Comments by "jim 99" (@jim-es8qk) on "PoliticsJOE" channel.

  1. ​ @RGBmode Billions of pounds were wiped out in 2008. They made up the difference by printing Billions. Entire documentaries are dedicated to this subject!!
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  2. ​ @RGBmode Yes, they are to blame because they were by large in charge.
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  3. ​​ @Alex-cw3rz House prices used to part of the inflation calculation until 2003. Surprisingly when Gordon Brown started falsely creating new money it was removed. And you are wrong, various rounds of quantative easing has led to huge house price increases and a cost of living nightmare for millions. The British economy is worthless.
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  4. GB news is a private company. Jesus ruddy hec!!
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  5. We live in a country of law and order. You can't have open borders because the country won't exist anymore!! Things need to be managed.
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  6. Martin Lewis is very good.
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  7. I think communist ideology is a bigger threat. But what ever!!
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  8. ​ @joso7228 How is buying a bicycle going to bring down my energy bill this winter?
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  9. probably not
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  10. Our entire current western lifestyle is built on the premise that someone else is poor!! We have bomb and enslave another person's country so we can be free!!
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  11. The difference between the Sun and the BBC is i dont have to buy the sun if i dont agree with its opinions!
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  12. ...or people associated with BLM.
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  13. ​ @washboo Has that actually happened?
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  14. ​ @fungibu7184 England Historically has a very good reputation for looking after its working class. Thanks to the labour party and trade unions things did genuinely get better. BUT!! The money that was used to achieve this came from the empire. That is the irony of socalism. Typically you are against capitalism and imperialism but at the same time it is required to improve things. Someone has to be a slave so we can be free.
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  15. ​​ @fungibu7184 No, it went on working wages, coucil houses and generally improving the quality of life for millions. Imperialism also paid for the NHS. Why do you think their was never a revolution here? Life was to good!!
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  16. ​ @fungibu7184 The trade unions actually did something good!! They helped to pull millions out of poverty at the turn of the 20th century!!
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  17. ​ @fungibu7184  How do you think we paid for the NHS? Stolen Iranian Oil fields.
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  18. ​ @fungibu7184 This was a direct observation from George Orwell. Trade unions can't pull people out of poverty unless there is money to do it. In England, that came from two sources. Capitalism and Imperialism. Imperialism was the most important.
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  19. ​ @fungibu7184 What do you think paid for the NHS?
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  20. ​​​ @fungibu7184 No it didn't. Life expectancy increased. At the turn of the 20th century, the labour party and capitalist profits pulled millions out of poverty. The quality of life between the different social classes narrowed. That's reality, you haven't provided any facts!!
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  21. ​​ @fungibu7184 If we had no money how did the government buy and nationalise so many industries? While simultaneously waging multiple wars? Under examination we had plenty of money.
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  22. ​ @fungibu7184  ...and life after the war in England really boomed. What happened was amazing. Arguably things only went backwards when we joined the EU.
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  23. The only labour leader in recent times who wants to shut the coal mines!!
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  24. ​​​ @tia5505 i liked Corbyn, he was remarkably popular. (I like Corbyn, he's still alive)
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  25. ​ @tia5505 You have to understand the individual. They want a leader that will take the group into a clear direction. That was Boris, Corbyn sat on the fence.
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  26. ​ @cheesepuff455 ....and who came our on top? Brexit, Ukraine, AUKUS, lockdowns, CPTPP. All the arguments have been won.
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  27. ​​​​ @weswheel4834 Exactly!! A decision had to made, and any decision is better than no decision. We had 3 years of a paralysed parliament, it was killing the country. The deadlock had to be broken.
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  28. ​ @weswheel4834 It depends on your opinion if it worked or not. Great Britain has achieved alot recently, Brexit, AUKUS, the CPTPP, leadership for nato and Eastern Europe agaist Russia, it helped Finland into NATO and the windsor framework. We are heading in a direction, just not the direction you perhaps would like.
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  29. ​ @weswheel4834 Brexit was a culture war. Its hard to explain, George Orwell talked about in his political essay "the lion and the unicorn" The pro European leftists v anti European English. This debate predates the European Union and the ideas, attitudes and arguments reared their heads in the Brexit debate.
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  30. ​​ @stephnewman1357 It was Christian 1000 years ago. It was founded over 1000 years. If you born here 1000 years ago you were English.
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  31. ​ @dougnico2492 Blair was a conservative who inherited a booming private sector (Which was created by Thatcher). It was these private sector tax revenues which paid for his excessive pubic sector spending.
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  32. ​ @dougnico2492 ...to summarise Blair didn't do anything.
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  33. ​​ @markwelch3564 Look at that period. Video games, music, books and sport. Everything was booming. Taxes where low, rent and houses where cheap. Our GDP per capita is roughly the same now as 2005. That was nearly 20 years ago with inflation.
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  34. ​ @justhannah3960 Surely to help the poor low debt and low taxes is the better option?
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  35. ​ @justhannah3960 What bad treatment are you even referring too? I don't know any.
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  36. ​ @zoranblackie5921 ...an Asylum seeker isn't going to grow the economy is he? Or help working people have more money in their pockets. What are you on about?
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  37. ​ @zoranblackie5921 ..this wasn't what we were debating. A low debt and low tax economy is the best way to improve lives and grow the economy. That has been proven in the 90s and 00s.
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  38. ​ @zoranblackie5921 No one thinks that. If you track public spending, the lower it is, the greater our economic prosperity.
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  39. ​ @zoranblackie5921 The irony is that the lower the debt and the lower the tax burden, the more tax revenues you generate because their is more an incentive to spend and do business.
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  40. ​ @zoranblackie5921 It's hard to say with Truss. Technically we have a huge debt burden, we owe alot of the money, and as the banks didn't like her they had the power to remove her just by putting up rates. Which is why low debt is preferable. It means banking forces can't destabilise our system if they are having a bad day.
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  41. ​ @zoranblackie5921 ...and technically when Cammeron was primeminister the economy was starting to boom again. He cut taxes and public spending.
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  42. ​ @zoranblackie5921 Yeah, and I guarantee Reeves will increase taxes at the next budget and will probably end up with less revenues. Watch this space.
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  43. ​​ @zoranblackie5921 ...The UK has been lost since 2008. Our identity was shattered and haven't quite figured out what we are doing with ourselves. That is 16 years and utterly tragic.
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  44. Why on earth do you keep supporting the SNP, then? Why is Scottish populism okay?
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  45. ​ @BladonSaddles  Peoples attitudes were different, people just got on with things. But think about this, a very small number of coal mining unions had effectively stop the entire country from working. There wasn't enough power. The 3 day week was a disaster. Coal mining unions had a complete monopoly on the UK economy and that was completely unsustainable.
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  46. ​ @BladonSaddles ...the people I speak to were actually very pleased Thatcher existed. You see them in the pub. They came from inner city hec holes and made it to a nice house in a town or village. They had the chance to buy a house, shares in a company or start a business. A lot of working kids were encouraged to go to university and become lawyers or vets too. Her policies made alot of working people.
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  47. who to say you're not wrong. Alot of EU nations are close to Russia, Germany, France and Italy. Russia is a country who wants to obliterate us off the map
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  48. ​ @thomasj5083 My work colleague is a young girl. I think she is paying roughly 45% of her income on tax if you take into account student loans. It is massively unfair.
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  49. Is it the loyalist or the majority of Northern Ireland? It's the majority of Northern Ireland.
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  50. Try working on a farm for 12 hours a day. Amazon workers have it easy.
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