Comments by "Safir Ahmed" (@safirahmed) on "Richard J Murphy" channel.

  1. The rich will never leave whilst they still have power, control, influence and ownership.
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  2. Richard J Murphy is not talking nonsense. The cold hard truth is that austerity, benefit cuts, reducing eligibility for social security benefits, cuts to public services, privatisation, reducing the availability and access to affordable quality housing supply and reducing access to NHS healthcare with increased social care costs and massively increased cost of living crisis with higher tax on the lower income groups and low tax on the wealthy will drastically reduce the size of the economy and increase poverty and lead to the collapse of companies with high unemployment, with associated lower quality of life and shorter lifespan in good health. Previous Conservative British government admitted the bedroom tax did not save money and only kept the bedroom tax because they believed it was popular with voters like New Labour does.
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  3. The UK cannot afford to lose the welfare state.
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  4.  @paulklee5790  In the event that the government cannot honour the promises the people and the UK will have far bigger problems than people's savings.
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  5. A tube with a nozzle and piston was the delivery vehicle for the materials responsible.
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  6. NS&I (National Savings & Investments) is a government owned bank that says all the money saved with NS&I is safe not just the first £85,000.
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  7. Highly processed refined seed oils that could be called industrial lubricants could be an issue.
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  8.  @hilarywallace3065  They are following orders.
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  9. It's been reported that most money from Quantitative Easing has gone to institutional investors. It's time Quantitative Easing was used to stop austerity, end poverty, end economic equality and improve living standards for the people and debts cancellation for those on low incomes, means tested benefits, student loans and public services.
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  10. People should look at the entire budget not just the financial crumbs that have fallen from the table. The 2024/2025 government budget is £1,216 billion. The PIP disability benefits cuts of £6 billion is only 0.42% of the 2024/2025 budget. Labour MPs claim that £10 billion lost to fraud and error is unsustainable yet £10 billion is only 0.89% of the entire budget of £1,216 billion. Successive British governments from 2010 - December 2019 have cut £37 billion from benefits with billions of pounds cut from disability benefits The British government owned Bank of England has spent £4,000 billion (£4 trillion) on Quantitative Easing from 2009 - 2022 with £200 billion spent in 2009. Labour government misled Parliament when the Labour government claimed there was a £22 billion black hole when there was never a financial budgetary black hole or deficit because the British government gets all the money the government needs from the government owned Bank of England. Multimillionaires, billionaires and multinational corporations have received billions of pounds of government support through Quantitative Easing it's time the people especially the disabled were protected from austerity and benefits cuts. There needs to be a household wealth cap on MPs, peers, councillors, elected mayors and other elected politicians set at £10 million including property with MPs and their families banned from being landlords.
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  11. Public sector pensions are deferred salaries.
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  12. Unconditional Universal Basic Income must be paid at an amount equal to the living wage and paid unconditionally. Unconditional Universal Basic Income paid unconditionally must be used without any restrictions on use, with full freedom to save, spend, invest, without geographic restrictions, without time limits on use, without expiration, with full ability and freedom as use of cash. Unconditional Universal Basic Income paid unconditionally must be without affecting tax and without affecting eligibility for disabled benefits and not means tested benefits and not affecting tax. Unconditional Universal Basic Income paid unconditionally could work safely without any form of cryptocurrency and without any form of Central Bank Digital Currency and without any form of Chinese Style Social Credit System will help to ensure financial protection and financial security from an Artificial Intelligence based and led economy.
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  13. Some of the biggest advocates of Brexit have secured EU residency, EU citizenship and homes in EU member states.
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  14. The richest don't want the people to become independent through a fair economic system as this means the wealthiest will lose control over the people and mean a massive increase in population.
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  15. Bank of England Quantitative Easing could be used to fully fund public services, fully fund social security benefits and end austerity for the people. Austerity is political choice.
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  16. None of the social security benefit cuts claimed by New Labour are necessary and there is no £22 billion black hole. Tax rises are not necessary to fund public services and not necessary to fund government spending. £22 billion is a small amount of government expenditure and the government owned Bank of England could easily use Quantitative Easing to cover any money required to fully fund social security benefits, fully fund winter fuel allowance and fully fund all disability benefits and fully fund all public services in both central government and local government. Quantitative Easing could fully nationalise privatised utilities, telecom and broadband, Royal Mail and bus and rail services with greatly reduced prices for users of these services. Bank of England has previously spent £4 trillion on Quantitative Easing from 2009 - 2022 with £200 billion spent in 2009, most of this money has gone to institutional investors. Quantitative Easing could permanently end austerity. Nigel Farage supports privatisation of public services and deregulation of financial services the same deregulation responsible for the banking crisis and massive bank bailouts of 2008 onwards.
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  17. Quantitative Easing could fund renationalisation of all privatised companies and full renationalisation of all privatised public services. Quantitative Easing could also fully fund all Central Government and Local Government expenditure and fully fund state pension increases, winter fuel allowance and social security benefits and allow Universal Credit to be replaced with increased levels of legacy benefits. The results would massively reduce mental health issues, reduce crime and grow the economy.
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  18. Bank of England has spent £4 trillion on Quantitative Easing from 2009 - 2022 with £200 billion spent on Quantitative Easing in 2009 and most of this money gone to institutional investors. Successive British governments from 2009 could have used Quantitative Easing to prevent, alleviate and eradicate poverty, could have been used to stop austerity, stop benefit cuts, fully fund public services and renationalise privatised companies, replace infrastructure and build a national high quality national council house building programme. Austerity, privatisation and infrastructure transfer from the public sector to the private sector is wealth transfer from the people to the wealthiest on the planet.
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  19. Nationalisation of privatised companies can generate revenue and reduce costs to government to fund public services.
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  20.  @debbiegilmour6171  Water privatisation has raised £85 billion for shareholders and this money could instead have greatly lowered bills, upgraded infrastructure and improved water quality.
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  21. Office for National Statistics also confirms reduced life expectancy.
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  22.  @ParcBlondel  Indeed, and in many cases the average pensioner collects their pension whilst in poor health.
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  23. DWP resources on benefit fraud could be transferred to Companies House to better regulate companies.
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  24. 'The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire' is a feature length finance documentary video on YouTube explaining how Britain transformed from an imperial power to a financial power.
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  25. Nigel Farage supports privatisation of council services with the US model of local government where contracts for council services are issued over annual banquets. Nigel Farage also supports deregulation of financial services and increased self regulation. How do I know? Because Nigel Farage has said this on camera.
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  26.  @keepingitreal618  Replicon: Read about it made in Japan.
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  27. Sunak has achieved the transfer of wealth from the people and the state to the wealthiest.
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  28. Leeds in West Yorkshire is quite central to the UK in terms of distance between constituencies.
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  29. @Nick-io9uk  Government owned Bank of England has spent £4 trillion on Quantitative Easing from 2009 - 2022 with £200 billion spent in 2009 with most of Quantitative Easing money gone to institutional investors to support the financial markets, financial institutions and banks with bank bailouts due to deregulation, self regulation and light touch regulation to generate immense profits and bankers bonuses. Austerity is very destructive to the economy, business and the people as state supports reduced and withdrawn. The wealthiest including multimillionaires, billionaires and multinational corporations continue to have very low effective tax rates and continue to receive corporate welfare.
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  30. Tories from 2010 - 2021 cut £37 billion from social security benefits. Tories have wasted £37 billion on failed Test and Trace programme over two years. Tories wasted £15 billion setting up Universal Credit. Tories have spent billions of Pounds on foreign wars.
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  31. Gordon Brown failed to regulate banking and financial services leading to the 2008 bank bailouts.
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  32. Rachel Reeves fully knows what she is doing.
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  33. Water will not run out though access to clean water and waste water collection including sewage treatment and processing could.
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  34. Harold Macmillan the Conservative Prime Minister from 1957 - 1963 was as political left as Jeremy Corbyn on some policies.
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  35.  @Jem.Robson  The wealth gap between the richest 1% and the next 19% is vast.
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  36. The City of London is effectively a Charter City but doesn't compete with most other cities in the UK.
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  37. Politics has failed because the trillionaire rulers of the planet want to own and control everything.
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  38. Worldwide available atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are at critically low extinction level of 0.04%. When carbon dioxide levels fall to 0.02% all plant photosynthesis will stop leading to the collapse of available atmospheric oxygen and human extinction.
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  39. Brexit means the UK will be another US State. Brexit trade deals with the US mean that US citizens, US organisations, US business, US companies and US corporations have the same rights and same access to the UK as British citizens, UK equivalents and UK counterparts. Brexiteers will upset to realise that Brexit trade deals with the US will mean that US citizens will have the rights of freedom of movement in the UK and that US citizens cannot be discriminated for jobs, work, housing, healthcare, education, transport and ensure that American ethnic groups have as much rights as British ethnic groups. Brexit means Americans got their own back after 1776. Still the US will allow the UK to keep the British Monarchy and keep the British flag as their US State flag and have MPs and Peers join their respective US Senate and US Congress.
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  40. If potatoes were kept in a crypt and used as currency it could be called cryptoes.
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  41. @maria8809ttt  Austerity is a policy that has always been unnecessary as deficits are an indicator of a healthy economy and economic growth thereby achieving government policy objectives to reduce debt.
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  42. @maria8809ttt  The entire capitalist system is a pyramid scheme where those at the lowest parts and base of the pyramid generate wealth that is always transferred to the highest parts and to the apex of the pyramid. However the pyramid can only function to benefit the wealthiest when the majority of its participants have confidence in the pyramid structure, scheme and systems and give valuable time, energy and effort in an attempt to provide themselves with financial security and reward for some being decades of contributions and when that confidence ends so will the capitalist system. Alien disclosure and the revelation that humans do not and have not controlled human civilisation and the disclosure of powerful interdimensional entities and sentient AI also will lead to the end of the capitalist pyramid scheme as people will fundamentally question all aspects of existence, question economic rule and ask how and why the wealthiest have always throughout history benefited whilst the poorest have suffered and continue to suffer greatly.
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  43.  @Tensquaremetreworkshop  There are credible and easy to implement solutions to reduce poverty, inequality, deprivation, destitution and homelessness. Austerity, poverty and inequality are political choices by politicians to maintain social and economic power of the wealthiest.
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  44.  @Tensquaremetreworkshop  My comment refers to economic inequality. In terms of the World Government there are various organisations such as Central Banks, WEF, Trilateral Commission, UN and WHO, BIS, World Bank, IMF and billionaire foundations that work with governments around the world. The UK has a flawed electoral system that uses First Past The Post electoral system, complicated voter registration system, Photo ID resulting in large electoral majority for parties with low overall vote share and low voter turnout particularly low voter participation by the poor.
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  45.  @Tensquaremetreworkshop  British Overseas Territories and British Crown Dependencies are still part of the UK and are therefore not foreign. Tax havens by their very nature are not taxed. The numbers in poverty increase in recessions as greater amounts of wealth is accumulated by those with the most wealth due to political policy as occurred during the pandemic and austerity years following the 2008 banking crisis.
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  46.  @Tensquaremetreworkshop  Your comments are not true, someone paying tax does not benefit others. Ideas do not always generate wealth for those creating the ideas, and the top 1% have an effective tax rate between 0% and 0.6%.
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  47.  @Tensquaremetreworkshop  The YouTube video channel to which you are commenting on has videos on this subject and perhaps you could watch those videos to gain the answers to your questions?
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  48. Most people who use ETFs lose money.
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  49. 45 years of Thatcherism, privatisation, austerity, poverty, deprivation, destitution, homelessness, cost of living crisis, benefit cuts, cuts to public services, forcing public services to compete against public services for funding, forcing the poor to compete against the poor for council/social housing, has resulted in the fragmentation of society.
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  50. It's been said that 1 million people control, manage and own the world's money, financial and wealth system.
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