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

  1. This insight is chilling. What is even more chilling? The fact that other western world leaders behave like Netanyahu's puppets.
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  2. Tory Britain is not only broken, it is being dismantled piece by piece. Excused and enabled by the Tory media. All credit to Mick.
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  3. Piers Morgan: the empty vessel that makes most noise.
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  4. Sunak: "she made a mistake." Integrity and professionalism says: she got found out and should face the consequences as mentioned by Ms Cooper.
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  5. The NHS is probably the greatest example of an organisation suffering from tampering by politicians advised by business consultants. From the Salmon report to Lansley's obsession with outsourcing, resulting in longer waiting lists and a top-heavy management structure. [Politicians + business consultants = a fatal combination.]
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  6. Grace's last book Stolen gives a massive clue to the main obstacle in dismantling neoliberalism. It's termed financialisation. Money is no longer used to fuel the real economy, but as a tool for speculation in the accumulation of wealth for the few.
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  7. Neither this government nor the Home Office are fit for purpose. Unless that purpose is to divide society for the benefit if their puppeteers.
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  8. An inspirational young woman offering hope for the future. As an old guy I respect the young generation. My grandchildren inspire me. We should listen to them, work with them and support them.
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  9. Mick is clear, concise and honest. Compare that with the obfuscation, evasion, downright lies and waffle from this government and ask who can I trust most? Enough is enough.
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  10. Jeremy Corbyn's manifesto is proving to have offered the best opportunity we missed. Next time, don't listen to our corrupt media.
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  11. Mick in full flow, as articulate, calm and reasoned as ever. If only business would work with unions, we would see an improvement in business efficiency, customer service and a stronger economy.
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  12. Well said, David Lammy. Dealt with a dumbed down interviewer intent on populism. Conclusive proof that we need a written constitution, approved by a people's assembly, with a written behavioural code enforced independently.
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  13. Says the narcissist who hailed Liz Truss delivering "the best Conservative budget since 1986". The serial scammer rides again.
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  14. Someone finding Farage genuine? Do they remember Brexit? Beware of the charlatan who appeals to the hard of thinking.
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  15. "You can't expect anyone in an environment like number 10..." To follow guidance. That's for the plebs. What a bloody narcissist.
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  16. I stand with South Africa, in shame of my country (the UK). All life is precious, as is freedom.
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  17. Michael "err ehm" Gove takes time to think up his b.s. and serial obfuscation. He loves to hear the sound of his own voice while throwing others under the bus. A snake in the long grass. A classic example of our unfit governance.
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  18. Kemi, Demi-Semi would win the award for arrogance, even against such stiff Tory opposition. She oozes arrogance and condescension from every pore.
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  19. The last remark from the chair was despicable. The 2019 manifesto offered hope and Starmer should be proud to support it, and bloody well say so. Will stop the spiv's pathetic attempt at division and cut the slimy ground from under him.
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  20. "Resources are tight" for public sector workers. Yet when it comes to politicians, Tory mates and bankers....
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  21. In one sentence: our parliamentary system is broken and is totally unfit for purpose. The serial lying continues, with Little Spiv and Suella Blabbermouth leading the way.
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  22. James Timpson is a breath of fresh air. He is well qualified for his role and acts responsibly. A welcome change from 14 years of Tory (often planned) incompetence.
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  23. The little spiv was "crystal clear" until it was pointed out that Scotland's democracy is collateral damage. Now he has put another nail in the coffin of the union.
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  24. The Tories love corruption while they benefit from it. "There is no such thing as society," said Thatcher. It has been replaced with greed.
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  25. The greatest truths are often delivered to an empty house. Shame on our unfit parliament. Credit to Scousers.
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  26. Such a strange upside-down world, where corporations are more powerful than governments. While financialisation makes workers in the real economy poorer, with money markets becoming a legalised casino. And guess who pays for their mistakes?
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  27. It's no surprise that the Tories hate scrutiny, even after the Prime Spiv primised "accountability."
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  28. Johnson doesn't recognise rules. Nor does he understand responsibility.
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  29. If Sunak is so proud of his government's record, why not call an election? It seems that most of us understand and live with stark reality
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  30. Mick is pure class. Articulate, poignant and factual. Head and shoulders above our tame media and politicians supporting corporate greed.
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  31. What Raab really meant is that peerages are awarded in recognition of their contribution to the Tory party. The man is at least as vacuous as his leader.
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  32. Douglas Ross must be used to laughter: he leads with his jaw in the Scottish parliament.
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  33. Perfect summary on all counts: a failure to govern in an elective dictatorship. We need real democracy: PR and more devolution as Andy suggests.
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  34. The stench of this symbolises the British establishment. The little people must doff their caps while the powerful rule with operational incompetence and arrogance. It's also important to follow the money: dodgy donations, etc? As an IT project, this was an example of corporate power and professional ineptitude, with opacity protecting personal and corporate interests.
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  35. If Amazon is such a great place to work, why not sack these clueless execs and trust the workers to run the operation?
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  36. Mick, the voice of reason. The press indeed is a disgrace, condoned by Cameron not implementing Leveson to leave the joke of self-regulation.
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  37. The usual Johnson answer consisting of two components: blaming Labour and making a false claim. 1) how can he condone the Tory record after they consistently borrow more and pay back less than Labour. 2) the fastest growth in the G7...actually one of the lowest. At least Rayner treats him like the spoiled brat he is.
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  38. Therein lies the problem. Who is responsible for the ministerial code and how can an offender be expelled from parliament or suitably punished? Britain is broken.
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  39. Nicola: the most formidable and articulate politician in Britain. Makes our Westminster cabal look like kindergarten. At least DRoss will have fewer nightmares.
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  40. The Tories are fairly and squarely to blame for the state of the NHS and should be chucked in prison for treason. Enough is enough. I support the nurses. (Don't remember a politician looking after me when I needed help.)
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  41. "The will of the people" gives Sunak no mandate for two reasons. 1) only 43.6% verified votes supported the Tories, thus they are minority elected 2) This crazy plan was NOT in their manifesto. They have no specific mandate.
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  42. It's also for us, the people not affiliated with unions (I'm actually retired) to get behind this movement. Most union leaders have a great working knowledge of their industries and are responsible and professional. Respect to the movement. You have my support.
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  43. Just waiting for King Charles to say: "My government has decided to bugger off."
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  44. Ironically, the man who left the infamous note, Liam Byrne, understands the core problem: inequality; and has written the book The Inequality of Wealth. I'm amazed that Starmer is listening to Reeves and has appointed her over real talent in his party. He also seems to be ignoring progressive economists, such as Richard and Torsten Bell (who is now an MP) Labour seem to be in hock to corporate and investor demands and needs.
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  45. Why does he hold this perception that there was there less of an outcry about the Hamas slaughter of Jewish people? Because of the speed and scale of retaliation by Israel; the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people. The relative numbers: the eye for the eye? 1400 deaths versus 13000 deaths.
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  46. At least the actions of this serial liar are consistent. His body language morphs from sitting like a cowed sack of spuds when Starmer speaks, to perpetual head shaking when Ian Blackford skewers him. Always finally resorting to blaming others and denying personal responsibility. The worst leader in modern history.
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  47. The corruption of FIFA knows no bounds. Perhaps an armband CLEAN UP FIFA would be most appropriate.
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  48. Talking the talk is a start, but will mean nothing if we don't see the right action soon.
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  49. Rishi SunkUs and his nodding dog chancellor really are a duo. It's as if the Tories were fiscally competent for the last 14 years.
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  50. Huge respect to Jeremy Corbyn. A genuine human being who would not sell his soul to become Prime Minister. Instead we have a corrupt charlatan.
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  51. He cites the words "never again" while his army is perpetrating just that: a repetition of genocide. Rhetoric does not answer nor dispute fact.
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  52. Credit where credit is due: hit the nail bang on the head. The body language of Buffoon and his front bench said a lot. The real question is whether voters can be arsed to listen to facts or even question the Tories abject record. Or will they swallow the soundbites and garbage from the Daily Fail? We have suffered the worst possible government at the worst possible time. And that's some record after 12 years of Tory-inflicted misery.
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  53. "Corporatisation" is dangerous. We have companies with more power than governments and corporate courts ruling on trading agreements. The worker is being exploited until many won't be needed through mechanisation and the proliferation of AI. Don't let the b'stards grind you down. Enough is enough.
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  54. At last an MP who understands reality. Growth is impaired in an unequal society. We get trickle down when we need flow down to fix public services. Get ready for more false promises in the budget, unless Reeves and Starmer are listening to Clive and the many progressive economists instead, of corporate lobby groups.
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  55. Sunak equates banker's bonuses with financial stability. That's a stretch; and if it were true would prove that bankers hold us to ransom.
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  56. ​ @sduk451 Then tax their assets, as recommended by the patriotic millionaires. Also tax the income from wealth at the same rate as work income. It will then be possible to increase personal allowances to help the lower paid.
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  57. Pishy Rishi is so pathetic, he takes cluelessness to a new level. Desperation personified.
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  58. "unless we provide a safe route, we are complicit with people smugglers." Poignant words. It seems that it takes the Lords to talk sense...rhetoric only in the Commons.
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  59. OMG! If it's more transparent now, how bad was it then? Scrutiny and transparency are words with a different meaning for politicians and professional journalists.
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  60. A consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time. An academic is someone who seeks truth through testing accumulated knowledge. A politician? A power hungry con artist pretending to serve the electorate? The process of consulting is distinctly different from employing a consultant. (Opinion only from someone who previously worked as a consultant.)
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  61. We know Sunak is in trouble when he mentions Islington North, or Jeremy Corbyn, who is twice the person our little spiv could ever aspire to. I sometimes map Labour's last manifesto on the events of the last four years and (albeit hypothetically) couldn't imagine how we could be in a worse position. In fact, quite the opposite.
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  62. Is such gutter journalism commensurate with the intellectual level of Daily Fail readers?
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  63. Not silence - expect responsible journalism. The name gutter press is well deserved in this instance.
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  64. Rayner asking rhetorical questions: Expecting responsible governance and human decency from Johnson's cabal would mean waiting beyond the twelfth of never.
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  65. The "vested interest of unions." Little Spiv should listen to Lord Balfe (the one Tory who talks sense) stating that union members are not militants but wealth creators. His proposal to raise public sector pay has met with government silence.
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  66. We can't just go for growth and depend on trickle-down, where wealth gushes up and drips down where the richest can't fix the leaks. The private sector is reluctant to invest in the real economy and prefers share buybacks and speculative trading to reward their shareholders. Intervention may well be needed on both counts.
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  67. Her definition of delivering for the people is that of a dictator. We tell them what they want and change the definition as it suits us. Her significant words: " I didn't think" say it all, in spite of being delivered with unassailable arrogance. This incompetent woman makes an art of talking down to others.
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  68. "Just ask the IMF." That would be the very body who say nearly half of inflation is caused by excessive profits. Don't expect the central bank to deal with that. Over to the government...
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  69. The question relates to what will happen in April and Little Spiv talks about the last few months. Meanwhile Europe is keeping bills down while we pursue more dirty energy projects to shred our promises on climate change,.while allowing companies to profiteer on the world energy markets.
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  70. This man is a clear and present danger. A one man disaster zone. Playing hard and fast with lives...YET AGAIN!
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  71. And Thatcher in the Falklands. Classic politics over lives.
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  72.  @anteeko  That's a fallacy. Free market "competition" has resulted in costs getting out of control. Outsourcing contracts awarded to mates and money spaffed up the wall. I've worked in both the private and public sector and cost control is a question of governance and discipline because, under what is often called competition, the market is rigged with financialization.
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  73. Sunak's idea of accountability is overwhelming: late in publishing his tax affairs; late in publishing interests. How could we expect a little Spiv to be accountable?
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  74. Yes. Let's pretend that apartheid never happened and that world events started on the 7th October...
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  75. If Sunak is so proud of the Tory record, he should call an election. Spewing lies and talking over every questioner while failing to give a single straight answer. A robotic little spiv oozing arrogance.
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  76. Brilliant analysis, Carol. The most poignant words: taking from the poor to give the already rich ever more. The real intent of neoliberalism.
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  77. Yes. Both are saying tax wealth to mitigate inequality. The methods are slightly different for technical reasons. I follow both and would recommend both channels.
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  78. "It wasn't quite as simple as that!" Johnson had to help his cronies make money from an international disaster, as these b'stards never let a crisis go to waste.
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  79. "This party acted quickly" after Sunak was dragged along. What a point-scoring Tory wet wipe
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  80. Honest Bob is the ideal candidate to maintain the record of always managing to find someone worse as Tory leader.
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  81. She was auditioning as a Bond villain lol
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  82. Starmer seems to play to the tune of the media oligarchs. Perhaps it's his strategy to use them as campaign managers on the cheap. Don't upset Murdoch; do what Blair did.
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  83. One core cause of our dilemma is that the Tories (since Thatcher) have banned the words social housing from our vocabulary.
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  84. It seems inevitable that Johnson is away training to vaccinate - based on his recent photo ops. Conveniently, they store some vaccines in a fridge.
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  85. Of course the answer to free gifts should be No. A Labour PM should also expect to be held to higher standards than a Tory because of our unfit media. Hence, remove any doubt of potential bribery or buying favours.
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  86. She is absolutely right. The Tories simply lie about minimum service levels in Europe. They have minimum SAFETY levels, by negotiation, which we already achieve without a strike-busting law. If this legislation happens, time for a general strike - legal or not.
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  87. True. It also says a lot about the power of the oligarch media to manufacture consent.
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  88. The same should go for bonuses.
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  89. Perhaps you should tell them that Edwina Currie gave you permission, to get rid of the bad eggs. Lol
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  90. Although I applaud Carol's reasoning and her message, on semantics, I must register a disagreement with one word: "first past the post...DEMOCRACY." I regard our system as undemocratic. There are two forms of democracy: direct and representative. Our system is unrepresentative (with minority voting securing a parliamentary majority) and is thus undemocratic imo. NB. Carol advocates PR.
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  91. It seems that someone with Jeremy's humanity could not be allowed near power. The system demands sociopaths, controlled by the powerful.
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  92. Both are aiming at the wrong target. The Tories love an industrial dispute while Starmer and Reeves aim at pensioners to divide and rule. Why not fill the alleged "black hole" by taxing wealth and increasing the windfall tax on energy companies?
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  93. @@alexander-lc4dr Were you not better off under Labour? Let's start your whataboutery from a position of reality.
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  94. Always respected Barry. Now I must add admiration for his humanity and concern.
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  95. Jacob has the arrogance to declare what the public is interested in, while the rest engage in tomfoolery behind closed doors. Another day, a new group of chancers and charlatans.
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  96. If I want to clarify the legal position, I ask a qualified lawyer. If our government wants to pretend to do that, it makes a challenge at tax payer's expense. Next, we have a series of excuses for the waiting lists and a promise of new hubs that we can't staff. Different day; same Tory horseshit.
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  97. A socialist would not condone and support neoliberalism. A socialist wouldn't assume pensioners have the broadest shoulders. A socialist would not appoint a chancellor who sticks with Tory fiscal rules while refusing to tax wealth.
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  98. Rees Mogg at his finest. The Victorian pencil sharpened by Penny's sword.
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  99.  @tariq_sharif  Wouldn't employ her as a barista
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  100. Maybe the Crime Minister couldn't miss another photo op lol
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  101. When I hear the tired rhetoric of blaming Labour I wonder how long it would take a competent government to fix things. Since they have had more than a decade, they should simply resign because of abject incompetence.
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  102. Key phrase: manufacturing consent. Aided and abetted by an oligarch media. Enough is enough.
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  103. If they are so confident that they represent the British people, why not call an election or hold a referendum? Perhaps he should define "illegal" and how asylum seekers can arrive legally. Why not start be reading the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees?
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  104. ​ @nopants4259  True. And it seems sociopathy is the only characteristic required for appointment to the Tory cabinet.
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  105. Like a bloody menagerie. The one who should be expelled of course is the Convict, also known as the Crime Minister.
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  106. Braverman is quite a piece of work. A qualified lawyer who doesn't understand the law or flouts it for her populistic brand of fascism.
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  107. She admits people voted to level up and she deliberately acts to level down.
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  108. This woman excels in the density scale to achieve absolute opacity. Or in plainer language: as thick as two short planks. Starting this kind of scrutiny at home would be best: test and trace; PPE contracts; etc. After an alleged consultation, the channel that scrutinises them most is to be sold off.
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  109. And one of the most straight talking. Does it hurt?
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  110. Russia is returning to a world that Israel hasn't left. Such irony.
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  111. I guess if you promote someone beyond their competence, they are easier to control.
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  112. Wurzel Gummidge with an Eton hangover and a plummy accent to match.
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  113.  @russellmathews3599  He's been offered so many workable options but has refused them all for fear of his backers. He should stay in his bunker and stop causing damage.
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  114.  @nathaneddy502  even with the skills, would they get a platform? The media machine is intent on manufacturing consent.
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  115. She struggles to keep a straight face while spouting bollocks yet still exudes arrogance. Missing the first part of the process: the government sets the parameters for the pay review body. What's the point of a recruitment drive when we don't pay NHS staff properly? Shall we train them to move abroad?
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  116. Sunak sounds surprised that Labour has learned "spending needs to be paid for" when the Tories have borrowed more and paid back less since the second world war. Perhaps his own party need to learn that lesson.
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  117. What the speaker said at the end was alarming. It also showed the urgent need to clean up politics and to learn tolerance. The longer parliament continues as a house of lies with inadequate methods of redress; the longer that blame is shifted and innocent people are targeted, in misdirection, as an excuse; the longer that common enemies are created through rhetoric; then the risk of fuelling hatred - and even the threat of violence - seems inevitable. To make matters worse, we have an oligarch media, largely owned by non-UK tax payers, spouting hatred and shifting blame. There is no defence for putting politicians in physical danger. Yet with divisive rhetoric that fuels hatred, anger is understandable and even inevitable.
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  118. Richard and Prof Danny Blanchflower have joined together as the Mile End economists to show a better way for Labour. Starmer should listen and engage.
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  119. Tried to get the three tenors. Ended up with the three wazzocks.
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  120. @Dog boy is that a pathetic attempt at defence from your pseudonym account?
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  121. @@alexander-lc4dr So you haven't answered the question. Were you better or worse off?
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  122.  @apollothirteen9236  Indeed. I don't argue otherwise at a personal level. Yet when that's the best option on offer and the real economy suffers, say, at the expense of share buy-backs. The system is far worse for society, and you are either comfortable in exploiting it or otherwise. The debate is about neoliberalism versus other systems. Depends on your attitude to greed and personal values. As for high IQs, our system doesn't reward on that measure. Many of the brightest use their talents for society.
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  123. If Raab can't answer her questions, who's the gormless one?
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  124.  @woofpet  Yes, there was always an element of greed, albeit tempered by a regard for society. Now greed is applauded by neoliberalism and inequality has accelerated.
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  125. Wonder if this will be on the BBC or MSM? Enough is most certainly enough.
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  126. A poignant and accurate summary. If Labour don't implement PR, the Tories will be back with more extreme cruelty. If Starmer gains power, he needs to grow a pair and embrace modern economics.
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  127. ​ @BuIIetBiII  Thus proving the point: a minority (43.6%) vote producing an 80 seat parliamentary majority. That's called elective dictatorship.
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  128. I hit the overseas development budget instead of taxing asset wealth for defence of assets. (Mostly owned by oligarchs.) The real meaning behind Starmer's words.
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  129. I can't resist comparing his oratory to that of our vacuous prime minister. But then, Zelensky was a comedian and comedians have to be poignant and concise with language. The Ukranian president is inspirational. His people deserve peace and freedom.
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  130. And it's my advisor's fault for not reminding me before every journey that I hadn't to break the speed limit. The moronic idiot defence.
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  131. ​@nikkihamilton4374No. It leaves the mess to Labour, as usual.
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  132. The Tories are the worst possible opposition because 6 months of new government is inevitably compared with 14 years of abject incompetence.
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  133. The Tories have never been a same option for anyone capable of critical thinking. Other than for the selfish or psychopathic.
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  134. Yes. To me, he is even worse than Thatcher. At least you knew what you were getting with her. "No such thing as society" and now we have a sociopathic prime minister.
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  135. Andy, I officially declare you a vacuous wazzock. Just like the person you continually excuse.
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  136. Many of us condone Churchill's actions because he was a man for the time: the kind of dirty b'stard we needed. Albeit a flawed character.
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  137.  @evolassunglasses4673  Yes. Straight to the pockets of the few.
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  138. ​ @diannemuhling7555 implementing the Jay report...sorting the Tory mess as usual.
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  139. There may be change: it will get worse with this scammer in the HofC
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  140. Good luck. Some of us value immigrants and many contribute so much to our society (except for Tory ministers, who ruin our country in most cases).
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  141.  @exposingthepedoleft9463  they would need to be in power.
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  142. No accounting for intellectual laziness or stupidity.
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  143. Mick is pure class.
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  144. Are you awake, or do mindless bots sleep?
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  145.  @andyforshaw8489  No. There you go again, Andy, blaming the messenger to divert from truth.
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  146. If restricting the families of students "is the biggest single measure" to reduce migration, what does that say about his competence? The little spiv who promised integrity, professionalism and accountability responds with lies, excusing his weak and incompetent governance.
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  147.  @serraangel7465  No. Just over one decade: since 2010 after Tory austerity and the removal of bursaries.
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  148. No point Johnson looking in the mirror. The self-analysis of a narcissist is pointless.
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  149. ​ @madguruJ So, Greens for you? Or just whataboutery?
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  150. Mhairi is one of the very best politicians in the UK. She obviously cares about people and wants to make a difference. Perhaps I can add to her description and say the opposite of Woke is a half-asleep arsehole.
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  151. Mick giving grown-up advice to the inept chancellor. Hopefully she will listen to him and to the patriotic millionaires, also the Mile End Road economists.
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  152. Appropriate that the first guy had a cap to doff.
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  153. Honest Bob crowing about enforcement visits while the Home Office backlog exceeds 166000. The word "illegal" in the title should be associated with the third word Bill and not the second word Migration. Thankfully Yvette Cooper put the poor wazzock out of his misery. Skewered!!!
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  154. With two looking distinctly uncomfortable at one point.
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  155. Totally agree. Neoliberalism is key. It has succeeded only in the sense that it has persuaded the poor to vote for the rich to have more. We need fundamental change.
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  156. Stay awake while you replay the video and you'll find out.
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  157. Their treatment of pensioners and WASPI women has been far from good. The rest? A combination of poor communication and a right wing oligarch media. Impose Leveson; stop corporate lobbying and cap political donations. Do something to rebuild some faith in politics.
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  158. Learning lessons is no excuse for ignoring the bleeding obvious.
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  159.  @stephenobrien5909  wtf! You think that excuses Johnson? Get real
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  160. Great speech and about time someone said it in parliament. If in doubt, search the tools of fascism and see how many this government uses. This has been clear to me for a few years and it's refreshing to hear an MP stand up and say it. Look out for the reports of her speech in the mainstream medIa lol (don't hold your breath though.)
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  161.  @derekharrison1582  Yes. Many people vote Tory through habit. I could explain in detail how their track record is far worse than Labour, but a good friend once applied a simple test: have you been better off under Labour or Tory governments? I know the answer for the vast majority and could give statistics to back it up.
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  162.  @GOD-OF-ALL-NO1  Don't quite see the relevance of your futile whataboutery. I recommend more meditation to stimulate critical thinking.
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  163. ​ @HandleTier  That's a strange pseudonym account, spouting mindless shite. Evidence needed.
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  164. Finally, something positive and useful from this government - albeit late. Can't escape the irony of a slimeball politician calling out cowboy builders. Lol.
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  165.  @liamr194  Pay attention, Liam. If you can't see the evidence and work it out, don't bother voting.
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  166.  @liamr194  don't you recognise a suggestion, Liam? Not dictatorship - you have the right to vote of course. Read the economic forecasts from government and other independent economic bodies and you will see that we are expected to become the poor man of Europe again. Largely because of getting Brexit half-done badly. As for Tory austerity - income in real terms has fallen over the last twelve years.
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  167.  @andyforshaw8489  if it's such a "well known fact," you will have no problem citing evidence.
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  168. I would assess Braverman as sociopathic and possibly vacuous.
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  169.  @Gerhardium  Yes. The free marketeers have a selective memory about what Adam Smith said.
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  170. ​ @aituk  publicly funded in many other countries, to achieve consistency.
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  171. Apparently the remainder that wasn't spaffed on faulty PPE or dodgy contracts is going into the Tory kitty to make up for lost oligarch funding.
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  172. A little cowardly spiv alternating between arrogance, squirming, evading and planning his regular absence when at risk of being held to account.
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  173. It would certainly be an important step towards a real working democracy. Unfortunately, in PMQs there is an obligation solely to RESPOND, which is not the same as giving an answer. Parliament should be dragged into the 21st century.
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  174. If she has so much information, why not list the schools affected? Why has this happened at the last minute?
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  175.  @lostintranslation1957  REALLY!!! If you can't see the difference in scale, apply critical thinking instead of whataboutery.
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  176.  @adistraction2668  BOLD! In taking more from the poorest for the benefit of the richest. Trickle down has failed. Inequality stifles growth.
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  177. Are they hoping for an invitation?
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  178. Dowden missed all of the lessons on economics, just attending the ones on waffle and crappy jokes. Not supported by Martin Lewis; suggested and campaigned for by Martin Lewis. Hunt virtually begged Martin for ideas on his programme last night. A clueless government in meltdown.
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  179. The Good Law Project has successfully challenged the dodgy Tory VIP lane. At the start of the pandemic we refused the help of the EU, so the Tories could favour their mates. What a sham. Enough is enough.
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  180. If you can't spot the difference, don't show yourself up by commenting.
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  181. ​ @pancakeslayer101  hence fewer people required in total. The Amazon PR is pure sophistry.
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  182. OMG. That takes some imagination. Hard to beat the worst government in my lifetime, led by a sociopathic buffoon.
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  183.  @kaiser-ki6wp  I was born and raised in England, Tom. Just disgusted with the Tories and ashamed of Little England
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  184. Wonder if our state media will report on the 15,000 people in parliament Square? Enough is enough.
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  185.  @Gee-xb7rt  I totally agree, having seen through Thatcher's bs from the start
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  186. Bringing Jeremy Corbyn into the argument was the greatest own goal ever by Raab. All the media lies about his links with Russia while the Tories were taking back handers from oligarchs and benefiting from their interference in the electoral process. The real and present danger to Britain is the abject buffoon called Johnson.
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  187. Those who confuse JRM's posh accent with intelligence will be disabused by this encounter. Game, set and match to Ms Harman (a politocian from a different league.)
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  188. She is so "determined" she threw her chancellor under a bus.
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  189.  @idonthavealoginname  Indeed. And now these chancers have legalised it.
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  190. In which case he should resign because of his incompetence.
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  191. Braverman: my plan isn't working because it's against international law and is a half-arsed joke. So I'll just complain that Labour doesn't have a plan. It's all Labour's fault because the "British people have spoken.". Exactly when and what did the people say? Somehow she missed out 13 years of government failure.
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  192. The law is an ass and British democracy is an oxymoron. This Lord refers to our "constitution," which is a series of uncodified precedents, deliberately opaque for manipulation by the corrupt and powerful. We need democracy, and that must give Scotland the right to self-determination.
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  193. Yes. A bit like PMQs
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  194.  @aryastark634  yes. Ultimately caused by the use of derivatives (the re-parceling of debt) so bankers could fuel greed from dodgy speculation.
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  195. Actually they are usually right but their ideas don't suit the powerful and won't be adopted. Show exactly where they are wrong.
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  196. We don't need an engineer obsessed with woke when our economy is FUBAR. Fixing the train when the tracks are broken is not the answer we need.
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  197. Loves maths; hates facts.
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  198.  @EdgarStyles1234  Wrong name, wrong time of day. Wakey, wakey, Edgar
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  199. @left_blank "stolen taxes" are also taken by evasion, before the point of collection. Tax evasion costs nine times more than benefit cheats. You are falling for misdirection.
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  200.  @andrewharrison1194  it happened when Raab had to resort to attacking Jeremy Corbyn instead of answering a question. An own goal when the clear and present danger to Britain is called Johnson, who was taking dodgy backhanders from Russian oligarchs and benefiting from their electoral interference. Read the Russia Report if in doubt.
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  201. She qualifies as a resident sociopath, like her boss
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  202. While Farage steeples his fingers like some fake Buddha.
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  203. Yes. And the script has nothing to do with the question. Just eyewash
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  204. "The pensioners have the triple lock." No. Not this year, Ian. The Tories have sold us out.
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  205. At least the Tories are considering the environment in recycling their rubbish. Let's bring back the convict.
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  206. His official title is The Right Honourable Wazzock
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  207. Based on our location and living in an elective dictatorship, I choose to vote tactically. Purely on policies (and with PR) it would be Green all the way.
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  208.  @CC-xn5xi  Then why behave like it? (As I commented.)
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  209.  @dolphin069  actually, I sometimes wonder if it's a version of the Torygraph. Lol
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  210. In any event, the point was relative. No reason why we should exacerbate the problem. Totally irrelevant if critical thinking is applied. A bit like, why should you worry about manslaughter when others are committing murder?
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  211. OMG! A minister who works for Deliveroo but thinks she is delivering in reality while spinning fantasy.
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  212. And still many of their poorer supporters vote for the rich to have more.
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  213. I would respectfully ask anyone viewing this reel: when was the last time you spoke to a homeless person? Their dehumanisation is playing into Braverman's hands.
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  214. Bringing Hunt the proverbial back was always a sign of Tory desperation. 2022: the year of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, with 3 prime ministers and 5 chancellors. Meanwhile the country sinks while the cabinet and their backers float with the flotsam.
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  215. ​ @peterconnor94 which is why we need PR, where all votes count equally.
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  216.  @GiraffeCrab  Yes. Albeit enabled through a minority vote of 43.6%. our undemocratic electoral system enables this mayhem through an elective dictatorship.
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  217. That statement needs explanation, otherwise its petty slander
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  218.  @LKeet6  Yes. A myth indeed. No logic attached.
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  219.  @shanesloth4419  Yes, Shane. it's know as cost-push inflation from when I studied economics in the dark ages. Sunak allegedly has an MBA so would have covered economics, which makes him a phoney or a liar.
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  220.  @michaelsproat3363  so would you prefer conventional smart dress and vacuous drivel? Look at Raab as a prime example of smartly-dressed incompetence.
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  221. Oozing arrogance and condescension from every poor is an acquired art. Kemi excels in this, while spouting vacuous sh1te.
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  222. Wow! Getting Smug Mogg to speak the truth was some feat.
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  223.  @andrewelphick2304  I'm not one of them...vote in England but admire her abilities.
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  224. Aptly named PMQs because there are certainly no answers. "highest growth" after the largest drop in the G7 is not something to shout about. But then the worst government in history must grasp at straws.
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  225. Listen to David Lammy's speech at conference. It offers hope.
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  226. "If he wants to know what conservatives would do..." I think we all know that after the last 14 years, Kemi the clown.
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  227.  @Steve-ho4xb  The Lol is significant. Were you better or worse off under Labour? Simple binary question.
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  228.  @markscott4420  indeed. The Tories have borrowed more and paid back less than Labour, consistently since the second world war and through to just before the pandemic. Their economic record is abysmal.
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  229.  @dcikaruga  How, exactly, can Khan "take a shot" at PM? As for "being as wretched" - proof please. Trotting out vacuous nonsense is no defence of the chief Buffoon.
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  230.  @rtee4086  What!!! He has got Brexit part done...BADLY. Otherwise known as a total shit-show.
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  231. Perhaps you will tell her how she is wrong. She advocates tactical voting, which is essential with our FPTP system. She also advocates PR. In what respect do you disagree?
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  232.  @garysmith5025  I agree. Yet surprisingly, after business consultants are involved, another one or two layers of management appear. You don't have to convince me about inefficiency or top-heavy administration. The video (and the book) explains part of the cause.
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  233. Too busy going after Ukraine minerals.
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  234. Thinking of another scam? His Michael Green moment?
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  235. Full marks for such a rhetorical question. This is your official school report.
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  236. Don't give the buggers ideas. Thought we were adopting the theme tune from the Archers as the new anthem, as suggested by Billy Connolly.
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  237.  @leehighland5435  When using the word "thick", always remember that Fartage appeals to idiots
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  238. I certainly intend to read the book, which can probably be summarised in four words: never trust a Tory. That said, the details that lead to this conclusion will hold my interest.
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  239. Will they listen? Reform fall apart when subjected to critical thinking.
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  240. Perhaps he is banning private jets to compensate. Lol
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  241.  @Daveyboyz1978  that's not what Johnson said. Check the facts pseudonym account.
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  242. The PFI method of funding public assets was recommended by business consultants to keep the so-called "debt" off the balance sheet. For example, if government issues money (effectively borrowing from itself) it is added to the public debt figure. If we bought hospital buildings or rail stock (for example) we would own an asset to offset said "borrowing". Instead we pay more to companies who fund the asset, paying though the nose for rent so no "public borrowing" is involved. Effectively similar to renting a house, which costs more than buying through a mortgage. (There is no mortgage debt but there is no capital asset to compensate.) The myth is created by this fallacious method of defining public debt. How can we be in debt to ourselves? The myth remains unchallenged to keep power in the hands of banks, when we (through government) own the Bank of England
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  243.  @luminousfractal420  What exactly can't you calculate? Stats clearly show that the Tories have borrowed more and paid back less than Labour, since the second world war. Also real incomes (taking account of inflation) have reduced since 2010, against a 12% increase under New Labour. There is so much evidence to dismantle the rhetoric of the Tories and to show their abject incompetence.
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  244. This interview reminds me of the reason why modern football p1sses me off. A money pit creating unfair advantage; cheating; bending the rules; play-acting (sometimes worthy of RADA). Heresy to football fans, I realise, but nevertheless a microcosm of neoliberalism, where the greedy b'stards take it all. Always enjoy listening to Jeremy, one of the relatively few decent human beings in politics.
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  245.  @cliffgaither  The fact that someone is articulate and plausible until facts are examined is how confidence tricksters work. She insists on finishing her statements because she is delivering scripted speil and interviewer intervention may involve scrutiny. This is the same woman who boasts about trade deals that actually benefit other countries and her arguments are exposed in parliamentary sub-committee hearings.
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  246. Why would we expect trouble when rent-a-thug were drafted in to "defend" something that was never under threat? One even perceived a "crisis" but was never asked to explain that. How could a march for peace disrespect the commemoration of the end of a senseless war? Braverman represents bile, confrontation and incompetence.
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  247. That's democracy for you. At least the corruption is openly displayed.
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  248. And wanders onto any film set to spout bile.
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  249. Respect to these UK Jews. True humanitarian courage and honesty.
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  250.  @nicolarse-stubborn  These pictures paint a thousand excuses for illiteracy. Are they from a Tory website?
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  251.  @stockgorilla4999  Would you really expect a business on its arse and needing help to actually complain? Would you expect a compliant Tory media to complain. I certainly heard people questioning and we saw the obvious risk ourselves. Depends where you look, who you listen to, and how hard you question.
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  252. "Learn as much as possible" from the experience. He certainly knew how to avoid prosecution. Being a pathological liar seems to be a key requirement of a Tory cabinet minister. Great to see him skewered by Suzanna, in particular.
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  253.  @kaiser-ki6wp  and how you know that? There was a clear majority vote in the Scottish parliament... did you dream that she engineered the vote?
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  254. Perhaps someone should explain the "difference" the guy citing the Vikings and the Normans seeks. The word military (as distinct from military age) explains it, as it is fundamental to most definitions of the word invasion.
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  255. Simple Tory formula: levelling up = levelling down. Clue: a cabinet of abject liars.
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  256. Another example of government being seen to do something; rarely the right thing; never enough. Where is tidal and solar energy in this mix?
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  257.  @harryluvessport  that's a strange statement when the reality is opposite. Read the Russia Report to find the real threat to security and democracy.
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  258. The only thing allowed to work is conflict. Why should he agree with that? The only way forward is dialogue, as history shows in Northern Ireland. What else do you think he should fight for?
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  259. And that was Labour's proposal in their last manifesto. Just a few necessary exceptions to keep the right to return to practice.
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  260. Respect to this NHS professional for speaking out. The NHS is in a shambolic state and the Tories can't be trusted with it.
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  261. How does that concern us militarily? We are just America's lapdogs.
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  262.  @TruthTortoise81  agreed. But I found his questioning trite and DL had to steer it back to a serious level.
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  263. Irony noted.
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  264.  @DrinkTheKoolAid62  yet the best means of growing the economy. Government promising growth yet putting wealth in the hands of those who move it offshore.
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  265.  @apollothirteen9236  you should start a comedy club for the hard of thinking.
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  266. But JRM is an exceptional chap, you see. Tories don't tolerate scrutiny, so the Victorian Pencil needs exclusions in his contract. We can't comment on an existing case, we just delay it so Jacob can make some money. She "hears" what John is saying but doesn't listen and act. The manufacturing of consent has never been more blatant, or more serious.
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  267. Johnson wants "consistency." In his defence, he is himself consistent: a serial liar and an abject incompetent.
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  268. It gets better: buffoon claims to have a plan, yet a former Tory health secretary has disabused him of that lie. Moving money around to fill a hole is not a plan. A plan is operational, as well as financial. As for his jobs and vacancies claim: British jobs for an absence of British workers, due to his Brexit shit-show. Meanwhile Sunak is laughing while Starmer is explaining the plight of workers. The modern Tory party includes some prize human specimens.
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  269. We are forced into a loan so the Tories keep their donors.
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  270. An unhealthy obsession will small boats would have been an interesting case for Freud. Perhaps they should explain the term: "economic migrants" and how it differs from asylum.
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  271. So easy to find that it has taken over a year to discover only misery and vacuous rhetoric
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  272. That has happened in the past but the Tories have decided to freeze them, which is termed Fiscal Drag as explained in the interview.
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  273.  @denzel270  How, exactly, does that relate to the PM? Whataboutery is pathetic
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  274. Well, Bazzer, you are wrong on two counts: 1) women and children also escape to Britain, so stop gaslighting or swallowing the shit from the Fail. 2) a refugee has to right to apply for asylum in the country of their choice. FACT: we take far fewer refugees per capita than most other European countries.
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  275.  @spotcatsteve3752  We would be in sh1t street, a third world country.
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  276.  @AS-by8ee  Reform is a limited company for those with limited minds
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  277.  @liamr194  As you say, no single version of the truth. Early UK growth can be viewed as spectacular when measured against pandemic levels, as we had an exceptionally low base after an equally spectacular decline. When measured against pre-pandemic levels, however, not so great and projected to be worse for good reasons. As for Brexit: Just imagine the operational lunacy of completing it during a pandemic. Unless the reason was to shift the blame from an act of self-harm. I will never blame our performance solely on brexit, rather arguing that it exacerbates, instead of being the sole cause of, economic harm. Clearly it is doing far more harm than good by every economic measure. Johnson was always going to "get brexit done"... BADLY. In that respect, he succeeded to help the ERG and disaster capitalists. Btw my remark about voting was intentionally flippant. And I'm not inclined to compare unemployment rates because national measurement criteria differ and we can't compare like with like.
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  278.  @liamr194  I've only read the beginning of your comments: 1) the EU offered us an extension to Brexit completion and cooperation in supplying PPE. Instead we chose the "oven ready deal" and dodgy PPE at inflated prices from Tory cronies. (Check the good law Project) 2) the EU didn't drive a wedge... We chose to leave the single market and customs union and Johnson's half baked deal has been met with as much flexibility as possible from the EU - while protecting the SM. As for your arguments on the "power of sterling" I couldn't disagree more. It hasn't thrived under austerity and the government hasn't a single clue on reality or economic policy. We will never agree, because you choose to blame the parties the Tories deflect against. "Relative poverty being conflated!!!" Utter garbage...
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  279.  @jellslixcy6168  imo that's bollocks. Judged to the extent that they have been returned by a minority vote on each occasion. A vote share of 43.6% returning an 80 seat majority is not judgement; it's injustice. If we allow governments to do the opposite of what was in their manifesto, without the consent of the electorate, the system is more than flawed.
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  280. ​ @daveburton5970 It's a question of volume, Dave. Do you really think that more wouldn't turn up for a free meal? Couldn't our vacuous ministers work that one out?
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  281.  @dweamy1  No. Although we live in semi-rural Lancashire, we met up with one other family and ate at an outdoor table for one meal. No adverse effects but we didn't take it as party time (apparently unlike the reprobates in Downing Street.)
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  282. She did add AND WHAT THEY STAND FOR. Slight change of context.
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  283.  @pt4005  Sources please, Mr or Mrs Pseudonym
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  284. @left_blank You work to make shareholders and CEO''s lives better. So if I own shares in your company?
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  285. We maintain this is not related to Israel but who told the Houthis? What prompted their attacks? Has anyone asked them? Had we not backed Israel, would our ships be attacked? If Israel stopped the madness, would the Houthis still attack shipping? Niavety or plain lies from Westminster?
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  286. Compare the responsibility of that statement with Farage, undermining the police explanation and appealing to mindless morons. Who is the patriot?
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  287. So Labour not supporting a bill is an excuse? Who exactly has a parliamentary majority? Hunt cites Paul Johnson (a traditional tax and spend economist) and shies away from modern monetary policy for the purpose of investment in the infrastructure. Who has caused the mess of austerity plus cronyism on steroids? That would be the Tories.
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  288.  @bertieblade7852  I think, as a married man, he knows that. But how is the relevant and is it more important than economic policy and, for example, using a windfall tax to help the cost of living crisis?
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  289. Loathsome Leadsom badgering to justify Tory rhetoric. 1) the Tories haven't made work pay; they have made not working not pay (through penalties and unprofessional assessments) and effectively subsidised low incomes to keep real pay low. 2) people don't pay for my pension and it isn't a benefit. What have I paid for during 50 years of work? Do I pay for my own private pension and someone else pays for my state pension? NO!!! I have paid for both.
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  290. Bloody Hell! Has Johnson found another empty freezer to hide in?
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  291. Johnson shows his mental level yet again. Vacuous, delusional and infantile. Britain is broken.
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  292.  @epschronos  Who rules Gaza with military force? Who called Palestinians human animals? Any clues there? Listen to Mico Paled; he explains the reality. Your pseudonym account is noted btw
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  293.  @barrymcguinness2087  I couldn't agree more, Barry. I'm also a grandparent and despair for the future of our grandchildren. We need a serious reset with a real democratic system instead of this elective dictatorship.
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  294.  @steveozone4910  You have a point about the people, Steve. My personal preference is a written constitution and regulations on parliamentary standards being approved by a people's assembly. Thereafter, we need independent experts (probably lawyers) upholding the constitution and ruling on breaches of conduct without political interference.
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  295. Such MPs are not allowed near power, yet there are more than a few.
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  296.  @roberttownrow3606  Thanks for the info. The Tories habitually lie. Johnson was no exception, he was one of many serial liars.
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  297. There were other ways to fill the alleged "black hole" and they were far better options. Listen to the patriotic millionaires; listen to the Mile End Road economists. Tax asset wealth; tax capital gains at the same rate as work income. Cut the lame excuses and address inequality to stimulate growth.
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  298. Some MPs have interesting priorities in this cess pit called Westminster.
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  299. The positive versus the negative. A refreshing change from Chump's serial whinging and fart1ng through his mouth.
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  300. A poignant question. Not so much about the infrastructure, but about the ownership and control of the infrastructure.
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  301.  @Brithoa  hiding in a bloody freezer and making excuses for early inaction. Missing COBRA meetings. The man is an abject buffoon.
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  302. Wow! So the gangmasters give them free mobiles. Your inside info is incredible.
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  303.  @tomfinney3416  every day. Finally we can see hope for our grandchildren. We missed the chance of Jeremy and Bernie - the oligarch media and the wealthiest 1% derailed that. Now, without any radical and progressive politician , enter the union movement. Respect to you all.
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  304. Little Spiv talks about "aspiration" yet fails to understand that aspiration is best served by a meritocracy and not a loaded education system. He will never answer a single question. A waste of space.
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  305. What a cosy little arrangement between Ofwat and corporate interests, all for the purpose of shifting debt exposure while rewarding shareholders. With the taxpayer losing out yet again. The two Labour MPs showed this up by effective forensic questioning. In spite of this little merry-go-round, for how much longer will we have shit in our water?
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  306. Similarly in Scotland.
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  307. Am I dreaming? Or did we have a similar resolution before? And didn't the Toe Rags (oops! the Tories) make similar legislation last year? More bullshit, same inept government.
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  308. And that's an excuse?
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  309.  @garymitchell5899  and deservedly so
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  310.  @exposingthepedoleft9463  don't answer incognito accounts. Too much trolling
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  311.  @christopherbrowne736  No. Being capable of analytical thought to identify bullshit matters most. You find her persuasive. I find her vacuous and arrogant. Opinions differ.
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  312.  @mr_civil  Absolutely agree. They are treating people as idiots. Hoping that many won't understand that it's a method of increasing tax to make us poorer in real terms.
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  313. These sociopathic buggers live in an alternative universe. A government of charlatans.
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  314.  @LewieLeway  I'm acutely aware how politics works. But did Blair claim it to be the will of the people? I also know how democracy SHOULD work. (Btw you should check the spelling of Tony's surname)
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  315. Total respect to Mick Lynch. So cool and articulate. He shames the Government's lies. The scale of our undemocratic system is frightening: (1) it took a minority (43.6%) vote to create an 80 seat majority in parliament; (2) while pretending to have a parliamentary system, we have wall to wall media coverage of a campaign of presidential proportions. With the result decided by fewer than a quarter -million people. We laughingly pretend this is democracy. In reality, an elective dictatorship.
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  316. Another publicity stunt by a cabal of narcissists with racism at their core.
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  317.  @letsgobrandon5502  Who is "she" and what did she do? Truss and Farage hold to the lie of trickle down. Perhaps you can work out what that means for you, and most certainly for the majority.
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  318. Britain is mired in shit as we have a turd and a jobbie fighting for Tory leadership.
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  319. The far right value "free speech" only if they control the narrative. Owning the platform and fixing the algorithm is like speaking freely without offering an equal right of response. One-sided communication is not free speech. It's known as propaganda.
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  320. The Tories are big on promises, but on delivery... (You probably guessed it.)
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  321.  @jgmediting7770  I agree, the lighter the regulation and the more we allow dodgy financial instruments and complexity, the more we fuel greed and inequality. It's intentional.
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  322.  @nicolarse-stubborn  what does that make DRoss?
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  323.  @josuuv  while you, on the other hand, possess ultimate wisdom. Opinion is just that: not right; not wrong; just a different view of the same thing.
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  324.  @josuuv  don't need an excuse. It's called opinion. Are you with the thought police?
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  325. That's what should happen to achieve democracy. A manifesto should be a contract based on reasonable endeavour. Currently it's just a statement of intent with no binding obligation or consequences.
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  326.  @sandersson2813  that's blx. Lazy thinking or obfuscation. We had growth in real incomes under Blair and Brown.
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  327. Where is the action on land banking? Where are the plans to build social housing? Where is the workforce to build? Just asking questions.
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  328.  @funkimunky1  That's debatable when many of the larger corporations were nationalised industries. Global companies have power on a much larger scale.
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  329. Absolutely! Tax income from wealth at the same rate as work income.
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  330.  @andyforshaw8489  more mindless trolling, Andy. Utter blx. There is strong support for the NHS but the Tories can't be trusted with it.
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  331. @Satoshi Nakamoto Well "sunshine" that's not the case with asylum seekers, under international legislation. As for legal channels, what are they and why are processes broken?
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  332. Hunt as chancellor? Zero knowledge of economics; graduated in cheap political point scoring.
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  333. And adding more to that category to join them.
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  334. "The real problem is..." The Tory government.
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  335. This woman is an example of what the Tories think of the average intelligence of Londoners. You cannot be serious! To quote a former tennis player.
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  336.  @andyforshaw8489  so one isolated case presents conclusive evidence? And that being a local council? Just stop trotting out rubbish based on mindless stereotyping.
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  337.  @clayface563  perfectly true. In fact at government level the Tories have a far worse financial record: having borrowed more and paid back less across government since the second world war.
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  338. ​ @spiritualdeath101  our life won't improve until we have real democracy with a fair voting system, and accountability of those in power.
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  339. An excuse. We asked for immigrants to come and work yet failed (and now fail abysmally) to provide the infrastructure.
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  340.  @howardcoles3537  Totally agree, but so many fall for it with the support of the MSM
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  341.  @killpridebeforepridekillsy6504  "To live" meaning imposing rule through force and applying apartheid. Welcome to reality. You can play the victim for so long...
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  342. If you want responsible journalism, call The Scum. Lol
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  343. We are working tirelessly (to give more money to our mates) We are putting more resources in (and noone will ask us where the money will come from (they only ask that question of Labour.) Dowdy is the same as other Tory minister: don't answer a question; blame Labour; and talk bollocks.
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  344. Who would have guessed that flu spreads in winter? Different day; another Tory shyster.
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  345. Honest Bob accusing Labour of having no plan! Does he think he is in opposition? Perhaps he is looking ahead? But then he talks like a UKIP reject with the same vacuous b.s. that has led to the worst of both worlds: a failure to control numbers and a shortage of key skills. If they have a plan, it's the wrong one or it isn't being implemented.
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  346. "Balance" and "affordability" didn't seem to be an issue in the barristers' strike. After a one day strike, a 15% pay award... As for the "record investment," it barely makes up for a lack of funding over the last 13 years, let one matching the increase in investment regularly made by New Labour. If the government insists by funding the rises from tax , tax non doms and tax wealth. We are suffering cost-push inflation, hence the inflation excuse is bollocks. A catalogue of trite excuses from an operationally incompetent sociopathic government.
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  347.  @dolphin069  Don't understand the term Woke. It's bollocks...used in misdirection. Should we leave those in power asleep at the wheel?
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  348.  @dolphin069  Our whole system is anti-meritocracy with ex-public school pupils revered for their contacts and posh accents while their operational incompetence is excused. As for race and gender, history shows a reason for any sensitivity and perceived over-compensation. Woke: a word for consumption by the vacuous to deflect from the incompetence of the powerful.
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  349. "Maintain public confidence." You have to gain it before you can maintain it. Sunak is proving to be yet another liar, promising integrity and professionalism. The only word these wazzocks understand is ENTITLEMENT.
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  350.  @TruthTortoise81  Trite and populist, as I said. DL had to shift the tone in his answers. Crappy journalism in my opinion, which is why I rarely spend time on the MSM.
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  351. Don't forget: more money in the pocket of bankers, after removing the pay cap on banker's bonuses, gives growth. Increasing the pay of workers is inflationary. Tory scum.
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  352. "millionaire pensioners!" Are you for f'ing real? How many of those are there?
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  353. BadEnough doesn't know the difference between freedom of movement and open borders. She is a bigger embarrassment than her party of failure.
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  354. Always someone else's fault. "Huge challenges" that they exacerbated by leaving the Dublin accord and cutting border security personnel under Cameron's austerity.
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  355. A plank talking about the planks of education policy. Such irony.
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  356. Evidence that the Tories clearly love scrutiny. Lol
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  357. ​ @crackmaninoff unfortunately your argument doesn't apply to the richest, when it should.
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  358.  @I-am-TheStorm  I understand about JC, but the 80 seat majority is commensurate with the votes AGAINST the Tories. That's not democracy. Too much infighting from Labour also contributed.
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  359. The support for Reform Limited is the result of desperation. They offer a home for the desperate and the hard-of-thinking because they get wall-to-wall media coverage. Gary and other progressives have a solution that no politician will touch for fear of upsetting the string-pullers. Gary explains the reform that would really benefit society. If only we had real democracy...
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  360. Yes. And the taper rate applies to a minority of UC claimants. Meanwhile the rest lose a measly £20 a week at a time if roaring (Brexit) inflation.
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  361. They have lied. Check the national debt by date. The Tories have been borrowing to increase the debt while imposing austerity.
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  362. To a Tory apologist minister, issues are always too complex and difficult. While most of us echo Basil Fawlty's words: specialist subject, bleeding obvious.
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  363. Jess said everything about how populist scams work, with the scammers appealing to prejudice. Fartage and his crew live to exacerbate hatred by appealing to idiots for their own ends. They are not patriots and they do not represent any redeeming features of our broken country. They use mindless thugs to further their narcissistic intent on fascistic power.
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  364. ​ robertholden3524 Here you go, craving free advertising. Reported
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  365.  @XTSu-sl1bb  I told you to think for yourself. Try again then let me know. The clue to mine starts with a meeting in Mont Pelerin in 1947. Search for an article by George Monbiot on the subject and you will see why Eddie gave that speech.
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  366.  @davidcolley7714  Not that old chestnut, David. Must I regurgitate the obvious Brexit counter argument. If you believe in democracy, you must accept the right to self-determination. Simple logic imo.
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  367. We may well be laughing at fascism with Trump and Musk, and the outcome of that...
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  368.  @noohoozfurra  thank you. We need to do what we can to call these charlatans out.
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  369.  @TEIrwell  in one sense, yes. The wrong time for the oligarchs with real power. But will there ever be a right time for anyone challenging their greed?
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  370. ​ @RobinHarris-nf4yv wait for the budget before saying that. In the meantime, ask pensioners. We need investment, and not tax and spend. Otherwise austerity becomes embedded by the neoliberal lie of tax and spend.
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  371. Quite telling that Reform UK is SHOUTED. Hardly the party of rational thought - Farage has always appealed to the hard of thinking. (Remeber Brexit...no longer his fault...)
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  372.  @markdean3401  if not big enough to apologise, find a lame excuse.
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  373.  @colinsmith8891  no, Colin. We bale out their cock ups while energy companies fund their dodgy campaigns and keep them in power.
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  374. "Swift and decisive action" from Sunak yet none of the ministers can bring themselves to say the relevant word and call Anderson's words what they were: islamophobic. Take ownership; take responsibility; stop lying.
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  375. I wish. Sadly there are many delusional people, the intellectually lazy, the jingoistic idiots who will still support this cabal of morons.
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  376. A murderous cabal is my best summation of this government. Throwing a ring of protection around care homes (a blatant lie,) faulty PPE, failure to close our borders early. All resulted in excess deaths during the pandemic and we clapped for medical staff while they risked their lives. Now the Tories hide behind an independent pay body for which the set the terms of reference and the available budget. A cabal of liars, determined to dismantle the NHS and give health care to their backers and string-pullers. What must they do to be guilty of treason?
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  377. The truth exposed: a sham consultation to enable private profiteering from an inferior public service. Welcome to Tory Britain.
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  378. Since when did it become acceptable for the sixth richest country to treat so many of its citizens like this? Perhaps when Thatcher declared 'there is no such thing as society?' Tory scum.
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  379. "I get it and I've listened." Too late after the event, with £65 billion wasted. Listening and thinking things through BEFORE taking action is what we should expect if the Tories were half competent.
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  380.  @David.attenbruh  Love the humour. Her vacuous application of economics was hardly intelligent. She was certainly funny, because she believed the rubbish she spouted.
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  381.  @SammyInnit  thanks. I thought that was the case. Sometimes the linking of replies goes wrong, I've had a similar experience.
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  382. Paint a picture of alternate reality and expect the gullible to swallow the crap. That's integrity, professionalism and accountability for you.
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  383.  @ianthomas739  Totally agree. We have a government stoking division to hide their incompetence.
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  384. Desperate times call for desperate idiocy: enter the haunted pencil.
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  385. "Let me finish!" (I must deliver my script.) The war cry of puppet ministers in a government of operational incompetence.
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  386. A perfect example of needing PR is this brexit mess. Although 52% voted for brexit, it took a minority-elected government (with a 43.6% vote sharing giving an 80 seat parliamentary majority) to deliver a half-baked act of self-harm.
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  387. Outsourcing is not abdication.
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  388. Enough is enough. Unregulated free market capitalism has left so many living on the edge, one pay cheque from poverty, so profit can be maximised and shareholders can take a dividend. It's fragility is exposed. Tory ideology is a sham, supported by a plethora of lies and a compliant media. We have suffered them too long.
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  389.  @joeyclarkejoey6212  to become a banana republic without the bananas.
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  390. Sorry. Fails on the heading for me. They were allegedly "defending" it from a fictitious event, so because it didn't need defending, they committed acts of aggression. That's what tiresome thugs do.
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  391. REMEMBER!!! The government would love you to blame the farmers. It's called misdirection. Who was going to "take back control"?
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  392. Classic government seeking to "alleviate pressure" in a crisis of their making. The Tories are seen to do something; rarely the right thing; never enough.
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  393. The Tories simply can't be trusted with the NHS. Kick them out if you want a working and affordable health system.
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  394. Here is a tip in return. If that's the best advice you can give; shut up and p1ss off.
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  395. You clearly haven't earned enough to pay for advertising. Lol
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  396. Suella chickens out, so Honest Bob has his arse held to the fire. Cowardice compounding abject incompetence.
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  397. Should have stopped at "the prime minister has a huge wealth..." Which is why he doesn't understand what life is like for the many. As for "inflation busting pay rises" in the public sector - perhaps James Not So will explain how that will fuel inflation, when leading economists have exposed the lie.
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  398. What a useless speaker. Stop the shouting from the baying prats on the Tory benches. Shut the f up or get out. Then let her speak. Johnson's corruption is exposed at every turn
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  399. ​ @BlahBlahBlah-x3h not true. It would avoid another Tory government and the path towards fascism.
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  400. He thinks his party is "completely united!" So the 11 rebels were fiction? The "flaws" in his plan pointed out by the Tory lunatics didn't happen. He is like an entitled child trying to captain a sinking ship called HMS Lunacy.
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  401.  @marcusbradley3081  Your observations are devoid of fact. Have you been better off under Tories (who have borrowed more and paid back less to increase the national debt) or Labour with more responsible financial management and greater equality of opportunity? Rhetoric says one thing; facts show the opposite. In real terms, we have not yet got back to 2007 income levels, while the richest 1% have more than doubled their wealth. That's some achievement from a party of charlatans obsessed with austerity and inequality.
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  402.  @marcusbradley3081  how, exactly, when track records show the opposite?
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  403. I agree, yet the irony is that the Tories raise taxes while siphoning off the wealth for the 1%. Tax under the Tories is the highest for 40 years.
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  404. I would love to borrow Johnson's rose-coloured glasses for a week. But then I wouldn't be able to sleep, as donning them requires eradication of a conscience. Buffoon is a sick joke: we will do all we can... except tax business windfalls. We are all suffering, plebs, but you will suffer more than others. Can't p1ss off our donors. This is a financial class war; nothing to do with the Ukraine war where I get my photo ops.
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  405.  @markwelch3564  the job of many is to manufacture consent.
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  406. 'The main purpose of the law is to make business for itself" to quote Dickens in Bleak House. Plenty of business through our corrupt government in a faux democracy.
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  407.  @1chish  WRONG. We do not have the fastest growth in the G7. We are one the slowest nations in recovering from the economic shock of Covid. Another Johnson lie parroted. As for economic facts, you have ignored them and spouted rhetoric. The usual ploy for someone with a pseudonym account.
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  408.  @artherfocksake1312  "left?" What exactly is left about Buffoon? He has shown no inclination to dismantle Neoliberalism, which was designed to make the rich even richer, and the poor to vote for the rich to have more.
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  409. Noone needs to: the Tories print and burn money like it's going out of fashion. The party of tax and waste
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  410. Why is it that Hunt's stated smile appears to me like a sneer.
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  411.  @andyd2528  Being whom? Did you get that shite from the Daily Fail? Name one Jewish person who accused Jeremy Corbyn personally of being antisemitic. Find the source and I'll give you hundreds who thanked him for helping their community.
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  412. The longer Buffoon stays, the less credible the Tories become. With their abject record, the facts speak for themselves.
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  413. With rats in a sack contesting the leadership of the fascist party, will Fishy Rishi become the Chief Rat?
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  414. ​ @dougnico2492 Some good things, yes. But PFI contracts were another disaster. Blair's "third way" (manipulated and delivered by management consultants) delivered profit to private companies running public services and we continue to foot the bill.
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  415.  @dougnico2492  I'm aware of that. On balance, Blair and Brown were a good team. A pity he was wedded to neoliberalism but nevertheless the majority were far better off.
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  416. Yet we, the customers, are paying the price. The farmers we conned and we pay the price in monetary and quality standards.
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  417. Things will change, in a limited and cosmetic way. We won't get responsible governance without PR and parliamentary reform.
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  418.  @Paradoxolog  Democracy means government by the people and there is no such thing as unrepresentative democracy. The Tories keep saying they are delivering for the people, but after 43.6% of voters electing them and making new policy on the fly, without referenda, how can that be construed as democracy? It's as Lord Hailsham said in the past: an elective dictatorship.
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  419.  @zoedaisy1499  what was wrong with his policies? Or have you swallowed the media tripe?
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  420.  @StuartJ  I'm specifically against unregulated free market capitalism, which is creating inequality as intended. As for the brain drain; Britain invites it.
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  421.  @StuartJ  when devoid of factual argument, use a childlike emoji
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  422.  @zoedaisy1499  wtf has that to do with it? You think we have an effective deterrent against fiction. That takes some imagination.
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  423. @Satoshi Nakamoto are you suggesting that refugees are criminals? Or simply that they should be treated as such?
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  424. Why would such an entitled arse-wipe admit a mistake? Austerity WEAKENED the economy and Hunt wanted health privatisation. Tory (operationally incompetent) scum.
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  425.  @tygrahof9268  probably just those down to their last million.
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  426. Would Buffoon regard this as a badge of honour, in his perverted sociopathic brain?
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  427. To those who excuse him, may I politely suggest banning your Daily Fail subscription and facing reality.
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  428. A party beyond its use-by date (well past its sell-by.) The stench of scum is overwhelming.
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  429. This man is a prize wazzock. In the perfect party for his vacuous inanity. Promoted to deputy chairman to parade his ignorance. Welcome to Tory Britain.
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  430.  @graceical2822  My pleasure. I was pleasantly surprised.
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  431.  @paulsmith5018  of course. Who else?
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  432. Many voters proving that you can't fix stupid.
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  433.  @richardcooke7909  They don't have to be "awesome" to express valid and relevant points. How is that a valid argument?
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  434.  @andyforshaw8489  Let's go through some critical thinking then, Andy. 1) when did that happen? 2) when was bankruptcy declared? 3) do you understand the difference between council and government finance?
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  435.  @andyforshaw8489  yes. I answered that post and when I introduce some critical questions you go strangely silent.
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  436.  @andyforshaw8489  Christ on a bike! You sound like Johnson and in support of his minority-elected dictatorship. When faced with forensic questions, claim them irrelevant and go off at a tangent talking vacuous sh1te. End of discussion.
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  437. ​ @fburton8 whose interests exactly?
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  438.  @SimplySketchyGT  seems feasible. Doubted that a qualified lawyer could be so vacuous.
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  439.  @craig3533  So he should parrot what Starmer and Sunak are saying when he has explained why that isn't good enough. Start with a compromise and you will end up with less then a tenth of what is needed, while lives are being lost. The pursuit of ideals led to the Good Friday Agreement. We had a few pauses and guess what? They didn't hold and we needed one and then another, and then many more. Listen to what JC says about the inadequacy of a pause and you may understand.
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  440. Check out the traits of a sociopath and you have virtually the perfect description of Buffoon.
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  441. Land banking is the main problem; Jeremy Corbyn proposed the answer.
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  442.  @julielevinge266  ???
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  443. When Farage can extract himself from Trump's anus, he may eventually realise he is looking at a twin Russian asset.
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  444.  @Ma55ey  That would not have been the case in the last election. But why do it? To achieve real democracy instead of an elective dictatorship (by making all votes equal.) With such government by consensus we would not have this extreme brexit (the Tories having a minority vote share and would have had only 43.6% of seats.)
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  445. "stop the boats" how? And do what with their occupants? Won't hold my breath while waiting for an explanation featuring joined-up thinking. How many asylum seekers did we have in 2018, while part of the Dublin Agreement? Another brexit win.
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  446. If you want sense, don't interview a bonehead. The sign of a spent force.
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  447. Similar message from Mick Lynch and Sharon Graham. Labour is listening to the wrong people. Unions, patriotic millionaires and the Mile End Road economists have the right answers.
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  448. After 13 years of Tory intentional mismanagement to break the NHS, Barclay criticises Streeting's plan. Perhaps he will be shocked to know that it's up to the government in power to implement a plan. Never trust a Tory.
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  449. A Cobra meeting is the hallmark of a prime minister in a hiding. A negotiation meeting would stop the need for such a meeting. Sunak is a weak coward; a little spiv hiding in a bunker, while Truss emerges to publish her excuses and Johnson pretends to be our international envoy. This is the party of mayhem. Supposedly running the country. Devoid of leadership. Full of confusion and mayhem. They haven't a bloody clue.
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  450. Kemi's stupidity is exceeded only by her arrogance.
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  451.  @JOzzie-u8z  Such vacuous bravery from a pseudonym account. Troll off
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  452.  @kaymish6178  I absolutely agree. The irony being that America has one of the worst health systems in the world. Health care is not a right in America, greed rules.
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  453.  @andrewharris3900  so privatisation. Who will run the NHS and who will determine the amount and collect the money? And for those who can't afford to pay? I suggest listening to Bernie Sanders' comments before pursuing that one. We already have private options btw, many of us got them through our employers... personally, I didn't resent paying into the state system - just the meddling and dismantling of it
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  454.  freebeerfordworkers  yes. I've found the same thing. A money spinner - always multiple visits, tests and consultations. An absolute scam.
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  455.  @aizac91  Agreed. It's a generalisation but enough leaders to make it chilling.
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  456. For "in receipt of new information," read: "we have been found out." We are dealing with a little spiv, playing at prime minister.
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  457. This wazzock is so addicted to lying, it's hard to believe he isn't delusional.
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  458. Dowdy is yet another incompetent Tory apologist. The leader of the enquiry asked for the information. Its that simple.
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  459.  @Morbidia  Yes, the revolving door, often between news and politics. How these wazzocks manufacture consent is both surprising and concerning.
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  460.  @leroysimon5692  Good comment. I watched the three episodes and they are revealing.
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  461.  @Thematt11  a close contest then?
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  462. Are you part of the pay review body? If so, please read Sajid Javid's briefing that set the constraints you must consider.
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  463.  @powderandpaint14  absolutely agree.
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  464. What a bloody circus. I would have renamed this session Prime Minister's Evasions but now believe it to be Prime Minister's Fantasies. In reality, Johnson is getting on with the job of ruining the country beyond repair. Is this buffoon a plant? Seems the only plausible explanation to such an incompetent and sociopathic wazzock being in charge.
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  465.  @carol-f8f7d  good to know. I have never voted Tory in my life and don't intend to start after they consistently mess up the country. The only half decent Tory was John Major but even he did not get my support.
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  466.  @stshnie  perhaps, on reflection, the interviewer was setting him up to show the fallacy of shallow populism. In which case, well done.
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  467. Perhaps that string of nonsense was called rambling about Ireland, from America.
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  468. Farage talking about trashing your own country is pure irony. Always possible to predict these sanctimonious pricks who jump to the defence of our state-funded dysfunctional family.
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  469. Tories behaving like baying prats. How unusual.
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  470.  @robmule4647  is that the sum total of your reasoning?
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  471.  @Samnoid  Yes. It's his ultimate distraction. Forget the fact that we need more immigrants after Brexit, which was obvious to many of us. Forget the fact that we need more immigrant workers to compensate for our ageing population. We also need key skills, as it takes time to train replacements.
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  472. There are a few others. Yet JC stands out as a decent human being.
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  473. Loathsome Leadsom failing to get a one word answer. Now she knows how it feels at PMQs with her shifty boss. People who get rewarded for failure are called MPs - taking second jobs (some at £10k a day.)
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  474. Surely setting aside a percentage of land for rotation is good practice. Recovery and crop rotation.
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  475. Wow! Johnson has clearly read the Buffoon's Guide to Economics. He talks about borrowing affecting interest rates. This from a government that 'printed' money to fund a failed test and trace system; that bought unusable PPE after paying over the odds. BlowJoke doesn't understand the difference between borrowing and QE. Inflation affects interest rates, and using a windfall tax to offset cost push inflation will have the opposite effect.
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  476. I'm tired of hearing "they're all the same" from the people who refused to vote for Jeremy Corbyn, who is distinctly different.
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  477. The economy has "turned a corner." More like a U-turn during 13 years of Tory incompetence.
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  478. Thought that was Marxism.
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  479. Or to take a positive position, as more immigrants have contributed to the economy and the population has grown, why haven't we built more housing? Net zero is crass stupidity with an ageing population. If net zero immigration is the answer, you are asking the wrong question. Land banking is the real problem, greed the culprit.
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  480. Dom, of course, did nothing wrong. The egotistic gutter rat who couldn't find his way to Specsavers yet acted like a supreme dictator, propping up his buffoon of a boss. A key actor in this fiasco of incompetence.
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  481. I recommend the use of the Off button. This greasy wazzock gets too much publicity for his vacuous bile.
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  482. More homes, less affordable through increased interest rates. A failure to build the quota of affordable homes and no mention of social housing. Btw has anyone noticed the economy "powering ahead?" Or did it happen for just a few minutes and pass me by?
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  483. He means "we (the f'kwits) love MAGA"
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  484. It would hurt the Tories more than Labour, as the votes required per Commons Seat was considerably less for the Tories and so they would lose out under PR. Thus Labour needs to vote for real democracy or the Tories will benefit far more in the long term from this crooked system, as history proves. They have been in power far more often and gamed the system to their advantage.
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  485. ​ @vincentblack7467 The two are not necessarily related and you have offered no examples of the first. As for the second: Newsflash! Brexit has happened and is not relevant to this discussion. What's wrong with Mick's comments in this interview?
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  486. Cameron is proof that Tories recycle their rubbish. A true party of scum.
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  487. Buffoon so rattled that he mentioned the triple lock, which the Tories suspended in a year it is most needed. He then trots out his usual fantasy and lies.
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  488. Delivering misery for the people of Scotland, to share the mess with England.
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  489. Sunak is the embodiment of cluelessness.
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  490. True. The joke is most certainly on us. Buffoon delivers misery, but your video sweetens the pill.
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  491. If freedom of speech gave an equal voice and an equal right of response, the far right would disappear up their own rat-pipe.
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  492. ​@dondoodatI agree in essence, except we have a contradiction aspiring towards an UNREPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, as votes are not equal and seats are not commensurate with votes. What Lord Hailsham termed an elective dictatorship.
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  493. George is like marmite, yet he has a point on Gaza. Both of our main parties are complicit in genocide.
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  494. NI is not ring-fenced. It is ostensibly collected for pensions and the NHS but is not separated from tax monies so everything collected by government is effectively taxation.
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  495. The Tories simply don't give a shiny shit - unless their hold on power is threatened. They will always do just enough to be seen to be doing something. Never the right thing; never enough to solve a problem; never enough to penalise the rich and powerful. They are truly the party of scum.
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  496. What's the point of a parliament where lies and misinformation can be spouted yet noone has the authority to adjudicate on the accuracy or otherwise of quoted information? Let's change the mandatory form of address to the right dishonourable...
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  497.  @zazhou  Bearing in mind that the Tories had a minority of votes (43.6%) to gain an 80 seat majority, we must allow for our distorted undemocratic system. It further depends on the constituency - whether the seat is safe in Toryland. We then get cabinet ministers whose skill set ends at obfuscation and lies. They end up promoted beyond their competence by default. In short, our country is FUBAR.
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  498.  @michaelwallden7261  I was commenting on what I saw and heard. Do you realise that we have a right to criticise those in public office and to hold them to account. Try it sometime, it's part of the process of maturing.
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  499.  @michaelcorleone7598  would he break your mafia? Not great for gang business, whereas Johnson enabled it.
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  500.  @danielwebb8402  I'm pretty ambivalent on the side issue of grammar schools, which you raised. It didn't enter this parliamentary debate and Little Spiv avoided the main issue. It depends what replaces grammar schools. I managed to gain two degree level qualifications after secondary school (through family circumstances.) Now retired after a successful and mostly enjoyable career, which school I went to became less important than what I attained through advanced education and experience. Equality of opportunity should be the aspiration imo.
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  501. The SNP once again the best opposition in the House. Pure facts, showing the brazen incompetence and sleaze of the Tories.
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  502.  @muhabwahby  that question was asked and answered by the Palestinian leader (who is against Hamas.) Israel does not want a two-state solution. They want control through apartheid. Many Jews in Britain also understand this.
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  503.  @colinwishbone4437  certainly not from the fantasy novel Britannia Unchained. The markets have sussed that one.
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  504.  @stshnie  Yes. Unfortunately Reeves is a traditional Bank of England economist and Labour should grow some cajones, after listening to Prof Bill Mitchell or Prof Richard Murphy. Their political dilemma is resistance from banks, who would cede some power to government and be in danger of getting back to offering a service, rather than being the controllers.
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  505.  @MG-df8mw  Yes. We needed the building but the method of finance cost us more by putting a chain around our necks because of the out-of-date method of defining national debt (which I understand the world bank disagrees with).
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  506. Johnson's interesting body language: slumping like a sack of spuds. Exposed as a serial liar and an abject buffoon, yet accurate language is not allowed in our unfit parliamentary system.
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  507.  @supersai4198  no new wallpaper then? And that invalidates her message how?
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  508.  @halmanklushosetandimera  who exactly do you mean? Perhaps you will engage in critical thought and share your wisdom.
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  509.  @californiadreamin8423  ask him. Even though your question is not directly relevent, here is my opinion on your whataboutery. Imo Labour should have held fire on the brexit referendum until the Electoral Commission had checked for irregularities. After the exposed breaches, they should have demanded another vote. Hindsight is wonderful.
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  510. Define "defensive purposes", Keir. When a country commits war crimes, they have gone beyond such purposes and have forfeited the right to buy arms for potential misuse. Arms can't be categories as such, arms are principally for killing, absolute whitewashing.
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  511. Incompetence is one thing, corruption is yet another. The Tories qualify on both counts. Tory scum. Enough is enough.
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  512. Wow! Baroness Casey is formidable. Cool, factual, reasoned and articulate. Her abilities are in stark contrast to current government ministers and so many self-obsessed politicians. Well worth listening to.
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  513. A "compassionate and generous country" to money launderers and tax avoiders is what Sunak means. Has he seen the food banks? The homelessness? The wage poverty? The spiv sits in a tower of entitlement and just talks abject bollocks.
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  514. The last election was the desperate voting for the clueless. Now only idiots would vote for this pile of sh1t.
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  515.  @idiotbuster8662  can't ask him now...sadly decreased. But in my opinion, all of the above.
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  516. Hardly a surprise with a parliament acting as the House of Lies. No requirement to speak truth; a lack of scrutiny; a cosy Westminster village covering up fact and truth for the sake of power. Whenever I hear the word "democracy" as a description of our system, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Credit to real journalists who expose truth. We don't have enough, but I salute you.
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  517. Sending 200 people each year to Rwanda is supposed to be a deterrent! This while we take problem cases in return. Clearly Starmer read the agreement forged by idiots, whereas Sunak doesn't know his arse feom his elbow.
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  518. Let me paraphrase the expert in plain language. JRM is talking bollocks and Truss believes that Britannia Unchained is more than a fantasy novel.
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  519. Sunak marries into money then shows his first priority: growing the hand that feeds him. Our political system is fair game. A sham democracy with neglible accountability and a pretence at governance for the benefit of the greedy.
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  520. You really couldn't make it up. He is so enmeshed in bullshit, he can't even hear the laughter, let alone understand it.
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  521. Saying "mistakes were made" is not an apology; it's either an accusation or an admission. Getting ready for more failed austerity in this Tory shit show.
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  522. Johnson has done us one service: proving that parliament is unfit for purpose. A place where lies can't be called out. Where liars are invited to correct the record - it is not demanded. Where sources of information are not explained and unverified if challenged. Decisions are made from rhetoric, misdirection and plain lies. Our country is a disgrace.
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  523. Lots of people with low expectations. Enough is enough.
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  524. The unhinged member for idiots is right about "being here to fix problems". Fixing problems the government has created requires a sensible solution. That's where the wheels fall off...
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  525. He quotes an out of date act that was amended by statutory instrument - courtesy of failing Grayling - in the hope of evading true fact and to be seen to be doing something. This is the buffoon who stopped the proposal to make fire and rehire illegal. Johnson is a disgrace.
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  526. What action did the government take to reduce inflation? Did I miss something, as I thought the action was taken by the Bank of England? Perhaps if this government stooge stopped banging on the lectern he would sound less desperate. As for investment in green solutions: they would help growth by creating jobs and reducing energy bills from better insulation. A little inconvenient to the profits of dirty energy companies and Tory mates, perhaps, but nevertheless an enabler of growth. The Tory formula of low taxes = growth is bullsh1t, as history shows. The periods of highest growth have coincided with high taxation. Perhaps someone will ask these clowns to explain their "plan" as it is resulting in the country falling apart.
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  527. Well done, Mick. Tory ideology is perverted. Its purpose is not to serve the people and benefit national prosperity and efficiency. Instead they wish to exacerbate inequality, as demanded by their string pullers and funders.
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  528. I have never heard such eyewash, yet interviewers fail to call out this charlatan. (1) the pay body is not independent, as budgets are set by government, as are the terms of reference. (2) the letter from Sajid Javid, setting the terms for the 2022 pay round, clearly stated that funding for recruitment must be allowed. (3) Since we were short of 32000 nurses in 2021 and while there has been recruitment, nurses are leaving in droves, why not use the cash budgeted for recruitment to pay nurses more? Then we may have fewer leaving and avoid a crisis down the line. (4) At any event, medical staff should be paid well and if the government claim we can't afford it, they have failed in their duty of care and should be prosecuted for negligence.
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  529. The modern Tory party is so far divorced from reality that their ideas of policy are pure comedy, of the most sinister kind.
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  530. Our Little Spiv (also known as Sunak) spins the lie that we are a compassionate country and are passing this bill to help refugees. Who is stupid enough to fall for these lies? Government is so devoid of ideas that they must blame people fleeing persecution for their own operational incompetence.
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  531. It's revealing when aspiring fascists react to being identified and called out. I commented in 2019 that Johnson (and Trump in the US) used tools from the playbook of fascism. The first signs appeared with the denouncment of experts in the Brexshit referendum campaign and continued in general electionerring. Now the Tories are going full-on fascist by making judges the enemy of the people and overriding both international and domestic justice. These dangerous crooks have no shame.
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  532.  @leehenry5764  have you joined the 30p racists? Labour has nothing to do with this. You have fallen for Tory misdirection. Leeanderthal's comments were islamophobic. Sunak can't bring himself to say the word; he leaves others to do his dirty work and make pathetic excuses. London is nearly 200 miles away from Rochdale.
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  533. Great to see integrity, professionalism and accountability in action. Now what will happen to the buggers who smeared tge committee? What happens in the instance of contempt of court, for example?
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  534. ​ @evolassunglasses4673 yet has coincidentally been adopted by far right dictators in recent history
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  535. In one sense, this was a failure: Who knew what they were protesting about? The MSM hid this information and I only learned the reason for protest from your video
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  536. Wouldn't say "squirming." Sunak has been steeped in privilege to insulate himself with arrogance. As a sociopathic Tory, he knows no shame. The man is a little Spiv.
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  537. If this bill happens, we need a national strike - against present law if necessary. Our local Tory MP conveniently failed to see the distinction between minimum safety levels (agreed with unions in many EU countries) and minimum service levels; using the lame argument that we need service levels to achieve safety. I explained the difference: if government has the power to set minimum SERVICE LEVELS, they may well be set above safety requirements to render a strike useless. Yes, our government likes to treat us as idiots.
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  538. Johnson has a thick skin to match his vacuous brain. The antithesis of a real leader.
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  539. ​ @DW-indeed an antidote for real democracy. The enforcement of an elective dictatorship.
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  540. Never trust the Tories, especially with the NHS. They are dismantling all public services piece by piece, while wasting £126.7 billion since the pandemic and using our taxes to defend their misuse of public money against legal challenge. When it comes to adequately rewarding workers, they lie, cheat and abuse their power.
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  541.  @SammyInnit  Indeed. I didn't suggest she was...just responded to the originator.
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  542.  @cliffgaither  convincing! To whom? Anyone incapable of critical thinking.
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  543. ​ @GOD-OF-ALL-NO1  What is "lefty?" Someone who disagrees with fascism? I actually applaud the teaching of the Delai Lama, so you should be pleased.
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  544. ​ @rjkmusicmedia  You must be joking!!! Looking out for poor people, how? Green solutions will save money on energy. They pretend to apply a windfall tax, with loopholes allowing greed inflation for energy companies. They are looking out for their backers (the dirty energy companies.) Who will look out when we fail to tackle climate change and suffer mass invasion by refugees because of food and water shortages? They are also pretending that we can't afford the associated tax bill, yet fail to tax wealth and investment income at the same rate as work income. They are baiting, to stimulate conflict through a hollow pretence. Don't fall for it! You say you are centre left. Stop pretending. Btw perhaps you will explain your claim that the huge costs imposed by Labour
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  545.  @christopherbrowne736  The content! Would that be her vacuous lies in response? The confidence to answer coherently is fine, but Bad-enough talks down out of habit, even when spouting drivel. The Tories are doing people a favour by abandoning policies that save money and create jobs while cleaning up the planet. The people they are really helping are their dirty-energy backers and the investments of Sunak's father in law.
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  546.  @christopherbrowne736  I simply leave it to the asleep brigade to defend the vacuous arrogance of Bad-enough. Keep talking bollocks to give us a laugh. Where exactly did she defend the fictitious figure spouted by her party? Some fictitious economist incapable of showing their calculations and assumptions. Give me a bloody break!
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  547.  @Tayl-top  For smart, read vacuous.
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  548. Sunak or his advisors can't even be arsed to check the current news. He claimed "the economy is growing" after it shrank by 0.3% last month. The arrogant a'hole is like a fish on a hook: flapping around yet getting nowhere.
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  549. Yes, it has trebled. Even Labour misses the elephant in the room: Brexit and the lack of free movement. The 20% wage discount was a race to the bottom and hidden as a grift in the brexit campaign.
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  550. If the subject of immigration was banned from that conference for a single day, the conference would last all of ten minutes. What's the collective noun for a group of f'kwits?
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  551. Let's keep it simple. Just issue a bullshit buzzer then noone would hear the delusional crap that Cleverly spouted.
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  552. Tory corruption: world class. Call 10 Downing Street for more details.
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  553. The Tories have their fall guy. The psychopath who buggered up the NHS; the disciple of failed trickle down economics who is scared of the non-doms leaving; the man who witnessed the pain of austerity under Cameron and stepped forward to impose it yet again. The apologist for Brexit, who claims that being in the single market was against the Brexit vote. (Did anyone see that on the ballot paper?) Meanwhile his boss, Little Spiv, escapes to COP to learn that we have become an international joke. Enough is enough.
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  554. The Tories need a dumbed-down population to swallow their sh1t. Sunak's MBA was clearly a fake or a waste because he doesn't understand inflation.
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  555. "The strength of the market!" Typical Tory crap. The market is for profit; service is about public need. Anyone spot a disconnect or conflict? That's why we need responsible government intervention, from a government asleep at the wheel.
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  556. This woman needs professional psychological assessment. Why let international law get in the way of Tory fascist aspirations? Tory scum.
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  557.  @kincaidwolf5184  Thatcher was the architect of Neoliberalism - the root cause of inequality and poverty. She sold off our assets. Denounced society and promoted greed. If that's success, it's the success of a raving psychopath.
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  558. At least one Labour MP standing up for the workforce. The rail network is broken: incompetent management and an unfit system. Time for public ownership and fair pay. Enough is enough.
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  559. The word "hopefully" was significant. She has no strategy in her world of fantasy, explained in Britannia Unchained. The Tory's last resort is always the fictitious "Spongers" when most recipients of benefit are working, causing us to subside employers.
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  560.  @gHGhej  I guess they studied lots of Tory voters. Lol
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  561.  @gHGhej  Not superiority: opinions differ and I expressed mine.
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  562.  @gHGhej  I do, and did, Chris. You have said nothing to change my mind. Not all research is sacred; sometimes it's flawed. Keep taking the high ground as you wish.
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  563.  @celiacresswell6909  just what seven years of experience taught me. Why?
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  564.  @celiacresswell6909  no.
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  565.  @bla7091  So things have changed since my experience from a few decades ago. The nasty, greedy, self-serving b'stards get everywhere.
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  566.  @bla7091  sounds all too familiar. Interesting yet regrettable.
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  567. We are not even there; excusing Israel's actions as self defence is more pathetic than pretending we have an effective democracy and competent government.
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  568. The only growth most of us will see is in prices, as inflation makes us poorer while incomes and pensions lag behind. The disaster capitalists, however, will benefit from our misery while tax avoiders come to our new Freeports to recruit slave labour feeding on crumbs from the master's table. That's the real intent of "growth, growth, growth." In a nutshell: growth in inequality.
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  569. If you are docking a barge as a symbol of brainwashed division, choose an area populated by idiots. Thankfully the lady teacher was one exception, but how many learn from her?
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  570. Not enough time to name all the benefits, so I won't name one. I'll just spout rhetoric and unicorns.
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  571.  @RoryMacdonald-pfff  careful!. You are not judge and jury on this matter. You are one citizen with an opinion.
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  572. If so good with the economy, why have the Tories borrowed more and paid back less than Labour? That's before the pandemic started and dating from the second world war. Delivering delusion and fantasy - the real Tory record.
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  573.  @NSW-ye3xw  So what? Our constitution (such as it is) says we elect a party and they elect a leader. We don't have a presidential system. We need an election after serial Tory incompetence and corruption.
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  574.  @markdyer2574  Don't understand your question. Nothing to do with race. Johnson was useless as shown by the COVID enquiry. Just another example. The last 13 years of Tory government have been abysmal.
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  575. And to think that this morning LBC gave us the treachery of Farage. Ukraine is finding its true friends.
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  576. Yet, in response, Reeves has imposed austerity...more Osborne than Keynes. Tax wealth. As a pensioner forfeiting a winter fuel payment, I'm p1ssed that she didn't increase the windfall tax on profiteering energy companies. Again, the poorer end of society must pay.
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  577.  @adistraction2668  or just tax justice.
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  578.  @SWG313  The early hours are not for me: I'll wait until I can be arsed watching the depressing rubbish. If Farage ends up in parliament, he won't bother doing the work; just shouting bile then disappearing to feather his nest. He is offering the exact opposite of what the country needs economically.
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  579.  @AS-by8ee  perhaps they will recognise the word "for"
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  580.  @AS-by8ee  tell that to Farage and Tice
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  581.  @letsgobrandon5502  ???
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  582.  @footballoldboy4818  FDR's fix was the exact opposite of Truss. He raised money for state intervention before the neoliberal lie of trickle-down was invented and taxation was at an all-time high for the wealthiest. Truss wanted small state, low tax for the richest and was for inequality, which deters growth for all sensible economists, rather than the Tufton Street mob she was led by.
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  583.  @letsgobrandon5502  wtf? You are talking Twaddle Without Any Thought
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  584. Don't worry! Our state media will now start to claim success. Only this morning we heard of four arrests! Wow! The Tories have done the square root of bugger all to reverse the damage of leaving the Dublin Accord because of brexit. Oh, wait a minute, I forgot Rwanda! The gangs must be crapping themselves after this "world leading partnership" that's costing a fortune for what? Smoke and mirrors.
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  585. Thankfully Mick Lynch is on Planet Earth, dealing with fantasists from Planet Westminster. As a passenger, I wouldn't travel on driverless trains. Also the majority of the public support rail nationalisation. It's only career MPs who don't like democracy.
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  586. Cruella Blabbermouth sent into the lion's den. Tory desperation knows no bounds.
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  587. Johnson doesn't understand Responsibility. He expects only privilege. The worst possible leader at the worst possible time.
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  588. One decent and humane person who could never be allowed anywhere near power. Why? What does that say about a country run for oligarchs to extract the last penny of profit while poverty increases? How can we entertain the notion that self-defemce extends to murder of the innocent?
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  589. The Tories wanted a small state since Thatcher and all neoliberals put greed above society. What will change?
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  590. More knee-jerk Tory rhetoric. Little Spiv talks about moral fairness without any explanation of how people can "migrate legally" and claim asylum. "People are right to be angry" says Spiv. Great!! I'm f'ing livid... at this government of sociopaths appealing to racist idiots. Enough is enough. Tory scum out.
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  591.  @_____alyptic  agree with the second part but never too late with the will
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  592. It was all caused by someone else; didn't know what was happening in my own house. The classic case of Worzel Gummidge running the country. His stock answers always come round to vaccines. His favourite subject of refuge.
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  593. Tories can't even get their numbers right: one suggesting 30 u-turns, the other mentioning ten specific cases. The reality: no specific cases; just unsubstantiated rhetoric. Sunak keeps using word "plan", presumably in the hope that people might just think he has one. On recent performance, his plan is to make a cock-up a day, while letting the country go to the wall.
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  594. ​ @ecnalms851 bollocks. Proof needed. There are also different ways of taxing wealth: assets or income from investments...
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  595. Well spotted
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  596. Great to see such competence from an MP. All too often, we see the opposite from Tory ministers and rogue CEOs such as Thompson.
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  597. If any Deform UK followers believe that Farage would help the working person, look at his voting record on this bill.
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  598. We have gone from an unfit mainstream media to the wild west online, where megalomaniacs can buy the right to turn lies into truth.
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  599. According to Sunak, the term Ceasefire is too simplistic because fighting will recommence afterwards. Really!!! So what we need is a humanitarian pause. Then, by definition, once the supplies are in and people are fed, the slaughter can legitimately continue. What a f'kwit. The ICJ has deemed a plausible case of genocide, yet still we supply arms. If someone commits a misdemeanor at work, they are suspended during investigation. Yet we don't even suspend the supply of arms to a country potentially committing genocide. Demand an unconditional ceasefire NOW.
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  600. Christ on a bike! He even called Tory-arse-licking-Berg impartial. That shows the man's bias. Obviously his opinion is to be respected
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  601. Braverman and her weak boss have effectively sent an invitation to every fascist lunatic to disrupt peaceful protest. Blabbermouth effectively spoke up for the far right to stoke hatred and put the Met under pressure.
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  602. Barclay has a difficult job but I don't feel sorry for him. The Tories are intentionally destroying the NHS and it takes a sociopath or a bagman to do their dirty work. They have no plan to benefit society - only their backers and string-pullers.
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  603. Anyone who knows that Farage deceived them should know enough to vote for anyone but Tory or Reform. The hard right will never do them any favours, unless they are in the richest 1%.
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  604. You can't analyse it that way. Ignore facts, remember unicorns.
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  605. Someone growing up in poverty, then joining the Tory party to put her, along with 90% of the population, back in poverty. Kind of makes sense (but only if you're a Tory.)
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  606. Wootton likes to get others to do his dirty work while he laughs at them. His lapdog reporter Vacuous Ben stalking people with stupid questions being another case in point. Thankfully Wootten has now been stood down. Respect to Ava.
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  607. Little Spiv banging on about their legislation is nauseating. The situation is dire before strikes are taken into account, yet he responds with excuses about Covid and winter flu and talks about fictitious investment - too little, too late, with no forward planning. The Tories simply can't be trusted with the NHS. THEY FAIL TO EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THE REALITY OF A CRISIS.
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  608. I strongly suspect that government wants a dumbed-down population to continue with their gaslighting. Training in basic economics would prove the Tories to be the party of fiscal incompetence. Kudos to Martin.
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  609. Sunak just hasn't learned the point of PMQs. It's for him to answer questions and not to ask them in response. Thankfully the speaker called this out. Little Spiv is a waste of parliamentary space and time.
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  610. Ah, productivity!! I recognise that new excuse, having worked in productivity improvement and in systems for a few decades. Shall we start with the government and address the word negligence. Who is ultimately responsible for the NHS as a public service? According to the Tories they left that responsibility with Labour at the time when funding was adequate and waiting times shorter. Another Tory charlatan exercising planned incompetence to dismantle the NHS.
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  611. 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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  612. GB News: the channel for idiots.
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  613. Liz wants to see more tax avoidance and corruption. The real intention of said zones.
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  614. The Tories dont have a policy, they have a series if threats, which happen to breach international law. Their alleged "deterrents" never work; they just grab headlines and attempt to shift blame. How comforting to "put in a claim" with a backlog of around 170000 cases and such an incompetent and sociopathic specimen in charge.
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  615. It seems that parliament is not just the House of Lies but some drag it down to a house of ill-repute. In what other career would people get away with so much?
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  616. Facts are "unworthy of the BBC". Tories expect compliant moonshine. Hunt (the grinning sociopath) is set for the double-whammy: after buggering up the NHS, he has screwed the economy for the majority. Paying for the covid debt is his latest excuse, while failing to chase false business claims and to seek compensation for faulty PPE. Reducing the banking levy; failing to tax investment income at the same rate as earned income. No. The poorest must pay; that's the Tory way.
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  617. Braverman doesn't know the difference between illegal migrants and refugees. Using the phrase "illegal migration" when around 75% of asylum claims are upheld is not only intellectually lazy; it's inflammatory. Perhaps she will explain how the safe legal routes work, after failing to do so to the HoC sub-committee. Yet another moronic home secretary heading a department unfit for purpose.
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  618. An idiotic video from the party of vacuous populist bile for consumption by idiots. Just had to empty the sick bowl.
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  619. If someone from another planet were to visit Westminster, they would understand what we mean by a shit-show.
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  620. "Calm down and listen" to the vacuous raving psycho who doesn't know fact from fiction, after ignoring the advice of her civil servants. She then goes on to excuse making up the criteria on the hoof to confuse the smuggling gangs, who are probably ten times brighter than her.
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  621.  @millwallholdings  context, please????
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  622.  @liamr194  you don't own the high ground, Liam. Neither of us do. Just opinions
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  623.  @magnuswalker7957  without unions striking we would be considerably worse off. Think of the days of Dickens then move on from the meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947. The Neoliberals have wrested power back again through erosion of union power and establishment of a gig economy. Take what you're given, plebs...probably why real incomes are finally getting back to 2007 levels - except for the 1% of course.
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  624.  @meltedsnowman9637  Yes, I'm aware of that argument but it's a fantasy that trickle-down stimulates growth. Let's assume that more wealth is put in the pockets of the majority and they spend it in country, as opposed to the wealthiest who move it offshore. A recipe for growth, ceteris paribus.
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  625. If we are so far "out in front" such a "world leading" nation; why are we so deep in the do do? Simple answer: we suffer a delusional wazzock as prime minister. Putin must find this buffoon hilarious.
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  626. @left_blank amazing then that NHS expenditure has reduced in real terms. They are high because of failed austerity, a crappy brexit and Tory mismanagement.
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  627.  @grant6849  "You lot" being?
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  628. "The government understands that people are worried about their finances... we get it..blah blah" The cabinet, however, laughs because they don't give a shiny sh1t.
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  629. A government of scammers ignoring crime by scammers.
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  630. Allow me to restate the obvious. The Tories survive on divide and rule. Don't encourage the bu**ers
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  631. Read the body language. Buffoon's head down, Starmer shredding him with facts. Buffoon retorts with lies and flaky rhetoric, failing to answer a single question. Tory front bench looking drained and haggard: give us a break, we have to defend this freak with new lies tomorrow.
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  632. Wonder how many politicians took up Chris's invitation? Suspect there were no cabinet ministers. Our politicians are bought and paid for: listening to consultants such as McKinsey with fake "solutions" such as carbon offset, instead of listening to Chris and his real experts.
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  633. No, Sajid, your best has not been good enough. You have been systematically dismantling the NHS because that is the intent of your party. Your whole party stands for greed and operational incompetence, division to increase inequality.
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  634. It seems obvious but, for the benefit of MPs who are either short of the ebility to think, or choose to ignore this fact to excuse genocide: A ceasefire IS BILATERAL. That means both sides stop their atrocities.
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  635. "The new approach" means a scaled-down and partly regurgitated set of plans to replace a mismanaged capital project. Today's "new approach" is to postpone the legislation banning evictions without reason by landlords. With Hands and a Pincher in the same old team, what else would we expect.
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  636.  @martinmurphy9679  If you change the rules for all, while in government, you can compete. Show it up for what it is...
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  637.  @Daylight7.7.7  that blx. Explain! Lazy thinking divorced from fact and reality. Stop trolling with shite.
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  638. Of course he doesn't find it (Johnson's recent earnings) perverse. Sunak is an entitled little spiv in a party of operationally incompetent sociopaths.
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  639. Same government; another useless wazzock promoted beyond his competence level. Enough is enough.
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  640.  @paulwood7931  I would say fascist rather than communist with our Tory government.
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  641. Sunak smiles constantly because it's just a game to him: you may grill me, Chris, but I can't and won't answer your questions and you can do nothing about it. The ex-head boy should lose house points and have his pay docked. Mr professionalism and integrity, who fails to answer a single question.
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  642. "Doubled" from zero equals zero. From a low base to the present result is still pathetic. The Tories take selective statistics and use relative percentage measures to continue with their gaslighting. No apology, just banging on the lectern from bully boy Dom. When defeated claim "political opportunism" and harp on about small boats. Tory incompetent scum.
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  643.  @archieneill2773  So "oxygen" for the industry was worth excess deaths? The government's priorities are transparent and obvious: lives matter less than profit.
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  644. Braverman thinks that homelessness is a lifestyle choice, whereas the system that causes it (manipulated, so-called free market capitalism) is imposed on us. Our country is FUBAR
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  645. "A free pass to the terrorists!" Would that include Israel's state terrorism? By what logic do we support mass slaughter and pretend it is an act of defence?
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  646. Labour should not simply be pro-business. They should be for responsible business. Mick speaks so much sense, mainly against neoliberalism, which was designed to exacerbate inequality and to persuade the poor to vote for the rich to have more.
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  647. One desparate or destitute person is too many, yet whole communities like this are forgotten - treated as canon fodder of the global economy. While we chase cheaper labour around the world and transport goods to damage the climate, the so-called elite justify this as the only sensible solution. Neoliberalism (or unregulated free market capitalism) is not only the cause of inequality; it is killing the planet. Time for change, or revolution? Enough is beyond enough.
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  648. These clowns have been part of Johnson's circus that drove the country to its knees, after 12 years of Tory mismanagement. He got brexit half done, and badly; ordered dodgy PPE from Tory donors at inflated prices. Spaffed £37billion on a test and trace system that didn't work. Promised to level up the country while driving it to its knees. These two were complicit, as cabinet members scamming the country. Enough of Tories. Just go!!!
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  649. The House of Commons bar will still be open and Nigel will keep a fake pub in Clacton for his dodgy photo ops. MPs and parasites are not affected.
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  650. @john john I guess you agree with Billy Connolly then: "don't encourage the buggers; don't vote"
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  651. More like, the House of Commons is a no-go area for truth and common sense. That I may agree with.
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  652. "A nation that reneged on a previous deal." Wow! Tice gave a perfect example of Britain with the EU. These wazzocks love their sovereign tea, while drinking in La La Land.
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  653. ​ @nearlyretired7005  another pseudonym account; usual twaddle.
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  654. ​ @lesliehall7683  if you want shit, read the Fail. What evidence did they give?
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  655. How great a clue do we need? Neoliberalism (free market capitalism) has failed the majority and is not fit for society.
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  656. Great comment and so accurate. The string-pullers will not allow anything even approaching socialism and the only way to get it is by changing the electoral system from our current elective dictatorship. We need PR: an essential piece of the jigsaw.
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  657. Are Google execs paid to plait fog? No answers. Lots of promised follow-ups. Lots of assurances with no live facts divulged. "We'll get back to you"..."when?"..."as soon as possible" Apparently no clocks or calendars in Google offices.
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  658.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  a power thing? Depends what you mean by establishment
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  659.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  Slaves to their oligarch masters in the arena of neoliberal capitalism? Puppets may be more accurate. Albeit that doesn't apply to Sharon, who is more of a gladiator.
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  660. Hunt subsequently trying to face down his skulduggery by blaming civil servants. Never trust a Tory.
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  661. "For the first ever time" it shows that you have no plan. Weather patterns have something to do with reducing boat crossings. Sending 100 people each year to Rwanda (with an undisclosed number in return) is NOT A DETERRENT. It's known as a ruse, used as an excuse to dismantle our human rights. Blaming Labour, a party with a real plan, is utter BS. Starmer ripped apart the Rwanda deal in PMQs and Sunak showed how clueless he is.
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  662. Sunak's rampant traditional Toryism exposed. Is Johnson briefing against him? Another of Buffoon's potential challengers gone. A party of moronic charlatans.
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  663.  @timelwell7002 I agree with you: the intention of neoliberalism was to exacerbate inequality by persuading the poor to vote for the rich to have more, through the lie of trickle down.
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  664. Little Spiv simply can't say Yes. Other than to Tory donors. When challenged with hard fact, he squirms like a true Tory.
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  665. Utter blx! What has this buffoon won? More distrust? Talking garbage in our adversarial parliament while failing to answer a single question. Johnson thrives on theatre at the expense of fact and responsible governance. We are all the losers with this clear and present danger at the helm.
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  666. Welcome to Tory Britain. How many of this soulless party agree with Thatcher's claim that there is no such thing as society? They certainly know how to destroy it.
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  667. No freedom of speech in fascist Britain then?
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  668.  @theattila567  No. Financialisation followed neoliberalism, so true after 1979
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  669. The most effective response: boycott the programme. Another lying Tory wazzock.
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  670.  @martinmanifold2241  What? Name such a conflict...
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  671.  @BOZ_11  two out of five then?
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  672. The fact that Barclay is hiding in a bunker shows how serious he is about his job. The fact that the government is blase about 40% of newly-qualified doctors leaving the NHS shows that they can't be trusted with our health service. Tories out.
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  673. As one of the pensioners losing the allowance, I'm hardly shocked by the lame neoliberal stupidity of Starmer and Reeves. With an alleged "black hole" of twenty-odd billion quid, these sociopaths come after the very people who are unable to resist, to raise less than two billion to chuck in the alleged hole. Meanwhile ignoring the proposal of the patriotic millionaires to tax wealth. Completely disregarding the fact that passive investment income could be taxed at the same rate as work income. This is at a time when energy prices increase while suppliers continue to profiteer from the highest prices in Europe. I would regard this inanity as symbolism and an act of bullying by pathetic cowards working for their string pullers. (From a voter who supports the few real Labour MPs with a backbone.)
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  674. Braverman is not just disgraceful. Both she and Sunak's cabinet are clueless. Announcing an unworkable policy against international law. First we had their world-beating Rwanda policy (which cost a lot, including court fees, for next to nothing) and now her boss smiles as though he has a plan to give the refugees free swimming lessons and chuck them in the channel. The Tories never think things through, nor do joined-up thinking. Just another vacuous announcement for the benefit of idiots and racists.
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  675. Rwanda is what the Tories aspire to: an authoritarian one-party state. Even without the wise and poignant words of Chris B, just follow the events. The courts declare the Rwanda deal illegal. Up pops a new Home Secretary (named as an oxymoron). After a few days of scribbling on the back of a fag packet he launches a new bill, pandering to the petulance of the little spiv acting as PM. In declaring Rwanda safe by an Act, Sunak assumes dictatorship. Even many Tories couldn't make this sh1t up.
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  676. Perpetuated and, at least, exacerbated by a rigged mainstream media and complicit governments.
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  677. Sunak wants to be a polluter, under the pretence of extra houses. The end result: more shit in rivers and as much chance of extra houses as the 40 new hospitals. Meanwhile we subsidise builders to make extra profit.
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  678. How to appeal to an audience of illiterate f'kwits by acting like a man-child. A great lesson from the world's richest wazzock.
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  679.    ??? Relevance?
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  680.  @Paradoxolog  Democracy means government by the people - in either direct or representative form. Our system is unrepresentative and thus undemocratic. Votes are not equal, so how can that be democratic? I subscribe to the definition of our system by Lord Hailsham (formerly Quintin Hogg, a Tory) as being an elective dictatorship.
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  681. Did you really say that? Painting our incompetent government that has wasted £126.7 billion since the start of the pandemic as victims. Strikers lose pay and strike for a reason.
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  682. In simple language: Johnson didn't do detail. As a sociopathic wazzock with a short attention span, why would he? Cometh the hour; cometh the idiot. His proud record is reflected in our death count.
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  683.  @andyforshaw8489  I've just explained why Labour won't do that. Recommend a course on critical thinking, instead of mindless trolling.
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  684.  @roughbeast  Yes. For such a powerful force, the oligarch media act in desperation.
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  685.  @policebeuponthem  so you stop at three word slogans and believe those? Look where that got us.
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  686.  @StuartJ  no. Can't imagine such a hypothetical. Perhaps you will explain your flight of fancy.
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  687.  @StuartJ  thanks for the compliment, Stuart, I hardly qualify as a youngster after 7 decades of life experience. A manifesto giving costed details (beyond three word slogans) is hardly utopia. It's a plan that can become reality, against the wishes of the oligarch media and financial puppet masters.
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  688. In response to fact, the man with two names spoke with forked tongue. I hear that nurses would welcome safe working levels every day on wards, especially when they are running a ward alone without adequate support. Of course other countries are affected by the pandemic, but started from a better position with health and care services fit for purpose. The Tories have dismantled the NHS for a decade before the pandemic. They simply can't be trusted with the NHS. Enough is enough.
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  689. With over 70% of England's water owned by foreign countries, how well is taking back control going?
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  690. A self-obsessed sociopath working with a sociopathic serial liar. Quite a combination. The duo that delivered the brexit lie being so operationally incompetent that they couldn't manage a p1ss-up in a brewery. Not exactly the surprise of the year.
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  691. That description suits Britain.
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  692.  @allwelsh  accurate language in the context she used it. Shame she withdrew it later.
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  693.  @allwelsh  don't see double standards: one comment was opinion, the other was baseless accusation and misogyny. Not that I'm a fan of Rayner, just hate the gutter press.
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  694. Only a weasel could offer such an "apology." Matt continues to seek forgiveness. Our parliament is a disgrace.
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  695. The picture of a psychopath with a fixed smile is nauseating, especially when his knowledge of economics is abysmal. You got relief, you pay for it while the richest amass fortunes in investment income, taxed at a lower rate. Hunt and the Tories will always make the wrong choices for the many to benefit the few (their string-pullers.)
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  696. There is one consolation from these channels (under investigation) that appeal to idiots. They have a small audience, so fewer idiots than I'd suspected.
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  697.  @johnokeeffe6014  Personally I prefer real democracy, starting with PR, a codified constitution and a parliamentary procedure that is fit for purpose. We assume honour and fair play, allowing liars and rogues to run rampant.
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  698. How surprising that Foghorn renews his obsession with immigration, after hanging around his friend Donald like a groupie. Pathetic!!!
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  699. ​ @christophermoor1186 lazy sophistry. If you want to see someone blurring the line, the Farage Riots are instructive. Deliberately throwing doubt on the police, while excusing thugs. Making false accusations based on race without verifying fact. We have media channels adopting that as policy.
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  700. The shortage of funding being exposed, the shortfall to be met with smoke and mirrors. Different chancellor, same Tory bullshit and operational incompetence.
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  701. Chastising thw very man who promised integrity, professionalism and accountability for his lack of the first two qualities. Little Spiv should be banned from the house for a week and lose his pay. That's the only way to treat these reprobates. Penalise and shame them.
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  702. This Tory government is populating an alternative universe built on fantasy. No point "clearly publishing" a process that doesn't work in an emergency situation. Wait a few weeks for your visa or come and pick fruit - If there is any in season.
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  703.  @paulheath7407  how, exactly? You can either engage in d1ck swinging or pursue evidence. What came of our approach, other than taking more oligarch money and Tory abuse of Russian electoral interference? Read the Russia report.
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  704. If you think that Rishi "knows what he's doing," ask yourself, Do you like what he's doing? While he was chancellor, waste and fraud quodrupalled to £21 billion over two years. He, and the Tories, have failed to investigate such fraud. How is his promise of integrity, professionalism and accountability going? The little spiv fails to answer a single question and responds with misinformation or blatant lies.
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  705. Jeremy the proverbial. The man who buggered up the NHS and now about to impose more austerity. The Tory default setting.
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  706.  @paulsmith5018  yes. And some are in it more than others.
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  707.  @EdwardLindon  a rhetorical question.
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  708. Sunak has the habit of staying cool while talking pathetic sh1te. This combination displays his callous disinterest.
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  709. While we pay for the legal defence of the person who has done the most damage to Britain in recent history. Chuck the b'sard in the Tower and let him make his protests and speeches from there. Boris the poor victim. Lol.
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  710.  @andyforshaw8489  Perhaps you should read my post again and pay attention to the actual words.
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  711. Dead right about the institutions - enabled by our elective dictatorship. We need real democracy and accountability.
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  712.  @MrMarinus18  Fully agree about unchecked neoliberalism. It was always intended to exacerbate inequality and to persuade the poor to vote for the rich to have more. It has failed in these testing times. And now, according to a BofE economist, we must accept that we are poorer. I doubt this applies to the 1% richest, however.
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  713.  @spiritualdeath101  All thanks to the architect - Maggie (there is no such thing as society) Thatcher.
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  714. Sunak's defence amounts to: nobody warned me, so I acted like a little dictator. He seems to think that an offer that may well double consumer traffic had nothing to do with the increased spread of infection. We actually knew it as eat out to spread it about. He then suggested we were safe with a test and trace system! Pethaps he conveniently forgot that we spaffed £37 billion on a dud? Never trust a Tory.
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  715. Top-down government and centralisation lead to sterility and mediocrity. The Treasury and Westminster are proof.
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  716. The only thing this "government has lifted" is the level of corruption and incompetence. No wonder Dowdy is proud of their record. The Tory idea of balancing the books is running a record debt, while pushing more people into mortgage poverty. Balancing the books so the rich get richer.
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  717. That probably means: "Of course I knew and I'm briefing against him." Buffoon doesn't want any challenge to his leadership.
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  718. "How it occurred" is one thing. Why it occurred is another. Buffoon's Trumpian tactics are simply execrable. The useless object should simply go. He is causing untold damage to our country.
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  719. About time! Perhaps the oligarch media will stop hiding facts. The Neoliberal agenda has been a race to the bottom for the majority, so the richest can fuel their incessant greed.
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  720. ​ @HitchcockTheSnail Free speech is fine when people have an equal voice and the right to respond in equal measure. We need effective media regulation.
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  721. What does Elsie cut back on? We are doing...blah blah blah. No answer ... Just bollocks. The same question repeated and still no answer. Windfall tax? Better ask the took fairy. Buffoon wants us all to suffer while the rich get richer. Welcome to Tory Britain.
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  722. Good luck to Jamie. I've often argued that party politics at a local level stifle democracy. Go and prove it, Jamie.
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  723. One saw Corbyn as "a genuine voice", so now he has turned to Farage the scammer. The other thinks Reform will make housing more affordable. Has he read their manifesto? Farage is establishment: private education and working in the City as a commodities trader. Farage appeals to idiots, or those devoid of critical thought.
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  724. "Embolden Hamas!!!" They would be part of the ceasefire or would lose any international support. His stated "slaughter of Jews" has been followed by tens of thousands of Palestinians being slaughtered. Grow some cajones and call for a ceasefire.
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  725. In any effective and responsible government, Braverman would be on the political scrapheap. Ah! I seem to recall the man who reinstated her had promised integrity and professionalism. Sunak is a little Spiv, backed by a cabinet of psychopaths.
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  726. Attacking cost push inflation by reducing real incomes is the way of shrinking the economy. The Tories are economic incompetents, liars, or both.
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  727. I can only confirm that her judgement was accurate imo.
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  728. Delivering for which people, Rishi? Would that be the energy companies wanting the drilling licences?
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  729. Hardly surprising when Johnson has failed in every previous job. Who would have expected a different result? A serial liar who happens to be operationally incompetent.
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  730. Sunak shown to be a useless and cowardly leader, led by his own pressure groups and dependent on dark think tanks. A pathetic little Spiv revealed.
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  731. So he effectively says that HS2 was a white elephant, after spaffing multi-billions to travel faster between London and the midlands. As for the allocated money, undoubtedly to be directed at bribes for Tory votes, making this week the Toady party conference. A little spiv winding up the festival of GB News. The ultimate sh1t-show.
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  732. This slimeball is an apology for our British elective dictatorship.
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  733.  @jackthelad612  Should still face the consequences.
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  734. The prime minister (who apparently doesn't know his arse from his elbow) as asked his ethics advisor to explain what is obvious to most primary kids. Bloody hilarious.
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  735. So much for Johnson's high skill, high pay economy. Is this moron appearing as Michael Green or Grant Shapps? The missing answer to the government's perverted and pathetic defence is brexit.
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  736. So a government that extols free market capitalism and wholesale privatisation treats the employers as a benefit case. They are subsidised through a strike while honest workers lose their pay.
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  737. I agree, the government is delivering. Unfortunately they are delivering mayhem, inequality and poverty for the many. Dodgy legislation against international law. Allowing more shit in the rivers and attempting even more (thankfully defeated by the Lords.) Penny of the sword sounds deflated and hollow, reminiscent of her cabinet. Tory scum.
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  738. The Tories simply can't be trusted with the NHS. TORY SCUM.
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  739. With the Tories, it's cost-push inflation and never their fault. Yet when the inflation rate comes down, it's their policies of course. Always pay rises. Let's ignore energy prices and profiteering.
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  740. Just like turkeys in a battery farm, voting for Christmas.
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  741. "Voted for controlled migration" says Blabbermouth. Where was Rwanda mentioned in the Tory manifesto? "Contol" when the number of outstanding migration applications is growing through Tory incompetence. Another Tory scam exposed. A home secretary who doesn't understand international law.
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  742. We will get inflation without growth. Any benefits go to bankers for offshore investment while we get crumbs. Also making not working not pay... more tried and failed Tory bullshit.
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  743. @@alexander-lc4dr The only way of fixing this country is 1) reform the electoral system and make parliament fit for purpose to achieve real democracy. 2) economic and structural reform, with a reset to stop financialisation and use collective talents while facing reality. We are not a world power and need to cooperate with our nearest neighbours. Will it happen? I doubt it unless we see a miracle.
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  744.  @julielevinge266  ????
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  745.  @sidlittle8658  History says yes. But will they alone have the solutions? NO
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  746.  @IrishLadASMR  relevance?
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  747.  @paulking1396  that's some assumption, obviously based on strenuous academic research. It's also know as whataboutery. In simple language that even a Tory apologist might understand: please stop talking bollocks.
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  748.  @suminshizzles6951  That's debatable, as they are not yet in power. But is it an excuse to vote Tory? Look at both of their records and decide. Facts speak accurately; rhetoric doesn't.
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  749.  @mosheridan7016  Exactly how, based in their record?
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  750.  @mosheridan7016  You evade answering a simple question like a Tory bot. Please explain.
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  751.  @mosheridan7016  What kind of lazy answer is that? It's known as trolling.
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  752.  @mosheridan7016  a non-answer is awareness?
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  753.  @mosheridan7016  I see standing up for workers' rights as positive, being more concerned about a crony government compensating the rail companies for the strikes and failing to accept that privatisation is not working.
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  754.  @mosheridan7016  Now that's a pertinent question with this government in power. They want the bar set to zero.
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  755.  @PamelaD963  are Labour in office? Did I miss something?
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  756. Closed courts while reducing police numbers. Reinstated the latter (except for the cuts in their support staff, not reinstated). Still the courts remain closed and victims face a two year waiting list. Sunak lives in the dreamland he has painted with a bucket of whitewash.
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  757. ​ @GroundUp-k7o is that an excuse against any form of regulation? Trite.
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  758. ​ @darkcymruchannel5683 implement Leveson. After Cameron chickened out.
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  759. ​ @GroundUp-k7o that assumes that most voters check facts. The scammers, such as Fartage and Space Karen, know that it's easier to appeal to prejudice than to persuade with logic. Meanwhile we have a media spreading garbage, and often failing to challenge blatant lies.
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  760. When an American senator talks about religion, why does bigotry and hypocrisy follow? This half-wit does not read the room.
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  761. "in the spirit of openness and humility" That's a laugh coming from this narcissistic serial liar. He will best fulfil his duty by resigning. Faint hope...
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  762.  @Ma55ey  Then Labour are incapable of long-term thinking, as FPTP has been of benefit to the Tories in the majority of cases.
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  763.  @Ma55ey  I know, which is why I'm not as interested in politics so much as democratic governance. Labour has a habit of shooting itself in the foot. The present crop of Tories are scammers.
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  764. The chairman hasn't had a conversation on our doorstep. Sunak is a lying little Spiv. His pretence at being responsible and professional is hollow and transparent.
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  765. This psychotic bugger seems seriously unhinged. The ballot box doesn't work without PR. This moron is a product of our elective dictatorship.
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  766. Great satire. An effective illustration of how Trump appeals to idiots.
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  767. Just remember while listening to this little spiv, masquerading as a prime minister. This is the man who promised professionalism and integrity in politics. Who wants to be judged on his results.
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  768. Tell Rishi, he can sqeeze more into his day by working on the train. The man is a vacuous plonker.
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  769. "Not too repetitive" says the person who fails to answer a single question and trots out lies and bullshit, on a playback loop.
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  770. If the rules are complicated, let's simplify them: no second jobs or secondary income, other than in very exceptional circumstances, such as maintaing clinical skills. As a consequence, no paid lobbying. MPs banned from voting on issues where their family or partners have a financial interest. Clean up the mess. Keep it clean; keep it simple.
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  771. OMG! Such a natural in front of the camera and joined by the Brexit Foghorn to create comedy gold.
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  772. Yes. Supporting the Covid passport was futile. The vaccines and boosters don't stop the spread of the new variant (see recent Guardian article) so mass gatherings should be banned until we get a grip of the new variant.
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  773.  @tonyb9735  you may wish to believe that. I simply quoted reported facts. 7 out of 10 double jabbed and boosted people were infected by the new variant. A small sample. Thus better to stop mass gatherings in the short term As for vaccines in general, they are designed to help immunity but vaccinated people can still spread and catch the virus. The vaccine is intended to stop it getting worse or becoming critical. I understand the argument about the NHS which is why I said passports are not enough.
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  774. Perhaps Buffoon should tell the DUP he "got Brexit done" and they should get back to work. This charlatan is to unhinged, he confused Jeremy Corbyn with his puppet master and chief fund raiser.
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  775.  @millwallholdings  and that's some kind of excuse? Whataboutery is a pathetic defence. Are the good people of Millwall stupid enough to believe it?
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  776.  @anteeko NO! It's public healthcare: a public service under government stewardship, yet the Tories break that trust to promote more privatisation for their failed ideological reasons. Ie. We need stewardship, not meddling. (How about a citizens assembly having a say, guided by health experts?) This government should be prosecuted for treason.
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  777.  @myopinionsmayoffendyou  you say the government has very little control, and spending has increased dramatically. By coincidence, almost half of recent spending has been to private companies for outsourced contracts - influenced and directed by government. Join your two statements together and you arrive at the answer.
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  778.  @andrewharris3900  The NHS depends on the public for funding - not politicians. If you offer the choice of opting in or out, many will be denied quality healthcare.
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  779. This is Sunak's government of responsibility and professionalism. Another Tory; another liar.
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  780. The Tories love vacuous empty vessels. Look at Johnson and project... Truss may win the prize for the most operationally incompetent and vacuous.
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  781. Not one straight answer to a series of simple questions. Every journalist should engage a bullshit buzzer. The noise would be deafening and more entertaining than Barclay's vacuous drivel.
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  782. The greatest barrier to growth is inequality. Tax wealth to fill the holes, while stimulating growth.
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  783.  @lynnmeyers10  In one sense, I agree. Hitler would approve of many western countries aspiring to fascism. Whereas Netanyahu appears to believe in an eye and all limbs for an eye. Many Jews support Palestine in this conflict.
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  784.  @lynnmeyers10  My reply didn't post. So much for free speech. In one sense, I agree. Hitler would approve of western countries moving towards fascism. Netanyahu on the other hand seems to believe in an eye and every lib for an eye.
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  785. That explains a lot. Appeals to the intellectually lazy as well as plain idiots.
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  786. Mick is pure class. Showing the government for what they are: operational incompetents and serial liars. They would rather stall and spin rhetoric than reach an agreement. Rail management appears to be a stage play where noone knows their part - led by donkeys.
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  787. Never trust a Tory.
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  788.  @JP-sm4cs  yes, I realise my comment is sacrilegious to many of his supporters. Soon I won't be able to make it as the Tories suppress free speech
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  789. The concerning fact is that this feckless liar and proven spinner of myths still gets airtime. The wazzock should be in the Tower for treason after causing serial harm to our country, through his bile.
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  790. The opacity and collusion of the establishment, for the preservation of power, apparently is limitless. What my grandad used to describe as "p1ssing in the same pot".
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  791. How exactly are we "leading the world in beating Covid" with the highest death rate in Europe and the second highest per capita? Such lies spill easily from Tory lips. Would have been better in saying the prime minister has been clear as mud, and he will probably change his mind tomorrow.
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  792. The Tories want dictatorship: continuously grabbing more power at the centre while suppressing individual democratic rights. Btw. Look at the number in the House - particularly on government benches. Voting from preconception without listening to arguments is not a sign of a healthy democracy.
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  793. Reform, the scammers who would destroy the NHS. The party that would Reform us into a banana republic without the bananas.
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  794.  @huwzebediahthomas9193  regrettably, it hasn't rubbed off enough if you consider 8% adequate, with inflation at over 10% after a reduction in real income over the last 12 years. I do agree about backdating. Javid's letter to the pay review body blew the Tories excuse of impartiality.
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  795. More shit trolling, Andy. Do you ever give up with your paltry excuses?
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  796. So what? They were deceived. What will they vote next?
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  797. Fair and responsible. Words used glibly by Sunak, yet his actions shout loudly that he lives in cloud cuckoo land. Just to explain basic economics to the Spiv. Costs of energy and food are pushing inflation; not wages. Giving people a real terms pay cut will also stifle growth.
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  798. Classic Tory gaslighting. Pretend to have done well by selecting statistics that take a matter out of context to create a fase pretext. On 27 October Full Fact revealed that Tory claims related only to legacy cases and the total number of outstanding applications had fallen slightly from an all-time high but if dependents' applications are included, there are no figures available since June 2023. There are lies, damn lies, and the statistics brandished by politicians.
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  799. The common denominator is neoliberalism, which was designed to exacerbate inequality. The move to globalisation accelerated inequality and the accompanying financial deregulation spurned the financial crash. The imposition of austerity then emphasised inequality while tolerating and even accelerating it. We have created a perfect economic shit-storm, exposed by pandemic and conflict. Enter Brexit to show that a government can easily take the p1ss.
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  800.  @TruthTortoise81  no. I commented one one interview, not the interviewer's character. Dont debate with pseudonym accounts.
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  801.  @TruthTortoise81  I know perfectly well. Don't discuss with pseudonym accounts. Take a hint.
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  802.  @TruthTortoise81  read my answer. Goodbye
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  803.  @stshnie  yes, he gave DL time to speak. The first 2 were leading questions, firstly expressing an opinion. What did the third one mean? Trite! As for the fourth - another leading question. Johnson is not a 'general' - probably a general layabout. Seemed like kindergarten politics to me. Only a personal opinion.
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  804.  @petermills542  The obtuse reference to Napoleon was proved incorrect in 1812. Read War and Peace. Tolstoy doesn't use too many long words. As for the questions: you can ask open questions to get a straightforward answer, or use leading questions to provoke a tailored response. Guess which I prefer. Personal opinion, of course.
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  805.  @davidlulham9327  your condescending tone and factual inaccuracy are noted.
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  806. @ugur asik the Napoleon reference was somewhat dented in 1812. Read War and Peace. As for even using the word "general" in relation to Johnson, I would say a general layabout.
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  807. There are more questions than answers, yet with Sunak there are no answers: just bullshit and baseless counter accusations.
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  808. ​ @RGBmode No south coast accent there. They are easily fooled or incapable of critical thinking. Reform will help land owners rather than create affordable housing. Where is their policy to help with housing supply (or even demand)? Farage is establishment.
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  809. Gove conveniently "can't answer that question" and when he can, he obfuscates. The essence of government by charlatan. Tory scum.
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  810. The rules somehow protect liars and charlatans. It's as though they were designed by rogues. Reform is long overdue. Where is Guy Fawkes?
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  811. More trolling from a bullshit pseudonym account won't address that.
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  812.  @jazzx251  but Priti will claim that's sexist. Although the case seems convincing.
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  813. Great speech. The fact that he had to make exposes the shit-show that is broken Britain.
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  814. Sunak's response is so pathetic and predictable. This is the man who promised professionalism and integrity, yet spouts bullshit that he should be forced to correct. 20,000 new police officer promised but not yet recruited, don't replace the 21,000 experienced officers cut under Cameron's austerity. More Tory cluster-fu**ing whitewash.
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  815. Another day, another Tory minister. How many are on this gravy train? The government was warned about this just five years ago. Tories don't plan ahead. In fact, Tories don't plan at all; they wait for a disaster, blame someone else, and now they will wait for the next government to deal with the mess.
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  816.  @silondon9010  Yet after it has been replaced by more necessary immigration, another lie of Brexit is exposed.
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  817.  @ispolopsi  The fact that it was always a con and by withdrawing from the 2019 election, the lying charlatan can blame someone else. Farage is a con man who heckles from the sidelines. If he had to take an ounce of responsibility, he would fall apart. Now Reform present a "contract" that they know they won't have to fulfil, backed by fantasy figures that don't add up. Get the idea?
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  818.  @silondon9010  And what has replaced it? The very thing we were "taking back control" of.
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  819.  @jeannekemp1737  and how has that turned out? Even Farage called it a disaster but suddenly it's someone else's fault after he withdrew his gang of cretins from standing in the 2019 election. Never trust a charlatan
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  820.  @BusWill2006  exposing vacuous statements compounded by an inept media is hardly superior.
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  821.  @lloydnaylor6113  That would be us realists who have been proved right, as the con backfired. Even Farage knows it hasn't worked, yet now it's someone else's fault while he starts his next scam.
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  822. Amazing how 117 billion becomes over 300 billion in Trump-speak. Now we know the terms of his "deal": blame Obama and Biden, kiss Trump's arse and give him all the minerals he wants. Asset Krasnov has been well programmed by Putin.
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  823. The Tories hate workers getting a decent pay rise. Yet now Labour seems to hate pensioners staying warm. With a 10% hike in energy prices many pensioners get help withdrawn. Tax wealth; tax the profiteering energy companies. Black hole filled. Easy.
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  824.  @Lycurgus1982  Actually I couldn't give the proverbial. I understand the origins from America, but the whole concept is bullshit. Just another tool of divide and rule, for use by our inept media and fascistic politicians. Btw, Neoliberalism is the polar opposite of Marxism.
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  825. So he's tackling inflation by penalising mortgage owners, who he wants to help by halving inflation. The circular argument of a little spiv who hasn't got near to halving inflation and will probably make people homeless by the time we get there.
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  826. I think we should look at these by-elections in the context of government performance. Sunak is a gaslighting spiv, leading a party of operational incompetence. Welcome to Planet Reality
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  827. A CEO who gets others to do his dirty work? Easy for me to boycott their coffee - can't stand the sh1t.
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  828. Perhaps she is recruiting a new police force from Rwanda. An obsession with small boats while her department falls apart; failing to take responsibility and attempting to shift blame to the London Mayor. This woman is a psycho on steroids. Not fit for office.
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  829. Anyone defending or excusing this government is either intellectually lazy or absolutely stupid.
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  830. Mogg claims fracking is safe as it's used in America. Just Google fracking Pennsylvania. Sorry, Mogg still lives in the nineteenth century and can't use Google.
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  831. Having read some of inane excuses for "Boris" on other threads, I wonder whether democracy is a good idea. They range from: Poor Boris; to They're all the same; to attacks on Starmer. Then I realise that even the intellectually lazy and total idiots have the right to vote. I love the idea of democracy. If only we had it instead of this elective dictatorship.
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  832. She starts with an obsession about low taxation, when many millionaires believe they should pay more in tax. Then inadvertently shows the benefit of private education before the rest of her robotic drivel.
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  833. Of course the Tories have repeatedly ruined the NHS, but did Streeting answer a single question about the information given to Milburn? The level of privatisation in the NHS must be exposed and challenged.
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  834. Braverman doesn't understand the difference between "point scoring" and scrutiny. The Home Office is unfit for purpose on all fronts: policing and immigration being two examples. Of course it's not political point scoring to shift the blame to the Labour Mayor. Blabbermouth is the embodiment of Tory mismanagement and incompetence.
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  835. What a joke! If parties play politics, the party with the most seats (the Tories in this case) wins. Meanwhile Netanyahu laughs at us. Let me guess? Each amendment dilutes the wording and Israel duly ignores us. Meanwhile we continue to supply arms and remain complicit in genocide. Back words with actions: no more arms. Government responsibility, plain and simple.
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  836. Did I miss something? Was this video about Starmer?
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  837. Money for old rope. In any other profession, that would be a breach of contract and grounds for summary dismissal. Britain is broken.
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  838.  @edg8996  "incompetent" enough to present a great programme for change, which the powerful had to stop for fear of dismantling their joy rides of corruption.
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  839.  @edg8996  what part of the Labour manifesto did you base that statement on, Ed?
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  840.  @edg8996  I love the fact that you fail to address detail. Totally vacuous. Don't waste my time any further.
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  841.  @edg8996  your idea of facts illustrates zero intellect. Forget your "pair" and develop a brain. You disparage JC as a human being after ignoring both his policies and the fact that instead we have a corrupt serial liar as PM.
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  842. The neoliberal myth that banks can combat cost-push inflation is a Tory lie. I remember Ted Heath arguing that using interest rates to control inflation is like a golfer using a single club. Then along came Thatcher and trickle down bullshit... We are now seeing its flaws and facing the penalties.
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  843. Seriously unhinged.
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  844. Bloody Hell! How low can these b'stards sink? It has been blatantly evident that Johnson's cabal has been aspiring towards fascism since he took power by dubious means. Now we have blatant criminality. Britain is broken.
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  845. ​ @chrischamberlen9379  pathetic and inane whataboutery. Her figures would be more accurate than Tory fantasy.
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  846. Yes. He and Lord Hailsham were correct. The Tories have gamed our elective dictatorship by adding lessons from the playbook of fascism to take us to a world-leading international joke.
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  847. Brilliant interview. Chris is the voice of reason and responsibility. On the reverse side, Sunak's claim to meet our targets in a proportionate and pragmatic way is a blatant lie. How does that work? We meet our targets with half of our energy production and pollute the planet with the rest? That's some aspiration from our little spiv.
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  848. Would you rather step in dog sh1t or cow sh1t? To paraphrase Sean Lock.
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  849. The circus continues but Johnson is on the defensive. B&Q running out of whitewash: supplies bought up by Sue Gray and the Met.
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  850. ​ @danh5637  They are taking the largest slice of the pie through financialization and denying a fair share for those who contribute to their wealth. The sole intention of neoliberalism.
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  851.  @danh5637  How many are in a strong negotiating position when they sign the "contract" you allude to? How many are fired then rehired under different terms? How many are left working in the gig economy? I was one of the fortunate ones, being well qualified, but the myths of trickle down have been exposed and discredited. The so-called free market is rigged. Inequality has eroded fair reward. Neoliberalism has done its worst, as intended.
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  852. He will undoubtedly use the reallocated money for bribery projects to help their campaign.
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  853. Yet the Tories expect us to doff our caps and accept that they deserve it. Enough is enough - or in their case, more than enough
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  854. Coincidentally, the whip was restored after the Labour leadership was found out: the investigation was concluded last December! Why the delay? Diane's statement was clumsy, yet it contained an element of truth: skin colour prompts more frequent racist acts or comments from idiots.
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  855. This buffoon is incapable of answering a single question. He just throws mud like a child who has just discovered it. Is this the House that governs the country? No wonder we are in an abject mess.
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  856.  @I-am-TheStorm  Labour didn't "let the conservatives win the last election." They won with a minority vote (43.6%) through our undemocratic system. We need democracy.
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  857. Tice has a point. They focus on the concerns of British people by offering fake solutions and selling snake oil.
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  858. The one-off bonus is a Tory scam, which thankfully the nurses didn't fall for. This government is dismantling the NHS, firstly by stealth and now so blatantly that only idiots or the intellectually blind can't see it. The Tories simply can't be trusted with the NHS.
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  859. More evidence of why the most powerful in society couldn't let Jeremy take power in government. To protect their greed and suppress equality of opportunity.
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  860. Thought he was hiding in a freezer.
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  861. Fascism fueled by lies has arrived. Britain is broken.
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  862. Reminiscent of the brexit referendum. Tories don't do critical thinking.
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  863. The serial "erm" and ohms mean, look out for the lies, obfuscation and misdirection. This slippery wazzock is defending the alternative reality promoted in defence of 13 years of operational incompetence and economic failure. Gove is slime personified.
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  864. And, my God, Churchill had his way. We don't have democracy. With a minority vote producing a huge majority in parliament we have an elective dictatorship.
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  865. The most notable people "feeling scared" are the cowardly duo in the Tory cabinet: Blabbermouth and Sunak. One is scared of scrutiny; the other too scared to sack her. The Met have made the operational decision and Blabbermouth has thrown her toys out of the pram. She is a danger to peace and stability.
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  866. Perfect argument for Sunak: anyone against PR needs maths education. (He seems to love maths.)
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  867. Of course the Tories will sit on their arse and do nothing about pricing and profiteering. At a time of cost-push inflation why would they help reduce costs to the consumer when their party funders can take the rip?
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  868. Michael "err, erm, ahm..." Gove has some track record. Buggering up education, under the pretence of "driving up standards"; living life in the fast lane during a pandemic. Slippery and slimy as hell. Let me guess...no punishment. He will crawl back under his rock at the Spectator.
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  869. Did she mean so may psychiatrists? They were certainly needed there. Mad as a hatter living in a box of frogs.
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  870. And the cost of a means test is?
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  871. ​ @lovemyknife yes. I'm sure Londoners want dirty air as a threat to health. We all know how Tories hate to tackle environmental issues at the expense of profit.
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  872.  @lovemyknife  relevance?
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  873. People looking through the lens of self-justification are always pathetic and unconvincing. The Tories excel in this regard. A cabal of incompetent charlatans.
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  874. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Falsely attributed to Churchill but clearly shown here.
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  875. Let's make 2023 the year of democracy with a fit electoral system. This elective dictatorship has enabled such operational incompetence by sociopathic scum.
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  876. "Make people wealthy..." by crashing the environment while fixating on profit. Who cares if we kill off the planet? These k'kwits live for greed and power. The greatest "pollutant" is when these a'holes open their mouth. Half truths preceding lies, to appeal to the hard of thinking.
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  877. Yes. We need real democracy. We need to remove this elective dictatorship and adopt PR, where votes are equal and seats match votes.
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  878. If we get a government that implements PR, we get democracy to replace this fascistic dictatorship. At a minimum we get less corruption.
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  879. A legacy of delusion and corruption.
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  880. Read with a tone of irony (at least to my hearing) but then who would believe the lying Tory scum who are driving us towards fascism.
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  881. The psychopath Patel, smirk in place, talks garbage again. Why don't her "very practical routes" work? Taking a long time to put "them in place" Perhaps someone should tell her that invasions create emergencies. Tory Britain is broken.
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  882. How long must this farce continue? Thousands of lives are being lost while our politicians act like Netanyahu's stooges. Stop the madness.
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  883. Worzel Gummidge, a serial liar pretending to be prime minister and running out of excuses for his gross incompetence and corruption.
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  884. The dilemma was created by his boss completing Brexit during a pandemic, so the disaster of Brexit could be hidden. A cabinet of wazzocks.
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  885. Perhaps someone should explain to these morons that WhatsApp messages are held on Google Drive or iCloud (on cloud servers) and phone messages are similarly backed up. How convenient that these wazzocks can't find them.
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  886. ​ @karlxx13 and stored in iCloud or Google Drive.
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  887. Normally brain dead in any event. So while asleep he can't regale us with his wisdom.
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  888. This is the little spiv who promised honesty and professionalism. Being a Tory, he has a strange notion of the meaning of such words. FACTS! shrieks Sunak. After claiming the independence of the pay review body, for which the health minister set the budget and the terms of reference. Safe levels of emergency staffing during a strike! Nurses would welcome that as a matter of procedure when they have to run wards without suitable backup. Sunak is NOT a professional we should depend on in government. He is a spiv and a liar who fails to answer a single question with fact - instead resorting to baseless counter accusations. Never trust a Tory - particularly with the NHS.
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  889. We listen to the UN only when it suits us. What does the UN say about Israel? This is becoming a regular campaign so Sunak goes into hiding. The most terrifying part is who he leaves to deputise.
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  890. Another racist gammon. The party of corruption and inhumanity. No wonder Priti Shitty agrees.
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  891. ​ @Anonnonner9546 the sh1t trickles down, the shareholder and exec payments are pumped up.
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  892. Don't blame the workers. For every day the government waits this out, people are affected. This cabal of Tory sociopaths simply does not care.
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  893. This is what a sociopath promoted beyond her level of competence looks like. The epitome of the Tory sh1t-show.
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  894. The woman is simply moronic and dangerous. But then we've lived through three years of the vacuous and dangerous Johnson. A predictable Tory teend.
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  895.  @XTSu-sl1bb  That's because he is exposing the lack of government intent to find a solution for the benefit of the majority. The solution is not rocket science, but will be stifled by the powerful. You could probably even guess it yourself if you apply thought.
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  896.  @XTSu-sl1bb  I have thought for myself and come to a different conclusion. See my other reply. As for capital following etc.... You are swallowing neoliberal garbage.
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  897.  @XTSu-sl1bb  don't take the easy option and try to interrogate me like a troll. I wrote a full ebook on the subject, which you can download for free. It's called The Real Miracle of Neoliberalism. I urge you to think for yourself. Your comments don't disparage Eddie's message. They are either lazy thinking or a pathetic attempt to justify our crappy government.
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  898.  @XTSu-sl1bb  if you discount alternative sources, you learn nothing new from a "keyboard warrior" with relevant degree-level qualifications and extensive working experience. But then, you would have to read the free source I mentioned to find out. What solutions have you got from the publications you mention? The solution is simple: dismantle neoliberalism and pursue a balanced economy.
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  899.  @XTSu-sl1bb  I said a mixed economy; not the abolition of neoliberalism, but also more regulation where necessary. Many EU countries have a mixed economy... not too obsessed with mass privatisation. The first country where the Neoliberal project was installed was Chile (under Pinochet) and currently is in turmoil because of its failure (and in the process of change.) Neoliberalism was designed to increase inequality and has done so.
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  900.  @davidgalea6113  wtf??? Do you expect him to solve all our problems? Eddie is NOT a politician, so speaks plainly and manages to stay on topic. Compare the figure you quote against the amount of money wasted on test and trace and spaffed on faulty PPE. Perspective changes somewhat.
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  901. The smirk from Sunak said more than any words. Ed's speech nailed it. Every word was true. The worst possible government at the worst possible time. Tories = Sociopaths Causing Utter Mayhem (was perhaps the longhand of what Angela Rayner meant.)
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  902.  @crackmaninoff  there is such a thing as responsible capitalism. I know we are used to the Tories spaffing money to the exploitative capitalists.
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  903.  @crackmaninoff  How is that wrong if the company accounts justify it and he is fair to his employees? You then need to look what he does with it: rehabilitating prisoners in work. If he is a member of the patriotic millionaires, he is asking to pay more tax.
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  904. The barge was pure symbolism from a government full of rhetoric but incapable of an operational plan. Follow the money; which of their mates got the wedge?
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  905. How many ministers and Tory MPs must be expected to carry a bucket and shovel to clear the sh1t spread by the incompetent and fascistic Blabbermouth?
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  906. Buffoon is a sick joke. Certainly proves there are more questions than answers. Not a single question answered. He refers to the "living wage." How can it be when full time WORKERS have to claim UC to get by? As for Labour scrapping UC. They planned to replace it, as it is not fit for purpose. This useless clown is a waste of space.
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  907. Johnson is extending his repertoire from serial liar to abject fantasist. Now Global Britain is leading the world against Russia. The man is a clear and present danger, in urgent need of psychological assessment.
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  908. It hardly seems coincidental that two countries with a history of oppression - Ireland and South Africa - offer enlightenment. Time to listen and put justice above political games.
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  909. The Tories are "getting the job done" in driving Britain over a cliff. Buffoon is a serial fantasist who parrots his regular list of lies, learned by rote by every member of the cabinet - an essential part of the job description.
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  910. ​ @Pob2278  wow! That's some admission from you. Do they stop you from stringing a sentence together?
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  911.  @michaelcorleone7598  How? The greatest threat to our security is called climate change and he was prepared to do more about it than most. The Tories have done more than any party to weaken our national security by feeding excuses to the right-wing extremists and cutting police numbers.
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  912. I agree on one point: they have shown the depth and breadth of talent in their party. That's why we need them OUT! Inane, wooden, operationally incompetent, no ideas, no morals, sociopathic. Just what the ERG needs to dismantle our country.
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  913. Absolutely agree. We also drink water from the tap when in Scotland, which is certainly not the case in the north of England.
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  914.  @Elcore  wtf are you on?
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  915.  @reasondora2712  good to hear that. Seems to improve as you get nearer to Scotland.
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  916.  @danielwebb8402  so what?
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  917.  @danielwebb8402  Meritocracy is not dependent on grammar schools.
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  918.  @danielwebb8402  No such claim made, nor are obtuse comments helpful.
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  919.  @danielwebb8402  then we agree. We are individuals, not robots.
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  920. ​ @McKamikazeHighlander it never is and always creates a downward spiral.
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  921.  @muhabwahby  What won't work? A negotiated settlement, rather than the war machine enforcing apartheid?
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  922. When I read that the Patriotic Millionaires and even a few of the billionaires at the Davos forum are campaigning to pay more tax. Yes - you heard that right - offering to pay more tax to mitigate inequality. Tory policies are put in perspective. The Labour proposals were far fairer, but Rich Rishi is against more tax for the financial elite. Britain is broken.
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  923. I wondered about the sanity of the least trusted profession taking on the most trusted. When we get Ferrari and Hartley-Brewer roasting the government we have conclusive proof of their idiocy and incompetence.
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  924. Don't forget: the Tories believe in a small state. Thus they can't be trusted with public services. A government of operational incompetents and serial liars. Btw, no point "toughening up sentencing" when the criminals aren't caught and we don't have enough courts to process the cases.
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  925.  @starsnstuff842  totally agree 👍
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  926. His record as chancellor included spaffing public money on dodgy PPE and on a failed test and trace system. Never trust the Tories, especially with the NHS. Now he's in a bunker, afraid of Mick Lynch and Pat Cullen et al.
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  927.  @TomRipley7350  which begs the questions: Was his idea stupid? Did he lie? How could it have been made to work? Farage is a serial scammer
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  928.  @TomRipley7350  how to run the perfect scam: step 1: spread a series to lies to line your own pocket through disaster capitalism; step 2: blame someone else when the lie is exposed because the promise was false and it couldn't be delivered. Get the idea?
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  929. Is Johnson delusion enough to believe the garbage he trots out? Or does he believe that repeating a lie often enough will make it the truth to the stupid or intellectually lazy? It's amazing how often he trots out the same lies without being required to correct the record. "The fastest vaccine rollout" only for three months until the EU overtook us. "World leading" efforts in tackling Covid ... Leading in the the deaths per capita table by killing more people off. Leading in paying over the odds for faulty PPE by offering dodgy contracts to party funders. For how long will this sh1t show go on?
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  930. A declaration of intent is not a plan. Particularly when the government has no intention of fulfilling its promise. Rather they will blame someone else.
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  931.  @KernowFay  how, exactly would they "crash the pound more?" If you want to see the effect of targeted investment on a currency, look at the US dollar after Biden's stimulous package. Now compare Biden's package with the last Labour manifesto. Assuming that you are capable of assimilating real facts.
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  932. Get a booster although preliminary stats show you have a 70% chance of catching it, even after full vaccination. Issue Covid passports although the high infection rates require banning mass gatherings. Aiming at the wrong target again. Read the recent Guardian article for an explanation of these factors.
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  933.  @lpmlearning2964  It's the same party that has been in power for the last 13 years. In case you forgot, that's the Tories.
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  934.  @jackdoyle7453  How exactly have I criticised the civil servants? The home office is not for purpose because we have a moronic minister in charge. Look at the application backlog, manipulated to manufacture a crisis.
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  935.  @jackdoyle7453  The backlog in processing refugees that they like to call illegal immigrants (against international law) to create a problem so they can rile up the vacuous and the racists. Have you missed the obsession with boats and the overt lies in parliament? I'm glad you got your passport as you will need ID when voting.
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  936. Being a sociopath, he probably sleeps well.
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  937. If you "can't have Hamas in power, able to release rockets..." How can you have a military state in power, in Israel? Cameron up to his usual ass-wipery.
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  938. Sunak is the most desperate little spiv in history. The clueless leading a government of vacuous incompetence.
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  939. With so many empty properties owned by rich foreigners, it's amazing that Brexit-style rhetoric doesn't apply to greedy money-making schemes: seeing housing as an asset rather than a home. We are a sick society.
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  940. "Balance the books!" The old Tory trope dating from Thatcher's household budget analogy. Without targeted investment and tax justice, Britain will remain broken. Austerity has failed us. Let's try doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Tory madness, and deflection from the party of scum.
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  941. Anyone who upsets Foghorn Farage has my support. I never bought a ticket to hear his vacuous bile but it's always inflicted on us by his supporting media. Enjoying paying for my TV licence in my eighth decade to get a real choice. Well done, Joe.
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  942. No problem with selection - nothing to see here. The problem arises when they are found out. Never trust a Tory.
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  943.  @diesel92kj1  utter garbage.
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  944.  @diesel92kj1  the most notable one word flaw in your argument: Brexit. There are many other vacuous statements but I don't correspond with pseudonym accounts.
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  945.  @diesel92kj1  think degree level economics achieved that for me. Your vanity exceeds your vacuous statements
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  946. Johnson is the buffoon of the Tory pantomime when we need responsible leadership. The man is a sad bag of wiffle waffle without the ability to even comprehend cogent argument
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  947.  @danielwilliams1932  what "nonsense" do you mean, Daniel? Are you the official arbiter?
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  948.  @burni988  it's their loss. We should never stop learning.
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  949.  @untoldtruth5731  appropriately vacuous for a pseudonym account
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  950.  @reasondora2712  another pseudonym account incapable of reasoned argument.
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  951.  @reasondora2712  A person who has offered no reasoned argument. Just unsubstantiated criticism. I contributed opinion, but to call it naive without counter argument is intellectual laziness and amounts to a wasted comment.
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  952. Yes. Divide and rule. Will it work with a serial liar as PM and a gang of vacuous sociopaths in his cabinet?
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  953.  @californiadreamin8423  thanks for the disparaging and vacuous comments hidden behind your pseudonym account. Labour said they would respect the result of the referendum, rather than holding fire. Please ask me harder numeric questions since I qualified in stats at degree level. Just bog off and troll someone else.
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  954.  @californiadreamin8423  since I don't see the relevance of your comments to the initial post, and as they fall down on the first point you make, I'll give you one answer. Stop talking bollocks.
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  955. Perhaps the Tories need some gorilla glue to hold their shit together. But then the last two tubes I bought were congealed and unusable. Probably beyond their useful dates, like the Tories.
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  956. ​ @RichardFraser-y9t actually (pseudonym account holder) the majority of people agreed with said policies in blind voting. Then party politics were tainted by a complicit media running a smear campaign to promote a serial liar. How did "get Brexit done" work out?
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