Comments by "David McCulloch" (@davidmcculloch8490) on "A Different Bias" channel.

  1. Braverman shopping for a new constituency? How about Rwanda?
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  2. Brexit is not done, but we have been done by brexit. That was always the intention of the chorus of liars.
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  3. Who would have thought that a serial liar and narcissist would do untold damage to the country? Why would we expect him to go gracefully?
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  4. Pity that those who voted to keep the foreigners out didn't realise they would become foreigners when visiting EU countries.
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  5. As one pensioner who certainly won't vote Tory, I'm not surprised by this. At least the sociopathic incompetents are consistent.
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  6. The irony to me was people voting for an aspirational name: "reform", without realising their policies would reform us into a banana republic. A group of sad brexiter rejects and chancers peddling more snake oil.
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  7. Johnson doesn't have a plan. He's a drifter and an opportunist. He drifts between a series of reactions prompted by headlines. He sees some wages going up, prompted by supply and demand, and claims it's a plan to build a high wage, high skilled economy. Perhaps he should explain that to nurses and care workers.
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  8. We are getting to a stage where a national strike is not only likely, it's inevitable if the majority are to afford a reasonable standard of living. Otherwise let's doff our caps and vote for the incompetent sociopaths who have brought this country to its knees. Never have three words been so accurate and poignant: enough is enough.
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  9. Sunak promised integrity, professionalism and accountability. He is delivering corruption, incompetence and opacity.
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  10. He is paying the price of reinstating a sociopathic incompetent to do his dirty work.
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  11. Three nil! Three footballers (and ex-footballers) hold the government to account far more effectively than the mainstream media. Gary Lineker, John Barnes and Marcus Rashford - huge respect to you. BBC - shame on you.
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  12. He's like the mad villain in a Bond movie. Absolutely barking.
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  13. Hard to move to the right of fascism. Does anyone remember Buffoon's promise that our standards would be at least as high as the EU's?
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  14. This morning I read that such a questionnaire was sent to No 10, with a warning that it must be answered honestly. Can't such clever detectives understand the risk of the recipient being a serial liar?
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  15. I am not just ashamed of my country. I'm disgusted by my country. We have never been in such need of a clean-up, starting with this government being ousted then followed by electoral reform.
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  16. The nightmare continues. She appoints someone who buggered up the health service and now, as chancellor, Hunt may engineer the privatisation of the NHS, as in the policy pamphlet he co-authored in 2005.
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  17. But we haven't done brexit properly according to Tice and Farage. Translation: we haven't done enough national harm for the benefit of disaster capitalists.
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  18. Watering down a motion to put less shit in the rivers, to water companies is a pun. To us, it's a health hazard. The greatest health hazard over the last 13 years has been a Tory government.
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  19. We are seeing more of the dangers of a political party funded by business. We lived in the Fylde and felt the tremors of fracking tests. The case simply does not stand up.
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  20. Describing Trump as "transactional" is shorthand for his corruption.
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  21. Braverman would make a great leader...of the opposition. That would be great for the party in government. She can't debate; doesn't even turn up when the going gets tough; and has the worst record of any home secretary - yes, even worse than Patel.
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  22. Johnson was delusional; Truss is deranged.
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  23. For anyone who needs reminding: the Tories don't find solutions that benefit society; they use symbolism to divide and rule, while maintaining power to serve their mates and string-pullers.
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  24. Does anyone remember Johnson's lie that our standards would be at least as high as the EU's? Naturally, if Johnson said it, this result became inevitable.
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  25. The qualifications to become a Tory minister are privilege and entitlement, along with the inability to run a p1ss-up in a brewery.
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  26. Johnson proved beyond reasonable doubt that parliament is not fit for purpose. Our pretence of democracy is a sham.
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  27. Tories breaking the law! What a shocking suggestion. Perhaps only in a limited and specific way? Manslaughter rather than murder?
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  28. Johnson has a simple rule: I make a promise, therefore I break it. The man goes beyond buffoonery.
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  29. We not only sell off our assets at rock-bottom rates for corporate greed, we bailout the companies when things get rough. The root cause being: a political party funded by business.
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  30. Usual Tory smoke and mirrors. Being seen to do something, but never enough. Given that he never follows through his promises, the Tories end up doing nothing.
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  31. The prospect of a long term plan from a government with a track record of 14 years of incompetence and chaos is hardly appealing.
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  32. The appointment of McVile is an admission that the government has lacked common sense for the past 13 years. Another Sunak own goal from his place of desperation.
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  33. Ministers should be forced to pay the costs of this madness from their own pockets. Or send them to Rwanda if they default.
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  34. When considering that we wanted Brexit and knew about it as soon as EU countries. The question remains: why were we not prepared when the EU were? The answer from the British government, to excuse their operational incompetence: shift the blame.
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  35. There are three types of Tory voter in our elective dictatorship: self-interested; intellectually lazy; or plain stupid. As we suffer Tory economic mismanagement, more may realise that the Tories make them poorer.
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  36. Let's have honesty: rename PMQs as Prime Minister's Evasions. For perverse entertainment only. How often will Johnson be allowed to trot out the same lies without being required to correct the record?
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  37. Don't forget the bigger picture: we need PR to oust the Tories in a general election. Labour must support PR and work with other parties.
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  38. JRM as minister for Brexit opportunity is pure irony bordering on world class comedy. The Victorian Pencil is a wazzock.
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  39. "Levelling up" was described by Cummings as a vacuous slogan. The reality will prove to be levelling down. The Tory campaigning machine is also well funded - often with dodgy money and targeted social media campaigns; the latter being outside electoral commission scrutiny (which is being reined in by the Tories in any event.) The stark reality is that many will vote on a catchy slogan rather than proven achievement.
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  40. For the fans who excused Johnson by saying "he saw us through Covid and he got Brexit done," the full picture will be revealed. We know what a success brexit was (lol) and now we will see Johnson's incompetence in all its glory.
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  41. Paying for the Daily Fail is a 'TAX' on insanity.
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  42. The Rwanda wheeze was never in the last Tory manifesto. There is no democratic mandate. It is NOT the people's choice. A vacuous scheme originated by Johnson and Patel.
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  43. Daily Fail: the voice of desperation. Why should facts get in the way of their fantasies?
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  44. Kemi Demi Semi losing her parliamentary seat would be the ultimate poetic justice. Less vacuous arrogance in parliament would be our gain.
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  45. The Brexit shit-show is reminiscent of the British government attitude: we don't prepare, we muddle through as the international joke that we are.
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  46. I'm far from thrilled. Doing whatever it takes to get the Tories out is hardy a transformative outcome. Without real democracy, we are reduced to voting tactically. Yes, I'll do whatever it takes, then campaign for PR.
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  47. Johnson's speciality: how to discredit a country while sending it down the toilet. We have gone beyond an international joke.
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  48. Finding a suitable excuse for bigots to suspend the assembly takes time.
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  49. So many blaming the EU for the lack of Brexit unicorns. The delusion of Little England.
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  50. I love the irony of naming these bills. The Retained EU Law Bill, when the default was to abolish the laws rather than retain them. The Illegal Migration Bill, when the illegal part is the bill rather than the migration.
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  51. If any of my fellow pensioners are inclined to vote Tory. Just remember: Hunt has cut NI - something we don't pay. Yet has frozen personal allowances on tax, so we are shafted.
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  52. Every week that goes by, I marvel at our ability to take back control. Who would have expected it?
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  53. Much of this corruption has been exposed by the Good Law Project. The government's answer: spaff more public money on an expensive legal defence of their dodgy dealings. Enough is enough.
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  54. With Johnson, we needed leadership and got theatre; we needed clarity and got obfuscation; we needed responsibility and got play-acting; we needed honesty and got serial lies. Just remembering some of the lines: "oven-ready deal...get Brexit done...levelling up...there were no parties..." This hearing is a test of our parliamentary system - a relic of a sick joke? Watch this space.
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  55. Newsflash! Global Britain is now a world leader on two fronts: 1) as a haven for tax avoiders and dark money and 2) a haven for smugglers
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  56. If anyone doubts Deform's priorities, look at Nigel's diary. Probably spent more time licking Trump's boots than representing his constituents.
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  57. So Sunak's budget of "optimism" is trumpeted while real data are hidden.
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  58.  @Kiwi5441-l4h  negotiated big investment stimulus and green investment. Dollar strong. As opposed to Brexshit Britain.
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  59. The same people who applaud the prosecution of climate protesters, somehow find a way of excusing mindless violence as some working lads having a few too many drinks. They somehow think the law should be applied accordingly.
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  60. Perhaps the Tories have woken to the fact that the ERG and other sponsorship groups (that they like to call Think Tanks) have had too much power and have taken them in the wrong direction.
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  61. Ed Davey has been the voice of reason and shown the bottle to call out the risks with the orange charlatan. Starmer should work closely with him.
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  62. Jacob Rees Mogg: another fine advert for private education. Comes through one of the most expensive education systems, only to show world beating stupidity. Reminds me of someone else with a similar track record.
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  63. Brexit offers conclusive proof that Xenophobia is bad for the economy. Trading freely with our neighbours is logical and natural.
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  64. The longer Johnson stays, the less credible he is shown to be. He may be an international joke, but unfortunately the joke is on us.
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  65. I propose a state visit to Clacton, with Farage carrying his bag. At least Nigel would be there for one day. Trump and his MAGA-MORONS are dangerous comedy.
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  66. Kemi is never BadEnough, however hard she tries. (Her vacuous arrogance makes her worse by the day.)
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  67. We suffer a cesspit, rather than a democratic institution. 1) Jeremy Corbyn had the right idea in banning second jobs, other than for purposes of maintaining professional qualifications. 2) Direct funding to MPs from business should be banned. 3) Any MP with a relative or close associate with a financial interest offering a potential conflict of interest should be forced to recuse themselves in voting on an associated matter. We need to clean up politics.
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  68. Shows that the level of journalism by the Fail is at least as low as Tory party politics.
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  69. The workers are striking while the Tories are revolting.
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  70. Brexit has delivered one notable achievement: making us an international joke
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  71. For those who said: "Poor Boris, he's trying his best in difficult circumstances," we can see how he has succeeded: as an incompetent, serial liar, a buffoon supported by a cabinet of charlatans. Never mind, if Tories break the law, they don't worry as they deem themselves above it. Will they sleep at night after causing so many unnecessary deaths? Perhaps as sociopaths, they will.
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  72. Johnson gets one award from me: the prime minister who has caused the most mayhem in the last 7 decades. A harmful Brexit; murder through mismanagement of the pandemic; levelling down the country; a cost of living crisis; electoral reform to achieve dictatorship; fewer rights to protest; a shrinking NHS and failing public services due to outsourcing. Not a comprehensive list but enough to show why Johnson failed in every previous job but was voted in by the gullible or self-interested.
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  73. Priti Shitty as leader would be a dream made in heaven. One picture of her smirk on the campaign literature of all opposition parties would consign the Tories to the dustbin of history.
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  74. Carrying on from Nichola Sturgeon who made Farage look like an idiotic schoolboy in debates. Well done Scotland.
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  75. Time for a honest party slogan. Conservatives: we simply don't give a sh1t.
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  76. Never expect Johnson to take responsibility for anything. Who- with any understanding of reality- would complete Brexit during a pandemic? That would take a useless narcissistic populist who knows that Brexit is a farce and could blame everything on the pandemic. Hopefully time is running out for this incompetent government, but don't hold your breath.
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  77. The amazing thing to me is why Trump supporters can't understand why we see America as a joke under his presidency.
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  78. ​ @trytellingthetruth.2068 "One size fits all!" How? Were we forced to take the Euro? Must all countries apply the same VAT rate? Must all countries apply the same bank base rate? Please stop talking bollocks.
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  79. Little Spiv has survived by gaslighting. Why would we expect competent governance when Sunak has already doomed the talks to failure?
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  80. Having so many such "work meetings" clearly explains the clarity of government decision-making.
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  81. And Nigel is such a modest chap. After all, when it comes to brexit, it's someone else's fault. The grifter is always the victim.
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  82. Last night I had a dream. Our government had, after all, been telling the truth. We had believed in Brexit and realised its wonderful opportunities, finding ourselves in a land of plenty. Our meritocracy had produced a country of hard-working high achievers, and many had culinary skills to produce nutritious meals from readily available and affordable produce. This morning I woke up to a cold house and a startling realisation: same Tory sh1t; different day.
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  83. Love the first background: Mogg and Foghorn having a welcome cuppa after a hard day of lying.
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  84. As a retired person, let me disabuse Tory-supporting pensioners about their claims of being the low tax party. When Cameron took office, personal allowances (or the taxable threshold) for pensioners were higher, acknowledging the fact that we had paid tax throughout our working lives. This was gradually eroded, until the threshold for workers caught up because of inflation afjustments. Not content with robbing pensioners once, the Tories have frozen personal allowances for all of us, so we are shafted along with workers. At least 20% if any rise in state pensions will go back to government. This is how Tories reward a lifetime of hard and honest work.
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  85. Natural progression for The Convict. The man who has single-handedly done more economic harm to Britain than any leader in recent memory.
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  86. British businesses should learn their place: they are there to be blamed by government, whose job is to negotiate a crappy deal then leave business to clean up the mess. Getting Brexit done...BADLY
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  87. Great that Sunak took a solution proposed by the EU a couple of years ago, to claim the credit. Now he extols something we had and no longer benefit from. Perhaps he is a slow learner? Or a poor liar? Either way, he has cooperated with the EU - a refreshing change from Johnson and Frost.
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  88. The new age of Tory desperation was heralded when Lee Anderthal became Deputy Chairman. Now it continues and grows beyond credible belief.
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  89. Why would they want him to speak? A couple of sentences in and he would be in full rant about immigration.
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  90. If they fitted new taps on one sink in a hospital, the Tories would probably claim that in the fantasy statistics from their alternate universe.
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  91. At least the Tories are consistently lavatorial. Taking the p1ss while allowing companies to dump sh1t.
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  92. And their punishment is? Oops! Forgot! Tories are exempt from punishment . Entitlement above justice.
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  93. The miners' strike not only lost police the respect of the public. I know of key workers (ambulance staff etc) whose trust was destroyed. The very people who often had to work with police no longer respected them. Frankly, we need a national strike to dismantle this sh1t show.
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  94. I would describe this list in two words: wishy-washy. The two simple messages could be making democracy work (electoral reform) and fixing the mess (offering hope after 12 years of Tory mismanagement)
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  95. This is Starmer's poll tax moment, delivered early by an inept chancellor. Pathetic, inept, disappointing.
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  96. Is this their idea of sick humour or sadism? The least trusted profession oppressing the most trusted. Enough is enough.
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  97. I have to say there were no shortages in our local Aldi or Sainsbury's this morning, but all food has been nearer to its use by date for the last few months. That said, the excuses are pitiful, and the failure of our media to mention the elephant in the room is subject normal.
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  98. This policy of taxation by stealth has hit pensioners even more. There was a higher tax threshold for pensioners when the Tories came to power; now there is no such differential.
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  99. So what was derided as Project Fear is now part of his cunning plan. Personally I would prefer Baldrick as prime minister.
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  100. When Johnson promised that our food standards would be at least as high as the EU's, the opposite was inevitable. What else would we expect from a serial liar led by the extreme right of his party.
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  101. Trump and Vance proving that you have to invite a guest to get a real president in the oval office.
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  102. Looking forward to higher pay for key workers in our high skilled, high pay economy. Also reimbursement of the Triple Lock as Truss promised in her campaign. But then, life is but a dream and under the Tories a bloody nightmare.
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  103. Interesting. The government also uses this tactic of outpricing in defending cases of their abuse of public money against the Good Law Project.
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  104. As soon as Buffoon said he didn't know it was a party he should have been forced to resign for incompetence. A prime minister who can't tell the difference between a work event and a party. The kind of national leader we clearly need. A great example to all.
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  105. If we taught critical thinking in schools, Farage would disappear.
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  106. ​ @Noel-ji8nm THE TROLL IS BACK! Hello, Noel the Troll
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  107. First and foremost, Labour should support electoral reform. We need to dismantle our elective dictatorship and achieve real democracy.
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  108. To anyone with a comedic sense of poetic justice: a man using the media to seek personal redemption while trusting a piece of work like Oakeshott is classic comeuppance.
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  109. I asked at the time, who would be so operationally incompetent to complete brexit during a pandemic? The answer was all too obvious: someone who wanted to deflect from our brexit shitfest by blaming the pandemic. Thankfully that only worked for a short while, but how many excess deaths did it cause?
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  110. Now we are living through Britannia Unhinged, to quote a response to one of my recent comments.
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  111. ​​ @haveyaseenmiwhippet9069  Your tribalism may be clouding your judgement.
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  112. Truss's career with Deliveroo not starting well. With JRM as business minister, hardly a surprise.
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  113. Being wedded to failed neoliberalism and exacerbating the damage with crass fiscal rules is like tying their hands behind their back when fighting economic battles. A total lack of vision and being devoid of progressive economic policies. I voted tactically for Labour and regret not voting Green.
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  114. At last, a grain of honesty. Where is the action? Where is the plan?
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  115. ​ @onlyme8117 Twaddle Without Any Thought
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  116. I totally agree with Phil's approach: treat Marr like an opponent. "Why is that question so important to you? Shouldn't you ask a doctor?
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  117. A sign of disappointment in this government is wishing for the return of Theresa May. A sign of desperation is longing for Johnson to stay.
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  118. More likely to fill 100 sheets with the harm caused.
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  119. Trickle down economics was successful only in doing what was intended: persuading the poor to vote for the rich to have more. The mentality of many who work for a living yet don't support the benefit of workers' rights is mystifying. Unions have been enormously beneficial to society.
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  120. With so many circumstances outside their control, you have to ask what is within the scope of their operational competence. Perhaps the promotion and exploitation of corruption?
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  121. What else should we expect from a sociopathic operational incompetent? The worst prime minister at the worst possible time. Those of us who survived, live with the consequences.
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  122. Can't bankrupt a country with a sovereign fiat currency, but he will have a damn good try and drag it in the gutter.
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  123. Just imagine being in the cabinet with Buffoon. Not exactly a piece of cake. Would have to be desparate, or a shallow liar, or totally corrupt.
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  124. He didn't know he was signing an agreement. He thought it was an oven ready deal for new furnishings, negotiated by Lardy Frost and chosen by Carrie for their execrable flat.
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  125. Sunak's plan is to keep shouting "Stop the boats," hoping that the world listens and his followers believe this constitutes a plan.
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  126. If Nigel had to pick a team, he would stand on the halfway line, whinging and telling the referee how to do their job. A charlatan never takes responsibility.
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  127. When righteous indignation is fuelled by The Sun, we know we are down the crapper.
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  128. A Chump and a Foghorn in the same room. That room should be a cell.
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  129. When taxing income from weath is the politics of envy but attacking Micky Mouse degrees is permitted. Welcome to Tory Britain. Since so much damage has been caused by ex-Etoninans, should we close Eton College?
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  130. ​ @Noel-ji8nm At it again, Noel?
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  131. Brexit: the greatest act of self-harm in my lifetime. Implemented in the worst possible way, by the worst possible leader, at the worst possible time.
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  132. ​ @dalecrocker3213 And thus ignoring democracy as we said the opposite at the ballot box. As for "we", speak for yourself.
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  133. The Tories aspire to fasicsm, yet achieve confusion and show their blatant incompetence.
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  134. Brexit has simply caused the proliferation of paperwork, while blaming the EU.
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  135. Three key points: 1) Johnson is incapable of working with other parties; 2) Johnson is incapable of making a plan; 3) Johnson is doing nothing to improve social care. 1) Johnson is a sociopath, with no attention to detail and incapable of hosting debate because of his hubris. 2) Johnson does not do (or even grasp) detail. He will not expose his inadequacies by working with others. He does not give a shit about anyone but himself and his grasp of power. 3) His announcement is financial only. Where is the recompense for underpaid care workers and the reorganisation to make things better? As for the £350m a week, Javid said in an LBC interview that it had been used for Covid. He was even stupid enough to mention test and trace and PPE - instances were money has been burned with Tory funders for little or no return. (Check out the Good Law Project, who are winning cases against the government.) We can be sure of two things we a Tory plan: a) the poor will suffer the burden more then the rich; b) their mates and party donors will benefit from outsourced dodgy contracts.
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  136. The fact that the Tories cant stick with a leader shows two things: 1) they lack suitable personnel and 2) their governance is abysmal.
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  137. I have consistently suggested three reasons for voting Tory: self-interest; intellectual laziness; or plain stupidity. For those who defend Johnson from Sue Gray's conclusions: just the last category is applicable.
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  138. Buffoon and Lord Gormless have painted themselves in a corner. The EU politicians think long term and play the long game. We react like petulant kids. The brexit shit-show goes on.
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  139. Good that an obvious fact is placed on record. How will voter apathy stand up? (Poor infantile Boris is doing his best...nappy training is so hard for him...)
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  140. The key question is whether the EU could trust us, even if there is demonstrable public support.
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  141. ​ @dalecrocker3213 check the meaning of the word incitement
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  142. Most concerning, as the NHS would fall apart without immigrants and professionals from different ethnicities.
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  143. Usual Tory smoke and mirrors. Make no mistake: Sunak is a traditional Tory tax and spend chancellor. We all know who will shoulder the greater tax burden as a proportion of their wealth. You guessed it, the people who can least afford it.
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  144. The strongest indication that Starmer values power over true democracy. What in Hell's name does he stand for?
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  145. Simple strategy against Reform: just ask them to articulate one policy and how they would implement it, rather than aspirations expressed as rhetoric.
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  146. I fundamentally blame the government for commissioning a feeding frenzy. Their excuse of exceptional circumstances is no reason to panic. Firstly, did they consult the specialist procurement professionals? Did they accept the offer of help from the EU? Instead they hung out the bait, knowing that the greediest or most enterprising never let a crisis go to waste and thus offering incentives to their mates. Now they have their pasties. On the one hand, Sunak and Johnson are not prosecuted for conveniently losing key evidence. Whereas this couple may be used as targets of deflection. I'm not defending them; just saying look out for the consequences: who caused the greatest damage and who gets away with it?
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  147. Can Brexiteers actually read? Thought they just swallowed soundbites whole.
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  148. It would take a Tory liar or someone in a somnambulistic trance to make that claim
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  149. And so many blame the fishermen for their vote, without knowing whether most of these employees voted that way, and as though it excuses the government from their crap brexit "oven ready deal."
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  150. It must be difficult to select one piece of sh1t over another.
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  151.  @candidaprout8441  the sort of delusion associated with a pseudonym account.
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  152. Every Doctor has been campaigning for such a review, and they are not alone. Patient safety should come first, by making sure that practitioners work within their area of competence. With the Tories and crank think tanks, it's all about money and a hatred of state services.
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  153. How people find this foghorn of bile even remotely credible is beyond imagination. But then - hold my beer - Trump is the new US president and the Clacton MP shouts in parliament.
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  154.  @howardgayton2127  yes. And Cameron failed to implement Leveson. Lots of self-interest and short on cajones.
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  155. Wallace has something going for him if he can identify Braverman's incompetence.
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  156. Trump seems to hate everything, except cheating at golf.
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  157. ​ @perfectstorm7379 why not try to work it out for yourself. A poignant example was Farage parading in front of camera. Maybe not on GBN? but you get the idea. GBN is not a news channel...GB Propaganda would be more accurate.
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  158. Good to see tribal war amongst Tories. With little to no oppostion, neutered by an unfit parliamentary process, we depend on their self-destruction.
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  159. I have only ever seen three reasons: greed and self interest; intellectual laziness; abject stupidity.
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  160. Are we suffering amnesia? I vauguely recall an offer by France to process applications on their soil so there would be no need to use small boats.
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  161. Fully agree. I have previously made a similar comment after reaching the same conclusion. Fartage wants an audience in an echo chamber to spout his bile. When challenged, after the application of critical thinking, he is exposed as a charlatan.
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  162. When a serial liar makes a promise, expect the opposite. The Tories have successfully levelled down, to benefit the 1%. We know Sunak's priority - he is obsessed with small boats.
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  163. Usual smoke and mirrors: you won't lose your home - meaning you won't have to move out. Similar rhetoric to: outsourcing NHS provision to private companies has nothing to do with privatisation. Same gaslighting; different day.
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  164. Inevitable, as the Tories keep repeating the same lie.
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  165. Perhaps another promise of integrity, professionalism and accountability would work well. Or how about getting Brexit undone? Lol
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  166. "Got its heart beating again." Love it. Normally our oligarch media is soulless. Now it has been forced to admit reality: for Global Britain read Little England.
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  167. Wow! That's not how it's supposed to work. When Global Britain issues visas, everyone should come running because we are such a great country to work in. Still waiting (impatiently) for the unicorns.
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  168. After extensive academic and social research, I confirm that our country is totally stuffed. Enough is enough.
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  169. Does anyone remember the Leveson Report? A certain David Cameron conveniently decided not to implement its recommendations, and allowed the press to remain self-regulating. Perhaps that would have been different had the majority of the MSM habitually scrutinised Tory governments.
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  170.  @BENTWOONEZERO  being first is no defence of an inferior performance. We have been overtaken and out-performed on the two items you mention. Britain is broken.
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  171. Hardly surprising after completing a reckless Brexit DURING a pandemic. Every offer of help from the EU, during COVID, was refused under the pretence of "world beating" British methods. A lethal cocktail of Johnson's hubris and operational incompetence.
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  172. Who would have expected this government to do a half-arsed job based on their record? They way they got "brexit done" was a clue.
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  173. ​ @NorthenSoul what has Labour to do with Fartage or Reform?
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  174. I'm constantly amazed how easily people buy the Tory rhetoric. It's either because they excel at PR (assisted by the oligarch media) or because people ignore facts and swallow slogans. A friend of mine once used a simple acid test: have you been better off under Labour or Conservatives? By every economic measure, Labour excel: more real growth in incomes, and better stewardship of public funds - Labour have consistently borrowed less and paid back more than the Tories. Just look at our national debt and inequality levels as a quick guide.
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  175. Self before party is not only dangerous but will tease out the least responsible leader.
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  176. Never have we so desperately needed Baldrick. Compared with what Johnson's government pass as a plan, Baldrick was an international genius. Johnson's government continually prove that wealth gushes up and drips down only where they can't fix the leaks.
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  177. Cowards and incompetents love to punch down. Scared of going after the richest cheats.
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  178. And, by extension, their financial prospects.
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  179. Inaction Man leading the misguided could hardly end well.
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  180.  @angelaharris6577  I absolutely respect the right to choose. I disrespect an oligarch-funded media manufacturing consent. I'm also concerned about the dumbing down of our population and the lack of critical thought. We are individuals with a free will, but our social structure disrespects that for purposes of control. Time to call out the shysters.
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  181. Conclusive proof that this government couldn't handle a p1ss-up in a brewery.
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  182. After a few decades in I.T. (sad, I know.) I'm hardly surprised that our national systems are failing. Always seem to suffer from an obsession with cost, old technology, poor project management. Requirements probably dictated by politicians instead of competent operational managers?
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  183. ​ @onlyme8117  the fact that "remoaner" has been replaced with "realist" makes it bloody hilarious to me.
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  184. Or for treason
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  185.  @andylowe3564  perhaps you would see less moaning if you could mention one tangible benefit of Brexit.
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  186. Sunak needs to lean on the author of austerity to tell him how to bugger up the country completely.
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  187. ​ @JohnArmitage-gs8ej perhaps you should book an appointment at Specsavers, for both optics and audiology. Brexit; the Farage riots, exacerbated by asking loaded questions before checking facts and authenticity; his track record as an MEP... STEP 1: do your research. STEP 2: apply critical thinking. What positive action has Farage contributed to help Britain? Just asking a question...
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  188.  @Noel-ji8nm  I have. How are they compatible? One is about party in-fighting. The other is about breaking international law. Whataboutery doesn't cut it with me. You asked which policies Labour are reversing. I answered with one.
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  189. Brexit was a perfect example of an own goal, as an act of self-harm. There are liars, damned liars, and Tory brexiter politicians.
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  190. If Labour have upset this wazzock, they have at least done one thing right.
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  191. If these charlatans are not criminally responsible for manslaughter, the law is not just an ass, its an a**hole. The first responsibility in public office should be care and protection of citizens.
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  192.  @mariogmajner6549  perhaps if you stay on subject you may get the idea of poignant logic. Whataboutery is futile.
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  193. In negotiations there is a simple question: which party is more desparate? Little England doing deals by numbers: one deal, minimal benefit, tick; another deal, no benefits, tick...
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  194. Your statement was chilling accurate. The oligarch media would not agree with you because Johnson was doing the dirty work of their oligarch owners.
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  195. And his first blatant lies should always be remembered: integrity, professionalism and accountability. Instead he has delivered corruption, incompetence and obfuscation.
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  196. With an aging workforce and stopping free movement, the inevitable happens. As Basil Faulty said: "Specialist subject, bleeding obvious." But then Tories attempt to paint over the obvious with an opaque coat of obfuscation.
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  197. @Chris Beckett your comments are as uncaring and as vacuous as your illiteracy.
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  198. With the party of the vile in disarray, we need all other parties to commit to PR.
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  199. ​ @Noel-ji8nm Troll off, Noel
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  200. The phrase I often use to describe this government is operational incompetence. Sometimes it's deliberate, because after doing nothing they manage to shift the blame with the help of our oligarch media. When judging effective governance for the benefit of the majority, they fail abysmally. Enough is enough.
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  201. Bigots and racists don't know what they are missing. So many of our friends from different ethnicities are wonderful people. The great Martin Luther King said it best about the content of character. His words resonate...a special human being.
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  202. The perfect example of Johnson's promises: 40 new hospitals promised; 34 roofs near to collapse.
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  203. We laugh at our peril, while we suffer this cabal of charlatans.
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  204. Welcome to the promised one nation Conservatives, now beginning to see that Johnson is levelling down.
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  205. This is an absolute no-brainer. Our current system amounts to an elective dictatorship. Both parties working in conjunction can offer real democracy where all votes count equally. The Tories will be shown to be power crazed after fiddling with electoral boundaries to cling on to power. Add an intention of cleaning up parliamentary standards with independent jurisdiction and the Tories are exposed.
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  206. Three excellent points. In full agreement.
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  207. Their life mission explained in one sentence.
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  208. True. And to cement this, the government will deregulate financial services, to further exacerbate inequality and to pave the way for another financial crash and impose further austerity.
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  209. Wonder how much our Spiv paid Zelensky to get him out of the hole?
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  210. Then don't cry for us. Just laugh at us through pity.
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  211. Time for the Tories to call an election then...
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  212. How did Kemi measure up to Sunak's promise of "integrity, professionalism and accountability"? Apparently, opinions differ as to whether she is bad enough.
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  213.  @Noel-ji8nm  Trolling again, Noel? What would you like to see?
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  214. When it comes to operational competence applied to government, the Tories are an abject failure and simply pathetic.
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  215. There are always two sides to Johnson's "Global Britain." 1) scoring an own goal in any trade deal. 2) Blaming the opposition and business for not believing in the golden opportunities that exist only in Tory gas lit pretence.
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  216. Some comments on this extraordinary increase suggest that price can't be controlled. That's either an excuse or an admission of defeat as we suffer cost-push inflation. The short answer is, look at other countries who are making much smaller increases. Also government borrowing does not mean a bigger tax bill - depending on the type of borrowing. Taking QE as an example, one state-owned pocket has effectively "borrowed" from another. The myth of tax and spend disappeared with a fiat economy but the government doesn't want us to know that, so they can blackmail us with austerity. I know this topic is hotly debated but that's largely a power battle, which can be understood by researching MMT (modern monetary theory) Our Tory politicians reach for every excuse possible, as they don't wish to upset their business backers and they continue to use propaganda to make us suffer. Enough is enough.
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  217. ​ @lellyparker  There is a simple acid test: were you better off with Labour or a Tory government? Real incomes rose under Labour whereas with the Tories, guess what?
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  218. Well done, Harold. First prize for an idiotic comment. Whataboutery is no defence.
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  219. Judge the (in)competence of our government, permanently in denial, by the number of times they shift the blame.
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  220. We lived on the Fylde and felt the tremors from fracking. Anyone supporting it should research the amount of environmental damage through fracking in Pennsylvania
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  221. And our state media (also known as the BBC) are complicit. Six hour delays at Dover reported this morning, caused by problems with ferry services, weather, and anything but Brexit. Their silence is deafening.
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  222. There is only one word to sum up our government's reactions to this invasion: Pathetic. Yet our state media, known as the BBC, reports Johnson's speech and his act of largesse in allowing the family of Ukranians with settled British status to come into Britain, without mentioning his refusal to waive our sinister visa system during an international emergency.
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  223. Credit to you for your channel, DB. Always worth listening in. Best regards.
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  224. Sunak acts like an animated little spiv while failing to answer a simple question with a straight answer.
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  225. The key word when describing so many of the effects of Brexit is exacerbation. For other effects, Brexit is simply the sole cause. A simple two-word phrase to describe Brexit in its entirety is sh1t show.
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  226. Follow the rules, face the penalties imposed by corporate courts. That's sovereignty in the CPTPP for you.
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  227.  @johnrussell3961  yet the majority of us have paid more tax under the Tories while public services are dismantled.
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  228. The two national morning TV channels interviewed Zarah Sultana, who eliminated any excuses for delaying the removal of this cap. There are times when politicians should lead and explain, rather than following said public opinion, whipped up by the oligarch media. Does Labour really support inhumanity and poverty? Universal credit itself is a flawed system and should be reformed, instead of extended.
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  229. Yes. That's Johnson's promised high skill, high pay economy.
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  230. Sunak's big announcement was more of the same failed measures. We pay for more border guards on French soil and a detention centre (wow! As early as 2026) All of which has failed before and is far less effective than processing applications on French soil as Labour had suggested. Meanwhile we break international law and become global pariahs. Sunak is some strategist!
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  231. What pain must we suffer to help the tax avoiders and disaster capitalists? The mythical concept of sovereignty is obviously worth it to some. Yet when I explain that Britain was always a sovereign nation with the right to manage our own economy and with our own currency. Somehow that seems to take the wind out of some sails.
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  232. The like is in support. I'm appalled by the hard of thinking who fail to embrace the words of the great Martin Luther King about the content of character.
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  233.  @tomsheppard378  you can increase pay all you want but there is a shortage of skilled people. Standing firm means we will have shortages for however long it takes to train enough drivers. How long.wlll that take? Ask the government and wait for their lies.
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  234. I think it's more accurate to say that he's gaming our undemocratic system. We have an elective dictatorship with shoddy parliamentary standards.
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  235. Even if Brexit were a good idea (imo, it was an act of self-harm), the lack of preparation, while constantly changing our ideas on what Brexit meant, was always going to spell disaster. After four decades of a close trading relationship, with supply chains and some production processes closely aligned, planning was absolutely essential. Instead we had government complacency, arrogance and incompetence. Rather than working with business and unions, government muddled along and blamed business for not being ready. In short, who would have been crazy enough to trust these prize wazzocks to take back control? We see the evidence time and time again, in the fourth year of separation.
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  236. Some master plan from Airhead Truss! Throughout the process, the EU has used seasoned negotiators, acting as the only adults in the room. Expect more of the same.
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  237. Perhaps they just read the headlines. I take your point though.
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  238. "Falling behind!" That can't be right; I thought we were world leading in everything.
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  239. Johnson warned us in his 2019 election PR. Driving a forklift truck through a wall of blocks and leaving a mess of destruction is illustrative of the real events. He got Brexit part done, and badly, so we are left with the mess. He then buggered off and left it to others, while in a state of perpetual denial.
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  240. Are they helping Sun readers to find brexit opportunities?
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  241. Ordinarily that may be true, but this lot are passing things through while parliament is in recess (Coffey forcing 130,000 more UC claimants to find work is one example) Tories hate scrutiny.
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  242. The fact that you recognise this and speak out, suggests you were one of the good guys. The police have a difficult job and political interference undoubtedly makes it harder.
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  243. ​ @Noel-ji8nm I recommend counselling for your Starmer complex.
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  244. There is so much apathy that many can't believe the danger level in our elective dictatorship. Any alliance must make political reform (both PR and cleaning up politics) front and centre in a campaign. That seems the only hope of persuading people that their vote will count.
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  245.  @davidgreen6490  "Asia is the future." Free to exploit cheap labour while we reduce our standards in the race to the bottom. Never known anyone to be so excited about less than a tenth of one percent growth. As for Europe being the past and writing off 27 countries.... Utter bollocks.
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  246. It took them 14 years to come up with a plan, yet noone can explain what it is.
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  247. ​ @happyChappy96621 I actually think the opposite would happen. If Reform were given a voice in parliament, instead of spreading bile outside, their idiocy would be exposed and many would lose interest.
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  248. This is not over. The Met has failed to investigate three gatherings and has been threatened with high court for this failure, unless they start investigations. The Good Law Project are handling this.
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  249. We were always facing deregulation after leaving the EU. The Tories preach a high skill high pay economy yet their policies will deliver the polar opposite. Market forces are causing wage inflation in a few sectors in the short term, but deregulation is about the longer term.
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  250.  @NeilCWCampbell  personally, I don't. Many voted for brexit with the expectation of staying in the SM and CU. I blame the abject liars who painted multiple rosy pictures. Compassion for the conned in my case - with some exceptions for those who hated foreigners.
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  251. Wonder who paid for this appeal by bigots?
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  252. I've complained online. We should inundate them with complaints. At least Fartage was made to look stupid, yet somehow he will appeal to racists and idiots.
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  253.  The Legend of Spitfire Hunter  "failing EU?" Who has the empty shelves.
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  254. Then pay that as the pension minimum and we wouldn't need it.
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  255.  @ianl1052  yes. Biden has surprised me... a breath of fresh air.
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  256. Totally agree. We have an elective dictatorship and need real democracy. A codified constitution approved by a people's assembly is also necessary to achieve democracy and improve parliamentary standards.
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  257. Don't worry, they can always find someone worse. Their track record proves it.
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  258. A man with a brain, who uses it. Sound like a Scouser, which immediately makes me listen. He should give lessons to Starmer and co, in answering questions directly and with passion. While showing the inanity of the interviewer.
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  259. ​ @WarAndBusiness Look up the definition of sociopath. It gives a good clue for starters.
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  260. The reports on the mianstream media were astounding: they were non-existent.
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  261. One Tory in parliament, after the last 13 years, is a Tory too many.
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  262. With judgement like that, he should be prime minister (of a banana republic...)
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  263. Raab admitted that we live in a dictatorship by stating that asking the date he went on holiday was a partisan question. Did anyone explain to him that party politics is partisan; yet a fundamental condition of democracy is transparency? But then, Dover Dom is hardly the sharpest knife in the drawer.
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  264. I accept that Labour must keep its powder dry until a real election campaign starts. Their silence on Brexit, however, is infuriating and futile. We are finding such evidence of the economic disaster from Johnson's hard brexit, coupled with the threat of breaking international law, that Labour is failing to take a shot at an open goal. Keep reminding the electorate that Johnson has not only failed to get Brexit done, he is making an absolute mess of it.
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  265.  @manoo422  are you for real, or just a troll using a pseudonym account?
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  266.  @mariogmajner6549  your point being?
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  267. When a "journalist" can't match reported text to headlines, what does that imply about their readership?
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  268. ​ @californiaraisins8532 Twaddle Without Any Thought
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  269. From Global Britain to Desperate Britain. Now we are begging to join NAFTA, with its corporate courts, so Tory donors can sue the government for loss of profits and get more tax payer money. The Brexit shit-show continues.
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  270. I hope for cooperation in the next GE - campaigning for PR and cleaning up parliament front and centre. Unfortunately Starmer seems to think he is Blair reincarnated (minus his strength and charisma, in Blair's earlier days) This morning Starmer refused to cooperate with the SNP - not a great start. I despair of his inept leadership. Parties need to unite with a common purpose to reform our undemocratic system.
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  271. While I agree with you, probably only feasible to rejoin the SM and CU in the short to medium term
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  272.  @EthanKristopherHartley  the irony being that we have an undemocratic system, with unequal votes and seats not matching votes. We would need a fit electoral system for both houses. FPTP produces and elective dictatorship.
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  273. HMRC having a red flag against Zahawi's tax affairs would be essential to his CV as Tory Chancellor. An obsession with low tax, skeletal public services and greed at the expense of society is in their DNA.
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  274. Gove too busy obfuscating and misdirecting to do his job. At least we get less levelling down.
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  275. ​ @garyb455  that's a strange statement when the Tories have delivered the highest taxes in 40 years. Why would you let facts get in the way of your prejudices?
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  276. Yes. Ironically only a minority enabled it: 43.6% of voters. We need democracy.
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  277. So Dizzy Lizzy adopts a plan proposed by the energy companies. For the benefit of ... You guessed it.... corporate profits.
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  278.  @frankclarke421  they only go silent when asked to answer a simple question: please name one tangible benefit of Brexit.
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  279.  @alanmarr3323  are you for real? What is patriotic about self harm? Perhaps you will reveal a tangible benefit to take our mind off the mayhem. Sorry if you were being ironic.
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  280. It took a minority-elected government (with 43.6% of vote share) to conclude the act of leaving. Thus it could be argued that the brexit vote was democratic but the implementation was undemocratic. In reality, we live in an elective dictatorship, where votes are not equal. So governance is not democratic.
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  281.  @lesleymariewade6405  although I backed Remain, it's hard to blame the voters as distinct from Brexiters. Many Leave voters expected to stay in the SM and the CU, or at least a similar deal. But the shape-shifting Brexiters conned these voters.
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  282.  @paologat  Yes. But the havoc will hit the UK hardest. An act of self-harm
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  283. ​ @BanalayerPete1972 the acclaimed man of the people. Son of a stockbroker, privately educated, a former commodities trader. Just an ordinary guy then...
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  284. I think they want a small state but with ultimate government power.
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  285. Brexit means BrexSHIT is what Theresa May really meant. Abject stupidity.
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  286.  @creativecascades1328  so 50 jobs in Northampton for mini moke. Exactly which other firms?
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  287. The whole idea was pathetic, vacuous and crazy. A plan that evolved under Johnson, yet Sunak was stupid enough to continue with it. An expensive ruse, funded from public money.
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  288. I know the man wants to get elected but far too beige for me. The gap between rich and poor will continue to increase until we dismantle Neoliberalism, as that was its main intent. Who will deliver democracy, rather than our shambolic pretence? We need a system where all votes are equal, also stopping second jobs for MPs and upholding appropriate standards.
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  289. ​ @keithcannon5168 you have more faith than most in British justice. "Asking questions" to throw doubt on the police statement; taking unverified false information at face value to suit his agenda. All calculated to incite, hence James O'Brien's apt description of the riots. Don't see Ole Nige suing...do you?
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  290. Totally agree, to the extent that I will not vote for a party that fails to support PR. Currently we have an elective dictatorship.
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  291. Yes. And it would be good if we started by having real democracy, instead of an elective dictatorship. We need PR
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  292. ​ @MichaelSmith-ns8ow yet scaled down from Labour's original proposal as opposition
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  293. ​ @FrankDobermanNoooooo democracy says otherwise.
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  294.  @stephengraham1153  it was simply to help Tory party funding by rewarding mates.
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  295. We now know what Global Britain means: every problem caused by Brexit is described as a global issue.
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  296. The benefits of the single market to a supply chain are enormous. Perhaps Kemi and her mates will build one with the CPTPP lol. Brexit stupidity, yet again, proving that politicians live in an alternate universe.
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  297. Churchill minus cigar and brain.
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  298. The only thing I applaud in the Tories is their planned disintegration. That said, it would be better if they just buggered off.
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  299. Sunak and the Tories are to economic competence what Hannibal Lecter was to vegetarianism.
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  300. Or making Liz Truss prime minister.
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  301. Yes. The problem is, he's delivering mass chaos.
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  302. Yet another glaring example of the one dubious "success" of Brexit: the triumph of rhetoric over fact.
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  303. Very true. Perhaps we should label it inverse economics.
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  304. @@retiredbore378 troll alert...Noel the troll
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  305. Yes. They would hate intervention by adults
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  306. And apparently the EU's quota has increased even more because the total fish stocks have increased. Now, how are we going to catch and sell this extra fish?
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  307. I asked a simple question in discussing brexit. Irrespective of whether brexit had theoretical merits, could I trust this government to take back control? You can probably guess the answer and I refrain from saying "I told you so" to the disillusioned Brexiters.
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  308. I expect as inevitable Johnson's failure to answer a single question then trot out a lie in response. Yet despair at a parliamentary system that allows it and is blatantly unfit for purpose.
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  309. Comeuppance is a lovely word - especially reserved for brexiters.
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  310.  @mariogmajner6549  so what?
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  311. Yes. And completing Brexit during a pandemic was moronic (in operational terms.)
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  312. Totally agree, and you have seen it first hand. A close member of my family is also a carer. Respect for what you do.
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  313.  @josefschiltz2192  sorry to hear that. The emotional, as well as the physical effort in care work is hard to image for those of us who haven't done it. Underpaid and undervalued, yet vital to society. Kind regards to you.
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  314. The pram, rattle, tantrum syndrome.
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  315. He sleeps because he is a sociopath. Respect to you in the teaching profession. Stay safe and healthy.
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  316. ​@@Disruptor_Your pseudonym is apt. Your arguments vacuous through posing extreme negatives. What does work, in your opinion?
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  317. Simply a list ticking exercise. Another deal done, irrespective of financial benefits (or costs.) Irrespective of conditions and impact on quality. Irrespective of whether corporate courts can sue us. Who will be the desparate party in negotiations?
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  318. ​ @Curryking32000 Probably from a credible economist...£40 billion in lost tax revenue from Brexit for starters. Causing Sunak, as chancellor, to raise an extra £46 billion in tax to compensate for lost trade.
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  319.  @bigkdog5091  where is the fourth?
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  320. Bring on the Tory self-destruction and fetch the popcorn.
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  321. Look at the Tories track record on the national debt. Cameron's austerity (which he tried to pass off with the lie of efficiency) increased the national debt while cutting public services. Sunak wants more of the same failed policy.
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  322. Johnson's default lie about the British vaccine rollout and EMA membership is infuriating. Largely because the opposition doesn't force him to correct it on the parliamentary record.
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  323. Key words: if Labour go for PR. They need to do that to get my vote.
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  324. With a choice between a jobbie and a turd, we'll still end up in the sh1te.
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  325. Yes. Which is why Johnson was operationally incompetent enough to complete Brexit during a pandemic. The blame game. We also have a compliant media that stays silent.
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  326. Seeking crumbs of cheese from the master's table. So Sovereign Britain begs from our masters: the EU. Ultimate irony.
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  327. But judging from Priti Shitty's reaction, he's now on her hit list.
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  328.  @oldgeezer-dg9lq  the obvious first step would be to rejoin the single market and the customs union.
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  329. In any "spaffing" competition. This cabinet wins hands down.
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  330. Gullibility knows no bounds.
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  331. A good start would be to implement Leveson and give our oligarch shit media something to rant about. Get them on the defensive.
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  332. ​ @alexgarland2747 Reversing his true title of MP doesn't elevate him beyond the two-bit sh1t-stirring chancer he really is
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  333. ​ @Noel-ji8nm Shall we mention Rwanda?
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  334.  @maskedavenger2578  facts please, no vacuous rhetoric Mr or Mrs Pseudonym account.
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  335.  @davidfoster2006  That's the point, it's simply undemocratic. It's a false mandate, irrespective of party.
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  336. ​ @deehaytch8442 Whataboutery is so boring
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  337.  @audreymcgready4329  good question. Hard to use the word "reform" as a Tory after 13 years in power. As for the other party, they want to reform the UK as a fascist state.
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  338.  @Richard_Turner  I'm in a similar position because we have yet to see whether Labour supports PR, along with Lib Dems and Greens. My emphasis is on electoral reform. Johnson's imbecilic Brexit would not have happened with PR. I'll vote for any party promoting PR with the most realistic chance of winning in our constituency.
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  339. The bluff of Lord Gormless was called and he was found to be holding the jokers. Like a lardy playground bully, caving in when he met more than his match. He was beaten by altruism, with the EU respecting the Good Friday Agreement to uphold peace in Ireland.
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  340.  @acthompson9983  your point being? Is it that only Tories are above the law? Please don't give us "they're all the same" rhetoric.
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  341.  @tugpilotsmiffy  then you haven't been looking. Queues at Dover, NI protocol not implemented by Westminster. Economic forecasts from OBR. Adam Posen's comment on the contribution of Brexit to inflation. Shortage of farm Labour. You may not like or even agree with some or all of these, but don't say that noone told you. I, on the other hand, have not heard or seen a single tangible British benefit - except for something about sovereign tea and crappy trade deals.
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  342.  @Borderman47  I totally agree. It's also revealing that the Brexiters resisted a confirmatory vote - even after their original campaign had broken electoral rules.
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  343. ​ @gregorybiestek3431 You clearly aren't an economist, thank heavens. The US has four oligarchs who could pay, yet it imposes poverty instead.
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  344. If the facts are inconvenient or damning, sweep them under the carpet. The sure sign of a fascist (elective) dictatorship.
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  345. Time for Reeves to wake up and smell the coffee. Or for Starmer to sack her. Her fiscal rules and reluctance to tax wealth are killing us in any event.
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  346. Labour punched down on pensioners and raised a tax on jobs. Instead of taxing asset wealth; and taxing investment income at the same rate as work income.
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  347.  @danguee1  Milton Friedman, Sept 13 1970, New York Times article. The theory guarantees inequality. Mathematically it's equivalent to crumbs from the master's table.
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  348.  @Noel-ji8nm  Read the definition of socialism, Noel, and you will realise that you are talking bollocks. As for intellectual laziness: Labour has the stronger economic record, which can be easily explained for the economically illiterate majority: have you been better off under Labour or the Tories?
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  349. Just like a bank loan. But then, Sunak was a banker
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  350.  @royboy4743  yet one of our best chancellors - credited with saving the world's economies after proactive intervention. And don't mention the gold reserves; that would be desperation.
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  351. The highest taxes in 70 years, yet somehow Labour are the party of high taxation!
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  352.  @garyb455  I understand your point, but how exactly were we "ruled?" Britain retained its own currency and our own courts and the power of the EU was limited to the operation of the market.
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  353. ​ @Noel-ji8nm BOT ALERT! Stick to the subject, please.
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  354. Perhaps Labour could start by publishing the work done by Richard Murphy, showing that the Tories have borrowed more and paid back less than Labour, making Labour the party of fiscal responsibility.
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  355. ​ @DW-indeed ...before checking credible fact and source. Hardly the sign of a responsible MP.
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  356. Can the north of England join Scotland? Just move the border down.
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  357. Yet the bar is set far lower than that and what is the cost of means testing?
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  358. How appropriate. A child's drawing for a business masquerading as a party to appeal to idiots.
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  359. Perhaps it's like seeing himself through the mirror. Lol
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  360.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  yes. When forecasts agreed to do so. Meanwhile he took urgent action to resolve the international banking crisis.
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  361.  @markhackett2302  A banking crisis caused by derivatives, funding sub-prime mortgages mainly in the US and, yes, the city of London was culpable but the problem was international.
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  362.  @btd836  Perfectly valid point. They wouldn't get away with it if the media held them to account.
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  363.  @EdgyNumber1  Yes. Where wealth gushes up and drips down where they can't fix the cracks.
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  364. Yet your vote can only influence one seat. I'm planning to focus on our own constituency, because anything else is a waste. Helping to influence others, based on my own conviction, is fine, but anything else is a danger to personal mental health by fretting about something that I can't influence by voting.
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  365. Johnson has one claim to greatness. The greatest serial liar in politics. Perhaps people have realised he meant Levelling Down. The worst possible leader at the worst possible time.
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  366.  @oxymoron02  I'm British and had a relevant vote. In spite of Tory fascism, I'm able to exercise free speech and don't hide behind a pseudonym account.
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  367.  @FakeSchrodingersCat  well, you, your cat and I unfortunately disagree about those first two years. There was no excuse for austerity, as the economy was slowly recovering under the Brown administration after the banking crash. Cameron picked two psychos in Osborne and Hunt, to exacerbate inequality through austerity and obliterate the NHS. We had a growing national debt in spite of austerity and public services were diminished. The essence of planned incompetence.
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  368. Either hardened Brexiters don't understand trade borders and customs or market arrangements, or they deliberately lie. You choose. Same result: we suffer the damage from this act of self-harm.
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  369. Prof Richard Murphy states that the IFS is wrong on both counts. An obsession with growth, based on the flawed estimated measure called GDP is facile in a world of limited resources. The definition of borrowing and gearing is also dubious if aimed at government "debt". As Gary Stevenson suggests: economics is a discipline that applies complex formulae to flawed assumptions.
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  370. Respect to you for volunteering. That makes you the cream of the crop imo
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  371. Too many egos in that room. The man-child and the Forager, with Trump as referee, is quite a combination.
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  372.  @TheEvertw  and we now know what the Thames is full of, especially with the verbal diaroehea discharged from Parliament.
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  373.  @Jonnythebaker  well, John, you may think it's a compliment to call someone born in the 40's too young to understand politics. Personally I find it condescending and presumptuous. None of your rhetoric stands up to economic and procedural scrutiny. It's total spin without fact. Carry on baking, it's a skill I admire. Perhaps a union flag on each of your cakes will help recovery from our current lame duck status.
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  374.  @roywiseman  isn't the whole point of the protocol to preserve peace, while protecting the Good Friday Agreement? Had the UK stayed in the single market and CU there would be no threat to peace and no disruption. Why not direct any blame where it belongs?
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  375. A two party system with neither party able to agree amongst themselves. We need PR.
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  376. ​ @Noel-ji8nm And night is day and young is old and white is black. Yawn...
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  377. Tory logic. If held to scrutiny, legislate to say they are competent and that night is now called day.
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  378. This sh1t show shows the inadequacy of our parliamentary system. Truss is ripping up the Tory manifesto and thus has no mandate for her lunacy. A manifesto should be a binding contract, based on reasonable endeavour and allowing for emergencies, with a referendum required for any major policy change. As for parliamentary behaviour, don't get me started...
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  379. The Tories specialise in "spaffing" public money. It's part of their DNA, consistent with their sense of entitlement.
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  380. ​ @FrankDobermanNoooooo Nigel is closer to Putin. You picked the wrong target.
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  381.  @BENTWOONEZERO  some whataboutery from you Ben countdown pseudonym. Nothing to do with the subject under discussion but they have cancelled Nordstream 2 and are finding alternative sources while using reserves. We, of course, sold ours off. Any more crap from you on offer? Or will you stick to the original subject?
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  382. And he probably will. A haven for crooks and charlatans.
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  383. Just shows the quality of our mainstream media. So intent of manufacturing consent then denying reality when their mindless drivel has backfired
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  384. Sadly, we can't expect much with any government wedded to neoliberalism and dancing to the tune of large corporate donors. Inequality stifles growth - a simple formula embedded by neoliberalism. We need a larger state and real investment to expose the lie of tax and spend.
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  385. The mythical 75% tax figure was quoted by a BBC interviewer this morning, as a government excuse when interviewing a Labour shadow minister. It seems that journalists just buy government propaganda without question or challenge. Another victory for our state media acting as the government's propaganda arm.
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  386.  @simonjohn9525  because without PR the Tories will regain power. If we already had it, they would not be in power after a minority (43.6%) vote.
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  387. ​ @petergaskinuk-1785 A petition to implement Leveson would do the job.
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  388. You can fool some of the people all of the time. Regrettably too many in Johnson's case.
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  389. Misdirection, deflection and obfuscation have long been the main skillset of politians, but the Tories have elevated blatant lying to an industrial scale. Unsurprisingly the mainstream media stays quiet, so we have mass delusion.
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  390. Perfect forensic analysis. 👍
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  391. Apparently the fines are paltry...probably claimed on MP expenses. Meanwhile those fined £10k should knock on the doors of the courts and demand a refund.
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  392. I have consistently identified three possible reasons: self-interest; intellectual laziness; or plain stupidity.
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  393. To keep Johnson and Cummings company?
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  394.  @timonsolus  Indeed, they are usually promoted beyond their competence level.
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  395. The Russia Report (even the redacted version) certainly points in that direction. We have further failed to fix the flaws in our electoral system.
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  396. I'm amazed at the archaic parliamentary system that is clearly unfit for purpose. Yet it seems fairly simple to expose Johnson. "You said on the record that no rules were broken, prime minister. Having now read the report.and seen that they were. Do you wish to apologise for misleading parliament (either deliberately or inadvertently) and correct the record?" Surely the speaker would be compelled to see that through.
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  397. And preferably on another planet.
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  398. Led by a little spiv who promised professionalism and integrity in government. You couldn't make it up.
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  399. Totally agree. QE is a technical debt as we are effectively borrowing from ourselves. The left pocket borrowing from the right. The government could simply run the equivalent of an overdraft then recover it longer term through taxation.
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  400.  @lynnlovattjones4171  ultimately, you are correct. He is paying the price in terms of his leadership and his lack of achievement
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  401. Never has political party been so deserving of cumeuppance
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  402. This is the little Spiv who promised professionalism and integrity. Another day; another Tory liar.
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  403. Never trust the Tories with the NHS. In fact, never trust the Tories, full stop.
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  404. Perhaps we should ask that most productive minister (for Brexit opportunities) JRM to explain these benefits. His brains trust - the Sun readers - can possibly help him out.
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  405. Leveson was not implemented anyway. Cameron (the serial arsewipe) reneged.
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  406. Respect to you and your colleagues. Unfortunately these grifters never let a crisis go to waste. Will they be adequately punished? Somehow I doubt it.
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  407. ​ @chesterdonnelly1212 you lost, get over it. How does it feel?
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  408. A perfect summary. Additionally the Tories have borrowed more and paid back less than Labour. So much for the party of fiscal responsibility.
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  409. The balance of power dilemma can only be resolved with electoral reform. With PR, we would not have this hard Brexit and would have a stronger economy. We would also have more trust from EU countries.
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  410.  @xkr510  Good decision in the Thatcher years, after she imposed neoliberalism. It has done its worst; the rich have got richer at the expense of the majority, as intended. Thanks for your good wishes and enjoy life in Canada.
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  411. ​ @Noel-ji8nm how? Trolling again, Noel?
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  412. Implementing Leveson 1 would be a start.
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  413. I guess it's inevitable. Who is going to admit they were wrong after Johnson has got Brexit done...BADLY. He fails to implement the protocol he signed into international law and blames the EU for something he and Lord Gormless negotiated. Their denial started with the words "project fear" and now that fear has translated to fact, their denial increases.
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  414.  @philipprudhomme6967  wonder where he got that idea? The playbook of fascism?
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  415. ​ @laidbackcamper101 what did you lose last time Labour was in power? Most certainly gained as real incomes rose by 14%
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  416. "All the grace of a piglet being castrated" sounds rather Etonian. Wonder if Cameron came to mind?
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  417. It's hard to spot the Tories end game, other than hanging on to power at all costs. If their intention is to bugger up the country for the benefit of financial vultures, they certainly are world class.
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  418. ​ @byrnemeister2008 that's taking back control for you
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  419. One of the clues is that Fartage was backing her in a recent interview. Apparently they share the same bucket of bile.
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  420.  @skyblazeeterno  yes. It will have to be in that order, but all parties supporting PR need to cooperate and show the Tories as the only self-interested and undemocratic party.
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  421. I hope the unions involve the general public in their actions. Time to get on the streets and join them. We have gone beyond the point of enough. We've had more than enough.
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  422.  @rogersmithy7032  explain please.
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  423. Explain how, Harry. Are facts too difficult for you?
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  424. ​ @EbenBransome and we all know that trees grow overnight in Trump land.
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  425. Johnson's government wouldn't comprehend a plan. Only their PR strategists are capable of one, in manufacturing consent through lies and propaganda. When we turn to operational concepts to make the country work better, expect incompetence and blame.
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  426.  @infrasleep  Independent experts think otherwise and deem GERS serial fantasy. She will undoubtedly take advice and listen, so perhaps you should write to her. Don't forget to include your qualifications and experience.
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  427. It's never a u-turn. It's always an exciting new policy. Such as the exciting new (including some regurgitated) rail and road developments after scrapping HS2. I humbly cite my impeccable source on this matter: Greg Hands.
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  428. ​ @Noel-ji8nm relevance?
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  429.  @peterebel7899  they weren't given the choice of the lawyer and it took a minority (43.6%) to elect the liar because of our undemocratic system.
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  430. ​ @Noel-ji8nm there is plenty of money - it's just in the wrong place.
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  431. Ironically, this is one of the things that was clearly explained in Cameron's Comic. The case for remain. JIT supply chains are critical for many industries but Global Britain knows best, as a nation of bankers and shop-keepers, having sold off most of our industries. Governed by wazzocks.
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  432. ​ @laidbackcamper101 More time in the USA than in Clacton? Have you seen his time sheets?
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  433.  @leadfree5  I agree, but suspect he fits the profile of a sociopath.
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  434. Yes, but I would make PR the first priority.
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  435. ​ @peterebel7899 Leveson thought otherwise.
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  436.  @jimmagspanton669  Here is an uncomfortable fact for your Tory trolling, Jim. The Tories have borrowed more and paid back less than Labour since 1947. That was also the case before the excuses kicked in (pandemic, Ukraine, Brexit).
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  437. "limited" being the significant and pertinent qualifier. An elective dictatorship, similar to our own, with more frightening consequences
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  438. Exceptional external factors need intervention, rather than blind addiction to the free market. It's a question of political will and choice. We have the worst possible government at the worst possible time.
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  439. Global Britain. The specialist in clutching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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  440. The fundamental weakness in our defences is always international travel and lack of distancing. Instead of the delusion of freedom, save lives: stay in Britain and avoid mass gatherings. Transmission will occur, irrespective of vaccine status. Just when we think Covid is receding, a new variant appears, and is spread by international travel
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  441.  @olmostgudinaf8100  add to that the delusion of empire. I'm one of the oldies who voted remain.
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  442. ​ @lestrem11 Twaddle Without Any Thought
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  443. Highly poignant. Top class.
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  444. Delusional!!!
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  445. Complaining about jam! Brexit was always about jam tomorrow, and "tomorrow" means in a decade or more.
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  446. An ethics advisor! About as effective as Satan hiring the pope.
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  447. Lord Gormless will keep chipping away at the deal he negotiated and we signed. This is inevitable with a vacuous PM who denies reality and makes it up as he goes along. What a shit-show.
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  448.  @Epidian  That's your opinion, offered without justification and factual content - unless you consider playground name-calling factual explanation of their failures. We think differently.
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  449.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  I actually said aligned with rather than joining. That said, freedom of movement will solve our labour shortage and the CU will solve the NI problem at a stroke. The Tories won't agree because they are controlled by an extreme right wing pressure group.
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  450. Ah, well! Life will get easier for the smugglers with Freeports. Another Tory win.
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  451.  @tomsheppard378  really?!!!! We left that attitude in wartime. Perhaps austerity was meant to toughen us up, while the 1% took the rip.
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  452. @Ryan true, but Germany has no food or fuel shortage. They mange operations better then our inept government.
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  453. And research proves your statement. Search on an article by Richard Murphy: the Tories have always borrowed more and paid back less.
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  454. Being asked to commit to a promise they broke this year but said it was a one-off. What about repaying this year's shortfall. Enough is enough.
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  455. ​ @Noel-ji8nm Troll alert. The bot is back with their garbage.
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  456.  @PeterPete  that's a fallacy, as not all votes are equal. We have an elective dictatorship. A minority-elected government with an 80 seat majority. We need electoral reform.
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  457. Totally agree. I refuse to support any party that does not intend to deliver electoral reform.
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  458.  @PMMagro  the words were "unregulated capitalism" meaning Neoliberalism. Specifically intended to benefit the 1% and because of the myth of trickle down, the poor will vote for the rich to have more. Still find it a good idea?
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  459. ​ @jonmould2946 and we knew that in 2016? Twaddle Without Any Thought
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  460. Britain, always famous for queues, is now infamous for them.
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  461. Hunt is implying the best of both worlds, which only works for the very few. Just like the bollocks he spouted about "Scandinavian quality and Singaporean efficiency." You don't get both: Singaporean efficiency gives Singaporean quality and Scandinavian quality is achieved through investment both in infrastructure and in the sources of production - including a skilled and well paid workforce.
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  462.  @onlyme8117  listening is optional Mr or Mrs Pseudonym
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  463. First Labour must get into office. With few identifiable policies and no clear committment to PR, it's hard to see them turning things around.
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  464. I remember a radio programme in my youth called Hancock's Half Hour. Giving this reprobate any longer in office created a national disaster of excess deaths. Unfortunately the rest of the gang were equally incompetent.
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  465. High stakes indeed. Johnson thrives on conflict. The question remains, however, how could this have happened without brexit? And completing it during a pandemic? His crap deal and lack of attention to detail makes up culpable.
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  466. Who would want to sit in that cabinet with so many poisoned chalices being passed around the table? Everything that Johnson touches turns to sh1t. He recruits fall guys and gals.
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  467.  @terryolekszy9486  OMG, Terry, I think we live in different countries. I'm in my eighth decade here and it's never been so bad, with little hope.
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  468.  @Richard_Turner  Yes. Johnson promised that our standards would be at least as high as the EU's. So if we retained EU testing kite marks, no problem, but we are stupid enough to adopt our own and manufacturers must test goods for export twice. No, we have not insisted on our own agricultural standards for import, which is why our farmers complain about the Aus and NZ deals. We will get cheaper foods imported, with lower standards permitted.
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  469. Unfortunately he's more interested in donorship. Sod the public, feed the party propaganda machine. Then blame the EU or someone else.
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  470. Nigel's specialist subjects: speaking with forked tongue and running away from a James O'Brien interview.
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  471.  @marvinstorm9153  precisely my point. Waiting for Unicorns?
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  472. Yet we took back control. How can that be? We are Sovereign global Britain, our destiny is in our own hands.
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  473. Love Phil's description: "Johnson's latest brain-fart." Perhaps it explains why Johnson constantly farts through his mouth.
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  474. The Tories excel in one area: they are always able to find someone worse for the country.
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  475. We voted for at least 95% of EU rules while members and rule makers. Voting against just 2% (approx) and abstaining from a few more. This is the enforcement of flawed ideology by a cabal of lunatics and sadists.
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  476. Oops! Another Tory MP on Priti Shitty's hit list. Just look at her reaction!
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  477. Don't tempt providence: fewer workers rights through "minimum service levels", lower taxes to leave Labour with poorer public services, the Rwanda debacle.
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  478. No. He can't resist taking the rip.
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  479. Lee has the habit of saying the wrong words every time he opens his mouth. A perfect candidate for Reform - the party for idiots.
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  480. Tempted to start watching Question Time again. We boycotted it after the audience was inundated with people shouting they knew what they voted for, albeit they hadn't a clue about what Brexit really meant. I'm all for public humiliation of this so-called government.
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  481. At least the foghorn of arrogance and ignorance is consistent: he can't be arsed doing the job but scams the money and uses his position for self promotion. Does anyone remember him as an MEP?
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  482. To Brexiter apolgists: you won, get over it.
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  483. Regrettably the prosecution wouldn't work: the assets were undervalued at sale rather than stolen. It's the politicians in public office who should be liable.
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  484.  @ausbrum  I have researched PR extensively and written papers on it. Not a panacea; just real democracy where votes count equally.
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  485. The Good Law Project does incredible work. Yet another victory for common sense, proving the law is not always an ass.
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  486.  @stevec6427  Yes, it's even harder for young people. We paid for something all our lives that we no longer get. The working generation are paying for something they will never get. That's Tory Britain. Another reason to vote them out.
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  487.  @jimmagspanton669  To compensate for a substantial cost of living increase, yet mitigated by fiscal drag. Yes, I studied economics and understand these robbers.
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  488. So, two parties in this arrangement. One was prepared, but the one that craved separation and triggered it wasn't. Couldn't organise the proverbial.
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  489. If I feel anger at the mindless excuses being trotted out in Johnson's defence, I think about how we must look to other countries abroad. Little England, the most hilarious international joke on the planet.
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  490. Always expect obfuscation and misdirection from slimy Gove. With Johnson expect the opposite of what he promises: for "levelling up" expect levelling down.
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  491. ​ @StanWatts-u5l Your argument certainly is what you said: "rubbish".
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  492. The fact that we implemented an act of self-harm gradually, still makes it harmful, but the harm is inflicted slowly. Perhaps we should call brexit what it is: a sh1t-show.
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  493. ​ @trytellingthetruth.2068 whataboutery from a pseudonym account, a living oxymoron.
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  494. There's a clown in every circus, yet the Tories offer nothing other than clowns. Unfortunately they get the last laugh.
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  495.  @Gary-bz1rf  first, the term "negative trade deficit" actually means a gain (in mathematics) Second, across all trading with the EU, we lose 4% of GDP. In return we gain a pittance with the Aus deal
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  496. A system of points based on salary level was typical elitist Tory crap. We have a skills (or occupation) shortage, and to a Tory skills are presumably commensurate with pay. The very people who revere the market seem to think it works as a meritocracy.
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  497. I constantly marvel that ministers who have benefited from the most expensive education system are as thick as mince in operational matters. Perhaps they never read Antonio Gramsci, who espoused pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Or to distill it down to the military adage: prepare for the worst, hope for the best. The convenient phrase "project fear" started the denial process, but our incompetent government continues with such denial as its default response - even after project fear has become project fact Their ineptitude knows no bounds. We have long been an international joke.
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  498. Give our government their due. They are world class at one thing: operational incompetence. Nobody buggers things up better than a Tory.
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  499. McVile is pure comedy, to all except those who suffer her madness.
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  500. A pub bore and a tinpot bully having a pint. What a party.
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  501.  @ruthwashbrook4759  the mind boggles at your last sentence, Ruth. Trump could probably cause mayhem in an empty room.
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  502.  @garyb455  not true. Explain! The Tories have consistently borrowed more and paid back less than Labour since after the second world war.
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  503. A comment to be different from Jenrick for consumption by Tory voters. An election ploy only. Kemi is simply never Bad Enough.
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  504. Lots of Brexit benefits: all for other countries; hard to find one here. That's taking back control for you.
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  505. When I learned that George Useless is ex-UKIP it explained a lot
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  506. ​ @julianshepherd2038  taking laws doesn't make us a servant. The laws apply equally to all countries. That's equality. If we don't like the laws, we can't change them. That's the price.
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  507. The British exit from sanity into lunacy.
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  508. One is far more credible than the other. The first three letters of the party name give a strong clue.
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  509. Love the concept of Johnson wiping his arse on a white paper. At best, he's a caricature anyway. The worst leader for the worst possible time.
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  510.  @russellmelling4098  Yes, quite a habit of his. Smile while telling a whopper in the hope that his supporters will be entertained by his vacuous crap.
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  511. It worked here with Johnson. Hope it works for the Left in France. The right offer lies and more hardship; they always work for the richest and most powerful.
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  512.  @richardcory5024  yes. One of the tricks of fascism: the identification of a common enemy. Spreading hate to deflect from the government's incompetence.
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  513. ​ @michaeloconnor9465 The devil is in the detail. Check out Starmer dismantling the Rwanda agreement in yesterday's PMQs. Inevitably, Sunak was clueless, as though he didn't read their own horsesh1t.
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  514.  @alanmarr3323  irony noted! I'm coming out of retirement to compete in triathlons then I'll be fit to go fruit-picking next year, after a cabinet of morons led by a buffoon have taken back control.
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  515. A brief history of the Sunak dictatorship: 1) ran out of integrity at his second PMQs, trotting out lies, misinformation and obfuscation. 2) It became apparent that his professionalism amounted to ripping off money for his family as his wife reluctantly gave up her non-dom status then licences and contracts were awarded to favour Infosys. 3) his idea of transparency has consistently amounted to opacity - even after declaring his five pledges that noone voted for. The ultimate little spiv is disappearing up his own orifice.
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  516. We should have mandated the installation of solar panels on all new houses over the last decade. But then the Tories don't want us to have self-sufficient energy or their backers would lose money.
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  517. Irony noted.
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  518. So Brexit was not as great a failure as it could have been. That's some measure of success! Didn't see that on the side of a bus.
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  519.  @jmolofsson  agreed. Who would trust Johnson's government and how long will it take to rebuild credibility? As for the UK's elective dictatorship, we need a government intent on reform.
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  520. How many fridges or freezers can he hide in, between photo ops, to cement his legacy? The man is a treacherous disgrace
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  521. Yes. I can only see three reasons: self-interest; intellectual laziness; or abject idiocy.
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  522.  @piccalillipit9211  Yes, it would need PR. After the Russia Report, I never discount the dirty tricks of the Tories.
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  523. So now the EU is faced with an Airhead posturing, instead of Lord Gormless. Their negotiators must be splitting their sides with laughter.
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  524. Sorry, I don't see this as a game of politics. The SNP has consistently backed South Africa and has called this out consistently. Tell the government to stop supplying arms.
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  525. No shortage of Murdoch bile. He can afford to lose money on small-time shows. Here's a tip for viewers: firstly disable your brain, then get angry when they blame everyone but the real culprits.
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  526. Did you say a "Trump bible"? That's one book he hasn't read or learned anything from.
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  527. The Tories never let a crisis go to waste, after creating the crisis in the first place. As for national emergencies: the cost of living crisis; falling real-terms pay levels and failing public services are real ones, which they choose to ignore and obfuscate.
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  528. Yes. We traded under WTO rules with countries outside the EU. Nothing new; just spin.
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  529. ​ @allanburkinshaw why? And which part exactly?
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  530. The Tories are efficient in one area alone: allowing their mates to extract every possible pound from the economy while the rest of us pay for it.
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  531. Surely the answer is to revert to our glorious past. We have a government intent on reverting to the option of feet and inches, and pounds and ounces. Why not expand the manufacture of Penny Farthings and give riding lessons? This great mode of transport would attract tourists and restore our hospitality industry. The minister for the 19th century is looking for brexit opportunities. Feel free to pass this on. He could even wear a top hat while riding, to demonstrate British characteristics.
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  532. While true in the context of its formation, you simply can't ignore the economic advantages of such a large trading bloc. Cooperation benefits both human relationships and economic prosperity.
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  533.  @jackdubz4247  Unfortunately that's the price of real democracy. It would also give a huge green vote in counterbalance. Instead we have an elective dictatorship, with a minority (43.6%) vote resulting in a disastrous brexit.
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  534.  @jyvben1520  no. Can't embroider. Am considering a badge saying "I told you so." Just for laughs.
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  535. Yes, parties need to work together and make both electoral and political reform their main policies. Tory corruption has been exposed and other parties need to promote the solution. Tories also have an abysmal economic record in government and this can also be exposed.
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  536.  @Noel-ji8nm  He hasn't consulted me, yet
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  537. That's some record as a chancellor. Eat out to spread it about while offering covid support to dodgy businesses then failing to recover the false claims. I even remember some calling him Dishy Rishy. While most have now dicovered he is, and has consistently been, Fishy Rishi.
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  538. Is the game finally up? It's hard to know because Johnson's premiership is nothing more than a game to him. Playing for time; hoping that we all have tired of partygate. His own sister asked us to move on. (I wonder why?) Those who excuse Buffoon claim that he "got the big calls right" without mentioning a single success. The longer this clown stays, the greater the damage to our country, which is rapidly deteriorating into Little England.
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  539. Would love to see the Fail score an own goal. Amazing that people actually read their dross.
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  540.  @johnrussell3961  So they made up the rest as they went along...Rwanda; workers' rights; Sunak's five vacuous pledges; etc.
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  541. Tories tax the poor while refusing to tax investment income at the same rate as earned income, for the benefit of... You guessed it: the prime miniature and his rich mates.
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  542.  @tugpilotsmiffy  wtf are you on? Stop trolling.
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  543.  @tugpilotsmiffy  well, Martin, I'll explain why it's obvious. First, you claim that noone had given you a reason against Johnson's brexit. When I gave you a short list, you dismissed it out of hand (without considering the expert sources I mentioned.) That's either abject stupidity or trolling. You choose. You mention counter arguments, yet you have provided none. Grow up and get real, unless facts are too difficult for you (possibly as a Brexiter who dismisses experts in favour of vacuous rhetoric?)
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  544. Then why didn't they change the electoral system to become democratic? Why did the Russia Report expose electoral manipulation? The Tories love one thing: POWER.
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  545. Wow! A two for one in this video: a new photographic project - the wonders of Brexit Britain - and more from the fascist and sociopathic Patel. She's a great advert for the benefits of immigration. Does that explain her paranoia?
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  546.  @philthebus  actually very much conservative. The inevitable legacy of Thatcher's neoliberalism where the poor vote for the rich to have more. The first three letters in the party name being highly relevant and descriptive.
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  547. Global Britain proving to be stick-in-the-muds. Anything for our hubris.
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  548. Spot on!
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  549.  @jimmagspanton669  No. Not when you look at the cost of living. The greedy dismantle the economy for the extraction of profit. We are now a poor country with a few excessively rich people.
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  550. @@NajYlib-mc5fo Much as I agree with you on principle, if we don't vote tactically, there is a risk of the Tories governing again. We desperately need PR and electoral reform.
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  551. Chris Webb is also an excellent local candidate who works hard for the community. We no longer live in the Fylde but couldn't be happier that the right person is in parliament.
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  552. Part of the job description
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  553. Can't you comprehend more facts?
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  554.  @marcusbradley2382  what exactly was wrong, Marcus? Will you start a dance of rhetoric and pretend allegations? This form of brexit is a disaster on every level.
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  555. Yes, and he even criticised the lifeboat crew that would rescue the drowning man.
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  556. ​ @tendrosstoodross2976  so we didn't help? If we are involved, we share responsibilty.
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  557. If I needed an ideal case study in operational incompetence, I would choose the Tory brexit. Albeit there is no shortage of material.
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  558. "Painful but necessary" said Kwartang. This government causes perpetual pain through their incompetence and sadism. Britain is broken.
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  559. I liked your comment, more in hope than expectation.
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  560. Under all of this lies the inevitability of greed and corruption. The Russia Report explains why Britain is complicit and thus rendered ineffective.
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  561.  @merkvandermeulen3978  yes. Sorry I didn't think about that. Apologies to Rwandans. You don't know what would hit you.
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  562. Two things suppress growth: inequality and a lack of investment. Regrettably Labour is still a neoliberal government that buys the lies of a dependence on private investment and the privatisation of public services. They may be less extreme than the Tories but, as yet, there are no signs of transformative economic policies. That said, if this one policy is directed against land banking, it is a small encouraging sign. Why not listen to the patriotic millionaires and tax wealth? Let's get the Tory client media spitting feathers.
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  563.  @Gary-bz1rf  Anglo Saxon laws mean the dismantling of workers rights and quality standards. Back to the 18th century. Financial rules to cause money laundering and another financial crash! Is that what you want? Is that what was promised? Utter garbage. Pure fantasy.
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  564.  @stewie7338  ask the police. Whataboutery isn't my speciality...
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  565. Blair has Alistair Campbell to handle Comms. A different league.
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  566. Sunak has set a trap for himself. Another piece of legislation that will not solve the very problem he keeps banging on about, while advertising that Britain disrespects international law. The Home Office is simply not fit for purpose.
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  567. We need to INCREASE public spending. It's called investing in the country. Brexit is sucking money from the economy and denying growth. As for CTTP, let's look forward to corporate courts. Toxic Tories: enough is enough.
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  568.  @garrywynne1218  the NIP is signed into international law and thus can't be changed unilaterally. End of.
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  569. Spot on. The Russia Report was informative.
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  570.  @pauln6803  yes. That's what all of his promises amount to.
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  571. ​ @franklamosa374  Yes. Lots of sneezing during those meals.
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  572.  @MrSpleenboy  Yes. In my opinion there are just three reasons to vote Tory: self-interest; intellectual laziness; or abject stupidity. FPTP is also undemocratic: it's neither direct or representative democracy (being unrepresentative as perfectly illustrated with a 43.6% vote producing 56% of seats in the present parliament after the 2019 election.)
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  573.  @charlessandoval3382  I would probably put them in the last category: plain stupid. Subjective opinion, I know. You make a good point though.
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  574. After wondering for a few years what Sir Starmer stands for, at last a clue. Power at all costs, including joining the Tories in the gutter.
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  575. ​ @Noel-ji8nm So you would presumably support Corbyn's policy instead of the Tory compounding of the fees?
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  576. Don't worry. The secretary of state for obfuscation, misdirection and levelling down is on the case. He'd had enough of experts and is now left holding the begging bowl.
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  577. Wow! That's some background picture: Mr Blobby and his cokehead caricature friend. No shortage of operational incompetence in the Tory party.
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  578. Blame the man who delivered it. An absolute shambles of a deal, completed during a pandemic.
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  579.  @johnjephcote7636  Yes, I read it this morning. Apparently many are to dismantle financial regulation. Ready for the next crash and more austerity. Singapore on Thames.
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  580.  @lestrem11  Then you haven't listened to enough of Phil's videos. He often states facts, along with the source
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  581. Frost has more hot air and bullshit than a sauna in a farmyard.
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  582. Tories set the most impressive standards... of corruption. People of the Fylde, please take note.
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  583. The Tory school of fantasy economics for numpties illustrated by every candidate. We are suffering predominantly from cost push inflation, caused by international factors such as war and climate change. In pure theory, capping prices would seem ideal, yet it becomes impossible because of globalisation and an addiction to free market economics. We are left with controlling the money supply through interest rates and by increased taxation. Thus reducing demand pull when the real diagnosis is cost push. An effective windfall tax on corporate greed, and a wealth tax could both be used to rebalance the economy and invest in public services and infrastructure. Don't hold your breath. It's sacrilege to the Tories DNA.
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  584. No. It's enough that he's our worst enemy for ruining the country
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  585. Its implementation! Perhaps they should question the type of deal - specifically leaving the single market and rejecting every offer of alliance on standards to date.
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  586. "A dynamic economy" The vacuous buffoon obviously doesn't understand that you don't get a dynamic economy through austerity. You don't get a dynamic economy through reducing disposable income. Even by Tory rhetoric, low taxation stimulates growth. (A fallacy in reality,.of course.) As George Monbiot says, this government has a magic formula, where the poor vote for the rich to have more. You really couldn't make it up...
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  587. As Einstein said: 'The world is a dangerous place to live, not becauae of people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." His description covered a complicit media and the cowed Tory MPs in this instance.
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  588. Yes. The Russia Report gives a strong clue. Well done for admitting a mistake; that takes a big person. We all make them yet few admit to it.
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  589. ​ @maciej9280 Really! What about British exceptionalism?
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  590.  @h0ttiem0mma  agreed. This is always their hidden agenda. Operational incompetence hiding self-enrichment
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  591.  @RainerMichelle  I totally agree, Michelle, chaos benefits disaster capitalists and tax avoiders. Also let's a fascist government sneak through sinister changes to achieve a one-party state.
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  592. ​ @ronvalente65 Noel-bot is too busy trolling.
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  593. With PR the Tories are toast. With FPTP we will suffer them again.
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  594.  @seang2700  You make a good point but negative voting is a reaction to unfit system where all votes are not equal. Under PR, there would be every reason to vote for what we believe in. Currently we live in an elective dictatorship.
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  595.  @MelkorPT  i IMO It's the Tories puppeteers who aren't stupid. The cabinet members themselves make stupid statements to appeal to idiots.
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  596. With Johnson at the helm, the term Government plan is an oxymoron.
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  597. A sociopathic, narcissistic, entitled pr**k. Failed at every job and failed upwards.
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  598. Too true. It's an acronym: Sociopathic Corrupt Underhand Manipulators
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  599. If comparing the ratio of media exposure converted to votes, Reform are a waste of space.
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  600. But during her leadership campaign Truss was so clear. She kept saying so and even Joe Lycett agreed. Now as leader she is "genuinely unclear."
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  601.  @Jonnythebaker  back to baking, John, if that's your level of conversation.
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  602. Good point. Conclusive proof that austerity doesn't work. In fact it does the opposite of what is claimed.
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  603. OMG! I thought Johnson was vacuous. Truss beats him hands down.
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  604. ​ @oneworld1160  Please define "Labour politicking" Or is your statement empty whataboutery?
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  605.  @MercenaryPen  I guessed that. My comment was meant to be generic rather than personal. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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  606.  @lestrem11  cherry picking doesn't cut it for me.
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  607. The joy of British exceptionalism! We are allowed one exception that we fail to honour and implement. Global Britain behaves as a baby throwing it's rattle out if the pram. An international joke.
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  608.  @viper_fan  probably the sewage, only surpassed by Tory bullshit.
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  609. If the Tories concentrated on effective NHS investment, rather than using it as a cash cow for their mates (through outsourcing and for the PPE feeding frenzy) we would have the best health care system in the fhe world.
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  610. Yes. With zero public services.
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  611. It's the same mindset that associates patriotism with flag waving, bowing and scraping, and clinging to history rather than welcoming change. A true patriot is someone who cares enough about their country to change it for the better. The new group of patriotic millionaires are a shining example - they actually want to pay more in tax instead of robbing the poor.
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  612. So much for the Tories claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility. Checking the increase in the national debt during 12 years of austerity was a clue to their incompetence. Now Sunak has put the matter beyond doubt.
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  613. The Tories are revolting. Hopefully in both senses.
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  614. The only thing that hurts Foghorn is any lack of media attention. Don't encourage the vile bugger!
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  615. The biggest own goal ever was not only achieved by leaving the single market during a pandemic, but also by excluding our largest sector from a trade deal, with the assumption of British exceptionalism.
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  616. Questions are essential to analytical thought. I'll apply a simple question to Reform, after reiterating the question I asked in the Brexit vote: could we trust the Brexiters to take back control? Reform us into what? Same shysters; different occasion.
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  617. Yes. While some believe that Little England has a monopoly on being "reasonable," in spite of our colonialist history.
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  618. At least an exporter has the comfort of knowing the deal was oven ready. Lol
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  619. With dubious skills like that, he'll probably become Tory leader.
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  620.  @themoodyteam  both of the above
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  621. The Tories are obsessed with austerity to achieve a small state and inequality. The dichotomy being that investment in the public infrastructure and rewarding people for productivity instead of creaming profits offer the greatest stimulus of growth. In plain language, this graph shows how the Tories have fkd up Britain.
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  622. Let's be honest and rename PMQs to reflect reality: just call it Prime Minister's Evasions.
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  623. The power of denial by the ignorant - with many choosing to remain so.
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  624. And if the energy companies say no???? Problem is not solved.
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  625. ​ @peterebel7899 for democracy, read elective dictatorship. For media, read manufacturers of consent.
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  626.  The Legend of Spitfire Hunter  them why have so many EU countries overtaken us in the proportion of citizens double-jabbed?
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  627. Yes, a list of aspirations is not a plan. The maxim 'pessimism of intellect, optimism of will' has served me well. In planning, expose and analyse the risks and decide how to overcome them. Be positive in implementing a solution.
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  628. My perception of our political / media relationship was recently challenged. Having believed that our mainstream media manufactures consent, I read a different view: ministers doing the bidding of the right wing press. Perhaps this second view is more accurate. I travel regularly between the river and the sea. The River being Pendle Water and the sea being the Irish Sea, off the Fylde Coast. Yet I can claim to be against racism in all forms (including both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia). Our media is not fit for purpose.
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  629. Starmer can safely attack the implementation of an oven-ready deal that was slammed in the microwave with a faulty setting.
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  630.  @garyb455  then why haven't we "gone further and faster?" Could it be Russian funding and dark money in the capital of corruption called London? Your pathological hatred of the EU is contributing to the mess, instead of identifying the real culprits. Read the Russia Report and waken up.
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  631. Trump wants the minerals; ergo peace is a means to an end. Otherwise he would offer a security backstop.
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  632. True. Yet at some point, when they waken up naked as well as clueless, he will run out of road.
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  633. Wow! Is one of those tossers in the background holding a grafting spade? Would they know what that word means?
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  634.  @paulwilson7234  oops! Sorry. Shouldn't say oven ready without world-beating. The best part was when he slammed his oven-ready deal in the microwave.
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  635.  @gbjanuary  very true. The b'stards never waste an opportunity
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  636. Don't worry! The chancellor and business secretary are meeting with the big energy suppliers today. Don't hold your breath... probably after more party funding.
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  637. Brexit was a scam, to instigate a crisis that disaster capitalists and tax avoiders could profit from.
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  638. Agree. Being seen to be doing something is my summary of our respective government's ineptitude.
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  639. ​ @lestrem11  More whataboutery?
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  640. The root cause is always neoliberalism (unregulated capitalism) in such a crisis because greed trumps public service in this model. The icing on the cake is venture capitalism, where the operation is run at arm's length and profits can be siphoned off. Add to that a government in Brexit denial and we have a total shit-show without managed intervention. Welcome to Global Britain.
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  641.  @habi0187  That's probably true. Their definition of skill will reward their mates and fit their privatisation agenda, which they invest in and profit from. A cabal of crooks.
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  642.  @mattsyson3980  Yes. The Russia Report also fizzled out although the content was damning
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  643. I questioned repeatedly who would be stupid enough to complete Brexit during a pandemic? Answer: someone who wanted to blame their crap Brexit deal on the pandemic. And now, the reverse logic is being used to highlight such operational incompetence.
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  644. Farage appeals to idiots. (...add to that the intellectually lazy if you wish?) When asking how his loathsome rhetoric gets so much air time, it's necessary to follow the money. Whose interests is he serving?
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  645.  @PaulTalksGamesMags  Yes. The easy answer from some idiots. I usually explain that a true patriot wants to make the country better, and start by facing faults. As Jung said: thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
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  646. Sunak now has a choice: which new psycho do I appoint as chancellor?
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  647. The greatest single act of self-harm in my lifetime.
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  648.  @Gary-bz1rf  pay attention to Phil's video and you will find that the 8% is pure fantasy. I agree with his maths as a most optimistic estimate. We would be lucky to clear 3% from the rest of the world. There is no economic argument for Brexit, as the majority of economists agreed before the vote.
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  649.  @johnwormley5161  Brown was not PM when banks were deregulated. Please check your facts. In any event how was that worse than causing unnecessary deaths and wholesale corruption through cronyism?
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  650. I suspect that Sunak is an anagram of clueless in at least one other language. It certainly applies in parliamentary language.
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  651.  @Epidian  No. You were the one who made accusations and used childish labels. Facts are relevant; childish labels are not.
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  652. I guess the government knows that the only immediate solution is to align to the single market and customs union and their shouters would say: "That's not Brexit." Amazing that it was promised originally by vote leave. But then, don't expect Johnson and his shower to even comprehend a simple operational solution.
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  653.  @garrywynne1218  "legally mandate provision?" What exactly is that? Are you a lawyer?
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  654. ​ @perfectstorm7379 Get just what? Are you obsessed with whataboutery?
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  655. ​ @perfectstorm7379 The kind of unsubstantiated bs I've come to expect from a pseudonym account. Please explain...
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  656.  @HB-bl5mn  any volunteers for driving the JCB? LOL
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  657. Such an irony. A government that idolises the free market, which requires freedom of movement, suspends freedom of movement because of their bigotry. Such an intervention requires planning and preparation. This lazy and inept government does not even understand such a concept, let alone implement it. Will it catch them out? Or will our cap-doffing population vote for such abject mindlessness, yet again?
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  658. It's the essence of Tory maths: quote a large figure and hope everyone believes it (taking it at face value.) Where are the journalists to call it out?
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  659.  @CatholicSatan  Interesting. Government does not know the difference between spending and investing, as they obsess about reelection while, currently with this corrupt government, spaffing money to their mates.
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  660.  @tartan5075  good question. Don't have much faith in opposition parties at the moment. Too scared of their own shadows.
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  661. ​ @perfectstorm7379 did you miss the name "Eton"? It was a specific comment.
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  662. Labour can easily maintain the pressure by exposing Johnson's lie one case at a time. In PMQs, tell Johnson that his standards are worse than Labour's proposals by showing the relative number of MPs affected. If Johnson disputes this, name one MP each week in PMQs until he concedes the point.
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  663. The "benefits?" The majority get to drink sovereign tea while the disaster capitalists rip the anus out of the country. (Btw rip the anus is a seldom used and little known technical economic term. Lol)
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  664.  @annenunney9907  may I refer you to my previous comment. Cameron was a disaster but in delivering such a half-arsed brexit Johnson is personally culpable. The fact that he failed in every previous job was a clue that 43.6% of voters chose to ignore. Perhaps we should blame Eton college lol.
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  665. Populism prevails through a simple strategy. Help to stoke and exacerbate a problem; blame someone else; then promise a solution. The promise is always a lie, of course, with the real intention of dictatorship.
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  666.  @lestrem11  I'm not the simpleton, Ben. If the cap fits... Bias is one thing, but the use of facts with supporting evidence of their source is another. Many of Phil's videos have included such data. Perhaps you have difficulty with nuance.
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  667. ​ @trytellingthetruth.2068 Why not take note of your pseudonym account name? Just stop the distortion. The national debt increased dramatically in the last two years of Labour because of the WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS, caused by casino bankers and enabled through the use of derivatives. The Tories have consistently borrowed more and paid back less than Labour since 1948. They have now trebled the national debt, with the pandemic and Brexit being contributory factors; spaffing money and mismanagement making the nightmare complete.
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  668. Theresa May told us: "brexit means brexit" Such a mine of useful information.
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  669. Don't worry, I believe the Rwanda deal is an exchange system. Perhaps we will get the workers we need from Rwanda. But will we have any choice in the matter? Taking back control is working so well.
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  670. That would be true if we had democracy. Instead we have an elective dictatorship, where a minority (43.6%) vote returned a parliamentary majority because all votes are not equal.
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  671. Truss should make a new appeal for a brain cell donor or two. She trots out vacuous Tory rhetoric with its proven failure rate so that corporate wealth and the richest in society are protected at the expense of the majority who suffer to make society work.
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  672. I share your concern but hope otherwise. The membership needs to apply pressure.
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  673.  @mariogmajner6549  yes. It also meant getting it done badly. Yet since it is not done, Johnson has made a pig's ear of his three-word manifesto.
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  674. He believes in AI so much that he buys shares in such a company, then promotes AI. The epitome of Tory public service. You really couldn't make it up.
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  675.  @deehaytch8442  you need to check your facts. The Vienna convention on international treaties says otherwise. An international agreement can't be changed unilaterally, and a point of national law can't be used to override it. Check the latest video by Peter Stefanovic - a trained lawyer. The text is clear.
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  676. Does anyone remember the oven ready deal? That went well then!
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  677. I find it ironic that Westminster attempts to claim the high ground. With its undemocratic electoral system and after talking about sovereignty on leaving the EU, they apply different standards to Scotland which uses a more democratic electoral system. Scotland simply deserves the right to self determination.
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  678.  @teresanaranjo490  It would need to be backed by government action: stop supplying arms for genocide.
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  679. One of the authors of Britannia Unchained proving beyond doubt that it should be classified as a fantasy novel.
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  680. The words "oven ready" and "deal" have parallel meanings. Totally unprepared by government, who take every opportunity to blame businesses for "not believing in the opportunities." Also a crap half-arsed deal that Sunak was forced to patch up.
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  681. Suspect you will always find that hard Brexiters' minds come ready made up. Shouting, rather than intelligent debate, is their forte.
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  682. ​ @JupiterThunder How?
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  683.  @michaeloconnor9465  Which "treaty" do you mean? Labour has explained a different plan to deal with immigration. It happens to be within international law.
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  684. Why would an undemocratic limited company value democracy?
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  685. ​ @rohanharridge5579 nor does tribalism
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  686.  @vullings1968  I understand the difficulty of repairing the greatest act of self-harm in my lifetime.
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  687.  @Jonnythebaker  I could not disagree more. Download and read my free ebook The Real Miracle of Neoliberalism to see why. Don't pretend that the Tories are the party of law and order or sound economic management. They fail spectacularly on both counts. Search on The Good Law Project who are holding them to account through the law.
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  688. A lot of staff for one arse-wipe. Yet still we pay for it.
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  689. Rishi Sunk Us, so he should go. Please take your party with you, into the dustbin of history.
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  690. The lack of reporting of these levels and the lower take-up rate of the jab are hardly coincidental.
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  691.  @JD-eq4dp  then who is?
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  692. Don't worry, we're British. We won't plan ahead; we won't take preventative measures; we'll wait until we are in crisis then blame someone else.
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  693. I suggest a spell check before you post such bile. Some idiots may then believe you.
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  694. Attempting to mask ineptitude with arrogance is a strange strategy. Yet it may work with some cap doffers.
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  695.  @jillybe1873  that's a key question. Over to the Met
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  696.  @mariogmajner6549  that's a strange statement when Labour has a better record on the economy and in boosting real incomes, as well as improving public services. Perhaps research and critical thinking will calm your fears.
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  697. Gollum and Spiv: a partnership made in Hell for the demise of our country.
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  698.  @johnwormley5161  but real income increased significantly under Blair and Brown and has reduced since. So do you vote for poverty?
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  699.  @johnwormley5161  total rubbish. Labour has consistently borrowed less and paid back more, while in power. Has the national debt reduced since 2010? No! In spite of Tory austerity, it has increased. You can check the facts for yourself, or look up an explanation by Richard Murphy. I can't share links on YT but the claim of Tory fiscal responsibility is pure rhetoric. BTW I'm not called Jock and was born in England. No need to send me back in a boat.
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  700.  @johnrussell3961  agreed, but other parties need to make PR a central feature of their manifesto, showing the Tories to be self-interested and undemocratic.
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  701.  @reasonerenlightened2456  another pseudonym troll.
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  702. Hands off Dumbo Hands. He kept saying "there's no money left" while the Tories kept finding more and doubling the national debt as a percentage of GDP - in spite of austerity. And that was before Covid. The Tories are world class at spaffing public money.
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  703. Yes. If we take our eye off the ball we are apt to forget divide and rule. It's habitual learned behaviour for those in power.
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  704.  @bluefarie10  yes. When wealth gushes up and drips down where the wealthy can't fix the leaks.
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  705.  @geraldhewing2076  I totally agree. The point I'm making is that WTO is not what Rees Mogg and his cronies pretend. It's the default option when no trade agreements exist.
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  706. A few years ago, when adjusted for cost of living and related to GDP per capita, the UK ranked 17th in the world. Not so rosy by any measure.
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  707. One Tory down, the rest of the party to go. Twelve years of damage is more than enough.
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  708. ​ @hurri7720 which alternative is that? The party that has borrowed less and paid back more? Have you been better off under the Tories?
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  709.  @stephengraham1153  I agree, Stephen. Unfortunately we need to vote tactically to get the Tories out. With PR, I would vote Green given the present choices.
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  710.  @piccalillipit9211  an absolutely accurate description of a Tory lie.
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  711.  @carmenking4810  Don't know, Carmen. Wouldn't read their rubbish if they paid me.
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  712. Perhaps they bought the myth of British exceptionalism.
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  713.  @johnrussell3961  True. Also a manifesto is not a contract and a serial liar such as Johnson could rip it up anyway.
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  714. ​ @bereal6590 with such parental stupidity, I regret to say that I would declare myself adopted.lol
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  715. Johnson always was, and still remains, a clear and present danger. Amazing how many swallowed the media deflection towards Corbyn, who wanted the best for the majority of the population.
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  716. ​ @gazza595 And if you don't see how the Tories are using fascistic methods, you need to do more research.
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  717. Tax wealth, since we will be defending the assets owned by the wealthiest. Prof Richard Murphy did an informative YT video this.
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  718. ​ @Noel-ji8nm Read and digest the Russia Report.
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  719. Hopefully the majority will see through the bullshit and learn how to find out.
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  720.  @davidcooks2379  I think it may be something to do with the fact that pensioners have paid in to the system for 50 years and are rewarded with a pittance.
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  721. Yes. And we should define borrowing. The right pocket borrowing from the left is deemed a debt by the OBR, but how can a country be in debt to itself? The world bank and the OECD have a different idea but our politicians use the narrative that best justifies austerity.
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  722. OMG! You somehow made be feel like Lord Fauntleroy as I got my first car around 1965 for the princely sum of £150. I carried a set of tools in the boot, as was probably the norm then.
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  723.  @tomsheppard378  don't worry. From Dizy Lizzy, either Labour or the French will be blamed. One vacuous statement after another.
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  724.  @darthwiizius  you have a point, unless a memory transplant is possible.
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  725. Not a fan of glueing hands to motorways, but Insulate Britain had a simple and sound message. Insulation saves energy costs and protects the environment. A quick win. Wonder why the government is so silent?
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  726. ​ @Noel-ji8nm The Starmer-obsessed troll is back.
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  727. ​ @icarus877 Irrelevance from a pseudonym account. How strange...
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  728. We have a minister for common sense and probably one for bog rolls but when it comes to the disabled...
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  729.  @BENTWOONEZERO  stop trolling with rubbish. Stay on subject. No facts from you. Are you running a wazzock account?
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  730. Going for growth after a budget to do the opposite. A tax on jobs and failing to effectively tax wealth. Investment dependent on Blackrock and private companies that will extract profit. If we can do it, we can afford it, declared Keynes. Reeves is constrained by fiscal rules, originated by Tories creating a time bomb. We can't afford it, says Reeves all-too-often.
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  731. Excellent analysis. To quote Carl Jung: Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides.
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  732.  @derekmulready1523  is that why Johnson talked about a tunnel? Lol
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  733.  @the1andonlytitch  True. By "turn on democracy" I suspect you mean dismantling it. Britain has a head start with its elective dictatorship and a government aspiring to fascism.
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  734. Johnson's acts of desperation are heightening resentment. If Gray excuses him, expect a shit storm. His supporters, of course, will say "they're all the same." Welcome to broken Britain, the biggest international joke on the planet.
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  735. After all comments, it seems obvious that Labour should not campaign for a specific type of PR. Any referendum should simply ask: would you prefer a system where all votes are equal and seats match votes, or should we keep the present system? Any system meeting these criteria is suitable.
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  736.  @lennylaa1686  go learn basic economics.
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  737.  @joemoore8047  Your mind-blowing factual argument makes YT worthwhile.
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  738. Hoist by his own petard, in classic style. A good liar must have a good memory.
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  739. This Sovereign Tea is proving extremely expensive. It also tastes awful and induces delusion.
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  740.  @inthegym4679  there is a massive difference. The EU were prepared with border checks from the beginning. We have not fully implemented them, after three delays because of obvious consequences. We knew the rules on leaving the single market: we become a third country, yet our government and many of their supporters blame the EU and expect us to still be treated as members of a club we left. In short, the EU were prepared; while Johnson's oven-ready deal is stood freezing in a microwave.
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  741. Perhaps I could recommend a book to Mad Nads, explaining the real cause of her distress. The Assault on Truth by Peter Oborne.
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  742.  @jimmagspanton669  My, my, you do live in a dream world. Real incomes rose by a record amount under Labour. Our company imposed austerity, with cost of living rises.
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  743. Tories exhorting; makes a change from extorting.
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  744.  @ascgazz  simple solutions but lack of will and too many obstacles from people with a vested interest.
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  745. Unfortunately that doesn't happen with sociopaths.
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  746. The contest of comedy worth watching is, who has the greater ego: Trump or Musk? (President Moron or Space Karen?)
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  747. As a landscape photographer, I spend time in the environment that she will bugger up.
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  748.  @Lee_303  and it took four meetings for Johnson to get the idea that he was expected to attend, and even chair the meeting.
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  749. It should be just a start... many others involved. Life in the fast lane takes on a different meaning.
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  750. Yes. The prisons would be full and would need more staff from the EU. LOL
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  751. It took another Tory to dismantle Braverman during a three minute interview on Sky news. Baroness Warsi exposed Braverman's incompetence and her use of divide and rule as a smoke screen. In two words, Braverman is barking mad, and her boss is weak
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  752.  @ray-wm7yd  Great list. Thank you.
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  753. Irony or ironies! The perfect place for his foot to land while inspecting the Brexit sh1tshow. Before seizing the promised opportunities, it's necessary to clean up the mess. Doubt that it will be Johnson's next photo op.
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  754.  @paulsaunders6536  good point. He profits from such irony.
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  755. The wonder of Johnson's cabinet: an incompetent replacing a promoted airhead.
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  756.  @billpugh58  Not all, Bill. I know people close to me who had other reasons and views. That's stereotyping.
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  757.  @Buckets1000  I realise. They sealed our fate for their own flawed ideological ends.
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  758. Amazing that the words "social housing" have disappeared from the vocaulary of the Tories and Labour.
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  759. So how many wonderful deals would you have done, Nigel? We go into negotiations as the desperate party, having left the world's largest trading bloc. Most of our deals were carried over from the EU in any event.
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  760. ​ @kevinwells768 agreed. And also implement Leveson 1, which Cameron failed to do.
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  761. That's good, but how many read local papers these days?
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  762. ​ @willieckaslike  what is an "economic migrant?" A work of government fiction?
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  763. Was there a typo? Toad or turd?
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  764. This winter of discontent shows two things to me: (1) the lack of democracy in our elective dictatorship, where a minority-elected government can erode freedom; (2) the failure of neoliberalism, after it has been stress tested by a pandemic and an invasion. Poverty is increasing while the rich get richer. In one sense that's not failure because neoliberalism was designed to exacerbate inequality.
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  765. Refine the crass fiscal rules; redefine "borrowing" when we effectively borrow from ourselves and cut the interest rate paid to high street banks to hold reserves. Increase the bank levy, reduced by the Tories before they buggered off. Listen to the pariotic millionaires and tax high asset wealth.
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  766. Since the Tories have lost so many messages, let's send them a clear one come the election.
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  767. Wow! That's called reluctance to see facts. Keep listening to Phil.
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  768.  @merkvandermeulen3978  Yes. The common denominator being that we have become the desperate party in negotiations after leaving the largest trading bloc.
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  769. Incompetence bordering on depravity. Enough is beyond enough.
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  770. A picture advert for the chancer you would least like to share a pint with.
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  771. That's the problem with Fridays...known as POETS day (ps off early, etc)
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  772.  @Gary-bz1rf  Perhaps you will explain the basis in fact for that assumption. You have shifted ground from flawed economic fantasy to a false perception of EU law. What is your source? The Daily Fail? In any event we have always lived under UK law with the power of the ECJ limited to regulations n of the single market. Perhaps I should be drinking Sovereign Tea to understand that mindset.
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  773.  @fredplat467  Interesting that so may people peddling vacuous sh1te hide behind a pseudonym (e.g. Truth Grenade.) Someone extolling the virtues of CPTPP which uses corporate courts, to which we surrender sovereignty as well as being the desparate party in any trade negotiations. Brexiters must continually move the argument to "opportunities" based on fantasy because they can't find a single tangible benefit of Brexit.
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  774. Wrong goal for this government: they need obscurity and dishonesty.
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  775. So far as campaigning goes, forget Brexit and push electoral reform. First we need a form of PR and secondly cleaning up parliamentary standards by removing the opportunities for corruption - second jobs, dark money and other conflicts of interest. With PR, this crap Brexit deal would not have happened. We have a minority-elected government with a massive parliamentary majority, driven by dodgy funding and extreme pressure groups. Expose the corruption and campaign for fairness - front and centre.
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  776. The greatest act of self harm in my lifetime will haunt the Tories, while we suffer the consequences.
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  777. An immigration points system by numbers - based on salary level - is a stimulus to levelling down. The lower paid jobs are left and anyone not taking them will be labeled lazy or benefit scroungers. Welcome to Tory Britain.
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  778. A simple explanation of the Brexit shit-show. "Project Fear" has been replaced with a "Brexit obsession" by hard Brexiters in perpetual denial. Compliant journalists supporting a government that has continued with the successful tactic of getting the poor to vote for the rich to have more. Welcome to the state of malaise in Global Britain.
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  779. Give Johnson his due: his talents as party host and facilitator of photo ops are limitless.
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  780. Just stop at the words "Brexit damage" and you have it in one. The arrogance of this xenophobic Little Englander mentality is staggering.
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  781.  @Curryking32000  Yes. I think you should list them in the form of a balance sheet. Then factor in the loss in the value of the pound after the vote and all lost income against the expenses saved. Also add back the extra we had to pay to rejoin some of the initiatives. Enjoy your curries while doing the exercise. Simple question to cut to the chase: Do you feel better off financially after leaving?
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  782. Couldn't agree more. Labour should campaign on PR, as part of their manifesto. Then implement it to achieve democracy and stop our elective dictatorship before the next election in their tenure.
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  783.  @epilotdk  I realise it's not exclusive. I have experienced good and bad. Somehow when government gets involved we get only bad.
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  784. Gordon Brown has. The current party is silent.
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  785.  @lestrem11  so, resorting to personal abuse now. The sign of desperation. I pointed out the difference between bias and substantiated fact. Told you that you don't comprehend nuance. From the fool with two degree-level qualified and over 7 decades of experience. Happy trolling.
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  786. "Must have got these trousers mixed up with Michael Gove's" Classic! Both have the same fuddled brains.
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  787. ​ @Noel-ji8nm One borrows more money and pays back less, while claiming to be the party of economic responsibility while they make us poorer. That would be the Tories and it's one notable difference.
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  788. Why would we take something that is proven and works when we can put money in donor's pockets to reinvent the wheel with an inferior solution? Whoops, we need party funds and kick-backs? This government has raised the level of corruption to an industrial scale. It's in their sleezy DNA.
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  789. When short of fuel, the public waken up and start panic buying, so the government is forced to change course on temporary visas. Why not on food? Perhaps because we have not seen empty shelves: just short of some items but able to substitute. What will it take to change public opinion? Perhaps a barren Christmas with no lights and heating? Who knows in lethargic Global Britain?
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  790. Government does set planning rules. Such rules are outdated and procedures are both inefficient and open to abuse.
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  791. Openness: he fails to answer a single question - just the imaginary ones the interviewer should have asked him. Integrity: he lies in the House. Accountability: he makes his own rules.
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  792. I agree. Cost push inflation is an integral part of this conundrum and cooperation is far more effective than trade barriers or red tape.
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  793.  @charlessandoval3382  the house of lords has limited powers and can be ultimately overruled by the commons. No assumptions on my part: how could we have achieved a hard Brexit when only the ERG controlled Johnson cabal pushed it after they were elected with a minority of votes? Simple maths.
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  794. They must continually lie about a proposition that was always based on lies.
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  795. The battle of egos in the land of greed.
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  796. Tactical voting requires two simple tests: 1) how badly do you want to get rid of the Tories? and 2) are you prepared to hold your nose?
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  797. The rhetoric that lower taxes stimulate growth is not only disproved by history, it's consistent with the vacuous lie of trickle down. Growth has been at its highest when taxation was high. The difference: investment in the infrastructure and state services. The Tories have a track record of selling off our national assets then begging corporations to invest as a reward for low taxation. Guess what? The corporations trouser the profits and make a small donation to the Tories to keep them sweet. Perhaps a windfall tax followed by investment incentives would work better. (Just an idea...)
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  798.  @deehaytch8442  and over international law, which regulates a signed agreement between two countries? Guess you aren't a lawyer lol
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  799. I found Liam Fox a great source of comedy during the Brexit campaign. Like the Daily Fail, his claims were totally divorced from reality.
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  800.  @rotwang2000  "alien" have you visited? Tolerance is a great characteristic.
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  801. Perhaps the word "strategy" is slightly flattering. Couldn't plan a p1ss up in a brewery.
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  802.  @gunner678  a disgusting Little Englander attitude prevails amongst idiots, who have become more dangerous after realising that they fell for a lie. Although ironically they won't admit it. The Brexiters have poked a stick in a hornet's nest.
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  803. Publicity comes easy to the Forager. When he shouts "jump", the tame populist media ask "how high?"
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  804. And this morning Hunt (the proverbial) brazened out the BBC interview. Pretending this didn't happen. The Tories live in an alternate universe, where Sunak has a plan and it's working. If his plan is to destroy the country, I would have to agree.
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  805. As "strictly time limited" as our border checks, including those required under the NI protocol. Oops! That's probably my "brexit obsession" to quote Shapps. But then, all Ministers must believe in the Brexshit tooth fairy.
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  806. Never expect honesty or integrity from a serial scammer. Many voters don't engage in critical thinking and it's easier to appeal to their prejudice than persuade them with logic.
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  807.  @prout7569  most economists would disagree with you. We chose to let businesses take advantage and failed to regulate by keeping minimum wage low. Corbyn was honest about that and the illegal processes, while the Tories used it to divert blame to the workers from the EU. You can't blame Corbyn when the Tories have been in power, imposing austerity, for over a decade.
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  808.  @stu281 The BBC! You expect state media to reveal the facts? Shelves are fairly full in our supermarkets but that is partly through substitution, to stop panic buying. There are some items missing and fresh food is looking less fresh, getting near its sell-by. Freedom of movement is allied to free trade because it exploits market forces, by minimising regulation. Not defending it, just explaining fact. This government has shown how not to implement change. A classic case study.
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  809. Priti Shitty is to freedom what Johnson is to truth. Two aspiring fascists in a cabal of charlatans.
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  810. Farage is not a man of the people. He is a slimy grifter and his opponents need to expose him as such.
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  811.  @ricardosmythe2548  as opposed to doing what we don't need, you mean? Fracking is NOT a solution. I would welcome something for the common good instead of protecting corporate profits and repaying party funders. Energy security is a myth as private companies would sell anything we produce on the global market.
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  812.  @creativecascades1328  GB News being the doyen of impartial reporting of course!
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  813.  @MartinParnham  Yes. It only took a minute to kill them, m'lod, therefore we should all move on.
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  814. Both, in the case of government. A combination depending on the individual voter.
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  815.  @onlyme8117  who exactly are you referring to?
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  816.  @malalie1  good points. The dilemma is whether we will have a Labour government under Starmer. Most likely an electoral pact leading to a coalition to overcome this elective dictatorship that favours the Tories.
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  817.  @Jonnythebaker  agree about Maggie. As for the EU, I totally disagree. We helped to make and support over 4000 laws while opposing some 20 odd and abstaining some 30 odd times. We were full members with our own currency, yet still people trot out the evil or dysfunctional EU crap. I used one acid test: would I trust our government to "take back control" having researched the economic and social consequences. You can probably guess which answer I arrived at.
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  818.  @Jonnythebaker  didn't "nearly bankrupt us, John. We've had a fiat currency since 71. Thus not possible to bankrupt us.
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  819. Shall we call them money laundries? Or explain to the government the definition of madness: repeating the same process and expecting a different result. Perhaps they should ask Cameron why he scrapped Free Ports.
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  820. Bringing back the king of liars after the prince has failed. Only a Tory could come up with that one.
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  821. I've consistently described Buffoon as a clear and present danger, since before the last election. While legally permissible evidence is still hidden, the important evidence is in plain sight: Britain is broken.
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  822. We are expected to accept this as normal Tory behaviour, judging from the lack of media reaction.
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  823. Q: Did you attend any parties? A: I'm not aware of any parties Q: Did you attend any parties without being aware of them? A: Possibly. I sleepwalk occasionally, an essential quality in a cabinet minister.
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  824. Tories have consistently promoted the illusion that outsourcing to private companies has nothing to do with privatisation of the NHS. Even their reasoning - that providing all treatment is free at the point of use, the NHS remains public - is a fallacy as we pay more and lose control of standards and quality. The NHS should be run entirely as a public body. The rot started in the seventies, then became more corrosive after Lansley under Cameron's inept government.
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  825. The Tories don't have a strategy. Unless doing nothing and blaming the workers is a strategy to help the richest. Meanwhile let's just uncap banker's bonuses and give banks more tax breaks while dismantling regulations to speed another financial crash. Enough is enough.
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  826. I'm in absolute agreement on all the points you raise. Great comment.
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  827. The Tories could inherit a number of three word slogans. Scared of fact; hiding from truth; intent on power.
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  828.  @garytyme9384  perhaps you should explain that to the people who paid the fines. Hint: don't take the bar exams.
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  829. The Tories are perpetually annoying to anyone engaging critical thinking. Only idiots are left buying their story after 14 years of misery through their incompetence.
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  830. No. Representing the people is the essence of representative democracy. The clue is in the name.
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  831.  @charlessandoval3382  flawed how? Don't confuse our elective dictatorship with democracy.
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  832. Perhaps those who knew what they voted for would now explain it to the rest of us, before judging their expectations in the light of reality. The greatest act of self-harm in my lifetime. Spawned by liars; enabled by incompetents.
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  833.  @peterebel7899  That seems chillingly accurate.
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  834.  @jiversteve  he also had a better plan
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  835. Musk once again showing that wealth is not commensurate with intelligence.
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  836. ​ @ausbrum That depends on the type of PR system chosen. MPs will be held to account and can be kicked out, as has happened recently...no difference in principle under PR
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  837. Truss is either a puppet for the hard right or an economic illiterate, or both. The Tory obsession with reduced taxation at the expense of national infrastructural investment is a sure way of reducing confidence.
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  838. It was never going to work. Johnson was going to slam his "oven ready deal" in the microwave. A vacuous buffoon accompanied by Lord Gormless (Frost) What a team!
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  839. ​ @jonmould2946 Please explain... Otherwise empty rhetoric
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  840. Good old British exceptionalism.
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  841.  @peterebel7899  please substitute elective dictatorship for democracy. In that respect I agree with Lord Hailsham.
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  842.  @seang2700  too much time in Wetherspoons? Lol
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  843. Pity Starmer didn't equally support the Forde report. This report, however, has a greater impact on law and order and shows the Tories to be operationally incompetent, as ever.
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  844. After recovering from eat out to spread it about, we have struggling businesses that can't get staff. Another brexit win.
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  845.  @Boghopper9999  "support", yes. More about opportunism, tagging on to a policy campaigned for by Lib Dems many years ago.
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  846. So much for Johnson's high skill, high pay economy. Johnson thrives on mayhem and creates flak. His default setting is to shift blame and fail to accept responsibility. Who has Shapps blamed? The Workers for being selfish. Why would the unions welcome his intervention? Same Tory sh1t; different day.
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  847.  @thegoat11111  As someone who is old enough, I agree, albeit with reservations. Labour had to subscribe to the neoliberal agenda or they would not be allowed near power. The result, a move to the right in the form of New Labour. Now we have Labour accepting the fiscal rules set by the OBR (introduced by Cameron and Osborne) and thus wedded to the austerity of the right. The "centre" of the seventies happily accepted a mixed economy, where only a maniac would privatise essential services. Now any such suggestions is criticised as Marxism or communism. We have fallen for the bullshit.
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  848. Listening to Fartage is a sign of desperation and stupidity; a deficit of critical thinking. That said, so is listening to the Tory hard right.
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  849.  @YouD0ntSay  I agree. Somehow our governments have failed to behave like Europeans and have maintenance a Little Englander mentality. Whenever visiting European countries, we have found warmth and friendship yet our governments have maintained British exceptionalism.
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  850. Didn't we have a solution called freedom of movement? (Perhaps I imagined that?)
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  851.  @davidgreen6490  Yes. I realised that. Probably a part rebuild to fix RAAC will also count. There is an alternative name for a Johnson promise: it's known as a lie.
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  852. ​ @fredatlas4396 it will fund the winter fuel allowance and other subsidies
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  853. Why would anyone expect critical thinking or responsible governance after hearing Johnson's vacuous pomposity?
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  854. Farage can claim one thing in his favour: excessive publicity, far in excess of democratic proportionality and beyond any pretence of media balance
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  855.  @johndonson1603  with Richard Tice at the helm? The choice is yours to make but I find the suggestion pure comedy. Good luck.
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  856. Instead of such sound and well-founded guidelines we had vacuous slogans: brexit means brexit; we know what we voted for; that's not Brexit (in the case of the single market and CU after that was documented in campaign literature) We were always destined to fail in negotiations with such an inept cabal in charge. Slogans may win elections but they don't deliver workable policies.
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  857. When it becomes obvious what you are voting for, there are no excuses for abject idiocy.
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  858. The Tories can't stop behaving like rats in a sack. That's the result of 12 years of their mismanagement.
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  859. The Tories always game the system. Coincidentally weakening the powers of the Electoral Commission, which had no jurisdiction over social media campaigning, which they also abuse.
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  860.  @ohgosh5892  a Ponzi scheme indeed. Apparently people are paying for our pensions. After paying tax and NI for 50 years (part of the time at a higher rate) was I paying for someone else? We were never told that was part of the deal.
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  861. Thought Churchill drank brandy. He saved the whisky for me lol
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  862. That's some achievement.
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  863. Building a sustainable environment can also help growth, yet growth is not infinite.
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  864. Sunak proved his understanding of Johnson's true intent when he said "levelling up." Divert more money to your mates. Lol
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  865. There is only one key question for me: are there enough voters in red wall seats who are stupid enough to excuse the serial liar and abject buffoon Johnson?
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  866. The right wing obsession with tax is bloody hilarious to anyone with even half a brain. If choosing the location for a business, would the business owner obsess about his or her tax? Or would they look at the quality of the infrastructure: transport; education and health services? And the availability of skilled and qualified Labour?
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  867. The Tories now stand for desperation.
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  868. It's concerning that she thinks she has anything in common with Labour. Carry on at this rate and there will be no need for an election. If we had a democratic voting system, an election would be worthwhile.
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  869. Brexiters adore sovereignty, until other countries apply it and they realise it's not an exclusive British right.
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  870. Lack of critical thinking enables manufactured consent. I even saw the Telegraph suggesting Johnson appeared before a kangaroo court. Priceless.
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  871. When the population can be manipulated to continue supporting a government creating and stirring up a new crisis each week, we are in a scary state.
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  872. Government now has to take smaller steps on the road to fascism, but make no mistake: they are still resolutely travelling that road.
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  873. At least the rest of the world can now acknowledge us as world class or world leading: in comedy. The Tories are a laugh a minute. Unfortunately the majority of us (UK citizens) suffer while the rest of the world laughs. World-class irony. The ultimate shit show.
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  874.  @TonklinFallen  I agree that Blair did more good things than bad and he left us in a far better state. That said, PFI contracts as a disciple of neoliberalism weren't great. It's been downhill ever since.
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  875.  @Jonnythebaker  calm down, John. Give some credit and respect to Scotland.
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  876. Sunak: "So where do you see yourself in five years?" Recipient: "Don't know, trying to get through each day." Sunak: "I worked in finance myself, and we are moving the hub out of London." Recipient: "You seem to be moving it to the EU, which is why I lost my job." Sunak: "We are creating new opportunities in Global Britain." Recipient: "I've heard about the unicorns, but I can't eat them and I'm hungry." Sunak: "Who is next for my Christmas counselling?"
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  877. Today showed that Johnson and Sunak have one thing in common: they don't read relevant and important paperwork; just wing it and spout sh1te is clearly Tory government policy.
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  878.  @bipolarminddroppings  yes. Perhaps we should send him on the front line and see the size of the laundry bill on his expenses. As for being useful, Johnson would make a good doorstop.
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  879.  @jazzx251  so bugger devolution then?
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  880.  @gbjanuary  enough is beyond enough.
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  881. And to think I wondered how it could get worse than Johnson. Truss is a five-star vacuous wazzock.
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  882. If Sunak has genuinely lost such messages, he should be fired for negligence. If he has deleted them, he should be fired suppressing evidence.
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  883.  @inthegym4679  I blame the Johnson government for getting Brexit part-done badly. This was permitted with a minority vote at the last election. An elective dictatorship rather than democracy.
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  884. I suspect this next week may become known as the demise of the little spiv week.
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  885. ​ @DavidGraeberWasRight Then to get PR, the first step is tactical voting.
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  886. ​ @FakeSchrodingersCat An independent Scotland would have its attractions.
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  887. Now we know that Global Britain means establishing new markets at the furthest points of the globe while shrinking our local markets.
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  888.  @creativecascades1328  you may think that passes as a plausible excuse. I base my statement on fact: comparing the actions of Johnson's government with previous ones, and looking at their record of abject mismanagement.
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  889. Good question. More chance of an irresponsible and incompetent minister with this shower. But first they would have to admit the issue - just like an alcoholic.
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  890.  @hayleyxyz  it was Milton Friedman in 1970
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  891. Good step forward. A move towards real democracy.
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  892.  @Talus-hallux1  good to see one beneficiary, apart from the disaster capitalists.
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  893. The words no return to austerity after means testing the WFA is insulting. The Unions gave a clear warning on this ineptitude but Reeves ploughed on. We need actions and many will watch her budget with interest.
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  894. The far right don't want to make the life of the average citizen better. Instead they want to fuel anger and falsely shift blame to gain power. How do I know? Farage "asked questions" without verifying source and fact in such a way they threw doubt on the police statement. He knew the likely outcome and intended to achieve it.
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  895. Hunt will take us from Britannia Unhinged to what he knows: austerity and an excuse for more privatisation. How about NHS privatisation as in his 2005 policy paper? This sneering specimen is dangerous. He buggered up the NHS and failed to prepare us for a potential pandemic. We all know where that left us.
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  896. ​ @adamstanford2549 Perhaps a jar of marmite would make a better PM. It would be less divisive.
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  897. ​ @adamstanford2549 yet lack critical thinking skills, which conman Fartage plays on.
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  898. ​ @1697djh the human one is enough for sociopaths. Troll off...
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  899. Truss will blame the French. Lol
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  900. What? You still believe in the tooth fairy? Who would be the desperate party in any such negotiations? What do we have to offer except delusion?
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  901. Johnson not only creeps towards fascism at home, he craves world domination. Why not call the new union the buffoonery.
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  902. Depends where they end up; they are p1ssing off many in the left of their party, some of whom may vote Green.
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  903. ​ @leeeastwood6368 Which was proposed in Leveson 1.
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  904. What a lineup: Braverman and Truss touted as leaders. Quite a sh1t-show. It's always the right ideas in the wrong way: economy; brexit; etc. At least the right notes played in the wrong order are more entertaining.
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  905.  @jinankalo9386  thought it was Sovereign Tea. Been looking in the shops but can only find toy unicorns.
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  906. ​ @PeterPete  Yet, apparently, that route isn't working. What have we done to help repatriation?
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  907.  @PeterPete  Regrettably, we meddle and others pay the price. Braverman herself is clueless about safe processes, and instead drafts legislation about as useful as a lead balloon.
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  908.  @TheEvertw  very smart to spot the analogy
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  909. True. Neither do they understand cost push inflation.
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  910. Surely that depends on your constituency. Whichever party is most likely to get rid of the Tories
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  911. Hardly surprising, as logistics companies work on slender margins. The industry is highly competitive. On Brexit in general, I wouldn't trust this government to manage our bog rolls, never mind expecting them to take back control.
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  912.  @sparking2016  I did say I'm not ashamed; just absolutely disgusted. You really think Labour has a magic bullet and will use it? I'm disgusted by their reaction to the Gaza situation. Will they reform the electoral system and clean up parliamentary standards? Lots to do...
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  913.  @Driver2616  good question. If so, it's undoubtedly against the international law that we signed up to.
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  914. ​ @Petersworld77 I think you'll find that he speaks about income from capital gains being taxed at the same rate as work income. As does prof Richard Murphy.
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  915. Say it as it is, Phil: "Pissed as farts" in Downing Street. That may be their default behaviour, which would explain their ineptitude.
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  916. Another one bites the dust. Mad Nads crying again. Just go and shut up, Nads. Enough is enough.
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  917. Make solar panels mandatory on all new homes (with few technical exceptions?). The ambitious housing target is a great time to do what should have been done a decade or more ago.
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  918.  @realhorrorshow8547  yes. I also read that somewhere. Knowing how our deals help other countries more than us, it would be logical.
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  919.  @ab-ym3bf  I agree. Johnson hand picked a cabinet of vacuous puppets to achieve these ends though.
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  920. This morning I read that the EU found the existing checks of agricultural products unfit for purpose. It seems from the outside that the DUP are appealing to bigoted idiots to get votes. A mirror image of UKIP? Wonder if Foghorn Farage will join in and bugger things up?
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  921. A fair analysis, Phil. Are Lord Gormless and Buffoon taking the EU for a ride? Or is the EU playing the long game, knowing they are winning trade? Don't forget that the majority in NI were against Brexit. It's only the bigots shouting for it. Meanwhile we are getting nearer to a united Ireland and a dismantled UK. This will be Buffoon's legacy.
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  922. She certainly had a point about taking gifts while continuing with the two child benefit cap and means testing the WFA. Driven by greed and power while crapping on the vulnerable?
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  923. This is one such misfortune. Transitioning from Tory ineptitude to Deform UK.
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  924. ​ @GeekfromYorkshire Really! You'll find that they have got it half done, and badly
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  925. Government extols Global Britain, yet acts like Little England. An international joke.
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  926. The pound has also fallen against the Euro. And for Brexiters, we still buy a lot from Europe and will pay more. Another own goal.
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  927. Labour simply needs to hammer the fact that Government is getting Brexit done BADLY. A simple line of attack with numerous examples.
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  928.  @garrywynne1218  read Vienna articles 26 and 27 again and stop trying to defend the indefensible.
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  929. ​​ @DavidEdwards-uf5lg Ah! Whataboutery. Did you know he's not in power?
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  930.  @EthanKristopherHartley  good point. Perhaps experts advising a people's assembly in the second house. Needs thought and alternative ideas.
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  931. Yet that argument is amplified by the oligarch and Reform-kissing media. The cost of living and quality of life matter most to the majority.
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  932. ​ @Noel-ji8nm  "Stomped home" with a minority (43.6%) vote share. Perhaps you should study maths, Noel. We live with an elective dictatorship.
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  933.  @yorkiegilly4355  if there was supporting evidence of your vacuous comment, I would agree
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  934. Never expect a charlatan and convicted criminal to fulfill a promise.
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  935. I sometimes toy with a hypothetical question: would Johnson have completed Brexit after Russia invaded Ukraine? If yes: either he is operationally incompetent or he wanted to hide his crap deal. If no, why complete it during a pandemic?
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  936.  @bigkdog5091  I try to spell in English; not gibberish.
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  937.  @indricotherium4802  Yes. I restricted my comments to Tory voters (rather than Tories per se) but your description is perhaps equally true of them.
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  938. It's disappointing that the opposition fails to attack such incompetence and corruption. Campaigning lawyers and pressure groups do a better job but the oligarch press also props up the Tories.
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  939. I'll forgive Starmer for wearing the gear because it p1ssed off the Torygraph. Just wish that he and his crowd would get a grip of modern economics (specifically MMT).
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  940. The Convict has been buggering up the country since the day he failed upwards into power. I'm more concerned about getting rid of this government of charlatans than Johnson alone. If his demise helps that cause, that's great.
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  941. What are they taking with them? Leaving their assets? Tax the assets, as Germany does, according to one comment. We could well win with cheaper housing if their asset prices fall.
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  942. I love comeuppance. It doesn't put fuel in my tank but at least I can laugh while walking.
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  943. After completing the form I contacted our new Labour MP to comment on its prescriptive nature. Further requesting local consultation with citizens assemblies. Also my concern with outsourcing being pushed by Milburn; and the better alternative of listening to the manifesto proposed by Every Doctor (led by Dr Julia Grace Patterson).
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  944. ​ @PeterPete With a party enabled by an elective dictatorship.
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  945. ​ @benwilson6145  meaning who?
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  946. ​ @arandmorgan I would even say that neoliberalism and financialisation have made the original form of capitalism seem like socialism. The spivs ensured that the poor voted for the rich to have even more. Now the myths are exposed.
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  947.  @Detector1977  Yes. They also believed in unicorns.
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  948. Starmer emulating Jeremy Corbyn's pledge and his takedown of Braverman was second only to Baroness Warsi in her interview on Sky.
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  949. And now the BBC has revealed that 17 schools had RAAC in 2010. The rebuilding funds were allocated by Labour then Gove put a red pen tbrough it. Never forget the "benefits" of austerity.
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  950. But we are not grabbing the opportunities, according to the Brexiters. No, we are handing them to the EU so they are more accessible in the single market. Who would have thought...?
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  951. Johnson: our great Churchillian buffoon. The international joke. The worst prime minister in modern history.
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  952. Many are paid to manufacture consent for the Tories.
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  953. Thought the EU was expected to have broken up by now. Lol
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  954.  @lynnlovattjones4171  too busy manufacturing consent
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  955. Another example of Brexit showing the importance of Global Britain. Back in your box, Moggie.
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  956. Or a bucket, to water it down and sell it at inflated profit.
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  957.  @drakehound2244  absolutely true. Our government couldn't organise the proverbial
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  958.  @trytellingthetruth.2068  I've answered your comment that included context. Saw the short one first. I must say, your idea of "truth" is novel. About as accurate as resorting to the treasury note. Neoliberalism and Financialisation are the underlying causes. As for the Tory years, the lie of austerity to exacerbate inequality kicks in and leaves us ill-prepared for a pandemic.
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  959. Theresa May deliberately mispronounced her explanation: "Brexit means Brexshit." The EU planned and were prepared. We, on the other hand, just denied reality. Global Britain is the sickest international joke.
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  960. Never a single tangible benefit. Only ideological rhetoric that can't be substantiated. (Eg. "Freedom" resulting in more paperwork at borders) The greatest act of self-harm in my lifetime.
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  961. "Get Brexit done" said Johnson, and he got only part of it done BADLY. A paltry reward to those who voted for a slogan-spouting vacuous buffoon.
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  962.  @charlessandoval3382  I'm for an elected house of lords as well as PR instead of our elective dictatorship
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  963. This Tory government is best summarised in a single word, coined by Angela Rayner but subsequently withdrawn - as hard truth incorrectly often is for the protection of the establishment. The party of SCUM.
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  964.  @keplermission4947  Yes. Must remember to tug my forelock for the useless b'stard. While he takes the rip out of all of us.
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  965. Dizzy Lizzy is all about growth. She means what she says: growth in inequality, the growing wealth of the rich; and growth in the number and the severity of Tory lies.
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  966.  @vxicepickxv  ironic that many Tories revere Adam Smith as an advocate of the free market. The dilemma is, we face a rigged market.
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  967.  @Redsleather  likewise
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  968. The coincidence of a serial liar exposing a little spiv is hilarious. Great to see the Tories in free-fall.
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  969.  @martinthehibby9305  spot on Martin. We need to reform parliamentary standards as well as the voting system. Westminster is simply unfit for purpose.
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  970. The only Brexit benefits are to be found in the bank accounts of disaster capitalists.
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  971. A competition of ineptitude versus idiocy. When in doubt, resort to more extreme fascism.
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  972. When Johnson says he has a plan, he means making it up as he goes along. He is never proactive. All government policies fall under the category of being seen to do something. Their usual trick is to quote large sums of expenditure, relatively smaller than before , but then who will know? Or bother to find out?
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  973. I could tell you a few war stories, but I was only a few months old when it ended lol
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  974. ​ @robertsmith9810  wow! And you think the Tories have produced a successful PM in the last 13 years?
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  975. Wow! We keep finding these brexit benefits and people are surprised that British exceptionalism was a myth.
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  976. Farage has only one skill set: the ability to appeal to idiots through spouting bile. Put him under pressure and expect him to do something useful: and the disaster he sows is someone else's fault.
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  977. It was one vote, yet ironically it could not have been fulfilled with a fit democratic parliamentary system. Not only did the Brexit campaign break electoral rules, it needed a minority elected government (with a 43.6% vote share giving an 80 seat majority) to complete an act of ineptitude for the benefit of disaster capitalists and tax avoiders. I asked an additional question in the referendum: did I trust our government of charlatans to take back control? The lesson for each of us is simple: never trust a Tory.
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  978. Sunak is to economics what Hannibal Lecter is to cuisine. His pretence that public sector pay fuels inflation and his failure to distinguish between borrowing to fill holes and for targeted investment is risible. Perhaps he missed the economics module in his (alleged) MBA. The man is a little spiv playing at leadership.
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  979. The Tories have successfully turned Britain into an economic sh1thole for the majority. Their planned incompetence knows no bounds.
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  980. Perhaps we should reserve the CA mark for the quality of sh1t in rivers. Classic British comedy.
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  981. The Tories are the party of mayhem and incompetence. The cost-benefit case for HS2 never stacked up; it was dependent on a tenuous valuation of extra capacity and the budget was unrealistic. We needed HS3 before HS2, as cross-country routes are most desperately in need of improvement. The Tories certainly excel at spaffing public money on useless projects.
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  982. Hardly surprising that such a contemptible and contemptuous wazzock is found guilty of contempt.
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  983. My default view is: never trust a Tory. The fact that they are losing the PR battle, however, may change their attitude. The underlying dynamics are: the least trusted profession taking on the most trusted.
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  984. Farage is so successful in appealing to idiots, he gets them as candidates. Please remember, however, that it's never old Nige's fault, he is always the victim.
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  985.  @AngelsOfAresED  good point. I guess their excuse is that someone else is stopping them delivering their perfect Brexit. But since they have "taken back control," that argument falls flat. Unfortunately not many will ask the same question you raised...too busy in denial.
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  986. It's not Truss; it's the Tory election machine. Focus on that - anticipate the dirty tricks; be firm and clear. Strategists making work for themselves?
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  987.  @ianchisholm5756  a good example of why critical thinking should be taught in schools.
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  988. Smart borders by the dumbest government in recent history?
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  989. ​ @Nickelodeon81 Which Will would that be? Will Scarlet or Will I Am?
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  990. Wow! That background picture! Is Johnson moonlighting? I'm so used to seeing him in a high vis jacket, I thought he had a new job. Or yet another photo op?
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  991.  @stu281  what! Is that an attempt at comedy? A government that adores the free market yet is against freedom of movement when it suits their ulterior motives. Neoliberal acolytes who now blame employers for paying low wages. So we stop freedom of movement while ignoring an impact assessment called Operation Yellowhammer, which clearly warned of this disaster yet the government tried to hide it. I'm no fan of globalization - it's a neoliberal race to the bottom -but Global Britain is ready to take advantage while making a total cock of Brexit.
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  992.  @prout7569  yes, I'm aware that JC was originally against the EU. He supported remain because he couldn't trust the Tories to deliver a responsible brexit, which has proven to be the case. The way to stop poverty wages is to impose a real living wage. If we allow the unregulated market to set pay, fair pay will give way to supply and demand. We had the choice of a two year moratorium on freedom of movement with the EU, but failed to delay it until we could police the illegal use of labour. We habitually blame others for government incompetence.
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  993.  @smokego4808  total fantasy. Ask the Scottish fisherman, who have lost out on Brexit. They are either sailing the extra distance to Norway to get a decent price or stopping sales to the EU because of the extra cost. As for Article 16, it relates solely to the NI protocol and only allows adjustment for a specific reason. Lord Gormless doesn't understand it and deliberately misquotes it in a poor attempt at bravado. The fishing industry has been sold down the river and are accusing Johnson of betrayal. Cornwall is further losing £100million a year in EU funding,.replaced by £5m a year from Johnson's cabal. Own goal there, sorry!
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  994.  @Noel-ji8nm  News alert for the troll: he's not in power.
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  995.  @Noel-ji8nm  So how can dictatorship work when not in power? Just stop trolling with nonsense.
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  996. Spot on! PR should be front and centre, along with cleaning up political standards (second jobs, conflict of interest, etc) Without PR we don't have democracy, we have an elective dictatorship. Labour won't win a working majority in the present system. Accept reality and move on.
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  997. That's why we need PR.
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  998. Brexit: the greatest act of self-harm in my lifetime. The government afraid to admit it; northern mayor's attempting to mitigate it. At least some are showing realism. Brexiters waffling on about WTO without understanding it and living in unicorn land. Britain is broken.
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  999. The adverse effect on the car industry was even explained in Cameron's Comic. (His Noddy guide to EU benefits.) Does anyone remember the response? Project Fear?
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  1000.  @isidroramos1073  good comment.
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  1001. The very window dressing you would expect from Hunt, the chief psychopath. Helping the 1% with their pension pot. Jam tomorrow for those who need childcare. A 9 billion tax benefit to the larger companies under the pretence of encouraging capital investment. The Tory credo of lower taxes encouraging growth is economic illiteracy, proven by history as record growth happened with higher taxation. Meanwhile tax freepay is frozen so we all suffer, as the average pay in real terns won't return to pre-pandemic levels until 2027 (according to the government's own statistical body) Enough is enough.
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  1002. According to Johnson, our Brexit glass is always half full even after him draining it, with the contents sloshing in his stomach.
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  1003. Learn to distinguish fact from rubbish
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  1004.  @creativecascades1328  listen to the interview. Where is your creativity going now? Blaming JO'B for Johnson's misdemeanours?
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  1005. More conclusive proof of Johnson's lies and narcissism. When will the electorate waken up? Perhaps when we see his lies and incompetence exposed by the opposition?
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  1006. Deform UK Ltd is the answer only if you are incapable of critical thinking.
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  1007. Hardly surprising that the oligarch owned media is supporting the very party that failed to implement Leveson. Of course they did... truth and transparency are not in their interest.
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  1008.  Vova Putin  thankfully you don't make that decision. Good luck
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  1009.  @Jonnythebaker  not much chance of meeting your aspirations with Buffoon's government, John. We need real democracy and fundamental reform. As for Thatcher, the servant of neoliberalism, don't get me started.
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  1010.  @Jonnythebaker  John, I don't have the time for long text. What are you talking about when you suggest the single currency nearly bankrupted us? Also about monetary control? Please bear in mind I qualified in degree-level economics and your comments are fallacious. We kept our own currency with a sovereign right to issue money. As for NI. We signed an agreement, failed to implement it, continually bleat about it after the EU has shown flexibility, and our inept and lying government blames the EU. The OBR (the government's own department) has projected the cost of Brexit and commons committees struggle to find a single benefit. Meanwhile, NI stays in the single market and prospers. This was the greatest act of self-harm in my lifetime. We will never agree on the matter, so good luck finding the promised Unicorns. I despair for my grandchildren who will have to live with the crap.
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  1011.  @Jonnythebaker  yes will need it. Enjoy your baking, as I resume my love of photography tomorrow.
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  1012. ​ @BENTWOONEZERO who mentioned suing voters?
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  1013.  @BENTWOONEZERO  That's a party, not the electorate
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  1014. Deform UK. The party appealing to the desperate and idiotic. They would remove YOUR human rights and dismantle OUR NHS.
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  1015. A difficult decision for the Tories: finding a diamond from a crock of sh1t. Come election time, they can always depend on their innate sense of survival and dodgy smear campaigns. (No mention of Alok Sharma?)
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  1016. ​ @adamstanford2549 I suspect not...too busy changing the President's and VP's nappies (or diapers).
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  1017. We simply CANNOT trust the Tories with any public services. These useless buggers were voted in by a minority (43.6% vote share) and act like tinpot dictators in our pretence at democracy.
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  1018. It would be hard to get what he wanted from Brexit, when brexit wasn't defined then Johnson slammed an oven-ready deal in the microwave. That said, he will probably find a way of mitigating tax and screwing his employees.
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  1019. The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable, as Oscar Wilde once said. Humour hiding inhumanity and Labour should do the job properly this time.
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  1020. ​ @Sjb-on5xt Don't worry. No need for the note. They'll just borrow more money then blame Labour
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  1021.  @ruthwhall3020  I agree. As a pensioner who would never vote Tory, I wonder if they suffer from Daily Fail addiction.
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  1022. The triple lock: a manifesto commitment broken in 2022. Hunt the proverbial wishes to continue that precedent. Never trust a Tory.
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  1023. If so may "external factors" are outside government control and they show inadequate intervention, we must question their competence or their choices. Either way, they should resign. But this is a Tory government in an elective dictatorship. Welcome to Global Britain.
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  1024. The Tories will continue to replace idiots with morons because they can. They are working towards a one party state. Their campaigns use fake websites, a plethora of lies and deceit. Labour should campaign to deliver democracy and clean up the political system, front and centre. Expose the Tories dodgy contracts and use of fascist methods as well as their crappy track record. That, in my opinion, is campaigning for real change.
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  1025. It would be hilarious to see Tommy sharing a cell with Foghorn Farage. The ultimate battle of egos.
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  1026. At least 30p Lee takes the heat from the little spiv (Sunak) who can stay in his bunker.
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  1027.  @smoosview6103  not what I read and understand.
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  1028. HS2: offering conclusive proof that the Tories can't manage a p1ss-up in a brewery.
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  1029. Raab was skewered by Angela R, who used damning facts, only for Raab to resort to lies. Raab genuinely earns the description of Tory scum.
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  1030. The joy of an elective dictatorship heading towards fascism on the only express train running - the train of Tory corruption.
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  1031. The conservatives have earned a five word slogan, which should be mandatory on all of their literature and in any form of presentation. Tories don't give a sh1t. Led by a serial lair and incompetent buffoon; staying above the law, by excusing a criminal act. Johnson has not even heard that ignorance is no defence in the eyes of the law. He just expects his supporters to excuse him while he robs them blind.
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  1032. Wonder which Abba songs were most appropriate? Money, money, money... Spaffed away? Waterloo.. Johnson has met his Waterloo?
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  1033. Food AND medicine shortages. So much for Project Fear and having enough of experts. Who trusted Johnson to take back control?
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  1034. Good to see Labour being proactive. Captain Foresight and his team?
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  1035. Starmer should certainly make an example of this whinging little spiv, showing his unfitness and propensity to lie. My guess is, he won't.
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  1036. Reform UK... for the worse. Bile and rhetoric over fact. Surprising how it appeals to idiots or the mentally lazy.
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  1037. The YT interview of Farage by James O'Brien is well worth watching. 10 years ago but still revealing. The fascistic charlatan should also be judged on his record... Brexit; sciving his way though life as an MEP...
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  1038. A catalogue of lies. Lying about the benefits - speaking out against them was project fear. Lying about the consequences - shifting blame by deflection to the pandemic and Putin. Lying about the unicorns - we just aren't believing enough; be patient it will take a couple of decades (didn't see that on a bus.) One lie covering the consequences of another. New day, bigger lie. It's what Tories do.
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  1039. Sit down, prime minister, until you have something sensible to say. Johnson spent the rest of his parliamentary time seated.
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  1040. Same wiffle waffle, different day
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  1041.  @geoffpoole483  very true. To state the same legal standing is cuckoo land stuff. Interviewers can also read reactions.
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  1042. With the ERG on one side and the DUP on the other, Little Spiv could be mincemeat. Tomorrow is a other day.
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  1043. Yes. Vote for the people who helped create this abject mess and wouldn't recognise a plan if it bit them in the anus. I'm all for wasting a vote and pandering to mindless populism.
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  1044. ​ @manoo422 Remember, Labour is not in power. How exactly does this qualify as a tsunami? Where is your considered and quantified evidence? What do you consider to be the root cause?
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  1045.  @charlessandoval3382  well, Charles, you haven't answered my question but to get back to your original point: Pragmatism is about getting things done and approach and methodology. It's not the essence of democracy because a dictator can be pragmatic.
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  1046.  @pablosaintmarr3223  totally agree. I agreed with Lord Hailsham, who described our system an elective dictatorship. Yes, the devolved parliaments have a diluted form of PR, which is more democratic.
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  1047.  @johnwormley5161  I'm not a politician, hence never in power. Disparaging my intelligence without facts shows who is acting dumb. I won't quote my qualifications or experience, you prefer to listen to rhetoric anyway. Good luck with your delusion.
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  1048.  @johnwormley5161  prove those allegations. Corbyn was NOT an antisemite. Total bullshit. Where is your evidence.
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  1049.  @johnwormley5161  believe the lies if you wish. We did have a say as one of the three largest partners. You obviously think increased poverty is worth losing the alleged rules for. Only to give in to other countries for crap trade deals. Name one dictat or rule that harmed us. Btw I'm not called Jock. Should I call you Worm? Or shall we stay with adult conversation?
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  1050. I propose a new party for this alignment, named FWF (The party of f*c*wits and fascists)
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  1051. Hardly surprising from a party funded by business. Wherever there is corruption, the Tories are never far away.
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  1052. This is why Brexit was BrexSHIT. Never let a cabal of morons take back control.
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  1053. Adopting "some socialism" will always be a short term act from Tories. Obscene austerity and a financial class war is in their DNA.
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  1054. Insane enough to complete a hard Brexit DURING A PANDEMIC. A circus of clowns mismanaging a disaster.
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  1055.  @boxtradums0073  totally agree.
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  1056. Imo this was tactically inept and stupid of Starmer. For every vote he gains, he may lose two or more. The name of Thatcher triggers emotions. The price of entrepreneurial gain was neoliberalism and the dismantling of society for greed. Does the end justify the means? Starmer could stay quiet and get votes; the present Tory cabinet of imbeciles is doing his work for him.
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  1057.  @nigelaston2546  I form my own opinions. Too many Brexiter sheep
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  1058. Starmer must welcome this news. A Tory leader dripping with arrogance and condescension would be an ideal opponent in the House.
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  1059. A government of arrogance and incompetence. Thus morning, a refusal to apologise for their mishandling, after a damning report. The compliant media stay quiet about current levels. Stay quiet about Covid and don't mention the B word. These twin strategies are working as our population remains ignorant.
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  1060. Sunak is showing to be a little spiv. A grifter who helped to stoke the financial crash as a banker then subscribe to austerity as chancellor. He will be gradually and systematically exposed.
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  1061. His successor is supporting his narrative about the civil service in an attempt at misdirection. The Tories expect blind obedience, rather than professionalism in questioning or testing their policies. As a true bully boy, Raab suffers insecurity, which is hardly surprising given his track record.
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  1062. This government will do nothing, until one minute before disaster hour - and then just enough to be seen to be doing something, so they can blame someone else.
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  1063. Absolutely inevitable. The result of the operational stupidity of completing Brexit during a pandemic. Done deliberately, of course, so Buffoon could blame the consequences of his inane Brexit on the pandemic.
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  1064. It's like a rerun of a national nightmare. The grifters who pushed for Brexit then blamed someone else when it went wrong are selling more snake oil. It seems that they get an unlimited amount of media coverage to help their scam.
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  1065. The Tories have a worse economic record than Labour, yet they, aided by their complicit media cronies, pretend to be the party of sound economics. The Tories have consistently borrowed more and paid back less than Labour since the second world war.
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  1066. Rishi Sunk Us, and finally people are seeing the consequential meaning of his name.
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  1067. They don't just follow the money. Just the whiff of money is enough. Turds in a cesspit of hatred.
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  1068. Apparently Johnson and his sociopathic government voted down a proposal to make fire and rehire illegal. Now the petulant brat pretends he will do something about this travesty. What a charlatan.
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  1069. A one-off payment this year followed by 19% next year may just about deal with inflation. Anything less would be an insult, such that Sunak would need to go back to school for maths education.
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  1070. Only a moron would believe that keeping this brexit safe will help us.
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  1071. It would take a moron to fill the vacuum left by Johnson. Yet when we hear the promises of these two, the Tories have no shortage of morons. Britain is broken.
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  1072. The Tories are so desperate, they will repeat the lie about the vaccine rollout until it's accepted as truth. Sunak even repeats it in the House, without being forced to correct the record. Meanwhile Britain is forecast to face economic decline, at a worse rate than Russia.
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  1073.  @digitalimager4946  No. I'm exaggerating for comic effect. She would need to open her mouth and spout her usual bile to convince some that she is a nasty incompetent.
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  1074. Kemi adopting a convenient memory, which will undoubtedly extend to her crap trade deals. Wait for them to suddenly be blamed on Labour...
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  1075. Nigel follows his friend Donald. Donald follows Mad Vlad, another of Nigel's heros. All fascists and dictators together.
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  1076. Most of us know what a Johnson means to an American. Buffoon is certainly a vacuous tool.
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  1077. Says a lot about the quality of investigative journalism at the Fail. Do people get paid to read this rag?
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  1078. Don't worry: when one piece of shit leaves, a turd steps in. It will be just the same for their fund raisers and funders.
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  1079. ​ @EdJames-tb9oz Who is offering socialism? Perhaps you should circulate a leaflet
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  1080. A great explanation after a clumsy statement from David Lammy.
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  1081. Yes. When will those who excuse him realise that his best will never be enough. The man is operationally incompetent and a serial liar. He is single-handedly making Britain an international joke.
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  1082. But the rules don't apply to Boris, you see. His entitlement eradicates any normal consequences. A sociopath makes his own rules and plays the game by them.
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  1083.  @bernardedwards8461  Looking long term, it's in Labour's interest. Otherwise the Tories will be back with more austerity. We need to break the cycle.
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  1084. There are very few MPs exuding integrity and professionalism. Caroline Lucas would be at the top of my list.
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  1085. Either the laughingly titled Minister for Brexit opportunities is too stupid to understand how trade works, or he is as big a liar as his boss. It's the same binary decision with both Johnson and Mogg: liar or incompetent? Or possibly a combination of both.
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  1086. Chris Bryant did confirm that Sunak has indeed delivered: poverty, public debt, inflation, a broken health service and a catalogue of excuses. Little Spiv is just another Tory liar and grifter.
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  1087. To those who voted for the Tories to "take back control". You now know you were conned. Please remember that when voting. Yet beware of the charlatans who pushed for Brexit and are now after your vote. The grifters in the limited company called Reform UK are culpable. It was their fault because Brexit was always an illusion.
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  1088. Actually billions, not millions?
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  1089. It takes a dictator to tell the people what our priorities are. Then to tell the electorate they have made a mistake in voting. Rishi has SunkUs.
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  1090.  @himoffthequakeroatbox4320  Oh, I get it. The unacceptable stereotype; the great collective.
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  1091.  @garywithers852  The only reassurance is that it took fewer than half of votes (43.6% of those who bothered to vote) to elect this shower.
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  1092. The NHS is simply unsafe in Tory hands. Enough is enough.
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  1093. That would be some feat from a 30 page comic. lol
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  1094. Desperate times! Dodgy Dave and James Not So. Back comes the author of austerity to join his psycho mate Hunt. The man who enabled the brexit vote but couldn't be arsed to apply rules and safeguards. An admission that the Tories are short of elected MPs fit for cabinet office. Hardly a great strategy, other than taking publicity from Blabbermouth.
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  1095.  @lawrencebishton9071  English, please...
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  1096.  @stephengraham1153  delivering PR may be a saving grace. Yet I do agree with you.
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  1097. Farage: the serial whinger who has only achieved destruction.
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  1098. Tory operational incompetence knows no bounds. Spread lies to identify a common enemy; suffer the consequences of divorce from a trading bloc and blame someone else; exacerbate inequality; create economic chaos then blame the party in government over a decade ago. Use a compliant media to spread lies and propaganda; if manufactured consent fails, promise unicorns and pretend it's just as bad in other countries. Under any circumstances, don't pay crucial public sector workers what they deserve, to pretend that we need more privatisation for national prosperity. Enough is beyond enough.
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  1099. "The DUP should listen" says it all.
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  1100. When will we have fit parliamentary procedures? When verified facts are stated to expose lies or misinformation, correcting the record should be mandatory, and enforced. Parliament is a haven for liars.
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  1101. Nigel needs no training in scamming idiots and spouting bile against immigrants. He could train the fascists in talking horsesh1t.
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  1102. The bigots are losing! The EU is acting reasonably and flexibly. Meanwhile the British Government is throwing the toys out of the pram, while trade between southern and northern Ireland is increasing at the expense of England. The DUP is behaving like an ex-pat on steroids - who has been living in the EU and now has a limited right to do so. Who is going to win in the long run? Don't forget that the majority in NI voted Remain.
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  1103. Welcome to "Global Britain." The world leader in serial incompetence, demoted to an obscure fascist state.
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  1104. ​ @garywithers852 The second fact explains the first. The Fail manufactures consent for the hard of reasoning.
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  1105. Unfortunately Labour agreed to follow Tory fiscal rules so they have an inbuilt mandate for austerity. I'm disappointed - even disgusted - that they did follow the lessons of the party of economic incompetence. Move over, Labour is now the party of business with record funding, so it's their turn to screw us.
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  1106.  @johnrussell3961  absolutely agree
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  1107. You want growth, invest in infrastructure and public services. Simple formula, proven continuously.
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  1108. The word 'plan' enters Johnson's vocabulary, but not his inept governance. His track record is to be seen to do something - always too little, too late, or by spaffing some money that will make little difference. At least his government shows the inadequacy of our media.
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  1109. Inflation means prices going up. How can increasing public sector pay contribute to this? What prices go up? The only effect is on the extra spending power increasing demand but inflation also depends on supply and availability. More money in the pockets of employees also stimulates growth. Sunak and Hunt failed to explain cost-push inflation because of external factors. (But then Hunt probably didn't understand it.)
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  1110. We are now suffering predominantly from cost push inflation but our neoliberal government won't take steps to control prices. They worship the market daily - the same market that is failing us for the benefit of speculators.
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  1111. The denial is already happening with brexiters: we haven't got brexit; we haven't got the brexit we wanted; it hasn't been completed yet. What else did they expect with a simple binary choice on a complex matter? Did they really trust this cabal of shysters to take back control?
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  1112. Welcome to the sunny uplands of Global Britain - without food. Never mind: the Brexiters knew what they voted for. Now they have it, they are in perpetual denial.
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  1113. Relevance being ?????
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  1114.  @peterebel7899  Brits are not happy with it. You don't speak for me and many others who object to an elective dictatorship.
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  1115. Grow the economy and build the infrastructure? Yes, they are not mutually exclusive if we tax income from wealth at the same rate as income from work, while reducing tax on income for the lowest paid. The economy will grow as people spend more in it, while the infrastructure is being improved to support it.
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  1116.  @sigiriya5149  Yes. That's because the EU organised suitable measures before we left and have been pragmatic in implementing the NI protocol to protect the GFI. Buffoon, on the other hand, finds brexit far from done, with border checks only part implemented, while attempting to dismantle an agreement he negotiated and signed, and trying to blame the EU for his serial incompetence. In short, Johnson has got brexit half done, badly.
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  1117. Don't panic! We have 150 army tankers about to go on standby. Oh! and we have just taken back the running of Southeastern rail because of a.blip in our beloved franchise model. See, we are a responsible government, looking after you.
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  1118. Lord Gormless, the infamous bully, is proving to be a coward (as with most bullies.) Is Gove trying to be the adult? Perhaps he is campaigning for leadership while Johnson is floundering? Global Britain is like a rudderless ship sent out to deter refugees in the channel.
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  1119. I find it ironic that it took our undemocratic system to enable Johnson's brexit. After a referendum showed a small majority in favour of leaving the EU, noone knew what that entailed because our future trading relationship with the bloc was unknown. It then took a minority-elected government to deliver this half-arsed arrangement and cause economic harm. When will our politicians face reality and lead the voting public by the nose through honesty and the researched facts revealed by the very experts that our flag-shaggers are afraid of?
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  1120. ​ @Noel-ji8nm You heard that from a troll with a Starmer complex
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  1121. If frontline services wouldn't be cut by a fifth reduction, how inefficient was government in the first place? The Tories want small state and zero accountability from ministers.
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  1122. ​ @BlackGriffin195 Because he took the job in the EU parliament. Should his constituents sue him for fraud?
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  1123.  @davidgreen6490  You sound like a politician saying "noone voted to..." You simply don't know. You know what you voted for and what some others have told you they voted for. But none of us know what everyone voted for, or against.
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  1124.  @m4rkscott Please don't repeat the "punished" claptrap. We were warned of the consequences of being a third country and being treated as other third countries. The response: project fear and we've had enough of experts. Inane excuses from an operationally incompetent government.
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  1125.  @a13xdunlop  read the Russia report. You may then find this comment exaggerated but not entirely unfounded.
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  1126. A celebration of the ridiculous by the stupid.
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  1127. The Fail offers gutter press for those who will disengage their brain.
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  1128.  @rhysholdaway  well done for making good use of it.
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  1129. Watching the Tories imploding is virtually world-class entertainment. Until I remember the harm they have cased our country.
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  1130. The Tories should be renamed the backlog party. A record number of asylum seekers; crumbling concrete in schools and hospitals creating a repair backlog. Record national debt (a repayment backlog). Shit in rivers (a pollution backlog). A lack of housing (a building backlog). And scrapping HS2 (an infrastructure backlog).
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  1131. Add to that their increased powers over the Electoral Commission. The EC's figures in 2019 actually showed a reduction in valid postal votes...very dubious after the media reported an increase (I guess the Labour votes somehow disappeared) Some also seemed to have advanced knowledge of postal voting results.
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  1132. Ah, well, we'll just have to eat less, use less, and buy less so the rich can get richer while we suffer a drop in living standards. Welcome to Tory Britain.
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  1133. I've been waiting for a journalist, or even an opposition MP, to ask such questions, armed with suitable facts to challenge the answer. Now I'm waiting for this exchange to be reported in the MSM... not holding my breath...
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  1134. It's never corruption to a Tory brain, it's entitlement.
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  1135. The Little England mentality is all pervasive, while pretending to be Global Britain. Same Tory crap, different day.
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  1136. I guess like most acts of self-harm: bitter sweet. Bitter for most. Sweet only for masochists.
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  1137. So if the Little Englanders think they won something. How come we all suffer the consequences? Yet the alleged winners must look through rose coloured glasses to search for any sign of victory, or search for an act of greater self harm to pursue it?
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  1138. Many voters are fickle. Because Sunak is rich and an ex banker (not an economist) they expect him to make us wealthier. They don't look at his record as a casino trader nor his propensity to foster inequality through his tax and spend policies. Wait until the 17 November when the axe will fall...
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  1139. We now see an opposition in desperation because of their incompetence. Their lies are being exposed...drip, drip, drip, with an avalanche to follow. Unfortunately Labour hang on to the neoliberal fallacy. If only they would listen to the patriotic millionaires and the Mile End Road economists. I have never known our country to be in such dire need of reform. (The last word is definitely NOT a noun.)
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  1140. Hardly surprising that this lazy and narcissistic object didn't understand a customs union. He gets through with bluff and bluster and is surrounded by forelock tugging idiots in his cabinet.
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  1141. Truss and her fantasy economics from Britannia Unhinged. Will she pick another co-author of her fantasy novel as chancellor? How about Raab, since the Tories always find someone worse?
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  1142.  @markwelch3564  Maybe. Although she may wish to hand him the poisoned chalice.
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  1143.  @nicodesmidt4034  Yes. It's known as manufacturing consent.
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  1144.  @williampatrickfagan7590  yes. That's constitutional fact. Unfortunately the reality is that electoral campaigns have become more 'presidential' and people are distracted by personal smear campaigns. How many even read the Labour manifesto or attacked their policies?
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  1145. Will be interesting to see what shape the "investment" takes. Cap in hand for PFI contracts and the continuation of freeports and free zones is a tax avoider's and vulture capitalist's paradise.
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  1146. Seemed like a choice between a bad cold or a dose of Covid. The right use a glaringly obvious tactic: cause or exacerbate problems, blame someone else and pretend to offer a solution. The alleged solution, of course, will be harmful because it's lie for the gullible.
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  1147. For Global Britain, read Little England. That's the reality of government policy.
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  1148.  @olivier2553  possible. Planned inefficiency to hide their crap deal?
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  1149.  @darthwiizius  ??? Doing the best for the country. Not playing a game. Sod what they expect.
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  1150.  @tarlochankaliroy1030  But this is Starmer's Labour and he has dropped the New from the title. Blair used New Labour.
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  1151. Fishy Rishi, the perfect leader of the party of corruption. His special skill is turning a blind eye to his mates. They are no longer content with scraping the barrel; they dig deep in the cesspit of corruption.
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  1152. The Tories stand for desperation.
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  1153. As a nation of muddlers, why would we expect a government that even understands the concept of a plan? Where was the impact assessment of the loss of freedom of movement, by industry? Where was our preparation for border controls? This week Johnson revealed his "plan" - promised three years ago - to fix social care. Where was the plan? Just raising taxation to allegedly fix social care and clear the NHS backlog, without a methodology, or even a guarantee or timetable of this being achieved, is not a plan. It's just taxation by stealth to ensure that poorer people are disproportionately hit. There was no plan for brexit, just a declaration followed by a clusterf**k.
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  1154. The acid test is that real incomes will get back to pre-pandemic levels in 2027. Hence ask the simple question: where you better off under Labour or the Tories? Smoke and mirrors says it all.
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  1155. Little Spiv fails to answer a single question at PMQs and resorts to lies. Nothing new there. His cabinet consists chiefly of leftovers: rearranging turds in a cesspit is hardly surprising with a party of talentless sociopaths.
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  1156. No such people as refugees in Tory rhetoric. Otherwise "Global Britain" is contravening UN rules to please racist gammons. (How surprising!) Misdirection and gaslighting: a Tory speciality.
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  1157. Whatever Johnson says, expect the opposite: levelling up means levelling down; getting Brexit done means half doing the job and causing economic decline; the world beating test and trace system went well didn't it? What else should we expect from a lying buffoon?
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  1158. Our little spiv throws quite a tantrum. Toys thrown out of the pram has nothing on him. He probably wondered, why all the fuss about a game of marbles? Until he read half of the history and stopped where the flag shaggers told him to.
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  1159. True. I nfortunately Blair sipped it too.
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  1160. At least someone has cause to love him. Here it's only the idiots.
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  1161. IF Labour takes power, they should not constrain government with Tory fiscal rules, which were designed to exacerbate inequality and hollow out state services. They should pursue tax justice and embrace progressive economics. There are many credible and useful sources (rather than politicians): Tax Justice UK; Professors Bill Mitchell and Richard Murphy; as examples. Recent history gives vital clues: we have used QE (to issue new money) only to fill holes - the financial crash; covid; Trussonomics and Brexit - yet we have never used it for investment in vital state services, which would grow the economy. Grow some cajones! Embrace modern economics and tax justice. Neoliberalism has failed (WITH A CAPITAL F)
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  1162. PR can give the strongest constituency link, with area panels so each voter can talk to the MP of their choice.
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  1163. This profiteering cabal never lets a crisis go to waste. How about prosecution for treason?
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  1164. Shows Tory values. Forgive me for feeling less concerned about an egomaniac being mildly inconvenienced while people starve and the homeless can't get a basic bank account. This level of media deflection is nauseating.
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  1165. Send the b'stard on an SAS-led training weekend and film him. Lol
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  1166. The Tories govern by operational incompetence, supported by lies and deflection. The question remains whether such incompetence is deliberate, to feed the financial vultures picking over the carcass that was Britain. Only the self- interested, intellectually lazy or plain stupid could excuse their mess and support them.
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  1167. Glad we could help Aus out. We have close family there.
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  1168.  @derekmulready1523  Did the visit spawn Scott Morrison?
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  1169. Bonehead will be sorely missed in parliament, at least by any Tory loons.
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  1170. May as well have written Britannia Unchained in crayon. An ode to failed neoliberalism and the lie of trickle down economics. Trust the market and worship it daily. Strip down the state to its minimum while using public money that bail out business. The pretence that this country is a meritocracy. Give me a break. (From an idle northerner lol)
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  1171.  @candidaprout8441  ????
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  1172. Reform consist of two propagandists appealing to the desperate or idiotic. Plus a group of MPs who are themselves idiots, to be identified with as representatives.
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  1173. The worst possible leader at the worst possible time. Johnson's hubris and corruption know no bounds.
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  1174. Truss is Britannia Unhinged on steroids. Her mind must be a cesspit in permanent turmoil.
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  1175. And the breaking news is that the government is planning to remove restrictions on city bosses pay while asking for wage restraint in the public sector. Welcome to Tory Britain.
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  1176. I can think of nothing more revolting, or wasteful, than Trump addressing parliament with Farage as his lapdog - under the condition that Ole Nige must wear that ridiculous cap.
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  1177. A pincher and a whip. Classic Tory perverse comedy? Same old Tories; same scum.
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  1178. Shows the Tory disconnect with logic; reiterated in the vacuous lament by the Fail. Who appointed Sue Gray to investigate partygate? From my recollection it was Johnson. So Johnson started this Labour plot? How devilishly clever!
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  1179. A succinct and accurate summary, Phil. Achieved by a minority-elected government in an archaic system that produces an elective dictatorship (as highlighted in the past by Lord Hailsham).
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  1180. Sunak is like a squeaky little mouse in PMQs. Irritated by scrutiny. Unable to answer a single question. Repeating false and irrelevant accusations in response. At least he continues to prove that the session is unfit for purpose and amounts to an absolute sh1tfest.
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  1181. Agree with your list. We will inevitably need to start with political reform to stand a chance of fulfilling it.
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  1182. When reading the Express, it becomes obvious why Cameron failed to implement the Leveson report. After all, their party must continue to appeal to idiots.
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  1183. Absolutely proven, since doing the same thing and expecting a different result is a classic symptom.
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  1184. Brexit: built by Brexiters on sand that keeps shifting. Now, it is evident that it causes self-harm, so "it was never about economics - it was all about sovereignty" according to its defendants. Never saw that on the side of a bus. There was never a clear plan. The greatest act of self-harm just morphs into its most sinister shape daily.
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  1185. Which excuses the Tories how?
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  1186.  @haveyaseenmiwhippet9069  in the absence of meaningful and relevant fact, spout bollocks instead of answering the question. Good try Mr or Mrs pseudonym.
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  1187. Who was more accurate: Rayner or Cromwell? One called the Tories "scum" the other referred to a House of "sordid prostitutes." Johnson has dragged sleaze to a new level of depravity. His sense of entitlement knows no bounds.
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  1188.  @carol-f8f7d  interesting. The Tories always have dubious contacts. A party of liars, charlatans and rogues.
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  1189. Global Britain is like Billy no mates. Johnson refereed to France as "our good friends." So that's how he treats his friends! Meanwhile the US has a second lapdog called Australia. Our world is getting smaller.
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  1190. Yes. We took back control to launder more money.
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  1191. So the Brexiters claimed that we would get rid of EU red tape and beurocracy. Pity they weren't required to explain what would replace it. Yet another own goal.
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  1192. We are paying for these Tory range wars, after some paid with their lives for government incompetence. The battle between a serial liar and a ittle spiv is armchair theatre.
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  1193.  @inthegym4679  agree with the last part. The Tories, in particular, wage an economic class war. Don't understand what you mean by "either side" though.
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  1194.  @pseudonayme7717  I don't doubt the level of neoliberalism worldwide. Yet leaving the SM and CU was an act of self-harm. We have exacerbated problems through it.
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  1195. Never, ever, pretend that America has real democracy. Money doesn't just matter more than votes; it buys them and reigns supreme.
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  1196.  @battybibliophile-Clare  I understand and feel the same, based on conviction. The dilemma is, anything but a tactical vote is wasted in our constituency (in our elective dictatorship) and I'll do whatever it takes to get these wazzocks out.
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  1197.  @jimmagspanton669  Which comment is that, Jim? Resorting to name calling is not only infantile, it devalues your argument.
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  1198.  @battybibliophile-Clare  I agree and would go as far as to say that our system is undemocratic, as all votes are not equal. What Lord Hailsham termed an elective dictatorship. We need electoral and parliamentary reform to deliver real democracy.
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  1199. President moron at it before he takes office. Hardly surprising for a narcissistic would-be dictator.
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  1200. ​ @edwardbernthal160 Dangerous to do that without scrutiny.
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  1201. ​ @DavidGraeberWasRight On which issues exactly? Yes, I admired David Graeber but are you suggesting voting Tory or for another alternative. Where are Labour to the right of this cabal?
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  1202.  @DavidGraeberWasRight  So, how is that to the right of the Tories? Starmer is a disappointment but in our constituency it's the choice of Tory or Tory light.
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  1203.  @thomassundling3423  respect to you, Sweden.
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  1204. The Tory cabinet: a triumph of arrogance over operational competence.
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  1205. Get ready for the Hunt and Fishy budget shit show. Austerity leads to economic decline, at a time when we are suffering a recession. Fishy the spiv will trot out something about making the hard decisions while screwing those who can least afford it. Enough is enough.
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  1206. A serial liar deliberately misleading parliament! Who would believe it? Let's spaff more public money to find out.
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  1207. ​ @Noel-ji8nm trolling again.
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  1208. When Johnson has finished trotting out his mechanical lies and is asked a single factual question, he refers it to his new spokesperson: Sue Gray. "What day is it, prime minister?" "Erm, ah, yes, ask Sue Gray." This serial wazzock has become an international joke of legend.
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  1209. Thankfully not all. It took only 43.6% of those who actually voted to give this shower of shite this level of power in our elective dictatorship
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  1210. Newsflash! If you reshuffle a pile of sh1t, you still end up with a pile of sh1t.
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  1211. Who would have thought that leaving the EU without a clear vision and a plan would cause this damage? The core question was always: leave and do what?
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  1212. Great video. Reality TV being an oxymoron and critical thinking replaced with mindless slogans and meaningless sound-bites, we sleepwalk into inane compliance in Tory Britain.
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  1213. Totally agree with your analysis. Individual (non-Tory) parties need to accept the possible and forget their individual pursuit of power. In campaigning, however, they should promote political reform. Not only PR but cleaning up standards (removing dark money and conflict of interest.) If people see unity in this area, they may start to believe that democracy can be delivered.
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  1214.  @micksmith1812  Troll alert. Noel is at it again. He has an infantile fascination with Starmer.
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  1215.  @badomen9057  And what are the Tories saying about Gaza? Nothing different from Starmer. I received a letter from the cabinet office, effectively excusing Israel and Sunak is failing to call them out. Vote Tory and you endorse more austerity and poverty. Haven't you seen enough over the past 13 years to prove their incompetence?
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  1216.  @DrMattiLabbratt  don't waste time with Noel the troll. Ask for his sources...
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  1217.  @DrMattiLabbratt  I agree with you and habitually check three points of reference myself. I have encountered Noel's trolling repeatedly in the past and have found that his points amount to fantasy when challenged. As for Starmer and the Saville incident, Full Fact explained the truth and even Johnson corrected the lie.
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  1218. PMQs is a farce, but Rayner nailed the useless moron. Raab does less damage on the beach
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  1219. If the MAGA crowd claim "moral integrity", you know they are sociopathic. Farage is the perfect speaker to promote bile and hatred to morons.
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  1220.  @zenster1097  only honest ones, if their rhetoric about a deterrent works.
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  1221. What are the Tories looking for? The unicorns promised by Brexiters? Moon dust? Magic powder? Support from brainwashed morons who could never vote for anyone else? After systematically destroying the country over the last 14 years, leaving the carcass for financial vultures to strip it, will they get what they deserve?
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  1222. He sells a few to idiots, then blames someone else when the wheels fall off. (Proof = Brexit)
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  1223. The Tories long to perpetuate the lie of trickle-down because it suits their richest backers. We need flow down for a strong economy with good public services.
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  1224. Hardly surprising as neoliberalism is exposed as a sham, after a pandemic and a crisis created by military invasion have made life impossible for many while the richest 1% get even richer.
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  1225. Just imagine the operational stupidity of completing Brexit during a pandemic! Who would do that and why?
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  1226. Corruption!! Look at the work of the Good Law Project and the amount of our taxes spent by the Tory government in defence of their corruption and cronyism. I applaud the fact that the EU is dealing with this.
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  1227. Wow! Rees Mogg has an easy ticket finding Brexit opportunities. Unfortunately most of them prove beneficial to EU countries.
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  1228. Johnson with a hairdryer; Trump with bleach. Now we know why they both appeal to idiots: they live with the same mindset.
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  1229. The idiocy of completing Brexit during a pandemic was obvious to anyone with the remotest sense of operational competence. Buffoon simply wanted to blame the pandemic for his disastrous "oven ready deal." Now, after 12 years of failed Tory austerity, we are facing austerity 2. Hunt and Little Spiv will tinker with tax and spend to placate the financial markets, while failing to invest in our infrastructure and with no plan for recovery. Enough is enough.
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  1230. Trickle Down: the reality being that wealth gushes up and drips down where they can't fix the cracks.
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  1231. That detail isn't necessary. Just fill it with three word slogans and the odd two word lie (e.g. levelling down) thrown in. (Sorry for the mistake. I added a true slogan in brackets)
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  1232. What kind of naive moron would believe the promises of a little spiv? The man who promised integrity and professionalism in politics is spouting at least as man lies in the House as Johnson.
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  1233. The Tories always dismantling industry. They prefer an economy based on dirty money and a lack of regulation for banking.
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  1234. Sunak conveniently dismisses as "opinion" the projections of the very body whose work he bases his budget on. Well, here's an opinion on his budget and the standard of Tory fiscal management. Choose any of the following words or phrases at your discretion: propaganda; incompetence; smoke and mirrors; oppression of the poor; low taxation for the rich; privatisation for funders' profit; sociopaths in suits; the great pretenders; debt followed by austerity. In short, abject incompetence.
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  1235. True: albeit the BofE is not technically independent. It has autonomy over interest rates.
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  1236.  @royboy4743  apologies
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  1237. The fact that Braverman is popular among Tory voters shows their psychological sickness. At least, as an incompetent and an aspiring fascist she fits in this cabinet.
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  1238. Ah! But we aspire to be Global Britain, not intergalactic Britain. I mean, just look at the success of British projects. Lol
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  1239. Don't expect a government led by slogans to have any plan. Get Brexit done (meant do it badly) Depending on media support means reaction to headlines and being seen to do something. Unfortunately always too little too late, and often the inappropriate thing.
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  1240. The truth is, we didn't vote for this Tory brexit. A small majority of people voted to leave the EU; then a minority (43.6%) of voters elected the Tories to "get brexit done." In consequence, Johnson got brexit half-done badly. Never trust a lying buffoon with a fake sledge hammer.
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  1241. If she is still being paid as an MP, that should be regarded as theft (or at least a breach of contract.) In what other line of work could you get away with this?
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  1242. We might move on when those who won, finally get over it and face reality.
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  1243. Don't worry! He will emphasise that he has a plan, and presumably the recession will be part of it. A cabal of incompetence led by a moron.
    2
  1244. I was once told that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I have now learned that the road to Dover is paved with vacuous lies.
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  1245. ​@SheilaBloom.Pathetic whataboutery. Please try harder.
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  1246. The Tories have one plan. It's called planned operational incompetence. React with too little, too late. Being seen to do something; never the right thing; never enough. Don't act in the best interests of society. Do whatever their string pullers and funders demand, to exacerbate inequality and gradually adopt fascism.
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  1247.  @mikemullen8174  all five! Is counting really your strong point? As I said, it depends where he ends up. He may disappear up his own orifice. My vote will be tactical, as I'm not inspired by a single policy from anyone. It's damage limitation imo.
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  1248.  @Lindafoy11  I agree and have said nothing different. I intend to hold my nose and vote tactically.
    2
  1249. When does Fartage sit in silence and wait his turn to speak? They obviously don't teach manners at private school. The charlatan is being exposed, piece by piece, while he farts through his mouth in the media.
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  1250.  @billpugh58  Not all. I know people who voted for other reasons. The majority, perhaps. Not all.
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  1251. She will certainly fail in any attempt to ration idiocy in her Tory cabinet.
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  1252.  @ellied.violet7372  good point. Perhaps even Johnson is incapable.
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  1253. Without the excessive self-promotion of a narcissist, and the compliance of the MSM, Farage would be as irrelevant as he deserves to be.
    2
  1254. Labour' s argument need not be about Brexit per se. More about the operational incompetence of completing Brexit during a pandemic and the fact that Johnson has got Brexit part-done and badly.
    2
  1255. Johnson will not solve the problem. It's of his own making, so he'll deny it and attempt to shift blame.
    2
  1256. He will undoubtedly get his hands slapped and will stay in power. How long did it drag on with Johnson? And still ongoing with Raab. This is the little Spiv who promised integrity, professionalism and accountability. The joke of the year is about to unfold. Tories take the p1ss while scoffing at us as taxpayers.
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  1257. Reform is a cesspit of recycled ideas from operationally clueless morons who appeal to idiots.
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  1258. Hall is a vacuous lunatic. The perfect Tory candidate.
    2
  1259. Loathsome clearly enjoying her sovereign tea, presumably as an antidote to magic mushrooms based on the crap she spouts.
    2
  1260.  @PeterPete  it's not one thing or the other, Pete it's taking responsibility in a managed and regulated way. Something this government either doesn't understand or is incapable of.
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  1261. @Daniel Wood listen again to the video. We made money out of hosting it and from participation
    2
  1262.  @jamescartwright2871  of course. We generally got good value from our EU contribution, as in the case of the EASA. Going it alone will cost us ten times more. Still looking forward to the red bus £350 million a week for the NHS?
    2
  1263. ​ @fitzstv8506 Full endorsement from me. You have raised the most important issue: we need PR
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  1264. He's not racist, he just cant stand foreigners. Nigel: the wazzock who appeals to idiots.
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  1265. Tory MPs see Johnson as a "tool" because that's what he is - a useless one.
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  1266. Conclusive proof that brexit is sh*t. As for writing to my Tory MP...no reply.
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  1267. Johnson knows so little about so much, it becomes obvious why he has a dumb-ass cabinet in permanent denial.
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  1268. The mental picture of hedge fund managers stealing our coconuts brought a wry smile. Until I saw its serious side. The hedge fund managers took a greater slice of GDP, then assets, then productive investment gave way to their speculation. They then took the food from our mouths and we were left with coconuts, and guess what?
    2
  1269. This government doesn't know its anus from its elbow, why would they know the likely date? Meanwhile they are Hellbent on destroying the country.
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  1270.  @PaulTalksGamesMags  I understand, and the only way for me to help get rid of them is to vote Labour in our constituency, after boundary changes. We need electoral reform to achieve real democracy.
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  1271.  @sparking2016  Thanks for telling me what I said. Clairvoyance is a skill. The word "just" meant it had gone beyond shame. Yet I doubt Labour's will and ambition. Being wedded to old tax and spend economics and a lack of ambition on tax justice ties one hand behind their back by imposing unnecessary financial constraints. Delivering growth is hard in the current international environment. No intention to deliver PR, apparently against the will of the membership. Voting for the lesser of two evils is my opinion, and I hope for a far better future for our grandchildren.
    2
  1272. A party intent on delivering public services through a privatised free market, while coincidentally taking donations from those same private companies is not only dubious, but is the absolute epitome of corruption. (Coincidentally that last word can't be used in parliament.)
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  1273. It's the season of goodwill, for all except the sociopathic Tory cabinet.
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  1274. ​ @a-c-carpentry Then why do you support them? Do you approve of the ECHR?
    2
  1275. I have yet to hear a brexiter owning their mistake. Even Foghorn Farage admitted it isn't working but then that's someone else's fault. There's a place for such treacherous cowards: the Tower of London.
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  1276. I agree. Yet accepting Tory fiscal rules is handcuffing government in sorting out the mess.
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  1277. Didn't hear him say "stop the super-yachts." Perhaps he would if some of the oligarchs offered to fund an asylum processing centre.
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  1278. Deform UK depend on their intellectually-challenged followers having "had enough of experts". It worked once (with Brexit) and now that's someone else's fault. The hallmark of a scammer.
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  1279. By due process, the Tories mean: we make it up as we go along.
    2
  1280. At least we have the comfort of seeing union flags at every government briefing. Who needs success when you can wave a flag and sing Rule Britannia? Who can comprehend the mindset of Little Englanders? The mindset that says, if someone else has a perceived problem it makes us feel better?
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  1281. Brexit is consistent with the ironic miracle of neoliberalism: where the poor vote for the rich to have more. Brexit was designed to ignite this fire: by dismantling protections of worker rights and product standards so the free market can rip. We can look forward to a low tax, poverty pay society, as was always intended by Johnson's verminous cabal.
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  1282. Yes, Mr George Useless, trading blocs have rules. Some even allow corporate courts. The world of reality presents a shock to brexiters and idiots.
    2
  1283. Tories don't do detail. They grandstand and spout vacuous rhetoric then blame someone else when things goes wrong. Thankfully (for them) the garbage media covers for them, so the issues remain while they go round in ever-decreasing circles.
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  1284.  @vladimirputin4822  Yes. And that was a fantasy. We always had control over our borders outside the EU. Freedom of movement applied only to the EU.
    2
  1285. Wow! More Brexit wins by the day...for the EU. Global Britain must be impressing our European neighbours.
    2
  1286. This b'stard should be in the Tower of London, as an example of how a self-interested traitor can bugger up a country.
    2
  1287. He throws so many people under the bus, he must be calling Stagecoach to bring more new buses.
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  1288.  @YouD0ntSay  Potentially Scotland, NI and Wales leaving the Union, thanks to Johnson's hubris and incompetence.
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  1289.  @Gary-bz1rf  you don't? His sums are accurate.
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  1290. You don't solve an immigration problem by failing to process applications and blaming the immigrants. You solve it by processing applications and returning "illegals" while letting the genuine applicants contribute to the economy. The opposite of what the Tories did.
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  1291.  @johnwormley5161  how can you say he is worse when not in power? I'm not a fan of Starmer but your reply lacks logic
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  1292. Uphold trial by jury. Ban trial by government.
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  1293. Henning is a class act.
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  1294. "Erm...the PM wasn't at the party; Raab wasn't at the party. The report of the party was hearsay." Perhaps it was attended by the ghosts of austerity and incompetence. Plenty of those in the Tory party.
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  1295. I also associated the two: both effective leaders and, sadly, the brutality of politics has taken its toll.
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  1296.  @petrovonoccymro9063  so Starmer was bluffing, and your knowledge exceeds his? As I said, we should be in the single market and the CU if that is the only option. Other countries have deals that were referenced in the campaign, yet we have ended up with the worst possible option.
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  1297.  @petrovonoccymro9063  then we agree. That's why we have the most dangerous and inept government in history. The hard right are pulling Johnson's strings.
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  1298. Brexiters in permanent denial. They denounced Project Fear and are now swallowing Project Reality. Britain is broken.
    2
  1299.  @garrywynne1218  I have read it. You seem to have misunderstood it, based on the media rhetoric. It is literally a means of triggering discussion to request perceived remedial action; and not a tool of threat.
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  1300. Most Scots have more sense than voting to Deform the UK.
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  1301. Johnson's cabal of charlatans did not stop at hiding the truth, they added new lies.
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  1302. Another "world beating" shitty little deal. Over promise and under deliver: the Tory method.
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  1303. Interesting perspective on unions. If unions focus, almost exclusively on workers' rights, and secondly on quality standards that benefit consumers, they are likely to get more members. Some are definitely turned off by the politicisation of unions, while the erosion of their rights is ignored. Good message: we need solidarity in the fight against Neoliberal oppression.
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  1304. Truss will keep repeating the lie that low taxation stimulates growth until at least a few idiots believe it and journalist continue to print it. She still lives under the delusion of Britannia Unchained. History proves the reverse. Starmer got it right: reheated George Osborne plans. Prepare for more Tory economic sadism.
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  1305. Deform UK Ltd talking about anything will be exposed as garbage when they face pushback and scrutiny from a competent journalist. Their "manifesto" was the ultimate in supporting the greatest lie in economics: neoliberalism and trickle down.
    2
  1306.  @peterebel7899  here you go again with your delusional statement. A minority-elected government in an elective dictatorship. Total garbage.
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  1307. The first qualification of a Brexiter is serial delusion. The second is hubris backed by minimal ability.
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  1308. Sunak is so desperate, he is using Cummings and courting Farage. What a trio of charlatans.
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  1309. But they are fraternal, according to Smogg. No rules apply to their fraternity. (Perhaps no women were allowed. Who knows?)
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  1310.  @omcg9086  ohhh yes!
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  1311.  @SlowhandGreg  I agree. No argument from me. I have a single example in this chain.
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  1312. When a brexiter claims a benefit, the act is best summarised in a single word: desperation.
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  1313. For the word "policy" read gaslighting. In the last 12 years the Tories had one policy: screw the public through austerity. Use words like efficiency to replace austerity and pretend that the minimum wage has become a living wage after a pittance of an increase. After the sham is exposed, use vacuous three word slogans instead of a policy statement and pretend that aspirations towards a failed ideology represents a working policy. This party of scum is a sham.
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  1314. ​ @Globaldave1970 Don't bank on it after the one-man-band has to face scrutiny.
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  1315. And we probably help by pumping sh1t in our waters.
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  1316. Perhaps the differentiator of whether we can see a specialist through self referral is whether we can pay for a private appointment. Labour should speak with GPs and consultant specialists before opening their mouths. Such crass stupidity must be pure gold for the Tories.
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  1317. Never worry; to the Brexit cultists these figures are wrong. They don't suit their warped ideology because we don't see what they see: the unicorns and the myths. Anyone with experience of negotiation will look for the weak points. So ask yourself: who is the desperate party?
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  1318. At least they are showing all of their world-beating qualities together: incompetence, arrogance, laziness, obfuscation, ineptitude... How can so many poor leadership qualities be held by so few? Some handpicked cabinet! An international joke.
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  1319. ​ @jimbob-robob  An unfortunate comparison, as the infantile parties sit in Downing Street
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  1320. The usual Tory ploy of being seen to do something is becoming so transparent that some are finally waking up to it. A minor miracle - even the media are reporting it.
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  1321. While not subscribing to our cap-doffing bullshit, I have deep admiration for the Queen's dedication to public service. As a democrat in recognition of that public service I would welcome a codified constitution and the installation of real democracy. Instead I suspect that the Tory cabinet will hide behind the publicity their malicious policies, some of which breach their 2019 election manifesto. Time, in recognition of and in respect to the monarch, to fix Britain instead of proving our country is broken. Some of us still live in hope.
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  1322.  @epilotdk  Sorry to hear that. Britain now has the double whammy of Brexit border checks, which depend on systems to avoid queues.
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  1323. She coauthored Britannia Unchained. One of the fanatical neoliberal crowd. But you can add Turnip Dom to that crowd. As for having the strength and capability to lead? So far she has proved to be an airhead.
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  1324. It was the only way he could get back on Question Time to feed his narcissism. At least if he gets in parliament, he would be made to look stupid on the few occasions he could be arsed to attend. (An assumption based on his record as an MEP.)
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  1325. A great idea. Imo electoral reform is the most important issue and needs to happen soonest. It's too easy to get hung up on which system rather than the simple principle of: do you agree with changing our electoral system so that all votes count equally? If a referendum is used to start things moving, such a simple question works best.
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  1326. Read Putin's People by Catherine Belton if you doubt how dangerous this moron is. As for the pretence of American democracy...
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  1327. Johnson is afraid of scrutiny: a sociopathic, narcissistic coward.
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  1328. In 2019 I saw three reasons why people vote Tory: self-interest or greed; intellectual laziness; or abject stupidity. Now, with this buffoon, we are left with only the last one - abject stupidity.
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  1329. A country run by bandits, applauded and supported by morons.
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  1330. The people who have made things "worth his while" (for Trump) are Russian oligarchs. Read Putin's People by Catherine Belton.
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  1331. The Tories keeping a straight face when pretending to be the party of economic competence is risible. Another day; more money spaffed.
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  1332. Undoubtedly Johnson is too busy "dealing with a war" by grabbing photo ops in Ukraine.
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  1333. Kwarteng and Truss put their names to a fantasy novel called Britannia Unchained. They then recklessly apply its vacuous nonsense. We all get poorer, except for the richest. Which is the sole intent of neoliberalism and its trickle down nonsense. All of this ultimately enabled by 43.6% of voters who were lied to.
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  1334. Tories: like rats in a sack.
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  1335. The Rwanda arrangement was a Johnson stunt that Sunak felt compelled to support. A stunt based on vacuous sophistry, involving squandering public money to finance a pretence.
    2
  1336. ​ @jamesberry5578 Now look at the number of seats by Greens and Lib Dems and the picture changes.
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  1337. ​ @jamesberry5578 the argument was not resolved with a choice between an elective dictatorship and a diluted pretence at PR.
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  1338. In which event Labour must implement PR, or the cycle of disasters will continue.
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  1339. Marmite is about right. Deform UK are toxic.
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  1340.  @johnrussell3961  Absolutely, businesses don't want disruption or red tape in the supply chain.
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  1341. It's nothing less than a cock-up. Alarm: a black hole! (ALLEGEDLY...) Who do we turn to to fill it? Not the wealthy; not profiteering energy companies; not by taxing investment income at the same rate as work income. No. Let's hit the pensioners. A black hole of 22 billion, now has an infill of 1.6 billion? Pathetic!
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  1342.  @markmerry1471  would that be the money wasted on test and trace and faulty PPE? Which money did they "give away." Don't mention selling gold; you will be walking into a trap.
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  1343.  @ogribiker8535  I'm not naive enough to credit such a master stroke without inside knowledge. Starmer really should grow some cajones.
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  1344.  @mrsthatcher9815  "gave away..." Who spaffed money on test and trace and faulty PPE?
    2
  1345. Sunak moves from one gimmick to another, knowing someone else will clear up the mess. Rishi has SunkUs.
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  1346. Deform UK: the limited company led by scammers. The "party" for the hard of thinking.
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  1347. They knew what they voted for. Yet we knew more because we listened to the experts while applying analytical thought. They won, yet haven't got over it.
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  1348. Tory government's default setting: corruption. What else should we expect?
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  1349. If these are teething problems, we must have more teeth than a shark. Consistent proof of the stupidity of completing Brexit during a pandemic. (other then to blame this crappy Brexit on the pandemic, of course.)
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  1350. Tory "truths" are becoming self-evident. The party of business - only the businesses of their donors. The party of low taxation - only in supporting tax mitigation for the very rich. The party of strong government - cowering to the richest and bullying the vulnerable after labelling them scroungers or misfits. Global Britain - the lapdog of the US in foreign policy; acting as Little England to become a sick joke on the international stage.
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  1351. A cynical ploy to make it harder to achieve closer union with the EU (or even rejoin). Will we capitulate on the use of corporate courts (a feature of the CPTPP)? So much for sovereignty, as we go cap in hand as the desperate party to trade with countries on the other side of the world. Is this really what Brexiters voted for?
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  1352. ​ @audreymcgready4329  Failing upwards like her predecessor. Wonder if he got there on his back or his front?
    2
  1353. Freedom of speech for them. Police incompetence if they oppose them. Remember the Farage Riots?
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  1354. Lord Gormless and Buffoon were always on thin ice. Now they are sinking. No credibility; bluster and bullshit. This is Little England pretending to be Global Britain.
    2
  1355. Give the guy a break! An entitled Tory can't rub along on an £85k annual salary. His boss is a little spiv, what else would we expect?
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  1356. Bring on the battle of egos. Keep the two narcissists preoccupied.
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  1357.  @trytellingthetruth.2068  relevance?
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  1358.  @trytellingthetruth.2068  More than double then? Wow! Also depends on reference points.
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  1359. Little Spiv (Sunak) has just rearranged turds from the same Tory cesspit. We still end up with a cabinet of sociopaths.
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  1360. No economic benefits...all about sovereignty. Don't recall seeing that on the side of a bus from the cesspit of charlatans.
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  1361.  @mattwilliams9758  The dilemma is that voting for a party supporting PR is considered a wasted vote, because the very system that would deliver real democracy works against them to ensure our elective dictatorship. The Tories and to a lesser extent Labour benefit from the status quo. If Labour genuinely cared about the country, they would support PR to show the Tory cabal as pariahs, and break their hold on oligarch-supported power.
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  1362. So, how is taking back control going, Rishi? Government by miscreants and charlatans is making us world beating on the comedy circuit.
    2
  1363. Never accuse the Tories of responsible government. They will maximise damage and shift blame for the sake of power.
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  1364. After speaking his one and only truth, Johnson has Lord Gormless (Frost) threatening to cock up the trading arrangement.
    2
  1365.  @rocketsurgeon2135  you have just explained why we need real democracy. Wales and Scotland have a diluted form of PR. England will remain as the stick in the mud until the electorate demand reform. Don't make excuses...your rockets won't fly.
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  1366. But surely Sunak mentioned that he has a plan. Noone asks him what the plan is. On recent results, presumably to drive the country into oblivion, after he and the financial vultures have picked the carcass.
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  1367. What a shame, Nigel. Donald wanted his mini-me there, and not his "close friend". Boris is fun. You are a serial whinger. Yes, Boris was a sh1t leader. But you are an aspiring sh1t leader. Trump will make America (not so) great again. Whereas you intend to deform the UK.
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  1368. Many of us living in the UK are amazed at the mindset of our dumbed down population, exploited by a system that allows a minority (43.6% of verified votes) to return an 80 seat parliamentary majority and thus allow this madness.
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  1369. Didn't Dom say it from his deckchair?
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  1370. They needed us more than we needed them and everyone would rush to deal with global Britain. Anyone saying otherwise was a "Remoaner" engaging in "project fear." Now we have the greatest act of self harm in modern history.
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  1371. Welcome to Project Reality, where we have become the desparate party in negotiations after leaving the world's largest trading bloc. Who could possibly have seen that coming?
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  1372. Phil is one of the good ones. Max Robespierre, Owen Jones and the weekly Truth to Power channel are other good sources.
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  1373. If we held all the cards, how badly have we handled negotiations?
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  1374. Farage is a publicity machine that appeals to the hard of thinking or idiots.
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  1375.  @markwelch3564  I respect your opinion, Mark. For me, "perfect be[ing] the enemy of the good" is a cliche for accepting the status quo when we need change to deliver democracy. Britain started on that road many years ago, went so far, then gave up. We have taken second or third best far too long.
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  1376. ​ @grahambretman4010 Noel is a bot
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  1377. Cummings, the man who couldn't find his way to Specsavers, trusted by a sociopathic buffoon to act as his overlord. With power should come responsibility and accountability. Just watch these sociopathic incompetents escape.
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  1378. I struggle to even imagine what the mainstream media would say if Labour were presiding over such a mess. After a decade of austerity, we had a half-baked brexit completed during a pandemic, money spaffed on faulty PPE and a non-existent test and trace system, serial rule-breaking, sleaze and lying, regressively worse leaders, fantasy economics embodied in a mini-budget crashing the pound, more bale-outs from the Bank of England adding to the national debt. Now we are left with a traditional austerity-loving Tory taking power over our finances, after previously buggering up the NHS and working towards its privatisation. Just image the shower of shit falling on Labour from the mainstream media. The Tories have shown their operational incompetence from a gang of sociopaths.
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  1379. Advice given by one dangerous raving fascist lunatic to another. Clacton must be a boring and lonely place...
    1
  1380. At least Johnson is consistent. Getting Brexit done BADLY...no planning and preparation. Denying the border between GB and NI, then signing an agreement to acknowledge it, yet failing to implement the necessary checks. More than a year to prepare in Afghanistan - again no preparation and planning. We have become an international joke through his ineptitude...the result of voting for a caricature populist. The Tories care only about power, so they can line the pockets of their sponsors and themselves.
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  1381. Wow! A miscalculation from Mad Vlad? Does he even know how many Russian soldiers it takes to change a lightbulb?
    1
  1382. Theresa May was really strong and stable if compared with Johnson's "Lithium 12" cabinet. Hard to even imagine anything worse. But hush my mouth, the Tories will probably find it...one challenge they can actually rise to.
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  1383. It also appears that the Labour motion demanded an immediate of return of hostages held by Hamas. What about the return of those held by Israel? Some accused of being terrorists without credible evidence. We defer to Israeli propaganda and paranoia without balance. The SNP motion was simple, direct and unambiguous...a good starting point after debate.
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  1384.  @alanbarker2279  Absolutely, I realise that but Cameron and all leaders agreed to respect the vote without condition - even though electoral rules were broken. Cameron did a half-baked job then sold out.
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  1385.  @atomiccritter6492  look a bit further and you will see the direct relationship.
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  1386.  @nickedwards2904  how was the single market not free? Free from tariffs and paperwork. Free movement of people.
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  1387.  @nickedwards2904  a question of cost/benefit. Most economists think we got good value. Now we are paying sweeteners to companies to stay, and staffing money on dodgy contracts to Tory donors. It's called engineering opinion by revealing selective facts. After painting false claims on the brexit bus.
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  1388.  @nickedwards2904  then perhaps you will be pleased that this unproven rhetoric has prevailed and we have taken back control to show that project fear is actually Project Fact. "ripping us off" with a funding formula that was consistent and we were too dumb to question? Too late now, insanity has prevailed and we have got Brexit part-dome BADLY.
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  1389. Thought we had the aliens in government?
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  1390. OMG! I don't recognise this prat on the background image without his high vis jacket.
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  1391. A government obsessed with small state and a cheerleader for rampant profiteering. Joining the dots, bankers' kids will get the best education after the bonus cap is removed.
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  1392. Truss' lunacy amounted to: the woke and the left present dangers to society, and I aspire to fascism. Where have we seen the identification of a common enemy to gain power? Any takers...
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  1393. I suspect kickbacks from constituents to Tory MPs. We got the party line in response from our local (regrettably Tory) MP after pointing out the dictatorial standpoint of the government. I'd like to think this has happened in other constituencies and both comments and pressure group petitions have made Sunak think twice.
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  1394. The Tories must have been used to Leeanderthal saying something stupid. This time he said something stupid and racist, causing mayhem for the party of populist misfits.
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  1395. Amazing that the words Project Fear don't crop up so much after Operation Yellowhammer .
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  1396. Keep repeating the accusation that Farage is a fake patriot. The best way to call out his flag-shagging zombie followers. Deform UK are charlatans.
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  1397. Oops! said Buffoon. Someone found the note and they could even read my writing.
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  1398. Who would have trusted these wazzocks to take back control? Working out well isn't it?
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  1399. The Tories are the party of environmental sh1t. Air pollution, forget it; rules on building in protected areas to mitigate water pollution, ripped up. Live for profit; die in filth. Let's see some honesty in campaign slogans
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  1400. Well, he did join the party of populist frauds. Led by the ultimate charlatan.
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  1401. OMG! The headline picture of that odious little git speaks of headbanger. Time for new year fun?
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  1402. To me, this is more than a comms problem, it's a lack of vision and bottle. Who set the alleged "fiscal rules"? The Tories. Sunak and co are leading Labour by the nose. The simple response to Tory scaremongering: really! Why would you listen to the government that spaffed over £100 billion? Labour should ditch the BofE austerity mentality of Reeves and listen to modern economists on tax justice and MMT. The present definition of "borrowing" and "debt" is a fallacy designed to keep bankers in control while spreading fear so the many can have less and the rich can have ever more. Time for Starmer and co to grow some cajones.
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  1403. Why should they worry? Their deputy party chairman can help them budget. He knows the true value of 30 pence. Hypocritical wazzocks.
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  1404. Global Britain is officially a laughing stock. Do we hold a strong negotiating position?
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  1405. Don't forget your red briefcase when performing a quick exit, stage right, Rishi. His appeal is that of a spinless snivelling coward. Just what the Tories need.
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  1406. Their last term resulted in sh1t in rivers. Their next would mean sh1t in the streets.
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  1407. The Tories keep recycling their personnel, only to show that after 13 years of economic and operational incompetence, they cling to the same excuses and lies.
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  1408. Sir Starmer succumbing to populism. More Tory light rhetoric.
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  1409. ​ @JohnSmall314  what narrow minded twaddle. Corbyn would have stopped dirty Russian money whereas the Tories were dragged kicking and screaming to make a pathetic attempt and acted too late. You choose to ignore economic policy and the brexit disaster in your comment. This is not kindergarten war games - this is Tory government fascism in action.
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  1410. Reform UK through propaganda. Deform UK through policies. The essence of scammers in action.
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  1411. Wow! You have to admire the level of British journalism. The Express must be the go-to comic for the foolish or intellectually lazy.
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  1412. Another week; another Tory scandal. Never have a I known a government so mired in corruption and full of hubris that many accept their behaviour as normality. Our government positively reeks of corruption. Calling them Tory scum was the understatement of the decade. Yet still a complicit media protect them. Our country is F.U.B.A.R (fkd up beyond all recognition.)
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  1413. On the one hand, disappointing that the EU backed off; on the other, they are the honourable party that rises above Johnson's and Frost's petty antics.
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  1414. ​ @bernardm2528 Which polls? Trump will bring him down.
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  1415. Johnson and his cabal have always used fascist methods. Hardly surprising that they crave dictatorial power.
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  1416. Forgive my despondency, but there is little cause for celebration. Every day the Tories stay in power, Labour chooses to water down any ambition for recovery and transformation. Meanwhile the Tories have changed electoral boundaries and introduced voter ID. Their use of social media to game the lack of voting regulation will undoubtedly be dirtier than in 2019 (remember the fake "fact site"?) Our parliamentary and electoral rules are based on the "good chap" principle, and anyone believing that this cabal of charlatans and chancers qualifies, needs to arrange a visit to the psychologist.
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  1417. It seems that by staying bland, Starmer is on a winner. Sunak keeps repeating a lie, hoping it becomes truth. Farage does what fascists do: keeps appealing to the desperate with false solutions, while picking their pockets. Other parties are available; thankfully towards the left of the loons.
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  1418. The term "elective dictatorship," originally coined by Lord Hailsham, has proven to be more poignant over the last 13 years: votes being unequal; liars not forced to correct the record; ministers surviving corruption; the ability to turn motions into toothless acts before they are put to a vote. A complete lack of effective scrutiny. Parliament is unfit for purpose.
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  1419. Yet, perhaps it takes a conwoman to call out a serial conman.
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  1420. It's baffling. One of the miracles of neoliberal economics and the trickle down lie, which persuaded the poor to vote for the rich to have more. The miracle is, the Tories have the worse economic record.
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  1421.  @ianrogerburton1670  all of which was a lie.
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  1422.  @tomfinney3416  Yes, manufactured consent has a lot to do with it. A media propping up incompetence and distorting reality instead of holding the government to account.
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  1423. ​ @AlienatedNortherner And where is the risk of that? The fascists are backed by a complicit media.
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  1424. Yes. The wonder of neoliberal and media brainwashing is, it persuades the poor to vote for the rich to have more.
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  1425. Well, at least the poor victims would be identifiable. Tw*ts in hats; the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.
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  1426. Not just Tory scum; but Tory scum with weak leadership.
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  1427. Don't worry, Rees Mogg listens only to Sun readers. The Brexiters told us that experts spouted Project Fear. Look where that got us.
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  1428. Leave blocking to the DUP. You can always depend on bigots and dinosaurs.
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  1429. The Tories simply must pick fights: divide and rule is in their DNA
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  1430. That's such a disappointment. I was hoping that Foghorn would have to bugger off. Still, they would stream him on one of the TV channels for idiots.
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  1431. The Tories are revolting. But then many of us knew that decades ago.
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  1432.  @alanmarr3323  got me there. I was lying like Johnson
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  1433.  @prout7569  really! If people take offered jobs they are not stealing. Now we have admitting the mistake by offering 5000 visas. How many takers?
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  1434.  @prout7569  Corbyn spoke against the illegal exploitation of freedom of movement, not FoM per se. I agree about Starmer, but am more concerned about the present: a cabinet of morons led by a buffoon.
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  1435.  @smokego4808  you think that was a benefit of brexit? Tell that to the nurses. Demand exceeds supply, price of labour goes up, costs go up, prices of goods go up. Inflation affects everyone, including those on poverty pay and those getting.a below inflation rise. Is that really a benefit or a poor consequence?
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  1436.  @smokego4808  which businesses have moved from Ireland to the UK? Many have opened branches in EU countries. We have lost £600 million a week since the referendum, from analyses by Goldman Sachs. Our exports to the EU have reduced while imports have increased. Another own goal exposed.
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  1437.  @smokego4808  think you will find that's part of a G7 arrangement on minimum corp tax levels and nothing to do with Brexit. The balance sheet of "Brexit benefits" is heavily in deficit.
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  1438.  @smokego4808  ps the only change specifically for Brexit is not being able to claim relief on interest paid to banks or stock exchanges etc in the UK. The rest is about the G7 deal. Set against that NI are buying more from Ireland and.less from the UK. Brexshit.is costing us dearly!
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  1439.  @smokego4808  but the the UK is and the EU has accepted the same tax arrangements. I've explained the only reported Irish tax arrangement directly attributable to Brexit. Where are the others?
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  1440.  @smokego4808  ps. The G7 (Minimum 15% corp tax) is now approved by OECD and Ireland is about to adopt it in any event. I'm curious to know why you think we will benefit through tax from Brexit, especially when we have failed to implement border controls and HMRC say this had cost £800 million in lost revenue over a period of a few months.
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  1441.  @smokego4808  so, Smoke, how many such companies are there? How will they account for it? And how much will go the other way in the reverse scenario? Only a benefit if we gain more than we lose. Also where did you get this information? Do you think it changed when we became a third country? Or as part of Sunak's agreement with G7? So far the balance sheet is massively against Brexit. We are losing on import duty and in the balance of trade. In financial terms, Brexit is a disaster.
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  1442.  @smokego4808  before I elaborate, what are your sources? The only changes affected by Brexit that I can find are about VAT on exports - something entirely different.
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  1443. The government creates an alternative universe because they can't admit the reality of this one. Britain is screwed.
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  1444.  @Noel-ji8nm  Just seen the childish insult from your troll account. More Twaddle Without Any Thought
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  1445. Why expect a Reform supporter to look at Full Fact when they live in a world of fantasy and do little more than shout and whinge from the sidelines?
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  1446. The perceived problem of immigration is manufactured: by the right wing press, the Tories and Reform in parliament constantly bleating about it while not processing applications and letting the problem grow. Neither parliament nor the media are fit for purpose and both need reforming.
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  1447. Reform is obsessed with immigration. Somehow I'm more concerned with the traitors who sold off our assets to foreign companies. We all have our bugbears...
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  1448. If you doubt that our political system is broken and that British democracy is a fallacy, just check whether these words from a novel resonate with you. This is a spoken by a powerful string-puller: "Those of us who control public opinion have a special part to play in bringing the nation back to its senses."
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  1449. Sunak is so obsessed with "the people's priorities" that he shows the hallmark of dictatorship. Tell the people what they should want and pretend to deliver it.
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  1450. Sunak has been very helpful...to the other parties. Making five pledges and telling us they are our priorities. Failing to deliver on any of them. Spinning lies about the cause of inflation and imposing poverty in pretence of a cure. Hiding from scrutiny in favour of photo ops where he can parrot his five pledges. That's leadership for you.
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  1451. The Tories are fake patriots. They don't give a shiny sh1t about the country. They are interested only in power and control, to benefit the 1%. If Labour don't implement a form of PR, we will see the Tory disaster repeated in another five years because of the time it will take to clear the mess. This is a financial class war and I also have doubts about Sir Starmer.
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  1452. Clarkson is the ultimate gammon with a platform for his prejudice and ignorance. The "benefits" of populism personified.
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  1453. "a government of empty-headed sychophants." Perfect description. The most vacuous prime minister in recent history with a cabal of incompetent sociopaths. Supported by a Brexit supporting media, intent on hiding its lies and mistakes.
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  1454. ​ @jimmagspanton669  Think the INTERNATIONAL BANKING CRASH had something to do with leaving us busted. Keep spreading Tory bollocks if you want to raise a laugh.
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  1455. When rhetoric and bigotry trump logic and common sense, this is what we get. Welcome to the Brexit shit-show.
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  1456. So much of our mainstream media is laughable to anyone with an enquiring mind, but serious when you consider that the majority just swallow it and don't think critically.
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  1457. So much of this activity already exposed by the Good Law Project. The homework is easy: read Bringing Down Goliath.
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  1458. If only we had real democracy instead of an elective dictatorship.
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  1459. Johnson was allowed to spout slogans without being questioned on policy by the oligarch media. Today I read news of the difference in average life expectancy between Blackpool and Kensington & Chelsea. The difference is 27 years. Levelling up has some way to go. Meanwhile Johnson and his cabal continue levelling down.
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  1460. The Tories already have a strategy: Make excuses; deflect blame; and spin fantasy about their hypothetical achievements. And some will be stupid enough to fall for it.
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  1461. @bob ross problems getting fuel and also some goods ... Having to accept substitutes is common
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  1462. Little Spiv could qualify as a comedy act. Unfortunately, we bear the brunt of his incompetence and the joke is on us, the voters.
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  1463. So here we have an ex-banker with a financial interest in health, who as health secretary put the squeeze on NHS pay through his letter of instruction to the pay review body. This fine specimen of Tory Britain is hopefully giving a master class in how to lose an election. I haven't had enough of the Tories, I've had more than enough of the Tories. They have consistently buggered up our country for the many. They should be consigned to the chopping block of history.
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  1464. You can safely stop at Sunak evades questions... When has he answered one?
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  1465. Sunak is so divorced from reality, he doesn't stop at misleading parliament, he spins alternative reality. Not just Tory scum; Tory incompetent scum.
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  1466. The Tories and cult brexiters have one thing in common: the arrogance to believe that they didn't do the stupid things badly enough.
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  1467. Hardly surprising that an aspiring fascist took office because the hard right know how to appeal to idiots. The despicable part? The number of oligarchs and leaders who suck up to the narcissistic criminal with an ego the size of the universe but a competence level below Musk's on video games.
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  1468. The fact that he felt it necessary to say this to an international gathering makes Britain more than a laughing stock. Johnson is a disaster on legs.
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  1469. The Tories perpetually turn a drama into a crisis. They create the drama by spaffing public money, while we suffer the crisis.
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  1470. The longer the Tories remain in power, the more promises Labour will water down or the more they will pander to neoliberal values. Add to that the dirty tricks from Tories...who knows?
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  1471. It's around a 100 times easier to appeal to prejudice than to persuade with logic. Enter the populists from Reform, whose skill set os appealing to idiots.
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  1472. Brainless Tory MPs appeal to idiots in the electorate through sloganising populism. Which is why they are good at campaigning. Their default setting is to appeal to greed and use fear.
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  1473. I'm sure her inter-personal skills would have gone down well at McDonald's
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  1474. It appears that Johnson's abject incompetence and serial lies are his good points if compared to his corrupt practices and dodgy connections. This buffoon is a clear and present danger. The worst prime minister in modern history.
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  1475. The problem with the hard-of-thinking is, they will cheer on Fartage for hurting others more, while they suffer the pain he causes. Farage is NOT a man of the people. Learn about his past.
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  1476. What a difference a day makes: during the morning, Shapps is spouting rubbish to excuse refusing visas. Later, during the same day, Buffoon gives in. Meanwhile the most objectionable politician - also known as Priti Shitty - removes.her objection. The most inept and incompetent government in history.
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  1477. Johnson is (and has always been while PM) a narcissist. He cares only about his popularity, assessed by media reports and fuelled by habitual photo ops. The worst possible leader at the worst possible time.
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  1478. If Johnson is shown to have misled parliament (either inadvertently or deliberately) after full facts are revealed, then refuses to correct the record. Who can kick him out after breaching rules? Therein lies the problem with our shit-show masquerading as democracy.
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  1479. Farage and Lowe. The battle of two turds, unsuccessfully attempting to unblock a progressively filling loo, while turning the country into a cesspit.
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  1480. There is one common characteristic of our trade deals: we are the desparate party. A delusional and incompetent government.
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  1481. The UK government is making Project Fear a reality of life. When leaving a trading arrangement after four decades and trusting the free market to sort itself out, this is what we get. Britain is broken.
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  1482. The difference is: Johnson misled the House. Enough is enough.
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  1483.  @ricardosmythe2548  so what? Should Sovereign Britain do the same? Or will hard Brexiters excuse this government of charlatans for breaking their promise?
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  1484.  @truth2power  indeed. They make a strong case for nationalisation of key resources.
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  1485.  @Jonnythebaker  don't know. The gold reserve was abandoned by the US under tricky Dickie, we followed suit. Fiat currency dates back to 1000AD in China. It changes the landscape of economics because tax and spend (as extolled by Thatcher) is an outdated concept.
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  1486.  @JoolsTwo  he was asleep on the front bench when the stats were released.
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  1487. Suspect they would rather let us starve and blame the EU.
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  1488. Farage is the classic heckler who the desperate and hard-of-thinking turn to. Carping from the sidelines, shifting blame and promising the earth. Put him under scrutiny and he falls apart. Every party he has formed, has fallen apart. Every cause he supports is poison, yet the result is someone else's fault. It takes propaganda by a complicit media to run his scam and dark money to support it. Ban second jobs for MPs and Nigel may well disappear.
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  1489. A channel for idiots funded by oligarchs.
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  1490. Johnson's plans are half as cunning as Baldrick's and twice as vacuous.
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  1491. Amazing that HMRC will negotiate with tax Dodgers, then come to an arrangement. Would they do that for poorer people? Or will they repay a penalty for their cock-ups to people on PAYE? So many "honest mistakes" from the rich and powerful. One would suspect that we should question their competence and ban them from public office... (Don't hold your breath.)
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  1492. The Tories are divided but won't let that blow their chance of power (unlike Labour under Jeremy C.) I read of a think tank named Bright Blue actually suggesting a minimum income to replace the creaking benefits system, then found from their Website that they are against neoliberalism. Unfortunately those paying most to the piper are calling the tune.
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  1493. Not a pretty sight. Well done in sabotaging the channel for idiots.
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  1494. ​ @Noel-ji8nm  Is that a rhetorical question? Baroness Warsi explained it in her attack on Braverman.
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  1495. With Gove, we have to wonder which of his statements are coke-fuelled fantasy or slippery obfuscation. As for truth and accountability: forget it. Not just Tory scum; Tory lying scum.
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  1496. After reading an informed commentary about Sue Gray, Johnson has put an able civil servant in an impossible position. This infantile buffoon will throw anyone under the bus. He has a bucket of whitewash ready, before her report is released. Britain is broken.
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  1497. The thing about the modern Tories, at least since the brexit vote, is that when you have turds in a cesspit, whoever rises to the top will be just another turd.
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  1498. If Braverman resigns, who next? I thought they couldn't find anyone worse than Priti Shitty then along came this Tory excrement.
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  1499.  @stephenisom6089  and the comparable shortages in other countries? Zero or minimal. Wonder why? Check out the word exacerbation. Brexit is such a good example, it could be used in the Oxford English Dictionary description.
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  1500.  @stephenisom6089  I listen to people who live there: three EU countries. Thought "remoaner" had gone out of fashion after Project Fear was confirmed as Project Reality. As for misfits: they are now the majority after polls confirmed that 59% think we should rejoin. Just a polite suggestion to change your rhetoric.
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  1501. How many splinter groups are there? New Conservatives; Real Conservatives: Desperate Conservatives. Then we have the Thoughtless Tanks and SPADS propping them up. Has anyone done an efficiency study? The party is just an expensive waste of oxygen.
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  1502.  @f.zijlstra9195  agree about the electorate. The opposition can remind the speaker to demand that the record is corrected, as proven lies are regularly repeated. Noone pushes the procedure to its limits, to show how unfit this charlatan is for office, and to continually remind the public what 43.6% of voters supported.
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  1503.  @AaronOkeanos  Being a vote winner is not the question. Would it be a vote loser? If it's presented correctly, such as reforming our system of governance to clean up standards and make all votes count equally, how would that turn people off? As for the second term, that's not a certainty. Unfortunately, nor is any promise of Starmer's. Jam tomorrow doesn't cut it.
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  1504. Thought serial lying was part of his job description. Tory turds have cost us dear.
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  1505. To get rid of the worst possible government at the worst possible time, the fight should be on corruption. Cleaning up behavioural standards, making parliament fit for purpose and replacing our elective dictatorship with a democratic voting system. There is so much evidence of Tory tampering and corruption to bring to a campaign. Britain is broken.
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  1506. Why has Farage never won a parliamentary seat? Because he's marmite. Why does Farage succeed as a serial moaner with false solutions? Because he knows how to appeal to the gullible and to idiots.
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  1507.  @howler6490  as the minister with sociopathic disorders, Patel sets the policies and carries ultimate responsibility. The last word being omitted from Tory vocabulary.
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  1508. Although I love Britain, I have felt more shame than pride for many years. Now, through wholesale corruption in our populist government, we have reached the level of depravity. Britain is broken.
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  1509. The danger with smart technology being proposed by dumb wazzocks is that it never offers an appropriate solution.
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  1510. Now we all pay for their stupidity: supporting a cabal of disaster capitalists promoting the greatest act of self-harm in my lifetime.
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  1511. The Farage factor is a sign of desperation. The party with an aspirational name, in reality a limited company, that would make life harder for all except the 1%. Farage hailed the Liz Truss budget as the best Conservative budget since 1986. A neoliberal snake, either clueless on economics or just running another scam.
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  1512. I sometimes wonder if it's planned operational incompetence. Talking about sticking to the plan, when noone asks them to explain said plan. Here is my guess at the Tories 10 point plan: 1) create a problem 2) show surprise and implement a "solution" to make it worse 3) blame...lefty lawyers, the wokeratery, the EU, the victims themselves, the opposition, civil servants... 4) deny any and all responsibility 5) spaff lots of public money to your mates on a new "solution" 6) repeat step 5 as often as you can get away with it 7) start a smear campaign as a diversion 8) make this matter an absolute priority, making a solemn pledge, diverting attention while the country is going to rack and ruin. 9) hide in a bunker while milking more public money 10) bugger up something else to divert attention ad repeat the entire process.
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  1513. Habib is one of the most repulsive morons in politics. Yet he gets the same disproportionate media time as the rest of the vacuous party / limited company (laughingly known as Reform)
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  1514. ​ @Noel-ji8nm hello, troll
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  1515. ​ @Globaldave1970 Did you learn that reaction in the school playground?
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  1516. Welcome to a Tory contrived, fascist Police state. Global Britain behaving like Little England. Small minds and loud voices: a dangerous combination.
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  1517. The Tories are making a different kind of preparation by throwing more money at a campaign of lies. Last Monday (20 Nov) they passed a change by statutory instrument: increasing the general election spending cap from £19.5 million to £35 million, as well as increasing the donations declaration level from £7500 to £11180. Never underestimate the dirty tricks of Tory scum.
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  1518. Don't expect this Tory government to have a plan or a strategy (at least until it comes to electioneering.) They operate on whim and laughing gas.
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  1519. Don't panic! Johnson has taken back control. British sovereignty is now being handed to a kangaroo court.
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  1520. The question is not whether Johnson is a serial liar; it's just a question of who he lied to. He said there was no trade border in the Irish Sea then signed an agreement to implement one but failed to do so. Was he lying to the electorate or to the E? If the latter and the EU continues to act as the only adults, Joe Biden and other potential trade partners will be taking careful note. Buffoon has made us an international laughing stock.
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  1521. Remembering that Cameron failed to implement Leveson, who knows the consequences? The oligarch media is a sham, constantly manufacturing consent.
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  1522. They probably follow the publicity dynamics, so Farage becomes an obsession while their half-sensible voters would vote Lib Dem. Note: I have assumed that no sensible voters would entertain the Tories.
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  1523. Vive la Macron. The alternatives of the far right are unbearable.
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  1524. The Tories are refining what they already do. The Russia Report was informative. A social media campaign targeted red wall seats at the last election, ramped up a week before polling date so the fake posts would not be taken down. Policing of the electoral system is fragmented, and the Tories have apparently diminished the (already inadequate) powers of the Electoral Commission. Never trust a Tory.
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  1525. Proof that our parliamentary system is unfit for purpose. Not allowed to call out a lie. Yet a proven inaccuracy or deliberate lie need not be corrected for the record. Tell a blatant lie and redress is voluntary. Even a serial liar must be addressed as "the right honourable..." A perfect system for spivs and charlatans.
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  1526. The Tories may allow sh1t in our rivers, but at least they recycle crap in the cabinet.
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  1527. There was never an economic argument for Brexit, except for the disaster capitalists relegating us to Singapore on Thames.
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  1528. Ultimate confidence is built by government investment. The strength of the dollar reflects Biden's green funding and economic stimulus. Whereas Truss is borrowing to protect corporate profits. Where is the investment in British infrastructure? Begging corporations to invest instead of paying more to execs and shareholders has failed us, yet the Tories keep up the same bullshit rhetoric.
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  1529. The biggest con in recent history and still people defend it without fact. It seems that a significant proportion of the population think in slogans and readily accept them.
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  1530. So arrogant and entitled: all faults are to be owned by others. Look who 43.6% of voters elected...
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  1531. Led by a madman us an accurate analysis, Phil. Johnson is not only pis**d with power, he can't even recognise anyone or anything that fails to support his ego. Unfortunately we have an undemocratic system that allows him.
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  1532. This man has been spoiled beyond sanity, reared as an entitled narcissist and rewarded for his sociopathy. Johnson has consistently been promoted beyond his competence levels, then either sacked or prosecuted, only to move on to increase his earnings and fleece the taxpayer or anyone stupid enough to pay for his extravagant lifestyle. He probably feels cheated and expects pity, as a true sociopath would.
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  1533.  @colinsixhitter3303  true. But then Blair was also a neoliberal.
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  1534. Johnson is living proof of Chomsky and Herman's model of manufacturing consent. Who else would he write for but a Tory shit-rag?
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  1535.  @piccalillipit9211  spot on!
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  1536. Hard to underestimate Reform's votes when they capture so much media coverage. Yet Farage is like marmite: for every supporter he gets at least on hater. The Republican MP for Clacton is hardly seen in his constituency.
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  1537. Hold the hearing in the Tower of London so the bugger can be locked up afterwards. This buffoon has caused more damage to our country than could be imagined.
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  1538.  @Proudenglishperson  work it out. Or is that expecting too much from a pseudonym troll who can't spell?
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  1539. Just to explain, for the benefit of the terminally stupid in the cabinet and the deluded or stupid who support them. The vaccine has not broken the link between infection and death unless it is 109% effective. Otherwise, at best, it has weakened the link.
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  1540. The real intention of neoliberalism was to persuade the poor to vote for the rich to have more. The greedy b'stards obviously need more, so guess who will suffer... This is the result of voting for Tory scum.
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  1541. This morning the BBC reported that we have allowed 50 visas to Ukrainians. That's some triumph for the psychopathic Priti Shitty and our vacuous sociopathic government.
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  1542.  @oisnowy5368  I suspect that you have a point. I'm far from reassured by Labour's constant infighting and see no evidence of them supporting electoral reform. Britain is broken.
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  1543. But in Lady Penny's defence, just imagine if she needed to blow her nose while carrying that toy sword.
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  1544. A shortlist of two turds floating in a cesspit.
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  1545. And implement PR so they don't get back.
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  1546. Then implement PR so they can't escape
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  1547.  @MercenaryPen  if you can't see a difference, don't vote or spoil a ballot paper. At the last election we had very different options, but 43.6% of voters supported a serial liar with a three-word manifesto.
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  1548. Surprised they can read his writing, lol. Latin scribble? And they claimed Jeremy Corbyn was a risk. Johnson was always a clear and present danger, in more ways than one.
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  1549. Boris Johnson is not a leader. He's an actor in a bad play. Always seeking photo ops to be front and centre. Hiding in a fridge instead of facing scrutiny. Incapable of understanding detail to form effective strategic policies. Evasive when faced with hard questions and continually shifting blame because of his cowardice. An inflated sense of entitlement fuelled by self obsession. The worst possible leader at the worst possible time.
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  1550. Anything that p1sses off the media oligarchs, the Tories and the clowns in Reform has a golden starter for ten imo.
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  1551. Does anyone remember Project Fear?
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  1552. ​ @charlesjames1442 Only positive effects from leaving FB imo
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  1553. Yes. But they never had a mandate, with minority support from 43.6% of voters. Their recklessness is enabled ultimately by an elective dictatorship. We need real democracy.
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  1554. To put it in perspective, we are a piddling little island that has sold off most of its assets to the highest bidder. Now we are left with sovereignty: hardly a commercial asset in world trade; and a vacuous concept when we are prepared to cede power to corporate courts to get international deals. Johnson's sovereignty involves reducing our food standards and diminishing workers rights. That's how much the majority will benefit from his jingoistic promises.
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  1555. The Met finally awakens after the Good Law Project threaten action against them. Now Sue Gray's report could prejudice their investigation. Presumably an admission that they are prone to short cuts and won't investigate fully.
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  1556. Joe Biden has exposed the elephant in the room. At last someone has spoken out. We, on the other hand, have two serial fantasists who authored Britannia Unchained - lauding the unregulated free market that has fulfilled its objective of increasing inequality. Trickle Down economics is the practice whereby wealth gushes up and drips down where they can't fix the leaks. Britain is an international joke.
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  1557. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) explains how a sovereign nation can create new money and cannot become bankrupt. Unfortunately we have created new money (through quantitative easing) on three occasions to fill holes from disasters (the banking crash; covid and Trussonomics). Just imagine where we would be if such new money had been created to invest in services and infrastructure. Be bold! Prioritise services and infrastructure over financialisation.
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  1558.  @mickeencrua  which is why I said make democracy work... Fixing our broken elective dictatorship while fixing the Tory-created mess.
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  1559. GB News certainly has a reputation...as a channel for idiots.
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  1560. Of course we have! The Westminster Buffoon doesn't give a sh1t about the climate. Just before hosting COP26, we set "world leading" targets, take less than 25% of the actions needed to meet them, and abandon climate rules for a crappy trade deal. What an international joke 'global Britain' is.
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  1561.  @manuelromeroarcos1639  thanks. Not about me; more about the future of the country I was born in and still care about. We need reform to give hope for the future.
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  1562.  @manuelromeroarcos1639  I would certainly welcome you as a fellow human being, Manuel. Friendship is the way to beat this fascist cabal, which feeds on hate and distrust.
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  1563. Unless it's another of his lies, and this time with some integrity attached to it.
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  1564. Tories and small state, aspiring to return to the days of Dickens. This shower of sh1te are past their sell-by.
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  1565.  @ellerose9164  I suspect the most common answer will be Don't Know.
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  1566. President Moron is above everything. Including sanity.
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  1567. Now we see the damage caused by morons "taking back control."
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  1568.  @johnryan7932  That's the thing with research, John. It doesn't stop at the last decade but one. But then, I'm unrealistic in expecting the originator to work that one out.
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  1569. ​ @derekmulready1523 We are no longer part of the Dublin Agreement, after leaving the EU. How will the intervention work? The small boats have lots of coastline to access.
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  1570. By inceeasing inrerest rates, the BofE is adding to the inflation problem by directly increasing prices: of rent, mortgages and buying capital assets such as cars by borrowing. The illusion that prices will go down if people can afford to buy less, when costs are pushing inflation, is pathetic. It's also pretence and a pure lie. The further pretence that increasing public sector pay will increase inflation is an abject lie and a pathetic excuse for consumption by idiots.
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  1571. At least the two buckets of bile are well matched. Must be nice to have a partner as psychopathic as you, Richard.
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  1572.  @MelkorPT  it took only a minority of voters (43.6%) to elect this buffoon. So the majority have never supported him when it matters.
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  1573.  @grahammelbourne6575  Yes. We need the Tories out.
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  1574.  @Youtubechannel-po8cz  that simply means, don't vote. Otherwise you are ignoring your own advice
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  1575.  @lolazal1  he can't do anything when not in power but he fails to call it out.
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  1576.  @stu281  True. Yet that pales into insignificance after the continuous Tory outsourcing and money spaffed on PPE contracts. Corbyn, on the other hand, proposed reversing the PFI contracts, which were a neoliberal failure. Blair was also a neoliberal. The fact remains that Labour has borrowed less and paid back more then the Tories while in power. The trope of Tory fiscal responsibility is pure rhetoric.
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  1577.  @johnwormley5161  what exactly do you think you won? The fact that you attempt to provoke with Daily Fail crap and are unable to contest any single fact suggests a sad mental state. Grow up and stop trolling.
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  1578.  @johnwormley5161  the truth is, you have not quoted a single valid fact in response to any post in this thread. END
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  1579.  @johnwormley5161  just criticised Johnson's Britain. A fair analysis of Global Britain.
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  1580.  @johnwormley5161  so you are blaming the EU? Total garbage. We have always b,een a sovereign nation that can manage its own economy. Since leaving, we have lost between £600 and £800 million weekly. (Source: Goldman Sachs economists) The only culprit for our financial plight is the government. Their own economic advisors have estimated a greater reduction in our GDP from Brexit than from Covid.
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  1581.  @johnwormley5161  what makes you think I'm Scottish? Is reading beyond you? I explained in an earlier email. My argument stands because it is factual and can be easily verified. Still waiting for an EU directive that harmed us, when we were part of EU governance.
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  1582.  @dacorum8053  "The people" being you, and you don't know how many others. This making your statement futile. Believing Farage's lies, whinging and bellyaching hasn't worked out too well, has it? Foghorn appeals to idiots.
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  1583.  @alfching2499  Good point. We may need a modern and different version but attempting to control cost-push inflation by increasing interest rates is like cutting off an arm when a leg is infected. Why not cap profiteering to reduce prices? We don't have a wage price spiral; we have a profit price spiral
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  1584. She's an operationally incompetent minister and a Tory cabinet member, therefore she is against scrutiny.
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  1585. After tasting the proof of the pudding...guess what? The majority can deduce fact from fiction. The lunatics spouting bollocks about sovereign tea are now creating anger. Time for our politicians to catch up?
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  1586. Such a cosy little cabal of entitlement and incompetence
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  1587. He relied on the mass media smearing of Corbyn to be accurate.
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  1588. I can think of a few popular candidates for Rwanda: they are members of the Tory cabinet.
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  1589. Any sign of competent governance would set the Tory client media in panic mode. They would then find a way of smearing it because they survive on negativity and lies.
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  1590. ​ @peterebel7899 Yes. An advisory vote with no usual safeguards in the counting protocol. A usual one being the majority of the voting population needed, rather than a simple majority. Then came the delivery: getting Brexit half done without adequate planning.
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  1591. This new broom will recycle the same old Tory dirt. Next: austerity to hurt the least wealthy. Don't forget: we're all in it together. But some are in it more than others.
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  1592.  @keegan773  never say never.
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  1593. The writing was on the wall when Johnson took power. His hubris demanded loyalty, including tolerance of his operational incompetence and obsession with shallow slogans. Now the Tories are bolstered by perpetual lying - protected by a dysfunctional parliament and a compliant media. Enough is beyond enough.
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  1594.  @charliemayne800  Wrong. A diluted form of PR was rejected after a low vote turnout because few understand it. As for other countries, England is one of only two countries in Europe without a form of PR. I say England because Scotland and Wales have a restricted version of PR. Westminster runs with an elective dictatorship. Not fantasy; fact. You also mention a "corrupt" Labour government. Wrong party, after the Tories have spaffed money to their mates on a failed test and trace system and face court proceedings for dodgy PPE contracts. The same corrupt government only last week passed three bills that take us towards fascism. Finally, you call Greens lunatics in spite of global warming being near tipping point. I suspect your comments border on brainwashed lunacy.
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  1595.  @mariogmajner6549  did I suggest that?
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  1596.  @lennylaa1686  PR=Consensus and cooperation with long term planning. Which means real democracy instead of an elective dictatorship. Dictatorship=the strongest form of government that serves the leaders and their cohorts. Yet leaves the majority at their mercy.
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  1597.  @sarangistudent8614  Labour "messing it up" by increasing real incomes - only to be reversed by Tory austerity. Reducing hospital waiting times, only for the Tories to tear apart the NHS. The Tories are priceless in messing up our country to reduce us to a banana republic.
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  1598.  @atomiccritter6492 I don't waste time on irrelevance from pseudonym accounts.
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  1599. Put any turd at the top of a cesspit and it will remain a cesspit.
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  1600. The price of Cameron failing to implement Leveson. Since the Sunday Fail-rag got a false confirmation from the Home Secretary, she should be forced to resign.
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  1601. Same old Tories, setting up Labour after they fell for honouring their fiscal rules. Labour should listen to Tax Justice UK. But with Reeves....?
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  1602. With the requirement to show ID when voting, along with greater government powers over the Electoral Commission, don't write off the Tories off - in making us a one-party state. If we had real democracy, the Tories would not be in power after a minority vote and we would not have suffered this buffoon and the damage he has caused.
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  1603.  @arfermo853  won what, exactly? The booby prize of the century?
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  1604. Let's be realistic. Our government couldn't manage a p1ss-up in a brewery. Without Brexit, they wouldn't need to.
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  1605. The most salient question for me (apart from economic arguments) was: could we trust these buggers to take back control? The answer now is obvious to most of the population.
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  1606. The Tories are the party of economic incompetence. They habitually shift the tax burden from the rich to the poor. Having borrowed more and paid back less than Labour since the second world war.
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  1607. Red tape has increased after Brexit. That's project reality.
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  1608.  @royboy1901  Your estimate is wrong. Try again - in units of years
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  1609.  @royboy1901  the post was a joke on any case.
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  1610.  @mariogmajner6549  We would certainly be better off had JC been our PM. Not sure about polling as the mainstream media smeared him and people bought the stupid lies.
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  1611.  @paulwilson7234  if you're going to tell a lie, tell a whopper.
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  1612. Buses are a public service. The clue is in the word "public" and, for the obvious reasons explained in this video, they should NOT be privatised.
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  1613. A half-asleep population, with many more concerned about affording to live. A war in Europe shadowing home affairs - with many facts hidden by a complicit media. How often do we hear Brexit mentioned by the MSM? GASLIGHTING on an industrial scale in a broken nation.
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  1614.  @vincentdevitt7685  The irony being that a minority (43.6%) voted for this cabal of incompetence.
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  1615. I admire your mature and reasoned comment. So refreshing. 👍
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  1616. Hardly surprising with a government full of morons who had "had enough of experts". Yet who has held them to account? Brexit is an unmentionable word, at the risk of all main parties being proved culpable.
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  1617. The charlatan melts when challenged. No substance to his "facts" and when challenged he is exposed. See his interview about a decade ago with James O'Brien. He avoids any repetition.
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  1618. So he should pander to the ego of the felon? Stuff that for a game of soldiers. Work closely with Europe and just listen to the orange narcissist blabber on.
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  1619.  @ecclesmilligan8712  spot on
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  1620. Never use the words "journalism" and "GB News" in the same sentence. The word "propaganda" is most relevant to GB News. Ask one key question in making any deal or agreement: who is the desparate party?
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  1621.  @Noel-ji8nm  I'm acutely aware of those facts, but with our rigged electoral system, there is only one way to get the Tories out. Vote strategically, depending on your constituency.
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  1622. Just learned that the OBR forecast will be published on my birthday. By which time the economy may have crashed. Looking forward to a bitter sweet day of comedy or tragedy.
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  1623. Promising green shoots and achieving green chutes. The real Tory record exposed
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  1624. With Johnson, it's always the fault or the responsibility of someone else. COP26 is nothing more than a series of photo ops for Johnson.
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  1625. Not just the campaign. The introduction of voter ID, changes to electoral boundaries, fiddling with postal votes? Dodgy social media campaigns without adequate regulation. The Tories fight dirty and simply can't be trusted.
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  1626. Interesting, but where is their commitment to PR? We need democracy instead of this elective dictatorship.
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  1627.  @georgebodley8068  who exactly are "they?"
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  1628.  @adrianwhyatt1425  if you are narrow minded enough to blame a single party, that's your choice. You become an easy target for deflection.
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  1629. Unfortunately a dumbed down population fails to apply critical thinking to a three word slogan. Would you really trust this cabal to "take back control?" Now, of course, we suffer the consequences.
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  1630. Never trust a Tory and never trust the thoughless rubbish from an opaque "think tank".
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  1631. In one sense, I hope Buffoon stays: to raise the level of anger at the Tories by showing the level of their complicity in his corruption. We need the Tories out.
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  1632. When will people realise that the Tories are NOT fit custodians of the economy, nor of public services? They have run the country into the ground for the last 12 years and imposed the shock of Brexit on an ailing economy during a pandemic.
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  1633. Funny to see the inane excuses and craven counter accusations from Johnson's supporters. Even the Barclay Brothers' sh1t rag called it a kangaroo court. Pathetic.
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  1634. Any analysis would need to take account of constitutional boundary changes and the need for voter ID. Tory manipulation on steroids.
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  1635. If bad news is associated with Britain, hide it. If bad news relates to other countries, promote it as a tool for deflection.
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  1636.  @stephanguitar9778  Opinion backed by...nothing... How so?
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  1637.  @elisaausberlin4838  oops. You failed to spot the irony in my answer
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  1638.  @casperwallace9685  Yes. As always, follow the money.
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  1639. Not just Tory scum, but Tory murdering scum.
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  1640. You can fool some of the people all of the time. Easy when many vote on party lines and don't look at the realities of life, or cause and effect. Populism often precedes fascism, yet few are conscious of the warnings. Johnson is a walking disaster.
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  1641. Of course Johnson continually resorts to the booster jab. He always takes credit for vaccines as his only alleged success. In the meantime, the Tories will leave him to enjoy Christmas surrounded by his garish wallpaper, then get the knives out when they have identified a potential vote winner.
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  1642. So it has taken brexit to prove a simple truth: never trust a Tory.
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  1643. The DWP is simply not fit for purpose. Unless that purpose is to withhold support and cause misery. Their procedures are archaic. Interviewers value trick binary questions over medical expertise. We end up with the most sadistic charlatan heading the department, and now they hide from scrutiny. Kick the Tories out.
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  1644. By the day, we are looking less like Global Britain and more like a sh1tty little island. Don't choke on your sovereign tea. Brexit is bad enough without such a disaster.
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  1645. Labour should listen to professors Bill Mitchell and Richard Murphy on the definition of borrowing and debt, and further on addressing inequality. I have little confidence in an ex-BofE economist agreeing to the Tory fiscal plan and rejecting progressive economics. Labour are accepting handcuffs, planted by the Tories.
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  1646.  @chrismanners9091  also has a degree in economics
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  1647.  @chrismanners9091  so what? What are the factual arguments against his ideas? Prof Bill Mitchell is one of the founders of MMT and while Richard's main specialism is taxation, he also lectures and advocates for a change to the way we define government borrowing. How can we be in debt to ourselves? Is the main line of reasoning. I understand that the IMF agrees with him.
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  1648. Yes. The longer we deny the facts, the greater the damage.
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  1649. The stench from this government is more execrable than that from any sewer or river where they allow crap to be dumped.
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  1650. Spot on, Phil. The populist government appeals to overt racists, by pretending that they are protecting our security if they take in a smaller number in a phased way to screen out the alleged terrorists. Total garbage, of course, but then they appeal to idiots and the self-interested.
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  1651. Never expect the Tories to do the best for the country. They are fake patriots; intent on power and self-interest, and thus traitors.
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  1652. History is against the Tory (Britannia Unchained) bollocks that lower taxes promote growth. The highest periods of growth have been achieved with taxation at its highest (while rebuilding infrastructure and services)
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  1653. Agree about PR. What do you suggest regarding the three houses?
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  1654. ​ @Saoirse_don_Phalaistín than why has Labour been in power only about a third of the time? Are you suggesting the Tories will deliver PR? Or perhaps we should ignore the Lib Dems and the Greens, who have consistently campaigned for PR and favour the new grifters on the scene, who would reform us into a banana republic without any bananas.
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  1655.  @Saoirse_don_Phalaistín  If you reread what I said, you got yourself in a buggers muddle. Who did I say has consistently campaigned for PR? And, yes, Labour certainly should deliver it and stop sitting on the fence.
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  1656. They'll do their dirtiest before they go. The longer they stay, the greater the damage.
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  1657. If you follow these cases with the Good Law Project, don't expect the government to put their hands up. They have resisted at every stage, using public money to raise the anti in defence, attempting to bankrupt the Good Law Project. This is the most corrupt government ever.
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  1658. Since it's Christmas, I have an idea for Sunak's government. A party game! 13 rounds of musical chairs involving all ministers. Each of the winners will serve as PM for one week in the New Year. That sorts out the first quarter, after which we have a general election.
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  1659. What would a nation of cap doffers do without royalty? Lol. Perhaps if we had a codified constitution, we would have a chance of seeming credible.
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  1660. Will they call it UKIP? LOL. Otherwise known as the party for idiots.
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  1661. Instead of feeling smug, we should remember that many who voted Leave have been betrayed. Many expected frictionless trade with the EU by staying in the SM and CU. Johnson was always going to get Brexit done BADLY.
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  1662. Seems poetic that you have gammon in the freezer for Christmas, Phil. Perhaps in commemoration of the hard Brexiters being short of supplies?
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  1663.  @vulk_nubium  Yes. It worked better for the EU. How are increased fish stocks related to Brexit?
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  1664. Two Tories, two reasons to spaff public money. Sunak and Johnson were both partying and laughing at the rest of us.
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  1665. How surprising! The Tories siding with business and profit while the little people suffer. Who would have thought it? A minister dripping with condescension denying such an arrogant statement. We all know that Tory ministers are saints (of the church of corruption and incompetence). What goes around comes around...
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  1666. The Tories keep quiet about cost push inflation, so they can let the unregulated market rip and take funding from dirty energy companies.
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  1667. We know from our government's operational ineptitude that this will be an expensive disaster. A policy designed to appeal to idiots, racists and xenophobes. Timed to distract from Johnson's law breaking. You really couldn't make this shit up.
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  1668. From delusion to insanity. We have an MP calling for the supply chain to collapse so Johnson can rebuild a high wage high skilled economy,.in his dreams. A few pay rises through market forces and suddenly it's a plan. But then all Johnson's "plans" are prompted by current headlines, which is why we see one a week with none delivered.
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  1669. Labour is pathetic on strategy, in spite of having the better record in government. Sir Starmer must have splinters in his arse from sitting on the fence. Tory scum winning shows the intellect of voters in this constituency, along with the need for clarity in campaigning.
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  1670.  @haraldschuster3067  yes. As a comedy act.
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  1671. Ah! The elusive blue passport. Such a brexit benefit.
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  1672. Beware: exodus in progress. While their leader steps up with more lies, pretence and operational incompetence.
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  1673. If they go ahead, they will probably call an early election and leave the new government with the mess.
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  1674. ​ @jonmould2946 how and when?
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  1675. The threat to our country doesn't come from Russia, or China. It comes from narcissistic greedy wazzocks based in America. President Moron and Space Karen plotting world domination? You couldn't make it up.
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  1676. In one sense Johnson has done us a favour, by showing how easily our ancient and decrepit system can be abused. Execrable parliamentary standards, lacking independent control. All being part of an elective dictatorship. Don't forget that Carrie has rewritten his job description...now restricted to photo ops and party entertainer. Also an ardent hunter of empty fridges and freezers.
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  1677. Regrettably some of said "decent people" are intellectually lazy and will believe the crap from the Fail and the Torygraph. Some may even be downright stupid or naive. If we had an effective media - holding the government to account - then the decent people may vote differently.
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  1678. Waiting for the biggest omissions: taxing asset wealth and taxing investment income at the same rate as work income.
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  1679.  @garyhowtobluetoothjblheadp3583  I don't fall for stereotyping, Gary
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  1680. ​ @terrypietru8012 Nigel's stupid and self-serving comments did that. He is his own worst enemy
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  1681. The EU are the adults in the room. Johnson's pathological lying extends to written agreements, making the UK totally untrustworthy and in breach of international law.
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  1682. After seeing this debacle, why would anyone even consider voting for the grifters who pushed brexit then blamed someone else when it went wrong? The grifters who want to Reform us into a banana republic.
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  1683. Every problem that has not been caused by brexit, has been exacerbated by brexit.
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  1684. Space Karen. The Trump-loving narcissist who will apparently advise Trump on government efficiency if The Chump is elected. Another vote winner for the Democrats?
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  1685. Heartless or brainless? Clearly both in the case of Johnson and his cabal of sociopaths.
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  1686. ​ @newblackdog7827  So that's a sample of one.
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  1687. A gathering of desperate lunacy for the operationally incompetent.
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  1688. To all fellow pensioners who vote Tory: you are voting for poverty. The cut in NI does nothing for us: we don't pay it. Remember when the Tories came in, personal allowances for pensioners were higher. They used fiscal drag over 10 years ago by freezing the personal allowance for pensioners until it fell into line with that of workers. The Tories want us on our knees.
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  1689. Rupert Lowe is the answer to whether Deform UK could find someone even more odious than Farage. Charlatans United would be the accurate party name.
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  1690. Desparate measures for desparate times. Obviously wanting a deal with each state so we can claim to have done more deals. The fact that they add no economic advantages and more red tape is irrelevant to desparate Brexiters. The Tory sham goes on, and on, and on....
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  1691. Dizzy Lizzy dancing to the tune of the bigots who have lost power and failing to accept the obvious solution to border checks: rejoin the SM and the CU
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  1692. With Truss, Anderson and Mogg leading the future of Conservatism, happily they are definitely FUBAR.
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  1693. More proof that the Tory claim to be the party of responsible economic management is bunkum. The Tories have also borrowed more and paid back less than Labour (taken between the second world war and even before the pandemic)
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  1694.  @georgejob2156  actually 43.6% of voters. Proving that most of us are just about sane.
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  1695.  @ai-d2121  Perfectly true on all but the last statement. A gang of serial incompetents.
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  1696.  @Allen236  What about 2010? Whataboutery time, is it?
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  1697.  @Allen236  I'm aware of the date. So what?
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  1698. NI simply shows the benefits of the single market. Thus it's the thorn in the side of Johnson's inept cabal.
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  1699. Starmer was mystified that immigration could quadruple while growth was virtually non-existent over the last four years. BREXIT is one clear answer: losing freedom of movement while trade has contracted. Starmer is following in the wake of the charlatan Farage instead of making the economy work for the many. He should stop listening to McSweeney.
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  1700. And today the Tory Express has accused Johnson of "caving in" after a hundred licences have been issued to French boats over the last couple of days; while the BBC remains silent on that point, saying Macron has called off the threat while talks are continuing. Is this against the law of gravity in our biased media?
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  1701. Johnson doesn't understand the concept of a plan. A list of aspirations is not a plan. At least it goes beyond one of his three word slogans, so perhaps he's having lessons.
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  1702. There was only one word missing from Johnson's slogan, and now the proof is obvious. He's getting Brexit done BADLY.
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  1703. ​ @Peterthepainter66 yet some fell for the Forager, who appeals to idiots.
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  1704. Has he kept a deadline in his life unless writing garbage for a Tory sh1t-rag?
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  1705. Yes. Their sense of entitlement exceeds any modicum of public service. Dangerous idiots.
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  1706. Not only are Brexiters in denial, they are unable to name one tangible benefit of Brexit. After one Brexit supporter said "the benefits of brexit are many," I asked him to name one. You may guess the response...Silence - not even a reply.
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  1707. From the performance of this Tory cabal of incompetence, it seems essential to psychologically test ministerial applicants for an unhealthy obsession with small boats or dinghies.
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  1708. "Unstable" governments that can do less damage. Brexit being the classic example.
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  1709. Irony noted
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  1710.  @Deleba333  English is correct whereas the Scots and the majority of northern Irish accepted the relationship and voted against Brexit.
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  1711. We had a minority-elected government appointed in 2019, elected on a manifesto. The party subsequently elects a new leader who comes up with five pledges, pretending they are the will of the people (yet can't be found in the manifesto and noone voted on them.) Sunak's government then transitioned from an elective dictatorship to a blatant dictatorship. Tory scum.
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  1712. Seems like pure fantasy. A token deal at best as we would be the desparate party. Let's be honest, we need cooperation with the EU instead of conflict. Stop burning bridges and this making ourselves more desparate at the negotiation table.
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  1713. So many things are "voluntary" in parliament. Telling the truth is voluntary because correcting the record is optional through "invitation." It's called a shit-show.
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  1714. Another encouraging sign of adult government. Labour being hidebound by existing fiscal rules ties one hand behind government's back, but this start offers hope in place of childish conflict.
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  1715. Ironic that such a pig-headed government has produced a surfeit of pigs, through their inane Brexit. They have the gall to call themselves businesses friendly, after throwing so many businesses under the bus.
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  1716. Sunak, not being content with his new version of integrity, professionalism and accountability, where he lies in parliament in a limited and specific way, appoints a wazzock who will tell whoppers. That's Tory leadership for you.
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  1717. Yes. Ironically, Cameron failed to implement Leveson and (surprise, surprise) this cabal of charlatans has dropped the changes again after promising to implement them. An unfit media suits the Tories, it largely manufactures consent for them.
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  1718. Why would expect a government addicted to the free market to intervene? They grant their donors a divine right to excessive profits. It's a failure of neoliberalism. Or a success if you accept that its intent was to increase inequality.
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  1719. The ultimate election result would be losing these two wazzocks from public life. Rwanda may be their ideal home?
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  1720.  @kyorin6526  since they don't have a good chance of beating the Tories where I live, I doubt it. We need electoral reform and I see Starmer as Tory light. Most probably will spoil my paper by writing proportional representation across it. At the moment, I keep an open mind though.
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  1721. Neoliberalism and globalisation triggered the race to the bottom. Brexit turned it into a sprint.
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  1722. The posturing of Lord Gormless and Buffoon is usually heralded by shouting "sovereignty." That's a mythical concept when they are prepared to reduce our food and product standards for the British consumer, to get a crappy trade deal with a distant country.
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  1723. When a leader decides on "the people's priorities," its called a dictatorship.
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  1724. The level of Government inanity is jaw-dropping. This morning the business secretary refused to loosen immigration rules because it offers "a short-term temporary solution." Well! That took the intelligence of Einstein...a short-term solution is exactly what we need while building for the longer term. His second statement, that we should employ the British workers facing an "uncertain future" after the furlough scheme ends is even more inane. Not everyone has the skill and aptitude to drive a HGV, even after taking 9 months to train. The level of denial is typical of a cabinet that doesn't understand the realities of life and, more seriously, doesn't give a shit.
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  1725. Sunak is either economically illiterate, or a blatant liar, or a combination of the two. The cost of goods is pushing inflation (known as cost-push inflation) caused predominantly by the increased costs of fuel (for energy and transport) and the reduction in the value of the pound, which makes our imported purchases dearer. The opposite (known as demand pull inflation) occurs when there is more money sloshing around than available goods and services. This is not true in current circumstances. People need a rise to match the cost of inflation, to buy what they did before, unless prices are reduced and capped. The only exception to this would be in cases such as a food shortage, where we would have more money than goods. The Tories are suppressing public sector wages so essential workers fall behind and become relatively poorer. Meanwhile exec pay goes through the roof and many companies are making huge profits at our expense. Enough is enough.
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  1726. Crisis! The Tories are a perpetual crisis. A cabal of incompetent psychos and charlatans. The worst government in my lifetime.
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  1727. History shows that the Tories are the party of economic mismanagement. They have borrowed more and paid back less than Labour, while, under the Tories, average incomes in have reduced in real terms. Vote Tory; vote pain and suffering so the 1% can have more.
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  1728. Such Tory desperation makes them dangerous, as they habitually shift to the far right with an ill-gained stash in their fighting fund.
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  1729. Rwanda is a symbol of Tory governance. The incompetent led by the clueless.
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  1730. I have never heard such bollocks from a professional economist. I despaired when reading this statement on state media and wondered why this wazzock is paid to spout such politically motivated bullshit.
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  1731. The self-interested, delusional or plain stupid.
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  1732. The Tories avoid the truth to the extent that it's hard to believe they understand it or even recognise it. Whether that is is isn't the case, their puppet masters do, and they work with the MSM to support them, telling enough lies often enough that the truth becomes unrecognisable. I follow a simple rule: whatever they say, suspect the opposite and check facts then apply critical thinking. Enough is enough.
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  1733. A moot point since a Reform member has no vote. Pay for the privilege of listening to a treacherous dictator. Another elaborate con by a charlatan.
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  1734. Tories intent on symbolism to drive hatred and fear. Yet can't even get the symbolism right. Pure comedy gold (except for those lives being affected.)
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  1735. Sunak's long term plans are called into question by the Progressive Economy Forum, which states that the alleged £50 billion black hole is actually a £14 billion surplus if different measures are used. Undoubtedly he and Hunt will push the rhetoric that supports austerity and higher taxes (while protecting corporate profiteering and the oligarchs.)
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  1736. How far from fascism are we? Living with Johnson as PM is even more dangerous than living with Covid. He wants to pretend we have beaten Covid after originally promising to wrestle it to the ground. This delusional pr1ck is a clear and present danger to Britain.
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  1737.  @battybibliophile-Clare  Thanks. I've met Noel the Troll before and it seems that he is programmed to ignore my comments.
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  1738. Either our parliamentary system is an abject mess or the opposition parties fail to call out Johnson's blatant lies, or both. How many times will the parroted lines from cabinet members go unchallenged, with the Tory ministers not being asked to correct the parliamentary record?
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  1739. Sunak is using a scatter gun without knowing where the target is or what it looks like.
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  1740. The sequence of incompetence goes like this: 1) we suffer a pandemic, 2) we see the real value of key workers to society, 3) our government gets Brexit done during the pandemic, 4) done without an evaluation of which professions depend on freedom of movement and to what extent 5) after such a failure they wash their hands, tell businesses to recruit more Brits, then blame the EU. RESULT: total upheaval ... Papered over by the oligarch media and excused because of the pandemic. The very reason they completed a shambolic Brexit during Covid in the first place. Muppets, however, will excuse them.
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  1741. Galloway is marmite, yet he was right on one point: our two main parties are complicit in a plausible genocide.
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  1742. So Dennis Skinner was right. Dodgy Dave started a trend and Buffoon has dragged the Tories further in the mire.
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  1743. Why would the Tories hang on to the bitter end? Let me guess. More time to line their pockets through corruption? More time to bugger up the country and make it harder for the next government? More time to offer a few tax bribes? More time to privatise the NHS? Enough is enough.
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  1744. Following a 17.5% rise for Rolls Royce car workers and, in the public domain, a 15% rise for barristers after a day of strikes, it must be galling for nurses to be handed an insult from this government. The Tories then lie about an independent pay body, for which the government sets the budget and the rules then conveniently ignore the fact that their recommendations are advisory. A classic case of the least trusted profession taking on the most trusted.
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  1745. Why be so churlish? Just ask how taking back control is going and say: we will fix the mess. As for standards, Johnson repeatedly claimed that our standards will be at least as high as the EUs so we can challenge that lie and say we will protect high standards in any negotiations. Brexit is far from done and Labour need to reinforce that in saying they will tidy up the mess. I'm seeing nothing but infighting from Labour, along with an absence of leadership, and they don't stand a chance unless they put achieving real democracy (including PR) at the centre of their campaign.
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  1746. Undoubtedly any major Tory donor will benefit under the pretence of an energy emergency. The far right are already ramping up the rhetoric against net zero.
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  1747. @dogkicker100 I somehow suspect it always has been.
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  1748.  @ronshilton6744  don't you mean LIBOR. Banks have fkd up the economy. Real incomes increased at a record level under New Labour
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  1749.  @sammyjohn9353  you need to check the facts on that. They were explained clearly after Johnson attempted the smear and he had to retract it. Total mindless Tory bullshit
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  1750.  @peterebel7899  actually forced medicine. Don't pretend we had a choice and rejected PR. In reality the low voter turnout rejected a fudge.
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  1751.  @peterebel7899  research online Lord Hailsham elective dictatorship. It's about Brits suppressing Brits. Control by the few. Votes not counting equally. A 43.6% (minority) vote giving a parliamentary majority (current example). A pretence at democracy.
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  1752.  @peterebel7899  wtf are you on? Invade Britain. It's an internal matter: we need to fix our broken country and resist blatant corruption.
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  1753.  @jordanphillips1149  How about our serial liar who bodges everything and fails to do what matters? As for Starmer, I'm not a fan but Johnson is a useless charlatan.
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  1754.  @peterebel7899  I said the opposite: it is not all Brits. Just a corrupt power hungry cabal.
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  1755.  @peterebel7899  WRONG about Britain. Other countries have different systems and ours was imposed without consent. "Brits" didn't choose this corrupt cabal. A minority of those who voted did. When I learned maths, 43.6% was considered a minority. It didn't even change during degree level stats. Thus we don't see the will of the people exercised. This is NOT representative democracy. It is Lord Hailsham said, an elective dictatorship.
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  1756.  @happyguilmore4253  yes. Absolutely. That's the requirement to achieve real democracy. Our system has favoured Labour occasionally but the Tories most often. Either way, votes must count equally to achieve representative democracy.
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  1757.  @happyguilmore4253 Your words. Not what I said. Not what I meant. Fed up with our lack of democracy and with politicians of all stripes gaming the system. Your attempt at spin or provocation is futile.
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  1758. ​ @Noel-ji8nm wrong thread...trolling bot developed a fault?
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  1759. Project 2025: a dictatorship superimposed on a faux democracy, making the nation the butt of an international joke.
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  1760. The Tories have a plan! Their only plan is to spread misinformation and manage consent through deception. As for reality, Jenrick said that the Tories "plan is starting to work". Note: not that it's working; but is starting to (with little or no evidence to support that statement).
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  1761. Starmer's Labour loves pensioners. Intent on killing them off through creeping poverty? So many balls-ups: the WFA, a tax on employment, denying the WASPI women. And now Reeves is intent on weakening bank regulation when 50 economists have warned that this will impede growth.
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  1762. Just stop at Brexiters never had a plan.
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  1763. Lowe would be a perfect leader for the sh1t-show aspiring to Reform the country. Even some of their hard-of-thinking supporters might recogise a moron.
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  1764. Employment is not a numbers game, yet so many buy the rhetoric. Matching the right skills, knowledge and physical abilities is essential in filling each and every job, yet so many think laziness is the root cause of labour shortages. They probably think that the government had a trained workforce ready for every job vacancy after freedom of movement ended, but unfortunately the trained people caught Covid. Just ask how well we have taken back control and who was responsible.
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  1765.  @Dan_1348  That's bollocks: democratically elected!! A cabal of charlatans supported by a minority-elected (43.6%) of voters makes them undemocratically elected in an elective dictatorship. And weren't our laws supposed to be at least as strong as the EU's? - according to the serial liar Johnson.
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  1766.  @Dan_1348  No hallowed MPs for me. And none got a majority to do it without consent of other party MPs. That's called real democracy rather than a gang of desparate mavericks wrecking the country.
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  1767. Johnson wishes everything away, as any entitled parasite would. First deny the GB/NI border, then sign an agreement to acknowledge it but fail to implement it in the hope that it will vanish. As for funding extra public services. The Tories spin the illusion.of tax and spend, until they wish to fund a vanity project that benefits their sponsors. Then they simply create the money through QE and pretend we have to pay it back. Another illusion designed to support their class war.
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  1768. When wages increase, it's part of Johnson's plan. When inflation occurs, it's someone else's fault. Buffoon needs lessons in economics and his chancellor needs a refresher.
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  1769. The lunatic Tory and UKIP immigration argument has always been one of numbers: more people putting pressure on the system. This ignored the fact that none of the net contribution of immigrants was reinvested in infrastructure. "Look over there, they are taking what you worked for!" Total crap when the work and contribution of immigrants is ignored while our infrastructure is dismantled by a government of charlatans. The blame belongs fairly and squarely in one place: that's known as government.
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  1770.  @LL-vk9zc  the comment related to the video, specifically about Johnson, but other candidates could be considered.
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  1771. Wouldn't know. I'm colour blind. Both are wazzocks.
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  1772. I consistently wonder how Johnson and his cabal get worse by the day. Lower than a snake's belly and smelling worse than horse dung. Scum was a compliment.
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  1773. Look at every Tory policy and they take us further back towards the 19th century. Back to the workhouse, plebs. Or stay shackled to your desks. The party of enlightenment lol
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  1774. At last people are realising that the myth is precisely that: a myth. If comparing years in power since the second world war, the Tories have borrowed more and paid back less than Labour. Our national debt was increasing during the years of austerity. Moreover, real incomes had increased under the last Labour government, only to shrink during 12 years of Tory economic sadism.
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  1775.  @johnrussell3961  absolutely agree.
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  1776.  @davidgreen6490  Glad to know you think you are one of the intelligent members of society. Brainwashing certainly works. Enjoy the Chinese manufactured unicorns.
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  1777. The media are here to manufacture consent to whatever suits their oligarch owners. Harry is right. As for our minority-elected government and our undemocratic system, don't get me started.
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  1778. Why? The Tories champion business inefficiency for convenience and the maximum extraction of profit. Perhaps they would approve of having every worker on permanent standby, so employers can call on them whenever they are needed.
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  1779. The Lib Dems are irrelevant. Labour is no longer a broad church, after culling and suppression by Sir Starmer. The Tories are more toxic than the black death and covid combined. Call me cynical, but hope has almost disappeared in Britain. We need a revolution...hopefully a peaceful one.
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  1780. Neoliberalism, finalization, brexit, suppression of protest, leaving EHRC. All part of the plan to return to Victorian conditions. A class war over and won.
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  1781. We can't afford a substantial rise for nurses yet we spaff public money on agency nursing, at excessive prices, so we can dismantle the NHS piece by piece. The NHS is not for sale; it's just being dismantled for private profit. Tory scum.
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  1782. Let's be fair: someone with a double-barrelled name is allowed to be condescending. In fact, it's mandatory.
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  1783.  @kevinsyd2012  My facts are entirely accurate because many pensioners have additional pensions, such as works pensions, that they contributed to. The sum of all pension earnings is taxable. Do you really think you could survive on the pittance of a state pension?
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  1784.  @kevinsyd2012  How are my facts incorrect? I'm aware of how taxation on pensions works and am acutely aware of a differential in free pay before the Tories came to power. I have given pure facts. That differential has been eroded by the austerity loving parasites who tried to pretend that pensioners were loaded. My facts are correct.
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  1785. Sunak is a spent force, yet for every month he stays in power Labour seems to water down another pledge and fails to call out Israel. Westminster yields perpetual disappointment. We will be reduced to voting for the leaser of two evils.
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  1786. Perhaps he will deign to rearrange the deckchairs on the titanic before he goes. There is some kind of clearout to allow the extreme idiots free reign, as this morning Johnson has been referred to the police for another misdemeanor.
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  1787.  @SmartCookie2022  More dumb stuff from your pseudonym account. Investment in green energy creates jobs, as it usually reduces the import of dirty energy. Jobs create spending power and resultant purchases create growth. As a bonus, we help save the planet. You may be happy for your pseudonym cookie to crumble if the planet fries, by which time too late to see sense.
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  1788. Johnson continually proves beyond reasonable doubt that our parliamentary system is unfit for purpose. No independent inquiry; he has the final say on the report; habitually and repeatedly misleading parliament. For how long will we entertain this rogues gallery with the derisory label of democracy?
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  1789. And next: the return of the convict? Not content with scraping the barrel to find someone even less competent than Johnson, they may resort to portraying him as some kind of hero - the lesser of all evils that they could inflict on the population. Only the desparate, the intellectually lazy or the plain stupid would vote for these wazzocks.
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  1790. A chancellor with no basic understanding of economics? Or just a psychopathic liar?
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  1791. The Tories are aimless and useless to all except the rich and powerful.
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  1792.  @Member_zero  "What good will it do?" is a defeatist argument imo. If we take the lead and show China, with the threat of taking back industries if they don't clean up, that would be too much like leadership for our inept and corrupt politicians. I understand that China is developing thorium production. Long term and a potential pipe dream at this stage but so was the wheel if we go back far enough. It's too easy to find excuses while global warming grows.
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  1793. The Tories have graduated from the austerity twins (Cameron and Osborne) to the bearer of the poisoned challice (Theresa May) followed by a serial liar who got brexit half done while buggering up the country. A brief interlude from a delusional idiot, obsessed with trickle down and devoid of economic competence. To a little spiv with his psychopathic sidekick who had previously torn apart the NHS. This dynamic duo continues to exacerbate inequality while dismantling public services and parroting five pledges that noone asked for, yet they are failing to deliver.
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  1794. They are making the best argument for public ownership. Only the Tories can't see that. Wonder who their donors are?
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  1795. What's a c nut? Lol. A Tory with dyslexia?
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  1796.  @BENTWOONEZERO  meaning???
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  1797. Unwise to draw conclusions with such a low turnout. Also with FPTP proportional votes are at best an approximate indicator.
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  1798. Thank heaven we don't need, and don't intend, to fly to America.
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  1799. The pork lobby will support Truss. Will this make her favourite to the party of incompetence and lies?
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  1800. This is also a price of our elective dictatorship. It took a minority (43.6%) of verified votes to give a serial liar and proven operational incompetent absolute power at a critical time. Many have paid with their lives. The rest of us pay daily.
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  1801. Sunak is having quite a week: taking a seedy bet on an issue that breaches international law and affects vulnerable people's lives; then making a stupid, childish and scripted, statement and showing no human empathy. Little Rishi the spiv must be an alien or a robot. When he gets away from his spreadsheets he hasn't a clue. His maths on the economy also belong to a parallel universe.
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  1802. The immediate concern is high interest rates on "borrowing". Caused or accelerated by the BofE selling bonds for quantitative tightening. Starmer and Reeves should intervene and stop it.
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  1803. The sign of great leadership! Back your staff and work as a team. Page 1 of the leadership manual but Dizzy Lizzy is either illiterate or arrogance on steroids.
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  1804. We will find the consequences of an ex prime minister lying under oath. Somehow, I suspect that the said consequences would be different for the rest of society.
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  1805.  @RichardFraser-y9t  apparently it's the highest form of repartee.
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  1806. The Tories have honed their ideology so effectively, we don't have small state, we have virtually no state left.
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  1807. A party of grifters now have a little spiv as leader. What an abject shit show.
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  1808. So here we are with a choice of Tory or Tory-Light and may eventually get PR, but even that's far from certain. British politics is far from inspiring and Sir Starmer is a disappointment. I shall have to vote tactically come the next election, but, on policies, under the present sh1tfest my choice would be green.
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  1809.  @bumblingborisbuffoon6259  which is why I said I'm voting tactically rather than on policy.
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  1810. The Lansley report (in 2012) was a charter for profiteers. Steeeting is promising to use the private sector to reduce waiting lists. A repeat of Blair but unfortunately the Tories used this is an excuse for further privatisation. Efficiency savings? Don't get me started! Stop wasting money on management consultants and instill a culture of continuous improvement, consulting the staff on the ground who will suggest improvements from their practical experience.
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  1811. If Priti Shitty becomes the voice of reason, the Tory party is embarking on its lunacy phase
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  1812. A large crisis requiring a large plan, says Blackadder. The Tories don't even have one of Baldrick's cunning plans. Their answer is to brazen it out.
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  1813. ​ @ryanwalters6184 is the "Telsa" a new model?
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  1814. Let's not have such pesky things as food standards, workers' rights or environmental standards. We'll let the free market rip so the poor will take shit while we have caviar and champagne imported on tap. Didn't see that in the Brexshit campaign. Didn't the serial liar say that our standards would be at least as high as the EUs?
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  1815.  @RealMash  too much information. Wouldn't want to know.
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  1816. Great comparison. He's also lower than a snake's belly.
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  1817. Long way to go and we won't get the terms we had. A closer relationship has to be the first step, yet Starmer is shit scared of saying so and even the Lib Dems are insipid on the topic.
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  1818. The longer Buffoon stays, the better - unless the Tories bugger off. Meanwhile Buffoon will only weaken them and damage any shred of credibility left (in the minds of the stupid, of course.)
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  1819. After his recent flag-sha**ing announcements of bs and bile, Farage has changed his job description to chief sh1t-stirrer.
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  1820. The real reason exposed! Tories want to bring the health service to its knees, as an excuse for more privatisation. Emulating the worst model in the world: the American model. Because of their ideological pursuit of neoliberalism, to benefit only the 1%
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  1821. But Johnson said: "No checks between GB and NI, or NI and GB" So did he lie when he said it, or when he signed the agreement? Buffoon is a clear and present danger - propped up by an incompetent cabinet.
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  1822. The heading could stop at "Johnson incapable." Our lazy and inept buffoon has his strings pulled by Russian oligarchs, Tory donors, right wing pressure groups, and is backed and tolerated by these groups while he can create a vacuum for them to exploit and profit from. The worst possible leader at the worst possible time.
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  1823. 300 pages of obfuscation describing a bucket of whitewash. I remember Cummings talking about Johnson's vacuous "levelling up" promise. Perhaps Dom has spotted that two-word slogans don't work, whereas the right three words successfully con the public. The Tory strategy is being seen to do something, while achieving sod all - apart from putting money in the pockets of their backers.
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  1824. Rwanda is a money pit for the gullible Tories intent on symbolism.
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  1825. Taking back control always meant make it up as you go along.
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  1826. A house of...corrupt actors, liars, law breakers, charlatans, misogynists, sex offenders, incompetents... the list goes on. A government to be deeply ashamed of, other than for the intellectually challenged or the greedy and self-interested.
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  1827. An intellectual genius appealing to the crime miniature. Is this the party of comedy?
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  1828. This government wants to run down the NHS to justify privatisation. Instead of stupid league tables they should work with GP leaders to explain why telephone consultations are needed, and to improve the booking system to accommodate them.
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  1829. The Tories lurching further right into extremism or even fascism is a real and present danger. Such extremists galvanise resentment by helping to cause a problem, clearly articulating it, shifting blame to its victims then offering an artificial "solution" that benefits the powerful while subjugating many of their own voters to greater inequality and poverty. The ultimate con.
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  1830. The sequence has been catastrophic: Johnson the serial liar and operational incompetent; followed by the lunacy of trickle-down Truss; and now the spiv who promised integrity, professionalism and accountability, then delivers corruption, incompetence and opacity. ENOUGH IS BEYOND ENOUGH after 14 years of these rogues and liars.
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  1831. Even idiots are entitled to a vote and it's a law of nature that someone as vacuous and crazy as Habib will appeal to some idiots. Farage, on the other hand, is the master of appealing to idiots, who may be too lazy to look at his track record of promises and delivery. Vote Reform for fascism in a banana republic.
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  1832. Anyone listening to the catalogue of Tory lies would see through them when looking at the size of their bills and a diminishing bank balance. That's without the application of critical thought, which makes the Tories a spent cabal of charlatans.
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  1833. I'm reading a newly released book called Critical - why the NHS is being betrayed... and anyone reading it will realise that the Tories can't be trusted with the NHS. Sadly, after hearing Streeting, Labour's approach is questionable. If opposition parties get their act together, they have an open door on this most important issue. Public services have been dismantled under the Tories and opposition parties need to hold them to account then work with experts to offer hope for the future. Going from a Tory mess to austerity light is simply not a viable option.
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  1834. It seems that the Tories have a master plan. To bring Britain to its knees. Ripe for disaster capitalism and asset stripping. A casino for unregulated banking with the rest of the population relegated to serfdom. Tory scum.
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  1835.  @creativecascades1328  Not true. Other EU countries are seeing growth, so real incomes are at least matching inflation. True, Brexit is "neither here nor there" for them. It's just crippling us - exports down, small businesses going under with high costs and brexit paperwork. The mainstream media stay silent, to protect a government that was operationally stupid enough to complete brexit during a pandemic, so they could shift the blame for their abject incompetence. You may also hear Bodger Johnson and Dim Lizzy Truss bleating about the NI protocol... Neither here not there.... "Oven ready deal..." Join the airport queues or line up with the lorries at Dover and carry that banner. You won't be popular. At least the first part of your pseudonym account is accurate: creative excuses to the point of denial.
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  1836.  @creativecascades1328  rebounds from a lower low during the pandemic. The base figure is critical in any comparison to anyone understanding stats. Real incomes in the UK, on the other hand...
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  1837.  @NetZeroNo  not that old trope about gold reserves again, Foxy. I won't bother answering if you have been too lazy to research why. We now have a fiat currency. Welcome to the 21st century.
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  1838.  @ralphmillais5237  we need RESPONSIBLE government, resulting from real democracy instead of our elective dictatorship.
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  1839.  @creativecascades1328  not very creative are you. Examples with references please. Looking at this thread, you don't even read replies, let alone consider them. Where will your ground shift next? Do you use a random garbage generator in our posts?
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  1840.  @creativecascades1328  show me the facts. Who are attempting to escape France? Don't answer refugees because you will fall in a trap the size of a pit. Without facts, your rhetoric is spoonfed sh1te. You are the gullible bot. Btw, I don't support Starmer but his misdemeanours don't even register on the scale of BoJoke's
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  1841.  @taffyman6089  Yes. So surprising that the most powerful trading bloc in the world didn't fold against a single country pretending to be a global trading power.
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  1842. Does JRM have a bigger brain than Donald Trump? Or am I thinking of Donald Duck?
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  1843. Imagine the Tories removing or restricting any human rights. Who would have believed it? Tory scum.
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  1844. There was always one catch to Brexit: how could we trust a cabinet of morons to take back control?
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  1845. ​ @Silverlining.16 the world quakes when President Moron farts through his mouth. Pull the other one...
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  1846. Tories don't understand negotiation, which is why they won't face competent unions. They depend on servility to use divide and rule.
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  1847. Johnson would ditch any law that doesn't suit him in his populist agenda, towards his pursuit of fascism. His populism appeals to idiots, then he depends on the oligarch media to manufacture consent.
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  1848. There is always room for idiots under the populist leadership of Tice and Farage. Only the desperate would vote for their stupidity. Remember Brexit? Not their fault, of course...
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  1849. Brexit: a series of lies for consumption by the ignorant or intellectually lazy. The same can be said of Tory policies. Quite a coincidence that an inept Tory government has evolved the worst Brexit possible.
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  1850.  @OghamTheBold  here you go again. A troll with a pseudonym account suggesting bravery but offering vacuous rubbish
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  1851. Even Cummings described this two-word slogan as vacuous. Now we can see why the Tories should have asked him for a three-word slogan. "Bucket of whitewash" perhaps? No. Never describe the truth.
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  1852. Am I living in a parallel universe or have the Tories been in power for 12 years? In most organisations, with power comes responsibility. Apparently not in politics through our unfit parliament and our undemocratic electoral system. The Bill for Tory mismanagement since the start of the pandemic amounts to £126.7 billion. This follows years of austerity causing an increase to our national debt. This country is morally bankrupt; and would be financially bankrupt without the right to issue money in our fiat currency. Somehow this money is issued when bankers and ministers balls up, yet is never available to pay workers what they deserve.
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  1853. Sunak is not a progressive economist. He is a traditional tax and spend Tory, who is intent on improving lives: the lives of the financially elite. This man is even more dangerous than his boss.
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  1854. ​ @brianferguson7840 Please! Don't hesitate. Send for the psych nurse. Lol
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  1855. Johnson is led; he is not a leader. Led by headlines, donors and pressure groups. Starting a trade war when we are suffering shortages is lunacy. Conclusive proof that buffoon has no interest in the British population...only in himself.
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  1856.  @JustMe-bx8gu  especially with a voting system that produces an elective dictatorship.
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  1857. Now we parade a world class shit show after being an international laughing stock. Who could take us seriously now?
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  1858. ​ @dalecrocker3213 About to reappear, if you listen to the far right.
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  1859.  @samn6498  that's curious. When the Tories have a considerably worse record: having borrowed more and paid back less than Labour. Rhetoric over fact.
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  1860.  @Duck-wc9de  Yes. But at some point renovation is not viable - especially when the richest puppet-masters make the decisions. Britain is broken.
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  1861.  @geoffpoole483  Political volatility has nothing to do with it. I'm showing the fallacy of assigning unintended meaning to simple words without understanding context. The media has a habit of taking words out of context to manipulate opinion and our politicians cower in fear.
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  1862. Humming as in smelling from the stench of Tory scum.
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  1863. Didn't Rees Mogg say it would take 20 years? Any advance on 20? Somehow they forgot to mention this before the referendum vote. How convenient!
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  1864. Their target voters? The greedy and the brain-dead?
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  1865. Recycling promises to deliver more lies. Q: Why did you not deliver that promise? A:Well, we had the pandemic but if you give us longer, we have the plan... Even the gullible should see through their sh1t; leaving them with the delusional or idiotic as followers.
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  1866. ​ @wolfgangpreier9160  In defence of the voters: we suffer a government inflicted on us by a minority (43.6%) of voters. British stupidity starts with allowing an undemocratic system.
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  1867. There's a clown in every circus. There's a bloody buffoon in this one. The 43.6% of voters who supported Johnson must be proud...or angry???
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  1868. Why did Angela Rayner withdraw her poignant comment: TORY SCUM?
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  1869. Stamer is clueless as a leader. A dictator who is too busy dictating to strategise. Lead; don't follow Deform UK.
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  1870.  @LordOfLight  I suspect you are both right. The argument fed to the voting public was about immigration, to hide the real intent of tax avoidance for disaster capitalists and oligarchs. It's called manufactured consent.
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  1871. Johnson has at least shown us two thing: 1) PMQs is pointless because there are no answers given to question; and 2) the parliamentary system is dysfunctional because this serial liar refuses to correct the record after being found out.
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  1872. ​ @dalecrocker3213 Then he's delusional and unhinged.
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  1873. ​ @dalecrocker3213 Then there will be a shortage of supply, thus raising home prices.
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  1874. Let's keep up! Have you not heard, the Brexit Foghorn has lost his bank account and that's more important than buggering up the country?
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  1875. She's a Tory. Therefore above the law.
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  1876. ​ @carolstimpson3799 That Farage is a traitor? How could anyone think that? Especially if they are asleep.
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  1877. It seems that all modern Tory governments are on a mission to destroy our country, perhaps for the benefit of disaster capitalists. Little Spiv (their shiny new leader) fails to answer a single question yet repeats a series of different lies while presiding over the same old shit show of operational incompetence.
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  1878.  @juliuswi8767  you may be right. But then the interviews could be shorter because in having to explain the lie they wouldn't move on to other bullshit and the interview would be cut.
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  1879. Read a parroted article on BBC text yesterday. Apparently Johnson's claimed benefit was a saving of 1 billion for businesses. No substantiation of the figure. No detail given. I love our MSM.... Not!
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  1880. Global Britain: world leaders in f'king up systems.
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  1881.  @candidaprout8441 the relevance of your point is?
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  1882.  @davidpryle3935  I understand the reluctance and am not qualified to comment on party dynamics - just their stupidity. FPTP has benefited the Tories far more than Labour and with PR, the Tories and their client media would be consigned to the dustbin of history. They have benefited far more than Labour from our elective dictatorship.
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  1883.  @timonsolus  I fear you are correct. They are blinded by short term stupidity. The Tories have benefited far more than Labour from our elective dictatorship and would be consigned to the dustbin of history with PR
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  1884. For how long will forgiveness of a bumbling populist hold? The level of intellectual laziness and stupidity amongst a proportion of the electorate is chilling. We have friends who depend solely on mainstream media for information, hence are blissfully unaware of reality. Covid us conveniently forgotten, the EU is habitually blamed, gaslighting goes unchallenged. Meanwhile the main opposition parties stay quiet or present no challenge. Britain is in a permanent malaise as we habitually resign ourselves to struggling through a series of crises.
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  1885. Yes. And the government are tampering with electoral boundaries to skew FPTP further in their favour. Welcome to our elective dictatorship. To my knowledge, Labour has not been clear about supporting PR, after the block Union vote was against it. We need clarity, with all other parties unambiguously supporting PR and showing the Tories self interest.
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  1886. I'm taking the ball home if I can't be captain. Anyone spot the sumilarity with Johnson?
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  1887. So we pick a fight with the French fishermen and blame the French for any Christmas shortages. Johnson doesn't give a crap about UK citizens.
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  1888. The longer The Convict stays, the greater the damage to this party of charlatans and brigands that has repeatedly damaged our country.
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  1889. Seems too much like democracy for the so-called British elite.
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  1890.  @Jimmie16  is there one referendum that hasn't offered a binary choice?
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  1891.  @lennylaa1686  yes. That is just one contributory factor. Then follows a further question of how the price rises are handled and who must suffer them.
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  1892. Take a moment to look at the operational aspects of Brexit and you will find denial sponsoring incompetence. After four decades in a trading alliance, leaving and finding alternative solutions was never going to easy. On voicing this, we had accusations of Project Fear, which have proven to be project reality. Any children from 10 onwards studying critical thinking would see through this. Yet somehow a majority voted for this fantasy and now we are left with a government in denial, taking no responsibility after virtually no advanced planning. When will the population wake up and hold them to account?
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  1893.  @howler6490  spot on there. Do the least possible to be seen to support electoral reform.
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  1894. "Trickle down" A system where wealth gushes up, and drips down where the wealthy can't fix the leaks. (Also known as crumbs from the master's table.)
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  1895. Me too, which is why I voted Remain, after I took the time to listen and talk to my sons and adult grandchildren.
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  1896.  @joansparky4439  take your point yet how often do many think the status quo benefits them through lazy thinking? If we all were to answer honestly whether we have been better off under Labour or the Tories, the vast majority would find Labour.
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  1897. Johnson's government are "world leading" by one measure: causing the maximum damage to the country.
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  1898. And Sunak claims it makes "common sense." So much for the muddled reasoning of the man leading this country. Little Spiv has graduated to a little idiot to gain the favour of moronic racists.
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  1899. The ERG and the swivel-eyed Tory gammons have Johnson on a string. He is running scared and playing to their tune. Apparently Sunak was in the states talking to health providers and insurers, while Johnson's indecision is contributing to the collapse of the NHS (STRANGE COINCIDENCE???) The country needs strong and responsible leadership. The Tories will always place survival and the pursuit of power above that.
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  1900. ​ @scottishrob7119  not all of us, Rob. In fact it took only a minority (43.6%) of voters who turned out to put this cabal of crooks in power.
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  1901.  @garryferrington811  my take on it was clear: it gushes up. Neoliberalism is intended to defy the law of gravity.
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  1902.  @SirAntoniousBlock  yes. Clearly before its time.
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  1903. If Labour need help in campaigning, they should listen to the Ash Sarkar debate with red wall Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns on the economic effect.
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  1904. Simple message: we have made a catastrophic mess if taking back control. Why be so cautious?
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  1905. Give all public sector workers and MP's expense account and they won't need food banks. Simple!
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  1906. ​ iscadean  True. Never trust a Tory and never trust Labour to resist becoming Tory Light.
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  1907.  @malthusXIII-fo3ep  and replaced with?
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  1908. Seems to be a mistake by the EU. You don't appeal to the better nature of a sociopath. That said: on the international stage, the EU qualifies as the adult; with the UK the petulant child.
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  1909. Yet again we see our Brexit government in permanent denial. How well is "taking back control" going?
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  1910.  @jackn4853  Yes. Regrettably that's the case. We had left before the 2019 election but have moved to an area where the sheep vote Tory. Yet it took only a minority (43.6%) of the electorate to give The Convict a stonking majority in our rigged system.
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  1911. More need to see this reality, yet the media are complicit. Cabinet ministers' accusations of "Brexit obsession" are writ large, get Government's brexit denial is hardly mentioned. The pandemic is readily blamed, yet noone points out the stupidity of completing Brexit during a pandemic. We often marvel at our national stupidity level, yet it is fed and watered by the media.
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  1912. Don't expect a gammon Brexiter to understand trade. As soon as you mention the EU they cry sovereignty and close their ears.
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  1913. Let's stop pretending that we have democracy. Democracy means government by the people and there are two types: direct (such as in Switzerland) and representative. Which means that an unrepresentative system - where 43.6% of votes produce 56% of seats - is simply undemocratic. We have what Lord Hailsham once called an elective dictatorship. We need PR to achieve democracy. As simple as that.
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  1914. Net zero my anus! The production will happen somewhere else, thus pollution shifted then add the extra pollution for transport as we import it. Greenpeace also explained that had the government invested in cleaner methods of steel pollution, most of the jobs are saved and we move to real net zero. More Sunak lies and Tory sociopathy. Never trust a Tory.
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  1915.  @johnrussell3961  yes. I've heard it called chumocracy. Just chums who prove useful.
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  1916.  @simonjohn9525  sorry, Simon, I tried to reply to someone else, asking the relevance of your post, but somehow it was sent to you. I fully support your comments.
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  1917. Yet another Tory chancer. Promising integrity, professionalism and accountability. Delivering corruption, incompetence and opacity.
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  1918. The death of a thousand cuts for Sunak, leaving vacuous Dizzy Lizzy in pole position. The race to the bottom for the country.
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  1919. So predictable of Johnson to lie, yet the speaker did not force him to correct the record and threaten to hold him in contempt, even after the lie was exposed. As for VAT, Germany reduced VAT rates as part of a Covid stimulus package and last time I checked they were in the single market.
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  1920.  @ince55ant  I thinks it's known as tales of fantasy. Also know as government spin or just plain bullshit.
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  1921. Electoral reform, absolutely! Not just PR, but cleaning up parliamentary standards after a clearly written constitution approved by a people's assembly. Never a better time after Johnson has demonstrated such wholesale corruption.
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  1922. ​ @paulchambers6537 Only the intellectually challenged would celebrate winning an act of self-harm. Steve Bannon is apparently going to get rid of Musk, leaving the orange moron with his sundry idiots.
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  1923. Perhaps we will finally see some "accountability?" Don't bank on it with this Tory cabal led by a little spiv.
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  1924. Farage and Tice appeal to idiots by shouting about perceived problems but offering national harm rather than a solution. Does anyone remember brexit?
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  1925. Laughing at us! The understatement of the decade. I read one comment that stereotypes us as Sun reading idiots. The Sun has become our national emblem while we are waiting for it to light the uplands.
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  1926. While I welcome the change in attitude to one of service and responsible governance, the two child benefit cap is a mistake. When learning who introduced it - two sociopaths called Cameron and Osborne - reversing it becomes a no brainer. Independent studies have shown that it is not encouraging people back into work but is instead increasing poverty.
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  1927. Don't recall seeing much about protests on the BBC. Has our state broadcaster fallen asleep? Perhaps Brexit is a pseudonym for silence; or embarrassment. . Lol
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  1928.  @alansdorsetfossils4028  I actually wrote an ebook, which you can download for free, called the Real Miracle of Neoliberalism. The miracle being persuading the poor to vote for the rich to have more.
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  1929. The stupidity of completing the act of self-harm called brexit during a pandemic is the epitome of operational incompetence. Sacking Johnson was the best thing, but then we ended up with another serial liar.
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  1930. ​ @colinsmith1288 No. Just their moronic leadership. The cabal of scammers.
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  1931. Tim Brexitspoon: the moron who keeps on giving endless hilarity.
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  1932.  @jimmagspanton669  There you go with the childish personal insults. That observation holds true for most professions, so you have to apply analytical thought and judge which solution would benefit society the most.
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  1933. @Changedmynameagain Who are you addressing? I pointed that out in my original post.
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  1934. Apparently the vacuous Johnson is on a constant publicity campaign to justify the brexit lies about the 'evil EU' Now "global Britain" must be world-leading and do things better. Two problems: 1) Operation Moonshot failed to deliver it's world beating test and trace system after spaffing 37 billion on it. 2) Our trade deals are about lowering standards rather than protecting public health and welfare.
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  1935. The hard right extremists are skilled in articulating a problem then shifting the blame to the vulnerable. This gets power, but then they must govern and accept some responsibility. As reality dawns, their promises are proven false and their operational incompetence becomes visible. Perhaps many will recognise our British Brexit as a microcosm of this phenomenon.
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  1936. The Stormont break has gone on too long. Will the Stormont Brake persuade the bigots to get back to work? If they're on strike, their pay should be withheld.
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  1937. Fartage is a serial whinger and grifter on a show that some view as entertainment. What could go wrong?
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  1938. The laugh of the century was Farage claiming to support critical thinking, in a recent staged interview. Anyone applying structured questions and critical analysis to his bile would take all of five seconds to see through the charlatan. (E.g. you claim not to condone violence, Nigel. Have you actively condemned it?)
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  1939. Perhaps we should ask the Tories to write a paper on the benefits of regulation. If they come up with nothing, or a lame attempt, send them back to primary school and fire them.
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  1940.  @hypsyzygy506  Yes. Something to do with road deaths as cars got faster, so I heard. Are they getting rid of speed limits? I'm sure they will find new brainfarts as the hustings continue.
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  1941. Labour has yet to win an election. To do that, they need clear policies.
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  1942. Abject corruption, revealed in detail by the Good Law Project. The court cases continue.
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  1943. After hearing Johnson lie through his teeth in the covid enquiry, his voters must be impressed! No shortage of gullible people, but will he get anywhere near his "landslide" minority vote of 43.6%? Johnson is the architect of our current disasters.
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  1944.  @Marxside  I agree. That's number one for me, before cleaning up parliamentary standards and making MPs behave like human beings.
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  1945.  @ascgazz  you are more than welcome. Thanks for your supportive comment
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  1946. Perhaps the MPs should strike. See how much we would miss them, while they were causing less damage.
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  1947. We suffer government by sociopaths, appealing to idiots and supported by an inflammatory media.
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  1948. A good analysis and excellent strategy. Starmer no longer lives in a world where it is sufficient to prove guilt. The fact that lies can't be (or aren't easily) challenged in parliament means that he must draw comparative facts and show real differences. Buffoon gets away with deception and evasion in our broken parliament, so the use of verifiable facts against him is a better strategy.
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  1949. Expect plenty of three-word slogans. How about integrity, professionalism, accountability? Should be a laugh. Getting brexit undone? We love oil? We hate trains? Inflation means tax?
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  1950. Beware of Brexit by numbers: another trade deal (that benefits the partner country more than us) check. Delete an EU standard (and water it down with rubbish) check. The government's checklist of lunacy, to benefit the disaster capitalist and screw the population, flourishes.
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  1951. ​ @rossdavies8250  They would rather listen to batshit crazy marginal economists, spouting a failed ideology
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  1952. The ugly sight of a spoilt spiv throwing his toys out of the pram, while posturing to idiots in his party. This is government by minority-elected incompetents.
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  1953. Musk inadvertently makes the argument for public funding of political parties. Government by oligarchy is simply undemocratic. (They who pay the piper call the tune.)
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  1954. In the season of goodwill, I find it ironic that our sociopathic government wants us to believe in fictitious opportunities, created by a cataclysmic event fuelled by negativity and hatred.
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  1955. The irony being that our parliamentary system is not democratic. It's an elective dictatorship, as commented by Lord Hailsham in 1976.
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  1956.  @timonsolus  then the Tories will stay in power
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  1957. I'd like to connect with the PM, by metaphorically connecting my boot with his anus. The Tories are unfit for government, proven over 13 years of their planned incompetence.
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  1958. Johnson's promises have a common denominator: they present a photo op. before being conveniently forgotten. Nothing more, nothing less.
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  1959. The greatest crisis in the UK is a cabinet of morons led by a buffoon. Who else would make the schoolboy error of completing Brexit during a pandemic? Unless, of course, they wanted to use the pandemic to deflect from their crap deal and cause mayhem and poverty in the process.
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  1960. So if he didn't mislead parliament deliberately, he is not intellectually fit to lead the country: not understanding his own rules and not recognising a party. This vacuous buffoon is quite a specimen.
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  1961. When in a state of desperation, reach for the most tenuous lie and treat the public as idiots.
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  1962. The fact that the buffoon thinks we were prepared shows how useless his leadership is.
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  1963. After finally making it to parliament, this egomaniac thinks he can rule the world. Fartage is a sick joke.
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  1964. Who could have trusted this shower of excrement to take back control?
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  1965. No. We have another form of elective dictatorship to stitch us up.
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  1966. Such coincidences are never far away from Johnson. The operationally incompetent, narcissistic serial liar has left a stink of corruption behind. Just another Tory - with hubris.
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  1967. The argument of someone paying for my pension means that the government has mishandled money. If I paid to a private pension, it would be invested for the future. No surprise there.
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  1968. Never has a simple phrase exposed such levels of incompetence, corruption and lies. Enough is enough! Enough of Tory economic mismanagement. Enough of dodgy dealings in spaffing public money on faulty PPE and a non-existent test and trace system. Enough of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest. Enough of an unfit parliamentary system and a compliant oligarch media. Enough of hypocrisy in applauding for the NHS while cutting their pay. Kick these buggers out and lock them in prison. Enough is indeed enough.
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  1969. Perhaps by Good Friday we will have another agreement. Only for the DUP to throw their toys out of the pram.
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  1970. As senator Jeff Merkeley commented: if Trump is not a Russian asset, what more could he have done if he was? It seems that President Moron sees the world through Putin's eyes.
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  1971. Brexiters scraping the barrel has become a national sport. The Daily Fail strikes again. EU "red tape." Let's forget a logical system and promote an illogical one. Why not return to £sd while we are at it? Oh! And print union flags on all pint glasses.
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  1972. ​ @Noel-ji8nm Hello, Noel the Troll.
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  1973. ​ @Danny-rc9kj whataboutery fails yet again. The worst half of the stain is Reform (the party of failed vacuous fascists).
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  1974. Let's hope that Labour walk the walk by reducing outsourcing. Free at the point of use is an easy test: allowing state-funded private services, run for profit. PFI is an ugly example that has lumbered the NHS with massive debt.
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  1975. I would even say they have done that while dismantling our human rights
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  1976.  @manoo422  bullshit. Check the facts, then explain how, which will reveal the lies you have bought in to.
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  1977.  @badomen9057  That's not what I said. Read again and apply some thought. Where did I excuse Starmer? I was pointing out the folly of voting Tory. That would be self-inflicted punishment. Other options are available.
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  1978.  @Noel-ji8nm  OMG. You really do suffer from Starmer-phobia. So who would you vote for?
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  1979.  @Noel-ji8nm  evidence needed from the troll...
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  1980. Absolutely. In reality, wealth gushes up and drips down where they can't fix the cracks. The real intent of neoliberalism was to increase inequality.
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  1981.  @casperwallace9685  yes. And we trust them to provide the infrastructure and public services? As in the American healthcare system and now the British addiction to private investment after selling off our public services? Not only is the theory pure bullshit, it puts greed above society. Not the world I want. Furthermore, history shows that America achieved its highest growth rates when taxation was highest.
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  1982. Seems like an all-too-common syndrome. Political interference and the appointment of box-tickers who must make a name for themselves and justify their existence. This government shows a common trait: being seen to do something; rarely the right thing; never enough. Their idea of leadership is a bullshitter from the right background who has risen beyond their competence level. As Phil says, read the report and apply your own critical thinking. Don't swallow their jobsworth bullshit.
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  1983. Anyone excusing Buffoon should check The Lies of Boris Johnson, by Peter Oborne
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  1984. Phil's key word "fabrication" is highly relevant. The black hole is fantasy - not only because of the stated fiscal rules but in the way the alleged debt is calculated. Most of it puts us in debt to ourselves! How can that be? The right pocket has borrowed from the left to create this theoretical debt. If that is deemed fallacy, we actually end up with a surplus of £14 billion. The Tories are gaming the system to appease the markets while engaging in their usual sadism for the majority. Enough is enough!
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  1985. The idiots in this cabinet would be priceless as comedians, if dismantling the NHS could be a laughing matter. They have taken operational incompetence to a new level. Enough is enough.
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  1986. Hardly surprising from the Torygraph
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  1987. I fail to understand why Labour MPs don't expose Johnson's lies, by retrospectively repeating them along with proven facts (and source) and formally asking the PM to correct the record. He will be exposed, lie by lie, and will be misleading parliament if he fails to correct each lie. Use the tedious and archaic process against the moron.
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  1988. In their eyes, the EU was "protectionist" yet Trump's tariffs are a game. Deform UK are clueless.
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  1989. The serial liar Johnson signed an agreement he never intended to keep because, as a charlatan, he listens to bigots. The hard brexit ideology amounted to illogical bile and vacuous rhetoric, so nothing will change while we remain outside the single market.
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  1990.  @johnrussell3961  my take on it was blame. Blame the pandemic to hide the lunacy of Johnson's oven ready deal.
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  1991. Truss shows the danger of allowing a few weeks of power to a total delusional backed by a warped think tank. Welcome to Tory Britain.
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  1992. In operational terms, only an idiot would complete Brexit during a pandemic. A politician, on the other hand, will use deflection and misdirection to justify their inane dogma. (blaming Covid after they promised a world-beating test and trace system; after slauding a world-leading vaccine rollout. Two such examples that show the Johnson government has made us an international joke.)
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  1993. A government in the process of strengthening workers rights is to go cap in hand to a rogue employer for investment? Time to grow some cajones. (Firing McSweeney might be a useful byproduct btw)
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  1994. Tory government speciality: spaffing money up the wall to manage the economy like a leaking bucket. Tory government propaganda: the party of responsible fiscal management. When will voters wake up and smell the coffee?
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  1995. I wonder if Farage and Anderson were handing out free booze to get them drunk as an excuse.
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  1996. Farage is successul in getting media attention and making money through being a charlatan. How long has it taken him to get into parliament? How has his beloved brexit worked out? (Of course, it's always someone else's fault.) He can't set up a proper democratic party and vet electoral candidates (again someone else's fault). Nigel is a serial whinger, trading in bile-infused rhetoric, with no workable solutions. Challenge him and he falls apart, a big ego hiding the petulance of a child. A Marmite character who will be more exposed as he shows his support for the wealthy while pretending to be a man of the people - fox hunting and tax avoidance through farm ownership being the latest causes inspiring him to don his yellow trousers and wellies. That's some man of the people - who pay to join his new limited company where they have no voting rights.
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  1997. The silence of our mainstream media is deafening. Perhaps they still have delusions of Global Britain.
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  1998. Amazing that it took booing from a crowd of royalists to trigger this vote, which has shown a lack of confidence in Buffoon.
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  1999. I don't see a bold vision from Starmer's Labour. In summary, I see Tory light, plus some welcome reform (in the form of devolved powers and abolishing the unelected House of Lords) yet failing to support PR. Perhaps he is playing to the oligarch media.
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  2000. We have an elective dictatorship and a complicit media that helps to manufacture consent. Britain is broken.
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  2001.  @MichaelSmith-ns8ow  Then who will tell him? Murdoch? The little spiv is spineless and useless.
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  2002.  @EdJames-tb9oz  We have to wipe our asses on something, but probably import most of it.
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  2003. The Tories have relegated our world status to that of a sordid, shitty country run by privileged idiots.
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  2004. Farage was culpable in discrediting the police statement to fuel anger for his own ends.
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  2005. Just look at the Tory economic record since 2010 (bordering on incompetence and disaster) and vote accordingly.
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  2006. Madder than a box of frogs, carried by a coach load of hatters.
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  2007. "A free-loading Tory sponger." So accurate. Johnson has all the characteristics of a populist leader: buffoonery; delusion; incompetence; moral bankruptcy. Enabled by an undemocratic system where a minority of voters return the parliamentary majority of an elective dictatorship.
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  2008. A government in perpetual denial of fact. Living their own failed rhetoric of Global Britain and Brexit success. Being dragged towards reality when events prove their idiocy. Kicking and screaming after being forced to be seen to do something. Always too little, too late. Little England, the international joke.
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  2009.  @magyarbrit5631  good point. Missed that one.
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  2010. Our sociopathic government has only one job: to stop immigration. For everything else they blame others.
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  2011. The longer this goes on, the more Theresa May is proved right. Johnson's crazy brexit has destabilised NI, by offering a new excuse for bigots.
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  2012.  @emm_arr  I agree. But she did get one thing right about Brexit being a disaster in Northern Ireland.
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  2013.  @desperatelyseekingrealnews  it's called becoming a third country. We knew it would happen if we left the single market and the customs union. We made the choice; we take the consequences.
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  2014.  @desperatelyseekingrealnews  not a label, a process used by the EU with all countries outside the single market and the customs union. We knew the consequences. Our inept government made the decision.
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  2015. He will be content with a deck chair in his cell. Lol
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  2016. The power of a name, backed by the oligarch media: Reform! Who doesn't think the country needs reform? Yet when we look at the millionaire brexiter rejects behind Reform UK, it becomes obvious that they would reform us into a banana republic while they strip the financial carcass. The right uses a familiar pattern: articulate a problem; shift blame to justify a fake solition; then remove many of the rights of those who voted for them to maximise their own power and control.
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  2017. Declaring this could be a simple vote winner with some. Just do it immediately, if gaining power.
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  2018. We simply can't trust the Tories with ANY public services. Ironically, a successful economy depends on an efficient public infrastructure. So are the Tories deliberately crashing the country?
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  2019.  @elliotwilliams7421  then you didn't listen to his words. Are you by implication suggesting that the Tories are more trustworthy? It is it just whataboutery used for deflection?
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  2020. ​ @StanWatts-u5l How? Did you listen to his bullshit? Certainly excusing idiots and siding with Tate. The whinging charlatan bellyaching once again.
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  2021.  @lochnessmunster1189  Such a pointless organisation that other nations have copied it with trade deals. Pointless in helping preserve peace and creating economic prosperity while protecting the public through higher product standards and workers' rights. We certainly have a different definition of pointless. I wonder if that's why other EU countries don't agree with your rhetoric.
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  2022.  @lochnessmunster1189  really??? Without trade deals we would face duties, border controls and paperwork. Imagine buying from countries with no obligation to label contents, so you don't know what you are eating or using. In deciding workers' rights in-country, you may be buying from a country using child slave labour. Standards and agreements exist for good reasons. They also offer better quality and value. Would you really prefer a race to the bottom?
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  2023. The behaviour of this government went beyond sleaze a few years ago. They laugh at the law and expect the rest of us to respect it. (Thankfully most of us do for the good of society.) Wilfull destruction of evidence treated as an everyday occurrence by a cabal of entitled charlatans. We should certainly remember this at the ballot box.
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  2024. Farage knew the impact of his words. He willingly took the risk of incitement for his own ego and his bank balance. This is NOT a patriot, nor a responsible politician.
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  2025. The main cause is lack of understanding. Many don't even understand school level economics and can't think through the implications of tariffs, because they don't know how they are applied. Even my local MP (sadly Tory) didn't understand the process in a previous exchange of emails.) Let's do it to them; without understanding the implications to us.
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  2026. Not only is the law an ass, British democracy is an oxymoron. The law lord announcing this referred to our constitution. A laugh in itself because it consists of a series of precedents - uncodified to maintain obscurity and keep control by the few. Democracy is officially declared dead and buried. Britain is broken.
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  2027.  @ADifferentBias  My suggestion is approval by a people's assembly, after being drafted by a panel of specialists. A codified constitution can also be updated, provided the authority doesn't rest solely with current politicians. Btw I don't accept that the uncodified constitution prevents control by a few - the few in power change and tamper with the opaque rules for their own end.
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  2028.  @emm_arr  which achieves obscurity over transparency
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  2029. Why would you want the media at an academy of dark arts? Plotting a dirty tricks campaign after reducing the powers of the electoral commission. This is the little spiv who promised professionalism and integrity.
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  2030. Cameron: the rat fighting to get back in the sack. Room for Dodgy Dave? Move over...
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  2031. ​ @dalecrocker3213 If and when the little sh1t returns, the courts will do that.
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  2032. Yes, apparently that's already happened with the trains - services cut from Waterloo - and likely to be implemented at the ports. Another Brexit win. Who would have thought than banning free movement would affect us?
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  2033. The stock in trade of the far right is anger. Look over there! It's disgusting! Trust us to sort it out. The perfect antidote: look back at their track record and THINK for yourself.
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  2034. A government claiming to deliver for the people, after a minority mandate (from 43.6% of verified votes) followed by a list of priorities made up on the fly. The useless b'stards can't even deliver (for the people lol) on their own priorities.
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  2035. Perhaps his "friend Donald" will see him or recognise him this time. Lol
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  2036. A world-beating laughing stock. Life in the Brexit fast lane is a sh1t show, leading to more queues.
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  2037. I urge you: don't be a bystander. Write to the BBC, calling out their bias and cowardice. Afterall we pay for the service. Demand responsible journalism, by expecting them to hold the government to account.
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  2038.  @tomsheppard378  no answers, Tom. Are you intellectually lazy, stupid or just too arrogant?
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  2039. The arrogant foghorn has more than a credibility problem. His opponents should simply ask voters to look where listening to Farage has got us.
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  2040. The Tories claim to have tackled inflation: that's price inflation; not profit inflation. The BofE imposes higher interest rates to reduce price inflation. Government fails to penalise profiteering to keep the costs to consumers up.
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  2041. ​ @Noel-ji8nm which are those, troll?
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  2042. The NHS is NOT safe with this government. They have been chipping away at the NHS, while maintaining that outsourcing to private companies has nothing to do with NHS privatisation. Tony Blair was complicit in this, and played into Tory hands. Labour need to shout this from the rooftops and propose a full publicly run and publicly resourced service.
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  2043. Same level of populism, without attention to detail. A truly incompetent government: successful only in leading us towards fascism while ruining the country.
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  2044. Pity we can't get the b'stard to lie in court then chuck him in prison for perjury. If Buffoon is above the law,. Britain is beyond broken
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  2045. Ironic that free marketeers rail against protectionism. Yet, in pure economic terms, abandoning free movement is a form of protectionism. Their real reason is, as you say, the reduction of standards and the dismantling of workers rights. Also the protection of tax dodgers in one of the world's money laundering capitals - London (and of course off-shore)
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  2046. Simple logic: it's the quality of questions that determine the outcome.
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  2047. So America suffers from loose bowels, with none looser than the man named after a fart.
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  2048. Johnson thrives on confrontation because the mainstream media support him while we all suffer the consequences. He does not care about the effect on our lives; only his popularity.
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  2049.  @frogandspanner  That's an assumption. Some may vote Lib Dem, others may vote Reform. Conversely many many well leave Labour. Don't be blind and deaf to the comments from disillusioned Labour voters. We can argue about clever strategy but people don't react like machines. Starmer is making some world class blunders recently: his naive comment about Thatcher (what reaction did he expect after it was processed through the Torygraph's filter?) His support of Israeli genocide. Streeting's (perhaps misquoted) comments about the NHS. Not safe to make any assumptions...
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  2050.  @fjkelley4774  Yes And they should be prosecuted for it.
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  2051. Tory speciality: chuck public money at your supporters and donors, or to buy votes. Screw those who need support and blame them for laziness.
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  2052. A sad fact of life in our elective dictatorship is the need to lie. Not all votes are equal; voters in marginal seats must be wooed. Enter Johnson in the last election: one lie after another. Will these desperate voters hold the Tories to account? Or will they buy the inane excuses? It was: the pandemic; the Russian invasion; lefty lawyers; economic migrants taking all the money. Labour should support PR and deliver it. Otherwise this mess will continue to soil the country. The Tories are skilled at gaming the system, in spite of an abject record in government
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  2053. Social housing has been banned from our vocabulary since Thatcher. George Clarke did a great documentary on quality social housing in other countries. Bring it here. Make the banks fund long term mortgages below the commercial rate, as in Germany. Cap house price rises to the inflation rate in the short term until we have enough housing to trust the free market. GET A BLOODY GRIP. The market is broken and housing is a basic social need.
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  2054. That should put a nail in their coffin. Only idiots would vote for them.
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  2055. Abhorrent is an interesting word. I abhor racism. I abhor the behaviour of politicians when stoking division. I abhor gaslighting, masking operational incompetence. I abhor corruption and the spaffing of public money. Coincidentally, I abhor this Tory government.
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  2056. When in the sh1t, wheel out a comedy act to defend you. Only the vacuous buffoon could come up with that one.
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  2057.  @2000bhoy  plenty in Phil's video and online if you care to check. I'm not prepared to write a book but you can start with Johnson refusing every offer of help (from the EU and other parties) in the pandemic. He has failed to work with local leaders and imposed top-down dictatorship and incompetence. Google the Good Law Project and open your eyes.
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  2058.  @2000bhoy  great. Sorry, I misunderstood your comment. Thought you wanted more info.
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  2059.  @aryastark634  yes. It's impossible without electoral reform, as they have the same proportion of seats as the vote AGAINST THEM. The exact opposite of what we voted for. We need PR and stronger standards of conduct (removing dark money funding etc) The start would be for all other parties to campaign for electoral reform so the Tories are exposed.
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  2060. Bring it on! The Good Law Project has a stack of evidence and we should now see the law applied for the benefit of society. The Tories are serial scammers, using the British tendency to cap-doffing and our national pandering to elitism.
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  2061. I'm amazed at the level of mental illness. That is, the fact that it's not even higher after 14 years of Tory sociopathy and planned incompetence for the benefit of their masters.
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  2062. The Tory strategy is consistent and obvious: being seen to do something; rarely the right thing; never enough.
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  2063. Apparently the gutless little spiv has now ordered an investigation by his ethics advisor. Wonder where he got that idea?
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  2064. I suspect the disaster capitalists and money launderers already do.
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  2065. Shapps must take the prize for brainfarts. The guy can't even decide on his own name.
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  2066. And how has she done that? Evidence is needed. We know about the Farage Riots. What about Patel?
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  2067. Yes. The act of levelling means one part goes down while another goes up. Unless , of course, tonnage (or money) is added to the whole so all levels rise.
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  2068. Tory entitlement knows no bounds.
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  2069. Reform will become the money pit for sponsors of fascism. Their proven formula appeals to idiots, albeit they will make them poorer.
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  2070. Some of which has been exposed by the Good Law Project and the government throws more public money at the defence of their corruption.
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  2071. A political game, using the threat to apply an article that has specific and limited scope. It seems doubtful that Buffoon and Lord Gormless have even read it. Beware! Grifters at play.
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  2072. Yet the dysfunctional Met Police will not investigate because of "an absence of evidence." Thought the whole point of investigation was to find evidence.
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  2073. Brexit was like a journey to the land of the unknown. Why? It was not clearly defined. Something like joining a mystery tour with an unskilled driver or a novice pilot and hoping to end up in a place of perfect beauty and harmony. We also jumped on board to escape a pandemic when half of the crew and passengers were infected. How was it going to end well when we trusted a serial liar and a cult of abject incompetents to take back control?
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  2074.  @jjefferyworboys8138  Never underestimate the greed of the ultra-rich. They ALWAYS want more and as PM, Sunak is facilitating it.
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  2075.  @maskedavenger2578  perhaps if you take off your mask and open your mind you will understand that lifeboat crews save lives - irrespective of whose... Your mask hides a fascist agenda, promoted by the vacuous foghorn Farage.
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  2076. If these bigots are paid in full, the same treatment should be mandated for all workers on official strike.
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  2077. Will the BBC be forced to report on the march in support of Palestine after this level of publicity? Could be an own goal by the lunatic Blabbermouth.
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  2078. ​ @trytellingthetruth.2068 Don't think they will walk away from a lucrative market. Amazon et all should pay their fair share.
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  2079. Starmer is dealing with an apprentice mafia boss who sees himself as a master negotiator. Well, that proved delusional when Asset Krasnov (Trump) met Putin and gave in to his controller. America is no longer anyone's ally, led by a narcissistic moron who changes with the wind. We must work with Europe, as we can't depend on the criminal president.
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  2080. ​ @camo68 It takes intelligence to listen, so why would we expect Deform members to listen to anyone?
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  2081. ​ @patrickcromie7095 beware: he appeals to the intellectually lazy and extreme idiots.
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  2082.  @PeterPete  I agree we shouldn't have, but facts are that we did.
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  2083.  @PeterPete  you said that; not me. Do you propose stopping them all? Or how would you control it?
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  2084. The Westminster Buffoon is building the case for Scottish Independence. The SNP must think that all their Christmases have come at once with Johnson in charge.
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  2085. The EU is playing smart. No comment; nothing for our oligarch media to report. They keep Lord Gormless and Buffoon guessing and wait for them to be provocateurs. Every move Johnson makes is the wrong one - as shown this week. His house of cards is propped up by the oligarch media.
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  2086. ​ @willyhill7509 then read the enquiry report in the link.
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  2087. What the study really shows, is that our voting system is undemocratic. We live in an elective dictatorship and the system is a sham.
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  2088. An elective dictatorship; an oligarch controlled and complicit media; a revolving door between journalism and politics. Spot the connection?
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  2089. Sunak has jumped out of the plane and is hoping that someone has invented the parachute. I have never trusted the Tories with public services (at least since Thatcher and neoliberalism) and now who would trust them with the future of their children and grandchildren?
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  2090. On another YT channel, a video of a scammer sat at a desk between two union flags. The said scammer allegedly didn't codone violence yet defended the far right as though they were victims rather than perpetrators. The sammer (who you may have guessed was Farage) then offered veiled threats of more violence.
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  2091. It's incredible! Not the fact of Tory economic mismanagement, but that many still believe the propaganda of them being the party of responsible financial management. When Tory governments have historically borrowed more and paid back less than Labour, recently perpetuated by failed austerity.
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  2092.  @korneldura7640  "No austerity in the last 20 years" ???? Really!!!
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  2093.  @korneldura7640  I'm fully aware of what austerity is, after qualifying in degree-level economics some years ago. In our case we kept cutting funding to public services, or deliberately underfunding it, under the pretence of paying back a debt - largely theoretical using QE. Meanwhile the debt kept growing due to Tory mismanagement. Now we have Sunak repeating the process.
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  2094. Trump and Vance, the perfect team: a f'kwit assisting a moron. Making America not-so-great; nearer to an international laughing stock.
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  2095. The whiff of corruption from Tory scum is overwhelming.
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  2096. Sweet irony. We lose EU funding and have a vacuous two-word slogan announcing a fund that will effectively level down. The money is mysteriously being awarded to locations with a Tory marginal seat, as Phil explains.
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  2097. Welcome to the land of Tory economic make believe. They have sacked a privileged narcissistic buffoon who talked about levelling up; and replaced him with a comic due who co-authored a fantasy novel called Britannia Unchained, only to impose their madness to crash the economy. Acolytes of a hustle that pretends to be a philosophy called Neoliberalism. Exponents of a lie called trickle down economics, where wealth gushes up and drips down where they can't fix the leaks. Truss did promise to deliver. Now we know what she has joined Deliveroo for: to deliver more crap to the poorest houses with blocked toilets.
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  2098. The whiff of Tory corruption is consistently stronger than the stench of sh1t in our waters.
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  2099. Hardly surprising when President Moron is in hock to Putin's oligarchs. Read Putin's People by Catherine Belton. Trump is unhinged; America is not so great; Europe should stand together.
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  2100. Johnson knew nothing... says it all. A serial liar and vacuous buffoon running the country
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  2101.  @rocketscience4516  perhaps Johnson did that for all of us with his brexit incompetence?
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  2102.  @carlossaraiva8213  did he find Tim Martin waiting on? Or was he outside shouting about brexit?
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  2103. We have gone beyond being an international joke; we are now the idiots of the world. Welcome to Tory Britain.
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  2104. Mone and Hubby are the fall guys but that does not excuse them. They should be at the end of the queue, while the politicians parade in the theatre of a token inquiry.
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  2105. Perhaps Nads should be a keynote speaker at the Tory conference, since their purpose is to appeal to the intellectually challenged.
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  2106.  @stewie7338  are you for real? What kind of response would you expect from your provocative comments?
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  2107.  @stewie7338  Fill yours by asking a sensible question without prejudicial accusations.
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  2108.  @stewie7338  That's a statement, not a question. What's your question?
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  2109.  @sparking2016  the clairvoyance was in your first reply, just reread. The ambiguity in my words offended you, to the extent that you took the high ground and became a self-appointed guru of Labour policy. Good luck with that approach.
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  2110.  @sparking2016  No. I'll take the last laugh after your pathetic response. "People like you" is the preface of desperation and defeat. Goodbye.
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  2111. Just a few facts about the implementation of systems (don't yawn) Even when releasing just a new version of software (to users familiar with the system) we used rigorous alpha and beta testing followed by a phased rollout to pilot sites. All before the full release. As for live testing an unfamiliar system in the month before it goes live. Expect mayhem. Anyone remember the big bang that brought the stock exchange to a halt? Happy new year.
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  2112. After 14 years of Tory government we spend less per capita on health provision than France or Germany and considerably less than the US, so, yes, the NHS is underfunded. Add to that the extraction of profit by private outsource providers and the picture is bleaker. If "reform" means more PFI contracts, that's death by a thousand cuts. If it means more management consultants and political interference, that's a downward slope. If we depend on private investment for the extraction of profit, that will cost us more. Starmer should listen to Dr Julia Grace Patterson and stop listening to Milburn (who has milked money from health services) and invest in a vibrant public service. He will need a new chancellor, of course, led by the patriotic millionaires rather than Londongrad bankers, to work for public good.
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  2113. ​ @Petersworld77 which is why we should listen to him if you understand how he made the money
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  2114.  @chrismanners9091  then you agree with Richard Murphy
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  2115. The BBC perhaps accurately reflects the political climate of the country: reeking of corruption and lacking democracy. Symptomatic of a cap-doffing forelock-tugging nation - failing to scrutinise power and sleaze. State media for a cesspit called Britain.
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  2116. Also on BBC text. He has become beyond transparent. He lies whenever he opens his mouth and spouts his wiffle waffle.
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  2117. I could imagine the charges if these acts were committed by anyone other than government ministers: murder; manslughter or treason? These buggers should be conducting their defence from the Tower of London.
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  2118. "We've had enough of experts," so the intellectually lazy or mentally challenged can be fooled by morons like Rees Mogg.
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  2119. When we hear of Tory bright stars, where are they? Most have probably been forced out after seeing through Johnson's brexit debacle and serial buffoonery.
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  2120. When paper straws offer adequate deflection, the media is a waste of space. President Moron loves his infantile executive orders.
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  2121. The condescending chancellor Rich Rishi doesn't understand the plight of the majority. He seems to think that we should doff our cap and be grateful for a pittance, while refusing to tax companies making huge profits. That's Tory Britain.
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  2122. Johnson is doing enough single-handedly to help the Lib Dems. His encore will be to break up the union.
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  2123. Ministers excel in one thing: top-down mismanagement. Exacerbating inequality doesn't level anything; it does the exact opposite.
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  2124. The fact that Foghorn can't see any conflict of interest, exposes him as a grifter and makes him unfit to sit in the House.
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  2125. Why not promise the earth, knowing he won't have to deliver it? HS2, HS3 and HS4; banning private jets; stopping the big boats; half-price houses for oligarchs; free houses for benefits claimants. Something for everyone... About as credible as the crap he comes up with.
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  2126. Of course Johnson is intent on public service. Just serving the 1% (his string pullers) and any significant Tory donors.
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  2127. The argument for beneficial competition is lost with privatised monopolies. The end result of outsourcing is the lowest standards that the provider can get away with for profit maximisation. The central excuse of trickle down, in neoliberalism, is the biggest bullshit on the planet, as wealth gushes up and drips down where they can't fix the leaks. Welcome to the real world. History has shown how the Tories rob us so their backers can have more.
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  2128.  @tonycook7679  true. It operates on privatised monopolies. The worst of both worlds.
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  2129. The best way to encourage corruption is to have corporate interests funding a political party. Tory scum.
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  2130. The Tories promise a "plan" that is not a plan. They offer a series of aspirations or targets with no viable solutions... rhetoric instead of reality. The Tories have systematically dismantled our access to justice under false pretences, starting with Cameron in 2011. If you doubt this, read Fake Law by the secret barrister. "Small state" is the classic Tory slogan - allegedly for lower taxes but in reality for services only of you can afford them... Health; legal advice and representation; higher education; social care...the list goes on. A cabal of charlatans and frauds.
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  2131. We need PR to replace our elective dictatorship with real democracy. The sooner the better, but if we must wait to make it a certainty, so be it. As for tax and spend, stop cowering and take it on. 1) the note? It's amazing that the Tories found money through borrowing and by creating it, and landed us with a record debt. 2) why ask that question of us and ignore it with the Tories, who have consistently borrowed more and paid back less than Labour since the second world war? 3) we will explain funding in a costed manifesto, but here's a clue: there is plenty of money in the country but much of it is in the wrong place...
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  2132. The electoral fortunes of the Lib Dems are interesting. They get hammered after being blamed for coalition failures, only to leave the door open for more Tory austerity. Now they become the natural retreat for ex Tory voters who can't support Johnson's abject failures and criminal acts, yet can't bring themselves to vote Labour.
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  2133.  @SirAntoniousBlock  Sounds like Westminster justice.
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  2134. We've had a lot of pain for the last 12 years; not seeing any sign of jam tomorrow. Oops! Just proved that I'm not in the top 1% of income in retirement. The Tories have no plans for the good of the majority of the population - only running the country into the ground for the benefit of tax avoiders and disaster capitalists. Looking forward to the Freeports and money laundering while the majority starve?
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  2135. It's always worth remembering that 30p Lee is the Tories idea of the model aspirational worker. How insulting can you get? Meanwhile, Sunak should tell greedy bankers and execs to "embrace pay restraint."
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  2136. He certainly has a legacy: of lies and incompetence. Just follow the money and look at his record: the worst prime minister in my lifetime.
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  2137. The same idiots who buy Tory excuses for a calamitous Brexit will blame France and support Johnson. That said, only 43.6% voted Tory and some will be disillusioned by his incompetence. Linking this as an excuse for suspending the NI protocol is a stretch too far, with the resultant economic damage. International law is factual. Public opinion is facile.
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  2138.  @rozzgrey801  perhaps you Brexiters should look at Britain's record of selling arms and provoking conflict, so we put our own house in order.
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  2139. Let's be fair. Honest Bob would have done things differently. He would have used a different coloured paint.
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  2140. "Government plan" is an oxymoron. Johnson doesn't plan: make it up as you go along; shift the blame; operational incompetence; inane slogans with no grasp of fact; denial; suppression of scrutiny. Why be surprised?
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  2141. What Farage and Brexiters mean when they say brexit hasn't been delivered properly is that enough of us fell for the con.
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  2142. We all know what happens when you stir a cesspit. But will the stench topple dictator Johnson?
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  2143. The NHS was never safe in Tory hands. Which mugs were stupid enough to trust them? 43.6% of voters?
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  2144.  @pam-gw6uk  Yes. And NATO were party to the escalation in any event. The US and the UK can sell more arms. Wonder if that's our agenda?
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  2145. Wow! Wonder if these events will be reported by the BBC, after they reported the alleged "thousands" who marched or supported the DUP protest against the NI protocol.
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  2146. Little Spiv (Sunak) is simply out of his league, the kid can't even pretend to play with big boys and girls. Same Tory shit show; different leader.
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  2147.  @kenneth6102  Yes. So much being stitched up. Moving towards fascism. The rot starts with our lack of democracy; instead we have an elective dictatorship where all votes are not equal. If we sit idly by as a population with the next Tory leader, we may pass the point of no return.
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  2148.  @johnfisher697  ????
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  2149.  @johnfisher697  not guilty, John. There are a few of us around. I live further up in Lancashire. Best regards.
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  2150. "Unfunded spending promises!" Spoken by the Spiv from the party that has borrowed more and paid back less than Labour since the second world war. (Even before the start of the pandemic.)
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  2151. To the first I would add parliamentary reform: so lies must be corrected after independent fact checking. As for the media: implement Leveson, then subsequently make it illegal for non-British tax payers to own any British medium. Global media still allowed of course.
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  2152. Quite a gem from Airhead Truss. Waiting for her full policy briefing...pure comedy.
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  2153. Who would have thought that Johnson's lie of getting Brexit done could have led to this sh1tfest?
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  2154. I here that Sunak is growing a mustache and practising a strange salute after last week. "Integrity, professionalism and accountability." Really!!!
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  2155. With no responsibilities, how can Mogg be judged on results? Money for old rope. Minister for gold plated unicorns seems more appropriate.
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  2156. No serious shortage of petrol, we are told, but we still have numpties panic buying. While a local supermarket was reasonably well stocked with provisions, it was hard to get in because of cars queueing for fuel.
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  2157. Why would anyone trust the Tories after 14 years of incompetence and the terminal disease of habitual lying instilled by Johnson? "Integrity, professionalism and accountability" anyone?
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  2158. Amazing that the Tory supporting rags accused Jeremy Corbyn of association with Russia, to divert attention from the real clear and present danger.
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  2159. We proved to Australia that the POME government is stupid. Unfortunately, 43.6% of voters failed to see the risks at the last election.
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  2160.  @susannehartl3067  unregular as opposed to irregular?
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  2161. Great to see this party and its sociopathic ministers in meltdown. Not holding my breath: the Tories will game the electoral system and use their customary dodgy dealings.
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  2162. Yet on the flip side, bounce back loans given to some dodgy businesses. Some large companies using the relief payments to pay dividends to share holders.
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  2163. The irony of the union flag when they are making the case for devolution, by their serial incompetence
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  2164. OMG! Why is it always raining in the sunlit uplands? Everyone would be rushing to do deals with us when we left the EU. Now we have the world-beating CPTPP and we can't get our goods out of the country to export them, but then no one wants them so no alarm bells there. The Brexiters were correct: there are lots of brexit benefits, all of them for Ireland and the EU. These abject liars should be prosecuted for treason. Not going to happen though...
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  2165. Farage is so far up Trump's arse, he couldn't find an original policy: mini-me DOGE, "woke" and immigration. Wonder where he got those ideas?
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  2166. "Militant" journalists probably won't be in the headlines. Perhaps they will say 'enough is enough' in the first print run after the strike. The criminal barrister strike is on the BBC website, so the MSM may be wakening.
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  2167. Perhaps Buffoon has done the string-pullers' bidding by getting Brexit done BADLY. While the tax dodgers and disaster capitalists benefit, will it matter?
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  2168.  @Tomlinsky  good point.
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  2169.  @Stefan-wj6mq  if he know the answer from informed opinion, then absolutely yes
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  2170. Not only does the free market Neoliberal model fail society in general, it fails spectularly in times of crisis or shock. It was always intended to benefit the rich, and has been honed to the extent where the poor vote for the rich to have even more.
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  2171.  @KMD-qj1qc  that's rhetoric. Growth has declined and inequality increased since the neoliberal project was implemented firstly by Pinochet, then by Thatcher and followed by Reagan. Read George Monbiot on its origin, search mont Pelerin 1947, to understand it's true intent. Also you may wish to look at an ebook The Real Miracle of Neoliberalism.
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  2172. Doubtful. They still believe in unicorns and hope Farage will deliver them. Always ripe for a scam...
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  2173. Why did he stop at newer MPs? The party is full of brigands and charlatans. They tried polishing a turd and ended up with Johnson.
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  2174. Starmer seems to be scared of his own shadow. Our brexit disaster is more about the fact that Johnson is getting brexit done BADLY, than the decision to leave. It's the form of brexit and government ineptitude that is contributing to this greatest act of self-harm in my lifetime.
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  2175.  @CmdrMaxHeadroom  didn't say it's not Brexit...said more about. Subtle difference.
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  2176.  @CmdrMaxHeadroom  you won't get an answer from me because I voted remain. At the very least stay in the SM and CU.
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  2177. Johnson always meant the opposite of what he promised. Levelling down on steroids. With funding allocated to help Tory votes.
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  2178. It seems that Labour has to remain largely anonymous and promise little, while letting the Tories run out of road and implode. It's hilarious to see the Tories split into so many factions: as though divide and rule was an own goal. A hangover from brexit?
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  2179.  @stewie7338  Utter garbage. I commented on the rhetoric of a Reform idiot.
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  2180. Apparently the saying about Patriotism is attributed to Samuel Johnson... (definitely not Boris)
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  2181. And only this morning, another sign of a rudderless government as Sunak sent his fellow bellend - Transport minister Mark Harper - to defend his fake policy on 20mph zones. Couldn't answer a single question ... kept bleating on about the falsely alleged "blanket ban" in Wales while refusing to talk about HS2. Who would be desperate enough to vote for such serial incompetents?
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  2182. It takes unassailable arrogance to believe in British exceptionalism. The Tories have it in abundance, which is why we are screwed.
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  2183. Reeves and her fiscal rules will hamstring Labour. Who set the rules? The Tories? We need transformative policies, backed by new economic thinking.
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  2184. Conclusive proof that to win a referendum you don't use factual argument. You appeal to emotions and that includes spinning fantasy. Project fear is revealed as project fact. I could accept some of the concerns about federal Europe, but could I trust this inept shower to take back control?
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  2185. The question is who Buffoon and Dizzy Lizzy are led by? Is it DUP bigots or the ERG, or both? Undoubtedly Johnson is not a leader: no coherent plans, no strategy. Just the old Tory habit of screwing the poor and increasing inequality. As a bully, he will harm the vulnerable and cower to the powerful. If we are stupid enough to start a trade war with the EU, how long will he last?
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  2186.  @angelaharris6577  The word patriot is interesting. Is a patriot someone who follows blindly and embraces jingoism? Or someone who wants to reform their country for the better? Many Little Englanders have made the country worse imo and have subscribed to self harm. The "evil EU" and letting charlatans "take back control" to further their own interests are cases in point.
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  2187. The primary solution is so simple: as you suggest, no secondary paid employment. As for increasing MP salaries, it would be conditional on limiting expenses and giving a reasonable increase to other key workers: medical staff and care workers for example, using an independent committee to award salaries then stopping politicians overriding their decision. There are two goals: avoiding conflict of interest and making the regulation of MPs pay and conditions consistent with that of other key workers.
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  2188. Anyone with even half a brain cell wouldn't "get Brexit done" with a pandemic raging. The Westminster Buffoon, however, did it to shift the blame from his brexit shit-show. Sod the country, so long as he can please his bigoted backers.
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  2189. A new Tory leader? Don't expect to find a jewel in a pile of sh1t.
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  2190. It's easy to get arrested for annoying behaviour: just criticise this government. That's also known as fascism.
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  2191. This is the most politically niave and economically incompetent policy imaginable. Means testing is a slippery slope, as well as adding admin cost. Reeves has turned to the wrong people to help fill the Tory black hole. Profiteering energy companies and the wealthy would be the right sector. An increased windfall tax on energy companies, along with taxing asset wealth as proposed by the patriotic millionaires. Why not tax investment income at the same rate as work income? Personal allowances could then be increased to stimulate the economy. Reeves is not the progressive chancellor we need: handcuffing government by Tory fiscal rules is a recipe for austerity and the inhibitor of growth.
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  2192. Even Johnson is criticising Sunak and thus helping the opposition. World class entertainment seeing the Tories imploding after 13 years of misery.
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  2193.  @johnrussell3961  Yes. I suspect that if we started to tax wealth to make up the shortfall, Brexit would be acknowledged as a disaster.
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  2194.  @davidgreen6490  Glad to read that you are happy about increased poverty after our act of self-harm. If the EU is failing, we are the epitome of failure on steroids. A broken country led by idiots.
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  2195. Warning of the rules of becoming a third country were derided as "project fear." But then, we'd had enough of experts... left it to vacuous and incompetent politicians.
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  2196.  @marresjepie1887  I agree. Too much infighting.
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  2197. Fartage is probably complaining to raise his profile after recent Deform UK "success". Foghorn loves to hear his own voice in any event.
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  2198. Such irony! The OBR, set up by a Tory government (under Cameron) exposes the incompetence of another Tory government, led by a buffoon. Next the experts must be discredited by Sunak and Buffoon...watch this space.
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  2199. The latest Tory wheeze is to insist that their plan is working and it is Labour that has no plan. It is obvious to most of us that either the Tory plan is working against our interests or they are too incompetent to deliver it.
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  2200. The ultimate dilemma: will the energy companies continue to fund the Tories after a windfall tax?
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  2201. Truss isn't thick; just vacuous. The Tories are proving devoid of original thought. An idea that failed in the past is tried again, only to repeat the result.
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  2202.  @YouD0ntSay  so are you arguing against rejoining the SM and CU?
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  2203. But drinking and playing games are an everyday occurrence in Downing Street. Thus not a party. The fact that their "games" bugger up the country is not against the law.
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  2204. The cabinet are above our law. Now try the USA. No limit to dodgy Tory practices.
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  2205. Where will Foghorn take his ill-gotten gains? He also needs somewhere to stash the money he took for old rope as a fake MEP. Just bugger off and shut up, Nigel.
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  2206. The Tories (unfortunately backed by history) see themselves as the natural party of government. It takes an elective dictatorship, enabled through FPTP, to achieve this. With a truly proportional system where all votes count equally, they would be consigned to the dustbin of history. Starmer needs to push for parliamentary reform and a truly democratic electoral system. (No second jobs for MPs, from the Corbyn manifesto, should not be forgotten.) It would give an underlying messae of Tory corruption and a declaration that enough is enough.
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  2207. Aha! We must simply apply British exceptionalism, now that Project Fear has become Project Fact. We simply wave the Union flag and everyone bows down.
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  2208. If Rwada is a safe country, why do the Tories think it could be used as a deterrent? The "plan" was an expensive ruse to appeal to idiots and to be seen to be doing something. The eventual goal: to excuse the dismantling of our human rights. Never trust a Tory.
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  2209. So Britain is the capital of empty containers. There you go! Buffoon did say we are "world leading."
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  2210. Perhaps old Nige will get a modesty transplant to become electable. Just look at his track record in winning a Westminster seat. And as for his last campaign of bile and misdirection, look at its effects: even Foghorn himself admitted its failure.
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  2211. Less concerned about who KS writes for than the level of disappointment he achieves. He has one thing in common with Blair: brings hope and delivers disappointment. Although it took Blair considerably longer to get to the disappointment stage.
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  2212.  @BrightonandHoveActually  Johnson is the greatest disappointment our country has known but I'm disappointed by the lack of effective opposition. In no way do I defend the buffoon; he should be locked up for his dodgy dealing and fascist tendencies.
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  2213. Conclusive proof that the real and present danger to Britain was not Jeremy Corbyn, who was falsely accused of dubious links with Uncle Tom Cobley and all, but our chief Buffoon who expedites Tory corruption.
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  2214. ​ @Jeroen_Maes Hardly surprising. They recognise a fascist when they see one.
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  2215. Johnson plays the vacuous buffoon very well because he doesn't do detail but effectively appeals to idiots. He is as manipulative and cunning as any notable sociopath.
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  2216.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  of course. But they directly effect workers and the unions should stop dabbling in peripheral matters.
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  2217. The pressure is now reverting to the UK. The EU has vast experience in negotiations and won't act in haste. Lord Gormless and Buffoon are painting themselves in a corner.
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  2218. One law for some politicians; entitled Tories being above the law.
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  2219. Mad Nads obviously has a deep understanding of algorithms. Did she mention that the earth is flat in her informed article?
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  2220. This cabinet of imbeciles misses a key point: blaming the pandemic shows the lunacy of completing Brexit during a pandemic.
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  2221. Farage appeals to idiots, then is surprised when he is scammed by a vetting company allowing idiots to join his latest cabal.
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  2222. Hardly surprising, after I consistently believed (and said) that Johnson was the clear and present danger to the UK in the 2019 election.
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  2223. Johnson's hubris matters more than national health, prosperity and security. A self-obsessed and incompetent buffoon.
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  2224. Perfect analysis. With cost-push inflation - costs pushing up prices - and interest rates rising to reduce disposable income, most of us can afford far less. In terms of economic management, it's like cutting off an arm to cure a bad leg. Another excuse to win the class war.
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  2225.  @crimsonchin9632  True. Yet the real power seems to reside with the ERG. Farage has moved on to use his Foghorn on a failing TV channel.
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  2226.  @pansepot1490  seems to be happening with Sir Starmer. The price of power is oligarch appeasement.
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  2227.  @alexgray2482  Yes. One of the reasons why we left the EU and now happening: dismantling workers rights and reducing food standards is a start. Neoliberalism is fulfilling its intention: getting the poor to vote for the rich to have more.
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  2228.  @Oluinneachain  interesting. Thanks.
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  2229.  @Noel-ji8nm  Of course you miss my point, Noel. That's because of our rigged and undemocratic system. A minority mandate is NOT a democratic mandate.
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  2230. Johnson cares only about one thing: his own survival. Now playing up freedom from Covid and the toy statesman to deflect from his ineptitude. We are an international joke.
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  2231.  @manoo422  Forgive my potentially faulty memory, but we joined the EU voluntarily and were a leading player. How many times did we use our veto? (answer: nil). CPTPP on the other hand uses secret corporate courts. So much for drinking Sovereign Tea.
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  2232. Sunak is the clueless little dictator presiding over a cabal of incompetence. The epitome of a sh1tfest.
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  2233. In electoral campaigns, Labour and Lib Dems should avoid minutiae. Simply promise to change the electoral system so that all votes are equal and seats match votes. Improve individual representation by using the area method.
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  2234.  @markwelch3564  the detail is best achieved after elections, so it can be designed and agreed by consensus. A condition being that proportionality is achieved.
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  2235.  @markwelch3564  that's why I gave an explicit condition: about proportionality. If the Lib Dems campaign for one system and Labour support another, the Tories derail it. If they publish minutiae, the Tories pick at detail instead of the substantial principles.
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  2236.  @markwelch3564  depends on cross party agreement and the simplicity of the system. At the last vote on the watered-down PR offering, many found it confusing. That's why I propose simple language, describing intent and benefits rather than mechanics. Either way, I doubt that we will be asked or consulted. Our politicians have a habit of buggering things up.
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  2237.  @markwelch3564  I've offered help with the Make Votes Matter campaign - party independent but campaigning for PR. Good luck and I appreciate your comments.
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  2238. The title of a Dickens Novel seems appropriate but it's hard to decide which one: Hard Times or Bleak House? Or come December: a Christmas Carol...we will have so many candidates experienced in food poverty for Oliver Twist. The Tories' agenda has long been to revert to the inequality and abject poverty of the 18th and 19th centuries. Now they have taken back control, and Britain is a cold and bleak place.
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  2239. Yes. The fruits of trickle down, persuading the poor to vote for the rich to have more. Total garbage to any critical thinker.
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  2240.  @nickedwards2904  of course. FPTP is simply undemocratic. Votes don't count equally.
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  2241.  @nickedwards2904  i don't condone any lies but the proof of the pudding? The greatest act of self-harm in my lifetime.
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  2242.  @nickedwards2904  typo in first part of my answer. I have never condoned FPTP since understanding its implications. Not in 1997 or at any time.
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  2243.  @nickedwards2904  Even with PR, similar result but with a Lib Dem coalition. May have been better. Who knows? But certainly more democratic.
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  2244.  @jurgenporn1867  I suspect you are correct, Jürgen. Labour not yet clear on PR, although it may take a Lib Dem / Labour coalition to oust the Tories, with a commitment to PR as part of the deal.
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  2245.  @jgmediting7770  I suspect that you are correct. Will wait and see then cast my vote accordingly.
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  2246. How to keep Fartage quiet: ban the topic of immigration or immigrants.
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  2247. Even 4000 outstanding cases is dubious, after Sunak, when appearing before a parliamentary committee just before Christmas, last reported around 20,000 outstanding cases. Never trust a Tory.
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  2248. And to think it was all labelled Project Fear. Welcome to Global Britain: world leaders in corruption.
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  2249. "The brick wall of reality!" Isn't that something to do with project fear? Lol. The British shit-show personified.
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  2250. Hunt was an incompetent finance minister and a Tory, therefore he lies. Reeves has made a mistake by falling into the austerity trap and reversing Keynes' statement. As a pensioner I'm one of the voters she has p1ssed off by cutting the winter fuel payment instead of increasing the windfall tax on energy companies. When will she tax wealth to tackle inequality and feed growth?
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  2251. Ultimately, I agree with your cautious and staged approach. I would run the central campaign for more devolution, a consultation on electoral reform, and cleaning up parliamentary standards: no second jobs to mitigate conflict of interest; party funding with dark money; tightening financial standards in the city. In other words cleaning up the act so the public see transparency.
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  2252. The Fail depend on their readers stopping after the headlines. Their "journalism" also consists of feeding bullsh1t to anyone unable or unwilling to think critically.
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  2253. This Tory government and legality are as compatible as water and arsenic.
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  2254. Planning rules are one thing; land-banking is another. Jeremy Corbyn had plans to deal with that. The present silence is deafening. We need social housing as well as affordable homes. We should stop letting builders off from paying towards infrastructure services (including education and health) after using urban sprawl as an excuse against the infrastructure contributions demanded through population density.
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  2255.  @samhartford8677  easy target. Respect to Finland.
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  2256. Farage won't cope with being a two-bit player in parliament. He demands a starring role or he won't turn up. How do I know? The meagre effort he put into being an MEP
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  2257. Well, they both end with "...ate" so I guess it's close enough for Dizzy Lizzy.
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  2258. Of course, Johnson "can find no evidence" because that would mean looking for it. The crack in Johnson's government is symptomatic of broken Britain.
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  2259. The propaganda system has been perfected. Not only do the poor to vote for the rich to have more. We live with permanent distraction, so many look in the wrong direction to blame a fictitious common enemy.
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  2260. Bloody hilarious. This government is falling apart at the seams, but first they will completely bugger up the country.
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  2261.  @geraldhewing2076  Wow! And I thought it was a language learned in the school for idiots.
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  2262.  @SmartCookie2022  Think you should change the first name in your pseudonym account to Dumb: (1) for conflating socialism and Marxism and (2) for your inane whataboutery because other voting choices are available.
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  2263.  @haveyaseenmiwhippet9069  who exactly is an "imployer?" Many people are exploited by an employer, as opposed to taking money they don't deserve. That also includes some Tory voters. I recommend critical thinking and correct spelling before labelling others dumb.
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  2264. OMG! The vision of a buffoon with a trowel is almost as ridiculous as his "plans." The words "social housing" are banned from Tory vocabulary to the extent that housing association stock must be sold off. As for affordability: let's replay the dilemma of sub-prime mortgages. This idiot called Johnson lives in fantasy land. How many voters are stupid enough to support him?
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  2265. There are two clear conclusions: (1) we are in the sh1t and (2) lots of idiots in Lincolnshire. LOL
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  2266. ​ @aussieseanc I guess he would sh1t on the board, then laugh
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  2267. What a surprise when Johnson hid the Russia Report, which showed interference and the inadequacy of the Electoral Commission. Our alleged "democracy" is a sick joke.
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  2268.  @trident6547  wouldn't know. The paper is too intellectual for me lol.
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  2269. Lord Gormless entering the commons would be a joke too many. Cameron is bad enough; Frost in another league.
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  2270. Give George Galloway his due. He may be marmite, but he has managed to upset Sunak and Tice, prompting them to react like spoiled brats. A lecture from Rishi Sunk-Us is the most effective way of dividing the country.
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  2271. The identification of a common enemy is one of the tools of fascism (divide and rule.) The Neoliberal project was designed to get the poor to vote for the rich to have more and to increase inequality. None so blind as those who will not see.
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  2272.  @chubbymoth5810  good point. Outsourcing to chums and party funders is the default habit of this government. Probably not the first government, but now on an industrial scale.
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  2273. We could reaon this two ways and both (imo) amount to the same thing: party politics and power matter more than real democracy and lives. Whether this was a trap for Labour or Starmer trying to save his hide, our parliamentary sh1t-show is unfit for purpose. Why not give a free vote, letting MPs vote according to their conscience and the views of their consituents? If it was the SNP'a day or their motion was tabled first, have a debate then vote on the motions in order (SNP then Labour) until one of them is carried. Surely that would be democratic.
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  2274. In all of this poignant analysis, I find the blatant power grab and the dismantling of democracy most chilling. Most surprising, is the fact that the majority can't even see it, being disinterested in politics and brainwashed by a media that has successfully manufactured consent. The dawn of 2022 does not bring hope and optimism, it brings the need for the majority to wake up and smell the coffee (if we can even get it through our supply chain.)
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  2275. Johnson and Farage would sell out their own granny to kiss Trump's anus. Such proud patriots. Meanwhile, Trump is in hock to Putin's oligarchs. Read Putin's People by Catherine Belton.
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  2276.  @howler6490  a coincidental feature of many in the Tory cabinet: benefiting from one of the most expensive education systems, only to prove vacuous in operational terms.
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  2277.  @Petal4822  think I spotted the wind-up there. What food standards will be observed? Poole is hardly a port for goods, to get lorries in and out of. There are no delays for incoming goods from the EU because we have not implemented border controls. Another own goal!
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  2278.  @michaelgreen1515  they need their heads examining. I travelled to Poole regularly. The port is used for pleasure craft and the road network is abysmal. As for bypassing the EU: no need. We don't yet impose customs checks on EU produce, so there is no bottleneck on incoming EU goods. People grasp at desperate measures for any Brexit win. Shifting our supply source to another country without verification of quality and adequate transport arrangements shows British ineptitude.
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  2279. No shortage of turds in the Tory cesspit. And they always manage to find someone worse than most of us could imagine.
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  2280. Jimmy Dimly leaving an open door to one of the two most sociopathic turds. Tory land is not a healthy place.
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  2281. Aptly described as "Lord Gormless" in Michael Lambert's videos, Frost expressing an original thought would be dangerous. The Tories simply assume power to be their divine right. Never forget that 14 years of Tory sociopathic serial incompetence started with the entitled serial ar**wipe Cameron. Never trust a Tory.
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  2282. We have moved from a PM who couldn't get enough of photo ops, to a Maggie stooge in power for a few weeks, to a PM in hiding who is shit scared of his party power groups and backers.
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  2283. Alistair Campbell summed it up well: Johnson is a turd that needs flushing down the toilet. Now he can pollute our rivers after bleeding the country dry. (I added the last sentence, btw)
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  2284. Most certainly unhinged and delusional. Also a convicted felon who would be excluded from running for office in any sane country.
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  2285. ​ @geraldhewing2076 yet as potential market for us...?
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  2286. Wow! Does that make you feel better?
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  2287.  @lestrem11  Perhaps he recovered it from Michelle Mine or a corrupt Tory mate's deal.
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  2288. A government of sociopathic extremes prompted by bigots. The DUP and the Brexit extremists pull Johnson's strings, and he has Lord Gormless talking crap in front of a moronic slogan: build back better. You really couldn't make it up.
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  2289. Not just p1ssing in the same pot, eating at the same gold-plated trough of Tory corruption.
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  2290.  @benwilson6145  so anyone who questions you is for the stocks? You must really value civil liberties.
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  2291.  @benwilson6145  Ha, bloody ha.
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  2292. If Hunt can p1ss off Rees Mogg, he has gone up a peg in my estimation. Never let facts get in the way of brexiter stupidity. Rats in a sack comes to mind.
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  2293. So chillingly accurate on Tory intent. They love a financial class war, with power loaded to their funders and puppet masters. Some ministers are more effective than others: Gove, for example, effectively buggered up education and is skilled at obfuscation. As for operational competence: expect the opposite. A cabinet of charlatans led by a buffoon: here to entertain us until the going got tough with a pandemic and the Ukraine war prompting food shortage. Operationally stupid enough to complete Brexit during a pandemic so he could deflect from his disastrous"oven ready deal." His stock response: to be seen to do something, but never enough and never the right thing for equality and welfare. The worst possible government at the worst possible time.
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  2294.  @brunsheimmasterbaitwilfrie2811  it's a hard argument to win against vested interest where the greedy b'stards not only rule, but shape opinion by manufacturing consent.
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  2295. After all the excuses against a windfall tax and Johnson telling his MPs to vote against it on two or three occasions, the U-turn happens after Sue Gray's damning conclusions. Life under the Tories is full of coincidence.
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  2296. It will probably sqeak through, continue as a distraction, then waste even more parliamentary time and public money. Little Rishi is obsessed with small boats; probably didn't have any in his bath as a kid. The NHS? NO, stop the boats; in-work poverty? NO, stop the boats; crumbling schools and hospitals? NO; stop the boats.
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  2297. Well said, Sami. A cabal espousing patriotism but committing treason.
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  2298. This morning I read that a seven year old girl wrote to Johnson about his partying while she was banned from having a party for her last two birthdays. From her simple and direct language, it was obvious that she has a greater understanding of responsibility than Johnson or his entire cabinet of squabbling shitheads.
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  2299. I shall stop the Tories by voting Indepndent because our former Labour councillors have left the party. The main reason? Palestine.
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  2300. A government dismantling any attempt at democracy: the power to override the judiciary; restrictions of protest; reducing food and environmental standards. Changes to electoral boundaries and more elective dictatorship, instead of electoral reform. This is the party of brigands: our minority elected sociopaths.
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  2301. Putin has played Trump like a cheap fiddle. Complaining about his treatment by previous presidents to appeal to Trump's hubris has made President Moron an asset for life. (Asset Krasnov?) I really have doubts about the intelligence and mental fitness of Trump and Vance. I have no doubts about their sociopathy.
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  2302. Never expect a politician to solve a problem. They will simply create the problem then blame someone else.
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  2303.  @trytellingthetruth.2068  Yes. I made that clear with factual examples. There are rules on product and food standards, and on workers' rights. But then there are secret corporate courts with CPTPP. We obviously liked the rules because we supported them and Johnson promised that our standards would be at least as high as the EU's on leaving.
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  2304.  @chrisj9700  How many EU rules did we use our veto against, vote against or even abstain? Check the facts and you will see how we used our influence. Now we are subject to corporate courts with the CPTPP.
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  2305. Anyone suggesting that Farage and the Reform bigots are not racist should check how long it takes them to whine about immigration. Sometines suggesting it is the root cause of our major problem: poverty and inequality, while they scam more money from their followers and the rest of the population. The easiest way to run a scam is to appeal to prejudice, rather than attempting to persuade people by logic. Such scammers are NOT patriots; they appeal to mindless idiots and thugs then shift blame to pose as victims.
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  2306. Tax income from non-work income (passive income such as speculation and investments) at the same rate as work income. Job done.
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  2307. Buffoon is a clown in a Tory circus. Who would they replace him with? A lion tamer or a tightrope walker? A party of vacuous ineptitude.
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  2308. The silence from state media is deafening. A rally in support of the NHS last weekend UNREPORTED. Multiple strikes UNREPORTED. Perhaps they will give the same treatment to the budget as it's announced tomorrow by the chief psychopath. We happy bunnies must look to social media for factual reporting (after weeding out any misinformation - most of which is spun by Tory media)
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  2309. The odious foghorn appeals to idiots, so at least the idiots have been given a break by his cancellation.
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  2310. Boris Johnson was a sick joke offering serial incompetence, and always at our expense
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  2311. While we have no checks on our borders, how can we win a trade war? Absolute folly.
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  2312. Newsflash: drive through McDonald's will become the new depots. It is no longer essential to learn how to reverse a lorry. The government has demonstrated, yet again, that they put their Brexit bigotry above human life, health and safety. Reversing an articulated lorry is no longer a key skill. As for uncoupling a trailor, forget it - they stay attached.
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  2313. The Tories are vulnerable because their only "plan" was to create a problem then exacerbate it to crisis level.
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  2314. Not only are the Tories devoid of ideas in dealing with our economic mess, it's as though they don't have a single brain cell between them. The reason: slavishly following their ideology of the unregulated free market and a small state. Meanwhile Starmer offers blandness and a lack of clarity. Britain is broken.
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  2315. Taking back control is the biggest laugh of the decade. Beyond bullying immigrants and refugees, and screwing the vulnerable, this government doesn't know it anus from its elbow.
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  2316. A fallback too far for the narcissistic charlatan
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  2317. Sunak is a little spiv who wants the NHS to break so he can implement a private system. Enough is enough.
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  2318. And sometimes they pay a few grand per shift for an agency nurse. Never trust a Tory with the NHS
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  2319. ​ @Noel-ji8nm Noel the troll is back.
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  2320. Just imagine such an IT failure if we become more dependent on AI...
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  2321. I'm looking forward to Bannon ousting Musk in a week and the Orange genius sorting the Russia and Ukraine conflict in 24 hours. I heard that Americans don't exaggerate.
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  2322.  @ogribiker8535  so if we must wait until next week, how is it not silent? No such expectation set in the media...
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  2323.  @mrsthatcher9815  that's the most desparate comment I've read. Totally inaccurate and vacuous.
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  2324.  @mrsthatcher9815  are you a ghost? That's some pseudonym account. You could be done for treason after selling off our national assets. If they are all the same, don't vote.
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  2325.  @mrsthatcher9815  is that the only criticism you can find after you sold off our national assets? Stop trolling under a repulsive pseudonym.
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  2326.  @mrsthatcher9815  stop hiding behind a pseudonym account and talking rubbish. By any measure of economic management and prosperity measured by real income, you lose.
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  2327.  @mrsthatcher9815  Yes. That's your stock in trade while hiding behind a pseudonym. Arrogant dismissal of proven fact is the Tory way. Stop trolling
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  2328.  @mrsthatcher9815  it's all you're getting. Facts are wasted on people hiding behind a pseudonym account. Stop trolling.
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  2329.  @kirkhunter146  you may well be right, but by peeling back the onion a layer at a time, his lies are exposed consistently and regularly.
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  2330. Unfortunately, the mantra of growth is crass. GDP is based on estimates and is a measure of everything except that which makes life worthwhile. Most critically, it ignores inequality. If all the benefits of growth accrue to the richest; guess what?
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  2331. The next time you hear Sunak telling us how he is reducing inflation by suppressing public pay, write that lie down in a book and read it before going to the polling booths. We already know that nearly half of inflation is caused by profiteering. Now the energy companies are taking the bloody rip. Undoubtedly we will have the Tories jumping up in parliament to tell us that they have protected energy prices for us. If that happens, record the lie and chuck them on the scrapheap of history. We are witnessing economic mismagement on an unimaginable scale. So much for the party of fiscal responsibility. That's the greatest lie of the millenium.
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  2332. Comparisons of physical assault or intimidation aside, this dirty campaigning has been nothing compared with 2019. The use of lies and misinformation on social media, in the week leading up to election date when it couldn't be taken down; the blatant misinformation about Jeremy Corbyn and Labour. The tactics we were warned of in the Russia Report, conveniently withheld in redacted form by Johnson. The Tories have always been dirty b'stards. Rules and the law apply to the little people who must doff their caps to the party of scum.
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  2333. A bigger bribe by Jan 18th, no election needed? Perhaps the DUP would prefer a referendum on a united Ireland. This debacle is showing that dinosaurs still exist.
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  2334. While shouting "Get over it, you lost," the hard Brexiters were asking " what do we do now?" I know, we'll make the minister for the 19th century responsible for Brexit opportunities. He can spin a fairy story in parliament. We'll blame the EU for enforcing a signed agreement. We'll blame Remainers for not believing in Brexit opportunities, although we can't really find any. We'll make world-beating deals - at least to the benefit of foreign signatories. We'll mutter something about a high pay, high skill economy while presiding over a reduction in real incomes. At least we got Brexit half-done, and that's better than nothing.
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  2335.  @ohgosh5892  coincidentally the same thing, as many business funders but the right to lobby.
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  2336. This government is "melting away" while hanging on for their own power and enrichment
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  2337. The Tories excel at spaffing public money in defence of their corruption and incompetence. They are beyond contempt and past their shelf life.
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  2338. We are moving closer towards fascism every day. Just look what 43.6% of voters allowed, after being told that Jeremy Corbyn was a danger.
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  2339. The perfect brain for a Tory deputy chair. To make chair, he would need to be stupid with a posh accent.
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  2340. The Tories are to world trade what piracy is to world peace.
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  2341. Tinkering won't cut it. Stand up and admit your mistake then reverse it while finding the money by taxing wealth, not work. Jumping through hoops to claim the winter fuel allowance is not only prohibitive, it isn't cost-effective, as the cost of administration outweighs the extra amount paid. As for hitting the disabled, Starmer should give an unmitigated apology and increase the payment as a fine for his sociopathy. Btw, you don't stimulate growth by austerity and Labour needs better advisors and a new chancellor. (Reeves is not a progressive economist and is a poor chancellor imo)
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  2342. Yes, that lack of critical thinking allowed a buffoon incapable of critical thinking to take power.
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  2343. And I thought our politicians were bad... Trump is on another level. A world class moron.
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  2344. "Shouting at the sea." Love it! The kind of thing a populist will do to appeal to morons.
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  2345. The rejoin march conveniently ignored by the BBC, as are most protests. Our state media is run to manufacture consent and ignore peaceful protest.
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  2346. For every scrote or moron there are many real human beings who will help others and some will even put others first. For every greedy bastard there is someone who will share. Makes me feel humble and restores my faith in humankind. Respect to all who give and share. The reward of helping others is immeasurable.
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  2347. Yes, the Lord's should be elected with effective powers of scrutiny. Imo what the Johnson debacle shows is that a manifesto should be a binding contract, subject to reasonable endeavour and with the need for a referendum if changes are proposed - with notable exceptions for national security only.
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  2348. A biased, or a lazy and sloppy media spinning government fantasy. Welcome to Global Britain, where performers are restricted to shorter tours with more paperwork. Spot the recurring pattern: the EU offers a solution; we reject it then pretend to renegotiate to mitigate the balls-up. Happy days.
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  2349. ​ @joewilson4191 I suggest a course in critical thinking. Farage appeals to idiots.
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  2350. ​​ @monkeytennis8861 troll alert (Noel the troll)
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  2351. Tory scum; electorate blind. What a shit-show.
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  2352.  @davidgottshalk8450  I agree. Can't press thumbs up or the buggers may think I want to sell it off.
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  2353. If Covid is added to the argument as an attempted excuse, then Brexit should also be added. The Tories were operationally incompetent by completing brexit during a pandemic. That lost many GPs and medical staff, who returned to the EU. Parliament is a sham: not fit for purpose when a question can be evaded. "What day is it prime minister?" PM: "It's January and it's raining." A useless circus populated by wazzocks.
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  2354. Don't worry! The power of this government to legislate fantasy knows no bounds. The fact that the rest of the world may laugh at us while they stuff their bank accounts hardly bothers them.
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  2355. Can't pay for petrol; can't fasten a seatbelt! How would we expect him to run the country? The man is a wazzock at every turn.
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  2356. We didn't listen to the experts; somehow we gave power to the populists. "The NHS is not for sale;" we intend to dismantle it piece by piece then give it away to private companies. We must pay our way; after the government has spaffed our contributions to their mates, to maximise profits while we suffer poor standards and inferior services. How can the NHS survive while this minority-elected cabal puts greed and power above public service?
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  2357. Modern Tories consist of the sociopathic and moronic led by the clueless. If Starmer gains power and fails to implement PR, they will be back with a vengeance. Time to clean up the electoral and parliamentary mess first and foremost. No excuses. No ifs or buts.
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  2358. But everything is so different and special in Number 10. It's down to each employer to interpret the guidance as they deem appropriate, so how can I be questioned? Did I lie in the House? No; I stood and spouted my usual bullshit.
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  2359.  @b62boom1  Sorry. I've been consulting the wrong people.
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  2360. Yet Labour stops the WFA for many pensioners instead of taxing energy companies more or capping prices. Now we "rich pensioners" (receiving one of the lowest pensions in Europe) have the broadest shoulders. This is called rubbing it in. Let's have a real Labour government.
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  2361. They have too much media and funder support for that. They will hang around like a bad smell.
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  2362. Selling off our water amounted to treason. The Tory ideology of failure exposed again.
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  2363. Make no mistake: we have a minority-elected government moving inexorably towards fascism. They see themselves above the law, and intend to change the law to accommodate that. With a divided main opposition party,.and a lack of cooperation between all non-Tory parties, they have free reign. Add the complicity of the mainstream media and, viola, we have a dictatorship led by a narcissistic buffoon.
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  2364. ​ @Believe-you-me- there is theoretically a point where supply and demand would force pay upwards, but more commonly in our home economy a shortage of labour making us import more food and goods while many of our businesses close down.
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  2365. ​ @edwardbernthal160 That depends on the nature of the business and the skills gap created. Many capitalists are exploitative and sociopathic, some arguably smart.
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  2366. ​ @frishter so is the solution to stop using foreign labour or to regulate pay to make said exploitation illegal. To enable that, repeal the anti-union regulations
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  2367. ​ @keithparker1346 That depends on the power of Unions and the amount of regulation.
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  2368. Nigel has a habit of backing the wrong solution then blaming others when his scams are exposed. His cult followers are so consumed by hatred, they will never blame anyone other than the targets of their hate. The EU, the foreigners, etc, etc...anyone other than the real cause of the problem. How else could Nigel make his money? Anyone heard of disaster capitalism?
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  2369. Always look for the ulterior motive from Brexiters. Unfortunately their supporters buy vacuous slogans and excuses, and still continue to justify this shit-show.
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  2370.  @Noel-ji8nm  If in echo of Blair and Brown, we will see far more investment in the NHS and education. We had a record increase in real incomes under New Labour. They stuck with the spending plans initially, until growth was achieved and the plans then changed.
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  2371. This morning I read that the Public Accounts Committee reported that trade has fallen and costs increased for businesses. UK firms have been hit with increased costs, more paperwork and delays. Finally the true effects of Brexit revealed. They didn't mention any gold plated unicorns, so still waiting.
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  2372. Welcome to the police state, enabled by an act rushed through parliament. Promoted by a sociopath and supported by a minority-elected government.
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  2373. Tory economic competence is a myth. They have borrowed more and paid back less than Labour (per year in power and in real terms) since 1945. Penny wise, pound foolish, and dodgy in the extreme.
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  2374. Christ on a bike! If this continues, the next excuse will paraphrase an old Cliff Richards song: Carrie doesn't live here anymore... Something about rooming on the second floor. If you want to know more, ask at the corner store. They will always know more than Johnson's cabinet.
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  2375. Best news today! A journalist chastised the perpetual spoiled and errant schoolboy who 43.6% of voters actually trusted to lead the country.
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  2376. A buffoon demanding loyalty and valuing incompetence. When you shuffle a pile of sh1t, you still end up with a pile of sh1t.
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  2377. Hardly surprising as Farage and Reform appeal to idiots.
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  2378. When I hear or read of people stating that Labour will raise taxes or the Tories are the party of fiscal responsibility, I laughat such delusion. Labour must commission an audit of the purchase and sale prices of all land involved. Sunak, of course, will blame the cock-up on the present project managers but there is alsays a snif of corruption with this cabinet involved. Follow the money and don't let the little spiv off the hook.
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  2379. So Swayne wants digitised unicorns. A dandy in dress yet scruffy in intellect. A government deadline of 2025 means working by 2030 at the earliest, if at all.
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  2380. So a little spiv follows the behaviour of a lying buffoon? That's Tory leadership inaction (sic.)
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  2381. In spite of all the technical arguments I read, for and against Brexit, it boiled down to one question: could I trust these buggers to take back control. Each week they are confirming my judgement.
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  2382. Doubt that Charlie Loudmouth will be joining the patriotic millionaires.
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  2383. Financialisation is the greatest cause of inequality (as it accompanied and enabled neoliberalism) and the greatest risk to economic stability. Let the bankers have more while the public picks up the pieces. Sunak is a spiv.
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  2384. Let's go back and ask why Cameron (he who gave us the bullshit referendum) failed to implement Leveson. The Tories tolerate the gutter press because it usually does more good than harm to them.
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  2385.  @thewashingtontapes5476  You may well wonder. I judge her as a politician in the House. Her legal credentials are questionable when she doesn't understand international law. Another entitled Tory failing upwards.
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  2386. ​ @trytellingthetruth.2068 2009 was AFTER THE FINANCIAL CRASH. You really should change your account name to The Institute of Tory Propaganda.
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  2387.  @trytellingthetruth.2068  So Labour should have stopped the banks, exactly how? By taking power from the BofE and scrapping the FCA (formerly FSA)? If Labour and the Tories are not fit to run the country, who is? Labour made some key mistakes (PFI, the Iraq war, etc.) the Tories have made them look like first class professionals. As for taxation, the Tories have screwed us after 13 years of economic and operational mismanagement. I actually believe our country is screwed. We have sold out to neoliberalism and financialisation and live under an elective dictatorship.
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  2388. Conclusive proof that with valid and fair statistical comparison, the Tories have buggered up the country for the extraction of wealth by the 1%
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  2389. David Cameron: the half-hearted, lazy coward who failed to stand up to his party power groups, capitulated to Foghorn Farage, kept a distant relationship with EU leaders, introduced a referendum that was legally advisory, then made a half-arsed case for Remain. After losing his case, he buggered off. Now we have an even greater incompetent coward bleeding the country dry. The Eton effect on Tory-run Britain.
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  2390. How could anyone with even a basic understanding of operational matters not know that completing Brexit during a pandemic would cause chaos. Instead they back a government that chose both together so they could blame the fallout from their crap Brexit deal on covid.
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  2391. The Tories have become the party of the desperate; pushing the most desperate to Reform UK - the limited company masquerading as a democratic party offering policies that would transform us into a banana republic without the bananas.
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  2392. The Tories don't give a shit about small businesses because their funding comes from large corporates. They are fixing boundaries and suppressing the power of the electoral commission to rig the next election.
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  2393.  @STONEWALL148  true, but no need to devalue as the pound simply floats and.we no longer use fixed exchange rates.
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  2394. The Tories are become more blatant and arrogant. They act as the untouchables, and probably are, in our despicable elective dictatorship.
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  2395. Sunak shown up as the little spiv in power. A spineless opportunist and grifter. The Tory talent pool is risible. A party of self-interested scum living on lies, with the support of an oligarch media.
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  2396. But al least, according to Smog, British fish are happy fish. Who cares about selling them, provided they are happy? We are the more desperate party at the point of negotiation, so we end up with crap deals. Worst government ever.
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  2397. ​ @onlyme8117 The MSM is obsessed with the scammer; Phil offers a counterweight
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  2398.  @yorkiegilly4355  Stick to your country life if you are incapable of seeing the difference. Have you been better off under the Tories or Labour? If so, you are either deluded or in the 1% of the financial elite.
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  2399. A cabinet of charlatans and rogues. The real criminals ignored by our dysfunctional police. Britain is beyond broken.
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  2400. Amazing how the electorate understand the lies about a party during lockdown, yet fail to see the lies about privatisation of the NHS, our right to protest and the erosion of civil liberties. At least the electorate has something to be angry about...perhaps a dodgy Christmas party will start a revolution! Don't hold your breath though.
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  2401.  @mattwilliams9758  True. Probably too much apathy or intellectual laziness.
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  2402.  @rocketsurgeon2135  Yes. They both crave power, yet Labour should be realistic if comparing the relative number of years in power. Also it's the best way of stopping a return to Tory extreme austerity and inequality.
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  2403. I disagree with your premise. The country gets the government that is enabled by our elective dictatorship, which took a minority vote of 43.6% to return an 80 seat majority for a serial liar and his sociopathic cabal.
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  2404. PMQs will remain a waste of time while there is only an obligation to respond to a question, rather than answer it. Parliament is a sh1tfest.
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  2405. ​ @paullambert8183 Twaddle Without Any Thought. Also known as inept whataboutery.
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  2406. Truss is wedded to neoliberalism, as a co-author of the fantasy novel Britannia Unchained, and recently spouting about low tax as her go-to solution. She is stupid enough to trigger A16 (as she would be crazy enough to "press the button")
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  2407. True. The method would work yet I have never been asked for a polling card. The Tories are gaming the system, yet again.
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  2408. Sunak clearly aspires to dictatorship while devaluing devolution. This is our Little Spiv in action.
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  2409. Rats in a sack will provide us with a rat in charge. Perhaps it will be Rishi Rat, the man who presided over receding trade and higher taxes; imposing austerity while railing against an effective windfall tax.
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  2410. There are two types of democracy: direct and representative. FPTP is unrepresentative and thus undemocratic. We have an elective dictatorship and an unfit parliament. Britain is NOT a beacon of democracy.
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  2411.  @ralphmillais5237  so the costs of extra border checks and disruption are zero? They don't affect prices?
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  2412. When will Buffoon be required to correct the parliamentary record? As a consequence, of course, he should resign. Let's not hold our breath though.
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  2413.  @johnrussell3961  True. Yet I included her government financial record in that calculation: an amalgam of all post war governments.
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  2414.  @redkiller2403  every Labour government post war included in the calculation that prompted the statement.
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  2415. The whiff of corruption from the hard right has become a stink. A cabal of desperation: shifting blame while offering no solutions. Anyone remember their vacuous brexit promises?
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  2416. Sunak is a grifter and a Spiv, leading a party of operationally incompetent liars. Enough is beyond enough with this shysters in power.
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  2417. Farage has experience as a trader and as a conman who appeals to idiots. As a mayor, zero experience. In governance or operational management, zero experience. Nigel is best qualified to write a book: a bluffers guide to politics.
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  2418. Spot on. Call them out. They are usually hiding their incompetence and insecurity
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  2419. The current cabinet consists of the clueless led by sociopathic incompetents.
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  2420. Tice claiming a defence of being a bit thick? Not entirely accurate. Far more than a bit.
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  2421.  @charlessandoval3382  btw please define "commie"
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  2422.  @charlessandoval3382  suggest you learn the difference between communism and socialism. And how in hell's name do you put Johnson in either category...nearer to fascism.
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  2423. An emerging dictatorship. Time to stop Buffoon or just roll over and doff our caps.
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  2424. Such an arrogant idiot he couldn't bother to get his homework right. So typical of the way he ran the country.
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  2425. The faction with the most inept name finally imploding. Baker leading his swivel-eyed loons to obscurity is quite a picture.
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  2426. Such a happy coincidence: Johnson being so privileged that he can delay giving evidence to the privileges committee. Our parliamentary rules and procedures are simply unfit for purpose.
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  2427. The channel for idiots - GB News - excels yet again. At least they keep our ineffectual regulator Ofcom busy.
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  2428. His ratings are commensurate with Tory party performance in government.
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  2429.  @FakeSchrodingersCat  You actually labelled the first couple of the Cameron years as "fine". They may have been mitigated by the Lib Dems but imo were far from fine. When you set out your stall to achieve a small state and bring misery to the many for the few to extract profit, the rot has set in. Austerity was a deliberate choice for the greedy and powerful who never let a crisis go to waste.
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  2430. Their longevity will probably depend on the election results. After all, what's the point of appealing to idiots if the parties spouting bile are in opposition?
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  2431. So obsessed with boats they can't identify the right ones. If they aimed them at Blackpool, they would end up in Dover.
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  2432. Sunak is home-bound for firefighting. His obsession with dinghies and his Corbyn complex in the House show him to be a pathetic little spiv, masquerading as a leader. Meanwhile The Convict is swanning around on the world stage, while being investigated for his misdemeanours. You couldn't make up the farce of Tory Britain.
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  2433. Who would challenge Space Karen's right to talk sh1te?
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  2434. The formula is simple: bugger up the country while milking it, then blame Labour as they are left with the mess. It's an inevitable feature of our elective dictatorship, known as FPTP.
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  2435. Yes, the same big companies that fund the Tory party.
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  2436. I vaguely recall a certain Mr Jeremy Corbyn proposing no second jobs for MPs. Yet another reason why the sociopaths with ultimate power couldn't let him near government. People with integrity can't be allowed to run our sh1t-show. Mysteriously the policy has disappeared from any manifesto.
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  2437. It's as though the admission of truth is being extracted from our corrupt government by their eventual actions. Always too little, too late, so it causes maximum harm to the population. Who voted for this tsunami of turds?
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  2438. It's as though they intend to bugger up the country so they can blame the next government and return to complete their long-term mayhem. The solution: adopt PR so the buggers will be virtually obsolete.
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  2439. The party of protest, appealing to the desperate or idiotic. Look where the last one got us. Oh wait, aren't they saying brexit hasn't been done properly? An act of stupidity done properly is still an act of stupidity.
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  2440. The only reshuffle we need is to ban this serial idiot from Westminster.
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  2441. This Britannia Unchained duo are driven by a vacuous ideology that feeds the greed of the avaricious few at the expense of the majority. Remember: there is no such thing as society in their world.
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  2442. That rare specimen: a modern Tory with principles. Pity that the prime miniature is as big a liar as Johnson.
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  2443. The sick joke of the week, sharing the trophy with Hunt's lie that no independent economist has verified Labour's claim of the black hole. He probably means noone he describes as independent, amounting to the Tufton Street wazzocks.
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  2444. Perhaps they want to give us a break from wall-to-wall Farage.
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  2445. How could there be a plan when the neoliberal free market refuses to control the cause of inflation - costs pushing prices? Raising interest rates is like cutting off an arm to cure an infected leg. Not only will people suffer unnecessarily, but will be incapacitated and less productive.
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  2446. After working on systems projects for a few decades, I can explain these possibilities in simple terms. Do you believe in the tooth fairy? More chance of that than a total technological solution. As for the government's involvement. Look at the integrated record system in the NHS. No, you didn't miss it; it was a cock-up and is still to happen. Then we had our world-beating test and trace system, after refusing a proven solution and spaffing 37 billion on a white elephant. So much for Project Fear. It is now reality.
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  2447. Perhaps Starmer's cool and bland image is the right one as the Tories implode and their abject policies exposed layer by layer. As for cricket captains: Ben Stokes is the man as England have pulled off an amazing win in Pakistan.
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  2448. "Cynical optimist" = pessimism of intellect, optimism of will. Must say I have more cause for pessimism with this shower of charlatans.
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  2449. And Jonathan Ashworth revealed that many of the projects had been announced years ago, with one scrapped by Johnson, reinstated by Truss, scrapped by Sunak yet again, and now being reinstated. The little spiv is so decisive, does he know his anus from his elbow?
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  2450. The two ex bankers have now become resident cabinet wa..... (Sorry, I meant wazzocks)
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  2451. Anyone defending Musk's right to free speech is ignoring the fact that others don't have an equivalent right of response. He has bought a platform for propaganda, where he can set the rules and change the algorithms. This is NOT free speech; it is bullying by oligarch and X should be banned. (NB The option to reply by comment is not an equal right of response because of the relative numbers of followers)
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  2452. Johnson can only blame Covid because he was stupid enough to complete Brexit during a pandemic. Ergo the excuse is his operational incompetence.
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  2453.  @tenniskinsella7768  then why do we have shit in our rivers? Why have we dropped meat standards for the AUS deal?
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  2454. Anyone crazy enough to write the vacuous nonsense of Britannia Unchained was either economically illiterate or had the intention of accelerating inequality. Neoliberalism, or the unregulated free market, is effectively a hustle pretending to be a philosophy. Further evidence that a manifesto should be a contract.
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  2455. I had come to the conclusion that the Tory media manufactures consent from the voting public, but recently read a different view: that the press barons call the agenda, set the tune and the politicians play to it. Either way, they don't our vote.
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  2456. Johnson's legacy consists of vacuous slogans, without a credible plan. That's not a legacy; it's a poisoned chalice.
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  2457.  @PeterPete  while I'm fundamentally opposed to a monarchy, except perhaps for ceremonial reasons, I'm not convinced that it's abolition is a prerequisite of PR.
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  2458. Let's not hope, Christopher. let's insist on it. Otherwise don't vote for them.
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  2459.  @markmerry1471  of what? Don't understand what you are answering.
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  2460. Your bracketed words give the answer. A cabinet of operationally incompetent fools, led by a corrupt clown.
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  2461. ​ @Noel-ji8nm the bot is back. Check your facts.
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  2462.  @denisphelan8987  that's an assumption...depends on the method of PR.
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  2463.  @ausbrum  not any longer. Instead we have a minority-elected cabal carrying out the UKIP agenda.
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  2464. Hunt, being the chief psychopath, stabilises the market while screwing the lowest earners. The Bank of England has one tool it's box: interest rates. In times of cost-push inflation that's like using a screwdriver to knock a nail in. What is the government doing to reduce both prices and profiteering? Hence the silence.
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  2465. Never write off the Tories while many of their supporters suffer intellectual laziness or plain stupidity. I know some people who want Rishi "because he knows what he's talking about." Critical thinking should lead to other questions: so what are his intentions? and what about his track record? This is the chancellor who presided over economic decline and a drop in real earnings while declaring extra taxes for the lowest paid and resisting taxing excessive windfall profiteering. Now, will we be better off? And will he improve our economy or resort to more failed austerity?
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  2466. Little Spiv is a Tory cabinet member (even the PM) and thus a pathological liar. Part of his job description.
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  2467.  @randlerobbertson8792  whataboutery followed by strange faces is hardly an intelligent response. Should I say something about the lesser of two evils followed by the Jolly Roger? I'm doing a PhD in communication by pictures lol
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  2468.  @randlerobbertson8792  Did you see the Lol after the PhD comment? I did my degree-level qualifications long ago.
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  2469.  @randlerobbertson8792  I'm not thrilled by the alternative but think it will be less extreme to keep us quieter. Hopefully closer union with the EU and the cessation of Rwanda fever. We need more transformative policies but anyone offering them will be squashed at present. Some of the voices outside politics are encouraging: Gary Stevenson, Grace Blakeley, Prof Richard Murphy, George Monbiot, Peter Oborne and a few others.
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  2470. Bad because neoliberalism prohibits regulation and rewards greed. Responsible capitalism has largely gone.
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  2471. Johnson never has a plan. Just a strategy. Last year it was to be seen to be doing something: never enough; never appropriate; just something he can quote in his defence. His new strategy is to sit on his anus and do nothing. All too much effort now. He was never up to the job.
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