Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Is Labour really short of money?" video.

I DID THE MATHS - THE UK NEEDS TO SPEND £4 TRILLION over the next 10 years. £540 Billion on 12,400 new schools. £720 Billion on repairing roads. £260 Billion to clear the NHS backlog. We are arguing about £20 billion here and £30 billion there like its going to make any difference. the Uk govt has not spent any money on building or maintaining anything since 1975 [PFI does not count] We have lived by selling off EVERYTHING. Nothing left to seel and everything is broken. I dont know how honest Labour are going to be tomorrow - I suspect not very, they will admit there is a problem but NOT mention the scale of the true problem. The UK is bankrupt.
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@garyb455 How did you come to that incredibly bizarre conclusion - please show working.
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@foobar476 12,400 schools in urgent need of replacement and that was last year's figure. I was educated in portacabins, red hot in summer and freezing in winter. You simply CAN NOT have a thriving economy on worn out infrastructure with 8 million sick people and telling sick people to get back to work whilst they are sick just adds mentally sick people to the list of problems.
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@stephfoxwell4620 THANKS - I was literally about to look that up. Ive lived here 15 years and in that time they have put massive efforts into making life easier for people with kids. And it was already a LOT better than the UK. To have kids people need HELP. I dont have kids, but seeing the amount of help the government, local authority and the community give people I I realise - expecting 2 working parents to have 2 kids is just fantasy land. It just TOO much work and TOO expensive for the vast majority to be able to do it. Increasing your birth rate is EXPENSIVE and its expensive today. So the UK dont do it, they just blame parents.
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@foobar476 This is like going to a loan shark to fix one small section of the leaking roof
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@stephfoxwell4620 On top of this we now ONLY own the absolute crap buildings in the UK. All the brick built victorian schools, hospitals, police stations, council offices etc - they have all been sold off to the property developer mates of the tory govt. So when the council office roof leaks they cant relocate the big Victorian building cos thats luxury flats. The level of wealth extracted out of the UK by the last tory govt is simply STAGGERING. We own NOTHING as a country. every prison, every police station, every hospital, every council office in the country need ££££ spending or more likely replacing
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@stephfoxwell4620 Well yeah - but if you run a country exclusively for the benefit of your 75 year old voter base - children WILL become a rare commodity... I live in Bulgaria - lots of kids here, most families have 2 kids on 1 salary. But that means building lots of houses, and giving people lots and LOTS of help to have kids.
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@kevbrown2532 This is correct. When I say bankrupt I mean bankrupt in terms of the framework we insist on working within. We CAN just print the money to do the work needed and then tax it back in and destroy it to control inflation. Print the £400 billion a year and put the top rate of tax to 95% and make it illegal to move large amounts of money offshore. Tax back in and extra £400 billion a year
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@grantbeerling4396 Every single word in that paragraph is 100% correct...
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@JB_inks Well traditionally what you do is you spend the money, then cause inflation to get rid of the debt, and then solve inflation
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@stephfoxwell4620 That is to REPLACE existing schools that are at the end of their life but were built with none life extendable construction methods. A brick and mortar school with a A shaped slate roof can be kept open for ever with maintenance. But a fast track school with a flat roof made of RACC for example has a finite life that simply CAN NOT be extended. It falls down. "And road spending is about £18 billion a year". Yes thats literally the problem - it needs to be about £50 - £100 billion. The number is taken from 5 parish councils that had actual audits done of the roads in their parish and how much it would cost to bring them up to standard. This was then averaged and extrapolated across the whole of Britain. The problem with roads is if you dont repair them the damage becomes deep sub surface damage to the underlying structure - you can no longer just resurface them at this point and they need digging up and re laying.
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@stephfoxwell4620 YES. 37% need rebuilding. Think about it - 35 year life span - Toris did not replace any [well about 50 a year at the end] 100/35*14 = 40% Less the few they did replace = 37% I went off government DOE figurs. "So maybe we can close half of the 37%." NO cos schools are not based on capacity alone - and the tories will have closed as many as they can - they are based on geographical need. You cant make kids travel 2 hours each way
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@stephfoxwell4620 Just been watching an update on China, That is exactly what they are doing - a massive subsidy to the consumer to buy an EV, then tax that excess profit back of the EV company UNLESS they spend it on R&D In the west, we truly are burdened by what has been...! We cant imagine a future unburdened. We are trapped in orthodoxy.
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