Comments by "Jonathan Jonathan" (@jonathanjonathan7386) on "Economics Help" channel.

  1. cos osborne was still borrowing terrifying amounts of money, he was just borrowing a bit less than before.
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  2. partly cos they were being given huge amounts of german/british/dutch etc taxpayer's money to develop fast - new motorways, airports etc
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  3. immigration is off the scale in aus too now
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  4.  @dave4511  my brother is a civil servant, around 15 promotions happened above his grade over a period of ten years - not one went to a white man. You can dismiss that as 'anecdotal' if you wish
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  5. And all the millions unable or unwilling to buy... where will they live?
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  6. yes all those millions of people working in factories and mills and mines, scientific inventions, the industrial revolution, technological innovations going back centuries - Lincoln cathedral was the tallest building in the world for hundreds of years in the middle ages - yes we all just "took" all those things from somewhere else..brilliant analysis by an Irish genius there.
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  7.  @michaelbeaver8281  Just checked, Total structural funds allocation 2014 to 2020 Portugal 50 billion, UK around 12 billion and only slightly above Slovakia, a far smaller country population wise than the UK. But regardless of what stats you're looking at Germany and the UK were net contributors - ie they were giving more than they received and guess what, taxpayers don't like that. What a surprise! I don't know what you thought joining the EEC meant back in the 70s but it was nothing to do with giving huge sums of money to poor countries whose citizens then had the right to live and work in the UK, which whilst great for business is not so great for poor UK people who now had to compete with huge influxes of people for jobs and housing.
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  8. not in ur lifetime
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  9. 'back in the day' there weren't 1.2 million immigrants coming in the space of 12 months! House prices aren't going to collapse.
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  10. Poles have much smaller more sensible welfare system and don't give jobs to be ppl cos they are black or homosexual or women which obviously reduces efficiency and productivity in the uk
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  11. it was created in the 1940s. very few countries in the world had universal, free at the point of use healthcare available to all. Im in the Philippines now, one medical operation can devastate a family financially, and if you cant pay you will end up screaming as you die.
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  12. every country's culture is important to its people, there is nothing especially important about ireland's
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  13. how is london a tax "heaven" ?
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  14. plenty of opps, just not in rural devon!
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  15. yes tax them out of existence and all those who can't afford to buy or need to rent to work or study can just live in cardboard boxes. Sure it will work out fine.
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  16. they implement net zero and our economy in 20 years resembles poland's in 2000
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  17.  @murphaph  all societies from the tribal level up have preyed on weaker societies down throughout history - the Irish for example slaved the British coasts for centuries, St Patrick being their most famous victim. I don't have any problem with your analysis (though you certainly emphasise the negatives and ignore the positives of the empire), my problem is with the original foolish OP's claim that the British simply "took" everything that have which is just stupid and offensive nonsense.
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  18. just dont die of boredom.
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  19. bulgaria = a model of economic efficiency...lol
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  20. u need 35 for full pension
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  21. in ireland or uk?
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  22. already exists, first 7.5k tax free
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  23.  @weird-guy  There are pros and cons indeed to eu membership, the pros mainly being for business which gets a steady supply of cheap labour. Without retirees and holiday makers from N Europe the Algarve would be what it once was - a very poor, undeveloped corner of Portugal. ps we shouldn't have let you guys in in the first place... the EEC was sold to us an exclusive club of countries at a comparable level of development...not a giant taxation scheme that transferred huge sums of money from richer countries to poor ones in the south and later on east.
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  24. And all the immigrants can go to the top of the waiting lists. Great.
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  25. ​ @Drunkenmeows  I'm happy to invest in social housing if it goes to british working taxpayers not foreign colonisers, many of whom have entered the uk illegally
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  26.  @OptimisticHominid  all countries have a class system
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  27. creative accounting
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  28.  @kjkj4725  no poor tenants who can no longer find somewhere to live. I hear students are sobbing on the streets of Scotland these days.
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  29. time to move to plymouth?
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  30.  @mohhingman  Do you have a pension?
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  31. disability benefits can be very generous, eg 1.2k a month. Many of these disabled are just chancers, but who can blame them?
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  32.  @JimFarrand  no but more people are taking them, probably due to millions getting a taste of the joy of being paid to be idle aka furlough and others feeling resentful that they didnt get furlough.
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  33. well said, austerity just means heaping a little bit less onto the shoulders of children who havent been born yet
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  34. massively massively overloaded with immigrants. wasn't always like that.
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  35.  @pwalk4160  the ones working for the nhs are often looking after mainly other immigrants. Go to any gp or hospital in london for example, you will struggle to find a single native person in the waiting room.
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  36. feels to me more that the young have shot themselves in the foot with their love of mass immigration. Talk about turkeys voting for xmas
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  37. No, feel sorry for the tenants who landlords will reluctantly evict as they sell up bit by bit.
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  38. renting costs are insane now, stlll cheaper to buy, ppl will get tired of spending 10k per year for a flat in Plymouth (if they can even get a rental, very difficult now) and will just decide to buy instead rather than waiting for the mythical 'crash'
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  39. move somewhere cheaper than London?
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  40. lol dont take that stuff too seriously  @rinnin 
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  41. they were sky high in late 80s @BinaryRoberto 
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  42. and their own foolish belief that 1.2 million newcomers in a year don't raise house/rental prices.
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  43.  @27moniczek81  I was in Poland in '94, ppl were lazy and unmotivated
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  44. they became the lib dems
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  45. doubt switzerland is going to be interested in your schoolboy german if you'll be taking the lives of their citizens in your hands!
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  46. so u left one of the worlds most exciting cities to live in a suburb in aus?
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  47. I've been to over 50 countires, lived in 7 and prices in UK were cheaper than any country I know - until the covid hysteria. Even staples in aldi went up 100% as a result of the all the money printing. UK not so cheap any more for sure.
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