Comments by "Alice Merray" (@alicemerray) on "Pod Save the World" channel.

Hope Gabbard's continuing connection to the cult she grew up in will be talked about during her confirmation hearings. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/is-tulsi-gabbard-a-mystery/681398/
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An awful lot of people are basically pinning their hopes on the idea that Labour are LYING to get in. Exactly how do they think that will go down with the RW, the Press and with people who don't usually vote Labour? It pretty much guarantees one term, when Labour are banking on getting at least two as they keep punting all the good policies into this second term (when they haven't even got one yet). It's crazy.
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Jenrick is married to someone whose family are Holocaust Survivors. Wonder what they think of him?
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You let Johnson off the hook slightly by saying the suspension would have led to a by election. The whole point is that it MIGHT have done, but he had several opportunities to try to stave that off and he fled (resigned) rather than try any of them, like the coward he is. First, the House of Commons had to vote (still does, on Monday) on whether to accept the Committee's recommendation and Johnson would have been allowed to put his case to try to persuade them not to. Even then, a by election would only take place if his constituency raised a petition to hold one, again allowing him space to try to persuade people and FINALLY he could of course try to win the seat back. He has done none of that. He can dish it out, but he can't take it, so he's run off to write for the Daily Heil instead. No one should ever listen to this lying liar ever again. He should not get a resignation "honours" list (or it should be revoked), he shouldn't get the former PM stipend and he should be told not to turn up at future events that former PMs usually attend (eg the Cenotaph) like a bad smell. Enough.
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Very rich people like Sunak, Trump, Musk, think they will somehow be protected from the results of climate change so they aren't fussed about it, certainly not enough to change their lives in ways they don't like. They just think a few plebs like us will die. I don't think any major steps will be made on the climate until a catastrophe does affect the ruling classes. As for JSO protesting at sports events &c - do the sport people actually think their idiotic events are going to carry on when the planet burns? Obviously protesting at these events is absolutely a thing a group like JSO will do, it's how they get seen.
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I wonder if there's any possibility of change due to the designated next monarch not wanting to do it? As was pointed out, it doesn't seem like much fun a lot of the time. William seems to be on board, or at least resigned, but what about George? Sure he'll be brought up to think he has no real choice, but that might still not be enough to lock him in. We also need to stop speaking of the reduced-style monarchies of places like Denmark in disparaging terms like "bicycling monarchs" - wtf is wrong with them travelling like regular people?! - before real change can occur. Clive Lewis makes an excellent point about the symbolism of the monarchy. It sends a message of fundamental inequality to the whole country and, of course having a monarch also allows for there to be further ranks of hierarchy - dukes, barons, marquesses &c - all of whom expect to be treated a certain way due purely to accidents of birth (& if you go back far enough, probably to robbery with violence as that's how many of their ancestors got those positions way back when). It's clearly not true that any American child can become President, but the fact that it's sent as a message to the population must be a good thing.
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Watching this at a time when we *know*, unlike I think Nish, Coco & Dr Khan at the time, that Wine-time Fridays, and parties of all sorts NEVER STOPPED in Number 10 throughout lockdown. Social distancing was not practiced and masks were not worn. Instead, people were told to watch out for the cameras when entering/leaving the building. That tells you EVERYTHING about Johnson and the rest of this shabby cabal that pretended to be Govt.
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