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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