Comments by "Aden Wellsmith" (@adenwellsmith6908) on "Do you care? That’s the political question for 2024" video.

They didn't care ever.
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1.14 million for the box at Arsenal over 5 years, inflation not included.
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Which is why they are both toast. Vote reform. Join reform.
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16 trillion pounds of socialist pension debts hidden off the books. As an accountant Richard you clearly don't care about that or the effect of those debts.
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Problem is that greed is wrapped up in a mantle of helping others. Starmer is a classic example of this. Reeves, Rayner also.
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And why? 1. It's been imported. 2. The welfare state has asset stripped the workers.
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Austerity is a consequence of the 16 trillion pound socialist pension debt that's hidden off the books. So is wealth inequality, low take home pay, cost of living crisis, lack of investment, ....
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@laurietaylor8982 That's gone out of the window. Even the police don't give a shit.
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@timelwell7002 No. The problem is power is centralised. You are proposing a system where an even narrower set of people control us. Namely who goes on the party lists. ie. Central offices. Instead several things are needed. 1. The right of explicit informed consent in law as a basic human right. Protects people from the state because they can say no. 2. Open primaries. 3. Right or recall on a petition. No conditions 4. Referenda by proxy. You nominate an MP, any MP as your proxy. Proxy votes are needed for any bills. That gives you want you want without the control of a handful of people.
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@timelwell7002 Second. You get extorted and exploited by the state. You get controlled by the state. So the way to prevent that is the right of explicit infomed consent in law. That way they can ask you, they cannot force you or retaliate against you. If you don't like Labour or Tory policies, say no to them. Simples.
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So take the UK. Why do we have poverty? People without assets? ie. What's caused the mess. Well 18% of people's income went to the welfare state. 98% of that was given to other people. Never went on services. What if that had been invested and owned by the person who worked hard to earn it? Would we have poverty on the scale we have in the UK? No.
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They aren't. The issue is the cause of the attack on the disabled. That's those pension debts hidden off the books. Instead they cover up the attack by saying aren't we good importing crime and poverty whilst they loot.
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@kwakkers68 Correct. So you have to ask why they are doing this. Why are they favouring illegal migrants over the disabled? So first lets look at the migrants. Which countries? Are the countries safe? The answer in most cases is yes. Lord Alli went of to Syria. It's safe. So why haven't they simply put in place a list of safe countries. If you come from a safe country, you are immediately returned home. That saves more money because they stop coming, the spending on them disappears, and the money can be allocated to the disabled. That's not a difficult thing to implement. That cuts the gordian knot of the courts, lawyers and the civil servants creaming off huge amounts of cash. We've had one example in the week of one laywer jailed for a related scam. But they don't want to. They have what I would call Blair's hatred. They hate people like the disabled, they hate the elderly, they want to rub their noses in the shit because they didn't vote as they were ordered.
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@ruthguthrie1099 I can tell you what I think they should start with. There are three main problems in the UK. Government debt, the NHS, and migration. I'll post once for each to make it easier for you to respond.
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@ruthguthrie1099 On governemnt debt, a full audit of the debts, and every tax payer to get an annual statement with their share of the debts. What would your reaction be to a 600K pension bill droping through your letter box be?
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@ruthguthrie1099 The NHS is harder. The basic issue is that its a beveridge, not a bismarck system. We need a bismarck system. Problem is that the NHS is run by people who are ideologues. To change that there needs to be action on avoidable deaths. 20,000 a year in English acute hospitals. The ideologues get very worried if that becomes known and they have to pay for their errors. But I don't believe the victims should pay.
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@ruthguthrie1099 Migration. There are migrants who are good for the UK, there are migrants who aren't. The general principles are 1. No criminals. 2. No discrimination 3. Net contributors only Asylum So the starter is a list of safe countries. No asylum from safe countries. Ended for those here. Immediate return for those at the border. Syria for example, is safe. Lord Alli just went there. Criminals. Deport on sentence if suspended, from the prison cell if jailed. Automatic. No appealing the deportation, you can appeal the conviction like anyone else. Net contributors. Zero welfare, 40K a year minimum tax code on economic migrants. The ones we want aren't affected. For dangerous countries, we can use the Falklands as a holding center for criminals and others. For example, for those who destroy their papers and won't say where they are from. They get all the support they need to contact their embassies to get replacement papers. Email facilities, telephone numbers, conference calls etc.
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@ruthguthrie1099 It sort of is. So SNP. I've some questions for you. 1. Once in a life time or more often? 2. The RV? Was it bought for dogging? 3. Can I get public money for a film? Granny does the Gorbals. A homage with a scottish twist to Debbie Does Dallas? 4. The Ferry, when's that arriving?
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That's symptoms, not causes and solutions.
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Pissed it up the wall. All those pension contributins for example gone with just a debt left.
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What's progressive about a 16 trillion pension debt? How do you solve that? The billionaires, 220 bn owned. You can't even tax them to pay that debt.
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@indricotherium4802 the UK state pension is about the lowest in the developed world ======== Correct. ======== Increasing it to parity with the rest would be an example of progressive policy ======== So more debt in other words. Do you know how big the pension debt is? How can you propose increasing it if you don't have the basic facts?
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@christinavuyk2026 Austerity is a consequence, not a policy. So you think that taxing the billionaires will solve it. Well I totted up the numbers. The sunday times rich list has quite a lot of rich people on it. I excluded the people who are just here but their wealth is else where, don''t have UK nationality. Gopi Hinduja and family for example. You won't be able to tax them. I've included people who I know are British, but have wealth all overseas. The hedge fund lot. You have 220 bn in wealth to tax. What rate are you going to tax them at? They are forced to sell if its a high rate. To whom are they going to sell to? Some other rich person who you will imediately say, you are rich, hand over the wealth? It won't work. That's the tax side. Now for the reason. You need the money for something. There's that 30% gross profit margin of the state. That's right. They make a profit on their services. The reason they need that 30% margin is debts. That money is just going to go on the debts. So 16 trillion pounds of pension debts, increasing at 10%. So you need 1,600 bn a year just to stand still. You've got 220 bn as a one off by bankrupting them, if you can find a buyer, and if they stand still and allow it. They have options now to leave the UK. Branson's left. Dyson too, that awful plumber has gone. Even Harry Kane has gone. The core problem with your idea is that you don't understand the core underlying problem. Then along comes the people who have caused the mess, who demand your money, and they sell you a fairy story that if only you could tax the rich, or catch the leprechaun... So why don't you know about the pension debts?
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Oh look posts disappering. Lets go through point by point to see what YT doesn't want you to hear. First we need open primaries. That stops selection committees controlling it. That's the major reason why PR is bad. The section committtees control it all not the public.
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@timelwell7002 The flip side of central control is the SNP. A disaster. What's needed is that right of consent. Forget local tax raising powers. Raise it centrally, give each region a per capital spend. The rich subsidise the poor. If you want to do more? Get better value. The two party system is going to be replaced by reform. Labour under stamer is left wing fascist. Nothing liberal about them. The PR argument is the same as offering kids a sweet or broccoli. You still don't get consent. You still want a state to screw others so you can profit.
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@timelwell7002 Or blunt, you want a different set of pigs in the trough. My way of thinking is differnet. 1. What are the problems? Are they symptoms or causes? 2. For the causes, how do you prevent the causes? 3 How do you fix the prooblems? There may not be a fix.
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@timelwell7002 I suspects have diappeared. Symptom or cause? Wealth inequality.
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@kwakkers68 The problem with direct democracy is that the majority screw the minority. That's why a right of explicit informed consent is required. Otherwise bring it on.
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@chillitotes A private educated politician like JC. Multimillionare. So where are the trillions the workers have paid the socialist welfare state? What's JC's plan? Ah yes, take more wealth from the workers.
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