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

  1. But many of them do...
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  2. 💯
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  3. @MichaelNelson-it9mf  Well: since Corbyn cares a lot about democracy, that would probably have been a future consideration.. But you have to win power first! Corbyn's manifesto was attractive. It's a pity the Red Wall liked the untested idea of Brexit better... 😏 As for Starmer: he only wants to court these Blue Labour types.. Or disaffected Tories. He hates the SNP and is not at all interested in the idea of Scottish or Welsh independence. But what's wrong with the idea of the UK anyway? 🙂 (Though I can see why the Scots are fed up with our Tory-dominated political system. 😏)
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  4.  @fburton8  Yes: which they have been doing for quite a long time! (What do you think of my idea of "the supermarket windfall tax"? 🙂)
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  5.  @fburton8  🙂
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  6. @mk91-vz1oj ALWAYS some excuse for NOT taxing big business/the rich!
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  7.  @adenwellsmith6908  There's a point... (Are they all plastic these days?) How about nitrile gloves - are they plastic?
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  8.  @Riya-ho5zv  😂
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  9. ​ @antilunio Stupid, wasn't it? 😏
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  10. @krismacg5673  💯
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  11. 💯👍
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  12. @Killergoat69  Well: Barbara Ehrenreich was certainly saying so, in her books in the 2000s, about the US service economy. It has a very low minimum wage, which doesn't appear to have regular increases, like ours does in the UK. Plus the service economy is VERY resistant to unions and to wage rises... #FightForFifteen
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  13. Sounds like a good idea, Richard! The green investment bonds. But what on earth is "MMT"?? Fewer acronyms, please! 🙂
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  14.  @WarrenPeaceOG  💯👍
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  15. Trump is an IDIOT!! (What do governments do with tariff money anyway? Is it used like VAT?)
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  16. ​ @gio-oz8gf 😂😂
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  17. NO intelligence, more like!
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  18. 🤮
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  19. That's what I was thinking! (But it could be achieved anywhere.)
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  20. Answer: Because the people selling to buy their next house, wouldn't thank you, nor any politician, if there suddenly WAS? 😏 That I think is your answer!
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  21.  @helenheenan3447  Yeah, there have been higher interest rates recently. But if rents have SOARED regardless of interest rates..
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  22. Like the Greens?
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  23. ​ @garysmith5025 💯
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  24. 🙄🙄🙄
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  25. Yes. Because we REALLY want things around these days like Magdalena Laundries and the Irish type of "Industrial schools", to abuse and exploit women and children... 😏 The Irish Taoiseach had to apologise for those only a few years ago...
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  26. @saw6386  What a lot of nonsense! Even if that were true, you would get more people treating themselves, because they wouldn't be hurrying by the coffee bar thinking to themselves: "Can't afford it.. better not even think about it!"
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  27.  @WarrenPeaceOG  Don't know about that! They have micro-financing in Africa.
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  28. @saw6386  Tesco make WAY too much profit! To the point where I have recommended (on Richard J Murphy's channel for a start) that the big supermarkets should have a wealth/windfall tax imposed upon them, for the way they made out like bandits during Covid in particular. Plus, their overpaid bosses could take a salary cut!
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  29.  @saw6386  💯👍
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  30.  @saw6386  From their overinflated profits!
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  31. @saw6386  You try to make too many points in the same comment, and it strikes me none of them are valid. In reverse order: 1) WHERE do you get this information, that "coffee shops are closing all over"? Have you a recognised statistic to back it up? And if any of that were true, then it's obviously due to Rishi Sunak"s disastrous economic policies. But like I said, if coffee shops/cafes were NOT seen as good business investments, then there wouldn't be so many of them in the first place. Maybe the market for them has become a little over-saturated? Idk. 2) All that stuff you said about the minimum wage causing negative economic effects is untrue. All long-term studies said that it didn't, I read. 3) So Tony Blair was a bit more Tory than most socialists would like, and he didn't support the minimum wage? So what? The unions did, and it came into being. End of. 🙂
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  32. Oh: and I can understand why a coffee costs significantly more than £1! (£1 coffees - where have you been living - Bulgaria? 😄) But no: I don't see why it should cost a fiver. Unless it's absolutely massive and the top is covered in cream!
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  33. @saw6386  Yeah, sure. But made no odds re the minimum wage! Oh for the days of when Labour politicians had to listen to the unions..
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  34. @saw6386  Where does that quote come from though? (And most independent businesses fail within the first five years.)
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  35. Because they are stupid and uncaring: and Starmer is a coward!
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  36.  @cobbler40  That was the slogan on his podium...
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  37.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Fartage.
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  38.  @jeremykille4689  😏😄
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  39. No.
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  40. It's true: whatever someone replied! It's somewhere on Youtube, I think..
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  41. ​@robertdownie6135 💯👍
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  42.  @chrisreed5463  Looks like you are relying on just one thing... Did "fossil fuels" invent the light bulb? Or the telephone? 😏
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  43.  @ianc7866  Bulll.
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  44. Jeez Louise.. 🙄 Orange man reminds me of all the most hubristic kings from legends and fairy tales..
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  45. That would be an idea! 👍
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  46. 🙄👎
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  47.  @adenwellsmith6908  But you keep going on about Bernie Madoff.. 😏
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  48. What "study"? Who commissioned this garbage?
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  49. You simply can't have scads of young people (including the under-18s!) desperate to register to vote in 2017 and 2019, all so they can vote for Jeremy Corbyn - and six or seven years later, have half of them wanting to vote for Nigel Farage. That is bollocks.
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  50.  @legateelizabeth  Do they now? 😏 (People don't usually switch from left to right like that.)
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