around Major left Blair a half decent economy albeit ravaged by Thatcherism Sunak will leave a raging skip fire blighted not only by 13 years of Thatcherism but having Austerity piled on top + another 4 economic shocks in Covid, Brexit, the Energy Crisis and Liz Truss.
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  12718. So your anti capitalist now? This is basically how the US system works so your saying we shouldn't try copy the most successful economy in the world? Next you'll do a 180 and be calling them evil socialists
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  12719.  @DJLalr  Every £1 you cut doesn't save £1 its anywhere from +20p to -£1.60p+ Also tax cuts don't grow the economy enough again you could be as low as 20p return in increased GDP to the £1 As I said every part of government tax and spend has a multiplier.
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  12720.  @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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  12721.  @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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  12722. I've been to similar resort in the swiss alps very nice they are and you go to network. People who may fancy investing lots of money in your country go to these conferences. If you hadn't noticed there's been a lack of investment now for a good 13 years we can't even build a train line in that time and Hinckley C is a decade in the building and will be 3 years late if it ever fires up @TEMPLAR969 
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  12723. The level of self delusion on this channel is stunning Frostie the clown negotiated the protocol the whole of the Tory party voted it into law knowing full well it put a border down the Irish Sea and sold out the Unionists. Pretending there's a magic button that someone can press is delusional, the NI economy if you look at the data has already realigned with the EU's and suffers non of the crippling self inflicted damage of Bodgers crap deal. Both the EU and US have told the UK to go swivel a deals a deal
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  12724. We have a low birth rate of 1.6 which needs topping up with migrant labour
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  12725. How about when he has an independent medical check to see if he is physically and mentally OK before they release it
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  12726. You were told by experts that removing FOM would drive up migration not decrease it but in your arrogance you said we've had enough of experts now you want to double down on stupid from 2018 Historic examples include Britain’s decision to end the unrestricted entry of Commonwealth subjects in the 1960s, Germany’s experience with admitting temporary “guest workers” from the 1960s, and the US ending its labour program for Mexican workers in 1965. Drawing lessons from those experiences, the SMF predicted that ending EU freedom of movement and restricting EU nationals’ right to enter and stay in Britain for work will have precisely the opposite effect on immigration patterns to the one many Brexit supporters say they want.
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  12727. Why that won't solve the climate and energy crisis How about the government engages with them their behaviour is a fraction of the damage Truss did to the economy in 5 weeks
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  12728.  @maccagrabme  There not illegal s there refugees they use that type of language to dehumanised them to disconnect you from the fact there liviving breathing human beings. When they've poured enough bile and propaganda into your brain then they start with the concentration camps, when the camps are no longer enough.... etc It's all Kabuki Theatre
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  12729.  @maccagrabme  We left the Dublin Acord so no there is no mechanism for returning them to France. I've a better idea why not send over some recruiters from the NHS and find all those refugees that are displaced Doctors and Nurses given how understaffed our health system is. You live your closeted privileged life due to the west's insatiable appetite for Oil Gas and minerals when this thirst produces wars and refugees you want to wash your hands of the problem sorry but that's how it works. We have huge staffing shortages in nursing homes as well fetch a load in to do that job as well instead were going to waste billions finger pointing and calling them names
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  12730. We have a supply side shortage of Energy Food Labour Housing + 700 billion printed during covid + 130 billion to patch up the Truss debacle All of these things are contributing to inflation the extra money has trickled up so its sod all use taxing the working and middle class to get it back there actively trying to make the labour and food shortages worse done sod all on social housing and not expanded the grid for rapid connection of renewables. But hey well let the BOE crush the economy and blame them Free market idiots Thames water is just the ultimate manifestation of the total failure of Tory economic policy over the last 50 years
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  12731. The only way of dealing with the debt is to analyze where that debt has trickled to and remove a lot of it. If you look at the Covid period the government spaffed 750 billion into the economy if you analyze where its gone it has basically trickled up to the wealthy. Millionaire / Billionaire wealth doubled property prices for example went up 25/30% with zero inflation in 2020/21. The real answer is a wealth tax but we know this will be near impossible to get past the Tory media but tax realignment from trickle down to progressive + get rid f the myriad of tax loopholes would be a start
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  12732. The problem with Reform is thier policies are bollox Either an economic car crash or populist Guff
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  12733. He's an economic disaster quote This $3 trillion (over 10 years) tax increase would have a dramatic impact on households and fallout from its impact on our trading partners. quote 92 Percent of Trump's China Tariff Proceeds Has Gone to ... Payouts to farmers battered by Chinese retaliation have eaten up over 92 percent of the trade-war tax proceeds. quote Another Toll Of Donald Trump's Trade War Bankruptcies, foreclosures, depression and even suicide are some of the tragic consequences of these pressures,” said a statement from the farmers union
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  12734.  @clmclmn21  Reform leadership are Elite's who will further Billionaire and Corporate interests. There using migration rhetoric to push there economic agenda If you want lower migration you need to invest in the UK domestic workforce, build more housing and improve transport
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  12735. Brexit has screwed over our physical goods exports and imports and suppressed our service growth but hey why use real data when you can just make up your own narrative Quote "How much has the UK trade volume decline? After adjusting for inflation, the total imports of goods decreased by £37.8 billion (7.4%) in 2023 compared with 2022, while total goods exports fell by £15.2 billion (4.6%).1 Mar 2024" Quote "How, then, can we account for the strong UK services export growth compared to the G7 average? The answer is – again – that it is important to consider the right counterfactual. If we account for rising demand for services exports, we see that British exports should have performed even better than they did."
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  12736. Johnson chose this shitshw coz he only plans for tomorrow and he could claim he got Brexit done and yes the EU would negotiate a veterinary deal as it makes Northern Ireland go away
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  12737. I read the FT as well as numerous other financial sources Qoute Brexit and the economy: the hit has been ‘substantially negative’ The UK debate around Brexit is shifting in light of new data showing the consequences of leaving the EU. In new a four part series, the FT examines the impact on Britain’s economy, trade, business and politics. Quote There is also a cost. Bullying and harassment at the NHS was found to waste at least £2.3bn a year, through employee absence, diminished productivity as well as compensation and legal costs. Stanford University professor Robert Sutton cites in his book The No Asshole Rule the example of Ethan, a star sales person who also routinely insulted and bullied coworkers. HR decided to quantify the cost of his bad behaviour, which it put at $160,000, including the cost of employment counsel, hiring and retraining an assistant, but omitted the fallout for targets, and bystanders, such as decreased productivity, staff turnover and reputation
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  12738. @RC-9  the FT description of Brexit is as an economy with a slow puncture every now and then it gets a kicking and goes down a little faster as in the Truss budget / Ukraine war then goes back to loosing air slowly. If you look at the car industry the move to EV's will see no major manufacturing in the UK because of the destruction of the on demand supply chain through Europe parts ordered at where my wife work's used to arrive next day or a couple of days now its weeks and they have to bulk order and have increased stock due to increased costs paperwork etc.
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  12739. Keep it up it just Drives Harris's numbers up People want to move on from this kind of drivel
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  12740. He can't get rid of the ballots every state controls it's own voting, and the ballots to him are pointless because he won't stand down no matter how badly he looses. Be aware he doesn't have a sense of humour and says what he wants
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  12741. Tax cuts don't create growth its completely delusional thinking they do Osborne's corporate tax cut was spent on share buybacks increasing CEO pay in the bargain and went straight to increasing UK debt If you want to grow the economy you invest in physical and social infrastructure and get money into the pockets of the working and middle class Bottom up middle out scrapping Austerity and Trickle down policies
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  12742. The reporter wouldn't let DT lie his ass off so he threw a Tantrum and walked out what a big man he isn't.
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  12743. Stooge for the fossil lobby who sponsored it more like
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  12744. Who needs elections he just wants Trump for life. I think he's an awful con man what's at issue is the right wing media who prop up all his Cons, the interview just shows how Craven the Fox hosts are. Ex- right wing media ran with the dead people voting in Michigan story then didn't do the follow up when the national media interviewed all the so called dead people because they were comparing a national death list with the Michigan register creating tens of thousands of false positives. You've then got millions believing in a false narrative by only getting the disinformation part
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  12745. Someone from the fossil lobby spewing their sh1t again, we want cheap clean energy and we want it now not be tied to world commodity prices manipulated by multinational cartels
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  12746. ​the current talk in EU countries is 30,000 our totals have more than doubled since Brexit last year it was 80,000 So 30,000 + say 20,000 more sounds a good deal to me As this year its going to be near the 100,000 It's a better offer than what InActionMan is proposing housing migrants indefinitely at a current cost of 8 billiona year and escalating
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  12747. @raptorheli2  it can't be renewable? Why not cost of tidal is on par with Nuclear and with renewables you get a lot of off peak energy which can be used by businesses and industry. Mass storage and next gen batteries are starting to appear
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  12748.  @raptorheli2  in California they implemented a 750 million cost Tesla Megapack facility which saves ERCOT 1 billion a year. We've sent a man to the moon built the Internet and the IPhone We have Sand batteries, liquid metal batteries, liquid air batteries, hot rock batteries. My home system uses a large water tank to store heat greatly lowering electric usage
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  12749.  @raptorheli2  I run my house for the most part off the energy I produce adding a battery would push the envelope further. You could equip 1/2 million homes with solar domestic batteries + insulation for the cost of Hinckley C Net zero works by smoothing the demand curve and using smart tech it doesn't replicate the current grid. At least 40% of the energy would need to be decentralised running as a mesh. Once you plug EV's into the system you have unlimited smoothing capacity
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  12750.  @raptorheli2  my house uses next to no energy winter or summer due to insulation my biggest use is hot water in winter and during summer autum spring the water tank acts as a thermal store Why are you fixated on lithium? Its old tech By the way my house was built 1935 and the insulation is a retro fit + extension 2 years in now with a battery or EV I'd be 90% off grid
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  12751.  @raptorheli2  1st batteries don't have to be lithium based Finland are developing Sand Batteries for communal heating, the uk has a liquid air battery facility outside Manchester the US has started deployment of Flow batteries for grid backup and Sodium Ion + Solid State are starting to appear. My insulation costs +10% on build I loose / gain +/-2 degrees over 6 to 8 hour I've doubled my ground floor area and cut energy spend by 80%, the thermal and standard solar pay back in 10 years Net zero isn't 1 thing its insulation, grid storage, smart v2g, meshed domestic networks feeding into the grid, small scale wind and solar chipping away, smart glass, smart heating. Hinkley C will eventually cost 70 billion that's ×6 windfarms of equivalent capacity a tidal system would only cost 50 billion up front the nuclear base cost was 35 billion last time I looked and is 3 years late with additional cost overuns
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  12752. The Tories went down to 23% last week and Labour were up 3 points to 47% in the polls You've got Sunak because the rest were so Crap they had to be ditched in Lettuce Liz's case extra quick before everyone's pension went tits up
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  12753. What doing next to sod all about all the hidden russian money in Londongrad the money laundering capital of the world Non Dom central?
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  12754. No it won't were at the bottom of the S curve in EV adoption also the bulk of journeys are < 16km (32km there and back) There is also a huge differential between rural and suburban requirements (72% of people live in cities)
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  12755. It's just pure pragmatism your only lifting 250k out of poverty and it cost 3 billion while the other 4.275 million are still in poverty
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  12756. There not going to have a choice Europe especially is tired of all the BS and new energy development is focused on wind solar and tidal with the odd spat of nuclear, battery development is currently going through the roof with electrolysis being used to produce hydrogen now commercially viable which will enable heavy industry an alternative to natural gas. The car / van / final mile delivery lorry market is going to be all over the place for urban suburban driving your doing on average 60 miles a day at most.
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  12757. 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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  12758. I'm no fan of hers but she is 100 times better than the tory ones
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  12759.  @markjefferies55  Reform stand no chance there main policy brexit is the root cause of our economic collapse and migration quadrupling. Put those muppets in charge and you really will get Argentina on Thames
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  12760.  @ab77blues  I've a fatal attraction article that says she'll bomb completely Starmer is seen as non threatening by centre centre/right voters The problem is the Tory media have started already Labour to increase taxes by 3p Labour to cost every family £1000 on going renewable Complete pack of lies but the narrative is all that matters
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  12761. Define winning?
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  12762.  @s0ycapitan  your wrong the whole purpose of the campaign was expansion. The assets would have been seized and sold to the Oligarchs as they were in Crimeia. You would also haveee a pogroms of the Ukrainian elite and army those not killed would be shipped to the Gulags. The Russian Mafia, The Oligarchs and Putin are interchangeable. Putin allowed the corruption as long as he got a cut. Crimeia was becoming a sunk cost the Ukrainians had cut off the water supply so water had to be shipped in and a desalination plant had to be built. Corruption is endemic in the Russian system. The number of Oligarchs having accidents is one to keep an eye on.
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  12763. Why there not a credible party, the bandits that sold you the dud that is Brexit? Hows your legal migration going?
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  12764.  @paulhillman400  it wasn't funded and if the Tories had been elected would have been kicked down the road along with the 40 hospitals that had no funding and the 4% ni cut that had no funding.
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  12765. @TG-ts3xn  5he NHS waiting lists Low crime detection and defunding the justice system Crumbling public buildings Abandoned infrastructure projects The economic wasteland that is Conservative economics + Some legacy Thatcher era ones Barley functioning rail network Sh1t in rivers and ballooning energy costs from failed privatisation Housing crisis created by Right to buy subsidising house purchasing while stripping councils of valuable assets yet they still have to house the homeless shelling out near 50% of their budget on housing support How Conservative do you want it its sh1t enough as it is
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  12766.  @Lt.GonvilleBromhead  you Bury the Tories so badly they cease to exist and you have Labour for a couple of terms while the right of politics sorts itself out The root of the current problems from migration to the economy are in Osborne/Cameron s switch to trickle down Supply side Thatcherism + Austerity until you beat that out of right wing politics any time they take charge your heading down the same path.
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  12767. He's awful how much do you know about him his political leanings connections with the Radical hard right US Evangelical movement his ties to the Heritage Foundation a think Tank that is far right and sponsored by big Fossil interests?
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  12768. Starmer is targeting the smugglers not the smuggled cooperating with the people who run the border on the other side reclassifying people smugglers in the same light as organised crime and seizing their assets plus getting rid of the backlog that's costing us 8 billion The Tories offer is to shout a lot about the smuggled as if that will brig down the numbers hint it won't and Its not hard criticising the Tories they do nothing even when they do do something its to ensure the water companies can pour untreated sewage into the rivers and sea
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  12769. The cost of energy in 2021 to UK consumers was 30 billion in 2023 its estimated to be a 170 billion it will cost proportionally double staying as we are rather than going net zero due to gas & oil price instability. 140 billion over 10 years = 14 trillion. Energy cost could still be 170 billion per annum To achieve net zero invest in new infrastructure 48 billion over 10 years = 4.8 trillion. Energy costs down to 30 billion This is the extreme case with ongoing high gas prices but there is little to show that gas will come down or if it does by a pre 2021 margin meanwhile renewable energy gets ever cheaper
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  12770.  @Anub1s0  There fire and forget you wave it in the general direction and it does the rest its ideal for ambush tactics
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  12771.  @uingaeoc3905  It's service growth and it's lower than it should be anyway outside of London the regional economies are contracting with goods exports down by 7.4%
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  12772. There hard right never been near the centre
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  12773. It's 5 years and Tice is just some rich millionaire promising fantasy policies that are totally impractical
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  12774. Tax burden is still low by European standards its also the most unequal outside the US
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  12775. Tories got 43% of the vote at the last election Labour need the centre to win and the centre right not to feel threatened Labour will never get a majority on a Purley left agenda, stray further than centre left and your in opposition, no matter how bad the Cons get if Corbyn was still leader they'd be odds on winning
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  12776. 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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  12777. An 80 year old london elite and his inner circle talking shop, give it a rest the guy was the worst labour leader at the worst possible time
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  12778.  @electrified0  The J&J is a one shot and will be used heavily as the rollout continues
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  12779. 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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  12780. ​ @RadioTiberio Abbott currently doesn't have the whip and given she's near 80 isn't coming back any time soon. Given the fact that the party will get around 200+ new Starmer clones picked by the leadership claiming the left will somehow re-emerge like a phoenix is about as likely as seeing a real phoenix
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  12781.  @243wayne1  more of it is starting to come from renewables, there's loads of projects due to come on line in the next few years as the cost per kilowatt hour is about half of fossil before the current crisis
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  12782. What's Republicans beef with reality, it's like climate denial on steroids
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  12783. No its not I've recently double insulated my house through an extension and refurbishment it uses way less energy to heat and is on average 5 degrees cooler indoors on a really hot day. I've thermal solar and will get solar when my roof is replaced in a couple of years The air con issue in California you can put down to progressively hot weather and bad building design + if I wanted a cooling system over there I'd go with underfloor cooling and a reversible heat pump double insulation and run it off solar panels
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  12784.  @jackaubrey8614  superfoil or its equivalent is around £100 for a 10 square metre roll you can price battens up for the air gap yourself mineral wool insulation is fairly cheap and I used safety netting to sling across the joists in the floor. The big heat saving is from the multifoil it appears to cut heat transfer to a really low level
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  12785.  @JL-ft4it what difference does that make to a statistically unassailable lead? These 2 groups mean that DJT cannot win and worse for him it could end up being a blowout when you dive into the various polling cross tabs. Women by 20+ points 55% of the Total electorate and College Educated (Men and Women) +20 points and 40% of the total electorate
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  12786. Our economy has been shrinking since we left the single market and we get more inflation the more we diverge with the EU and have to implement and pay for yet more paperwork. Sunak didn't have the money to cut NI in the 1st place
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  12787. @jimmynich4791  economy has shrunk, export in physical goods by volume by 7%. Your quoting figures that doesn't take into account + 2 million workers and inflation is energy Brex1t related
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  12788. Tory outsourcing at its finest
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  12789. renewable energy is cheaper than fossil the transition has higher capital costs as opposed to just burning gas but on the other had fossil now has around 100 billion in future subsidies and tax breaks and the government propped up prices by injecting 12 billion in fossil subsidies to customers something that cannot be maintained. The further we get away from 2019 when renewables reached parity with the then gas price the more expensive is the cost of fossil nd other fuels in comparison.
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  12790. Crazy fertiliser prices? How about a concerted effort to move away from monoculture farming practices that tie people into an endless cycle of chemical usage
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  12791. Everyone I know is voting tactically Tories OUT
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  12792.  @goych  Thatcher and the Tories created the housing bubble and the Tory voting pensioner is mostly working class bribed by the Cons who asset stripped the country to do it. I'm under no illusion that the tax system benifts me bigly by taxing work over wealth, I'm all for a fair property tax but there is an ever increasing group of pensioners who are slipping into poverty
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  12793.  @goych  I'm fully in favour of a property tax to replace council tax but don't think anyone would dare to be so radical
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  12794.  @goych  since when? House prices have risen 66% since 2010 wages have fallen by -7% The Tories have deliberately created low wage generation rent
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  12795. no we don't why do you hate your fellow human beings so much?
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  12796. He didn't make a shortlist that's all
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  12797. He didn't make a shortlist that's all
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  12798. you do know renewables are cheaper don't you and by a considerable margin to gas generated electric
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  12799.  @roygreenwood79  Thank the Conservatives for the mark up spot price is tied to gas
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  12800. Fantasy level economic policy +. Lots of noise on migration If you think the Tories are sh1t Reform would easily climb uundwr that bar
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  12801. I'm centre left yes he does go look up a Guardian Article to fully appreciate his agenda A Keir Starmer government might be more radical than you think by Michael Jacobs Another must read article is by the FT which is backed up with graphs and data showing the trajectory of the UK economy under Austerity Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity A decade of Tory spending cuts left the country vulnerable to the external shocks of the past two years
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  12802.  @jlang893  times mostly
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  12803. Private healthcare isn't the answer government would have to foot the insurance bill for all the pensioners and looking around at how badly Tories privatise stuff the bill for them would be more than there paying to run the NHS within a few years.
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  12804. Widdicombe is talking complete sh!t Liz Truss was completely wrong we have 50 years of data since Reagan & Thatcher which shows Tax cuts DON'T create growth The average growth rate with Osborn's corporate tax cut was 0.5% GDP increasing tax receipts by around 40 billion till it went up this year at a cost of 200 billion in lost tax receipts. All the data we have points to companies using the bulk of tax savings on share buybacks in turn increasing executive pay
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  12805. why it's good for the overall economy?
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  12806. Sunak is one of the least corrupt he does it through cognitive bias rather than on purpose as far as I can see. Every time he makes a decision based on his ethos of Trickle Down Supply Side Economics he enriches himself and his family so the investigations will turn up more stuff.
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  12807.  pat Sullivan  Michelle Obama: how the former first lady soared to 'rock star' status - The Guardian Michelle Obama’s charm shines in Netflix documentary Becoming - Financial Times Michelle Obama inspires women of color around the globe Indian woman: 'She is a new face for India' First lady's dark skin and modest upbringing gives women hope German woman: 'She's the perfect blend of power and civility' etc. etc. If your a true believer in Faux news then put on the tin foil hat while the world laughs at you
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  12808. Meanwhile back on Earth we all saw Nunes pushing Russian propaganda as a defence in public.
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  12809. The only real plan was from the Brexit Ultra's with Globalisation unlimited migration and mass deregulation turning the City into whatever and leaving the rest of the country to rot There was never a plan to build the so called Country it was all about deregulating the City and keeping control of the tax havens and money laundering There on about convincing you to give up your labour rights paid holiday leave right to strike plus a whole lot of environmental and health and safety protections embedded into the 4,000 so called EU laws that have been folded into UK law over the years all without scrutiny and all at the behest of a minister
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  12810. All those deplorable African Americans turning out in their millions and voting for Biden its just not fair, Trump is targeting cities who dumped him hard with his usual racist rhetoric, his beef with Georgia is Atlanta metro, his beef with Pennsylvania is Detroit metro inthat those people cheated and those people are going to invade your suburbs. Old Orange burst is just a washed up white nationalist underneath the spray.
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  12811. The BOE had to bail out the Kwerteng budget to the tune of 130 billion in quantitative Easing along with the 700 billion printed through the Covid period you have a case of too much money sloshing round the system all of which has trickled up. Its why inflation has been so sticky a lot of it needs taxing out of the system the wealthy are on a spendathon bender quote Luxury goods boom in Britain as super-rich youngsters buck the recession Rich kids fuel sales of brands such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci They’re young, rich and mortgage-free, and the scions of the 1% are having a roaring twenties. Despite the economic gloom currently shrouding the UK and many other western countries, sales of luxury brands have been booming and growing numbers of buyers are young adults. Swiss watches, Louis Vuitton trainers, rare Birkin bags and 81-year-old whiskies are among the products that are fuelling impressive growth in the bottom lines of luxury brands such as LVMH, Burberry and Kering
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  12812. How are you going to identify illegal migrants in the system without ID? Were past the point this is even debatable especially now you need ID to vote
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  12813. ​@urnothingcu the Democrats put in place people who can govern and want to make government work. With Trump you had 4 years of chaos and a merry go round of cabinet leaders, 2 achievers a tax cut for the wealthy and exploding debt
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  12814. No they don't the price is fixed by the world commodity market were putting a windfall tax on North Sea production All your doing with a windfall tax is removing what are called super profits and reallocating it to domestic supply given its our Gas in the first place
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  12815. No they didn't they fought like my father to defeat Fascism @paulroberts7544 
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  12816.  @maccagrabme  why would you transfer your vote from one bunch of right wing elites who have screwed you over to another bunch who will definitely screw you over?
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  12817.  @beefy0978  if you look at the best place for wind farms in the UK its up north that's down the spine and on the countless shallow offshore shelves you need to build large capacity cables to get it down south and also expand the grid for domestic wind and solar. The grid upgrades in total over time will cost 150 billion this may sound a lot but its not given the scale of what your doing and the fact that the grid needs upgrading anyway but The Tories have bet on gas prices coming down which they won't or not to a degree that makes generation viable To put the 150 billion in context its 20 billion less than the excess profits the uk energy sector will make in 2 years due to this crisis or 10 billion more than got spent on propping up the market in the Truss premiership
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  12818.  @maccagrabme  the uk is centred where there are multiple weather systems on both sea and land modern turbines turn on as little as 8 mph the point here is we only have 17% generation and that could easily be 40-60% your base load requirements are are around 30-40% Also why isn't the government incetivising us to use less energy? Over the last couple of years in having an extension done I've been turning the house passive with a variety of insulation upgrades the savings you can get are staggering 20% saving for insulating your floor. Mandate higher standards in new builds and extensions. Underfloor heating uses between 20-40% less energy. It's like the government deliberately want to siphon our money to energy companies
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  12819. Tax base is 37% how much can the Tories waste on trickle down cr@p that does zero for the economy you h unt
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  12820. He's goint to loose because of the Cost of Living Crisis as Thatcherism hits the buffers at the end of the line at full speed
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  12821.  @timwoodger7896  Thatcherism aka Supply Side Trickle Down needs Supply Side Labour To work (migration) otherwise you'll need to raise taxes preferably on wealth stop the low tax model and invest in your resident population. What the figures on net migration don't show is how bad things are getting economically Immigration was 1.25 million with 1/2 being dependents also 1/2 a million emigrated were starting to see a brain drain, if you work abroad your income is higher and you don't have to pay student tax
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  12822. ​ @michaelathanasiou2030 the Tories spent around double what they had too a lot was siphoned off to mates
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  12823. 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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  12824. Spending cuts just shrink the economy One of the reasons gdp per capita is shrinking is ever expanding waiting lists
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  12825.  @longdongsilver1255  WRONG If you want to control immigration control your Labour pool by regulation to stop things like zero hour, pay decent wages in the public sector and train people. Invest in new technology to improve productivity, remove outsourcing etc.. or you will be stuck with high immigration and a tax cut pffffff
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  12826.  @bearcubdaycare  She will drive turnout amongst women and young voters at insane levels the polls won't really reflect it There's already a surge in voter registration and unique new campaign donors
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  12827. Its just the culmination of 13 Years of Thatcherism trickle down + Austerity If you follow a failed economic model for 13 years the sh1t really starts to hit the fan aka RAAC, ballooning crime figures, prisons overcrowded more and more people in the asylum system because your not processing them because you've cut staff. etc.
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  12828. @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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  12829.  @lesliekillingback4971  yea like all those extra legal migrants what did the elites tell them oh vote us out and we'll control our borders :) Yea and open them up to the 3rd world M U G S the lot of them
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  12830.  @jasonjones2470  Given young people voted to remain and stupid fkin near death pensioners voted to leave the demographic shift by crumblies dying means the current population without knowing what a complete screw up leaving was would be is 55%+ remain. The more years that past the more stupid old farts who believed farage's bollox are no longer here
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  12831.  @JACB006  given old stupid people voted to leave and young people voted remain the current population makeup is 55% remain. The further we go the worse it gets and don't forget the bitterness felt towards pensioners who voted leave with no skin in the game
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  12832.  @JACB006  You got what you wanted and it's sh1t so you spin a mythical reality that it hasn't happened while wanting to inflict more misery on the working people of this country. When your ready to admit to me you got conned by an Elite who have zero interest in what you thought you voted for then maybe we can move the conversation on. You took back control and now have half the 3rd world's doctors and nurses coming here while our own emigrate for better pay and conditions. This is the reality of what you voted for not the Nostalgia fuelled utopia the Elite's promised you.
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  12833. No he would go through with it if he thought he could, the issue now and for a few weeks is the change in the way the US has dealt with this crisis, 24/7 we have seen intelligence declassified almost in real time with spy satellite photo's and an escalating propaganda war.
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  12834. Polling put her on +17% during her hissy fit week the Tories dropped 2 points to 23% Labour gained 3 to 47% You need to get out more you've gotten yourself into a bubble
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  12835. The guy isn't left he's just anti selling off the NHS if you listened to what he was shouting
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  12836. Nice one keep up kicking him when he's down Maybe you could do a spoof video of the Senate trying to pass a Presidential Thin Skinned law because Twitter users are hurting his feelings it could be called the wait for it Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV Law
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  12837.  @socialengineering3154  He still hasn't got his head around the fact that he needs to come up with a national testing strategy and until he does the economy will stop/start splutter cough and limp until a vaccine can be deployed.
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  12838. That's because there past pedalling Republican conspiracy theories once Bengazied twice shy
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  12839. Why are you obsessed with Russia? A 30 second fact check on the Internet shows she was tasked with foreign relations visits to Central American countries
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  12840. 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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  12841. 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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  12842. Are they deliberately doing a Biden add for responsible Govt and listening to the scientists?
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  12843. I'm surprised Reform got 1 vote in Blackpool that was where they had the 2.9 quake that put a stop to fracking old Tice here is a stooge for the fossil lobby and wants to fetch it back.
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  12844. the chancellor is even shafting Tory voters the only ones to benefit from his budget are the top 1% but they come on the message boards saying better to get completely screwed over by a Tory government than see poor people get something
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  12845. Brilliant campaigning by Sunak your going to see a mass of youngsters sign up to vote in this election to make sure these clowns get no where near power Sunak's Truss moment you couldn't write it
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  12846. You couldn't make this stuff, the phantom candidate stuff is interesting because while not illegal the way it was funded was. There's a money trail to a Dark Money Pac and the fingerprints of the operation have Roger Stone written on them
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  12847. Uneducated older males tend to vote for nationalist parties Labour's biggest demographic are educated younger voters
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  12848.  @outofthetrash5925  points based systems are a waste of time we should be pushing for higher education standards the economy has normally needed more manual and trade workers
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  12849.  @outofthetrash5925  They do analysis of the polling data and the returns. The last survey YouGov did had 8% support for the Conservatives in the under 50's. With the minimum wage and school set at 18 over the Blair years education across the board has increased. Younger voters also grew up with Britain in the EU and aren't phased by freedom of movement or get triggered by dingy people. My parents were working class I'm not even though I've done my share of factory shifts and building site work when I was younger between University courses. Back in the day when the Tories didn't tax the snot out of students.
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  12850.  @outofthetrash5925  We want to improve the education of our own population increasing their skills not shipping in the finished product putting pressure on middle and higher earner incomes. I'm all for fruit pickers labourers etc.and free University
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  12851. Reform are bought and paid for by the fossil lobby Who Don't want us to have cheap renewable energy and energy independence It Breaks their business model
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  12852. @keithparker1346  maybe he is in your opinion but you bellyached like mad when they did this to Corbyn It's the usual strategy divide and rule the Tories can win with as little as 36% and there's nothing the likes of Murdoch wouldn't do to keep the status quo of huge tax breaks funneling up billions to the rich.
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  12853.  @UnionJack-k7x  if you defund nursing and doctor training via Austerity in 2010 then leave the EU how many 3rd world doctors and nurses + dependents will you need to give visas too in 2023 - discuss
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  12854. Election is round the corner not much point
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  12855. The lie appears to have boomeranged them all the media are talking about is the lie One of Johnsonian proportions and they cant even get the lie straight the little squirt is supposed to be good at maths its 2k over 5 years which is £400
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  12856. What your supporting here is removal of free speech and a direct route to Authoritarianism your the unpatriotic one
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  12857. He couldn't it would need a vote in parliament and the Cons aren't up for suicide yet
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  12858. There backed by the Billionaire class so good luck with that
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  12859.  davecoyle4483  Cons had a load of Russian and hedge fund money last time I looked couldn't stand Corbyn glad they got rid of him. Last time I heard Tice he was spouting economic nonsense that sounded like it came out of the right wing think tanks that double as Rich people's lobby groups Anyone advocating for fracking must have a spanner loose its expensive dirty and only benefits large fossil
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  12860. Reform aren't change there just a even worse version of the Tories, all gob and no workable policies Nuclear for 1 thing is 3 times more expensive than renewable now and smal reactor tech is estimated to be 5 times + it takes over 10 years to build, Him and Tice talk out of thier ar5e
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  12861. common sense is insulating your homes to A++ standard to save yourself money instead over the next 2 years the energy companies will make 170 billion in EXCESS profits that's not NORMAL profits its NORMAL + 170 Billion Cameron ditched insulation targets because who needs all that green crap which would have saved UK households billions
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  12862. I Don't invest in specific stock but in equity and multi asset funds while the bulk are in the tech sector it spreads the risk as such I've a stake in Tesla but as the result of an overall pot. Thanks for the video
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  12863. This is why the Democrats will win by a landslide Trump ran the economy like he runs his business on other people's money except a nation state can't declare for bankruptcy like The Donald has done on multiple occasions Quote Trump’s most enduring legacy is the historic rise in the national debt It rose almost $7.8 trillion during his time in the White House — approaching World War II levels, relative to the size of the economy. One of President Donald Trump’s profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. 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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  12864. ​@igaltalianski1976 it's not but since 2019 additional renewable energy became the cheapest on the grid, estimate is it will cost us twice as much to stay as we are than to create a renewable grid. All these right wing parties are connected to the fossil lobby and Tufton Street think tanks
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  12865. If you feed the poling data into the models and add a % of tactical voting you get a Tory wipe-out and the Lib-Dems as the official opposition so JHB stick a cork in it
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  12866. 2 million live in poverty and 4 out of 10 reaching pension age will be joining them.
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  12867. which bit about a renewable energy policy working NHS do you not like?
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  12868. 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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  12869. you can use your EV bidirectional as a power source for your home Heat pumps are expensive I went for gas would recommend a bidirectional one though if you need air con as they can run underfloor heating as a cooling system. Our underfloor is heat only and our hot water is thermal solar for around 75% coverage
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  12870. its worse than that if you divide it by a 5 year term it's 400 and not even scary
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  12871. In 2015, he joined Gulf Keystone Petroleum, an oil and gas exploration and production company, as a part-time chief strategy officer. From 2015 to 2018, he was paid £1.3 million by the company. Zahawi's various roles resulted in his reportedly being the second highest earning MP in the UK as of 2017. He's a shill for the fossil lobby
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  12872. So your saying because someone else is being an appalling human being then we should wash our morals down the toilet and be just as appalling. Why not see how Russia deals with problems there the only country to ever leave the ECHR
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  12873.  @josimpson7999  Why do you want to give away your human rights? This is a show pony to get the gullible to nod along and support leaving the ECHC a lot of the policing bill they've just enacted will fall foul of that court look up Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us? At least it will improve your knowledge of what the ECHR does
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  12874. Thier ratings won't improve the crazies only want more conspiracy and that has a limited market and turns of main stream advertising
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  12875. there fully aware that if you make people poorer through Austerity and defund youth services crime will rise especially among the young If you then put a Conservative Mayor in place they will instigate further cuts making the problem worse
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  12876. He's spreading disinformation that will cost people their lives if listened too, he's surrounded himself with a load of conspiracy cranks and weirdos and lost any sense of objective reality.
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  12877. GDP under Trump -3.5% over 4 years, jobs -2 million, if the Hoover cap fits... GDP by Biden 3.6% per annum, jobs +14 million
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  12878. The Tories only want to build in the London and south east area the Scots and Welsh don't vote for them get real
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  12879.  @IRISHSALTMINER61  Maggie is the cause of most of the rot her Thatcherite agenda was paid for by asset stripping oil money and globalization and the Big Bang the Tribute acts trying to do a version 2 are doomed to failure you can only piss away that money on tax cuts once
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  12880.  @simon-ec5kv  Our excess deaths are the highest in Europe
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  12881.  @crayzmarc  Steve Baker is a Libertarian nutter, supply side economics just cripples domestic industry if you want to know how bad it is and how much political unrest it causes go look over at the US
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  12882. ​@RemoanersRtosserswhat like last time when they properly funded services grew the economy and added +25% to average wages
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  12883. @RemoanersRtossers go find them yourself you lazy toad Minimum wage had a huge effect on average wages Also The top 9% paid more tax the bottom 20% less the rest of us pretty much unchanged until the Tories came in
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  12884. Because he's a heartless Tory He knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing
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  12885. It would be wall to wall misogyny central in the media and would detract from policy
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  12886. So your not keen on ukip lite which is where Sunak has taken them
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  12887. Ranting like a senile old man is about par for the course
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  12888. ​ @chkldstgee2433 I mean Brexit is only a force multiplier it just makes any problem worse Look at immigration 1.25 million with 1/2 dependents and why the steep rise in dependents well that's easy children isn't it good old Brexit😅😅
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  12889. So the answer to the complete failure of NeoLiberal economics AKA Thatcherism is more Thatcherism because the Tories aren't doing it right? fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
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  12890. They have the same economic policies just further right than the conservatives which is driving high migration so how does more of the same but harder work?
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  12891. Aparantly he liked to take pictures, Cohens book is probably why it's coming out now as he has one of those pictures. The circle of people round Trump gives you the sense of what it was like as the roman empire fell. Win or loose he's going to burn it all down.
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  12892. Polls are weighted by the last election The underlying issue here is -3 million voters at one end and +3 million at the other as well as remote working seeing many that worked in the cities move further afield & The Tories base plus red wall voters were highly skewed to pensioners
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  12893. Chasing reform switchers with dumb far right policies such as Rwanda got the Tories into this mess in the 1st place, before they started barking on about it Reform were at 6% all they've done is continuously highlight their own incompetence
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  12894. Looking forward to high inflation economic depression and your sales tax are we?
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  12895. @bartman7144  post Cov inflation was worldwide, the US gdp is growing at twice the rate as its rivals in the G7, DJT invested in tax cuts which went straight to debt and acounted for 4 trillion expansion in the money supply inflation was inevitable without an expansion of the economy. The current administration have invested in infrastructure including renewable energy charting a course for the US to be the Renewable world tech leader already reshoring jobs. Go to Mexico or Canada you'll see similar hikes in food prices and crops are increasingly affected by climate change Even if you open up more oil fields gas won't be any cheaper US oil has a base production cost which has gone up to 66$ for shale and 70$ other. Looking at current prices it's uneconomic for the multinationals to increase production.
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  12896. @bartman7144  I'm retired used to work in the tech sector and have a keen interest in renewable energy and have used government incentives to get my energy bills down, also finished a program of improvements with secondary insulation. Plus during Cov we gave over a large part of the garden to growing food and for health reasons we've cut back on meat. Basically I'm healthier than 4 years ago my house is cheaper and more comfortable to live in and my pension has increased in value by +50%
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  12897.  @bartman7144  The difference between renewables and Fossil is that fossil is a world traded commodity. Commodities need extraction processing and transport and although we have low crude prices at the moment the cost of processing and transport means Gas prices will remain well above Pre Cov prices. Solar and wind energy input is always free and inflation proof and doesn't involve transportation (in the normal sense once grid infrastructure is built). Domestic batteries including EV's can be mesh networked to provide grid stability. Many Utility companies are starting to offer super off peak or set hours of free eclectic if they can push - pull your battery. This is the future of cheaper cleaner energy, DJT and the Oil Barons that have poured well over a billion into GOP coffers are the past.
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  12898.  @bartman7144  I will give you a working example as part of my installation I have Thermal solar with current natural gas prices the capital cost would have been covered in 10 years. Due to inflation and rising costs that is now down to 7 years. In 4 years time 75% of my hot water is free.
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  12899.  @bartman7144  why would we go back to a regressive oil based economy when the likes of Europe and China are building huge renewable grids fetching down the price of energy making the US uncompetative if it sticks to Fossil?
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  12900. @theoutlier9053  the Capital cost of one in the US that replaced a gas standby power plant was $750 million with an annual saving to ERCOT of 1 billion a year and once built that's every year. Peak load gas power is even more expensive in the UK Load management is done by software Once you have enough EV penatration you can run V2G to manage the demand curve again saving billions, Energy usage has what's called a duck curve the more you spread demand to flaten it the cheaper your electricity gets. You can store energy in all sorts of ways the Fins have developed a Sand battery there's a liquid air battery being built outside Manchester
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  12901. @theoutlier9053  Tesla MegaPack is for grid management it replaces standby gas peak power plants and is completely automated and below is an snipet explaining the astronomical cost of PEAK energy and why this Tech saves billions Quote National Grid paid some of the highest prices this winter for gas-generated power on Tuesday night as it scrambled to keep the lights on during one of the coldest weeks of the year. Data from the electricity system’s administrator, Elexon, showed the Coryton power station in Essex had bids accepted to produce power at £1,950 per megawatt hour (MWh) on Tuesday evening. The sums are well above average prices of between £200 and £400 per megawatt hour, although they remain below those paid on 12 December, when National Grid paid £27m in a single day to get power stations to crank up supply. In December, Rye House power station in Hertfordshire received a record £6,000 a MWh
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  12902. @theoutlier9053  and for comparison Dogger bank offshore turbines have a forward contract price of £42 well below average market rate
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  12903. @leehenry5764  quote Octopus Energy has unveiled Octopus Power Pack, what is described as the UK's first mass-market vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tariff. This tariff guarantees free charging for electric vehicle (EV) drivers, potentially saving over £850 annually compared to standard tariffs
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  12904. @theoutlier9053  current battery life is up to 400k, price of batteries is expected to halve in the next 18 months as well as sodium ion replacing some lithium batteries Your kind of right we need a strong second hand market especially on cheaper day to day models most car companies are dragging thier feet which is why there needs to be a new vehicle cut off point. Also an EV isn't for everyone my brother lives in Norway and runs a diesel pickup and there nearly all new EV he needs the grunt for towing. Funnily enough world wide consumption of oil is falling not due to EV'S but the massive number of journeys done by Ebike and scooters
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  12905.  @theoutlier9053  my Brother lives in Norway they are 5-6 years ahead of us in the Green transition 92% of there energy is from renewables he drives a diesel truck because it tows but all the petrol stations have fast charger infrastructure built in them Nobody is taking anything from anybody, the scare stories are BS, new car sales of petrol / diesel are declining along with falling battery prices EV'S like in Norway will be heavily urban / suburban. Norway also doesn't have gas thier houses are insulted to within in an inch of thier lives, there's no plans to ban wood burners and my brothers other heat source is electric
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  12906.  @theoutlier9053  my posts keep getting deleted for some reason there's nothing controversial in them
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  12907.  @theoutlier9053  1st up petrol and diesel aren't being banned just new car sales in 2030, it would then take around 15-20 years to cyccle round the system, well before that we'll have Autonomous driving. So as long as there are viable 2nd hand cars running on petrol they can be sold and driven.
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  12908.  @theoutlier9053  there are people that want to manipulate you through Fear Quote The European Union is not planning to ban repairs for cars older than 15 years 7 Mar 2024 — The EU is working on legislation to ease the disposal of vehicles beyond repair and make it easier for owners to repair their cars
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  12909.  @theoutlier9053  tying your economy to a world traded commodity has seen 2 of the biggest bouts of inflation in this country In the 70's during the gulf crisis And Last couple of years with overall inflation peaking at 11% The Norwegian oil and gas fields are the same size as ours and are state owned they chose to use some of the oil profits to move to renewable energy, at the time our inflation was at 11% and energy bills doubled and trebled putting businesses into bankruptcy Norway had stable energy prices and 3% inflation. Renewable energy has high capital cost but low running costs Fossil energy has low capital cost and variable world market driven running costs Businesses would rather pay a little more and have certainty the Conservatives went for cheapest price sod the risk hence the dash for gas and eggs all in 1 basket Disaster capitalism at its finest and we carry the can for it as usual
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  12910. So removing a tax break that has fueled escalating prices And Giving them a generous 5 million allowance is globalist? Give your head a wobble
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  12911. For a family couple it's 3 million 1 million each farm allowance 500k each iht How much tax relief do you want. Dyson has been buying farms then renting them out pushing up prices so he can avoid IHT
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  12912. Populists from the left or right the result is the same as Johnson so ably proved, promised everything delivered less than nothing
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  12913. ​ @mandismith89 she has been cleared by hmrc at the time of the sale it was registered as her main residence
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  12914. Terminating a pregnancy past 24 weeks is illegal except in exceptional circumstances where the woman's life is at risk. the doctors decision can be challenged in court. There is no unrestricted abortion till birth it's a completely false claim. The most common reason for late term abortion is a dead fetus.
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  12915. ​ @SmartCookie2022 her economic theories are junk. we have 50 years of data on trickle down providing zero growth from Reagan onwards. Give a large tax break to millionaire pensioners it goes straight to assets and isn't spent in the economy. Corporate tax cut went straight to share buybacks creating zero growth It's that bad that benefit uplifts provide more growth than her crackpot theories
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  12916. The GOP are completely captured by Billionaire special interests, the fossil fuel industry pour billions into it the to denigrate global warming the big media empire run by the Murdoch's fuel an endless alternate reality Facebook is completely full of conspiracy theories. The carping about mail in is just another excuse to fetch in draconian voting laws to try and suppress the vote
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  12917. Pushing coal are you bunch of ozzy muppets for real? Coal was dying out without the green push even with all the subsidies it got and the pollution it caused and never had to pay for.
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  12918. Rome wasn't built in a day the proposals involve devolution of power
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  12919. Pure capitalism doesn't work it descends into an oligarchy with huge monopolies resulting in sky high prices and price gouging. On the other hand pure socialism doesn't work it again descends into an oligarchy with monopolies but a stagnant economy. The mid point at where you set the needle for a mixed economy should be the primary talking point NOT EVERYOUNE THAT DISAGREES WITH ME IS A F*** COMMIE
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  12920. Renewables are cheaper so the driver is economic
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  12921. The party of elite's batting for the billionaires, are you insane?
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  12922. never let the fascist bastards rest they deserve all they have coming how many millions died in ww2 because of fascism you don't play with it you don't try and control it you denounce for the horror that it is every day McCarthy every day you stand up and say ITS WRONG
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  12923. There bleeding too many votes to the centre by pandering to the nutters, Reform aren't Conservative in any shape or form
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  12924. ​@MontagZoso they can't the paperwork to states will have already been submitted. And Vance comes with the Tech bro millions in campaign support he's thier guy especially as Trump is one burger away from a coronary
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  12925. It's an easy attack add show a wind turbine operating in the middle of winter in Norway or Iceland then play the tape and ask the question why can't it be done in texas? Play it right and this could backfire on them big style and further the green new deal
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  12926.  @nickerrison-davey9099  farmers feed their cattle supplements all the time
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  12927. They were all part of the worst government in the History of UK politics Not just that they went scorched earth on the way out by implementing a 20 billion unfunded tax cut
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  12928. @skatergirlskatergirl2486  you have the same economic pull factors were still importing gig workers just via outsourcing companies and given the distance involved there fetching their families, also there average age is higher.
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  12929. He should call it the Dumb as a Rock Science Deniers Party The mans a complete charlatan
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  12930.  Captain Insano Shows no mercy  He'd make a perfect Tory
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  12931.  @markbanner6473  ? me Your the one denying the statistical reality of 12 years of Tory Supply Side Economic policy. All lower taxes for the rich have done over the last decade and a half is expand inequality reduce services lower people's disposable incomes and increase personal taxation.
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  12932.  @markbanner6473  Tory Supply Side Economic policy of tax cuts for the rich has seen an unprecedented reduction in services shrinking disposable income skyrocketing house prices eye watering increases in costs put on graduates and the highest personal tax burden since WW2. The wealth gap has ballooned in the last decade even in lockdown the rich just minted it in while we had to tighten our belts because god forbid you tax someone who can afford it
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  12933.  @markbanner6473  The data is from the Office for National Statistics compiled by the government Quotes Britain has now experienced a “decade without growth” according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the latest official projections (2018) . FT 2022 Feb The UK is facing two lost decades on living standards The Times Feb 2022 Boris Johnson is leading Britain into the trap of becoming a “low growth, high tax” economy that will lead to a “lost decade” for prosperity. etc etc Leading Economist from the LSE J Van Reenen 2007 The economy is probably the most successful legacy of the Blair years. ... Britain has enjoyed 15 years of continuous growth combined with low inflation.
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  12934.  @markbanner6473  I've posted overall trends even the FT regards the Tory decades as shyte I could explain why but your immune to economic theory it would seem
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  12935.  @markbanner6473  selective about what 12 years of data
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  12936.  @markbanner6473  The current economic plight is rooted in Thatcherism (Supply Side Economics ) and Brexit both tenants of the current regime put both together and your going to have a collapsing economy that will take years to even get back to anything like real growth. Supply-side economics assumes that lower tax rates boost economic growth by giving people incentives to work, save, and invest more. A critical tenet of this theory is that giving tax cuts to high-income people produces greater economic benefits than giving tax cuts to lower-income folks. Essentially, the more money the rich are able to keep, the more the whole economy will grow. But the evidence reveals two fundamental problems with this story. First, its primary prediction is wrong—giving tax cuts to the rich does not increase economic output or create new jobs. Instead, tax cuts for middle- and low-income taxpayers are much more effective at boosting macroeconomic activity. Second, supply-side theory misunderstands the actual mechanism by which tax rates influence macroeconomic activity. While supply-siders maintain that lower rates at the top incentivize people to earn more money, the evidence shows that tax cuts boost output mostly by putting money in people’s pockets and thereby stimulating demand. Why is supply-side economics controversial? Opponents of supply-side economics argue that rather than increasing revenue for the government, lowering taxes will instead increase the deficit. As a result, the government will have to cut programs or raise other taxes to make up for this shortfall, unless it wishes to run a permanent deficit. Most of the UK’s soaring inflation is down to Brexit in an article with Bloomberg Adam Posen a leading US economist said 80 per cent of the reason why the UK will see the highest inflation of any G7 country next year, as per the latest IMF forecasts, is due to the impact of Brexit on immigration and the labour market. He warned that Britain is showing to be less elastic than its counterparts in its post-pandemic recovery, and that it could be trapped in a high inflationary period for longer. “You’ve seen a huge drop in migrant labour, a disruption in labour markets that everybody experienced due to Covid and reopening, but with fundamentally less elasticity… and that [Brexit] has to be a major part of it,” he told a conference at Kings College in London yesterday. “When you look at the monetary factors, the growth factors… the UK doesn’t look that different from the euro area. “When you look at the macro factors, it’s very difficult to see anything other than the labour market issues. “There’s been no regulatory changes… It really seems like Brexit has to bear a disproportionate role in explaining the inflation.” And his analysis doesn't even touch on the trade friction introduced at the borders which has seen a drop of 15% in exports to the EU massive delays and mountains of paperwork adding large huge additional costs on imports/exports.
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  12937. Mayor Pete and Bernie have always come over well on Fox, not sure why they seem the interviewers struggle to interrupt. Both have a strong fact based styles
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  12938. the party of unfunded tax cuts and fantasy immigration policy, Tice is either deluded or lying
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  12939. He was born into wealth and married a billionaires daughter and became a Hedge fund manager the Asset stripping cockroaches of the banking system who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. He's an ex non dom to avoid taxes and only recently gave up his Green Card which he held while negotiating at the G7 on Britain's behalf with the US on global cooperate tax policy tax trying to get a carve out for the city bankers. If you want to read how broken and toxic his ideology is go read Britannia Unchained he espouses Thatcherism on steroids which is why we have the highest personal tax burden in 70 years because we cant be taxing those rich people and non dom's can we children
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  12940. What hyper inflation 7% is high not hyper, the Fed has already said its raising rates and the current WH are trying to wean the economy off Oil which is 90$ a barrel. Also in my area low paid workers have got a significant increase way over inflation the local Amazon warehouse has really bumped its wages up. So good news on the economy with GDP but Oil!
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  12941.  @enriqueenrique2222  nope the 7% is for the year Last time this happened Oil was sky high and checking back the time before as well (Regan and Bush) Me I'm going to add to my solar and get a small wind turbine and order that ev screw the oil companies
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  12942.  @enriqueenrique2222  why does who I vote for have anything to do with math
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  12943.  @glassmuxxic  you miss my point developer led building is done on a profit basis there not interested in building in the right places building on brown field building social housing or even building thermally efficient homes. Every time there is a move to empower these types of decisions the building companies lobby against it it goes nowhere.
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  12944. Laffer curve is junk economics it looks at one tax rate only
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  12945.  @AbuHashemPSC  The Greens are a bunch of dicks round where I live at local council level over planning we are desperately short of affordable housing.
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  12946. He's offering something for people from the centre left to the centre right If you want to waste your vote on a bunch of far right populist grifters go ahead. It's not like we can't see the consequences after 4 years of the current far right set of griffeters that are in power now
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  12947. One of the liars that sold us Brexit because he wanted to be in power and put Party before country now wants to put party before country again and install the ultimate clown not to mention Bojo was an Alcoholic.
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  12948. It will be as late as he can get away with The Tories have broken the economy because Thatcherism Sunak is doing more Thatcherism our Tax is going up he's cutting squat current 20% threshold = 12250 if it had gone up with inflation it would be 14350 that is the NI threshold as well NI cuts don't help pensioners many are on low incomes and are getting swept into the tax system because of the rate freeze
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  12949.  @skyblazeeterno  There's already property and stock taxes called Capital Gains Tax In 2016 Sunak along with his Party voted to reduce these to 20% In 2021 the Budgetary office recommended these be realigned with income tax Sunak declined to act on the recommendations. This would raise 14 Billion As an aside Sunak paid the bulk of his income as CGT @ 20% There is plenty of money in the system if you know where to find it ;)
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  12950. I use those there really handy, our local bus is EV as more come on-stream so will my Asthma improve with the reduction in car fumes
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  12951. So much stupidity from 1 man You'd think they would make an effort to learn how government works seeing as they want to govern
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  12952. There reckoning over 70/80 million votes will be in before election day a possible 150-60 million in total, Texas is now looking possible its just gone from Trump lean to toss up
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  12953. Don't vote Conservative if you want more money in your pocket since 2010 real average wages before this was down -3% under Cameron / May now Johnson will add -5% Raising the pension age to 66 breaking the triple lock giving the bankers 2 billion in tax cuts are all political choices
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  12954. Err they think they can tax and spend their way to prosperity? Has he never read the works of John Maynard Keynes or how his theories put into practice lifted the US out of the Great Depression and how it rebuilt our Economy post war?
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  12955. No there not Sunak has an even worse uturn record + 23 tax rises for a start
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  12956. Reform are a rebadged Nationalist party you really don't want there economic agenda its even worse than the Tories its to the Right of Trickle down supply side, you remove all labour laws and safeguards regulations etc then keep the bulk of the population poor to pay for a ruling elite.
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  12957. Elon is a far right ethnic cleansing sort of guy its in his Apartheid roots Why carry water for a billionaire that used his platform to deliberately push disinformation about Trump's opponent and push wild claims about the sun lit uplands if Trump is reelected. The billionaires who pumped 100's of millions into his campaign want the same thing tax cuts and don't care how much it screws over the population as the next 4 years will show
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  12958. 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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  12959. Because Brexit was always a lie its depressed the economy by 6% Immigration has gone up because more dependants now FOM has gone Thatcherism hit the rocks with sewage in rivers, triple energy bills, collapse of local councils whose housing stock has been stripped with rents through the roof The average person now has less disposable income than 2006 so threatening people with going back to square one won't work were already at square -4
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  12960. We borrowed 130 billion last year this will affect borrowing rates
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  12961.  @Suve35967  There economic policies and immigration policy won't work. Removing FOM increased the pull for migrant labour not decreased it. Deregulation will do the same while simultaneously shutting down legal migration will further erode living standards baking in a two tier economy and permanently low wages for the 95%.
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  12962. ​ @MartynCooper-vv9dk  His government supported backbench MPs in liberalising laws on censorship, divorce, abortion, and homosexuality, and he abolished capital punishment and Wilson's government also created the Open University. They got caught up in the 1973 oil crisis if you think today's energy crisis is bad at least we have a get out in moving to net zero (which the Tories have thrown away). Then came Thatcher probably the worst PM of any, asset stripping and blowing our NS oil legacy all on short term tax cuts instead of investing it in infrastructure.
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  12963. We have a low wage economy partly down to low regulation in the Labour market. During the Cameron era GiG economy firms exploited the lack of regulation to import near on 1 million workers on Zero hour low pay undermining UK companies and businesses. The previous government suppressed pay and were going to remove the right to strike to thousands of public sector workers while putting their jobs on the visa exception list and importing workers from the 3rd world. The consequences of using cheap labour in this way is a steep decline in productivity, a stagnant economy and shrinking wages in real terms in both private and public sectors. How bad has it become? Your subsidising this low wage economy through taxation to the tune of tens of billions. Last year 20 billion was spent on housing support 40% of benefits claimants were in work You really need to look at the wider economics of this and not parrot econimic junk
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  12964. They've said there not going to raise tax on working people what's your problem
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  12965.  @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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  12966. Who pyas you Mathew? Ah yes the Legatum institute connected to the owner of GBN and are pushing Truss style Libertarian economic policy using xenophobia to mask your real agenda
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  12967. So we have a housing crisis coz Thatcher sold off council houses on the cheap and didn't replace them An energy crisis part down to a dash for gas but also down to having utilities privatised Water companies that haven't invested in the victorian pipes that was the whole reason for privatisation but have debt loaded to the tune of 50 billion while paying out 57 billion in dividends and if the interest rates go up they may well go bankrupt. So Truss wants to cosplay Thatcher and Sunak claims to be Thatcher incarnate are the going to completely crush all manufacturing and have 13% unemployment just for old times sake?
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  12968. we haven't had a proper left wing party since the Post war reconstruction one You need a reality check we do as the EU says because we want to trade with them @martinlewis5248 
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  12969. Thatcherism + Austerity x Brexit = knackered economy Tons of useless trickle down policies over the last decade that have produced the largest shift of wealth from the have nots to the haves in UK economic history @jonedwards3441 
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  12970.  @williamkey4338  he's passed an infrastructure bill to rebuild crumbling America and a Green & Chips bill to bring manufacturing jobs back and pivot the US as the world leader in renewable technologies Get out of your media bubble and read this from France24 Why EU leaders are upset over Biden's Inflation Reduction Act From CNN the IRA forces European companies to relocate manufacturing into the US And also having to deal with the economic shtshw that Trump left his final numbers were debt +50% Jobs -3 million trade deficit +40% economic growth -3.4%
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  12971. Wagner group is the largest extreme far right group in Europe Azov got absorbed into the proper military and the ideology stopped its just a regular army battalion now.
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  12972.  @janinak6320  you don't follow it then
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  12973. Ground control to major Tom we have a massive ego flying by it appears to be inflating to a huge size
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  12974. and get the muppets that sold you brex1t which is why the economy is tanking in the 1st place? no thanks
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  12975. Your worse off now than you were in 2010 that's all you need to know about 14 years of failed Thtcherite economics
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  12976. He'll stay in power by a small majority and continue with scandal after scandal, we've barley touched on the dodgy Russian money funnelled into the Con Party and Boris's acquaintance with Oligarchs. There's all the covid contract stuff to come out billions in lost payments and dodgy PPE contracts with Michel Moan being the first to be investigated then the care home fiasco with covid patients being sent back to care homes with no testing. Or the 37 billion wasted on a fairly useless testing system Johnson is incompetent and he surrounds himself with incompetent people
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  12977. It's staggering the level of stupidity this guy shows or the level of dumb he thinks everyone else. How does cutting payroll tax help the unemployed oh yes the bulk of the benifits go to the employers. And finally the unemployed are being paid to much yea right there the ones who are stopping the economy from completely tanking by pushing ever dollar they get back into it.
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  12978. Keep pumping out the populist propaganda with Billionaire economic and tax priorities the Gammons love it Running at a loss and misinforming the public at every step with your right wing griffting BS which is currently screwing over the Tories oh how the rich wish us to live.
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  12979. @jamesw2414 happy new year I did some digging the Billionaire owner out in Dubai is connected to the Lagatum institute a right wing think tank with connections to the Koch brothers climate denial network Small world
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  12980. A lot of people are opting to lease Given the huge saving in petrol cost a small car virtually pays for itself If your leasing you don't care what year its registered or what the depreciation will be
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  12981. The country as a whole is sort of centre left if you push too far left the voters go into default mode better the devil you know and vote Con. The voter demographic has changed as well older male working class voters have turned into the Lee Anderton's of this world ukip Cons If the current situation is to be turned round you'll need more than Blair's soft centerist economic hybrid approach and you need everyone pulling in the same direction not dissident groups in your own party constantly bickering about not being this or that the country is in a huge crisis
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  12982. The fuel allowance was a universal benefit it doesnt bother me in the slightest its now part of the elderly support package it shouldn't have been universal to start with. Finally some fiscal responsibility 2023 tories spent 72 billion on fuel subsidies (they could have turbo charged net zero and insulation programs instead they rolled them back 10 billion on subsidies to the fossil industry (2 billion more than they collected in carbon taxes) 8 billion on millionaire pensioners allowance upgrade Etc.
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  12983. What's wrong with protesting you jumping on the fascist state bandwagon
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  12984. Just look over at Europe to see how quickly your statement will fall by the wayside October EV sales up to 20% of all registered cars ICE vehicles down by 30% month on month EV sales by volume up 60% When you start on the slope it accelerates at a phenomenal pace people I know are hanging on to their old cars with the intention of going EV next year ICE car sales are slowing down and in Europe are just about on the tipping point of falling through the floor
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  12985.  @lizs821  How long for the adoption of the IPhone then its thousands of clones is a more realistic analogy
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  12986. The people who had to implement brexit are the young who voted 75% remain Reform will make migration worse because there all in on deregulation which is a huge pull factor on using cheap Labour
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  12987. 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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  12988. Fossil fuels are heavily subsidised through the Tax system in the UK over the next 2 years the energy Companies will make 170 billion in EXCESS profits enough to make the current grid up to 70% renewable I'd also add that in the UK as well as the US the grid needs updating its old and in the wrong place
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  12989.  @janicebirch7522  why do Tories leap to whataboutisms? It really wastes a shed load of thought on nothing
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  12990. He's not as bad as Truss to be fair no one is well maybe Braveman
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  12991. Thatcher gave Jimmy a Knighthood and Currie gave him open access to Broadmoor the Head of the CPS is BANNED from reviewing cases except those tagged NATIONAL SECURITY. The reason is you don't give that power to a political appointee because it can be abused to prosecute political enemies thus you have separation of powers between the Judiciary and Parliament. This is a non story started by Patriotic Alternative (PA) a British far-right white nationalist group which states that it has active branches nationwide if you wish to lie with neo-nazi's then feel free.
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  12992. Reform would in many ways be even worse If you cut migration and your still running supply side trickle down aka Thatcherism your economy starts to contract, tax receipts get lower and you have to squeeze the lower middle and professional class more (those people that actually work) to prop it up Deregulate and try lowering taxes and you'll blow up the economy as Liz Truss did and if you cut off migrant Labour as well your in Argentina territory with a worthless currency If you want to lower migration you need to invest in Physical and social infrastructure that means a fair and equitable tax system with the wealthy dipping their hands in their pockets not freeloading as they currently are of people that work
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  12993. Elphicke's housing policy document she prepared for Johnson was broadly centre-left so how does that slur work?
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  12994. enjoying the 1 trillion hit to the UK economy since 2016 which is causing taxes to rise and living standards to fall are we? @tomsheppard378 
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  12995. So what's Johnson going to do actually start doing import checks? The supply chain is on its knees as it is, I know wave at him with British Exceptionalism and threaten him by promising to tank our economy some more just to spite the French? They've just promoted champagne in the budget and given over 100 million to Nissan (part owned by the French Government) and given a Nuclear power station contract to a French company and lets not forget French companies have a large stake in our power and water.
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  12996. It isn't they just want them to die so there off the books
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  12997. 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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  12998. 48% are Athiest, God save us from Bible bashers
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  12999. since when
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  13000. What difference would that make the Republican playbook is cuts to government programs which will increase unemployment and tax cuts which will cost the deficit. If they had a plan then maybe you could debate it but they don't
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  13001. ​ @daveross-lq5nv you'll not get that round here the channel is billionaire owned and pumps out right wing crap to convince the masses that trickle down economics is the future
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  13002. ​ @Lt.GonvilleBromhead they encourage it it distracts from the Thatcher economics which needs boat loads of migrant workers to work Also distracts from the privatised services price gauging like bandits
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  13003. Third world countries have thier dictator leaders fix elections, so not quite third world but he's working on it. On another note Biden's voter coolition makes up 70%+ of the US GDP which shows how much red states are becoming more and more dependant on the prosperity of blue states and the disconnect of Republicans
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  13004. We've had 14 years of Austerity where real disposable income has on average fallen by 10%, if we don't invest then that will continue Fiscal tightening has not worked, will never work and will see a rise of the far right in response
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  13005.  @will121  If you increase public sector wages then wages in the private sector will rise. Depression of public sector wages since 2010 has seen a corresponding depression in private sector pay at the low middle end. The Conservative government then used the Visa exception scheme to import labour to keep public sector wages low.
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  13006. ​ @briangasser973 those with battery systems still had power. You can also run a house off an EV for a number of days if you have the tech installed.
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  13007. Why wouldn't the judge order a psychiatric analysis given how unhinged Trump has been including a brain scan the guy is a sick puppy
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  13008. Why is 3 million not enough? Family farms near me in Yorks are 2.5 mill
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  13009. What kind of moron thinks a tax cut is the answer to everything, regulations to stop pollution, bad employment practices in terms of health and safety and quality food standards yea good call NOT
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  13010. Brothers of Italy Fratelli d'Italia Ideology National conservatism Right-wing populism Neo-fascism Political position Right-wing to far-right
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  13011.  @rassman48  When are you going to admit you were conned? Maggy asset stripped the Country for short term gain. Sewage in rivers sky high energy prices 20 billion spent on housing support last year out of taxation with councils on the brink of bankruptcy because their housing stock has been flogged off on the cheap and not replaced. Tens of billions pocketed by Tory mates on dodgy contracts instead of using the EU common negotiated prices. The £ worth 30% less to the Euro as soon as they got a bit of sovereignty they gave it away shafting Farmers with the AUS and NZ deal and signing up to ISDS a corporate super-national dispute court. You've been taken for a complete mug and now won't admit it
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  13012. The most startling example of the Democrats mindset as opposed to the Republican was in the use of the defence production act Trump used it to force meat packing plants open that were riddled with Covid giving the companies a waver against prosecution so the didn't have to shut down when covid cases got out of hand Biden used it to force a drug company rival to pitch in resource to double production. The ppe fiasco with Kushner was about to be repeated with the vaccine with winners and loosers holding the doses as hostage against blue states
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  13013. Reform aren't change there just rebadged Tories
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  13014. You'll only get pneumonia if you don't exercise enough, try insulation works for me heating went off in April will come on again in late October
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  13015. International treaties including trade ones
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  13016.  @maxworth4687  any of the candidates would be better than the dumpster, Bernie or nothing isn't an option
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  13017.  @maxworth4687  and that's what the GOP wants to further thier goal of minority rule and further disenfranchise the majority there will be no 2024 election if Trump wins a 2nd term. Unite whoever it is or the biggest corporate tool in the spanner box will be president for life.
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  13018. Skills and location need to match, availability of public transport etc gobbing off about poverty-stricken work shy poor is the usual Tory gormless bilge The current bunch with Doris in charge are completely f*** useless
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  13019.  @RogerYeahmon  not a Tory the best place for every last one of the current bunch of Conservative liars is the unemployment queue
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  13020.  @RogerYeahmon  what does a name give you the current sht state of the economy is down to Cameron/May/Johnson, it's going nowhere till the Cons are history, in over a decade they've managed to shrink real average earnings by -3% a feat not achieved since Ww2 The treasury are proposing an 8% budget cut across all departments there's a tax increase of 1.25% disproportionately affecting the low paid a 1200£ cut in universal credit (60% of people receiving it are working) abandoning the triple lock so they can gauge pensioners lowering the pay back level so they can gauge ex students.
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  13021.  @RogerYeahmon  No idea I'm in prime Con demographic recently retired well off own my home. Maybe its because I check through the BS the Cons spew out, you know you'd raise more tax revenue if you abolished the NI ceiling rather than hiking the tax onto everyone taxing people that barely can make ends meet the lower band starts at just under 9k pa
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  13022. China deployed more renewable energy last year than the rest of the world combined
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  13023. Sunak is a vocal opponent of a trade war with the EU, Mogg and the ERG want to jack us out of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement sending tens of thousands of small and medium businesses into Bankruptcy
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  13024. we've had 14 years of Thatcherism which has knackered the economy starting with Osborne's austerity and VAT rise quote George Osborne's VAT rise illustrates an unbending truth of politics: it's easier to raise £13bn from the poor than upset VIPs
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  13025. Reported deaths v actual has been calculated in Europe as +40% the full nightmare of this virus won't become apparent till the death toll data for actual verses expected is examined.
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  13026. They need to sort out voting rights stop gerrymandering and have a federal mandate on election rules, rigged districts just elect hardcore from either party.
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  13027.  @stefmanbrett91  Did you read the SNP motion? It contained language that neither Labour Nor the Cons could sign up to and was presented at the last possible minute "collective punishment " is a legal term under the Geneva convention its no wonder it got superseded it needs deliberating via a court. Starmer is a Human rights Lawyer You should be happy a call for a ceasefire who's language didn't break international protocol was passed unanimously?
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  13028. Reform represent the elite and billionaire class don't kid yourself @DavesGarden1714 
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  13029. no it couldn't and it would cost 10 billion and your not giving away my human rights or anyone else I know just to be an arse to migrants
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  13030. There just a worse version of the Tories research h thier policies
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  13031. They don't get that outside thier right wing safe bubble people think he's a unless lying cheating sack of Orange poo and that people would actually have voted for anyone rather than him.
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  13032. 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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  13033. The media hysteria has if you believe it I looked at polls the aggregator has them down 1-2 points and the Tories have fallen 4 points Your talking about the emergence of a new right wing party with a credible economic agenda, both the Cons and Reform will not distance themselves from Trussanomics, Reform's manifesto was a straight blueprint of what caused the crash in the 1st place unfunded tax cuts
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  13034. Your deluding yourself about Reform I could debunk every policy they stand for in double quick time. There a more extreme soap box tub thumping clueless version of the Tories.
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  13035. @andrewflindall9048  I'll give you a free economics lesson if you want a low tax low regulation economy the price is high immigration to cover the shortfall in tax and skills through lack of investment in the domestic population. Reform are promising Boris's Cakeism and we know how that ended quadrupled migration numbers.
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  13036. ​ @karlfoster5129 Trump and Vance want to end democracy with project 2025
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  13037. @patrickchege58  The US produces as of now more energy than it uses, increasing production won't lower costs because they've extracted all the easy stuff. Also production costs will continue to climb with inflation Last time I looked Wind and the Sun were still free and inflation proof?
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  13038. @unguhbungah Libertarianism descends very quickly into monopolies and and 95% of the people in economic slavery while the 5% are fabulously wealthy at which point you get a dictator who the libertarian elite support out of sheer greed
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  13039. It will be a wild 4 years The economists I know reckon a generation and a half to recover from a combination of Musk's Austerity, Trump's Tariffs and deportations On the bright side I have tesla stock and will bail into gold before the great depression, think it will take them a year before everything starts going tits up and the GOP will burn themselves out so bad even controlling the narrative life will be so bad everyone will turn on them.
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  13040. Were not he's voted for by the Parliamentary party
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  13041.  @Owen-sm7ob  Cameron introduced Austerity which shrank the economy more than the cost savings And He did zip migration in fact his key policy of deliberately not regulating the GiG economy saw multinational companies fetch in more than a million workers on zero hour low wage then offshoring the profits. Our current numbers have 50% dependents, why? Because we removed FOM and are shopping from thousands of miles away yet another brexit benifit NOT
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  13042. where outside of London is that relevant, I've just liquidised my Mothers estate with decent savings including a 3 bed detached its not even 500k I'd be overjoyed to have 1 million to pay tax on 450k
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  13043. The soviets? you mean Russians and what is the strategy aside from turn an area into shelled out hellscape no one can live in loose thousands of men moving 1km forward rinse repeat
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  13044. The welsh NHS has the same funding constraints as the rest of the country, what's not been done in the last 14 years is structural investment hence RAAC left untouched in buildings There still using paper records for christs sake
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  13045. ​ @leonardbenzies6374 the one where policy is approved by the Ghost of Thatcher and signed off by Brexit Jesus Till the election were trapped there too
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  13046. @turdferguson5302  what questions does she need to answer? Policy wise the Gop have stood for tax breaks for the wealthy and Democrats for sound governance, healthcare and investment since I started voting 50 years ago Neither have fixed the border And This time the GOP are going full nut job with a 2025 heritage special
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  13047. @rlwetz4317  get out of here it Secretary Mayorkas's job, making stuff up then continuing to lie about it when it's been proven to be complete BS is not going to get you anywhere We have the internet
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  13048. ​@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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  13049. Welcome to the next leader of the Conservative party her mantra of Cruel Britannia and hate fueled toxic politics The UKIP ification of the Tories is complete
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  13050. No they won't they don't offer any workable policies Immigration is yet more posturing and grandstanding in the same vein as the Rwanda waste of money and Their economic polices are 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts, fracking and making our energy more expensive as well as privatising the NHS
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  13051. So there spending 300 million on trying to sending 0.5% of Asylum seekers to a concentration camp in East Africa without due process then sell it as a deterrent which by the power of Right wing magical thinking will stop the boats. Are these nutters in some sort of Cult or do they just have several screws loose and not live in the real world? Are they really going to die on this hill of complete nothingness the Dead Cat of all dead cats?
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  13052. Who cares all good Conservatives send their kids to private schools I know lets privatise all the schools and spend the money on tax breaks for the rich and when they can't afford to go to school the little mites can go play fruit picking on a farm.
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  13053. ​ @pmarsh3700 well voting Tory and nothing will change Voting labour and lots of things will As for REFORM thier economic policies will drive up legal migration because its a consequence of Supply side trickle down Thatcherism
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  13054. The old way is dead a bunch of grumpy old men sat on a sofa opining about the good old bad old days won't change a thing We spent most of lockdown decentralising and moving systems to the cloud and virtual machines there simply is no reason for the vast number of firms to go full office the best your going to get with a lot of them is hybrid. Also the age of decentralised working is here the Tech revolution is in full swing, Tory boys are crying over their empty offices shuttered starbucks aren't going to change a thing. This is a stupid argument anyway there's been a large increase in productivity because of home and hybrid working and the upgraded systems we've put in place and there's a skills shortage. Decentralised working allows firms to recruit from a larger pool of workers not tethered to a location just think of all those young Green / Lib-Dem / Labour voters now moving to rural Con areas and changing the voting demographic no wonder the Tory Boys are getting the sweats.
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  13055. There right wing elites with zero answers to the country problems but hey waste your vote what do I care you'd only vote Tory otherwise The billionaire class laugh all the way to the polling booth with you chumps around
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  13056. No where not but it would be nice if the government processed the claims for asylum releasing 6 billion in costs and repatriating 36,000 who would fail the asylum claim based on 80% being granted
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  13057. ​ @johnc.9133  the 5th richest economy in the world, highest average salaries in the US the issue with low tax states and countries is the wealthy just keep increasing their wealth squeezing the middle and lower class, as a country if you invest in infrastructure, education and health it benefits everyone there's also the right wing authoritarian bit where stuff gets banned education and media is controlled by the political party, Texas is far from free
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  13058. He created an unholy coalition that was fragile at best of English Nationalists (Red Wall) and the Brexit Ultra's absorbing the dregs of UKIP and taking the Blue wall for granted. He lied to all parties in the coalition keeping its head just above water, people forget before his demise there was a long string of by election failure where the Blue wall was being eaten by the Lib-Dems
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  13059. If you want to stop inflation then you need to tax the wealthy Timline 2017 Trump tax cuts putting 1.5 trillion into corporate America 2019 tax cuts causing fed debt to spiral 2020 pandemic with debt still rising Fed prints trillions to ease the recession 2020-present nearly all those trillions have spiralled up to the 1% causing the inflationary pressure. So until there's meaningful tax reform to pull back some of those trillions to pay off the debt were going have inflation billionaire wealth increased by 55% during covid a good chunk of that is from the feds quantative easing until you pull some of that money out then inflation will keep going year on year and they will use it for example to buy up property which is driving up prices which in turn drives up rents you have to break the chain
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  13060.  @programking655  Part of the inflation is caused by increased money supply by the Fed to cushion the economy from going into deep recession due to the Trump tax cuts and the pandemic, that increased money supply has spiralled up to the 1% the millionaires and billionaires. Stock prices when you remove sectors hit by the pandemic have doubled property has increased by 50% To tackle the debt you need to tax at the top to curb the out of control asset inflation
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  13061. Zero income tax benifits the wealthy a study of Texas cumulative taxation shows the bottom 20% of earners by income pay 13.5% in overall taxation the top 5% 3.5%
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  13062. If your getting a solar install most are looking at an addition of a battery as they've plummeted in price for time shifting usage. + An EV has around 2 days of power to run a house on full charge. Batteries are perfect for decentralised load balancing using smart tech
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  13063. only 1 in 8 like the little toad according to polls so it's not surprising
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  13064. After Roe v Wade the next Republican Dragon they wish to slay is Social Security If they can ban abortion they can do anything would you risk your Pension
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  13065.  @mrxxbrian  the dollar against the Euro and Yuan hasn't changed the two other major trading blocks in the world Your right about one thing though the world price of Oil is going to continue to climb in price as is natural gas And food will slowly climb in price as climate change has more and more impact on agriculture and livestock with ever increasing weather events neither of these things are controllable by whoever is in charge
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  13066. ​ @alivekicking6247 EV's have 40 moving to parts as opposed to 4,000 and will be self drive within 5 years There literally a computer a battery + 4 wheels I gave up maintaining cars 30 years ago it's a complete pain I also have an automatic with cruise control for the same reason
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  13067. what was the point of Brexit then? Lowering food standards to import Salmonella riddled meat from Mexico? Duplicate hundreds of agencies because Brexit Jesus told us to? The words Cult and Mug spring to mind
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  13068.  @JohnSmall314  I think we have a patriotic duty to do a forced course on economics on all major channels followed by the Leaders of this shtshw stripped naked and forced to march through UK cities having rotten eggs thrown at them before having to go on TV and repent nightly on for the next 7 years and be whipped if they lie AGAIN
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  13069. Your commenting on a non story delivered by someone in JRM was getting paid for fake tv work by an offshore billionaire
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  13070. Well he's even lying about the lie, why tell one when lie when you can make it into a huge woppa The United States credibility is on the line! What credibility We can drill down on the intelligence! Not much intelligence in the WH
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  13071.  @chatham43  the owner of the Daily Mail will be well aware you don't have to live somewhere for it to classed as your primary residence for CGT purposes, just another one of those loopholes. He had to get his private dicks to go back 10 years to get anything even remotely worth slinging mud at, given he'll loose his non-dom status I wonder how much he's invested in this enterprise?
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  13072. Prices aren't coming down just slowing the long term switch to renewables over fossil even though its at full speed has a lag time on energy prices. Food will continue to go up due to changing climate and the intense farming methods being unsustainable
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  13073.  @jmjfanss  there's plenty of money in the system
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  13074. The exemption from iht has created the problem in the 1st place. Anywhere you create a tax loophole the rich flood in to abuse it
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  13075. It depends on what part of the economy your in I work in IT growth over the last decade has just accelerated year on year and you can see huge shifts in automation transformation. That will distort the overall figure with services taking an absolute pummelling and fuel and food inflation
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  13076. If your that poor you use public transport the whole argument against this is a con 90% of vehicles are compliant and of the ones that aren't their diesel
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  13077. The US has 35% of the GDP controlled by the state Norway a liberal country has 50% The UK post war under a labour (socialist govt) with 60-65% A full Warren was estimated at 42% GDP A full Bernie was estimated at 55% A full communist is a 100%
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  13078. @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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  13079.  @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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  13080. They lost their base because the hard Brexit they implemented has tanked the economy and sent migration through the roof
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  13081. The bully in chief currently in the WH isn't threatening GOP senators? Is the Pope catholic?
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  13082. don't make me vomit the guy is gross
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  13083.  @stephenjon3502  Loads of us voted tactically same as what happened in 97 bu now we have the internet to make the vote more efficient Just to point out Lib-Dems brilliant ground game thousands of councillors Labour even better and Greens also on the ground making heir case despite media ramming Fartage down our throats
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  13084. That's crazy talk about the gold standard. Every major economy printed money during the pandemic that's why we have inflatiion The IMF have said everyone needs a wealth tax to rebalance but government ignores it.
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  13085.  @ianworley8169  That was the Tories and they splashed any additional saving on the following Millionaire pensioner tax break 10 billion Reduced banking levy 8 billion More fossil subsides 6 billion NI cut for the middle class 18 billion etc.
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  13086. poor people don't have a car, a lot of urban young people don't have a car its expected that 250k will be excluded under these restrictions and the expected vote from these demographic groups is Democrat 90%
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  13087. what idiot would base their vote on pointless fake culture wars drummed up by the media?
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  13088.  @Samps1992  Things have been heading in the wrong direction for a long time the central issue is a brexi1 without a plan, an energy crisis that could have been mitigated with swift action rather that sticking their head in the sand and Truss crashing the markets (wiped out 24% of pension values 484 billion)
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  13089. Trump brain is fried Project 2025 is going to go into full steam under President Vance, DJT is one burger away from a coronary
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  13090. A health service pay rise will have an economic multiplier of a minimum of around 0.8 and if the pay rise enables less recruitment and fewer days spent on agency staff + higher patient throughput that value can be > 1 Anything over 1 pays for itself 0.8 costs the treasury 20p in the pound The 1st thing that happens with any pay rise is the government take their slice back for a graduate that's near on 50% these days  @MCDONALD6969 
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  13091. He's a greedy thieving conservative following free market fundamentalist ideas, what gives you any notion that a Tory chancellor wants to be fair?
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  13092. Conservatives have always been about the wealthy Thatcher used Oil Money Asset stripping and bribing people with government owned housing to get votes what have the current bunch done beside line their own pockets
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  13093. Us pensioners are home most of the time, my house is well insulated but that doesn't apply to the majority @johnpatrick1702 
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  13094. Private healthcare isn't the answer government would have to foot the insurance bill for all the pensioners and looking around at how badly Tories privatise stuff the bill for them would be more than there paying to run the NHS within a few years Private healthcare is more expensive by a considerable margin and the hospitals would loose all the voluntary workers in the system
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  13095. Why is it a betrayal brex1t was dead the minute we left and started suffering the economic and social consequences Migration quadrupled and our economy started shrinking. How do you make brex1t work - you reverse it
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  13096. The pre election bribe of cutting NI was unfunded costing 20 billion is the simple answer Given the Tories just kept borrowing money and fiddling the fiscal rules its no surprise
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  13097. in what way he is installing party discipline after the Corbyn loose cannon years Diane Abbott: Keir Starmer's 'deranged' Nato support risks 'catastrophe' in Ukraine There's other stuff she said tbh I couldn't vote for him or most of his inner circle I'm not surprised there getting booted they appear to want to behave however they want.
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  13098. What he wouldn't cheat like his boss?
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  13099. Sunak is a vocal opponent of a trade war with the EU, Mogg and the ERG want to jack us out of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement sending tens of thousands of small and medium businesses into Bankruptcy
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  13100. What's the point of her even being in the SNP? Their voter base is young Liberal and secular she just sounds like an old out of touch Tory
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  13101.  @zenbaby3396  Our GRID is sized to meet peak demand from 4-7pm. Most Industrial/business usage is during the day a small company could claim 100% of a solar + battery install against tax as a capital investment. It's the batteries that are saving all the money the solar ticks along as solar does
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  13102. The US doesn't make all its own stuff, no country does. Tariffs are used to level the playing field this is just a sales tax. What's worse is retaliatory tariffs, 92% of the money gained from Chinese tariffs during DJT'S last term went on subsidies to farmers who had thier market wiped out permanently.
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  13103. Climate cr@p saves money on bills Our high energy costs are down to out of date last mile standby Gas peak generation plant
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  13104. what can't cope with a mere 5 million in allowances you poor thing
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  13105. no its not the report he touts proves he no longer was rich enough for his rich elite bank account
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  13106. I'ts not even a proper figure it's calculated per WORKING household and is over 4 years there are 28 million households as opposed to working households and 32 million taxpayers which gives you £1187 instead of 2k divide it by 4 and it's 296 a year Labours proposed tax rises are targeted on the wealthy and assets taxes such as CGT so it's irrelevant
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  13107.  @chucky2316  One neoliberal pile of bullsh1t for another, he got you to vote for tripling migration and cratering economy in Brexit and your still a believer? Are you in a cult?
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  13108. Since when do refugees read the Daily Mail?
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  13109. The way of financing anything is to cut the trickle down cr@p there is literally 10s of billions of stupid tory tax breaks littered all over the system
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  13110. Nige is a populist Tory don't fool yourself Tory economics got us here
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  13111. Our grid needs upgrading anyway, mass storage opens up time shifting and storage of always on power I've just had a solar + battery install done it is projected to save me £1200 a year, most of that saving is opening up low off peak tariffs from my supplier and using the battery at peak times. Just using the battery to import at low use at high will save me about £600 that's without the input from my solar
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  13112. There's waste in everything unfortunately but putting infrastructure say out to the private sector and having private self interests (lobbying etc.)mushrooms the cost. There's also the lack of enforcement just look at the subsidies given to the broadband sector who promised on their grandmothers life they'd improve rural broadband but hey ho
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  13113. The Conservatives have inflated the property market by pumping billions into right to buy to the point anyone on low medium income it is now the only way of ever owning your own home. Cameron pumped billions into the scheme and since 2010 house prices have risen by 66% while real wages average have fallen by -7%
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  13114. 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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  13115. 13 years of Austerity and trickle down economics a failed model Thatcherism only vaguely worked due to asset stripping oil money and giving away council houses
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  13116. @Iazzaboyce  neither represent the right of centre the Tories are way to the right and Reform are in Libertarian lala land
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  13117.  @Iazzaboyce  the right of centre round here want nothing to do with the Tory party and are voting in Lib Dem councillors by the bucket load. The Tory party will cease to exist in what was a Blue wall seat after the next election.
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  13118.  @Iazzaboyce  I live in a blue wall seat the right of centre are voting Lib-Dem they wouldn't touch Reform with a barge pole. The big poll surges for Reform are in Males 50+ uneducated there not centre right they would vote NF or BNP if they were on the ballot.
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  13119. Just leave it Jonson is screwed anyway he's determined to go by Death By a Thousand Cuts so I'm OK with that What's coming out next week DJ Bojo in an Abba fancy dress??
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  13120. The Insane economic policies of Lettuce Liz with the Batsh1t immigration policies of Braverman Hello Argentina on the Channel
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  13121. You dont reduce debt by shutting down the Government because if you do it shrinks the economy & tax receipts You dont reduce debt by reducing Government investment if you do it shrinks the economy & tax receipts You dont reduce debt by reducing the size of the IRS if you do it shrinks tax receipts The reason the US is the economic behemoth it is is from government investment the economy is still living off the effects of capital injection from the Moon shot, Bidens infrastructure and renewables investment will have a similar economic effect. The reason for the debt is simple unfuded Republican tax cuts to the wealthiest in the system
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  13122.  @000mzmx9  back in the 70's 6% inflation was chicken feed, but back then interest rates would have been high to match, you can't use that tactic now too much debt in the system
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  13123. It's about tax and regulations, the rest of Trumps campaign money is coming from oil barons cause he's going to scrap net zero and regulations on clean air. Basically f the population as long as we get richer
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  13124. He's going off on Supply Side Trickle Down Economics (Reaganomics) it never worked Reagan brought down inflation with a 20% fed rate and 13% unemployment the so called economic miracle was on the back of off shoring US jobs depressing salaries. It's a 1 off there's not enough heavy industry to do it again and besides off shoring was a key reason in the rise of Trump its about as popular as having to drink a pint of baby puke
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  13125.  @evolassunglasses4673  its supply side inflation on world commodities + greedflation from corporations Interest rates have zero effect on both
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  13126. Dan Needle the tax expert said there was nothing to see I'd believe him over a Daily Mail owning non dom who doesn't want to pay tax
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  13127. 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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  13128. Its in Reform s interest to have the Cons obliterated so they can push electoral reform thier core is male 50+ uneducated the same as br3xit & UKIP Starmer has full control of a lot of selections which gives him full control of the Party
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  13129. 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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  13130. Good 12 years of Economic stagnation negative wage growth and reduced spending power a feat not achieved by any government in 200 years The chancellor made it perfectly clear that he will prioritise big business corporate profits above all else
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  13131. The care homes aren't overflowing with zombies so I had my first shot a couple of weeks ago, like the diners I'm old overweight + have asthma, that group has something like a 1 in 20 fatality rate from covid.
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  13132. Fossil inflation is going only 1 way, the markets are talking on oil reaching 100 per barrel soon Republicans are welded at the hip to the fossil industry if they get control of economic policy they'll torpedo efforts to move to cleaner cheaper green energy
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  13133. He's waiting to see what the Murdoch Reich wing press tell him to do. If they get anymore biased they'll be wanting us to make the Blonde Buffoon a Saint in recognition of only killing 100+k+ of his own population (the worst in Europe) and and only having the biggest economic contraction of European countries. Oh and don't forget its all the EU's fault we've got a complete idiot as a prime minister
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  13134.  @Gujratiah  you tell them migrant chickens will take thier jobs
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  13135.  @johnh1872  You do realise the point in leaving the ECHR isn't to deport people it's to remove your rights under it as it's the last bastion against government overreach? Reform's economic policies will drive migration same as the Tories and the Billionaire sponsors won't care if the economy collapses as long as they get their unfunded tax cuts
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  13136. where out have been for ages just coz its crap has nothing t do with people who told you it would be crap
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  13137.  @mike747436  A lot of the figures are distorted by realignment both on the GB side as sections of the economy implodes and NI where the supply chain is re-routed through the South. By the way did you know that the EU starting in 2016 has pumped large sums into the South to develop and expand Ports and road links which funnily enough extend North. The South is now the fastest expanding economy in the EU and that expansion is rubbing off on the North. This faux war by the DUP if successful will completely tank the NI economy and start a trade war between the EU and US v GB which we will loose badly
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  13138. Fake photos are easy to spot by experts especially one from 10 years ago There's a reason why Malinda divorced Bill Gates and that was Epstein
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  13139.  @darranevans8609  if my wife and I died tomorrow my son would inherit just under 2 million, IHT doesn't kick in till 1 million and there are multiple ways of legally avoiding paying it
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  13140. Its bringing back manufacturing through economic policy with real job growth unlike the Republicans boom/bust tax cut agenda ​@basketballman1854
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  13141. SME'S want a labour government to remove a lot of the trade barriers erected by the tories brain dead brex1t
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  13142. Prison as a punishment mechanism doesn't work we know this from the reopening statistics
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  13143. no she's not net zero = lower energy costs
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  13144. Improving insulation is a net zero labour policy using subsidies. Insulation is one of the cheapest easiest ways of saving your average family money @dungareesareforfools 
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  13145. Renewables are cheaper stop talking nonsense
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  13146. @mycatspethooman5590  last mile is supplied by gas peak plants, the demand curve is called a duck curve you can save 10's of billions just by switching to Tesla MegaPack technology to smooth grid demand. They are completely unmanned work on software and burn no gas. This is just one example in a whole set of approaches including insulation
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  13147. Energy costs have tripled because of our reliance on GAS, renewable sources were already cheapest on the Grid back in 2019 Switching would reduce costs but then Energy companies wouldn't be able to scalp 140 billion out of the UK market in Excess profits Over 10 Years that 140 billion is 1.4 trillion makes switching to a renewable grid look like chicken feed
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  13148. War will have to end 1st and there far more valuable to Putin as Propaganda at the moment
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  13149. John Maynard Keynes He argued for governments to stimulate faltering economies with public investiture. Even a small increase in government spending could net sizeable results, creating economic and social stability. In the interwar years between WWI and WWII, right-wing strongmen rose across Europe as a response to faltering economies Keynes understood that factors like economic deprivation, deflation, and inequality lead to dictators. We've had 14 years of failed thacherism and all Reform can spout is thatcherism on steroids
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  13150. So lets get one thing straight you CAN have lower immigration BUT you needto invest in social and physical infrastructure for your domestic population THAT means higher taxes You cant run lower immigration in a Thatcherite model its a highly state control model
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  13151. Boris The Don Johnson the ToryFather
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  13152. Immigration has gone up because we removed FOM and illegal has gone up because we left the EU experts said it would and was labelled as project fear
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  13153. no she doesn't 80% of asylum seekers get asylum that means her department are housing 20% who should have been deported already and 80% who should be working and paying there way Total for last year was 80,000 applicants last year so 62,000 will be granted its no where near the levels that we were dealing with during the Iraq war she is completly fkin useless same as every other Tory MP
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  13154. Any new build negotiates a forward contract price with the government, dogger bank is £42, Hinkley C is 120 if it ever comes on line, the Hinkley price is inflation proofed, Dogger not so given Air is free
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  13155. she did a job didn't even cover half of the impropriety and goings on if you want the full SP go listen to this podcast Partygate The Untold Story ITV News
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  13156. EV sales will be less than 5%? Over in Europe sales hit 20% of all new registrations in November and Tesla Berlin isn't even running yet Overall EV sales in Europe is at 13% of all new car sales for 2021 and the rate is accelerating as they ramp up onto the S curve, there's no reason why this trend will not happen in the US its not like gas is coming down in price any time soon
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  13157. I will but I dunno why you think Reform can fix Migration it being as a result of Thatcherite policies which Reform will continue with. If you don't invest in your domestic workforce and Infrastructure you need migration to cover the skills gaps. That means increasing taxes, closing down all the loopholes and making the system fairer while investing in the long term with programs such as Free University. Working public transport system etc. Not penny pinching promises of a low tax utopia where things happen by magic delivered by Brexit Jesus  @hadrianlear1215 
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  13158. Your worried about someone who has got to the pinnacle of politics after leaving school at 14 surly its something to be admired instead of forelock tugging the Eton mess @yatesy117 
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  13159. Quantative easing is used to stop the economy going into recession the real problem is we've been in a semi recession since Cameron took over with too date a -3% growth in average wages. The effect of leaving the single market has also devalued the £ by 20% in real terms
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  13160. What would that do bar stop Reform looking like a sad haven for 60+ year old clueless angry white men?
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  13161. what honour did Corbyn have when he refused to allow a government of National Unity to be formed and a second referendum called in 2019 but let his hubris take over and went to the polls with a -70 approval rating
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  13162. Tax base is up to 35% soon to go as high as 37% the issue isn't the tax on Work its the lack of Tax on Wealth Sunak paid 21p in the £ on around 4 million income A house worth 150k in Burnley pays as Much council tax as an 8 million Mayfair mansion  @madontherun 
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  13163. 10% get it automatically so around 80% at a guess don't need it. What's hurt me as a pensioner most is the huge tax rises via threshold freeze and other things the Tories have instigated over the last 14 years.
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  13164. The elite party for the billionaire's great can't wait NOT
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  13165. so there starting a program of investing in renewable infrastructure of over 20 billion and where currently paying 140 billion in EXCESS energy costs this year alone and things won't get better? Not addressing the energy crisis as the Tories aren't doing is somehow better? Get out of here your having a laugh  @jackhadroom4540 
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  13166.  @SaintGerbilUK  no response to what?
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  13167. For whatever reason a complete trolly of a PM that would fk anything and has is somehow virtuous. Johnson has real mental issues with self esteem and anxiety his relentless pursuit of women, the constant cheating and lying to his current partner
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  13168. Even if we were in the EU you'd need higher taxes to reduce net migration overall, I agree it was less in the EU & we have a low birth rate BUT the central issue no one wants to talk about is taxation and the lack of it being levied against the wealthy to be invested in improving efficiency & productivity. Our NHS isn't short of staff it needs infrastructure investment to make it more efficient instead the Tories plug the gaps with more nurses as a short term fix  @Innoruuk 
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  13169.  @boulevard14  last time we had a centre left government seems a long time ago now
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  13170. Starmer isn't weak far from it he's completely ruthless
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  13171. Its neither GB (run by an offshore entity with links to a Libertarian billionaire sponsored think tank) nor News it's marketed as opinion at best and right wing propaganda and conspiracy mongering at worst. Its part of the Tufton street mob such as the IEA who pulled Liz Truss's strings nearly bankrupting the country Mayfair-based Legatum Institute, which advocates for free market economics has courted senior Government ministers through Shanker Singham, who led a self-styled ‘special trade commission’ for the organisation. The Legatum Institute was founded and funded by the Legatum Group, that has invested millions in GB News.
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  13172. they daren't tell him the truth on how its going he's directing the war from his office with bad information
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  13173.  @mikafiltenborg2291  I'd heard 2022 for initial production runs but scale wise it would take a number of years to refine and build meanwhile in Europe the urban suburban market should be 60% electric in that time. There's the huge problem of long haul though the current tech isn't really suited too
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  13174. Unmasking that would be something used tens of thousands of times by the Trump administration, maybe the should go back to racism
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  13175. Its just repackaged same old same old Corruption Economic incompetent Ever reducing services Stagflation economy now its yet another decade of declining wages What's Sunak's legacy he didn't crash the economy like Truss but still rose debt to GDP and income tax to ww2 levels
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  13176. no it won't they'll just process the refugees and stop wasting 6 billion on the current dog and pony show that's designed to get you slavering like one of Pavlov's dogs and wasting your vote on keeping the Tories in power.
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  13177.  @ForeverFebruary27  most people just don't understand economics or how bad it could have been with a Republican in charge In terms of economic indicators the US was the fastest recovering economy of the G20 and sits just below pre pandemic levels, US manufacturing has grown for the 18th month straight. Intel, Tesla, Ford plus many others are building new manufacturing facilities in the US employment is near full. The President can't control oil prices +25% shipping container costs +330% Polar weather event + droughts affecting US crop yields (climate change)
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  13178. So reforms plan is what bigger tax cuts? If you don't invest in the economy for 13 years then the answer isn't lower taxes
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  13179. According to Oxford University researchers, ending fossil fuel use by 2050 will save the world at least $12 trillion (€11.3 trillion). The study disproves the fallacy that going green is economically difficult, says Professor Doyne Farmer, who led the study We are dependant on Fossil because the Fossil lobby want us to be and will do anything to stop the gravy train being turned off
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  13180. 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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  13181. The Swift tour is estimated to have boosted London economy by 300 million
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  13182. No they won't they can't reduce tax because we have a debt ratio of 100% Net zero will save energy customers money because the High price is down to GAS if the grid was renewable prices would be 1/3rd of what they are now and Legal migration due to right wing economic policy is the problem not 50,000 boat people
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  13183. Don't be stupid the last time we had a referendum the public got conned into brexit which has doubled the refugee problem and is crashing our economy
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  13184.  @nw7654  get involved and make aa difference then
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  13185. This station isn't news it's gaslighting and opinion if you want to do journalism you should have joined a news channel not Rupert's tin pot rage machine
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  13186.  @id10t98  Its only to like a normalized interest rate the other thing is the bulk of the inflation is tied to the pandemic the semi collapse of the ondemand supply chain + Fossil fuel world commodity prices and leeching through from the insanely high corporate tax cut in 2017 which pumped the markets
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  13187. There are 2 reason its so high at the moment one is Brexit and the switch to bringing in 3rd world labour they fetch their dependants with them and the other is Tory economics that doesn't invest in the UK workforce. You look back at 2010 the 1st thing Osborne did was cut funding for Nurses and Doctors
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  13188. @chrissmith2114  HS2/3 plus net zero and leveling up were in the 2019 manifesto Sunak has zero authority in changing course as did Truss. While we live in a parliamentary democracy that is extremely fragile given its ability to impose minority rule
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  13189. Are they incapable of reading dates, and how do they explain the GOP senators who signed the letter to the Obama administration asking Joe to get rid of Shokin who is connected to Firtash who siphoned money to the Trump campaign to get an extradition case dropped. They really want to lift up that rock really??
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  13190.  @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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  13191.  @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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  13192.  @maharajjinkb  Trump will add 3 trillion to consumer costs with his tariffs and cost US jobs with the expected retaliation. Also the debt bomb from corporate tax cuts will send the economy into a depression.
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  13193. get a wind Turbine and some Batteries
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  13194. Due to Truss UK pension funds lost 428 billion 22% of their value if you have a SIPP why would you ever trust a Tory again
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  13195. ​ @keithlowton308 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts we've done the lettuce thing now we need adults to fix stuff
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  13196. Blown it out the park boys nice one
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  13197. It was a universal benefit introduced by Brown its now an uplift to pension credit, this is what happens when a party instigates an unfunded NI cut to bribe the electorate
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  13198. Brothers of Italy Fratelli d'Italia Ideology National conservatism Right-wing populism Neo-fascism Political position Right-wing to far-right So there not allowed to tell the truth now? Bloody typical of this station
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  13199. The new economy will emerge from the Ashes of the old, things have to change
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  13200. Thier economic policies are Letucce Liz lala land stuff Magically grow the economy with tax cuts for the rich we know how that ends
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  13201.  @errol8000  why is that would he be stupid enough to believe the FogHorn of ignorance?
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  13202. You do know that its Libertarian economic rubbish don't you? Just a more extreme version of the endless Tory trickle down we've had for 14 years
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  13203. The Republicans couldn't manage a sandwich shop
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  13204. Nicely done simple example which will be go all over the world news networks showing just how pig greedy these people are and debunking for all time that leasing more is necessary
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  13205. Asylum has doubled since BREXIT There's no incentive for the EU to stop people passing through to a Third country and You can't deport the approx 40,000 that would have their claims rejected if you don't process them
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  13206.  @ryandavis7684  Yea right the ones that brought us Brex1t and trebled legal migration and doubled illegal migration nice one, how gullible do you have to be to fall for it again?
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  13207. she's talking utter Cr@p as usual
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  13208. Where is there a moderate Tory? They all signed up to wasting 600 million on RWANDA and have put forward Sunak who's cr@p and Truss who is insane after Johnson who was a lying Toad
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  13209. for every product using oil or containing an oil by product there is an alternative We choose not to use it or have an industrial base that has no incentive to do so quote In 2022, subsidies worldwide for fossil fuel consumption skyrocketed to more than USD 1 trillion, according to the IEA's latest estimate, by far the largest annual value ever seen
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  13210.  @chadimirputin2282  They were voted out because people got bored. and Believed Osborne's nonsense about expanding the debt in the wake of the banking crash. in 2010 the debt was 800 billion and now it's 2.4 trillion Cameron also said he was going to reduce migration yet we have +11 million and he deliberately turned a blind eye to GiG companies recruiting from abroad on zero hour and low pay. So no the country wasn't in a mess, services were well funded, councils were mending pot holes and the rivers weren't full of sh1t
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  13211. 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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  13212.  @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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  13213. ​@kierano8390 there's a few cover bands
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  13214. Non of what the right purposes is common sense though we've had 14 years of right wing over here and it's a complete disaster, the right wing of politics are completly incompetent at governing
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  13215. What solutions? This was a dead cat thrown out to save big dog and cause a distraction it was never meant to go anywhere, it's a complete waste of money time and effort.
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  13216. It saves consumers money that's why Sunak and Tice are against it gotta keep the fossil fat cats fat screw the working people what about fossil profits
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  13217. When your that sh1t anything is possible 2029 will see the Con vote go even lower it only held up by what was the most toxic fantasy dystopia campaign of what a Labour win would be. As that evaporates as things slowly get better then they'll split
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  13218. No it isn't he has very little appeal outside his bubble
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  13219. It was 1.25 million with 50% being dependants, I'd like my freedom of movement back and a mere 200,000 net please
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  13220. @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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  13221. It's not illegal till there claim is rejected and its 62,000 a year, if you processed them in a timely manner it would save around 5 billion
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  13222. You gave us the worst labour leader at the worst possible time for this country and your bleating because the current lot may have to overcorrect to become electable? You then have the check to spout complete nonsense about Labour's current position, even if they went as far as Blair's centrism they would be a million miles from being Tory.
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  13223. George is a poundland Farage populist
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  13224. Does she? Why does being intolerant and promoting Transphobia and hate push your buttons so much?
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  13225. By pumping upwards of 200 billion over successive Tory governments into the housing market causing massive house price inflation its the only way medium low income people can get a permanent roof over thier head. So no its not hypocritical to want to shut down a system that has created 66% house inflation since 2010 and now costs the government 20 billion a year going to private landlords in housing support and create a fairer system.
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  13226. Its just a temporary problem? No it isn't Brexit was hauled over the line by Racism and Xenophobia and is one of the core tenants of this extreme right wing government. Lets stop trying to normalise what a complete bunch of xenophobic liers are now in power. Between 1.5 and 2 million people left the UK due to Brexit over the last few years, as well as low paid seasonal workers we've also had a Brain Drain as companies have relocated part or all of certain operations into Europe. Just push through more tests? According to this guy the average age of the UK HGV driver is 57 at what point are you going to be able to even recruit test and train enough to replace the thousands that are leaving the industry monthly due to retirement and ill health? Replace with GB workers? The current rate of deaths in GB is now higher than the current rate of births we now have both an aging and a shrinking population, more people retired less people available to pay Tax. This isn't going to end well and this appears to be the tip of the storm 8 months in with suppressed demand due to the pandemic.
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  13227.  @snowyowel7961  What has having an affair got to do with anything? scum noun (IMMORAL PERSON) A very bad or immoral person or group of people The whole lot of them voted for stupid evil in the Rwanda bill knowing it was illegal and against the UN refugee charter as well as a waste of 600 million in the middle of a cost of living crisis. There now trying to salt the earth to try make sure that labour will struggle to implement policy by factoring in unfunded spending Scum ain't the half of it.
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  13228. The tipping point was reached a while back The Stratton video just put into sharp relief what the Cons really think of us plebs an attitude of entitlement as an elite ruling class. So which policy has the blonde muppet actually achieved? Get Brexit Done? Its a complete dumpster fire of a mess - 4% GDP and counting and still not implemented Pandemic - one of the worst responses in Europe HS3 - dropped for more London centric spending Tax rises to levels not seen since WW2 A decade of stagnation with real wages dropping by -3%
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  13229. There economic policies stink there re-branded Truss type ones that will kill the economy
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  13230. When we started on the energy crisis they could have abandoned the ban on onshore wind and also invested in load balancing with mass storage something that could have saved consumers tens of billions by lowering gas demand. Sunak has even abandoned insulation targets for renters even that was to C+ only
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  13231.  @DropdudeJohn  getting people to hate other people based on there religion (Islamophobia) their ethnicity (lets be cruel to refugees) and their sexual orientation (Trans and LGBTQ)
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  13232.  @adam7802  Yet if you look at Reform's policies they would make things worse not better. How does a 1 in 1 out policy cure the lack of trained Doctors in our health service through over a decade and a half of under investment and imposition of low pay? and how does an unfunded low tax policy pay for it?
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  13233. @maccagrabme  A renewable grid doesn't have expensive Gas generation plant on it which is paid to run on standby for just a few minutes generation time at peak demand. Every time you add a mass storage device to the grid to take over load balancing you save billions in operating costs long term. Also A renewable grid decoupled your economy from world commodity shock as fossil fuels are controlled by multinational cartels
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  13234. @adam7802  reforms migration policies are an extension of the Tories and like the hair brained Rwanda scheme are equally unworkable Thier economic policies are 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts, Scrapping net zero which will double energy costs over time and fracking
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  13235. @maccagrabme  a net zero grid lowers energy costs, staying as we are increases energy costs Once you build the infrastructure renewable energy is free bar maintenance
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  13236.  @acprke  Cry me a river ONLY 3 million tax free and the rest at 20% 1/2 what the rest of us have to pay in post Tory Brexit Broken Britain.
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  13237. Biden has turned round a flailing US economy bringing down unemployment to below pre pandemic levels while still reducing inflation and starting a manufacturing boom with over 1 million jobs reshored. This turns round decades of economic consensus on how to curb inflation, the last time inflation was out of control unemployment was deliberately set high with fed rates reaching 20% in the Reagan era and unemployment at 7%
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  13238. Tax breaks are corporate welfare, if a government hands them out they should have a positive economic multiplier which adds value to the economic pie. A positive example is giving a tax break to businesses for capital expenditure that improves business efficiency thus providing the treasury more tax further down the line. A negative example is a generic tax break that's used to pump up stock value adding nothing to future tax returns @MCDONALD6969 
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  13239.  @crabby7668  don't blame Blair for this Tory shtshw In the Blair / Brown era wages rose and services improved In the decade since the Tories promoted Austerity Shrinking services at the same time they instituted policies that created an expanding low wage economy fueled with cheap EU labour The whole effect is a stagnant economy and. Services on the brink of collapse So the migrants aren't the problem the greedy fkin tories lining thier rich mates pockets are. Read Capital Order how Austerity paves the way for fascism We've been here before in the 30's
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  13240.  @crabby7668  the macroeconomic picture completely changed under Osbourne and Cameron who baked in stagnation in 2010 the economy was turning round after the 2008 crash from 2010 to 2019 debt rose from 62% to 92% corporation tax went from 28 to 19% and Osbourne was all in on gig work
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  13241.  @crabby7668  The key macroeconomic events that have death spiraled our economy are Austerity, Brexit, abandonment of Green policies All these events have reduced gdp by over 100 billion Austerity - to truly understand the damage done you need read detailed academic papers on various ecenomic and social effects Green policies - the bill for their abandonment to uk consumers is well over 100 billion Brexit - 30% fall in the pound and investment falling off a cliff since 2016 with over 200 billion pound bill and a spiraling contraction of exports and extreme labour shortages destined to drag the economy ever downwards Non of this has fk all to do with migrant labour
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  13242.  @crabby7668  1st off I'm retired I worked in IT all my life back in 2019 before the current crisis wind became the cheapest on the OffGem market Second Austerity pulled 4% of gdp out of the economy degrading services at the same time as introducing increased low wage labour due to tax and social policies Third nothing in my sphere shut down during covid only hospitality and travel where affected our business boomed remote decentralised working took off a short factory break To be honest your out of your time your arguing from decades before the world has moved on
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  13243.  @crabby7668  your having a laugh aren't you? Wind and solar dropped by 95% in cost over the last decade it was never subsidised in the way your making out it was given a guarantee contract price just like Nuclear and its current forward contract price is below 2019 gas generation price. The Tories don't invest in anything they even got rid of the gas storage facilities As for interminably you can get rid of the gas peaker plants once enough electric cars buses and lorries are connected up using V2G tech and you can create endless amounts of hydrogen with spare renewable capacity
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  13244.  @susannamarker2582  Sunak is the Policy Exchanges puppet. They exist to maintain fossil fuel deathgrip on our economy and make sure nothing is invested in our infrastructure all the spoils go to Multinationals and billionaires. Since 2019 tax per household has gone up by £13,000 like I said before Middle and working class people can't afford the Tories. The current bunch couldn't run a bath let alone an economy either you are oblivious to the economic pain and damage they are causing or your that wealthy you can spout ideological nonsense about the size of the state.
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  13245.  @susannamarker2582  Sunak made inflation worse and has done nothing to reduce it. When the energy crisis started the main reason the cost of living crisis got so bad was Conservative energy policy. If we have another fossil crisis then energy prices will again go through the roof. Labour's plan to decouple the UK economy from economic price shock from multinational fossil Cartels will do just that. Norway has a 95% renewable grid it had 3% inflation.
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  13246. Labour needs to be a broad tent party trying to turn it into a socialist wet dream has kept them out of power for 12 years Corbyn was an absolute disaster
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  13247.  @annenunney9907  remind which election he won? He even handed them a landslide by voting for an election in 2019 with the car crash Brexit that resulted instead of holding his nerve and forcing a second referendum The guy was fkin useless in fact he was worse than useless
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  13248. He hasn't put any money into the economy the last budget was the Usual Trickle Down Supply Side Budget from Hell 8 billion to bankers 2 billion to millionaire Pensioners 6 Billion to the fossil industry etc +£1000 extra tax to the average worker with fiscal drag Its in the Truss mould but without the market crash
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  13249. Ahh the billionaires choice splashing the cash to fool the gammons
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  13250. @nicholashindle2084  and what are reforms massive tax cuts for the wealthy and NHS privatisation going to do for you?
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  13251. he's spreading disinformation based on weirdo conspiracy theories that will lose people their lives if listened to
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  13252.  @SJ44-tu8ow  They've had there pay suppressed for over a decade and a half, in real terms there not better off than in 2019 due to inflation I'd also like to point out that by suppressing pay the government kept it low by using the visa exception system to import on the cheap which is one of the reasons the migration numbers exploded. Suppressing pay in the public sector has a downward pressure on the private sector as well
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  13253.  @merryheart443  they've also be genetically spliced and vat grown in huge quantities you forgot that part
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  13254. Tories that desperate they can't loose the Bigot vote
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  13255. Well Ben youd be fk all use fixing it with your fantasy economics
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  13256.  @honeybunch6473  who for the elite? GDP Per Capita has fallen 7 quarters straight average wages are lower than 2006 all on the back of decades of Conservative policy.
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  13257. Labour won't be catastrophic The 13 years of economic stagnation are caused by Austerity + Thatcherism × Brexit Change the formula and the country will recover
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  13258. The NHS and doctors practices + other healthcare services have a major integration problem If you could communicate effectively between all services you could improve efficiency by mmm pick a number id say at least 50%. My mother in law has dementia and the amount of time we waste going around the system, which doesn't talk to each other is staggering
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  13259. No they won't don't be stupid
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  13260. What's that got to do with the UK? Stop listening to right wing media outlets they talk utter tripe about population and migration. Student Visas are temporary they contribute 42 billion to the economy Our population is shrinking due to a low birth rate of 1.6 by -350,000 a year We have less people in the workforce than in 2019 I could go on but your obviously been mainlining its all migrants fault for too many years now  @Joshdyisdifh 
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  13261. Where irrelevant that's all The 3 big power blocks in the world are the US EU and China As a gateway to the EU we where relevant to the US now were not so they don't waste time on us
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  13262. A conference claiming to be Conservative sponsored by the fossil lobby and spreading climate denial on thier behalf because god forbid we get away from dependancy on fossil fuel at such a key time is shut down. Nige whines like a baby, is the guy in the pocket of the billionaire fossil lobby or is he just a useful idiot?
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  13263. Tax cuts don't grow the economy the return is around 0.20p-0.30p in increased GDP growth so for every £ you cut in tax it generates 25p All there has ever been is the wealthy claiming it works we have 50 years of data which spells bullshit
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  13264.  @louisvuitton1859  not there yet I had a look at the figures a lot of the 1st quarter is 1/3 defence spending (could that be not being in Afghanistan now) Plus there was a pull back on state spending plus another wave of covid in certain states with fewer than 1/2 the population having had a 3rd booster shot overall with Red states still lagging in vaccine adoption.
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  13265.  @djl5634  we now have a vaccine to control and mitigate its worst affects but its shone a spotlight on key industries and over extended supply chains which need domestic production of some sort for security purposes. There's also been a load of corporate inflation companies so big they have near monopoly status and have been using covid to leverage thier profits
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  13266.  @djl5634  China's issue is population density, places like NY shut down for the same reason they now have one of the lowest death rates from covid 0er 100,000 in the US Bars and restaurants near me were empty till post vaccine no matter what lockdown or mitigation rules where in force. I work from home mostly now but we instigated a system of support bubbles when we needed to be in the office so if one team got covid it wouldn't spread to the whole department and shut us down.
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  13267.  @djl5634  Theraputics as in quack cures off the Internet?
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  13268.  @johannesaarto1631  The Fossil lobby in the US pours billions into campaigning and political donations to stop renewables. Keystone is a political side show it would take 10 years to complete and imports oil from Canada to the US anyway. In the UK the fossil lobby managed to get a moratorium put on wind farm development and various right wing think tanks are continuously trying to undermine any switch away from fossil. If you put the money into the infrastructure renewable energy is a lot cheaper than fossil over time. The current UK spot price per kilowatt hour is £175 the forward contract price for Dogger Bank offshore wind farm is £40 renewable is 54% in Sweden and 98% in Norway, Norway is expected to have 3% inflation this year Sweden 5.2% Norway has a centre left government and has had for decades.
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  13269.  @johannesaarto1631  Works OK in Norway, anyway running a mixed economy is always a balance the UK sold off all its utilities and licenced off its oil and gas fields and now is facing 10% plus inflation. As an island we are literally sitting in one of the best places in the world for on and offshore wind plus tidal power yet were going to pump 10 billion into another nuclear plant that will take a decade to build. In fairness we should expand wind and tidal as well as plan a nuclear station but our government is very right wing and useless at the same time Finland's economy looks OK you've only got 4.4% inflation and expected growth in GDP of 3% our economy is shrinking were in for a bout of hard stagflation
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  13270. net zero policies reduce energy costs why do you want to pay more? There literally convincing you to continue using fossil which is screwing you rigid with eye watering excess profits
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  13271. Young voters need to wise up a project 2025 led administration will clamp down on Contraception. Nookie will be off the table hopefully some smart ads will target them but they really need to get out and vote
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  13272. Partly but the Tories have blown just under a trillion 37 billion on test and trace that didn't work 400 billion on Liz Truss
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  13273.  @chrisdickens4268  I did the same though a Con won our seat. Given the current electoral landscape that won't happen again. The Lib dems were responsible for getting the tax thresholds raised. Since 2016 they've been eroded and now frozen by Sunak. At least they have 1 policy I agree with which is electoral reform and it would be nice to see the Tories not even the official opposition
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  13274.  @chrisdickens4268  What conduct in 2019? 1 policy that I agree with that the Lib-Dems have is 1 more than the Tories can offer me. As it is they have a few including net zero commitments
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  13275.  @AgentGreyFox  exactly we did it in 2016 now bend over and let us do it again
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  13276. GBN is a platform run by at a loss by a billionaire pumping out propaganda to influence the right of politics and bypass the ballot box There are legal limits on campaign contributions and rules on impartiality its bad enough the right wing bias on the BBC without Billionaires trying to buy our elections through other channels.
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  13277. @met54  It's news and political comment are pro Conservative, its panels frequently have Tice and Farage on them yet fail to air the Lib-Dems, Greens. Members of fringe right wing think tanks pop up regularly to push fringe economic views. I've seen one leading mainstream economist on in a year yet the IEA has had constant representation. So yes it has a right wing bias
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  13278.  @met54  quote When the IEA complained to Ofcom about the broadcaster James O’Brien’s description of the institute as a “hard-right lobby group for vested interests of big business, fossil fuels, tobacco, junk food” on his LBC show, Ofcom rejected its complaint, ruling that he had not distorted the facts. Yet the combined platform of these dark-money groups on the BBC is surely many times bigger than that of any other non-party grouping.
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  13279.  @met54  quote When the IEA complained to Ofcom about the broadcaster James O’Brien’s description of the institute as a “hard-right lobby group for vested interests of big business, fossil fuels, tobacco, junk food” on his LBC show, Ofcom rejected its complaint, ruling that he had not distorted the facts. Yet the combined platform of these dark-money groups on the BBC is surely many times bigger than that of any other non-party grouping.
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  13280.  @met54  When the IEA complained to Ofcom about the broadcaster James O’Brien’s description of the institute as a “hard-right lobby group for vested interests of big business, fossil fuels, tobacco, junk food” on his LBC show, Ofcom rejected its complaint, ruling that he had not distorted the facts. Yet the combined platform of these dark-money groups on the BBC is surely many times bigger than that of any other non-party grouping.
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  13281.  @janetmalcolm6191  I thought ditching the fuel allowance was a bit small minded but 3 months into a fiscal year with 22 billion over spend it's no wonder Sunak called an election. Public sector pay has been deppresed for a decade and a half driving up migration and zero allowance for any pay award.
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  13282. Err can we have a scandal free day? A Cat A Cat my Kingdom for a dead Cat
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  13283. Where bound by international law that's baked into all our trade treaties anyone promising to bend reality over refugees is telling porkies
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  13284. There credibility as political commentators are pretty much in the toilet it's like insane gibberish they do thier cause no good, it's one thing to be partisan and spin it in a right wing way it's another to move to a complete propaganda model.
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  13285. I'm getting physio it works well My Mother in law is getting home treatment as she has dementia that works as well A& E is a complete mess though
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  13286. the reduction by 75% appears to be logistics the Russian military have enough dumb soviet ammunition to last ages
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  13287. What like the Freedoms you've lost already to protest or your freedoms under the ECHR that they want to take away or the freedom to strike for better pay another Great Tory idea. GBEEBIES is nothing more than a propaganda network to distract the Gammons
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  13288. What like average GDP increase over the 4 years of +3% the investment in infrastructure and the Re-shoring of over 2 million manufacturing jobs?
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  13289. Abandoned promises Garbage economy Endless lies What's clear is people will vote tactically to get the Cons out of power
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  13290. Grid stability and management isn't radical Since 2019 new onshore wind generating was cheaper than gas, 5 years on your just making those cost savings more accessible Currently we're paying huge sums to keep Gas plant on standby, this stuff isnt even gcse level difficult to understand
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  13291. He's the tech bro billionaire and Heritage foundation pick and will carry out project 2025 and give massive tax cuts to the billionaire and fossil lobby They've already started recruiting lawyers and putting as many loyalists as possible to dispute the election when the Democrats win and try install Donald through the courts
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  13292. The Cons put in an amendment purely to Block the Labour one the SNP new what was going to happen it was just a wasted a day of political sh1tsturing
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  13293. How can you sell out Brexit when the Brexiteers don't have a clue what they want. 4 years of Tory BS and its still the shitshow it was on day 1 of this fiasco, the delusion of these people is so ingrained that even when reality bites them in the bum all idiots like Farage can say is this isn't the Brexit we want. Un F*** believable Even the City are done with this dumpster fire and are moving to Frankfurt and Paris, so much for Boris's threat of denying EU access.
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  13294. Older male voters over 50
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  13295. They want to cause a stir but given that you can have a full on biological hermaphrodite to a Tory Boy Saturday night cross dresser in the same pool it gets complicated.
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  13296.  @epytaffskitchenstink  What's Trump got to run on? put 8 trillion onto US debt -3.6% GDP in 4 years The guy is a walking economic disaster zone
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  13297. top 3 issues for voters are Cost of Living Crisis, Energy Crisis & NHS Your out of touch if you think the voting Pubic have more than a passing interest in a conflict that has been ongoing for decades HS2 is dead Sunak has salted the earth, you'd need a plan that doesn't cost the earth and runs at the least expensive way possible There's no money to buy water and energy and we own rail its franchised out if you wasted time doing it you'd never get the net zero push we need and it would be reprivatised by the Tories in seconds
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  13298. It's too late women don't want to vote for a lecherous convicted sex offending Senile grandpa Go look at the early voting data
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  13299. Supply Side Economics doesn't produce a strong economy we currently have Supply Side Corporate Inflation on inelastic World commodities (essential energy and food) we are currently doing nothing to change that in fact current government policy is causing a contraction in UK food production and doubling down on gas. if by some miracle you got growth it would increase energy demand and our electricity market for some reason price wise is geared to the wholesale price of gas ca7sing more inflation which the BOE will treat by raising interest rates.
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  13300. China deployed more renewable energy last year than the rest of the world combined
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  13301. She's a neoliberal shill get real
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  13302. Trump is actively disliked by 55% of people in poll after poll Younger voters don't respond to pollsters much and with Abortion and Contraception on the line its hard to see how any Democrat will loose We know what the Republican project 2025 agenda is and there's nothing in it that is remotely palatable to 65% of the electorate. You could see all sorts of weird voting
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  13303. Trump is actively disliked by 55% of people in poll after poll Younger voters don't respond to pollsters much and with Abortion and Contraception on the line its hard to see how any Democrat will loose We know what the Republican project 2025 agenda is and there's nothing in it that is remotely palatable to 65% of the electorate. You could see all sorts of weird voting
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  13304.  @tioswift3676  she was Fed chair back in 2014 and managed to negotiate a global minimum corporate tax deal with over 100 countries a few weeks back. Why are you so antagonistic towards highly educated people who know what there talking about? The proposal is transformative but all your offering is trash talk why?
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  13305.  @tioswift3676  you don't appear to understand the level of bank reporting currently to the irs including all interest payment info, the only people that have anything to worry about gross flow data are the extremly wealthy who use multiple accounts including trusts and offshore vehicle's to hide their wealth from the Government. The likes of Hannity bleating about this is a bit rich he's a multi millionaire who's got a whole load of tax avoidance schemes in place. As for privacy you have non there's little to no data protection in the US everything you buy/sell or look at is data mined as usual the millionaire and billionaire class are winding people up with lies to cover their own ass.
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  13306.  @belindaintexas8789  the guys a useless crank, your putting your faith in the man who created a mouse shaped bar code scanner which completely flopped gimme a break. He fits right along with Sidney Powell and Guiliani spouting utter nonsense. Why not try for a seance it would hold more credibility than the bunch of second rate grifters Trumpolini keeps wheeling out, madam Zelda says... just listen to what your claiming it's crazy
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  13307. Biden confronted the elephant in the room head on, the inauguration was multi cultural the message was no to lies no to divisive rhetoric and no to racism
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  13308. ​ @hbt739 yougov have done polling on Reform only 1/3 Rd of thier vote would go to the Cons, the rest is split all over the shop The Tories have taken on ukip policies and look where its lead them
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  13309. Why is everything a veiled shot at Bernie, and why are you moaning about Mayor Pete getting into every show he can to up his profile. He's a nice guy who interviews well and all you can do is dream up conspiracy theories. If Bernie gets the nomination you'll need everyone to go beat the drum all over the country.
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  13310. Thatcher devastated the economy outside London deliberately pivoting to a service based London centric economy, West Germany pumped 2 trillion into the east after unification to level it up after a decade and a half of relentless government cuts to local budgets Economists estimate it will take a similar figure. The Yorkshire economy has been steadily recovering (No thanks to the Tories) but will now be hit one of the hardest by Brexit.
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  13311. We have no control of our border at the moment there aren't any checks our side it's a smugglers paradise
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  13312.  @DEEPSTATE000  engage in petty or small scale swindling Which is why he's being sued by multiple cities for not paying his bills for the last four years of rallies, if I were a venue I'd want my money up front. The guy is a Con man his last grift was to put a recurring donation box buried in small print to sting his supporters without them realising, they had to refund over 100 million dollars, in any other country he'd be banged up for fraud.
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  13313. Blame Theresa May who started down the route of breaking the system
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  13314. It was the only workable leave deal and still is and we will be heading back towards it as soon as Labour are in power
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  13315. She isn't even conservative she is spouting libertarian garbage as pushed by Minford and this mythical Singapore on Thames model screw everyone else. Professor Patrick Minford, one of the ‘Economists for Brexit’, argues that leaving the European Union (EU) will raise the UK’s welfare by 4% as a result of increased trade. His policy recommendation is that following a vote for Brexit, the UK should strike no new trade deals but instead unilaterally abolish all its import tariffs. Under this policy (‘Britain Alone’), he describes his model as predicting the ‘elimination’ of UK manufacturing and a big increase in wage inequality. These outcomes may be hard to sell to UK citizens as a desirable political option.
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  13316. There going to process them and canned reasoning 5 billion
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  13317. Lack of oversight? There's poll watchers all over the shop as well as video, reporters and lawyers especially in the big metro areas.
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  13318. The police have read the guidelines on running a safe campaign and election May2021 still available on the yougov website Why the tossers on GBeebies can't is beyond me Partygate was Sept-Dec 2020 during lock down 2 pre vaccine
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  13319. Trickle down low tax doesn't work. We have 50 years of data showing that also the last 14 years has shown that if you defund the social floor the capitalist ladder fails.
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  13320.  @johnalbrighton4569  billionaire get it right
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  13321. Our problems are deep rooted we've had 14 years of stagnation in that time Germany saw +15% wage growth, France 11% etc. ours was -6.1% in the same period of 2010 to 2023 @drdeadred851 
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  13322.  @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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  13323.  @terrytunney4089  the current prices are artificial if you change policies they will fall even further, local government are spending 20 billion on housing support in some cases near 1/2 your council tax. Labour will do something about it to get the votes of generation rent
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  13324.  @audie-cashstack-uk4881  if you want less immigration then raise taxes and invest in UKPLC, low tax deregulation = high migration due to lack of investment and skills shortages So Tice is talking out of his ar5e
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  13325.  @matthewbellis0  banks are buying a load of new builds. Quote Jun 2023 — Barratt Developments has sold a portfolio of 604 new homes to Lloyds Banking Group subsidiary Citra Living in an all-cash deal valued at 168 million
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  13326. There currently is no other option the disinformation is deadly, and the right doesn't care about facts
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  13327. Economy is the best in the G7 by around double its nearest rival And Part of it is being dependent on fossil fuel a world traded commodity Plus 4 trillion in debt for corporate tax cuts
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  13328.  @kimmorgan379  There's 10's of billions in fossil subsidies baked into the tax code at the moment and in 2020 energy costs for UK consumers was 30 billion last year it was 170 billion. There is quite a bit of low hanging fruit in the Tory Trickle down tax experiment
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  13329. The polls are pretty odd In 2020 votes cast by men was 45% by women 55% they live longer and vote more often Trump has a really bad women problem and some have polled the gender gap which he's unlikely to make up with uneducated men
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  13330. 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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  13331. Since when has healthcare been a staes rights issue? GOP care about a fetus why? Political football as far as there concerned the woman can bleed out after pregnancy and the kid starve
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  13332. I work in the Tech sector we've never been so busy there's 10's of thousands of vacancies even with a slow down there's not going to be a recession in our part of the economy. Most of the inflation drivers are Oil and energy related in Europe they hit 20% for EV registrations in JAN their gas price is double the US funnily enough Texas is the leader in wind generation and there is a veritable boom in the renewable sector as Natural Gas and Oil continue to rise in price
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  13333. So they got rid of Truss because she was collapsing the economy with unfunded tax cuts and now 14% of elderly male Conservatives want to try again with !00+ billion this time with Reform Wonders never cease
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  13334. A service can't be measured on cost there's data going round that prove patient outcomes are worse Quote Areas of England with increased outsourcing of NHS services have more deaths of people with treatable conditions
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  13335.  @Memovox  and what is the reality? Ukrainians are using high grade western munitions to target ammunition and storage facilities the current Russian troops aren't being rotated out and getting completely wired and Russian logistics are struggling. Putin has gone back to type and trying his mob boss tactic of hitting civilians and Oligarchs are still falling out of windows or having sudden heart attacks and the Russian economy is struggling due to capital and intellectual flight conscription and sanctions.
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  13336. Super sketchy creepy and Immoral! The next GOP Presidential nominee then
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  13337. Vice president job is to take over as President if something happens to them Which apart from voting in ties in the senate is the extent of her power currently. I'm sure Biden would do a lot more on those topics if he wasn't dealing with the clown show of a Congress, the most do nothing in political history
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  13338. Who cares about a teleprompter gee wiz he can read, oh I forgot Trump struggles to read
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  13339. The economy is stagnant and has been since the Osborne Austerity budget, current state of play is amplified by brexit. Reeves budget doesnt get fully implemented till April 2025 so whatever is going on in the economy is all down to successive Conservative policy. Changing planning will reverse that trend and moving closer to the single market as well as investments in renewable energy.
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  13340.  @muckle8  that's because a large chunk of public opinion is media driven take this piece for example its designed to make you outraged it presents a tub thumping solution which is completely unworkable and unobtainable while rolling you up about immigrants I'm a Technical Analyst when all the migration rhetoric started getting heated before the referendum I did a deep dive into the topic, historical, social and economic So here's a few facts which people like Nige don't want to talk about The UK birth rate is 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 to maintain the current population I did a quick calculation we need about + 250k to remain stable An EU migrant pays approx 80,000 more in tax than someone born in the UK to the exchequer and a non EU migrant 28,000 Without a stable population the tax burden on workers will steadily increase to cover the shortfall of an aging shrinking population What we need is an adult conversation about where we get the 250k what skills we require from non at all isn't an option and then another adult conversation about do we want to expand our economy if so is there a case for more migrants. The Tories saying one thing then doing another isn't a surprise big business will be pressuring them and they think they can get away with throwing some red meat into the debate to distract with Rwanda
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  13341. The economy is adjusting to its new normal, the cost of Oil has driven up transport costs and Automation has made needing cheap Labour les of an issue.
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  13342. Why do you have such a problem with women?
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  13343. Its neither GB (run by an offshore entity with links to a Libertarian billionaire sponsored think tank) nor News it's marketed as opinion at best and right wing propaganda and conspiracy mongering at worst. Its part of the Tufton street mob such as the IEA who pulled Liz Truss's strings nearly bankrupting the country Mayfair-based Legatum Institute, which advocates for free market economics has courted senior Government ministers through Shanker Singham, who led a self-styled ‘special trade commission’ for the organisation. The Legatum Institute was founded and funded by the Legatum Group, that has invested millions in GB News.
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  13344. Tice is just re-branded Thatcherism More NHS Privatisation Fantasy immigration policy
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  13345. 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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  13346.  @osmanfadil2451  with populist BS merchants you just follow the money. Independent reporting has been all over Russia funding far right parties across Europe for well over a decade now. Conservatives turned a blind eye to it because they were getting donations.
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  13347. why they've committed to net zero and energy infrastructure program? Stay as we are and it costs +140 Billion in excess bills for energy consumers Verses Build new Infrastructure and fetch that total spend on energy in the uk down from 170 billion to 30 billion it was in 2021
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  13348. So he wants to remove my human rights and indoctrinate my kids? What's it going to be called the Farage Youth?
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  13349. The ultimate piss take is the government slow rolling applications to make the problem worse 2010 18,000 people in the system 2023 140,000 people in the system Why the fk aren't you angry at the do nothing government there the ones taking the piss
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  13350. There's only so much makeup and lipstick you can put on a pig The failure of the Boris coalition then the reign of Liz Truss is what will doom them, he promised everything to all sides, Levelling up, social care, HS2/3, Net Zero, a booming get brex1t done economy with the end to Austerity and Sunak comes along and destroys the lot. Now everyone can see it was all Bullsh1t the entire Boris Manifesto
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  13351. @AuntieFloTravels  there not left wing, all UK media including the BBC is at least centre right, they fall over themselves to give lunatics from Libertarian think tanks like the IEA a voice on serious political discussion shows. Farage was constantly on tv as is Tice now yet they represent a very minority view while the Lib-Dems hardly get a look in. The Rwanda policy should be torn to shreds every time a Con is on as should there economic record and plans with borrowing going through the roof
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  13352. @AuntieFloTravels  there constantly giving air time to the likes of Farage and Tice, they never question the Cons appaling economic record or the insane amount of borrowing there doing
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  13353.  @andrewcoxhead6451  I hate to burst your bubble but that was a fictional narrative sold by the Tories. Non of the macroeconomic data supports your opinion
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  13354. @GruffSillyGoat  mass storage at grid scale pays for itself within a year, gas peak costs are really high Mass storage is cheap these days, fully automated nd virtually maintenance free.
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  13355. @youtubeshadowbannedmylasta2629  12 year warranty on mine By then the cost will have gone through the floor
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  13356. @youtubeshadowbannedmylasta2629  what subsidies?
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  13357. @youtubeshadowbannedmylasta2629  I don't get what your point is? Investment brings returns, this goes into infrastructure which we need to update the grid to enable a more distributed network. Most of it needs building and switching to mass storage no matter the energy source. Total worldwide subbisidies for fossil fuels totaled 7 trillion in 2022 and we see no payback there just tax breaks with zero return to the nation state and increased profits for multinational companies Hinkley C when it ever gets commissioned has 80 billion in subsidies built into its contract over 35 years.
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  13358. @AbdulEssa-kp4vf  my setup came with a battery 10 panels 4.2 kw 1 x 5.2 battery + inverter installed for 7k estimated payback 6 years estimated savings £44,000 over 25 years. As well as grid storage make it easier for domestic storage
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  13359. @AbdulEssa-kp4vf  wind is always on as is Nuclear Our grid is sized for peak load The way it's going domestic and grid scale batteries will time shift demand.
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  13360. Labour have to do the Tax and spend dance to get into power and just to show you why we can't have nice things with billionaires and non-doms running the media here's a sample Quote "Families face £1,000-a-year bill for Labour eco plans: Starmer shows signs of wobbling on 'naive' £28 BILLION net zero strategy" Quote "Labour's policy pledges so far would cost the equivalent of a 3p rise in income tax, i analysis reveals." Quote "Get your money out of Britain now – before Labour ... The Telegraph Perhaps there's a shortage of number crunchers at Labour HQ. But it might be that Labour is afraid to reveal its true plan: a wealth tax."
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  13361.  @andrewwalsh2755  why round my way there disaffected centerists with a environmental lean there not to the left of anyone except on the environment
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  13362. I'm in disagreement on your reading of the Tories having a chance of any recovery. To balance the current budget they've penciled in 18% ciuts till 2028 as well as threshold freeze. GDP per capita is falling propped up by foreign visas.
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  13363. By all accounts Arizona has had some space cadets in for years it's just now coming home to roost as it goes national / international
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  13364.  @GF_MF  The boomers what did it The Cons have a strong base in the Pensioners Thatcher bribed them with some of their own money while giving away billions in tax cuts to her mates then the stupid ones (working class over 50 uneducated males) got steamrolled by national populism (the UKIP effect) Corbyn was also pretty unpopular by 2019 his figures where -72 +12 and even though 2017 didn't go that bad the older demographic weren't keen his foreign policy stance put me off completely my Dad was a Polish immigrant from the war and NATO + opposition to Russia was written and we needed Mutually Assured Destruction so non of this getting rid of Nukes
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  13365. Trump is already Barking at the moon insane, how much trolling will finish him off? Not far to go given his rose garden rant
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  13366. There climate deniers who want to turn where I live into a Fracking spoil heap
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  13367. @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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  13368. ​ @boota1979 saves 3.5 billion of Tory waste straight off then the 1/2 billion dead cat Rwanda scheme for 0.2% of dingy crossings
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  13369. The deal we have shafted our fishermen and everyone else for that matter
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  13370. Your deluded if you think she speaks for anyone bar a tiny minority Go look at the polls she's just given labour another 3 point bump and sunk the Tories down to a low of 23%
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  13371.  @cc8751  Tampon Tim stopping the Red Wave
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  13372. And we thought bleach was the low point then came the Wallis interview and could he get any lower oh boy yes the Maxwell comment and now we're back on full pity party mode promoting hydroxy again from a woman who sounds just as crazy as he is.
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  13373. 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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  13374. 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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  13375. There full you need another line to move intercity traffic onto its own dedicated line to expand local services and freight
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  13376. Trump is a 1 man crime wave There are 19 other cases in progress aside from this one young Donald has been a very naughty boy Insurrection (7)Financial (6)Election interference (2)Sexual misconduct (1)Other (3) Tax evasion, money laundering, rape, inciting a riot, treason, theft it's quite a charge sheet
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  13377. He has no idea what he's talking about port talbot is closing because of brex1t, the EU will impose carbon tariffs in 2026 collapsing our export markets
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  13378. Stay misinformed then Keep getting your info from the likes of the Mail TalkTV and GBeebies and you'll stay in the dark forever. The have a Billionaire economic agenda to sell you disguised as populism @casihawkins2205 
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  13379. High speed rail to nowhere
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  13380. but that goes against government policy as the vision of Brexit global Britain and deliberate managed decline of farming Quote The UK is "sleepwalking" into a food supply crisis and the government must step in to help farmers, the National Farmers Union (NFU) has warned. Yields of tomatoes and other crops will likely slump to record lows this year, it said, with potential supply problems ahead as already seen with eggs
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  13381.  @keithparker1346  Full employment is regarded by economists as < 4% After accounting for the disabled, those on special needs then the unemployable your left with a small % who are in the wrong place, don't have the skills or are just too old to do a physical job
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  13382. Labour don't need to raise taxes the Tories have done it for them tax basis in 2019 was 32% 2022 its 33% by 2027 it will be 38%
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  13383. This is so funny dragging partygate back into the headlines and reminding everyone what a bunch of dicks the Tories where The SG report only told half of it if you want the full SP go listen to this podcast Partygate The Untold Story ITV News
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  13384. My politics are centre left I come on here to hear the facts but with a centre right bias on opinion it makes you more sure of your own views if your always challenging it. I can get the same facts but a completely different slant by listening to the New statesman
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  13385. I think it's hilarious, you vote to make yourself poorer because migrants then give the keys to the economy to free marketeers who want cheap supply side labour and who couldn't run a bath It is so funny waiting for the comment it would be worse .under ..... 😂🤣😂🤣
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  13386. The tories are completely fked 13 years of abject failure broken promises and total economic collapse
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  13387. Removing billions in Tory waste You Know that tax cut for fossil fuel companies that over time = 75 billion, the Millionaire pension tax cut = 4 billion a year, Non Dom = 2 billion, 1 billion in consultants etc. Bit of Tax reform as well get more people who are dodging like Zehawai & Mone
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  13388.  @edgarkrattiger9185  the key factors are it depresses oil and gas prices and makes purchasing the materials of war exceptionally hard and expensive computer chips are in everything maybe Comrade Vlad is going to up output from the sovtek valve factory and go back to the 40/50's the good old bad old days of stalinist purges
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  13389.  @shryggur  it's to hurt the wider economy so its incapable of building an army 10 years down the line that will succeed where this operation has failed. Smart munitions costs lots of money they also need smart people to build design and manufacture modern weapons, the snctions and Putins internal measures has seen a brain drain of 200000 mostly young well educated Russians fleeing to neighbouring countries. For all of Europe's sake this has to be Vlads last war
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  13390.  @edgarkrattiger9185  imagine an armoury and army without smart weapons drones air defence systems ground defence systems modern helicopters and planes encrypted up to the minute battalion comms networks no thermal imaging no night sights no eyes in the sky. Just some dumb Russian grunt with a 1970's lorry pulling a howitzer that doubles for target practice if he ever leaves russian Borders.
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  13391. Tuff Johnson gave it away t the EU
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  13392. There was a report about ten years ago after the last cold weather event which recommended upgrading infrastructure against the weather. The politicians sat on it and didn't force a mandatory minimum standard because it would put costs up its been a purely political decision to not implement any standards. While were mouthing off about the green new deal one of its goals is to promote passive buildings (the use of insulation and draft proofing which reduces the overall energy consumption to heat and cool to a fraction of current buildings consumption). This policy will help both Texas who are suffering outages because of cold and would help California who had outages during the summer because of heat Texans are about to be hit with eye watering electricity bills due to open season free market demand/supply nature of the system the State of Texas has built one report I heard said the jump will be 300% in electricity cost to the consumer
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  13393. The US is 50 stars joined as an economic union setup for interstatecommerce, Texas would go bankrupt pretty quickly There's already a brain drain ongoing Quote Houston chronicle Far-right legislative extremism in Texas is leading to a cataclysmic brain drain that is eventually going to cripple the growth of the Lone Star state
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  13394. why would anyone vote to remove their human rights and worse rely on this bunch of lying chancers not to abuse it
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  13395. don't worry they don't want us they'd rather us continue going bankrupt and picking off our industry and services
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  13396. @fredflintstone1428  we have real data to show what a fkin skip fire Brexit is economically It's all over the financial analysis media Reuters FT Bloomberg plus economists So yes I believe the BOE it ties with every other economic and financial analysis
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  13397. They all watch the same crap channel its a feedback loop that there all in so it just gets crazier and crazier
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  13398. Does anyone in the Centre / Center Left and Centre Right Care to them Corbyn was completely and utterly Toxic, to them Kier is oh well or yea OK the Tories will never be able to brand him as the Unions puppet or Red Kier optics matter Quote from the Guardian believe what you want to believe but Socialist nationalise everything under Corbyn was a fantasy trip. He denied that the 10 promises he made during the 2020 race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn had been abandoned and insisted they remained “important statements of value and principle”. However, Starmer refused to confirm that he stood by several of them, including public ownership of utilities and rail services and the abolition of university tuition fees. He has been repeatedly criticised by some on the left of the party who accuse him of shifting away from the platform he stood on three years ago.
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  13399.  @theunknown1426  on what knowledge do you base that? The current incarnation of the Tory Party threw out their centre right candidates Starmer isn't even a centerist he supports renationalizing key industries and centre left economic policies just because he's not prepared to commit to anything he can't achieve or deliver in 1 parliament your foaming at the mouth Corbyn promised everything delivered nothing but a defeat so crushing that there is nearly no way of stopping far right legislation
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  13400. To what rebadged trickle down cr*p in a different wrapper they pedal the economics of the Billionaire class and all their tax breaks + the climate denial of the Fossil lobby
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  13401.  THE MECHANIC  If that is the case then DeJoy is going to fall foul of a number of state laws which DT can't pardon him from
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  13402.  @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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  13403. Is there nothing the right wing can't turn to complete shit
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  13404.  @jake751  WEAK what pair of rose tinted spectacles do you watch PMQ's with?
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  13405. Biden has instigated the largest investment in US infrastructure since the new deal that will turn the US into a world leader in renewable tech The only thing that will stop it is the Billionaires and Oil Baron's untold wealth pumping into endless propaganda into your brain
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  13406. Mini budget was god awful even the markets thought they were taking the piss borrowing for tax cuts for the rich
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  13407. The behaviour is childish and pathetic how dare they go back to their constituents and justify their elevation to congress
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  13408. Steel is closing because of brex1t, in 2026 the EU will impose stringent carbon tariffs on imports of raw steel and any product made with coked steel Why did Lee forget to mention that? Does he have an agenda perhaps such as his party gets large donations from the fossil lobby?
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  13409. Pence lied constantly interupred constantly overran his time was evasive and didn't answer any questions whole badgering Harris and being an entitled prick
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  13410. ​ @FireTripperJeff China are going all electric on cars and there the biggest deployed of renewable energy on the planet. Yes there still building some coal stations but Chinese thinking is about being self sufficient in energy they have seen what happened to Europe and being blackmailed by Russia on energy
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  13411. ​ @trulyexorcise2918 what child labour? The sector is already moving away from Cobalt Tesla doesn't use it anymore and the oil industry uses Cobalt in refining which is then waste and not recyclable. By next year you'll have a proliferation of sodium ion batteries as well as solid state there are already multiple heat storage technologies on the go + creating hydrogen from water using spare renewable energy.
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  13412. Its neither GB (run by an offshore entity with links to a Libertarian billionaire sponsored think tank) nor News it's marketed as opinion at best and right wing propaganda and conspiracy mongering at worst. Its part of the Tufton street mob such as the IEA who pulled Liz Truss's strings nearly bankrupting the country Mayfair-based Legatum Institute, which advocates for free market economics has courted senior Government ministers through Shanker Singham, who led a self-styled ‘special trade commission’ for the organisation. The Legatum Institute was founded and funded by the Legatum Group, that has invested millions in GB News.
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  13413. @Zoro007  Work with a Labour government to put an extra 1,300 neighbourhood police officers and PCSOs on the streets Invest more in youth clubs – creating 250,000 positive opportunities for young Londoners to help steer them away from gangs and crime
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  13414. @AstonColey  he's already delivering on school meals and council house building + funding additional community policing in the face of Tory central government cuts. And That's all you'll get with a Tory cuts that make everything worse
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  13415. Tory lapdog or what If you want the capitalist ladder to work you need a social floor By lowering the social floor you make it nigh on impossible for sections of the population to even get on the ladder in the 1st place, stop blaming poor people for government incompetence and Tory greed.
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  13416. what misery is that already rioters banged up double quick strikes sorted out renewable projects fast tracked
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  13417. The Tories have been trying to get the economy growing for 14 years on and off with tax cuts for various areas which have added 1.6 trillion to the debt, if you combine that with lost tax of around 50 billion from Brex1t every year and Truss's fiscal event jacking up gilt rates so were spending 120 billion on interest repayments you have a problem. The Tories by all accounts were going to raise the pension age to 68 to fill the tax void if they got in
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  13418.  @firebyrd437  If you want to nationalise something then the the GBEnergy route that Miliband is proposing would convert around 80% of energy production over a 20 year period to state ownership. You wouldn't have to pay for ageing plant large decommissioning costs and taking on corporate debt. If you wanted to modernise the NHS and doctor system you'd need what 2 maybe 3 terms and a long term vision. Housing then the first task is the planning system and a process for approval which takes months not years. Today in one of the papers they have started how will Labour pay for it you'll need +3p on income tax. That by the way is a complete lie the proposals so far have been costed at 20 billion Sunak doled out 8 billion to bankers 2 billion to millionaire pensioners and 6 billion to the fossil industry in the last budget alone. Sunak's fiscal drag will rake in something like 150 billion over the next few years his changes to student loan repayments 4 billion per annum etc. Reeve has to play the game unfortunately they never ask a Tory how will you pay for that tax cut. As a reference I calculated that Osbourne's reduction in corporation tax cost the Treasury somewhere in the region of 300 billion in receipts over the period its been at 19% and generated zero growth because of it.
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  13419. He isnt popular only with the bigot vote
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  13420. Corbyn wasn't even liked by his own party the guy was a waste of space a london intellectual in his own bubble
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  13421. @Matt Joseph I'm not surprised the GOP have been in full scare mode on inflation and the debt since Biden took office. They've conveniently memory holed the corporate tax cut that put a 3 trillion hole in the debt and which parts need to be reversed to get the debt under control.
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  13422. What kind of stupid idiot who is currently shedding the virus would deliberately endanger his own bodyguards and expose them to it? The guy is a firkin moron.
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  13423. REFORM ar spouting the same populist guff the Tories are the only way of dealing with this is processing the claims
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  13424. @extremityx2951  where talking about rape as a weapon mass deportations forced conscription theft and ethnic cleansing Russia is nothing more than an oil and gas business run by a mob boss, he doles out land and favours to his Oligarchs and sends his people to thier death with not a flicker of feeling the guy is mad
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  13425. black voters have the same anxiety over crime and law and order as white voters
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  13426. There not as incompetent as the Tories low bar but the clear it easily.
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  13427. TalkTV are owned by a Libertarian billionaire pushing billionaire friendly policies same as GBN
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  13428. No he's just shit at his job and lies his arse off always has There will be no border in the Irish sea? yea right the fukwit couldn't wait to give NI away £350 million a week extra for the NHS - In which reality We've taken back control - hundreds of thousands of import export documents have now to be filled in plus 10's of thousands of health certificates.
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  13429. You could say the same at the over 60's who watch daytime TV and read the Daily mail
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  13430. I think Victor has tried already and his generals have told him to swivel Your ordinary grunt isn't going to want to invade a country that's currently filled Belarussian morgue with dead Russian soldiers and their hospitals with wounded If he tried it there's likely be a coup
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  13431. Yes there are a number of projects in the pipeline, he's also approved 2 undersea cable projects to get Electricity from Scotland down South Quite a few have been blocked in planning currently it can take 7 years to get a Pylon approved which takes 5 weeks to build
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  13432. No it wouldn't and why we we getting into people trafficking to solve people trafficking wasting millions effectively setting up a penal colony for a few hundred Its millions wasted on a political show pony so Patel can preen around claiming she's doing something
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  13433. No it won't Have you any idea how much waste is in the system, consultants, outsourcing, trickle down tax breaks all over the shop
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  13434.  @realhorrorshow8547  investment in renewables Changing planning to a more buyer friendly system Removing the asylum backlog saving 6 billion pa Changing labour laws to remove fire rehire Realignment of standards with the EU allowing SME'S to grow thier exports Yea I'm pissed off about Reeve as well but there's a world of difference between them and the Tories at least I'm going to try do something about it but right now I want the Cons completely fkin buried for what they've done
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  13435. Yet it's the most efficient in Europe because it's publicly funded no middle men
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  13436. Lockdow has nothing to do with the current shyte state of the economy and the country its garbage can Conservative economic policy
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  13437.  @richardsculley67  You need to stop with the conjectures and look at real economic data. The impact on the economy of the Pandemic overall was 2% GDP The impact of hard Brexit is 5% GDP ongoing. Each % point of GDP is worth 8 billion to the exchequer. During covid and hard Brexit we lost over 1 million workers there are currently 1.3 million vacancies the economy cannot grow under the current Economic policies which is why we have -15% trade and a GDP contraction with 10+% inflation looming. The economy still doesn't have the same number of people working in it that it had in 2019 Yes its the governments fault and no its not economic shock from the pandemic
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  13438.  @richardsculley67  bulk of raw materials come through the EU, my wife work's for a small manufacturing company their supplies are from Vietnam via Germany and Poland plus other places. The German distributor has them down the list because of problems trying to supply to the uk as does the Poles small orders have stopped altogether and small batch exports are no longer viable, they've lost 5 staff from 20 and can't find anyone to replace a couple of them my wife is an accountant and there swamped with hundreds of thousands of pages of documentation and endless tax issues round going from 3 vat rates to 27 There are very few companies that make 100% of what it sells if you take a car for example it would has parts shipped to the uk from all over Europe you break that on demand frictionless supply chain and the economy will blow up not all at once but in the slow moving total economic train wreck were experiencing. Go look up what's happening in the Pig industry the whole sector is in economic meltdown
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  13439.  @puckinhell622   When you move from a roll on roll off ferry transport system to one requiring checks the throughput declines, we are an island by simply slowing down the movement of freight your slowing down the economy all major economies bar the UK and Russia are back to over pre pandemic levels. What's the connection between the 2 countries ? One has trade sanctions foisted upon it by the world for starting a war and the other deliberately put trade sanctions and barriers on itself. The 2 areas of the UK that have recovered totally to greater than pre pandemic levels of economic activity are the City which is service based and Northern ireland which has access to the single market
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  13440. Frostie the no man good luck with that a political chameleon who is no more genuine than the lying blonde idiot that tugged his leash
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  13441. Who cares if the biggest looser promotes looser candidates with delusional tendacies. Anyone on this looser bandwagon will alienate moderates in the millions
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  13442. Many? Its the sole purview of the wealthy at 6% why should we subsidise it?
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  13443. when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail You need to look at where the inflation is which was Rent and Food World food and commodity prices dropped last month so is that lag in the system? The next administration needs to focus on housing in a big way and it will have to be inventive The Fed raising rates won't do anything at the moment there's no way of creating enough unemployment that could drag the total down
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  13444. ​ @nightowl7459 lbc has a range of presenters quite a few prominent Conservative ones like Nick Ferrari Johnson isn't a left right issue he's a right wrong issue there only throwing him under the bus because there so far behind in the Polls The thing with commentators like JHB is just how ignorant she is completely Clueless on the environment knows nothing on macro economics and spouts complete drivel on Asylum and immigration
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  13445. She will be the next speaker
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  13446.  liberal slayer  if your not interested in free speech and others opinions sod of back to Faux news and conspiracy central
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  13447. Starmer is ruthless and this was the King's speech for fks sake the agenda for the forthcoming government they couldn't tow the line for 5 seconds
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  13448. Well said David the voice of reason as always, there are countries around the world that don't have a choice at all its Putin or Putin in Hungry it looks like Orban has cemented his place as dictator in Turkey its Erdagon and Duda in Poland is remaking their judiciary to promote their authoritarian agenda
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  13449. You know the ones who are sitting pretty during the big freeze those with zero energy houses Tesla power walls and thier own solar/wind capability
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  13450. Things have been heading in the wrong direction for a long time the central issue is a brexi1 without a plan, an energy crisis that could have been mitigated with swift action rather that sticking their head in the sand and Truss crashing the markets (wiped out 24% of pension values 484 billion)
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  13451. Change planning to permissive and allow councils to buy land and change usage, Councils and Private sector build an estate with % social housing, prices are fixed by the council. You then have lower priced housing + social housing Where I live 50% of the house price is the land and 20% is the profit
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  13452. Trump is so effing stupid, what level of dumb do you have to be to do that
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  13453. There both capitalist, You could make the case that the GOP are the more interventionist these days from fossil subsidies to healthcare control and tariffs.
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  13454.  @rr7firefly  Maybe it's the food colouring in all the burgers he eats that turns him orange? People need to realize that a junk food addict doesn't live much past 80 and what's worse than demented Don that could be Creepy Vance
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  13455. His brain is fried like his diet, all he offers is chaos and likely a Vance presidency, he's one burger away from a coronary
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  13456. The right wing are constantly banging on about Bias, it's not Bias if you deal in facts rather than an alternate reality getting pissed over major tech not kowtowing to global warming is a hoax or de-listing crackpot right wing conspiracy garbage isn't going to work the people in Google are multicultural intelligent and deal in math and science and do evidence based analysis.
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  13457. What a load of shit this channel iis The UK has a gas crisis because 40% of its electricity comes from gas controlled by a Russian autocrat and his oligarchs. Like who would be stupid enough to do that. Yea the Conservative party same old free market boom bust garbage with the public carrying the can
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  13458. we have supply side inflation on the following Labour Energy Housing Food As a government you can increase supply in all 4 areas that's why the BOE and economists where predicting rate falls but this is the Tories they've done fk all over the last 2 years to deal with this energy prices where rising in 2021 still no plan bar GAS Food inflation - there actively getting farmers to produce less Labour shortages - since Brexit and the pandemic Housing - current estimates are we need +5 million homes they've reneged on targets and weren't pushing social housing anyway
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  13459. We'll know its the end when his Nanny quits Till then he'll cling on and continue to corrupt and warp anything around him, his apologists will come on the TV and throw their reputations on the bonfire by lying for him What's the latest apology for keeping him on fastest growing economy in the G7? Measuring from 2019 to present were 6th out of 7 The real picture is the economy under the Cons took a double hit from the pandemic and Brexit which plunged it down so hard the 2021 figure in isolation look good but compared to pre pandemic were way off we took a hit of 11% and have risen back 7% these figures have not been adjusted for inflation either the real economic cost of a Conservative government is far worse with inflation now predicted to be 7% wiping out completely and GDP gains.
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  13460. @Yorci62  went clay pigeon shooting the other week with my son (yes I'm a well off pensioner with plenty of time to indulge in researching how to make my home more energy efficient and also look at the bigger picture) They installed a huge solar array which provides 120% of thier power usage for the hotel and lodge over the year The manager had it installed when electricity shot up he said it saved the business 100k so far it would be more if battery storage was cheaper and an option I have thermal solar it provides 75% of my hot water capital costs are paid for by year 7 Your the one who blindly believes the pure horsesh1t your fed by the right and the fossil lobby
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  13461.  @Yorci62  Renewables are cheaper now and There's nothing stopping us deploying small scale mesh networked solar and batteries through residential properties especially on new builds. It will not cost more short term because of net zero it will cost more short term because of privatisation and a lack of investment in grid infrastructure. Our energy costs have risen because they rolled back Labour's renewable policies and stopped investment. and We don't pay for a new windfarm development it's done by private companies who borrow on the Market and provide Electricity and get a forward contract price. That price for Dogger Bank WindFarm is 42 in comparison Hinkley C if it ever comes online is index linked to inflation standing currently at 120. If you bought battery storage tomorrow and put it on the grid at strategic nodes it would pay for itself within 2 years by storing always on power. The cost of Peak Gas Standby Generation is Billions as a method of Grid smoothing it is completely outdated in comparison with software driven fully automated Mass Storage.
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  13462. Tory mps got ripped to shreds in the spin room post debate for lying about the 2k being costed by the Treasury, it was done under information and under the supervision of political SPAD's
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  13463. ​ @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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  13464.  @RobBCactive  we should have never gone to war over the Falklands it was all about the possible oil fields nothing to do with 200 sheep farmers
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  13465. Unless you have an offshore trust to avoid IHT altogether your post is just another anti labour scare story
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  13466. UPS will convert there last mile delivery vans to EV this year. Most people I know are hanging on to their gas car waiting for more EV choice. I've got rid of our second car and do the commute on an electric bike only in the office once a fortnight which is going to be permanent
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  13467. 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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  13468.  @LeftWingNationalist  Since when has a crooked Billionaire been against the establishment he literally takes his own swamp round him with his side kick the Billionaire's bootlicker choice JDV backed by the super rich and the oil barons?
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  13469. Labour have a credible plan it involves tackling the criminals not the victims But that takes hard work and cooperation and doesn't provide a soapbox to demonise Asylum seekers
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  13470.  @deneseburrell  just look agrivoltaic and don't say stupid things
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  13471. No one believes him or his administration anymore, everytime one of these stunts comes out people just roll thier eyes, ranting on Limbars self pity radio show that Biden should be locked up just reinforces how pathetic he is.
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  13472. ​ @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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  13473. Everything with those muppets in charge
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  13474. When the virus was out of control in areas deaths went through the roof due to lack of health capacity. We're an island at no grime did we ban foreign travel
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  13475. She was part of the worst and most incompetent Cabinet and administration in UK history
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  13476.  @davehallett810  Why do you think Starmer is a champagne socialist there are a fair few of his shadow cabinet are from the North. Take Reeve for instance who will be the architect of a Labour economic policy she's from Leeds just down the road from me studied at Oxford and then the LSE her work on what's called the every day economy is worth a read. The policy of introducing new publicly owned generation is something many on the centre / centre left have been advocating rather than full on nationalization. I thought Corbyn was awful
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  13477.  @davehallett810  no one is defending what should have been done on their watch I have a long list myself People are extremely nieve at the toxic nature turning a blind eye to this sort of thing introduces into politics we've seen Kremlin money and influence grow over the last decade or so. This network of shell companies and hidden assets has to stop
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  13478. In general the effects we have now are down to the last 2 Tory budgets and policies, Reeve's budget doesn't come into affect till April there's around a 1 -2 year time lag
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  13479. That statement is complete bollox sorry
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  13480. Which candidate will gut the way politicians are bought and reform campaign and lobbying laws? Will the Conservative courts allow it if it's done?
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  13481. 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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  13482. Pension funds saw their valuations plunge by nearly a quarter in 2022, partly due to the bond market turmoil that followed Liz Truss’s mini budget, new research suggests. 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
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  13483.  @evolassunglasses4673  The Conservatives support Globalisation one of their slogans is Global Britain There going to do a trade deal with India and have unlimited migration as part of it You can't run a supply side deregulated economy without a ready supply of cheap labour ask Cameron and Osborne
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  13484.  @hui975  Policy wonks go to the Parties website and read the details for most it's about vibes there not into detail, The reason Trump's poll numbers haven't completely tanked is they don't think he's crazy enough to enact Project 2025 and is boosted by 100s om millions of ad spend from Billionaires.
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  13485. just upgrade your insulation as part of an extension and renovations I double insulated most of the house and could generate enough heat from my log stove at a pinch on the other hand I could just run the house of the solar and EV battery
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  13486. What's cowardly not wanting to be part of a right wing show pony that will cost billions, money that is greatly needed to improve our full time forces Do hey not people on the right critical thinking or is it tug the forelock yes sir
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  13487. There all grounded because the US is being treated as a leaper colony
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  13488.  Lisa Elissa  waters poisoned as well he's deregulated clean water
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  13489. They pay tax through purchase taxes so file the crap in the bin
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  13490. Un F**** believable a more useless sack of wind in charge of the country would be hard to find.
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  13491. This is a problem that Conservative policy created Before 2010 there were no small boats and it has steadily got worse amplified by brexit You reap what you sow stop voting for useless right wing parties
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  13492. If we don't fund Ukraine Putin has a stranglehold on world grain supplies and we'd have to increase our defence budget to 3 even 4%
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  13493. If its moving right why did 58% vote centre to left And Of the 23% the tories won at least 1/2 were driven by media hype and project fear while most of the othrr 1/2 will have died by next election
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  13494. Economies are like oil tankers they take a huge amount of effort to move and change direction, the tax cuts to corporations juiced the stock price while the trade war has depressed it. The handling of the pandemic has depressed retail while boosting online. Currently there is a complete disconnect between the underlying economy and the stock market, big tech is soaring covering losses in traditional industry's. On the one hand you have the Republicans who will squander the opertunity to be the world leader in renewables while the Democrats want to ride the renewable wave. Think of it as Trump wants you to drive a Ford and Biden is offering you a Tesla
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  13495. 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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  13496. No they don't we have the most unequal tax system in Europe EX Mone got a contract for 200 million and profits went straight to an offshore trust. There are loads of other examples but that type of behaviour reduces GDP which again reduces the tax take. The system needs an overhaul @IggyGoesPop666 
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  13497. Our tax system is only exceeded in its inequality by the US. 100's of Billions are frited out of the system by the wealthy and corporations.  @IggyGoesPop666 
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  13498. No one is going back to the EU What we may end up with is frictionless trade like what was promised by the brexiteers and is the main cause of screwing our import export and trade up completely We also need a proper service agreement
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  13499.  @garrym5682  it's Johnson's paper thin trade deal that's the issue not the EU. It was a political decision to go down the road of customs checks.
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  13500. Renewable energy is miles cheaper than gas which is the main driver of excessive costs
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  13501. At what level of stupidity is this set your controls for a trade war in a cost of living crisis coz only 60% of the Irish voters want the protocol Are they trying to deliberately trigger a border poll and absolute chaos in NI or are they really this STUPID
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  13502. We win on policy? Hes going to explode the debt institute a sales tax and ban abortion and contrection as part of healthcare as well as get rid of public schools Which of those is a winner
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  13503. why? These are just volunteers When Farage went over to the states he was funded by Dark Money
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  13504. The AUS model this is based on costs 1.6 million per refugee
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  13505.  Macavity  The Australian system on which this is based costs the government 1.6 million per refugee
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  13506.  @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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  13507. @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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  13508.  @SimonSmith-yd6tt  it's worse than that the Tory vote is evenly spread according to the research the Labour and lib dems vote is very efficient any tactical voting really has a big impact. Reform have the same problem even at 15% they was still on zero seats
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  13509.  @tim59ism  Only a complete idiot would base their vote on made up media culture wars and Economic data puts the past 14 years as the worst economically since the Napolionic wars also The Tories have borrowed 1.5 trillion since 2010, 3 times all the debt of all Labour governments combined including the post war Atlee one.
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  13510. Our energy is the most expensive in Europe a lot of that is down to abandoning Labour's green policies in 2012 and instigating the dash for gas Renewable energy is currently the cheapest on the grid
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  13511.  @arfurchance10  Our grid network is tied to Gas for peak plant capability the Cons canned various green initiatives towards mass storage which would buffer always on generation
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  13512. Its populist garbage the fact your taken in by it is a pretty sad indictment of current UK media
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  13513. wef is a talking shop you muppet
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  13514. The interview was to lie about the lies he told on Tuesday in the debate and double down on Jonsonian levels of dishonesty
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  13515. Trump's the worst thing since 1918, his words are just word salad he makes stuff up and lies all over the shop. What he's done to the world will not be forgotten and on the current performance of brain melt he'll be a gibbering puddle by November
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  13516. It isn't a group of 5 60+ white men stuck in the past. Labour benches average age is 42 The 23% held together on fear and a core voter base 65+ We have had 8 years of chaos in 2029 voting Right will just be to go back to that Chaos
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  13517. When you increase house prices by 66% + rents and decrease wages by -7% over 14 years what do the young have to look forward to? They can barely make the rent cant afford t9 get married or have kids so stick your Murdoch opinions where the sun dont shine
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  13518. ​ @Rtg5637 it's a blueprint for economic ruin as well as banning abortion and restricting contraception
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  13519. Tory polling at 18% on yougov the issue is the economy has been stagnant for 12 years and in recession for 2
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  13520. 14 years resulting in negative wage growth and housing rising by 66%
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  13521. The 2019 manifesto had net zero, leveling up, more money for the NHS, HS2/3, social care in it all have been junked by Sunak, then there's RAAC, the appaling state of the roads, sewage filled rivers the attempt by Truss to revive fracking as well as the obsession with tax cuts over fixing anything. The bulk of reform voters are not ideologically on the right economically but on the right socially, Mogg is a Libertarian who wants unrestricted supply side migration.
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  13522. So do you know why migration has gone through the roof ? I'll tell you removal of FOM were now shopping in the 3rd world and there fetching over dependants which is 50% of the total. Experts told you but Gove said we don't want any more experts Karma
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  13523.  @lebe220  no it won't the Russians turn everywhere they ocuppy into a Stalinist shithole
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  13524. Because we're living with a Tory shithole disaster capitalist economy All this talk of deregulation is double speak for no labour pollution or money laundering laws
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  13525. The Tories have spent 14 years infighting putting party 1st at every turn why will they stop and be Credible after the election? Tories haven't been near the centre since Major theyve driffted further right at every iteration these past 14 years
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  13526. Everyone working pays taxes why can't everyone benefit from government programmes, means testing wastes government time and effort you end up spending more in administration than it does in savings.
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  13527. ​ @thommythomas7948 in what way all councils are struggling with lack of funding by central government of 50%, labour moreso because they control areas with high statutory demand for child services and housing support.
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  13528. If we go net zero now it will cost 6% GDP if we delay it will cost 13% GDP if not more for context BREXIT costs 5.5% gdp 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.25 Jul 2023 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. 30 Aug 2022 13 July 2023 Fiscal risks and sustainability – July 2023 (report from the available from the OBR website)
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  13529. The Trump economy was the worst since Hoover but I guess you can pretend -3.5 gdp -4 million jobs -150000 manufacturing jobs +40% balance of trade deficit Etc it really is a carcrash when you look at the 4 year numbers
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  13530. Nuclear is now as expensive as Tidal, the other issue is build times your talking 10+ years In the UK its x4 more expensive than Wind and you could buy god knows how many Tesla MegaPacks for the difference
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  13531. Tax cuts don't create growth its completely delusional Osborne's corporate tax cut was spent on share buybacks increasing CEO pay in the bargain If you want to grow the economy you invest in physical and social infrastructure and get money into the pockets of the working and middle class Bottom up middle out
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  13532. Only 4 trillion was tax cuts for the wealthy but still what happened to fixing the roof when the sun shines? This rally is on the back of record Government investment which has record private investment alongside record new incorporation The first 2+ years of DJT was the tail of Obama economy and the clean up post Bush.
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  13533.  @gogosegaga  I take it you don't have a pension or savings?
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  13534. Government spending is subject to an Economic Multiplier back in 2012 2 economists calculated Austerity having one of 1.6 this means or every £1 you gave a Nurse extra it would generate £1.6 in the wider economy this means that it would cost the Treasury approx 15-20p in the pound. A price tag of 30 Billion in public sector wage increases would cost the Treasury 4.5-5 Billion as the money circulates round the economy with a tax basis of 33%
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  13535. Yea right hand it over to the corporate media like Murdoc who runs far right propaganda. No we don't want it to be like Netflix or God help us fox news
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  13536. Cohen in his new book says Trump micro manages everything which explains why the messaging is all over the place, bankrupts businesses bankrupts his own campaign
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  13537.  @natureboy915  you do realise that Tesla is the shiny thing the IPhone of an expanding EV transition, underneath is an accelerated transformation you look at Amazon's and UPS plans all EV for final mile delivery in 5 years. How long did it take the smartphone transition? Its not going to be the 10/15 the legacy car makers are banking on that's for sure
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  13538. It poured thousands of troops + resources into stopping it and tried to move on multiple fronts as well as various counter attacks to get ground back. Various resources point to heavily depleted Russian units especially of trained specialists leaving the replacement grunts with little to no leadership. @jonnya245 
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  13539. Pointless policy by a pointless government with a pointless host commentating on it 600 million down the toilet
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  13540. The economy is booming I work in the Tech sector business is at an all time high the sector overall has thousands of vacancies LinkedIn CEO said that thee 20%+ up on vacancies from pre-pandemic.
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  13541.  @brooklynsown8217  What other fields? Service sectors are down as is holidays air travel but a whole load of other parts are going through the roof. I'm trying to get an extension done on my house plus a refurb the builder is the busiest he's ever been can't get more workers for anything, kitchen fitters double treble lead times busiest they've ever been window fitter ditto etc.. most have orders or work going into 2023
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  13542. 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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  13543. He was on the far right Oligarch gravy train it's transactional Why people swallow his BS I will never know
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  13544. Shouldn't have invaded a European country then should he?
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  13545.  @thechloromancer3310  Putin don't give a sh1t about NATO he's an overpromoted mob boss expanding his territory for his Oligarchs who would plunder Ukraine resources like they did in Crimea. Your overthinking this it's just plunder and corruption a Mafia state run on violence
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  13546.  @GenghisX999  since when there gains are minimal and there casualties are very high, from an economics point of view they've endured a huge brain drain and population decline of 1/2 million per year The biggest reason for male death is alcohol abuse
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  13547.  @mogendo  it's a country in Europe why would it tie itself to a Mafia state sh1thole petro economy riddled with corruption.
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  13548.  @enzoh7763  yea whatever Putin is just a jumped up thug Wastes no end of missiles in terror campaigns on the population rather on strategic battlefield objectives To loose one general is misfortunate to loose 7 is careless
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  13549.  @TrapBoiFuse561  I don't watch CNN Everyone knows Putins russia is built on corruption & violence.
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  13550. With great sadness the demographic that are hard core republican will be hit the hardest.
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  13551. Since 2010 the Tories have spent 1.3 trillion on producing zero growth & increased the population by 8 million plus average wages are-7% lower than 14 years ago And Your claiming its going to be better with more extreme fiscl policy than the Cons Delusional
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  13552. ​ @s0ycapitan no they don't they want our economy tied to fossil so they can squeeze every drop of profit from the existing system. The last thing they want is countries with energy independence
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  13553.  @therealrobertbirchall  The energy consumption curve currently is a duck curve we have large periods where supply could exceed demand if we so choose. If you look over at places that are transitioning to renewables there are 2 things happening the expansion of mass storage to flatten the curve and the use of Smart tech to fatten the curve. Ex batteries that replace gas peak plants that operate for mere minutes a day at huge costs and smart tech to timeshift consumption ex overnight cheap tariff for charging.
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  13554. all he cared about was his elite status bank account maybe we should join the EU to get guarantees like this If you are legally resident in an EU country you are entitled to open a "basic payment account". Banks cannot refuse your application
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  13555. Corbyn has gone the Tories are dead with no way of turning anything round let alone the economy
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  13556. The WH will need a full covid deep clean before Biden takes residence. Its going to be a rough couple of months the virus that was going to go away as if a miracle is in overdrive with a lunatic on the overdrive pedal.
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  13557. we always had the power when we were in the EU to regulate how migration worked we chose not to use it because it could have required regulation ID cards and systems An example is the GIG economy Osborne & Cameron allowed companies that payed no UK tax to recruit people on zero hour contracts from eastern Europe
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  13558. He's bankrupt with at least a 1/2 billion in personal loans to God knows who and tax liabilities and penalties ranging into the 100's of millions Agent Orange strikes again the stupidity of this guy is mind numbing he's an economic car crash
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  13559.  @hugodrax71  a Starmer led government hasn't U turned on anything, it's not held power or published a manifesto Believing in services should be publicly owned to a formal policy of action for a 5 year term are 2 different things If you take the Corbyn agenda it was trying to roll back 50 years of governmental changes in 1 term absolute fantasy politics as was the Johnson and Truss agenda
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  13560. Just go all in on mail in
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  13561. Reform are just rebadged Tories at this point We've seen what putting far right populist grifters in power is like they would be no different
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  13562.  @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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  13563. ​ @jon-xd7tl save it from what he pedals the same economic policies that drive legal migration He doesn't have a clue what he's talking about
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  13564. I'm angry Angry there wasting 1/2 a billion on a propaganda stunt And With fiscal drag and being a pensioner my tax has gone up by the equivalent of from 20% to 33%
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  13565. Given that that approach isn't working and hasn't worked for 13 years and that all the left leaning think tanks and academics have pointed this out repeatedly then the answer is no. Reeve has a degree from the LSE seen a couple of interviews one I remember she was talking about infrastructure investment and the Sky journo just didn't understand a word she was saying and kept on as if infrastructure was a flat negative cost. She and the labour party as a whole are having to deal with really stupid people who have got in their tiny brains that the UK finances are like a households finances
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  13566.  @akal8775  in what reality? They had socialist sent to the camps tattooed and processed then disposed of
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  13567. Welcome to the Plague ship White House, lead by Captain Covid who after 6 months is still downplaying the pandemic and pretending it's no big deal after getting covid pneumonia and getting stacked on steroids. He's not resilient and strong he's a Firkin idiot, Quote - It's also more deadly than your strenuous flu Bob
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  13568. Why what's wrong with working services and real pay rises, were -7% worse off than in 2010 on average
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  13569. There work has just started removing all the Tory sticking plasters
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  13570.  @marumaru6084  Its only as good as the economists you put in it. If you pull them from right leaning sources you'll get affirmative forecasts to your way of thinking we call it groupthink. If you want a broader world view head over to the Resolution Foundation and the Institute for Fiscal Studies also the Joseph Rowntree Foundation do loads of analysis on poverty. Also look up Gary at GarysEconomics he'll explain why were getting poorer and its not likely to stop. AND look up Economic Multipliers everything a government does on Tax and spend generates one.
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  13571.  @marumaru6084  it's only as good as the economists you put in it, if you want to learn what's wrong with the economy the Resolution Foundation did a paper on ending Stagnation and Gary from GarysEconomics explains why we're getting poorer.
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  13572. 50 years in the making the ultimate ar5e end of Thatcherism Energy bills tripled Trains that don't run raw sewage in the rivers housing shortage Even the Horizon scandal is Thatcher and the Con's fault Outsourcing everything at cheapest price screw quality or accountability
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  13573.  @johnhenry4844  Trump is the establishment and he takes his own swamp of oil barons and billionaires round with him
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  13574. The Tories started eating into the tax thresholds in 2016 till they were frozen blame them for the current dumpster fire
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  13575. The grid failure is the result of extreme market deregulation in a captured system. The notion that the free unregulated market would 1 spend money on de-icing provision on the turbine 2 build contingency capacity in case of weather extremes 3 make sure gas and water pipes are buried and insulated against cold weather events Next weeks story power companies in texas price gouge customers Insert Flint water disaster comparison here
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  13576. Reform dont have any viable policies
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  13577. By the way it's only on income > 400k your first 400k are at current rate so if your earning 800k 400 is taxed at normal rate and 400 at the higher rate But that doesn't make for good headlines so we have a scare the rich story
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  13578. He lost the popular vote then and given his appalling record as Pres all he was running on now was being 3 years younger than Biden He was crazy 4 years ago he's even crazier now and his plan to bleed the middle class dry to pay for Billionaire tax cuts isn't going to stand up to much scrutiny
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  13579. What's wrong with setting aside Friday evening with your family? By then he'll have already done 10+ hours of work And Boris got priority treatment on the NHS do you think anyone of Cabinet status wouldn't get the same?
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  13580.  @davekirton4096  If you raise a public employees pay by £1 it only costs the treasury on average 20p in that £1 due to increased economic activity I will explain The 1st thing that happens is the £1 attracts 28% tax and ni, after it gets into a workers pocket 90% of then live salary to salary so it get's spent, that spend attracts tax and so the merry go round continues until all of it is locked up in savings and assets. You also have a reduction in the pull factor for migration, all NHS jobs are on the visa exemption list as the service has been battered by the Tories for 14 years
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  13581. It was set up post war to stop governments sliding back into fascism, you know like stripping citizenship or setting up labour camps in a foreign country The only country to leave it is Russia
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  13582.  Maseer Ghorab  that would be coordination with wikileaks who were being fed data by the gru, I'd be pissed if it was me. Manaford and Stone were convicted
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  13583. Its not much of a scare if you don't vote Tory you might get what better health service a party that doesn't waste 1/2 a billion on Rwanda and isn't dealing with the causes of the 1.25 million legal immigration 1/2 of which is dependants? Gosh really afraid we may get some competency and stop p1ssing away billions on trickle down cr*p Leidolfr 
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  13584. Anti bullying and anti discrimination training saves money by reducing work place litigation and increasing staff retention as well as improving recruitment
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  13585. It's been like this since the day he was made PM and illegally tried to shut parliment down, he rammed his Brexit deal through so it didn't get scrutinised he lives from daily headline to daily headline. Brexit is an economic car crash he's pushing Northern Ireland slowly back to the troubles and highlighting what a bunch of thieves the Tories are after a decade of plundering the public coffers to make the rich richer while everyone else gets their salary squeezed there at it again no pay for public workers the cupboard is bare
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  13586. he's desperate they always pull the Corbyn lever when that happens Sunak was one of the bankers who plunged this country into crisis in 2008
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  13587. There are a whole slew of ev companies in China, Tesla is the top on premium but below that China is changing to mostly 3v sales
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  13588. Its preformative cruelty, they know that 0.5% isn't going to do anything but they've dug that hole and there going to keep digging. victimising the victims is easy you can stand on your soapbox and puff your chest out saying look how tuff I am, actually dealing with the smuggling gangs takes effort and cooperation these people are vermin to be quite honest taking money from some of the most vulnerable. Read up on Voyage of the Damned 1939  @nigelsynnott7344 
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  13589.  @snowench11  Most of the economic policy is pretty sound as are the proposals to get housing going. People forget Calafornia has a lot of problems with housing which they've been working on for years
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  13590.  @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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  13591. And why is that? She will continue the programs such as the infrastructure act and inflation reduction act which has seen jobs reshored and gdp at 2.8% and real wages finnaly start to climb
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  13592. The tax base remained constant for 2 decades at 33% till Sunak took charge try again
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  13593. @user-it7lf7kk8m  no I follow what's going on and got to finding out about the dark money sloshing around after brexit and Cambridge Analytica. Nige has connections with various far right groups, think tanks etc. Such as the Heritage foundation, the Legatum institute and people like Steve Bannon
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  13594. He is going to follow the 2020 playbook and Cheat if he can get away with it GOP states will be pressured into not certifying the election
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  13595. China deployed more renewable energy than the rest of the world combined last year. Also The government are acutely aware of the pollution problems and encroaching desertification
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  13596. 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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  13597.  @chrisj9700  The issue with the tax system isn't tax on income its tax on wealth generated from wealth. Ex Sunak paid 22p on the £ on 4 million in income for which he did nothing but sit back and watch his portfolio go up
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  13598. 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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  13599. He moved the deadline to September to enable an orderly withdrawal in conjunction with allies, NATO is fully on board with the timetable its going to be next to impossible to stop as the US would have to triple its commitment to shore up he NATO shortfall if they reversed course. Its a done deal
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  13600.  @RobertoPerez-rq4ck  it's a done deal nato have started pulling out as well.
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  13601. Left wing populist that promises the earth and can't deliver or right wing populist that promises the earth and can't deliver. You'd have seen a market crash that would have made Truss's mini budget look like a training run and Labour un-electable for decades + His foreign policy is about as appealing as dog poo on your shoes  @shanedevlin8834 
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  13602. Tax cuts don't create enough growth to make up the shortfall in government revenue + along with the 50 billion in unfunded tax cuts was 70 billion in unfunded Energy support. As it was the government ended up borrowing 130 billion in 2023 and paying out 120 billion in interest
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  13603. renewable energy is cheaper than fossil the transition has higher capital costs as opposed to just burning gas but on the other had fossil now has around 100 billion in future subsidies and tax breaks and the government propped up prices by injecting 12 billion in fossil subsidies to customers something that cannot be maintained. The further we get away from 2019 when renewables reached parity with the then gas price the more expensive is the cost of fossil and other fuels in comparison
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  13604. It's really twee how TYT try and pivot into policy like any of that is currently important at this point in time. Biden is going to play wise elder statesman And Kamala was chosen to do what she did on day 1 of her vice presidency elect make the dogs at the GOP eat there own shit and boy is she going to ram it down their throats at every opertunity. Birtherism - bring it on, nasty you ain't seen nothing yet, we don't want policy we want Poodle Pence and Dotard Donald get thier nuts handed to them on a plate on a daily basis
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  13605.  @thoos192  I. Went on holiday a month back diid 250 miles there, tesla has a range of 300+ for 90% of drivers the range is finee
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  13606. Why are you giving this toxic grifter airtime he talks utter bilge
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  13607. think its an admission of failure and trying to shore up a few blue wall seats last week saw their poll numbers dip to 23% and Labour up 3 to 47%  @Bolachas25 
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  13608.  @hughjohns9110  so why did we leave the common market remove freedom of movement and put economic sanctions on ourselves to become the North. Korea of Europe? No one voted for economic suicide?
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  13609. Its about domestic economic strategy renewable energy is cheaper which is why everyone is suddenly interested whoever gets there 1st has a huge advantage
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  13610.  @equaltoreality8028  renewable hasn't been subsidised for years they reached price parity with gas in 2019 You could build 4 offshore wind farms that produced the equivalent of Hinckley C for less money Even tidal is cheaper than nuclear now the answer is tidal Wiind solar and storage
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  13611. So Hinkley C is contracted to last 35 Years lets give it + 5 its costs so far are 33 billion production costs 35 billion in subsidies over 35 years Guaranteed price currently of around 110p per kilowatt hour. Dogger bank Offshore is 42p and costs 9 Billion Then there's the build time Dogger bank 1st phase started in 2020 and will come online in 2024 Hinkley C 2017 commissioning now expected 2028 Then there's Tidal a similar capacity to Hinkley will cost about 50 billion but you could phase it same as Dogger Bank lasts 50-100 years Then we have storage A large Tesla Megapack for load balancing quote Europe’s biggest’ battery in East Yorkshire opens The project has the capacity to store enough energy to power around 300,000 homes in Yorkshire for two hours (costs 750,000 million) endquote a similar project in California saves 1 billion a years and as EV penetration becomes more prevalent V2G can and will fill in load gaps you can run a home for 2 days on a Tesla battery probably more if you had solar. I admire your enthusiasm for Nuclear but its fkin expensive compared to current alternatives. And you need only 40% Base load we have 15% nuclear + between 5-7% with Hinkley so around 20% There was talk of small modular reactors from Rolls Royce which looks more viable the the mega projects
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  13612. Higher education should be free and diverse the notion that any degree is mickey mouse is peverse, the Cons hate culture and critical thinking and see young people as mere political punching bags in thier brainless culture wars
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  13613.  @annealbrecht396  why would anyone vote for them same feckless policies as the Tories with a different badge
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  13614.  Trainrhys  no they won't, there's been numerous studies showing that there not going to go live on a private island but wish to remain at the centre of culture, parties, events etc. If you have gobs of money your at best spending the interest so will swan around some cultural capital The one's that do leave are fk all use to the economy as their hoarders
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  13615. Why is he cutting NI it was supposed to pay for pensions and healthcare He is still freezing thresholds till 2028 driving up taxation How will he pay for it - Oh yea raise the pension age quote THE TORIES are planning to raise the retirement age in the UK to 68 by the end of the 2030s, reports have said
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  13616. If Russia hadn't invaded a sovereign country then pretended it was like OK then maybe everyone could get along but hey its taken over part of Ukraine then depopulated it by forcing its occupants to go get killed on the front line fighting for Russia who it doesn't want in the 1st place
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  13617.  @carlarthur4442  spelling not your strong point then Reform voter I take it?
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  13618.  @Jack-fs2im  what's wrong with wind farms only the cheapest source of energy since 2019? and it will take 20+ years for the North Sea to finally stop production not that we get any benefit there's too many subsidies and the tax is offshored
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  13619. No one picks the Tory leader bar the elite membership
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  13620. at least they won't crater the economy and bankrupt pension funds with 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts
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  13621. my wages went up as did my standard of living Economically I never had it so good also had a couple of operations on my knees which were done in fairly quick time. UK wide average wages went up by +25% minimum wage helped people at the bottom and there was less crime because we had more police per 100k and less poverty. My son had a smaller class size than he would have had under Thatcher due to increased investment in schools Also he is Autistic when Cameron came in he cut budgets which badly effects all those with special needs and completely screwed up the apprenticeship system @ChristineRead-ck1uq 
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  13622.  @gerardhampson9089  I've studied Economics to a high level and still read books and papers on the topic Reform are an economic basket case the multiple policies they Wang on about would further tank the economy.
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  13623.  @stephenporter6005  Reform don't have a clue as regard the economy, fracking is 10 years out of date its not economic and blightes the landscape while using 100 million gallons of water per site while moving on every 3 years. Low regulation just means fking over workers Low tax just means more for the elite
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  13624. 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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  13625. ​ @infosuge Thatcherism needs immigration without it you'd get economic implosion If your prepared to move to a more socially managed economy you can reduce immigration that means higher taxes especially on wealth you'll hear squat from the media on the real cause of high legal migration
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  13626. Virtually non, there have been a number of studies done on this most will stay they have their homes here and are emeshed in the London high society social scene The Ultra wealthy aren't even spending the interest or added wealth to their portfolio's
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  13627. Tucker is fkin tool
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  13628. why do you like wasting 8 billion a year on housing asylum claimants that will currently take 13 years to process at current rates
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  13629.  @sadjaxx  The PO is the result of a culture of outsourcing. When you outsource you loose control and over time the service levels degrade, for services this makes no economic sense but is a tenant of Thatcherism
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  13630. Frostie the no man architect of the current debacle of a deal?
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  13631.  @marcusashwell8314  do you even know what woke is I'd suggest the dictionary. Frostie is as chameleon as the rest of them say any old shyte to be in power
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  13632. Did they not get the message, play footsie with Reform loose votes from the centre and the right won't vote for you anyway because your not extreme enough. There is more chance of he'll freezing over than the Tories winning the next election the countries finances are completly knackered
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  13633. His missions are based on this book by Mariana Mazzucato Mission Economy A moonshot guide to changing capitalism If you read it then go back and listen to his mission statements they make a lot more sense
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  13634.  @jrobs1133  if you cut £1 in 2010 to get that service up to speed and working efficiently needs far more than just replacing that £1 in real terms now. The Ministry of Justice's “botched contracting” of probation services will cost the taxpayer £467 Quote Tory austerity 'has cost UK half a trillion pounds of public spending since 2010' A decade of austerity by the Conservative-led governments after 2010 resulted in more than half a trillion pounds of lost public spending and a weaker economy
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  13635. +14.1 million Jobs under Biden -2 million under Trump @bigtime9589 
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  13636. There never was a peace deal Ukrainians want their land back Russians want to steal more of it If your going to start with the russian propaganda forget it Nige has form on this one
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  13637. There nearly all special advisers not proper civil servants, the civil servant got moved sideways so will have a private pension
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  13638. Waspi women were shafted by the Conservatives and I lost a years pension because of Cameron it happens its nothing to do with Starmer The riots caused 100's of millions in damage 32 million in extra police costs all because people like you believe cr@p spread on the internet. I don't mind political discussion but stop defending far right thugs.
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  13639. We have record levels because you removed FOM and were now handing out visas to people from 2,000 miles away who won't come without their dependants DUH what did you think would happen the experts TOLD YOU and all we got back was were sick of experts
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  13640. To cut the need for migrant labour you need to change the economic model and invest in the UK and its workforce such as modern transport links free University Reform will be even worse than the Conservatives given they appear to be clueless on economics
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  13641.  @tannershortnacy7324  records are public same as the NY stuff.
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  13642. No its not, people moving jobs and adopting flexible working because there's a huge shortage of IT staff is driving up demand, my mate just changed jobs got a 20% rise doesn't have to commute bar 4 times a year and has just been kitted out with new equipment.
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  13643.  @KP-by4eu  I work in IT as well as having loads of mates in the industry, during the pandemic and to this day business is booming, system and network upgrades software upgrades you name it. The company I work for aren't going back to a fixed office model but hybrid with hot desks reducing its office space requirement by half, the little amount of on site installs I used to do is now zero not that there was a need to go on site but some companies proffered it.
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  13644.  @bwilliams572  Reform are rebadged UKIP so its more like 12 years and there just as narrow minded and full of BS now as they were then
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  13645. The economic roots of this are with Tory fiscal policy Blair/Brown stemmed the bleeding of wealth transfer but Austerity brought it back on steroids Brexit is a multiplier a big one but reversing it wouldn't fix the underlying problems with the economy and unlike in 2015 where debt to gdp was 82% we've run out of borrowing road at debt to gdp of 100% Our economy is knackered I think Starmer is trying to goad Sunak by calling for an early election so that he doesn't because worse is yet to come
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  13646.  @freedommatters3176  you need to foxsplain that it's gibberish
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  13647.  @freedommatters3176  Anti free speech? they let you spout foxsplaining conspiracy shit. Wars are extremely complex once you start one, Bush screwed up the middle east good and proper, Afghanistan is a mare to extricate from compounded by ISIS I don't envy anyone trying to sort it out but you need something akin to a plan
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  13648. Of course he is Rudy Guiliani minister of propaganda just pulled another hard drive of incriminating evidence out of his pants, there there it will soon all be over
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  13649. A Con leaflet came through it was solely focused of a host of claims against Labour that was a complete work of Fiction A whole host of lies with zero vision of the next Con government just begging to not be decimated at the election A grubby leaflet from a stained and grubby party If the Lib Dems are the opposition they will hold Labour to account on the NHS and Sewage plus a whole host of other priorities maybe PMQ's will gain some civility
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  13650. The problem isn't the leader. it's the ideology, changing won't make a scrap of difference because they don't understand what is wrong
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  13651.  @elipa3  Our food production has gone down since leaving also courtesy of the Haunted Pencil Quote Brexit leads to unsafe meat and African Swine Fever warnings as UK border checks on food stop The UK was supposed to introduce its own ‘sanitary and phytosanitary’ post Brexit border checks on fresh food in July last year but then Brexit Opportunities minister Jacob Rees-Mogg scrapped them
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  13652.  @kdenso3196  people voted the Biden Harris ticket with Biden being 81 Given Trump has a junk food diet he may not last till nov then we'll have a Harris - Vance race
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  13653. ​@stephennoble Sunak froze thresholds to pay for an NI cut I would be £560 better off if he hadn't my son on low wage is worse off by £200 and he works. This is what happens when the Tories try to bribe their way to another term its just scorched earth
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  13654. The Tories are toast they lost because they were incompetent most of their seats they could have won went to the Lib-Dems
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  13655.  @pwimbledon  1.6 million per refugee based on the Australian data
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  13656. The entire Tory agenda on energy and renewables by 7 Bins is a complete lie here's why 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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  13657. Continuing what will be the world leading economy in renewable Tech started under Biden that's driven 2 million jobs to be reshored combined with infrastructure investment has seen annual growth of 3.6% GDP and the Nasdaq soar by 50% in 4 years even while having to deal with the dumpster fire left by Trump.
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  13658. ​ @bakedbean37 apparently they knew what they were voting for and we haven't Brexited properly They forgot to factor in the Tories not investing in physical and social infrastructure for 13 years while giving loads of tax cuts to the rich
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  13659.  @allip4226  I agree those where the Tory numbers at least Reeve is a graduate of the LSE
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  13660. @roberttaylor58 what laptop? There was only ever a hard drive, no ones sure if it was a clone or that a load of the data had been compromised tampered with. Around 2,000 out off 130,000 emails have been verified. And it came through Guiliani
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  13661. Her opinions poll at 15% don't delude yourself
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  13662. It will have very little effect on numbers the people who can afford the eye watering fees currently paid aren't particularly price sensitive
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  13663. ​ @gawkthimm6030 were not going full in best we would ever get is single market and that would be at a price. FOM and Shengan would reduce legal migration if the government wanted it to, we always had the means to control it we just didn't do it.
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  13664.  @williamhurley8407  One of the problems caused by money printing is Asset inflation the only way to get rid of it is tax rich people to get the excess out of the system Energy is a lot of Supply side inflation (corporate) oil and gas companies are making super profits a lot of energy demand is baked in raising interest rates will leverage demand but is unlikely to reduce it by much. Food is Supply Side but we have Brexit as a force multiplier
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  13665. get real you send your kids to private school who gives a stuff about the plebs, privatisation and vouchers to come in the next manifesto
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  13666. @jjefferyworboys8138  it's built to enable the rich to pay less tax than the poor to the point there now taking the piss
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  13667. Do they not appreciate what living in something akin to Putin's Russia would turn into. Also this has all the potential of causing absolute chaos no one is going to accept a rigged Trump election if you thought the economy is bad now just wait it will go off a cliff. Russian's GDP is a 1/2 of Calafornia's and the rotten to the core Oligarch system of patronage corruption and Grift will do the same to the US.
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  13668. Net zero will fetch energy bills down not dealing with the energy crisis will keep them permanently high Renewables became the cheapest on the grid back in 2019 so go park the fossil lobby BS
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  13669. 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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  13670. Stand up and Fight Maybe she's introducing nationwide fight clubs
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  13671. You've got a booming economy built on infrastructure investment by the Democrats which will push the US as the world leader in renewable tech what's your problem? The alternative offers More debt, tax cuts for the wealthy, fossil dependence, recession.
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  13672. There are women in the UK army and in the general foot soldiers what's your point?  @Ridethebomb777 
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  13673. There economically Centre Left Only the Tories do Supply Side Trickle down economics You can have some left wing policies or non at all and a swing to the hard right
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  13674. there are 4.3 million in poverty this is just gesture politics which would cost 3 billion and deal with only 250k at a cost of 12k per head
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  13675. Driscoll isn't a team player there's no room for sentiment the Tories have to be got rid of by any means possible the state this country will be in by the election is absolutely dire. The damage they've done in 13 years is nothing to what another 5 will do
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  13676.  @jimthompson9370  he's standing as an independent candidate in a first past the post system and hopes to syphon off Labour votes how selfish and ME orientated can you get.
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  13677.  @leemccccccc999  Last time this country had rising wages and economic growth was under new Labour +25% to be exact and average of 2.5% to gdp per annum You poorer now than 14 years ago with a 10% drop in GDP per capita
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  13678. ​ @leemccccccc999  I remember the unemployment of the Thatcher era 2008 was chicken feed compared. Live in a northern ex blue wall seat which turned Lib-Dem this cycle and would never vote for the Cons after what Thatcher did.
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  13679. Fiscal drag has added +£560 to my tax bill as a pensioner to pay for a tax cut through NI for those on >32k and <55k and he says he will give me £95 back?
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  13680. Europe has had a rolling closure strategy combined with a furlough scheme to enable public health measures allowing for partial opening during the summer/autumn but everything is getting put on virtual tick over due to rising cases till what looks like the new year and a vaccine rollout. Restaurants and bars are getting hammered by lack of business because whole sections of society are opting out of economic activity and your getting blitzed with a health crisis which is crippling local services. If covid isn't controlled your into full hospitals rising death rates due to care shortfalls
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  13681. Thatcher is the root cause of our current economic malaise Worst pm we ever had squandered our oil legacy of sweet fa
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  13682. Don't believe the Bullsh1t you hear on the right wing and Republican circles there bought and paid for by the billionaire class and corporations they'd have child labour reintroduced in a heartbeat. Oh wait they already are quote Lawmakers in Republican-led states are proposing and passing legislation to roll back child labor regulations. In states like Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, and Arkansas, newly passed or pending laws allow companies to hire children without work permits and allow children to work longer hours under more dangerous conditions in places like construction sites, meat packing plants, and automobile factories. @jeremies7489 
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  13683. According to the Center for American Progress, being part of a union has an association with greater wealth for working-class families. As an example, they found that working-class union households have almost 4x the median wealth as a typical non-union household ($201,240 to $52,221 respectively). Republicans don’t support unions, clearly because that money is deemed better off in the boss's and shareholders pocket @jeremies7489 
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  13684. Is he chuff him and his socialist talking shop get real
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  13685. There's low growth due to government lack of investment in social and physical infrastructure
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  13686. Yep should drive the crazier proper mom dancing
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  13687. Biden achieved in 4 years more than any other US president in history
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  13688. 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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  13689. Truss is making a powerplay again
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  13690. 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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  13691.  @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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  13692. 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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  13693. Florida is on fire, Republicans response ignore it then throw gasoline on the fire claiming it will burn out faster
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  13694. nail on head :) “He is a f&*king moron.”
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  13695. He's never run for office before so has never had a manifesto to break
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  13696. Trump win? Are you off your meds?
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  13697. The water temperature in the gulf is currently 3 degrees above average for the time of year and a cumulative 1.6 degree rise averaged over time, the temperature increase will fuel these storms to unprecedented levels this year. Global warming is real and the counter programming by the oil, gas and coal lobbies needs calling out for what it is naked greed at the cost of people's livelihoods and the environment they depend on.
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  13698.  @paulb2022  I was under the impression when he says something it's the new truth and that he bends reality by force of his will
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  13699.  @tbc9096  Instigating a series of long term infrastructure bills that have powered the US economy to double it's nearest rival in GDP growth in the G7, record domestic investment, record government investment, record jobs created, record jobs re-shored
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  13700. 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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  13701. Reform promoted by TalkTV which is right wing owned by a Libertarian Billionaire and GBN which is owned by an offshore libertarian Billionaire both fossil lobbyists and both climate deniers promising a few cookies
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  13702. @Undead-Aquila you think these people give a toss about you or immigration?
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  13703. @Undead-Aquila  no if you wanted to lower immigration you'd investing the local workforce not tax cuts + We have a housing crisis and an NHS crisis they are just more extreme Tories
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  13704.  @ancietman  what is a sensible level? I take it you voted brexit which has quadrupled both legal and illegal migration? Why don't you lobby to rejoin the EU and reduce it instantly by 75% instead of believing in an utter failure in Nige?
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  13705.  @oneoflokis  EV and battery tech are on what's called the S curve you have to remember that this started over 10 years ago. In the same way that governments across the globe put money into vaccine research the US EU and China are in a veritable arms race Investment in renewables in the US 1.75 trillion in the EU projected 800 billion in the UK ?? The latest news on affordability is the production of Sodium Ion batteries by CATL production started in Feb and its 20%+ cheaper than current lithium based could go to 40% cheaper
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  13706. @billgreen576  if you have an EV my supplier does a special charge rate and supplies a charging point for V2G They use your car battery for grid smoothing at peak times (around 2-3% of your charge) you get a low tarrif + intelligent charging. I read a paper somewhere that costs savings to your supplier are around 5-6k a year, the less Peak plant demand they buy the cheaper it is for them
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  13707. The reason peak costs more is in the current system a Supplier buys peak from a Peak Plant (powered by gas). These have the highest prices on the market and often there not producing but running on permanent standby. The less a supplier buys from them currently the more profit they make and some are offering as in Octopus's case really cheap (in some cases free if you lease an EV from them) electric to EV owners for V2G active technology. Our domestic market is screwed it needs reform but that's to do with how it was privatized If your interested in how batteries reduce costs there's an article on the Tesla Mega Pack worth reading type into google. "The Astonishing Economics of the Tesla Megapack"  @billgreen576 
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  13708.  @haleymcnutt1272  If you have a healthier workforce and invest in infrastructure your productivity goes up and that generates +GDP which generates +Tax dollars
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  13709. Rooservelt's new Deal was a radical socialist movement and set of policies which catapulted America into its golden age, silicon Valley and the tech revolution didn't happen without huge government funding. Red states are dumping on thier workforce, Georgia has 5$ minimum wage generating a huge down cost on federal programs, POOR SICK HOMLESS people cost billions in federal tax dollars it generates crime which wastes even more tax dollars on prisons. Will someone just challenge these people everytime they spew the socialist lie they've not a f*** clue what there dribbling about
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  13710. So for the 1st time since Wilson we will get a centre left government and you want me to not vote for them how strange? have you not noticed our rivers and sea are dying from pollution our schools and hospitals crumbling around you?
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  13711. Biden is overseeing the best economic numbers the USA has ever had +3% gdp growth, real wage growth, manufacturing being reshored etc.
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  13712. You look at special elections since the Presidential and Democrats are performing 11.5 points higher than expected, the mid terms where supposed to be a red wave Media still normalising Trump and Republicans behaviour but they've lost support completely in younger voters
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  13713. Wow you really want to see the Tories annihilated into 3rd place in the next election
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  13714. He'd been sacked for lying from 2 other jobs its not like they don't know what he's like and He's cheated on every wife he's had the tabloids will have a field day when he does it to No4
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  13715. ​ @tjmarx there going to investigate all the covid fraud and a new law of defrading the public purse is going to be introduced + Lobbying bans in some shape or form
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  13716. Our energy prices are dictated by the marginal cost of the final mile generation at peak load which is standby gas generation, the cost is horrendous especially last year The industry has known how to resolve this like forever its utilisation of mass storage to store always on power to timeshhift demand Norway used parts of its oil money to build hydro and pumped hydro you can deploy MegaPack technology now at a fraction of that cost. ​@ten060
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  13717. @mpemberton7760  so all in on bullying are you? Using sexual innuendo to demean publicly someone you don't agree with politically? It's vile
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  13718.  @fredforsythe8310  nope
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  13719.  @drew699  PFI was a Major initiative and Brown fell for it it was finnaly put out of it's misery in 2018, GDP growth during Thatcher Major was the result of asset stripping and oil money as well as inflation in terms of real growth it was way worse than Blair / Brown who oversaw the best economic figures this country has ever seen. 2.3% average growth and +25% wage Growth. Since 2010 the economy has shrunk in real terms and wages have fallen. That's 14 years of abject failure
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  13720.  @drew699  Key metrics fro the Thatcher era Unemployment: Rose in the UK from 5.4% to 6.4% Poverty: Rose in the UK from 13.4% to 22.2% Crime rose ahead of population growth Wealth inequality increased in 1979, 13.4% of the population lived below 60% of median incomes before housing costs. By 1990, it had gone up to 22.2% And the reason the last 14 years has been such a failure nothing left to sell off
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  13721.  @drew699  quote from an economic historian she failed – and spectacularly so – to invest in Britain’s post-Thatcherite future. As capital spending plummeted, our national infrastructure was left to rot. Public services in particular were starved of resources. Most seriously her governments did little to help find future employment for those industries deemed beyond the pale of the Thatcher revolution. But nothing better illustrates her failure to invest in Britain’s long term future than her mishandling of the giant windfall she was gifted on entering Number 10 from booming North Sea oil revenues.
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  13722. It saves money by cutting out buying and both sexual and racial harassment at work which cost billions in lost productivity, employee churn, lawsuit settlement etc. As usual false economy because they don't know somethings value
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  13723. There's only around 14 million left and most of those are pensioners a good few who have had their retirement plans wrecked by the 90 day rule and Truss's economic event. Brex1t is DOA everyone can see it's a complete failure the only positive thing is it's going to destroyed the Tories
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  13724. The economy back then was not the skip fire it is now and as far as I'm aware there are multiple policies that will form the election push the Tories have already tried stealing the child policy though how much of the Nurseries will be left after another 1 1/2 years of crushing energy costs and sliding living standards is moot. Talking to some friends of mine who vote Con most will vote Lib-Dem next election or not at all (were in a no win seat for Labour heavily Tory) there's some talk of Reform UK as the rabid xenophobe's latest squeeze but we shall see
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  13725. In what way are they worse there economic and social policies will improve your life make you better off than voting Tory what more do you want
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  13726. CRT is a US thing and it's bollox anyway its a module only tought at law universty
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  13727. Coal is so yesterday's answer a lot of the costs are to do with peak rate and lack of investment in grid balancing, wind generated energy costs over 1/2 of what coal energy costs to produce.
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  13728.  @kcc879  that's the short sightedness of relying on Russian gas and not controlling your own domestic energy
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  13729. There idiots the taxes are high because of 13 cumulative years of failed Tory aka Conservtive HARD RIGHT WING THATCHERITE policies 2010 debt to gdp 62% 2015 massive corporate tax cuts 2019 debt to gdp 92% 13 years of Economy killing Austerity 7 years of economy killing Brexit I give up
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  13730.  @maxbateman6999  since when, I'm 65 as a country we've had to grapple with no end of discriminatory mysoginistic behaviour now we have people on here trying to claim that teaching children tolerance and when power abuses its position to discriminate is a somehow a bad thing?
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  13731. ​@pun-inator6075 I don't disagree with we need immigration but the Tories use it to prop up a low wage economy and are using it to level down the middle class.
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  13732. How do you debased yourself so much to do this? No policy arguments just worshipping your cult leader?
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  13733.  @conor-c3s  they aren't now
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  13734. @conor-c3s  they don't have any workable policies Brexit - complete sh1tsh0w Visa system - quadrupled migration Both these were lifted from ukip Their economic policy is Trussanomics - a more fairytale vision is of trickle down Privatise the NHS- this adds 2 administrative layers to an already admin heavy service and will baloon costs Remove our human rights The more times I list these the worse it gets
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  13735. Tax is low by European standards even after all the Tory tax hikes last term pushed the base up from 33% to 37$
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  13736. Biden has turned round the US economy by injecting 2 trillion into it over the next 10 years turning it into the renewable tech hub of the world its kind of a piss poor example given there the leading economy in the G7 by a mile with low inflation and 13 straight months of lowering unemployment numbers @joepeacock-ew4zr 
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  13737. We borrowed 130 billion last year, 20 billion was spent on the NI cuts, 72 billion on payment's to the energy companies As for fiscal headroom there is non Sunak called the election because things will get worse
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  13738. He used campaign funds screwing a porn star isn't a claimable expense aside from that there are 19 other cases in progress Insurrection (7)Financial (6)Election interference (2)Sexual misconduct (1)Other (3) Tax evasion, money laundering, rape, inciting a riot, treason, theft young Donald has been a busy boy
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  13739. Scargill was stunningly stupid but your wrong about Thatcher, a lot of the economic woes today are the direct result of Thatcherism
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  13740. It's centre right but dream on
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  13741. Fox business is garbage why would anyone interested in the markets actually use it as a reference for your business or portfolio decisions
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  13742. not really they suffer from the same ideological blocks that stop the current lot fixing anything
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  13743. 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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  13744. ​ @bensims7501 Muslims have mortgages too
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  13745. Reform = another party in the Billionaire's pockets
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  13746.  @Valoremnihilo  quote Farage and Tice have their own shows on GB News, which is bankrolled by billionaire hedge-funder Paul Marshall and Dubai-based investment company Legatum, founded by New Zealand billionaire Christopher Chandler who made a fortune in Russian gas in the 1990s.
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  13747. the Tories set a target did they meet it? The net number is a symptom not the answer you need to reduce the economic pull factors such as introduce new labour laws getting rid of zero hour clamping down on outsourcing, training more doctors nurses and engineers etc.
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  13748. Yea whatever Jonson is a joke always has been
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  13749.  @abdvs325  the guy has done large amounts of pro bono work on human rights issues The only thing I have against him is he's an Arsenal fan
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  13750.  @kerrynewnham8946  The Corbyn agenda was fantasy socialism leaving Labour in the wilderness for a decade You have a leader with an iron grip on the party there will be no factions no pressure from the back benches no revolts and a 20 point lead and with a fair wind will crush the Tories into oblivion. The Cons have completely fked the economy, there will be no tax cuts everyone is hurting
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  13751. Vance is the money mens pick, Trump is one burger away from a coronary then boom project 2025
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  13752.  @marumaru6084  without a social collective we wouldn't have an army you have no idea what socialism is or how our economy works, the Tories are hard Right
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  13753. pouring 4 trillion into debt for tax cuts for the wealthy has a bad effect on inflation as does putting tariffs on imports and starting trade wars given the US has a 3 trillion pa export market. doesn't leave you with much choice if you don't want to see your 401k go up in smoke, his plans are insane
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  13754. Only if your insecure with a strong forthright woman, I feel sorry for you people thinking DJT somehow represents manhood the guy is a creepy slob
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  13755.  @nighthawk2174  She done loads of interviews over the years, what are they going to ask her that we don't know already? Are you really black or just a bit brown? We also know Trump's agenda as well it's project 2025
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  13756. The reason Reform numbers rose was the Rwanda scheme, the reason the Cons lost traction from the centre was the Rwanda scheme Karma all round Its not hard disliking Sunak after he spent the debate throwing Johnsonian levels of bullsh1t everywhere The Spectator calculated Tory spending commitments would add 3k per household Sky calculated Tory tax rises have cost 13k per household already
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  13757. If your going to go on a tirade over renewable Energy get your facts straight and don't introduce complete misleading BS and both Tata and Petroineos are private companies so how is Milliband killing British Industry? Port Talbot is closing because of brex1t On June 30, 2026 the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will be fully operational in the EU. (CBAM) applies a charge to carbon emitted during the production of imported carbon-intensive goods, such as aluminium, cement, iron and steel. At which point it becomes uneconomic to export there and there is no certainty of exports to other markets since we decided to become billie no mates. and Petroineos is a joint venture between PetroChina International London (PCIL) and INEOS Group, a British chemicals firm founded by billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe. The company cited economic difficulties as the reason for the closure, stating that the company had invested $1.2 billion since 2011, and returned losses in excess of $775 million over the same period. "Grangemouth is increasingly unable to compete with bigger, more modern and efficient sites in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Due to its size and configuration, Grangemouth incurs high levels of capital expenditure each year just to maintain its licence to operate," the company said.
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  13758. because its gesture politics and undermines Blinkin who is trying all the levers he can to get hostages released and keep Isreal from moving into ethnic cleansing The world is not a black and white place
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  13759. renewables will make us self sufficient we don't own or control or even recieve any tax from the the North sea at the momment
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  13760. SME's used the trick of paying the directors low salaries then paying themselves with dividends you avoid NI as well doing this The biggest problem SME's have aside from energy is Brexit red tape and in some cases wholesale removal of its export trade and the destruction of the on-demand supply chain
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  13761.  @KJ-js7pi  I didn't know that thank you
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  13762. ​ @geraldinecowan8301 he's tacked to the centre to get elected as the Tories tack further right, the reason he's had to go so far is the false prophet Labour saddled themselves with in Corbyn for nearly a decade.
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  13763. Yea like who'd vote for endless delays to freight thousands of pages of documentation which cost GB business 7.5 billion plus PA, have to buy new computer systems to deal with the endless VAT (4 -> 24+) codes the 60% limit on origin of goods that also needs a new computer system to track components origin plus UKCA on the horizon so more money down the toilet in dual certification. Come on NI step up to the plate and suffer like your ex GB buddies ;) don't make Frostie and Bozo look like complete clowns
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  13764. I know where at around x 3 times cheaper production cost for renewables
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  13765. You obviously no nothing about Starmer, his nick name from the left is Stalin
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  13766.  @williamcannon7262  The ruthless purge of the Corbynista's his shameless and cynical use of Elphicke. Mate you don't know 1/2 of it he makes Sunak look like a wet weekend
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  13767.  @boofuu3145  do I care about an Elite gasbag?
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  13768.  @jimmimckenzie8549  one that stops the elite money laundering and engaging in tax evasion you mean Bring it on
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  13769. Johnson was indebted to a Foreign businessman to the tune of 800,000? Security risk? Compramat? He also used to go to Ledvedev's Castle for a the Parties cough
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  13770. 13 years of trickle down Thatcherism culminating with A millionaire Pensioners Tax cut Sunak paying 20% on the bulk of his multi million pound income because CGT is deliberately kept low to allow the asset class to not pay tax What we have is socialism for the Rich Capitalism for the poor Millionaire / Billionaire wealth doubled during Covid and they now want to squeeze the money they acquired through the government pumping 750 billion into the economy out of everyone but the rich who hoovered it up in the 1st place.
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  13771. Dyson bought a load of farms to avoid IHT as did Clarkson how do you deal with that? quote Clarkson has previously said that he bought his 126-hectare (312-acre), £4.25m farm, Diddly Squat, in order to avoid inheritance tax on his estate
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  13772. He's an elite the guy lies through every oroofic in his body. Populist A hole same as Johnson There griffters always on the make
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  13773. 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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  13774. with extreme heat comes climate disaster in the form of ruined crops therefore food shortages glad your OK with spiralling food prices stop listening to the propaganda and use some critical thinking this is about money and power renewable energy has been cheaper than the alternatives since 2019 the current energy crisis is siphoning 170 billion in excess profits out of our pockets to the energy companies aided and helped by the UK government
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  13775. So putting in an Economist with a Degree from the LSE and experience of working in the BOE won't be a positive change from Mr H unt what an odd thing to say?
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  13776. No he's not Farage has form for being a Putin apologist and pushing out Kremlin propaganda as does most of the Far Right in Europe You want to vote for the T0sser that's your affair but stop trying to paint black the new white
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  13777. They value teachers over in China part of the Reagan era Globalisation further pushed by the GOP and Clinton / Bush
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  13778. there's no such thing as a red tory, the Cons are way off the range economically all your riling against is a bit of soft centerism and a hit piece from a Murdock rag
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  13779. there in hotels because the Tories refuse to process them You get what you vote for in this case the most incompetent government in history
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  13780.  @dangerousfables  and how much of that 160 billion budget is being siphoned off to the private sector? Last I heard around 5% of the current budget is used in administration costs liaising patients across the public private sector, the total admin bill is 14% which is way too high partly due to privatisation and outsourcing. 3 billion in agency staff 6 billion on bank staff to cover shortfalls as pay fails to keep up.
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  13781. Right wing economic policy dumps on the working class. People jumping to Reform are primarily over 50 male uneducated
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  13782.  @capturedflame  not if you ignore inflation :)
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  13783. 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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  13784. A dollar invested in infrastructure both physical and social pays back 99cents on the dollar A dollar invested in tax cuts pays back 25cents on the dollar Broad economic studies have shown, the return is measured on gdp growth, good roads and bridges with good traffic flow leads to more commerce
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  13785. Net zero = cheaper electricity and an end to strategic dependence on world commodity prices which are manipulated by multi national cartels as in gas
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  13786.  @peterjones7303  yes why wouldn't they . I can already get a. Special EV tarrif that's a fraction of the day time tarrif
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  13787. @UtubeRwokeLefties  how much time do you think you need on a 7.5kw stream. We do around 200 miles a week you can get that overnight on 1 charge + your battery can be used for grid smoothing saving the electricity companies billions giving you a virtually free overnight tarrif and a reduced daytime tarif
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  13788. @UtubeRwokeLefties  In its simplist form The current demand is on what is called a duck curve, reducing peak demand by using smart things which time shift into lower demand areas means less overall generating capacity needed to produce more electricity. The more you turn the demand curve it into a straight line the cheaper everything gets and push / pull as well now your really talking big savings
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  13789.  @UtubeRwokeLefties  your ev charging turns oon and off with the rest of your smart devices.
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  13790. Brexit could have been a full Norway this sh1tsh0w is down to the Cons
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  13791.  @NeilCWCampbell  I'm lucky in that we live on the schools doorstep and I could take time off whenever an issue came up which was near on once a fortnight while he's got qualifications coming out of his eyeballs he couldn't face University and we tried to get him an Apprenticeship by that time I'd retired and without having the time or the sheer stubbornness and making it a mission to negotiate the system he would have ended up on the scrap heap. He's now a qualified gardener and very happy but the mess the Tories have made of the social support system makes you so angry luckily his boss loves him to bits his own son is downs and he took on all the support material I pushed his way. There is literally nothing those mindless feckless arswipes with their cuts to everything haven't broken
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  13792. what kicked the last round of bigot xenophobia was Cameron/Osbourne deliberately not regulating the emerging GIG economy which the Companies took advantage of by importing eastern European workers to things like Uber we had a sudden expansion in millions often supplanting established UK jobs. The workers paid very little tax and the vulture companies offshored all the profits. I don't blame the migrant workers we have some who came over and are now in different jobs at my tennis club fair play to them they improved their lives but the government that did this did so with a complete callous disregard to what they were doing to the economy and the social resentment it could breed. Supply side trickle down at its finest
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  13793.  @erosgritti5171  the commanders are dead there being priority targeted with drone strikes to take out C&C leaving the battalion rudderless
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  13794. Not as many as Sunak but why waste your vote on Tory + delusional imigration policy?
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  13795.  @polaris7122  The Tories plan to cover the shortfall was to continue suppressing wages in the public sector using the visa exception scheme to keep importing cheap labour and raise the pension age to 68.
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  13796. I'm glad your happy in your identity with nature's relentless desire to evolve and the myriad genetic threads and possibilities you have a small population who are just different, categorising them and assigning them an identity based on your experiences is pointless.
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  13797. @Tab Ford 90% of the population exists within certain boundaries to declare everyone is categorised by those boundaries allows politicians and others to ostracize and denigrate the non conformist. You mock what you do not understand those who try and understand or do not share your passion to denigrate the marginalised are equally mocked its the politics of hate and division.
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  13798.  @zeuseditor  The language used by the SNP was designed to make sure the motion failed. Playing politics with such a sensitive subject shame on you and your Party
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  13799. These aren't Republican there the juiced up cult crazies that Trump has been able to glue onto the Republican coalition. The conspiracy Q nut balls etc. The White grievance uneducated male is apparently one of the lowest propensity voters so no Trump on the ballot then the turnout will dive. By the way according to voting data approx 900k registered voters in the Atlanta area didn't vote
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  13800. Reform have no Credible economic or migration policies
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  13801.  @grimnir8872  If you devolve about 30% of the power required to multiple small sites ex solar all over ASDA stores roof so it backs up the charging infrastructure you don't need much of an upgrade if at all. Another example is bus stations they have both a small amount of solar and a huge battery capacity that can be used by the grid same with domestic electric cars with a smart meter it can be 2 way. Every warehouse store home is a provider and a customer connected by a mesh network
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  13802. 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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  13803. Why it would be a Libertarian low wage sh1t hole
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  13804. ​ @stanadams5541 your party is never coming back the eco system built up around the GOP with Fox Newsmax etc. Won't let you it's crazy conspiracy theories and hate mongering drives clicks. The GOP is dead as you know it
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  13805. Of course Vance is weird he's the product of the Libertarian billionaire network.
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  13806. He's proposing you just organize and have specialist units to deal with it its not rocket science as a specialist in certain areas of IT I can do in a couple of hours what would take a graduate weeks. The problem with the Tories is they look at everything as a hedge fund manager you get rid of that experienced specialist that costs a lot and replace him with a graduate or not at all to save money without looking at the impact to service levels or that your storing problems for the future.
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  13807. You need to get off gbn and other propaganda networks your comments make no sense
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  13808. Blair was the last time you saw wage growth how's that work?
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  13809. One right wing failed economic policy for another You do know its the lack of Investment in Infrastructure that's driving up immigration don't you?
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  13810. yea but there on the right it doesn't count and neither does the 500 million he got from Musk (South African) or the millions he got from Peter Theil (German)
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  13811. 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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  13812. Real Estate taxes aren't federal
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  13813. We should give up what little rights we have because dinghies You don't get to pick and choose who has these rights either we all have them or non What sort of a neo fascist country are these people trying to turn us into? Do you get a free brown shirt if you subscribe?
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  13814. Last year I had solar batteries installed Due to the falling cost of the batteries and Labour zero rating them for VAT the capital repayment for me and I'm in the North and not the best aspect is under 6 years. This is partly down to the fact that I can sell my Feed in at 15p and buy overnight at 7p (my old rate was 24p) I have also spent the last 3/4 years refurbishing and fetching the insulation in my 1935 semi up to A+ standard, I'm retired so a lot of the work I've done myself including ripping up all the old ground floor reinforcing the old beams and double insulating before fitting underfloor heating. (My retirement treat, some blow it on cars me I like my nice warm house each t their own). Things are moving very quickly in the Renewable front
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  13815. ​ @rack9458 inflation post pandemic was always going to happen its worldwide. 5here were 2 ways of dealing with it The Republican way of fiscal tightening and record unemployment Or the Democrats way of fiscal stimulus and record employment Just go back and check the Reagan period for many it was dire
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  13816.  @nri3051  were moving to tax and spend to revitalize the economy something that should have been done 14 years ago instead we had Austerity which shrank output and stagnated productivity.
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  13817. By stacking the court then it looses it's legitimacy and forces the executive to either bypass it or restructure it You need basic competency though none of the suggested crop are even competent
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  13818. Were in a Rhisi-cetion Anyone thinking reform are the answer are deluded
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  13819. Capping visas doesn't address the fundamental economic pull factors or addresses the fact that after removing FOM the visa system has 50% dependents coming because there from thousands of miles away. Brexit is a disaster and this is one of its symptoms a solution that just made the problem worse
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  13820. ​ @twisteddancer7773 now now how was he supposed to know that controlling migration didn't mean lowering it and that loosing FOM meant non European workers would fetch thier families too Not like you can pop on a train to visit the relatives at Xmas if your from Nigeria And to rub salt into the wound there all going to be non white
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  13821. There's a CNN video within interview with a drone operator quite eye opening
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  13822. The green new deal will promote passive House building that will use a fraction of the energy to heat or cool. The fallout of this is massive bills as the energy market goes into a feeding frenzy.
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  13823. Give it a rest Sunak is cr@p, getting doxed by things can only get better in the pouring rain sums it up
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  13824. Labour will expand investment in the likes of Doctor and nursing training reducing the need to import them from overseas. How is that not better than anything the right have to offer?
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  13825. Agreed he's on board with low tax supply side trickle down economic model that drives this
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  13826. The market wants the trucks NOW not 3 years down the line, the speed of change has to accelerate or Ford will die. Rivian have a truck and they have a final mile delivery van deal with Amazon, it's basically a race at this point JUST LOOK AT THE PRICE OF GAS
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  13827. They asked nicely they even served a subpoena if your dealing with someone with ADHD who acts like a 9 year old then this is what happens sooner or later you just have to go in and take away the toys he's not allowed to play with anymore.
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  13828. There are multiple possible side effects from covid. Aside from it getting into your lungs there are numerous reports of it causing mental issues heart swelling kidney problems. Typhoid Mary Don needs a full indipendant medical before he's allowed out the WH
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  13829. That would be the one they created in the 1st place and now don't know how to fix?
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  13830. Tidal for me and more wind Forward contract Cost per gigawat hour in the UK currently Dogger bank offshore wind £40 Hincley C nuclear £92 Current UK spot price is running at about £200 with gas in the mix plus other sources
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  13831. Net zero means cheaper energy prices and decoupling from world market commodity shock Another war in the middle east and you'll be bleating about petrol at 4£ a litre
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  13832. @leemccccccc999  them are the stats Blair / Brown +25% AVERAGE wage growth Tories -3% 14 effing years sweet fa
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  13833.  @navigator100group2  Thatcherism aka Supply Side Economics is one of the main reason the economy is spiralling down the toilet the other is Brexit You can't run a supply side policy without loads of cheap labour coming in at the bottom and you can't have the xenophobic English Nationalist brexit without doubling down on migration. The 2 are completely incompatible which is why personal taxation is going up at the bottom to maintain low taxes at the top And anyway the roots of the energy crisis we have now are in Thatchers utility giveaway and the housing crisis roots are in Thatcher council house giveaway the reason he's had to do something is the chronic economic fallout of Thatcherite policies driving millions into in work poverty. Unlike the Thatcher era Sunak can't force inflation down with high unemployment.
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  13834.  @jurgensplurgen8972  a million and 1 flavours of Brexit both Hannan and Farage campaigned on leaving the EU but staying in the single market. Frostie the no man produced a politically expedient deal that they rammed through to force the uk out then want to still claim everything is the EU fault
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  13835. 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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  13836. I mean the days we could swim in our rivers and canals and not get sick for months was that Pre Thatcher by any chance? @FromMetayou 
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  13837. What plan? The Rhisi-cetion is in full swing if you look at GDP per Capita we've been in recession now for a year and a half which is biting into people's wealth. also 950% increase in profits by British Gas are taking the p1ss, Sunak has refused to implement a full on windfall tax or even tackle the failed energy market
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  13838. There was always levers we could pull while in the EU For example banning zero hour low paid contracts that resulted in off shore multi nationals fetching in around 1 million migrant GIG economy workers. There were loads we could do now were fked
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  13839. If you want to change the system then join it and work to get your polocies adopted, the Democratic party is changing due to the younger members, you need to get in there and fight your corner. Joe just ended up as a default candidate and even the DNC weren't over keen on him as soon as the African American vote went to him in virtual lockstep it was over for the others.
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  13840.  @BraddersVee  who knows 7 of his mp's decided they know best
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  13841. We have multiple disused airfields near us from ww2 all in the greenbelt also a bankrupt golf course there's plenty of sites like these all over the country
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  13842.  @RaverOperator  Yea those well run services and +20% increase in real average wages I mean who doesn't want everything broken and a lower standard of living than 14 years ago
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  13843. what instead of the fossil lobby who are in line for around 100 billion in tax breaks within the next few years. + the government spent 12 billion in the last 12 months propping up their exorbitant fuel prices with an energy subsidy The sooner where off fossil the better and cheaper it will be
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  13844. Hem DJT is mostly funded by the billionaire class and Oil Baron's Who don't give a stuff about climate change and want you tied to oil in perpetuity
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  13845. He's lost suburban women lock stock and barrel, problem is Pence fetches the evangelical's, Trump does it to make sure infighting in his inner circle is kept to the max and keep the complete chaos of his administration front and centre
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  13846. I mean what do they have to offer on inflation ? A Corporate Tax Cut and Climate? Fossil subsidies Healthcare ? removing women's rights to treatment Judges that side with corporations all the time and screw over ordinary people They literally have nothing to offer they get votes because Red team hates the blue team and parading around like ass holes like childish DeSantis
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  13847.  @NoOne-le2jv  China makes stuff to CE mark and the US accepts it Brexit was pointless its just putting sanctions on ourselves
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  13848. If you want to cut immigration then you need to abandon the current economic Right wing model of Low Tax, Trickle Down Supply Side Economics which needs a constant supply side pool of cheap labour That means increasing taxes especially on wealth and investing in social and physical infrastructure such as Training Nurses so we don't have to import them, building transport and social housing. This endless round of Cake-ism from the likes of Tice and Farage theres no such thing, cut off migration with the current economic model and the economy endlessly contracts with services crumbling round it.
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  13849. Why?
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  13850.  @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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  13851.  @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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  13852.  @ReasonableVoter  He's not tied in the polls if you weed out all the small ones and focus on the quality ones. There is also a huge gender gap, your going to get all sorts of wacky results coming in. DJT is also loosing educated voters his economic policies are a train wreck quote from Musk Elon Musk has offered a sobering preview of Donald Trump’s economic plan for America if he is re-elected, revealing that a period of intentional “hardship” is on the horizon for American households. Rather than cautioning against it, Musk described this hardship as necessary and inevitable, supporting Trump’s blueprint for restructuring the economy by slashing government programs. Musk’s remarks, shared in a Telephone Town Hall organized by his America PAC, indicate that he and Trump see economic pain to average Americans as a necessary cost of their policy goals.
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  13853.  @jamalgibson8139  I'm unsure we can trust any of the numbers to be honest in 2020 55% of the voters were women it is anticipated that that number will be higher this time round and healthcare due to Roe is a major issue with them. DJT's numbers with women are awful, the more he doubles down trying to appeal to uneducated men the more repulsive he becomes to women.
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  13854. There on 30% profit last I saw and they've just increased prices to cover material cost increases GM and Ford will make a loss for a good few years just to try catch up.
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  13855. @nicholasweaver7809  since when it's been an economic disaster from day 1 with zero plan
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  13856. Bankruptcies are at a record high, SME's sell to their closest market its called trade gravity the economic impact from Brexit is -6% GDP a loss of 40 Billion in tax revenue and were just getting the 2nd wave of checks and paperwork coming in @rb1062 
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  13857. ​@dave4803 why we've seen a catastrophic failure of right wing economics over the last decade and a half The worst economy since the Napolionic war, pre dates Labour's formation
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  13858.  @111111877  I studied Economics we've had Hard Right Thatcherite supply side trickle down economic policy for all 13 years + Austerity. Just because Cameron was socially Liberal didn't stop him wrecking the economy with Extreme Thatcherism
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  13859.  @dave4803  all major capitals across Europe and the US are cosmopolitan its where thier wealth is derived from If you want better social housing and less knife crime you need funding from central government the Tories defunded the justice system, youth services and asset stripped Council housing stock Short term measures with long term consequences
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  13860. 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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  13861. I don't think you could get a wealth tax past the MSM and establishment though it would help Asset holders because at the moment Asset values could fall by as much as 20% so what's 3% now and next year against that backdrop there so fkin greedy they can't see past tomorrow?
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  13862. sanctions has stopped a range of components especially electronic parts while they will still be able to make most of a car chips are in everything even older models. 50% of world production in chips comes from Taiwan but China does make a load but are they the right sort? Also China has huge domestic demand anyway and looks to be not wanting to get too drawn in.
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  13863. Why would anyone vote to make themselves poorer with Tariffs (aka Sales taxes) widen the deficit by giving the rich a huge tax cut and deporting hard working immigrants depressing the economy and causing a depression that will wipe out 10-20% of the value of the stock market? DJT's economic plans are moronic, the guy is an idiot who doesn't understand economics go ask the farmers who lost export markets permanently overnight that they spent 40 years building up and oh yea and he had to spend 92% of the tariff money raised on on US consumers bailing them out.
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  13864. 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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  13865. Nuclear is expensive with over a decade lead time it also props up the big generator model rather than a distributed grid
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  13866.  @gemannable  Tucker works for Fox, Fox is owned by the Murdoch's, the Murdoch's are billionaires that massage their content to push billionaire propaganda. The Fbi and other state agencies are neither organised enough or have the power structures to pull off the far fetched stunts your claiming, government agencies by their very nature are slow plodding behemoths The drivel Fox spews is designed to get you to focus on the inconsequential and make sure you don't vote in someone who will buck the Billionaire agenda they reinforce prejudices bring right wing politicians to heel. In the clip here Tucker is advocating punishing a private company for being nothing more than a private company who has kicked of Marje for being batshit crazy.
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  13867.  @gemannable  pedophilia doesnt belong to any political learning religion or ethnic group, it does get covered up a lot more in religious heirachies and cults My sources of information are numerous including history books and trade journals if I need specific data or information on a topic.
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  13868.  @fernb247  I saw that movie and the follow up police camera coup
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  13869.  @gemannable  quote " I know of Paedophiles in many areas" No you don't you believe random stuff some guy who has a friend who's mate knows off the internet
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  13870.  @gemannable  I read a lot and I mean a real lot from Economics to psychology I have no doubt in my mind that you believe you are speaking the one truth and are perplexed at why I cannot see the same enlightenment that you have been blessed with. One of those books is by Steven Hassan an ex-moonie cult member its a really good read and an incredible insight into the multifactional cults that surround the ex president The Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan It came to mind when you were talking about cool aid you do know where the phrase comes from don't you? The phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” refers to followership at its worse. It was coined after a delusional, pseudo-guru named Jim Jones led his cult, the Peoples Temple, to mass suicide. Over 900 people, including 304 children, killed themselves by drinking from a vat of grape-flavored drink laced with cyanide. The media reported that Jones had used Kool-Aid as the vehicle for poisoning his followers, and ever since then, “drinking the Kool-Aid” has been used to refer to reckless devotion. Like I said I read a lot
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  13871. we left with a hard Brexit the economic fall out from that is -5.5% GDP resulting in 44 billion reduction in tax receipts to the Treasury 10 billion in additional costs of red tape and paperwork per annum Broken on demand supply chain no major investment in the UK since 2016 if you don't believe me look at the decline in car manufacturing Further disruption promised with the retain EU laws bill which would add 85 billion in business costs over 10 years Benefits Raw sewage in our rivers and sea as we don't have to comply with the water safety standards anymore
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  13872.  @realityalwaysbulliesopinio1961  If you put trade sanctions on yourself what do you expect? Did you know Northern Ireland has -3.5% less food inflation compared to GB
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  13873. Biden is striving for unity with those prepared to listen, not with the elite sponsored top 1% channel that claims faux Populism.
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  13874. Biden is doing his job, starting to look a bit old especially for 4 more years what's your point?
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  13875. It is goods exports in real terms are down by 7.4% and service growth is suppressed quote from Bloomberg How, then, can we account for the strong UK services export growth compared to the G7 average? The answer is – again – that it is important to consider the right counterfactual. If we account for rising demand for services exports, we see that British exports should have performed even better than they did.
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  13876.  @uingaeoc3905  I used to work in the service sector (software technical analysts) my company relocated to Amsterdam and Poznan in 2018 because of Brex1t. One of the guys at tennis has an Small manufacturing business they've gone down from 20 to 12 staff with exports world wide shrinking by 20% due to supply chain issues and trade friction. The local craft gin distillery saw it's export market vanish overnight. Were a small northern town and that is a huge amount of money disappearing from the local economy. there is only so much of this death by a thousand cuts we can take. so stop trying to justify the worst trade deal in political history.
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  13877. Its a hate it or love it look
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  13878. Respect is earned And Conservatism offers nothing for younger voters To be fair it offers nothing for older voters either in its latest populist incarnation
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  13879. How detached from reality do you have to be to believe that turning the UK into the North Korea of Europe is somehow a good thing? The Brexiteers promised Singapore on Thames they delivered Argentina on the Channel SME'S need access to a market 20 miles away and soon to be implemented service sector rules will cut the City off from the eurozone, whatever the brexit ultra's promised is never going to happen all you'll get is more of the economy spiralling down the toilet
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  13880.  @MeM_UK  don't bother they will parrot whatever Fartage says like nodding dogs there not interested in history or the truth
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  13881. simple policy of I dunno living up to our obligations under the UN convention on Refugees and saving us 6 billion in the process or Does Tice just want to jump on the populist fascist playbook and move to the final solution miss out the internment and concentration camps
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  13882. Listen to the excellent podcast Partygate the inside story By ITV News
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  13883. Renewable energy is the cheapest on the grid by quite a large margin as an example it x 2.5 times cheaper than Nuclear
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  13884.  @tobykelsey4459  They don't get massive taxpayers subsidies in fact fossil gets way more. Last year the carbon tax was 8 billion, the exploration subsidies for gas and oil were 10 billion. The price hikes are down to GAS and our reliance on standby Generation due to lack of Mass storage
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  13885.  @Linda-u5x  quote The UK has some of the world’s lowest taxes on oil and gas production: in 2019 the UK government received just $2 per barrel of oil in tax, while Norway received nearly $22 per barrel.The result is that major fossil fuel companies, such as BP and Shell, are being paid to operate. Between 2016 and 2020, oil and gas companies received almost £10 billion in tax relief for new exploration and production, and a further £3.7 billion in tax relief for decommissioning costs.
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  13886. @Linda-u5x  just for completeness there's around 1.5 billion a year in renewable subsidies these are for various reasons The reason last mile at peak time is expensive is you need a power generation plant on standby The reason Mass storage is so effective saves SO much money even with the lithium battery based ones is there computer controlled, no staff to pay no Gas to buy at varying rates your just filling them up with off peak always on energy.
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  13887. ​ @Batters56 the economic multiplier for renewable projects is between 1.1 and 1.5 so a 20 billion investment creates enough GDP to increase tax take beyond what the government invest. In reverse fossil subsidies have an economic multiplier of between 0.5 and 0.6 having an increase in GDP below the cost of the subsidy.
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  13888. ​ @chatham43 renewables are cheaper than fossil by a country mile we don't have more because of lack of investment especially in the Grid
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  13889. @jiren331  there Scrapping Rwanda and going to process claims quicker as well as focus on the illeagal traffickers Also They will address the pay suppression lack of trained domestic workers and lack of investment in infrastructure that's driving high demand for migrant workers in services like the NHS
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  13890. @Woodzta  if you remove FOM and shop for workers from the 3rd world they fetch thier families, its in the stats too and the migrants are permanent and will always be cheaper so nothing will be fixed at this end
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  13891. He will cause as much chaos as possible the plan is to not certify the election. The whole point of J6th was to trigger martial law send it back to the states
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  13892.  @archvaldor  Planning will be changed as will employment law. You can't improve the economy if there's nowhere for your workers to live close to their work. Blair got +3% annual growth and +20% wage growth without having to address fundamental structural economic problems. Go read a transcript of Reeve's recent speech
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  13893. The guy is a joke, It's 3 clowns and your out time His big achievement will be a high speed train that doesn't go to London and doesn't go to Birmingham
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  13894. ​he's seen as not threatening and pragmatic which gives licence for people to vote Lib-Dem in the Blue wall No idea why the Tories are chasing after those that are switching to reform if you belive that 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts fracking and fantasy immigration policy is the answer the I have a bottle of snake oil to sell you.
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  13895. So a Murdoch outlet is pimping for a party that pursues economic policy that will benefit billionaires in the same way that the current government does. Nige is a Thatcherite its like voting to make yourself poorer
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  13896.  @MbeyaIsHome  batteries are way cheaper option the price fell by 50% in last 18 months and bloomberg are estimating that prices will fall another 50% in 2 years and also increase in capacity
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  13897. The FT did an economic analysis on it its basically the result of 13 years of Austerity pay cuts and increasing workload Part of that increase is severe staff shortages The Tories being the arseholes that the,y are would rather spend extra billions on supply and agency staff than fund proper wage rises After 13 years of Austerity multiple tax breaks for the rich a failed Brexit millionaire/billionaire wealth doubling over the last 2 years they now want to service that wealth by penny pinching the middle and lower class. Yet people like you come on and defend it tbh I think you and people like you have Stockholm Syndrome
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  13898. Agent Orange is bankrupt with a half a billion in known personal debt There deflecting from income tax to Tax in general.
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  13899. Brexit was a pack of lies it will never work And Imigration is driven by right wing economic policy
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  13900. That may be so but a bunch of elites pedaling Libertarian clueless economics doesn't help anyone Reform are just shills for the billionaire class
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  13901. Most of there assets aren't liquid so they end up paying more UK tax anyway
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  13902. Not true votes don't get manipulated period.
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  13903. Unifying NATO Jobs + 6.6 million GDP +6 .9% Best performing economy in the G7
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  13904.  @coina-dig-tion6322  Pipeline was 2% built it would have taken 7 years to complete and get through all the administrative hurdles. Trumps 2 years of decent economy was built on debt and collapsed at the first signs of stress it was already slowing Timeline 2017 Trump tax cuts putting 1.5 trillion into corporate America 2019 tax cuts causing fed debt to spiral 2020 pandemic with debt still rising Fed prints trillions to ease the recession 2020-present nearly all those trillions have spiralled up to the 1% causing the inflationary pressure. Answer put in meaningful taxation on the 1% to bring down inflation and the debt The jobs aren't the same I could quote you all sorts of figures but your probably not interested. Unemployment benefit has no impact on jobseekers multiple academic papers on the topic from studies done through the decades it does have an impact on local economies though those with decent unemployment benefits don't get hit as hard through a downturn and recover quicker. Crime The rate of murders in the US has gone up at an alarming rate. But, despite a media narrative to the contrary, this is a problem that afflicts Republican-run cities and states as much or more than the Democratic bastions. In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald Trump than those won by Joe Biden. 8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election this century. On the border the current administration are deporting people at record levels what your quoting is red team blue team view of how its handled the same numbers are getting asylum as under Trump its just a more practical way of dealing with the situation. The Trump economy was smoke and mirrors the guy was useless way in over his head and got completely played by the likes of McConnel
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  13905.  @coina-dig-tion6322  you can find anecdotal evidence to prove anything you want, I work in IT and am a bit of a numbers math man if you circle out and strip away the anecdotes and stories that the media use to get you to have an emotional response and analyse the data then your making decisions based on provable cause and effect. There's a reason the murder rate is higher in Republican counties that voted for Trump but your not going to like it NY has a low murder rates compared to LA (Louisiana) which is x4 the number of homicides reason 1 is NY has greater gun control a person shot with a handgun has a chance of surviving and their fire rate is way under an assault rifle, an assault rifle bullet travels 3x faster when it hits the body starts spinning and shatters bone as well as liquifying internal organs before making an exit wound the size of an orange the other side. The second reason is Trump his grievance politics is fueled on hate and he's spent 4+ years amplifying the messages aided by right wing media, if you drum into a large enough population sample that the election was stolen, the Democrats are enemies, Muslims are all terrorists, Mexicans are drug pushers and rapists you'll get a much more violent response when these people are triggered into doing what they do. Unemployment if you take a sample of 1000 in a small town make them unemployed then give them benefits while they seek re-employment they will continue to spend that money in the local community, the landlord gets his rent the utility company gets their money the local store still sells them goods. If you don't give them Unemployment benefit your punishing the local community who then take on the shortfall that the unemployed no longer put into local businesses. You get 1 or 2 per 1000 who abuse the system but trying to build a system that weeds them out screws over businesses that depend on the 998 In the case of the utility company they will pass the increased costs from default onto their paying customers the small businesses may have to sack some staff just making the problem worse. Fiscal policy if you print trillions to prop up the economy its a good idea to know where its gone I'm comfortably off my portfolio has doubled in value and the property I own has gone up by 50% in 3 years, the media don't want to talk about it as if you tax the high earners it will slow the market and property price increases down, this year I've released 150,000$ from my savings portfolio to do extensive renovations and an office extension which - fuels inflation I would have done less comprehensive renovations if my investments had say been inflation +2%.
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  13906.  @coina-dig-tion6322  his approval rating is low because democrats aren't happy because his agenda has stalled in the senate Trump was a snake oil salesman worst president the US has had his economic mismanagement has left record debt levels. The guy is a multiple bankrupt you can see why everything is on someone else credit It doesn't matter how many people you claim to know massage the system it's infinatly better for local and national economy's to pay unemployment benefit. When I start talking to people about this the people they claim to know are via television.
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  13907. ​ @Charlie-o1r4p go look up Voyage of the Damned 1939 ECHR is the last resort against government overreach
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  13908. He's proposing you just organize and have specialist units to deal with it its not rocket science as a specialist in certain areas of IT I can do in a couple of hours what would take a graduate weeks. The problem with the Tories is they look at everything as a hedge fund manager you get rid of that experienced specialist that costs a lot and replace him with a graduate or not at all to save money without looking at the impact to service levels. You can see that all across the economy after 13 years of it no wonder so much is broken
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  13909. The Q stuff is just a rebirth of what used to be the John Birch society the nationalist neo-fascism with a solid core of racism and anti-Semitism Everything Trump touches dies
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  13910. why would a Tory voter switch? Reform have no viable policies
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  13911. We've been in recession outside London for well on a year Our disposable income has now regressed to 2006 levels In 2016 our economy was 90% of Germany's its now 70% Its estimated that Brexit has cost the UK Economy over 1 trillion in GDP since 2016 (330 billion in lost tax) When in the EU net immigration was 200,000 it was 750,000 last year 500,000 the year before what's this years total going to be 1 million? @Jack-fs2im 
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  13912. We've had legislation to remove the right to protest legislation to remove the right to strike and now legislation for the mass deportation and installation of refugees in labour / concentration camps This legislation does nothing about boat crossings because it is designed to be performative with the aim that the ECHR will block it so the Cons can have a fight point the blame at someone else while doing nothing about the problem because they have nothing to run on electorally because they've broken everything including the Asylum system and have no idea how to fix plus their polling is that bad they need the far right BNP NF UKIP vote to stop a landslide.
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  13913.  @Kevinwayne199  I just think it will go the same way as the stimulus package, blanket no from the Republicans, we need more from the Democratic left and mindless posturing from centre democrats who don't know what they want.
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  13914. A referendum on something the public doesn't understand that won't go well
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  13915.  Trainrhys  They don't pay income tax now so what's the loss? were subsidising their lifestyle and the money they save in tax is pumped into assets such as property causing property inflation. Since 2010 property prices have increased by 66% with 25% during COV alone while the government has pumped 1.8 trillion into the economy in extra borrowing
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  13916.  Trainrhys Unfair in what way? They are receiving huge tax breaks on unearned income which does zero for the economy because it gets locked into assets and no longer circulates. It's not about having a socialist country it's about providing a socialist floor so the Capitalist ladder works to it's maximum effect. The Ultra rich are freeloaders they generate little and choke the life out of small businesses who are the major businesses of tomorrow
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  13917.  @KingNothing100  as a proportion of my total wealth and income more than the millionaire/billionaire scroungers
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  13918.  @jimskarw25  Barr's European tour was embarrassing and all Republican members of 3 house committees had access to questioning witnesses and all they could come up with where documented rants to show fealty to the Orange idiot and chasing after Putin inspired conspiracy theories.
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  13919. I'm middle class I don't pay cgt Sunak and Hu nt do are they middle class? And why would you not pay public sector workers a decent wage or do you prefer the Tory way of wage suppression then filling the jobs with migrant labour? The words cake and eat it comes to mind
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  13920. What is the point The current situation is 14 years in the making
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  13921. we've had 3 years of chaos and were now getting higher taxes than at any time since WW2 plus a shrinking purchasing power and that's after negative wage growth and a stagnant economy under Cameron / May. Boris is the worst PM this country has had and is drain on your wallet, his only skills appear to be employing people who can't hold their drink and vomit all over the place so cleaners on minimum wage have to clear up after them
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  13922. 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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  13923. You can run a turbine in the Arctic, Texas are cheapskates didn't winterise their plant, the big issue was gas anyway and condensation freezing up the pipes
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  13924. He really doesn't get how batshit crazy he sounds
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  13925.  @kzm1934  I sort of agree the Tories have been blowing money left right and centre on trickle down tax breaks and subsidies as well as all the inefficient outsourcing Test & Trace being the icing on the cake
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  13926.  @James333-n2q  this is not so when you dig into the polling data the Labour vote is very efficient.
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  13927. I do to I've written to Reeve about economic policy no one I talk to thinks soft centerism will cut it given the dire state the countries in and the decades of wealth pilling up to the asset class and the burden now put on workers of every stripe from the bottom right to the very top. Harry Lambert put this very succinctly in a recent New Statesman podcast
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  13928.  @Ed-rg4do  46 presidents before her haven't bore any children
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  13929. He's running a centre left agenda and in all likelihood will need every vote Corbyn voted 400+ times against the whip he doesn't want loads of little corbynites gumming up the works and making him a 1 term PM
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  13930.  @nomchompsky3012  with Corbyn I got the impression it was Momentum that where the real power and driver and he was just their current vehicle, I'm all for a bit of socialism but his agenda was fantasy land
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  13931. Reform are a protest party with a niche appeal, the Tories lost because they went to right wing
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  13932. Neoliberal economic policies that drive up legal migration. Tice is either thick or lying, low tax low reg will increase legal migration due to lack of domestic investment, if they choke that off the economy will shrink @melmatrix8212 
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  13933.  @Purple_flower09  They can't figure the reason for high legal migration is lack of investment ex Doctors and Nurses and it will take a decade to turn that round or longer under the Cons or Reform.
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  13934. whether your on the right or the left of politics the Rwanda policy is a disgrace The Tories by defunding the processing system are sat on 60,000 people who should by now have already been deported
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  13935.  @donaldducko6580  So me having an independent energy source in domestic solar and wind then buying an EV that can act as a storage an distribution energy device making my home completely non dependant on the grid is going to be controlling me ? Odd concept
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  13936. You really don't get why the economy is up sh1t creek do you? In 2010 Osborne introduced Austerity + changed economic course by switching to Thatcherite trickle down economic policies. Since then every PM since has followed this path deepening the economic fallout when the sh1t finnaly hits the fan, so no he can't ever turn it round in his last budget was yet another 20 billion in trickle down policies. Thatcherism doesn't work combined with Austerity then Brexit the economy will keep shrinking You just need to look at the RAAC crisis to see how this is all unravelling and even flagship privatisation is bitting everyone in the backside
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  13937. For crying out load the guy is a complete Moron
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  13938. So we did brexit and the numbers of legal and illegal migrants went up now they want us to give up our human rights? Are these muppets for real?
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  13939. Biden will move to the left on some policies if the party moves that way, you can see the seeds of that in his platform he's fairly centrist but is supporting the mother of all recovery plans incorporating green. To be honest if he didn't the US would get totally left behind in the green revolution that's picking up momentum. Kamala is there to shove it to the current administration while he plays the Elder Statesman Already the GOP are blowing thier brains out over her Nasty she's just warming up
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  13940. Its not turnip season
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  13941. The real world implementation of communism is the GDP of a country 100% controlled by the state (generally a left authoritarian design ex Cuba) The US has 35% of gdp under state control a full Bernie is about 50-52
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  13942. Labour left a national debt of 800 billion during their tenure last time they borrowed 300 billion in 14 years the Tories have added 1.6 trillion to the debt which now stands at 2.4 trillion So no they didn't bankrupt the country the only person to try that was Truss who managed to wipe out 425 billion off pension assets in 2 months = 24%
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  13943. No they won't the changes most people are expecting is a rise in CGT, if anything Labour will lower VAT like Brown did in 2008 to 15% to stimulate the economy at the middle and bottom end.
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  13944.  @Supposedlyimrightwingnow  Reform can't do that most of the economic and migration mess is down to the Tories following Farage in the 1st place
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  13945. Let's get real the reason the UK wasn't flooded with anti-vax media because we have a high standard public broadcast environment If you want to know how bad it could get look over at Fox and the US and Murdoc's Sky in Aus wall to wall propaganda Also the Con voter base has a high number of pensioners in it who watch wall to wall BBC
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  13946. Progressives aren't socialist there mildly Liberal The Democrats over in Europe are regarded as mostly centre right the progressives centre left Corperations are fkin dumb there business does way better with a more centrist government hard right policies may give a short term boost but they have a long term negative effect on the consumer base the companies depend on as their market.
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  13947. Go read the government guidelines for running a safe campaign and election May2021 it's still on the yougov site I guess the police can even if Conservatives can't The May 21 election was post vaccine with ever decreasing restrictions
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  13948. The media is billionaire owned and push economic policy that suits them
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  13949.  @Dingleberry777  ? unemployment was at 6.5% the economy was circling the drain 4 years ago and there was a madman in charge telling people to take horse tranquillizers as a cure for Cov with zero idea on how to deal with a pandemic
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  13950. Johnson lies all the time and he's corrupted the whole of his cabinet and now media apologists to do the same for him Why throw your dignity under a bus defending these people, from £30 pound rolls of wallpaper to non dom spouses, from VIP crony contracts to writing off billions in fraud these are some of the unworthiness bunch of liars to hold high office in UK history.
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  13951. We were on of the main creators of the ECHR, It was ratified after the war as was the UN charter on refugees Churchill: "there must be an act of faith in the European family" look up "Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?" It has 46 members the only nation to leave is Russia when they invaded Ukraine which kind of says it all rather than get sucked in to right wing hyperbole and show pony politics some research into why its there and what it does would be of use
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  13952. Warren to me looks head and shoulders above everyone at this point after taking in the town halls, Bernie sounds like Bernie and Biden is just there on name recognition by the way he's going I just can't see him surviving with such strong opposition. I like mayor Pete mostly cos he pushes all the wrong buttons on the alt-right control panel and makes them look petty and small.
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  13953. Not with people like you Andy bo9sting Reform which is an english nationalist party The level of capital spend in London and the home counties compared to the rest of thecuk has punched us down so much that economists liken it to east west Germany at the end of the cold war. If you want this country to succeed then invest outside the South East and reverse Brex1t which is killing my towns economy
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  13954. There not a regular car company, the big code update that markedly increased battery range showed their lead in software, thier work on mesh networks for distributed grid storage is a game changer in the energy market. The guy just says cars, he really doesn't get Tesla at all
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  13955. snp are a disgrace sh1tstirring for sh1tstirring sake
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  13956. and vote loosing, the Tories pedal fear like no other ex Tories have raised an extra 30 billion in fiscal drag, the energy companies last year made > 100 billion in Excess profits squeezing people's incomes like never before then threatening them with a profligate spend spend spend Labour party If Labour hadn't wasted most of the decade following a false Prophet then maybe they would have more credibility?
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  13957. Learning Lessons? what do you expect when you put a complete f*ckw1t in charge of the country
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  13958. The US is a collection of state economies you'd need to dive into your states figures
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  13959. Government finance isn't like a household budget. In 2020 Dec debt to gdp was 132% In 2023 July debt to GDP was 121% Down 11 points that is huge Republicans don't understand government budgets
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  13960. You are correct they've put off getting rid of the CE mark twice already, UKCA would mean dual certification at huge costs to business plus extra import/export paperwork. GDPR digital standard if we diverge its estimated it will cost UK business 1.7 billion and that's not factoring lost business due to a lack of equivalence. We are not a member of one of the 3 major trading blocks (China US EU) therefore we are a rule taker not a rule maker, every time we decide to go it alone it will have a huge knock on affect on additional costs and huge amounts of red tape to prove compliance.
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  13961.  @elvishprincess321  Reform are rebadged Supply side economics devotees which is the main reason the economy is knackered so replacing one set of economic incompetents with another won't make a difference
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  13962.  @chrisbyron8258  He doesn't understand why the Tory economy is so shyte and the more they double down on it the worse it will get The right wing parties run something called Supply Side Economics which involves globalization and importing supply side everything if its cheaper even workers which is why they want to get rid of all the regulations on food standards workers rights sewage levels toxic chemicals etc. a byproduct of this is low wage growth at the bottom and skyrocketing pay inequality. Labour under Reeve will run a modified Keynesian Demand Side Economy you create economic growth by making people better off thus creating more demand if your short of workers you put in place policies to enable women to return to the workforce such as pre-K school clubs nursery places etc.
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  13963. We haven't had any growth for 16 years, the current budget doesn't come in till April these figures are mostly driven by the last budget We won't know till 2 years in if the move from trickle down moneterism which has stagnated the economy to tax and spend will work
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  13964. Just looked at the latest YouGov poll detailed PDF and 18-24 is 8% Con, 57% Lab, 14% Green, 10% Lib-Dem What it will do is spur them to get out and vote
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  13965. He's going backwards he used to talk like an immature 11 year old the word vomit at the economic forum was more like a toddler
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  13966. he did nothing bar pass a tax cut which contributed to the 8 trillion debt he piled on the US economy oh and removed some regulations on Banks and Trains
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  13967. we want change not another version of blue with yet more unfunded tax cut promises that will crash the markets
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  13968. The Cons run Supply Side Trickle down economics as was seen by the Budget with a tax break for Millionaire pensioners paid for by fiscal drag at the bottom Labour run Demand side economics which puts emphasis on investing in physical and social infrastructure generating demand and therefore wealth at the bottom / middle The 2 produce completely different economies over time and vastly different outcomes for those partaking in it So please shove get some basic education in Macro Economic policy before gobbing off
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  13969. Food and Energy are both supply side affects why didnt the government in 2021 put the following policies in place A complete rethink of farming policy which could encourage grain production and decrease our reliance on imports including fertilizer rather than what they did do which was go FULL supply side. Remove the block on onshore wind reform planning acelerate grid upgrades and get additional renewable energy onto the system asap reducing the demand for gas + targeted campaigns on insulation If you build a wind turbine it can be online in under a year if you sanction a nuclear reactor your looking at easily 7
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  13970. how's that the Tories rammed through a horrendous deal for this country with 42% of the vote and put a border down the Irish sea not very democratic given the insanity of it
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  13971.  @deswhelan3463  he's convinced that when they say low reg small tax that people like Mogg include them and that its not just for the 1% City centric Hedge fund and bankers. Nieve I know Singapore which is the model has huge amounts of migrant labour and is essentially sweat shop conditions outside the Financial hub
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  13972. yea but they don't do they there's a thin veneer of populism hiding a Billionaire libertarian agenda
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  13973.  @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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  13974. Don't use tax breaks use import tariff on strategic goods. And look to reform agriculture it uses way to much chemicals fertiliser water and mono culture to be sustainable long term in large parts of the country
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  13975.  @kemetm3  offshoring was a corner stone of Reganomics followed by every Republican president since Supply side economics means buying from the cheapest no matter what that's what the corporate tax cuts were about, business was still going offshore during the Trump presidency McConnel saw to that. There trying to work out a bill at the momment to bring back some of the chip production
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  13976. Yes why doesn't Prime Minister Starmer do something about it? He just sits there and blames the other party
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  13977.  @stevec6427  Labour unfortunately these days need a broader appeal. The data shows the Cons with their English Nationalism part of their Agenda are attracting older working class male voters. It's near impossible to get through to this type of voter that there being used propped up with populist lies
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  13978. The tax base has remained constant for nearly 2 decades till Sunak became chancellor at 33% All Osborne did was add +5% to VAT then tinker with other taxes creating more loopholes for the wealthy and trickle down policies Its now at 38% Labour will not put up taxes on working people because that stunts growth and will look to earnings from high asset wealth and shut down the myriad of tax loopholes and trickle down policies
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  13979. she spouts the same policy nonsense that Trump does she just acknowledges Biden won
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  13980. Reform benefits? Haven't we hear that one before
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  13981. The root of this is the conspiracy The Great Replacement Theory more Cats and Dogs madness
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  13982. There hasn't been fiscal headroom for years we've gone from 800 billion borrowing in 2010 to 2.4 trillion in 2023
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  13983. I Worked in IT for 40 Years and have just retired, this thing about old people not being able to adapt is utter trash, yes kids learn how to operate new gadgets quickly but they soon become stuck in the loop. What differentiates those who can ride with technology and those who do not is the ability to constantly learn. Even in IT there were many people that struggled with new and got cast by the wayside over the years. Just because I have an opinion on things and I'm over 60 doesn't mean I don't understand the technical intricacies behind the technology furthermore after living through its development I understand the fundamental building blocks its based on. baaaa kids of today think they know everything ;)
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  13984.  @nickryder9669  I'm talking Macro economics the Tax base was 33% for a couple of decades till 2019. How that is divid up is down to each Party It has now risen to 37%, there's plenty of room for Labour to not tax working people and raise money there are as you say 101 loopholes that need closing and we failed to collect 42 billion of tax owed last year
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  13985.  @nickryder9669  I'm aware of that but they did some pretty dumb things as well like not sorting out housing and signing up to PFI and not clamping down of tax loopholes. Brown's lack of judgement lead to more deregulation and made the banking crisis worse than it should have been. Blair didn't sort out Zero Hour he was talked out of it structural issues that came back to bite them in 2010 letting the Tories in. The comparison is relative though Labour were always a million times better than the Tories it's just a shame we've had to endure 14 years of this cr*p for them to get their act together.
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  13986.  @mrdemocracy7106  A GCSE class could do better than the current Tory clowns. They are utterly incompetent the tax base is 37% up 4 points WTF are they doing with all that money?
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  13987. The state has pumped 100's of billions into right to buy and other schemes
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  13988.  @myaltaccountthatiwillbarel2288  R and the Cons have a lot of funding from the fossil lobby. Always use this talking point to those showing an interest in the right, there's a full on assault by the billionaire class against net z. It breaks thier business model and decentralised energy production and storage removing thier death grip on government and lobbying.
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  13989. I ran the numbers on the demographics that voted out and well over 70% of the voting population under 60 didn't vote leave
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  13990. The economy was screwed by 12 years of Tory economic policy and Brexit Truss is offering massive debt increase coupled with greater inflation at least Sunak isn't ballooning the debt
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  13991. That will be the same Joe that got key legislation through funding infrastructure across the country including red states?
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  13992. ​@Ghosts1129 in 2010 it was 800 billion. it's 2.63 billion now only 700 billion was spent during Cov a lot of it wasted such as 21 billion in fraud 37 billion on test and trace outsourcing plusl ppe bought through vip Lane, drug purchases well over cost etc.
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  13993.  @ChePe-j1v  that's a story put out by right wing media have you learned nothing from the Trump era? Take whatever they say as projection, she's a crook then they've been engaged in crime, she's corrupt then they've been taking back handers
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  13994.  @marymoor935  your getting EV's because there cheaper and pollute less weather you want them or not, people don't get nocked over by bikes the sound argument is as dumb as they come In the next couple of years they will be all over the place
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  13995. Or the once in a century tax cut that blew the lid off the economy when the sh1t hit the fan
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  13996. There's nothing like tanking any chance of a run as president before your out the starting blocks as a Republican than feuding with corporate America What next a Boomer tax to cripple his voter base
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  13997.  @Reviewingthesituation  Basic your vote on a fake media culture war isn't the brightest thing to do
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  13998. The hospitals where overloaded as it was we have over 1.5 million still affected with long Covid according to the ONS and record numbers of NHS staff leaving through relentless stress
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  13999.  @I_Don_t_want_a_handle  There wasn't any staff for the Nightingale units they just shoved loads of sick old people back into care homes to die and spread covid.
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  14000.  @Mike-jv4rz  you'll notice Tesla is in sourced and has few supply chain problems. Ford and others are outsourced for a whole load of things and have supply chain issues. Amazon is similar it controls a lot of its own supply chain, if its not in the store get it off amazon works for me
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  14001. you vote for an MP and a manifesto not the talking lying idiot that lead the Conservative party for the last 2 years
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  14002. why wouldn't you vote for it, the current Cons have stopped ex pats voting we have people here that have contribute way more in taxes to this country than you have but they aren't allowed representation on how those taxes are spent? No Taxation without representation that should be the moto of any democracy
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  14003. @oldshiny3012  yea right on who doesn't want higher taxes and lower standard of living for yourself and lower taxes for the elite millionaire/ billionaire class I mean a vote for Labour who would stop all that trickle down nonsense and invest in social and physical infrastructure increasing the country's wealth and improving public services etc.
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  14004. What's your point I mean we've been running the economy on migrants for hundreds of years
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  14005.  @111111877  what can they change? There migration policy is a smoke screen for tax cuts and pollution + giveaways to the fossil lobby and privatizing the NHS
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  14006. The truth that vaccines saves lives but can have side effects and you balance the benefit against the risk that truth we've know from day 1
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  14007. His agenda was as Crazy as Liz Truss's on the right and would have had the same effect on the markets, the idea that they would bend over and give him just under a Trillion on a buy back spree is for the birds @dalek604 
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  14008. right wing economic policy drives migration by not investing in social infrastructure. If you want less migration invest in more doctors and nurses with free education otherwise stop complaining you get what you vote for
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  14009. CPAC a conservative conference? Its more like a conspiracy theory lead ChristoFascists mental home
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  14010. Starmers a lawyer we were all given the government's pdf on conducting a safe election the food and drink is irrelevant it was classed as a work based event they were phone banking Johnson's parties were conducted in tier 2 lockdown and the 1 he got done for had a load of non work freinds attending
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  14011. Not really he was using campaign funds this is to do with Donald's usual crime of fraud he is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree
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  14012. This is not true ending FOM is the main driver of the current visa system all of whom are permanent not transitory, you were told migration would rise if we stopped it yet labelled it project fear Labour will regulate the labour market unregulated it's another driver of migration
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  14013. no idea why he accepted her hope she's not the labour candidate at the next election
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  14014. You serious on this comment have you been si indoctrinated to buy this BS
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  14015. First off I have sympathy with Corbyn but he needed to keep his head down when the leadership changed Saw an interview with Lee Anderson over on Nova stating the Tories won big in 2019 on 3 things Boris, Brexit and Corbyn non of which will be in play for 2024 and he was going on about ramping up culture wars.
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  14016. Never will be its called trade gravity And our SME'S are getting pounded by it plus there the only thing that will pull the rest of the country bar the City and NI out of stagflation
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  14017. They treated Roger Stone badly? The guys a crook that lied cheated hid evidence threatened witnesses and put a target on a judge and Manaford should be locked up for life for what he's done as is still doing pushing Russian propaganda
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  14018. There is nothing they can do we've been in recession now for 2 years. (falling gdp per capita for 8 straight quarters, headline number is diluted by net migration )
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  14019. You've obviously not gone into Vance's background
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  14020.  @TheEmbrio  it's in the UK and EU interest to have an agri deal it's in Labour's proposals which means harmonisation of standards The reason it will happen as soon as labour come to power is Northern Ireland an Agr deal removes 95% of NI border checks
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  14021. why do you drag that stuff up like a good little media lap dog? does it make you feel big to hate on a community with a sky high suicide record or maybe yu just want to hate on the LBGTQ community in general FKIN GROW UP
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  14022. It would help with illeagal migration and shutting down the black economy
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  14023.  @Strafe0Way  why? BBB provides a mechanism to increase the labour supply with women re-entering the market
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  14024. The underlying economy is booming the only way it will go into recession is if the Fed hikes rates above what's needed
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  14025.  @Strafe0Way  what the fk are you on about?
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  14026.  @Strafe0Way  you could just import migrants instead? The return to work incentives are huge and a big payback to industries like mine (IT) who are struggling for staff
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  14027.  @deesus1085  The US is the powerhouse innovator in the world even giving China and the EU a head start in green technology it still has a lead in new technology and innovation Best not squander it by electing a head in the sand Republican
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  14028. Reform are pedalling the same Libertarian nonsense how quick the goldfish forget
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  14029.  @BobBobOnYouTube  The Lies and Fall of Boris Johnson One of the most untruthful people ever to be put into public office he was lazy incompetent and corrupt
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  14030.  @Hahahadeon  there not eco migrants there refugees 80% of which are given asylum Kemi is married to a hedge fund manager and takes Fossil donations her act is just that an act to divert the masses with populist rhetoric and implant fiscal policy for the 1% and screw everyone else dressing it up as British values.
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  14031. The policies she's trying to get on the books are purely for Theatre they will never do anything over the 13 years the Tories have been in power all they've done is break the asylum system and blame the EU Vote for Brexit it will help control migration they said so gammons voted for Brexit asylum explodes migration in and out at record levels god you people are gullible
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  14032. REFORM = Tarted up Thatcherism same old Economic disaster capitalist policies with more bigotry and cruelty thrown in against Refugees How does that cure the shortage of Nurses caused by lack of investment in UK skills and depression of wages over 13 years? How does that create an East west Rail link for the North? How does that help Transition to renewable energy which will cut bills by 2/3rds? Same old same old invest in nothing tax breaks for the rich and the UK workers can go fk themselves
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  14033. er that's what the Tories do all the time they have foisted their vision of Brexit on the entire population while not having a majority and also including a huge Pensioner voter base that has no skin in the game and who's views are warped by daytime TV the Daily Mail and Senility
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  14034. The were sold to break the power of the unions and because of political dogma We have the high energy prices in Europe
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  14035. You don't have to live somewhere to claim CGT on it, it just has to be designated as your primary residence and after a year you can't be prosecuted for CGT irregularities anyway.
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  14036. Tories have hiked tax take by 33% in real terms since 2010 unless you have a trust fund why are you bothered?
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  14037. We have a fairly large SME manufacturing sector in comparison to the SME pie as a whole, 60% of all people employed in the UK are employed by small businesses, it gets dwarfed in value by the big boys and London but destroy it and unemployment will go through the roof
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  14038. increasing child benefit across the board gives additional money to everyone including the Rees Mogg's of this world if you want to deal with poverty you deal with poverty not use a scattergun approach on the principal some of it lands in the right place
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  14039. Go look up the policy on renewable energy and Reeve's speeches on the everyday economy The problem is the economy is fked we've had 13 years of Austerity and 7 years of brexit and boosterism back in 2016 overseas investment stopped dead its impossible to paper over the cracks
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  14040. Try blaming the government instead it has nothing to do with immigrants, during the Blaire / Brown Years average wages increased by +25% Cameron / Osborne where all in on Zero Hour Gig work and deliberately left a regulatory black hole which companies exploited fetching in millions on contracts that UK workers wouldn't accept. The companies offshored all their profits and the the Cons went about blaming migrants for their own handy work.
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  14041. 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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  14042. ​@PoolieYT read it and the one they did for Wales, you'd need to be stark raving mad to vote for that stuff Privatisation of the NHS Abandonment of the push for energy independence Huge tax cuts for the wealthy Removal of workers and human rights
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  14043. What is the Media obsession with this guy? He lies constantly and was next to useless as a PM his one big thing Brexit is a Shambles deals done for Tabloid headlines not in the interests of the UK Deal with EU -5.5% gdp to date Aus NZ JPN TPTTP +0.0% gdp
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  14044. Started reshoring strategic production with various infrastructure spending and made attempts with anti trust law
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  14045. Dream on the grown up polls still have her up 3
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  14046.  @flutterworksdigitalmarketi2557  is this preparing yourself to call it rigged again?
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  14047.  @flutterworksdigitalmarketi2557  oh you mean before they've counted all the mail in and early votes which make up 50% of the total cast? If you look at legit polls not the ones by gop hacks to smooth man babies ego Harris has at minimum a 3 point lead. Drill down and your seeing 8% of registered Republicans voting Harris and an 11 point lead with indipendents.
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  14048. why not raise it to 50 after all a recent poll showed Tory support only 8% in the under 50's
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  14049. It's illegal under UK and international law so it will never happen
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  14050. Excellent discussion but Bernie has moved the needle, he's not just an outsider though this time his legacy is those who take up the torch, the weird thing is Warren would have given you a real foothold with progressive polocies but it had to be all in or nothing and that's just not going to happen. Bernie is too my way or the highway in terms of flexibility, a complete change on his terms a lot for everyone to take in one shot.
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  14051. There 20% in the polls if they lost the bigot vote as well theyd be down to 13-5 with zero MPs They cant run on the economy which they've trashed and turned into low wage, services are falling apart and 1/2 the councils are going bankrupt including Conservative run ones
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  14052. Just as an aside I thought the defense bill was passed with a veto proof majority
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  14053. ​ @aion5837 I have 2 degrees one in economics why would anyone believe a word Farage or Johnson said Brexit was always going to increase net migration under Tory economic policy and badly damage our economy, Johnson solution is about as bad as you could get bar no deal. We're now in a no growth shrinking gdp per capita debt spiral
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  14054. Its a long term plan out in 5 minutes decades to get back in I'm afraid
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  14055. same old tired Supply Side trickle down Economic dross that necessitates squeezing the middle class for more tax to pay for the Millionaire pensioner tax breaks the bankers tax breaks and the billions in handouts to the fossil industry. Steady as in he paid 20% on the bulk of his income nothing on assets his personal % tax take was lower than a Nurse Get real Trickle down never worked and Austerity was nothing more than deliberately shrinking the state its economic negative affect was > than the gain.
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  14056. There's no such thing and Johnson's Brexit is an economic car crash during this parliament people in the UK have lost more disposable income and dip in average wages than at any time in history.
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  14057.  @dalebenton3354  80% of people on benefits are the working poor so stick the holier than though message where the sun don't shine It's called the poverty trap
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  14058. Thier economic policies will increase legal migration
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  14059.  @Lets.be.reasonable  The Trumpers come out in force when their reality bubble is in danger of being burst. 1st there was no DDOS attack the rest of twitter was working perfectly 2nd violent crime has gone down under Biden 3rd sea levels are rising more in a year than Trump claims it will in 400 they rose by 0.3 o an inch in 2023 alone and It just spirals from there
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  14060. Most unpatriotic comment on here A propaganda machine here that is steering its sheep to Authoritarianism and fascism
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  14061.  @KillerBill1953  May put a deal to parliment the Brextremists torpedoed it they wanted out of the single market as well which is why the economy is now spiralling down the toilet
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  14062. He had the. Worst economic numbers since Hoover and the great depression. 8 trillion on debt nearly 1/2 of US debt Completely fkin useless
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  14063. Sunak decided to burn through labours proposed tax hikes by giving a pre election unfunded NI cut to try hobble a future Labour government into being a useless Tory lite vessel which did nothing for 1/2 it's term but firefight the sh1tsh0w he left. They decided not to tread that path thankfully.
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  14064.  @Trump_2024_USA  +8 trillion reason onto debt not to -150,000 manufacturing jobs -3.6% GDP presidents aren't just for the good times even Bush did better and he was sh1te
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  14065. no she's not Boris signed the protocol that put a border down the Irish Sea and won an 80 seat majority on the back of his so called oven ready deal Now you want us to break an international agreement because Johnson is a liar and cheat there are no backsies in politics
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  14066.  @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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  14067. that's because it's a junk question a couple has 2 x 1 million agri allowance and 2 x 500k IHT allowance = 3 million
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  14068.  @ChantYip  or not at all if you use tax avoidance vehicle's, and why is unearned income not taxed at the same rate as earned? I have no beef with Elon or his companies in fact I intend to buy a Tesla next year but he talks utter crap about taxation the guy was born into wealth and doesn't understand the levels of corporate welfare he's been given over the years to enable him to do what he's done. I also have no beef with start up companies getting a leg up from the state silicon Valley is built on state funded research.
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  14069.  @Mrbfgray  there are no Marxists in her constituency she's slightly left of centre her area of expertise is consumer law and bankruptcy
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  14070.  @Mrbfgray  Marxism / Communism is total control of the means of production as in 100% gdp the US has 36% controlled by the state the UK Conservative government has 45% controlled by the state Norway regarded as Liberal is 52% Warren's proposals on her run for POTUS were costed out at 44% gdp all of that was M4A the US spends 17% of its gdp on private healthcare the UK national health system costs 8% of gdp So by international standards mildly Liberal
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  14071. You've had Bretit Ultra's in charge for 4 years own your own cow pat and stop moaning
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  14072. if you want more productivity you invest in social and physical infrastructure not piss money away on corporate tax cuts
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  14073.  @G4RY1159  She diid it onn the back of Oil revenues and selling off all the utilities. Norway invested thier oil money and control their own utilities this year they used their 1 trillion wealth fund to subsidise the energy price rises to zero
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  14074.  @KoniTheChiwa  according to the Express yesterday we've had an increase in migration since brexit there also taking the well paid jobs at the top end depressing so called middle and upper class salaries using the tax system to dissuade people to get into higher education and force them into low skill low paid jobs which were filled by EU workers. You couldn't script it could you all the English Nationalists who were promised the immigrant free xenophobic brexit wet dream utterly shafted 2 guesses where these people are coming from and it ain't Anglo saxon land
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  14075. Shhhh don't say the magic word realignment They've already set out moves for an Agri deal over the protocol as in realignment over food standards cutting 90% of checks to NI and ........
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  14076. yea coz Transphobia is high on my agenda number one (NOT) what a fkin mug
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  14077. A TV station run by a billionaire to further the billionaire class and make thier Base belive genocide is the new normal, throw your elders on the plague cart and don't forget kids with asthma. All they care about is themselves get on the treadmill who cares how many die we need our serfs working and dutifully they listen to this crap and get angry for thier rich masters
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  14078. The UK won't be rejoining the EU in my lifetime if ever, we will get decent access agreement to the single market at some stage its inevitable Labour have been talking about an Agri agreement getting rid of the insane amounts of paperwork common standards for free flow of goods and services
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  14079.  @gabbertje-rh7rw  why the ones we've signed are meaningless and rollover deals
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  14080.  @gabbertje-rh7rw  non of it meets current uk standards
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  14081. ​ @Travis_22 he has no mandate for rolling back net zero or cancelling hs2/3 my mp has been getting hundreds of letters complaining about that and RAAC and tax going up.
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  14082. The toxic racist fascist is on his soap box again and the plebs and trolls lap it up
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  14083. Has he had some sort of mental breakdown this is what the low regulations crowd want for GB The flexibility to put Shit in the rivers and fk over their employees
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  14084. Ukraine conflict is a shop window for US arms sales the money spent generates +billions in additional gdp which more than compensates for thee tax dollars spent. Can they not teach some some basic economics at school?
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  14085. There aren't enough old white grievance fueld guys around so dream on
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  14086. A one off wealth Tax of 5% and the biggest infrastructure green new deal package you could imagine
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  14087.  @pip1723  They came up with the points based immigration system as well turkeys and xmas spring to mind
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  14088.  @Astro_Shed  meaning that right wing economics is the principal driver of the current economic state and why legal migration is so high.Reform and the Cons both run supply side trickle down a feature of which is Supply side labour demand through lack of inward investment.
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  14089. @bigkuriboh3814  in what way does 2 million per refugee work? I'm interested do tell why all this money spent is somehow of value?
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  14090. 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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  14091. You can only lower migration if you change the economic model from the Tory low tax low regulation model to one that invests in the Physical and Social infrastructure of the country If you cut migration and your still running supply side trickle down aka Thatcherism your economy starts to contrac,t tax receipts get lower and you have to squeeze the lower middle and professional class more (those people that actually work) to prop it up
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  14092. Yea go for the racist clowns with zero economic skill as if the bar isn't nearly rock bottom enough
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  14093.  @ashno7716  just commenting on your pimping a party thats main attraction is racism and Economic incompetence if the cons aren't stupid and racist enough for you
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  14094.  @ashno7716  so your trying to tell me our Nige isn't a raging xenophob? Pull the other one and go back to shouting at life boats. https://youtu.be/7CeDdtmG3Bk
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  14095.  @lilybit7716  Trump was batshit crazy and a wannabe dictator his sole legaslative achievement was a huge tax cut for the Ultra wealthy and 4 trillion added to us debt
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  14096.  @ashno7716  this is Trolling https://youtu.be/n4vna0lfUs8
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  14097. The answer to the economic mess caused by Thatcherism is more extreme Thatcherism? Not sure I'm following the logic here
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  14098. How the world laughed when you all put a patch of Gauze on your ears, you lot are priceless
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  14099.  @thechancellor3715  Smoking kills there should be a new health warning on Russian cigarettes I'm sure some inventive Ukrainians will come up with the artwork for free ;)
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  14100. Switched to Octopus
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  14101. So a Murdoch outlet is pimping for a party that pursues economic policy that will benefit billionaires in the same way that the current government does Marvellous
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  14102. The US isn't a hard right corporate centred electorate jamming in a court that rolls back healthcare, LGBTQ rights, voting rights, environment protections and labour laws Hey you can have Roe V Wade in return we'll screw you so hard you'll not stop bleeding for the rest of your life
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  14103. 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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  14104. people asking the government for a sensible green transition in a robust manner isn't extremism either
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  14105. You looked at there policies Lettuce Liz economics with Fantasy immigration policy There delusional if you think they are the answer I've shares in a Unicorn Farm to sell you  @The.brigadier 
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  14106. ​@@user-mr9jw2he8mit's not the Tories p1ss money away
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  14107. ​ @alistairsmith5389 so we've had the biggest fall in living standards in history and the largest tax rises as well. There is no zero zip data that shows it could be worse so what are you basing your comment on?
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  14108. quote from Space Karen Elon Musk has offered a sobering preview of Donald Trump’s economic plan for America if he is re-elected, revealing that a period of intentional “hardship” is on the horizon for American households. Rather than cautioning against it, Musk described this hardship as necessary and inevitable, supporting Trump’s blueprint for restructuring the economy by slashing government programs. Musk’s remarks, shared in a Telephone Town Hall organized by his America PAC, indicate that he and Trump see economic pain to average Americans as a necessary cost of their policy goals.
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  14109.  @mattg5878  Labour couldn't get elected before they shifted to what was called the post Thatcher/Reagan NeoLiberal consensus. It was used to control the huge inflation and unemployment of the 70's
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  14110. This didnt age well The world's largest deposit of lithium found inside an ancient US supervolcano. That's according to a study conducted by Lithium Americas, the McDermitt Caldera contains 20 to 40 million metric tons of lithium
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  14111. If you don't convit the criminals then what's the point in all the macho talk of where the party who's strict on crime just take a look at the stats the Tories are shyte on crime even during the Thatcher era. Crimes per 100k steadily fell under labour and continued while Starmer was head of the CPS till he left in 2013 but the rub is if you defund the Justice system as the Tories keep doing then crime will rise this is a quote from the then Tory government back in 2013 about Starmer. He has introduced core quality standards within the CPS and a quality assurance framework
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  14112. 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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  14113.  @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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  14114. its already going to happen we need a proper economic policy not based on trickle down nonsense
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  14115. 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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  14116. @AndrooUK  renewables aren't subsidised in fact there one of the few sectors paying Sunak's windfall tax the spot price of our rigged market is tied to gas and peak demand all renewable energy is forward contract priced because its the cheapest. Dogger bank has a forward price of 42p per kilowatt hour Hinkley C 92p spot price is around 150p its been over 500p at its worst the price is coming down as we approach summer and gas demand is falling. Only 17% of capacity is wind the recognised view is it should be 40%+ we also have numerous suitable locations for tidal
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  14117. They are the Whitehall blob, it's thier arrogance that pushes the blame onto others. Ex we had a testing system through the NHS that was working they shut it down only for weeks later to give management consultants multi billion pounds contracts for test and trace. The system they set up was valueless 40 billion because we're ruled by idiots like Cummings and Johnson
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  14118. Battery prices have been falling rapidly just got some with a new solar install. 3 years ago capital repayment was 15 years now it will be under 6.
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  14119. Take a grown man with the mental age of a 9 year old with ADHD put him in the WH then tell him NO for the first time in four years and watch the resulting car crash. The GOP don't get a handle on this and stop pretending he won't go nuclear, your not dealing with a sane rational person, he will cling to power no matter who he takes down with him to do it.
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  14120. He was a functioning alcoholic, not remembering charts from morning to afternoon sounds like he was on booze starting lunchtime Every picture we saw of him he had a drink in his hand often during the day + his erratic behaviour sounds like he was permanently half p1ssed
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  14121. Quote A recent study on U.S.-China trade concludes that Trump's trade policies cost the U.S. economy nearly a quarter million jobs. EndQuote
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  14122.  @johnmulligan912  since when did the Tories promise to nationalise rail? or Create GBEnergy to turbo charge the switch to renewables They couldn't even remove the ban on onshore wind or amend planning Johnson packed his cabinet with some of the most incompetent people this country has ever seen. Sunak a hard right Thatcherite Coffey a disaster for the environment Dorries Culture secretary
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  14123. 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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  14124.  @childofthe60s100  Its called vapourware in IT circles
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  14125. looks a good hire to me? better than shopping at Tufton street or nicking Liz Truss's economic policies
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  14126. Publicly owned generating company is Left wing and we'll see what they do on tax policy There going to windfall tax the +170 Billion in EXCESS energy profits (that figure is over 2 years) Social policies are a waste of time in a cost of living crisis and being out of power for 13 years when most stuff is just broken and needs a long term fix
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  14127. 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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  14128. go read this for a start Ivan Ilyin, Putin’s Philosopher of Russian Fascism Timothy Snyder Ivan Ilyin provided a metaphysical and moral justification for political totalitarianism, which he expressed in practical outlines for a fascist state. Today, his ideas have been revived and celebrated by Vladimir Putin. and this Red Famine : Stalin's War on Ukraine Applebaum, Anne In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the 20th century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events.
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  14129. have you read any of the proposals? Thought not
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  14130. You have a spare 8 trillion for him to blow on debt again?
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  14131. If there isn't a vote Trumps term ends on Jan 20th it doesn't leave anything to interpretation, I can't see how anyone would even pay attention to judges at that point there's a hard date wired in and a protocol for who governs in his place
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  14132. I don't know anyone crazy enough to vote Reform but they have decent polling numbers. Guess some people believe the utter economic tripe both Cons and Reform pedal
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  14133. Could be the cap Sunak put on overseas students has something to do with it, they were a very big cash cow for universities
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  14134. The US is a federal system of 50 states each has it's own economy The most deprived states in the US are run by Republicans so no there in for a bit of a crash
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  14135. How Democrats are allowed to vote is beyond Trump, his lies get more and more crazy his brain appears to be melting he can't comprehend that there's a level of cheating even Kemp won't go beyond. The levels of voter suppresion in Georgia are off the scale, Abrahams is working her ass off to get people registered and educate them in how to vote and fill in the ballots correctly (upwards of 25% mail in ballots in some counties were rejected on technicalities, people had to fill in provisional ballots because of voter roll purges etc.)
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  14136.  @michaelmaye9360  Yea course they don't - Gutted the voters rights act Citizens United And you have to read the latest piece of partisan crap coming from Thomas on religious rights. There not even remotely impartial how did they get 4 votes for canning DACA its non of their F%$£" business its up to congress and the senate to pass the law
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  14137.  @michaelmaye9360  Then why didn't Trump use an executive order to reverse it? Its got fk all to do with the courts
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  14138. Whys that then? You can't reduce migration while running a supply side trickle down economy aka Thatcherism Labour are the only ones promising to invest in the UK and move away from Thatcherism
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  14139. His wife recieved 30 million in unsecured loans you figure it out
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  14140. GBN got ruled against for acting like the propaganda arm of the Tory party While there is a certain amount of leeway it gets into the realm of party funding which has limits and this sidesteps campaign contributions
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  14141. @BaackAgain And what about impartiality and party funding? The billionaire that owns GBN runs it as a loss to influence politics and bypass the ballot box.
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  14142.  @jamietherooster  established is politicians elites like Farage NOT experts
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  14143.  @planeswinggolf  I want someone who understands the people he's leading Lying to them about labour's tax plans to deceive them then coming back from D-Day early to lie about the lie after he'd been cought out just about sums him up the whole lot of them were infected by Johnson and his toxic attitude with the truth. Not only that the 20 billion in NI cuts was paid for with additional debt and we haven't turned a corner our economy is flat-lining again after pumping 2 million workers into it to chase the headline GDP number.
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  14144. s c u m definition - a very bad or immoral person or group of people child poverty has reached a record high, with 4.3 million kids Overall, relative pensioner poverty has risen to nearly 18%, the highest this century. Food banks are experiencing an “unprecedented rise” in demand, with almost three million food parcels provided to those in need in the past year
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  14145. Apparently the GOP are in the process in some states of banning compulsory vaccines the fall out from this is it will apply to ALL vaccines.
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  14146.  @shughy1  By the way who benefits from the current points based system? Its being used by large companies to import skilled workers which undercuts training and development of the home population. Surely the purpose should be to invest in your own population so they can take the well paid high skilled jobs instead were making it economically unviable to get higher education. Before I retired I used to work in IT still have friends working in the business do you want to know where the governments new migration push is coming from to filled skilled posts its the Indian Sub Continent the reason being they can push down salaries way more than you could have with any EU worker. Here's a radical idea how about making work visas only available for low paid unskilled jobs, scrap tuition fees write off student debt if they work in this country for 10 years and really turbo charge our economy by investing in education and training.
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  14147.  @shughy1  Crime happens I grew up in the era of the Crays and grooming is as old as the hills just go ask the catholic church. If you want to lower knife crime you don't cut youth services since 2010 they have been slashed to the bone. Every pound you invest up front pays ten fold at the other end. There's also a cause and effect link between poverty, inner city slums and crime that even the Victorians recognised as more and more of the UK population sinks into poverty then the instances of violent crime and alcoholism will rise. The 10 years is for current debt I'd make all education free revamp the apprentice system which isn't fit for purpose, promote training and offer retraining in the event of redundancy. I'd also employ people to work at getting Autistic and disabled people into the labour market only 5% of people with Autism have a job not because they can't do anything but because they don't have the correct in work support. The fastest growing industry in this country is food banks and customs officers bout says it all
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  14148.  @CBfrmcardiff  The whole loan book has been sold off to private investors the government get fk all back on it its a complete Ideological scam If you look at an investment in education over the entire life of a student it pays back 10 fold with increased economic activity they use 10 years as an economic yardstick some pay back quicker some slower.
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  14149.  @shughy1  There's a knife crime problem among the poor people in London, the cure is to lift people out of poverty create decent housing and educate them. If you leave people to rot what do you expect? The white paper didn't sensationalise one specific ethnic group ala Daily Mail with headlines such as Asian Grooming Gangs The UK has a population of 66 million
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  14150.  @John1873--  the note was a joke if you look at borrowing oit was going up before the pandemic Thatcher / Major did plus 18% Cameron / May / Johnson round minus 4/5% Worst than tat though is Sunak is going to squander any gains on tax cuts pre election the country needs investment in infrastructure
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  14151.  @shughy1  What about the white male called Andrew implicated in a transatlantic high society grooming gang? Gislane Maxwell was convicted and is implicated in grooming over 100 girls
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  14152. Lots of people weighing in god bless all of you to think outside the box fight your own corner but listen to opposite views
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  14153.  @shughy1  I still think Farage Is a snake oil salesman pedalling simplistic unworkable solutions to highly complex socio-economic problems as a result he's dragged polotics away from being able to address real people's problems like the appaling state of the UK economy and the endless rounds of London centric policies.
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  14154.  Red Lobster Skull  History is littered with con men that stir up us V them politics based on migration race ethnicity and religion. That way your never voting or looking at issues which really affect your life. Just look at Northern Ireland where vast swathes of the electorate vote on who is the most Catholic or Protestant party rather than who will work on their behalf to make there lives better improve the schools make sure there's full employment the most. The DUP are basically arguing that the Protocol upsets their feelings
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  14155.  @shughy1  Open minded about Farage? He lost me with his Breaking Point poster looking at other UKIP campaign material it was always about driving fear. My Father is Polish came here during the war as part of the Polish Free Army and fought across Europe before settling in the UK . My brother is married to a Colombian girl and currently lives and works in Norway and has dual citizenship. I'm retired now but worked my whole life in IT which has been a multicultural and diverse industry pretty much from the start of my career in the early 80's and by the time I finished was involved with diverse teams across multiple countries. There is no putting the genie back into the bottle rewinding time to British Empire 2.0
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  14156.  @shughy1  I live 20 miles away from a large city the knife crime reported is done by young British men, the reports from London say the same pattern. The areas are small clusters in a city of a population of 3/4 million. The overriding factor that binds them together are inner city, poor and young men. I've worked in London and the City near me and I've never been anywhere near the affected areas why would I. Quote "Rising knife crime linked to budget cuts that have decimated youth services in parts of England, according to a parliamentary report." EndQuote If you want to address grooming and sexual abuse you put the resources into it to deal with the problem over the last decade there have been over 20,000 job cuts in Police staff, there have also been large cuts to social services plus privatisation to largely unregulated entities. I have an Autistic son if it wasn't for the fact that I had the time and resource to go sell him as employable push him to work on volunteer jobs and support him he would be like 95% of other Autistic people on the scrap heap, he is now a gardener at a local country hotel trying to get support from government entities was akin to drawing blood from a stone. These problems are all down to a government that knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing
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  14157.  @2wheelsrbest327  The current Con party support Free Market Fundamentalism or its other name disaster capitalism. The idea of turning London into Singapore on Thames which will leave the rest of the country to rot as they pursue a low regulation low taxation strategy. All other parties on the right are pretty much of the same mind and influenced by the same big business owned Think Tanks For the vast majority of people supply side economics is a complete disaster with the rich getting richer and the poor left to scrabble for crumbs with the middle class really getting squeezed as more and more production gets off-shored. From what the right are saying now that they can't blame the economic stagnation and falling wages on the EU and migrant labour their next scapegoat will be net zero This coming from the party that sold off its utilities for a pittance some of which are now owned by the French government through EDF and other utility entities.
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  14158.  @2wheelsrbest327  If you look at migration the policy is now to have a points system (Farage is all in on that) which tailors migration to high wage high educated positions while at the same time squeezing the life out of your own population with disincentives to gain higher education and also deregulate so that there is no mandatory training or standards. So on one side of your mouth your saying were controlling immigration while on the other side of your mouth your claiming only the brightest will get in. In reality your shipping in migrants and their families for say nursing jobs with fast track visas from the Indian sub continent and the Philippines. So look at what they do use critical thinking to dissect the full impact of the silver tonged salesman and his cart of snake oil
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  14159.  @DarkAngel2512  Drop the word immigrant and move on to what that person is in economic terms a worker, the local economy benefits from his/her skills and their money which increases economic activity in the local area. If there aren't the facilities for the workers of those businesses then that's a government thing pull the migrant workers out replace them with people say from Scotland there still migrant workers into the local economy you just have to hate on them in a different way. My Father came here during the war and I was born here as was my brother have a couple of instances of abuse when I've been speaking Polish in public in the last couple of years nothing before Farage started spreading his bile, nothing for 50+ years then apparently having a Polish ancestor and being multi-lingual is a problem? Its just grievance politics to get you to hate on the other and take the spotlight away from the real issues
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  14160.  @michawill6599  when people tell you who they are then listen don't paper over the cracks make excuses say oh that's not that bad Farage's breaking point poster was a collection of fear mongering lies deliberately designed as a propaganda piece to sow the seeds of hatred, the tactics used where as old as the hills and just as destructive, fear the other the brown skined the Muslim it echoed nazi propaganda posters 'Who flooded cities after the last war'. My father fought through those times I'm old enough to remember the stories of the horrors that were perpetrated you want to excuse a fascist in a suit and tie who would use anyone and anything for political power go ahead
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  14161.  @LordRykard9376  I play guitar have done since I was 14 geopolitics is well heavy I did economics then a masters in computer science. Read Blowout by Racheal Maddow an in depth look at the geopolitical influence of the Oil and Gas industry its pretty readable, the next right wing fight is over net zero
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  14162.  @LordRykard9376  whatever you think of her polotics it's a decent read of Oil and gas influences
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  14163.  @dasco6445  the Tories closed them all you know get with the program mental health Council in through Facebook metaverse or thrown on the street to rot.
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  14164.  @mindyourownbastardbu  in terms of this misguided belief that people come here to sponge off the system that's not what the data says, in fact it's quite the opposite they have less unemployment as a % than the native population are willing to do jobs natives don't want and have much higher levels of entrepreneurship. I'm not against immigration control but the UK needs a certain level of imigration to maintain its population at its current level and therefore a stable economy and that's what the current and previous Con governments won't talk about. There not prepared to have a proper conversation on the topic its beat a populist drum at one end hand out visas at the other. By the way people do migrate from the UK to other countries there all in what's called the professional class 20-35 and its about 50,000
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  14165. what the economy needs migrant labour? If you remove FOM and get a Nurse from Nigeria she's going to want to fetch over her husband and kids. Why are we importing people from Nigeria answer Brexit. Why don't we have enough nurses 30% drop in pay in real terms and Osborne Austerity cuts in 2010 to Nursing Bursaries. Do you want a NHS or not? AND The answer to the nursing shortage and needing immigration is to reverse Osborne's cuts invest in the UK and in 10 years you can reduce needing migrant nurses. Actions have consequences and there are no easy answers. @Spottius 
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  14166.  @Spottius  to what? I aren't going to reread the thread but Farage offers nothing, he's peddaling the same economic model as the Tories such as low tax low reg trickle down that needs migrant labour to feed it then promising to cut migration. Either he's stupid or lying or both if he was in power he'd hit the same brick wall the Tories have with Brexit if you want low tax for the wealthy you pay for it with migration
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  14167.  @drwhatson  my parents were working class and I went to University also late 70's Dad was a builder all his life mum worked in a factory. There's usefulness in all study
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  14168.  @richardshipe4576  There are things working through the economy which will change it over the next few decades. Firstly looking at inflation did you know that the cost of worldwide container shipping had increased by 330% and everyone knows Oil has jumped by 25% On the other side of the coin US manufacturing is up for the 18th month in a row this phenomena seems to be related to companies wanting to source their goods from closer to home as the pandemic has put several nails into the worldwide on demand supply chain. Employment is at virtual full employment and economic activity in the small business sector is up. I'd also add the US is on the start of an S curve on EV adoption with the likes of Tesla proving that in sourcing and control of your supply chain is a very profitable model. Way to go President Brandon your economy despite all the doomsayers is actually booming
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  14169. It's about the tax cuts which added 3.5 trillion to debt Trump has pt9mised to reauthorise them
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  14170. Reform pedal extreme Thatcherism which is the main driver of legal migration Why do you think there was 1.25 million last yeat
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  14171. It benefits the home owning South east middle class its to try shore up the inevitable loss but if there renting or have mortgages there screwed anyway
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  14172. There's over 4000+ all passed by parliment you muppet there embeded into uk law covering everything from employment law to food standards to how much shyte you can pump in the sea
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  14173. Thers a guidance document for the May 2021 elections for running both a safe campaign and guidance for polling stations I was canvassing at the time and had to read this stuff, the beer or whatever is irrelevant you were allowed to do what Starmer did, Bojo party central was at the height of lock down 2 the never ending u turns on covid policy Sept-Dec 2020 and pre vaccine The May 2020 elections were cancelled No matter how much the media bleats about Starmer there will be no police action as I presume they can read the government guidelines even if the Dail Fail cannot
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  14174. Fox are all in for voter fraud on mail in/absentee
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  14175. School vouchers is a project 2025 goal, no idea why anyone would support it
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  14176. The numbers and a wipeout have nothing to do with the overall numbers but the % who will vote tactically This iteration of the Conservatives have been hard right economically since Osborne took charge of the Treasury, Austerity the economy killer
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  14177. How stupid is Lee Anderson This is and always will be a gimmick, 1/2 a billion on a propaganda stunt and this numpty is taking it seriously Its no wonder the Tories will loose by a landslide
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  14178.  @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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  14179.  @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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  14180. yea right Starmer is his own man even Blair didn't control message like Starmer does the left are spitting feathers over it
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  14181. when I was younger my politics were fairly centerist as I've got older they've moved left. The Conservatives don't have a clue on economics even their flagship darling Thatchers asset stripping is being shown to be a complete failure. I wasn't a Blair fan but at least Brown ran an economy where average wages rose by +25% and services where fully funded @itsbrilliant-bt8sv 
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  14182. 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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  14183. 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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  14184. That number is garbage the new Dogger bank offshore will provide 5% of UK domestic need and Hinkley C if it ever gets up and running 5% as well That +5% will take us up to around 25% for wind energy so you need around 7 more Dogger Banks before your into base load
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  14185. Better than DJT word vomit, seriously that guy is getting more senile by the day
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  14186. Starmer is targeting the smugglers not the smuggled cooperating with the people who run the border on the other side reclassifying people smugglers in the same light as organised crime and seizing their assets plus getting rid of the backlog that's costing us 8 billion The Tories offer is to shout a lot about the smuggled as if that will brig down the numbers hint it won't why all the noise sounds what he's doing is a really good step forward
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  14187. 2 things what effect are the drone strikes having the Ukrainians claim 60 missions with their Punisher drone that doesn't seem a lot given the scale of the conflict Also with casualties someone mentioned 3 - 1 injured to dead ratio is that correct? If so the estimated loss by the US was 6k meaning 18k injured I know the Russians have a lot to throw at this but that is a lot also the targeting of Russian commanders appears deliberate.
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  14188. You can buy them from Germany instead
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  14189. my money is on an affair probably with a staffer and just to make it juicer during lockdown Or A suspension from the privileges committee Or More dirt coming out about Johnson's Oligarch connection and tory money or The Covid inquiry dirt hits the fan in public Or All of the aove
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  14190. Economy is on its knees we've been the worst on average in the g7 since 2010
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  14191. no they won't why make stuff up
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  14192. Average home uses 8 kwh per day I have 10.4 plus a solar diverter to heat water, the point of the batteries are to open up off peak tariffs and time shift usage.
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  14193. @drgyt2469  id suggest you spend some money upgrading your insulation. Also In the UK you only need enough storage to cover between 4-7pm As it is my appliances are set to run overnight in the winter using the off peak rate, I also charge up the battery given its winter. People with heat pumps in the UK pre heat and avoid peak time consumption most systems are wet and use a tank The point isn't to be off grid it's to flatten and fatten the demand curve enabling you to get the cheapest rate
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  14194. @drgyt2469  I've just finished renovation on a 1935 house + extension doubling the ground floor area, it has primary and secondary insulation everywhere I could fit it. The heating came on in October sporadically and will start going off again end of March. The house gets most of its heat from the double glazing which only allows heat in at lower angles as in 1st thing on a morning or during winter sun Secondary insulation isn't expensive it's just a fag to do to an older property, I've primarily used a product called multifoil
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  14195. Republicans fawn over thier orange jesus what's new? Biden voting counties comprised of 70% of US gdp, the main Trump voter base is 50+ male uneducated you work it out
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  14196. Trumps base is 50+ uneducated male that's why
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  14197. His nickname of the Santa Monaca Geobbels is well deserved
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  14198. Oh the outrage Yet nige gets bunged a million a year and tumbleweed Jennrick 75 k from a BVI account crickets
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  14199. There committed to some form of renewable policy and taxing the polluters
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  14200.  @jimmyjones9780  David Cameron, if you want to understand why the policy has got the uk into a debt / cut services self fulfilling doom loop search for 'economics of austerity osbornes failure' With Sunak's appointment we have gone into Austerity mk2 because ideology really
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  14201.  @simmo1024  Brexit is done my Mrs. fills in thousands of pages of documentation weekly to prove Why do you even care about NI it has a population the size of Leeds?
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  14202.  @MrTangolizard  not since Johnson stuck a border down the Irish Sea so you could have your precious Brexit Why would you renage on an international agreement when there is no benifit to the UK . There is simply no way of implementing Englands Brexit in Northern ireland, if you did you'd have to put up a border aside from the fact that the Troubles would start again a vote for reunification of Ireland would be called for it would crater the NI economy costing GB billions and plunge us into a full trade war with the EU and that would make Liz Truss's run on Gilts look like a practice run for full economic meltdown
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  14203. I'd stop the boats by opening safe routes for applications and save 8 billion a year by processing the current backlog Your entitled to your brain dead unworkable pollution inducing ideas I hope you get jailed if you try it only the Tory water companies have a licence to pour sh!t all over our beaches
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  14204. Is Starmer setting Sunak over the budget with the country wanting investment and a narrow band of Tories wanting to blow everything on a pre election Bribe? Were not out of the woods with the gilt market and borrowed 130 billion last year also according to economists the 18% cut in services needed by 2028 to make his fiscal rules work are for the birds as in taxes will have to go up post election Everyone in the City knows the current mob have no plan for growth if Hunt thinks he can get away with unfunded tax cuts like Lettuce Liz style
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  14205. ​ @grahamlonghurst1227 your going to believe the tw@ts that sold you brexit saying it would reduce migration pffff Jog on
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  14206. They had no hope already Cruella bled them another 2 points in the polls last week as well as bumping Labour +3 This is about shoring up the Blue wall for the inevitable defeat
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  14207. 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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  14208. Vote right wing you get globalisation + Increased legal migration due to a lack of investment in the domestic population
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  14209. That's because he is spreading disinformation and lying his a55 off again, his grasp of fact and reality are now near zero. DJT claims climate crisis is a hoax and sea levels will only rise 1/8th of an inch (0.125) inches in 250 years, God help everyone if this fkwit becomes Pres again. The rate of global sea level rise is accelerating: it has more than doubled from 0.06 inches (1.4 millimetres) per year throughout most of the twentieth century to 0.14 inches.
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  14210. no it won't it just screws over people who buy second hand
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  14211. @MinkieWinkle  it's about manufacturing you buy what the manufacturer wants there is very little choice cars of any stripe need a run of millions for economies of scale The thing about a renewable grid / economy is its way cheaper than what we have just the current players are happy with the status quo Wind Solar up front cost virtually free running costs v gas low up front cost & constant energy running costs
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  14212.  @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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  14213.  @HadEnough79  to what the party that sold you removing FOM which has exploded migration and governments can now shop for even cheaper labour from the 3rd world? Get Real
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  14214.  @CrissContino  since when ? No one but the Republican hard core talks about this rubbish your completly off range I come across this stuff occasionally its whako not grounded in reality
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  14215. @CrissContino  let's do a little mythbusting According to Right wing media Texas has the lowest Taxes and big bad Calafornia has insanely high Taxes Wrong They both have a median tax take of around 8% But wait there's more The Tax burden in Texas for the bottom 20% earners is 13% the top 5% pay 3% I'm no lover of the Dems but the Republicans are a nasty piece of work solely focused on stealing from the working and middle class and giving it to the wealthy and corporations.
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  14216. If they could be arsed to process them its 62,000 a year were currently holding 40,000 that should have already been deported It really isn't that big a deal in a population of 70 million what's more annoying is spending millions on preformative politics aka Rwanda and billions not doing their job
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  14217. Do Republicans not realise they elected a complete Moron
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  14218. Another 40 by-elections to go before we get a new government
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  14219. There's no evidence for it COURSE THERS NO EVIDENCE JUST TELL THE GOATS THERE A LYING PIECE OF GARBAGE Trumps an idiot
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  14220. ​ @UNIVERSAL-UR Biden played Polosi by immediately backing Harris, Polosi and the big donors wanted an open convention and one of the white male governors. Obama has stayed at arms length he doesn't want to be seen as king maker
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  14221. Labour don't have a free for all policy there going to introduce new worker laws which will reduce legal migration
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  14222. She held her omw and had some star moments I really feel sorry for you people who are so insecure around a strong intelligent forthright woman. Any male comfortable in his own skin would have admired how she took attempts at charactarisation and disinformation. People thinking DJT somehow represents manhood the guy is an old creepy slob, his performance at the economic forum was completely disqualifying, rude ignorant and clueless on economics. If you don't agree with her politics say so but trying to demean women - Grow up
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  14223. we have an energy crisis which needs investment in and there promising to lower taxes for the wealthy how does that work? If you pump 28 billion into renewable energy it has an economic multiplier of a minimum 1.6 which means for every £1 you put in it creates enough GDP to return £1.6 in additional taxation. As a pensioner this will help me enormously because it will lower energy costs and I'm home most of the day far more than any tax cut. Getting energy costs down to 2020 levels would be the equivalent to me of my tax going from 20% to 10%
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  14224.  @slypork5030  even with a war taxes were lower under Labour Immigration increases because we have jobs if you want less immigration have more kids our birth rate is chronically low. The Tories will just ship it in from India
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  14225. 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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  14226. DT's viable path is what he's been telling people at his rallies it's through the courts, he's going to attempt to gum up the whole thing with an unprecedented torrent of litigation. Its the same policy he uses in business to weasel out of paying his debts and the same tactic he's used throughout the Presidency to avoid responsibility
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  14227. Inflation at 4.6% still means prices are rising just not by as much and its short lived winter is coming In 2021 uk consumers spent 30 billion on energy In 2023 that total will be 170 billion Sunaks answer more oil and gas licences that may effect world commodity prices in 10 years time
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  14228. Nuclear is eye wateringly expensive in the UK it is going to cost 70 billion including subsidies over 35 years for Hinkley C to provide around 6% domestic demand at a guaranteed price of x4 the price of Onshore wind. A similar sized offshore wind farm is coming onstream this year costing 9 billion and the electricity price is x3.5 cheaper than Hinckley's will be with the spare 60 billion you could buy that 6% of homes a Tesla which would run their home for 3 days on a full charge or a complete solar install + battery backup @colinmacdonald5732 
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  14229. We have supply side inflation on inelastic commodities traded on the world market leading to large scale profiteering If you want to break this pattern produce your own energy through renewables which are distributed and break the global corporate business model and grow your own food subsidising farming to remove as much fertiliser from the system as possible and stop the cycle of stripping the land then replacing nutrients with chemicals which again are provided by global corporations
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  14230.  @selvamani1973-p7b  Sunak raised taxes 70 times canceled hs2/3 abandoned net zero, was banning smoking now its dropped, was going to be the candidate of change now he's a man who says he has a plan. Starmer has stated 5 missions - they haven't changed details have The mission strategy is based on work by world leading economist Mariana Mazzucato
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  14231.  @andyquelch5754  Crime went down during the Blair/Brown years you know why? Because the justice system was properly funded, as soon as Osborne got in he cut police, backroom staff, court staff numbers and closed some local courts leading to ever increasing backlogs and rising crime rates. If you want something to function properly you fund it and don't outsource it to your mates and then massage the figures by removing fraud from the numbers
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  14232. There efficient our government is completely incompetent and utterly useless
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  14233. She had 15% support according to YouGov Of the 85% most thought she was an Incompetent Right wing Headbanger
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  14234. Switch to energy independence, if your not reliant on world traded commodities for energy then wars decrease because your not fighting over resources
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  14235. ​ @davidoldboy5425 while Billionaire wealth goes through the roof on 5he back of tax breaks and a system which rewards wealth not work
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  14236. Title is a bit off worst inflation in my lifetime was under Bush, now that was real quality inflation not this stuff
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  14237. Why is it the BOE's fault that we have runaway inflation caused by Conservative energy policies which did a dash for gas and Brexit which put economic sanctions on every Importer/Exporter from the EU which is vastly increasing the cost of food. Not only that UK farmers are producing less because they can't get seasonal workers We also have excruciating personal taxation at the bottom and one of the lowest rates for corporation Tax and Upper wealth band tax in the G7 If you don't want to cure inflation with interest rates then put the Upper band and corporation tax up till it hurts the fkrs badly enough if brings down inflation
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  14238.  @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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  14239. What drivel on renewable green energy by the end of the year there's multiple grid battery projects. He's such a lying asshole
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  14240. He's just the least worst option
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  14241. He's following the US lead If he is elected he will have to deal with Israel who are a strategic western ally Hamas are a terrorist group and after what they did a ceasefire would be unacceptable to the Israel people Geopolitics is messy
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  14242. Could the Murdoch mouthpiece be any more misleading if it tried Boris lied about the deal back in the election, he's lying now and giving away our data rights through the back door with the Japan deal and he'll sell everyone down the river to the Americans given half a chance.
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  14243. US spends 12,500 dollars per capita on healthcare (Wholly private) UK spends 3,200 dollars per capita on healthcare So for 4 times the cost you get one of the most expensive regressive systems on earth We have one off the cheapest systems around
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  14244.  @toniwilson6210  no you don't 4 times the price is just an industry of waste The costs also ballon because its not run as a public service there's not much incentive to run major preventative campaigns which reduce primary care
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  14245.  @DeanSinger-ky7md  My brother lives in Norway they don't. Legal migration is a feature of economic policy and Labour regulation. Thy have a highly regulated labour market
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  14246.  @DeanSinger-ky7md  If you want to deal with illegal migration you need a pan European force who are able to operate legally in multiple countries with the appropriate penalties against the people trafficking which is now a Business. Everyone playing at being a NIMBY makes it worse as we've seen leaving the EU has tripled illegal migration.
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  14247.  @holytrinity955  So you take 1 quarter and 1 data point out of context and claim the sun has risen on our flailing economy? And you lot are always moaning about migration which is funnily enough what distorts the figures so much. quote from Reuters Taking account of changing population numbers - which have risen sharply in Britain due to high immigration - growth since 2010 has been weaker than in Germany and lags far behind the United States. Living standards are on course to suffer their first fall over the course of a parliament since the 1950s.
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  14248. @DeanSinger-ky7md  we have the same economic pull factors such as depressed public sector wages but but now bring in migrant workers from 2,000 miles away and fetch their dependents on semi permanent visas instead of from 20 miles away. Of the 2 million in the last 2 years 50% have been dependents and they ALL will now be permanent So high net migration is another brexit benifit
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  14249. What's the point the Bloomberg interview with a right leaning economist was an absolute car crash Anyone with a 401k should listen to it and pray he never gets in the WH A trade war affects both sides and the US export market is worth 3 trillion with millions of jobs + tariffs go straight to price increases to consumers
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  14250.  @TheSuperPsychoKiller  but the messaging from the Tories is a complete lie renewable energy is cheaper than fossil maintains onshore jobs. The Tories are also pumping 10's if not 100's of billions in tax subsidies into the fossil industry 10's of billions in subsidies to Nuclear and blocking tidal and onshore wind projects
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  14251. They can't because there Libertarian Extremely small state globalisation at any cost to your internal markets Deregulation at any cost to your workforce the environment food safety banking safety etc. The thing they hate most is any regulation they've consistently blocked dealing with the sewage crisis in our rivers and sea any form of regulation to stop fire rehire deal with zero hour contracts regulate the gig economy There also all in on immigration if you run an unfettered supply side economy you need an unlimited supply side source of Labour, Truss was all in to open the floodgates to India.
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  14252. They've been out of power for 14 ears and this bunch of selfish jerks can't behave for 5 seconds, 1st chance they get with the gesture politics and posturing. and you wonder why Corbyn got hammered
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  14253. Reform have no Credible economic or migration policies
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  14254. Instead of a policy which is a show pony of preformative cruelty costing around 5 billion there going to try tackle the causes of the problem and we brought the huge increase in legal and illegal migration on ourselves by leaving the EU
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  14255.  @paulinetaylor5536  People trafficking has become an international business if you want to tackle it you need to properly fund a pan European agency with power across jurisdictions. Given the issues across Europe not just in the UK the point is coming where if this doesn't happen then incumbents will loose votes. Not that the Right wing nativist parties have any workable solutions they want to turn us into North Korea
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  14256.  @barrypooley3192  quote from 2016 before ref Historic examples include Britain’s decision to end the unrestricted entry of Commonwealth subjects in the 1960s, Germany’s experience with admitting temporary “guest workers” from the 1960s, and the US ending its labour program for Mexican workers in 1965. Drawing lessons from those experiences, the SMF predicted that ending EU freedom of movement and restricting EU nationals’ right to enter and stay in Britain for work will have precisely the opposite effect on immigration patterns to the one many Brexit supporters say they want.
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  14257. Matt Hancock couldn't Dodge a granny with a zimmer frame he's that slow. Only the most incompetent for Boris's cabinet.
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  14258. 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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  14259. 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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  14260. The US media is in denial as are a section of the US political class who are in the pockets of the fossil industry. With gas prices spiking again consumers are talking with their wallets
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  14261.  @sandrahildebrand4283  So I'm a retired economist. Ask yourself when did the economy really boom, the biggest jump and one thee country has been living off the back of was the Space Race. Even today the effects of that investment reverberates round the economy. Tesla was given government loans in 2008 as part of a stimulus package post banking collapse. Today we see near 2 trillion over 10 years being pushed into making the economy the renewable tech hub of the world. The IRA CHIPS Act and Infrastructure bill are economically transformative to a degree people have little concept of thier long term effects. You can already see some of its effects with a 4.9% jump in GDP yet the Doom mongers are pushing cuts? Each % point of additional gdp = +50 billions in tax
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  14262. 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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  14263. Blair oversaw +20% wage growth given the last 14 have given us -7% Average wage growth I'm looking forward to a competent government
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  14264.  @SmartCookie2022  The Blair growth was on the back of education lifting millions into higher paid jobs and turbo charging our switch to a service economy. The added real term salary increases eclipsed the take from removing the tax break on pensions allowing me to save far more and retire early. Not that I don't b1tch and m0an about it like you and also am no fan of Iraq. It wasn't till I retired and started studying economics and comparing the macroeconomic data that you realise how bad the Cons are with the economy. Even the much lauded Thatcher era her low tax came from asset stripping oil money and globalisation which is why the current bunch are falling on their ar3e
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  14265. Seems like the Arizona Republicans are really on the Bleach.
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  14266. Why would anyone vote Conservative they look after the rich and screw everyone else?
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  14267.  @audreyblack8629  there just rebranded UKIP same old guff and same economic policies as the Tories Supply Side Trickle Down tax cuts for the rich
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  14268. Its funny is Sunak Trolling the Brexiteers She was sacked because the Tories lost another 2 points in the polls last week down to 23% and Labour gained 3 to 47% They've given up and are trying to shore up the Blue wall which could collapse to the Lib-Dems
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  14269. US media is owned by the billionaire class and pedal right wing cr@p constantly
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  14270. and why if he fetches poverty levels down Child benefit is Universal your better focusing the money on people in poverty not the likes of Rees Mogg who doesn't need it
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  14271. The mayor of DC is showing the way renaming a square close to the WH black lives matter square an having murals done. Swivel on that Don and it reminds the goat that he doesn't have the power to just railroad stuff through.
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  14272. Coz everything on the Internet is real -bunch of fish heads
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  14273. Labour's budget does come into force till April 2025 The economy has been stagnant for 16 years
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  14274.  @davidgreenwood5241  At a macro economic level we are moving from trickle down which has stagnated the economy to Keynesian Tax and spend. Both Reform and the Tories are offering more failed trickle down Just as an aside for Sunak to pay for his NI cut he would have had to keep suppressing public sector pay, raise the retirement age and instigate yet more Austerity. Osborne MK2
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  14275. I dont mind if you go to jail either given the rubish that you pedal
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  14276.  @judymoore5532  on the contrary I read widely from all parts of the political spectrum on a wide variety of topics mostly economics. Peterson is very shallow pushing a RW narrative that while appealing is hollow without sustance
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  14277. I'm not I'm explaining how economics and lack of regulation drives legal migration. I had a retired friend who was a Taxi driver who went all UKIP over Uber, his livelihood was being taken away from him by a faceless multi national who didn't even pay UK tax. @phYT01 
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  14278. @arfurdaylee  legal migration is the result of economic policy it takes years to turn round Ex 4 years to domestically train nurses for example
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  14279.  @rfurdaylee    stuff gets deleted automatically by YouTube people on the thread never see it. The algorithm has trigger combinations.
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  14280. The wealth creators? Every trickle down policy the Tories implemented did squat for the economy bar increase the wealth gap.
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  14281. There's urban and mail to come in across the board
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  14282.  @jjvoity7797  there's millions of votes still left to be tallied Wisconsin has just gone blue. I dove into the stats for North Carolina its still not fully locked for DT it's now down to 1.4 points with an 80k lead with 340k left to count in metro areas and mail in. A quick dive into the % distribution shows Biden will gain but will it be enough? We can all get our crystal balls out but it's a long way from cut and dried.
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  14283.  @jjvoity7797  The heavy metro areas were always going to come in last due to high population per district. I'm a data analysts and Trump bled out all the rural counties early on, while numerous they are smaller and quicker to count. Biden is over the line already bang on 270 Trump has no way of pulling back in Nevada Wisconsin and Michigan the % left in those states is all predominately metro mail in I'f you deep dive into the FiveThirtyEightData you can see the % returns on a county by county basis ex:- go to the Philadelphia metro area and extrapolate the numbers yourself. Georgia Pennsylvania and north Carolina will just keep ticking up blue from now on.
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  14284.  @jjvoity7797  No worries I understand DT has been running his mouth for months read "Commander in Cheat - how golf explains Donald Trump" There's 300k votes missing in the Postal Service that DeJoy was ordered to find but didn't which they've managed to gum up. Majority of the election officials are Republican the mail in ballots are bar coded and traceable these suits will go nowhere. Next he'll be claiming there's Fido's paw print is on some of them, he's like a broken record.he just doesn't think rules are for him
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  14285.  @jjvoity7797  it is next to impossible to cast a fraudulent ballot if you do you will be caught. They are coded traceable and as you have a hard copy audit-able. Please take a minute to reflect and put your partisan hat down, I'm middle class have a decent job can work from home. The votes being counted are from the high metro areas, these people have suffered disproportionately from the collapse of the economy with 20% unemployment there disproportionately dying from covid because a lot of them are on front line jobs. Areas like Detroit have seen their industries decimated over the last decade and now disease is ripping their lives and families apart. Yet despite that they made the effort to vote, they followed all the laws all the hurdles all the ID requirements and did their civic duty. Now one side wants to take that right away from them the net result would be millions disenfranchised and for what because winning a culture war and owning the libs is more important than even democracy.
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  14286.  @jjvoity7797  They want to misinform you its all part of the Trump show amping baseless conspiracy theories. There on the phone banks now bilking their supporters for more money with lies about the evil dems trying to steal an election help send us money. Trump is all a con its a TV side show so you don't look at what he's really doing which is screwing every day people. In terms of the vote drop the Detroit area is responsible for over 3.5 million votes cast and the Democratic party advised people to use mail in for health and safety reasons because of covid that's why DT is freaking out over the counting in Pennsylvania. Mail truck arrives it has thousands of votes in it its no more conspiratorial than that
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  14287.  @jjvoity7797  a month before the Hunter laptop story was in Murdoch's New York Post a fake intelligence document was circulated in right wing media "look up typhoon investigations", the subsequent suspect information designed to mimic the Hillary email scandal came from Bannon (indicted fraudster) and Rudy (a semi drunk compromised lawyer). I'm sure we'll get a full picture in time. The problem with Rudy is his connections to one Dimitri Firtash who is wanted for money laundering and who Rudy has been lobbying for, Firtash is connected to Russian oil and gas Oligarchs including Constantine Kalimnik. There is a huge amount of disinformation floating around this story hopefully at some stage someone is brave enough to lay the whole thing out including the dark money groups funding the original disinformation campaign and the trail of shadowy characters that that are so desperate to drag Biden down. The coal oil and gas industry have a huge stake in slowing down the move to green energy, they've been trying to manipulate Tesla stocks for years, Tesla isn't just a car company it's stocks are ridding high on its Grid capability and impact and it's finally broken away from the insane amount of shadow short selling, the way the car. This elections huge consequences for the coal oil and gas industry as they try maintain the status quo at any cost one of the key Biden proposals is to cut tax subsidies on fossil fuels and reinvigorate the car industry as it moves to electric. Anyway back to vote by mail every envelope has a bar code on it as well as a microchip when they come in the signature is matched by machine the discarded ones are checked by hand and verified by poll watchers from both sides, the number of checks and cross security checks are insane. The verified information I've been able to get on the number jumps is that it's just the way the district has reported the totals as they've been counted at the end of the count a district will then verify a final total. There is a full auditable paper trail, all the information I have on lawsuits is that it's just noise from the Trump campaign all have been dismissed due to the campaign not submitting any evidence.
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  14288.  @jandavies4400  They have a Chancellor with an economics degree from the LSE and has worked in the BOE, after listening to her main speeches (last one the Mais Lecture) I would vehemently disagree. I'd also point to the appointment of Sue Gray, the Tory idea of do what I say even when there instructing civil servants to break the law or do the impossible because of ideology is over
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  14289.  @jandavies4400  Why the puerile name calling? Politics is a serious business and The last Con government is the worst in terms of economic performance since the Napoleonic wars. quote Household incomes are on course to fall for the first time over the course of a parliament despite Jeremy Hunt’s national insurance cuts, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has said in its assessment of the chancellor’s budget. Amid almost two decades of falling real wages, the foundation said that after adjusting for inflation, household disposable incomes were poised to fall by 0.9% between 2019 and the end of 2024 – “the first parliament in modern history to see a fall in living standards”.
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  14290. Trump is seriously mentally ill even his cheerleader media can't cover it up And The public don't want project 2025
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  14291. It's double that in Europe and there's no reason for the high prices other than you allow it, Fossil is an Oligopoly and runs a price fixing cartel 50 $ a barrel is break even 60+ is what's called super profit yet governments around the world allow it there are basically large sections of the economy that are milking this for every cent they can
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  14292. People who can't change with the political wind aren't much use in politics. As for being a liar we'll see there's no manifesto promises broken because he's not put forward one or been in power. I could promise to nationalise stuff then start looking at the economics of it and go narr I'll do GBEnergy instead. Centre left policy people have been wanging on for years that partial intervention is far more cost efficient in driving down general market price  @robertdavidson8028 
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  14293. no it isn't if you believe this bollox I have barrel of snake oil to sell you
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  14294. There refugees and the main issue is the insane amount of time it takes to process them as 80% are given residency, if they were turned round quicker they'd be off the books and employed earning money paying taxes and rent
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  14295. 70% of counties by GDP in the US voted for Biden, Texas may be governed by the Republicans but it no different to any other part of the US
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  14296. The US is currently one of the world leaders if not the world leader in renewable technologies, like the silicone Valley phenomenon you can ride the wave economically but you have a narrow window of opertunity. If you turn your back on Green then the likes of Europe and China will be the world leader while the US paddles in is puddle of oil.
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  14297. He wants the crusade front and centre not by the back door Trump is the shiny thing at the top of the ticket if he lasts a year given his obesity stress levels and junk food diet I'd be surprised, hello president Vance
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  14298.  @gftjghdt3582  that would be the Kier who booted his predecessor from the party and orcastrated the Elphick defection despite howls from the left?
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  14299. Fossil energy is subject to inflation, extraction costs and transportation last time I looked wind was still free
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  14300. He's insane This isn't going to happen he's turning the WhiteHouse back into ClownWorld again Just so he can Make America Garbage again
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  14301. The Cons lost because they chased after the right and lost the blue wall to the lib dems and the red wall back to labour Reform aren't conservative move on or face oblivion
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  14302. ​@artandarchitecture6399 economy wasn't booming 5 years ago it was pumped up with corporate tax cuts paid for with debt, the fortune 500 companies spent 3.5 trillion on stock buybacks given the amount of money the Trump term till then had printed a recession was inevitable. The fact that it got masked by Covid and added around at least +2 points to the inflation total when it came through the system. Biden has managed to post huge employment numbers despite the Feds best efforts to cool the labour market, the normal Republican method for curing high inflation is unemployment. In a sentence the Trump economy was built on debt the Biden economy is built on investment in Social and physical Infrastructure
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  14303. ​ @springerworks002 Inflation post cov was inevitable the Republicans way of controlling it is unemployment and cuts to federal programs which would push the economy into a deep recession. The Trump economy was built on debt he'd already borrowed +3.5 trillion, these sorts of numbers won't be available again if the Republicans wanted to maintain thier tax cuts your talking gutting federal investment and programs creating unemployment pushing the economy into recession.
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  14304.  @tashatsu_vachel4477  ditching the so called green crap has cost uk energy consumers over +100 billion back in 2019 before the crisis wind became the cheapest source on the grid
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  14305.  @tashatsu_vachel4477  and we have no plan to create storage It's cheaper to crack hydrogen from water using surplus wind energy then burn it in a gas generator than to run a nuclear plant Storage is only a problem because the government makes it so there are multiple solutions all of which need to be implemented from gas generation from spare energy to Vehicle to Grid to domestic wind/solar to Agrovoltaics to storage in Sand Batteries
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  14306.  @colinallen8924  we have the ideal conditions for tidal, the biggest problem is this big solution think We need distributed energy to meet a fair proportion of our needs not big ticket solutions I work in IT what we need as well as the big plant is millions of small generators and storage devices. Things like solar thermal in new builds which reduces demand for hot water heating by 3/4 using electric cars in a mesh network to smooth grid demand
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  14307. There could be many twists and turns? I don't think so the brexit mess is eating the right alive
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  14308. get a reality check the majority of the country is sick to the teeth of stupid evil
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  14309. 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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  14310. we lost 5% of gdp because of brex1t = 48 billion a year in tax 72 billion spent last year on energy subsidies because were tied to gas and investment has been rolled back on renewable diversification, grid upgrading and insulation projects 20 billion on housing support because we sold off and didn't replace 2 million council houses 120 billion in Interest payments on debt which increased due to the Truss fiscal event and is that big because the Tories never balanced the budget Record NHS waiting lists Etc. Our tax base has risen from 33% in 2019 where it was for 20 years to 37% and will need to raise further if your going to fix the above and not punt it into the future quote Keir Starmer’s promise to end austerity and rebuild public services will require tax increases of £25bn a year in the coming budget even if debt rules are changed to provide scope for extra investment spending, a leading thinktank has said.
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  14311. Unfunded tax cuts that grow sweet FW give me a break go read some economic books
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  14312. Try Byline Times for a better quality of News
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  14313. what for exposing Johnson Cummings Sunak Hancock et all as being completely inept
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  14314.  @LucyOLastic  what conscience your trying to force the leadership to spend 3.5 billion they currently don't have
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  14315. The policy is disgusting Its doomed to failure and a complete waste of 1/2 a billion
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  14316. Brexit is an economic train wreck and a good part of the reason they'll struggle to get even 100 MP'S
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  14317. those with offshore trust funds trying to stir up the rabble to claim it's about them? could be
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  14318.  @ShootingStar466  Trust fund managers are coming out in force are they? billionaires and millionaires up in arms perhaps?
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  14319. What Southampton?
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  14320. Johnson is no different now than when he was campaigning for Brexit or when he was Mayor or when he campaigned to be leader. The guy is a fantasist and a lier who will say and do anything to further his aims, Johnson's government have achieved nothing because its all about the Johnson show and surviving the next days news cycle. What's worse than the lying is the sheer incompetence and laziness of the guy and he's surrounded himself with the dregs of the Con party there's what a couple of ministers you'd say are competent the rest you wouldn't pay in rubber washers.
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  14321. If the world switches to renewables it will save trillions of dollars as well as reduce polution across the globe. There are numerous studies out there as wind and solar have been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 We spend huge sums subsidising fossil extraction and even more on environmental clean up Also 40% of shipping is dedicated to moving fossil fuel around
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  14322.  @getthecansin  what's funny about paying through the nose for energy when we can produce it at a fraction of the cost and be energy independent like Norway whose prices rose a mere 4%
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  14323.  @mel4856  The reason for transition from fossil to renewables is primarily cost they became the cheapest on the grid in 2019 even with all the Fossil subsidies. By the way China are the biggest investors in renewables. The US is putting in 1.75 trillion into the transition. We don't own our energy the current spot price is x 7 the cost of the forward contract price on Dogger Bank wind farm. Energy independence would give the economy a huge boost its estimated that UK consumers will be paying +170 billion to the energy companies in excess profits over the next 2 years. Roll on renewables I say
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  14324. He's lying
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  14325.  @montana_patriot  The democrats don't control multinational corporations who operate a cartel on energy and have a plan to move to renewable energy which last time I looked solar and wind was still inflation proof and free unlike fossil
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  14326.  @crawford1083  You do know that the immigrant and trans bashing is just a media device that the Right Wing uses to distract you from the real problems in your life and how shyte there making it behind your back. They have Zero intention of sorting out refugees and immigration as long as its a trigger like Pavlov's dogs and they can get you all frothing about it. Who knows maybe one day you will wake up to the fact your being played
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  14327. What's Biden getting wrong specifically and why won't Republicans work across the Isle for the good of Americans in a bipartisan way? Standing on a soapbox and shouting RADICAL LEFT AGENDA all the time doesn't solve problems for his state
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  14328. ​ @danielplainview5085 working class billionaires
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  14329. Why? They've deported 15,000 already There's policies in play to build housing and generation infrastructure to fetch down bills My local hospital got 20 million to remove RAAC And my son got a pay rise As afamily we got sweet fa from the Tories in 14 years
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  14330. @thegoat11111  what attack on free speech And it's +10000 more than in 2023
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  14331.  @thegoat11111  it's 10,000 more than in 2023 I don't think you fully appreciate how bad at governance the last lot were or how bad their economic policies were for nearly everyone, boiling the frog comes to mind. There funding hospital infrastructure which means 20 million for the local one down the road. However bad you think they are currently there least worst option by a country mile
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  14332.  @thegoat11111  I have no idea who you voted for, personally I voted Lib-Dem got rid of the sitting con mp
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  14333.  @unionjackjackson4352  anyone further right wing than Sunak who is a Thatcherite free market fundamentalist There's a couple of factions in the Con party the Libertarian lot who are mostly in the ERG and the English Nationalist faction the flog em drown em flag shaggers
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  14334. Frostie the NoMan Author of the worst trade deal in history Oh wise Frostie what is the answer so we ignore you and do the opposite you complete muppet
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  14335. God this guy talks shyte were in the mess where in because successive governments didn't push Green policies hard enough not the other way round we should have at least 3 working Tidal systems by now. UK 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 Labour 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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  14336.  @James-ed3xl  To reduce management you would need to scrap the Trust system and centralise it. fkin Tory dumb idea under Major trying to introduce an internal market. ITS A Service Also it's swallowing money for a whole host of other reasons lack of investment in infrastructure being one and being tied to PFI and outsourcing another.
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  14337. Labour will win by a landslide the 2p tax cut saw Tories loose ground further everywhere stuff is crumbling in my constituency we need 20 million for RAAC in the hospital and there's raw sewage turning the river lifeless
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  14338. and your not going to do alternate investment planning in the interim? If I get to 75 then ill count myself lucky @silversurfer6758 
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  14339. US isn't going to go into recession experts point to a slowdown and realignment
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  14340. The Foghorn of ignorance gathering up his cult followers again do they learn nothing? Brexit will bring migration down - experts no it will go up Brexit will make us richer - Experts no we will get poorer current Score Experts 2 - 0 Foghorn of ignorance
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  14341. Him an Epstein were Best Buds and Epstein was communicating with Trump when he was in the WhiteHouse
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  14342. The battleground states snapshot is wrong whats been happening is that more and more states are becoming battleground states. Latest state by state poll map has something like Biden 220 definite electoral votes Trump 120 the rest are slight lean to one party or another with states such as Georgia and Texas moving to toss up. After Trump's insane covid message the other day and his El Duce impression on the balcony while prepped with roids the who's more responsible on covid will take another nose dive.
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  14343. You not seen the people he surrounds himself and thier views Every nut job on the extreme right is in his travelling swamp Abortion ban is a the least of your problems Elon is going to take a chainsaw to government with Libertarian Austerity on steroids, best case scenario is the economy will go into a depression worst case it will spark a run on the dollar and bonds cratering pensioners 401k Go look at the UK when PM Liz Truss got on the Libertarian band wagon UK gilts bond market nearly collapsed the UK pension industry in 6 weeks
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  14344. The uk economy is built on migrants from Empire to Now When we where in the EU they where European now the Tories are shipping them in from Africa and India Tbh you get what you voted for if you vote Conservative Free Market Global Britain means exactly what it says on the tin unlimited Supply Side Cheap labour
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  14345. My mp is one nation there spinless, completely spineless still look on the bright side a new Lib Dem one incoming
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  14346. Whose scared of a bunch of old arts who's central policy quadrupled migration and had tanked our economy
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  14347. @carlarthur4442  there moving to unitary authorities in line with Mayor's as part of devolution moving more power to the regions Reform have zero local policy their failed brexit quadrupled migration their a broken record of ideas
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  14348.  @monk3yboy69  what after years plundering Doctors from everywhere around the globe all of a sudden ours are bonded serfs Get a reality check Pay them what there worth then it wouldn't happen instead of being greedy beyond belief and blowing countless billions on tax cuts for the rich like I dunno 8 billion to bankers 2 billion to millionaire pensioners in the last budget alone Oh and 8 billion to oil companies that haven't paid a fkin penny in tax for years.
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  14349. Nuclear secrets at Lard O Largo @vr6one 
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  14350. 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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  14351. There having to put up taxes because Thatcherism + Austerity doesn't work and the markets won't let them borrow any more Debt to gdp 2006 40% 2010 62% banking crisis 2016 82% introduced Osborne tax cuts 2019 92% 2023 101.1%
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  14352. Truss is so far right she's fallen into the Libertarian camp Sunak is not far behind her Furlough stopped the economy collapsing and was put in place to shore up Conservative support in the seats outside of London
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  14353.  @MarkRE333  you can't expand the economy if your workforce is sick And she has zero chance of expanding the economy we have full employment 1,3 million vacancies and zero labour elasticity. Supply Side Trickle down economics (aka Thatcherism) relies on a constant stream of cheap migrant labour to keep wages down and keep the economy running
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  14354. Russia hasn't changed its stripes since the 2nd world war it committed genocide then its committing genocide now and it doesn't care how many of its or Ukrainian citizens it kills to achieve its political aims
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  14355. ​@Galacticmaster estimates are it would be double that to stay on fossil, wind solar energy is free whereas commodity prices go up with inflation and scarcity
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  14356.  @brandon3525  Tara Reade who now resides in Moscow and is buds Maria Butina the russian spy?
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  14357. exactly Russia needs to leave Ukraine this minute
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  14358. And the US can do what about Netenyahu exactly a Democratic elected leader?
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  14359.  @hectorshouse7348  we've always had immigration before the war it was Irish after the war refugees from Europe then Windrush then the India sub continent then EU Any government will sanction immigration we have a birth rate of 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 instead of bitching about it elect a government that doesn't wollow in low paid jobs and is up to its neck in billionaire fossil and pharma lobby money. Any right wing party in the UK will attempt to instate supply side reform and deregulation which will drive down wages for everyone bar the top 10%
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  14360.  @hectorshouse7348  if services and wages had expanded it wouldn't be an issue We've had a demographic problem since the Boomers I'm guessing your one, I studied Economics its government policy being in or out of the EU won't make a difference all the Tories are doing now is importing workers from India Phillipines Nigeria etc. and destroying the middle class in the same way unregulated low paid jobs destroyed working class wages from 2010 onwards. At some stage they will pivot and open up to unskilled again citing economic necessity you can't run a Right wing low tax supply side economy without tons of cheap imported labour suppressing domestic wages.
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  14361.  @hectorshouse7348  so am I my father settled here after ww2 via a Russian Gulag and the Polish Parachute brigade I'm now retired When I bought my house 36 years ago it was at x3.5 my salary if my son tried to buy one now its x9.5 this is what Thatcherism has done to this country, my brother lives over in Norway he pays 40% tax yet his standard of living is off the scale better than it would be over here. Norway created a wealth fund and run its oil and gas business itself we sold off the leases and pissed away the tax revenues on tax cuts in the Thatcher era Right wing supply side economics at its finest If you want to rebalance the economy without imigration you'd need a huge injection of government intervention to increase productivity and automation just look at the NHS for example clapped out outdated computer systems archaic surgery practices Anyway have a nice day
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  14362. You can't lower taxes with the current economic stagnation which they promise will end stagnation (which it won't by the way) so trying Truss MK2 seems futile in the extreme?
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  14363. Low income tax doesn't mean Low tax you need to count purchase and property taxes Florida bottom 20% on the income scale pay median 13% tax top 5% pay 3% California mean tax = 8% bottom 20% pay 8%
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  14364. 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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  14365. 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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  14366. Increased legal Migration? @jonathanfell688 
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  14367. Reform are a dead end, Austerity has shrunk the economy and reduced productivity. You can't run low tax and have growth without migration to cover the lack of inward investment. 2010 gdp per capita was 50k its now 45k were getting poorer well the middle and working class are @mattyneary7223 
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  14368. Going after Booker on being in the the Burbs is odd by all accounts he's very popular with the ladies of the age group Dotard Don is trying to influence
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  14369.  @mayor399999999999999  most of the programs are fairly modest if you look at the 10 year spend term The tax changes should start to alleviate the debt mountain Trump left
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  14370. 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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  14371.  @markblance8492  My bin men don't work from home, neither do the parking attendants?
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  14372.  @markblance8492  The Gardeners don't work from home either, guys who fix the roads. Stereotype BS
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  14373. Why is it a smear question? It will get hammered by the right so why not take it and own it. Disenfranchisement should be illegal in a democracy and Bernie is right it's a slippery slope the right will hurtle down. As Bernie says do you believe in democracy?
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  14374. I looked into the economics of this because you can get ultra low overnight tariffs from my supplier I would save £2,000 a year on petrol There's plenty of 2nd hand EV's around and lease deals are dirt cheap It will only continue as EV prices fall due to the 50% expected fall in battery prices over the next 2 years
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  14375. The stimulus trickled up so if you want to take it out to curb inflation you tax it out of the rich Billionaire wealth doubled in the last 2 years
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  14376. Rush to sell if they introduced capital gains on over 1 mill? Who the f**c has capital gains in a tax year of over 1 mill oh yea the super rich and oh they'd only pay it when they sold thier stock and also they'd B&B thier portfolio before it took effect. Your looking at your first million free of tax anyway it's hardly worth crying about Cramer Ex if you had a portfolio of 100 million and it increased by 10% in one year to 110 you'd still pay nothing, if it increased by 11% you still only pay tax on one percent and then only when you sold the stock. The US has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the world and one of the most generous when it comes to tax loopholes and reinvestment incentives cough Amazon cough
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  14377. He's a frikin idiot and mini me pence ain't much better
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  14378. Religious freedom to hurt other people and destroy other people's lives
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  14379. You read his plan project 2025? Unlimeted presidential power
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  14380. a party that pursues economic policy that will benefit billionaires in the same way that the current government does?
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  14381. It's the last resort against government overreach why would anyone give it up just to be an ar5eh0le to refugees?
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  14382. He was part of the worst government in uk history if you looked at the economic stats with the highest legal migration
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  14383. the issue here is you go forward not try and unpick mistakes of the past we need a proper trade deal not the Cons Bodger Johnson's version and what's worse is it makes Scottish independence near impossible in economic terms
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  14384.  @pocolol8424  If you look at the economic data that is way off I used to snipe at Blair but the economy was night and day different
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  14385.  @MyName-cw4yr  You always have a mix of Socialism and Capitalism Pure capitalism produces monopolies with a 1% elite everyone else is on low wages Pure Socialism produces monopolies with a 1% elite everyone else is on low wages
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  14386. Sunak has junked nearly every investment and spending plan that was in the 2019 manifesto yet the economy is still spiralling down the drain a process started by Osborne's Austerity. Don't you think a more extreme version of these policies will just damage the economy further or does logic not come into it?
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  14387. That's all nonsense when has supporting child tax credits been comunism? And Every day that goes by Trump's mental condition gets worse, he can't accept the Harris / Biden switch so he's trying to bend reality and will continue to sound crazier and crazier
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  14388. He's a complete idiot on economics health and education Florida is sinking in education attainment tables Abortion bans are bad for women's health outcomes especially among the poor The Florida tax system is one of the most unequal of US states where the bottom 20% pay 13% of thier income on average on state taxes while the top 5% pay 3% The GOP are nothing more than a lobby group for the super rich and corporations
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  14389.  @chrisfinnegan8370  quote Elon Musk has offered a sobering preview of Donald Trump’s economic plan for America if he is re-elected, revealing that a period of intentional “hardship” is on the horizon for American households. Rather than cautioning against it, Musk described this hardship as necessary and inevitable, supporting Trump’s blueprint for restructuring the economy by slashing government programs. Musk’s remarks, shared in a Telephone Town Hall organized by his America PAC, indicate that he and Trump see economic pain to average Americans as a necessary cost of their policy goals.
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  14390. 80% of asylum seekers get asylum that means her department are housing 20% who should have been deported already and 80% who should be working and paying there way Total for last year was 80,000 applicants last year so 62,000 will be granted its no where near the levels that we were dealing with during the Iraq war she is completly fkin useless same as every other Tory MP
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  14391. ​@gav7900 he needs conscription and a dose of reality Assets post 2014 where dividend among the Oligarchs after the invasion the only thing the Russians where rescuing where there 2nd 3rd super yacht fk the locals
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  14392. @silondon9010  I was extremely critical of Cameron and Osborne at the time, you could see what would unfold. A completly deregulated market run by off shore companies who were creating zero hour low payed jobs undercutting long standing local firms with mostly Eastern European labour. They could have regulated it or banned it altogether as Germany and Hungary did, Norway don't allow them either, its a complete parasite on the economy but they raved on about it as the future. I put the rapid rise of ukip down to that decision + Austerity
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  14393. You still believe that sh1t, God help us
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  14394. Take out Oil and its probably around 5% now I think 4% would be good Fossil inflation is here to stay long time I'm afraid and over the next decade food will also rise as Climate change bites harder. On the other hand the economy is booming and at its fastest rate since 1980 rates need to be a point or two
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  14395.  @Bob-hc2kq  Yea no worries the economy is expanding by its quickest rate since 1980 we have oil inflation luckily we have an administration that isn't going to pressure the Fed because they have a Gut feeling and numbskulls on Fox are running around with their hair on fire
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  14396.  @Bob-hc2kq  thank you :) your comment made me smile The current situation is extremly odd, zero interest rates, deflation in 2020 a large debt burden by the previous administration part of that is to be expected with government support during the early stages of the pandemic part self inflicted with the GOP tax cut. If you were doing it by the text books you'd have higher interest rates to match but that would likely strangle the economy lead to high unemployment and a lot of bankruptcy. Powell was appointed by the GOP admin the current administration didn't want a fight over it so renominated him like whose ever run the Fed during a pandemic before?
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  14397.  @eljefe5858  the Euro block are at 4.5% but thier gasoline prices are double that of the US I'd agree with some of your other comments though The 1 / 2 % inflation has been a repository of low pay the current rise in basic wages in a tight labour market is long overdue
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  14398.  @MochaMan.  he attained the rank, why are you such a sourpuss over it he served 24 years more than private bonespurs Yet another nothingburger from people with no valour at all
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  14399. Why do they want to win the next election? What has 12 years of Tory rule done to the country? The economy is in ruins, the immigration system isn't fit for purpose and it was reported that a 1/3 of all uk companies have stopped exporting (small and medium plus farmers and fishermen) We've still got 2 years left of this utter carnage do they not have a clue what's going on around them
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  14400. There isn't a migrant crisis There's a government competence crisis, a more useless bunch in british political history is now there legacy
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  14401.  @bushwhackeddos.2703  I put it down to stupid evil The clown car show Boris started rumbles on
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  14402.  @TransparencyPlease  the expansion of university places powered the service economy which resulted in a huge rise in GDP as well average salaries increasing by +20%. Under the Tories were around - 10% worse off on average disposable income NOW than in 2010
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  14403. Thier aiming at SME'S who employ 60% of the uk workforce
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  14404. The architect that sold you the worst trade deal in History? really your putting faith in that bunch of lairs
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  14405. Last time labour were in the tax base was 5 points lower services were well funded and wages grew Reform Are tory with a different badge 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts in thier manifesto + fracking ​ @lumasters8197 
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  14406. In what way any vote by us is just virtue signalling it has zero effect What would help is if we took Palestinian refugees but that is politically toxic
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  14407. there are multiple paths to a goal Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical They will be done in partnership with business, councils will build again
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  14408. What utter tripe, they invaded because they wanted to steal stuff, your talking about a corrupt state that's run like a mafia gang
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  14409. Conservatives ruined the country and you want the full fat version to finish the job?
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  14410. tax base under Blair was 33% same as Osborne didn't go up till Johnson took charge and we left the EU it's now 37% and according to economists were over 50 billion a year less tax than if we had stayed in the single market
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  14411. He's just shilling for the fossil companies who are screwing people for trillions Quote A multimillionaire Brexit donor funding anti-‘net zero’ campaigns is the director of a company with tens of millions of pounds invested in oil and gas. The revelation comes as chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to bow to pressure from the motor industry and cut fuel duty in his spring Budget statement on Wednesday. Investment manager Jeremy Hosking has given millions to political parties including the Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party/Reform UK, as well as Vote Leave. Recently, he has been bankrolling Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party, which has campaigned against ‘net zero’, and has been linked to a climate denial group.
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  14412.  @bradkaral1188  for god sake The government print the stuff you don't own it if they wanted to they could take it all away tomorrow. What Farage is bellyacheing about is the elites not being able to launder money and buy thier Coke the guy doesn't give a toss about real people
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  14413.  @tombinkley2688  that Nige doesn't give a Toss about the Plebs course he doesn't your just useful idiots to grift off. He spouts populist nonsense to highly complex problems.
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  14414.  @s.j.bluewater908  why would they freeze my account? And I have more than 1 anyway
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  14415.  @Mary_Thompson  you need to get out more that's drivel You read too many conspiracy theories
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  14416. Brexit is over why can't you people move on? He's going to have to repair all the damage that's been done because of all the lies
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  14417.  @eastafrica1020  global temperatures if your in the UK the storm weather we normally get in october is here already, we've had wild swings and variations in weather destroying crops. As a result of this years extreme heat food prices will go up migration from what was once fertile land will accelerate
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  14418.  @Musck  your perma frost is defrosting numb nuts
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  14419.  @ladywisewolf3942  except now more frequently and how do we know that children well its called Data So I get mine from scientists not the completely ignorant and clueless JHB and especially not Tice who's party is getting fossil money
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  14420. He's trying to run the country as a hedge fund and is completely disconnected from 99.9% of people To be a hedge fund manager you need to have no soul Why there a bunch of asset stripping leeches that take profitable businesses outsource and sell off anything they can make as many people redundant as possible before loading them with debt and walking away with a sack of cash
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  14421. The IFS and Resolution Foundation agreed with him This was the tax ni bribe to win the election with costing 18 billion
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  14422. You had less migration when we had FOM, my brother lives in Norway the labour market is highly regulated they have a centre left managed economy and near zero net migration Put the pieces together
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  14423. @Shaun-ju4gn Norway invested thier oil money in a sovereign wealth fund which they used during the gas and oil crisis to peg fuel costs resulting in 3% inflation The current mess is 50 years of Thatcherism, New Labour may have been miles better but they never fixed the long term issues caused by privatisation and asset stripping
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  14424. He was a lot brighter than the Donald, it beggers belief that he's so effing stupid ​@user-rq7hv6lf8c
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  14425.  @darkstarstate3128  we have to full employment 1.5% are disabled or special meeds 1.5% are unemployable The rest are transitory wrong place wrong skills too old too young retraining etc.
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  14426. Not crazy like Truss Truss is just carrying water for the billionaire class supe4 Austerity and debt loading for corporate tax cuts she really is on a different reality plane
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  14427. No we don't we need a centre left The country is an economic basket case as it is with a hard right government
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  14428. How come Republicans can't do basic Math and don't believe in Science? Florida now there's a problem, the aged state.
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  14429. He's nationalising energy production just over 20 years and that doesn't involve spending 1/2 a trillion on buying old coal stations or seizing foreign assets like the nuclear plants. With Brexit the push will be to realignment with negotiations on the TCA in 2024 your looking at something close to May Bots deal Immigration is more complex from 2010 to 2019 we had an explosion of Eastern European workers filling low paid zero hour jobs in the unregulated gig economy at the same time as a contraction in services the workers and the companies that employed them appear to have contributed zero to the economy but where a net drain We have low pay and unsustainable childcare provision with no plan to enable women to return to work or families to afford housing
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  14430. 50% of them are dependents the workers are on average older as well and unlike when we had FOM are permanent
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  14431. quote The facts What Sadiq Khan, TfL and Labour have said recently Mr Khan’s public statements, and statements from TfL, say there are no plans to introduce pay-per-mile. “As long as I am Mayor, we are not going to have pay-per-mile,” Mr Khan said in September 2023. “Pay-per-mile charging has been ruled out by the Mayor and no such scheme is on the table or being developed,” TfL said in February 2024. In response to Ms Hall’s post with a doctored image, London Labour said: “This sign does not and will never exist. Sadiq has been clear — ruling out Pay Per Mile categorically while he is mayor. This is a photoshopped image and is a lie.”
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  14432.  @Mors_Inimicis  You'd need a Central government plan for pay per mile and a clear mandate. Ulez was already an established Conservative policy, basically the Tories don't want to pay for anything hence the 50% cut in Council budgets while at the same time putting more burden on Councils with statutory housing and child support policy.
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  14433.  @Mors_Inimicis  Extension was promoted by Grant Shapps and made a condition of extra central government funding for transport. Vehicle age is 18 years for petrol and 12 for diesel to be non compliant. Susan Hall or Sunak rolling it back is for the birds, chief driver of ULEZ was Johnson and his government
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  14434. He's doubling down on a base arseh0le driving up women's voter registration numbers how is that a winning strategy?
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  14435.  @hannekezijlmans6578  have you tried to move money around after we've left the EU your micro inspected over the smallest transactions over money laundering and other paperwork involved because were a 3rd country all because of that arseh0le He should be kicked out of the country never mind banning from the banking system
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  14436. If he was in Europe he'd be in jail, they have strict hate speech laws not surprising after the holocaust. What needs to be done is that these shows need to be clearly labelled as NOT NEWS and may contain HATE SPEECH which some may find offensive. A lot of crap on FaceBook needs labelling as well a major issue is these stories and opinions are dressed up as fact not opinion or the ramblings of lunatics
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  14437. Blame brexit it's driving most to bankruptcy before they have chance to pass on the farm
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  14438.  @zoeen5650  Labour pledges ‘new deal for farmers’ to boost UK agriculture This article is more than 4 months old Measures include target for British food in public institutions and seeking veterinary deal with EU
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  14439.  @manueldeabreu1980  Labour don't want open borders and there was never a vote to leave the single market or remove FOM. 8 years on given that older pensioners voted to leave 70-30 there isn't even a majority for this sack of sh1t and never was a majority among those who would have to implement it by 65-35 ie he under 50's You've had 8 years to make a success of it and all you've done is break everything even your precious migration has gone through the roof because we lost FOM a complete clusterfk.
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  14440. I've got an ebike conversion kit best thing I ever got we've safe space for bikes at work not that I'm there much only need to be in the office once a week
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  14441. ​ @pmarsh3700 Right wing policies are the reason for high immigration, Brexit means they can shop in the 3rd world driving wages ever lower, get real Tice is just a tool of the elite.
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  14442. we have banned affordable transport the tories sold off anything that would make working people better off including the railways
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  14443. Obama seems to putting a practical slant on it, Warren has been getting absolutely buried non stop on the media.
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  14444.  @chuggermagic  since when? Cameron cut funding to local authorities by 40% is responsible for the current care crisis and his abandoning Labour's so called green crap will cost bill payers an extra 100 billion extra.
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  14445.  @str.77  There's no such thing as wokies you listen to too much talk radio or tv Woke = Don't be a racist sexist homophobic A hole All the commentary on topic and trying to throw it at anything is just that mindless commentary
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  14446.  @str.77  So rather than looking up what its dictionary definition is you come back with made up stuff. Why?
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  14447.  @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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  14448.  @neilross6625  it was may21 post vaccine the rules for campaigning are on the yougov website this was always a Daily Fail dead cat
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  14449. Stupid is as stupid does There's just no hope for these people, your a Senator show some leadership for fks sake
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  14450. The Cons are a million miles from Labour and Reform are sponsored by billionaire's don't you think you should ask why?
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  14451. Trump's base is a solid 30% you'll not get them away from him there pumped up by Fox Newsmax etc they really drink the cool aid They will never turn away from shock jock TV because it sells so the Republicans are stuck with this and the rest of us have to deal with the fallout. What will help - Single Transferable Vote & Presidential Vote by total not electoral college again single transferable
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  14452. If people with influence dont speak up and tell the truth of what is happening to this country then who? Billionaire media owners of the Daily Mail abd GBNews who peddal this batsh1t propaganda 300 million and counting on a Stupid Evil illegal policy that does fk all bar being used as a distraction by stations like this from the real problems in this country
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  14453. They've committed to net zero and energy infrastructure program? Stay as we are and it costs +140 Billion in excess bills for energy consumers Verses Build new Infrastructure and fetch that total spend on energy in the uk down from 170 billion to 30 billion it was in 2021 If your a small business then a Labour government will basically stop you going bankrupt due to energy costs
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  14454. He'll reverse Tory Thatcherite trickle down policies that are killing the economy And why would he give details the Billionaire owner media would go into full propaganda mode telling everyone that if they Looe their trickle down perks the sky would fall in
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  14455.  @DS-cf1zc  Starmer was an exceptional manager maybe green round politics but he was the best at what he did the Knighthood was from the grateful Tories for his hard work as DPP head after he left things went south on prosecution numbers
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  14456.  @DS-cf1zc  they have said multiple times what their generic plans are what they won't commit to is taxation bar it won't go up. I could raise 100 billion in tax and still keep to the promise of taxes won't go up but there is no way on this earth I'd let the Tory client media know before the election
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  14457.  @fredmercury1314  Migration was way lower when we had FOM The low wage migration was accelerated by not regulating the GiG economy and multi nationals that didn't pay tax flooding the market with zero hour low paid foreign labour. New Labour had a high wage economy our productivity in 2010 even with the banking crisis was on par with the US. To put it into context we and the US were around 50,000 GDP per capita UK is now 45,00 GDP per capita the US is around 75,000 GDP per Capita I remember during the Blair years a lot of migrant labour were tradesmen that we badly needed. That Blair started it is a lazy narrative
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  14458. Tax cuts and breaks for the wealthy are corporate socialism Yet try do it for people at the bottom like the child tax credit and all of a sudden the commies are taking over Make your mind up coz Socialism for the rich capitalism for the poor sounds a raw deal to me
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  14459. Because for the 1st time in 50 years we will get a centre left government who will be trying to repair all the Thatcherite damage done too the economy and country Reform will promise every RWing fantasy policy under the sun
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  14460. Sunak has Uturned +23 times on tax alone the economy is sinking and the Tories are unable to get out of there Thatcherite mindset to stop it
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  14461. Why is that ? within 6 months Vance will take over Trump is senile and delusional now his brain appears to be rotting by the day
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  14462.  @ObesePuppies  it's not slow and steady he's done more in 2 years than anyone the ira is the green new deal in disguise
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  14463.  @BarneyRubble-qr7px  I'm retired on a low income. Spent a load of time reading up on energy, insulation and heating. Did 90% of the refurbishment work myself including taking up all the ground floor and double insulating it. I'd suggest you widen your reading
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  14464.  @samsaravii9944  How does insulating your home to A+ standard become government control? The only governments controlling us currently are the ones in the middle east and OPEC who control world oil prices
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  14465. The reason they will get completely gubbed at the next election is their abandonment of Net Zero and JRM is a climate denier Here's some facts on the energy crisis and Net ZERO 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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  14466. Nice segment David He seems confused, being verbally aggressive and trash talking is code for my ideas aren't good enough to win an argument so I'll just blow the argument up and claim victory
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  14467. You can't debate bullsh1t which is a Nige spreads We saw Sunak trying the same play the other week it descended into a farce.
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  14468. ​ @aglaisio no average person pays tax on unearned income there are loads of excetions
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  14469. ts only despised by the right wing twitteratai who take this guff seriously
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  14470.  @thelstanedwardsson4374  it's good value for money my mum watches it all the time there's tons of educational stuff on their and a load on the radio. UK news is right wing biased but we can deal with that once these assclowns are voted out
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  14471. so only 100 billion in uncosted tax giveaways The banks deposit 480 billion with the BOE there is some talk among economists that given it's money generated by QE were subsidising the banks by paying interest on it but it's a major policy shift and 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.
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  14472. Damnatio Memoriae is the fate of these people
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  14473. It's not conservative it pedals conspiracy theories and fawns over Trump. The Biden stuff it put out was pure bollox. relying on a disgraced prosecutor and a Russian /Ukraine mafia guy who was trying to buy his way out of an indictment. The real story's the backhanders to BBar to get the issue dropped
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  14474. Her economic policies were batsh1t crazy No one was going to lend us 50-60 billion to p1ss away on tax cuts for the wealthy
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  14475. Truss started a run on the £ and the rates started climbing even before she was appointed. No one wanted to lend us 60 billion for tax cuts which were unfunded. Our international credit rating is still lower than it was before she took over.
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  14476. The reason for having an external body to the Government is so like with Hillsborough there is a last resort to government overreach Yet you want to give all that away to be an A-Hole to some refugees ? RWANDA is a waste of money
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  14477.  @LFCMattNOI  The supply side economics the Cons want to introduce to GB will crater the NI economy and anyway a lot of the businesses will go under even before then if they have to export to the South on a no deal basis and I don't think this will be slow either. Have the DUP or the Cons actually thought this through or are they just blindly digging the stupid hole with more stupid because hey feelings?
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  14478. winters are statistically getting wetter
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  14479. Burning Fossil Fuel and not repairing and looking after our own environment but treating it like a toilet is an active choice@notrealdood
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  14480. Tories lost another 2 points in the polls last week and Labour gained +3 Cons 23% Labour 47% So your wrong as to why Cameron that's easy Sunak has given up there focusing on shoring up the blue wall before going into an election as they have no way of turning this round
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  14481.  @NatMart9394  You can't avoid the fact that wind and the sun are free and GAS + Coal is not it goes up with extraction, processing transport x inflation. Every year fossil goes up while wind and the sun maintains the same price as input sources as in free. Also capital costs are still falling for renewables. Given how cheap batteries are becoming and how easy it is to deploy them it's a complete no brainer
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  14482. ​ @Ren-pn4bo  If we had a shortage of raw materials then battery prices would be going up not plummeting. and Are you starting a free the Robot cause your comment on labour makes no sense.
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  14483.  @Tony-zg4yf  whatever there are other materials you can make batteries from such as Sodium / Ion and They've just discovered the worlds biggest lithium deposits in the US. also Before long they will be able to split Lithium from salt water why the Ludite attitude?
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  14484.  @nothingtoseehere999  Mine will save me £44,000 over their 25 year life That doesn't take into account of inflation Oh boy it really is free, 19 years of free energy
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  14485. 2010 18,000 people in the system 2023 140,000 people in the system Why sheer fkin government incompetence we've had these sort of numbers coming on and off for decades and it's worse post Brexit this bunch of fkwits in charge are just utterly useless
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  14486. 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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  14487. Taylor Swift's Era's tour has been estimated to boost the London Economy by 300 million
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  14488.  @NobbingNobby  government London's status as a world-leader for music will be confirmed when Taylor Swift brings her record-breaking The Eras Tour to Wembley Stadium on Friday night – with tourists attending her eight performances boosting the capital's economy by £300m
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  14489. He's just a below average middle manager who's failed upwards. You can't run an economy on a spreadsheet or with an ideology that treats public sector workers like dirt
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  14490. we had a vote they have 5 years to try straighten out the tory mess
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  14491. Do you not get the fact that its rich burks like this that will have their tax loopholes shut down. Aside from the odd tweak it won't affect 95% of us
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  14492. Road blocks it's called oversight you dick you've just fired 2 ag's you've gone through 4 security advisors your whole administration is a shambles step up or step down
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  14493. at what price will they accept Putin's pogroms once he takes power the forced mobilization of its young men to fight for Russia expansion will not end at Ukrainian borders
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  14494. Its a shame people like Robert aren't in the Govt. any more, Warren would have been a good fit to take this mess on in Nov
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  14495. Mine are near zero with a solar battery system my provider gives me low cost top up overnight if I need it.
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  14496. Jeez the guy is effing stup1d Hows his mor0nic tariffs going?
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  14497. @@user-in9zb5lo8z not true if you expand the money supply but it all goes into assets it won't cause inflation. Ex 2 billion on millionaire pensioners tax break goes straight out of the economy into assets, 200 billion in corporate tax breaks scheme bulk of which goes into share buy backs. If you quadruple the cost of energy businesses have to pass it onto customers, fertiliser is now 4 times more expensive etc. We've had 13 years of QE with near zero inflation for the bulk of it.
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  14498. @@user-in9zb5lo8z and I'd add Norway has 2% inflation is 95% renewable energy and controls its own oil and gas fields
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  14499.  @PGHEngineer  Thatcher pissed away oil money on tax cuts and asset stripped the country of its essential services selling it on the cheap France owns more of our energy production than we do. In the face of a global banking crisis Brown kept the economy together equal blame on Thatcher and Brown for overderegulation 2010 debt to gdp 62% 2016 82% 2019 92% 2023 100% Gdp per capita UK & US $50,000 in 2010 In 2023 US $70,000 UK $45,000 Why Thatcherism + Austerity × Brexit
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  14500. So how will Tice pay for the Tax Cuts because as everyone knows tax cuts don't grow the economy last person to try it lasted less time than a decomposing lettuce quote Cutting taxes does not boost economic growth nor lead to more taxes being collected. The notion that it does, known as the Laffer Curve hypothesis, has been widely discredited. and Even the IMF says austerity doesn’t work. It’s the zombie idea that will not die
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  14501. When will we get to normal? When we get rid of the AssClown in charge
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  14502. Anyone promoting REFORM are deluded Lettuce Liz economics with fantasy imigration policy and we know how the former ends Have you actually read there manifesto because I have
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  14503. why? You believe this chump 99% of the damage to our economy is via brexit
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  14504. You've got to laugh Suella's antics knocked another 2 points of the Tories in the Polls last week dragging them down to 23% boosting Labour by 3 points to 47% she encouraged far right Yobo's to congregate and 6 policemen were injured in the melee and she represents millions? Who does she represent sounds like the ones that down 14 pints then go around the street with a lit flair up their ars3
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  14505. This is why Sunak and the Tories will be totally fked and the longer they delay the worse it will get I'm betting on a low of 20 points 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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  14506.  @adriftinaboat3452  There is a key difference between the Tories and Labour so calling any Labour leader Tory mark 2 is just being ignorant. The Conservatives run Supply Side Trickle down economics as was ably seen by the Fiscal Drag Bankers tax break and Millionaire Pensioners tax break in the last Budget Labour run Keynesian Demand Side economic model which emphasises investment in social and physical infrastructure to increase demand at the lower middle level by boosting incomes. The 2 produce completely different economies even if they have the same tax basis
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  14507. It's centre right and owned by Murdoch
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  14508. by 2020 there was no majority and your asking working people to implement a policy they don't believe in for under 55 's in 2016 your looking at 70% remain
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  14509. I've seen a couple of detailed talks with experts who've been involved in research in this area, scientists have been studying the virus group for decades because of its ability to jump species. The expert view comes back to its origins are natural and it came from bats. Making sure something like this doesn't happen again would be a better use of resources rather than chasing down every rabbit hole theory
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  14510. Its well over 1 million if not 2 it would be cheaper to employ a social team who could get these people in employment. For some of them its as simple as not being able to use public transport. All your doing with this purge on the less well off disabled is hurting a lot of legitimate people on benefits because the state has defunded local social services and now can't be arsed to deal with the consequences of that decision My son is technically disabled but with support can hold down a job, if you cut the support he becomes unemployable  @garyb455 
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  14511. A renewable grid is a lot cheaper than our current setup the case is economic. Fossil fuel suffers from Extraction, Processing and Transport costs last time I looked wind and solar energy input were still free and inflation proof even infrastructure costs are still falling in real terms.
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  14512.  @aardvarkrevolution5764  there are no subsidies on new projects go check out Dogger Bank wind Farm and We would save the total infrastructure costs of putting in mass storage at strategic grid nodes in just over a year on 2023 energy prices. The government handed out 72 billion in 2023 to the energy companies basically subsidising Gas. Nearly all your talking points and the fear mongering rubbish I see all over the place may have been valid 10 - 15 years ago but renewable costs have fallen by 90% in that period and Mass storage is readily available and is both quick and cost effective to deploy. Gas and standby Gas Generating Plant are the biggest factors in our sky high consumer energy price
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  14513.  @MrDavidht  So it will cost 30 billion to put mass storage on the grid Oh wait we spent 72 billion last year on energy subsidies mmm how much will Mass storage save us per year on 2023 prices oh that's right 30 billion a year Were fkin tied to gas you muppet which costs an arm and a leg to do final mile on standby generation. what don't you get?
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  14514. Brexit was all smoke and mirrors Look at the immigration figures 200,000 in 2019 now 750,000 why we still need the labour for our economy but now thier fetching thier dependents, odds are 500,000 of that figure are husbands wives and kids. What you sow so shall you reap This is the Brexit sh1tsh0w folks courtesy of Conservative cakeism
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  14515. She was the casting vote on key infrastructure bills, check it out you may well have faster broadband because of her oh irony is not dead
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  14516. Corbyn isn't honorable if he was he wouldn't have handed the Tories an 80 seat majority in 2019 but worked to form a government of national unity The guy's hubris was so great he went to the polls with favorability -72 rating and +12 approval his polling stank more than Truss's at its worst and you have the bear faced cheek to talk about honourable
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  14517. If they were all the same then they would be clones with identical polocies
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  14518. Reform will still only get at best 3 seats even if they overtake the Tories dont you just love FPTP
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  14519. This is dumb if she wants to engage about infrastructure then talk to the Biden administration instead she's and the rest of the GOP are generating a Streisand effect, people are looking at the proposals and thinking well I'm for that oh and that and yes that's a good idea. The dumbest of arguments here is against improved broadband because it helps rural GOP voters and the expansion of EV charging helps rural areas and social infrastructure for elderly care helps the mass of dumb boomers that vote GOP.
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  14520. What The party pro billionaire who want to turn the economy into a Libertarian low wage sh1thole for the 90% while the elite's have unbridled wealth? Am I missing something here?
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  14521. That's why its September it takes 3 to 4 months to structurally withdraw its also being done by the NATO allies
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  14522. Its just a result of 1st selling of the Utilities then creating an artificial broken market which is geared to fossil fuel its been calculated that Cameron getting rid of the so called green crap has cost UK consumers over a 100 billion so far. Thatcherism and supply side economics is all about short term and screw the future
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  14523. What's your point Mike? This is our own fk up you campaigned for Brexit what did you think would happen when we became a 3rd country outside the EU you complete muppet And don't say send them back France could shut our economy down in hours Idiots like you are the ones we need to send to Rwanda
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  14524. you have a farm worth over 3 million? By my calculations your estate is worth 8 million putting it in the top 5% of landowners (not farmers)
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  14525. Anyone not a fascist is called left leaning these days ​ @fredkite9330 
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  14526.  @mariogmajner6549  No Check out these 2 articles A Keir Starmer government might be more radical than you think by Michael Jacobs Another must read article is by the FT which is backed up with graphs and data showing the trajectory of the UK economy under Austerity Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity A decade of Tory spending cuts left the country vulnerable to the external shocks of the past two years
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  14527. Theresa May broke the system blame the Tories for the current imigration shtshw
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  14528. 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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  14529. Do you understand what Neoliberalism is? Just using it as a slur I'd suggest you do some research on economics
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  14530. @timwoodger7896  The IMF in 2015 called out Austerity + trickle down a failure in a major rebuke of Osborne's policies and a major study in 2020 dispelled the notion that NeoLiberal policies had any effect on growth bar widening the wealth gap. Both put increasing wealth and productivity at the bottom and middle as the answer to growth. Reeve has been over to the states looking at the Democrats green growth agenda, things will change The only country that stuck with the NeoLiberal agenda post 2010-12 was us
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  14531.  @timwoodger7896  If you get completely gubbed at an election do you stand there shouting at the Voters YOUR WRONG Or Do you listen to them and adjust your policies appropriately. Since Starmer became leader the Tories have added 700 billion to debt and crashed the economy people are rightly AFRAID so trust with the economy needs to be Earned before anything
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  14532. There is no gain, never will be Austerity doesn't work in fact the opposite Tariffs don't work in fact the opposite Ex great depression Small state is a belief system for the rich nothing more
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  14533. The plan was unlimited imigration and Singapore on Thames The EU fked them over the day after the referendum in 2016
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  14534. Why will Starmer be hopeless? They'll remove huge swathes of trickle down tax breaks Reform planning Fix RAAC Move the grid towards net zero Reintroduce insulation targets and standards
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  14535.  @carlitor4173  100+billion in unfunded tax cuts Privatisation of the NHS Fracking - tying us to world commodity market And Fantasy immigration policy that will never be enabled
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  14536. @TOP.FOX.  Tice is an elite sponsored by GBN who are owned by an offshore Libertarian Billionaire with contacts to the climate denying big fossil network. Why do you think he's so keen on fracking and deregulation so companies can pollute without redress. Think he gives a toss about the working class think again
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  14537.  @malcolmstockbridge2569  so says the Tory client media we have full employment have had for years
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  14538.  @scarfholdgraphicsmedia9501  Tax cuts don't fuel growth Supply side Reform (low regulation) and low investment fuel immigration. + there is no benefit in fracking anything extracted is sold on the world commodity market, we own zip
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  14539. If you want to reduce immigration you need to abandon Thatcherism change the tax model and invest in the UK not continously pull in cheap labour from abroad If you vote for right wing parties then nothing will change immigration is a fundemental part of low tax trickle down supply side economics anyone promising you both is LYING
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  14540. general tax cuts generate 20p in the £ of growth so she wanted to borrow 120 billion give it to the wealthy to generate 24 billion in growth Tory math for you no wonder the markets imploded
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  14541. The after affects of this disease are going to be felt on the health services for decades its not just the deaths, we tried herd immunity it got 65k people killed its not the flu it attacks the immune system as well as the lungs. Were now in a holding pattern phase where the NHS can give quality treatment to everyone that catches this under the Hitchins theory we'd be back to sending people home to die and emptying the old people's homes.
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  14542. why? Already off to a flying start Rwanda cancelled, prison crisis being sorted, discussions with junior doctors, repeal of the onshore wind ban
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  14543. @timfly767  the justice system will totally collapse if they don't do it Doctors and nurses are leaving the country in droves because of 14 years of pay suppression with record numbers coming from Nigeria and India to take up the shortfall in healthcare staff
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  14544. why do you like Pro Billionaire policies so much? Everything they do on the economy front will decrease your standard of living.
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  14545. ​ @DeeZire you had a decade of Blair with wel funded services and wage growth of 25% Folloed by 13 years of Thatcherite trickle down policies from Osborne onwards. In 2010 debt to gdp was 62% its now 100% Blame lies with Thatcherism and the Tories. Even the high legal migration is the fault of Thatcherism
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  14546. This stuff needs research and development in the same way the open source software is developed using common goals on a global basis
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  14547. Oh they can go lower alright, Sunak and his useless speech 30p Lee, Braverman et al
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  14548. And replace him with what? Another Truss
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  14549. She has a 1% stake on infosys which is worth around 1 Billion (Infosys currently worth total 107 Billion)
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  14550.  @dwaynehicks6714  how does 0.91% of 107 billion = 500 million and they have other businesses
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  14551. The effect of Biden's policies has been to reshore manufacturing in strategic areas (renewables and chips) The effect of a combination of 5% interest rates and Biden's policies are pushing more money at the bottom with wages stagnating a bit in the tech sector where there have been layoffs.
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  14552. The roof on the warehouse my wife worked buckled in the heat the fire escape was unusable. We grow a lot of our own food and have had real issues with constant hosepipe bans Keep sticking your head in the sand hopefully it will heat up enough to wake you up
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  14553. @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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  14554. His paper will back him for 1 reason only Labour will win and Maxwell wants to be seen as a winner the minute there in office the dogs will be off the lead
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  14555. 58% of current polling shows those people voting for left wing parties 19% for the Cons who he is trying to destroy if it's representative of the public of course it's hostile
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  14556. Free energy What's not to like Oh It breaks the fossil industries profit model so they pump out propaganda at an industrial rate which plebs like you echo like nodding dogs
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  14557.  @ittt6339  the thing about taxation is you can use it to leverage the market to invest more in its workforce. Anyway your correct minimum wage should be a lot higher. I will leave you with this thought on taxation in Red states most of the tax is collected through sales and property taxes in blue states its income In Texas the mean tax rate for the bottom 20% of earners is 13% the top 5% pay 3.5% In California thhe mean tax rate for the bottom 20% is 8%
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  14558.  @keithatkinson7649  the UK has seen the biggest contraction in average disposable income in 1 parliment in history At the same Millionaire and Billionaire wealth has doubled Labour's economic record under Blair/Brown was 3% gdp growth per annum with average wages rising by +25% Average wages are now less than they were in 2010 after inflation So your either a Millionaire + Deluded or deliberately lying And a 10 year could plug the thresholds in from previous years and use the BOE inflation calculator then apply 20 +10% and apply it to the difference
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  14559. Why would you vote REFORM their Tory with added be evil to refugees Their economic policy is a cut and Paste from Lettuce Liz You remember her the one that single handily nearly crashed all UK pension companies and left a 60 billion hole in UK finances while bumping up interest rates by 1.5 points?
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  14560. If you transfered them to an isa you won't pay CGT on them, which i did that's a 40k allowance per annum for my wife and i
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  14561. @garygreen1782  just checked you have to sell and rebuy, your allowance is 12,500 gain per annum if you have a partner its x 2 You can use your annual allowance even if not putting it into an isa by selling and re-buying, went through this in 1990's been a long time memory is rusty
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  14562. The guy has no principles his policies are tailored to suit the agenda of the day I certainly won't be wasting time listening to it heard it before
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  14563. Because they'll get 2 MP'S at most It looks like Ed Davey will be leader of the opposition maybe he should go against starmer
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  14564. The large number of politicians you have is to ensure you have a functioning democracy, while its imperfect it's better than the current GOP vision which appears to be for 1 party rule in that there pushing a theory that need better quality of voters not everyone voting. Bit like the Chinese communist party system where the elites are party members who choose thier leader.
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  14565.  @phj1757  Without order there is Chaos, taxation and a small amount of indifference and incompetence in public servants is a small price to pay.
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  14566.  @phj1757  democracy isn't under assault from socialism or people who are Liberal. Communism only exists in text books the assault on democracy is from the right supported by the fossil fuel industry and far right billionaires such as Murdoch who pump out propaganda at a horrific rate. Theres a reason why DT was known as Benito Trumpollini
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  14567. ​ @berylwelch3526 and make things even worse are you mental
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  14568. Why does this channel just make stuff up? Brex1t is bad enough without having to ensure more lies from the billionaire owned media
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  14569. Carbon is a greenhouse gas it's like creating ann insulation layer round the planet it stops it shedding as much heat as it used to. The cost of dealing with the problem is accelerating Just look at the increased cost on federal disaster funds. I'd also add that renewable energy was half the cost of fossil the before the current crisis it's being adopted because of cost In California there currently running a pilot that will be rolled out this year on vehicle to grid , microgrid as well as mesh networking the utility saving will be substantial as it helps balance to domestic input to the grid from local solar anddd wind
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  14570.  @se6586  There's increased water vapour in the jet stream the temperature difference in the gulf is greater with increased rises in surface and overall temperature. Both these phenomenon's drive Storms to a more intense level on average producing higher winds and more rain. Also the Arctic polar Vortex is weakening which will lead to more frequent arctic cold snaps. California wildfires are increasing because of higher temperatures and less water on the land prolonging the fire season. There are a whole range of measures which need to happen to reverse this but your not interested so I won't bother. The Colorado river is continuing to dry up but hey here's a bucket of sand go stick your head in it
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  14571. 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. So yea Blame Blaire for having Green policies that Cameron abandoned and think what a bunch of shysters you'e voted for in the past 12 years every time you turn the heating on
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  14572.  @ezioauditore3128  If you don't fund stuff reduce budgets across the board for 12 years and have an increase of 7% in your population then what do you expect Its like turkeys voting for Christmas, the Con's keep telling you its all someone else's problem while they have spent 12 years running the country into the ground One example successive Tory administrations have reduced council funding by 40%
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  14573. He doesn't have a choice were stuck with the TCA for the next few years and if Truss or Mordaunt is elected we won't even have that there all in for blowing up the Protocol to get the EU to nullify the TCA
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  14574. What skewed science is that? New onshore wind per kilowatt hour forward contract reached parity with gas back in 2019, the ban was England only so we have real world data for comparison. And battery based mass storage at critical nodes in the grid would make gas Peak plants Redundant saving around 20 billion on current costs.
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  14575. Do they not have a clue on how the America First name is historically tied to anti-Semitism?
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  14576.  @The_Phoenix_Saga  They all accept freebies this isn't a Labour thing and Starmer's 24k averaged a year isn't particularly noteworthy given he is leader of the opposition and would be wined and dined by various groups. You could try ban it then transparency goes as it goes under the table and The biggest transgressors were the likes of Farage and Boris, Nige gets over 1 million a year from an offshore billionaire and Boris was hand out central he didn't pay for anything
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  14577. they'd cut out a load of trickle down tax breaks think of the poor rich people @pip1723 
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  14578. this is an article from 2023 Aug More than 100 MPs have enjoyed free hospitality to concerts and sporting events worth more than £180,000 this summer, with tickets given away by banks, oil companies, the gambling industry and media firms. The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, and the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, are among those who have benefited from a growing trend for politicians accepting giveaways. If we want to change the system then we need to lobby for it and They all accept freebies this isn't a Labour thing and Starmer's 24k averaged a year isn't particularly noteworthy given he is leader of the opposition and would be wined and dined by various groups. You could try ban it then transparency goes as it goes under the table also The biggest transgressors were the likes of Farage and Boris, Nige gets over 1 million a year from an offshore billionaire and Boris was hand out central he didn't pay for anything.
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  14579. what sense Renewable energy has been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 there decrepid clueless elite extionists wining on at each other
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  14580. Yea but last time Labour were in they didn't fail the decade had average wages rising by +25% current living standards and disposable income levels are now back to 2006 and everything is broken
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  14581. What's wrong with them they've started pretty well, settled long running pay disputes, removed onshore wind ban, recategorised net zero infrastructure, binned Rwanda and banned up a load of thugs in double quick time
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  14582. Where do they find these people? Net zero gives you Cheaper electric and a disconect from economic shock due to fossil commodity Volatility Did you know that the UK government spent 72 billion on energy subsidies last year and that energy costs for UK consumers jumped fro 30 billion in 2020 to 170 billion in 2023
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  14583. Mmm is it a good idea to push all the wrong buttons on the Trump control panel and see how it explodes what could possibly go wrong how much worse could he make it
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  14584. We're short of 5 million homes so rather than slag off the proposal what's your solution?
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  14585. @denzel270  you can't stop immigration its the result of the right's economic policy
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  14586. The BBC contributes +8 billion in tax through additional gdp it creates than it costs in licence fee
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  14587. he got his rich elite bank account closed because he wasn't rich enough anymore He has a file of him because he is a PEP Politically Exposed Person He therefore comes within the realms of AML/CTF = Anti-Money Laundering / Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Bank Secrecy Act
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  14588. If you dig into what Starmer has been saying he's obviously read and been influenced by this book Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism Hopefully he's read her latest book as well The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies Tories don't read books on economics
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  14589. The GOP are flooding the zone Just look at A rated polls
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  14590. He's an arseh0le with too much money and a drug problem
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  14591. That ship has sailed we are where we are and the Cons will have shat in the pool multiple times to try destroy any going back
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  14592. There never was a chance of a successful Brexit the EU closed down the idea of a Singapore on Thames the day after the vote, we've been leeching money from the City ever since quote from reuters The transfer of assets from London to EU hubs remains around 1.3 trillion pounds ($1.7 trillion), EY said, adding that Brexit staff moves are by now part of a broader view of strategic business drivers and operating models. FT This report highlights the damage that Brexit has already done to the City of London. More than 440 firms in banking and finance have moved or are moving part of their business, staff, assets or legal entities from the UK to the EU. While this is higher than previous estimates, it underestimates the real picture – and the potential longer-term impact.
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  14593.  @victoriaplum997  your either in our out no specials
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  14594. They are but the media is by and large in bed with the Conservatives which tries and sow division in Labour at every opportunity
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  14595. Another record weather event in a year of record weather events and yet your not championing climate change action? By the way Kentucky is getting a new EV manufacturing plant as the car industry transitions bringing in thousands of jobs and there's only 1 party championing a transition away from fossil! Weather you like Democrats or not turn over the R card and your consigned to an uncertain future bound to ever increasing oil price instability and a party whose answer to everything is tax cuts for the rich and deregulation in an ever increasing environment of climate instability.
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  14596. Given the Cons have been waving red meat to the nutters with Rwanda for a year that's no surprise but the gene pool for that sort of voter isn't very big At least their vote share will produce near zero seats as it's spread out
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  14597. If you run supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism you have to feed it Supply Side Labour or it doesn't work To reduce immigration you need to invest in Social and Physical infrastructure Cutting off Supply side Labour without structural economic changes just tanks the economy
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  14598. 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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  14599.  @chrisward9774  Langford bill and she isn't opposed to fracking. Natural Gas will become uneconomic the further down net zero we go due to the low cost of renewables and the infrastructure costs still falling while tech advances provide further efficiency.
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  14600. 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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  14601. we do its called the Conservative Party
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  14602.  @snakeplissken5480  Quote It is no surprise that voters judge the Tories to be as right-wing as Ukip. The result of all this is that the centre ground is left for Labour to occupy. The Conservatives can’t hope to win again until they remember what they are supposed to stand for.
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  14603.  @Theforestbandit  The bunch of bandits promising 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts + fracking - Jog On
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  14604. The DT you saw is the lying bullying petulant child that behaves the same way behind close doors in the WH Trump is a lunatic in public and behind close doors it's no wonder that people leaving his administration come out against him and describe thier colleagues left in thier as having Stockholm syndrome.
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  14605. don't get duped into spreading disinformation always check your facts I do its a good habit to get into quote Labour’s promise in the document was to keep the cap at £1,971 per year for a typical household between October 2022 and April 2023. The party’s promise in this document was therefore not intended to protect households in 2024. Equally, even if it was still in force, Labour had said it would cap bills at £1,971, while Friday’s announcement from Ofgem will see a typical household billed £1,717 per year from October 1, which is lower than Labour pledged.
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  14606. Polish clubs have been organising for Harris there aware Putin will be on the polish border if Trump is elected
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  14607. Global minimum tax rate! Woohoo bring out the champagne it's party time yes yes yes at fkin last
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  14608. already done it
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  14609. You can't fix something you broke on purpose
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  14610. Your elected to represent your district not the to crap on Democrats as a policy while crapping on yourself
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  14611.  @anonnemo2504  Tax cuts create on average enough growth for an additional 20p They quite simply do not create growth so all the tax proposals are completely unfunded Que Liz style market collapse
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  14612.  @anonnemo2504  to give more context Truss's tax cuts were costed at around 50 billion to borrowing Fiscal Drag currently adds 30 billion the NI cut cost 9 billion Tice's proposals would double + the Truss borrowing requirement
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  14613.  @anonnemo2504  where does he get the money from? If you give a tax cut at 1 end it needs raising elsewhere. Every piece of tax and spend by a government has an economic multiplier.
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  14614. why not Spending 8 billion on NHS pay sounds preferable to spending it on Bakers tax break spending on renewable energy fetching prices down rather than 100's of billions on fossil tax breaks @7702alan 
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  14615. Pay rises will pay for themselves in future increased productivity and staff retention Pay suppression was driving up churn decreasing productivity and over dependence on migration.
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  14616. @Philljag  it was a universal benifit it now goes into the general benifits pot, why do you want high migration and poor services? The shortfall was caused by 2 pre election unfunded tax cuts to NI costing 20 billion. And +300 doesn't cover anything these days it should have been done away with years ago + The Tories spent 72 billion on fuel support lat year because they ran down our net zero transition and insulation programs so get a reality check
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  14617.  @Philljag  there not taking it away from penssioners for health service workers tax and spend is 1 big budget. Our finances have been in a mess for years with no end of trickle down Thatcherism that hasn't worked just run up more debt. The 20 billion unfunded NI cuts look like the last straw. Someone has to balance the budget eventually
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  14618.  @Philljag  You appear to not understand how government finances work let me help. If you give public sector workers +10 Billion what happens to that money? 4 billion goes straight back to the Treasury in tax. Another 4 Billion arrives back in the Treasury Via that money being spent in the wider economy where it circulates in a merry go round of Tax and Spend. So were now down to 2 billion, because we no longer have strikes costing the economy at large depressed GDP it's likely your initial spend of 10 billion eventually returns 12 billion in receipts at the end of the year. This is before the impact of reducing the pull on migration increasing the numbers treated through the NHS and reducing costs through staff turnover.
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  14619.  @Philljag  If you can't strike how do you get better pay and conditions and stop the cycle of government using low paid immigrants to shore up public services? I'm a pensioner I don't need the allowance I'd rather have a better economy where my son doesn't have to live on just over minimum wage and can afford a home of his own.
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  14620.  @Philljag  Does it? We have soaring crime rates, plummeting detection rates and overcrowded prisons? Which part works coz I'm not seeing it?
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  14621.  @Philljag  since when will stopping my +£300 make me and millions like me freeze to death? But I am extremely reliant on the NHS while I may be reasonably well off I can't afford private healthcare
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  14622.  @Philljag  and Equating pay rises with the change from universal to means tested is utter nonsense this black hole was created by 20 billion unfunded pre election tax cuts of which as a pensioner I saw ZERO I paid my stamp for 40 years and those Tory clowns wanted to increase the pension age to 68 and get rid of NI increasing the overall tax burden on pensioners further
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  14623. Go read up on what was going on at No10 from wine o clock Friday to Karaoke nights to ABBA themed fancy dress parties no expense was spared on the government credit card to Rave on
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  14624. Ah but we get to revisit the Russia report and the Pandora papers which point the finger at Oligarch money greasing the wheels of the Tory Party The question is with a slap on 3 Russians not in the UK who were on the US naughty list for years is Boris compromised
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  14625. Gosh Starmer claims he's a normal human being that doesn't send his kids to boarding school to get tortured I mean educated and wants to eat with them once a week
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  14626. ​ @garrywynne1218 there's a wider economic multiplier to be taken account of due to spend in the local economies, York as a town would go bankrupt without the foreign student population
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  14627. Today I got a Con leaflet through the door It had no agenda, promised no path forward and was a complete tirade of lies about Labour How can we have an adult conversation about the future of this country when the Tories have opened a firehouse of complete BullSh1t zero seats
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  14628. There eating the dogs - guy is a laughing stock in the US and around the world he needs to be in a care home
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  14629. There's a Republican representative in Calafornia who is contesting thier loss claiming he was ahead on the election day vote and the votes counted afterwards were illegal,get this he lost by 72 points after mail in was tallied. Its like thier flushing thier brains don't the toilet
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  14630. Net zero has an economic multiplier of 1.6 for every £1 spent it generates an additional £1.60p in additional taxation through economic growth. Multiple reasons one of which is reshoring energy jobs and production which is then taxed rather than going into an offshore multinational and onto the world commodity market. And the plan is to reindustrialize using cheap green energy @SmartCookie2022 
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  14631. Build the houses in factories for assembly onsite Don't make them out of brick
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  14632. You not seen her CV?
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  14633. You get to vote them out in 5 years, the Cons had an 80 seat majority and did sweet FA with it bar raise taxes and screw over the economy
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  14634.  @ScragNath  Raab didn't have a vision he was an Idealogue pushing nut ball right wing ideas some of them illegal or unworkable at worst These sort of people want believers not people that can actually do stuff
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  14635. I looked at electoral calculus it doesn't even take into account Tactical voting they are in deep doo doo
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  14636. No grievance too small to waste endless amounts of Presidential time on instead of doing his job
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  14637. GBeebies does it again dumbing down to even dumber levels Brexit is done its a complete ecenomic car crash get over it As Mark Carney said “When Brexiteers tried to create Singapore on the Thames, the government instead delivered Argentina on the Channel"
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  14638.  @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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  14639. Its about oil and gas and the fact that Russia pays billions for the privilege of using Ukrainian pipelines Go look at a shale oil gas deposit map of Ukraine and what do you notice oh yea its mostly in the east and north look here there's lithium as well near Dinipro Its just piracy its about stealing Ukraine's mineral and fossil wealth and that's why he can't stop and why there won't be a ceasefire or meaningful peace talks
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  14640. Luddites were in control we voted them out
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  14641. Roll on Roll off takes 20 seconds per vehicle as a 3rd country we need passports stamping checking and there not even asking if you have a return ticket It now takes on average 1:30 minutes per vehicle that's over 4 times as long so you need 20+ booths minimum
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  14642. The Tory party is rotting from the head downwards, they have an appeals proposes the report is reviewed then voted on using a tragedy as a crutch against corruption which was a slam dunk and they didn't even look at the no bid covid contract for 100+ million Randox got Unbelievable
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  14643. 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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  14644. She's betting on Burger boys arteries getting even more clogged than they currently are You can't understand what Trump's on about without a translator
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  14645. Why is that? There benefiting hugely from the Democrats infrastructure investment bills
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  14646. GBNews is just opinion designed to dumb down the electorate as is TalkTV and other such stations I get my news from more in depth podcasts from right to left The Times red box podcast (centre right) The View podcast (centre) The New Statesman (Centre left) There are others out there whatever your political leaning you need to listen to a range of views
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  14647. Cancelling net zero investment would cost more than it saved.
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  14648.  @darren09700  not according to major economists, Norway currently run 95% Renewable and their energy is cheaper than ours. We have the highest prices in Europe
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  14649. yes
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  14650.  @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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  14651. It's not a free speech platform Parler bans Democrats it's a right wing nut bucket forum I believe it's bankrolled by the Mercer's
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  14652. The government doesn't sell weapons private companies do and Iran is under US sanctions so this statement is well unfounded
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  14653. He had the. Worst economic numbers since Hoover and the great depression. 8 trillion on debt nearly 1/2 of US debt Completely fkin useless
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  14654. Why is that relevant I used to do graduate training at the company I worked for they took on a mix of degrees not just the science based one (I tought IT skills)
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  14655. of course Starmer will stop them he has between 6-8 billion reasons to sort out this mess Labour will need every penny it can find to rebuild our crumbling physical and social infrastructure wasting any of it on gesture politics
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  14656. why do you want a foreign billionaire buying our election? And not for any benefit to us Nige is a populist A hole who's main policy has tanked our economy and quadrupled migration
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  14657. Get ready for the the worst market collapse in history, me I'm going all in on Gold pre election quote Elon Musk has offered a sobering preview of Donald Trump’s economic plan for America if he is re-elected, revealing that a period of intentional “hardship” is on the horizon for American households. Rather than cautioning against it, Musk described this hardship as necessary and inevitable, supporting Trump’s blueprint for restructuring the economy by slashing government programs. Musk’s remarks, shared in a Telephone Town Hall organized by his America PAC, indicate that he and Trump see economic pain to average Americans as a necessary cost of their policy goals.
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  14658. Woke just means don't be a homophobic sexist A hole what's wrong with that?
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  14659. What's new about thier economic policies same Thatcherite trickle down cr@p
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  14660. There was 9.2 billion unfunded commitments and zero for public sector pay awards so around 20 billion Which = the unfunded pre election ni tax bribe
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  14661. That concept of safe country is out the window post Brexit were a 3rd country the EU doesn't give a toss if refugees leave their zone
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  14662. 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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  14663. Supply Side Economics doesn't work in fact with debt levels >100% and Supply Side Corporate Inflation on Energy and Food interest rates will sky rocket and Austerity at a level you'd never imagined is on the horizon driving poverty through the roof
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  14664.  @thomasholland5487  There changing public procurement law to as they say allow more flexibility real reason shovel contracts to their donors
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  14665. and why after 13 years your standard of living has dropped and will continue to drop under Tory rule. Reasons Trickle down Thatcherism and Austerity doesn't work and is shrinking the economy and that's all that is on offer with another 5 years of Tory rule. Compared to Blair/Brown's +25% rise in average salaries over their period @Wherethereisnodarkness 
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  14666.  @davechan8613  Only 4 trillion of the debt was for tax cuts it did add to the post Cov inflation with a massive expansion of the money supply
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  14667. The bulk of the Tories believe tax cuts create growth and that we need a small state There's never been a case of tax cuts having a multiplier of > 1 so there always a net drain on Treasury finances, plus Hunts headroom is based on service cuts including local councils of 18% by 2028.
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  14668. We've needed ID cards for a while too many people are disappearing into the black economy, the lack of one was a major reason Albanians were coming over as the EU has tightened up checks due to security fears
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  14669.  @superdingo9741  the little man that behaves like a mafia Don? He's corrupted his country that badly his army is falling to bits in the field due to all the grift round military contracts
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  14670.  @MP-wz3bu  no there not Putin stokes nationalism to use as a tool for further expansion. His main operating mode is corruption and violence. Producing fake election in Donbas shipping in an FSB commander to run it fetching in Russian security forces to quell any opposition. The Ukrainians have seen this for 8 years they know what fate awaits them if Putin takes over that's why they won't surrender.
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  14671.  @MP-wz3bu  doesn't beat Russia though, Putin has gone to great lengths to export Russian corruption to Ukraine make sure it was always in his grip, the system of kickbacks and patronage through dodgy gas and oil contracts that massaged politicians pockets, he ordered Yushenko poisoned because he was trying to clean up corruption and not taking Moscow orders he's had a number of assassination attempts on Zelesky while Reform is slow there's been a major push in the country for transparency in public office the publication of interests these are far reaching and their further implementation will see a big reduction in grift.
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  14672. what's your point Corbyn was unelectable as a PM under FPTP and would still be unelectable under PR We had a huge amount of 1 voter suppression and 2 tactical voting
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  14673. I'd add the date was deliberately chosen to try and suppress the Youth vote
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  14674. The country won't survive 5 more years of the Tories, London maybe OK but outside London were going back to Thatcher era wasteland
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  14675. If you want to know what's up with the economy go listen to Gary Stephenson from GarysEconomics
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  14676. @Permissiontospk he's done lots of stuff behind the scenes and no that's not a PA s job negotiating with the French presidents office.
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  14677. renewables are 2.5 times cheaper on forward contract price than their nearest rival Nuclear and the government are giving over 100 billion in subsidies to the fossil industry so how does not going with renewable seem like a good idea given their so much cheaper? Are you afraid all those Oil execs won't get their bonus? we have a shortage of energy additional renewables would fetch down the price because we wouldn't burn as much gas
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  14678.  @chrisgibson7591  why wouldn't it be cheaper your going to need large amounts of domestic solar and recent breakthroughs should fetch costs right down
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  14679.  @chrisgibson7591  Capitalism ? no its not where dealing with corporate socialism? If you want to run a capitalist system you'd have more competition and you wouldn't be giving out corporate handouts to Oil companies at every opportunity
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  14680.  @chrisgibson7591  so I invested in Thermal solar it costs 2500 including installation it saves 75% of hot water on average with 17% of gas costs spent on heating I calculated that after year 8 years at current prices + inflation 75% of my hot water would be free. And that goes along the same pattern as all the other so called green policies I've actually stumped up and paid for including replacement windows and secondary insulation. I did have an extension built so the additional insulation was cheap and I put in underfloor heating because my old system was end of life. And that model follows for nearly all renewable and green costs high up front outlay capital payback 10 - 15 ish years
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  14681. they have sod all chance of fixing the economy its their economic ideology that's killing it Thatcherism only worked because of asset stripping and oil money that used to fund the tax cuts now where paying the price for the asset sales.
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  14682. And if he did fit into your perfect mould would he be +20 points up in the Polls ? The reason they are so far up in the polls is they've moved towards the centre while the Tories go off in populist Thatcherite far right LaLa land. There is also the fundamental problem of a changing electorate. All the working class older people I know voted UKIP/Brexit/Boris and Labour are looking to appeal to suburban educated younger voters who don't have much of an interest in keep the red flag flying. I reserve my judgment on him I thought it was a decent speech it really depends on results when they take power the last 13 years have just been kin awful @MichaelFitzpatrick-b9e 
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  14683. 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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  14684. 47% with no campaigning An economy that is on the risequote The Critics of Bidenomics Are Being Proven Wrong Inflation has fallen from the painful highs that followed the pandemic, even as unemployment has remained low and the stock market has headed upwards. Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian write that much of the credit belongs to President Joe Biden and his transformative public investment programs. Cynics often know the price of everything but the value of nothing. Remember how, just months ago, leading economic voices were predicting a catastrophic “Category 5 economic hurricane” this year? The astounding GDP growth revealed this week, with plunging inflation, historically low unemployment, and corporate profit reports soaring past expectations, have knocked the wind out of the fact-free cynics. It’s been said that cynics sound smarter than optimists because of the facts they cite but, in this case, they have no facts.
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  14685. So you want to give power to the party who's main policy brexit has raised taxation quadrupled migration and is sinking our economy Marvellous irony is truly not dead
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  14686. 20% are conned by the msm that somehow labour would be worse and 44% remember the +20% wage growth and well funded services under Blair
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  14687. Why would Labour be bothered the high migration is the outcome of right wing economic policy. If your stupid enough to think a a more extreme version of Thatcherism will produce a different result then I have Unicorn to sell you
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  14688.  @richardnoyon1875  yea just the wasteland that would follow fracking and the further polution from deregulation No thanks
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  14689.  @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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  14690. Rachel Reeve gave a speech in Jan outlining Labour economic policy, Ed Milliband has done numerous speeches and appearances detailing green policies If you don't want to listen and your just going to lie down and let the Tories suffocate you with Supply Side Economic polocies that will tax the snot out of you and reduce your disposable income in a never ending spiral of stagflation on your own head be it.
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  14691. There putting up taxes it's an illusion, fiscal drag + corporation tax + 130 billion in borrowing
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  14692. So what do you think NatCon is? The conference was sponsored by a think tank funded by the Oil & Gas industry, It's nothing to do with being Conservative and everything to do with pushing a Libertarian Authoritarian world view for the super rich. Why is having a conscience over stuff like poverty now regarded as socilist and hard left?
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  14693.  @coffeyplaysgames  it's dragging into an economic war who will run out of equipment food and manpower 1st also Russia are hemorrhaging troops and equipment for every soldier that is killed there's on average 3 wounded if equal matched armies the attack / Defend the attacker loses 3 to the defenders 1 but in this case the ratio appears higher. Based on reports even at the low end Russia has lost 6000 troops plug in wounded and its likely 15-20k have been removed from the battlefield they've also lost 13 commanders and 4 generals in what appears to be targeted strikes at Russian command and control. For the Bakayar TB1 to operate effectively the Russian jammer and detection equipment needs to have been nullified Are the Russians winning no, are the Ukrainians winning not yet
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  14694.  @ArthurD  they don't own the skies we don't know the full extent of man portable anti aircraft equipment they have but at a guess its a lot and the western equipment can't be flared out You'd expect advancing columns to have helicopter support since week one there doesn't seem to be any helicopter footage turning up bar the terminal type
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  14695.  @markgildo85  Zelensky is Jewish as is the deputy, Putin is the nazi here, he can't carpet bomb because there aircraft keep getting shot down there using long range howitzer to flatten the Ukrainians cities and given the hatred to Russia he's generated there is no chance of holding any of the captured territories without using Gestapo tactics
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  14696. @brendamyc3173  up until the civil rights act the line was life begins at birth post it was at conception how convenient This has zero to do with God and 100% about control so spare the hand wringing and pearl clutching
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  14697. ​ @davidbrown5411 At least Labour increased average wages by +20% after 14 years of Tories real average wages hav dropped
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  14698. @keithmarshall8796  1st off the gold reserve thing is nonsense, PFI was a Tory policy brought in under Major finnaly stopped in 2018 by May And Total debt by all Labour governments including post war Atlee = 500 billion since 2010 the Tories have borrowed 1.5 trillion Also Tax base under Brown was the same as Osborne at 33% it started rising under Sunak, the differences are Labour's are more progressive while Conservative taxes are regressive ex- Vat +5% under Osborne Reeve has put forward a broadly centre left economic plan than actually includes paying down some debt and she has a degree from the LSE as well as experience working for the BOE
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  14699. When Biden took office the Nasdaq was 10,000 its now 17,000 its simply the economy does better with a Democratic President
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  14700. The difference in migration numbers between the last Labour government is there's been more during the last decade under Tory rule People come here because there's jobs blame the Tories if their low paid and they pursue policies that keep it that way
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  14701.  @skidkinny  There's the Greens or the Lib Dems or go all in and vote for the Monster Raving loony party. Reform are just rebadged Trussonomics and we all know how that ended don't we children
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  14702. I don't want to be inspired I want the Tory clown circus to stop I literally can't afford another 5 years of this lot Any Tory tax cut will be paid for by raising the pension age and probably to 68 loosing me 2 years worth of pension
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  14703. Why is it horrible? Tories have been running up debt for 14 years. Rubber and road happened with Truss. If you just try cut tax you'll just have 5 more years of stagnation, the economy needs investment.
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  14704. The UK has spent far more on Fossil subsidies than it ever has or will on renewable subsides also The Tories spent 72 billion last year on energy subsidies to keep consumer bills down because of the volatility in world commodity Gas prices
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  14705.  @cp4512  From the same report, nice cherry picking by the way. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has stated that continued dependence on volatile gas markets “could be as expensive fiscally” as reaching net-zero emissions, or even twice as costly if no action to decarbonise is taken. The OBR report just looked at generation it didn't take account of the cost saving impact of Mass Storage
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  14706.  @billbogg3857  The tech for moving peak demand to battery mass storage has been with us since 2018. It looks expensive on the surface but saves it's capital cost within 2 years. We've had idling Peak Generation plants for decades there not as a result of renewables. You wouldn't run the grid on solely 1 energy source because we've seen what happens with GAS how dependence. So I have thermal solar it produces on average 75% of my hot water by heating up a 500 litre tank. Even in winter there is still some input energy on sunny days. An insulated water tank is a Thermal store if I had a heat pump for my underfloor heating it would use the pre-heated water before using electric lowering my heating bills in the process. The stuff is out there now to lower costs for consumers it just takes capital investment and a bit of forethought.
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  14707.  @billbogg3857  a lot of that can be solved by more domestic generation and the use of heat stores like heavily insulated water tanks to time shift demand. Also we have the worst insulated homes in Europe The there's V2G The grid of the future looks nothing like the grid of the past with huge set piece Plants next to urban areas
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  14708. Yet the alternative they will get is complete deregulation extreme globalisation and a huge influx of cheap labour from the indian sub continent turning the City into a Singapore on Thames and the rest of the country into a sweat shop feeding it. NHS privatisation lower standards in schools to the point people are forced to pay for private top up or just straight private education
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  14709. Miller was on Fox his arguments weren't fraud in every last instance example the reason for turning Michigan all mail in votes should disqualified because the Secretary of state sent out BALLOT APPLICATIONS that's right because there was a no excuse needed mail in the mere fact that the state was proactive in sending out an application means the result has to be overturned. Georgia is even worse because democratic run counties were super organised and we're pro active in getting people to cure thier ballots and Republican counties did not then all cured ballots in Democratic counties should be thrown out. They are not and never will claim fraud in a court of law
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  14710. The Orange bafoon has jelly for a brain, he tries to set up the call 18 times and doesn't think it will be recorded when everyone knows he's calling them up to do crime.
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  14711. We've been hovering between 0.1 and -0.1 since we left the single market, the question is are we going too reverse whats throttling our economy
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  14712. We've been hovering between 0.1 and -0.1 since we left the single market, the question is are we going too reverse whats throttling our economy
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  14713. Conservative economic policy relies on high migration, turn it off without changing those policies and you will crash the economy Bit of a shame they forgot to tell you in 2019 isn't it
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  14714. What do they expect Youngkin was all about gesture politics He's never going to do anything serious to help his state
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  14715. It's just a plague corridor, jam packed low ceiling 1 person with a high virus load could infect....
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  14716. Brexit is destroying the country
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  14717. So your not in on the renewable agenda reforming the HOL devolving government new childcare system or closing massive tax loopholes and implementing a proper windfall tax? So the reason you don't hear about them is the bulk of the medi is right wing so there hardly going to promote Labour' ideas but instead just say they don't have any By the way the reason the justice system is falling to pieces is Tory Austerity 20,000 police let go + 20,000 office staff + defunding councils and courts
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  14718. Is this the best they have got She knows nothing about how the grid works or how green tech lowers energy costs She gets money from a fossil lobby group
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  14719. Why would things get worse given Labour will repair our public services which in turn would boost economic growth? Millions of sick days lost does nothing for the economy, government spending 20 billion on housing support because they've universally suppressed wages for 14 years does nothing for our economy WAKE UP
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  14720. 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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  14721. New car sales to private buyers are down theres acost of living crisis + Used car prices have fallen + Im keeping my current car till it dies (as are most of my friends) the getting an EV on lease
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  14722. the ECHR which underpins the Good Friday agreement and is the last resort against government overreach just as the Hillsborough families Why does the right always want to take our hard won freedoms away, banning strikes and protests now wanting to give away our human rights just so they can look macho while still doing nothing
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  14723. Well get a centre left government for the 1st time since Wilson I'm looking forward to it
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  14724. @CIMALord  quote from Bloomberg UK gas producers and electricity generators may make excess profits totaling as much as £170 billion ($199 billion) over the next two years EndQuote Quote North Sea oil and gas industry offered ‘get-out’ clause on windfall tax Jeremy Hunt hopes suspending energy profits levy if Brent crude falls below $71.40 a barrel will aid investment EndQuote The cheapest form of energy on the grid by miles is Wind yet appantly were levying a windfall tax on those suppliers because the price is set on the cost gas you couldn't get a more broken fked up market
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  14725. The fundamental reason the economy needs high levels of SUPPLY SIDE CHEAP LABOUR is the Conservative economic policies are supply side trickle down aka Thatcherism If you invest in Social and Physical infrastructure up skilling your own workforce adding more automated processes through investment you need less migrant Labour
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  14726. Even with guard rails the Trump 1st term achieved 60% of the Heritage Foundation agenda. It's clear that the US would go backwards and loose its role as the renewable world tech leaders and become increasingly isolated as the rest of the world moves forward while it goes backwards
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  14727. In what way? Sunak has abandoned every economic policy Boris stood on in 2019 that created his unwieldy coalition and moved toward a thatcherite free market model
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  14728. he got his rich elite bank account closed because he wasn't rich enough anymore He has a file of him because he is a PEP Politically Exposed Person He therefore comes within the realms of AML/CTF = Anti-Money Laundering / Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Bank Secrecy Act So the've kept an eye on him for a while and any other bank will have to
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  14729. So Jacob you were taking the offshore billionaires money for doing sweet fa on tv now your complaining bit rich isnt it?
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  14730. Biden has achieved more in his 1st 2 years than nearly all in 8. He has sounded old these last few months in stark contrast to his state of the Union, what he has done though is lock in the Democrats into being bold and ambitious. Everyone said they'd never win with Obama
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  14731. There's a serious mental health issue here the thing is I think these people actually believe this stuff.
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  14732. My sub floor in the existing house was already suspended before I had an extension built. My point was the speed and cost of installation V Screed (Concrete over layer) which we have over here for underfloor heating. Underfloor heating of any stripe is marvelous I love it  @ohrosberg 
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  14733. It wouldn't have made any difference, 2 days On Trump is back on go to school crowd together don't wear masks it will go away someday, and even having him say this crap he's indoctrinated 35% of the people that now think it's fake
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  14734. Given DJT'S slurred speech as he goes off the rails at campaign events most evenings and the creepy way he talks about women like a lecherous Grandpa dont get the feeling hes going to get enough womens votes somehow. Or for that matter men who think presidents should be more statesmanlike than talking about Arnold Palmers junk size
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  14735. If the Tories are doing sticking plaster politics the glue is falling off rapidly Johnson out on maneuvers to try and wreck Sunak's protocol deal and re-anoint himself king, real IRA surfacing again cap on energy prices due to stop shelves empty?
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  14736. When they put a figure on a policy all the Tories and the media did was talk about the number NOT the policies behind it. Because the MSM are Con driven were not allowed an adult discussion.
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  14737. When they put a figure on policies all the Tory media did was talk about the figure not the policies so nothing in the way of an adult conversation just constant made up figures by Tories saying how your taxes would go up
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  14738. Cameron only got 36% and pushed through draconian cuts to public services undermined UK workers with zero hour gig economy and allowed a referendum on the EU with a large number of people voting leave as a protest vote
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  14739. That is blatantly untrue
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  14740. She's an ERG nut job divorced from reality and not even Conservative
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  14741. 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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  14742.  @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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  14743. 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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  14744.  @victorzvyagintsev1325  90% of people have left only the old timers have stayed and joining the federation of their own will? You don't get free will in Putin's Stalinist shitholes
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  14745.  @TheMercWithMouth  not to mention removing FOM has actively increased migration
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  14746. The GOP are not very keen on having to vote on what was Sedition
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  14747. 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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  14748.  @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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  14749.  @PrimusPete  couple of things First 75% of the media are seamless with the Tories there just blatant propaganda tools there's a great video by Byline called the Billionaires bitch Second I've worked with no end of managers and he comes over as a team leader not afraid to put people in post who will lead at that department, Reeve is an economist graduate from the LSE
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  14750. On pedals trickle down Thatcherism the other doesn't
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  14751. They fight so we don't have too imperialism has no limits
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  14752. The current demand curve is what's called a Duck curve, we have enough capacity to meet peak demand, all you do is charge Cars off peak by offering low rates for overnight charging Oh Wait My provider already does this
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  14753. Net zero reduces energy costs and prioritising tax cuts over investment drives up legal migration Wrong on all counts
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  14754. Given everyone bar the hard right think tanks see neoliberalism as a failure even its bastion the IMF can't see that happening if your not putting up taxes your going to have to rejig the tax system for example to reduce the benefits budget you can rise thresholds and increase the minimum wage freeing up money it's not rocket science  @eightiesmusic1984 
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  14755. Its cheaper to go Net zero than stay as we are here are some facts 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 (this is why) 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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  14756.  @marumaru6084  the cost of not going is more than double 6% gdp per annum is 48 billion Additional cost of being tied to gas and fossil is 104 billion
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  14757. The IHT on farms is to stop people like DYSON buying up farms and driving up prices to avoid IHT Family farms have a limit of 3 million quote The updated relief can in fact be even more generous for true family farms than the £1m headline. A married couple owning a farm together can split it in two, meaning it qualifies for £2m of agricultural property relief, plus another £500,000 for each partner if a property is involved. That means a farm worth £3m might pay zero inheritance tax, said Arun Advani, associate professor of economics at the University of Warwick and a director of CenTax.
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  14758. You got better broadband through Biden's infrastructure package to post that?
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  14759.  @tomsheppard378  Brexit is a complete sh1tsh0w and one of the reason's the economy nosedived when Truss tried to borrow for tax cuts
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  14760. 2008 banking crash get your figures right
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  14761. 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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  14762. Walking a picket line supporting Union workers Can't be seen to not support the billionaire's making even more money Surly there's a law against it? @davedontcare-lp3bm 
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  14763.  @mesolithicman164  yet look at Hinckley C it will cost 10's of billions in subsidies meanwhile we could have had 2 or 3 Tidal projects up and running at the same cost, multiple wind farms every house in the UK insulated etc. For nuclear this is the Answer not big white elephant projects Rolls-Royce SMR is a low-cost clean energy solution, using proven and commercially available technology to deliver a fully integrated, factory built nuclear reactor
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  14764.  @chrisd5964  yes probably, I was a technical analyst before I retired the more I look at treasury data and actual contract prices for renewables the worse the problem appears to be in how embedded fossil subsidies have gotten into the system. Our oil and gas fields are bigger than Norway's by a few % points yet they have extracted 500 billion more in tax from them compared to the UK. That includes the Thatcher and Blair years as well as the current 13 years. Subsidies for renewals have been around 60 billion during that period. Our tax base is lower but that's a lot of money squandered
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  14765.  @nottyash100  the drilling points are on the Moor near Manchester they were stopped when they caused a 2.9 earthquake, if you rupture the ground between the shale and the water table you'll poison the water supply for Greater Manchester. Aside from that it's price is still controlled by world commodity prices. There is zero benefit to the consumers wind energy is cheap and available now not years down the line
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  14766. Look Corbyn is trying to take people back to the 1960's his message was garbled he's extremely unlikeable the guy is stuck in a time warp he's not been anything else but an an MP since the mid 80's and as a leader he has as much charisma as a 3 day old dead fish on a radiator. The labour manifesto went off on nationalising a number of industries instead of focusing on the current issues. You have to be be seriously bad as a politician to loose to the current bunch of Tory idiots but hey he managed it with record losses.
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  14767. He's really hell bent on poking Putin's buttons, Vlad lost the propaganda war before it started Zalensky has ensured permanent insurrection if he tries and occupies and any Putin Puppet would be seen as a traitor. His lay down your arms to Russian soldiers is aimed at the non combatants in the resupply convoys that will be coming under fire not sure how anyone can see how this ends
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  14768. Bullying is rife in Westminster the current lot are getting flack because there entitlment stupidity and incompetence makes it worse Having to repeatedly tell incompetent people the truth of their actions doesn't go down well they want Yes men
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  14769. Same economic policies as Lettuce Liz If you want to lower immigration invest in physical and social infrastructure by making the tax system equitable and progressive so your domestic workforce is trained If you go down low tax Tory supply side economics then you need to feed it supply side migration or it doesn't work
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  14770. @paulwalker2777  they can't thier economic model doesn't work without immigration neither does Reform's, if you want Thatcherism you get migration
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  14771. changing to renewables is an economic strategy where doing it because its economically cheaper to go that way the countries that do will have a huge advantage in terms of cheap energy
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  14772.  @iknowyoureright8564  how out of date are you? Its 2023 Not 2017 Renewables haven't been subsidised in years and even Tidal is more viable than Nuclear Hinckley C is late costs have shot up build time is nearly a decade
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  14773. We have unique topography in the world for Tidal Cost of Hinkley C 33 Billion so far 3 years late + 35 Billion in subsidies over 35 years. Cost of a Tidal system based on Swansea Bay for the equivalent output 50 billion + it could be staggered (as in not 1 big system) which would have the lifetime of 50-100 years Renewables aren't subsidised haven't been for years. Generation is built on a guaranteed forward contract price for a minimum number of UNITS. Hinkley C is currently expected at 110p, Dogger Bank is expected at 40-42p both have inflation built into their contracts. Dogger Bank OffShore has a Capital cost of 9 Billion as opposed to Hinkley C's 68 billion total over 35 years (so far)  @iknowyoureright8564 
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  14774. Last I heard it was 14% that was a reliable source and this week
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  14775.  @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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  14776. he tried there was no evidence meanwhile blabber mouth can't shut the fk up to save his life
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  14777.  @mjk8710  Your advocating a vote for a party who are proposing to give the biggest tax break in history to the wealthy? quote Reform's plan to raise the higher rate threshold from £50,271 to £70,000 would amount to a tax cut worth almost £6,000 for the top 10% of earners, vastly overshadowing the benefit to the lowest earners.
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  14778. If you look at the scale of the fees if you can afford 20k a year after tax then it will have very little effect
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  14779. Fox viewers must be really stupid the disconnect from facts and reality is total
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  14780. RIP Tories bye bye hope to never see you again
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  14781. They didn't count on loosing Nevada, Arizona and Georgia, the plan always was to install faithless electors in Pennsylvania if they lost it by throwing loads of mud at the election
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  14782. There replacing energy sources at a rapid clip with renewables Germany is building like crazy
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  14783. Sunak is a hard c9re Thatcherite Truss is a Libertarian
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  14784. I was thinking that what right thing? @jonathanfell688 
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  14785. Tice just wants to turn the UK into a Libertarian sh1thole for the 1% don't delude yourself
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  14786. The root cause of this countries problems are Austerity and trickle down economic policies which have repeatedly failed over the last 14 years adding 1.5 trillion to UK debt Reeve will peruse a broadly centre left economic agenda which will repair our social floor enabling capitalism to stand half a chance for 10's of millions in the country.
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  14787. Wind and solar are only just getting started we need more asap given its x3 cheaper than Nuclear & Coal
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  14788. @davidsea1482  the more renewables we get the cheaper it will be here's why Hinkley C nuclear reactor costs 33 billion + 30 billion in subsidies over 35 years has a guaranteed unit price of 110p per unit + inflation The equivalent offshore wind farm producing the same amount of electricity costs 9-10 billion + 750 million for a Tesla MegaPack onshore the unit costs are currently around 42p Neither the wind turbine nor the grid storage has an input fuel cost there's just maintenance therfore your contract price doesn't go up with inflation You need base load but currently we only have 17% wind it could be as high as 60% and still operate you only need 30% base load remember the storage to get these working effectively is regarded as base load
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  14789. You can get therapy for believing in batsh1t conspiracy theories
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  14790. Sounds like both of them having been snorting Lysol the sense they made A plot so elaborate they don't even understand what there talking about.
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  14791.  @peterrauth118  Ahhh maligning the Orange Jesus
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  14792.  @dawhite115  don't forget all the Voter suppression from ID that only old gimmers have to setting the date before university breakup then running a fiction lead dystopian campaign of a world would end if Labour got in + you don't need to bother we've lost don't let them have a super majority. I hope Labour put in some common sense rules for campaigning the Tory toxic sewer was on full discharge
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  14793. Wow that's brutal You got so much in in such a short advert
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  14794. ​ @Lawlzinator Trump smells bad it's no secret. He's had a junk food diet and has been on various drugs such as Aderol
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  14795. It's strait out racism being black in the WH He does go on dribbling out of both sides of his mouth, he really needs committing to the looney asylum
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  14796. f you want more productivity you invest in social and physical infrastructure not piss money away on corporate tax cuts
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  14797.  @mikewilson8513  The reason is if you look at what won the seats for the Lib-dems Greens and Labour it was activist canvasing on the ground Reform are mostly media hype when you talk to voters and explain their bullsh1t and racism support drains away and that's why there so spread out
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  14798. Yea right lets do an Oswald Mosley and blame it all on migrants whip up the Gammons an hand out the Brown Shirts There refugees Its against International Law which we signed onto in 1950 Its sick Its also being used as a distraction from whats really going on in the country The Tories have removed 40% of council funding over the last 12 years so blame them for your fkin potholes overcrowded schoos etc not some poor Asylum seeker
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  14799. You don't negotiate with Terrorists and the Russians are the arse end of civilization the Ukrainians got it spot on nicknaming them Orks
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  14800. No mention 9f the near 100 billion in tax breaks scattered through the system Or That since oil and gas exploration in the North Sea Norway has collected 500 billion more in tax
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  14801.  @eliakimjosephsophia4542  Its a p1ss poor town made even poorer by Austerity and it's population left to rot the breeding ground for populism
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  14802. There's nothing left to cut the reason the economy is tits up is lack of infrastructure spending over 13 years so stuff like RAAC will keep cropping up more frequently. what we need to do is Get Rid of The Trickle Down Cr@p and invest in the country for a change @MinkieWinkle 
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  14803. The working man is a raging xenophobe that votes UKIP they need a broader appeal
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  14804. He's going to put a nut job in RFK in charge of health and Musk who has halved the value of twitter in charge of taking a chainsaw to the federal state which will crash the markets Such wonderful qualities which reason are you voting for him Racism? Misogyny or do you want your 401k to shrink by 50% ?
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  14805.  @andrewrcmadwilkinson6999  15 minute cities are a great idea put people before cars
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  14806. They pedal the same Libertarian globalisation economic polocies that Sunak does so it won't change a bit
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  14807. The Tories supply sided cheap labour into a low wage zero hour GIG economy undermining established businesses there now doing it to the Professional and Middle Class its not about the migration its government policy that's driving wages down. 2010 to now Germany has seen a 20% rise in average wages we've seen squat so don't blame the migrants blame the Tories
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  14808. He has all sorts of insane ideas like people with kids get extra votes for thier kids till their 18. Probably have to be married white and Christian tho
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  14809. Has he ever read the constitution
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  14810. This is everything that's wrong with the country and the tax system 200+ million in dodgy foreign supplier contracts while UK manufacturers where given the Bird meaning the 160 million left the country Of the 60 million it went through shell companies offshore thus avoiding tax. That's 200 million bled out of the economy by these vultures with government help
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  14811. 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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  14812. Put clowns in charge get a circus Only 4 years of this left to go sigh
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  14813. What does Jihad literally mean? striving “Jihad” literally means striving, or doing one's utmost. Within Islam, there are two basic theological understandings of the word: The “Greater Jihad” is the struggle against the lower self – the struggle to purify one's heart, do good, avoid evil and make oneself a better person
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  14814.  @uhtreduhtredsson1721  language especially in the Law matters.
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  14815. Sunak hasn't answered a single question in PMQ's what's the point
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  14816. No they won't Abbot was a liability to the majority of voters in the centre, the last thing Labour needed was an Abbot Gaffe mid campaign. She was a PR disaster as a shadow cabinet member
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  14817.  @susannahhunt100  what do they want now Labour have already called for a ceasefire and a 2 state solution? and it looks like Diane is going a bit loco
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  14818. The stock market is all over the shop, the big tech companies have been soaring due to realignment because of the pandemic, plans for distributed and virtual systems as well as large scale cloud development has shifted at breakneck pace to accommodate remote and travel free working. On the other side is a huge shift away from fossil, renewable is here the latest battery technology isn't just going into cars large scale solutions for grid storage which saves utility companies millions is appearing. Then there's Tesla and Amazon, automation is just round the corner.
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  14819. Corbyn was naive at best and a completely out of touch peacenik from the 70's at worst which is why he got booted from the party in the end
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  14820. he doesn't have a plan other than tie us to fossil fuels in perpetuity because Policy Exchange pulls his strings
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  14821. In the UK were in the mess were in because Green policies where abandoned we should have at least 3 working Tidal systems by now. 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 Labour 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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  14822. ​ @DonPedroTheDude GOP royalty from the Bush era. Haley was polling around 20-25% in the primaries even after she stood down. DJT was as usual racist and abusive to her. A lot of GOP women have had enough of him being a jerk not exactly a role model if you have kids
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  14823.  @AtlasPharaoh  the enemy of my enemy is my friend I'd also add it does the US no good having 1 party taken over by conspiracy nuts, anti vaxers and ChristoFascists
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  14824. The answer to a right wing economic failure is a more extreme version of what got us here in the 1st place are you joking?
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  14825. Net zero will lower electricity bills and produce energy independence why do you think the billionaire and fossil lobby are so keen to get it stopped
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  14826. Benito Trumpolini gets empathy gimme a break the evil little goat lives in a gilded cage
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  14827. His speeches are fine and he still rides a bike, you slow down a bit as you get older but he's in good shape for his age
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  14828.  @Austech  And yet the Democrats are achieving stuff and Biden is widely respected on the world stage I had a father that died of altzheimers and a mother in law with early stages and a 92 year old mother that is fine just slowing down, Biden doesn't have Altzheimers
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  14829.  @Austech  Inflation is a complex thing part of the roots of the current round start with the Trump Corporate tax cuts which weren't paid for by growth but additional debt, you also had expansion of the money supply during covid like every nation on the planet. In saying that the bulk of current inflation is Supply Side Corporate Inflation on essential commodities food and energy of which there is no quick fix from what I've seen in current proposals a global minimum Corporate tax rate of 15% is going to be enforced this is a huge win for every country not just the US and you also have numerous measures to switch away from fossil fuels which will remove long term remove commodity based energy inflation. So yes there getting stuff done the complaints I've seen against what there doing in economic terms have been regurgitated supply side economic theory which has been proved ineffective on multiple occasions and would lead to a recession high interest rates and high unemployment.
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  14830.  @Austech  First off I'm not leftist like the bulk of people I'm somewhere in the middle. Second the Murdoch media have been running these hit clip pieces since Joe entered the race for the WH same story pretty much on all of them. Getting a climate bill done getting an infrastructure bill done as well as galvanizing and leading NATO in its crisis hour is getting stuff done to me. If you want to know why Supply Side Economics (Trickle Down) sucks so bad read Arguing with Zombies by Paul Krugman a Nobel prize winning economist
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  14831. Most in the media are centrist,
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  14832. It saddens me you believe these people Nige gets over a million a year from a billionaire with 1.5 billion in BP & Shell shares The party has also received fossil lobby money Privitising the nhs has been the wet dream of US big pharma for decades Whatever your local reform representative may be the Head is rotten to the core just like Johnson
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  14833. You have the strongest pos Cov recovery and massive green infrastructure investment driving re shoring manufacturing in the world You're going to give all that up for what massive deregulation which will drive pollution and deaths from pollution sky high, ballooning debt from massive corporate tax cuts that send the economy into a depression? In 2019 the economy was already cooling and inflation starting to climb from the 3.5 trillion in debt loaded onto it, bonds won't survive another Trump term that affects pensions and the wider economy
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  14834. @Flaubert's Parrot is Boris's lies corruption and tricks not enough that you'd want the corrupt racist Orange blob in charge?
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  14835.  @cheekychappyo8  yea great +7 miles on a 2000 mile border a more usless specimen of a human being would be hard to find
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  14836. ​ @wallacewhybrow2705 we've had a pro Brexit government in charge for 7 years an ultra Brexit for 4 you've gotten everything you wanted at every turn yet your fantasy island Brexit has never appeared. We have a failing economy food shortages an energy crisis raw sewage in the rivers and sea the highest tax burden since ww2 When are you people going to wake up and realise it was a Con its sole purpose was to glue the Tory Party together and appease the racists and that after 7 years is still its only purpose
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  14837. There a bunch of immoral shock jocks and Murdoc is Satan's agent on Earth
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  14838. It was observation in one sentence which also contained Atlee and Blair Go read the full article ignore the headline and make up your own mind not be swayed by media spin
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  14839. They were never going to vote for Labour as it moved to centre left. The idea that the Labour base is working class is out as well they were all in on Brexit and UKIP Don't think mentioning Thatcher was a politically smart move but hey there up another +3 in the polls over the Tories @adrianpartridge5906 
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  14840. If you want to qualify for the tax you need to have earned > 1 million dollars in a single year if you make a million and one dollars you pony up 46cents in capital gains. Your talking realistically about people who have over 10 million to invest to start with and you can squirrel a good chunk away in a self managed pension. Could they not just come clean for once and admit it only affects the super rich Threaten them with Warren's wealth tax if they don't stfu
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  14841. At least you get the best economy in the G7 and record economic growth along with record private and government investment in infrastructure Even your weapons manufacturing has record exports
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  14842. We promised Ukraine we'd have their back if they gave up nuclear weapons
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  14843. She's 30's has to rent is one of the people the Tories have abandoned from that generation so is Centre Left in her politics The harm is not tugging the forelock and being a good girl and just taking it. She has lots of opinions on lots of things a clever young women that they want silenced  @Lorenz1973 
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  14844. The Reform voter base is heavily social class based, the fewer qualifications you have the more likely you will get suckered into voting for them. Redfield and Wilton did a complete breakdown of votes by education. This trend is also affecting the Conservative vote and age is a big factor as well Labour score a higher % as you go up the educational scale and down the age scale
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  14845.  @stuwhite2337  the biggest demographic to vote leave were daytime tv brain addled pensioners. The next group were ukip supporters and the ones I met were older uneducated and thick as 2 short planks.
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  14846. Any deal done and support for both would drop through the floor Anyway You need at least a decade of Labour to repair the Social floor which the Cons have broken, The sewage and energy system + housing
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  14847. Thousands of jobs have been lost at Sunderland and other car plants since 2016 there is also a halving in demand in the sector for UK cars since 2019 partly due to the pandemic but also due to export problems. The expected jobs for the new plant is about 1500 with 4500 generated in the wider supply chain The government is expected to contribute 100 million in subsidies so 66,000 per job As other car makers reduce production in the UK it is seen by Nissan as an opportunity to increase its UK market share. Due to country of origin rules non of the Sunderland cars will be tariff free to the EU or Northern Ireland and the deal probably breaches unfair competition rules due to state aid as well. So yea great deal for a non UK company to grab the UK market from UK car companies with the UK government ponying up a huge wodge of public cash
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  14848. Thatcherism never worked her economy was proper up by asset stripping, globalisation and oil money We're post globalisation and there's no assets or oil moneys left but we're still year on year getting subjected to more and more Thatcherism coz doing the same thing harder for 13 years will work next time NOT
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  14849. @michaelmccomb2594  being socially Liberal while being a raging Thatcherite on economics doesn't make him a centrist + Austerity which basically shrank the economy. He was told back in 2013 the economic paper it was based on was a pile of cr@p and the OBR estimated economic multiplier wasn't 0.5 it was calculated as costing 1.6 so actually shrinking the economy
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  14850.  @michaelmccomb2594  The thing Tories fail to grasp is Thatcherism was a One Off the tax cuts where paid for with Oil money and they didn't generate the growth. If your interested Origin Story did a couple of excellent podcasts Centerism : Stuck in the middle with you Neoliberalism : everything is for sale
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  14851. We have a Conservative government give it a rest there about as compassionate as a guillotine operator
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  14852. Fillibuster? Yea that's got to go first time they start this slow down shit there are 500 bills sat on Mitch's desk
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  14853. Lettuce Liz economic policies with cruelty to refugees to make the gammons feel better No Thanks
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  14854. There isn't going to e a 2nd Trump Presidency he is completely off his head, if he pleads insanity he'll get off all charges The guy is completely MAD
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  14855. @@piranone6215 low tax, low immigration the 2 are mutually exclusive. Thier running libertarian billionaire friendly economics & promising low immigration. Thier tax policy alone is unfunded by 100+ billion.
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  14856. @@piranone6215 what if they do? How much value do they add to the economy I'll tell you very little. There vast sums and tax breaks they receive go from the working economy and get mostly locked into assets. Once in say property it just adds to property and rent inflation. Since 2010 property values have risen by 66% while average wages have fallen by -7% Your just subsidising them at the expense of increasing taxation for average people on PAYE
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  14857.  @ezioauditore3128  Yet UKIP lives on in the guise of the current cabinet their one Brexit success removal of FOM. There not the party of businesses that's for sure all they have is the xenophobia
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  14858.  @hittitecharioteer  Engage and make it better or are you going to wimp out
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  14859.  @roncollins9222  Get involved in local politics
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  14860. There pedaling the same garbage Trickle down Supply Side Economics that's blighted the economy for 13 years aka Thatcherism trying to come up with novel excuses why this doesn't work is disingenuous. Sunak is as Thatcherite as they come what your bleating about is the inevitable result of its core policies for fiscal management This is what you voted for if you vote Tory
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  14861. sponsored by billionaire owned channels get real, libertarian economics disguised with a bit of migrant bashing, these people will fk you over at the 1st hurdle
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  14862.  @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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  14863. The bigger the overall victory the more likely you'll get some progressive policy through, minimum wage climate change and pollution legislation. Things aren't going to change there's too many ballots been cast already
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  14864. I'm retired my Father was a refugee after the war he came here via a Russian Gulag and the Polish Free Army. I was a data Analyst Here are the numbers 80,000 refugee applicants per year of which 18,000 are rejected making 62,000 given asylum into a population of 68 million. RWANDA is a gimmick If you want to lower the LEGAL immigration of 1.25 million you need to invest in UK skills. The Tories invest in nothing they chopped the nursing bursaries introduced by Labour and now were importing Nurses from Nigeria who fetch their husband and kids. The rise in legal migration is a direct result of Tory economic policy if they try cutting it they will shrink the economy further  @Cedawood 
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  14865. See how a Conservative government would handle things? We know what they would do Austerity in steroids with 12 billion in cuts and raise the pension age as well as continued pay suppression in public sector done by mass migration from the 3rd world. They have zero chance of returning to power they look absolutely stupid every time there on TV because they can't hide there incompetence and failure anymore
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  14866. He's trying to change the topic again. Back to covid ineptitude a crashed economy and a douce who calls service people losers
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  14867. That's harsh on imbeciles
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  14868. If your not interested in the content and opinion on these channels why do they bother? I guess there paid to do it it to try stir up a reaction, thier leader is so chicken and weak you'd hardly think that he'd be inspirational enough to get people to do it for free, like who'd want four more years more tax breaks for the rich it doesn't really have much of a populist ring to it.
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  14869. Elect clowns expect a Circus Driving a JCB through polystyrene bricks is about this numpties level GET CBI SPEECH DONE
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  14870.  @Docinprocess2323  Imposing 20% tariffs and rounding up migrant workers will crash the US economy it won't be a recession it will be a depression with mass unemployment. Trade wars go both ways your jeopardizing 3 trillion in US exports Ask farmers how Trumps last trade war fared export markets they spent 30-40 years building up disappear overnight permanently, 92% of the tariff money raised on US consumers went on Farm bail outs.
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  14871.  @honradcastillo637  Go research what happened to farmers when DJT ruined their export markets permanently with his China tariffs. Rising bankruptcies and a big increase in rural suicide.
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  14872. You call this running? The economy has been in shambles since 2016 and it was barely standing still then due to Osborne's gross mismanagement
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  14873. Minimum wage should be tied to a level which pulls people out of poverty and the need for government help if you don't the government is effectively subsidising business and David is right it's not a 1 size fits all 15 is way too low in city areas where living costs are higher. Keeping wages artificially low just create a sweatshop economy were people are working all hours, feel disenfranchised and has nock on effects in health, mental health etc.. as the wealthy reap the benefits of increased productivity.
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  14874. @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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  14875. cooperating with the people who run the border on the other side reclassifying people smugglers in the same light as organised crime and seizing their assets plus getting rid of the backlog that's costing us 8 billion yea right you've no idea more like it same old tub thumping rhetoric with zero results
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  14876.  @billB101  On who's say so? I have domestic storage for my solar of around 1 day of usage. You need more people like me with domestic batteries then battery storage at strategic grid nodes. Wind and nuclear are always on and you have plenty of spare off peak energy. Put a mass storage solution onto the grid costing 30 billion save 30 billion's 1st year of operation
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  14877.  @billB101  Not so you need to understand the way the grid works. The usage is described as a Duck Curve The peak of that Curve is 4-7pm. Our grid is sized to meet peak demand, what you need to do is time shift peak demand. You do that by a number of methods The government has zero rated batteries as part of a solar install. My Provider offer a discount if I use off peak so I no longer use the grid between 4-7pm. As well as offering people cheaper energy if they use their smart appliances overnight. basically you flatten and fatten the duck curve.
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  14878. Does anyone in the Centre / Center Left and Centre Right Care to them Corbyn was completely and utterly Toxic, to them Kier is oh well or yea OK the Tories will never be able to brand him as the Unions puppet or Red Kier optics matter Quote from the Guardian believe what you want to believe but Socialist nationalise everything under Corbyn was a fantasy trip. He denied that the 10 promises he made during the 2020 race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn had been abandoned and insisted they remained “important statements of value and principle”. However, Starmer refused to confirm that he stood by several of them, including public ownership of utilities and rail services and the abolition of university tuition fees. He has been repeatedly criticised by some on the left of the party who accuse him of shifting away from the platform he stood on three years ago.
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  14879. After processing with a return rate of 20% its a mere 62,000 you should be more worried about the ones smuggled in undetected who are now working in the black economy This government are doing fk all on a whole range of connected issues on this from basic processing to modern slavery ​@tedcrilly46
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  14880. maybe Prigozhin is getting ready to jump out of a window before murdering his immediate family Another one died in India this week trying to fly out of a window in India Looked at the forecast its still not cold enough to take advantage of frozen ground the whole area will be a river of mud with roads as the only way to travel
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  14881. The people classing him as a Red Tory are the intellectual elite who controlled or mixed around Corbyn Been there with Foot and Militant Tendency Didn't work then was a disaster in 2019 both times looks like we will get an over-correct Some people never learn
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  14882. What Corbyn the big looser who handed the Tories an 80 seat majority get real
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  14883. If you want lower legal migration reintroduce FOM and enact strict labour laws to get rid of outsourcing and zero hour whenever possible while increasing tax and investing in the domestic workforce and infrastructure. 50% of the legal migration are dependents because instead of getting workers from 20 miles away its now 2,000 To reverse what the Tories did will take nearly a decade there are no quick fixes
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  14884. Trump doesn't know how to laugh, there is something deeply broken with his brain
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  14885. @Billbob228 Reform are almost as disliked by the electorate as the Tories with negative 60 as opposed to negative 70 No one outside the south east wants fracking, only the wealthy want a private health system and you'd be pretty insane to give away your human rights by leaving the ECHR
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  14886. no it won't it's a Tory scare story to go with your meat tax and seven BINS
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  14887.  @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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  14888. 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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  14889. no he wouldn't I remember Wilson as well different Times Starmer is centre left. Blair's centrism would never have countenanced setting up GBEnergy let alone spending 28 billion on it  @adriftinaboat3452 
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  14890. 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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  14891.  @twinsenstwinsens  breathing is kind of a necessity
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  14892.  @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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  14893. Just to point out Reform have 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts in there manifesto Surely we've had enough of fantasy economics?
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  14894.  @Mystictravellaz  Its to do with social and physical infrastructure investment and Thatcher. Thatcher swept like a wrecking ball through the mines, the steel industry, the car factories, shipbuilding and engineering and oversaw the demise of the communities which had built their livelihoods around them. And then put nothing in no investment no retraining no nothing but asset stripping utilities to fuel tax cuts. In Germany since unification to 2019 the German government ploughed 2 Trillion Euro into the east to level up.
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  14895. new technology fast tracked what could possibly go wrong oh yea thalidomide
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  14896. It's called power dressing It makes you stand out especially in a male domin😅environment
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  14897. your talking about investigating someone who was on PAYE not deliberately screwing the system for millions with offshore accounts, this isn't the gotcha the Tories think it is with the Carers scandal just emerging it shows a system that hounds working people for pennies while allowing the elite to stick 2 fingers up at us
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  14898. Why if you were politically active would you waste your vote? I'm 67 and studied Economics and British Government and political systems at College as A levels on top of My OND My issue with expanding the franchise is the disproportionate amount of policies which impact young people from education funding to a huge increase in stealth taxes for graduates. We are at a stage were these policies will backfire on the whole of the economy as the Cons bend over backwards to Bribe the Grey vote again.
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  14899. Then why would you be so disrespectful of your vote I'm 67 by the way my father and uncle fought in the war to keep this country free @keighlancoe5933 
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  14900. Thatcherism doesn't invest it just asset stripping Osborne cut loads of Labour's programs
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  14901. It's not wasted it has an average return of £1.60p in the £1 in increased gdp tax recipients
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  14902. feared by the billionaire class? There the ones bankrolling him with well over a billion he'd be dead and buried by now if they weren't propping him up given the fact he's quite clearly sundowning through some of his events and totally mentally unfit to run a charity stall let alone the US
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  14903. Reform are further right Tories with all the dour economic baggage thier policies have created. People want working services not more boat people performative bs
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  14904. There aren't millions of oil and gas jobs in Texas and you can't save the oil industry it needs 40-50 $ a barrel to be viable and the Saudi's can dump oil at any time. Everyone needs to get out of oil as fast as possible due to renewable's the Saudi's know demand is going to fall worldwide and are bricking it that there going to be sat on a product no one wants.
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  14905. It's 5% of the population get a grip
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  14906.  @fkingdeplorable2858  I can read further than last week
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  14907.  @nunyabiz4460  Dymytro Firtash was getting Russian money and using it to bribe politicians including the head prosecutor to NOT investigate Burisma a company he was a director in. He's been indited in Chicago for bribery in 2019 bunged 1 million to Guilianni and is a player in the attempts to gin up false dirt on Joe Biden Shokin was up to his neck in kickbacks But hey Hunters emails like who cares the guy was off his head on crack needs sympathy and support to get clean, maybe Don Jnr and his Girlfreind should see his drug councillor seeing as there high on blow every time I see them on tv.
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  14908.  @Turtlehands  that's total rubish Shokin was fired with pressure not just from Obama but with pressure from the EU Hunter was cleared in 2019 by the then top prosecutor who said he had no evidence of wrongdoing
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  14909.  @earlofmar7987  he wasn't investigating Burisma and multiple countries wanted him gone he was taking multiple kickbacks and was completely bent and the brits don't care there the Laundromat of the world uk banks are always getting fined
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  14910.  @earlofmar7987  Shokin was lining his pockets Biden was doing Obama and the EU bidding when he pressured the Ukrainians your living on fantasy Island if you think the vice president gets to call those sort of world security shots. Where do you get this fantasy stuff from its unhinged you can check all this in European publications its common knowledge and the EU don't bend to the US beck and call both were singing from the same hymn sheet
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  14911. 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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  14912.  @AndrewWilliams-ry6tb  The lib dems won more seats because they had more people on the ground canvasing for them and they are known to be able to run stuff through being in power at council level. Reform are a gobsh1te mouthing off about migration and selling snake oil the level of dumb to vote for that is evenly spread
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  14913. and who are Reform's donors exactly and why are they parroting fossil lobby talking points all the time?
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  14914. How do you figure there not competent? They locked up rioting yobos in double quick time Canned Rwanda on day 1 Expressed multiple renewable projects through the system And Nationalised 2 key parts of the grid infrastructure yet were only at the beginning of October
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  14915.  @oneoflokis  It's a non competitive seat and will vote Labour no matter what, given her gaffe ridden career its no surprise that Mr Ruthless cut his losses so he didn't get an Abbot special mid campaign.
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  14916.  @ItsDeffoScott  The SNP motion was kept back and presented last minute and has problematic language in it. Labour's motion was legally watertight with international Law "collective punishment " is a legal term under the Geneva convention its no wonder it got superseded it needs deliberating via a court. Aren't you glad a legal call or a ceasefire that also highlighted settler expansion passed?
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  14917.  @sigmaputin6888  so the 6.5% of the population are going to rise up are they? And do what to the 93.5%? You need to stop mainlining stuff like Gammon Box News
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  14918. He's going to start the Coup Klux Klan party
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  14919. Perfect Conservative why is he still not pm
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  14920.  @marslpv2333  there like headless chickens at the moment, corporate profits are strong new emerging technologies are going to drive things forward.
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  14921.  @marslpv2333  just seen some calls profits up do these people wear diapers :) Just like to add a lot of the tech Corp are cash rich guess there crying about no buy backs
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  14922. I listened to this it was OK the guy Robert Colvile, director of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) Believes in small state Low Taxes - converting Thatcherism to a religious cult open your eyes the attempt at small state low taxes has after 13 years imploded in on itself and ended as high taxes fked services expanded state. Supply side trickle down expands the wealth gap removal of regulations ends up with tons of shyte in our rivers and sea and labour shortages are taken care of by banning strikes while allowing zero hour and fire rehire. so much for small fkin state more like fascist state
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  14923. they run trickle down low tax deregulated Liz Truss style economics so theirs zero chance of either keeping the economy afloat or bringing down immigration
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  14924. We had voter suppression with ID cards and endless talk of a super majority also the Tory messaging was project fear on steroids take a look at some of the Tory messaging it's dystopian
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  14925.  @windsolarupnorth7084  were at the bottom off the S curve with net zero and EV's In the last 10 years the cost of producing energy from renewables has dropped by 95% becoming on par with gas generation in 2019. It's predicted that battery prices will double in capacity& halve in cost over the next few years. I used to work in the energy sector having EV'S plugged into a meshed grid will save energy suppliers billions
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  14926. Electricity generated from Nuclear is already between 3 & 4 times the cost of renewables. its a Japan only solution at best @Species-lj8wh 
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  14927. They have a level of housing and medical facilities to support their decision as well as a sparsely populated country Our health service has been run down to the point of breaking and housing + social density is a major issue
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  14928. Labour had said it would cap bills at £1,971 in 2022/23, while Friday’s announcement from Ofgem will see a typical household billed £1,717 per year from October 1, which is lower than Labour pledged. But hey don't let facts get in the way
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  14929. Brexit is done my Mrs. fills in thousands of pages of documentation weekly to prove it
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  14930.  @johnowen1677  that will be never then, even if supply chains and exports where magically rerouted out of the EU there would still be thousands of pages of import/export documentation
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  14931.  @markthompson6540  my wife works for Ann SME thier business is crateriing because of Brexit it might work for the Hedge Funds but it completely fks everyone else. One in 10 SME is expected to fold impact on investment is incalculable
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  14932. You got what you voted for the biggest contraction during one government in personal disposable income and wages Just get used to it brexit makes you poorer
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  14933. nope Truss takes that mantle followed by Cameron then Johnson
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  14934.  @smokerise  The democrats don't want your vote because this sort of misogynistic behaviour disgusts them. You deserve to be Trump's lapdog mouthpiece
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  14935. Its the last refuge against Government overreach Quote How Human Rights Secured Victory for the Hillsborough 96 UK Political Parties Should Vow to Keep, Not Ditch, the Human Rights Act The act has also empowered victims, by requiring proper investigations into deaths apparently at the hands of the state or due to the negligence of state officials. Without this, the gross negligence behind the deaths at Hillsborough would never have been uncovered – a case made with great eloquence by Barry Devonshire, whose son Chris died at Hillsborough. There is surely no better example of how human rights laws protect ordinary UK citizens.
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  14936. Brexit is the bale of hay that broke the camels back its overloaded every nook of the economy 2010 debt to gdp 62% 2019 debt to gdp 92% 2023 projected debt to gdp 103% So like you have to be fkin kidding on tax cuts
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  14937. Then why has it been proven to lower bills where implemented?
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  14938. Its only going to speed up renewable deployment and incresed emphasis on insulation and domestic solar + battery
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  14939.  @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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  14940. Were short of approximately 1.2 million workers, we have a stagnant economy and the Cons are importing people by the back door from Nigeria Philippines and India, without serious immigration the economy will shrink because the Conservatives run Supply Side Economics which needs a steady stream of cheap labour. So when they stand on their soap box and tell you immigration is a problem ask them why they are giving out visa's to anyone outside the EU like confetti?
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  14941.  @iang68  120+ billion in unfunded tax cuts Fracking which no one outside the south east wants Show pony immigration policy which is worse than the Cons Indoctrination of my grandkids with patriotic studies dictated by Her Farage Removing my human rights etc
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  14942. Prediction on current numbers is 4 Hopefully the lib-dems will be the official opposition
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  14943. So he really wants to be a Fascist dictator, the amount of verbal diarrhea coming out of this A hole is amazing
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  14944. The cull begins 3 weeks from now the reopening will hit the hospitals The fukwit just doesn't have a clue latest is people coming into A and E who have had an accident (fallen over) and there finding thier in the later stages of hypoxia with oxygen levels you'd find at extreme alltitude, when they investigate they've had creeping pneumonia caused by covid 19.
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  14945. Well done EU beats our world beating total of 64.2% There appears to be nothing the Tories aren't capable of screwing up.
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  14946. You actually belive all this bs? Reform are rebadged UKIP that sold you brexit on the back of reducing migration both legal and illegal have skyrocketed there completely full of sh1t
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  14947. Most of the feds trillions of printed money has spiralled up to the 1% if you tax them it would bring down inflation and reduce the debt
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  14948.  @tallymay7407  its called a wealth 5wx the IMF recommended it to countries to rebalance their budgets post covid. The days of tax havens are coming to an end
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  14949. I vote Lib Dem always been centre am more center left as I get older
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  14950.  @crawford1083  I'd agree with you on pr but why Reform the would implement the same supply side trickle down economic policies that Sunak is doing and has led to what will be a decade of stagflation?
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  14951.  @crawford1083  what does that word salad even mean?
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  14952.  @crawford1083  I raise the question because woke as used is meaningless. Back years ago the right had a war on what they call political correctness. WOKE itself just means don't be a racist xenophobic sexist homophobic A hole? Dredging up grievences and giving them a label isn't much of a reason to be politically affiliated. I'd have thought your income housing education climate change would feature?
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  14953.  @garyc7464  what monetary policy do they have that would improve my finances? Do they have a policy of moving away from fossil? What's their policy on public transport infrastructure?
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  14954. So how exactly how would the Ukrainians get a lorry packed full of explosives to be driven onto the bridge then detonated?
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  14955. Anyone believing Tice's elite populist BS needs deprogramming. Fracking = scared landscape more money for fossil fuel companies Deregulation = more pollution, worse working conditions Lower tax = lower for corporations the public can go f themselves
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  14956. @blakethegreatone2058  I look at long term trends because I have a lot invested, auto corrections can be brutal on such a long run. My stocks are still +14% since January I have them on a spreadsheet. Economy always does better under a Democratic President Quote Bloomberg There is still a pronounced Democratic advantage in nearly every measure of macroeconomic performance. Positive indicators like growth in gross domestic product (GDP), income, and wages are faster, while negative indicators like unemployment, inflation, and interest rates are lower
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  14957. He's been putting stuff in the wrong column for decades and NY will be handing him a big bill + the IRS 80 mill he has to pay back + the 1/2 a billion he owes to god knows who So he's broke then
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  14958. everyone insults DJT he's a complete fkwit
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  14959. 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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  14960. did it never occur to you they were just following the law? By the way the increase is down to Brexit and the Tories, vote for clowns you get a circus
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  14961. 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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  14962. no it isn't its election loosing where is a spare couple hundred billion?
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  14963. ending FOM was always going to increase migration experts told you so you wouldn't listen
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  14964.  @mikeg2939  enjoy your tax rises with the shortfall of 50 billion tax receipts a year
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  14965.  @mikeg2939  economic reality. The economy is stagnant average wages have shrunk by - 6.1% compared to 2010. Bankruptcy numbers are at record levels.
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  14966.  @mikeg2939  crowing about low to no growth? We've had it for 14 years on and off Germany got 1 quarter. If you want to get an idea of how bad things really are head to the Resolution Foundation and read Ending Stagnation
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  14967. Oh yes they are Sunak the most Thatcherite you've had
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  14968. The Trump administration couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery, but at least you'll get spin spin and more spin on how well he's dealing with it
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  14969. Why did you think they were lying? Conservative economic policy needs supply side labour to keep taxes low, there never going to stop legal migration
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  14970. A couple currently can leave 1 million to a close relative as in child This is unlikely to change due to high housing costs in the South East
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  14971. They will change a lot of things Planning Reform will be seismic enabling expedited GRID rollout + a big push to build council houses. Currently councils are hemorrhaging money on housing support to the private sector
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  14972. Economy is fked from brex1t and there's been no growth for 14 years with real disposable income shrinking Also the Tories have increased the debt by +1.6 trillion It's going to take a while to fix
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  14973. That's nonsense the rate has been down to 1.16 at various stages its now 1.19 Just showed how fked over by brexit we got used to be 1.50 The licences are for exploration if you pull the subsidies and make it clear there will be no production the licences will lapse
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  14974.  @AJ-qn6gd  why? Pound was 1.16 at one stage it went up not down
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  14975. About 3 Grand inc fitting we had a load of scaffolding up for the extension build already. Fitting it is a piece of cake the roofer put the rail lugs and rails on when tiling. @dandlion7748 
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  14976. ​@RemoanersRtossersPhillipino nurses fetch over thier Husband and Kids on semi permanent visas of the 1.25 million immigrants last year 1/2 were dependents. EU workers tended to be younger and more transient. The 500,000 leaving are the higher educated who can easily work anywhere creating a brain drain So much for taking back control all they've done is completely fk thing up
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  14977. He's spent the last few weeks behaving like a racist as3h0le ​I wouldn'tcall that floundering just going back to type. @matthewframpton8737
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  14978. He ran NO10 like a frat house all that was left was the Toga Party and a Conga led by Johnson through the gardens. I don't know anyone who broke the rules He lies all the time No Border in the Irish Sea - Lie Oven Ready deal - Lie Best Economy in the G7 - Lie World beating Vaccine Rollout - Lie Get Brexit Done - Lie Levelling Up - Lie We won't break the Triple lock - Lie We won't increase taxes - Lie (15+ and counting)
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  14979. Yes
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  14980. Boris is always saying world beating but the only world beating industry we have is money laundering with its tentacles all over the Tories and the current cabinet Oh And Pritti Patel's world beating lack of empathy And Johnson's world beating incompetence, if Russian Oligarchs give you money its for a reason you blonde muppet
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  14981. Why there just rebadged Con/UKIP
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  14982.  @Dubya-i3v  why would anyone vote for a Party that were that clueless they put Liz Truss in charge, Sunak is barely credible either he doesn't have a clue on the economy all you'd get is another 5 years of Stagflation
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  14983. The ft 250 is up 1.18% on the news people are expecting an easier trading environment for small businesses not the ongoing chaos of Tory rule
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  14984. Trump is completely batshit crazy and is going to go more mental nearer the election, the paranoia is going to ramp up to 11 and expect more nut job speeches like the 4th of July one.
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  14985. Stop bleating on about IHT its up to 1 million for a couple to an immediate relative
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  14986. Since Liz Truss started her campaign in the last 2 for leader 500 billion has been wiped off UK asset values culminating with a near collapse of the Gilt market. We are debt loaded to > 100% GDP
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  14987. There's been multiple foiled attempts on democrats as well , just the authorities doing their job. The overwhelming factor of the last 2 attacks on Trump where they were nut jobs
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  14988. Norway Sweden is up to 60% Its all about storage base load and load balancing for the 40% Nuclear takes to long to build and deploy around 10 years minimum at x 4 times the cost
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  14989. Bit rich Corbyn calling someone a coward when he folded and gave Johnson an election on a plate. Biggest act of political cowerdice I've ever seen bumbling fool needs to keep his nose out no one needs advice from a political looser.
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  14990. There doing it as we speak, nearly all the push for housing is in high rent areas + There tightening up the rules on sales
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  14991. @MyColly-q1j  Most are looking into modular homes you build them in a factory and not from brick
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  14992.  @nathanaelsmith3553  You can build with SIP panels onto a steel frame and even get the panels precut in a factory. You can get the whole house done in a factory if you want SIP = Structurally insulated Panels They make a roof sheeting equivalent. Would easily last 100 years and there more thermally efficient than a standard house from the get go
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  14993. You were calling for Eco protesters to be locked up and the key thrown away but someone who was conspiracy theory crazy trying to start a riot is somehow to be treated differently?
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  14994. There destroying themselves because they followed UKIP and headed right, there run by far right think tanks Policy Exchange (Sunak) and IEA (Truss)
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  14995.  @temimegraham1904  When the pandemic hit the market and the economy split into 2 tech basically went on its own way legacy firms got dragged. Costs are actually coming down due to tech innovation automation and large sums pumped into business upgrades for example to support remote working. Just look at the speed of innovation in biotechnology in 2 years
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  14996. It's not growing because of Austerity, since Osborne it's been in a self contracting spiral. Defund the justice system get more crime which reduces GDP Defund the NHS get more sick people which reduces GDP
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  14997. ​ @atifmanzoor63 safe countries was an EU thing we've left
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  14998. The bulk of current inflation is Supply Side Corporate on inelastic essential commodities (food and energy) There will have to be market intervention its just what type
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  14999. He's on truth daily showing why he needs therapy His tariff policy is a sales tax on the middle and working class and combined with his tax cuts for the rich will cause a reccesion and explode the debt
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  15000. The motion is political posturing why even go there Isreal isn't going to listen All parties have supported a 2 state solution for decades yet there's continued expansion by settlers
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  15001.  @safariyamaishayetu4144  whatever stance he takes will have zero effect And We will follow the US lead as they have at least some sway
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  15002. Most of the information on the Heritage foundation it's links to dark money billionaire funding and fossil industry donations is freely available. As are the myriad of connections between project 2025 and senior Trump staffers
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  15003. You can't believe anything he says after claiming Trump has friends
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  15004. 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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  15005. legal definition Female human being; a person assigned a female sex at birth, or a person who defines herself as a woman.
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  15006.  @snakeplissken5480  were talking about the word woman not sex Hence the saying moaning like an old woman
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  15007. The reason the Donald won't become the next president of the US is they can't afford him he ran the country like he runs his business on debt and grift In his 4 year term he amassed 8 trillion in US debts his 1 achievement was a tax cut for corporations and the wealthy pilling on 2 trillion to the burgeoning figure leading to 1/4 of all US debt accumulated by the Trump administration alone.
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  15008.  @Nigelforemporor  You know MAGA said bring back manufacturing Joe brought back manufacturing over 1 million jobs since he took office the 1st time this has happened in decades MAGA said make America Great Again Joe produced the biggest investment in renewable tech in the world to make the USA the world leader He's also turbo charged your Arms export businesses with the US share of global at an all time record quote The US sold a record $238bn (£187bn) worth of weapons abroad last year. The figure includes $81bn in deals - negotiated directly by the US government - with countries including Poland, Australia and Germany.
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  15009. Reform aren't Conservative The 23% only stuck with them over project fear and negative campaigning after 5 year clown car show Starmer being mild competent will seem like a great leap
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  15010. Only 4% pay IHT you can get the figure up to 1 million Also Sipps (pension }are exempt
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  15011. The point is the indignation by the client media, all MP's accept freebies, the level that Labour MP's have done it is no different to Tories. and The worst sort of bribery is things like Farage getting over 1 million a year from an offshore billionaire
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  15012. Great looking forward to some true leadership instead of Wishy Washy
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  15013. I don't have an offshore trust to evade IHT and don't need one as my estate will not be over 1 million which won't change whoever gets in and 40% of benefit claimants are working and are in what is economic slavery in a low wage economy created by relentless pay freezes in the public sector and complete failure to regulate the GIG economy and Zero Hour low wage contracts and Outsourcing. If you destroy the social floor you also destroy the capitalist ladder for the bulk of the population.
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  15014.  @geraldbutler5484  Tory lite doesn't exist never has there is a seismic chasm between the Tories and everyone else what people seem obsessed with is symbolic change Take energy the call from the left is this huge symbolic renatonalize everything, firs France who are taking the remaining 20% of EDF into public ownership are starting from owning what is a public company run as such and even after that it only provides 70% of Frances electric. Take our setup its a real mish mash the market that is set up is screwed as it charts gas spot price, I'm with Octopus there supposed to use renewables but your tariff gets dragged up, if your looking at a more pragmatic way forward its renationalize the grid and set up government companies in distribution and generation as companies either go broke or new generation is built. If the Cons had kept to Labour's green policies from 2010 then energy consumers would have saved 9 billion in last September quarter and 13 billion in December
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  15015. Trump - We know there was massive Fraud No we don't every time you go to court you get laughed at, disqualifying people's ballots because they didn't vote for you isn't a reason. Fact mail in ballots are legal now were legal in 2016 and will be legal in 2024 Fact operatives from the Republican party tried and succeeded in disqualifying huge numbers of mail in ballots from heavily democratic counties otherwise the stupid Orange Goat would have lost by even more
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  15016. Yawn voter fraud after multiple investigations runs at 0.025% Don't lie about Georgia they checked the signature's, they did a manual recount they audited the Black areas that went heavily for Biden
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  15017.  @mcstyle24  which polls? The Trump economy was built on sand and debt once campaigning is under way his numbers will slide He left with -3 million jobs -3.6% gdp + 4 million without healthcare + 8 trillion in debt (+3 trillion in corporate tax cuts) +40% trade deficit The US can't afford Trump
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  15018. The billionaire right wing think tanks fossil and pharma lobby are pouring untold amounts into pushing tax cuts for the wealthy Tax cuts generate a return of around 20p in the Pound there the most inefficient way of generating growth ever invented Productivity needs investment example 2 farmers use a horse to plough a field give 1 a tractor and you improve his productivity give him a tax cut it would have to be the mother of all tax cuts to buy a tractor
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  15019. He didn't have an agenda apart from grievance politics and tax cuts and all he has now is can obamacare
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  15020. Ahhh the party run by Elites for the Billionaires how quaint, they obviously haven't got enough sacks of cash
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  15021. It's way more complex than that and if you thought Brexit damaged the GB economy it's a fraction of the damage an economic split within GB would cause both parties
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  15022. 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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  15023.  @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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  15024. ​ @jstewart4205 why would someone who believes the garbage that reform put out switch to Tory? The Cons have an abysmal record on migration, the economy, law and order plus public health, there is no way anyone should vote for another 5 years of the worst parliamentary term in political history. This is the 1st time you will be worse off at the end of 5 year term than at the start
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  15025. If there's a 10% staff shortages and people are leaving for other jobs then there badly paid end of The government is spending billions on supply and agency staff just to depress wages and somehow its the fault of workers get a reality check for fks sake
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  15026.  @seang2700  That's completely untrue I could show you the economics of it all but the overriding principal is changing from Trickle down supply side to Keynesian demand side Economics (investment in Social and Physical infrastructure). The Brexit damage is done the bulk of it irreversible and while our future lies with closer ties with Europe that can only be done by rebuilding the likes of car manufacturing in the UK and a lot of City stuff will never return. We are chronically bad with usage of robotics for example instead of investment and efficiency we've seen 13 years of trying to beat wages down as low as possible. Brexit was bad but rejoining wouldn't resolve the underlying problems with the UK economy.
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  15027.  @martincopeland8153  When has that ever stopped Conservatives pedaling it, your issue is it's not constantly being challenged in the media. The last budget saw a millionaire pensioner tax cut a bankers tax cut and a Fossil subsidy paid for by fiscal drag on the working middle class. Absolute crickets in the media
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  15028. ​ @colinmartin2921 Contuing with GAS will cost double the cost of Net Zero transition In 2021 uk consumers spent 30 billion on energy of which renewables where the cheapest source In 2023 uk consumers will pay 170 billion of which renewables will be x7 cheaper than GAS Net zero spend comes out of the government and quickly to reduce the ongoing 140 billion in excess energy profits
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  15029. totally agree it drives me nuts now there not looking at the black economy where people can just disappear into if they've a mind @tezinho81 
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  15030. Have you factored in the carbon footprint to build an ice car? Thought not Have you factored in lithium recycling? Thought not Have you factored in the cost of green electric being half the cost of fossil without the waste? Thought not Or the fact that an electric car will do 400k miles without needing a whole array of new parts from exhausts to engines the comparisons are mind numbingly junk don't you feel embarrassed at spewing fossil propaganda?
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  15031. The right wing are spreading disinformation like wildfire, we've had four years of fascist propaganda and now this
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  15032.  @mrradman2986  wef is an elite talking shop, your ASCRIBING CONSPIRACY TO JUST BEING CR*P
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  15033.  @bwilliams572  What you've put is not true we were not a euro currency. And The IMF and Eurozone abandoned Austerity in 2012 exceptions were Greece who didn't reform it's economy
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  15034.  @bwilliams572  I'd also add our debt wasn't very big at 62% post banking bail out it was always a political choice by the government.
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  15035. Inappropriate spending cuts could "strangle" growth, so austerity measures should be tailor-made by each country, the head of the IMF warns The paper on which Osborne's Austerity was based on work by economists Rogoff and Reinhart which was widely debunked by 2013 the fiscal effect of debt especially with zero % interest rates just didn't add up so much so Austerity became an ideology rather than data driven one that the rest of the world moved on from but we ended up stuck in a time warp in because our MSM was so right leaning and Osborne didn't want to admit he was wrong so leaned back on small state waffle. Instead of an economic multiplier of 0.5 as predicted by the OBR the real economic multiplier was 1.6 shrinking our economy by 2% in real terms by 2013
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  15036.  @bwilliams572  this wasn't applicable we were not in the Eurozone and were no longer tied to the exchange rate mechanism so were free to pursue QE and the sale of our own Gilts. By 2016 our debt had risen to 82% and by 2019 92% the only thing the EU did was tell Osborne he was stupid for pursuing Austerity in 2012 it wasn't working and the IMF told him the same in 2013.
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  15037.  @bwilliams572  again your talking about something that was unenforceable in the UK as we had our own currency, the way the EU controlled members spending and deficits was through controlling the issue of Eurobonds. Quote The European debt crisis, often also referred to as the eurozone crisis or the European sovereign debt crisis, was a multi-year debt crisis that took place in the European Union (EU) from 2009 until the mid to late 2010s. Several eurozone member states (Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Cyprus) were unable to repay or refinance their government debt or to bail out over-indebted banks under their national supervision without the assistance of third parties like other eurozone countries, the European Central Bank (ECB), or the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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  15038. Its neither GB (run by an offshore entity with links to a Libertarian billionaire sponsored think tank) nor News it's marketed as opinion at best and right wing propaganda and conspiracy mongering at worst. Its part of the Tufton street mob such as the IEA who pulled Liz Truss's strings nearly bankrupting the country Mayfair-based Legatum Institute, which advocates for free market economics has courted senior Government ministers through Shanker Singham, who led a self-styled ‘special trade commission’ for the organisation. The Legatum Institute was founded and funded by the Legatum Group, that has invested millions in GB News.
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  15039. Like a hole in the head their economic policies are straight out the Truss playbook and their migration policies are the same as the Tories but on steroids (which have tripled migration)
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  15040. 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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  15041.  @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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  15042.  @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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  15043.  @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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  15044.  @dawnslingsby2324  since when the whole of public service has been hollowed out under the Tories
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  15045.  @ScragNath  why are you so keen on defending someone who was completely incompetent?
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  15046. It's a K shaped recovery I work in the tech sector and aside from working remote were brimming with work, we've had ten years of growth/evolution in a year the uptake in distributed and cloud + support is off the scale. The problem here is two economies one that is roaring and one that has collapsed even when the pandemic is over this isn't just going to right itself
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  15047. The Conservative party owes the treasury 600 million for the Rwanda election stunt
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  15048. We were promised higher standards not lower standards we've already got serious sewage problems in our rivers and streams we don't need lower food standards lower privacy standards lower pollution standards ITS NOT A RACE TO THE BOTTOM.
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  15049. Incarceration rates are 600% above western Europe pointing to the fact that hundreds of thousands of Americans shouldn't be in jail It needs sorting out
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  15050. Ukraine will be a mud bath from this week on for a while the freezing has stopped all the roads are now choke points for tanks and heavy equipment, Russia has a big parade 7th May Putin needs something for then or he's got domestic problems. If they've lost 10k already then there's 20-30k injured you'd think by May people will notice It was always a dumb time of year to invade
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  15051. They've got control what did you think would happen when we need labour and you now have to fetch in dependents because we lost FOM
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  15052. How far right does he want the Tories to lurch too 13 years of Thatcherism Turbo Charged with Austerity has screwed the economy as it is
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  15053. ​ @rafezetter8003  Boris was completely awful his handling of the pandemic was utter garbage from the momment the crisis evolved he missed the 1st 5 cobra meetings because he was busy with his divorce then disbanded the NHS test and trace system that was being set up because we were going Herd immunity before changing weeks later. his cronies made millions from a vip lane for ppe contracts freezing out the NHS buyers the new test and trace system was given to a private company and it achieved nothing and wasted 30 billion + his only skill is being able to lie to different factions of the Con party and get away with it the roots of the Truss fiasco go straight through Boris
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  15054.  @rafezetter8003  the reason we have the current skip fire of a government is down to Johnson and his endless lying. from Cameron through May and Johnson ( Foreign Secretary and PM) Ukraine repeatedly asked for advanced weapons and where rebuffed because the Conservative party had a far too cosy relationship and was receiving donations from Russian Oligarchs based in London to the tune of well over 1.5 million. The only high tech weapon we sold to them prior to the war was the NLAW it was seen as non controversial due to its short range. Since the war started most of the stuff we've sent was old and in the state of being decommissioned. We still don't know how compromised or how much of a security risk Johnson is, the Parties that Ledvedev throws at his Italian castle are frequented Ledvedev's Oligarch mates and are Bacchanalian in nature. The Tories have consistently tried to do nothing about money laundering through London the media don't report it because the owners benefit from it. As soon as you scratch the surface on anything Johnson touches it descends into a tissue of lies and half truths
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  15055. Williamson was an enforcer he knows where most of the bodies are buried The ERG wanted rid of him to weaken Sunak if you've followed this in any detail Truss was their puppet and they still want her agenda which is ideological not based on reality which is why her premiership unravelled so quickly. This goes back to 2019 instead of expelling the ERG headbangers Johnson expelled the moderates who told him there would be a border down the Irish Sea
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  15056. He's an ex venture capitalist they have no soul
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  15057. no @stequality 
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  15058. They've never been Tory Lite Blair transformed the low wage economy Quote from 2008 by an LSE report The National Minimum Wage is one of the most significant labour market interventions that the Labour government has made, raising the pay of well over one million low paid workers by about 15% overnight at the point of introduction. • Since 1999, the minimum wage has been increased by 30% after adjusting for increases in the retail price index, well above the increase in average earnings over this period. Get rid of the 13 years of Tory media brainwashing
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  15059.  @sirmeowthelibrarycat  Back in the day you need to move on only 11% of the workforce are unionized Labour needs to represent a broad church of opinion. The so called working class male are increasingly voting for far right wing populist garbage while Labour's base of voters is expanding into the younger educated. Your not going to get back votes from the Rwanda cat o nine tails crowd
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  15060.  @sirmeowthelibrarycat  I'm 66 my Mum is 92 and voted for the post war reconstruction Labour movement. The people your associating the Labour party are from the 1950/60's and Thatcher bribed a load of them with cut price council houses. She also tore the heart out of the Labour movement and Unions there are no end of WMC's that have closed many associated with the death of the industries they were part of. Blair created a new form of supporter in the mostly centre moderate coalition and raised the education levels to 18 creating more University opportunity. Farage further eroded the working Class older vote with his populist guff. I'm building an extension to my house at the moment and have all sorts of workmen in the older male ones are completely lost with populist bollox they get off the likes of the Express and TalkRadio. Labour have plenty of centre left policies if you go look there just not wasting time with gesture politics that the likes of the Mail can splash all over its front page.
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  15061. You can't deport them if you don't process them
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  15062. Soft nepotism is legal in the US what's new
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  15063. That was the Wilson days Tax base under Blair/Brown was 33%, under Cameron 33% It only started creeping up to what it is now 37% under Boris
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  15064. 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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  15065. PFI costs are estimated at 180 billion it was a John Major idea that was finally put out of its misery in 2018 Yes Brown ran with it but so did the Tories and yes it's a sh1t idea
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  15066. Every day the fossil lobby block action to change to renewables adds billions to their bottom line There's around 100 billion in fossil tax breaks in varois budgets Renewable energy became cheaper than gas in 2019 the reason for going green is overwhelmingly economic and the sooner we do it the better
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  15067. Why would it make a difference this is 14 years of cr@p policy
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  15068. Two things the Hunter document asking for money was from the fake Rudy dossier put in Hunter+ "Typhoon Investigations" into Google. If it were true he's a private citizen and what influence was he supposed to be pedalling its 2017 Joe isn't in office or running for anything at the time. Is any of the Typhoon Investigations dossier true at all? The fbi didn't want to touch it the crack pipe photo was a photoshop job as well
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  15069. He's done two town halls, there's an excellent section on the MidasTouch podcast where one of the brothers says a reporter question beside a town hall question and you had to guess which is which.
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  15070. Reform pedal Thatcherism why would it be different from Tory trickle down Cr@p
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  15071. the people reported with it entering the US are already vaccinated, we already knew that the vaccine has a major impact on the severity of the disease in breakthrough cases even in new variants.
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  15072. No governments contribute to the problem by not enabling enough migration to keep the economy running
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  15073. @ The GOP don't want the problem solved if they did they would regulate the labour market and improve the minimum wage. The next 4 years will be theatre for the plebs nothing more
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  15074. where is Khan going to get the money from for bunting? taking away school meals perhaps?
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