Comments by "Jonathan Jonathan" (@jonathanjonathan7386) on "The UK’s Self-Inflicted Economic DECLINE" video.

  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.  @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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  4. bulgaria = a model of economic efficiency...lol
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  5.  @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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  6. 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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  7.  @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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  8. well said, austerity just means heaping a little bit less onto the shoulders of children who havent been born yet
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  9. they became the lib dems
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  10. 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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