Comments by "MeTube - tacticalvote co uk" (@OneAndOnlyMe) on "Rachel Reeves really is clueless" video.

  1. So you think you're smarter than the Chancellor? Tell us, what have you achieved in political life.
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  2. Yes, that was rather ironic. 😄
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  3. Why are people expecting details before the Budget is released? No Chancellor would do that. It's only been two months since they came to power, the Budget is about a month away. People are being silly if they don't understand that this is not much time.
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  4. To be deceptive, you have to be clever.
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  5. She is clever, you don't get to her position without being clever. Is she smug? I don't think so, I see confidence in herself. There's nothing wrong with that. It is about business versus workers, our whole existence is based on being able to earn money but selling our time. Public service is a form of business, public servants trade their time for money as well.
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  6. It's word salad to people who are not fluent in political speak. I understood what she meant.
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  7.  @SaveEarthPlsBeKind  You have to be cunning in politics. If you're not cunning you have no business being in politics. What you call cruel I see as being tenacious. I don't care about free gift. Better the rich pay for it than my taxes.
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  8. Parties of protest never achieved anything.
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  9. Exactly this! The Tories deliberately leaked things to get the press. Starmer and Reeves are doing things the traditional way, make people wait until Budget day and then reveal the details. That way media can't spin things ahead of the Budget.
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  10. This Labour is not traditional Labour. This is centrist Labour, not lefty Labour.
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  11. Hopefully they will get rid of NI and merge it into general taxation as that is what it is now. It hasn't been NI for a long time. This would simplify the understanding of taxation too as there are still too many people who think NI is some special insurance. It's just tax now.
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  12. Man tells woman how to look. What a surprise. 🤔
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  13. I don't care that politicians take clothes as gifts. Better rich donors pay for it than me with my taxes.
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  14. Is was costed based on the limited privileged access she had to the books. Jeremy Hunt himself confirmed on the Today programme that she was NOT given full access to the books.
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  15. And long may GB News continue to help split the right wing vote 😊
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  16. You could just do the research. £16 billion of the black hole has already been publicly disclosed, and verified by both the OBR and the IFS.
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  17. Currency is already digital in case you hadn't noticed. Richard literally explained this in one of his videos.
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  18. If you're serious with that question, I can tell you, I have some idea. The light at the end of the tunnel is ten years away (that's not a bad thing). Starmer's vision is ten years of Labour to really get the UK back on track economically. That makes sense, as there is only so much you can do in a five year term (and that's assuming international events don't distract). Over two terms (ten years), there will be major investment in national infrastructure (transportation, energy link, communications links, commercial districts, production centres, etc). The planning reform strategy is part of this too, as we cannot build these things while NIMBYs block everything to preserve their view of a field. This will grow the UK economy, that much is accepted by pretty much everyone as these things create jobs, very well paid jobs. The second part of his vision is that all this infrastructure investment is to create new economy jobs, i.e. high skills jobs in science, tech, engineering. This is because automation and AI and robotics will take most manual work and some low cognition work from humans over the next 10 years. To earn good money people will need to be in one of the new economy jobs (everyone else will have to find creative ways to earn a living). To facilitate this new economy growth will require the third part of his vision, education reform. The new economy needs graduates but also that shouldn't be the only route. So the plan is to encourage big businesses to provide graduate level education but in the work place in the form of modern apprenticeships. (This is something I've often suggested, for example, it should be possible to get a finance degree working at a bank, or a degree in logistics while working at FedEx.) Infrastructure building (shovels in the ground), new economy jobs (STEM), education to get people into new economy STEM jobs faster. That's the high level plan. Robotics, algorithms and general AI are already being used across business. We are now on the cusp of AI with reasoning capabilities, and robots that are coming to the market for consumer use in the home and in retail sector. UK is far behind the economic super powers and will fall further behind if we don't catch up to the state of the art in technology.
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  19. The protester was being disruptive and conference runs to tight schedules. The protest was also pointless as the Chancellor doesn't make policy on defence.
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  20. In five year's time I think Richard will be proven wrong. It's been only two months into a five year term!
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  21. The vast majority of the electorate lack critical thinking skills. That's why governments have to dumb things down so often.
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  22. Most of that is about allowing and encouraging pension funds to invest in infrastructure projects. Pension funds typically play it safe with where they invest pensions funds. Some say too safe and they should take a bit more risk as not only would it enable economic growth but also better returns for the pensions.
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  23. That alone was a pretty smart move. It's not slight of hand, there was a good technical justification of how it came to be given central banks rates have fallen, and she clearly cleverly anticipated the US Fed would cut by 0.5%. Far from "clueless".
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  24. She actually has a stutter, so I think she did rather well.
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  25. The UK overseas aid is the minimal it is required to do by international law.
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  26. She's more competent than most people who voted for her.
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  27. She is smart, you don't get to her position without smarts. More importantly, as a politician she is also determined and doesn't let emotion get in the way of making tough decisions.
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  28. That I'm okay with. Definitely she would go after the tax loopholes, the non-doms, etc.
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  29. The gift saga is nonsense. It's a distraction.
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  30. Labour never said their government would be about radical change, just change. In other words, marginal gains that all add up to save the state money and improve productivity. Example, digitisation of processes and workflows - not radical change of the processes and workflows, but change of the speed at which it is done.
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  31. They couldn't do it earlier. Jeremy Hunt (previous Chancellor) only gave Reeves limited access to the books (he admitted this on the Radio 4 Today programme). Reeves smartly knew it would be bad to build a Budget on partial access to the books, she needed to wait to be in power to fully scrutinise the books and the state of the finances the Tories left behind. One example, Jeremy Hunt pledged £1.3bn for data centers as part of a deal with Amazon, but never allocated the money in his Budget!
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  32. The only person who can fire her is the PM. Most of this coming Budget is what the PM wants.
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  33. Then you've not been paying attention. This government has already put in measures to prevent any government repeating the Liz Truss debacle, so the government can't do that.
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