Comments by "David McCulloch" (@davidmcculloch8490) on "LBC" channel.

  1. Anyone who gets on the nerves of the idiots in government has my support. The worst government ever, aspiring to fascism and using the police for political ends. (Shades of Thatcher and the miners' strike)
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  2. Ultimate respect to Martin Lewis. Without his intervention, reported by James, how would we know of this level of corporate corruption? We have a governing party sponsored by business, supported by an oligarch media to complete a cosy club of the financial elite.
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  3. The fact that this party takes sociopathy to a new level surprises me. The fact that many condone it amazes me.
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  4. "Never trusted Labour" in managing the economy is voting by slogan. Labour has consistently borrowed less and paid back more than the Tories. Ask yourself a simple question: Have you been better off under Labour? For the many, the answer is a resounding Yes. Yet the Tories have consistently increased the national debt while habitually resorting to austerity.
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  5. Look up the definition of Sociopath and you have the perfect description of Boris Johnson.
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  6. My only disagreement on language is describing "our democracy." Britain is, in reality, an elective dictatorship. Democracy means government by the people and such a system can either be direct or representative. Our system is unrepresentative, and thus undemocratic. We simply have deliberate mismanagement (masquerading as government) by the elite for the benefit of the few.
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  7. Kudos to Andrew Marr since joining LBC. He is finally holding the government to account. Great reporting.
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  8. The brexit cult members are easily recognisable: they use the word "remoaner" without realising it actually has proven to mean a realist.
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  9. There is one thing he won't ban, as a cast-iron certainty: lying in the House of Commons.
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  10. If you want to manufacture consent, don't speak truth to the people. Create an alternative universe and insist it's reality.
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  11. As part of my humble upbringing, it was normal to believe we had "betters." Then, after the benefit of education, life experience and working alongside some of those deemed "betters," I learned that so many were promoted beyond their competence and mistook hubris for confidence. Never buy the story of subjugation and inequality. The wisest and best consistently show humility and humanity.
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  12. This does not affect me personally, yet I'm appalled. It was inevitable and obvious. Send EU workers back and create a shortage of trained labour through market forces. As a consequence: 'take any job, plebs. Think of the poor tax payer.' Welcome to the system that persuades the poor to vote for the rich to have more while labelling people who have paid into the system as benefit scroungers. I recall that a certain Jeremy Corbyn was going to replace UC with a system fit for purpose. Instead we got Brexit done BADLY to benefit the disaster capitalist and tax avoider while labelling those who suffer as scroungers. Britain is broken.
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  13. We had a school building programme. In 2010, Michael Gove put a red pen through Labour's building schools for the future plans. Never forget the price of austerity.
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  14. I propose a new quiz game for judging cabinet ministers called Incompetent or Liar? A case in point: Therese Coffey. Either she doesn't understand how Universal Credit works or she is deliberately misleading (hence lying) This behaviour is so typical of Johnson's corrupt cabal.
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  15. The well tried tactic of creating flak. Johnson thrives on mayhem; he is too vacuous for details.
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  16.  @fizywig  hello pseudonym account. That's Tory rhetoric. The ability to privatise NHS services and deregulate financial markets was enabled under Thatcher as part of neoliberalism. Blair continued with neoliberalism but real income increased by a record amount under his government and NHS waiting lists reduced. As for the financial crash, blame international bankers using dodgy derivatives. Look at fact not Tory rhetoric.
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  17. Great to see a Party that has torn our country apart with 12 years of austerity and incompetence finally turning in on itself. Never have we so badly needed real democracy.
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  18. Ironically, state media, i.e. the BBC this morning was lauding the increase in vacancies as a natural sign of recovery. They conveniently missed the fact that many workers have left the UK after Brexit. We are starting to see our dependence on freedom of movement. Economists warned us, but then any inconvenient fact was dismissed as Project Fear. Welcome to the world of Project Reality.
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  19. Johnson simply is the Eton Mess. Amazing that many in the real world actually fall for it. How many of the 43.6% of voters who supported or accepted him will still defend him?
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  20. Why would we expect anything different from a government progressing daily towards fascism?
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  21. Kemi is an engineer, yet shows no sign of critical thinking as an MP. The CPTPP offers minimal benefits to trade and the threat of corporate courts. That's some achievement.
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  22. Great job, Sangita. The Israelis will continue to hint at the carrot of a two state soolution, but there will always be a condition that rules it out. When have they demonstrated real intent for anything other than total destruction of the Palestinians or domonation through apartheid?
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  23. Why does this p1llock get so much airtime? Bring back Sangita.
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  24.  @rww805  would that be the Labour party that has borrowed less and paid back more than the Tories since the second world war?
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  25. Sunak is a schoolboy, arriving with an irrelevant script in a grown-up world. Totally out of his depth and unravelling by the minute.
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  26.  @Stalker-nv7gi  the short answer is Yes. I lived through those years and saw the damage caused.
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  27. Hardly a time for optimism, other than for someone devoid of critical thinking or part of the richest 1%. The worst government in my lifetime (of over 7 decades) I despair for our children and grandchildren. Enough is enough.
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  28.  @nathanfurnival8724  "Unelectable." How? It's a simple as sticking a cross in a different box. But first I recommend engaging in critical thinking, ignoring our oligarch media, and making up one's mind on policies and track-record rather than vacuous rhetoric.
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  29.  @wolfgangpreier9160  probably about as long as it will take us to find a brexit benefit
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  30.  @mikeymc3094  fair point. the solution is surely to make a manifesto a binding contract, based on reasonable endeavour. And anything not in the manifesto must be subject to referendum - other than in a national emergency. Also we need a democratic electoral system (a form of PR) so all votes are equal.
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  31. Would that be the ship that cut its moorings with Europe and is now floundering rudderless in the high seas? Newsflash! The captain has jumped the ship and they can't agree on a new skipper and can't find anyone capable of plotting a safe course.
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  32.  @netomaape2557  The outcome does not invalidate the process. Truth and reconciliation is a worthwhile goal but one which our government couldn't live with.
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  33. Martin Lewis does exemplary work. You can sense his exasperation as our government refuses to adequately support and protect consumers, while continually pandering to their corporate backers.
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  34. Perhaps the honest answer is: you obviously respect my right to vote but I apparently got it wrong in economic terms. What exactly is sovereignty worth, Brexiters? And what exactly do you think it means, after we are prepared to reduce our food standards to get a deal?
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  35. ​ @peterrauth118 "A benefit to the UK taxpayer" that none of us will see. We will still pay the market price that is inflated through overt profiteering.
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  36.  @owainwilliams7993  change well overdue then.
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  37. Sending a tweet isn't a solution; it's known as massaging his own ego.
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  38. Our credibility on the international stage sinks further in the mire. Wonder if Little Spiv has noticed that we are an international joke and his wife is providing sick comedy material. Enough is enough. Tories out.
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  39. Couldn't agree more. In my eighth decade in this country, I'm deeply ashamed.
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  40.  @Fedora_JP  I didn't know because it's simply not true. The first letter is G for Global. Triggered by derivatives: the repackaging of debt invested predominantly in American sub-prime mortgages. Casino banking around the world caused it. More Tory rhetoric unrelated to reality.
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  41.  @oliverboughey6328  but railway companies paying huge dividends to shareholders after taxpayer handouts does!
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  42. She was referring to her boss, or her own intellectual laziness.
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  43.  @AlexLee360  How f'king disparaging can you get? And what right do you have to use that tone? A patriot will call out problems and seek reform for the better. Born in this country, and in my eighth decade, I'm deeply ashamed of our jingoistic Little England mentality and seek better for the future of my grandchildren.
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  44. Truth to power is a concept the oligarch media won't tolerate. Well tweeted, Gary.
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  45. How embarrassing. Imagine phoning a radio programme to jump on the bandwagon of something you clearly don't understand.
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  46. ​ @twisteddancer7773  You would need to question the voting system to answer your own query. The Tories were elected on a minority vote: a 43.6% vote share giving an 80 seat majority. The better question to ask yourself: have you been better off under Labour or the Tories?
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  47. One U-turn I actually welcome. The original decision was wrong. Not only on moral grounds but also in logic. A vaccine protects the recipient by boosting immunity. Infections may be spread by the vaccinated. I would be reluctant, as a minister, to preach on this question to a qualified doctor. That would be arrogance.
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  48. Farage, in charge of the limited company masquerading as a party, admits a failure in their vetting process. Then slopes off for lunch. Anyone spot a scammer?
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  49. I asked a close friend, a teacher, whether her school was affected by the dodgy concrete. Thankfully, no...just dipping floors and a dodgy roof. The Tories risk lives with their small state and enforced privatisation.
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  50.  @twisteddancer7773  most often, one more than the other. Look at votes per seat and in the majority of cases, Tories benefit.
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  51. A true gentleman and statesman. Patient and prepared to accept that Brussels makes mistakes and is prepared to learn lessons. Compare his approach with the arrogance of Farage, forecasting the downfall of the EU as Britain left. That would be the vacuous foghorn who is afraid to meet our fishermen and farmers who he hung out to dry. Respect and admiration for MB: we should work with such people instead of defensively shifting blame. But then we suffer a cabinet of morons led by a buffoon.
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  52. "An ego the size of the Mersey Tunnel" is apt for a coward who wouldn't show up in the streets of Liverpool.
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  53.  @SedriqMiers  what is this great reset I keep hearing about? Do I need to join the fascists? Just curious...
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  54. A government of sociopaths doesn't make you a bad mum. Stay strong
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  55.  @run2cat4run  don't buy the government rhetoric.
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  56. ​ @norwoodboy6048  How does that work when he helped broker peace in the GFA? When he calls out the apartheid state is Israel and becomes antisemitic?
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  57.  @basher5013  Small wonder you operate under s pseudonym with such a vacuous comment. How exactly did unions run the country? Thatcher introduced neoliberalism. That was her brief and her sole intent: to increase inequality.
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  58. When did it change? The roots were planted by Thatcher (who did not recognise society) through the neoliberal model - me, me, me. With the possible exception of Major, the Tories have become progressively more decisive, allowing their plutocrat sponsors to perfect the model where the poor vote for the rich to have more. Brexit heralded the rise of populism: having bought the excuses for austerity, a binary choice in a referendum allowed the identification of a common enemy (however fictitious.) Now we are expected to hate the woke generation, lefty lawyers, and the list goes on. Government has learned from the techniques of fascism and moves progressively towards that model. George Orwell nailed it in his novel 1984.
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  59.  @jumbodoug  Yes. Great skillset and a passion for helping others. An economics degree from LSE with his feet firmly on the ground and an attachment to the realities of life for the majority.
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  60. Yes. Our national wealth is unequally divided, such that the majority would laugh at the suggestion of our national wealth.
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  61. Achieving the greatest act of self-harm in my lifetime was bad enough. Yet somehow it was trusted to a serial liar and abject buffoon to maximise the disaster.
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  62. How, exactly, are they putting patients at risk? The sole purpose of a vaccine is to boost immunity in the recipient. The infection can still be passed on if jabbed. Do you really know better than the doctors who refuse it?
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  63.  @lesliehall7683  use a search engine to check the tools of fascism and you will get the idea. The identification of a common enemy, disparaging experts, the suppression of the right to protest (as in the latest police bill) are three to give you a head start.
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  64. The organisation of gang labour was explained by a certain Labour leader of the time as an issue of employment regulation enforcement and not brexit. Yet so many allowed a serial liar to get brexit half-done and badly in 2019. We now live with the consequences.
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  65. A lawyer who fails to understand international law, or simply lies about it. Not illegal immigrants. The people organising the dinghies may be "illegal" but asylum seekers are not. The 1951 act does not require asylum seekers to arrive by regular or legal means. Nor are they compelled to stay in the first safe country.
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  66. True. Albeit the irony is that austerity saved nothing: the national debt related to GDP doubled, then along came the pandemic...
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  67.  @markohenry5891  get behind a fairy tale and stop moaning. Let's force everyone to work full time, even if they are not capable or can't afford or find childcare. Employment is not a numbers game. It depends on circumstances, physical capacity and skills. Facts are inconvenient to Brexiters.
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  68.  @miatrue98  absolutely agree.
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  69. Proof that habits are hard for idiots to break - in spite of judicial enquiries. Blaming Liverpool fans has become the default habit of the establishment.
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  70. This is simply the Tory financial class war in action. Anyone in a job that directly benefits people and can be described as an essential service must be regarded as a charity worker with the excuse of "we can't afford it." Surely our applause during the pandemic was enough? Anyone moving money around or playing in the financial markets? We need the best people... Even though these "best people" caused the financial crash through a dodgy financial instrument called derivatives.
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  71.  @evolassunglasses4673  unfortunately that wasn't necessary. The best description of Britain, I once read, depicted us as a country that started on the road to democracy, went so far, then gave up. Our elective dictatorship is a sham.
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  72.  @johnmacaroni105  the checks were different, as Simon Calder explains. Look beyond the smokescreen. It's not just about Ireland.
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  73. Yes. They love nationalism, and by extension jingoism, but hate nationalisation.
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  74. The changes to GP pensions encouraged many to leave. Another Tory win for the NHS. never trust a Tory.
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  75.  @markohenry5891  so make the serfs work harder after taking back control? Your "facts" are rhetoric. How many are working part time? And how can you judge that they can work full time? Does the Daily Fail tell you without evidence? As for pay levels: a simple question of supply and demand that could have been sorted by intervention before Brexit. We have lots of vacancies that can't be filled because we depended on freedom of movement You have two choices: buy the rhetoric or research facts.
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  76. Yes. Johnson was another scrounger, taking his MP salary while doing nothing to represent his constituency, yet taking huge fees for writing and speaking assignments from those with more money than sense. One rule for them, Stuart
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  77. Don't worry! The Neoliberal dream has worked: inequality has increased; service has deteriorated to the detriment of profit.
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  78. Hopefully with her as the pilot
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  79. Albeit she did say she hoped to change fellow reader opinions. Curious?
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  80. Don't worry, Sunak has appointed an ex banker as his ethics advisor. Perhaps he needs investment advice.
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  81. I don't think Bezos needs this caller as his champion or representative. Lol.
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  82. Starmer is fond of pragmatism rather than ideology, which begs the question: what does he stand for? Without ideology, does the end justify the means? Without ideology, the status quo remains intact and we don't get progressive change. Is he simply scared of upsetting Murdoch to the extent of being scared of his own shadow?
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  83.  @jobbyomoron8478  that's some stretch. How exactly?
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  84. Hard man or vacuous ranting bully?
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  85. ​ @norwoodboy6048  "According to the Daily Telegraph" says it all and flattens your argument. Did you use a bot in your pseudonym account?
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  86.  @steveinjava  perhaps before commenting on Gordon Brown you should read his published plan for fixing the cost of living crisis.
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  87.  @bisratezra8247  I agree with your comment. Very accurate.
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  88.  @steve00alt70  probably. If not Johnson then, yes, they buy the Tory and media headlines without thinking for themselves.
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  89.  @Craig121000  I'm hardly surprised, John, and it's regrettable that you have endured far too many years of Tory cruelty.
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  90.  @housemonkeychill  not "sending them" just not offering a means of assessing them in France because we refused their offer in favour of Rwanda.
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  91.  @ozimandeus  whilst I fully agree, a manifesto should be a binding contract, on the basis of reasonable endeavour. What is not in the manifesto should be the subject of a separate referendum. With exceptions only in a national emergency. The current system is open to abuse and fosters mistrust and disenfranchisement.
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  92. How long would it take for someone like Rob Rinder, with such clarity of thought and considerate humanity to be labelled "woke" by the manufacturers of consent? This hypothetical example of lazy language from the gutter media chills me. Sincere respect to Rob Rinder for sharing his enlightened thoughts. He is a beacon of light.
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  93. Jacob asking Sun readers for Brexit benefits when he needed look no further than MLP. Perhaps Johnson should recruit her as his 'brexit for fascists' consultant.
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  94. Yes. Please remember that he didn't start the fire, but he trusted the arsonists.
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  95. One intelligent and genuine human being, while we are faced with a government of sociopathic operational incompetents. Enough is enough.
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  96.  @jobbyomoron8478  Lived through it as well as read it, John. Yet you give no facts to substantiate your claim. Total rhetoric.
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  97.  @jobbyomoron8478  that's strange. You made a claim, I asked you for substantiation. I have many facts but you made the claim. Where are your facts.
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  98.  @jobbyomoron8478  you say that without naming a single fact. Have you heard the term put up or shut up?
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  99. ​ @johngreylove1359 test and trace, Dido Harding.
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  100.  @j.4332  Indeed. Yet many Brexiters still use the outdated word. Clinging on to their failed fantasy?
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  101.  @MedusaDislikesPerseus  don't you recognise love when you see it. Love of truth and accountability.
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  102. Voters can only take responsibility for their vote, and not for the type of Brexit Johnson got half done.
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  103.  @markohenry5891  setting us free by stopping freedom of movement? Curious and curiouser.
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  104. Having sociopathic tendencies helps.
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  105. ​ @chatham43  so dishonesty is justified in the pursuit of power and enabled by voters excusing it.
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  106. Thus proving that, in essence, a bully is a coward.
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  107. @Stuart Russell whataboutery is no answer. Would that be when Labour were in power? My comment relates to government.
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  108. My gut is so full of royal reporting - the extremes of propaganda and hatred - that it's turning to bile.
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  109. ​@user-zk9xe3wm3vWho had a far better record. Does your troll bot memory actually work?
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  110. ​ Trixie K  so don't vote, if you can't see a difference.
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  111. Stupidity often hides behind a pseudonym
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  112. I take your point. Yet after 43.6% of voters supporting Johnson, the majority (56.4%) are also paying the same price. We need democracy.
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  113. Yet another Johnson lie: we do not have the highest percentage of fully vaccinated people: currently 3rd behind Canada and Spain. Some roadmap! Johnson couldn't find his way to the land of sensibility.
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  114.  @brentmeistergeneral6074  Don't get me started on that. Of course a simple binary vote is democratic, PROVIDED spending rules and electoral rules are followed. Also a referendum is legally advisory, unless the statute is altered; otherwise parliament is sovereign. It took a minority-elected government to deliver something that would otherwise seem democratic - had it not been so open-ended and distorted.
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  115. ​ @albert7311  what exactly are "popukations?"
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  116. The dilemma is, you can't "do it by the ballot box" when the government has the same proportion of seats as the votes AGAINST THEM. Unfortunately in our elective dictatorship people resort to extremes.
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  117.  @disct1597  actually 43.6% vote share in 2019 but still a minority. I agree with your argument.
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  118. Wonder how many opposed to working from home have a financial interest in commercial properties? The obsession with micro management could be another factor of course.
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  119.  @ScruffyTubbles  compassionate!!! The Tories should check the definition of the word. There is nothing compassionate about neoliberalism and the movement towards fascism.
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  120. The celebration of an empty foghorn after his contribution to the greatest act of self-harm. Look at his actions, not his rhetoric.
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  121. Johnson displays every characteristic that a responsible leader must not have, but a dictator inevitably does. A sociopathic narcissist.
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  122. ​ @twisteddancer7773  so parliamentary procedure is not fit for purpose. So what?
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  123.  @lohphat  Yes. And an undemocratic system, as it took only a minority of voters (43.6%) to get them there.
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  124.  @grtcara8386  The same way you give the execs a 20+% rise and fat dividends to shareholders.
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  125.  @_Meriwether  Yet it's grown to an industrial level in the last 13 years and accelerated since Johnson.
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  126.  @Royboy50  That depends how you define "highest." Certainly that issue was most serious, but now the volume of lies is off the scale. It's hard, in fact, to find a single straight or truthful answer from this Tory government.
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  127. No. Trump's own interests first. America a distant second. That's harming America in the case of tariffs.
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  128.  @jobbyomoron8478  think you may be whitewashing history, John. Exactly how?
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  129. In relation to Brexit, yes. In terms of social and economic policy, to the 19th, or even the 18th, century.
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  130.  @welshgit  I voted remain, yet accept that many who voted leave were misled. The blame for this abject brexit belongs fairly and squarely with politicians. We will not agree on this because I refuse to fall for the deflection used by abject liars.
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  131. Who exactly are "they" and "their?"
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  132.  @markohenry5891  wow. Have we banned zero hours contracts? Free of decent food standards so we can have hormone beef. What "silly rules" are you referring to?
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  133.  @gingerfish90  So who will? Please don't suggest the Tories. The last Labour government raised prosperity, with real incomes increasing significantly over their term in office.
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  134.  @DMG00111-p  that's not what Mo Mowlam said, as you obviously don't know
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  135. Hardly surprising that KS failed to answer Marr's first question. Perhaps Keir didn't ask it in Europe because of his own denial and evasion.
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  136. ​ @shinkansenshinkansend8316  Also the fact that the Tories have borrowed more and paid back less than Labour, per year in power. Labour has the better financial record.
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  137. No!!! I would at least have wanted a dodgy contract for my company before I took it.
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  138. It would only work if they listened.
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  139.  @haroldhorsefly1368  yes. A pity Leave were dishonest in their campaign about the time it would take to realise their promised benefits. Now they are in denial and our prospects seem poor without honesty and decisive action. I obviously want our country to succeed for my children and grandchildren, but the arrogance of people like Johnson and Farage is making us an international joke when we need to cooperate with other countries, including the EU. Barnier has been honest about this, whereas our politicians are hooked on vacuous slogans and empty rhetoric.
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  140. The Tories have succeeded. Thatcher promised a return to Victorian values. Now we know what she meant: economic values, where the poor suffer abject poverty, doffing their caps while the richest hoover up more wealth.
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  141. Be careful! Facts confuse Tories. Your comments are spot on.
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  142. ​ @Dubya-i3v No help for the brainwashed.
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  143. Perfectly factual. The Tories have borrowed more and paid back less than Labour since the second world war. They are NOT the party of responsible fiscal management. Real incomes rose significantly under Blair and Brown (around 12% in real terms) yet have fallen since Tory austerity prevailed. Too many turkeys vote for Christmas after swallowing media propaganda.
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  144. Levelling up everywhere, provided there's a Tory MP with a narrow majority.
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  145. @Tom think you are falling for divide and rule, Tom. It won't cost you any more...just ensure the 1% pay minimal tax.
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  146. Then, surely, that's a badge of honour. I mean: the Daily Fail, hardly the doyen of impartiality.
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  147. My stock response is the same to such comment. So why do you bother to vote if you can't tell the difference?
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  148.  Laura UK   not true. My definition was from the Oxford dictionary, what's your source? Irrespective of who was in power, we have had an elective dictatorship. In fact the term was coined by Lord Hailsham after New Labour won power.
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  149.  Laura UK   Personally I agree with Lord Hailsham's explanation of an elective dictatorship, with his researched facts.
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  150.  Laura UK   from the Concise version: a state having government by all the people, direct or representative... Hardly by all the people when not all votes count equally; hardly representative when seats don't match votes. Hence I agree with Lord Hailsham's logic.
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  151. As Dr Martin Luther King said...not the colour of the skin, the content of the personality. We need to learn to live as equal human beings. A harder lesson for some than others. As an older white male, I can't fully comprehend how such racial abuse feels, but I can never excuse it.
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  152.  @tomgl6684  Because the logic is flawed. You spread Covid when you catch the infection, vaccinated or not. When it "develops" as you put it, the symptoms are identified and you isolate.
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  153. Truss is clear about one fact: she is working for the richest and condones increasing inequality. Change is long overdue.
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  154. Our son in Australia commented that Spitting Image would no longer work because all government ministers are now caricatures.
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  155. Probably did more to uncover the real Nigel Farage than any other interview. Proof that researched facts beat bluff and bluster. Watching this in June 24 after reading James's book How They Broke Britain then seeing one of the main culprits who is still given oxygen in our unfit media.
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  156. What else would we expect with the worst possible leader at the worst possible time?
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  157.  @davekelley4076  Your personal insults show desperation. Read the definition and spot the trends.
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  158.  @davekelley4076  wow! Such a high level of debate. I know how to spell, just need to proof read typos after auto correct. I also know how to spell disparaging, and the meaning of the word.
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  159.  @imagecollections6665  how would JC and Diane Abbott have destroyed the UK with a costed economic plan? As for the difference in times, the global economic crash was also exceptional. So, yes, I can say that with figures to back it up.
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  160.  @agt155  So what? My comment was about Martin Lewis. JO'B was the enabler. Where is your evidence about his wealth? And how is your comment relevant at all? He runs one of the few programmes that holds the government to account.
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  161.  @liamc9425  such repartee. Guess you weren't a great pupil at school. Never too late to learn critical thinking and tolerance.
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  162. Allow me to support your post by adding a suggestion. Apart from the fact that our electoral system amounts to an elective dictatorship, with a minority-elected government holding a substantial parliamentary majority. After installing PR we could solve this matter (or at least mitigate it) by making a manifesto a binding contract - on the basis of reasonable endeavour. Anything outside the manifesto would be subject to a referendum, other than in a national emergency.
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  163. Ian being polite about the fact that Farage knows how to appeal to idiots. It's far easier to appeal to prejudice than to persuade with logic.
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  164.  @redboyjan  "they" meaning just 43.6% of voters, resulting in a parliamentary majority because of our elective dictatorship.
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  165. ​ @primeministerelec  not all in hotels. Only used because the Home Office fails to process claims and the dozen camps are full. As for soldiers, why does the mainstream media fail to report this while fixating on dinghies? We should certainly look after ex service people.
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  166.  @billybatts8283  learn the definition of the word exacerbate. That's the Brexit effect here. Compounding our problems.
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  167. An absolutely revealing and informative interview with a man of intelligence and responsibility. I've always believed that the police have a difficult job, doing something that most of us couldn't cope with.
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  168. ​ @rogerwilco2  Nail on head there, Roger. To quote Lord Hailsham, we operate an elective dictatorship (which by definition is NOT DEMOCRACY)
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  169. She wrote a paper! That must have been a short one: the Tory ideals of human rights wouldn't fill a page.
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  170.  @grtcara8386  what a strange statement. First, I'm retired. Second and most important, you have illustrated the benefit of collective bargaining. It's why we have unions.
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  171.  @chatham43  "Moaning!" The only ones left in this state are the Brexit apologists. I simply differentiate fact from fiction.
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  172. The facts are obvious to anyone applying critical thinking. THE TORIES CAN'T BE TRUSTED WITH PUBLIC SERVICES. It's as simple as that.
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  173. ​ @dub604 Actually 43.6% of verified votes for the Tories. Yet your figure ignores the turnout and relates to the voting population.
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  174.  @NECinho  true. That would certainly be the case if we had real democracy instead of our elective dictatorship.
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  175.  @terrysmith5168  perhaps you will explain how it was true and face the legal action. Step up and be a coward like Johnson
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  176. The Fail: the epitome of investigative journalism, for idiots.
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  177. History repeats itself: blame Liverpool. Remember Hillsborough. At least our media are not complicit.
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  178.  @markohenry5891  three.
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  179.  @jonb4155  when losing a debate, resort to stereotyping or personal insult.
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  180.  @chatham43  The voice of understatement there. Please don't associate me with the modern Tory party. Thankfully I have no vote for either of these two turds.
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  181. What utter vacuous sh1te. The ten year excuse conveniently wasn't mentioned in the Leave campaign. It was all about no detrimental effects and unicorns. Their Sovereign Tea is tasting bitter
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  182. ​ @andrewjones-productions  and Labour's incompetence was?
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  183. ​@user-SubvurzIVSo you favour Lib Dems or Greens? There are other choices. Were you or your parents better off under the last Labour government or during the last 13years of the Tories?
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  184. ​ @harry.flashman  None so blind as those who don't want to see
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  185. A big idea is one thing; a bad idea is another. Brexit is a catastrophe.
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  186. ​ @TheSashapooch More sense from a comic than most MSM so-called news.
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  187. Now let's have the full script: "Noone works harder [AT PARTYING] in government than the prime minister."
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  188. I'm not pro-royal but always attempt to remove the filters that mainstream media use to manufacture consent. Our oligarch press is a disgrace.
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  189.  @monotech20.14  what? Fascists with guns? Seems scary.
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  190.  @Happin3ess  if your question is addressed to me, my answer is plain and clear. We need to hold the government to account, unlike the mainstream media. I could answer with a catalogue of disaster and operational incompetence from Johnson's government. But that would be a long read, unlike government soundbites which the media deem acceptable. Instead I included a simple factual statement intent on reform rather than destruction.
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  191. She wasn't 16 when she went. Thus not hypocritical.
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  192. ​ @bigbinji6145 statement or question?
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  193. Johnson can't stand scrutiny so why would he, or his party of rogues and incompetents, accept an enquiry?
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  194. Negotiation by media works only one way: in support of government. Quote a massive number and say it's unaffordable. When we look at the even more massive numbers spent on failed PPE and a non-existent test and trace system, on arms for Ukraine, on consultants hired by government, we get perspective, which conveniently the media ignores. This morning I read that 40% of newly-trained doctors leave the NHS. The government's lazy and blatant excuse: the majority stay. If you were managing an economy and had 40% of key workers leaving; would you expect to be fired?
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  195. The level of denial is astounding. It's almost as though Brexiters take the Daily Fail as gospel and put whatever intellect they had in a deep freeze. Fact: Brexiters don't do critical thinking.
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  196. Schools should teach critical thinking. Politicians seeking continuous power must dumb down the population. Thus he should become the Secretary of State for stupidity.
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  197. Remember the simple rules: Johnson, the serial liar, is the victim.
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  198. Our establishment conflates two opposites, to muddy reality as an attempt at a feeble excuse. The dilemma is, the media are too skilled for the nieve, or those devoid of critical thinking. Well exposed, James.
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  199. Big assumption there, Ian: "if Nigel Farage is correct." Most of his rhetoric does not stand scrutiny. But then, most of our media allows his statements to go unchallenged.
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  200.  Laura UK   depending on which definition you apply and whether you add logical test to definition. The second point you quote is so vague it could mean a small select group voting for a single representative, who gains equal or even greater power than the representative of a larger group, which is precisely what happens in our system.
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  201. The first time I've heard a business person pretending that the working time directive is onerous while finally admitting that her problem was not being able to compel workers to exceed it. It's called worker protection, you selfish idiots. If a company can't manage such simple records, they shouldn't be in business.
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  202. Would be interesting to know how Corbyn would be dangerous. Wonder what escaped him about Johnson and Russian money. What in JC's Labour manifesto didn't he like about Corbynism? Another Daily Fail reader?
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  203. Interesting last paragraph and you may have a point. I believe the reality is opposite. Only three reasons to vote Tory: self interest; intellectual laziness; or abject stupidity.
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  204. Never underistimate the power of identifying a common enemy, as the fictitious primary actor in a problem you have helped to cause through your planned incompetence.
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  205. Psychos and sociopaths will do that.
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  206. BoJoke caves in to anyone threatening his power. He imposes hardship on the vulnerable while protecting his puppet masters and donors. The classic signs of a pathetic bully.
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  207. Wow! Is Jacob about to find some unicorns? Cutting the cost of imports while other countries apply tariffs to our exports. How will that affect our trade balance, Jacob?
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  208. @Tom listen to the recording and work it out. If you can't, go back to school, do not pass go, and challenge the buffoon to repeat his words in public.
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  209. I find it ironic that a government empowered through a minority vote (43.6% of verified votes) feels qualified to tell us what the British people want. All of this while trotting our rhetoric in defence of an unworkable and illegal policy. What I really want is real democracy and a new government.
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  210. Neoliberalism, or trickle down economics, was aptly described as a hustle that pretends to be a philosophy.
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  211. Great that Maajid faces fact, irrespective of religion and culture. Thankfully we have close friends who are Muslim and he is not alone in calling this out.
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  212. Tories love scrutiny... of others but not of themselves.
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  213. Effective protest needs disruption. Otherwise, with our establishment-supporting media feeding on sensationalism, people don't take notice.
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  214. He says charity begins at home then contradicts that by saying there is none: we can't afford to run this country for our own people, blah, blah. Why not? The sixth wealthiest country in the world should be able to do both. Blame Tory mismanagement.
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  215.  @Reprint001  don't you mean that noone would be worse than Johnson?
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  216. The only common denominator I can find is so-called class. Must have the right accent and background. Must be part of the game to see how far you can go in conning the electorate.
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  217. Give the man a break. He can't tell the difference between work and a party. With such judgement... The mind boggles.
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  218.  @davekelley4076  if you feel qualified to make that judgement, the word arrogance comes to mind. "Low level and patronising?" I simply commented on our government's progression towards fascism and you attempted deflection, which is not only against the pure definition of the word but unsubstantiated. Shall we choose water pistols at 25 paces or simply forget the exchange? I'm less concerned about a typo than a government that is suppressing peaceful protest, is afraid to be held to account and is threatening the powers of the judiciary.
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  219. Yes. A common lesson from the book of fascism: the identification of a common enemy.
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  220.  @Craig121000  nice to see some trolling, John. Keep shifting your opinion if you have nothing better to do.
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  221. A Tory minister talking about the "moral component" is most repulsive. Johnson's cabinet has a strange idea of morality.
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  222. The stupidity of this caller explains why Johnson completed withdrawal from the EU during a pandemic. He buys Johnson's excuses for our act of stupidly by blaming the pandemic. Brexiters certainly appeal to idiots.
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  223.  @agt155  since he's a radio presenter, it amounts to the same thing. His job is talking, but he holds the Convict and his cabal to account. What is the relevance of your comment? More whataboutery?
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  224.  @agt155  and how does that invalidate the disclosed facts? No mitigation there. Just whataboutery.
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  225.  @agt155  thanks for the admission. One day I'll explain it to you in single syllables.
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  226.  @agt155  don't listen to trolls from pseudonym accounts. Stop wasting my time.
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  227.  @agt155  continuing to show your intellectual level. Mindless trolling
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  228. Absolutely. This shower got away with their incompetence through our elective dictatorship.
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  229.  @cujimmi  You have hardly expressed an opinion. Instead played devil's advocate, explaining what won't work. The fact that you have no answers and ask questions of people not charged with government responsibility reveals the inadequacy of government and your inability to hold them to account. Perhaps you should fess up and give some constructive ideas.
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  230. Absolutely! Nail on the head... Divide and rule would give way to basic humanity. Couldn't agree more.
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  231.  @ENGLISHISBEST  our system uses people then eschews them when they have contributed to society and deserve retirement with dignity, health and happiness.
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  232. I find that correct spelling adds to the credibility of a post. (Morol???) Is that supposed to excuse Johnson?
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  233.  @hilarymiseroy  How was it unlimited? And have you noticed that immigration has increased to compensate for freedom of movement? An own goal and total lies. We had greater control of our borders through the Dublin accord.
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  234.  @corn985  I'm sure the clueless Brexiters - intoxicated by their Sovereign Tea - will tell you that taking back control is going well.
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  235. The fact that the Tory media supported such fantasy economics shows the paucity of credible reasoning in the people who feed the intellectually lazy.
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  236. The fact that The Fail is our country's biggest seller says a lot about British journalism and says even more about the IQ of its readership.
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  237.  @jobbyomoron8478  your point of whataboutery being?
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  238. @Rishi This read their 2019 manifesto and work it out.
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  239. Totally support you and respect to your profession but I would love to see Britain become a democratic society. Don't suppress knowledge, teach critical thinking.
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  240.  @robinstreets1792  how?
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  241. Don't call them liars, even after a catalogue of lies and "misinformation" and the regular assault on truth. Shall we call them charlatans? Or cheats? Or serial incompetents? Personally, I'll settle for liars.
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  242. Trump has made "deals" with Putin's People when they bailed him out to buy his failing hotels. Now he is in hock to Putin and is massaging his own ego by Tweeting.
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  243. How vacuous must we be to believe that measuring in feet and inches and weighing in pounds and ounces shows some kind of patriotism and a win for Brexit? Throwing away a logical decimal system in favour of one using odd fractions is as bonkers as using a bucket for an umbrella to get better sound effects. A real patriot wants to reform their country for the better, instead of turning the clock back to embrace stupidity.
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  244. Yes. They also have a problem with people who are well-read and engage critical thinking.
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  245.  @CounterSpice  no. That would require fantasy instead of critical thinking.
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  246. The neatest trick of neoliberalism: persuading the poor to vote for the rich to have more.
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  247. The media that is asleep to government incompetence or corruption are the most likely to call out "woke" behaviour.
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  248. The word "smart" used by a vacuous politician is so reassuring. If the benefit of going straight is welcoming paying taxes then the reverse should apply. Let's lock up the tax avoiders and the Tory cabinet which facilitates low taxes for the rich.
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  249. the Tory's economic record was based on propaganda. They have consistently borrowed more and paid back less than Labour.
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  250. Ferrari is a sick joke. Perhaps he should suggest that the secretary of state picks the strike dates. Lol. The unions are not causing disruption; they are exercising their democratic right. The government is causing the blockage and thus bears sole responsibility for any disruption.
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  251.  @tonygange7636  I take it that you refer to Tory intent? Doors opened to globalism with Freeports as a starter? Concurrently dismantling workers rights in the race to the bottom? Globalisation results in the equalisation of poverty so the few can have ever more.
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  252.  @middleman9183  what then does "everything" mean when sovereignty is not defined?
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  253. Self determination denied by the Westminster elective dictatorship. Let's not pretend that Britain has democracy. We don't even have a codified constitution. Rule by opacity does not deliver democracy - it requires transparency.
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  254.  @rg1360  I blame Putin for causing the conditions that led to cost push inflation. I blame our government for their lack of remedial action, when compared with France and other EU governments. We have a government of sociopathic incompetents. Mad Vlad didn't cause that.
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  255.  @rg1360  your assumption about the devalued pound is not correct if funding done in the right way. France has controlled prices rather than giving handouts. Our government is scared of this approach because of their obsession with free market neoliberalism. The market will not fix this for us.
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  256.  @rg1360  Read about how money is created and how QE was used then the possibilities become obvious. Also about 40% of our gas comes from the North sea, with the rest of this production sold on the open market at profit. We are reaping the cost of privatisation and the encouragement of profiteering. We need to move towards a balanced economy and kick out the government obsessed with neoliberalism, which promotes inequality. This government does not have the will or the nous to find a long term solution for the benefit of the population. They are constrained by the outdated reasoning of tax and spend.
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  257.  @rg1360  I have a different understanding of QE and its effects on inflation. Who do you think imposes the "allowance?" The affect on inflation will depend on how spent and used. The Exchequer and Audits Act of 1866 says by law the BoE must make any payments the government instructs it to. How do you think Macron is keeping the rise at 4% if so impotent on price? Someone is fooling here. You keep saying what can't be done: government excuse or lack of will is my only question. No such word as can't.
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  258. This idiot caller has not heard the term manufactured consent. Did she follow the mainstream media during the election campaign while Johnson was hiding in a freezer?
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  259. Sunak's claim of ending "the free movement of people" applied only to EU citizens. We've always had the right to control immigration beyond that, and the Tory half-done, half-baked brexit didn't change it - apart from creating a shortage of workers. Little Spiv is attempting to bamboozle idiots.
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  260.  @Poonannyish  No. Most get away with it...numerous examples. Johnson not only deliberately misled the House, he impugned the committee, breached confidence after being given preliminary findings and was complicit in a campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of committee members.
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  261.  @armondtanz  relevance???
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  262.  @primeministerelec  Anyone has a right to call out a liar if evidence exists. The evidence seems incontrovertible in Sunak's case.
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  263. One lie too many?
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  264. "Cannibalise the compassion" of British people. The top prize for this, winning a gold plaque by a clear margin, goes to our sociopathic Tory government.
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  265. Another idiot condoning fascism. Wonder who he votes for?
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  266. It's not just up to Ukraine, James. It's also up to NATO. Perhaps we should look at the mechanics and the intent of NATO before making a judgement. That said, Mad Vlad was wrong to invade.
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  267.  @Tree.fiddy.  It's also up to NATO whether they invite or encourage membership. Don't be naive. We only hear one side of the argument,. especially while the arms industry flourishes. I don't condone what Putin did but the argument is never as simplistic as portrayed. Btw, I used to eat your product as a kid in the dark ages.
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  268. Our inflation is predominantly cost push. Wrong solution!
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  269. Foreign countries will not "enrich American citizens", Importers will pay the new duties to increase prices and make Americans poorer. President Moron's school of fantasy economics is world-class comedy.
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  270. Comments on the far right always get back to immigration. It's as though its the main issue troubling voters when, in reality, it comes a distant third. This is how the far right appeals to the hard of thinking.
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  271. ​ @MrWhitmen1981 the two are NOT mutually exclusive.
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  272. ​ @petelawless811 Yes, it's called misdirection.
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  273. Of course the fact that a respected journalist has blown the establishment myth is to be welcomed. A pity that she apparently engaged in the propaganda against Jeremy Corbyn and we ended up on the road to fascism. Better late than never.
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  274.  @FrancisDietPodcast  balderdash. Tell that to any doctor who refused it, Mr or Mrs Pseudonym account.
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  275.  @FrancisDietPodcast  then surely you have to question why, and listen carefully before judging.
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  276. Do it in orange and Just Stop Oil will be blamed. Could be the start of a criminal trend?
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  277. It's what they... will... deliver that worries me.
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  278. All the arguments amount to deflection. E.g. you can't blame Brexit for shortage of drivers because other countries have shortages, and we have had a shortage for some years 1) brexit has exacerbated the shortage. Why would we make it harder to stay when we were aware of such a shortage? 2) other countries cope because of freedom of movement and cabotage. Clue: we abandoned freedom of movement as part of our brexit deal, so the implementation of Brexit is the cause. Simple facts.
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  279.  @davekelley4076  probably not. Not all sociopaths though.
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  280.  @lesliehall7683  The chance of a single party providing it went in 2017. Democracy would involve PR, and government by consensus. The battle against austerity and neoliberalism is immense, because of the vested interests of the rich and powerful. Real democracy, along with improved parliamentary standards, is our only hope. May need pitchforks; who knows?
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  281.  @ferret495  Yes. But I honestly don't know who I will vote for. Anyone but Tory, but will need to be tactical. Also I will only vote for a party that supports PR. It will be hard to get the Tories out as they load the electoral process in their favour.
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  282.  @lesliehall7683  read my answer again. Under our undemocratic FPTP system, I would have to vote tactically. As you say, there is not a single party that stands out, with Tories by far the worst and most dangerous, so we need government by consensus, achieved through a fit electoral system, namely a form of PR. If Labour had a leader intent on reform for the better, the oligarch media and the most powerful people would derail him or her, as happened in 2017 and 2019.
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  283.  @davedixon1637  Because we can't afford to. People were not told to wait a couple of decades for the stated benefits, they were promised unicorns. For how long do we see our standard of living decline while people like Rees Mogg can't name a single benefit and as the desparate party in negotiations we see trade deals making us poorer? Perhaps another referendum based on reality and known facts?
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  284.  @Kurwajegomac  when are you going to realise that people's vote did not determine the outcome (ie the type of Brexit.) That was down to a minority-elected government.
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  285. Amazing that the sponsors and prophets of brexit take no responsibility; it's always some else's fault. The classic sign of a con merchant. But then, you had to listen to charlatans because we had had enough of experts.
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  286. The irony of a real human being confronting a barrow boy and grifter.
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  287. At last we are hearing the B-word from the MSM. Still a lack of scrutiny but a government clearly in denial with the thinnest and most pathetic excuses. The elephant is at least being named and exposed in conversation.
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  288.  @135Ops  one of whom? That's called mindless stereotyping
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  289. @Oldie But Goodie think you'll find they predominantly target the party in power. That's called satire.
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  290. As Peter Hennessy explained: Johnson has not only broken the law, he has misled parliament and shredded parliamentary standards. Johnson is an abject disgrace who has done us one favour: in showing that our uncodified constitution and the regulation of parliamentary standards are not fit for purpose.
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  291. Where there's a will...
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  292. It's everyone's fault except the governments. Blind to the coincidence of timing: the crash happening immediately after the budget announcement. A cabal of barefaced lying incompetents.
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  293. ​ @evolassunglasses4673  and Tory COUNCILS have bankrupted other areas. Do you know the difference between central and local government?
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  294.  @kenwaller670  "democracy" A curious word when we have a minority-elected government. 52% vote Leave; 43.6% vote for the Tories and their idea of Brexit . That's still a deficit and thus undemocratic. It's called an act of self-harm, as we are finding daily.
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  295. Hardly a surprise to some of us yet immensely welcome. Politicians must pay the price of power. Whatever you think of Jeremy Corbyn, he was a politician with a transformative agenda, who simply couldn't be allowed anywhere near power because the rich and powerful would have to share a bit of their wealth. Enter a manufactured smear campaign, coincidentally after he supported Palestine. The result: Keir Starmer and a shadow cabinet that must play ball.
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  296. I doubt the coincidence of the worst health secretary in decades, who wanted to privatise the NHS in a 2005 policy paper, becoming chancellor. Perhaps he intends to complete the job. Hunt also failed to act on a warning about not being prepared for a potential pandemic. The sneering specimen is addicted to austerity for the poorest and socialism for the richest.
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  297. Yes, don't look at detail; just trust the party that gave us twelve years of austerity, economic decline and mounting debt.
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  298. ​ @evolassunglasses4673  I've heard that argument ad nauseum. If Corbyn was anti-EU then why was his party pro? He respects democracy and tries to accommodate it, which proved in one sense to be a failure. His opinions on the EU were not the problem; Labour's mixed messages were.
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  299. I'm new to Maajid's broadcasts but find his approach enlightened and refreshing. Great points, well made.
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  300. The vacuous brain of the Minister for the 1800s is a joy to behold. His condescending attitude on the other hand...
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  301. Trump is a disrupter who shoots from the hip. He is unpredictable, being driven by ego rather than strategy. When a narcissistic disrupter assumes the responsibility of leadership, he has to coordinate and heal and is in foreign territory. Trump reminds me of an oversized baby in a pram; throwing out the rattle if the world doesn't revolve around him. The dangerous fact: the world revolves around neither him, nor America
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  302. Trump, the ultimate narcissist. I thought he was selling the unicorns promised by his mate Foghorn Farage.
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  303. Enlightened countries such as Germany see education as an investment, as did Britain in the past. Now our minority elected government wants a dumbed down and compliant population so they spread this fantasy to win a class war.
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  304.  @theoilandgasresourceportal2132  no wonder you hide behind a pseudonym account. A real patriot will call out faults a d seek reform for the better. Continue your cowardice if you must
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  305.  @mister3566  the only lesson we can learn from history is that we repeat the same mistakes.
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  306. ​ @yambo59 Thanks for showing your ignorance.
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  307. ​ @NeilAC78 coming from someone who clearly has lost his direction.
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  308. Levelling up was an exception, which Cummings described as vacuous. Experience shows it to be yet another of Johnson's lies.
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  309. A cabal of sociopaths intent on survival. Power crazed morons who could not hold down a real job based on operational ability.
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  310.  @wleon4068  Yes. It's almost as though we live in a meritocracy and poverty is a crime. Hateful and spiteful people.
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  311.  @Stalker-nv7gi  No. My recollection of events is factual. Of course I remember the unions. What gave rise to Maggie is the intent of neoliberalism, engineered by the Mont Pelerin Society and first implemented by Pinochet, then by Thatcher and Reagan. It has certainly fulfilled its intent of increasing inequality.
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  312.  @bert454  how is that relevant? More whataboutery? I recall that real incomes increased under the Blair government. NHS waiting lists also reduced. Most are being returned to relative poverty in the last 12 years. Your whataboutery is a pathetic defence of this cabinet of charlatans.
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  313.  @Happin3ess Depends what it was before reading. Perhaps you should reread and think about their factual content.
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  314.  @Happin3ess  would you prefer gentile and servile cap-doffing? Stop trolling with garbage.
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  315.  @Happin3ess  your comments prove that. Stop mindless trolling.
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  316.  @mauricetrotter6010  we all have our own tastes and values.
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  317.  @Leonnicko  spot on.
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  318.  @nickedwards2904 age determines the legal process. Nothing to do with voting. James was doing his job correctly. Like it or not.
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  319.  @andreaslamers9535  thought he had become prime minister. Lol
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  320.  @andreaslamers9535  sounds accurate. Perfect irony.
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  321. Perhaps this joker should learn the concept of a cosmopolitan attitude. Why do these small minded jerks get air time?
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  322. Fingers in pies. That's the Tory way. Rewarded for buggering up the country.
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  323. Absolutely agree, with respect for the work you do. The Tories expect public services to be run as a charity while they offer outsourced profit opportunities to their mates. Never trust the Tories - especially with the NHS.
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  324. Doing everything they can. It will just take 8 years to stop four fifths of untreated sewage being pumped into waterways. No wonder the chief exec has met his target. That's not a target, it's environmental vandalism.
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  325. ​ @bobharrison4711 How?
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  326. ​ @davelites8270 You really should keep up to date. Pathetic!!!
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  327.  @simonlevett4776  Ah! Whataboutery doesn't cut it. The other parties have a better record. Tory economic incompetence and corruption abound. Faulty PPE, a non-existent test and trace; contracts to Sunak's family; a record national debt after 14 years of austerity. A party of scammers and serial liars.
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  328. The whole honours system is feudal. The days of cap doffing are gone for many of us, except for the flag-shaggers and naturally servile. Enough is enough.
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  329. Not difficult to make Johnson look small. A narcissist, a serial liar, unable to take criticism, a totally delusional coward - characteristics of a true sociopath
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  330.  @tonygange7636  would that be the same Starmer who said he would resign if fined?
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  331.  @boxtradums0073  I agree, but unfortunately the Westminster Parliament affects all UK countries. Until independence is achieved.
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  332. Fake adverts and a fake Website used by the Tories in their last election campaign. Wonder why Johnson doesn't do anything.
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  333. A bigot pretending to support democracy after Johnson had a minority mandate (43.6% of verified votes) in the first place.
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  334. @Tom well, Tom, you have a problem with comprehension. Here's the acid test: would Buffoon repeat his words verbatim outside parliament?
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  335. @Tom you think that's an answer, Tom. Study basic comprehension. If you review your exchanges on this thread, the lack of logic and ownership is obvious.
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  336. @Tom how?
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  337.  @MOFFS  how?
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  338.  @lordflashget8780  Yes. What Chomsky and Herman called manufactured consent is very powerful.
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  339.  @videowatchr5565  No point making voting mandatory unless all votes are equal, under PR
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  340. Independent reports suggest that the richest 1% will gain from this budget. Which means the remaining 42.6% of Tory voters should feel betrayed (assuming the said 1% voted Tory.) How many will realise that? Or will they act as moronic sheep?
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  341. Amazing that Sunak didn't pause to consider a wealth or windfall tax when the richest 10 people have seen their wealth double during the Pandemic. Could there be some Tory self-interest at play? The man is as big a joke as the rest of his party. That joke, as ever, is on us.
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  342.  @philipmerewood2298  relevance???
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  343. After selling your soul, you are still in the control of the rich and powerful. If Starmer supports and implements PR, he has my support. It's the first and most necessary step in tackling corruption.
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  344. Nothing is accepted as the fault of Brexit because we must believe in Unicorns and wait patiently for 10 years to see the benefits.
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  345. Anyone who doubts this is a cabal of crooked idiots needs either a course in critical thinking or a lobotomy.
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  346.  @twisteddancer7773  are you eluding to the fact that the Tories are buggering it up? Even Honest Bob Jenrick got involved at one stage. At least they show a more expensive level of corruption.
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  347.  @twisteddancer7773  not defending them. Just saying that from bad to worse is no comfort. A government that has spaffed billions on faulty PPE and a useless test and trace system; after running up record debts in spite of austerity is hardly an example.
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  348. No limit to Tory stupidity, displayed daily by cabinet members whose attempts at gaslighting are infantile. Remember, Jacob, only 43.6% of voters elected your inept government and some made that choice through self-interest or intellectual laziness rather than abject stupidity.
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  349. When the Tories say "efficiency", they mean AUSTERITY. Top-down imposition doesn't work. Evidence? The last 14 years of dismantled public services. The Tories have borrowed more and paid back less than Labour since 1947. Never trust a Tory with our money, the economy, our national health and prosperity.
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  350. I have consistently identified three reasons for voting Tory: self-interest; intellectual laziness; or plain stupidity. I wonder which category this caller belongs to?
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  351. Dodgy Dave is just what Sunak needs to totally destroy his lie of integrity, professionalism and accountability. When in doubt, remember his statement that we are all in this together. He forgot to add that some are in it more than others.
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  352. Trust us, we have a different culture. Get rid of the bill and more may trust you. Labour are making a fine art of fence sitting.
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  353. @Tom how?
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  354. @Tom that's calling it out, Tom. You, on the other hand, may choose to doff your cap and say nothing. I suggest a course on critical thinking.
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  355. @Tom that's the government, Tom. It's habitual with them. Take that course on critical thinking.
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  356. @Tom started the course yet, Tom. I doubt it with your vacuous statements. Just explain why or stop posting.
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  357. @Tom I didn't say what you think I said. Accurate reading is part of critical thinking. Check the facts. Who started charging for education anyway? Answer: politicians.
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  358. Another Tory proving their inability to understand human beings and even the meaning of the word empathy. Little Spiv is too entitled and narcissistic to apologise.
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  359. After all these shiny promises, how well have we taken back control?
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  360. Fishy Rishi, campaigning for Chief Rat. The party of deceit, with consent manufactured by the mainstream media.
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  361. After cost push inflation we have rampant profiteering yet still the neoliberal (free market) government will make no attempt to control prices. Instead leaving it to the BofE to raise interest rates and push debts higher.
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  362. ​ @roberthughes9527 That's a gift to the incompetent government. The others may be no better, so let's stick with known incompetence and corruption.
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  363. ​ @Blinks77 What policies is that cliche based on? Have you seen their manifesto yet? Other parties are available.
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  364. ​ @Blinks77 so you favour Lib Dems or Greens then?
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  365. ​ @chrisj9700 Can you find JC on a ballot paper, other than as an independent?
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  366. ​ @Blinks77 Other choices are available.
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  367. ​ @chrisj9700 sound public finances! What are you on? To increase national debt while imposing austerity is the gold standard of fiscal incompetence. Delivered Brexit and made us poorer. Who voted for that? If you check facts: the Tories have consistently borrowed more and paid back less than Labour since the second world war. Economic competence is a lie from the Daily Fail.
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  368.  @MrTidymark  Nothing! About what? Labour had a school rebuilding programme which was scrapped by Gove when the Tories took over. Reducing hospital waiting lists; building more schools; increasing prosperity to achieve a rise in real incomes. That's nothing? Are you trolling or just intellectually challenged?
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  369.  @eddiecalderone  Or how the economy works
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  370.  @eddiecalderone  I agree, Eddie. The economic part is down to media-supported manufactured consent. The Tories have repeatedly borrowed more and paid back less than Labour since the second world war. There is only one party asked: how are you going to pay for it? And that's the party with the better financial record. The con trick has worked.
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  371. Wow! That thatch on his head is not keeping his brain in place. Another vacuous Tory clown. They keep coming.
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  372. She did qualify the comment by adding AND WHAT THEY STAND FOR. I fully concur with her comment and respect her opinion.
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  373. Wonder if the brainless woman and the vacuous Daily Fail favour all women MPs wearing the burqa in parliament. Even Johnson has spoken out against this article. Must be bad.
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  374. ​ @stephenconway2468  Yes. One answer is to simplify the system - eg taxing turnover rather than profit, where the intellectual property scam can be used to mitigate tax.
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  375.  @jeffsimon9594  I also suggest that you look up chicken and egg. They got the publicity BEFORE any proven vote share. Don't you think that helped them? The loss-making right wing channels for idiots offer a platform for them to deliver false hope to the desperate.
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  376. It's all the fault of the government, so I'll make them pay. Such altruism.
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  377. This delusional idiot says he is "looking at the big picture" after failing to understand a single detail. 1) Johnson's "amazing victory" was a achieved with a minority (43.6%) vote through our rigged system. 2) He hasn't got Brexit done after being crazy enough to implement it during a pandemic (undoubtedly to use Covid as an excuse.) 3) He has broken electoral promises by suspending the triple lock on pensions and raising NI. 4) He is prepared to maintain the Tory priority of making the poorest people suffer most. 5) he consistency games parliamentary rules by repeatedly lying and failing to correct the record. Add to this list his sociopathic characteristics and ineptitude, to make us the greatest laughing stock on the world stage.
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  378. Yes. And the centre keeps moving. A convenient badge of honour is to claim the centre ground without defining it.
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  379.  Johann Sebastian Bach  yes. A conditional statement that was conveniently forgotten for the rest of the interview, with its credibility assumed and unchallenged.
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  380.  Johann Sebastian Bach  "one of those people!" Stereotyping! Logic says that the media in general is intellectually lazy in the pursuit of headlines.
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  381. A government of arrogant, incompetent, abject clowns. And they have the gall to expect us to take them seriously. Who will the little spiv appoint as his next home secretary?
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  382. A government of liars in permanent denial. Following the science was always an excuse. "Moved quickly" is the biggest lie of all. A catalogue of prevarication and incompetence. The most inept government ever.
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  383. Johnson didn't "clarify" anything. He whitewashed it. His words are on the record and he would be too cowardly to repeat them outside parliament.
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  384.  @adamb4667  sources, please?
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  385. Why do you think oligarchs own the media, Iain? Nothing compared with the stitch up of Jeremy Corbyn.
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  386.  @frankbrennan1619  who, exactly is the anti-Semitic Marxist?
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  387.  @bumblingborisbuffoon6259  the wazzock slammed an oven ready dish in the microwave.
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  388. Truss personifies Britannia Unhinged
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  389. This reinforces my reasoning that I couldn't trust the Tories to take back control, even if persuaded by any argument for leaving the EU (which I wasn't.) Our industries were depleted and sold off by Thatcher embracing neoliberal ideology. By leaving the EU, Johnson's cabal are exacerbating this on steroids.
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  390. Back to sadistic austerity by the man who buggered up the NHS. Where do the Tories find these psychos?
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  391.  @albert7311  and in the UK?
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  392.  @ppo2424  specialist subject, bleeding obvious, to quote Basil Fawlty
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  393.  @kanedNunable  Yes. Manufactured consent by a compliant media.
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  394. I understand your reasoning - except the majority of public opinion says Brexit is not working. Should he wait for Murdoch's endorsement and consent? If you sup with the Devil, you pay a price. He needs to push electoral reform to scupper the Tories.
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  395. I don't believe that we are a functioning democracy. In an elective dictatorship, and parliament being a house of lies, how can we be?
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  396.  @forestsunset9617  I'm probably of a similar generation as your parents. Perhaps you should tell them that mobile phones and beer don't heat a home, and mobile phones need charging. Britain is broken.
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  397.  @franklingoodwin  Your statement is probably correct while the oligarch media successfully manufactures consent.
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  398. ​ @waynebradford7779 Listen and learn. The facts are there
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  399. And on last night's Peston, Honest Bob Jenrick claimed that the government has a responsibility to control inflation through squeezing the pay of the workers they bear responsibility for: in the public sector. I have news for you, Bob: (1) rail workers are constrained by public sector pay awards while employed by private companies paying dividends to shareholders from taxpayers' money. (2) why does the government fail to control, or at least intervene in, private sector pay awards, and make no attempt to control prices? (3) if you condone, and even exacerbate, widening pay differentials between the private and public sector, you will have problems in the recruitment and retention of the "best people." (4) Oops! I forgot: you want to release the shackles of banking executive pay because that's where you want "the best people" and to attract investment. That's Tory ideology in a nutshell.
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  400. Also, it is not more in real terms.
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  401. The response to "have a guess" should be: No, our listeners deserve facts, you tell me. Ferrari is NOT a journalist by any stretch of imagination.
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  402. Certainly not economics. He doesn't understand the causes of inflation.
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  403. What else should we expect from someone with narcissistic personality disorder, and the characteristics of a sociopath or psychopath. You choose.
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  404. It was always going to be pathetic. Read the Russia Report and the reason is obvious. The worst possible leader at the worst possible time.
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  405. ​ @wiseget-f7e Whereas northern Labour, Green and Lib Dem supporters can see through right wing bullsh1t.
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  406.  @rabburns1382  not guilty
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  407.  @mikeoglen6848  how was it failing? The root cause is Neoliberalism and not the EU.
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  408.  @mikeoglen6848  the inequality package? Or the one promoted on the side of a bus?
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  409. So is failing to "react" as you would define it, a virtue or a fault?
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  410.  @bereal6590  Likewise. I formed these opinions from higher education and in specialist middle-management jobs. We just don't know how (or perhaps want) to get the best from people.
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  411. Think Tank is an oxymoron. A group of minds that come ready made up, cluttered with extreme ideology.
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  412. Typical of a politician to imply that structural fairness is inevitable and acceptable. One wonders what the Tories have been doing for the past 14 years. Taking us back to the days of Dickens?
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  413. Johnson would not survive in a real democracy; it takes our elective dictatorship.
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  414. "This government doesn't have another alternative to...Rwanda" Then we need a new government! Simple!!!
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  415.  @stickytapenrust6869  I know. The return proved him wrong.
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  416. If patients are her top priority and this is her idea of a strategy, she should be fired immediately. A government of lying incompetents.
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  417. A sense of relief is inevitable to anyone with a social conscience. Starmer has hit the right note with a declaration of service and his actions in reaching out to devolved governments and regions are a great start. Lammy's visit to Germany is a great sign, not least because it has p1ssed off the lunacy of the Daily Fail.
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  418. The Tories have a pathological hatred of the public sector - expecting professionals to act as charity workers to achieve a 'small state.' Their dogma promotes and exacerbates inequality, which was the real intent of neoliberalism as devised by the Mont Pelerin Society.
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  419. Why? What else would you expect from a cabinet of Sociopathic morons? Britain is broken.
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  420. Wisdom accepts there are two sides to everything. Instead Ian chooses to personally attack Macron in defence of our incompetent government.
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  421. A brilliant discussion by two skilled communicators. I wholeheartedly agree that politics is too adversarial and we could achieve far more with greater cooperation.
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  422. Can't even trust the Tory's judgement of their own party. A cabal of operationally incompetent fantasists.
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  423. I recall that moment of revelation by Starmer belongs to a certain Jeremy Corbyn. Nationalising the railways as franchises expire was part of the Labour manifesto in 2017.
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  424. And he only got Brexit half-done and badly!
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  425. What reforms has Raab driven, other than remapping Dover? A bully crying over the consequences of his actions and trying to excuse his serial incompetence.
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  426. It was part of the Neoliberal lie, designed to increase inequality. In reality, wealth gushes up and drips down where they can't fix the leaks.
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  427. ​ @physiocrat7143 evidence and numbers, with source, please...
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  428. Great! What a cunning plan! Greater numeracy would result in more people recognising the economic and operational incompetence of our most recent Tory governments.
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  429. He is correct about one thing: we should give a policy a chance to work. Preferably a decent and sensible policy might help. How about safe routes and prompt and efficient assessments, then return of those who fail in their application. Those who are accepted can get to work and contribute to the economy.
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  430. You have a "left wing agenda" and most of the time I can't listen to you, so I'll call your programme to complain about your agenda on a topic where I agree with you. The logic of a prize wazzock.
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  431. Honest Bob is a Tory minister. Thus he's a psychopath.
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  432. When I marvel at the apathy and stupidity of the British voting public, I'm reassured that only 43.6% of voters supported this clown and it took an undemocratic system to give him power.
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  433. Probably more concerned about paying an extra quid in tax.
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  434.  @zacmumblethunder7466  yes. He explained that to me. Thanks.
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  435.  @samg1879  why? Has he joined another party? Lol
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  436. Those who make sacrifices are trashed by our corrupt governance. (Assange being an extreme case where we are more than complicit.) Meanwhile we have a mainstream media supporting the depravity that enables our elective dictatorship.
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  437. This opinionated foghorn - being paid to spout his bile - has the gall to call others for earning money from the media. One of life's true ironies.
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  438. If the government has been "very proactive," yet we have this last minute emergency, they have been incompetent by proactively running around in circles.
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  439. If it's on the record, it's ok and perfectly normal, according to Gove. I read with interest, in the last Labour manifesto, that second jobs were to be banned (other then in exceptional cases such as the medical profession) Another reason why JC couldn't be allowed power. Conflicts of interest are virtually encouraged and rewarded by this cesspit of corruption.
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  440. Conclusive proof that idiots are allowed to vote and are most likely to vote for a clown.
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  441. As for the pressure on the NHS: Would you then make the same argument for smokers and excessive drinkers? A doctor must follow the Hippocratic oath as well as respecting freedom of will. Let's aim at the real target: government underfunding and manipulation. Don't fall for divide and rule.
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  442.  @susanferrie7233  think you are missing the point. Quite the opposite.
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  443.  @susanferrie7233  not missing the point...talking about the myth of their economic record. They are incompetent as well as evil, as you put it.
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  444.  @Craig121000  the change of mind in your posts, John, was bordering on a road to Damascus moment, to put it kindly. Perhaps you were playing Devil's advocate or you have a strange sense of humour. Your choice, but you hardly offered any cogent argument. As for a lot to learn...over 7 decades of it in my case and still acquiring knowledge.
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  445. Racism is indeed mindless. I aspire to look at the content of personality, from the book of the great Dr Luther King. The Tories operate on elitism or "toffery". If you went to the right school or are accepted in the right clubs... In politics, we should look at competence. Sunak makes false statements on economics that suggest his alleged MBA was fudged or he is a complete liar. As a leader, he habitually lies and takes the electorate for naive fools.
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  446. I believe that the worst characteristics in your description are accurate. Johnson thrives in national chaos and harming our population.
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  447. They won't get out to make their case because there is no case. Either their intent is to let speculators pick the bones as the economy crashes and burns, or they are simply incompetent. Anyone reading the fantasy novel Britannia Unchained would hardly be surprised at their vacuous excuses.
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  448.  @sandormccann2546  True. Their appetite for corruption is unlimited.
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  449.  @thelastpillar4973  haha! Martin said he was running out of tools to help because only government could solve this. The last resort was to heat the body rather than the house. Finally, today, the government has U-turned by announcing a windfall tax. About time the Crime Minister caught up after Labour and Lib Dems pushing for this for weeks.
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  450.  @agt155  acting against his own interests being a sign of altruism then? (Assuming your statement can be verified.) Perhaps the Convict of Downing Street can take a lesson or two.
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  451. A rat parade of Tory fantasy economics to appeal to greed above society. It's in their DNA.
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  452. Keep it in the family. In the case of the Johnsons: that means maintaining entitlement and stupidity.
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  453. ​ @marxman6896 nor will Trump, the lover of free market neoliberal exploitation. He is full of lies and horsesh1t.
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  454. When people extolled the virtues of taking back control, I applied a simple test: could you trust the Tories to make Britain work after doing so?
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  455. The caller has a point and I also despair. It seems Starmer is afraid of upsetting Murdoch. Is he against rampant Neoliberalism (the unregulated free market and the lie of trickle down?) Is he for public ownership of energy, water and rail, which the majority support and his predecessor got right? Most importantly, is he for PR and real democracy? He appears to be Tory Light.
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  456.  @TroyaE117  just what we should expect from a pseudonym account. Vacuous sh1te
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  457. The man who became prime minister, elected by his own party, while deviating from a manifesto supported by a minority (43.6%) of voters claims these to be the people's priorities. Little Spiv is indeed a puff of smoke - without the mirrors, because he can't face truth.
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  458.  @colinmelhuish1254  perhaps you should learn economics before making such a crass statement. Tories have borrowed more and paid back less than Labour throughout periods of government since the second world war. Do you really understand Marxism and did you read Labour's manifesto? Or do you follow the Sun or the Daily Fail?
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  459.  @cujimmi  think you should change your last name to Senseless and add Troll. The fact that you have to ask that question means that we have an incompetent chancellor and a useless government. They should have worked that one out by now!
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  460.  @cujimmi  why?
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  461.  @cujimmi  No
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  462. Nothing illustrated this point better than the three-word brexit slogans. Dumbed-down statements on a multidimensional issue. We then had the declaration that we've had enough of experts, many many believe the soundbites over factual argument. The dumbed down slogans further fueled division and hatred, when we now need cooperation on the issues threatening our planet - particularly climate change. This dangerous precedent, propagated by sociopaths, has left us poorer and more vulnerable.
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  463.  @housemonkeychill  after refused to take it up. We are playing hardball with EU countries to shift the blame.
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  464.  @2msvalkyrie529  An interesting thought when we don't allow asylum seekers to work while their claim is being processed.
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  465.  @IBTU  the kind of stupid bilge I have come to expect from a pseudonym account. Perhaps your GP will give you that advice if you need future help.
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  466. UBI is a progressive proposal. It replaces Universal Credit (a system run by sociopaths at enormous cost.) As we move to more autumation, through AI and robotics, it presents an alternative to the work model, as fewer jobs become avaialable. As for funding it, we need a more progressive form of taxation: taxing wealth and corporate greed. (That's assuming tax and spend, rather than embracing modern monetary theory - MMT) The neoliberal model fails the majority by exaxerbating inequality, while dehumanising those who can't work. We need such research into a viable and humane alternative.
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  467.  @davidpope2048  explain your version of alternate reality then
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  468. And tax avoiders, afraid of scrutiny
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  469.  @hilarymiseroy  the current wave of "illegals" is largely fictitious because we don't define legal routes for refugees from some countries (African for example) as exposed in a HoC sub-committee. We are also taking more immigrants to compensate for shortage of workers through Brexit. The Dublin accord was about exchange and each country taking a fair share of refugees. Who would trust these Tory wazzocks to take back control?
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  470.  @hilarymiseroy  It's not the number that's fictitious, Hilary, it's labelling them as "illegals." The proof? What proportion qualify as refugees? 90-odd percent in the last report I read. You say the Dublin accord never worked yet we had far fewer boats when in the EU. Pretending to be tough on immigration is unattainable rhetoric; managing immigration is not. As for the original post: do you dispute that xenophobia contributed to the brexit vote? The rest is a side issue
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  471. Correction: the conservative party's reputation has been destroyed by twelve years of austerity, a drop in living standards, an increase in inequality, and total financial and operational mismanagement. If that wasn't enough, the party has allowed The Convict to stay in power and repeatedly lied in his defence. They have dug themselves into a hole; we should fill it for them. Enough is more than enough, after a few years of Johnson and his cabal of sociopathic charlatans.
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  472. Let's look at where the gross incompetence starts: with Johnson the sociopathic buffoon.
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  473. There are two sides to Piers. 1) the inveterate windbag who constantly interrupts and will always create a common enemy for newsworthiness ("wokeness" whatever he means by that?) 2) one of the very few presenters that held the government to account over the Pandemic. (perhaps he got the right enemy that time?) No wonder that call him marmite.
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  474. Johnson has an 80 seat majority from a minority vote. An unfit system crowning a clown. Is this caller mentally deficient? Must be the most paltry excuse of the decade.
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  475.  @suzy5166  perhaps if you spelled her first name correctly, your vacuous comment would appeal to more idiots.
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  476. Step 1: read the headlines in the Fail. Step 2: get angry with whoever they are blaming.
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  477.  @abdell75roussos  I would correct the spelling.
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  478. Don't expect any help from this government of uncaring Imbeciles who were crazy enough to complete brexit during a pandemic. Solely so they could blame Brexshit mayhem on the pandemic.
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  479. I'm waiting for deflation and the unicorns! After our weekly shopping and our energy bills have virtually doubled, and we were told that it was caused by the pandemic and the Ukraine war (what economists call cost push inflation,) that means when the war is over or alternative supplies have been arranged, prices will come down again? WRONG!! Some may, but not to the level they were. If enough prices come down we would see deflation. Watch the news, but don't hold your breath. It won't happen because of profiteering and the refusal of governments to control prices or to intervene in their beloved free market. Yet when workers push for pay rises, they are being greedy and causing the evil word, inflation. Spotted the con yet?
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  480. How unlike the Fail to support this psychopath who misrepresents fact. The terrifying part: she's a lawyer, yet apparently incapable of analytical thought.
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  481. ​ @tomjohnson9833 open your eyes and you will see. You could almost differentiate by publication or media channel. How many don't habitually excuse or support the government?
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  482.  @dominicparker6124  irony noted.
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  483. ​ @stevenicol1  relevance???
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  484.  Jay Bee  that's true only of the minority: 43.6% of those who bothered voting. Our undemocratic system has been gamed by a cabal of crooks.
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  485.  @jobbyomoron8478  so you don't like the people, irrespective of the policies. Meanwhile you attempt to defend a serial liar and a vacuous charlatan. I see how you get your name. Your choice.
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  486. The reason is simple and obvious: for doing what Tories do. Serial lying and deception; exacerbating inequality; profit over quality of life; failed free market ideology at all costs; operational incompetence; endless bullsh1t...
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  487. We are sleepwalking into fascism. Welcome to Johnson's broken Britain
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  488. One sign of intelligence is active listening; another is asking relevant questions. As for perpetual talking... Perhaps I should explain that some of our closest friends are Muslim, as are some of our neighbours. Some of the kindest and friendliest people we have met. Now what did the great Dr Martin Luther King say about the content of personality? ...
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  489. Hold your nerve! The little spiv thinks he is on the trading floor. "Stick to the plans." What plans? Baldrick at least had a cunning plan. Sunak has five phoney pledges and a surfeit of Orwellian double-speak.
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  490. ​ @lestrem11  well, the number was the same but the order and content differed.
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  491.  @lestrem11  well, "child" the words "identical" and "except" are antonyms, in any logical analysis. Read the definition of "identical" then grow up to avoid making infantile comments
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  492.  @thinker8128  you have identified a key benefit. Did you read the Labour manifesto? Well done.
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  493.  @lestrem11  Fact: two were on the same topic; three completely different.
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  494.  @PhillColl1ns  while reducing the bank levy from 8% to 3% and cutting the tax take. More for bankers all round.
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  495. Never trust the Tories with the NHS. Simple fact; end of.
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