Youtube comments of (@col.hertford9855).

  1. He last struggled to pay a bill when he couldn’t work out how to used a chip and pin reader 😂
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  2. Britain at its best. Long live Count Binface!
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  3. Cutting the IRS, the agency that’s supposed to collect taxes and detect fraud? Odd one for musk to cut… I wonder why tax dodging billionaires want to not have the tax collector in an effective state…. 😂
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  4. No such thing as extra policing, they will be redeployed from elsewhere or have rest days and holidays cancelled.
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  5. The more of Mike Lynch I see the more I like him.
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  6. Abolish private schools, and while you are at it, abolish faith schools.
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  7. Hit the nail on the head. The government want to only generate wealth to be sat in banks. Not wealth that’s recirculated in the economy. Solidarity ✊
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  8. She’s gone mad…
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  9. I don’t think it’s “deep down”. It’s pretty obvious they don’t want to sort the “small boats” issue. They see it as a vote winner.
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  10. She ignores the bits where she caused diplomatic incidents telling UK troops they could volunteer in Ukraine, against international law. She’s still a muppet.
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  11. Six years on, the foresight of John Major is still astounding.
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  12. More like, “how dare you thwart our imperialistic ambitions”.
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  13. I don’t agree with everything Phil says, but he is definitely a sharp commentator, and a great presenter. Always worth a watch.
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  14. AI is not a path to truth. It’s an algorithm that looks at likely responses, not what is accurate. The premise here is misguided.
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  15.  @jacqdanieles  yes, minimum participation level and a super majority (60/66%)
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  16. Savage… Sunak doesn’t answer the fecking question again….
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  17. Tories blaming others, who would have thought this…
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  18. The tory party Rory loved started dying in the 1980s, and it’s been in the final death throes when Cameron left office.
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  19. Why aren’t they forcing the rich to work if it gives you dignity?
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  20. It’s not the first time the Tories have circled the wagons around one of their own who have acted unethically and inappropriately. Isn’t this a national security matter?
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  21. Gudo is a clown, definitely part of the problem.
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  22. “Only guilty people plead the 5th” - Donald Trump This is an actual quote 🤷‍♂️
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  23.  @Finkiu  they like to be called expats not immigrants. It’s like a dirty word for some reason.
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  24. We need PR urgently. The results showed again how unfit for purpose the FPTP system is.
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  25. Darren Jones as PM, Thorsten Bell as Chancellor, that’s a amazing potential future Labour leadership lineup
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  26. What would it take to get a Tory booted from the party?
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  27. It’s odd that they don’t in America. In the England and Wales it’s common for people in authority to be subject to greater sentences.
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  28.  @cliffnelson1174  as someone watching from the uk, he Kerb stomped them. Even McCarthy knew they had got it handed to them.
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  29. The rental market and investment buyers that are the bigger issues. We need more houses. But we also need to make the current home ownership fairer.
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  30. “There will be no one left to blame”, no Richard, there will always be someone else to blame.
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  31. It always was, I’m not religious, but Jesus had a thing or two to say about it.
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  32. One can only hope that there is a Lib Lab coalition. We need a voting system where disenfranchised voters are represented.
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  33. The same way LePen has been doing so well, or Meloni, or the AFD, or Maga.
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  34. You missed “release the hounds”
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  35. That’s all it ever meant
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  36. And disgraced former Prime Minster Alexander Johnson.
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  37.  @_lmagine fear is often irrational.
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  38. Why are they so morally spineless? This is a non-issue. These tories are hypocrites.
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  39.  @Iazzaboyce  I get what you are trying to say, but the woman was short sighted and ignored, didn’t understand, or didn’t research the expert advice during the referendum that the one would affect the other. This was plainly stated multiple times.
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  40. Does the presenter realise the camera is on?
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  41. Like watching foxes against a chicken. Now Starmer and Flynn are out matching Sunak at every option.
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  42.  @dianeirvine7624  banks fund investment, rich people horde money and take it out of the economy.
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  43. Sunak has a plan and it’s working. I wonder what the plan is.
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  44.  @isbestlizard he said it was “garbage”.
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  45. Playing for the camera, but I expect he is scared shitless, Particularly as he has done his best to upset the judges overseeing the various cases. I’m expecting a fairly stiff judgement when it comes to the actual fines as this is not limited like the last one was.
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  46.  @Brad84L  I’ve not noticed a bias, he presents both sides of the legal argument based on the written law and precedent. Greetings from the UK.
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  47. I’m a republican and proud of it.
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  48. The right wing troll bots are out in force tonight 😂 Funny they all have the same talking points, and not one actually aimed at the discussion here.
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  49. Russian bot 😂
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  50. @left_blank What do you mean by bettering themselves? Do people need to start as a cleaner to become a CEO? We do actually need people to to all the jobs the society needs. This includes careers with limited prospects, and people who work these jobs should still be be respected. They are as necessary as anyone else.
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  51. Let’s not politicise the issue just after 30p Lee demanded Ed Davies resignation on the issue and he seemed to agree…. Okay then
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  52. @Alex-mo3dbhow have Labour bought chaos? I’m confused. Do you have a magic ball 🎱?
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  53. It’s not a zero sum game, both groups need adequate care.
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  54. The problem with expecting a local is if an area produces two excellent or outstanding candidates, then one will be sidelined and the talent lost. I don’t think there’s a particular issue having an outsider as an MP, I think it’s a problem when they aren’t an exceptional outsider. Too often it’s just factions in parties promoting their faction, here at least, it’s someone with a lot of knowledge and a bit of a national profile that could help your area in that respect.
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  55.  @Kevinppppp cool story bro, putin won’t nuke his land
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  56.  @CMoney72  triggered by a perceived insult aimed at conservatives seems a pretty conservative response. But then I’m European, and most of you Americans are pretty rabid conservatives by our standards.
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  57. I don’t understand why you can’t tax the rich?
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  58. Private schools? Sorry, but I have no sympathy for people going without luxuries…
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  59. Support the RMT ❤ Rail strike at the same time as the enough is enough rally. Surely they should coordinate to get the numbers up?
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  60.  @pauls7803 they are more draconian than they were 20 years ago. That’s the more important measure. Doesn’t matter what’s happening elsewhere. Facisum doesn’t follow a standard model. Italy, Germany and Spain had facist movements that operated in very different ways.
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  61. @Capri so what do you propose? Right wing neoliberalism helping you and your family?
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  62. The solution is not a tory government mr tory person
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  63.  @jeffsimon9594 and yet you are here, every day, every video. Don’t you have a life?
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  64.  @Staghound  they choose Belfast instead. I would have liked HMS Jarvis too tbh. Nearly as many battle honours, heavily committed throughout the war, but not a single member of the crew lost to enemy action. The luckiest ship in the navy.
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  65. You have John Stewart, he’s pretty great and telling liars they are liars to their face too!
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  66. The current economic model died in 2008, but no one had put the old horse down yet. Advanced economies have very very little scope for growth. The US is only being propped up with the AI bubble for example.
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  67.  @stinkbug4321  Europe have sent more, and have committed to far more in military aid. Don’t know why you think otherwise, it’s easy to search up. The main issue was American interference in Ukrainians ability to fight the war.
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  68. His success was from fraud and a TV show, every other venture went bust. He even bankrupt multiple casinos.
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  69. To be fair, now Paris is the largest financial centre in Europe having taken business out of London, least they could do.
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  70. No nuclear? They really need to review the science, not the emotion.
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  71. It could be just to create a more solid precedent. The higher the court, the stronger the stronger precedent. Unless it’s Roe Vs Wade
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  72. Always no.1 or 2 in the world for educational attainment too. Who would have thought, making decision makers have a direct interest in state schooling could be a positive thing?
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  73. Keeping meetings on track is the role of the chair. If this is not in scope of the meeting he’s technically right to do so. However, given the public interest, it seems politically foolish to be blind to the optics of what was being said. Bit of a PR fail, even if he was technically correct. Especially as they ended up asking the questions anyway….
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  74. Working class voters inside london get shafted bad too fella. Many of the poorest in the country are in london, not to mention the homeless.
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  75.  @Britking1 they are a sovereign country, they should be able to join if they want.
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  76.  @skyblazeeterno because the USA is the most influential country in the world. What happens there, happens everywhere. Kinda the point of the video if you had watched it.
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  77. Surely it’s more than that, it’s also creating wealth for the wealthy…. Again…
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  78. His performances are very consistent.
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  79. Penny Mordant seems unimpressed by Sunaks response.
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  80.  @Ps-we3pp Poland has nearly overtaken us in terms of person wealth and wages.
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  81.  @nihilistlivesmatter  it’s not a protest, it’s a riot.
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  82.  @redflag4781  I said if the candidate was excellent. If you think farage is excellent, then I can’t help you.
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  83.  @Contreras1991  and yet we can always find the money to fight wars. If there had been a will then it was possible
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  84. It’s all very well and good, but governments are still not considering what the societal implications of large language model AI.
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  85. No
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  86. What’s worse it we were agreeing with Gove as well this week. Things are that bad even some of the nut jobs are right, rather than just being on the right.
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  87. Andy Burnham talking sense again. Really should be in Parliament as leader.
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  88. And listening, they do a podcast called Page 94.
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  89.  @richardgallagher4880  we have many unelected bureaucrats in this country. Many are in the legislature. The House of Lords is made up of mostly appointees. The hereditary lords vote a proportion of there number so I suppose that’s a little democratic. Oh, let’s not forget the bishops. You have no clue do you.
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  90. What does that mean? What big picture?
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  91. Whilst getting paid for not turning up….
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  92.  @redflag4781  Having a media profile to escalate local issues to a larger stage is bloody useful. Also, having the contact book with the senior members in the government is extremely useful.
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  93.  @arty5876  not quite right, France and the Uk had clearly stated, if you invade Poland they would declare war. Germany then invaded Poland. Germany knew the consequences.
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  94. And the Dane’s can from Greenland?
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  95.  @resistancefighter9009  I think you need a better Russian to English translation programme.
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  96. The main difference I see between economists regarding MMT is the extent to which it can be leveraged, not the validity of the concept. Oddly, the people challenging it usually support a concept of austerity which has zero supporting evidence of efficacy, and in fact large amounts of evidence to the contrary.
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  97. This is like watching Matt Dilahunty without the hard philosophy
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  98. Maybe if it was a legal requirement for the media to at least base reporting on facts 🤷‍♂️
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  99. Samje is kinda doing the same as oil companies in a way. He’s trying to protect his idealistic way of life.
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  100.  @garyb455  there is austerity. What you mean is you aren’t seeing the result. The result is undermining our services and funnelling off the money to private interests
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  101.  @robertfox882  you don’t need to drape your self in the flag to prove you love the country. Not burning down communities is a far better indication of patriotism.
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  102. @Mee-n3e people blaming there failings on the EU was the problem in the first place. Well that and lies. Lots of lies.
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  103. As a partner of TIC, the company that caused the crash no less.
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  104.  @laidbackkodiak  it’s always been a problem. It’s been a key policy platform of the LD and Greens for decades.
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  105. 10 day suspensions please…
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  106.  @BluddyGoodBloke his early work as a psychologist was competent, but he’s a ridiculous figure now. He comes across as someone who had a serious breakdown.
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  107.  @dmitryk6233  thermonuclear destruction isn’t a strategy. Russia isn’t going to risk completely destruction because the rest of the EU rearm.
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  108.  @TonyAaronII ”I pray to Joe Pesci, he gets things done” - George Carlin
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  109. Why give so much air time to such a small company? Surely you should get the opposition, the third, or the forth party.
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  110. Actually it’s a slap in the face for all the Indian soldiers in the British and Commonwealth army too.
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  111. I work in Pharma and have a very good regulatory knowledge. Every regulations is directly or indirectly about patient safety or product quality. Starmer seems far too trusting about the ethics of businesses.
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  112. He’s an intellectual who’s passionate about his ideas. How is he supposed to talk to keep you happy? Dull and dry? That just switches people off the message.
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  113.  @joejjj4378  the issue isn’t just about not paying taxes, it’s the fact they deprive that money from circulation in the wider economy.
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  114.  @petrihadtosignupforthis8158  he was an MP for twelve years before being elected as speaker. In that time he held some shadow cabinet roles. So your statement is incorrect.
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  115.  @sathvikraomp2006 the US has no economic might, the rich refuse to pay for it, and the poor can’t.
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  116.  @teem5642  it’s hasn’t. The issue with refugees isn’t the issue. First up its not illegal to arrive in a small boat. Any form of entry is Legal under UN charter to a country signed up to it. We take fewer than any similar sized country in Europe. The failed applicants are often allowed to stay where they stay is due to the time taken to process claims. This means they qualify for migrant status even if they fail because they build lives here. Three year processing times is a consequence of a small state conservative government. The Tories have broken the system on purpose. Improve processing facilities and work with France is the way to improve this. Maybe stop buggering up other countries would help too (ala Iraq and Afghanistan).
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  117.  @wimschmied3800 that lot in German in the 1930s burnt books too. It’s not an English thing. Here we write books, not burn them.
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  118. My worry is not musk right now, it’s more the warlords that will fill the void if the US collapses.
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  119. I know too many educated people who choose not to inform themselves on this and a wide range of topics.
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  120. Shame she’s stepping down. Provides a better opposition than the other parties in Westminster. I expect she’s realising the goal is unachievable at the moment given the intransigence of the other parties on the question of independence.
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  121.  @dominiclane8538 that’s told them, what a well reasoned rebuttal of the OP.
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  122.  @derekharrison1582  she is a far right member. Nothing moderate about the policies she supports.
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  123. The establishment (Tories/religious types) tried to get the Life of Brian, in fact the BBC and ITV refused to air it initially.
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  124. Given the state of the US, I think it’s in our best interest to spend this on defence in the UK/EU/Canadian Defence Industry.
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  125.  @ezekielbenisrael1962 but what about! Or you could just engage with the actual comment 🤷‍♂️
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  126. There was an inquiry under the Tories already. It was two published years ago.
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  127.  @Sun-ei4gi  well the state has shrunk massively via the back door, so insourcing public services again would be a start
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  128. Labour seem to be incapable of acting quickly. It’s utterly ridiculous to be honest. Why can everyone else see it but not Labour?
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  129. The French far left were destroyed several decades ago. The centre right has dominated since then, and they are centre right, not left wing.
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  130. One can only hope that there is a Lib Lab coalition. We need a voting system where disenfranchised voters are represented.
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  131. Nice to see Corbyn doing what he does best, being a moral compass. Not a great leader, but a good back bench MP.
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  132. I agree with this, Labour currently haven’t shared a vision of what they want to do. It disappointing as how can you have hope without something to hope for?
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  133. Did you watch the video? It’s a way of forcing Russia to redeploy troops to defence instead of offence.
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  134. Cool story bro. And yet there is zero evidence of it 🤔. Oh wait, I bet someone on Facebook said it.
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  135. Basically, if your religious beliefs affect me. You aren’t fit for office. Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion.
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  136. Oh dear Piers, you have become the story. Not a good one to be in. Will Scotland Yard let you off again I wonder?
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  137. I respect Bernie Saunders, more than most current politicians I know of. Not perfect, but more perfect than many.
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  138. What a breath of fresh air, Darren doesn’t answer the question fully, gets challenged, then answers the question fully. I know it should just be normal. But it’s been around 9 years since this kind of thing happened in government (since the coalition).
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  139.  @resiplayerz  false equivalency fallacy, that’s not a single unified market.
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  140.  @lestrem11  I don’t know if any companies are thriving except the ones founded to negotiate the brexit red tape.
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  141. Especially ones who’s mothers family was the Austrian painters sympathisers and loved apartheid? It’s a real head scratcher.
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  142.  @stevesmith1923 I’ve seen enough Jordan Peterson to know he’s spouts a meaningless word salad. So no thanks.
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  143.  @Paradoxolog  and he would know given his self drive test on open road policy at Tesla, and Launching substandard rockets via space X, and pretty much everything about Twitter.
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  144.  @Sun-ei4gi  he said left wing not Labour. Please keep up
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  145.  @Carl-hs420a  there is no better brexit.
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  146.  @thatjeff7550  that horrible Iilluminaughtii threatened it. Then Devon sent a response.
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  147. Joe Biden has blind spots on a few issues, but he is right on this.
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  148.  @bertie4127 as opposed to carrying ours and attacking our country.
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  149. Generally a long meandering journey on one’s own opinion with zero challenge or rebuttal by the interviewer. One of the few points agreed with is the fact Brexit voters we’re not racist, they were in my experience totally clueless as to what they voted for or against, and were generally quite xenophobic.
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  150. You missed Audie Murphy, one of the most highly decorated US soldiers of WW2. if you don’t know his military career, it’s definitely worth a read.
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  151.  @Sean006  Tobias ignores the fact when we had national service the highest rate of tax was over 90%. So tax the rich and spend it on the military, create jobs and industry here. Not trying to do it on the effing cheap.
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  152. Good to hear someone discussing an issue like this, especially what is for me a big issue locally as his club is only a couple of kilometres downstream from me.
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  153. Steve Bannon more like
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  154.  @anonomous8719 thank neoliberal economic policies introduced under thatcher and then continued under every government since. It has very little to do with Europe or Brexit.
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  155.  @lordvadertheleftie9703 what’s insane is it’s taken so long
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  156. That they don’t want to share
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  157. I mean, The plan is: 1) Set up border command. 2) Process claims and send failing applicants away. 3) Set up international policing programmes to stop the gangs. Sounds like more of a plan than stop the boats and hoping it happens.
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  158. It wasn’t quite the JOB interview, but he did make Farage squirm…
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  159. He was really busy missing cobra meetings at that time if I remember right.
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  160.  @farzeensanglay7174 troll bots are not alive
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  161. My conscience is clean too, I did and they are, as expected less bad than the other lot who stood a chance of forming a government. Unfortunately it was a choice between rabid free marketeer neoliberals, or neoliberals.
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  162. The monarch has and uses constitutional power. They review and amend proposed legislation, often too remove the impact on them and their holdings.
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  163. Surely that’s a matter for scientist rather than politicians. Odd thing to to have at the top of your important issues list though.
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  164. Police can put themselves on duty at anytime it’s necessary. But they don’t have too. Young cops often do, older cops are just trying not to get involved.
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  165. So you are cool with a member of trumps team saying they should invade? Instead of engaging with it you deflect.
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  166. @Capri I agree. Unfortunately that requires a change of government and the only option is Labour.
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  167.  @notjustforhackers4252  what’s that got to do with the comment? We didn’t need to leave the SM, it wasn’t the question on the ballot. Yet we did.
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  168.  @bishwatntl to be fair, most of America didn’t vote for Trump as the turnout was low.
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  169. By making a comment like this? You are in just as big an echo chamber I expect.
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  170.  @AllanHinde-mb2pr it’s not deflection, it may be why this issue resonated with Elon Musk.
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  171. Yeah, he’s clearly giving a thumbs up 🤷‍♂️.
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  172.  @suzann2531  it’s on his dad’s Wikipedia page
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  173. Why is the message of support for people being attacked so controversial? Why so much love for Putin?
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  174. Wealth taxes are notoriously hard to implement and manage. You need assessors, the value of things aren’t marked up on a shelf. That race horse, is it worth £5 or £10million, and it could be worth the later on one day,then the former on the next. Rich people have lawyers who drag this kind of things through the courts. They seem to be a more a virtue signaling policy (unless used primarily for wealth redistribution), as they are not an effective way of raising tax. It would be better to charge income tax rates on all forms of gain, like selling shares, properties, income from rents, and other forms capital gain. And stop loopholes that allow people to hide the gains in oversees companies.
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  175. I’d like to see this guy and Gary Stevenson discuss this in a long form politic discussion.
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  176.  @lawrenceholden5716  the government should be funding the NHS (and indeed all services) to ensure its actually capable of dealing with the population we have. Instead it’s been systematically underfunded and then the government decided to inflict Brexit which smashed employee retention. NHS satisfaction was high as recently as 2010. The main issue we have is the lack of government investment which drive’s economic growth. Under Brown and Darling we were recovering, then Osborne and Cameron killed it with austerity. It’s got bugger all to do with migration. Last time we had this level of debt, the taxes were in the 90% region of high earners, and the economy was booming.
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  177. The government doesn’t work well with a majority the size of Blair’s? Three points; - Any majority in our FPTP system has unchecked power. Being able to check power would be to block legislation, not just disapprove of it. Which can be done equally by an opposition party of 120 or 10. - The country was a lot less dysfunctional under Blair, things worked a lot better, like the NHS. - This is an argument for PR, so I take it you support PR Micheal Green?
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  178. These ghouls are flipping terrifying
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  179. He has, dads army for youngsters, send a few people to Rwanda for an eye watering sum which means they get to chose the best applicants and they also send us some of theses.
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  180. Not fair on the Rwandans, haven’t they had enough problems that they are finally coming out of?
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  181. Love the Lincoln project and the Mooch!
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  182. The Tories are dying out. People under 50 are just not voting for them in large numbers. Appealing to a declining demographic seems like an odd strategy tbh.
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  183.  @HarryFlowerrs  the facts are, as reported, two consenting people did stuff. Stop trying to be the moral police.
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  184.  @anonomous8719  Peter Hitchens is famously not a socialist. Try again buddy.
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  185.  @anonomous8719 I’ve seen no evidence of this.
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  186. No placards either, just beer and a fight. It’s not a protest, it’s a rabble.
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  187. And maybe include the worse bits
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  188. This story isn’t a laughing matter but it made me laugh. I was once proud to be British. No longer. He’s not a exception in Parliament, just representative of a number of Conservative MP who’s constituent should ask, is this really better than Labour / Green/ Liberal Democrat? Unfortunately most voters aren’t interested, and thus we get more of the same. They say the same old excuses that they as bad as each other, but really the voter never actually checked in the first place.
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  189.  @Tcb0835  it’s only a Jack when hung on a maritime vessel. It’s an unnecessary and pedantic point 🤦‍♂️
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  190. JOB misses the point for a change. Wage increases aren’t fuelling inflation because most people are not getting them, it’s a mix of supply side and greed. It’s being dubbed greedflation in the US, where wealth is effectively being removed from the markets by hoarding and stock buybacks.
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  191. Joe Khatib, Incitement to commit violence is not protected by the first amendment buddy.
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  192.  @redflag4781  it was in the initial comment you replied to me on, It’s right there in the first and third line. Maybe the fact I said exceptional rather than excellent when I reiterated the point confused you?
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  193. The rejoin movement has.
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  194. I quite like the direction Ed Davey has taken as I found Clegg a bit too right wing. I feel like I’m in the same boat and I hope they form the opposition.
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  195. I’m sure she is paid well, that buys a lot of therapy…
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  196. Won’t someone think of the fascists, they always get misrepresented /s
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  197.  @mrstephenpariah  linkear I assume, but Gary Stevenson is a legend too.
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  198. Yes, bury bad news and twist the knife into the BBC at the same time.
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  199.  @lauralishes1  and indeed people served time for. An odd thing to harp on about. Ignore the current corruption that goes unpunished and talk about corruption that was punished a decade and a half ago. He just bat s… crazy.
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  200.  @TheSuperPsychoKiller  to do a pre-recorded interview with ITV that will be broadcast in six days. So it will be completely out of date when it’s aired. He could have had a prime ministerial photo op with Biden, Macron and Scholz. Honestly he seems to have less than a clue
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  201. The system working as intended.
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  202. We don’t have regulators autonomy, we are rule takers, mot makers.
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  203.  @aituk  no, it just means they aren’t afraid to reinvent the republic when it’s not working. Oldest doesn’t mean best.
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  204. He is clever, insightful and considered a National treasure. The fact you ask seems a bit suspicious to be honest.
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  205.  @resiplayerz  no it wasn’t, it was all things to all people. We were supposed to stay in the customs union according to vote leave
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  206. Resistance to building homes are not just nimbyisum. In the southeast has suffered years of hospital and police station closures, groaning infrastructure, roads, sewers, power, data/telecoms. It’s a populist idea that’s it’s easy to build the required number of homes in complete isolation of any other issue. Sorry, I’ve not seen serious plans from anyone to actually deal with this issue.
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  207. @left_blank some people aren’t academically or technically capable of doing skilled or knowledge based jobs. It’s either a necessary or unnecessary. People should still be given a fair reward for the work they do, I mean it’s not like society expects pay according to the general good the role does. What makes a job crap? Do you mean unnecessary jobs? Or it just a job that’s “beneath you”?
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  208.  @greg11786  you sound weird, are you alright buddy?
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  209.  @paullegend6798 it’s standard practice to keep protest and counter protests apart. This really shouldn’t be an issue and wouldn’t be if it was other groups.
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  210.  @lutherheggs451 adults don’t write comments like that buddy.
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  211. Clearly not. She’s two steps behind Sunak in the political game.
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  212. The SNP have been really good at channeling the Nationalist movement in 100% peaceful way. I don’t think they, and the Scottish people get enough credit for how rare that is. Other independence movements have been mired with violence. Maybe the British government should occasionally look north…
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  213. Who knew that lawyers were so funny 🤣
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  214.  @CapitalG-u7w the main failure that happened under Labour was the global economic crisis that was caused by the company TCI of which Rushi Sunak was a partner. I’d be interested to find out what else you think wasn’t working. The economy was recovering until Cameron and Osborne took over. Go figure 🤷‍♂️
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  215. Well done my Canadian Cousin 🇨🇦!!! Love from the UK 🇬🇧
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  216. People of Harlow, what are you thinking?… (former Harlow Boy here)
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  217. Jon Stewart buddy…
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  218.  @SandraSearle and AOC as house majority leader 😉
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  219.  @thoughtfortheday7811  that’s a name from the past. Fantastic journalist. Imagine him or Paxman interviewing Heggseth 😂
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  220. 😂 🤡 they don’t want to be part of the US
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  221.  @badtoothbeetroot have you not seen the Trump lawyer tier list video, or any other videos involving a trump Lawyer? 😂. He’s pretty scathing of them.
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  222. Nice ideas, wrong person: he is best suited as a rebel, much as he always has been.
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  223. 6th Gen fighters are a decade away, but other than carrier craft, there are European manufacturers of planes. The typhoon is better than anything Russia has. Then there’s the Grippen and the Rafalle. The UK is in a good position with the F35 as it has control of the flight system. The rest of the Europeans have to defer to the US. In many other areas the EU has stronger offering than the US. South Korea also has a really high end capability. What a fun time to be the defence industry. They are going to make bank.
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  224. Very little of the commons business happens in the chamber. It’s mostly done in committees, offices, and meeting rooms.
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  225.  @littlemissy2883  farage is only convincing if you believe his words. He could have asked the question in parliament to the Home Secretary. He chose to waste his opportunity for social media clout.
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  226. @mrtbag2730not only have they given more, but European weapons tend to be more effective and cheaper (thought admittedly the Bradley has been a real star in this war apparently).
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  227. The plan was to move money from the poor to the rich, and assets from the state to the rich. Been a stunning success for them tbh.
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  228. Tankies didn’t need money to side with Russia in the UK.
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  229. How would they be bad? The last Labour government was way better than the absolute mess preceding or following it.
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  230.  @malcolmstockbridge2569 not a chance. Thatcher is ultimately responsible for this mess, but the state of the UK now is way worse than then.
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  231. What like the one where he knocked on the house of a random person. Who turned out to be a friend, and the TV crew recorded the whole plan on mic 🎙?
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  232. The predictions of Keynes are still being shown as correct nearly 80 years after he died, and yet, they still plot on with the policy that has discredited both times it’s been used.
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  233. Wouldn’t have been the stupidest reason to be fair
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  234. No, Greenland wants protection by the Danes and other NATO countries. France are talking about deploying troops.
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  235.  @stevendavis2122  we did Brexit, we left the EU, any other requirements you think it meant, was just a figament of your imagination.
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  236. It’s quite widely acknowledged in academia. He’s done some explainers on the channel before.
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  237. I truly amazed she didn’t swear, good on her for keeping it PG rated. Fantastic MP.
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  238.  @stephenkent1102 for clicks on YouTube I expect.
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  239. The young dude at 2:30 is only there for that girl 😂
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  240.  @arnoldmuller1703 the common name for the government provided items you listed are services.
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  241.  @succatash you are off your rocker…
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  242. We left the EU. We are bound by EU rules to enable us to supply goods and services to the EU. This was entirely known and stated prior to the referendum. We went from rule makers to rule takers. Own it, this is what you voted for.
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  243. To be fair, several countries could have exited at the time. France, the Netherlands, Italy, all had well supported leave movements. The UK was just first and proved what a disaster of an idea it was. Those other movements died overnight.
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  244. Theresa May said pretty much the same, so yes
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  245. Isn’t that what someone in a cult would say?
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  246. Not sure I agree with that assertion. Liberal interpretations of all the abrahamic faiths are not cruel, but the underlying religious texts are full of cruelty and vengeance stories and teachings.
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  247. It was never going to happen. It was an undefined mess with zero hope of easing everyone, or even a small majority.
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  248. What? Ukraine is a sovereign nation and should be allowed to join any international organisations it wants. Funny he literally fought Brexit on this sovereignty point for the UK. He’s a massive hypocrite.
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  249. Russian bot accounts would say that.
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  250. And in great numbers if the sites are open all the time instead of when the royals aren’t there.
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  251. Clive was already famous in the UK for over a decade before this…
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  252. I’m sorry, but are you saying he’s hurt the thugs feelings so it’s his fault they are rioting? Are you for real? They are far right rioting thugs, they deserve time in a cell.
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  253. I’ve waited for this today
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  254.  @notjustforhackers4252  vote for your local candidate most likely to get rid of the Tories
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  255.  @garyfletcher1910  urm, no, it’s thanks to the removal of free movement and the fact a lot of healthcare professionals left causing a staffing crisis.
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  256.  @mayshack windows are the favoured techniques in Moscow, polonium is only for exiles.
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  257.  @aclark903  incorrect, the most successful countries have always applied secular values, not religious ones. These values have been shared by a greater or lesser extent by any culture that develops a modicum of philosophical or scientific progress, weather it’s pre-crusades Islam, Ancient Greek and Roman, Chinese, or Japanese cultures. Basically you need a level of tolerance and acceptance to allow progress to be made in spite of religious doctrine, so an easing or dogmatic adherence to a set of principles is the commonality, not Christianity. Look at China, they have eased there dogmatic adherence to there variant of communist authoritarianism and are now starting to become a world leader in science and technology. America on the other are going down a rabbit hole of religious fundamentalism which will at some point reduce their scientific output. The theory of Evolution is an excellent example of a discovery being made in spite of religion, not because of it. It was not a welcome discovery and it created major theological problems. Two hundred years prior and Darwin would likely have been a heretic. No country in the west follows christian biblical teachings literally as that would take us back to the heretic burning of the pre-enlightenment. Finally, North Korea is hardly an atheist (and I struggle to understand what an atheist country is if I’m honest, do you mean an authoritarian country with bans on “religions”. Or a country with no state religion?) country, it’s more of a cult of leader worship, where the leaders are effectively treated as gods. They even have a triumvirate like Christianity now.
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  258. Because it nonsense? Building more houses (e.g. reduce scarcity) would reduce housing prices. Rent controls too would help.
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  259. It’s more the absence of frictionless trade between the UK and EU. It’s hardly a surprise they leave when it’s not available.
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  260. Toms interview cheered me up, farage was sweating, but it wasn’t the JOB master class. Or as funny as the kicked in the head by a horse call. But definitely number three moment.
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  261.  @marknaisby7384  so I take if your a neoliberal? Used two times and failed two times?
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  262. Starmers going to be in power for five years.
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  263. If young people don’t vote, and they haven’t for generations, then why would politicians listen. Young people are their own worst enemies in this.
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  264. C) both a and b
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  265.  @MinusEighty  you must live in a very different world to me. Usually I struggle to recruit decent engineers. Just because they have a CV, doesn’t mean it’s for someone with the skills, education, and experience to make them successful in that role & company culture.
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  266. God no, I’d rather have a sensible pragmatist. The last three people with conviction to hold high office in my opinion were thatcher (who was utterly convinced in neoliberalism), blair (who was utterly convinced in his holy war in Iraq) and Sunak (who is utterly convinced in the pursuit of personal wealth). May would have made the list if she had taken over at a time she could have been free to follow her conscience (another rabid neoliberal). I want someone who has pragmatic views but is passionate about making UK a better place. Someone who can look at the best way of making change, not someone with a dogmatic views that they can’t change even when the evidence is clearly in front of them. Dogma is always a bad thing.
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  267. Stopping foreign and nondom ownership of media would be a start.
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  268.  @2neanderthal602  correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t theft is a crime that carries a maximum of a custodial sentence? Also, sentences are decided by a magistrates or Justices be pending on the severity of the case.
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  269. Love to the family, Colin, love to the family
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  270.  @alanhynd7886  oh, we hate the austerity inflicting conmen too.
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  271.  @hellonearth-thehistoryofwa1270  it is a weak argument, they don’t bring in much tourism compared to similar sites in other countries. In total all royal sites in the country combined brought 3.2 million visitors in 2019/2020 compared to the palace of Versailles (7 to 15 million per year depending on source). That’s one attraction in France brings in more tourists. These are pre covid numbers as obviously tourism numbers slumped the last two years. So there seems to be a case for emptying royal palaces of royals would be good for tourism. They can stay open all year then. But to be honest, it’s more a moral question. Are all men created equal? Are we a modern democracy? Are we a meritocracy?
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  272. Ava, I’m not sure you got what Malthouse was saying? The tariffs plan by trump is bonkers. Americans have imposed an extra purchase tax on themselves. This will push up prices in the US. Yes, it will affect the supplier nation where there is an alternative. The condensation here is utterly bonkers.
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  273.  @sdmr3506  so you are happy with foreign interference, just so long as they agree with you? That’s not being a patriot…
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  274.  @johnrussell3961  you mean Thatcher surely. This is just an extension of her Ayn Rand policies. The last of the one nation (which Thatcher definitely was not one of) tory old guard left office over Brexit, but Hague and IDS had been eroding branch. The whole reason for letting the party decide the leader was to ensure the one nation Tories were not selected.
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  275. Reform bots are busy today.
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  276. It’s a monologue rather than an interview really isn’t it.
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  277.  @heycidskyja4668  he only needs to be a human to be entitled to express these views.
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  278.  @nimzgaz7049 prices are up 20% from the 2020 baseline, the price rises have slowed, but not come down.
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  279. Tim Waltz is basically apple pie in human form…. Seems a very good pick.
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  280.  @TimComley the civil service have stated that the underlying principles the costing were made using were created by Conservative SPADs. It wasn’t an impartial report, which is how Sunak presented it. If it wasn’t an outright lie, it was extremely disingenuous.
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  281. You don’t need “elite” people, you need “competent” people. The problem is there are far too many “elite” people already…
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  282. It does require a level of cognitive dissonance to be sure.
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  283. Sure buddy, he’s general approach is be nice to people. Maybe we would have fewer problems if certain people stopped scape gloating everyone.
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  284. Osborne backing Labour is not a good thing.
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  285.  @CaptainFearless1  this is the AI version. Hopefully 2.0 will be better
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  286.  @deco2132 they have the most working class shadow cabinet in history bud. Sorry to break it too you,
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  287. No where near as unpopular the last government is
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  288. Bravo James, bravo 👏
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  289.  @tai31415  the sun literally used to print sexually explicit photos. Sam Fox was 17 when she started page three.
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  290.  @tai31415  what on earth are you blathering on about. You just don’t like the behaviour and want control. You dress it up as concern, but this is between the affect parties and you really aren’t one.
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  291.  @thenneklkt7786  sorry I’m confusing there presence with Dunkirk. Thanks for correcting me
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  292. That’s the point Richard was making, we are prioritising tax breaks for the rich and overtaxing / underpaying / removing jobs of, the people who spend in the economy. You need to create demand which creates a need for businesses to then want to invest. Business does not invest unless they think there is a demand.
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  293.  @wanderingson  well your right in that the Uk and France aren’t the massive empires they were. But the style of expansion is the same.
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  294. Yes, you always go easy on your friends. America is in its bad guy arc unfortunately.
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  295. He has to say this or he will “fall” out of a window.
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  296. Absolute car crash of a policy. Well done Labour…
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  297.  @robertgrimshaw9036  the pro Brexit press and vote leave and Farage really got upset by that intervention tbh. Honestly, it’s a bit like they are hypocritical now when they thought he was on side and were kissing the ring.
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  298. It appears he did it willingly rather than under threat.
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  299. I’m starting to wonder when workers need to say enough is enough and bring the government down through industrial action. The government clearly has no intention for negotiated settlements here. How there are unions with public service members not in strike boggles the mind.
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  300. Advanced British Standard - ABS - aka the “Advanced Breaking System”. Seems to fit the ideas Tories ideas of educating the masses…
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  301. Not at the expense of our democracy. The right to protest is far and away more important.
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  302. Honestly, Laura and Ed are the best pod team! Ollie and Ava will do if Ed and Laura are busy.
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  303. No it doesn’t, this is utterly false. The head of state is the head of the national religion. Seven bishops sit in the Lords.
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  304. As is the action of silencing critics
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  305.  @hus390  not sure what that’s got to do with my comment.
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  306. This isn’t a left wing channel. They are centre right.
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  307. @Raymondo666 why? We need a proportional voting system. Currently we can have unrestricted governance with as low as 27% of the vote. It’s full of rotten boroughs with constituencies drawn and redrawn to favour the Conservatives. Is this really democratic?
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  308.  @TheBayzent  I don’t think most Americans realise there are two European nuclear powers and around 2 million military personnel.
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  309.  @heretemporarily9657  odd response. I’m sure it made sense to you though.
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  310.  @m0rafic1 definitely, he believed in the social contract.
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  311.  @selfpreservationsociety  you okay with a foreigner interfering with our politics then?
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  312. One of my mates voted leave because he didn’t like the EU nations handling of Kosovo. 🤷‍♂️. It was a protest vote gone wrong.
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  313.  @danmayberry1185 balance is a cop out, she should report on reality. Balance only works where there is equality of ideals.
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  314. You have to arrest someone to detain them for questioning. It also means they are read their rights.
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  315. If they are gonna by politicians, they should be taxed for it at least….
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  316. The bots are talking to themselves about Vance completely unrelated to your post… this is crazy 😅
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  317. This isn’t melting down, it’s laughing while slightly perplexed. I’m guessing English and the mannerisms aren’t natural to you? Maybe if they repeat in Russian? Would that help?
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  318. Excellent interview, thank you Seems like we are in a pickle
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  319. He does seem a bit clueless about how america has used alliances. It was using European bases that allowed most of American military actions to happen in the past three decades. It also legitimised the more questionable ones too.
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  320. He’s a workaholic, he doesn’t sleep much.
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  321. He is catholic, and every sperm sacred
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  322. I think you are confusing socially conservative with the Conservative Parties of Englands respect of a small state, law, social order, traditions, nature and customs. The former is the new, more American version of hyper conservatism that’s been introduced seemingly by people like Farage who pretend this is a British concept. It’s really not.
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  323.  @gfhomeNevashedelo  okay Vlad, clam down.
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  324. Defending social media companies are part of the problem. Not the entire problem.
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  325. This has been playing in my head for the last several years when I hear comrade Carlson on tv
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  326. Town Squares are publicly owned. Twitter is not a town square.
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  327.  clifftonicstudios7469 cool story muppet
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  328. People who followed the rules and also worked through covid you idiot, people who lost people they couldn’t visit or bury, people who put there lives on hold for over a year, youngsters who missed important parts of development. It’s not hard with a bit of empathy to work these groups out. Hell even the antivaxers are pissed at this. It’s most of the country (UK, just in case you are not from around here)
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  329. 35 million, you are either insane or a bot…
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  330. Calling Iain Dale or Alan Duncan lefties just shows you don’t understand what the term means.
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  331.  @jamallaaib2286  they are breaking the law. They don’t get a free pass because they are angry.
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  332. This isn’t about class, it’s an ideology.
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  333. The comms strategy is a symptom of the leader I think. They just can’t make her look good sound good
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  334. You’re…
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  335.  @MCDONALD6969 we don’t have high tax. We have inefficient tax.
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  336. Clegg was a disaster
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  337. Another clear and logical example “Breaking my leg was bad, I’ll show you how by breaking my other leg.” Makes absolutely perfect sense to me 🤦‍♂️
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  338. Then they need to educate themselves a little more.
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  339.  @hypie88 America did well rebuilding Western Europe and Japan after WW2.
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  340. Very well said 👍
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  341.  @phildavibe  as you have seen his contract maybe you could copy the relevant sections here? Thanks in advance.
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  342. Honest Bob Jenrick, never found an issue you could understand
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  343. They have strict rules on what they can and can’t say, so it’s easier to just dodge the issue.
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  344.  @jeffsimon9594 clearly in the constituency’s eyes, or he would still be running.
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  345. While interesting, Peter Hitchens has always been, pompous, rude and arrogant. He’s stormed out of interviews in the past and does not like his genius questioned.
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  346. As a partner at TCI he bears some responsibility for starting the global financial crisis. I have zero sympathy for him.
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  347.  @paulb9003 it’s a nice buzz phrase to motive the stupid. Just like “leave means leave”, “stop the boats” and “Make America Great Again”.
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  348. The palace of Versailles gets at least twice as many visitors than all the royal sites combined (based on pre covid information)
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  349.  @MrNorthWales  that’s an idiotic comment, you can still trade globally.
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  350. Can’t come too soon.
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  351.  @wordforever117  the current abortion laws are based on the development stages of the foetus, the wishes and safety of the mother and not your emotional, and wholly unconnected meddling.
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  352. That sounds like the type of thing a cookist sheep would say.
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  353. The Sun has been settling cases just like this.
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  354. We can now charge VAT on private education is a benefit of Brexit. Wouldn’t need to without Brexit, but there you go…
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  355. He’s not a member of the Labour Party. The police are responsible for investigating crime, it shouldn’t be politically motivated. Maybe report it as a crime to Essex Police if you feel strongly?
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  356.  @jamesmccaul2945  sometimes I think his bias towards Labour gets a little bit much and he loses his objectivity. It’s a pretty rare phenomenon. Last time was during in the speakers letting Labour hijack the SNP opposition day. I have to say, he seemed to molify his opinion a bit after a few days though.
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  357.  @Finkiu  no worries Brad 👌
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  358. Of course there are things we can do and have to do. We need to think about our political system, and if alignment with the EU is the clear priority.
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  359. The caller is a Potato
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  360. @Raymondo666 the meaning of words is important to ensure points of views can be exchanged effectively and with clarity. Some callers struggle with this. If your having a conversation using the same term with different means, then it’s not going to be a productive conversation. Being a pedant to derail or undermine a point of view because there’s no challenge intellectually is not important. I don’t believe anyone would be confused as to the meaning of the OPs comment.
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  361. As a fellow Brit, he probably got the idea from Pretty Patel and her flights to Africa for asylum seekers. Obviously, he managed to make it significantly less humane.
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  362. They are currently sacking all those guys unfortunately.
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  363. Yes, but it only seems to have happened under the Tories
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  364. Maybe a poor choice of words are at the moment, don’t want to get her arrested 😂
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  365. Drop drama, my kids seem to do a hell of a lot of drama, very little of practical things like cooking or personal finance.
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  366. Will it still be an issue at the next election? He has a large enough majority to ignore a lot of fringe groups, and I’m not sure they will vote against unrelated policies. Will they vote against electoral reform, or education reform, or feeding kids? I doubt it.
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  367. America is its people and its constitution. He cares about both.
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  368.  @Eltener123  this isn’t unique to Starmers Labour Party. All parties have done this since pretty much forever.
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  369. No longer bound by EU rules? Well not applying them eliminates selling to our biggest market. Those standards are high enough that we can then sell to most other global markets based on them. Why would we rule out our biggest market on our door step to compete with far away and therefore with higher shipping costs, markets who invariably have cheaper Labour on the whole. Ten years later people are still making the same utterly ridiculous claims.
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  370. And he’s got zero political instincts
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  371. The first bit of this comment is more interesting. Why does it matter if he is a Muslim? Would it be okay to riot if he was?
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  372. That was the second most effective interview I’ve ever seen of farage. Both were on LBC. Why aren’t the BBC on this list of effective interviewers?
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  373. Disgraced is the correct term
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  374. Tomy Ten Names is in jail for trying to pervert the course of justice for a case of that type. He knows a few others too. It’s pretty much telling on themselves now.
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  375. I’m expecting a few of my favourite atheist channels may have a bit on this. 😂
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  376. How passive aggressive was Richard on this. Gary was a legend not rising to the clear baiting.
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  377. Fine, but it’s a secular country on the most part.
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  378.  @invaimage they weren’t disbanded, they just forgot what they were doing. Defunct doesn’t mean disbanded.
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  379.  @johnmccarron7066  I agree, not a dan but I voted for him as the least worse option.
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  380. Not booted Truss, Braverman, or Jenrick yet has he? All lip service.
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  381. The way you judge if a party has won, is by the number of seats they have and whether they can form a government. Labour clearly won and have uncheck politics power for the next parliament. To deny this is to deny the objective reality of the political system. Are they guaranteed a second term? No,but no government is. They will need to earn it.
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  382. Do you honestly believe they are better than you and rule by devine right?
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  383. Sounds like the type of thing someone in the far right would say.
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  384. And make them pay for the data the UK subjects provide.
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  385. Also, it seems that technology has made it harder to find a suitable partner by making it a “value” market. Dating apps have made dating a commodities trading market.
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  386.  @johnrussell3961  no, I was talking about the death of the one nation tory mentality. Thatcher was not a one nation tory, and had to be restrained in many of the respects Rory highlights. The green belt for example kept getting re-zone. Boom bust and trickle down economics was not fiscally sensible, only during the brief tenure of John Major were these values reintroduced by Ken Clarke.
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  387. It’s a straw man because most republicans want the Irish model which works extremely well.
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  388. Because there isn’t much to challenge. There’s not much defence open to Mr Johnson.
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  389. The AV idea that the Tories insisted on proposing was a less representative system, so of course it failed. We need a proper PR system, the ones for the old EU elections would be a good place to start. PR isn’t a panacea though, there needs to be a bunch of constitutional change too, like reform of the lords (overall it works, but needs to have a clearer mandate). Use of citizens assemblies, and a proper level of constitutional safe guarding to protect us from rogue government.
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  390. You are right, ultimately the people will decide, either via a general election manifesto pledge or a referendum. But you need to remember, the majority of young (under 40) voted to remain. A lot expressed feelings of resentment about stolen opportunities immediately after the vote.
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  391. 😂
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  392. How do you know he is not already? Every Jew has the unrestricted right to immigrate to Israel and become an Israeli citizen. Jewish Israelis do not need to renounce other citizenships, non Jewish Israelis do.
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  393.  @jacobweddell2438  two people arrested and charged for peacefully expressing an opinion? Others arrested or warned they would be arrested. This has major implications for peoples ability protest and the state of our democracy. There isn’t the covid restrictions previously used to justify draconian policing. Why do you think this is overly dramatic?
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  394. As you said in the podcast, This list will just say left wingers will engage in the “no true Scotsman’ fallacious because they always do. Could you maybe start talking about the political compass. I.E. the three dimensional one with authoritarian / libertarianism / liberal / conservative instead of just the simplified left/ right alone in the future? Too many neat little buckets for the nuanced reality.
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  395. I reached out too Sebastian Fox and Corinne Stockheath for comment, and they agreed.
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  396. Dried up due to sexual assault allegations no less…
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  397.  @Gibbonomics empathy is part of the basis of morality, along with social conditioning.
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  398.  @abergreg  I’m also curious how achieving that number four slot was due to Brexit? We had a better set of trade deals while in the EU, so wouldn’t it have been potentially better? It was helped a lot by energy exports I believe. Regarding Covid, the 150 sounds like a great deal, The current estimate of UK spend is between 310 and 410 billion.
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  399.  @derf9465  satire?
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  400. Sadly yes. Completely real and completely deluded.
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  401. A private business should be able to provide that service to whoever they want, Isn’t that the neoliberal way? Odd it’s the neoliberals up I. Arms when the system stops working for them. A shop can choose not to serve someone food and water. Why should a bank be any different?
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  402.  @calumbishop7082 he rage quits interviews he doesn’t like too. And his wife allegedly stalks and bullies critics.
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  403.  @lewismcdonald9691  no, most would feel their identity is threatened and get aggressive.
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  404. He’s not othering, he is point out Tory voters are the problem. If they stopped voting Tory, maybe we could get a few things fixed again.
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  405.  @MissLondon.born.1965 any more nonsense you want to make up?
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  406. But whatabout, shouted the disingenuous interlocutor.
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  407. The obvious choice would be Torsten Bell, as he is a respected economist. Unfortunately he’s also a neoliberal and was one of the brains behind quantitative easing / tightening when he worked for Darling.
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  408.  @gerardmackay8909 and will claim to have won it
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  409. Oddly enough, he is one of the better ones left in the government though. It’s not a compliment though.
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  410. farm land owners aren’t the working class, hence the special rule for them.
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  411. It’s great that LGBTQ are getting support in the commons, but they also execute atheists in Qatar. Why isn’t this covered as well? That’s a significant group of UK citizens.
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  412. Devan sounds properly pissed in this video. Understandably so, good luck in the Lawsuit!
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  413.  @resiplayerz  yes, and we have far less leverage and soft power because of it. Well done. Genius.
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  414.  @adrianryan5654  he, as Prime Minister, gets to decide the date of the next election. His party have 66% of seats in parliament so a no confidence motion would not succeed. There is absolutely no way of removing him, and zero other party looks capable of forming a government in the short to medium term.
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  415. If the jack boot fits. Oh, and it’s far or extreme right, the government and police are also using it.
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  416. So he’s and environmentalists so should be king. Shouldn’t David Attenborough be king?
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  417. Unfortunately they still got watered down. If they hadn’t been, they would have 15 more years, easy.
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  418. Really, got a link to any evidence or stats to support this? I mean, the situation you are talking about would actually breach EU and UK employment laws. Or are you talking about off shoring? Brexit seems to be doing a lot of off shoring in manufacturing.
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  419.  @Lee-nv2rg  no, the point is the current government do not like protests at all, particularly as they are busy dismantling many freedoms and planning more. Jacob Rees Mogg ( the now business secretary) was setting his sights on Holiday pay only recently. On this specific point we are expected to be deferential because we were born lower than her. Know our place and not rock the boat. The tens days morning is to allow the entrenchment of the new monarch, not just to mourn.
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  420.  @kanedNunable  I think it’s fairly provable that Labour are better than the Tories in most respects if you look at the last 40 years.
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  421.  @spacechannelfiver or what working class people always called a body warmer 😅
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  422. Feelings over facts again. Exactly the same as how the MAGATs in the US.
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  423.  @thelimey351  got an example? Thought not.
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  424.  @SennaAugustus British captains always have been a little insane.
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  425. Petulant child
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  426.  @Headwind-1 he wasn’t elected as PM in a general election. We elect MPs, then the major party, or coalition parties, appoint the PM.
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  427.  @pnduarte4696 Yes, and that’s after a referendum on the principle of self determination where the islanders chose to remain part of the UK, by 95+%, as per the UN retreat from colonies treaties.
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  428. BAE Systems is one of the largest European defence manufacturers. They collaborate on many project both with European partners, and the US. Also it’s common in defence contracts to insist on producing all, or part of an order domestically. The F-35 being a case in point. The UK are manufacturing some parts and are re writing the flight control system. Switzerlands contract ensures part of the order is entire manufactured in country.
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  429.  @STeALtHsVidz  I’m a Jedi too, thought the powers that be oppressed us
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  430. They are getting to the point I can’t watch it. Anoosh was far better at having these discussions. I think I’ll stick with Phil as he seems to know more than these. Honestly even Times Radio has a better handle on these riots.
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  431.  @paullegend6798  I disagree, have you ever been a serving police officer? Have you ever had to deal with policing of volatile crowds? I doubt it. He’s clearly making a political point trying to walk into a stop the war protest surrounded by cameras. To me the officer has gone out of his way to explain his decision, the powers he has and the possible consequences of non compliance. The legality of this is a matter for courts, not politicians, not the media. Or is this the correct level of political interference in the police?
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  432. Which bit? The pound has tanked and a number of papers are reporting the Tories are sharpening the knives, including tory ones.
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  433. I mean, the Trump guy is literally talking about military invasions. I don’t think ancient “rights” mean a lot of a person like that.
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  434. He’s a bit of a Willy isn’t he.
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  435. Or permanent nights
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  436.  @redflag4781  you are misunderstanding the point. If there are two excellent candidates in clacton, should one of them miss out and not be allowed to stand in Swansea just because they are not local in Swansea? It’s a proposition that assumes a local candidate will automatically be the best candidate, and give a crap about the area.
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  437.  @mentality-monster  that’s just another variant of the old boring, all as bad as each other trope. The best way to help your consistency is to be in government and set policy.
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  438. They seem to be saying what James O’Brian has been talking about for years. That must really hurt 😅
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  439. Don’t forget to be thankful for the banking crisis that he personally was involved in starting…
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  440.  @evolassunglasses4673  largely driven by trickle down economics and a massive disparity between rich and poor.
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  441. He wants to get rid of all the non political ones and replace them with party approver members.
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  442.  @Shmimbleton  inheritance tax isn’t the issue, it’s the lack of profitability in farming that’s the problem, mainly caused by a lack of subsidy. This is the wrong hill for farmers to die on, they are just used to centuries of entitlement.
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  443. They didn’t implement what the campaign said. They said we would stay in the EEA and SM. The blame clearly lies with the government
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  444. “It will backfire on the left” you either have rule of law, or not.
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  445. Yeah, but taken as a percentage of the total number of self driving cars, it’s a massive percentage. Where as normal cars, it’s a small percentage. The tech isn’t ready yet and seems like it shouldn’t be on a public road. If you drove like that you would likely be arrested.
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  446. And the tower is held in trust so she didn’t have to pay the upkeep
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  447.  @eldrago19  they won’t happen. Creating a republic might.
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  448. It’s not how she says it, it’s what she says that’s the issue. John Major was bullied by the press for his voice, but his oratory is still amazing today (at 82). He sold people a horrible version of neoliberalism after all.
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  449.  @darrennandrewfitness2836  they have the majority of seats as a party, but not the majority of seats in the Lords. There are 278 Tory peers, and 790 sitting members.
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  450. You missed May
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  451.  @djstuc  they are clearly not the sharpest spoon in the knife drawer.
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  452. John Fetterman “Kicking Authority in the Balls” I’m British and wish I could vote for him ❤
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  453. “I wish they would try harder” - Darren Jones 2024
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  454. Trump said he learnt how to do politics from Farage 🤷‍♂️
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  455. Not what polling of real people is saying.
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  456. I feel like it was a tutorial for Ollie 😂
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  457. The economy is his biggest risk, most Americans and many republicans still support Ukraine 🤷‍♂️
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  458.  @danmartin886 you say lost, but they decided they didn’t want us, and it was going to happen anyway.
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  459.  @noblemann4898  he was medically unfit I believe. He spent the war making propaganda films instead and probably did more for the war effort than if he had just held a rifle.
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  460. Loved it, always great hearing about other history not covered in the mainstream. African history in particular seems to be a massive empty space that must be filled with other treasures like this. Thank you for your dedication to sharing this.
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  461.  @NaaahBruv  yes, it’s amazing how clumsy the critics of Putin are.
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  462. Pretty much all laws are based on secular values, so you don’t need to worry.
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  463. Nope, wealth redistribution should be via taxes. Otherwise it’s just theft.
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  464.  @22Phantasm  that’s the whole point of the elections. Parties review the issues and create a manifesto based off the complex discussion. That’s the whole thing for representative democracies. I’m gonna guess that the next point you make is our politicians are crap though. Yes, yes they are.
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  465.  @sonofsomerset1695 farage is godlike in his ability to lie with a smirk. No wonder why him and the big orange one get on so well.
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  466.  @loveisall5520  her tragic disappearance and death was cynically used to bury the news cycle about the EU negotiations on the post Brexit boarder arrangements.
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  467.  @george_investing_accountant  you are confusing the difference between moral and legally right.
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  468.  @AlunParsons it’s the pretence of being objective is my issue as is the sermonising which is pretty insufferable
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  469.  @Bucketheadhead  that’s disappointing. We really do need campaign finance reform urgently. I hope Labour have it in their manifesto (but I’m not holding my breath).
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  470. Australia was partly to get rid of the problem but also to get unwilling volunteers into settlements established to embed the British claim on the island. It was hell on earth in the beginning and the mortality rate was significant. Generally only lower level criminals were transported, Serious crimes still led to execution, not transportation.
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  471. There is strong evidence that he misled Parliament. This is pretty much fact. This guy is bonkers and part of team Boris, this team don’t care about facts.
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  472. Professor Tim, I wonder if you have seen the Finnish school Critical thinking tests. Maybe you could try doing a piece on that as it seems critical thinking is somewhat lacking right now.
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  473.  @stewie7338 a key point of the Labour manifesto was dealing with immigration. The Tory plans for immigration were rejected overwhelmingly by the electorate.
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  474.  @GreenLarsen I wonder how far right this guy is to think neoliberalism is a left wing policy…
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  475. You have my pity. Such tribalism is beneath you.
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  476.  @abergreg  which recent figures?
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  477. Brilliant comment 😊
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  478. It’s not genius, genius would be solving the fricken problems. This is confidence trickster levels of disingenuousness.
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  479.  @eme7381  you conflate anti Zionism with anti semitism. Obviously you must have done this by accident 🙄
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  480. Got a source for that please?
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  481. Some of us south of the border hated him when he set up UKIP!
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  482. There’s a rumour he was threatened with deselection, but i don’t think it’s got any actual evidence behind it. It’s an absolute cluster fuck.
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  483.  @rolandhawken6628  what a ridiculous comment. He’s a journalist. One of the few actually doing the job of telling truth to power. His job is not to come up with a plan, it’s to point out when it’s not working. There is a plan btw. The. Plan is to concentrate wealth and power in a very small number of people. It’s working…
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  484. They haven’t paid any actors. The reform guy happens to be an actor and a racist.
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  485. I expect Thorsten Bell, an actual economist. He seems okay, but a bit too neoliberal
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  486. Nice way of over simplifying a complex issue. It could be either, both or neither. There are no absolutes except death (and taxes for people not wealthy enough to avoid them).
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  487. He didn’t need to argue, the callers position was not credible, and none of the service personnel I have met would agree an apology is enough.
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  488.  @iannoble404  pretty much that he may be working to pay this off forever.
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  489. Or they should work with people shared values irrespective of were they live in the UK and work for the better of all UK citizens.
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  490. Completely missed the point there fellow. It’s all about the percentages.
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  491. Don’t you try a that, the Northern Irish are not English. They are Scottish by decent.
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  492.  @jasonparfitt5936 why do you think an 11 year old can’t be far right? They learn it from their family and friends.
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  493. He is taking about borrowing from the Bank of England and stop selling QE bonds back to the markets. He is not talking about borrowing from the markets which rip us off.
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  494.  @matthewgubbins8515 well, they have always been socialism for the rich and captivating for the poor.
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  495.  @miniflem1 and he doesn’t like being held to account. He’s more snarky than Sunak
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  496.  @paulwalker797  he is charismatic to a type of person who like feelings not facts and which he is confirming their bias. He is like Trump, it only works on the susceptible. To everyone else he is loathsome. If I ask my brexit mates, they like him and Trump.
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  497.  @paddymeboy  not as much as Labour
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  498. The two aren’t linked. North Korea is an independent country and clearly there isn’t freedom of speech. Your comment isn’t logical.
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  499.  @Jaymzmiller  he implied heavily that there was causation.
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  500.  @reginageorge4  It was never going to escalate to WW3.
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  501.  @jamesgreen1305 he had sight of it and was asked to clarify a number of issues.
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  502. As a “customer” (or hostage as I like to call it) of Thames Water, I fully agree with this.
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  503.  @MKR5210 apparently they talked of dividing up the world, I think it was the Bulwark who said that.
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  504. Good news Professor Tim! Happy Thursday
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  505. Hopefully the last company told him to job on.
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  506. I’m not a lawyer, but he would still have a defence if he declassified them.
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  507. It has been a growing minority at least both in the senate and congress. Being a Brit, I do find this reassuring given the US Hegemony.
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  508.  @Nikolai508 brilliant comment 👍. I agree entirely, some people seem resistant to learning.
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  509. And? Both are unacceptable. This isn’t an either or
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  510. The numbers are considered an under estimate by most international organisations and governments. They are considered lower than the reality due to issues with data collection considering the massive damage to infrastructure, collection personnel being killed, and the inability to find many of the dead and dying.
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  511. The law is statutory legalisation which are acts of Parliament. The common law element is Judge made law, which is generally based on interpretation of the legalisation and precedent.
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  512. Tobias Elwood has been banging on about this since the start of the conflict. The rest of politics are only just waking up to it. As Tories goes he’s one of the least bad. He’s pretty much on the fringe tbh these days.
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  513. Why? The person who wanted Parliament to be sovereign? Wasn’t that the point of brexit?
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  514.  @michaelbrennan3580 the point is it’s questionable if the Balfour Declaration was legal. The post WW1 retreat from colonisation international legalisation gave peoples of occupied land the right to self determination. The Balfour Declaration was contrary to this. It’s literally still being argued in the international courts at the moment.
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  515.  @LORDUnLuCkY13  yep, he’s a lot more respected outside the UK than in it for that reason.
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  516. Just a small, but important point, the first manual vacuum cleaner was invented by Daniel Hess, the Hoover was invented by James Spangler in 1908. Please don’t credit James Dyson with anything more than refining the design. His ego is large enough already.
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  517.  @notjustforhackers4252  I’m aware of the questions on the ballot. I told you what it wasn’t not what it was. If you truly are looking for more information then I apologise if I was short. They are consulted on new rules the EU are implementing, and are bound by EU rules as part of the SM. But they don’t get a say over them.
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  518.  @russellwilliams1163  your argument makes absolutely no sense. So Marx believed in Satan is evidence of Satan? Marx can be wrong on a point but right on other things. This is just some kind of weird appeal to authority fallacy.
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  519.  @TwoLeftThumbs how are they so clueless 🤦‍♂️
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  520. He won’t. He will just disappear off your radar. There’s a whole Conservative social media base you will never see which it is dangerous to ignore.
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  521.  @stephendalton1648  well it did, and the Tories failed to act on it. This is just a hyperbolic way of taking more rights and protections from British people to keep our corporate masters like musk Happy. It’s a bit sad how few people seem to follow politics. It’s literally current affairs in the US right now with the Visa issue. Musk wants to bring in immigrants who are lower paid than equivalent US workers.
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  522. How about the rich, which includes millionaire farming land owners pay their fair share?
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  523. Pod save America is great, and Nish being involve should be awesome. Looking forward to hear it
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  524. Nope, just the rioting traitors
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  525. Unlearning economics is a better channel, Gary has a good primer, but this guys channel is a hard economics channel. Another good channel is Stephen Keen.
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  526.  @maxdavis7722  the number one issue for Brexit voters was about not wanting foreigners making laws affecting us. It was packaged as sovereignty. Ultimately it’s still xenophobia. So don’t try and say we got nothing out of Europe, we got plenty, you just fell for the spin where successive governments blamed failed domestic policies on the EU.
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  527.  @love__and__hope__  It’s more to do with who’s ancestors were better robbers. Most rich people are thick as mince in my experience. Academics are poorly paid, so your argument there is a link between brains and wealth is incorrect.
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  528.  @andrewgreen5892 something, something, lower taxes, something, something, is the usual excuse for voting tory. Not positive improvements.
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  529.  @seawolfswimming how are they at the expense of anyone. So by your logic women should not have gained rights as they are at the expense of men?
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  530.  @sibionic sadly reading his most recent comments he is a bit delusional
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  531.  @wordforever117  I’m fine with women having the frame work these laws provide. It’s up to individual women to decide if they want to make use of them. They should have bodily autonomy, in exactly the same way you should.
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  532. When I was in the police, I used to have to go to act as a body guard for the person serving notice on these camps. It was absolutely disgusting the state they were left in, and there was good data that crime rates of theft went up in the area. Unfortunately it lead to a selection bias, where there was an assumption all travellers lived like this, when they don’t. This is the issue with stereotyping which is the problem people have with Lee Anderson. He assumes all people described as travellers are exactly the same.
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  533. Ignorance of his own rules no less
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  534. Richard covered it in another video, the issue is the rich have lawyers and will delay everything.
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  535. Like Kemi, he probably thinks he won.
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  536. The campaign for real education seems to aim to do to education what the ERG did to our membership of the EU
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  537. What’s important to note is it’s the dividends that it pays are the monies that are spent on projects, they don’t spend the money in the fund on anything other than stocks and shares.
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  538. When’s she breaking out the political uniforms?
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  539. Sachs ignores that Russia does the exact same thing.
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  540. I agree with pretty much Marina said here except the paying politicians more. Someone from my background would struggle to earn even 2/3rds of there wage of an MP and it would ensure the Oxford dominance of politics continues. They do get a massive bunch of benefits like expenses on top of the salary which can put them in the top 1%, so can’t really say they are hard done by. The voting system is probably my top change, with simplification of tax as number two. And party and think tank funding as number three.
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  541. Hasn’t Boris done enough damage? Why do we want another useless lazy celebrity “politician”.
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  542.  @Gautam81S  COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2006/112/EC article 131 provisions H and J.
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  543. Deficits don’t cause inflation. It’s usually when the surplus of goods to sell is lower than purchasing power of the market, driving up costs due to scarcity. That is why they want to freeze our wages to reduce our purchasing power. You can see this in action post Ukraine invasion where energy scarcity push prices up due to a bidding war. OPEC do this habitually to create scarcity by limiting the number of barrels in the market to keep oils prices high. There are other types of inflationary pressure, like wealth hoarding, or market stagnation, but this is the most usually given example.
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  544. Most informed atheist know this already.
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  545. I’m so glad they only made one Matrix film, yes sir.
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  546. As a natural monopoly, they can remain nationalised. In France the rail service is nearly entirely nationalised for example.
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  547.  @michellebyrom6551  yes, bankers like Rushi Sunak…
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  548. One of the driving reasons for some wealthy proponents of Brexit seems to be to be delaying this kind of transparency 🤷‍♂️. Sir Mogg, I’m looking at you…
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  549.  @nthompson5921  urm what?
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  550.  @nthompson5921  he has a knack with getting stuff done for his constituents, and is prepared to call out hypocrisy on some nations no one else will, though he is fairly one sided there. You are right though, he and his clique seemed pretty petty. So yes, not perfect and definitely not leadership material. He isn’t even competent enough to be a junior minister.
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  551. Yes the old crow is circling again
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  552.  @matthewomalley1  Jeff thinks saying someone is wrong is a refutation, unfortunately that’s a common trait of cult members.
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  553.  @theylookjustlikeus4364  they aren’t balanced. They’d just usually suit your POV. Except this video doesn’t, so you call it unbalanced.
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  554. @Wasssup Dawwwg rereading you comment, I’m not actually sure what relevance it has to mine. I was calling for a voting system change. Not sure what you want other than people to become jobless and starve.
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  555.  @sjman7952  it the decision of those countries that’s important , not Russia. If Russian stopped invading their neighbours, maybe they wouldn’t feel compelled to do so.
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  556. Indifference?
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  557.  @tisFrancesfault  the majority of those people inheriting farmland are not farm owners. Yes, the super wealth are able to avoid tax, but the forgiven office is looking to close loopholes for crown dependencies which may address this. The rest are multi millionaires who are getting something unearned. This is a storm in a teacup issue. The real issue is the lack of replacement subsidies promised by Johnson as leader of the leave campaign and then never implemented.
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  558.  @kevinskiles2033 I will celebrate both equally 🎉
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  559. I agree completely. Unfortunately some do not seem to understand the concept of a nuanced view of history.
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  560.  @rjkmusicmedia  which flights? The Rwanda ones? They can’t send any because it’s being appealed. It’s not a loophole, it’s due process. If the appeal fails it will likely go the the supreme court, then potentially the ECHR. The issue with the Rwanda flights is they are not in the spirt of the charter, even if they are found to be legal. Also, it’s a pretty poorly disguised diversion issue.
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  561.  @mikeedwards1096  why’s that? The only time they intervene is when government breaks the law
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  562.  @mikeedwards1096  its actually when it breaks UK law, as member states ratify EU law into national law and it doesn’t have any legal force until then. It can also act if member states fail to implement a law as per its obligations under charter. Laws would be passed by the UK parliament and we had a veto to block any laws we didn’t like. This is because member states parliaments are sovereign. Tbh, the UK usually played a lead part in drafting the laws too, as our lawyers were consider some of the very best in Europe. Treaties are agreed between governments in accordance with our elected representative style system. They have never been subject to referendum and have existed in this way since antiquity. Not sure why this requires direct democracy, you elect the government to govern, not to serve.
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  563. Great segment!!! I’m sad I can only like this once. 🎉
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  564. In other news, today 500 of the top UK legal profession wrote an open letter to the British government stating they believed the British Government was legal liable of supporting and aiding war crimes. So yeah, sure TYT are doing the disinformation.
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  565. So Candance is the good guy?…. FFS, what a Topsy Turvy World
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  566.  @eddiecalderone nope, it’s essential to maintain a remotely equitable society. Imaging defending someone who thinks you are a cost to cut.
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  567. As a tool it is increasingly useful, but It’s being at human reducing costs to increase margins and reduce tax rates for the top 0.1%, not drive human well-being.
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  568. Geopolitical events unimportant? 😂
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  569.  @OneTrueScotsman  I’ve seen some of the Tory ones, much like the rest of the party throughout the UK, they can hardly be described as “excellent” or “exceptional”.
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  570.  @TheBTC  they didn’t refuse, it was an unreasonable ask. FOM is a foundational principle of the EU.
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  571. Nice cherry picking of data to suit a narrative. In 2020 we suffered a much bigger hit to GDP many EU countries. While our percentage of GDP growth was larger in 2021, we were further behind form the precovid starting point as we had more growth to do. 2022 was a better year, helped significantly buy stockpiling of gas by the EU purchased from the UK but we are still not at pre covid levels whilst other nations are. You can’t just pull out a figure and say this number looks good. You need to look at context. The bottom line is we are behind, and the whole system is reinforcing this with isolationist thinking.
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  572.  @Norfolkandchance886 it was nothing to do with massacred children. You don’t attack the community of massacre victims in solidarity. Only a muppet would think there’s logic there.
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  573. Corporations, bankers, and billionaires took it. It’s called end stage capitalism for a reason. The only reason the poor are surviving now is because of what little social democratic programmes still exist.
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  574. Tim doesn’t understand that politicians like Bernie and AOC go into politics to help people. That’s why he looks at it like a cynical strategy. The fact he says AOC and Harris are broadly the same is utterly misreading the room IMHO.
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  575.  @hellonearth-thehistoryofwa1270  did he really? Odd I can’t find anything from a media organisation on this. Is it a new 20% or is it the same bits regiven. They still own significant holdings as the person of the crown including the sea bed for 12 nautical miles around the shore. So I doubt they would notice.
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  576.  @kerrybayton2954 it’s not original, it’s the meanings of those words. Has been for a long time.
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  577. Snooker has conferences and meetings, so snooker must also be a religion…. Thanks your input KJ 😂
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  578. Unlikely, they have been under performing in practice vs polls in every election so far.
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  579.  @ThinkingRationally-r9w maybe watch unlearning economics debunk of that video. She’s clueless and doesn’t even understand what the purpose of economics is (ie, the distribution of a surplus), or what capital is.
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  580. We do control it. I don’t know where you get the idea we don’t. Maybe your handler?
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  581. He’s talking about wealth distribution. The UK has a lot of wealth but it’s all concentrated in the pockets of a few very wealthy people.
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  582. It’s an auto mod tool usually because you triggered a key word, that or user reporting.
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  583.  @Dar1usz he’s certainly responsible for more deaths by releasing unsafe automated driving cares over the objections of his safety team. A safety team he then sacked.
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  584. @ the landed gentry of course, which includes the Gentlemen Farmer
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  585. The Prime Minister is either corrupt or incompetent. There is no other way of looking at it. Actually, this is a false dichotomy. He can be both.
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  586. So if we should prosecute for misconduct in a public office, should we start with the last government.
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  587.  @Odysseus-qc7pj  best two educational systems in the world have no private or church schooling system bud. It’s not a communist position, it’s a position where if the leaders have to have kids in the state schooling system, they will then fund it properly.
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  588. Every dictator and conman ever?
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  589. ⁠ @ibexdnb2879 the only benefit of Brexit seems to be the massive proliferation of administrative red tape and associated costs and charges. Within the EU, we were trusted to meet the standards (usually in place for consumer protection), and therefore the level of administration within the area was significantly reduced. By leaving, we now need to prove, often on a consignment by consignment basis, that about products meet EU standards.
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  590.  @James333-n2q  literally my whole social group and much of my work social group voted brexit, and not one of them did it for the reasons John postulates. Most brexit voters are middle class which is borne out with statistics not hyperbole.
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  591.  @donaldwebb  maybe you are unaware, but the two main reasons for voting leave in polling was immigration and sovereignty. Hence the driving facet has a strong undercurrent of xenophobia. This isn’t all leave voters, but it is a sizeable majority. It also doesn’t change the fact Brexit has not changed either. Edit: just to be clear, I mean fear of foreigners rather than hatred. I realise the term is sometimes used interchangeably.
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  592. Mick voted for for a right wing brexit. The RMT advised members to vote for brexit The RMT stopped funding Labour and lost whatever influence it had there. You reap what you sow.
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  593. NIMBY areas are often areas with infrastructure and services at breaking point 🤷‍♂️. An example near me were a developer trying to build on a flood plain that was objected to by the EA and the local power station as it would likely cause flooding of the power plant, and the sewage works which is next to a river that supplies 7% of the water london. Any concern gets chalked up as being nimby, some are, but many aren’t.
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  594. His predecessor Betty Boothrood was equally excellent. Sadly Hoyle is the current yard stick and has none of the gravitas
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  595. Unfortunately they can only accept 200 people, so all of them can’t go…
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  596. The physical paper isn’t the problem. The online paper is the most read in the world.
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  597. He would be better than Reeves, and seems to care about normal people, particularly the poor. But he is neoliberal and was a creator of, and advocate for quantitative easing. He would have similar policies.
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  598. Why should people respect it if they don’t respect her or the monarchy?
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  599. Reform has a ceiling of 20%? Are you not looking at similar movements across the world? The US, France, Italy, Germany, to name but a few. There is no ceiling, Farage it’s quite open that he wants to find a young protege like Jordan Bardella in RN.
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  600.  @meke04  major for his faults is always a brilliant orator. Starmer, less so 😅
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  601.  @mrc2384 only by being utterly intellectually bankrupt.
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  602.  @caroleanneruncorn4794  if America wants a king, maybe they can take Charles?
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  603. They may have been mercenaries, but they only took morally right jobs. I think they are more likely to work against her.
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  604. Politics and economics are inextricably entwined. You can ignore significant geographical events as they impact economics.
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  605. The comments were like to pro caller, needed time to call Tory HQ to summon the trolls.
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  606.  @foundpat isn’t that Mogg?
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  607.  @thepoliticalhousethatjackbuilt sadly chips were either a new world or Spanish invention, so we will have to make do with a pack of Walkers Crisps and the battered fish instead.
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  608.  @CarlEveriss  it’s tells us what kind of person you I guess.
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  609. Laura makes the others stop being kids
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  610.  @tonymccake3057 he’s a rus troll I think.
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  611. Andrew Marr trying to justify the monarchy.
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  612. Every election in the west since 2016 has been influenced to a greater or less extent.
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  613.  @robo3715  deflection from the Sun settlement I expect.
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  614.  @hilarykirkby4771  i think it’s one of the issues behind it. Lack of having representation after voting is part of the trust in politics failure that’s led to this.
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  615. I’m sick today, but Truss being bonkers brought a smile to my face now she can’t crash the economy.
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  616.  @Moosevideostoday you say YouTubers, but they are in a state of flux at the moment. Decreasing ad revenues, rising AI contents, the rise of reaction content, and just the effort of staying relevant to the algorithm can really affect them.
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  617. Really? I don’t remember anything in the manifesto or in interviews. Can you provide me with the reference?
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  618. Why not Scottish or Irish?
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  619.  @stephanwright0697 polls only matter during elections my dude, you know, Like the one that gave Starmer a massive majority last month. We are four and half/ five years away from the next one. I mean, you can cry all you want, but he’s PM for a while. He will also get a popularity boost for putting down the riots.
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  620. Hi Richard, I’m sorry this is an over simplistic,and romantic view of the topic. All the other countries forming the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland have a level of devolved powers (Except England) and none have a good case for independence as current independent polling stands. The independence movement in Scotland is currently on the back foot and seems to be going backward. NI has a very specific trigger in the GFI and doesn’t need to ask Westminster, and Wales hasn’t had very much of an independence movement compared to either of them. The issue is also, who then should be eligible for voting? The Scottish independence vote was for example a sham, as it gave people who would be extremely unlikely to get citizenship franchise, and denied the franchise to natural born Scot’s living outside of Scotland. With numbers up to 20% of Scottish people living outside of the country being denied the vote. Also would their offspring be eligible be eligible for citizenship? That would increase the lost franchise significantly (and include a lot of my family). As a proponent of PR, I find it peculiar that you would find this acceptable. This whole issue is a mess due to the level of integration and immigration of populations. At the moment, there is a case for further devolution, including devolved powers in England, and maybe a federal model in a “kingdom” parliament, and much like if those nations were in the EU, the voice of the country would be proportional to the population size. But I’m not seeing one for independence at this time.
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  621. No, there’s no evidence of any psychic ability. Not a single study ever supported anything.
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  622. I see the troll farm supervisor has given you an upvote…. Again
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  623. Compare and contrast with Joe Biden when he got heckled.
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  624.  @Pacman398 he has a stammer, but that weren’t it in the debate.
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  625. Abusive people are the problem. Stop othering people. Stop sexualising the problem. Use the existing laws, they are overly powerful and constrictive. Sexist rhetoric in my opinion.
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  626. People pay more tax in France…
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  627. Tax was always a moral issue, that’s why the rich worked so hard to undermine peoples understanding of it.
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  628. Maybe check out Professor Mark Blyth, he’s been calling this out for a long time. Also helps he’s a Scottish ex comedian with a flair for communication.
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  629.  @bernardm2528  it’s about 2 million viewers per month, not per program. That’s not a lot.
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  630.  @johnryan7932 our debt was on eye wateringly cheap interest rates. There was no rush to pay it back and we could borrow more at ultra low interest rates. You don’t save your way out of a financial depression. Austerity has never worked. It was tried in the 1930 and it failed utterly then too.
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  631. Sunak as a partner in TIC was responsible for the global financial crisis personally.
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  632. I think he’s done it intentionally to shut down a platform the right wing couldn’t control.
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  633. He was fine reading off an autocue at the SotU and the rally, but he’s terrible when working from memory and has frequent gaffs. Swing voters were worried about his age. This will hardly convince them he’s ok and up to the task. If he had a popular running mate it might be okay, but Harris isn’t well regarded across the political spectrum.
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  634. It’s hard to move on as he was fairly competent at fixing some of Thatchers mistakes. No conservative leader has come close since.
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  635. Neither the ICC or the ICJ have ever prosecuted this, and the seven independent judicial enquiries found no case to answer with respect to war crimes. Just because you believe it was a war crime, does not make it one.
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  636.  @stephenglasse9756  she was a management account. Did company budgets for Shell.
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  637. Meanwhile, trump rants about sharks attacking electric boats….
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  638. Boris Johnson quit because of scandal.
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  639.  @RichardFraser-y9t  he quit being an MP because he was going to also be the subject of a recall petition after having been found to have lied to parliament. He lied because he was neck deep in various scandals.
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  640.  @abergreg  quoting a figure in isolation without an explanation on how this relates to stalled investment and economic growth isn’t the win you think it is.
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  641.  @fergusdenoon1255  Labour wanted to remain, the leadership procrastinated on what to do and ended up fudging it.
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  642. He was like that as leader of the opposition.
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  643. The UK dropping the pound was never on the table except in your mind. There was no EU mechanism to force the UK to take it and we could veto EU legislation that would try. Oddly, you may have sealed its death kneel with Brexit as it will be a condition of rejoining in the future.
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  644.  @Sam-i4i8m  I guess bots and trolls don’t need rights?
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  645. If labour had had a leader more like Bernie, personable, knowledgeable, articulate, and a little cool, and more importantly visible, just think what we could achieve…
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  646. This is what seems to elude people, 2015 would have happened in 2010 if the LD weren’t in government.
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  647. I don’t think either points were covered? Could you help out with a time stamp on when they were discussed?
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  648. Could just mean they don’t believe in nationalisation of infrastructure but want tight regulation of private infrastructure.
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  649. That first guy is more of a problem than Boris. He’s supposed to be a politician not an entertainer. FFS. Moron.
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  650.  @Korschtal  my comment was related to the care Europe in general showed, both locally for yourself and on a bigger scale. The fact EU citizens could obtain settled status, and the EU choose not to weaponise either EU or UK immigration on the whole. I’m thinking my wife was in the opposite place, many of our close friends voted for Brexit in spite of her being French. When challenged, they would say, “we didn’t mean you”, and couldn’t understand why it would be taken as such.
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  651. Why? It’s perfectly legal to be a dual citizen.
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  652. Odd comment… are you all right buddy?
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  653. The wrong conservative mayor lost his seat tbh.
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  654. The only reason we are paying back the debt is because Osborne sold it off cheap. If the debt had stayed with the BoE, it could have been forgiven. Another example of snouts in the troughs.
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  655.  @jamallaaib2286  the levels of violence are significantly higher and more widespread than those events. Local crimes like you described don’t usually warrant a national, government level response.
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  656. Polling consistently shows people, including centre right conservatives, want functioning public services. Tax cuts can come once we get some economic growth. What is wrong with these people.
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  657.  @kanedNunable there aren’t many socialist these days. Just being a social democrat gets you called far left these days.
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  658.  @brianferguson7840  the police and crime commissioner of every service has a level of influence to set policing policies, except for the met where the mayor and LA have a say. The ultimate boss is the Home Secretary. There’s a ton of political meddling in the police and always has been, it is mainly done however only by successive Conservative Governments.
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  659. It’s her lunacy that’s dividing them. Long may it continue.
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  660. Exactly, unfortunately the bot farms are in force on the issue amplifying it.
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  661.  @danw5760  that’s a very disingenuous take considering how many other political parties we have in this country. Maybe give them a try, at this point it can’t be worse after 13 years or stagnation and regression, and thats what the Tories did in the 1980s too.
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  662.  @danw5760  nope, I said if people stopped voting for a party that is systematically destroying the country we would be in a better place. You really seem to have a big problem with basic comprehension. A few years in opposition may help the conservatives rediscover their roots and get a few competent people back in the ranks. I don’t have a party, I’m not tribal. Germany has the same problem as everywhere else. Neoliberalism has failed working people (as intended) and people are getting disenfranchised with democracy. However instead of voting people who may change it, they vote right wing again and again. But as I said, originally this isn’t othering. Tories are not victims.
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  663. You elect way too many positions that are government employees in the rest of the world. Who the eff thinks electing tax collectors is a good idea because of the conflict of interest it generates? Only America.
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  664.  @Soraviel it’s how the rich already do it, of via off shoring or holding it in trust.
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  665. And the current government have been watering down the principles. They are mostly contained in the human rights act which will be replaced imminently.
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  666. Colin from Portsmouth? Is that you?
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  667. Because we live in a liberal democracy with morality police…
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  668. As an independent, she will achieve absolutely nothing.
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  669.  @MontyCantsin5  they seem to conflate sovereignty and freedom of speech. One does not guarantee the other. What a weird take 😂
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  670.  @AaRr-bn3xx  I don’t think this is a binary choice. So we will have to disagree.
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  671.  @AaRr-bn3xx  no one is offering a choice of one or the other. I don’t understand why you seem to think it’s an either or situation. No one is saying you can only have freedom of speech or independence. It’s a false dichotomy.
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  672.  @AaRr-bn3xx  what you mean is you don’t like SNP policy on the hate crime bill, so you make a disingenuous argument that somehow it’s because of the independence discussion limiting this as a conversation. Have you considered this bears no relationship to reality?
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  673.  @joehames007  then why bring it up?
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  674.  @itsalexbruh95  To explain, while they were not responsible for the initial act (burning the original food) they chose to replicate it unnecessarily (by deliberately burning food) for a reason that only fudge knows why.
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  675.  @pcat1378  then explain why Tories used this argument against Gordon Brown? Boris went to the people to get the mandate too. It’s the unwritten “honourable thing” to do, so of course this government won’t. They have change policy which is why there is no mandate.
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  676.  @lloydnaylor6113  who said that and what’s that got to do with FOM from the EU? Are you bothered by legal or illegal immigration? And why does it bother you? Have you been denied opportunities because of legal immigration?
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  677. Yep, which was a mentioned during the vote campaign. But personally I think we could do without the British exceptionalism that keeps dragging us down.
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  678. It’s not over, there’s still massive issue needing resolving like the Irish boarder.
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  679. Didn’t Boris apologise for that lie? He did prosecute the tory press for the phone hacking scandle. What’s Boris ever done but lie
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  680. I agree, but Marr is part of the bubble and is blind to the issues
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  681.  @malcolmstockbridge2569  during thatchers time, people could afford houses. A single worker could still support a household (though admittedly this was changing), real wages were higher, wealth inequality was much lower, the government still had some government assets, NHS was still mostly nationalised. Government ministers resigned when they were caught out for minor indiscretions. There was significantly less (visible) corruption in public life. Thatcher was a hag and I bought cava to celebrate her death, but she had principles, however deluded, and would argue them on the door step. Johnson, Truss, and Sunak are all way worse. They believe in nothing by there own genius. I don’t understand how you can say 1980s Britain’s was worse. I guess you didn’t live there.
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  682.  @1chish  you literally mentioned the unelected EU bureaucrats (EU civil servants) the four comments up.
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  683. The version of PR proposed was a less representative than the existing FPTP system, so of course it failed.
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  684. I have Deja Vu, sure I already commented on a video like this 😅
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  685. The point is she’s a long way from her support network in Canada. It’s not like her friends and family are just around the corner, so it’s entirely relevant to the article.
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  686. Lots of Russian bots saying don’t blame Russia on this article 😅
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  687. I’m from the UK and it seems like the US are sending a pensioner to a knife fight.
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  688. He’s had a lot of sunny uplands by repeatedly crashing the pound. Pretty much in the way his daddy wrote about in his book.
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  689. I image you live in St Petersburg. Why do all bots have two likes?
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  690.  @kohtime  it’s very hard to predict when the goal post have been drawn and redrawn in whiteboard markers.
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  691.  @resistancefighter9009  yes, but they need to get the country functioning to avoid another Greece fiasco. This is unlikely to happen till Russia is gone.
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  692. So you agree with the Reform parties candidates statements?
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  693.  @dmmw125 they are ditching alliances and siding with the enemy. So are turncoats.
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  694. Got any evidence to back up the claim?
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  695. OMG, just acknowledge the issue, manage the issue and move on. It’s a real issue according to polling, you have to deal with the two candidates ages.
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  696. No thanks
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  697.  @love__and__hope__  I thought as much. I completely and utterly disagree with this position, It’s a terrible system that’s is demeaning and wastes a lot of talent. A minimum standard of education is required to make a worthwhile informed citizen who can critically analyse information, manage finances, and be successfully in whatever role they are best suited too. You can’t get this leaving school at ten.
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  698. Yeah, trump never smiles at anyone else’s jokes.
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  699. PS, I agree, defence is unfortunately a necessity given the human predilection for violence.
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  700.  @christophernunn943  you realise most measures of the economy are pretty meaningless. GDP is a terrible tool as it really only reflects how the wealthiest are doing.
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  701. He’s an actor and public speaker, freedom of movement is useful for work. Clueless….
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  702.  @epincion  they are saying there is hate and racism in England and it would be unsafe to bring his Wife back to the UK, though they would likely be safe in Scotland or Wales.
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  703. There is a distinct lack of jeering when starmer is speaking. Note this, even the Tories are sick of this. General Election now
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  704.  @evangelistgina274 doesn’t that mean the Welsh can throw the Normans out? Because that’s your utterly flawed logic.
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  705.  @ACameronUK  I’m with Sid Cup great job, made me chuckle, but I think a Russian troll rather than a bot.
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  706. I’m not grieving. I’ve actually had loss in my life from people I actually knew. Not some personality I only ever got close to because I was licking a stamp.
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  707.  @DlCKWALLACE  the German leader from the 1930 used to do the exact same salute. Guess what someone who defends a Na i is called?
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  708. When I was in the police for a bit, my puppy trainer (tutor constable) was a veteran of the paras and served during the Falklands. It’s disgraceful to him and the other officers previously served in that and other conflicts. I hope he gets some prison time as it will be with the nonces.
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  709. He’s leader of the Conservative Party and can suspend their membership in the same way other parties and employers do when serious allegations are made. He has made a decision not to follow what is an accepted practice pretty much everywhere else. He’s constantly show his indecision and is therefore a danger to our country.
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  710. Speaking on LBC about his decision to withdraw, Dale said: “I got a text from the local Conservative party saying they’d had a communication from the Lib Dems with this clip from the For the Many podcast two years ago in which I had said – I hadn’t remembered this – I didn’t like living in Tunbridge Wells and would quite happily live somewhere else … There is a context to it but nobody’s interested in context or nuance in these situations.”
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  711.  @rogerwilco2 he comes across as a petulant man child.
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  712. Sorry? This is incoherent rambling.
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  713. I think he’s just old. A lot of my family got to the mid to late nineties and didn’t suffer from dementia, but the process and concentration did deteriorate. Edit: Harris is the least popular option in polling. Worse rating than Biden.
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  714. He is not loosing staff. He is removing staff via redundancy.
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  715. The guy phoned up and brought this on himself. If you shall be wrong in public, expect consequences.
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  716.  @boxtradums0073 and rightly so. But are you are saying that there isn’t two tier policing?
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  717.  @robertfox882  why do you have some strange fetish with the flag? Were you the banner boy in the scouts or something?
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  718. I don’t think you can blame the university system, the bigger issue is they generally haven’t worked the kind of jobs that require problem solving. All universities do is give you knowledge, but they do not train you to apply it practically. It takes 5 years for most graduates in my experience (25 years in Chemistry R&D and Engineering) to get good at trouble shooting and understanding how to assess root cause to a decent level, and develop CAPA that address the actual problem. Before this, the tendency is they raise “we must do something actions” that’s really only about being seen to be doing something. The winter fuel allowance is a the latter type action.
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  719.  @the__source that’s the point, she isn’t. It was revoked.
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  720.  @twisteddancer7773  most of Europe returned pro European left, centre left and centre right wing parties in the European elections. Only Germany, Italy and France saw a swing to the far right. And in Germany it was a fair bit lower than projected. Edit: also the far right struggle to agree much so it’s unlikely they can make much use of the few extra seats they achieved overall.
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  721.  @girngo  I don’t understand the point you are making in the context of getting younger people to vote. I already know old people vote, and therefore parties pitch at them. The Tories have targeted people with wealth, or those who want wealth, for a long while precisely because they come out and vote. Older voters aren’t the problem. Younger voters who waste the franchise are.
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  722. He did
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  723. This is the best comment here as it goes to the heart of the issue. The drive for “shareholder return” rather than a fair deal for owners and employers is the main problem. The stock market are a bunch of greedy vultures.
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  724.  @mikestiles373 a constitutional republic is a form of democracy. It is not the only type of democracy though, in the same way a German shepherd isn’t the only type of dog. Hope that helps.
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  725.  @tommymorrison6478 he can only tell the truth in Russian I expect
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  726.  @MatthewMedina-b7l  underrated in that it won a bunch or awards and nominations? It’s not underrated at all.
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  727. Harold (who was AngloSaxon) inherited the Crown from Canute, a Danish Prince, so it wasn’t like there was a long line of pure Anglo Saxon succession. So definitely they don’t have a clue. They just seem to hate the country.
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  728.  @Dir3ctH3X I think you broke a bot 😂
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  729.  @stevencharnock9271  there are political science models that broadly classify where on a political spectrum ideals fall.
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  730.  @stevesmith1923  yes we do, but most of use learn to use words coherently.
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  731.  @stevesmith1923  I do listen to independent media as well as the main stream, both left and right. I’ve seen numerous interview with Jordan Peterson on both social and theological topics. I haven’t found him very coherent or articulate.
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  732.  @stevesmith1923  not trans but is it supposed to be an insult? Pretty clear you and I have a different level of what an intellectual thinker is.
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  733. Shafted us?
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  734.  @KevinHorrox it’s not the same thing. Economists are scientists (albeit in a soft, social science) not journalists.
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  735. Camp as fuck actor playing some kind of hard man? It’s ludicrous 😂
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  736. Bot
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  737.  @theauldscientist  the young adults are turning to the far right in a few European Countries like Germany and Austria far more readily than in the UK.
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  738.  @stephfoxwell4620 that’s absolutely rubbish, only 11% of the prison population are foreign born, but 15% of the UK population is foreign born. So a lower proportion of the population of foreign born people are in prison.
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  739. Sadly we kept Belfast instead or Warspite.
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  740. All I can say is: 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😆🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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  741.  @Gautam81S  why don’t you think it applies?
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  742.  @nathanaelsmith3553  there are laws to prosecute this (unless said in the chamber or a select committee where parliamentary privilege is absolute), unfortunately it’s fundamentally a hard thing to prove as you need to demonstrate the mental intent, which basically needs a confession, or an unambiguous pile of other evidence proving guilt.
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  743.  @nathanaelsmith3553  that could be a way of doing it, having it as a civil (balance of probabilities) standard. Good call 👍
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  744. I assumed you would hit the rotten aged casket.
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  745.  @neilmclarnon8181  so process them quickly and send failed applicants back, ideally via a application via a consulate or processing centre in France. The conservatives (under Mays hostile environment policy) fucked the system to feed this issue. Rather than fix it (and it used to work fairly well), they us it to keep people from thinking about all the other stuff not working, like the economy, the NHS, trains, etc
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  746.  @cf8545  that’s not how the asylum process works (and indeed any application process). In the exclusion of other routes rocking up in boats is, under international law (and domestic law) legal. They only become illegal when the claim fails. Hence most people think it should be obvious to set up processing centres in safe places and protect our boarders from uncontrolled entry and prevent people dying unnecessarily. I don’t think either side are far apart here. The problem is, rather than dealing with the issues, the government makes more unenforceable and likely illegal laws for the front page splash.
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  747. I think the thing he exudes is charisma, with a nice dash of competence and compassion. He’s never fully ruled out being PM, but he seems very happy where he is.
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  748.  @martineyles  yep, this is the most neoliberal bit of the EU, and it’s also the mill stone dragging it down.
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  749. France has a complex relationship with protest and political violence which goes back to the formation of the first republic.
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  750.  @anonym4us13 most were peaceful. The violent ones got charged by police horses, many got arrested and prosecuted.
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  751. So the right to protest is contextual? So only the acceptable view is allowed? So you are really supporting free speech are you.
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  752. You are the worst 😅
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  753.  @thelleftaremad7556 his excellent conviction rate as a prosecutor and defence record as a barrister. And then there was the Boris Johnson take down that he engineered over an 18 month period.
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  754.  @thelleftaremad7556 he was even thanked by Cameron and Knighted for his services due to how successful he was….
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  755. He was not having a good day trying to defend Biden.
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  756. No, she worked for shell. So that’s incorrect. I’d agreed her professional experience as a management account helps her very little. They tend to know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
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  757.  @matthewbaynham6286  screaming Lord such, that’s a blast from the past
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  758. Regarding RE, there have been a number of decisions made to give exemptions from teaching other faiths to some schools, mainly religious and private by Tony Blair because the faiths seemed worried it undermined their message. If we are serious about teaching critical thinking, and different religious views points, including the theist/atheist agnostic/gnostic view points, then there will need to be a sea change in the thinking of government. The Finnish have a good critical thinking exam (though I guess you already know 😅). There’s a few interesting videos on the test and its broad aims.
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  759.  @paulb8118 they were asked to leave Greenland and have repeatedly refused.
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  760.  @fuckbankers  no, no one outside of his fan base was convinced by him. Why would someone who hadn’t been loyal to any leader he severed under expect any loyalty what so ever. His excuse was he voted his conscience, but he then tried to play the victim when others did precisely the same.
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  761. The point is he didn’t lie to Parliament about it. That’s the issue, not ironically the parties.
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  762.  @Sneaky1923  the rumour is a golden shower tape
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  763. Main issue here is they keep building homes and not upgrade infrastructure. They need to do both.
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  764. She’s the PM unfortunately
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  765. And his rockets work perfectly
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  766. Andrew, why are you sure that there are spare civil servants? Do you have evidence of this? If not it’s just that’s just lazy journalism.
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  767. Having played Phasmaphobia, I’m staying well clear of that stuff.
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  768.  @ExplorewithSarahlouise  ah yes, the no one else can do this fallacy.
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  769.  @srp01983  that’s a bit of over reach there. The purpose of the meeting was to hold the mayor to account not the government. The mayor was not directly implicated. The questioning was clumsy but did the purpose to make the Tory look out of touch.
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  770. @left_blank or corporate servitude. No thanks. A balance between capitalism and socialism seems to work best and have the happiest outcomes based on happiness index. That means regulation of business so they don’t take the piss with unfair monopolies.
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  771. @left_blank and yet company profits have never been higher. And you are proposing removing more controls if I’m reading it right?
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  772. @left_blank yes of course. We haven’t given the rich enough money. Good idea.
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  773. Fox are the ultimate pro status quo organisation making the rich richer, and poor poorer. TYT are progressive and don’t want that status quo. You seem not not understand basic information based on your comment.
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  774.  @markriding1267  and that was his job, to prosecute. The defence lawyers were pretty useless. They failed to convince he judge and jury that he was a journalist and therefore protected.
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  775. Always loves me a bit of Professor Richard Murphy.
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  776.  @DezGSRD the point is it’s the houses opportunity to ask the Home Secretary questions. She rarely turns up because she doesn’t like to be challenged so neither do they. Tbh, most house business is in meetings and sub committees. The main chamber is really just a theatre for grand standing. But she really should be there.
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  777.  @maartenaalsmeer I expect there will be a period of trying to make Brexit work through this parliament, the end result will be an unsatisfactory failure, but more importantly it will be about capturing the narrative from the populists. Then the next election will rerun the debate. Likely a referendum will be on the manifesto. If the referendum is successful, the UK will apply for candidate status then it’s over to the EU for assessment. Once the assessment is complete it’s up to the council of the EU to decide if they will give the UK candidate status. I can’t see Labour doing more than try to make Brexit work this Parliament, though this may include closer alignment.
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  778.  @Boghopper9999 and Tom worked for May the cruel, queen of the hostile environment
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  779. They seem a bit one sided in their censure don’t they.
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  780.  @mad1701  I’m not aware of any positive impact they had on their societies or those around them.
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  781. If public sector gets a rise, then private sectors will need to match or lose worker to better paid job roles. More money in people’s pockets means more money circulating int eh economy. This is in your best interest too as every thing is linked.
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  782.  @billB101  that’s not a vision bud. What does starmerism mean? Being less crap than the last lot isn’t a vision. I’m guessing you don’t follow many commentators because even people like Andrew Marr and Alistair Campbell are confused about the vision. Or maybe you are just easily pleased.
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  783.  @T.E.S.S. nah, the dude stews about things. He’s a thin skinned “genius” 😂
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  784. I agree completely. Too many people are looking at this in a purely partisan way.
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  785. You won’t convince them it’s the wrong idea. The bill is written as intended to concentrate power into the ruling interests.
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  786. In what way? Could you explain it to me?
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  787.  @mauricetrotter6010 that’s the entire question. Did you listen to the start of the video? The Civil Service union has asked the government for assurances that this is legal to continue to supply arms considering they may be used to further potential war crimes.
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  788. A lot of government employees are personally liable for their mistakes, why not politicians?
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  789. The bail out wasn’t the problem, a melt down of society wasn’t a good idea given we are three meals from anarchy. The fact that Sunak and his mates weren’t prosecuted is part of the problem, and the fact draconian regulations weren’t put in place to prevent a reoccurrence is also part of the problem. What few rules were put in place have now been removed.
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  790. Exactly, I’d expect a Muslim to shout it walking out a shop if they have a winning loot ticket. Context for any language is key.
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  791. Really? They tried a number of different approaches and did deescalate with the lady. They got superiors on site. Went south when they took out the window. He clearly was off his face and not balanced. Reaching for a weapon, even with a knife would get non lethal or lethal force applied in all of Europe too. If the police have given him a lawful order and it’s refused, and efforts to reason fail, so force is used, and weapon is drawn. What the fuck are they supposed to do? What would you do?
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  792. As if what? Please be more clear in your opinion.
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  793. It’s actually Steve Bannon…. This isn’t even a joke
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  794.  @229andymon  another good point, who has time to ask maybe a dozen candidates all these questions.
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  795. In Liverpool (and likely nationally) they are competing with Labour, not the Tories. Also, Starmers a bit shit. Hope that clears it up for you.
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  796.  @vercingetorixwulf9298  I had a quick search and couldn’t find evidence of that. All I can find is “Historic Royal Palaces is the self-funding charity that cares for the Tower of London.” Which was my understanding. Do you have a link for additional information?
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  797.  @Elspm  it’s a supply and demand issue, Richard ignores the crux of it. Rents can only be high because homes are scarce. If there was more social housing to anchor the market, and rent controls the issues Richard describe would be lessened or eliminated.
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  798. They have to be political, though to be honest, some have been more cutting than others. The media and political classes however has been more united than many a year. The general mood is even the trump friendly press is not happy.
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  799.  @adamflint2060  oddly, as a former police constable myself, I’m not sure I agree with a constable arresting a victim of crime.
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  800. Maybe they can actually point the rule that’s been broken? I assume this means Simon Case or the BBC director General must also be sacked for blatant political bias? Tories out now!
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  801. For what?
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  802. The left have been pretty absent from French politics. There are some far left parties such as communists, and more centre left socialists and social democrats, but they are divided and a shadow of themselves with far less support than they received in the 1930s. The centre right have long held sway. The terms used are from political sciences based on the types of politics the party promotes, and their ideals of personal freedom.
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  803. I don’t think you can complain about O2 being responsible for the scammers. They are not a security service and have no powers to combat it unless the number is one that is registered to them. I think this is an unreasonable expectation. The data could be a breach of O2, or it could be you have your information either legally sold from other times you filled out questionnaires (it only takes not opting out of sharing details once for it to be sellable), a data breach of another company, or hacking your electronic devices and getting your information from emails or the O2 app. Basically now days for phone, text and email communications. Never respond and give details. Always say you will call back on an official number to discuss. This applies to communications from all companies, not just phone providers.
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  804. Labour lost mainly due to the biased right wing media successfully (and falsely) blaming them for the global crash (interestingly Sunak has a level of personally responsible for this). Just look how they cut this video, to end on a comment about Starmers Labour when they were talking tory incompetence 🤷‍♂️
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  805.  @michaelcome9447  the Ukrainians aren’t spineless 🤷‍♂️ currently they don’t want to give up, so best to continue supporting them.
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  806. But what did the romans really do for us…
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  807.  @allandonnelly6926  I’ve edited for clarity
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  808.  @steviekenny581  yes, he ran rings around Sunak, though he didn’t get the mic drop Flynn seems to be developing a taste for
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  809.  @brianfallon2607 because they don’t accept the foundation of the state of Israel as lawful. If it’s not lawful, why would they accept it?
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  810.  @2russo.phobic4u no they couldn’t as this was post the UN retreat from colonisation international treaties. It gave peoples of colonised areas a right of self determination.
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  811. It’s very John Cleese like isn’t it. When on the BBC to complain the BBC won’t have him on anymore…
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  812. “We are disappointed that people seem to be working out our 12 year con.” There, deciphered that disingenuous tory lady.
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  813. The problem is no one can force him out if he doesn’t want to go.
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  814. Gary “who the f*** are you” Masters wants a JOB to go away. Hold the front page, a nobody has spoken 😂
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  815. Jeremy Corbyn is a bit of a mill stone around labours neck. I expect he polls badly in the swing seats they need to target to win power. Sunak keeps bringing Corbyn up in PMQT as some kind of boogie man, then there’s some merit in this opinion. From what I can make out JC is a good MP, but he was an easy target as leader. Same as milliband, brown, and Kinnock. Too easy to neutralise by the press.
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  816. Thorsten Bell was given a cabinet brief yesterday. He’s got experience of working in the treasury too. Also a neoliberal, but at least with a focus on helping people other than the super wealthy.
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  817.  @user-cu5gc4qz8p  making the rich care about the quality of the education of all seems like it would. Where it’s happened, the results have been positive.
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  818. Apparently he’s always been like this. It’s not an age thing.
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  819. Rushi Sunak had a “great” career by crashing the global market. Maybe he’s just a parasite?
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  820. I agree, we need to have a republic. Down with the royals 😅
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  821. Using emergency powers to force through legislation that the French parliament wouldn’t pass, thats bypassing the voice too. Hence the response.
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  822. Trumps performance was entirely as expected, actually he came off less bad than expected. People know he will lie. Biden on the other hand just needed to come off as not too old and failed.
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  823.  @bobrayner1093  please advise which bit is factually incorrect?
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  824.  @simonsmith1974  and not just the one time. He was a prolific hero who survived the war. Unfortunately the horrors claimed him a while later.
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  825. He’s the prime minster and not capable of seeing this was not a good idea. Why are you blaming the team, it should be obvious for anybody. It seems he just doesn’t care. But this is a former partner of TCI who’s made a tonne of money when his company caused the global financial crisis.
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  826.  @NOFX0890  why not give us your expert opinion so we can work it out for ourselves?
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  827.  @bernieburrows3731 taxes remove money from the system to prevent inflation. They are also used to encourage policy actions (e.g. investment in green tech) and discourage negative actions (e.g. smoking, wealth hoarding). MMT isn’t particularly controversial at a description of how money works. The controversy is more about how much MMT can be used in an unbalanced books way.
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  828. It’s ideological too, she’s a headbanger Christian like a lot of the MAGA crowd.
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  829. What truth?
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  830.  @nudisco300  other than the fact he liked to have a curry in the office 🫣
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  831.  @mattcameron9349  i commented on both buddy. Others above brought Musk into the conversation. Trump can have his two cents, and we can choose to call it interference. It’s the hypocrisy of some on the right that’s being called out at the moment though. It’s the fact Obamas comments were interference and trumps are welcomed. This is the matter at play, what Obama or trump actually said is irrelevant. While this is currently right wing hypocrisy, the left at times has done the same
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  832. Good job the democrats are doing an amazing job in opposition isn’t it 😬
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  833.  @fvefve12  surely inheriting a farm which is a business, you should,d give a bit of thought of what you are going to be doing and how the costs will be payed. This would be the same as inheriting any other business.
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  834.  @tilerman  first up I agree with the OP. Would be the same with PR, same with Republic. Any issue won or lost shouldn’t be decided by referendum. My view is politicians should do the work they are paid handsomely for. My brexit mates are all labouring under the delusion that it will all “work it’s self out in the end” while we are sliding further and further backwards culturally, economically, and with respect to our rights and freedoms. So he’s right, not one of them understood the issues at play. All voted on the emotional sovereignty and without once understanding how sovereignty works. Not one took the time to look it up, even when given sources. It requires a lot more work than most people are willing to put in to decide these issues rationally.
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  835.  @davidtracey5471  no worries, it’s a shit deal for Scotland (and the rest of us not part of the cult)
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  836.  @garyboyle695  the Catholic Church has always been rather duplicitous, so JRM probably fits in well. Also all the tenants of sharing wealth are ignored on an institutional level, so again, right up his street. If you are looking for consistency in morality, you won’t find it in the bible.
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  837. She seems mad as a box of frogs? This truly is a damming indictment on the party system where a bucket of excrement could get the elected.
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  838. And zero accountability
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  839. It’s not a closed system and haven’t since the digital age.
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  840. Ah the tribalist response. Both can be bad In different ways. It’s precisely because we had years of tory budgets that Reeves needed to do better.
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  841.  @simonclare100 can you give an example please? Like a real one not the made up shit your type always invent.
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  842.  @simonclare100  attempt at deflection and no answer I see. Well done 👍
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  843. Blair did, it was a manifesto pledge he failed to implement. While Labour wants it, it’s clear Starmer doesn’t.
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  844. This feels like sovereign citizen level shenanigans from Judge Cannon 😅.
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  845.  @pauljeffrey4054 the rioters rioting have a funny way of mourning. Almost like you are lying.
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  846.  @keithad6485  trump can hold a conversation? He struggles with coherence at the best of times. I agree harris and Biden aren’t the best communicators, but there are a bunch of democrats that are effective speakers. I think Biden stayed too long, and also the structure of the Democratic Party stifles a real choice. I find it bonkers that the current leader cannot be displaced via a party process.
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  847. What a cowardly man Mr Rees-Mogg is. He could have responded to each of those.
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  848. No such thing as a free society. We prohibit things not good for the wider society, and given the problems associated with public schooling both for the wider population, and the kids who lived in misery at them, it would be better to be rid of them.
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  849. It’s funny, because the captions say love politics hate nonsense. It’s kinda the exact opposite to the PJPC
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  850. Saying that, Olly isn’t here today so they are talking politics 😂
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  851. They are petitioning to screw up the education systems in the same way creationists have. It’s dangerous and stupid and could ultimately hurt our species as many are climate change deniers too. Ignorance shouldn’t be indulged.
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  852.  @barerfont  my concern is we will end up electing people who are unsuitable for the task, people in the role need a level of competence. We will just end up with ridiculous grifters like JRM and Lee Anderson, not people who can form a considered opinion on the legislation. Hence why it would be better to appoint. If you haven’t already, I’d recommend watching some of the debates in the lords, it’s not like Westminster. They are pretty technical discussions on the law, its useability, merits, and flaws. This was a big problem with Boris sending unserious people (donors and allies) to the lords, they just didn’t have the knowledge skill for the position. Either way, I do think we both agree the status quo is not great, and needs a change. Good to have the discussion 👍
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  853.  @nickwoodward819 no Count Binface has principals
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  854. Yes more housing is required, yes more infrastructure is needed. but the infrastructure issue isn’t easy for older towns. Short of bulldozing historic buildings… More progressive rules for housing redevelopment would also be good. To increase the housing space in the country. I can’t put a third floor on my house for example, because it’s not “in keeping with the current area”. It’s a 1930s ex council house…
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  855.  @Tensquaremetreworkshop can you point out what he has said that’s incorrect? I’ve heard the same things from a lot of economists to be honest, so I don’t think the mater of him being a professor in an adjacent field is a big issue.
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  856. What about it? He was exonerated by multiple police investigations.
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  857. I’m a bit late to the party, but you missed the last reason. Senior leave campaigners stating that a second referendum would be required to approve the deal or remain. Odd you miss the one actual compelling reason.
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  858. He said he didn’t agree with freedom of speech
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  859. Yes, something along the lines of “the plan is working”…
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  860.  @frasercook5823 been that way for 15 years 😢
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  861. Ollie works for LBC too
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  862. He’s a person that has engaged in terrible behaviour on a pretty frequent basis. I fear he will win the leadership contest and amplify the hate even more.
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  863. I can’t believe Im saying that I would rather have Patel as a candidate for clam, compared to Jenrick or Badenoch. She seems to have realised she would be in the mobs firing line if they get control. My preference would be cleverly though. He’s bad, but the least bad after Tom T decided to go Maga.
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  864. The Kier Starmer story is a disgrace even if previous governments did the same thing. If a copper can’t accept a gift (even if it’s not a bribe), then neither should a politician.
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  865. Americans are an odd people.
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  866.  @TheLebaneseSpideyFan21 yes, yes he is.
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  867. It’s the algorithm that hydra will use against us…
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  868. The Greens ultimately made the energy crisis in German far worse by shutting their nuclear power stations.
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  869. Hi Richard, given the importance of the state central bank within MMT, does this affect the sense in the UK joining the EU?
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  870. Why? Because he is the smartest man in the world, according to him and his brainless fan bois.
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  871.  @valeriemacphail9180  yep, I know. It’s depressing isn’t it. France have at least passed the first hurdle, but I can see the whole thing crash down due to egos and failure to compromise.
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  872. Public schools are just a way of reinforcing the class/wealth divide. It would be better of the rich to meet the poor at some point in there life. They might learn a little empathy.
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  873. He was always like this.
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  874.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  Scotland had the right to choose, remind me when was the last referendum and what was the result? Your false equivalency with Ukraine is quite frankly disgusting.
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  875.  @Raj-ul9my  why is it his decision? Why is this grounds for invasion?
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  876.  @Raj-ul9my  also Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraines Crimea region say otherwise. He’s on an empire building spree.
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  877.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  I’m sorry, but you seem a bit emotional. Do you need a hug?
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  878. Minford was nearly the only economist who said that. The rest were experts to be ignored according to Gove. Those who listened to him seemed to be because it fit their world view or ambitions rather than the widely acknowledged likely impact.
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  879. I’m generally amazed to, shows how right wing the beeb has become
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  880.  @jmolofsson  his was more a advert for a book, that a journalistic interview. It’s generally considered there is some form of conversation in an interview rather than just long monologues.
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  881. He’s like a scientist from a movie in the 1950s
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  882.  @mikew6060 can you write that in English please.
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  883. Why?
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  884.  @philipgumm9243  if that’s the will of the people so be it, but they only got 14% of the vote.
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  885.  @Moscow_Will_Burn  it was a vote on AV, not PR
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  886.  @dog_chasing_cars7576  why do you think I’m pro reform? I’m someone who, other than the Clegg period, aligns more with Lib Dem policies. I’ve had to vote tactically every election for nearly three decades because of this ridiculous Georgian voting system. I’m tired of not being able to vote for a party I want to at least have a shot of representing me. I voted Labour to get a Tory out yesterday. Labour members, the greens, and the Libdems all want PR. The latter two it’s in their manifesto.
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  887.  @leif12345 a child like “no but you are” argument.
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  888. I thought we got rid of the Tories, why are their media still dominating the discussion?
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  889. This was no different to our EU Elections where a low turnout could be heavily influences by the of the right wing, and protest votes. UKIP used to do way better than in a National Election.
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  890.  @EldenLordOrvik7790 the context of that statement is important. He didn’t like life in opposition, and achieved pretty much zero for the first time in his career. When he went to Davos he felt like he achieved something.
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  891. You pretty much identified a lot, not all, the issues that gave us Brexit. Also it’s the same issues that the right wing are using throughout the world. Let’s hope the push back in the USA and Brazil is the start of something positive. (And yes, I know the dems are not left wing, but they some elements now are).
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  892.  @faithrada  no, it relies on flawed personal experience to cherry pick evidence that supports your wish, discounting evidence that which doesn’t suit the narrative. That doesn’t make it true.
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  893. Trump spells the end of western democracy
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  894.  @bobbyg309  and yet oddly, that view point is increasingly not aligned with current scientific consensus Funny enough, people used to know the world was flat and women came from a man’s rib. Belief doesn’t mean fact.
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  895.  @twisteddancer7773  we (the UK) originated about 90% of the legislation. We sent MEPs to vote on it and we had a seat on the council of Europe with a veto. They didn’t force anything on us. Now we will get things forced on us as we are rule takers as part of trade agreements. So I ask again, what was a benefit? I mean, there were 15 benefits of brexit sold by the leave campaign. I’m sure you can quote one from there if it helps.
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  896. It was live on the radio mate 😂
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  897. Yes and can rarely name any of the actual issues with it.
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  898. You are clueless. This is official and has been reported by Bloomberg, Reuters, NYP, APNews, The Guardian, Wired… the list goes on and on. Did you not check before posting?
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  899. It’s likely the last centennial with surviving veterans as the youngest was 96. What a disgrace.
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  900.  @Mark-Haddow  so you haven’t addressed any points? Well done.
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  901. I think green, Lib Dem and the SWP, and more other smaller parties on the right.
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  902.  @pennymcneela7095 the two police investigations say otherwise.
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  903. Surely it’s just blowing the budget before the new financial year? Isn’t this just normal?
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  904. So a member of the ERG labels someone conniving? Right.
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  905.  @colincampbell4261 likely a Maga bot.
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  906.  @bernardm2528  it’s not a large audience. That’s over a month, the average show is around 58000 viewers tops apparently. That’s tiny, and most views are the same people watching multiple times in a month.
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  907.  @stevec700  really, why do you think that? Got some examples?
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  908.  @johnryan7932  I misunderstood, no worries. I agree in principle, but I think Cameron was oblivious to the effect of policies (as he seem fairly dim) and Osborne was an ideological small state zealot. The passing cash to the wealthy was just a happy bonus. The emptying the till didn’t really start until Johnson’s tenure.
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  909. James is loving all the digs at Iain Dale…
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  910.  @jrobs1133 we literally have these every week in the commons. Sunak avoids answering the questions, sometimes in a way that may be not fully truthful. There’s no point of having weekly debates. One or two is more than enough assuming they are well structured and moderated.
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  911.  @SuperMarion61  Tbf, it’s Ollie that makes them do the “banter”. It’s like having a work outing where the boss want everyone to have fun…..
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  912. Carney is extremely well respected in both the UK and EU. His handling of Brexit was instrumental in managing the aftermath.
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  913.  @colin_e  you mean Hypothesis, that’s the thing you test though I agree it is derived from the proposition (which is the starting point). The postulate is as I understand it, a hypothesis that has supporting evidence, but not sufficient to elevate to a theory.
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  914. Economics pretends it’s a science so it uses scientific terms.
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  915.  @TheMadmacs  and yet a vast number of legal experts disagree.
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  916.  @StuartNevin-ip1wg countries are not a business, businesses don’t run defence, the courts or policing. They can create money out of thin air so don’t need to make money. They don’t need to turn a profit. Most countries retain responsibility for natural monopolies and do not privatise them.
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  917.  @janicebirch7522 the global financial crisis was perdominatly caused by by the US sub prime mortgage market. The actual crash was caused by TCI, an asset management fund which Rushi Sunak was a partner. The Labour UK government was key in defining the global response which contained the worst effects. Between 2008 and 2010, the economy was recovering until the austerity measures were implement under the conservative lead coalition.
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  918. That’s a massive failing of the news media. They really should be able to cover more than one issue at a time.
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  919. Ollie fluctuates between the pointy haired boss (Dilbert), and a stand up comic… he needs a Netflix comedy show…😅
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  920. It was targeted at the current King (and his dubious brother), not the Former Queen.
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  921.  @thelleftaremad7556  did you watch this video? The claim was supposedly from an independent report collated by the Civil Service. The civil service have said it wasn’t in a letter to the Labour Party. The underlying assumptions and costs were produced by Tory spin doctors using questionable data, and had a very strongly worded statement to that fact in the report. The letter was shown in the report and discussed briefly.
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  922.  @captaintruth  I like the ironic name. Are you a parody account?
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  923.  @SuezWSuezW not really, they have always reported via the home office and are now overseen by the Elected Police Commissioners. The Tories have long been trying to move to a politicised police service. They are also trying to do the same with Judges. These attacks are trying to move to an American heavily political model.
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  924. Suella is probably a balm to his ears. They only don’t like authoritarianism if it’s someone else.
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  925. Oh, only 200 kids missing. That’s okay then. Ffs they are useless
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  926. It probably is the most democratic country, but it’s a very low bar, so not really something to brag about.
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  927. Tbf, some were definitely useful idiots (Darren Grimes looking at you), but definitely most were.
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  928.  @Iazzaboyce  so you don’t have any examples of “essential” sovereignty being sacrificed? I just need one that bothers you. Just saying all laws are equal is rather semantic and untrue in real life. Do you really care about the weight range of an egg to qualify as a grade A small egg? We don’t have a fully sovereign armed forces. Does this bother you too?
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  929.  @Iazzaboyce  insults already? NATO can require British troops to deploy. Isn’t this the same thing? We sacrifice sovereignty with every treaty or trade deal we sign. UK companies have to follow the rules of the target markets to export even not being in a union. I asked you for actual example where sacrificing some sovereignty are a problem. And you need to be able to frame it in the context of how it’s is a great harm than the overall benefit is we could project hard and soft power magnified by the EU. So I’m going to ask again. Please provide some actual examples where this is a problem. And how this differs to how the world works.
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  930. You are making the assumption that Starmer would leave early? Which seems pretty tenuous given his public service. This is disappointing and reflects poorly on Sunaks Judgement and patriotism. I can only assume you have no respect for the war generation.
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  931. The money paid into the EU was more than covered by the trade we used to do which created jobs and therefore more tax. Forgiven aid is soft power projection and is used to create, enhance and maintain bilateral relations. Both have either tangible or intangible benefits to the UK. In theory we all benefit from these, but obviously some benefit more.
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  932.  @troubz9 it’s not an American thing, thought it’s very very rare. The James Bulger torture and murder was an example of this happening.
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  933. The midlands have never been cool dude 😂
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  934. Ava, odd hill to die on with smoking considering it’s a massive and unnecessary impact on the NHS. It’s an evil business with a huge global environmental impact. It’s also got un-necessary secondary impact on people who don’t have a choice. Cars are necessary, fags are not.
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  935. By pension I assume you mean state pension. The workforce that’s around when they are of pensionable age will pay for it. Given the declining birth rates, cause in part by policies like the two child cap, it necessitates immigration to ensure the economy is productive enough to cover the pension bill. But equally, that same couple will not have accrued the costs in education and healthcare associated with having children.
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  936. Especially when you realise that because we kept the pound, we can literally magic money out of thin air.
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  937. They want to eliminate both?
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  938.  @britishproudvanman3082  so why is it good to have a king?
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  939. His personal wealth has bought him a mattress or two to fall on.
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  940. His personal wealth has bought him a mattress or two to fall on.
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  941. Knife crime has always been part of british history.
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  942. As far as I’m aware, 4 is already a conventional number.
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  943.  @Korschtal  ah, I probably should have used a different form of words. I was thinking of more talk down in the context of “talk down some from a fight or suicide”. Yes, my government viewing the EU citizens, many of which were family of UK citizens, the rest were important members of communities and productive economically and culturally, is something I will never, ever forgive.
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  944.  @jimbo32234  I agree, but I think it’s a deliberate decision to not be super polished. Joe Politics had a couple of other economists on who are worth a watch over the last few months who do into the topic with a bit more depth.
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  945.  @no1arab502 it’s ambiguous enough that he will say it’s just a call to protest.
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  946. You bots always get two likes. That’s weird.
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  947. He said he would act impartially on taking the post of speaker, which is supposed to be neutral and impartial. The decision was extremely partisan as it saved Starmer from an embarrassing rebellion. That’s why Flynn said he’s a liar.
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  948. I’d like to she her on Paxman too. She would be sushi
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  949. I think it the difference between having land boarders and a sea boarder. It became necessary in the EU a long time ago due to the ease of transit across frontiers. The UK being cut off by a sea boarder means it’s not perceived as a necessity. Introducing these things unnecessarily means additional cost for little benefit, so governments trying to spend on services or tax breaks generally won’t do it.
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  950. Freedom of expression is all fine, but it is being used against our democracy by malicious external actors. There is a balance between the public good and personal rights. Honestly, it needs amendment to control the use of the powers, not ripping it up. You have to bear in mind, most of the use is to avoid people becoming criminals as they need to be warned first before it becomes arrestable, and it’s mostly used on drunks to prevent them kicking off.
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  951.  @PedroPiquero tbh, I wonder if China is a more reliable partner right now. If you look at the way they project soft power it’s far more mutually beneficial. That said, it’s also a terrible regime…
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  952. Agreed, put Newsom in the race then all the dementia talk will be about Trump…
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  953. No they are not, the biggest firms are doing very well and are buying up the competition (including government departments) for knockdown prices. AI is going to replace people, though I expect it will take a bit more time to implement, and the overly ambitious statements made by the tech bros will be show to have been mostly over blown hype.
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  954. One year from your comment, we now have war in Europe, so that’s the full predictions of project fear realised (brexit was also supported by and a lot of funding was linked to Russia / Putin has links to both Farage and the other brexit support trump). Unfortunately it’s just the start.
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  955.  @deco2132  upto have the population is now degree educated and many work casual jobs. There’s not an easy cut off these days and hasn’t been for 20-30 years. If you look at university lecturers, they are unionised workers and were striking. Would a tool maker be working class? Often they would be degree educated engineers.
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  956.  @banksarenotyourfriends  I don’t think most people actually knew who he was tbh. 2017 was as much a protest vote against Brexit, May, and the Tories, as much as a vote for Corbyn. The Lib Dems were still persona non gratis after the coalition. So sure he picked up votes, but he didn’t appeal to the small c conservative swing voters to capitalise on the voter share. He didn’t win back Scotland. Getting youngsters out to vote is great, but they need to be where it counts under FPTP. A Leaders only as good as their last election you can’t say he was great in 2017 and 2019 don’t count. He lost both elections, and Labour tanked in 2019 and it was clearly down to his lack of leadership. The fact he never seemed to come out for interviews during the 2019 politics tensions didn’t help. The fact he wouldn’t step aside to allow a government of national unity be created meant a lot of people voted LD or Green instead of labour. Also in the build up he allowed a power vacuum to form and the shadow cabinet filled it, again this just reinforced the perception he was weak. Interesting you mention PR, because whilst I believe Corbyn is supportive of PR, Labour under Corbyn were against it. And while the members seem to have finally woken up to it last year, it’s unlikely to be a priority whilst Labour are winning under FPTP. The biggest issue with JC right now is he has, rightly or wrongly, become a vote loser. I do feel it’s a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation. But currently, it feels like Corbyn is the only attack line Sunak has on Starmer at PMQT. So making that a viable attack line is politically a mistake.
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  957.  @dub604 he not saying that, but these are the same thugs who would have been in Mosleys black shirts.
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  958.  @enoch6450  urm well other than the 1975 Referendum on it.
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  959.  @jamallaaib2286  was it national? It seemed to just be a small area in one town.
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  960. Well said comrade 🇷🇺
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  961.  @ronmastrio2798  oxygen in high concentrations is toxic and flammable, so it depends on what support he offered.
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  962. It’s generally called a republican movement. Not sure why the phrase is now getting dumbed down.
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  963. The process has taken far too long, it’s unacceptable to leave this matter open for what was a fairly open and shut matter.
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  964. Islamophobia is a double edged sword as it’s used against both people with theological concerns about Islam, and people who just hate the actual Muslims in an arbitrary and blanket way. Provided it’s only used for the latter I don’t have an issue, but the problem is it has been used in the same manner as blasphemy laws to shut down debate. Just for context, I’m an atheist who’s very interested in religious philosophy, but I’m not in favour of any religion. The term is increasingly used to stiffle scholarly debate about the validity of Islam as a truth claim. I do however respect people’s right to worship whoever they want or worship noone.
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  965. It was described as a once in a generation thing, that’s commonly accepted as around 20 years. It will take ten years to join. Looks like a good timetable.
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  966.  @Toecutter875  I was a cop so it’s not a hypothetical for me. Whether I got involved would have depended on what I needed to be doing, whether I had been drinking, etc. I did get involved in some things off duty, but it was usually better to just witness and then write up a statement later, or submit some intel. The fact this turned violent I’m guessing means the cop felt he had to intervene. The main point is the service made a proper hash of the investigation.
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  967.  @Toecutter875  why? I was a cop, the warrant is a 24/7 deal.
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  968.  @Toecutter875  it’s what you sign up to when you join.
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  969.  @Human_Herbivore  I’d prefer shiny pebbles
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  970.  @jjefferyworboys8138  which incompetence? The global financial meltdown that our Labour government was universally acknowledged outside the UK stopped it becoming worse? Or the Conservative political decision to introduce austerity? Austerity wasn’t necessary btw, it was just an excuse to funnel public money to rich people.
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  971. Both are dogmatic beliefs.
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  972.  @trytellingthetruth.2068  no, the caller was talking about refugees. Immigration is a different application process.
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  973. Are they? Surely gammons love the commonwealth
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  974.  @annishilcock4587  50 years is another figure Mogg plucked from the air. He has no plan to make Brexit work either today, or in 43 years time (his initial comments on the time scale were in 2016). It’s special pleading and will be extended by his heirs if it’s not realised.
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  975. @TubbsFarquharget used to it, it’s going to be an autocorrect crime for at least the next 90 odd days.
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  976. The Tory’s insisted on an AV system instead of PR, really Clegg should have walked away, but he lacked the balls (I think it would have helped the libdems in the long run). He didn’t and so the proposal was to have a form of electoral system that would have favoured the Tories and Labour more than FPTP, as it would have enabled them to hoover up votes from other parties.
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  977. Unfortunately he saw quiet a bit of this coming. Particularly the right of Christian nationalism.
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  978. Labour we’re in 2008, they put a higher tax rate in
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  979. They increase costs and therefore increase prices = inflation. You haven’t been paying attention.
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  980. What a bunch of self serving fools…
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  981.  @andrewroberts8959  what George was arguing for was not in favour of either large or small farms. Both are the issue, as both are ultimately unsustainable with an increasing population. I’d suggest you go watch the interview.
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  982.  @methanedirigible the EU may not be so liberal after the French elections
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  983.  @methanedirigible  I’m hoping against it, but unfortunately it’s looking likely. My wife and her family are French so hopefully the country can retain a bit of sense. I mean, my wife’s grand parents were involved in the resistance against the occupation and the Vichy government, and it’s sad to see the decedent party of that government doing so well.
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  984.  @AaRr-bn3xx  I’m saying they are completely separate questions and not at all linked.
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  985. I really hope so, but he didn’t last time.
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  986. Reform will not be 2nd. They are likely to get one or two seats tops. The make up of parliament will be: Labour Tories libdems SNP PC Greens/Reform Not sure about the NI parties I’m afraid, but at least two are likely to have more seats in west minster than reform.
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  987.  @adkest9914  it’s a glib saying, and only applies to people like trump.
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  988.  @FRANKSNAKE71  yeah, neoliberalism is a effing curse… the market can’t organise anything.
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  989. Corbyn the public school boy, upper middle class (if you subscribe to that ridiculous concept) champion of the working class. Cant you see the irony? There are only two things matter, you either want to treat people with respect and help them and vote Labour (SNP in Scotland, green in Brighton) or you are a selfish arse who votes Tory. Class means nothing. It’s a moral choice, not a class choice.
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  990. Inheritance tax doesn’t affect the farmer, it affect the inheritor. This isn’t a tax on farmers despite the narrative. Farming isn’t profitable and hasn’t been for decades, made worse by the removal of subsidies by leaving the EU. We should be subsiding farms as a Uk farm will cost more to run than a third world one. If farms were profitable, the inheritors would be able to afford the inheritance tax. Edit: profitable for small farmers.
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  991.  @pcat1378  my party? I’m centre left leaning independent 🤷‍♂️ (formerly Lib Dem leaning). Every time there’s a new leader or a significant shift in policy this happens. I was first following politics when Thatcher was ousted and John Major faced the same calls. So sorry you don’t like it, but that’s not the same as you being right. It’s all part of politics.
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  992.  @pcat1378  hence I’m not a party member, though I must admit, getting the Tories out is a somewhat appealing prospect. You also have to realise even some sitting Tory MPs have called for a General Election, Nadine Dorries for one so it’s not just the opposition. General strikes are more likely to work and I suspect it’s where it will go next.
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  993.  @asumazilla  not sure what you mean by that, but there’s a photo of Cameron with Macron, Biden, and Scholz he could have been in. If there’s something that’s going to make you look prime ministerial, you should always do it unless there’s a crisis. It’s good for campaigning. Also, walking away from an event early that’s disproportionately favoured by your base is just idiotic on so many levels.
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  994.  @dragonfly6908  that was due for broadcast six days later.
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  995. She said in the video they were in the building within two minutes on scene.
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  996. I love that Devin Plammed off the math… 😂
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  997.  @ronnygibbon real patriotic thing to do, avoiding taxes…
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  998. Exactly, this is shutting the stable door 7 years after that horse bolted.
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  999.  @cidertom5140  sorry, I don’t really understand what your reply means, would you mind elaborating?
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  1000.  @cidertom5140  fair enough. Probably wasn’t interesting anyway.
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  1001.  @Banjo2030  exactly, it’s a form of voting we’re large parties siphon off votes giving the illusion of choice, it’s a way of cementing the two party system for another generation or two.
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  1002.  @metallitech  actually it’s a very interesting point as he has been a proponent for PR for a long while. It’s one of the few areas I agree with him. Honestly, I didn’t like UKIP, but they should have had seats in the GB and NI Parliament.
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  1003. He doesn’t care about people dying from gun violence. He doesn’t care about people dying from lack of medical care in a “THE” first world nation….
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  1004. Well, he’s a person that claims other peoples hard work as his own, and keep the profits of their Labour for himself. In medieval Europe, he would have been a robber baron.
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  1005. Quoting David Starkey shows a lack of seriousness on your part. The fact you conflate a very well supported scientific theory (climate change) as if it’s a matter of religious belief (which is inherently the belief of something hoped for not due to evidence) shows a complete lack of scientific understanding and its terms.
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  1006.  @alanhat5252  product quality also is about having a product that is efficacious, not just patient safety hence separating it. You can take a sugar coated lactose pill without harming a patient, but it won’t do any real good past a placebo effect.
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  1007. Thanks for covering the UK element, the attack on democracy by oligarchy is a global phenomenon. Just for information, Ed Davey is the leader of the third largest parliamentary party with 73 seats of 650. He’s not just a random MP.
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  1008.  @Thawk126 they supply 97% of your oil 😂. That’s leverage.
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  1009. He looks like he’s enjoying it, very few politicians can pull that off.
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  1010. The Labour voter isn’t just these guys. You want power you need to be more centre left. Why the hell do you think the Libs moved right? New Labour moved into there space.
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  1011.  @us1way Brexit happened, just not the way you wanted or were promised.
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  1012. He was looking a skydiver who is in shot.
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  1013.  @left9096  why? He takes land, the bides time. Takes more land. This is the fourth time he did it. He won’t stop at Ukraine.
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  1014. The intent of the legislation is good, the text and controls built in are not great.
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  1015.  @boota1979  no thanks. Direct democracy is idiocy. People don’t have time, and many don’t have the mental capability to review, understand, and make an informed decision on legislation. It’s hard, very hard, to make decent laws. Have you ever even look through any? Do you know what makes a well worded legal text?
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  1016. The law is in the hands of politicians, they literally make them and can amend them. This is why electing honest, sensible people is so important.
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  1017. Freedom of speech in the Uk is not freedom from responsibility. If he breaks the law, he could have his collar felt if he ever appears on our shores again.
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  1018. They support children’s rights until they are born
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  1019.  @rjkmusicmedia  according to who? I’d be interested to know what your party affiliation is? As this feels like a whataboutisum from a Tory to me. Happy to be shown wrong though.
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  1020. I have no issue with a CEO getting adequately compensated. But ten times more than the cleaner seems more than sufficient. Anything more is greed
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  1021. Probably worse.
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  1022.  @soulfuzz368  can you point me in the direction of your published works?
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  1023. You what? The money goes predominantly to the US arms industry, making jobs and shareholder profits. The Ukraine don’t get given the money and a choice on who they buy the weapons from.
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  1024. Doesn’t seem particularly likely for a while.
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  1025. He seemed like a Tory at that.
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  1026.  @WH-hi5ew  well said 👍
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  1027.  @Mark-Haddow not quite true. The navy and the RAF regularly divert Russian military ships and planes.
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  1028. I was going to say I disagreed, but after trying to draft a response I realised you are right. They are political journalists for the Westminster bubble, poorly equipped for anything outside of that.
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  1029. They make use of a new fangled device called a telephone. Apparently it allows you to call long distances, even from Scotland to London. It apparently allows a “Radio Phone In Show” to exist without the expense of leaving a studio.
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  1030. Why do you think it’s lies?
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  1031. He doesn’t have a majority in the Lords (ie a controlling number of seats). There are 278 Tory Peers out of 790 sitting Peers.
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  1032. Love it
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  1033. He is, but it’s a complex issue and isn’t going to be resolved in the three weeks these idiots have given him.
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  1034. Every ex Labour voter I know doing this puts purity over a chance of power 🤷‍♂️. They seem to revel in the state of the country hoping for a revolution.
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  1035. We have controlled immigration. It’s the processing that’s the issue
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  1036.  @Foxingban can you give me an example of where it made a decision where we needed protection from? I look forward to your reply.
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  1037. 1984 - George Orwell.
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  1038. We do have less productive workers… than China where people work six days a week 12-14 hours a day. Which is entirely what liz truss was complaining about. What the media should ask, is why is this a problem? Surely the issue is the poor treatment of Chinese workers by western companies in the quest for increased productivity. Honestly we used to take stands against this type of thing.
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  1039. You just make that calculation certain.
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  1040. Agree completely 👍, comment made longer for the algorithm.
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  1041.  @aituk  considering my family are French, and I have a lot of French friends and colleagues, I’ve not meet one who regrets being a republic, only the choice of leaders they elect. Sarkosy for example…. You seem to be saying the inability to change what’s wrong is a virtue, and being able to change what doesn’t isn’t. It’s a preposterous and dishonest proposition. It’s a bit like the people who use the risk hung Parliament being a reason not to have a more representative government.
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  1042. The issue here is the current laws can be used in an unreasonable way. The republican protest, and the female protection Marshall’s at the coronation for example. I have used the older law here and it’s very down to the officer how it’s applied.
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  1043. Because the Tories aren’t worse. Sorry but FPTP means taking the second worst option.
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  1044. The Green Party
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  1045.  @Killergoat69  NURsSEEe!!!!
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  1046. The candidate were talking to mics and outed themselves.
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  1047.  @kippsguitar6539  the guy is clearly trying to force beliefs on others. They have phoned a national radio show to say what they want to inflict on the rest of us. I have no problem with people having personal beliefs provided they are personal.
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  1048. I grew up in harlow as well, unfortunately I came across these sorts a lot, but as a white person, they would just be offensive and try to recruit us.
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  1049.  @Ludus57  I was thinking that too. We just got a new batch of vouchers issued with the Kings head on them.
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  1050.  @tombartram7384  kind of a pointless protest if no one notices it. It’s an important human right. And what Brexit benefit have we realised? I’m more than happy to be corrected, but I haven’t seen a single one in even the right wing media.
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  1051.  @davidty2006  apparently it was the highest figure ever
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  1052. Jeez, the US gets this truly inspiring pair, and we have Kier Starmer…. Love from the 🇬🇧
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  1053. Or a woman 😂
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  1054. That’s kind of the point Richard is making, Taxes are taken after the government instructs the BofE (our central bank) to create money. Taxes do not pay for anything. Its main purpose is to prevent inflation. Have a watch of one of Richard’s MMT explainers on this channel.
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  1055. Why was it cringe? He said he wants rid of it.
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  1056.  @wainerollins2587  thats precisely what I thought when I read it 😂
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  1057. For what? Not giving him credit for the Farage Riots? 😂
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  1058. I was watching Jon Stewart on the daily show doing just that earlier today.
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  1059. This needs more upvotes. It the antithesis of his role
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  1060.  @mdt105 the commission recommended similar regulation as TV media companies. This can’t happen too soon.
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  1061. Who is worse, and in what way?
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  1062.  @Lee-nv2rg  no one likely to protest will be allowed at the funeral
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  1063. Boris could have had a by-election if he wanted and had the public “prove” they wanted him. Instead he ran away…
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  1064.  @TheDom277  Labour did a load of things. A lot of training too. Expanded university places etc.
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  1065. As someone who works in sterile manufacturing, you guys don’t understand what it is 😂
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  1066. Home Secretaries want to do shady shit that the courts won’t allow, rather than do legal stuff, they want to remove FUNDAMENTAL protections for us.
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  1067.  @nickdawson9270 in what way? Did the EU just sh!t on alliances that have secured US hegemony for 80 years?
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  1068. He’s likely to be PM by the end of the week. It’s not particularly unreasonable to ask what he will do about a problem he will be responsible for.
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  1069. That’s probably why only some documents are being prosecuted. They are keeping stuff back to avoid double jeopardy
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  1070. Alexander’s worst enemy has always been himself. His actions (and inactions) gave the committee the evidence.
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  1071. Love to the family
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  1072.  @cynicalpenguin  Roma aren’t travellers, they are a specific ethnic group.
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  1073. He’s the head of state. Ultimately, all politicians have to make an oath (religious version) or attestation (secular version) to serve them. So yes, they are accountable for these things.
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  1074.  @garywebb1461 I grew up in Harlow and knew a bunch of guys like this. They occupied themselves with drugs and criminality generally.
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  1075.  @mermaidismyname  that’s the point of a trial. In the UK the Prosecutors measure the case against standards (points to prove and procedural details) to see if it’s fit to go to trial. It seems odd to to require judgement of peers twice, especially if one is heavily biased in favour of the prosecution and results in a kinda maybe guilty result.
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  1076. He found a quite place to start pleasing himself over other misfortune I assume.
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  1077. Because they are ignoring inflation. Inflation it’s the one metric that should be considered with MMT. If you get inflation, you should stop printing money. Edit: just to be clear, this is a MMT prediction if you create too much money.
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  1078. JD Vance and Honest Bob Jenrick look like the same man.
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  1079. More like the 1920s
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  1080. No he’s not. He’s an ideological proxy, not a paid stooge
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  1081.  @NeonVisual labour traditionally supported universal benefits?
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  1082. This is all very Old Testament level violence.
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  1083.  @slayerrocks2  I was thinking prison meals, but yours works too 😂
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  1084.  @petefl1818  it’s a troll I think. It’s made other comments that mick lynch wants a facist state. Odd opinion given the tories are acting like facists.
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  1085.  @the1beard  except it’s considered an essential infrastructure by all serious economists. It needs improvement, not decommissioning.
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  1086.  @the1beard  what are you talking about. It doesn’t need to cover costs. It’s used by business to make money, via the transport of goods and people. The money is made in the general economy. Why is it only the English (as it seems unique to here) it seem to insist everything pays for itself and never look at the big picture. No wonder our businesses were bought out and cut up.
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  1087.  @the1beard  no, because infrastructure is not like a house. It’s like the services provided to a house. Would you be willing to buy a house with no electricity, gas, roads, broadband, sewers, water? Of course not. Without adequate infrastructure, business will not remain or set up in the UK. This is a major gripe of businesses in the UK, not my words, his is from business. We lag behind the other European states as our infrastructure is still broadly Victorian, especially rail. The fact you want to throw more vehicles in the road suggest you don’t live in the south of England. It’s horrendous traffic congestion on the roads. You want to make it worse. Do you see? If you don’t, maybe you should do some research into the benefits of a good rail network. Japan, Germany, France are all good examples. Why are right wingers so poor at analogy?
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  1088.  @the1beard  yours is a cost of knowing the cost everything value of nothing argument. Do you have any research that backs up your assertions?
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  1089.  @the1beard  That’s an extremely one diamensional way of looking at it. Do you have any data to show the cost to the estimate cost to the economy of removing rail? I couldn’t find any data so it doesn’t seem like it’s even considered seriously enough even to consider.
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  1090. Except in clacton
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  1091.  @alfsmith4936  I think you meant ants not bots. Bots are supposed to have some AI behind them
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  1092. It could be argued that the idea is disrespectful when people claim this country is a meritocracy. She was the unelected head of state, she decided to die in post after not being able to fulfil the full role of the monarch for many years. She’s not just an ordinary private or public figure. Her son is now the unelected head of state, and is therefore a legitimate target of protest.
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  1093. You missed the fact he’s also a donor of the Tory party
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  1094. You are both as bad as each other. Secularist says what? Oh yeah. Stop disagreeing over sky fairies.
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  1095.  @Zakeria974 it’s not a belief, it the absence of a belief.
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  1096. I believe the comments have been directed at the new King (and his dubious brother). He is a perfectly legitimate political target on every day he is king.
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  1097.  @ToothbrushMan  yes, the phrase “not my king” was directed at the person that is king.
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  1098. You realise that, while it’s a funeral procession, it was also the first public engagement of the new King / head of state? The protests were targeted at him rather than the former queen. I’m not sure why you think it was the funeral, normal people won’t be attending that. It will be reserved for our “betters”.
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  1099.  @ToothbrushMan  unless it’s changing legislation for a favourable tax position.
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  1100. And Charles has repeatedly made political comments throughout his life.
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  1101.  @ToothbrushMan  them you are mistaken. The queen did get involved in politics regarding her tax position. It is a matter of public record. Repeating a false assertion doesn’t invalidate a fact.
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  1102.  @ToothbrushMan  amending government legislation is inherently being political. We obviously aren’t going to agree on this.
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  1103.  @ToothbrushMan  sorry, please research your opinions
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  1104. Also Charles has just put around 100 staff on notice during the funeral. I suppose this is acceptable too?
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  1105.  @ToothbrushMan  apparently during a head of states funeral is the proper forum to make loyal staff redundant. But not to protest?
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  1106.  @ToothbrushMan  sorry I used your terminology from your OP. You referred to the protests occurring during the funeral which obviously isn’t until Monday. Would funeral procession or national mourning period be a better terms? Obviously most, if not all the staff, where back at Clarence House. I’ve not seen it stated in the few media outlets that any staff accompanying him were affected. Silly me, but you are obfuscating, is it acceptable to make long serving staff, working for the royal family redundant during this period what ever it’s called? I mean, they can’t argue cost necessitated the swift decision to mothball Clarence House as Charles just inherited a massive tax free private fortune, and he was wealthy already. They could easily have deferred this discussion on Clarence House until after the funeral or the conclusion of the morning period.
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  1107. The one used in the UK EU elections was a very good one.
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  1108.  @Gautam81S  I have skimmed it. I was pointed to it by several accountants
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  1109.  @Gautam81S  its about vat hamonisation. The specific article it about exemptions of VAT. Not sure why you think it’s not relevant. Maybe you can provide a fuller answer than just “you are wrong”. It’s tends to lend credibility if you can. Thanks
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  1110.  @Gautam81S  “(i) the provision of children's or young people's education, school or university education, vocational training or retraining, including the supply of services and of goods closely related thereto, by bodies governed by public law having such as their aim or by other organisations recognised by the Member State concerned as having similar objects;” They are an example of the other recognised organisations as far as I have seen it explained.
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  1111. For some reason the HTML and the PDF give different references. Not sure why. This is from the HTML version.
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  1112.  @Gautam81S  the whole directive is about VAT. The article, 131 is about VAT exemptions.
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  1113.  @Gautam81S  the section i posted is the section about education and supplies associated with education. It really doesn’t sound like you understand what you are looking at. If you want to understand how a directive works, you need to read the introductory sections, then the full article relevant to the topic you are after. To reiterate, I extracted the specific section on education provision and supplies. The first few lines are about the general provision of education (ie teaching), the middle is about suppliers of educational materials and supplies, the last bit is about the applicability of the section. The applicability is fairly heavy legal jargon. As I said, i was pointed in this direction by a qualified accountant. It’s not my interpretation of the directive as tax and VAT is outside my normal field of regulatory expertise. So while I’m familiar with the overall format and use of directives, I’m not with this one. I do find it funny though that if there is a benefit of brexit. It will be one that affects only the muppets who promoted it in the media and government.
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  1114.  @WarrenPeaceOG  I’m not sure I like the idea of conflating hard sciences like physics and soft/social sciences.
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  1115.  @bobbercam7127  america is going to run out of friends at this rate.
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  1116. The 1980s happened. The current crop are the entrants from Thatchers Britain. We’re greed is king and the dunning Kruger effect is on cocaine.
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  1117. What, creating more of them? He’s been told to shut up by Trump after causing a mini civil war in MAGA. This is why he’s doing it.
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  1118. Ah LBC playing Nigel “problems but no solution” Farage again.
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  1119.  @Experts_Say  sorry bot, you seem to have malfunctioned. This has nothing to do with your comment.
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  1120.  @4faxache935  refugees, and most are granted asylum. Please do keep up.
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  1121. Political donations, mainly in the USA, but also here are the driver behind the scenes.
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  1122. As musk is part of the government now, any censorship on X seems like it could be a 2nd amendment issue.
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  1123.  @vaazig  it’s politics, like Labour don’t set traps, that’s just hypocrisy? They literally brought down Johnson with these style “traps”. Hoyle didn’t act with an appropriate degree of independence in the role. Hoyle admitted this after the fact. Why is this so hard to understand? Also, I think, the trap was one of Labours own making and from an SNP perspective, it was a positive side effect of the SNP position rather than the primary motive. There was long period of time Labour would have taken the same position (and no, I’m not just referring to Corbyns time). There was a bigger issue at stake about the impartial conduct of the speaker which was a constitutional issue. And before you say, Gaza is more important, no it’s not. Because a failure like this in our system could affect any and all future significant and contentious parliamentary debates and motions about other events of equal gravity the current alleged genocide.
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  1124. And over two million of those Brexit voters are now dead
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  1125.  @Iazzaboyce  yes, another failure of the UK government blamed on the EU. Pretty much like them all really.
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  1126.  @karensback the invaders are the idiots invading other communities and smashing them up. Fake plastic patriotism at its worst.
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  1127.  @linking-it  the DOJ is releasing the file, so you can read for yourself
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  1128.  @RichardFraser-y9t that’s sound like a perfect outcast though 😂
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  1129.  @englishstark6100  and yet Andrew Tate is one of the instigators of the misinformation. This isn’t about protection of women.
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  1130. That’s not at all what was said. The issue we have is we have declining birth rates, which inhibits economic productivity. Most of the right wing proponents of the 2 child cap rather confusingly also want large families (as they are religious zealots), they just don’t want higher taxes to support those families. Senior labour figures say they want to get rid of it, but it’s not clear if it will be in the manifesto at this time.
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  1131. It’s national now, the whole nation to corrupt 😂
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  1132. We are on a slippery slope if we don’t hold our politicians to account. I fail to see why this is a problem.
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  1133. The first caller that is useless. The second guy should have stuck to his guns. They are facists, removing rights, othering minority groups.
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  1134.  @terrysmith5168  I was using the term he used.
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  1135.  @terrysmith5168  it’s odd you immediately jump to me being xenophobic when I explicitly limited the insult directly to the caller in question. Would you have preferred I said he is as thick as mince?
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  1136.  @terrysmith5168  so now you know my exact mental state of what I was writing when I wrote it. And you identified a hidden subtext behind my words. Wow, you truly are a lord above men. Whilst this has been fun, I think you are a sandwich short of a picnic.
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  1137.  @Josh_Quillan  that would be awesome. He did the collab with Rosie Holt yesterday which was cool.
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  1138. This is a semantic statement, the UN treaties gave the right of self determination to peoples and areas if they were colonised.
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  1139. They aren’t either or tbf. 1930s germany was both.
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  1140. 😂 what a hot take. Trump is a patriot at the time he’s been indicted for the crime of espionage.
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  1141. Churchill was originally a liberal.
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  1142.  @evolassunglasses4673  the Tory’s here are pretty far right. Rees-Mogg is pretty much as far right. Libitarians rather than conservatives.
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  1143. Argh, don’t get me started on comas, or worse the semicolon....
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  1144. He’s been dealt a shit hand to play with. If he puts a toe wrong out right wing media will eat labour alive (see Milliband and Corbyn for details of the smears).
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  1145.  @Alan-cl2ix  I think it’s more practicality. Would need a clear majority for Labour to pursue rejoin, and they would probably want to be in government to control the narrative. Labour are overwhelmingly in favour of the EU going by the last conference
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  1146.  @annenunney9907  no, as a leader he was always going to be poor, not a media invention I’m afraid. He had been disloyal to every leader he served under (taking a lead of his mentor Tony Benn) due to his principles, therefore he could expect his MPs to do anything less.
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  1147. How can people still be voting tory? I just don’t understand….
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  1148. Trump stopped a a bipartisan deal on the boarder where the Dems accepted the harsher measures the republicans want. Trump doesn’t want to deal with the boarder. He wants to keep it a problem to campaign on.
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  1149. Did you not read what happened last time, his last administration prevented him doing the crazy things last time. This time he has the crazies on his team. The only hope is they are incompetent and crazy.
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  1150. In some parts it’s called a resistance 🤷‍♂️, it’s the subjective use of language for political ends.
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  1151. There were a lot of facts in the monologue, or do you think the delivery detracts from them?
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  1152.  @swordarmstudios6052 I don’t think you can describe USA as a success. The government shuts down on an annual basis.
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  1153.  @CounterSpice  who’s against peace? The problem this seems to be on terms the Ukrainians don’t want to accept.
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  1154.  @daveherbert6215  I completely agree with that, but I think that was a cold, unpleasant, political calculation rather than a matter of conscience, so she didn’t make the list.
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  1155. Why can’t we look in both places? Seems like both are worth causes to me.
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  1156. @GargamelSmeagleokay Putin
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  1157. You put this more succinctly than I could. I agree completely.
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  1158.  @realitywins9020  she said she disagreed with gay marriage and would have voted against it, she disagrees with trans rights and would have voted against it. Shes against having children out of marriage. She’s not an equal rights kind of person. Thats not governing for everyone.
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  1159.  @realitywins9020  she said she wants to repeal the trans rights bill. She also made it abundantly clear she’s willing to inflict her religious views on the general populace. She said she would have voted against the rights of others and only didn’t because it already passed. Her freedom to have her religion also means others have freedom from religion.
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  1160. She’s the PM I assume someone elected her
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  1161. We need some paxmans to break this nonsense.
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  1162. What does that even mean?
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  1163. You don’t even know they already do that? Jeez…..
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  1164.  @TheUAoB  it’s not everyone, in the comments, there’s an unusual high number of, honestly if this was CNN or NBC, I’d assume paid trolls. Compared to other videos I’ve watched here at any rate.
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  1165.  @pocolol8424  this channel is usually opinion pieces, same as any other media only usually less forthright in the tone. I value it as another POV I draw news from but they have clear agenda and bias, same as the rest.
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  1166.  @theylookjustlikeus4364  not afraid, I’m curious. I appreciate the time you have taken to respond. I like to understand motivations and most of the negative comments just say “I don’t like it” but don’t properly explain why. They don’t support the dislike with facts making it difficult to discern motivations, or that it is a legitimate comment.
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  1167. Freedom for me, but not for thee…
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  1168.  @davidalderson7761  if that’s who the country want, currently we could get another Nazi sympathiser without any say in it. It was only the fact Edward married a divorcee that prevented it. Also, who says we need a presidential system? Why not have a head of state like Ireland, mainly ceremonial with a couple of constitutional safeguards. Take the proroguing of Parliament, an elected head of state could have told them no, it’s unconstitutional.
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  1169. Have you seen the manifesto? Could you let me know what’s in it?
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  1170.  @kindmulberry7196  I do read manifestos, have been since the late 1980s. They don’t tell you what they will do, but they usually indicate a direction of travel.
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  1171.  @BarelloSmith  it was a group effort, the western front made troops and material be deployed in greater numbers to the west, hell the partizans of all occupied countries tied up tens of thousands of troops too (oddly people always forget this contribution). Also, the key contribution of the west was to limit land taken from allies by the Russians. Stalin wanted all he could take.
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  1172.  @topogigio7031  D&D is ruined because of corporate greed and incompetence. It has zero to do with Zoomers.
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  1173. A London project no one but the governments and the contractors feeding at the public purse want.
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  1174. I want shot of the Tory’s I want shot brexit. It’s a political position and no one has a right to stop me. It’s about personal freedoms and rights. Do you support these freedoms?
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  1175. Finland had a solution, which is why they have been top or second on the education lists for decades. If everyone goes to a state school, the elites need to fund them properly.
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  1176.  @ozzie2612  unfortunately, Labour just sit on their arses and do nothing to correct the inequalities in the voting system.
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  1177. Musk has been proven to be censoring content and giving right wing messaging preferential sorting using the algorithm.
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  1178. No, vote reform and get the same. They are just more bigoted Tories.
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  1179. And they are lecturing Europeans on free speech 😂
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  1180. In the 1930’s and 1950s to 80s there were massive public house building programmes. So I think you are wrong. There is a lack of Will in government on both sides of the house, but the Tories are currently in power.
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  1181.  @LeafHuntress  yes, but I expect they didn’t because then it would reflect badly on Khan as the met did nothing without massive public pressure
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  1182.  @LeafHuntress  the issue is the very right wing media will sell it as a mayoral issue, not a Home Secretary issue. Look how they constantly protect her in spite of her being utterly useless. I do think the green question was also off topic. It was just a way of scoring political points rather than holding Khan to account. I mean, politically it’s good mileage under the rather ridiculous system we have assuming the biased media report on it. The problem is the assembly really needs to hold the mayor to account, and let’s not forget Boris managed to be mayor. Maybe this would have been a better line of questioning? Bring up Boris as mayor and ask khan questions from this tack? In a previous life was a police constable and trained in Coventry a long time ago and was in a county service. Most of the rather excellent Police Training centres were closed sadly, which may be an indicator how standards seem to have dropped now. In my honest opinion, I agree that the met is too big, smaller county constabulary work better when limited to about 2-3000 officers. It’s too anonymous in the Met (whom I worked with as we were transitioning boundaries at the time). In a smaller force you won’t know everyone, but someone you know will. Bad actors are easier to find out about. The city of london police aren’t too bad to be honest, though they should really be a specialist financial crime unit given the area. I don’t think they are a bad service inherently, though they are a much more attractive force with better financial compensation so tend to cream off the top of other services.
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  1183. @left_blank currently the model is scam the customer for all they are worth, and concentrate wealth in the tiny minority at the top. How is that good for capitalism? It relies on the free movement of capital through the system, and this doesn’t happen. As a system maintained in. Isolation, it’s as broken as the examples of communism that have been tried.
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  1184.  @tonyves  as a lefty (which you seem to see as an insult), I don’t think you can argue the queen was either misogynistic or not. She doesn’t seem to have ever made a public statement on the issue. I doubt the racist part too. I haven’t seen evidence of this. However she was certainly very classist, who believed in the social order, and the position of high and low born people. Therefore very much a bigot. The use of the other two terms maybe be misidentified as this.
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  1185.  @Matt-vq8fg  the left want to bash Labour, and the right want to bash Labour 🤷‍♂️. Reality be damned. I personally think that farming should just pay inheritance tax at the same rate as everyone else. The fact that some farm businesses may struggle to pay back the inheritance tax is another issue about profitability that desperately needs to be addressed. But this is due to lost subsidies and consolidated bargaining by supermarkets, not this policy.
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  1186. You don’t seem to get the rioters are the unpatriotic bad guys.
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  1187.  @del_boy_trotter  so they are rebellious, and at the same time being pro status quo? Logic is not your strong point.
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  1188.  @del_boy_trotter  I refer to the original comment you seem to support. Obviously you struggle with basic comprehension so need to spell it out.
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  1189.  @del_boy_trotter  ah bless the little angry insecure guy can’t understand basic logic problems. That’s the problem with people like you. You think the world easily simplified and anyone who doesn’t agree with you is wrong. Have a great life, but I expect your are too hate filled too.
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  1190. Doesn’t have a problem with the rioters. he wants strong authoritarian leader. Sounds like a far right kn@b to me.
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  1191. He’s part of a government doing terrible things like removing hard won rights. They are also talking about removing our human rights and employment rights frame work. No other reason is required to dislike him. He’s also a dishonest as a £9 note. Seriously, he was caught in the act setting up a random constituency door stop. There was a time, when an MP would have resigned for that.
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  1192. A democracy relies on an engaged, informed electorate. It’s amazing even he got elected given the state of US media. Most are just propaganda channels.
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  1193.  @DaniStarEngland  breach of the (kings) peace from the common law that’s not used in England and Wales as it was superseded by statutory instruments. The human rights act is supposed to protect non violent political expression from the government, hence the Tories want it gone, and covers the whole UK. It was introduced after a number of cases where the bill of rights was shown to be inadequate.
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  1194.  @lioneljaftha3473  what has this to do with Brexit? Btw, these were nonviolent protests, that’s why people are angry.
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  1195.  @securitydesk6309  the policy of removing rights to protest is anti democratic
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  1196. I mean, for someone who isn’t racist, he sure hangs around with a lot of racist white Christian Nationalists.
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  1197. She authoritarian who doesn’t feel she should be held to account by Parliament. She rarely turns up.
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  1198. Nice ideas, wrong figure head. Far too easy to demonise and didn’t seem to like talking to anyone but team Corbyn. Two wasted elections. It should have been John McDonald, there’s a fighter!!
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  1199.  @dragonfly6908  this information is usually reliable it turns out, even if journalistic standards have fallen in recent times. It’s generally seems as a way of MPs diverting a PM from a course. I mean, it’s been as like this since at least Thatcher and probably longer, which is when I started following politics. You have reservations? Could you tell me how investigative journalism will work without “sources” of information?
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  1200. Gary is pretty representative of a certain minority group of people in Harlow. Most are people there are decent people trying their best. At one point it was the town of the future, with major corporations head quartered their like BP, Longmans, or had major employment in skilled work like Standards, United Glass, GSK, all long gone now.
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  1201. Currently, the person trying to put Trump in jail, seems to be Trump….
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  1202. Ken Clarke Fixed the economy after the Thatcher years and built the foundation for that New Labour built on.
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  1203. The best parts of Britain are the secular values.
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  1204. @Sonification so who then? Because the choice is rather binary at the moment for a national perspective.
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  1205. @Sonification you haven’t answered my question. Who then? Which government will sort this out? The Welsh assembly can’t as it doesn’t have the power too.
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  1206. Parties chose the candidates already. The German system is good. You have an AV chosen local representative, then the rest of the house is made up from PR lists. Also, the party name and policies are far more important than the person you are electing. Look at the Tory Geoffrey Cox, he barely spends anytime in his constituency and still got returned. IDS and Jeremy Hunt are good local MPs who have done terrible things to the country, looking at the bigger picture rather than the “good for a Tory” local issues may actually be better for our democracy.
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  1207. Also, I don’t want to have to compromise my vote by taking a second choice. I should get representation from my first choice if they achieve a high enough vote share nationally. This is just tactical voting by another name.
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  1208.  @simonjohn9525  it assumes a preference. If you don’t have a preference for other parties, then it’s a silly system.
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  1209. And don’t mention the billions the Trumps got from Saudi Arabia 🤷‍♂️
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  1210. Why is western civilisation under fire? Secularism is generally now considered a western ideal (though it was also a popular concept in the pre-crusade Arabic world) As it’s always been generally accepted this was from ancient greek and has nothing to do with Christianity. It’s an ideal mainly under threat from religions.
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  1211. Hi Richard, as a long term Liberal Democrat (other than the Clegg years), I find myself gaming the system and voting Labour as the only likely “left” wing choice. Liberals got far fewer votes this time as there was a lot of tactical voting. I’m sure some greens and Labour supports also did this, though from the results, it seems like greens did this less. I agree that reform are a loathsome party but they need representation. I expect if they did that we would see more alliances against them, even with centre right parties. We need true PR. I really like the German system with a local representative chosen via a plurality, then regional lists system using PR. Do you have a preference of system?
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  1212. Russia never asked to join the EU or NATO. Poland quite rightly was extremely worried about Russia and has been proved correct. This is a reasonably sounding disinformation post.
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  1213.  @michealnah4194  just curious where you are getting your news, because take in news from a lot of places and I’ve not seen any analysis like that. Thanks in advance.
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  1214.  @intello8953  it’s been discussed within biographies and history books, but definitely not in the Mainstream Media where everything is simplified to ww2. He is a walking contradiction. Cynically Cruel (authorising chemical weapons on civilian populations ), but also compassionate (one of the founders of the welfare state). I for one would like a proper debate. I’m not adverse to removing statues, but I’d prefer better understanding of who he was before we decide. And no, I’m not singling out Churchill, the same applies to all public figures.
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  1215.  @noelpucarua2843  the first bit you seem to blame Churchill for a massed Web of geopolitical negotiations that were broadly agreed by all “major” powers, and included the involvement of the other governments. He carries a share of the blame, but so do many many others. For the rest, completely I agree. He was a person who did bad and good.
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  1216.  @noelpucarua2843  no worries, a simple misunderstanding
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  1217.  @AnotherblackmanOG he’s pretty ambivalent about deaths in the US from many easily preventable reasons.
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  1218.  @rjkmusicmedia  the flights are a massive waste of time effort and money. Fix the processing times and deport back to country of origin. You know, like we did before this bunch of idiots smashed everything.
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  1219. You clearly haven’t seen what happens when a train hits another train. I have. Your envy politics are pathetic
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  1220.  @markwelch3564  the greens are a bit too dogmatically anti nuclear to get too popular. Look at the mess Germany made when they shut all their plants. I worry because if you are anti science on one issue, it tends to make you anti science on all.
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  1221.  @mark-nm4tc it was the fan, not the shape of the hole.
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  1222. A lot of economists do under stand and talk about this 🤷‍♂️. There are a bunch of books on the topic. Maybe check out Mark Blyth? He’s been warning of this for nearly two decades.
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  1223.  @websitemartian  you clearly haven’t studied any history whatsoever…
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  1224.  @Ironblood4564  who triggered article 5 and got nato to help in its wars? Oh yeah, the USA.
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  1225.  @billB101  I did read it
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  1226.  @billB101  there manifesto was meaningless devoid of detail. It was light on anything to suggest direction of travel.
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  1227.  @OneAndOnlyMe  that’s an objective not a vision. They are light on how to do it. Currently they just seem to be clinging to the policies of the previous 14 years.
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  1228.  @OneAndOnlyMe  that’s an economic plan, not a vision, and its no different to any other economic plan from government since the coalition.
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  1229. She’s useless like the rest of the government and needs to give us a GE.
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  1230. This makes no sense. You realise the Ukrainians don’t want to be aligned with Russia?
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  1231. You guys down under and us in he UK are proper ducked if the US gets worse.
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  1232. The guy with the kid will vote for the Lib Dem’s who are on this election a more left wing party to Labour.
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  1233. Trump referred to himself as that. Odd move.
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  1234. A nonce is a person who improperly plays with children.
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  1235.  @Jamiiemac no, that’s not it.
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  1236. America always forcefully exports its culture, in the UK we have Farage and the Tories. They will start meddling in Canada. My hope is trumps administration is as an incompetent as last time. It’s really our only hope.
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  1237.  @ronredron  probably the 159 likes it has is reason enough. People only comment if they disagree. Saying the Tories are down and need to be out is hardly controversial.
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  1238.  @chrisstone7997  your tinfoil hat is wrapped a bit tight, it appears to be cutting off blood to your brain.
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  1239.  @wimschmied3800  i was intentionally talking about a very specific movement that these idiots relate to and identify with. That Party and Germany are not synonymous. Also, are wrong about the books they burnt. The books destroyed was anything about politics, literature, or science the 1930s party didn’t like and found incompatible with their ideology. They burnt books penned by Einstein for example. It’s an odd defence of the violence to be honest.
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  1240.  @andrewgocken517  thanks the response I’ll have a read around and investigate 👍
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  1241.  @andrewgocken517  I’m not the one trolling. Good luck in your future endeavours 👍 hopefully you find the satisfaction that’s has eluded you.
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  1242. That’s not what freedom of speech means. You should be able to say anything (except incitement of crime) at any time without fear of oppression by the government. It’s got nothing to do with how it makes someone else feel. You are maybe thinking more about how to pursued people? I agree, your approach can work better in this respect.
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  1243. And a lot of the people supporting him are accelerationalist, they are trying to hasten changes to bring on the next form of society. Most of them have luxury doomsday bunkers to watch the end from.
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  1244.  @Iazzaboyce  what’s that got to do with Trumpy Dumpy?
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  1245. There’s a reason he met with Steve Bannon, him and Nadine Dorries are the UK MAGA cult in search of a theocracy
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  1246.  @OneTrueScotsman  in Scotland they may not have a choice, the talent all seem to be in the SNP….
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  1247.  @nicksimmons7234  no he didn’t, it creates an illusion that all ideas are equal. Look at Brexit, Nearly every single economist said it was terrible idea, so it was only Patrick Milford who would defend it. It elevated his argument to be of an equally valid position even though he was crazy. As I said before, balance only works when there is equally of ideas.
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  1248. @ oh I get what you mean and agree, though really I’d call that objective reporting.
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  1249. You don’t seem to understand how a democratic vote works. They are superseded by the next democratic vote.
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  1250.  @WaqManGaming  the example was using a clear context of threat of violence where the use of Allah Hu Akbar was not the warning sign, it was incidental. Or at least that was my reading of it.
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  1251. Cool story bro
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  1252.  @iainclark4835  and? They are completely different lines of work. Most bank employees are in call centres or branch’s and a clerical workers or lower skilled IT infrastructure professionals. I mean, did you actually have a point?
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  1253.  @oldishandwoke-ish1181  they clearly don’t, because they keep voting for the people screwing them over the most.
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  1254. Rock bottom? I’m sure he will go a lot lower than this. It seems to be his one skill.
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  1255. It seems to be a slap lawsuit. I.E. a lawsuit to discourage the act in question. It’s aim is to deter other people from making similar statements on the basis that fighting the lawsuit is expensive. Note. This is not legal advice 😅
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  1256. Why is it petty? The king speech was implementing the Labour manifesto, not the SNP one. The Labour leadership had been signalling it for months they would remove the universal credit limit as soon as the books are balanced, with more and more senior members indicating it needs to go. These twats may have derailed it for “ideological purity”. I’m so angry about this.
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  1257. They have tried, the Us refuses to leave.
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  1258.  @johnnycheese4532  nice straw man you built, are you gonna burn that too? BLM were mostly peaceful, when there was violence it was dealt with and people were prosecuted. The police response was far more heavy happened and they got charged by horses. Violence is never acceptable.
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  1259. They have a massively disproportionate voice with respect to our democracy. Most of the dubious right wing movements are being funded opaquely by billionaires.
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  1260. 😂 you melt 😂 Trump doesn’t know the truth, being a spoilt little rich boy he never was confronted with the truth, and unfortunately he avoided consequences.
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  1261. That got the same intellectual rigor as saying the rich shouldn’t pay. All should pay their fair share.
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  1262. @ yes. It’s essential to maintaining a functioning society. Anymore child like questions?
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  1263.  @SkunkHollowRoseGardens  he was fired because the current mob in charge of the US don’t like objective reality.
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  1264.  @LawrieAndCo  that’s was a short and pointless statement. Supply and demand would still matter, as would preference and need.
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  1265. Not as bad as what’s going on in the US…
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  1266. @ I mean, the shredding of the checks and balances in the US is identical to what Happened in Russia and Hungary, and very similar to other places that took constitutional republics to build authoritarian regimes. Trump declaring himself a king and the how Musk sh!tshow which seems to have zero legal basis (as is being found in the courts. Honestly the US is looking like the worst banana republic around. But I guess billionaires will get richer. Because they are the only group it seems that will do well. 🤷‍♂️
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  1267. People always band together in tribes. It’s humans great evolutionary advantage, so stopping formal alliances will just create informal opaque ones.
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  1268. Speed up Chris’s voices sounds like Ben Shapiro, though obviously not the words.
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  1269. He’s been in before and knows the format. This was a choice.
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  1270. I think they are more interested in emulating Saudi Arabia.
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  1271. Very succinct explanation 👍
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  1272. Surely it just tells you we elected the wrong people?
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  1273. “Where are our transits built” - it’s an American car company you MUPPET
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  1274. Worse, he thinks he is a genius and a great negotiator. This is a man who bankrupted casinos…
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  1275. Tbf they prefer minors😊
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  1276. Do you take current polling into consideration? Because the majority effing hate Brexit these days.
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  1277. Don’t feel sorry, they have for the last four years done exactly what the moderate republicans have done. Gone along with it all. Parroting lines they are revolted with for power. They are shameless and not worth your pity.
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  1278.  @adamflint2060  one of the guys protesting did appear to be assaulted in sight of the constable that arrested him. It doesn’t mean they saw what happened based on line of sight, but it does appear off at a first glance.
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  1279. Corbyn was always an electoral disaster in the making. Labour needed a better leader, not a cult leader. Sadly we got Corbyn then Starmer. I rate neither.
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  1280. Having a big dong?
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  1281.  @Tad1945 sure buddy, just like the riots would not happen if they had just said the murderer wasn’t and immigrant/ Muslim. They didn’t stop when it was known did it. So would the riots have been okay if it had been an immigrant / Muslim?
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  1282. Poor little love, why couldn’t someone responsible tell him what he should have done and what a party looked like. He was only the PM. Sorry Alexander Johnson, I don’t believe a word of it.
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  1283. JK Rowling, eff off back to Narnia
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  1284.  @twisteddancer7773  spiteful bigoted hateful billionaire trying to influence policy to be more spiteful and hateful.
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  1285. Nice to see someone other than Tory party donors doing a bit of fraud. Well, I assume they aren’t donors…
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  1286.  @darrennandrewfitness2836  you are wrong about the Tories having a majority. They are the largest group, but they do not have a majority in the sense it’s commonly used in the commons (a controlling majority). This means they just have a plurality as the OP said. The largest three groupings are (largest first): Tory, Cross bencher, Labour.
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  1287.  @1inchPunchBowl exactly, he’s supposed to act impartially and clearly didn’t.
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  1288.  @mogznwaz  you expect us to believe that? The whole point of Brexit was getting shot of the freedom of movements foreigners who were predominantly White European.
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  1289.  @winniepooh187 made up speculation? So speculation then….nice way to understand what words mean.
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  1290.  @jerryorange6983 eh? Will of the people? Is this a one time event like Germany 1933, or can the will of the people change over time like in our parliamentary democracy?
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  1291. Explain why far right parties are on the rise across Europe then?
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  1292.  @andybrice2711 I expect the thing they are talking about is entirely made up.
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  1293.  @EmeraldVindicator7  honestly that’s the police’s job. But considering the rumour mill right now, I don’t trust anything spouted on social media as there’s a good chance it’s at best rubbish, or at worst political disinformation. Musky husky was sharing a completely false news paper front page. It’s impossible to trust randoms.
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  1294.  @fredo1070  also, starmer hasn’t got a power of arrest, the police are operationally independent. They do the arresting. Government just sets priority and creates laws to be enforced.
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  1295.  @corryjookit7818  he guided the guy to stay focused on the question. That’s the point of the show. You are supposed to answer the question posed by JOB and convince him of your position. Jumping around the houses doesn’t help.
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  1296.  @stuartparker6838  yes, they are crown servants. So they now work for the king.
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  1297. All praise the olive loaf 🍞 😅
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  1298. It’s the EUs fault apparently 🥱 He’s a moron.
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  1299. Caller number two seems a bit mentally vacant.
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  1300. In what way, what was incorrect?
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  1301. The tax should be owed as tax on the person receiving the inheritance not the estate. And it should be charged as income or capital gains at the same rate as income tax.
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  1302. She’s got lower popularity than he does.
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  1303.  @phillawrence6413  as an interested outsider I have to say I completely agree. The political system in the US is not fit for purpose.
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  1304. A party not run by a disaster capitalist?
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  1305.  @davidchristie6003 banger of a response ❤
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  1306. Wishful thinking Andrew.
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  1307.  @georgedaniel1189  I have a few challenges with support for the greens tbh. Their stance on nuclear power is anti science and based on fear mongering in the 1960s. It makes no sense espically given the volumes produced, the ability to recycle cutting the radioactive phase to 200 years, and safe long term storage being availble. It’s odd because it’s less environmentally damaging than hydro, solar or wind that destroy local habitats. There attitude to nuclear weapons is naive, I think the Lib Dem’s idea to push for multinational disarmament is more sensible (as it seems to be off the table currently globally). And finally, having MPs vote on their conscience is all very well and good, but I’m not sure who this would work in a larger party. When it was Caroline, it was easy to be consistent. With a larger group it could easily become more fracturous, and difficult to govern.
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  1308.  @williamholden9705  it’s the first past the post system. To think otherwise is just naive.
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  1309.  @georgedaniel1189  I would take the greens “strong” vote with a pinch of salt as the vote share of the LibDems was significantly down, mostly due to tactical voting. Greens were also sharing a bunch of disinformation about being the tactical vote in at least one area where they were no where close when considering total votes cast. Edit: but Labour need to be careful, as next election they may find they need coalition partners from the left.
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  1310.  @FarObserver  boomers (and foreign investment buyers) buy up houses thus forcing up the cost in the market and creating inflated demand.
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  1311.  @L.F.P truth seekers are quacks like flat earthers. The term has been co-opted by people trying to create their own version of the truth.
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  1312.  @verystripeyzebra  the state religion is the church, that’s one thing. The government, police, courts, nhs, army, etc are secular.
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  1313. No, it’s politically centred position between the left and right. So a balance between capitalism and socialism.
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  1314.  @777kingkenny  how would you know? It’s an CPS decision and it’s likely a decision delayed by the riots.
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  1315. Do you want the man or the policies? If it’s the man, then that’s a bit cult like…
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  1316.  @Hi-fd4cw no, a character from Yes Minister
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  1317. I thought Presidents can only pardon Federal Crimes? So the NY crimes would stand if convicted.
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  1318. Political ideology left are generally less violent.
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  1319. Maybe you should ask him to answer the question? Assuming he ever sees the plebs in the consistency.
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  1320. The SNP motion went far further than the Labour Motion. There were no conditions applied in their motion. There were conditions attached on the Labour motion. The SNP Leader has Palestinian family in Gaza, you are making it political, not the SNP. There motion should have been debated. There was clear water between them and the Tory and Labour motion. There was politics, as the different parties disagreed with how far the motion should go. If you want to talk about unity, why didn’t Labour vote for the SNP one.
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  1321. Trump a literal billionaire 🤷‍♂️
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  1322.  @abhishekpandey3244 thanos was honourable in his own way. He never lied.
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  1323.  @davetdowell  because the larger trade partner sets the terms of trade. Again this was known and stated up front, prior to the referendum.
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  1324.  @Neil-qg9cw  freedom of association is in the human rights act (until the Tories bin it).
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  1325. Note to old pork markets, The boarded up shops was because of boom bust, and trickle down economics under successive Tory government’s. You learnt nothing in your youth.
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  1326. Money
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  1327. He said he’s sorry, not the government is sorry.
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  1328. I guess that’s something
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  1329. @ except that’s utterly not true. The money is created from thin air (MMT) and reinvested into the American arms industry. Bidens managed to keep inflation low and reduce the deficit, all the while while spending on the IRA and supporting Ukraine.
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  1330.  @emmethone2852 that’s two separate problems though.
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  1331. Why are religious leaders of any stripe considered moral? The books they promote are pretty flipping horrific when reviewed against modern secular values.
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  1332.  @lewis123417  who’s ignoring them? Labour have a plan but it can’t be implemented in four weeks buddy. That’s an argument that’s based on smoke and mirrors. The other parties lost, they don’t get to implement policy under our system.
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  1333. Is this whole conversation is being used for click bait by the MSM? It feels like that’s the only reason it’s being had now
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  1334. Murdoch hates starmer. I don’t think starmer owes him anything.
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  1335. Sounds a lot more like opinion than fact. Could you provide some kind of sourcing for these assertions?
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  1336.  @steveharrison76  how do you know the spare capacity of private hospitals? I’m guessing Labour maybe spoke to the private healthcare sector first, because that would be an easy tory attack line otherwise. Not all private healthcare professionals are NHS staff, how do you know they will not sleep? Currently that’s the issue in some parts of the NHS. There needs to be a quick solution to mitigate capacity and pressure on the NHS. Like it or not, this will be part of any solution. The other option is people living in pain and dying for the sake of ideological purity. If this is your preferred option, then there is really no helping you. How do you know the funding will come from existing NHS budgets, and not the windfall taxes on energy companies, public schooling tax, or some other wealth tax? In short, your assertion are opinions. Currently Streeting (who I loathe) has said they will use the Private Sector to back up the NHS, I want to know the fleshed out long term details before making an informed judgement. Is this a permanent plan? Or is there an aim to reform and rebuild the NHS? This is a question I haven’t heard answered yet as they focus on short term, and it’s presented as a short term plan.
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  1337.  @steveharrison76 . I’m not trolling you, I have a slight doubt now as to whether you are the serious commentator I thought you were if you are resorting to that accusation. I’ll persist in good faith however. I’m asking you to provide evidence that supports your initial assertion. I reread my comment and it seems pretty clear rebuttal of your initial points. Which parts didn’t you get? The question marks signify where I’m asking a question. I did not say or imply that it would be cost neutral cost. The fact Labour are talking about using the private sector to support existing healthcare means it’s going to cost more. You appear to be assuming the cost is coming out of existing budgets, and this isn’t currently clear. You also don’t seem to understand that, at this point, the NHS is basically privatised anyway. It is not clear if Labour are going to change this as they haven’t commented on it either way. Currently the use of additional private capacity is being pitched as a time limited plan to get waiting lists down. You don’t seem to be presenting any kind of plan to deal with the issue. What are the alternatives? Recruiting and training more staff, and building more facilities will take time and that means people will die and/or live in pain. I’m not seeing any alternative to Streeting’s plan, maybe you can share yours? To reiterate, you are making three of unsourced assertions in your initial comment that I believe are wrong either partially or completely. I’ve provided my thought as to why, and I’m asking you to provide sources and convince me of the validity of your position. I hope this helps.
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  1338. Just to make it easy for you, how do you know that a private hospital isn’t profitable while running at under capacity? You could still need the same amount if staff if you are running under capacity. If you have a ward that needs one nurse irrespective of if 1 or 20 beds are filled. You are also assuming that companies don’t plan for projected grown. In short, you have overly simplified things to support your narrative.
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  1339.  @strangeworldmasterjack143  for the undecided independent voters buddy. I’m in the UK and I can see the democrats haven’t given a stuff about the independent voters concerns over the last four years. The concern about his age is according to a lot of polls, a vote loser. These people won’t necessarily vote trump, but they may stay at home or vote independent. Honestly“the measuring stick should be equal” is the argument of a child. We know trump can do anything and not bleed the support he got in 2020. The fights for independent votes in battleground states. So stop thinking about what’s going to convince you to vote democrat, as you are clearly all in, and think what needs to be done to get those other important voters to vote democrat.
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  1340.  @DragonNinja4680  he called Zelenskyy, Putin, and said he’s VP was Trump at the UN celebrations, 🤷‍♂️. So forgive me if I disagree. He’s a confused old man that’s putting western democracy at risk for what seems to be an ego trip.
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  1341.  @donaldwebb  please tell me what I’m clueless at? Thanks in advance.
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  1342.  @donaldwebb  it was more about foreigners controlling our laws than immigrants, when the actual issue would be someone of a different political perspective being a more key reason. So wrong on that count.
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  1343.  @TTFMjock  possibly not, but saying the country is full is a fairly big tell, as we have a declining birth rate and clearly can’t maintain the population to maintain the economy. Saying I don’t want foreigners having a say over “our” laws is a fairly big tell. I never said it’s a conscience or malicious bias either.
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  1344.  @TTFMjock  please it explain it then? Usually I’ve found the sovereignty example used by brexiteers was about immigration controls, or to a lesser extent removing trade barriers (which counter intuitively means actually erecting trade barriers as we have seen post Brexit).
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  1345.  @wasdwasdedsf  got any examples?
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  1346.  @wasdwasdedsf  we have far more immigration now we have left. Try again.
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  1347.  @wasdwasdedsf  we do have an impact over Japanese laws. Every treaty and agreement we have with them and they have with us does this. Hell, even getting the Olympics or the FIFA World Cup means adopting a legal frame work to make it compatible. Please try again
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  1348.  @Patriotische-Aktion  I didn’t realise the EU was making people have foreigners sleep in their house 😂🤣😂🤣
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  1349.  @Patriotische-Aktion  no, your comment is not areal thing. Oh, and Brexit made immigration “worse”.
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  1350.  @Patriotische-Aktion  at no point during the entire membership of the EU was there a proposal to allow random people to sleep in anyones house. You have created one hell of a straw-man to argue against.
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  1351.  @LittleLoz you spelt bigot wrong 😅
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  1352.  @bobrayner1093  I’m fully aware of the rather odd position of the RMT and it’s roots. It’s pretty clear the RMT did not understand EU as it was, or indeed as it had been, and never really bothered to try. It is entirely possible to make private companies public within the EU. Issue is political will and desire in Westminster. However, my point is he voted for a right wing Brexit. His left wing variant was never on offer. The extreme elements of the right wanted some form of Brexit since at least the 1980s. Certainly It became extremely apparent by the mid 1990s (Maastricht) that the far right of the Tory party were gunning for Brexit with there media machine. Initially this was via creation of UKIP, then by Trojan horse insertion into the Conservative party itself. The fact the referendum happened at the behest of Tory back Benchers really should have been a warning sign. The left had long abandoned that position. Because the RMT are a very Change resistant organisation, I do somewhat doubt the anti modernisation position they have taken is entirely with merit. Reliability engineering is a very good tool for predictive maintenance and he discounts out of hand. I find this peculiar as it’s entirely risk and performance based. He’s been clear it’s the process, not the output he doesn’t like. My personal view is there should Be a cross party select committee look at this with representatives from the Train Operators, RMT and independent expert review and validation of the proposals. Having been involved in the aftermath of a train crash, it’s not something I want to see repeated. But be under no illusions I support the RMT members right to strike.
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  1353. Quite right, form the Cambridge dictionary it’s either, A leader who has complete power in a country and has not been elected by the people Or a person who gives orders and behaves as if they have complete power: The second fits trump as he’s claiming power not given to the office of president.
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  1354. Actually said he didn’t agree with freedom of speech
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  1355.  @craigmclaren3241  how? The oil is made of 🦕
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  1356. Your better apparently
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  1357. How comes JOB understood why they issued a “corpse”, maybe you should listen to his answer?
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  1358. @ James O’Brian, hope that helps.
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  1359.  @des_smith7658  what a big strong man?
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  1360. The AfD are a geographically localised party. They did well in east Germany, and terribly in West Germany. The 80% seem dead set against the AfD.
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  1361. Hi Richard, I saw Thorsten Bell get a ministers brief this week. Foreshadowing maybe? Given his work both under the last government and the resolution foundation, he seems a creditable option for a plan B. Albeit with a neoliberal head on the shoulders.
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  1362. ⁠ @AutoTrawler this is an intellectually bankrupt response. Try engaging with the comment which coherent. I mean, your grammar was terrible too, and god knows why you have a “he’s” in the middle of your sentence.
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  1363. The p p tape doesn’t come out maybe?
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  1364.  @danmayberry1185  fair enough, if you don’t respect freedom of expression you should. Just say so.
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  1365.  @claretblue2509  There is no excuse for the riots. None. The only people to blame are each and every rioter and those who promote it.
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  1366.  @redlightmax  reform is basically the tea party movement that co-opted the Republican Party. Given how many of the conservatives likely to survive are already making overtures to bring Farage in, I don’t think seeing the conservatives going that way is unlikely. Only 20 left with the consciences intact when Johnson was in charge. The ones that remain are cowards with zero fight. They will do anything for power.
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  1367. In what way is James wrong in this call?
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  1368. Provided you don’t hold bits of card or say anything yes
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  1369.  @mattcameron9349 Obama made a statement of fact on the US Government’s position. A US Head of State stating government policy when asked really should be the normal state of affairs. Musk is not in the same position and actively is working against our nation as a private citizen.
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  1370.  @lestrem11  the Tories did yes. But they are gone now.
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  1371.  @thepagecollective  the Davey spelling was rejected by the scientific community as it did not match naming conventions of the day. The expection was the word was derived from the Latin, but Davey used the English. So yes, he was wrong to call it that. Not sure what Websters have to do with it, those kinds of lay person dictionary aren’t involved in the naming of Scientific Discoveries.
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  1372. Trump won’t even return his calls now 😂
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  1373. They are going for moderate Tories who aren’t reform voters, but aren’t particularly liberal.
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  1374. Anyone remember Chris Evans and Billy Piper? That was weird at the time.
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  1375. As an outsider looking in, I agree with that assessment. Good luck 🤞
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  1376. Silent about what, they were talking about illegal immigration every day under the Tories. They are complicit in this.
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  1377. Don’t worry, I’m sure your mum does.
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  1378. Kate is the problem, not doctors
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  1379. Why? You into BDSM?
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  1380.  @Greengoblin420-69  Yes, britain was involved in the slave trade like all other nations, but for Britain it was a fairly short period of time. You do realise it’s only due to the Brits that slavery was abolished? Due mainly to the fact William the Conqueror outlawed the practice and it stayed illegal in England ever since. Britain literally had the Royal Navy going around freeing slaves and blockading countries who didn’t stop the practice.
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  1381. Yeah, it’s definitely a good part of the system, as is being able to recover legal fees which Devon has said in the past he thinks is a good system. Odd a lot of the unrelatedly comments here. Lots of whataboutisum.
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  1382.  @SGrahamArt  unfortunately the the Scots don’t have the constitutional power to do it. Similar to the Catalonia region of Spain. Not saying it’s right, but that’s the current situation. You could win every seat in Scotland, but wouldn’t have the numbers to change a UK law.
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  1383.  @davidtracey5471  the legislature is the UK, you point is moot
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  1384.  @martinmcdonald4207  the Swiss cancelled a referendum for the same point, though I think a rerun would likely have been pretty similar. Not seeing many people I know change there minds yet.
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  1385.  @jayc342009  tell me what remain said that hasn’t come true? I guess WW3? But we are as close as we have been since the 80s. Not directly part of the calculation, but it was a project supported by Russia as it weakened there adversaries
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  1386. Was he right to say the US should invade? Deflection maybe?
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  1387. That’s pretty much the opposite of reality. Provided it’s a honest proposal I think France would support it. Spain and some of the Eastern Europeans would be the ones blocking it.
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  1388.  @lasttempoinparis  don’t agree, they are more pragmatic than that.
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  1389. The financial crisis was 12 years ago, you screwed everything in that time.
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  1390. I like the more positive approach Richard. You are more likely to get traction with the people who count by encouragement than censure. 🥕 🦯 🫏 🌹
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  1391. The only red tape that needs removing is the ones implemented post Brexit. Most are vital consumer and employee protections. As Richard say, wealth income inequality is the only way to solve the issue. It’s the only one that works.
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  1392. @ can you show your calculations please?
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  1393. That’s what all the left people like Mendih Hussein and Owen Jones keep saying after they made her unelectable but focusing on all the wrong issues. The economy was, and always is the big issue.
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  1394.  @marksavage1108  first up, I didn’t ask you. Second up, that’s all discredited talking points.
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  1395. I see what you did there, you mistook the Democrats as being left wing. They are at best centre right conservatives in policy terms. You sound quite left wing to me, not a bad thing. It means you have empathy.
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  1396. The legatum Institute are a right wing political think tank. Who cares what they think.
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  1397.  @meddylad because the initial report was a nothing burger, then additional evidence came out and it was acted on. Not all evidence requires the same response, or is even note worthy or valid.
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  1398. Not a single mention that the idea comes from the US and is commonly used to suppress democratic voters there. Obviously here we do have a system of obtaining free Id so it’s not an identical system. But it does seem like a solution for a non problem, generally known as. Waste of time, effort, and money.
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  1399. Voter turnout out is already a massive issue, do you think this will make it better?
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  1400. I hope this is the case, but the guy only didn’t launch wars last time because the team around him could manage his worst excesses. He still managed to drop more bombs that either Obama or Biden.
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  1401. @ Harris had a bunch of very strong policies. They just didn’t articulate them. The anti monopoly stuff which was a plan to stop price gouging (and a continuing Biden policy) was probably key to stopping inflation as it’s mostly cause by greedflation (as some economists term it) in business with a monopoly. Didn’t get mentioned once, but it was repeatedly cited as the main issue.
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  1402. And that is the reason why conservatives have been destroying universal benefits across the west. It’s divide and conquer.
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  1403.  @leanatale7251  what an odd thing to be proud of. I tend to be proud of a job well done or the success of a the country, a colleague, a friend, or my family. Not that someone else hasn’t done something in my proximity.
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  1404. The Lib Dem’s do stunts because biased media don’t give them coverage. The lack of self awareness here is amazing.
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  1405.  @xtc2v  fascism is far more comfortable at gaining power via elections as it’s always supported by Capitalism.
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  1406. Jesus, the level of idiocy in these comments. I really hope these accounts are just Musk training his AI…
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  1407. Yes, he’s crashing the market. Those in the know already moved to safe shores so can buy cheap.
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  1408. In what way? Can you provide a detailed explanation?
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  1409. You forgot steal our cherished rights and NHS too
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  1410.  @gio-oz8gf  well said! My constituency is 58% tory, I may as well not vote (but I still do).
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  1411.  @mikefraser4513 challenger is getting an upgrade which will put it back in the top tier. In Ukraine European tanks including Challenger 2 have outperformed American.
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  1412.  @ronangarey7327 trump is deranged yes
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  1413.  @reknakfarg7252 partly, but I also think he’s being controversial to draw attention back to himself from Musk, and smoke screen the dementia allegations again.
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  1414. I’m really interested in the sock case. Maybe it’s what he wrapped the cigar in?
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  1415. You don’t understand subtext do you.
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  1416. The joy of American capitalism he so loves.
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  1417.  @skasteve6528 Britain was heavily under Russian influence too until the invasion of Ukraine.
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  1418. Money, there’s a lot of money in that grift. It’s supported by a lot of authoritarian US billionaires, and there was a lot of money from Russia at one point (and will be again if relations are normalised).
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  1419. I think working out the remit of the second chamber is a better idea. It’s supposed to provide expert scrutiny of legislation (and it does a good job on this), so having appointments isn’t bad per se. The question is should we let them stop legislation or not. I mean they can’t at the moment, only stall it. The bigger issue is not having a constitutional safe guard, because our head of state is “ceremonial”. We need someone who can actually flex constitutional muscle if the Parliament breaks the constitution (like the illegal proroguing of parliament). The Irish system works well, as the few constitutional responsibilities are solely around preserving the constitution. Everything else is ceremonial.
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  1420.  @barerfont  not at all, it’s inextricably linked. if it’s a second legislative chamber, it needs to be elected or it has no democratic legitimacy. If it’s a chamber of experts, it needs to be professional appointments or they can’t give the expert scrutiny that’s required to make good law.
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  1421.  @barerfont  sorry if I gave you the idea of us agreeing because I don’t at all. av was unpopular because it’s unrepresentative of voters. It’s just a way of maintaining the current two party system via a sleight of hand. We had a referendum on this and it was roundly rejected. It’s as fundamentally flawed as FPTP. I find the idea of a second legalisative chamber completely pointless if I’m honest. The countries that have one it seems to just be unnecessarily complicated extra layer of governance. The core role of the lords as it is, is to scrutinising legislation since it lost the highest court role, and this adds a lot of value to the legalisative process. Your idea to remove this in favour of a second elected chamber which honestly seems to have little to no obvious value. I’d rather have devolved assembly’s or even parliaments dealing with local issues and have a more federal set up (but more like Germany rather than the US). Finally, other countries with PR also manage to maintain local representation. I’ve never understood the argument this can’t happen under a PR system.
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  1422.  @229andymon  that’s to be honest why I would like a federal system, even is Scotland left first. Ideally all members would have right of exit like in the EU,and a clear say. Possibly even some level of veto. WRT to the referendum, I don’t think there should be an option to have referendum every five minutes because of the disruption and economic chaos it would cause. But there should be a way of Scotland (without reference to the rest of the UK) being able to call one per a sensible period of time. Maybe like in NI? Where there’s a very specific public opinion criteria in the GFA. I also think England, Wales, and NI should have the same rights too. We need to stop fudging around with special exceptions and treat the home nations equally at the national level.
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  1423.  @229andymon  possibly, your right. I don’t think the English are particularly unified as maybe it’s though by some. My experience is people tend to have views on economics and social issues and it doesn’t matter where you are from, you they generally agree on this basis. I think breaking the hegemony of the Tories and to a lesser extent Labour could work wonders. I think that’s one of the main reasons Scotland has such a vibrant democracy.
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  1424. Terrible idea, he would just play to his base the whole trial.
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  1425. No, they clearly don’t know what they are voting for. They believe myths and lies evident in these videos. It’s the electorates responsibility to educate themselves. They are in the wrong, do not dare try to blame others. This ain’t the Dems fault.
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  1426.  @nickwoodward819  no worries 😉 sarcasm can be hard to spot these days 😭
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  1427. Joe Rogan lies all the time to himself.
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  1428. And it’s been completely overshadowed by pointless self owns 🤷‍♂️
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  1429.  @markperrin8098  gullible? The whole of Fleet Street was out to get Labour to defect from their Tory sweetheart and found nothing. You need the mirror to find the gullible one.
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  1430.  @adamibrahim7338 you what? We all saw it you muppet
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  1431. You realise that no western country has elections during a war don’t you?
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  1432. The solution to any problem you ever have is never Mrs Truss
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  1433.  @peters6188  utter rubbish. Growth needs a consumer class spending money on goods and services, not making people who horde a mass of unproductive wealth more wealthy. Also, borrowing for tax cuts was never going to fly.
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  1434. Smoking is an activity that impacts directly on others. People should not be forced to breath in second hand smoke. I don’t have a choice. There is a civil liberties issue, but it’s not the one you think it is.
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  1435.  @_josephbogdan_ he a legend, I wish he was in charge of Labour
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  1436. And I for one support our new corporate overlords.
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  1437. On a more serious note, why do elected politicians keep abducting their responsibilities to others and destroy the power of the state.
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  1438. On a more serious note, why do elected politicians keep abducting their responsibilities to others and destroy the power of the state.
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  1439. Agree completely.
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  1440.  @george_investing_accountant  and that’s how they get away with it.
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  1441.  @andrewrobinson2565  thanks, I missed that 👍
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  1442.  @andrewrobinson2565  I’m not a colonel, it’s a fictional Google username.
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  1443. You missed entitlement for your list
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  1444.  @hindaclubhindaclub the whole issue is the many in the Isreal, including many if not all in the government claim it’s gods promised land from the river to the sea. This is a religiously driven genocide to enable an imperialist colonisation.
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  1445.  @homolgus1 my seat is supposedly safe, but recent polling has suggested it could flip red. Currently Tories have a 20k majority…
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  1446. Green Party had a car crash moment on Lewis Goodall show on LBC. Wonder if the Green Party guy had as happy a weekend…
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  1447. Dogs tend to like any attention, I’m sure it’s fine
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  1448. A bold statement, unsupported by much evidence.
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  1449.  @ianoliver3130  he had the right ideas, though I still think he piled too much into one manifesto, but was singularly unfit to carry popular opinion to implement them. You can blame the media all you want, but he was never going to convince opponents without them. To ignore this and splutter it’s unfair is just naive and childish. A more presentable candidate to front these policies would have helped a lot.
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  1450.  @antispindr8613  no, but you also have to be a creditable leader. A back bencher with no cabinet or equivalent industry experience is enough to deter most people. Especially when the media is Demonising him and the Brexit boredom has set in. I voted for Corbyn as the least worst option, but honestly I would have preferred a better more inspired candidate.
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  1451.  @steveosborne2297  I agree. Though I do think Brexit poisoned the well so much it was inevitable the Tories would get in irrespective of the Labour leader. Not having a proper collation of non Tory parties was a massive mistake from the Libs, but I can see why they didn’t want Corbyn.
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  1452.  @antispindr8613  he fought old Labour too.
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  1453. It’s an X-odus David 😂 I finally see the genius of the name change Elon 😂
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  1454.  @j.kbarnett7640  so why stick your oar in if you don’t live here?
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  1455.  @flucazade  probably, but unfortunately we never know the quality of government till they are in power. And given I’ve been alive mostly in Tory times (I remember back to thatcher), I’ll take an unknown Labour Party over this bunch of Tories any day.
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  1456.  @mjdubs7603  they aren’t even in power yet bud.
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  1457. Maybe if they hadn’t needed to prioritise rioters they would be. The rioters are screwing up everything they pretend to want.
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  1458. The issue is not enough people in the UK care about these things. They assume democracy only happens once every five years and is inconvenient for them. Getting the average Brit to actually think about specific policies is hopeless.
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  1459.  @Dionysos640  true
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  1460.  @GetGwapThisYear  I think that’s a pretty balanced answer thanks. Though I think it’s not the only concern with joining, the direction of travel of some EU states problematic (though Labour seem to want to mimic some facist migration policies).
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  1461.  @chatham43  there is a whiff of Enoch, and a stench of Mosley. If you aren’t seeing it then PEBKAC applies. Have a great one 😊
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  1462. He’s hard on sofas to…
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  1463. That’s the point
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  1464. Graham is worried they are coming for him next. Maybe they will?
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  1465. The silver lining is she didn’t prefix it with “woke”
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  1466. The UK has had an increasing national debt since the concept was invented in the 1680s. You make it sound like a new concept?
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  1467.  @scottyfive4319  I took exception to the English Facist comment. You did get a vote, weather or not you agree with the way it was run or the outcome
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  1468.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  you are a funny guy. But can you answer my questions? You have currently lied and denied reality. Then personal attacks. Im assuming you have nothing of substance?
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  1469.  @scottyfive4319  I understand completely. You had a vote. The electorate were utterly incapable of making an informed decision based on the dearth of information and misinformation. It happened in the Brexit one too. Welcome to the heady world of referendum. I personally believe independence for Scotland should be in the gift of the Scottish Parliament as we live in a representative democracy, not a direct one.
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  1470.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  all votes are won with lies, I’ve seen many GE and referenda. Not one was won on the quality of the argument. Scottish independence won’t be won on the quality of the argument. Most people vote with guts or feelings.
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  1471.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  so would it be ok for unionists to keep having referendum to rejoin the union if you achieve independence?
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  1472.  @scottyfive4319  I’d love this but I don’t see it being workable I’m afraid. Who would be the arbiter of the decision? How would you classify the severity of the lies? What would even be defined as lies? The union side gave hypothetically situation in the referendum. They weren’t lies, but guesses on the potential impact. Some were clearly over exaggerated, some fairly plausible.
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  1473.  @Raj-ul9my  there are a lot of words there to just say you don’t agree with Ukraines right as a sovereign nation to join NATO.
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  1474. Why wouldn’t Russia be using this type of a thing? They are well know to be active in the cyber warfare space. They are literally allied with groups connected to some of these thugs. They are doing exactly the same as other Intelligence Services 🤷‍♂️. I mean, it may be another country, but Russia are actively hostile to the West due to the Support of Ukraine
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  1475.  @Moscow_Will_Burn  I agree, AV is a terrible system that was less representative than FPTP. The UK rejected that system. We haven’t had a referendum on either PR (or STV for that matter). It’s a different voting system. I’m also worried you think that a vote is a onetime deal. If that was the case we would not have elections. But anyway, thanks for the well reasoned arguments against electoral reform (as I assume you will make one at some point).
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  1476.  @laidbackkodiak  not true, There are many forms of PR. Based on the system we had for the EU elections, The country is split into regions and seats are assigned on a percentage of vote share within that region. This has a significant change to the electoral system as Labour wouldn’t get 65% of seats on 34% of the vote. They would only get around 34% of the seats. There are many other types of PR some that produce local reps and a national rep like Germany, some that just do more regional / national reps. Just to make it clear, there are multiple seats in each area that are awarded based on share of vote. Not just one.
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  1477.  @Moscow_Will_Burn  still no argument against PR just insults. Do you know how to engage in a debate?
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  1478.  @keirbourne5323  I doubt it will benefit Labour for more than a term unless they can really do something spectacular. Politicians seem so shortsighted. The foundation of the majority is hardly a compelling statement of support. My seat has flipped because a lot of tactical voting seems to have happened and there was a right wing vote split. If the right pull themselves together, this seat will be blue again next election.
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  1479.  @UNIVERSAL-UR there has been no left in France for decades. The centre right have fucked up so the people seem to want to go further right. That’s just a more extreme version of the same.
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  1480.  @donnwzad7980 is this what passes for being an adult in the US these days? No wonder your country is failing.
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  1481. It’s why the global market is down, currently it’s due to a major austerity drive in the west. China doesn’t do this.
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  1482. Oligarchs like natural resources to exploit.
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  1483.  @grahamdalbymusic  “pretty much” is a turn of expression, it means means almost completely. At the point Boris hadn’t given his “evidence” so I gave him a small benefit of the doubt. It was intentional use of the phrase.
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  1484. The issue is the only thing likely to bring the radical change required to rebase line the state of the country is this. MAGA weren’t going to just disappear if Harris had won. The christian nationalists had been working on this for 5 decades. The system was broken partly because of citizens United. Unfortunately it needs a massive reset.
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  1485. You want appeasement, that never works.
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  1486. Wasn’t the birthisum stuff with Obama indicative his a racist? As a Brit, it’s pretty crystal clear.
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  1487.  @tuxter01  yes, and witness testimony is considered the lowest form of evidence in a criminal court this this reason.
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  1488. The Times is an old broadsheet Newspaper, this is its online site.
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  1489.  @DK-hg7wj much of that budget is developing arms for sale.
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  1490.  @bobbyg309  that’s a social / political issue rather than a scientific one. Currently what it seems what we assumed about gender is wrong. Now as a society we need to determine what to do with this information.
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  1491.  @timsmith2279  you do when you appoint sex pests to senior whips jobs and it turns out you knew before hand. It was turning off the Blue Wall. Also, Boris didn’t have a massively good personal approval rating at any point in his premiership, just better than Corbyn. It became a problem when Starmer started looking a little competent to swing voters.
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  1492. Maybe gove hooked him up
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  1493. Starmer will have the opportunity to make a real difference to peoples lives. Hopefully he will take it.
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  1494. Isn’t this just the right wing way these days? Look at America, they are revising history so people don’t understand the shameful past actions of the nation. Seems like there’s a mood to do it here too.
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  1495. Yes, looking forward to the Brexit benefits. Can you name one? So far it just seems like torching our rights. But I look forward to your response.
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  1496. What’s your view on Brexit or trickle down economics?
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  1497.  @vincentblack7467  is cheaper more secure energy middle class?
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  1498. Yeah, but 3.7 million Americans think they have been abducted by aliens. So it doesn’t make them right.
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  1499. Lawyer: You have the right to remain silent. Trump: I choose not to exercise it
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  1500. Is this the start of his presidential campaign?
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  1501.  @Mark-Haddow  why?
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  1502. You can remove trump, you can’t remove the King
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  1503. It’s not PR, it’s a single transferable vote. It was chosen because it assured the two party system.
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  1504.  @imnottellingyoumyname3050  all royal sites combined got 3.8 million visitors according to their figures. That’s nationally, not at a single site.
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  1505. On come off it. It’s a near universal culture phenomenon. Stop with the hijacking of something practiced in nearly every culture, including the ones before Judaism, and practiced by the ones who would never have encountered Judaism and Christianity.
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  1506.  @denxero  you people are making America hated 🤷‍♂️.
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  1507. Sir Robert Peel invented the police precisely because deploying the army in a domestic centre doesn’t work.
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  1508. The comment section reads like the one on the Mail or Telegraph 🤷‍♂️
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  1509. You maybe need to study some political science if you think the Dems are communist.
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  1510. I get your logic about not taking photos, but surely the point of protest is to be noticed? Seems like a counter productive position. The media isn’t covering it, and you need to get the word out. Love from the UK 🇬🇧
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  1511. They need to establish control. No point talking while Rome is burning.
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  1512.  @clarence_claymore.  no, it’s a shadowy group put together by the Koch brothers. They have funded a ton of things over the decades. Include the tufton street “experts”.
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  1513. Base MPs wage on the countries average wage, if they improve he wealth of the country, they can get a higher wage. Consider it performance related pay. Btw, CEO and executive level people aren’t necessarily talented. It’s possible to fail up, as you did.
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  1514. God they are thick, and are walking into obvious traps. If someone asks you is this an isolated incident in a select committee. The chances are they have evidence it’s not.
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  1515. @reasonerenlightened2456 Gary claims to be the only person who sees this, which isn’t true.
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  1516. The Cambridge dictionary defines a dictator as a leader who has complete power in a country and has not been elected by the people. Or a person who gives orders and behaves as if they have complete power. Oddly neither seem to apply to Zelenskyy, but the latter does apply to trump. Maybe check the dictionary before posting next time?
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  1517. I think you are missing the subtext. This seems to be a cover from de coupling the EU from the US.
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  1518.  @Whiplashed  he fabricated a reason in South Ossetia, Chechnya and Crimea. Facts are malleable to Putin.
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  1519.  @Whiplashed  get your story straight, Farage is implicated with Russia and considers the Russian story to be valid. It’s clearly not. Putin has assets in the UK and US that are repeating these easily disprovable lies.
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  1520.  @CmdrTobs  Sunak made a surprise election announcement that caught everyone, even Sunak’s umbrella, unprepared. No party has a manifesto published yet, and yet you single out Labour when the Tories who could literally choose the date of the announcement haven’t either? Not sure why you are defending barefaced lies?
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  1521.  @CmdrTobs  by investment, they was not talking stocks and shares, they are talking equipment, facilities and infrastructure. This creates jobs and drives consumption which in turn drives the economy, this is why Bidens IRA has been effective. It’s allowing Americans to buy products driving the economy, which in turn feeds growth.
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  1522. Hello Richard, I was wondering what your thoughts on using taxation to remove money, and the grossly unequal political amount of political power that comes with it, from the wealthiest in society? Would this be a good thing or a bad thing?
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  1523. Even if Sue Gray was corrupt, and there’s no evidence of that and Boris accepted the report about him as correct. The house select Committee and police reviews were independent.
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  1524.  @ltmund  can you fact check what’s wrong here then? I await to be enlightened
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  1525. Who’s the 70 year old?
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  1526.  @dooley-ch  that’s what happens when you do austerity in an economic slump. It’s just bad economics. Liberalism doesn’t work. This is not a fringe view among political economists.
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  1527. Like Sunak and Piers Morgan? 😅
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  1528. Destruction of property is not violence? No, that’s wrong. It is violence, just not violence against a person. So if Isreal only bombed property not people it would be ok? Cambridge English Dictionary Definition: Violence - actions that are intended or likely to hurt people or cause damage Please can you be careful with language. Words have meaning.
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  1529.  @imbonkers3629 how are they still grooming if they are in prison?
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  1530.  @juri_xiii9977  who said he’s a genius? Maybe try a little politeness?
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  1531.  @GregorRenkoMusic  it’s only a fraction of his fortune that he has put up, Mainly his twitter stocks so less than 5% of his estimated wealth. Most comes from other organisations including Saudis who aren’t the biggest twitter fans. Not sure of Musks exposure if it defaults, but a proportion of the deal is against twitter assets which won’t hurt him either. He could lose the entire thing and still have “around 200billion” in wealth and assets (depending on the markets). This does seem out of character, most companies he has run have been fairly good at looking successful. Could be he just believes in his own legend, but I think there’s more to it than that. Certainly the right won’t be sorry to see it go if it does.
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  1532.  @junehunt7764 the NF are, thankfully, pretty much a dead organisation, such a compelling message….
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  1533. Yes, keep the Tories in power.
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  1534. In fact given Sunaks incapable of answering a question, there are probably pointless.
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  1535. It almost felt Andrew was asking for this too…
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  1536. In your opinion, in a free society, others are able to have there own too.
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  1537.  @danmayberry1185  the main issue is do we have a right to protest in this country. It seems not considering how tame and nonviolent the protests were and the fact arrests were made. Weather you agree it’s the right time to protests is irrelevant if we now can’t.
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  1538.  @vgstb  you have successfully copied the title of a work by newton called “Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica”, this outlines his theory of mechanics.
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  1539.  @drummermk3927  it’s a Russian troll. I wouldn’t worry about it. Quite a few about.
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  1540. I’m a guardian reader and I support the striking workers, as do most the commentators below the line. Mick, for gods sake, don’t attack your friends.
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  1541.  @markstevens6568 Ed Milliband has a fair bit of experience in government. Maybe he slipped you mind?
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  1542.  @anonnemo2504  a country is inherently not a business, both has similar needs, a strong bureaucracy for example, but the goals are fundamentally different.
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  1543. I mean, Christianity is a death cult too.
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  1544.  @bombelz the uk is deeply regretting it tbh. That’s going to accelerate if trump starts targeting us.
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  1545.  @awkwardbeaker this has been the system in the UK in the Uk for 200 years. It’s not a new thing. Happened with Gordon Brown before we even had a referendum (and that wasn’t the first time either).
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  1546.  @guidobolke5618  because what you have said is utter nonsense. Like every word is utter rubbish. Most people in the UK are pretty pro police. Policing here is by consent in spite of the political agitators on both sides, left and right. The only experience most people have with police is when at school doing station tours or meeting the community Bobby, at a summer fair, or some banter outside a club, especially away from London. Being working class doesn’t mean police target them, working class is not a synonym for criminal. Orwell was a deep thinker, but he was also seemed very confused in his attitude to policing due to his experiences as a policeman in colonial Burma where he hated, and was hated by, the locals.
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  1547.  @guidobolke5618  no worries, it’s good to chat, I’m sure others will have different opinions, and all view points are pretty subjective. A bi issue with these rioters is they failed at the ballot box in our recent general election and chose violence. Ironically the Labour Party is seen as pandering to these anti immigration supporters by a lot of members with its immigration policies. There has been zero opportunity to implement policy as we have only had a government for one month. Also, the timing has been suspicious. It’s very coincidental that the right wing mobilises the moment a left wing government comes to power. Unfortunately when people use violence against the state, the only way any state can respond is in kind. You have to remember that the initial incident, where three girls were murdered, was seen as a quick response from police and more importantly concerned citizens. There were genuine hero’s in that initial event who saved more lives by endangering there own. Rioting was never a way of expressing anything, particularly as many of those first responding officers were on the front lines in the riots. The areas that were attacked where were close to the murders and impact the people involved. The rioters are attacking police mainly because they are in the way of the intended targets initially, or were the types who enjoy fighting with the police. The police do enforce laws, but up until the most recent tory government, most laws were broadly seen as necessary across the political spectrum. The actual criminal element in society is pretty small as a proportion of the population, and reoffending rates are pretty high. So a few individuals have an oversized footprint on society. Obviously, there are groups that this doesn’t fit so well, particularly non-white communities, who generally get a more than their fair share of police attention, often unnecessarily.
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  1548.  @Flash3-22  said Hannibal Lector is a great guy no less
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  1549.  @jamesvalentine2845  sadly they haven’t got any answer because they know nothing. They don’t understand history and can’t possibly know about all the various migrations and invasions, or even the trade. It’s all thoughts and feelings with the far right. It’s like an impervious shield of ignorance.
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  1550.  @andreroswell1561 there is no racism against the English. Love from an Englishman.
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  1551.  @captaintruth  pretty much everything. Great parody project, keep it up 👍
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  1552. The eu election system in the Uk was ironically the best I’ve seen.
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  1553. Stephen Flynn unfortunately allowed Sunak to look good today. SF: This is terrible, and Westminster did nothing. RS: yes it’s terrible. We have an inquiry and there are three compensation programmes that have provided compensation to 2/3rds of the victims of this miscarriage so far. And we want to help them get justice they deserve. SF: you don’t get it something something. He’s picking a fight on one of the few areas of strength that Sunak can claim tin an effort to throw Tories, labour and LD in a pile. Unfortunately, the actions the Tories have taken are broadly sensible, albeit late, so it’s not creating much of a headache for them. I’m guessing that’s why Starmer avoided it. Usually he’s a strong political operator but this seems a weak performance. In fact it’s probably the worst performance I’ve seen of his and the first I can think of where Sunak “won” the engagement.
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  1554.  @toriesdontgettazered7464  no, he’s asked a question where Sunak has an answer that’s compelling enough for someone not usually following politics, and a good sound bite for the Tory press. Giving him that opening is a fucking stupid move.
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  1555.  @ianworley8169  that’s whole comment is based on a false premise that a democracy cannot change its mind. The majority of the leave voting population will likely be dead by the time we can join the EU for a second time (likely 10-20 years), so why should we honour their votes?
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  1556.  @fergusdenoon1255  it’s depends on the definition of party, the policy was neutral definitely. The membership, and many MPs were pro remain. It was more nuanced that being pro leave or pro remain.
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  1557.  @gnrseanra9070  compared to ashdown and Kennedy yes. He as quite unapologetic about taking them rightward to the centre
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  1558.  @gnrseanra9070  due to the relative weakness of the pound as a result of a 25% depreciation since Brexit. If you had commented last year it would have been 3rd. Seriously, do you understand this stuff or just regurgitate Nigel’s talking points.
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  1559.  @gnrseanra9070  not sure I understand the question. Are you suggesting the pound has recovered value on its 2016 baseline? It’s still pretty weak compared with pre Brexit. The Euro is doing fairly well as a currency. Strong exports are usually help by a weak currency btw. If we imported more than we exported, then it would be fine, but alas, we import more than we export.
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  1560.  @abergreg  give me a break, business investment stalled from 2016, we are only just at that level now. Maybe read one of the numerous FT articles on it. Also, a lot of the bump now may be due to the fact the Tories are toast, so companies are prepared to invest again as they assume a less hostile business environment.
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  1561.  @abergreg  I’m talking UK growth. It’s stalled since Brexit hard. Europe has slowed recently, but year on year growth between similar economies has been better in the eurozone. Why do you guys want to infer a specific narrative from a single data point?
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  1562. Professor Tim, JRM dad was a eugenics proponent and given he agrees with everything else daddy said, I wonder his position on this. The word migration to me is doing some heavy cover.
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  1563. Rushi Sunak as a partner of TIC made money off the global financial crisis that the company started. He’s not a patriot. He’s not a nice person.
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  1564.  @twisteddancer7773  it’s not about you. Why are you upset? It was clearly directed at the monarch (except the guy targeting Andrew). Are you King Charles III in disguise?
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  1565.  @johnbecker9242 they can and have changed the size of the court several times.
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  1566. Must be like a Corbyn supporter
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  1567.  @Iazzaboyce  which essential sovereignty did we lose?
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  1568. You are so big and clever. What an insightful and intelligent comment. I’m sure she wants to be just like you. I want to be just like you. Vote reform or something… 😂
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  1569. Click bait for the thumbnail
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  1570.  Epicgeezer the guys could have said no, I don’t want to be interviewed.
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  1571.  @TheaFlemingRose  vox pops are pretty useless as anything other than propaganda and most media use them. But at the end of the day, these people willingly let themselves be interviewed.
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  1572. Trump is a Russia ally, not a western ally. He’s been telling us for years. The right wing media has been telling us for years . Ffs listen to what he says. He is doing everything he said he would do.
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  1573. It’s literally on a propaganda reel for the new US administration. That’s what an inauguration is, the theatre of propaganda.
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  1574. This is about the SNP not Labour.
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  1575. Because the US has used military protection to force its agenda (both imperialist and capitalist systems) on the Europe. It was done for control and because it’s long been in americas best interests to do this.
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  1576. This is a rather silly comment. If people don’t know the rules, who can they follow them? They don’t have a judge sat on their shoulder. Maybe we should stop selling manuals and judges can tell people how to work equipment too?
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  1577.  @FussBust  if America was doing this one by one then maybe, but trumps picking fights all at the same time and overstretching his position. He’s also weakening critical US alliances. This is a terrible idea, but what you would expect from a man who managed to bankrupt casinos.
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  1578.  @WorldPeaceiu89 america can’t produce the amount of oil it need, and it would take years to build up the infrastructure to replace what they get. Also, they get a good deal from Canada, way better than from OPEC. This is more about economical warfare to compel Canada into closer union.
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  1579.  @RossTheNinja  the problem with farming is the lack of profitability, it is not finally being brought partially in line with every other business in the UK. And yes, they still get preferential treatment.
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  1580.  @loganblackwood2922 much like the naming of a child, that’s a specific exception to the norm.
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  1581.  @loganblackwood2922  true, and if you never worked in the CJS, it’s likely not really understood as a principle.
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  1582. These aren’t random people on the street, they are protesters who made the effort to go out and protest. pointless vox pop.
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  1583. “Good morning have you slept well?” What a start. Mega burn Tiz Lruzz
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  1584. The draft India deal was massively in their favour and he was pushing hard to get it closed before the election, So I wouldn’t out that he is a patriot, but it’s just either to money, infosys or India, certainly not the UK.
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  1585.  @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  ok the kind of things Europeans do then 😅
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  1586.  @zoltan-zq3xe that’s the only thing I agree with Farage on.
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  1587. Funny, the people dragging the country down are now starting to cry in court. I hope you were careful not to insight the violence Jim.
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  1588. Putin likes Power, the same reason he keeps invading his neighbours.
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  1589. Trumps a bully who wants things his own way. When the bullying works he does it more.
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  1590. Banning a state news broadcaster that uses disinformation in an effort to destabilise your country? Isn’t that national defence?
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  1591. Generally it’s always been better to have an MP within the government. It’s considered easier to raise issues and get remediation if it’s your own side. I’d say it’s a more politically astute choice and not an emotive one. I mean, what will Corbyn actually do as an MP? Occasionally ask a question? He’s never really bothered with engaging in most aspects of Parliament and is unlikely to get on any committees.
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  1592. Jeffries always sounds like he’s about to cry… Also, Americans never seem to understand what far left is…
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  1593. STV is crap, it shuffles votes to the main two parties whilst giving the impression of democracy. The UK had a referendum on a similar system and it was roundly rejected. We need true PR like is used in the Scottish Assembly, or was used the old EU parliamentary elections.
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  1594.  @karlbbb  STV just transfers votes from small parties to big ones. It’s a crap system implementated by parties looking to maintain a duopoly
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  1595.  @adam7802  no, I follow the channel as a source of right wing news. I don’t like to live in an echo chamber. But the focus a five MP party gets is a bit silly.
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  1596. Rishi should know it was the wrong thing to do. If any normal politician had been asked, they would have said no to the interview. The guys utterly clueless and has zero patriotism.
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  1597. No, he was convicted in 2018
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  1598.  @jodieford5738  he’s not a wannabe anymore…
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  1599.  @msr00001  I think you are talking cross purposes with the OP, they seem to be talking state pension, and you are talking private pension. While both interesting discussions, they are kind of unrelated in the context of tax payers.
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  1600. You hit the nail on the head, it’s aimed at the tory votes he needs.
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  1601.  @royboy565  it will rise to 7% because of inflation and they will not raise the threshold in line with it, it doesn’t mean people are getting richer in terms of buying power.
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  1602.  @ExplorewithSarahlouise  farmers can stop being entitled and start being part of the dam country. They still get a better deal than anyone else. Only a tiny fraction of farm land owners (many are not farmers) will need to pay, and they will own the largest areas.
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  1603. He was one of the conmen
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  1604.  @mikeedwards1096  bless, which law do you not like?
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  1605. Real history is that people were awful in the past, and awful in the present. It’s not a white problem. It’s a people problem.
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  1606.  @terrencemyers1033  I’m not white washing anything friend. White Europeans created industrial demand for slaves White Americans perpetuated the slave trade after white people acted to end it. Black people sold slaves to white slave traders on an industrial scale Arabic people castrated their slaves, so that’s why you don’t find many black people in the Middle East. Your need to be more 3 diamensions in your thinking. The issue is exploitation of the weak by the elite.
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  1607.  @terrencemyers1033  you haven’t demonstrated any truth as yet buddy. Also, you realise a lot of historical scholars are not white and present history from other perspectives?
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  1608.  @terrencemyers1033  I don’t even understand what that means. Maybe you can explain how my mindset is closed? Are you talking about the persecution of people following the Jewish faith? Or the persecution being perpetuated by the Israeli state?
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  1609. The republicans will play clips in attack ads. Bidens age already had a lot of cut through with independents in swing states. It’s going to be about a week or two until polling shows if it impacted.
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  1610. Police and politicians do too.
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  1611. The basic principle in law is If you are trying to Instigate a violent mob and they commit violence, then why would you not be treated in the same fashion as the mob itself. The issue with Farage is he does seem to be linked to Stochastic terrorism due to the dog whistle type politics he engages in. So if you combine them then Farage would be in a lot of trouble. It’s a pipe dream obviously, but at least they are not threatening him death.
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  1612. How very dare you Single out IDS, while he has long being and nonexpert blithering idiot for a long time, he is by no means note worthy.
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  1613.  @HellFire-o4h  he did an interview with the Mail and he is part of reform.
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  1614.  @Right_Direction_  that’s not evidence. He campaigned for reform in the London mayoral campaign.
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  1615.  @Js992er  the also campaigned for reform in the mayoral campaign in London.
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  1616.  @keithparker1346 yes, but there is very little push back on these claims. Everything stated by tech bro oligarchs is accepted as fact in the MSM.
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  1617.  @gsg9205  wargaming nickname.
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  1618. I mean, that’s a bit off topic but easy to answer.
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  1619. You US democrats are sure giving the American people a god awful choice. Great democracy when you are having to say “he’s got a great team of unelected bureaucrats” ready to jump in if his brain turns to mush. Ducking sort yourselves out.
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  1620.  @louisdisbury9759  I’m also an ex cop 🤝 but I’m thinking in a more historic context that specifically in relation to current crime stats. Go back to early 1900s, Victorians and Georgians, gangs with knives were always existed.
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  1621. To be fair, it’s not like Truss faced the electorate either.
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  1622.  @shaunjenkinson5089  no, cough “Truss” cough is clearly still in control…. They are all useless. General Election now
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  1623.  @KeithHeinrich  you think a jury will convict him? I really can’t see that happening unfortunately.
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  1624.  @KeithHeinrich  its more his supporters will lie to get selected, then their cognitive dissonance will stop them fairly evaluating the evidence due to deep seated bias.
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  1625. Napoleon also created 80% of the legal system in France, and is the reason most of the world drives on the right too.
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  1626. Either cowardice or doesn’t like to be challenged as she’s clearly an authoritarian. I believe it’s both, but mainly driven by the latter.
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  1627. He’s more a regulation of corporate interests rather than nationalisation. Though weather this is practical due to the deep seated socialism / communism fear rather than personal belief I don’t know.
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  1628. Our glorious business minister is a disaster capitalist just like his darling daddy. I’m sure he is minting it out of this chaos.
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  1629.  @Korschtal the EU, and several member states, tried to talk the UK down too.
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  1630. You have to remember, the government at the time was talking up holding the 4 million EU citizens as bargaining chips to the rapacious delight of the right wing “winners”. A terrible time…
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  1631. You don’t understand what a fiat currency is do you.
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  1632. Are you actually looking then? She and her party are busy destroying our freedoms and destroying our institutions. Much of the population is on the breadline, the wealth gap is hideous, So if you can’t see it, your opinion isn’t really worth much.
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  1633. It’s because they want a Christian nationalist version of it.
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  1634. Your opinion was unconvincing and didn’t win at the ballot box. Labours immigration policy is the one we are going with.
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  1635.  @jeffsimon9594  your comment makes no sense. Neither were in the clip. To say the two right wingers in the clip are lefty’s is wrong.
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  1636. The UK hasn’t realised it, we have a two party system, that happens to have a bunch of parties in it. It’s not a fair and proportional system, and Labour aren’t interested in in changing it anymore than the Tories,
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  1637. First rule of debating 👍
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  1638.  @dxcSOUL  or put another way Peterson should have represented Canada in the break dancing with all the contortions he does to make an argument, he would have won gold.
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  1639.  @royboy565 This is grown up constitutional issue. The impartiality of the speaker is more important than any single issue as it affect all issues before the house, and is a foundational principle of our democracy. I think it’s pretty clear if you are neutral that Hoyle over stepped the mark, and it was also clear to the speaker who apologised. It’s worrying that the speaker can be so influenced tbh.
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  1640.  @jwsuicides8095  what’s that got to do with it. It’s run as a private company with the government being a just a shareholder. conservatives do not like telling private companies what to do so will never get involved unless it hurts their vested interest. Its a company policy matter.
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  1641. Trump is ceremonial head of state, a king so to speak. Musk is the head of Government. Vance is a useful idiot
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  1642. To be fair, I’d rather people got a lordship for a bit of service than a bundle of cash to the Tory party (or Labour)
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  1643. The only right she has is right wing politics
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  1644. Didn’t Corbyn and his clique force a lot of existing Labour members out? Didn’t they also force re selections of people who they considered not idealistically pure? They had a pressure group called momentum if I recall correctly. I’m assuming you don’t remember pre new Labour, because he was a pain in the leaderships arse before them too. He tried to oust Kinnock for example. Too much revisionist behaviour here.
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  1645.  @berniethekiwidragon4382  the ideas predate the man. Socialism was a thing before he was even born.
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  1646.  @Utrilus  do you live under a rock? His party ban books and sue people who say things they don’t like, irrespective of if it’s and opinion or fact. They are anti free speech.
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  1647. How is freedom of speech returning? Did the democrats repeal the second amendment?
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  1648.  @benjaminford9932  exactly, the current economic situation seems to be entirely down to the vast amount of money just sitting in assets, not circulating in the economy or removed via taxation, and thus the consumer has no money to allow them to consume.
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  1649. The congress committee found zero evidence of this. There key witness was a known liar who’s made them look stupid. Maybe keep up with the news rather than spout rubbish?
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  1650.  @m0o0n0i0r  yes, but my point was we (as a country) keep digging a deeper hole to allow rich people get richer. The BoE is not independent, it is owned by the government. Debts created by the BoE are not borrowed from other organisations, and can be cancelled at will. Instead of just borrowing money from the bank (which the bank would create out of thin air), the concept of Quantitative Easing was created which is a long winded way of doing the same thing. The debt was owed by the government to itself. So it could forgive its own debt. But there’s money for unscrupulous people to be made from unfortunate circumstances.
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  1651. My god, how bad is it that Gove is looking like the voice of reason…
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  1652.  @richmahogany21  we need to be fair in our assessments he was a terrible person, a Great wartime leader, shit peacetime PM.
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  1653.  @yellowgreen5229  sure get rid of one who may be actually electable. I’d suggest finding a suitable leader first. You have only chosen two who could actually win power in over half a century, and only one who wasn’t a complete failure when in office.
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  1654. Nope, she tried to get some level of democratic process observed. In most countries, a referendum that’s characterised by lies and illegal funding they get set aside and potentially run again later, because it’s not seen to be democratic.
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  1655.  @thegingerbreadgod1312 SDP got 6 in their first election on over 20% of the vote. It’s not a unique position Farage finds his party in. I dislike the man but will be happy if he can help push PR.
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  1656. It’s late stage free market ideology and neoliberalism not capitalism per se. If we still had Kensyian model of Capitalism then the progressive taxation should have prevented the insane levels of wealth (and thereby power) accumulation by corporations and the already wealthy. Unfortunately no one outside of academic economics institutions are proposing a solution.
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  1657. Did you read the banner? Biden makes killer cyborgs out of immigrants. Is it really real?
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  1658. He’s not talking about overturning the election. He’s the presumptive nominee so he has the automatic right to stand under the democrat parties rules.
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  1659.  @karlclark8625 it’s pre existing cuts that conservatives have already baked into the last budget.
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  1660.  @thelleftaremad7556 that’s the amount of tax rises under 14 years of tory governance. Not including the approximately 13 years worth of inflation in just two years since Truss.
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  1661.  @VectorTracker  odd opinion. The general idea is that we become more democratic with an elected head of state. Even better if it can maybe help promote a meritocracy. It’s probably also good thing for the family who like zoo animals, and just because the accident of their birth, live in a guilded cage line with parabolic lenses.
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  1662.  @VectorTracker  yes, it needs significant improvement. Best to start at the top
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  1663.  @urmum3773  sorry, but you are the pawn serving the unelected elites. Break hereditary power. Bring back right to protest.
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  1664.  @urmum3773  eh? I don’t understand. So you want to bring down a government and political system using the masses but leave the most egregious example of establishment entitlement in place? Your not a very good revolutionary…
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  1665.  @urmum3773  god has no place in governance. Enough wars and executions have been enacted in the name of that terrible excuse. Goodbye
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  1666.  @VectorTracker  first up, we are subjects not citizens. And we pay to support there family. We pay to use land owned by the family which should be he peoples (E.g. wind farms). Don’t you think as a principle all people should be equal?
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  1667. Most Labour voters are not in a union. Shouldn’t they be for the whole work force?
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  1668.  @weswheel4834 yeah, the CPS and the police have said they will use terrorism charges where the evidence warrants.
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  1669. As napoleon said, “don’t interrupt your enemy while they make a mistake”.
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  1670. Will DOGE investigate anything? He took coders not accountants. He’s not interesting in finding fraud.
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  1671. It’s more about the degrees of being *ucked…
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  1672. The US seem to be way behind in a massive number of areas. No road side breathlysers, no roadside drug kits, no quick cuffs. 🤷‍♂️. It’s hard seeing them fumble with cuffs in so many videos, or not being able to do a decent take down.
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  1673. “The odd hand job” - Professor Tim Wilson Made me spit out my drink 😂
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  1674.  @weswheel4834  yeah, I particularly like life time Conservative Micheal Caine signing the petition saying he feels let down.
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  1675.  @sandygrowler7384 more likely a Russian.
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  1676. He did nothing all last time except the Muslim ban, send 2 million jobs overseas, gave tax breaks to billionaires, made a lot of money personally and his family from foreign powers, and forced government agencies to use his businesses. The right never deal with problems in my life time. They just make them.
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  1677. Why? the winter solstice was a pagan thing the Christian’s copied.
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  1678. Who wants to o hear any think Boris says? He speaks gibberish
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  1679. I agree with raising the tax rate. It was 85% in the post war period. Caps on personal wealth should also be considered.
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  1680. The Christian bible is riddled with xenophobia, and sexism. They have zero moral high ground. The current dogma is only achieved because the current leadership ignore the bits that do not conform with the current secular values.
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  1681.  @chrismachin2166  in what way?
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  1682.  @chrismachin2166  is that really the best apologetic argument you have? Got any evidence of that assertion other than a book full of falsehoods and contradictions?
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  1683.  @whitleybayman123  human Rights Act 1998, schedule one article 10 and 11 fulfil a similar function. Not as broad as the US constitution but generally courts have found against the government when this has been pursued. That’s why the right wing press agitate against it and will replace with the revised bill of rights later this year (assuming it goes ahead).
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  1684.  @Toecutter875  they are crown servants so don’t have to be paid overtime. Same as the army.
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  1685.  @JSkyGemini it’s not about the dollar. They are utterly screwing up the power of the dollar. They are screwing the global position of America politically and destroying the current alliances. It’s about power and undermining democracy.
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  1686.  @samturner8028 I can’t believe a 12 year old in the country didn’t see 8 mile one way or the other. Eminem was massive back then.
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  1687. Isn’t this just vigilante journalism? The CPS have said there is insufficient evidence to proceed and a conviction is not possible.
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  1688. The right wing have spent a lot of time and effort poisoning the well against Unions. That it shows they are essential.
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  1689. That’s a good edge you got on your sarcasm 👌
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  1690. When is the right time? The best time is during transitions which is why they die in post. Even after not being able to discharge the duties of state effectively for years.
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  1691. Why? Isn’t it ostensibly a Christian nation, and trump is anything but a Christian.
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  1692. Hopefully Labour will instigate an investigation into politicians and others, who have links to the Russian government. It’s long overdue as Johnson seems to have only been a part of the problem.
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  1693. Playing a trumpet takes skill and control, being a trumper requires neither
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  1694. Nor is the state media, and most privately owned “news” channels
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  1695.  @Myndir his policies were bad, they are now downright terrible for British interests.
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  1696. You’re prepared to vote for a snowflake that doesn’t like to be questioned.
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  1697. Because liberal media is woefully equipped to deal with Trump. They can only think about one thing at a time.
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  1698. And paid hush money to a potential victim of abuse.
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  1699. Groups across the animal kingdom tend to need an in group and an out group to reinforce social cohesion. Note I say groups, it won’t include every individual within a group.
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  1700.  @richardbradbury3658  did you miss the part where I mentioned it’s about groups, nit necessarily all the individuals? there is no getting away from the fact we are animals. To think otherwise is foolish, as evidenced by the riots. I would expect the rioters would also say their position is based on their beliefs and common values. Nigel Farage shares common values with Trump, Bannon, Le Pen, and Miloni. It would be much nicer if he could share more common values with his neighbours, i.e, us. It may not need to be a petty nationalism, maybe a shared appreciation of cultural and societal achievements.
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  1701.  @Amonynous he listed a few solutions in the video. Maybe you should watch it.
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  1702.  @perkinscrane  the only reason to go into coalition was with the Tories was to implement PR and Clegg screwed it up. A lot of voters felt betrayed that he accepted the AV referendum not a PR one. Left leaning Libdems were already disenchanted after Clegg dragged the party right. Honestly most I know went to the greens, not Labour.
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  1703.  @perkinscrane  you mean the Libral Democrats? I was Liberal Democrat voter back then, and followed with great interest. There was a lot of other information if you had cared to ask Lib Dem’s MPs at the time. But in broad brush strokes, you are fine for large swaths of the population to be disenfranchised by a corrupt system that redraws boundaries to favour the main parties. And a party can achieve total control with only a plurality of the vote? I didnt agreed with UKIP on so many level, but it was utterly disgusting that they had no representation in parliament in spite of getting a similar share of the vote to the Lib Dem’s. And compared to the amount of votes, Labour and Conservatives got more MPs compared to overall vote share. Many countries manage to have successful coalition governments, and we have had two since 2010, first under Cameron and then May (with the DUP), so I don’t see it as a massive issue. It’s just a childish scare mongering tactic by those who could lose power and influence.
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  1704.  @catetc  why unfortunately? I look at when there were Christian nations in the Middle Ages, and it seemed horrific. I’m glad the secularism of the enlightenment happened. Protestants and catholics durning each other or some doctrinal difference was quite frankly evil.
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  1705. In theory he can be impeached by congress, then ave a trial in the senate, but that ain’t going to happen.
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  1706. Johnson and mogg would have been taken out back when Johnson was deposed.
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  1707. Like Cool Britainnia? That seems like a recent example of what you suggest. I agree, how to get to a place where we can have some positives to celebrate. Being slightly less rubbish than last year already seems like an uphill slog.
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  1708.  @roosterbooster6238  far right in that’s she’s completely way out right. Zero regulation, zero immigration, and she’s introducing a tonne of thought police stuff, anti protest, anti freedom, anti union legislation. Current the government which she is a senior member, are planning to introduce laws to allow about the blanket removal of many more rights on the whim of a minister.
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  1709. Maybe it was the constant handling of the bone that did it 😂 He’s brilliant
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  1710. Sure you were subbed, sounds really plausible. You seem like exactly the progressive audience that these guys would attract. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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  1711. Most of these people obviously aren’t involved in politics….
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  1712. The police don’t need to tell you anything, and It can prejudice an investigation.
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  1713.  @alanpage3973 not directly, but the leader of the political party is traditionally the future PM, and the figure head. Some elections were decided because the public didn’t want a particular leader. PMs appointed by the party after a leaders removal have always struggled with legitimacy. Major, Brown, May, Truss, Sunak. Only with Major did the electorate agree with the party.
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  1714. Nah, they should vote tactically.
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  1715. Tories asking for a free pass…. Again. @&£? Holes
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  1716. Trumps America is uniting the world against the US.
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  1717.  @andrewroberts8959  no, he said neopeasant bullshit won’t be able to feed the population. Efficiency has nothing to do with it. We don’t have the land.
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  1718. He didn’t say no, he said yes to a debate. It just has not been arranged as yet. They need to work out who’s involved. Would it just Labour and Tories, or include SnP, Lib Dem, Green, Reform? Which broadcaster(s) bbc, ITV, C4, Sky? It’s a silly question to ask him really. Labour can’t decide for all these other parties.
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  1719. Based on the official figures, All the royal palaces combined got around the same number of tourists as the Louvre (3.8 million) in their best year ever. They get between half and a third of the number of visitors the palace of Versailles attracts. Basically, they are closed too much as the royals live there. So getting rid of the monarchy would allow more time for the palaces to be open and drive up tourism.
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  1720. Really? I must have missed that subtext 😂
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  1721. Richard, I don’t think they are from the Austrian school. Musk and Theil (the guy who groomed and funded JD Vance) are accelerationists. This isn’t an capitalist economics theory, it’s a social model.
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  1722. STV is a way of large parties stealing votes via the back door and pretending it’s a choice.
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  1723.  @notjustforhackers4252  not an option everywhere. And also, they currently aren’t supporting PR so aren’t seriously angling for LD supporters.
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  1724. Right wingers are just weird.
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  1725. I expect you always voted putin tbh
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  1726. They are a big corporation. The crown estate owns tonnes.
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  1727.  @tonyb9735 well said 👍
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  1728. You are oversimplifying the issue, the issue is to have the sick pay, you need more workers to cover the sick days. That then raises costs. I’m sure they can afford it, but still. I agree with your premise as a Brit, but it’s more complex than you portray it to be.
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  1729. Democrats - disappointed in hunter braking the law Republicans - disappointed the system found Trump broke the law Seems like a well functioning country.
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  1730. I agree it rarely works for what it’s worth.
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  1731.  @lloydnaylor6113  yeah, that’s gonna work for highly skilled jobs that need many years experience, which are a significant portion of them.
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  1732.  @lloydnaylor6113  that’s not an immigration or EU problem is it. Unemployment nationally is at a nearly 40 year low. There could also be other reasons for being unable to secure work for example Invisible health issues or criminal convictions. You can’t make someone stay in a job who doesn’t want one, and you cant starve people.
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  1733.  @lloydnaylor6113  you have completely lost me. I responded to the initial post with release the hounds. Are you responding to someone else? The Albanian things a complete mess, We do have an agreement with Albania to take back the ones we don’t want, but that’s only around 25% last time I looked. They are not refugees as they are economic migrants. Not sure why this is an EU issue? France repeatedly offer to help, but we said no. Though Braverman started talking to France recently.
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  1734.  @lloydnaylor6113  please read my previous response again. They are under no obligation to take them back. We, Britain, terminated the agreement covering such matters. Successive Home Secretaries have declined to put an agreement in place to help the situation until the current one got told to against her ideological principles. Why do you think it’s their problem? They are a separate sovereign country and not beholden to us in any way other than the bare bones temporary trade agreement and NATO. Obviously you knew what you voted for, as this was part of discuss, and unless we had a soft Brexit and stayed in CU and EEA was always going to happen. Btw, France was (and is) a net contributor just like Britain and puts in more than it gets out. So we didn’t give money to France, they got a rebate on there own money just like we did.
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  1735.  @lloydnaylor6113  there are, it’s called the Return Directive. It places obligations on member states. Though I don’t think it’s the regulations you would want them to be. It doesn’t require immigrants to be sent back to France, it requires them to be sent back to their home country if unsuccessful. Several non EU countries have agreements one this. We are not one of them.
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  1736. This isn’t the issue you think it is. Peace keepers being attacked isn’t the issue. It’s peace keepers that are ignored while the Russians invade and they can do nothing. Like in the former Yugoslavia. They could only return attacks so were ignored and could do nothing.
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  1737. Your comment is odd, are you a bot? Do people consider AI an authoritative source now? 😂
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  1738. France wasn’t offered membership. Macron as to attend to find out about it and was told no.
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  1739.  @KEITHJOHNPAUL  well according the the ballot your brother is in the minority within the union, assuming he is in the union. It does seem to show the Im alright Jack attitude often displayed with these anecdotal stories. I’m ok, ergo everyone should be. Has he not noticed the price rises?
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  1740.  @rogersweet3608  your words make no sense? His members aren’t getting paid line with inflation, but the bosses salaries and ministers jobs are. The greed is in the top 1% where it always is.
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  1741. The conservatives have always been the party of uncontrolled greed. Why are people surprised by this?
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  1742.  @chatham43  what do you mean? We left Europe, so we abdicated this crown. A lot of investment went to Paris catapulting it up the rankings above other European financial centres.
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  1743. Her and Raynor, both good candidates for succession.
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  1744. Funny how the Tories forget that last general election, Boris wasn’t allowed to campaign for fear of him losing the election. Cummings hid him out of sight.
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  1745.  @paulpaisley5291  these rioters are not protecting anything. That’s a meaningless statement.
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  1746. I’m seriously hoping Boris is elected and a bunch of Tories cross the aisle…. I doubt it will happen as Tories aren’t that principled
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  1747. Why should the government pay attention to a petition to overturn a democratic vote? It’s not like those people voted for the current government.
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  1748. The first, nonces are not nice people. They belong in the nonce wing of a prison…
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  1749. When it affects them more like. Which will likely be way after it was too late.
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  1750. God, arguing with an expert. Must be a brexiteer.
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  1751.  @sam3317 nice sound bite, please provide evidence to support this.
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  1752.  @simonl4657  what now? What would austerity look like then?
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  1753.  @donnacreamer4123  the jury did.
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  1754. The times are not a bastion of impartial news. They are true blue tory.
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  1755. Why? It was peaceful, planned with police, and lawful. See, you don’t get arrested if it hits all three of these criteria. The JSO were peaceful, but it wasn’t planned and it wasn’t lawful. The organisers all had various prosecutions and most had outstanding suspended sentences. Finally they were unrepentant and used the court as a pulpit. Not being funny, they brought it on themselves.
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  1756. Putins just as cognitively impaired as trump and biden. Three old men past their prime.
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  1757. Idiot caller. Don’t know the first thing about anything. And they wonder why remainders feel hurt and betrayed. We know what we lost, they don’t know what they gained.
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  1758. You missed pigs mouth in the list of achievement’s
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  1759. Lack of representation from votes cast is the only reason for the two party system.
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  1760. What’s wrong with socialism. It has a better track record that our capitalism.
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  1761.  @fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617  you are conflating Communism and fascism with Socialism. For some examples; UK, France, Germany, as a very short list of G7 nations, but I could list pretty much of the developed world. All operate on socialist capitalist ideals. You do realise you are completely wrong on this?
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  1762.  @fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617 so much to unpack here. Did read my response? I gave you three named examples of successful societies that make use of socialist principles, as does much of the rest of the world. Can you explain how these have failed? Marx wanted Socialism to be the first step to communism, but communism hasn’t as yet been successful. I’d say it fails for exactly the same reason capitalism is failing. People are the worst, they are greedy and act in against the common good if they feel they can. Most countries that use socialism as part of the political system have no intention of going to full communism. The Nazi Party were anti capitalist and anti Marxist, they added socialist to the name to appeal to left leaning voters (which Hitler actually opposed) but was considered far right for much of its existence. I mean Hitlers main enemies where “socialist Jews”. Hitler himself thought that facism was neither left nor right. I know you think you understand these things, but id suggest you read some political science books and actually inform yourself.
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  1763.  @fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617  I gave you three already, In a previous reply. France Germany, UK. All three are in the G7
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  1764.  @coopsnz1  in what way are France and Germany worse?
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  1765.  @coopsnz1  yes and? They have far greater eviction protection and renting is seen as a long term service. It’s not seen as a negative.
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  1766.  @coopsnz1  it’s hasn’t in the UK thus far. Quite the opposite, it’s neoliberalism on steroids
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  1767. What witch hunt? The guys been found guilty of committing crimes. Trump never argues he’s innocent in court, only that he’s immune.
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  1768. Political science is a soft science. It’s a soft science because it lacks predictability. What an awful and patronising person Rachel.
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  1769. It’s impossible to ignore the USA president when he’s destabilising the word. It’s affecting the global economy and geopolitics.
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  1770.  @PortilloMoment  I agree, I just read the James O’Brian book, How they Broke Britain. It reads like the Iliad with all the connections in the “great and good” who run the country and are influential in the media.
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  1771.  @TC8787-yq7og  I thought the source was the Kremlin?
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  1772. It seems conceptually flawed as most left wing movements are more internationalist. But I await Ollie detailing it in a book in 6 to 12 months.
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  1773. If you like this, watch some of Robert Reichs speeches from around the same time. I appreciate he is a US commentator, but he was far more detailed in his predictions.
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  1774. The issue is if Labour don’t do a good job and make a real difference to peoples lives, they will be a one term government and we will be in a very dark place politically. So stop thinking about this election in isolation, what comes after will be just as important was what happens on the 4th of July.
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  1775.  @geoffpegler4506  let’s hope the manifesto has enough in it to be encouraging them. Labour needs to be more than just the main anti tory vote.
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  1776. He never held as much as a junior minister post, so citation needed.
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  1777. Just for info, this is an opinion of why it might happen, not an agreement of the sentences 😅. So don’t do a pile on.
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  1778. This aged well…
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  1779. Boris resigned as PM because he appointed a sex pest. Not because of party gate. Your saying don’t do revisionism whilst being revisionist….
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  1780. Hi Richard, Trump was reported as saying he wants to carve up the world in his call to Putin. It’s utterly worrying.
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  1781. He seems to not understand the big turn off he has is his age among independents. He needs their votes in swing states. It not about democrats who will vote for a donkey with a blue rosette. It’s basically watching Corbyn play out in 2015. Right message, right policies, Wrong man.
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  1782. Maybe it’s why Starmer is a vegetarian, doesn’t want to get torpedoed by bacon sandwich
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  1783.  @annesaunders3851  sorry? The issue is some pharma CEO are arguing for the opposite, they want deregulation. The regs were created as a result of 100s thousands of people world wide dying from adulterated medicine, and many more being affected by poor study design. There are issues in Pharma, but the regs aren’t one of them. The lack of independent studies is the biggest one.
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  1784.  @annesaunders3851  i reread your comment and you say I’m bought? So you think we should be more trusting of big pharma? Do you really trust them to work properly without a regulatory framework work overseen by an independent inspectorate? Just look back at the FDA in the 1980s to see what happened then. It was a massive scandal.
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  1785.  @DizGuys you think neoliberalism is socialism? It’s literally the polar opposite.
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  1786. Not bankers, politicians and the super rich?
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  1787. Sounds expensive and time consuming. Unfortunately I doubt there’s much of a choice.
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  1788. He would have dodged that draft too
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  1789. You can also use wealth as a colloquial sense to describe having enough money for the things you want and having a bit left over for saving. I hope this is the context he is using, but what choice do we have. The Greens aren’t serious about defence, and the Libdems imploded after the coalition. Niether can form a government, and considering how hard the Tories are trying to lose the election, a hefty majority for Labour seems likely.
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  1790.  @abody499  I’m sorry, but I prefer to live in the world we have rather than than the one you made up. History is littered with tyrants and empires rising and falling. Pretending you have some kind of moral high ground makes us immune to the external world is just childish and irresponsible, it just makes us more of a target than Brexit already made us.
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  1791.  @WarrenPeaceOG  Greens would rundown our military and remove our nuclear capability, I’m sorry but I can’t vote for that. Western liberal ideals have never been as weak as now. Currently a lot of our allies are turning to authoritarianism. The greens are a wishful party and assumes the best in people, which is utterly naive and bears no resemblance to our lived experience. They seem to pay no heed to history which’s has shown that peace is temporary and is only ever maintained by force of arms.
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  1792.  @grassygnoll3345  failed on devolution? In which way?
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  1793. How can this muppet defend that peice of @(£*… the mind boggles
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  1794. Yes, it shows how advanced they are.
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  1795.  @user-py2mf3nb8g  remoaner? No this is brexit tears the farmers are again shedding. You must be properly dim if you think it’s not the big elephant in the room. EU Subsidies was the only thing making many farms profitable.
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  1796. In the USA they have massive consultancy companies to vilify and suppress union set ups. They run massive disinformation campaigns aided and abetted by corporate media on both sides. The companies run “training” courses, they screen company communicates for key words. They have managers listen out for terms used in the work place. It’s all very much like the way a secret police works.
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  1797. So no Jeremy, they don’t have a play book. They have a whole industry dedicated to it.
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  1798. And next week we will get an opinion piece about how climate change isn’t real, sponsored by Big Oil…
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  1799. It’s makes little difference if he doesn’t. He can’t escape sanctions and his support base seems to be weakening. If there is a by-election and he loses, they can even say he will win elections anymore.
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  1800.  @adenwellsmith6908  the pension is only an issue because the wealthy have decided they do not want to pay even an equal proportion of a share. They pay far far less than me as a percentage of my salary if they are not salaried.
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  1801.  @oneleggedwonder1 that was from the Tory Spectator. So it’s likely worse.
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  1802. The main problem is the net works and “old school tie” issues. It’s also the complete lack of competence that we have seen in politics for the last 16 years with a bunch of public schoolers.
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  1803. One of the best things about the English language is the meaning and nuances change over time. It’s not “owned” by anyone. Woke meant something else prior to the appropriation of the term. Maybe don’t use short slang to express complex social and political problems as it’s easy to weaponise, and the bigots are constantly doing this.
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  1804.  @paddymeboy  liberalism was a big cause of the depression, they attempted and failed austerity to get out of the depression, then adopted Keynesian economics which worked. It’s almost like history repeats if you don’t remember or understand its lessons.
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  1805.  @stephfoxwell4620 I don’t think truss knows where she is most of the time 😊
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  1806. I don’t think the Democrats are thinking about the voters they need to win over. It’s sad really, it’s what happened here in the UK with Jeremy Corbyn. A lot of support from his base, but couldn’t win the swing.
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  1807.  @red-blue3430  nope, they dont have anything particularly interesting to say. It’s all lies, fear and fake patriotism. They can get in the bin. This is not how too respect murdered little girls. And you can get in the bin for defending such despicable behaviour. I grew up alongside people like this, members of the NF and Combat 18. It’s not a new message I need to reconsider.
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  1808. Could you let me know where the right to mourn undisturbed is codified? Because I think you made it up.
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  1809.  @rjkmusicmedia  I don’t think you know what whataboutisum is, it “is the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue.”* The original comment was about Tories, and then your comment, to paraphrase was, but what about Labour and that that are just as bad. That’s literally a classic case of it. Please stop criticising other people who understand the meaning of the language. *Source Oxford Language, but both Cambridge and Merriam-Webster-Webster have an almost identical definitions.
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  1810.  @rjkmusicmedia  I’m sorry, your response isn’t very logically coherent. What was wrong with my previous summary? I have explained why I believed your post to be a whatisaboutisum argument. I provided a definition of the current societal meaning of the term to ensure we are both on the same page as to what it is to enable discussion. Please can you deconstruct my points if you disagree? I’m happy to stand corrected if I’m incorrect. Yes I agree whatisaboutisum an exceptionally weak argument. It’s down there name calling. I can no longer see your original post I replied to, so I’m guessing it was deleted or reported?
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  1811.  @rjkmusicmedia  I’m still not getting you, the dicussion was a rather vile member of the Tory party on abortion. What has has that got to do with the Labour Party? I mean, his views aren’t even representative of most Tories MPs and Voters.
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  1812.  @rjkmusicmedia  I don’t report comments as a rule unless they are threatening or inciting violence. I’m at a loss how my previous comment partisan. I just said it’s not a view shared by most Tories. I also haven’t mentioned my opinion of any other party, including Labour. Debate is usually around a specific idea or topic. The topic of the video is an MP, who until recently held high office in the UK, and still wields a lot of political power via the ERG, has views which are generally considered extremely regressive and that are contrary to those of the general population. It’s probably worth his constituency knowing this so they can consider it when electing an MP. There are plenty of videos around discussing labours perceived sell out to the corporations, which i expect was your point. But this is an abortion discussion, and discussing other issues would deflect the conversation away from the original topic and water down the debate. I expect you may not agree, if so, we will have to agree to disagree. I daresay we have a fair bit of common ground on the other topic though.
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  1813.  @johnnotrealname8168  no, that argument still wouldn’t work, it would still be cheaper to import workers. They are educated, trained at not cost to the country. The country wouldn’t need to worry about the healthcare costs of growing up. There is always the calculation that migrant workers return to the origin country and don’t then cost in their retirement either. Btw, abortion isn’t murder.
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  1814.  @rjkmusicmedia  I’m pro women’s right to have an abortion if they want/need to yes. It’s not my place or yours to decide for women what they do with their bodies. I’m not a member of the Labour Party nor normally a Labour voter unless there is no other choice. This this imaginary strawman you have created, while fascinating, doesn’t seem to be correct.
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  1815.  @johnnotrealname8168  it’s also what governments do. Maybe if we redistributed wealth, it wouldn’t be so bad? I mean, to the top 1% need all that’s money sat doing nothing?
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  1816.  @milantrajceski8322  well yes it is, because people didn’t take the time to read through what the EU actually do. So now we are out of the EU and all its doing making it harder to get products and skill Labour into the country.
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  1817.  @vincentblack7467  the industry i working is highly paid / highly skilled. There aren’t enough qualified workers to fill vacancies. End of. Companies are now having to consider sponsoring non-nationals or spending a lot more time developing unqualified people (well, skilled people from other parts of industry who are in short supply too). This slows everything down and basically knackers project timelines.
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  1818. Liz Truss is an abject embarrassment to Britain, even the Tories are seeing this after what is effectively a week in power. Trashed the pound ffs
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  1819.  @peterrobierto7435 which other two?
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  1820. ⁠ @zoltan-zq3xe you seem to forgot to log into your other account to agree with yourself. 🤡
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  1821. Andrew Marr showing his authoritarian credentials again. “We need strong government” the mantra of the authoritarian. Many countries have PR and do not struggle forming government. And France doesn’t have a PR system…. Andrew you are too neoliberal, and that’s a major reason for current electoral calculus.
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  1822. Growth for who?
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  1823.  @martinsingfield  surely you have just described the neoliberal status quo I alluded to?
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  1824. @ it didn’t come off that way to me, and the way most billionaires act they invented everything. It’s best to never muddy the waters on this.
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  1825.  @southernfried19  the part about them not letting staff form unions obviously.
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  1826. Goodbye NHS…
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  1827. Sadly all true except the lionisation of Mick lynch.
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  1828. Italy has as big a military force as Germany. Spain and Poland are fourth and Fifth. Poland and Finland are both worried about Russian expansionism and have been very hawkish, much like Macron.
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  1829. Concentrated wealth = concentrated political power = rising inequality
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  1830. It’s gobbles play book. Repeat a lie often…
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  1831. The democrats need a rapid response team to challenge each and every illegal or unconstitutional act in the courts.
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  1832. As a British Subject I agree. It’s a stupid outdated way to select a head of state. And get rid of the House of Lords too.
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  1833.  @WH-hi5ew  it’s the kind of thinking that creates caste/class systems tbh.
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  1834. Batteries are not renewable. A fact missed by the renewables crowd….
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  1835. This party political broadcast was brought to you by Double Down News.
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  1836. the uk did it to itself. People were warned what would happen, morons called it project fear.
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  1837. Thirster Bell was made a minister yesterday. Given the flack Reeves is causing, I’m wondering if this is a plan…
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  1838. He’s a former UK politician, and he agreed that the UK couldn’t cover the full cost of aid. Maybe listen again, as you didn’t seem to grab all the nuance.
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  1839. You mean the investigations that have thus far had 42 separate people convicted criminally? I smell bullshit, and clearly the 51 like you have show how uncritically people think.
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  1840. @ it is, which is why the inquiries covered more than just the Rochdale cases. What’s odd is Tommy ten Names is in prison for trying to undermine the case against some groomers because they are his mates. He knows a lot of wrong uns does Tommy. Also Musk is in a government with a bunch of criminals and abusers.
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  1841. Forking hell! That sounds expensive
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  1842. And reasons are not excuses!
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  1843. Sadly, most of these twats don’t represent any part of the union…
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  1844. The government and right wing media are actively pushing this, but the public hasn’t bought it fortunately.
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  1845.  @Yawnyaman  ah, someone intimidated by education and reason. 🤡
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  1846. That’s an idea for sure. So you don’t value experience? There are a bunch of older states persons who improved over the years, Benn, Clarke, Hesseltine, Ashdown, harmen, hodge, Corbyn being just a few. Just because you don’t know many MPs doesn’t mean they aren’t doing a good job. Arguably a good constituency Mp shouldn’t have the best national profile, as they will often be focused on representing there area. In short, I don’t think this is a good idea.
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  1847. @ yes, blame the poor not the rich dodging their fair share. Jeez
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  1848. The issue is they are hampering recovery and growth as they are tying their hands behind our backs. Who is doing this? The enemies of growth, the Tory Party
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  1849. I think it’s more the former as they don’t seem to understand. They are neoliberal to the core it seems. As it plays into big businesses favour, it’s allowed to perpetuate.
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  1850. As musk is part of the government now, any censorship on X seems like it could be a 2nd amendment issue.
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  1851.  @TheOutsider840  except we drove a lot of the EU laws you porport to hate. What was your least favourite?
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  1852.  @TheOutsider840  we now get to write our own laws based on EU much as we did. But now we have no say in the drafting of it
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  1853.  @MattStanton1999 Poland kicked them out earlier this year. It’s got a centrist government under Donald Tusk now
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  1854.  @csharpe5787  it’s not splitting hairs, they don’t have a commanding majority like they do in the commons. To say anything else is a lie worthy of a Tory.
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  1855. It’s rarely easy to prove a negative, indeed it scientifically impossible. Allegations will carry with you and people often have the, no smoke without fire mentality. Anyone googling your name would find them. I think you underestimate the power of a false allegation. Both rape and a false allegation have the power to significantly ruin someone’s life, and potentially be the reason for ending it. You also clearly have too much faith in the legal system to find the truth of it. It’s pretty imperfect.
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  1856.  @debbieparnell7582  again, you seem to underestimate the impact of serious life ruining/ending impact of a false allegation. In that context they ARE the victim. You also underestimate the vindictiveness of people. One persons rights don’t trump some else’s. Rape is a difficult to impossible crime to prosecute because it’s often one persons word against another, we therefore have no idea how many cases are “true” cases because of this. The statistical error and under reporting is also ridiculously bad. Basically you are proposing people are guilty until proven innocent. You are abandoning the ideal that justice should be blind and impartial. You blame the courts even though it’s a near impossible crime in many situations to prove. This is absolutely ridiculous and evil perspective. It’s not condescension, it’s disgust.
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  1857. That last caller, absolutely brilliant
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  1858. Greenland is not for sale either, I think the point is it will be under coercion, and historical rights mean nothing to an invader. I appreciate that Richard is saying Farage Trump, but it’s unlikely to be farage given Trumps age. More like the UK is given an offer it can’t refuse.
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  1859.  @lonevoice Richard’s argument doesn’t make sense at all. It assumes it’s an either or when there could be both. It assumes we can’t increase transparency in finance, which frankly needs to happen to aid income tax generation. Also, it assumes that we can’t tax wealth on specific items initially, and then expand the system as transparency increases. It could be a 15 year plan, not a day one objective. I like Richard’s plan, but the system needs to be looked at holistically.
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  1860.  @boydx4687 it’s a Russian bot I expect
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  1861. The tories laid a lot of the ground work for this too.
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  1862. Seems like what trump wants too
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  1863.  @WalkOverHotCoal  and live the longest
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  1864. He’s getting government money for that.
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  1865. They believe it’s all faked as it’s easier to ignore.
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  1866. Yes and it will be the easiest deal in history, and no one is saying we will leave the customs union. Farage and Tice lie as often as they breath.
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  1867. The racists didn’t like the contents because they want to choose their own reality.
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  1868. What a disingenuous liar.
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  1869.  @djdefk2  I didn’t strawman, I called them out for using another fallacy. Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about....?") is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation. For info A straw man argument is when someone sets up and then disputes an assertion that is not actually being made. I’ve now taught you about two fallacies so maybe can get it right next time.
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  1870. Because a union representing those kinds of work is not on strike at the moment. Unions represent the members, not random people off the street.
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  1871. Growing up on the other side of Essex, this is a familiar story. Ignorant people on the whole, doing whatever it takes to cut off their own noses. Never realising they are the cause of much of the problem. The Tories don’t have any policies that help these people.
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  1872. More like 47 years, but I agree with your point.
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  1873. Safe Tory seats populated by people full of greed.
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  1874. Completely in agreement George. Let’s hope we can turn it around, but the right wing have stolen a massive March.
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  1875.  @kevinu.k.7042  the government are playing both sides. Then trying to claim to be principled? I guess the silver lining is it’s just as likely to be incompetence as corruption.
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  1876.  @chatham43 the HoL and it did a terrible job at it.
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  1877.  @paulwainwright6903  bless, their brexit gave us higher levels of immigration if you see it as a negative. So yeah, vote for the muppets who never did anything of any note in the country but make it poorer and weaker.
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  1878. All writing there CVs in there heads I expect.
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  1879. All the green peace protesters did was unite the hall behind Liz Truss. They were not behind her before
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  1880. @Don Doodat no, but a badly received speech would have hastened the end far more quickly than the green peace stunt. Can you imagine how the right would be eating themselves right now if there was only a bit of polite clapping instead of that weird ovation?
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  1881. @Don Doodat I agree with you about it the verbal bit , both Obama and Biden have acted with more class in that respect.
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  1882.  @voodoochile333  He would not go on JOB as he stormed out last time. He complained to the BBC when he got a proper interview in the election and demanded an apology. He’s a thin skinned coward and a liar. He lied in the interview saying he has never promoted political violence.
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  1883. As a British person looking in, Bernie was the adult. If he hadn’t intervened he would be complicit. Remember, he could have adjourned the session, the old pro knew not too 😉
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  1884. He left the 80th D-Day celebration early to have a pre-recorded interview with a TV station as part of his election campaign. It’s the latest in a long line of massive gaffs that even the right wing tory supporting media can’t defend.
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  1885.  @peteredwards2318  sorry but I don’t agree with you. The data does show as a country we are less productive and the same is true across the whole western world. That’s why offshoring to China has been happening for years and it’s been done by business, not government. It’s commonly considered both cheaper and more productive. Successive Governments have repeatedly had to bribe companies to set up or even stay. The Tories ignore the reasons to straw man lazy worker fallacies. We need to shout from the roof why. Arguing the data is incorrect when it’s broadly accepted just makes you look like you don’t know what you are saying. They compare us to China, where people are worked to death, that’s why they are more “productive”. It’s a pure numbers game. The issue is multifaceted, it’s not purely moral or ethical. There’s a lot of social and commercial, consumer issues here. Should workers be able to have a life? Or is productivity all that matters? These nasty neoliberals will clearly go with the latter. Yes, it’s not the only issue, but it’s the one that plays well with their support base. The whole purpose of Brexit and this government has been to enable stripping of rights and protections to allow this. They started removing a lot of rights to protest first. People working extra jobs isn’t the anything like the norm, so while a problem, it’s not really part of this debate at the moment.
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  1886. Satire I assume?
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  1887. All think tanks should have transparent financing. End of
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  1888. He was forced to resign because he was a liability to the Tory party because he was protecting sex pests. He was losing votes and his polling and the Tory polling fell off a cliff. He could have stuck out as an MP but be ran away like a coward because he was going to lose his seat.
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  1889. Many countries have a better system, but I agree in principle, the voting system needs urgent reform.
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  1890.  @M2Mil7er  cheers I’ve amended the comment to be longer for the algorithm.
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  1891.  @physiocrat7143  the practice of taking over a company and selling each of its assets separately at a profit without regard for the company's future.
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  1892.  @AuntieSoso no, it’s not. Outside the M25 and surrounded by countryside. It’s not like Romford or Chigwell.
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  1893.  @mrD66M he broke impartiality to save Starmer from a Labour rebellion.
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  1894.  @whssy  minor correction, but an alpha isn’t usually considered a full release version like 1.0, more like a 0.0.1 dependent on the numbering convention employed.
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  1895.  @whssy  love the comment though
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  1896. Given the state the country is in, are you honestly saying that all politicians are the same? The Tories have wrecked the country, and sold off everything. We are in a position where we can’t even drink tap water in some parts of the country. I would suggest anyone but tory is a good vote.
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  1897. I think John two bottled it when challenged with the facist line and went to pieces rather than is bonkers.
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  1898. I can’t have conversations with people who have a different view of reality to me. They just don’t care about facts. The democrats tried to appeal to feelings but it didn’t work.
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  1899.  @chrisgarstin9302 are you expecting to be taken seriously little boy?
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  1900. Bunch of lying self serving cowards. How can any decent person align with this party these days.
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  1901. No they don’t, the select house committee already have investigated. There needs to be ACTION!
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  1902. And number of seats over one is a real achievement for this bunch of idiots.
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  1903.  @Mikacool Toryboy has entered chat.
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  1904.  @jongalloway726  thanks for the correction 👍. So it’s basically private provision of state school places. Isn’t that more like an academy setup rather than a public school though?
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  1905. Not the Scottish Greens which are separate
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  1906. I love that scowl owl is back!
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  1907. When I was a serving Constable the human rights act made me personally, and the constabulary liable for contravening freedom of association and expression without significant cause. Odd the Tories want that repealed.
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  1908. The truly insane ones don’t believe Dinosaurs existed
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  1909. Labour should steal it, after years of Tory Neglect, we need to get back to square one.
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  1910. Professor Tim, Thank you for the content. Hope the treatment and recover go well. Have you considered getting some moderators for your channel to save you doing it yourself? It may spare your mental health a bit. Anyway, a small gift of appreciation to go to the tea kitty. All the best Col.Hertford
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  1911.  @garyb455  it’s about the myth of treating the national budget as a household. A household can’t create money out of thin air. A government will not retire. The only constraint is inflation, so provided there is no inflation the system will work. It’s been used historically after the Great Depression and WW2 and is currently being used by Biden.
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  1912.  @adenwellsmith6908  have a look at a bank note buddy. They say the ‘I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of five/ten/twenty/fifty pounds’. They are not money, they are a promise to pay money.
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  1913.  @nigelknight6688  depends what they have done, arrested for peaceful? protest no, they shouldn’t be arrested. No one should be arrested for peaceful protest.
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  1914. Could you get Mark Blythe on too Politics Joe
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  1915.  @sarahjaneross2918 that’s good though, tyrants need to be charismatic and/feared. Vance is neither.
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  1916. Can you point out an example where he was wrong? Look forward to discussing.
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  1917. It’s a bare faced attempt to hijack democracy. Matt’s also been a key voice Demonising immigrants.
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  1918.  @boota1979 they are useful idiots
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  1919.  @anonymousman2521  Trump is asking Ukraine to pay for a gift. The US should have been clear up front, this is nothing short of extortion.
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  1920.  @pantafine Russia is targeting our infrastructure comrade. They target our social media and elections with disinformation. We are at war.
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  1921. Seems to be PoliticsLaura now. Power to Laura, Laura for Ollie’s Job ✊
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  1922.  @akmpolsen it’s an odd thing to say isn’t it.
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  1923.  @keithad6485  threatening to invade three countries this week cover that one (well four, but Mexico wasn’t restated this week).
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  1924. @ the bit in a response to a question about weather he would use the military to secure them and he said yes. Maybe go watch the press conference, far better than asking second hand commentators on the Internet.
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  1925. He is a green. He mentions this often.
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  1926. Protect Russia more like.
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  1927.  @BenMeddeb  it was built on trade. Britain invaded other countries to facilitate this. It was the driving force behind many of the conquests by the various Empires of the period. India, China, Africa, etc, it was about securing natural resources. Both India and Rhodesia where largely conquered by private interests.
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  1928.  @BenMeddeb  but how is this different for most other nations in history? For example, all nations, not just European ones, traded slaves. The main traders were the African nations that got super wealthy from the practice. And all of those traded slave more recently than Britain as it banned the practice first. Indeed if it wasn’t for Britain, slavery would still be endemic in the world as this was achieved by the British via political and military actions. So the British Empire wasn’t entirely devoid of any merit.
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  1929.  @BenMeddeb  can you list the countries with laws that outlawed slavery prior to Britain? I’m only aware of China briefly, England (kinda), and France Briefly. So much for a myth. It wasn’t common in some nations, but that’s not the same thing. The industrialisation of slavery was tragic error, which is why the abolitionist movement was formed and ended the practice. Which other countries ended the practice? I appreciate the Empire was in many ways terrible, but you need to acknowledge the fact that britain was involved in slavery, it also did more than any other to end it.
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  1930.  @dragonfly6908  I’m going to have to ask why?
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  1931. She’s a Maga nutter
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  1932.  @PaulKelly-p3p  who do you think funds and enables these right wing “movements”. It’s the very right wing elite you pretend to hate.
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  1933. Wasn’t socialism supposed to be a global movement?
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  1934.  @davidpryle3935  yes, the RMT are pretty short sighted and lack vision in this respect. The EU was an excellent forum for social change. Just imagine if socialism had focused on this as a way of bolstering rights across the EU. Neo liberalism is a global movement and the Christian Far Right has been launching a massive attack on our freedoms. It’s impossible to fight this nationally and yet here we are.
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  1935. Led By Donkeys as an amazing bunch of people.
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  1936. Her friends own the media
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  1937. It’s actually about religion, unfortunately religion is the one of the ideas that’s taboo to discuss. And often wilfully conflated with racism to avoid criticism.
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  1938. Probably because of the concept of Proletarian internationalism, which is a communist response to globalist capitalism. I assume having two “sides” allows them to indulge in footballification of the issue and not consider the bigger concepts.
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  1939. A funny sketch at that. The daily show has been pretty even in its reporting over the years, but since Jon came back, it’s extremely on the nose.
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  1940. Looking at this now more details are out, it wasn’t the sketch, but the message in the retweet that was the issue.
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  1941.  @Mcgiver699  the message where the repost was link played to a trope that Jews control the world, which is an antisemitic trope. However, when you look at the various Israeli lobby groups, there is definitely a system where Israeli political influence is being exerted in the US and UK via AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) and the various friends of Israel groups in the UK, which contribute to political campaigns in exchange for what appears to be biased support. The key point is the trope is they control, while the reality is they just influence (albeit pretty successfully).
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  1942.  @alexander92179 ULEZ is necessary, the issue is the scrapage scheme needs to be improved to help the poor. I work in London and the air quality has improved over the last couple of decades. But it’s still utter shite.
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  1943.  @alexander92179  nah, mate, I live just outside of London, and I can tell you the air quality is poor as I get a comparison every time I go in. Why do you think you have a better perspective being stuck in the same poor quality air?
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  1944.  @alexander92179  hence my comment earlier about the scrappage scheme being inadequate. I really don’t understand why you are accepting either? It’s not a zero sum game. It should be possible to have better air quality via ULEZ (which has a lot of data supporting efficacy from a large number of schemes globally) and furnish people impacted with the means for more modern, more reliable cars. If it was a Honda, the government would subsidise heavily.
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  1945. Only because a king decided he wanted the territory…
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  1946. He literally banned a bunch of MAGA accounts when they disagreed with him. He’s not a fan of free speech.
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  1947.  @JesterEric  Truss was also the one to uncap bankers bonuses lest we forget.
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  1948.  @billB101  they could be insta fix. We can invade a country for oil at the drop of a hat with emergency legislation. It’s a choice, don’t kid yourself. My solution would be state funded payments to all political party achieving a vote share of 10% at the last election. Parties under this can get donations but they are capped. It’s hardly radical an idea.
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  1949. He’s trying to rule as a king because he is too weak to govern as a president.
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  1950. Carol, did you just compare a rich southern vs a poor northerner? The comparison should be between the poor southern or poor northerner. A poor southerner will be poorer due to the vast discrepancy of cost of living in the UK, and this is borne out by the figures. There are left behind in the south too, particularly in the southwest, east anglia, Kent, and london.
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  1951. Answer the question. Where are the bloody journalists????? He shouldn’t be able to have another question until he answers the dam question.
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  1952.  @Yournicked  yep, definitely seems party political. But willing rather than under duress
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  1953. Putin was voted in, as were some of the 20th century despots.
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  1954.  @rensoriginal379  examples of what?
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  1955.  @robertfox882 , I mean like any riots. All rioters are @#£&s. Anyone supporting rioters are as bad.
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  1956.  @DasTubemeister  says a user with a German account name? Cool story bro.
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  1957.  @Roat1995  maybe these people are making two points simultaneously? The current Israeli government has been described as far right. The protesters are described as far right. Seems like it’s perfectly legitimate to combine the two at an anti far right protest. They are hardly going to drape the flag, which the far right has misappropriated from the majority of good people in the country and associated it with ridiculous acts of disorder and “potentially” domestic terrorism. We will, take it back and rehabilitate the flag once the petty thuggish criminals are in their gaol cells. Maybe complexity of thought isn’t a strong point of yours? Or maybe you are intelligent enough to work that out and are just being disingenuous? Let me know if I’ve judged you wrongly.
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  1958.  @jen6332  maybe look at the violent crime figures? was trending down under Labour and the first two years of the coalition government. Then there were massive increases from 2013/14 onwards. Maybe blame the Tories instead of the Labour government that’s been in a month?
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  1959. More wilful arrogance from the news media….
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  1960.  @johnnyk7053 PayPal was months from collapse when he was fired as CEO….
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  1961.  @nigelknight6688  why, respect? They (the royals) represent everything wrong with this country. Lack of democracy, lack of meritocracy, vested interests, deference. If they want a private life and death, they can become private citizens (as opposed to subjects). As protests go, these were tame.
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  1962.  @Lee-nv2rg  I respect you opinion 👍. Disagree on this but support your right to have it
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  1963. Saf Afika
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  1964. Tbf, we have higher than the minimum standards the EU demands. But it’s clear this government want to water them down. And sell off what’s left of the family silver while they are at it
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  1965.  @Yournicked  vote for the radical free marketeer who will make the UK more like the hellscape that’s the USA? That would be exceedingly shortsighte.
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  1966. Russia is an imperialist power as is the US. You are a fool if you think there is any difference between them.
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  1967. They call themselves facists mate. Hope that helps.
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  1968. So she thinks Musk is a genius? No he’s not. Also she worked in the tech industry. Sounds like a billionaire friendly plant.
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  1969.  @theoutsider6191  another one who hasn’t read the convention and doesn’t understand what it says. When I was a cop, it protected you from me you idiot.
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  1970. James, the issue is Hoyle showed he was not impartial. That’s the issue and that’s an issue for our democracy. The Labour behaviour was unacceptable engineering this The Tory behaviour was unacceptable with the response The SNP behaviour was unacceptable with the response
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  1971. Arrested means a police constable said “I arrest you”. And the person has temporarily been deprived of liberty. At least one protested was cuffed, which is a use of force for which the officer would need to be prepared to justify in court. It seems excessive for nonviolent / non drug crimes
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  1972.  @Just_another_Euro_dude they dropped the policy after they witnessed the stunning success of Brexit.
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  1973. That’s a good one. Considering his first X branded company was launched in 1999 the year after the movie released in 1998, it feels like maybe it’s a bit close to the bone….
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  1974. Hi Richard, one of the main issues with the current government is they still go to private banks for money, not the BofE. So any government spend will be at terrible terms.
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  1975. He’s an accelerationist. “Accelerationism is a range of revolutionary and reactionary ideas in left-wing and right-wing ideologies that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change, infrastructure sabotage [citation needed] and other processes of social change to destabilize existing systems and create radical social transformations, otherwise referred to as "acceleration".It has been regarded as an ideological spectrum divided into mutually contradictory left-wing and right-wing variants, both of which support the indefinite intensification of capitalism and its structures as well as the conditions for a technological singularity, a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible.” All the tech bros are.
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  1976.  @Johnmillward9092  is that the best you have comrade?
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  1977.  @stephenpockley5665  and I’m sure you knew all about it….
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  1978. @@Vegelen bless someone who doesn’t understand the issue. The issue isn’t foreign workers and never has been. It’s the massive cut the wealthy have taken since the late 1970s early 1980s. But yes, keep fighting fellow workers. All the wealthy off shore money and cause the structural deficiency’s to create deprivation. But yes, blame foreigners… or you could read up on some economics and the failures of neoliberalism and the “shareholder return” business model.
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  1979. As do all police constables
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  1980. Boris lied to parliament then tried to threaten the investigators. I’m sure piers is guilty of a bunch of things, but he hasn’t been found to have done that.
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  1981.  @clivet3252  they are not “just as bad”. No where close, take you lies elsewhere.
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  1982.  @clivet3252  I assume you are a right winger as you seem to have significant difficulty putting the blame on the party in power. The Tories are the government in power and have been for a long time. Why the deflection?
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  1983.  @richardlewis7498  again? They are no where bad as the Tories. Especially with the current bunch. If you were comparing with Majors government then I would agree with you to a point (though economically the Tories have repeatedly trashed the UK economy by themselves, while Labour only were part of a global cause). I mean, you realise that child poverty was pretty much eliminated in the UK and the NHS had a high approval rating? You could even see a doctor same day. So all you have is the second Iraq War. Oddly, you have no problem with the first gulf war which only happened because Saddam was green lit into invading Kuwaiti?
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  1984.  @Yimello  the Overton window has fired right wingers minds so they no longer understand how right wing they are.
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  1985.  @snakeplissken526  how can you privately protest? Seems contradictory. Privately protesting just seems to be called thinking.
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  1986.  @retched  at a guess they either managed or owned and internet service provider.
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  1987. No, the end place is neo-feudalism.
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  1988. Nah, they are facists disappointed with having a more liberal government. They liked the Tories punching down, because they are pathetic.
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  1989.  @CathieStead  it means Piers never lied to parliament, which is what Johnson was investigated for. Johnson wasn’t investigated by this committee for the parties the police had already done that.
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  1990. “Woke” is there term the Christian Right use to stop discussion and force their narrative.
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  1991. I’ve always found Corbyn a bit dull and uninspiring, I really can’t understand why people got so animated about him. But then I witnessed him in action at the same time as Tony Benn, and he just came across as a pale imitation. Personally I would have preferred McDonald as a left wing candidate. A far more sensible choice and a better speaker and debater.
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  1992.  @XAVR_  not true, a lot of his supporters were older left wing members.
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  1993.  @XAVR_  you don’t seem to be willing to acknowledge Corbyns very real flaws. He had no experience in government, even in a junior role. On defence his positions were somewhat controversial. He displayed a reluctance to talk to the right and centre left media to defend himself on issues and smears, and when he did speak to them, he often came across as arrogant, petulant, and preachy. He was indecisive when he had to deal with an issue that went against his personal moral code such as Brexit,and stalled and procrastinated thus creating a vacuum. As a back bencher he just voted conscience and never worried about the politics of those choices. It’s came as no surprise when the PLP were rebelling as that’s the precedent he had set. In short, he seemed more a protest choice than a serious shot at PM to me having followed his career since the late 1980’s. 2015 was a winnable election, as the Lib Dem’s were toast, and Conservatives only won by weaponising Corbyn as a radical, who was an easy target as he is a radical compared to other parliamentarians. This was one of the key concerns his opponents in Labour had, look at how they weaponised a bacon sandwich against Milliband. The left needs to find away of dealing with this demonisation and the left needs a younger more charismatic leader, ideally without the historical statements that didn’t age well waiting to trip them up. I’m not seeing a new figure emerge yet because there’s a Corbyn fixation. It’s a shame, because we really need to move political discourse left and let neoliberalism die in a ditch.
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  1994.  @rjkmusicmedia the point is it’s not democratic, policy is supposed to be announced to Parliament first according the the constitution such as it is. Kemi only recently got a dressing down from the speaker for the same thing. Our system isn’t truly democratic either, more people voted for parties that were not the Tories, but the Tories get an unassailable number of seats.
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  1995.  @rjkmusicmedia  what’s pathetic about following parliamentary process? Also, why don’t you think votes from all voters should be counted? You have a some odd and not particularly democratic opinions. Not sure why following process and believing in fairness for all (yes, even people I disagree with) is Pathetic. Maybe you can elaborate in a coherent and constructive way?
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  1996. He’s also butt hurt about Musk getting more press coverage I’m sure too.
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  1997. We don’t get a say, unless she seeks a proper mandate and calls a GE.
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  1998. Why aren’t the Democrats offering hope. All the neoliberal parties are shit. They offer the same rubbish status quo, and only the far right are offering a change.
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  1999. And this isn’t just in the US, it’s across the entire western world.
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  2000.  @stephenmurray2851 just google it buddy, it’s covered from a range of sources from the telegraph to the guardian.
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  2001. We just had an election, the parties supporting this nonsense did not win. Literally the people did not want this version of Britain anymore (and that’s Labour, Libdems, Greens, and some independents), so stop that silly talk about “the people”.
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  2002. Sure sweetie, and the popes a Protestant…
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  2003.  @MrAckers75  yes, I’m sure Alexei Navalny will agree with you. Russian troll
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  2004. For info, the leading party in Ukraine is a centrist party aligned with the Liberal Democrats. There are a number of parties and independents represented in the parliament, though the current government has a significant majority having been elected on an anti corruption platform.
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  2005.  @22DeusVult22  where as you support the goose stepping kind?
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  2006. Elon got told to shut up in the US after starting a MAGA civil war. This is what he is doing instead, Musk is just bored, because his only hobby is upsetting people.
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  2007.  @PopBubbles-st9sv  cool story
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  2008.  @ppo2424  😂
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  2009.  @kM-ij2ly  no one is self made
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  2010.  @colintawn3535  he was of course referring to the recently removal of the the cap to bankers bonuses by the government. While in reality this made little difference as they had just increased wages to get round this, bonuses were thought to be a cause of the economic crash in 2007 as they encouraged risky behaviour more than salary. Thus increasing the chances of more reckless financial decisions risking the national and global economy. Private companies have been reducing worker pay and conditions year on year even whilst making significant profits. Glad to see you are happy with the race to the bottom. How does concentrating wealth in the hands of those who don’t use it help anyone? It certainly doesn’t help the economy. This is driven by the people referred to in the paragraph above. What does the age of the organisation have to do with its relevance? The British Medical Association was founded in 1832, does this make it irrelevant? Fire fighters still fight fires, but are mainly used to rescue people from car crashes. Fire fighters are still required (speaking as a former police officer). The perception problem I think is they get fewer calls, but fewer of them means they will take longer to get there. Also, when we have large incident, they will struggle to contain them. Much like the army, you hopefully don’t need them all the time, but when you do, you really do. Thank you for your input. Have a great day.
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  2011. “Friends come and go, enemies accumulate” - Chris Norlund 2025 😅
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  2012. Yes, it’s to cover up the fact that’s the second bit of legislation in a year that’s terrible, illegal and won’t work
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  2013.  @stephfoxwell4620  my figures were the Government figures. You are now being dishonest and arguing another point. You first said all foreigners were over represented in prison. That is not true. They are not. There are less foreign born people in prison as a percent of population. If you had said originally that people from some specific countries are more likely to be imprisoned than British citizens then that would have been correct. But you didn’t say it. You misrepresented the data to suit your argument and changed the narrative the moment you were challenged. Finally, it doesn’t suit your anti immigrant point anyways as that means the imprisonment rate for people from all the other countries is even lower than the British born population. So that just means, at worse, we should encourage immigration from those countries instead.
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  2014.  @stephfoxwell4620  the home office don’t record if they are migrants only that they are foreign born which is the same number as you quoted above. And they are not imprisoned at 5 times the number of British born. For that to happen 75% of our prison population would be foreign born. I don’t think you understand the numbers you are quoting.
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  2015. The US is burning through its political capitol. This aid buys a lot of soft power from other countries.
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  2016.  @lestrem11  maybe because the BBC needs fixing not destroying
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  2017. Which party has ridden rough shod over all our traditions? Lied to the late Queen? Ruined our national assets? And they claim to love the country? Hypocrites
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