Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "UK gas crisis explained - BBC News" video.

Tories, Privatisation, Putin, North Sea Gas and oil down to 20 billion barrels, Tories, Monopolistic opportunism. Privatisation and Tories...
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@analogdistortion Tories cut funding to renewable sources of energy which is why we're in this mess. Not to mention selling off nationalised energy and allowing a consortium to take over and hike prices. Lefties use facts and knowledge...
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@analogdistortion PS we have less than 20 billion barrels of north sea oil and gas left, around 5 years worth, we rely mostly on Norway and Russia for our gas. Nationalisation is a country being self-sufficient and providing its own energy requirements rather than giving taxpayer money to a long list of middlemen to supply it...
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@chips1889 Why is it that right-whingers can't construct a sentence or use facts, intellect and reason to rebut a comment and instead prefer to rely on ad hominems and whataboutery? Answers on a postcard...
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@chips1889 Maybe if you learned to spell and stopped blaming socialists for inherent flaws in capitalism... Edward Heath came to office as Tory PM in 1970-74 and was elected on the platform of defeating the unions. He laid the groundwork for what Thatcher finished. It was a setup and the unions were just fighting against the loss of jobs and wages. They had their telephones bugged and had undercover officers starting fights and causing trouble so the tabloids could demonise the unions. Now we have zero-hour contracts, minimum wage, and a third of Britain in working poverty. Most of Europe had shortages and electricity problems in the 70s including under a Tory government.
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@chips1889 Yes, I lived through the 70s and dyslexia stopped me from reading until I was out of school. Since then I've read thousands of books. Tories only have hate and I don't have time to waste when I have already given you a more accurate account of the 70s. Thatcher reduced industry to purge the left and Unions of power in a Pinochet inspired attack while putting our eggs in the London fiscal basket. Since then the Tories have turned us into a global hub for laundering the criminal elite's cash for them. Now we have a 3rd of the workforce in working poverty, zero-hour contracts and most people are on minimum wage. While the Tories are feeding tax-dodging corporations £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies. Those same corporations are costing us £40-120 billion per annum via the tax gap/unpaid corporate taxes. The Tories have created over 2/3rds of our £2 trillion national debt, lowered our triple-A credit rating at least twice and given us a debt to GDP ratio of over 100%. They are fiscally incompetent but have good PR as the media are owned by their donors. Land of dopes and Tories.
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@chips1889 So you'd rather ignore the facts as you're unable to make an intelligent rebuttal and instead arrogantly insist that you've seen the light, though you don't actually have any proof. You keep voting based on mythology, I'll keep voting based on ideology...
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@crown9413 Says the man on a zero-hour contract or in insecure employment with an agency, while on minimum wage. Almost a 3rd of the working population is in poverty. Nurses using food banks. Half the British public have no savings and live from week to week drowning ever deeper in debt. Your arguments are simplistic nonsense.
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@crown9413 lol you are too dumb to answer. Your argument is total cognitive spaghetti. I've already proven the standard of living was higher on a single adult wage!
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@Spiritual Stuff Agreed, some are bots and some are even worse, they are working-class Tories.
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@micallef87 That's mostly myth. You mean when we had a fully funded NHS, you could walk into a doctors surgery and be seen within minutes, a single wage could feed a family and cover the mortgage, housing list to avoid homelessness, free university and a secure job with a pension you could comfortably live on in your old age?
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@tagb1107 Agreed, Heath was elected on a mission to crush the Unions in 1970, then Thatcher finished the job. She reduced industry to purge the left and Unions of power in a Pinochet inspired attack while putting our eggs in the London fiscal basket. Since then the Tories have turned us into a global hub for laundering the criminal elite's cash for them. Land of dopes and Tories.
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@micallef87 My mum and every mum on the council estate called the doctor out several times during childhood when we were ill as children. We could be seen at home rather than spreading infection and carrying sick kids to the doctors on public transport. Most people had one job back then and we were paid relatively double in terms of standard of living. It was a struggle for some of us, but we had a parent at home (doesn't matter which) and no debt. Debt and HP came later in the 80s which is how most working poor survive these days. By juggling ever-increasing debts in households with two adult wages and multiple jobs.
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@iamwhatiam8686 Take your little private war somewhere else, that's tangential nonsense. Nothing to do with the debate about energy prices or cost of living.
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@iamwhatiam8686 I haven't mentioned any of those things and so you are ignorant to my views on them. I have used economic, political and ideological facts. So stop proving your own ignorance by typing...
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@iamwhatiam8686 Because your steriotypical generalisation doesn't fit me and I reject your simplistic tangential argument...
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@iamwhatiam8686 ...and I've proven that by posting plenty of them with logical assertions on this thread. Not interested in your petty little sealioning...
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Good point that would have been so much better without the caps.
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