Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "Richard J Murphy" channel.

  1. You're much better off cutting all sugar out of your diet and eating as much fat as you like than the other way around. The advice is entirely upside down.
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  2. 100% agree with you. One of the obvious problems of Ozempic that occurs to me is that if you're taking it then by definition you are dependent on it forever. The very reason you're taking it is because you lack the faculties (impulse control, self discipline) to lose weight without it and so as soon as you stop taking it you will put weight back on again. All big pharmas Christmases come at once to get half the population hooked on this product.
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  3. I earn about £50k. But the remaining mortgage on my modest terrace house is about £600 per month and I drive a van I bought for £4k which I owe nothing on. Conversely you take a "middle class" people driving his and hers EV Land Rovers with a £1500 per month PCP, living in a detached townhouse with a £3000 mortgage... 3 kids all at private schools and these kind of people consider 2 holidays a year on a tropical island a basic human right. We all live to the extent of our means. The larger your roof is, the more snow it catches as my dad used to say.
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  4. I'm the son of a farmer; I still live and work on our family farm. What Richard is saying may make sense in a broader economic frame, but it is of stark comfort to farmers right now, who will nevertheless face financial hardship and dispossession of their property come 2026. It sounds as though what he's saying is that farmers are the eggs that have to be broken to make the omelette in the future. Richard may claim that farmers are protesting the wrong thing, but when that thing is a very real and imminent threat to their livelihood and the heritage that has been passed down for generations, I would dispute this.
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  5. The amount that supermarkets charge their customers and what they pay farmers are two entirely different things.
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  6. What's this got to do with the current government? The figures are for 22/23.
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  7. I've seen in some supermarkets they have started trying to offer cheaper vegetables that are "all sorts of shapes" meaning they are less picky about the cosmetics of the product. This may be the start of a positive change as you say. Nevertheless, the customer is still going to sort through everything, squeezing and assessing before they buy.
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  8.  @SmileyEmoji42  Evidently we are too comfortable and too well fed. There will come a day when this is no longer the case.
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  9. Let me tell you about our farm. We have about 300 acres in the midlands. I'm guessing but let's say it's worth £4 million if you include the buildings, equipment, livestock etc. So when my parent pass on and the land comes down to my brother and I to farm, my family will receive a tax bill to the tune of a million quid. In what possible way does this not utterly destroy our business without us having to sell off large parts of our land that has been passed down for generations... most likely to someone far more wealthy than we are.
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  10. In years to come, we'll look back and laugh on these jolly old japes we're having, when we end up in the global war that most western governments seem intent on inciting. At that point, we'll go from being able to import 40% - 50% of our food down to single figures and suddenly the few farmers who haven't been driven out of business and their crops replaced with migrant reservations will be treated like rock stars. We'll suddenly remember why food production is a critical national resource that must be afforded concessions for reasons that I will not insult anyone's intelligence by explaining further.
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  11. Richard you can't just train a farmer like you would a bus driver. Our farm has had plenty of apprentices over the years and most of them have soft hands and no heart to be out at all times of the day and in all weathers doing cold, dirty, thankless work. With all due respect to these young people who have all been keen, intelligent and with a good work ethic... about 10% of them are even capable of farming. Farmers are by and large bred, not trained.
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  12. I'm a farmer and these kinds of videos remind me of an important thing. When people like Richard make videos about something in which I am an expert, it always sounds laughably misinformed. So I now bring a significant amount of skepticism to videos on topics about which I am ignorant. I'm sure there is an "X effect" name for this but it eludes me at the present moment.
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  13.  @anilerkol  However if you study demographics for 2 minutes the first thing you notice is the people who are having kids are the people who you'd think could least afford it.
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  14. If someone wishes to take this drug then they can have at it but there's no sane world in which this should be paid for with public money. For the general public to learn some basic virtues like personal responsibility and patience and how to put up with a little discomfort and sacrifice in order to achieve a goal would be a universal benefit in itself.
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  15. This guy might know about theoretical economics but it's clear he does not understand the first thing about farming. Or any job in which you actually produce or build real world benefit. Using the point that farmers wear expensive outdoor clothing to prove their privilege? Do you use the same argument against a carpenter who buys a £700 power drill when yours was £49.99 off the shelf at B&Q? Keep your videos to what you understand my friend.
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  16. Trump was already president for 4 years in case you didn't notice. And I'm looking around seriously wondering if the world is really a better place since he left office.
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  17. I mean not to mention housing. And we all know why we need more houses. Our population grows by 350k per year and it's not because the natives are having babies.
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  18. She can't articulate these points because she herself has likely not even thought about them. They see a quick cash and land grab, it's as simple as that - and the extra spring in their step is the classic communist "liquidise the kulaks" sentiment and we've all seen that movie before haven't we.
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  19. If there can never be a shortage of money, then why are they pinching pennies from the elderly so they will go cold this winter?
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  20. 🤣 That's it, blame the Tories for years and when Labour are in, making even more of a mess, still blame the Tories. Not that I disagree with you in my hatred for the Tories.
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  21. He correctly makes the point that most farmers are tenants. However, most of these tenant farmers have themselves passed that business down several generations. You can't just train people to farm like you would a plumber. Farming is a whole way of life... by and large you have to be born and bred into it to understand it. My family are farmers (owners) and we've had a few apprentices over the years... young people who are very bright and keen to get into the industry... but most of them arrive with soft hands and no heart for the more physically challenging aspects of the job. Like working your way up a field repairing a fence in the snow because it has to be done right away to keep livestock from escaping... shovelling grain in the bottom of a hot dusty silo... or shoving a sheep's guts back into her a***-hole after she has prolapsed (non farmers reading this, look it up when you've finished your breakfast). Furthermore I think a farmer is quite entitled to buy the best outdoor clothing he can get in order to do these jobs.
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  22. It would be so easy for us to sell our land and retire as millionaires. God knows we'd live a much easier life than we do trying to make a profit out of our average sized farm in the Midlands. What most people can't comprehend is that a farmer gets up and does this job with no thought whatsoever about his asset wealth. To realise that wealth would be to liquidise his land, which is simply unimaginable to any farmer.
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  23. The Trump speech that these people all wet their pants about is basically him threatening (emptily) to do to his opponents the exact same thing that the entire US establishment have been preoccupied with doing to him over the last few years. I mean if we can agree that attempting to jail your political rival is fascist then there's some serious double standards going on here.
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  24. @inh415 We import most of our food and I suspect this government would like us to import all if it.
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  25. He probably can, but it's not about him it's about smaller farmers. Which is why I am impressed with Clarkson standing up when he doesn't need to. Smaller farmers are going to be decimated by this, that's a fact and one that Richard does not even dispute in the video. Clarkson doesn't need to give a damn about this, his farm is about 1000 acres so he would be liable for a couple of £million in tax - small spuds for him. It puts his involvement in a new light for me.
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  26. I have a brother and a father who are both farmers and am pretty sure they'd say it was all well and good talking about these economic policies from an ivory tower but it does not help farmers in the reality of here and now, because they WILL face serious financial hardship and possible loss of their land when this hits them in the next few years. THIS is what farmers are protesting.... it's the real and imminent threat of being dispossessed of their livelihood and family heritage. It's very well for Richard to sit there and say "This is for the best in the long run".
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  27.  @bakakafka4428  I'd like some examples. Are you suggesting there is less war in the world now than between 2016 - 2020?
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  28.  @GGTutor1  I know the one you mean, but it's not that. It subtly different. This is when, for example, a teacher laps up every word the media say about all sorts of topics, but when an article about education appears he reads it and knows that most of it is nonsense. So then he starts to wonder if everything about topics he is not an expert in is as much rubbish. Farmers watch these videos and feel the same, I can assure you first hand.
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  29. Most people can't see the difference between millions of quid in a bank account and millions of quid tied up in productive farmland.
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  30. As is usually the case, tis is a London problem.
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  31.  @hardgrafter2787  Implicit in that is human population reduction.
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  32. Not just vital for the economy, but vital for our very survival in the event of a crisis. But, the government seem to think the world is becoming a much more stable and peaceful place, since they apparently are happy to keep increasing the percentage of food that we import from all over the world.
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  33. Yes that's right, a completely organic market crash that happened the week of her budget and totally coincidentally was resolved the day Rishi took office.
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  34.  @oneoflokis  I'm sorry but the metabolism argument is, and always has been, a massive cope. While I accept we all are built differently and we have our own unique metabolisms - and I accept there will be a small minority who have real medical conditions that require pharmacological interventions such as Ozempic, our bodies are designed to consume energy in order to stay alive. Unless you believe we can sustain ourselves on air alone, it's obvious that if you cut the calories you eat down to less than what you use, the body simply has no choice but to start consuming itself. It may take some people longer than others and be a somewhat demoralising experience to see someone else losing weight much faster than you are, but it will ultimately have the same effect every time.
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  35. It also might mean that a significant percent are paid below minimum wage because they are "off the books" if you get my meaning.
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  36.  @slayerrocks2  There is serious discussion in our house about all options, believe me.
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  37. Well.... Unless I can define myself. I actually earn a reasonable living and I get by. But I'd like to identify as unemployed and as such I am not eligible to file a tax return.
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  38. The English are a rapidly shrinking demographic here. Don't blame us for water scarcity.
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  39.  @EvoraGT430  He is exactly right. I agree with Richard in his analysis of the problem overall. But this tax change is basically condemning thousands of farmers to disenfranchisement of their land or financial dire straits. Nothing Richard says is of any comfort nor will it be of any help to the farmers who are protesting.
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  40. A whole new industry of agricultural tax advisers is about to be created.
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  41.  @skyblazeeterno  We're on the same page. The hackneyed narrative that we need them for the economy or the NHS is proven to be untrue. I'd argue that even if it were true, the cultural and social harm from mass immigration far outweighs any benefits. I realise my irony in former comments might not have been obvious.
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  42. We've all seen this movie before. But it does seem that every few generations we have to be reminded of exactly what a scourge communism is.
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  43.  @Redf322  Read about the kulaks.
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  44.  @Redf322  And no I'm not American. My family and I own and run a farm in the Midlands.
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  45.  @Redf322  Oh okay so real communism hasn't been tried is what you're saying.
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  46.  @marcusmoonstein242  I'm very familiar with the Rittenhouse affair. There were previous flashpoints for me quite a bit earlier than that. The Covington boys for example. Or the reporting of the Charlottesville demonstration. These are slightly different case because they all revolve around race and as soon as there is a racial aspect to any story you already know which side the media are going to come down on before you hear a word about it.
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  47. @ianbarnes8593 Which would also include most business owners, who are selling their goods to someone else. Jeff Bezos is a working person, right? He sells his products to me.
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  48. So, come 2026.... a farmer with say 500 acres of land with a total worth of maybe £6 million including equipment, livestock, extant crops... comes to pass his business down to his son and gets hit with a £1 million tax bill.... How do you address this imminent reality, Richard? What you're saying makes some sense.. if there had always been inheritance tax on farmland then the situation would not have arisen... but it is of no help whatsoever to farmers right now. Are you basically saying that farmers today must be sacrificed along with a good chunk of their productive land, in order to make the omelette so to speak?
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  49. I know but there's a LOT of people who live thousands of miles from the sea.
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  50.  @jonathanpearce3927  All this talk about rich greedy farmers. But when the land gets sold to pay IHT bills, all that will happen is a transfer to even richer, more elite individuals and the result is more of British land in even fewer hands. The age old story of weaponising the masses against a politically inconvenient class using the tools of envy and resentment.
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  51. @CuriousCrow-mp4cx Since you post the same "outrage farming" phrase in a lot of answers here, it's you who looks more like the AI my friend.
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  52. @AlanRumble-sl8dn Any economist will tell you the tax you paid over your lifetime is nowhere close to the amount you will consume from state funds. The truth is that money is borrowed and the bill falls to our children and grandchildren. And beyond.
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  53. There are buyers in suburbs as people flee the cities. Out of town estates are popping up all over the place around my area and getting snapped up quickly. These are a lot more than 250 grand homes though.
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  54. Inheritance tax is a moral obscenity on it's face.
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  55. ​ @Redf322  "Give back" to whom? Who did I take it from. As I recall, I earned my property through hard work and prudent financial decisions.
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  56. Whenever I get the chance, I do work for a client who has properties in London. If I moved down their permanently I could probably earn not far off £90k and I'm just a decorator. The rates are nearly double down there compared to my town. Trouble is I couldn't live permanently down in London for obvious reasons. Moving from the Shire to Mordor is not my dream.
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  57. She had less of a conversation with him, more of a list of Labour Party talking points.
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  58. There's this country just north of Mexico where it looks like the majority support him.
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  59. It's a good wage but to call it middle class is not really relevant these days. Your average electrician or plumber should be on his way to earning that much depending what area he's in.
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  60. None of this is true for the small farmer of a few hundred acres, for who I can personally assure you, farming is not very profitable.
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  61.  @RichardJMurphy  I listened to your entire video Richard and do not necessarily disagree. But the reality is that many farmers WILL be disenfranchised of their land and family heritage because of this in the next few years. That's just the hard fact. This is what they are protesting... not the lofty wider economic musings of it.
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  62.  @RichardJMurphy  Protesting is their choice you mean?
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  63.  @wotchadave  That's a myth. In the UK new stats have emerged proving that overall, immigration is a net drain on the economy. A lot of them do fill jobs, sure... but the welfare costs far outweigh any benefits in the job market.
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  64. I often wonder though, if everyone got conscientious about their diet all of a sudden, would the fresh vegetables and meat that I live on go up in price due to demand. Maybe I'm happy to let the stupid masses keep stuffing their faces with processed crap actually.
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  65.  @ltmund  Historically in Britain we have a record of striking a good balance between the socialist state and the free market. One may argue that is getting more challenging.
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  66.  @Fireclaws10  But in the meantime that is still going to destroy a LOT of farms for decades as this problem gets ironed out. So it seems to me that the farmers are quite justified in their protest. By the way... when we get this war that our leaders seem intent on provoking.... British farming will be profitable again.
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  67.  @Fireclaws10  Sorry to tell you... that's massaging the figures at best, at worst it's an outright lie. My family run about 300 acres in the Midlands. This is an average sized farm. Our land alone is worth at least £3 million on the lower end of land values... without including buildings, livestock, extant crops, machinery and the house, which are all factored into the value of the inheritance and might add another 1.5 mil to the total. I'm not taking seriously the claim that our properties is in the top 117 most valuable farms in the UK. That's hilarious.
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  68.  @Fireclaws10  I'd be interested if you can point me toward this source from the BBC because I'd be very interested to look deeper into it. I suspect they might mean this policy will affect 117 farms on the day of the change, or maybe even 177 farms per year after it... even that seems a naively low estimate.
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  69. The minister of agriculture doesn't need to know anything about farming. The minister of health doesn't need to know the first thing about the NHS. But both of them are experts at being a minister.
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  70.  @indricotherium4802  I'm not arguing in favour of it, just lamenting the sad truth.
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  71. Falling birth rates though.... they are fine as long as you can import millions of people from elsewhere to keep up with the perpetual growth that our economy mandates. This in itself is predicated on the ideology that all people are the same and interchangeable. Which is why they'd have us believe the moment that Somalian tribesman's foot touches the sand of a Sussex beach, he becomes as British as you or I.
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  72. This is so obvious. And frankly if a wealthy individual like Jeremy Clarkson wants to buy lots of land... even if it is to avoid tax.... as long as he is producing essential food on that land then good luck to him.
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  73. The whole point of the IHT exemption was a recognition that farming is an essential national asset. As far as I'm concerned I don't care how wealthy the guy that owns the field is or whether he is paying tax on it.... if the field is producing food that we need. We may not always have the luxury of importing half of our food.
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  74. Pretty much every farmer I have ever met has been the owner and usually sole worker, along with maybe a son, of a modest farm between 300 - 1000 acres. However this is in the Midlands of England so the location obviously makes a lot of difference.
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  75.  @stevejones2310  No he wasn't. Anyone with half a brain cell can see that was a kangaroo court. And oh look. Even now there are more "victims" waiting in the wings to tell their harrowing story of assault by DJT after keeping quiet for 40 years.... and just days before the election who'd have thought it 🤣 Political theatre.
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  76. Why should passive income be relevant? If I work 20 hours a week and earn the same as someone else working 40 hours, is half of my income "passive"?
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  77. If a rich investor wants to "game the system" by, well... growing essential food that we all need.... then good luck to him.
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  78. What are your immigration figures like?
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  79.  @corvus1238  I guarantee you bring home a higher salary than I do.
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  80. ​ @corvus1238  British farmers can hardly make a living on their produce because we import cheaper food from around the world. I hope I don't need to warn you of the folly that is assuming this will always be the case - especially with our reckless approach to foreign policy at the moment. I mean of course we could sell to someone else but it won't be anything to do with farming experience. You will find it extremely difficult to find someone who is not already a farmer to manage and grow food on this land nearly as effectively as we do. The land will be sold to another farmer, but not one who is better at the job. It will be someone who is far, far richer then me. The result is the further conglomeration of farmland into fewer and fewer hands, which does not affect your personal situation other than perhaps giving the illusion of some cathartic relief for your class resentment. In fact it likely moves the land even further out of reach of any ordinary person who wishes to get into the industry. It hurts the small farmer while benefiting the ultra wealthy and doing absolutely nothing for the population in general. For the record I think that inheritance tax is a moral obscenity on it's face and nobody, no matter how wealthy, should pay it.
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  81. I think there's a certain amount of pragmatism to it all, an acknowledgement that we can't possibly sustain the system the way it is. Which is reasonable, but I'd be more sympathetic to it if we weren't simultaneously sending obscene amounts of money to fund foreign wars and accommodating illegal migrants.
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  82. ​ @michaelmayo3127  Reasonable from their point of view. And good luck achieving a society without wealth disparity and poverty and the charity that necessarily springs up in response. As far as I am aware it hasn't been done yet and when it's been attempted it's never ended well.
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  83.  @michaelmayo3127  You're quoting me disingenuously. Removing all wealth inequality has not been done yet. It will always exist and indeed it is necessary for a functioning economy. Aside from that, I know you don't really believe there is no impoverishment in France or Germany. I quickly Googled "Germany Homelessness" and found articles discussing it as every bit the crisis that we have in the UK. As for the Netherlands, the sources I skimmed seemed to suggest that is was a rapidly worsening problem there too. I get the sense that we are on the same page about the benefits of a homogeneous society. Although I don't necessarily think that has ever been a remedy for inequality.
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  84.  @michaelmayo3127  I mean you could start by reading about the Pareto principle.
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  85.  @michaelmayo3127  Don't misunderstand me. I think it's a moral good to try and reduce inequality as much as it is practical to do so. But to get carried away and try to eradicate it altogether is the route to misery for everyone.
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  86. We still get subsidies....
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  87. Farms are struggling because we import half our food. The problem is that this may not always be possible and in a very uncertain world, it may change very quickly. The simple reality of this tax change is it will put a LOT (likely the majority) of farmers either our of business or in serious financial hardship. It's a very short-sighted move.
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  88. Not a controversial view, but I would point out that we do have elections. Albeit rather strange ones.
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  89.  @chrisjudd-uc7sh  Who mentioned genes?
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  90. This current labour government is the most fascist I have ever known in my 5 decades if life. Fascism is nothing to do with the left or the right. Either side can employ it equally.
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  91. Taken at face value I'd say if means anyone with a job.
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  92. Sam Harris said he would not care if Joe Biden had the bodies of dead children in his basement, he would still vote for him over Trump. This is commonly known as Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). It looks as though you may be suffering from this too.
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  93.  @william_marshal  So why did the EU do that? Perhaps there were some who recognised that in times of crisis (Which WILL occur), farmers would be essential and that it would be grave folly to allow the entire industry to be cast aside for current whims.
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  94. What happens when a war starts? Do they think this something that will never happen again? I remember my Grandad (we are a farming family) telling me how during the war farming became extremely valuable and profitable after being in a dire situation just years beforehand. For OBVIOUS reasons. Governments over my entire lifetime seem to have become ever more disconnected from reality.
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  95. It's typical bed wetting, pearl clutching, feminised hysteria. Classic symptoms of TDS. They still act as if he's the president when their lot have been in office for 4 years and how are world affairs progressing so far?
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  96.  @Redf322  It's legitimate to rent out land in order that someone skilled can produce food on it. The result is the same... food is being produced. We might one day need to produce all the food we possibly can within our borders.
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  97. @skyblazeeterno Are you one of those lazy Brits they talk about who won't do the jobs that we need all these migrants for? Surely there is a care home or a car valet with vacancies in your area.
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  98.  @skyblazeeterno  What do we need them for?
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  99. And at the same time they seem intent on provoking Putin into a major conflict with Europe, ensuring that our global food supply chain becomes ever more precarious.
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  100. You can always tell when the establishment has decided that someone has outlived their welcome, because the media will begin running wall to wall hit-pieces and drama about them. It happened to Theresa May. It happened to Boris. It happened to Liz Truss. It's happening to Reeves and in time it will happen to Keir Starmer.
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