Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "" video.

I dont like Starmer I think he is utterly lacking in vision. But he is 100X better than Bojo and the others. The people who say there is no difference between the parties really annoy me. Its night and day, even if its not what I want
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@DavidMoxham957 YES. My beef with Starmer is he is not [IMO] the man for the moment, he is very competent but competently managed decline is still decline. He would have been brilliant in 2010. But we need someone more radical. Thats said I wont write him off until we see. But he is a vast improvement of the last lot.
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@skrich9690 YES. The No 1 city for quality of life every year is Vienna - and when you look into why its because they have almost NO private landlords. Its all government-owned / controlled. If you could magically halve all rents in the UK - imagine how many new businesses would spring up. Imagine how many new shops would open to sell people stuff they could buy with that money - instead, it goes to 70 year old pensioner landlords that used buy to let to buy up houses in the 80's and 90's I live in Burgas Bulgaria - there is a waiting list to get a shop in the city centre - its BOOMING. Why? No Amzn and low rental costs. My rent is 300 leva, the minimum wage is ~1000 leva, so an 18 your old working in a supermarket can afford to rent an apartment on their own and still have plenty of spending money. Make that 900 leva for rent and how does society change...???
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@mattsyson3980 Im prepared to accept this as an answer. If I am completely honest I think people in the UK HAVE to get used to lower living standards cos this is a Western decline not just a UK decline. But my worry is people wont accept this and it will lead to a Fascist govt. My big thing - it was one of about 20 policies i came up with - but Im stuck on this one. BAN private landlords - give them 10 years to sell up, if they sell to the government at a discount they get a tax break. The Govt can borrow to buy cos its a profit making asset. This will STOP landlords sucking every penny out of the economy. Where do you think the extra £1.50 an hour on the minimum wage is going to go...??? Its going to go in rent increases!!! Buy up ALL rental housing over 10 years and freeze the rents, lower them if they are very high. This one action would actually have a massive impact on the UK.
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LIKE MOST OF TRUMPS GREIVENCES there is a grain of truth at the bottom of it - NATO spending - Germany buying gas from Russia - The US trade deficit with China The problem is his solutions are utterly insane
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@joshrogers7816 Maybe - but Corbyn got more votes in 2019 - his worst resut - than Starmer in 2024
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@lestrem11 Get real dude - Boris just wanted to cosplay Churchill - it was not intelligence or foresight - he just wanted to play at Churchill. BORIS literally said "its not like we are every going to see another land war in Europe with Russian tanks rolling over the **** field" LITERALLY said that. Do some research, ****
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@kleptokiller 100% - he thinks INSIDE the existing system and cant imagine thinking outside it - and the system is broken
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@annewalden3795 We dont have any choice - cos its over. Let me be very blunt. We have way too many old people living way too long on pension promises made 40 years ago and needing medical treatment that is hyper-expensive AND because there are so many of them living so long and they VOTE they keep voting to make themselves richer...!!! This is a big reason house prices in the west are crazy high. And they vote for things like Brexit. The entire balance of society is messed up - £9,500 university fees - that is just a tax cut for rich people and the triple lock for pensioners paid for by young people. They just keep living costing and doing damage to society with their votes - now I am NOT suggesting anything bad here - but we live in a COMPLETELY unsustainable society. And who are the landlords - THE PENSIONERS...!!!! Who are the 1%. THE PENSIONERS. We don't have a functioning society and we are lying to ourselves that a bit of tinkering to try and scrape 0.5% growth will fix anything. ALL the money is in the hyper-rich and the pensioners and we cant tax either of them - its EASIER to tax farmers than pensioners...1!!
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@annewalden3795 NO - Im suggesting the country cant afford them, they are a menace with things like Brexit, they hold a vast chunk of the country's wealth and we can't tax them anymore. Look what happened when they took £300 off them. They are not the only problem in the UK - we need to spend £4 Trillion on public buildings and infrastructure over the next 20 years. My point is the scale of the UK's problems on a 1 to 10 are about 146 out of 10 and Starmers solutions are a 3 out of 10. The UK [and the US] does not face problems - it faces an existential crisis. Total societal collapse. The UK has entered interconnected cascading systems failure - everything is broken and everything you do to fix it makes something else worse. TBH - there is no way out of this - the priority is looking like you are doing something so that the fascists dont get elected in 10 years....!!!
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