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

THE FIRST TIME I DROVE INTO GERMANY I was astonished. Thousands of trucks heading INTO Germany taking raw materials to factories... ...Thousands of trucks taking cars and other manufactured goods OUT of Germany to other countries. I thought SO THIS IS WHAT A REAL ECONOMY LOOKS LIKE You take stuff and you ADD VALUE. You don't just move money around and pretend that's an economy.
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WE SHOULD EXPORT MORE GOODS hey that's a good idea - why don't we join some group of countries and make that easier cos it sounds like a really good idea...!!!
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@rembrandt2323 - GOOD COMMENT - it really was a moment like that. Like "OH WOW - you mean an economy based on bankers buying sandwiches is not a REAL economy"
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@peterebel7899 - An irony for you. Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the UK coal miners winning a strike in 1972. This strike is what prompted Thatcher to destroy the UK mining industry and trades unions so "the Uk would NEVER again be held to ransom by the dirty working man". To enable this the electricity generation was switched to gas and to provide enough gas the UK relies on Russian gas. So the UK is no longer being held to ransom by the dirty working people of the country - they are being held to ransom by the nice clean suited Vladimir Putin. Which is so much nicer...
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@TheRadFactor - SO WHY are these "business chiefs" saying we need to be more like Germany and export more products...??? Services, especially financial services just move money from A to B and call it GDP. Why are people so wrong always so sure of themselves?
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@kevinmcloughlin5886 - I would not believe the number of trucks on the road - near the border they outnumbered the cars 2 to 1.
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@ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣΠΑΙΡΑΣ - Yeah but they are very sought after cars...!!! A distillery in Scotland recently released 270 bottles of 81 year old whisky at £92,000 a bottle. All sold out immediately. And the English say the Scottish won't have an economy if they leave the UK... Scotland can sell a bottle of Whisky for the same as a luxury car and the UK cant even make a car at the moment cos we don't MAKE a car - we assemble it from bits other countries make.
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@declankeegan5311 WOW - Imagine taxing companies...
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@Chukwu1967 - FISH - HAPPY BRITISH FISH - no one to sell them to...!
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@peterebel7899 - I mean there is no doubt the UK and the world needed to transition away from coal - but it would have been a better idea to transition those jobs into renewables. The UK would NOW lead the world on renewable energy systems is we started in the 1980's. Instead, we made coal miners into call centre staff for the banking industry and then those jobs moved to India and the miners are now retired and their kids work at Starbucks and Forever 21 selling crap literally no one needs... And the problem wiht an economy based on selling stuff literally no one needs has just started to be seen in the USA - people are realising, THEY CAN DO WITHOUT. The single biggest industry growth in the USA now is the "BUY NOTHING" - you literally DO NOT buy anything new until you have checked that someone is not offering it for free second hand, then you buy it second hand and only as a last resort do you buy it new if you really need it. Its not an environmental fad - its a cost of living thing. The problem is - once people realise you can literally get it given for free by a person throwing it out - they don't go back to participating in your fake economy...
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@Korschtal - I have no idea - its sounds like such an obvious thing to do - hay ho, better get back to filling out my customs declarations...
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@atomiccritter6492 - Formula 1 cars - Britain is the world leader by a very long way in the manufacture of F1 cars.
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@englishbulldog8536 - OH we have a tiny brained person!!! I didnt see the trains, if there is more stuff on the TRAINS then that is an even greater slap in the face for the Uk cos I thought it was AMAZING the amount of stuff on the TRUCKS - I never knew about the trains. WOW that really makes the UK look unbelievably bad if I only saw a tiny fraction of the industry in Germany and it STILL dwarfed anything the UK has to offer... so thats not the winning argument you thought it was...
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@garyt123 - They are not duping anyone. They set a price for the bottle of whisky and people bought it readily. NO ONE said it was in investment or an NFT. You are missing the point. Scotland has a massive cachet internationally - people will pay a significant premium for Scottish products. Just try buying an Arran or fair isle sweater actually made in Scotland, you will likely have to go on a waiting list. In the same way you pay a huge premium for a watch actually manufactured in Switzerland you pay a massive premium for fabrics, knitwear, seafood, beef, whisky etc manufactured in Scotland. That point was about Scottish independence - Scotland is in a strong position to be wealthy after independence through premium products and tourism. The rest of your comment I agree with - moving digital numbers from A to B is NOT GDP.
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@lonevoice - Low corporation taxes have never improved an economy, high taxes have never stifled an economy. The USA had its highest levels of growth when it had its highest levels of corporate [and private] taxation. Its what you do or dont do with those taxes that make the difference. The USA was massively investing in infrastructure and they created a boom. They waffle about "investment" fine - give tax breaks for R and D and other internal investments - which I believe is the German way of doing it R*&D etc is 100% deductable???
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@alfresco8442 - YEAH that's quite funny actually...
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@OghamTheBold - Well there is a lot to unpack there. But what you need to know is farms are not subsidised YOUR FOOD is subsidised. If you subsidise at the farm gate it ripples through the production process so £1 to a farmer gets you £5 off your frozen pizza. NOW - we can argue all day about this - but the reason this is done is to keep wages low. The govt subsidising farmers by £1 saving you £5 means your wage can be £5 lower and you dont notice. Yes its evil manipulation COS housing prices are NOT subsidised by cheap food or cheap crap from China so no one can afford to buy a house on the artificially low wages. But don't blame the farmers for the situation. NOW - next point - 80% of farmland in the UK was stolen off the people of the UK under the parliamentary enclosures acts of the Tory governments and that is why farmers all vote tory cos they are TERRIFIED of the farms being nationalised, as they should be. And in WW2 2,750 farms WERE nationalised as a result of the farmers refusing to help with the war effort and that legislation is STILL on the books. So this is a way more complicated situation than you might at first expect... The big issue is American and Chinese investment companies buying out the UK farms. As we have seen with Russian gas - its DUMB to let over countries buy up your utilities and essential resources. Here in Bulgaria, we had a brief food shortage recently as the American owned food companies switched production to US products to cover shortages in the USA...!!!
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@brianmarshallsay2107 - "Buying British goods at Aldi" LOLOLOL Farms in Northern Ireland just posted a 9% increase in profits for 2021 - I wonder why that might be..???
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@garyt123 - YES IT DOES when you only have a population of 5.4 million people and you have the single best opportunity for tourism in the UK and you no longer have London getting 80% of the tourism marketing budget.
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A BILLION £ is an amount of MONEY so large that its outside the scope of most human brains to contemplate it, to understand the true scale of it A BREXIT is an amount of MISTAKE so large that its outside the scope of most human brains to contemplate it, to understand the true scale of it
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@OghamTheBold - Well yeah. Its a Tory government. So tory voters got subsidised the most i.e. business owners. And farm land can not be turned into cheap housing cos that would crash the housing market and homeowners vote Tory. To be fair though - 8 days in ICU would have cost you £100k in the USA... Farmers make about £100 profit per acre and its £7,000 an acre so that takes 70 years to break even... Food is too cheap and wages are too low. The UK and world economy is totally broken. BTW - You think China is going to keep selling the grain they grow in the UK - soon it will be put on ships and taken to China...!!! the whole of the UK is utterly screwed, we own NOTHING - not even the food we grow or the electricity we make.
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@carlossaraiva8213 - `thank you.
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@roderickjoyce6716 - YEP cos we prefer profits today to investing in R&D etc. The next CEO can worry about the results of my actions, I cut the R&D budget and that made us more profitable TODAY. Thats the British way.
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@michaelrosenzweig3234 - the land of the thickies.
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@OghamTheBold YEP - agree wiht that.
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