Comments by "David McCulloch" (@davidmcculloch8490) on "Truth To Power" channel.

  1. In 2020 I asked a question: who would be operationally stupid enough to complete Brexit during a pandemic? Answer: someone who wanted to shift the blame for his crap deal. We are living with this disaster every day and will continue to do so until our politicians admit facts and the media report them.
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  2. Poignant and accurate on every point, Rob. With Brexiters in denial (it's the wrong brexit; or we haven't done brexit) we are the butt of the joke that we created. As usual, there is no honesty from our two largest parties, leaving us in deadlock and decline. The campaign of lies and deceit was successful, yet there is no redress (economic or legal) for the chief liars. The root cause: our political system is not fit for purpose. Who will fix it?
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  3. Simple fact: it's hard for an individual to beat a team. After our fantasy of Global Britain finally met reality we have the first step towards sanity.
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  4. We'd had enough of experts. Now it's the turn of the financial vultures, picking over the carcass of an austerity-impoverished economy. Britain is broken.
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  5. In reality, Global Britain is morphing into Little England. Why? In negotiations, the desparate party is in the weaker position. That would be us after leaving the world's largest trading bloc.
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  6. Promising integrity, professionalism and accountability. Delivering corruption, incompetence and opacity. The ultimate little spiv.
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  7. Remember the oven-ready deal? Levelling up? Integrity, professionalism and accountability? Finally, even some of the hard of thinking voters begin to see the lies. Well done for your work in exposing the Tory garbage, Rob.
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  8. I had an interesting exchange of comments with a Brexiter this week. After failing to answer the two most poignant questions (asking to name a brexit benefit or how long is long-term?) he resorted to asserting that we hadn't yet left the EU. The withdrawal from reality is so severe that such acolytes are apparently living under a stone. But then looking back on the serial liars - having had enough of experts and denouncing reasoned facts as project fear - it's easy to comprehend the reality of the brexit sh1t-show.
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  9. I was gratified to hear that King Chuck had received a cool (extra) 45 mill while we as humble subjects lost our winter fuel payment. I guess the ensuing anger raised my body temperature for the rest of winter.
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  10. When Truss is "very clear" and blinking like a frenzied rabbit, she is lying. Would love to see her debating Nicola, to identify the real "attention seeker."
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  11. To believe that Brexit is going well, requires an imagination bordering on mindless delusion.
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  12. A great analysis. I have always identified three reasons to vote Tory: greed and self-interest; intellectual laziness; plain stupidity. Enter the populists and serial liars...
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  13. The words of Carl Jung perhaps best describe the psychology of the Leave campaign: "Thinking is hard, that's why most people judge." Blaming the EU for our own incompetent governance was all too easy.
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  14. I have consistently maintained that Brexit is the greatest act of self-harm in my lifetime. Made worse by the operational lunacy of completing Brexit during a pandemic - so our narcissistic and inept PM could deflect the blame. Like many, I have seen the defence of "it was never about economics." In response: it's a pity the Leave campaign didn't say that. We are now at a stage where desparate people are defending the indefensible. There is a clear and obvious solution: rejoin the CU and the single market.
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  15. I would love to assign the Tories to the dustbin of history, but without PR, they will be back with their extreme greed and madness.
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  16. Not only the greatest act of national self-harm in my lifetime, but yet another tool to exacerbate the financial class war.
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  17. It's great to be a pensioner under this government. The Tories have (since 2010) eroded the differential in the income tax threshold; suspended the triple lock; frozen the winter fuel allowance. Yet still we hear friends - decent people - excusing and defending these moronic charlatans. It's great that after seven decades on this planet, some of us are ashamed of our country. Having lived through times of cooperation and community, to now see division and disharmony - triggered by Brexit and propagated by a cabal of sociopaths whose only ability is to use divide and rule. The identification of a common enemy and the deflection of blame being a classic tool of fascism. An elective dictatorship that assumes no responsibility... only entitlement and the proliferation of blame. Britain is broken.
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  18. The money spent on Tice's private education was hardly an investment. Regularly embarrassed by interviewers when he can't answer a simple question, after gaining inordinate publicity in spite of having no seats nor previous credibility in his past party guises. Reform: the grifters who would reform us into a banana republic without the bananas.
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  19. Anyone who has read the Russia Report will recognise the veracity of this video. Why would Russia even listen to Little England when they have us on a string?
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  20. Great information. We have boycotted some products from Tory donors but interesting to learn of more. The funding of political parties by large business and the fact that MPs can take second jobs with them is more than grubby; it's overtly corrupt. Some rail against unions funding Labour yet ignore this palm-greasing cronyism. Time to wake up and smell the coffee, but not Tory funding brands.
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  21. I actually find this both reassuring and frustrating. Hardly surprising that with our undemocratic elective dictatorship so many are disenfranchised with politics and governance. I never supported Brexit. Not only was the economic case flawed, but who would trust our austerity-obsessed Tory government to take back control? Don't stereotype us oldies: I'm in my eighth decade and want the best for my grandchildren, so we try to look forward, not back at our dubious history.
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  22. Great report, Rob. This Fail article was accurately debunked by The Canary, which poignantly called the Fail a shit-rag. Personally, I'm infuriated by the language when calling a pension a benefit (apparently because it's paid from the DWP budget) What did I pay for? Oh yes, my higher rate taxes and NI went to our crooked government.
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  23. More public money spaffed on another brexit disastrous misdirection. Brexit has achieved one growth, in the size of the policy dustbin.
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  24. The only "integrity" shown by Sunak is speaking his biggest lie first. Integrity replaced by sleaze, professionalism by serial lies and accountability by by hiding in a bunker.
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  25. Many of the "top ten" tactics coincidentally used in the promotion of fascism. The worst possible leader at the worst time.
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  26. Experience shows us that when Johnson parrots a slogan, we should expect the opposite. In reality: levelling down. Wishing you a full and speedy recovery, Rob.
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  27. Sunak has shown as a masterpiece of failure and delusion. He is so far out of touch, he expects the majority of us to find him and his cabal of comedy charlatans credible.
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  28. Then it was clearly stupid, in Frost's words, to complete Brexit "in extreme haste at a time of uncertainty." But then the ulterior motive was to deflect from the disaster by blaming Covid.
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  29. Hard as toffee Steve wants to change the rules. After narrowly winning one vote, let's change the rules so we dont lose the next. The classic infantile syndrome of taking his bat home.
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  30. Sunak extols the unique arrangement for NI. So unique, it's exactly what they (and we) had before brexshit. He also takes credit for a lane system, apparently proposed two years ago by the EU and rejected by us.
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  31. When I think that our political system is bad...
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  32. To me this series of strikes heralds the failure of neoliberalism to spread wealth in society. Forcing real term pay cuts on key public service workers, to achieve a small state and accelerate privatisation. Imposing pay restraint to curb inflation which is caused by costs (mainly of energy and food) pushing upwards, so key workers suffer poverty. In reality, free market capitalism is exposed. It is doing what was intended: increasing inequality!
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  33. The loss of EU staff in the care sector has also impacted the NHS, with medically fit patients taking up hospital beds due to lack of home care. Leaving the EU was complex, yet we had a government of jingoistic idiots incapable of assessing the impact on professions relying on key EU staff. Instead they simply told the businesses and professions to "believe" in unicorns and sort out their own mess. Johnson got brexit half-done, and badly. We all face the consequences of his operational incompetence. The PR was so successful that most politicians are afraid of saying so and facing reality.
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  34. In government speak, there are no refugees - just "economic migrants" and "illegal immigrants." Don't "economic migrants" work and pay taxes? How can you be a legal immigrant in this country? Where are the safe channels for immigration and for refugees? Welcome to Global Britain (or, in reality, Little England.)
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  35. The Ausies have always been world class at taking the rip. They didn't need any help from us, yet we volunteered it.
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  36. Just imagine what our oligarch media would say if France had left the EU and was doing what "Global Britain" is doing! Yes, we are an international joke.
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  37. Brilliant video; chilling facts. Yet our MSM (including state rhetoric service the BBC) stays strangely silent. Both my wife and I have recent experience of needing NHS services. Even after years of Tory austerity and a pandemic, it remains exemplary.
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  38. Yes. We must celebrate a year of Brexit success, for disaster capitalists at least. Also thankfully for NI, through remaining in the single market. Looking forward to the unicorns of Brexit comedy in 2022.
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  39. In Patel's dream fascist state, I'm carrying a prohibited object: my brain and my powers of reasoning to see through the shallow populist b'stards.
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  40. The Tories have been a disaster for our economy, except (possibly) for the 1%. The immediate dilemma being that Labour can't move hard and fast enough while accepting Tory fiscal rules. We need to clean up parliament and adopt PR, followed by transformative economics. Tax income from weath at the same rate as work income. Also funnel newly-created money into public infrastructure development, rather than letting banks distribute it to the rentier class.
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  41. This morning Sunak intends to put us on a crisis footing if he becomes PM. That's the effect of 12 years of Tory rule. How would he work that one into an election campaign?. Team Rishi: we make a crisis out of a drama?
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  42.  @davidrenton  "Done better!" How???
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  43. To an outside observer, the Brexshit show must be pure comedy. Jeremy (the proverbial) Hunt was asked to justify it and resorted to the usual rhetoric: "we CAN make a success of brexit" yet couldn't explain how, and further how his budget would help. Just unicorns, fluff and nonsense should be the Brexiter's slogan. Desperate times!
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  44. Interestingly one pro Brexiter declared it a victory for blue collar socialists. I asked what exactly he had won when in reality the whole country had lost. Strangely, no answer so far...
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  45. Nicola was correct, and made Farage look like a vacuous schoolboy in the brexit debates.
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  46. Conclusively, the greatest act of self-harm in my lifetime.
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  47. Mad as a box of frogs. Twice as clueless and useless.
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  48. Populists have a magic formula, to appeal to the intellectually lazy, the hard of thinking and the plain stupid. The conundrum is that their paying followers fail to ask basic questions: what's in it for them? How will it effect me? What will be left of the country when the "disrupters" stop disrupting? Thanks for your good work, Rob, and so many of us wish you well in dealing with your loss.
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  49. If the Labour government was serious about growth, they would also tackle inequality and lead investment rather than going cap in hand, hoping for trickle down.
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  50. I don't believe we have democracy, while votes are unequal. Yet now we are in a state of kleptocracy, as explained by Bernie Sanders. Starmer seems gutless in pandering to wealth and power. Time for political and electoral reform (strictly with a small r)
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