Comments by "" (@stevec6427) on "The New Statesman" channel.

  1. I'm looking at leaving the UK now for the benefit of my children. They'll never be able to buy a house here, they'll have no job security, no right to protest, no right to strike. Rees-Mogg and his mates are actively trying to remove all workers rights as part of his deregulation. There will soon be a US style health insurance system which is fairly terrible. There's not really much left to hang around for now
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  2.  @Raturidesagain  That £3000 per tax payer would be over a decade at least. These upgrades are going to take years and they won't be paid for up front. If it puts off foreign companies from buying our infrastructure and exploiting it in the way the water companies have then I fail to see why that would be a bad thing. Privatisation of the water industry has been a complete failure. Maybe it could have worked with suitable regulation but it has completely failed
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  3. It has definitely created some huge benefits. Dutch ports for example have seen a huge boost in trade. The EU has cut imports of British goods to buy internally which is great news for EU producers. There are many other benefits, you just won't find them in the UK
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  4. I used to live in an apartment I owned but was covered by leasehold. It's ridiculous they can just send you bills for any amount at any time and there's no protection from them. Fortunately, I sold the apartment to some rich goon from London.
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  5. Farage isn't really much different. Very similar background
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  6. He's asked for full details of the cost of living / energy crisis already. Sound like he might take our side unlike our government who have BP as a major donor
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  7. How can something be mildly radical? Mild and radical are opposites
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  8.  @bobblue_west  He has the power to intervene if the tories are doing nothing (which they are) or are taking money from the energy companies (they are, BP were Truss's biggest leadership campaign donor). He may or may not actually use his power but he is certainly in a position to apply enormous pressure that the (pro monarchy) tories cannot ignore. I'm glad someone will take our side.
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  9. It's becoming more and more difficult to avoid, especially in newer, lower value homes
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  10.  @geraldaird9390  The Queen chose to stay out of politics, I don't think Charlie will
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  11. ​@jopo8281 Welsh Conservatives all voted in favour of the 20mph limit. Despite their reaction now they fully supported it when they had the opportunity to vote against it.
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  12. I've looked this up and the only sources for this I can find are websites which are less than trustworthy and seem to enjoy conspiracy theories
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  13. All the current offwat directors have also worked as directors for water companies
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  14. ​@Mandy-dy7nj under tory rule, we have already got very high taxes but it's all going to corporate subsidies instead of public services.
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  15.  @martinmanifold2241  What???? Inflation is much lower than the UK across most of Europe
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  16.  @clancywiggam  Where are the engineers needed to set up and run manufacturing plants in the UK? Decades of failing to train them has made sure that there's a massive shortage. Even those who I trained with back in the early 90's have all left the profession for more money in other jobs
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  17. Kind of. He's enrolled his kids in a school in the US so he's clearly not planning on hanging around
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  18. Austerity has never worked, it can't. How can a country grow when it's population has no money to spend?
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  19. ​ @fang_xianfu he even tries to disown the mess of the last government in which he was chancellor
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  20. Starmer radical? Seriously? He's about as middle of the road as it gets
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  21.  @BigHenFor  I think the middle classes are feeling it now and can see this is a British problem and not just a world problem
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  22. I'd rather see the union changed to give all member states a fairer deal and more democratic rights. Fix the reasons that independence is needed.
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  23.  @leehighland5435  Is there a party offering communism? That would be far left
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  24. I'm hoping he's just keeping his nose clean and his head down and not offering anything which is easily attacked just to get an easy and huge election win. Corbyn offered radical policies and got demolished in the election despite the fact most of those policies would have been pretty good for most people
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  25. Stuff the rich, they've had it easy for too long
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  26. Thats how it was here, it was a tory safe seat so they didn't bother canvassing and their opponents knew they couldn't win so also didn't bother. This year is different though, our tory MP is currently suspended for cocaine use and dodgy finances so the party know they're in trouble because the constituency has effectively been without representation for a year now and the locals are angry about that. I've had two visits from conservative canvassers but they're useless, they won't answer questions which may be remotely difficult
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  27. The tories target wins for the local council elections are 20% lower than those which effectively finished off May. They've set their targets very low
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  28. Giving more money to people who already have more than they can spend cannot lead to growth. Spending money on infrastructure projects which create well paid jobs (skilled and unskilled) will put more money in to the economy and give us useful infrastructure at the end of it
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  29.  @phexcell  there was never a vote on access to the single market or custom union. What we were promised was incredibly vague
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  30. I very much doubt he'd be stupid enough to appoint ministers but if he fired ministers for lying, corruption or committing crimes then that's fair. Our local MP, David Warburton was fired from the tory party for drug use, sexual harassment and dodgy financial dealings with Russian billionaires but he is still our MP and now gets paid to do absolutely nothing as an independent MP who just doesn't do anything, his wife also still gets paid as his secretary.
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  31.  @blue24563  That's a very, very low priority right now
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  32. Labour's vote share isn't dropping. Reform are only taking votes from the tories
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  33.  @TheEroticDonkey  but they might leave the country etc, etc
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  34.  @ecnalms851  I disagree. Starmer's manifesto will be aimed at winning over swing voters (that's how elections are won) so it'll be very inoffensive. Then they'll be focused on making improvements we can feel so that they can seal the deal for a second term. That's when we'll see more radical policies. Labour learnt from Corbyn's loss that going radical in a manifesto straight away made them an easy target for the tory supporting press
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  35. With the state of the country and economy, they'll need to be mild to avoid making things worse and then build it up to something more radical
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