Youtube comments of (@Iain1962).

  1. She is such a horrible person, sitting there all smug like she's some sort of Queen. Urrgh..
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  2. Just some info. he was driving a Mercedes Class A AMG, with Polish plates, so that was suspicious already, then he was driving at excess speed in a bus lane, the Police stopped him at a traffic light, but when he saw their blue lights, he sped off through the red light, so the motorcycle police followed him as he broke multiple more laws almost knocking over pedestrians and a cyclist, the vehicle was then slowed by heavy traffic at which point the officers tried to make him stop by drawing their weapons, he once again ignored this and tried to drive away even though a policeman was literally leaning over the bonnet pointing his gun at him, so the Policeman fired. He was also 17, the legal age to drive in France is 18, and it takes about 6 months to a year organise and pass a test. So he was illegally driving a car very likely stolen and tried to mow down the Police. Sad but whose fault is it really?
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  3. Protesting against democracy !!
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  4. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered." George Orwell, 1984.
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  5. What if halfway through the game the King decides he is a Queen?
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  6. The title should be : How The EU Lost Britain.
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  7. What a slime ball that Mayorkas is.
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  8. Lackies to Carry my Crutches: White.
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  9. What happens is the big parties start to espouse the policies of the small parties which effectively destroys their support. They don't need to do it for long, just long enough to erode the small party's support until they run out of money.
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  10. Imagine a viral infection so awful that you had to take a test to find out if you had it or not.
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  11. So when you ask this guy about a specific thing he says you have to look at the whole situation, and then when you look at the whole situation he brings up specific things. And he was in charge of overseeing ethical programming? No wonder the country is a complete shambles when we let such biased people oversee our media !!
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  12. That guy is an incredibly good bullshitter. He's talking total crap but his enthusiasm is infectious. I was almost applauding by the end although that was for the guy cutting the grass in the background.
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  13. House of Democracy? Ursula was the only candidate. That's democracy for you EU style. Here is the only candidate, vote yes or no. Hilarious.
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  14. I just hope his last message was "So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish".
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  15. Good stuff. Just one thing Mark, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was not installed until 1921, so it wasn't there at the time of the stunt.
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  16. The fact that Neil is obliged to read out the disclaimer is all you really need to know...
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  17. Our demands??? OK, we can all play that game, I demand that the government locks all these people up immediately.
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  18. These people are insane. It's a cult that makes it up as they go along, it's hilarious.
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  19. So we are not allowed parody any more? What a depressing world to live in when you can't make fun of each other (and ourselves)
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  20. I have noticed that people often reveal themselves by their attitude. That is to say a cheat will assume you are a cheat, and a crook will assume you are a crook etc. Because that's how they think so they presume everyone else thinks as they do. This is true in politics also, one side will accuse the other of doing exactly what they are doing, hence these people who decry hate it's because they are filled with hate themselves.
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  21. Nonsense the statistical evidence is overwhelming, much higher death rate than could be expected and she was on duty for every case.
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  22. She only had one question which she repeated endlessly plus a few false accusations which she also repeated endlessly. She just hates him and it showed, what a complete waste of Nigel's valuable time.
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  23. What a bundle of joy Michael Heseltine is. He must be great fun at parties.
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  24. No they aren't. The Rice Krispies trio are elves, Snap, Crackle and Pop,. check the ears. I believe Azog has lodged a discrimination report.
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  25. 2 months later Winston died, so he got his message of thanks in just in time.
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  26. Madness, California has gone insane.
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  27. The man doesn't even understand how the grid works.
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  28. Well what did they expect would happen when they started the war by killing civilians and taking hostages? Israel would send a box of chocolates and some flowers?
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  29. They think like 7 year olds so they make stuff for five year olds. God knows how these "actors" got through that dialogue, the pay must have been good.
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  30. He gets annoyed at being called miserable then calls her ignorant. The guy was off his rocker.
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  31. The "rules" have been a joke all along.
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  32. She got about 90,000 votes which is pretty amazing, who on Earth would vote for this person?
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  33. People are fed up. Especially as the Police aren't doing anything about it, so it's all going to end in tears.
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  34. I'm sure he would be glad you keep his story alive, if you don't tell it, it will be lost...
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  35. It doesn't matter. Macron will win the second round.
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  36. DOCTOR Franks is one charming little lady isn't she? What a piece of work, she would be at home in the Nazi Party.
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  37. Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free. I wonder what they think that means? We want everybody enslaved? Seems like the exact opposite to me.
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  38. They should be looking elsewhere for the culprits. Closer to home.
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  39. Also, they both went to the same school.
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  40. For goodness sake. Keep this nonsense out of the Military.
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  41. For goodness sake, The world is going a bit mad with this. Just focus on defending the country please.
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  42. Good always prevails, because people resist evil eventually, but how long does it take? Most people don't even realise there is a threat, they still think this is a conspiracy theory.
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  43.  @pip1723  Brexit is going great, unless you read the Guardian and watch the BBC.
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  44. They also checked her for brain cells. No results as yet, we'll let you know as soon as we hear.
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  45. If they cut the spending they wouldn't need to keep asking for more printed money every few months.
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  46. Have to say if you keep up with these silly sponsorships I will be unsubscribing, do you really need the money that much to ruin your content? Just think, this video will be available for a long time, how long will those silly adverts be valid? Don't ruin great content for short term gain.
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  47. I think most women would be uncomfortable with the idea of men in their changing areas or public toilets.
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  48. Simple solution. Abolish Holyrood.
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  49.  @tomgreene1843  Yes music is a conundrum, the more tech and ability we have to create almost any sound from our computers and all these modern mixing tools, and yet the quality of music has dropped. It's almost as if the better the tools the less requirement there is to be innovative and inventive and it becomes easier just to do the copy and paste thing than the creative thing. Hence everything manages to sound the same. It's so sad, hardly any new groups are any good, from the sixties to the mid nineties was a golden age, since then music has become awful, I think Rap has a lot to do with it too. Of course there are a few exceptions but how different from the sixties, where every week there was a new tune from somebody that went on to be a classic.
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  50. The Hitler point is so badly thought through, the first thing Hitler did when he got to power was round up and either kill or imprison all opposition, effectively he deplatformed anybody with a contrary opinion, so stifled debate, then he was free to speak with no opposition so only his view was available. Exactly what she supports!!
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  51. Abolish the Assemblies, the act of union states that there is only one parliament, in Westminster.
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  52. Too right. Ungrateful is too polite. On reflection maybe we can ask Iran if they will take her back.
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  53. Made in England.
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  54. This is playground stuff for goodness sake.
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  55. I lived there for twenty years, it was beautiful, wonderful, vibrant, exciting and always interesting. I was there last year and it is a dump, everything is filfthy, I thought I was in a Souk in Morocco half the time, beggars and tramps and homeless everywhere. Thieves, pickpockets, scammers grafitti, bins overflowing. Tent camps and matresses lying about, drug taking everywhere, smoking crack in the Metro. People on those Escooters just riding about like crazy people weaving along pavements, the roads have all been bunged up with cycle lanes, bus lanes, it's absolutely horrific. I'm not going back.
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  56. It needs to be privatised, then we will have accountability when things go wrong. Right now if the NHS hires a bad actor we pay their salary, if the hospital is fined, we pay their fine, it is just transferred from one government account to another government account, then if patients sue, the taxpayer pays again not the hospital. So we pay for bad HR, a bad doctor/nurse, the patients suffer, we pay for the court case, and then we pick up the fine and any compensation that is rightfully due. So where is the incentive to improve. There isn't one. The logical thing to do for a Hospital is to cover it up, that's what the system basically instructs them to do. It's a sorry state of affairs, but how to change what has become almost a national religion. I never use the NHS if I can help it, I take a holiday and see a doctor abroad even if I have to pay for it.
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  57. We should do what they do and have it cancelled. Either that or get some Hate Crime evidence and report them all to the Old Bill.
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  58. Well here in Scotland he hasn't a leg to stand on. It is now the law that teachers must use a child's pronouns and facilitate their trans identity and are also obligated to keep it a secret from the parents if that's the child's wish, from AGE FOUR !!!!!
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  59. Men have more sex? Well maybe homosexual men, but heterosexual sex takes one male and one female... so men and women are having exactly the same amount of sex.
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  60. Some of the victims parents will come forward in time. There are bound to be lots of ripples from this. There could be an appeal which is possibly why the names are still being withheld, and they are talking of a retrial for the counts where the jury could not decide. Then there will be the film, the book, all the talk shows talking about the book and the film and the mini series, people will start suing each other...If the parents are to be portrayed in a film they may want compensation or they may sue over privacy or inaccuracies or well the possibilities are endless. It'll be going on for decades.
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  61.  @infiniteloopcounter9444  But there can be no checkmate if there is no King.
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  62. The UK voted Leave because the EU wouldn't change, so the EU lost Britain.
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  63. Over here in Britain we find it very funny. It's also sad, but we do like a bit of Pathos in Comedy.
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  64. Could be anything in those boxes and could have been shot any time, this shows nothing.
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  65. Labour breaking apart already, this is going to happen with everything. Labour is full of factions, any policy is going to upset one or more of those factions. They have a big majority, but not really.
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  66.  @Alaina-sq1ve  Yes and bad actors rather than being outed and punished are quietly promoted sideways or moved somewhere else to be somewhere else's problem... Awful.
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  67. Yeah her sister who cries herself to sleep seemed chuffed about being on the Telly.
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  68. It's happened to me, I'm on my fourth FB account in 2 months, all the others have been suspended for not following "community guidelines", but they won't be specific, so I don't know what I am saying that is not accpetable...they won't tell me.
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  69. As they say, if you are taking Flak you must be over the target.
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  70. Everybody is frightened of being sued. The security guards don't want to use any force because the gallery will end up being sued for millions, they have probably been told just to let them get on with it, and the Police seem to want to protect the vandals rather than the victims, which includes everyone when they block roads. Protesting has to be protected as a right, but if they are damaging property it's criminal damage and blocking the highway is also an offence.
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  71. We are already at the point where people can't acknowledge facts and the truth. Everything is now about feelings which are just a temporary state of mind. It's insane, but it's the world we live in at the moment.
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  72. The woman is completely mad, she just came on to have a go at Jacob and got roasted, hahaha.
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  73. Tesla was heavily involved, in fact in 1943 shortly after his death, the US declared him the inventor of radio.
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  74. I'm sure they both are.
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  75. And a good PR firm to try and repair the damage.
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  76. Lovely, a quiet chat with diverse friends. Nice the way they start asking each other questions it's more like a dinner conversation than an interview show. We should have stuff like this on the BBC today instead of the junk that they pass off for TV these days.
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  77. Well he is going to see the results, watch all the complaints going in about the SNP. My radar is up, anything I might be offended by I'm filing a complaint with the old Bill. I encourage everybody to do the same, don't complain about the people around you, just deal with it as you always have, but complain about the politicians...all the time, any opportunity. I live in Glasgow, Glasgow banter is all about being offensive, it's just part of the fun and one of the best things about Glasgow. Fun is not allowed in SNP Scotland though unless they approve it.
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  78. Redemption used to be considered a quality now it is irrelevant.
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  79. 93% of Kamala's staff have resigned, the Joy was just too much for them. Having all that Joy around all the time and everybody being so upbeat and happy, it was too overpowering. So they quit, joyfully, and went off to pastures new to frolic happily in the sunlit uplands drinking the milk of paradise and feasting on honeydew.
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  80. Load of bollocks though, Britain still leads the world in many areas, we may no longer have an Empire, but we have a Commonwealth, a whole host of nations who want to maintain ties with Britain even though they now rule themselves, many of them still have the Crown as their head of state and or the Union Jack on their flag because it is an excellent way to govern a country we have not had a tyrant take us over when we have had a Monarch.
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  81. I say we need more carbon. We are Carbon based beings, (who doesn't love carbohydrates) and we breathe oxygen, CO2 provides both thanks to all the plants photosynthesising!! And if it will give us better weather in Scotland that would be great. I'm hoping for about 12 degrees increase. i produce all the CO2 I can, it's not a poison at all. Right, I'm off for a drive to nowhere in particular.
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  82. "Far Right" again...If any Brit dares to stand up for anything they are far right. They don't even know what Far Right means, it just sounds scary.
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  83. Back to the seventies. Soon it will be the three day week, power cuts, and petrol rationing.
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  84. The Doctor sounds like an SNP spokesman. More interested in equal misery rather than fixing anything. The idea that anybody could fix their health issue without the NHS is just a sign of privilege they should wait for their ration like a good citizen and let the authorities decide when it is their turn.
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  85. Yes, well we need to know what really happened that day, because the official story is complete nonsense.
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  86. She then went on to translate another phrase to make a point, you couldn't make it up.
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  87. Rather than visit the school Jess should attend. She might learn some grammar.
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  88. Sunshine, the ECJ's function is to rule on disputes about the EU treaties, which are the EU's means of control. As we are no longer in the EU, we are no longer signatories to all those Treaties, so the ECJ has nothing much to rule on. The only treaty we have with the EU now is the Withdrawal Agreement.
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  89. I have visited the museum and Carriage a few times. Very interesting, they have old original 3D photographs of WWI which you view in old wooden cabinets like a View Master as well as lots of exhibits helmets, rifles, munitions etc. It's an eerie place in the middle of a wood, worth a visit if you are in the area.
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  90.  @Celticcross688  My grandfather was there and survived, he never ever spoke about it.
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  91.  @JC-lu4se  Very tricky a Republic. France are on their fifth since 1789, and the trouble is a tyrant can seize all the power (Napoleon did it straight away). In the UK that is impossible unless the Monarch colludes with the tyrant, and that would be most unlikely. It's a kind of national insurance against Tyranny, no PM can take the power because the power lies with the Crown, even though the Crown cedes the power to the government. It's very clever. Everyone is everyone else's boss.
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  92.  @pip1723  But we know that the issues are due to P &O, which makes a change, normally the queues at Dover are due to the French being on strike. Is that how you evaluate Brexit? An occasional queue at Dover?
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  93. Labour are quite mad.
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  94. This man was a first hand witness at the Birth of Woke.
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  95. Definitely keep an eye on what your children are being taught. The schools are the worst, it's very hard for a young kid to resist when the teacher pushes this nonsense day after day and there is also peer pressure to conform. Even if they sense it's not right it's hard for them to stand up and say so.
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  96. As a Dwarf I am offended that the school is named after Smaug.
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  97. The EU is not going to change, the only solution is to leave it.
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  98. What about the non Binary Deer? Do they have a season or do they Rut all year round?
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  99. We all agree 2+2=4? Not these days... Do keep up.
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  100.  @truth.952  Well he did work for the Ministry of Information during the war, so he just extrapolated it and got it pretty much spot on.
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  101.  @jimjones-bk2is  First of all how can you look clever on youtube? It's very strange that you think that the point of posting the quotation was to "look clever". It's relevant because it is not enough to have new stories or use existing stories that fit the narrative, the old stories must be expunged, rewritten, the past must disappear so that only the present is relevant, and the present is determined by the path of the narrative. Have you not read 1984, I would have thought it was bleedin' obvious.
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  102. EU trying once again to ignore their own law in the name of the rule of law. They aren't even pretending any more.
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  103. I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.
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  104. I've been listening to a lot of these hearings on lots of topics so far nobody has answered a question. All they have done is make cleverly designed statements that say nothing at all.
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  105. Tice was always just a caretaker, and he knew it. As for why Nigel gtes attention, well because he says what a lot of people think, and is a very good speaker. In short he has Charisma, and that is what a very important characteristic for a leader.
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  106. Oh, and inflation is transitory...
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  107. No. Anything can be sourced on the "black market" or the grey market as it is more politely known. The people in charge are not affected in the slightest, it's a complete waste of time. The sanctions on Russia just mean we pay more for oil, gas, and food, they provide lots of wheat and fertiliser too, so we can't even grow our own without Russian fertiliser. We are the victims of the sanctions so far.
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  108. She's completely mad. Haha poor girl.
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  109. They've been at it for years, for example, they will introduce say Douglas Murray as a "far right commentator", but then turn to Ash "literally a communist" Sarkar, and introduce her as a journalist at Novara Media, totally ignoring her self confessed extremism. They do it all the time.
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  110. I wish she was Monarch instead of Charles.
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  111. She'll learn with the passage of time.
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  112. The Police need some of these lasers. End a car chase in seconds by melting tyres.
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  113. Right to a fair trial is in the Magna Carta, a few years before anybody dreamed up the ECHR.
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  114.  @lonnasmith8382  No mention of the Republican Party, what are you talking about? In fact the headline is not really correct, there is no far right, just the right, the problem is the left has gone so far left, that what is perfectly normal seems extreme to them.
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  115. 8:42 I didn't realise Stan Laurel was in the Wehrmacht.
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  116. Eh ? This guy is a historian? He doesn't even know what a proxy war is.
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  117. A small amount of C4, or some such explosive, hidden in a component triggered by a text message or call, a small explosion but given the proximity to the body enough to do considerable damage or even kill. Very devious, and now nobody in that region will trust any kind of communications device which is even more valuable, if they can't communicate efficiently things will break down.
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  118. Not sure who is funnier, the comedian or the professional lefty moaners proving his points.
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  119. So they do what they want as opposed to what they are required. Well he gets the sack. Wouldn't it be lovely if we could choose what parts of our job we do and what parts we don't?
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  120. Having lived in both the Netherlands and Belgium (and France which wasn't even mentioned) I would rate the NHS as the worst system I have had to use....by far.........................................................by light years ! There is no such thing as a waiting list in the Netherlands, your GP thinks you may have cancer you see a specialist the same day or perhaps the next if it is late in the afternoon, if the specialist agrees you start treatment the next day, if a biopsy is required it will be done within 24hrs results will be in 24 or 48 hours later and treatment will begin immediately. None of this 62 days (nine weeks!!!) bullshit, same in France or Belgium. No wait to see a GP, same day appointment is no problem, when I came back to the UK after over 30 years abroad it was like going back to the stone age. Trouble is people in the UK are in love with the NHS and most of them have nothing to compare it with. The reality is it is shit. The people who work there try their best, I agree with that very good people, but it is badly structured just like anything run in any country by the state. The top down model is totally inept for healthcare, the Dutch model is funded bottom up, so you pay insurance (if you can't afford to pay the state will pay it for you so everybody has it), when you use a service whatever it is the provider gets paid by the insurance company, so the money is automatically going where the demand is. At the end of the year the state has a pot of money it distributes amongst the insurers to make for any imbalance ie.  if one insurer has a lot of expensive treatments to pay for and another has few the first one will receive a large sum and the second a small sum or even nothing. This means the state is not involved in the mechanics of care delivery, which makes it a non-political issue, everybody has it and the money goes where it is needed. The UK needs a real rethink.
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  121. "Very vindicating"? Just as well he put on his Sunday best.
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  122. People really need to learn what the word "Bigot" means. It has come to mean anybody "right wing", but actually it means, from the Oxford Dictionary "A person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group." So actually that defines the left (and the LGBT community) pretty perfectly, I mean the right is now the "far-right" due to their bigotry. If you want controlled immigration or believe there are only two sexes (based on biology) , they, the bigots, brand you to be a bigot, because they make prejudiced and antagonistic assumptions
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  123. This woman is part of the problem, maybe we should send her to Rwanda.
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  124. Well let me help. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited a lot of nuclear weapons from Russia. They were under massive pressure to give these up and in return for doing so were promised that the US and UK would guarantee Ukraine's defence if required. See the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. Well this would be the time.
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  125. Gosh I hadn't realised how tall Calvin is that was a surprise. Great talk, we need to push back against this nonsense, well I have been from the start but I used to be a crazy mad far right conspiracy theorist when I stood up for common sense and predicted the mess we are now in.
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  126. You can't leave the EU and stay in the Single Market and Customs Union. Inside the EU makes all the trade arrangements so we could not make our own, we would have to continue applying the same tariffs that they would decided and sending them most of the import duties, and also having free movement, so it wouldn't be leaving, it would be turning us into a vassal state. Trade by the way is way up both with the EU and the rest of the World, and there are loads of jobs available so our livelihoods have improved considerably.
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  127. I doubt this idea will get off the ground.
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  128.  bobwilkins204  Not at all mate, mocking those who will be profiting in the aftermath.
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  129.  @celtspeaksgoth7251  Yes and "Julia", a new Feminist version.
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  130. I saw some guys in the street waving placards saying "no private property". I stopped to engage them in debate which lasted a few minutes. I noticed the guy I was talking to had a smartphone in his pocket, so I asked him if I could borrow his phone to make a call as I was now running a bit late. " No" he said, "this is my phone, if you want to make a call you should get your own."
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  131. Is Australia free though? It certainly doesn't appear so at the moment, they have gone a bit mad with their lockdowns and restrictions on the people. I am astonished that the Australians have put up with it.
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  132. Awful capitalism. Poor people today live better than a rich person did 100 years ago, that's what capitalism does, it brings benefits to people reduces costs introduces innovations that make people's lives better. Communism can't work without an authoritarian structure dictating what you do, stifles innovation and brings equality all right, everyone becomes equally poor.
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  133. What's really amazing about this is how they managed to teleport themselves from Africa to the Pacific.. That map at. 7:00 and 10:35 is of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands off Australia.
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  134. Meloni is a conservative, You guys think anything you disagree with is fascism, it's lost it's real meaning. I bet none of you could define it, and then match it up with Meloni, or any of her policies or statements.
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  135. It's rife. This is placed on every job ad at St Andrews University. Just remember Scotland is 96% White Scottish. Applications are particularly welcome from women, people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented in professional posts at the University. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of the St Andrews experience. We strive to create a fair and inclusive culture demonstrated through our commitment to diversity awards (Athena Swan, Carer Positive, LGBT Charter, Race Charters and Stonewall). We celebrate diversity by promoting profiles of BAME, LGBTIQ+ staff and supporting networks including the Staff BAME Network; Staff with Disabilities Network; Staff LGBTIQ+ Network; and the Staff Parents & Carers Network.
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  136.  @pip1723  Can you elaborate why you think it is a disaster? If people had known it was going to be this easy I think the result would have been 70/30.
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  137. There was a protest outside Holyrood about her gender recognition bill, but not reported on the media at all, despite STV journalists being there and filming interviews with the organisers and attendees, not a mention was made on the news.
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  138. We have had "sexual freedom" for about 60 years. The human race has been around for hundreds of thousands of years and Civilisation about 6000 years. 60 years is too short a time to figure out what the rules are with this new ability, so people are pushing things to extremes because, well why not? Inventing their own personal gender is just an example with their own third person pronouns.
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  139. How about that she just invented Universal Basic Income. Now if only she can think of a name for it.
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  140. "Things haven't gone so well." Hahaha, that's really being generous.
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  141. I find your channel very interesting indeed. Comments these days are full of trolls and people just wanting to start arguments for fun, just ignore them is my advice.
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  142. She has appointed herself judge and jury? How modest.
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  143. If you look at a map of the US bases around the world and compare it to the map of Russian bases...I think he might be right to be concerned, or paranoid or whatever word you want to use. Of course I don't agree with his method but that's another issue. There is no doubt Russia is surrounded and that the West had been meddling in Ukraine.
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  144.  @davearnett4905  Haha, yes and the video game !
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  145.  @pip1723  So you are unable to say why it is not going well. All you can do is find new ways of saying you don't like it. Can you explain that then, why don't you like it?
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  146.  @conorfitzmaurice8959  Yes it's very very funny.
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  147.  @simonedury3430  It's hilarious, couldn't have happened to a more deserving chap.
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  148. Well that escalated quickly.
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  149. I suppose psychiatric help would be considered "Conversion Therapy" which they are in the process of trying to ban, so it get's trickier every day.
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  150. What are they doing in Plymouth? Why are they not patrolling around Dover where there are real scenarios to deal with. Plenty of dinghies needing towed back to France.
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  151.  @barbarajones9385  Private healthcare is available in the UK but it is very expensive. In Holland where it's pretty much all private, and France, it's quite cheap... Why does everybody think the only alternative to the UK system is the US system? You have been programmed. Most of the world have private systems, when did politicians become the people you want to run a Hospital? It's weird. And shareholders tend to not be happy if the company gets sued and has to close or payout a fortune, something that doesn't happen when its the government.
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  152. What they don't say is much more informative than what they do, those are the stories to pay attention to which is why we all need to have other sources of information, so we know what they are not talking about.
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  153. He had some high ups from the Government egging him on and telling him not to worry. Look at them standing beside him. Probably some Ministry of Information Types.
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  154. And he is absolutely right.
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  155. More like the MP owned Vanessa. Laffer curve dear...Look it up.
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  156. Absolutely clueless analysis here, don't waste time watching this nonsense. Inflation is the increase in money supply, rising prices are the inevitable result. Prices may rise at different rates due to local supply and demand but that is not inflation that is normal response to events and environment.
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  157. I am torn on this, on the one hand I think we should be able to choose the moment of our death if possible, I certainly don't want to fade away, I would rather go before that happens, on the other hand it can have unintended consequences, Suicide is now the leading cause of death in the Netherlands. Could people with Alzheimer's be pushed into it to facilitate inheritances before all the money goes on care? You can be sure that will happen... Any bill would have to be very comprehensive about the how and why.
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  158. Well I'm voting Reform, there is no way I can vote for Labour.
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  159. Actually he is very good and he's Scottish.
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  160. The EU is destined to become a supranational state making all the members mere provinces.
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  161. Fortunately Mary Poppins has resigned already and the programme shelved, due, they say, to misinformation about the role of the department. You couldn't make it up !!!
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  162. So he's worried about wasting 70p worth of celery? Why doesn't he find a homeless vegan to give it to? So much for the compassionate Left. He would rather watch his celery rot than feed the poor.
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  163. Is he relevant any more? I thought he had decided to abdicate his responsibilities.
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  164. He should hire Diane Abbott to crunch the numbers for him.
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  165. Well we don't want to rejoin, but I think you'll find most Euro participants don't meet the conditions to be in the Euro, including Germany, but the EU is very selective about how they apply their rules.
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  166. This is pretty hilarious, in trying to censor they have just broadcast themselves all over the internet. If they had just walked away, none of this would have happened.
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  167. A very biased view, no mention that punctuality has vastly improved, no mention that users have doubled since privatisation, no mention that services have increased. Yes prices have gone up but no mention that they have built new stations and reopened lines that were closed in the sixties. It's expensive to run a railway and why should those that don't use it pay for it?
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  168. Infanteers?
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  169. Respect is earned it is not something you can demand. This is the trouble people these days feel entitled.
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  170. And they sing about it !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArOQF4kadHA&ab_channel=SFGMCTV
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  171. Yes Arabic is now the main language in Paris.
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  172.  @paulfenton7776  When was the last time you were in Paris? I was there recently salaam alaikum has taken over from bonjour.
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  173.  @paulfenton7776  Reality not anecdotal evidence. French is confined to a couple of western arrondissements these days, the rest of the city is a Souk.
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  174. Jersey has its own mothballed power station, just fire it up.
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  175. That's a nod to the Texan Democrats who had a case of Coors Lite on their flight to Washington. Those clever folk then turned a case of Coors Lite into 6 cases of Corona.
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  176. No, we're going to stick with the word salads.
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  177. The difficult part about making parodies of the Left is that they are more extreme and ridiculous than anything you could make up.
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  178. Why did we need the woke lecture at the end? Poppy has been "appropriated by the far right"? What nonsense. Has the Rose been appropriated by the far left? It is the symbol of the Labour Party. What is going on at the IWM? Why do they need to bring all this divisive political garbage into these videos.
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  179.  @testudohorsfieldii7052  But Granny paid tax on the income when she earned it.
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  180. Doesn't seem far right to me, although these days anybody who is not left wing is far right, there is nothing else.
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  181. It's just madness, what next the Army refuse to fight because there are bullets flying? The whole purpose of the fire service is to save people in danger, that's the job, it's risky, in France the motto of the Pompiers is Sauver ou Perir, Save or Perish... Maybe for once we could learn from the French, it is absolutely disgraceful the Fire Brigade relied on civilians to do their job for them.
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  182. But if you had PR you would have loads of Parties. Look at the Netherlands, 26 Parties stood at the last election in November, the winner got 23%. They still haven't formed a Government and it's July, 10 months later. Same in Belgium, there twice in the past decade they had no Government for nearly two years because they couldn't agree a coalition, and they also have 26 Parties running there. If you change the system you would also change the whole fabric of Politics and there would be loads of single issue parties or minority interest Parties who could only ever hope to win one or two seats.
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  183. ​ @GrumpyMunkyGameDesign  It's not even about that. Just imagine a decade from now when this video is still viewable how stupid and irrelevant the ad will be. Totally devalues Mark's excellent work.
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  184. Fiona is going to struggle when she gets to secondary school.
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  185. He wanted the House to sit in Private which is a technical term for establishing that there is a quorum, a pointless waste of time, evidently there was a quorum (40 is regarded as acceptable) Practically all members were present. So he was going to be allowed to waste time after PMQs instead of in the middle of it.  Instead he got himself banned and then they all walked out and missed their questions. Brilliant, no wonder the SNP lost 21 seats in the last election.
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  186. @darthpepe2994 How do you mean public trial? It's been going on for 9 months and there have been only a few mentions of it in the press. Johnny Depp/Amber Heard was a public trial everything was reported every day...not here at all.
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  187. Jason C She certainly did. She spelled out her proposed policies in the manifesto, made it very clear what she was going to do if elected and then did exactly that. She believed in conviction politics, where you state your intentions and let the electorate decide if that's what they want and if they voted for her she carried it out. Quite different altogether from May who has not followed the manifesto at all, in fact she has done the opposite.
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  188. It's all one way too. It's perfectly fine to advertise an All Black business or a Black owned business, or a woman owned business or a Gay owned etc. Try advertising yourself as a Straight White Male Owned business, you'd be surrounded by blue-haired monsters wanting to beat you up in the name of compassion in an instant.
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  189. Oh dear, that wasn't necessary.
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  190. Being attacked by Pink News is a good thing !!! You know you are on the right track.
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  191.  @cybuchart7364  Haha, OK. The Eurozone is in trouble, Germany is in a recession, the EU tried to beg for more money (66bn euros) to bail them out and the members don't want to pay up. We were the fastest growing economy in the G7 last year, our exports and imports are higher than they have ever been. I have no idea why you think the UK is unreliable, on the contrary...We are too reliable certainly compared to the EU. You should try and up your production if you produce little yourself, that's just a bit of advice, nothing to do with the EU.
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  192. We have it in Glasgow City Centre. You can't pay to enter, you are forbidden entirely from entering if not compliant, if you do it's £60, then for each further "offense" in a month it doubles to a max of £480 So if you go in once a week it will cost you £900. This will improve the air quality in the city centre, fortunately you don't have to pay if you are on the M8, the busiest section of the busiest motorway in Scotland that is right next to half the perimeter of the zone. No problem polluting there, but come off the motorway, and you could have a hefty bill. Glasgow City Council even had to fine itself because many of its own vehicles are not compliant. I don't think you can impliment this nonsense well.
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  193. The whole point is that the paper used to represent the Gold, rather than carry the gold about you gave somebody a paper for it, they could then take it to the bank and get the gold if they wanted it by exchanging the paper. Nowadays the paper represents.....nothing.
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  194.  @baronedipiemonte3990  Nevertheless Tesla was responsible for a lot of the patents and was only beaten to the mark because his lab too burnt down.
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  195. How about Just Stop Oil, they must arrange in advance all their actions and have often used criminal damage, throwing paint on buildings and soup at paintings etc. They should all be arrested too if the law is fair.
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  196. Looks like Rejoin has died. Only the fanatics turned up, looks like there are more organisers than participants.
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  197. Funny because just yesterday you were complaining about Israel "damaging EU investments" in Palestine, now it's positive momentum? The EU is a joke. When does von der Leyen actually do anything, she seems to spend all her time making speeches and doing photo-shoots.
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  198. The candle-lit vigil had to be cancelled.
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  199. I bet Ursula was pleased she had a chair.
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  200.  @pip1723  That is a question not an explanation, and in any case the price rise is all over nothing to do with Brexit at all.
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  201. Haha, oh dear, EU showing its true colours. Business will do as we say. That's known as fascism folks, you can keep your business but you have to do exactly as we tell you !!! Let's see how many foreign companies will be rushing to set up in the EU now.
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  202. I'm pretty sure the Dartford Crossing guy only came down because his Nappy, made almost entirely from oil based material, was full. I feel for the policeman who had to handcuff him so close to the stench. Still at least the guy had to sit in his own shit on the way to the Police Station Toilet.
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  203.  @pelinoregeryon6593  Well no Granny earned the money and paid the tax on it. When she gives the money to her children they shouldn't have to be taxed on it again, it has already been taxed. You seem unable to grasp the concept. Instead you seem to think that because somebody gives you something you should pay tax. What next? will you be expecting kids to pay tax on their Christmas Presents?
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  204. Nicola has just been arrested.
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  205. Graaf (Grave) is Dutch for count and Eend is Dutch for duck. So it's the Count's Duck (pond).
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  206. If you want less of something you tax it. If you want fewer people smoking, tax cigarettes, too much drinking introduce a minimum unit price (haha). However when it comes to income tax they all forget this and think if you increase taxes people will just continue working as hard and investing, and not take any mitigating action (like driving to Carlisle to buy booze). Obviously if you can pay less tax by changing your address it's a no brainer for the wealthy, they don't even need to move, just change their address to England, nobody is checking anything, how can they? There is no border to see if people have been in England or Scotland. You don't even need to buy a property, as long as you can find somebody who is happy to say you live at their address like an auntie or uncle or somebody.
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  207. +Sonic Pellet Absolutely right. Why? Because if you vote Tory or Labour or Lib Dem or SNP or Green or Plaid Cymru whoever you vote for you get the EU. Because our law has to conform to EU regulations first of all, and then their court has the last say even over our supreme court. So no matter whether you are on the right or the left or in the centre if you want your vote to actually mean something you have to vote leave to get our sovereignty back.
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  208. The French are creating this problem, why do they not arrest all these people and decided if they should be granted asylum in France or send them back, end of problem. They are supposed to do this anyway under the Dublin treaty, in fact the countries they passed through to get to France should have done it, so it is all the members of the EU not doing what they have signed up to that have created this problem, imagine if the situation was reversed, and people illegally in the UK were trying to get to France, would there be camps of illegal immigrants in Dover? No way !!! The whole issue is pathetic, the French should just get the finger out and sort it, they are creating their own mess, they have even provided accommodation for the migrants, why don't they just put an ad on Booking.com?
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  209. 1. Why? We can now make trading arrangements with the whole world instead of relying on the ineffective protectionist EU. 2.Why? The EU had nothing to do with the NHS, in fact it allowed people from all over Europe to come in, walk in and use it for free without paying anything in to the system at all. 3. Why? Because the EU gave them funding? But that was our money we sent to the EU and the EU then decided on how it was allocated. It was our money in the first place. We can now make our own funding choices. 4. We haven't lost any influence, we have regained total control over our foreign policy. You and your family will see cheaper food as we will be able to import tariff free food from anywhere once we have deals in place, an improving economy because we can trade with the whole world on our terms, and you will be able to kick out politicians that are not governing properly and replace them, something impossible with the unelected decision makers in the EU.
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  210. Having lived in both the Netherlands and Belgium (and France which wasn't even mentioned) I would rate the NHS as the worst system I have had to use....by far.........................................................by light years ! There is no such thing as a waiting list in the Netherlands, your GP thinks you may have cancer you see a specialist the same day or perhaps the next if it is late in the afternoon, if the specialist agrees you start treatment the next day, if a biopsy is required it will be done within 24hrs results will be in 24 or 48 hours later and treatment will begin immediately. None of this 62 days (nine weeks!!!) bullshit, same in France or Belgium. No wait to see a GP, same day appointment is no problem, when I came back to the UK after over 30 years abroad it was like going back to the stone age. Trouble is people in the UK are in love with the NHS and most of them have nothing to compare it with. The reality is it is shit. The people who work there try their best, I agree with that very good people, but it is badly structured just like anything run in any country by the state. The top down model is totally inept for healthcare, the Dutch model is funded bottom up, so you pay insurance (if you can't afford to pay the state will pay it for you so everybody has it), when you use a service whatever it is the provider gets paid by the insurance company, so the money is automatically going where the demand is. At the end of the year the state has a pot of money it distributes amongst the insurers to make for any imbalance ie.  if one insurer has a lot of expensive treatments to pay for and another has few the first one will receive a large sum and the second a small sum or even nothing. This means the state is not involved in the mechanics of care delivery, which makes it a non-political issue, everybody has it and the money goes where it is needed. The UK needs a real rethink.
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  211. Yes Corbyn all the way if you want Britain to be like Venezuela.
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  212. +Alex Wilson Why on earth would you "democratise the enterprise"? If somebody invests their money and gives people jobs how does it suddenly become the employees property? If the workers want to own the business they should save up and buy it. It is not a battle between workers and owners, owners take a risk, invest their capital and offer a salary to people with the skills they need in different areas to advance the business in return for their time and effort, if the worker is not satisfied he or she can leave and work somewhere else, if the worker wants to own the business he or she can put their money on the table and buy it. If the workers decide they can run it better they can pool their money and buy it, but just saying because you work somewhere the business is yours is just nuts. It's like the mechanic saying because he repairs your car it belongs to him !
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  213. Hey Joe, How come all these guys have a gun in their hand?
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  214. Hahaha. "There is truth and there are lies, and here's the truth, my opponent is lying." Seriously? The president of the US sounds like a six year old in the playground. No wonder he is so popular with reasoning like that. What's his approval rating?
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  215. Ideally no-one would be First Minister, the whole thing should be shut down. It's been a divisive disaster.
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  216. I do object to "underrepresented groups" being shovelled in. The characters included should be those required to tell the story. That's it.
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  217. Thank you for using my suggestion, very good video result.
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  218. She is a member of HRPA (Canadian HR professionals organisation), who are investigating her at the moment. I imagine that anybody who has been fired by her employer in the past years is talking to lawyers right now. Her name is Tammy Sepetis.
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  219. What's the problem, well done to Higgins for sitting through the clueless woman's "testimony"...Look into your heart is not an expert opinion it's a preachers line, she is not there to preach her gospel.
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  220.  @BigAlCapwn  Let me tell you as a white person who lived in France and the Netherlands. White people can be on the end of racism from other white people, very definitely. Fortunately only a small proportion of people are racists though.
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  221. That's how it goes, that's why they are desperate to reduce the voting age.
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  222. Well he has employed staff to help him based on the fact that he was receiving revenue, videographers, editors, researchers. He is still generating the income on youtube, what gives them the right to decide just to keep it? I am not particularly a fan of Mr Brand, but I am most definitely not a fan of what has happened to him, and certainly not a fan of the state encouraging companies to withhold money from him based on allegations that have mysteriously surfaced and seem more designed to shut him up than to provide justice for these women. Yes he is still on youtube, but for how long? I wouldn't be surprised if his channel is removed completely or suspended in the very near future.
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  223. What does he mean he can't overrule Kahn. He's in the government with a large majority. They can really do pretty much anything they want. So the only conclusion is they are quite happy with the whole thing.
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  224. Not sure about the economist part.
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  225. Well maybe, but we have to live in the mess they have made, and it's not funny.
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  226. I've been saying for years Jacob is who we need as PM. Yes he's Posh, but I think Brits actually like that, he's very charming with everybody, and erudite, level headed, never gets flustered no matter what the yobs are shouting at him. Apparently he doesn't want to do it though while his children are young, but we all need to make sacrifices if we are going to save our Country, Jacob must rise to the occasion.
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  227. Calling an SNP politician a moron's moron, is dangerous these days, expect a knock on the door from the Thought Police at any moment to drag you in for interrogation for a non crime hate incident.
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  228. Well let's see..It was financed and built for the Air Force and Navy by a Weapons Contractor. So the only logical conclusion is that it was a present for the University.
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  229.  @paulfenton7776  Yes it has, when was the last time you were there?
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  230. And they buy their £40,000 table from a business which just happens to be owned by their cousin/nephew/wife/husband/brother or sister.
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  231.  @LiftedBuddha  In a proxy war neither of the main belligerents is directly involved, If Russia had got Belarus to attack Ukraine and they had not been involved, that would have been a Proxy war.
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  232.  @ardakolimsky7107  I find this argument amusing. In the UK around 2.5 million meals were handed out last year by food banks. In France, just one organisation the Restos du Coeur, hand out 600,000 meals A DAY !!! so every 4 days they hand out as many meals as we do in a year. So what is that down to? The state in France running over half the economy? The EU?
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  233. My name used to be one of the most popular in Scotland, last year no baby boys were named Ian or Iain at all.
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  234. Keep Calm and Carry On. the EU can't understand why we won't allow them to continue to rule over us. It is very confusing for them, they are not used to this concept.
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  235. I wanted to be a journalist when I was young, I went to the interview to get into uni. When they asked me why I wanted to be a journalist I said "Because I want to get to the truth and share it." The interviewer said, you'd be better in the police then and that was it, refused. I have never trusted any press since then.
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  236. When the Jester sang for the King and Queen, in a coat he borrowed from James Dean.
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  237. One day you will thank us.
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  238.  @geeksqueak7123  Frank and Joe have the same job, Frank saves his money takes a packed lunch to work seldom goes out of an evening and puts money aside every month. Joe likes to eat lunch at Greggs every day and puts £20 on the horses at the bookies as well, in the evenings he goes to the pub and eats out. Frank buys a house and builds flood defences, Joe also bought a house but has a big mortgage but still goes eats out and spends his money at the bookies. There is a flood, Frank is fine. Joe calls Frank privileged for having flood defences that he can't afford.
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  239. The pound is trending back up again, but in any case currency exchange rate is a short term view, the pound is moving around because of uncertainty about how things will evolve, it is not a good indication of what is happening, on the other hand the stock market is way up and so is inward investment in the UK, much better indicators of confidence.
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  240. Bad move it just creates more division.
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  241.  @jalalabdullah5043  How? How can he know who shares his videos, do you want him to spend all his time checking every feed on twitter in case somebody has shared his video? How could he know? And really why would he care? You can't control what people watch or share on social media.
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  242.  @MangoFIlms_CH  Yep, nothing like a bit of playground name calling to keep the kiddies amused. Fortunately the grown-ups got us out of the EU !!
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  243. How fitting. Star Trek has given us so much technology, many of the things imagined for the 23rd century we have already thanks to the USS Enterprise.
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  244. It's supposed to be for Ardrossan to Brodick.
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  245. I did. Closed all my Paypal accounts yesterday.
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  246. Hahaha, ah the Greens are absolutely hilarious. What a pantomime.
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  247.  @karmanic7492  Nonsense, there's a few great tracks dotted about but the past 20 years has been absolute garbage, no movements I can only think of handful of good songs from the past twenty years, but there are loads from each decade from the 50's to 2000. There is nothing much to catch the imagination, and I look for new stuff all the time.
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  248. Dark? That was terrific.
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  249. It works how you want depending on how you feel, that's the genius.
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  250. @Quez No we don't and no matter how many times we have vote the answer will always be NO.
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  251. Yah address me by my title, biatch.
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  252. The Moral Maze let you on? Was Ash Sarkar too busy?
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  253.  @henrikf9015  I think I have more chance of winning the lottery or being eaten by an alien. When I was young the prediction was that we would be in an ice age by now, they were going to paint the poles black to absorb sunlight, then all the atmosphere was going to be sucked into space through the hole in the ozone layer, then we had global warming, but the earth hasn't warmed up so they called it climate change and now they can blame any weather event on climate change. Heatwave -Climate Change, Drought Climate change, Flood climate change, cold spell climate change. It's lovely. Interestingly enough despite calling the weather climate change, they can't forecast the weather accurately for tomorrow afternoon, but they are certain of what will happen with their climate models in 2085.
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  254.  @hullie7529  Not really, we have always known what is a man and what is a woman, but suddenly people seem unable to define woman. It has only recently become some sort of very difficult trick question.
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  255. Where are they going to deploy? If Ukraine can shoot down 52 out of 54 drones, then I really don't fancy dangling from a Parachute.
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  256. The video starts by giving the wrong date: 27 June, not 27 July.
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  257. No !! You involve France you involve the EU. That's a very bad idea.
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  258. "privacy not secrecy" You old semantic you.
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  259. And people jump in dinghies to escape the EU to get here to experience our racism first hand.
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  260. Well obviously hardly anybody voted, Halley only got 1,274 votes so only just over 2000 people out of that 700k even showed up to vote, and probably most of them were actually Democrats. Hahaha
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  261. It's cruel asking this poor old man to do this. He is clearly confused and rambling and needs urgent help.
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  262.  @metalman4393  Yes but who defines hate? That's the problem. One person's hate is another person's rallying cry. Let's look at football rather than Politics, if Spurs fans taunt West Ham Fans as West Ham fans taunt Spurs fans...who is being hateful? Is it both of them, and is that worthy of being a crime? If Spurs bosses get to define hate then they can decide only West Ham fans taunts are hate, and silence only them...See the problem?
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  263. Really? That's your consideration at this time? How will you know? Will it mention Brexiteer or remainer on their death certificates? How many deaths are you looking forward to so you might win this time? 1.4 million?
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  264. Nice advert, is that what the IWM is doing these days? Ads for video games?
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  265. Palestinians, causing chaos everywhere they go for 80 years.
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  266. ​ @stopcensorship7705  So how would they issue an "interpellation" if he refused to stop and was driving a car registered in Poland? Who would they issue it to? He should have been at school if he was 17 instead of driving stolen cars without a licence going through red lights and almost killing pedestrians and cyclists. What would you say if he drove away for the second time and then killed somebody? Presumably you would be saying the Police should have stopped him? If the Police ask you to stop, you stop that way you don't get shot, it's not the fault of the Government if he is so stupid. It's sad he died, but really he has nobody to blame but himself. I stand with the Cop !!
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  267. I discovered my elderly mum had a DNR, nobody in the family was consulted and she wasn't told, I found out because I was disputing something with the consultant (they had given her antibiotics which she was allergic to, and that information was in her file) who told me not realising nobody knew. I don't trust the NHS at all I am terrified I have to use them some day.
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  268. Another thing we gave the world is insurance. Life would be a lot worse without insurance.
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  269.  @andibk2853  Well I know the tax can be avoided as long as you plan ahead, but not everybody does that, and what happens if somebody dies unexpectedly and hasn't prepared for tax? The State will scoop it up. The point is that it is an unfair tax, if it was abolished as it should be, nobody would have to worry about it.
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  270.  @bereal6590  It's not a right wing channel. It's a fair channel, the problem is all the other channels are left wing channels, so when you see fair reporting it doesn't compute for you, so you start to malfunction.
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  271. James Bond, Council agent 00007, Binraker.
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  272. He wanted to leave and then left the Royal Family, so no way, he should have thought about that before behaving like a spoilt child.
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  273. If there were no homeless people all the departments that look after the homeless would have nothing to do and lose their jobs. So fixing the problem is the lowest priority.
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  274. +The Wereduck Oh yes it is, the EU are negotiating TTIP in secret right now and it will apply to all members, there is no opt out ! Regardless, once something is brought in at the EU it is almost impossible to repeal or change it. At least if we have our sovereignty back, if the Tories do something that is unpopular with the people they can vote Labour at the next election and the law can be changed and vice versa. With the 28 state EU where we have about 10% of the vote in the parliament (who can't even propose legislation-only the unelected commission can do that), once something is in place we have no chance of repealing or changing it without building a massive coalition. In the past 20 years the UK has been against 72 proposed directives, we have not once won the vote. 0 out of 72.
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  275. +The Wereduck I'm afraid that is just not true. Why will we not trade with the EU if we leave? Everything will stay more or less the same. Do you think the German and French car manufacturers are going to stop selling us their cars? How about all those wine and cheese producers? How are the airbus planes going to take off without those RR engines and the wings which are made in the UK? We import more from the EU than we export to them, they need us more than we need them. Yes there may be some tariffs on some goods (in both directions) but really that will be insignificant, it will mean no more than the fluctuation in the currency exchange market, right now the pound/euro rate swings up and down about 10% over the course of a year. Trade is not affected. The US and China are not in the EU and they trade with the EU, so there is no need to be a member of the club to trade goods and services.
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  276. +Stuart Gavaghan You forgot his instistance the the UK controls its borders. Yes you have to show your passport, but if you have an EU passport they have to let you in and you can stay as long as you want, work, claim benefits. So although we control the borders we don't control immigration.
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  277. Perhaps, but it will be our shithole, and it will be there to liberate you (again) from Dictators when the time comes and you will be grateful (again). LOL youtube trolls really aren't that creative any more. Must be another EU directive on trolling or something.
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  278. If Nicola Sturgeon calls a referendum (which she can't only Westminster can do that) The Scots will vote No again. The SNP have shown themselves to be inept, the oil is worthless, Scotland will vote to stay in the UK again and by a greater margin.
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  279. Ronald the Press in Britain was overwhelmingly for remain only a couple of newspapers were for Brexit, in fact the whole machinery was against Brexit, the BBC, ITV and Sky news, every political party except UKIP, most of the press, but the people had had enough. You say let the old people die and things will change...(very nice of you) but you fail to grasp that people become wiser as they get older so as they age the middle aged opinions will evolve too, also the younger people had never known anything else except being in the EU, and change for something you have never experienced is scary. Once the people see how the UK will prosper outside the EU I doubt very much if anybody would want to shackle themselves to the corrupt bureaucrats in Brussels in twenty years time especially as by then the Euro will have collapsed and many other countries may have left including your own.  Sturgeon is talking about another referendum for Scottish independence but she has no chance really, only Westminster can authorise it and they probably won't and Scotland is not in the EU, the UK is in the EU and the UK voted to leave, that is the situation no matter what she says. There are so many unlikely events that would have to occur for that to happen...However anything is possible of course but it is extremely unlikely. Britain's economy will prosper outside the EU, the EU has been holding us back with its protectionism, now we can trade with the whole world with no restrictions imposed by Brussels. And our relations will be good with all the nations of Europe especially the Dutch who probably think more like the British than any other European nation. Things will settle down common sense will kick in once the emotional reactions have subsided and life will go on.
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  280.  @geeksqueak7123  You mean my example doesn't fit your political standpoint therefore you will ignore it. How do you know how he earned his money? Maybe he had a firm providing a livelihood for hundreds of staff allowing them to buy their homes, maybe he worked from 5 AM to midnight every day, You don't know, You just presume "privilege". It's pathetic. Anybody can be successful "privilege" is an excuse for lack of effort. Get off your arse and stop moaning.
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  281. +Yoda I'm afraid you got your understanding of how the EU works from the Beano, Scotland's economy from the Dandy, and how the UK government works and Economics from Oor Wullie.
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  282. Un homme dangereux, fanatique et fou.
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  283.  @jorgeenchilada  I'll take that bet. How much would you like to wager that Mother Nature will over-rule your plans?
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  284. Lord Farage of Berlaymont and Waterloo.
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  285. If they don't turn up in court they should get an extra 5 or 10 years before parole can be considered and have all their assets seized.
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  286.  @alistairmurray626  Yes well that much is evident. A wise man once said, "Analysing a joke is like dissecting a frog, nobody laughs and the frog dies", I would add to it though having someone complain they don't get it is most amusing.
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  287. Yes well I went to a few meetings of the Scottish Libertarians, but they aren't very Libertarian really, and the pro independence stance put me off, plus they have no chance whatsoever of ever getting anywhere. Scots love the state, love their handouts and are generally very left wing. About as far away from Libertarian as you can get. Scots seem to think independence will mean bigger benefits and handouts because the Tories would be forever banished, that's the dream really, they don't care about independence it's just a means to remove the Tories. Just listen to any speech by Sturgeon and count how many times she spits out "Tory" as a slur.
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  288.  @mijicmugendo  Oh? Interesting. Do please educate me. What have I said that is incorrect?
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  289. Could we start a crowdfunder to have her emigrate to a more suitable country for her?
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  290. At 0:31 That man crying is Jaques Bonsergent, the first French man killed by the Nazis during the occupation, he now has a Paris Metro Station named after him.
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  291. He's been taking lessons from Ardern, "We will continue to be your single source of truth," "Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth."
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  292.  @Ju88327  And now they are censoring my reply to you !!! That's two in one thread. They don't like it when people reveal the truth !!!
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  293. You could also pick out some nice pronouns, like Royal Highness, Majesty, Excellency....That sort of thing.
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  294. Real zero? So no breathing then?
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  295. It is laughable though to suggest that the EU had anything to do with ending the Nazis. The Soviets, maybe the EU had a hand in it, although it was more to do with Gorbachev's reforms and Reagan,  but the Nazis effectively ended in 1945, and the EU didn't appear in any form until 1951.
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  296.  @terrancedactielle5460  Hahaha, she had no truth at all. She had a differing opinion, that's not truth, she was obnoxious, belligerent and downright rude. As for Jacob well he is a very conscientious man I'm sure he has it all planned out his constituents find him very attentive and he performs extremely well at Westminster. And i wasn't moaning, I was laughing at her, it was very entertaining watching Jacob wipe the floor with her and stay polite despite the barrage of abuse.
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  297. The SNP is on a quest to marginalise the Straight White Male. Pretty much everybody else has a "protected characteristic" already. Given that our current "First Minister" actually stood up in the Circus of Holyrood before he became the Ringmaster and lambasted all the white people in high ranking jobs it is not a surprise that they want more white males in Prison and will trample on due process to achieve it.
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  298. This man is a hero. Excellent job sir, you have my thanks and I'm sure lots of mums and dads and babies will benefit from your sterling work.
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  299.  @waneallen6431  A mirrors? What's that , some kind of Bidenism?
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  300. Well we had someone convicted for a joke in Scotland. Someone else last week for saying bad things about Cpt Tom on twitter. We have had the hate speech laws for a while.
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  301.  @Trebor74  Indeed it's always an easy option to sacrifice someone else for peace in our time.
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  302. Started work when I was 11, I collected milk money once a week for the milkman, I sold cream door to door on commission, I would go around and wash cars, and I eventually got a Sunday Paper Round which I did until I was 19, running the shop from the age of 17, It was great I learned so much about dealing with colleagues being a boss of paperboys, doing the accounts dealing with customers. All before I had left school. Money? I used to get 40p a round as a paperboy which took about an hour on bicycle and would do about 4 rounds on a Sunday so I made £1.60 a week (mid 70's) at the start...But what I learned gave me a head start in business.
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  303. Committed to transparency by refusing to publish the findings. That's EU speak in action.
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  304.  @jamesholt4449  Sure you can. Nothing is stopping you leaving.
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  305. ​ @brb__bathroom  She doesn't think censorship is censorship. She thinks that the State shutting down opposition voices is just the Government expressing its opinion. She's not applying logic, if she believes such a ridiculous thing she is insane and should be locked up for her own protection.
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  306.  @alastairbarkley6572  Marconi Wireless Telegraph Corporation of America v. United States, 320 US 1 (1943) decided on June 21, 1943. Patent No. 645,576
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  307.  @henrikf9015  More likely the Aliens will eat us first.
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  308.  @henrikf9015  When did the "climate scientists" who are not "the world's top scientists" but a small group of hand picked and paid for "climate scientists" claim the aliens would not in fact eat us first? I must have missed that. You claim they claim the oceans will rise by 24 meters in 100 years, so that's 24 cm a year. Since 1990 the estimated rise has been a total of 20 cm, or less than they predict it will rise in one year. Are you sure their predictions are reliable?
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  309. Really, we don't.
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  310. "Supporting them to this objective" translates into English from EUspeak as," force them to do what WE want."
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  311. The guys that scale tall buildings get deported straight away unless of course they go to jail first. No difference here, if he wants to stop the traffic let him do it in Germany.
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  312. The only thing they seem able to say with any certainty is "Thank you for the question".
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  313. I've been saying it for years, St Kilda, we'll deliver sand and cement and gravel, shovels and wheelbarrows and other materials and they can build their own camp while waiting for their cases to be heard. The Royal Navy can supply it and nobody is allowed to leave until they are granted asylum, or straight to wherever they are being deported.
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  314. Joe Lycett gets a lot of publicity from this. and that's what he does, I wouldn't be surprised if he reported himself. However look into the case of Mark Meechan, who has actually been convicted of making a distasteful joke. Yes the joke is distasteful, but some humour is, and it shouldn't be a criminal offence to make a poor joke.
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  315.  Anthony Burke  Hahaha. Oh dear, you guys are pretty funny. So xenophobic that people get in dinghies to come here for the hate one presumes? Their family members told them the hate here was special and they should come and experience it first hand. Honestly what a ridiculous statement.
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  316. That was a very long winded way of saying " I don't understand anything about business or economics".
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  317.  @quillmaurer6563  Well the wider the gauge the lower the centre of gravity so the more pleasant the trip and smoother the cornering. Isambard Kingdom Brunel actually wanted a Broad Gauge for his GWR line from London to Bristol, and some of it was built and engines ordered but they turned out to be unsatisfactory and it was built in Standard Gauge instead. It would have been interesting though because the Locomotives being much bigger would have been an incredible sight.
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  318.  @davidrichardson6749  That is spot on. We will never have a majority that believe in freedom now because too many have been trained to rely on the state, so all we can do is help those who at least fight for some freedom.
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  319. I hope they pay you well, because it really detracts and cheapens your videos. These videos will be available for decades ( I hope) Will War Thunder still be around in a decade? I doubt it.
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  320. Trump/De Santis would be good. But Ron could be better employed in Florida until 2028 I think. The VP job is to support the President not be your own person, it would stifle the man.
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  321. Just give them a mirror, usually the ones calling you a fascist are the fascists.
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  322. So what are you going to do? Cut off your own gas supply?
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  323.  @westleyjohnstone4719  Your vote counts !! Possibly the single most important part of living in a democracy. If the government is not performing they are gone, pressure forces a vote of no confidence which triggers an election and the people can change the government. No way for that to happen in the EU, and in the EU their law is supreme, so yes it all boils down to sovereignty, something upon which you place no apparent value.
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  324. What's an election denier? That's a new one.
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  325.  @Eli_Guy  So what do they call those who think Trump didn't win in a fair and untampered election?
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  326. Shame I'd like to see Nicola and Humza Duelling on the A9.
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  327.  @richardisner3671  Yes but it used to be endearing insane, you know Hippie style, harmless fun...Now they are actually dangerous.
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  328. Winston Smith's job in 1984 was to rewrite articles every day to correspond with the latest version of History as decreed by the Party.
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  329. What fun, I bet the kids loved that.
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  330. The title doesn't correspond to the content. The video said "We don't know anything and we can't say anything." (but because we lost it must have been fixed).
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  331. Karma, best served cold. Ken Dodd didn't go to prison though, he was acquitted.
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  332. Yeah as Joe said "don't mess with the merurrrurrrerrriararra merica unless you wanna get the benefit." And of course "you can sum up America in one word, Awdsmfafoothimaaafootafootscuseme."
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  333. He didn't do anything wrong. This is not bias or an opinion it is merely stating the obvious fact
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  334. "When they learn their times tables"? I wonder about that, do schools teach the times tables any more? Most youngsters I meet don't have a clue, ask them what 7 times 9 is they will be completely stumped.
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  335. The idea came from the children? Yeah? it works like this. The teacher gives a long lesson on something or other cramming the kids heads with whatever they want to indoctrinate them with, then they ask what the kids would like to do about all this propaganda they have been fed and give the teacher the answer they think will be "right". That's how the idea came from the children.
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  336. The Childless Catladies were actually pretty good, at least they were having a laugh instead of a mental breakdown like the rest of them.
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  337. So where are the views of Jupiter?
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  338.  @Arthur-jx8bm  Well if he has no audience for his videos because of stupid ads, he isn't going to make anything. My comment was not directed at you, but thanks for feeling compelled to express your opinion. I'm sure Mark will thank you for trying to encourage people to leave his channel. That will help him won't it?
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  339. And yet the current president of the EU Commission Mr Juncker invented a tax dodging scheme to allow companies to register in Luxembourg to funnel their revenues there and pay a tiny amount of tax on all their EU earnings. Of course Luxembourg are now being investigated by the EU Commission headed by Mr Juncker who set up the scheme.... You couldn't make it up really could you? Nigel Farage's wife no longer works for him by the way.
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  340. +The Wereduck And do you like the idea of TTIP?
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  341. +slothkingn1  didn't say the EU had commandeered our armed forces, but Juncker has repeatedly called for an EU army to be created, at which point the commander in chief would be the President of the Commission not our Prime Minister (well in the UK it is the Queen but she delegates the power to the PM and the Secretary of State for Defence). They have recently created a border force which can deploy on any Schengen member even if they object and patrol the borders. The question is hand is not the British system of government and it's inconsistencies, (personally I would rather see an elected Senate than the house of Lords), however the very important difference is that the House of Lords is not the only house that can initiate legislation, any MP or Lord can propose legislation, and after many procedures it will be thrown out or voted on by both houses. In the EU ONLY the unelected commission can propose legislation, they draught it and then the MEPs debate it and they can tinker with it and even in a few cases reject it (in which case the commission repackages it and sends it out again until it passes). That is the only purpose of the MEPs aside from that they are merely a rubber stamp committee. So the 28 unelected commissioners have all the power !!! This is a totally different scenario to the UK. If we vote to leave the process will last two years (under article 50 of the Lisbon treaty you have to give two years notice of departure), so the Tories, if that is your issue, will only have a short time left before the next election. However please don't vote remain because you don't like the Tories, it has nothing to do with UK politics and everything to do with getting our sovereignty back so our votes actually count for something.  Oh just one other thing the UK has been against 72 EU policies in the past 15 years and we have lost every single vote, so to suggest that by remaining in we can change things is just wishful thinking.
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  342. Patrick Dukemajian No they are not. Scotland would have been a total mess for years, one of Salmond's pledges was to immediately borrow like a madman and spend spend spend. He didn't even know what currency they would be spending. He wanted to join the EU and have Brussels control the law making powers. How is that independence? It is just moving who runs the country 250 miles further South.
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  343. +csaba Just ignore these idiots, they are trolls who just go a around winding people up for fun. Hungary is a great country with a rich history these people don't have a clue about. If you get the chance vote leave too. Independence and self governance is worth more than anything else.
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  344. Firstly there was no promise to give 350m to the NHS, the slogan was "we give the EU 350m a week, let's fund our NHS instead", it didn't say let's give all the 350m to the NHS, and yes there will be some expenses in the short term but we got our country back, which has no price, people died 75 years ago fighting for our (and Europe's) freedom, that is a much higher price to pay. It's messy because the establishment didn't expect the result so didn't have plans in place. The money will need to be spread amongst farmers, science research and many other things, but at least we get to choose where it goes not the EU ! Truly it was a great result.
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  345. MrCool Mug Maybe because he would have to pay for it. Now if the State was providing (free at the point of consumption) he would have had two.
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  346. Ronald, the point is that they do what they want not what the people want. They have their agenda and they will not let the opinions of the people stop them. Juncker even said it "There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties ". And peace, well we have NATO for that, we don't need an EUSSR. The problem is it is supranational, it overrules our own governments, people feel "ruled" by Brussels..
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  347.  @geeksqueak7123  Yes life is easier when you delegate responsibility. Moan at the authorities and whinge about those who protected themselves because of their "privilege". Easy isn't it, wet, but easy. You too can be privileged, start a business and show us how its done !
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  348. +Yoda I am Only the commissioners can create laws, how exactly do you vote for them (and more importantly kick them out if you are dissatisfied)? Most of the laws that protect workers are copied from the UK. The EU is very protectionist. Everything coming from outside the EU has a tariff, except with those countries with whom there is an active trade deal (31- half of which are tiny principalities). No slavery eh? Tell that to the Greeks, who are now subjugated to the ECB and EU and have to do as they are told, isn't that the definition of slavery. Tell that to the Cypriots who had 10% shaved off their bank accounts. Tell that to the 50% of young Greeks and 46% of young Spaniards, and 40% of young Italians who are unemployed because of the Euro.
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  349. +BlunderCity Great argument ! Europe is great, the EU is corrupt, run by people who are unelected and ignores the people. I am voting Exit too !
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  350. +La1 You are deluded. Cameron wanted to stay in the EU as did Osborne and the likes of Ken Clarke, they weren't anti EU they were pro EU. It was the Labour voting North of England that voted mostly for Brexit because they see the immigrants taking their jobs and invading their communities. It was the UK that introduced most of the worker rights legislation the EU copied it. The banking crisis came from the US with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, both US government entities backing loans that should never have been made and then allowing them to be sold to banks around the world. It was the US government that caused the crisis not the banks.  For goodness sake what a load of tripe if you are going to comment you really should have a clue.
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  351. Just out of curiosity, why do you care who shares a video? And what could Simon do about it if he didn't like it?
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  352. There shouldn't be all women short lists in the first place. If there was an all male shortlist the media would be apoplectic. If Eddie is chosen that would be hilarious, a man victorious in an all women short list, haha.
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  353.  @alistairmurray626  Or the happy story of a man who forged his own path, made his own choices, and lived and died on his own terms, we can only guess.
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  354. @@CathManley-nk7pk Move to the EU?
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  355. If I was sick I wouldn't want to consult that Doctor.
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  356.  @nathanwilliams9176  Well the jury disagreed.
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  357. "Everybody knows".... Uhm, no they don't how can the US have had a "historical relationship" with something that has only existed for less than 30 years and is only a bureaucracy? If you want to make the world a better place get rid of the useless self-serving EU, that would be a good start.
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  358.  @mijicmugendo  Well thanks for your selected segments from history. The US does indeed have a long history with European countries, not with the EU, which is just a paper pushing office. When you say culturally, do you refer for example to their legal system, oh no that resembles some other country's system, or their language? Nope, can't be that. Once again the EU tries to rewrite history, as do you, no wonder you are a fanatic. Not for long though the cracks are widening daily, the EU is crumbling.
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  359. Well it's not the longest alliance in history. That's between Britain and Portugal and has been in place since 1386.
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  360.  @chrysalis4126  Well you could also argue we should not have made them public companies in the first place, that's what stifled competition, people seem to forget that before they were public they were privately owned.
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  361.  @Ju88327  Yes I know how it works. Although that is not officially how it works, the supposed procedure is called the Spitzenkandidat system but it is completely ignored. The candidates are supposed to be known to all before the "election" (if you can call an election where most of the winners are decided before a vote is cast an election), even takes place. Can you think of any other "Democracy" that only has one candidate to vote for? The only people that have that sort of a system are totalitarian regimes.... And in all countries where the President has a lot of power and is not just a symboloic head of state, the people vote, the French Population vote for the President of France, the American Population vote for the President of the USA, but in the EU there is only one candidate and the people don't get a vote at all. I know how the EU system is supposed to work, how it actually does work, and that it is not democratic.
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  362.  @Ju88327  I'll try posting it in bits Yes but how many Europeans knew that, even you didn't until I told you and you looked it up, and you think you are an expert. You do realise that the people were never asked that? Or actually they were, it was in the EU constitution. and the French the Dutch and the Irish all voted no to the EU constitution. So the EU changed it to a treaty, the Lisbon Treaty which they could have signed by the Politicians rather than the people voting for what is constitutional change and would normally be the subject of a referendum. The text of the Lisbon Treaty is identical to the text of the constitution. Giscard D'Estaing who wrote it said so. It's much easier to bribe or force 27 politicians to sign a piece of paper than to convince the people, so in true EU style they just ignored the people. Everything they do is about imposing their will and when the people say no they ignore them.
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  363.  @Ju88327  Just read the other comments on this pro Eu video. Lot's of people from many countries have woken up to the EU, maybe you need to study it more closely. Oh and now you have discovered you aren't an expert you certainly seemed to think you were, you did say "learn about EU before commenting".
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  364.  @Ju88327  Well here's an easy way to work it out. In France there was Le Pen or Macron, In the US last time it was Trump or Biden, In the EU it was Von der Leyen or ????? Oh yeah nobody else. So that's how you know there was only one candidate.
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  365. Biden didn't win hahaha. He was inserted, there is no way all those people voted for Biden, he doesn't even know what day it is or where he is.
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  366. A new insult !! How exciting !! It's just never ending compassion and empathy.
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  367.  @SomeKidFromBritain  I look forward to Green Sidewinder Missiles blowing up enemy planes. I hope the Planes we might shoot down are Green.
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  368.  @Craig121000  You need to check your programming you appear to have a malfunction.
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  369. He had nothing to apologise for, it was the right path. Liz Truss wasn't good enough communication wise and allowed the media to steamroller her, but she had the right ideas. They were bullied out by a hostile media, just like Boris.
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  370.  @mikeallison7753  These days? Anybody who is not far left.
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  371. Well we have rolled over all the EU trade deals, and struck a few new ones in 6 months. So all the deals the EU managed in 60 years and some new ones. Nobody could have imagined the EU didn't want a deal with its second biggest export market, very strange. Interesting the point about Hondas though, Honda also pulled out of the EU, they also said it had nothing to do with Brexit but was because of the slump in demand for diesel cars caused by increased regulations (which came from the EU). As for Ireland we don't want a border, we have the CTA agreement, so if peace is threatened by a border it will be because the EU puts one there, not us and not Ireland.
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  372. Yes his position is very clear ignore the referendum result stay in the EU and carry on as if nothing happened. Haha, he's an anti-democratic nutter. If he thinks this will all just be forgotten about he is on a different planet.
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  373. Are you all happy that by postponing Brexit we have been paying £1bn a month to the EU? Don't see any of you complaining about that. We should have left on 29th March 2019, but the remainers stopped it, so that's 21bn March 19-Dec 20. £150m is pocket change by comparison. Just think what we could have spent 21bn on !!!
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  374.  @rogerusa9696  Lady Houston for the Spitfire as well. Ralph Wigram, Torr Anderson, Frederick Lindemann all these people helped despite the pre-war government, we would never have won the battle without their efforts.
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  375.  @TheBelrick  Not quite sure what you are on about. WWII was definitely won by the allies. Problems and issues of today are the problems and issues of today.
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  376. East Dunbartonshire (pop 108k). I was speaking to a Policeman he told me often there are only 2 cops on for the whole area in the evenings.
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  377.  @fineartist7710  I was there in the eighties too, it was fantastic. So sad to see the state of the place. That Hidalgo woman needs to go, why are they voting for her do the Parisiens like this? I find it hard to believe.
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  378.  @julesdingle  No they didn't they were socialists through and through. As long as you were German. Hitler is always going on about Socialism in his speeches, they had a massive welfare system including holiday camps and luxury Liners for the workers, they introduced state benefits and had welfare for the disabled, and there were a lot back in those days after WWI.
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  379. Yes prices are shooting up and there are fewer properties to rent. The licencing scheme the extra rules, the inability to evict for months, just means landlords are much more careful about who they rent to, so it becomes more and more difficult to find a place in the first place, and then be selected as the tenant. All predictable and I predicted it, I have seen it before, they have rules like this in France where I used to live, finding a place to stay was a full time job and very expensive.
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  380. Really? I think he is very well informed and pretty funny. Just goes to show. Lefties have no sense of humour.
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  381.  @EUdebatesLIVE  EU law is flexible, if they decide not to apply it they don't. If they allow this they are effectively condoning theft.
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  382. Don't bend the knee, especially not to the radical left.
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  383. It's very difficult to write legislation that answers all potential circumstances, the possible uses are too vast, both for good and evil. And you can be sure if it has potential for evil, someone will use it for that purpose.
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  384. Really you should avoid politics and stick to what is actually being built. Politicians can't do this sort of thing, it always ends up a complete wasteful mess. Unless they are dictators of course and don't have millions of other rules, committees, protestors and NIMBYs holding them back.
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  385. Biden was 40 minutes late, plus he refused to go on the bus with everyone else. And George W. is another living US president.
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  386. Yep, normally very sensible Joanna has gone a bit mad on this one.
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  387.  @thepuddlejumper500  Well I wouldn't give GCC credit for anything.
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  388. That's it? We call that banter in the UK.
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  389. Oui mais pas besoin de construire des routes, et puis on peut avoir multiples niveaux de circulation. Imagine une autoroute a dix etages. il faudrait une system d'aiguillage electronique etc, mais c'est tout a fait envisageable.
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  390. Well cancel culture is a lefty thing, of course they like it. The universities are one big Left Wing Indoctrination system.
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  391.  @pingu255  What difference has Brexit made?
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  392.  @pingu255  Brexit has made no difference whatsoever. Absolutely nothing changed.
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  393.  @pingu255  You keep saying that, but it's not true. How many did we send back to France in 2014 for example?
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  394.  @pingu255  Yes that was always the case. Once they are here you can send them back to their country of origin or back to their point of entry to the EU as long as that country agrees to take them. It was the same before Brexit. That's why they destroy their passport before arriving. You can't find out how many we sent back to France in 2014 can you? Because the answer is zero. Under the Dublin agreement they could be sent back to "the first EU country they arrived in", but that is impossible to determine isn't it? Brexit changed nothing at all in practice. In theory they could be returned somewhere but in practice that is impossible to determine and even if you could determine it that country would still have to agree to take them,, and it wouldn't be France. What we need to do is prevent them from entering British waters, which it looks like these guys could actually do. That has absolutely nothing to with Brexit.
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  395. She's on a jolly distributing largess everywhere she goes. But she doesn't have any money she's going to have to ask member states to pay in more.
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  396.  @JimMorrisonLoL  Horace Wilson was pulling his strings. Chamberlain didn't think he was buying time, he thought Hitler was a reasonable chap who just wanted a few legitimate grievances sorted out. He really thought he had delivered peace in our time by sacrificing some Czechs.
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  397.  @richardpearson2999  Don't be so hard on yourself.
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  398. Threads is interesting, it's on Youtube, 1984 TV film about nuclear attack in the UK.
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  399.  @brb__bathroom  You have certainly failed on all counts.
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  400. I wanted to be a journalist when I was young, I went to an interview at Uni, they asked my why I wanted to be a journalist, I replied to help get to the truth and report it. When they had stopped laughing, they asked me a few other polite questions and that was it, summarily refused for the course.
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  401. This is hardly her fault, but then neither she nor Joe are in charge... Who's pulling the strings? Who's making Joe's lists?
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  402. Yesterday an organisation called The People’s SCE was launched, says Andrew Saks, Head of Marketing at the People's SCE.
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  403.  @Ju88327  They could not be bribed or blackmailed or forced like the lackeys who want to ensure their promotion prospects. MEP is not where the money is you want a nice job as an advisor or consultant or something like that in a nice office with no real responsibility, and in order to get one of those jobs you need to be seen to be compliant with the wishes of the Commission.
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  404.  @anthonyweedonweedon1426  I'm a Brit.
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  405.  @edcleasby1120  Eh? What damage? What crime?
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  406. No second chance? OK I'll make a note of that.
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  407. Yes their videos are very good.
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  408. Of course they aren't coming for the children, I mean they wouldn't admit that would they? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArOQF4kadHA&ab_channel=SFGMCTV
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  409. Well next year they won't have a job at all, and we won't have mail and we won't miss it. The only mail I get is bills, haha, everything else comes through email these days. All they are doing is pricing themselves out of a job. I hope they prefer life on benefits.
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  410.  @gravitytwo4088  One time because the PM was considered a threat to the Monarchy. Which is exactly how the system is supposed to work. Plus it didn't work out and Lord Melbourne was reinstated shortly after as the replacement couldn't get anything through parliament. They named a town in Australia after him in the end. That's the system actually working, but in practice these days it's a convention pretty much embedded in our political system. The people choose the government, the government recommends the PM to the monarch who does as he/she is told, but he/she can always say no. So everybody has to stay within the invisible boundaries. The people then have to follow the law enacted by the government. So the people have the power to pick the law makers and then have to follow the law, the government is chosen by the people, the monarch does as he/she is told and everyone is in charge of everyone else in some way. Nobody can take all the power because of the way everything is organised. It's a magnificent system I wouldn't want to see changed.
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  411.  @lottielane2486  Thanks ! The other thing I should have mentioned is that the military serve the Monarch however the Government issue the orders. So once again, the PM cannot take full control of the Military because they ultimately serve the Crown, not the Government. Everything has been finely crafted over centuries it's not all random stuff and Pageantry, everything has a purpose.
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  412.  @Ricky-tr2hd  Well that's a particularly negative view. The British Empire was about trade not conquest. Yes we exploited the land, yes we made profits, but so did the Indians, trade is a two way thing you know. The British did not build railways to "extract goods", but to transport the goods and people in both directions. The East India Company worked hand in hand with the locals, the British Indian Army was almost entirely Indians, only the officers were British and it was a voluntary force. 35 million dead, firstly that's a random figure picked out of the air by an activist and you make it sound like a ritual slaughter, the population of India is huge and the British were there for 200 years and relatively speaking there were only a few atrocities over that time. Yes there were some and it's a disgrace but that's humans for you. Britain gave a lot to India, its system of Law, it's system of government, they still organise their Army like the British, the railways, TEA !! It was the British that created the Tea industry out of nothing, the list is long.
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  413. Surely radical Islam is Misogynistic. Women have almost no rights and are treated as second class citizens, forced to wear facial and hair coverings and have to do as they are told by their husband. So has she just declared an entire religion illegal?
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  414.  @MrOzzy281  She also said 80 people died at a Dance referring to the Paris attacks when 130 people died in various locations, but no dances. Basically her only expertise is getting things wrong and being very opinionated about it.
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  415. Ukrainians have visa free travel to the EU. That's why they don't need a visa. The Dutch had a referendum about whether to allow Ukraine visa free travel in 2016, and they voted no by 61% to 39%. So the EU did what it usually does, ignored the referendum result and introduced visa free travel. A big bureaucracy ignoring the will of the people and doing what they want. That's what being in the EU means.
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  416. How is it going to generate power on the ground exactly?
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  417.  @ericlackford6718  I am not a teacher. It's very difficult to "grow a pair", especially for teachers...Almost all job opportunities are controlled by the state. If you annoy them there goes your career. All those years at Uni wasted because you find yourself branded as a bigot. Not many people are willing to take that sort of risk. It's just another reason we don't want the state running things. They really shouldn't be anywhere near education at all !!
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  418. It sure makes a change because usually it's a 95% remainer audience and 83% remainer panel..
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  419. SBS, land men on the boats and steer them back to France accompanied by the Navy to make sure there is no funny business. Just make sure the men have their passports with them, because have you ever tried getting into France without a passport as Brit? No chance !
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  420.  Alan Braham  Started slavery? But it's in the bible and the Koran. The Romans had slaves, in fact every people had taken slaves throughout history until Britain stopped it. See this is why you need some history lessons, you don't even know the basics. Then you compare paying bills to slavery, I wonder how you would feel if you were the one issuing the bill because it is your business. You don't even understand what you are complaining about. You bring race into it. the more you type, the more you reveal yourself to be an ignorant racist.
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  421. They should be paid a lot more !! But they should also have to stick to their promises or lose their seat. An MP is a big important job, you can make a lot more money elsewhere. How can a "diversity officer" in the NHS which is essentially a political position be paid more than an MP, or the head of the BBC be paid more than the PM? It doesn't make any sense.
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  422. Clueless, but they keep issuing and spending money I feel sorry for the European citizens who are going to suffer from all this.
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  423.  bobwilkins204  As if on cue... Story on the BBC right now : 'Harold Shipman killed my gran - so I played him on stage' Edwin Flay is taking on the challenge of portraying the mass murderer in a play he wrote.
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  424.  @Avid_Fan  That's the left for you. Always issuing orders and adding a personal insult. Such compassion does not go unnoticed.
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  425. Good to see the Finns waking up.
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  426. And yet the Nazi party considered by most to be the Fascists, was the National SOCIALIST German Workers Party. Watch any of Hitler's early speeches he constantly says he is bringing socialism to Germany.
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  427.  @quillmaurer6563  Yes, comfort, carrying capacity, and cornering, are the main advantages, but of course it carries a higher price tag for construction. The high speed lines all have to be built as straight as possible to allow the high speeds safely, that's why we have to build a completely new line for HS2, to eliminate as many curves as possible. It makes sense to have a standard gauge for ease of equipment manufacturing and what we are using is probably sub optimal but too late to change.
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  428. First of all what is a people's vote? Don't you mean loser's vote. Who voted in the referendum if it wasn't the people? The term is pathetic. Loser's last chance vote would be more accurate. Why would anybody be against that? Many reasons, firstly it's the EU's MO to alter any vote it doesn't like. Secondly the EU would get involved as they did when they forced Ireland to vote again. they would be offering massive bribes on the one hand whilst exploding project fear on the other. Also there is a high chance it would be rigged. Nobody would believe the result whatever it was at this stage. Let's leave, make a go of it, and if in a decade or so it turns out not to be a success we can always have a vote then about whether of not we apply to rejoin the EU. We gave being in 45 years, lets see what being out is like.
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  429. OK mate, if we can come and harvest your crops and your flowers.
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  430. It's a bit tricky trying to defend a fairy story against reality. No wonder Thatchell is struggling, does anybody have his email? I have some magic beans I'm trying to sell.
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  431. Well well, so you have to rely on the guy you are sanctioning to be nice to you so you can heat your homes. If it wasn't so sad for the people it would be hilarious. Well done the Brussels central planners great job !!
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  432.  @jimjones-bk2is  You may have read the books but you obviously didn't understand them.
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  433. Hahaha, the whole thing is a complete shambles.
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  434. Have you ever travelled through Europe? There are no border control points for example between Belgium and France, you just drive through or walk through. If you take the train from Paris to Brussels there is no check at all,. it's like going from London to Manchester. There is a demarcation line and there may even still be border posts, but they are not manned in normal circumstances. So I am afraid you are completely incorrect, the borders are normally wide open.
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  435. This is nonsense, the presumption is that money is finite, so if one person has it another doesn't, this is not true, therefore this whole premise collapses. It is also possible to have high government and high personal debt or low government debt and low personal debt, one does not depend on the other. You're welcome.
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  436. This is every single witness that appears before these committees, None of them know anything, none of them answer any questions, they just repeat their little speeches over and over.
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  437. That video was edited, something happened before that they are not showing, the Border force guy is clearly reacting to the attitude of the person. Show the whole interaction !!!
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  438.  @stopcensorship7705  You obviously don't know French Law very well. French law makes it difficult to get any accusation to stick, unless you manage to extricate a confession, which given that he refused to stop even when a gun was pointing at his head was unlikely wouldn't you say, or you have to arrest the person in "Flagrant Delit", ie caught red handed in the act. Relying on "recognising the driver from a distance in a moving car", wouldn't stand a chance in court. If the car is stolen plates are useless, and he couldn't have rented the car from a car rental company as he didn't have a licence so they wouldn't have rented it to him. You are just making it all up, best to stop now before you look even more ridiculous.
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  439. It has been reported.... by the Indian Council of scotland (Police Reporting number:PS - 20240401-0595) The Indian Council of Scotland/UK are surprised to read Scottish Government Police Scotland Hate Crime guidance highlighting White Men aged 18 to 30 yrs from socially excluded backgrounds (Working Class) in a negative manner, as this could create unfair bias against them. The Equality and Human Rights Commission of Scotland has a duty to ensure public bodies 'Foster good relations' between different Ethnic groups, and this information could incite.
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  440. "The Navy should be Protecting our Island", precisely. What are they doing? Instead we have a taxi service ferrying the invaders in from Dunkirk. 80 years later we actually bring them in and put them up in hotels.
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  441. The Commission decides in the EU, that is not the heads of State. The Heads of state or their representatives are in the Council which can suggest policies and has to agree them once they are made, but they don't decide what becomes law that is the Commission
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  442.  @nickryder9669  Can you define "more problems"? That seems a bit strange given the chaos of the pandemic last year. What happened in January that you remember so well? Why is January important particularly? I have no idea what P&O did I don't work there but they are a Dubai owned company operating the Ferries out of Cyprus in the EU, I don't know which law the employees the fired were hired under, or even why they did such a stupid thing, nobody would use them now anyway.
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  443.  @saymyname3097  Well lines of lorries have always happened, NI protocol is bad that's for sure we should never have agreed and the sooner it is ripped up the better, if there are skills shortages that means business is booming so that's great and we can selectively address those if needed, that's what controlling immigration is all about, us deciding who comes, the only export problems are due to the EU being officious nobody is happy with that including the EU customers who are the ones waiting for their deliveries, there are no import problems as far as I am aware and we control that function so that's entirely up to us, fisheries, well the EU controls fisheries and agriculture with the CFP and CAP not the members so there are issues there because the EU is very protectionist, that's why we left, we don't like protectionism, there was no such thing as EU funding, they just gave us some of our money back so no loss there, we now have twice as much to spend, or we would have had if the remainers hadn't insisted we give it all to the NHS because of a slogan on a bus, but that's another story. The trade deals are not "unfavourable to the UK", in the main they are exactly as they were before and we have signed some new one. Any deal was supposed to take a decade remember? Instead we already have more than the EU. There has been no drop in living standards, wages are rising and there are plenty of jobs available. Hire and fire at will is great for the job market, it means businesses can take risks they wouldn't be able to otherwise, but then you probably have never run a business. You are just trying to find problems where none exist because you want to say "I told you so", but instead we are the ones saying I told you so....hahaha.
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  444.  @Avrysatos  Even in this discussion. I point out reality and then you whine about it, and so therefore you accuse me of whining !!! Classic.
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  445. Disrespectful bad losers, disrupting other political meetings was a favourite tactic of the Nazis, we know who the Nazis are these days, and it's not reform, it's the disgruntled losers who were ejected.
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  446. Mayor of London, Mayor of Birmingham
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  447. And you can't be married. Because that means you discriminated against all the people you didn't marry.
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  448. Coca Cola sponsored the Hitler Youth, and Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany as a replacement for Coca Cola when they stopped sending concentrate after the US entered the war.
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  449.  @03MARA01  Honda pulled out of Europe too. They closed all their factories outside Japan, so no it had nothing to do with Brexit, that site by the way has been sold and is being redeveloped by Panattoni to a warehouse and distribution Park creating 9000 new jobs. So we went from having no deals to having our own bespoke deals...that the EU don't have, so there's a benefit already. The EU don't have a trade deal with the US either, the US don't like trade deals, they only have a dozen or so. There is no queue for trade deals with the USA, that's not how deals are done you don't take turns. And we are not too small we are the 5th biggest economy in the world out of 197, that makes us one of the biggest economies in the world, not that size really matters, all that matters is do you have something we want and do we have something you want... who cares about size? Do you not buy from a shop because it's small? Only buy from megastores do you? If we had that approach we wouldn't be able to do deals with almost anybody because they are all smaller than us !! You have obviously never been abroad for work have you? You have to register locally, get in the system, you don't just waltz in , now you don't have any automatic rights you have to apply, but it's not hard. And the ETIAS system is not confirmed and if there is a cost it will be 7 euros valid for 3 years, hardly an issue. It's good anyway. We don't want people just crossing borders, that's not a good thing.
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  450. Try and find a comedy video on youtube and ask the people there. I'm sure you will get the best advice. Alternatively have a conversation with yourself posting using different names. Both are excellent investment strategies.
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  451.  @richardisner3671  Yes, it's pretty amazing that people still want more of it. But that's what insanity is.
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  452. Well done Poland !! Join us outside this totalitarian bullying organisation in the free world !!
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  453.  @PabloGarcia-hc8xq  Well of course, they changed the world. Also the World Wide Web.
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  454.  @goharikjones7387  By the time we left we were paying about £230 per person per year, and receiving back about £76 per person. But that is not really a valid calculation. I mean if you are a UK tax payer let's say you pay £15,000 a year tax, the government spends about £12,000 per person per year, but you don't say...well really I only paid £3,000 tax, do you? Because you very definitely paid £15k. Unless the government actually gives you cash back they take your money and spend it on what they want...Just like the EU, yes they might have spent some of our money in the UK, but on what they wanted !! They never sent me a cheque.
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  455.  @frankcastle_1984  That's what investing is all about. What about if she bought the shares for 1p and at the time of her death they had gone down to 1/4p? Would the inheritor be due a rebate? What's the point of inheriting a house if you have to sell it to pay a tax because somebody died? An asset is not worth anything until you actually sell it, in the meantime the value is purely theoretical.
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  456. +slothkingn1 Really this is not about left or right. What exactly do you think the risks are? The risk of not being controlled by an unelected bureaucracy? Trade will not be affected, even if the EU puts tariffs on exported goods and services it will be derisory under WTO rules, and if they do we can put similar tariffs on the goods they sell to us. As they sell more to us than we sell to them this would hurt them more than us (if it makes any difference at all). The EU are pushing for Britain and France to give up their seats on the UN Security Council and hand them to the EU. Do you like that idea? How about an EU Army? Sound good? Would you trust an undemocratic system to control our armed forces? The "risks" are merely propaganda from the remain side. I can't see any at all.
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  457. No not the elimination, the control of migration, if they have the skills we need they will still be able to come, but they have to compete with people from all over the world to be admitted, just because they are in the EU will not give them favourable status, just the same status as all other Europeans and Indians and Australians and Canadians and Africans etc. You confuse immigration control with racism. An elementary mistake but one you seem to make frequently.
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  458. Who in their right mind would want to stay in the EU. Bunch of unelected bureaucrats that have delivered record unemployment a stagnating economy and a useless currency (which Scotland would have to use in the unlikely event of them even being accepted as a member-Spain have said they would block it so there is no chance). Scotland is not in the EU, the UK is in the EU and the UK voted to leave. Get used to it.
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  459. ​ @Robo94100  I thought we agreed making assumptions is a bad idea? Then you made a whole speech based on (erroneous) assumptions. Our education system is a mess that you would even think all this nonsense.What a load of codswallop. Essentially he is criticising the guy for making an effort to defend his property. And the criticism is? The guy has enough money to pay for it and somebody else doesn't. I mean how pathetic. Is my neighbour more privileged than me because he has a new car? Where will it end? Assuming the man is privileged is the problem !!!! Who cares, some are born privileged and turn to drink and drugs, others start from nothing and work hard. Life is what you make it (with a bit of luck too).
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  460.  @geeksqueak7123  If it's done properly and also voluntarily. However I am glad you have given up on the privilege nonsense. It is such a cancer. It used to be a goal for young people to be rich, now if you are rich you are spat on as being privileged. It's a strange world.
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  461. ​ @Robo94100  The initial statement was a false premise with a political agenda, which was confirmed by the subsequent conversation. I am not confusing anything. the problem is that words have been redefined, privilege does not mean rich, anybody can be rich, win the lottery and you are rich, that does not make you privileged.
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  462.  @Robo94100  But they do, get up at five in the morning with a shovel and pick and trowel and put in 3 hours before you go to work.
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  463. ​ @Robo94100  I don't profess to know, I never would, I think it's brilliant and he's done a great job. I'm not the one calling him privileged.
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  464. She can't do anything, she is dreaming, if it looks like she is going to cause any problems Westminster can suspend the Scottish Assembly temporarily or permanently, she wouldn't like that. Spain would block a situation whereby Scotland stays in and the rest of the UK leave, so Scotland would have to apply again, if Scotland votes to leave the UK (very unlikely with the oil price as it is now there is no money)  they will have to take their share of the national debt, this would mean they don't meet the criteria to join the EU. So basically she is flogging a dead horse.
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  465.  @zigwinger2915  Hahaha, that's one of the stupidest comments I have ever encountered. Congratulations!! Now would you kindly explain the difference as you see it. I own a business. Is it personal property or private property? If I take on an employee to sweep the floor, does the status change?
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  466. +Yoda You made rather a long post full of fallacy, half truths and some blatant lies, it would take so long to go through each one, but let me give you a bit of an education on some of the major points you fail totally on. First paragraph opt outs: Opt outs were possible until the ratification of the Lisbon treaty, now opt outs are not allowed unless they were agreed before ratification. Now with QMV there is no longer any veto either. Scotland: I don't know where you conjure up this figure of 9% control, Scotland has powers of many things like taxation rates and public spending, health, care for the elderly, the Police, justice and education, that is already more than 35%, and it's fair to say the SNP are screwing up what they control royally.  Para 2: Scotland has a voting age of 16 since May 2016, for Scottish elections only, this is because Scotland has a separate legal system from England so can make these irrational decisions, the SNP only want it because they have more influence over the idealistic but not yet well enough educated young people. The House of Lords is appointed but is a second chamber with largely  supervisory role, hereditary peers being able to sit was abolished in 1999, the point of the Lords is that it is wise men and women who have experience who check the government is not going mad, their function is pretty much supervisory, Scotland has no such check so the Scottish parliament can do pretty much what it wants with no check to hold it back, I know which system I prefer. Scottish trade: Export trade is calculated in the UK at where the invoice is issued not at the port of departure. You also confuse trade and exports. 65% of Scottish exports go to the rest of the UK, with only about 9% going to the EU. Most of the oil is owned by foreign companies mainly Arab countries and Canada, with some owned by Shell which is Anglo Dutch and BP which is Anglo American most of the profits go abroad, the whisky industry is the same, over 85% is not Scottish owned. There are no energy sanctions with Russia. Scotland does not receive more than it puts in to the EU as you say. The UK gives the EU the money and the EU gives the UK about half of it back. So when we leave the EU the money will come from Westminster and we can keep the change. Scotland does have the lowest unemployment rate since August 2016, the first time for over twenty years....and for about 6 months, so it is a half truth in that it is true until the next figures come out, and given the recent closures of many businesses, it will be back higher than the rest of the UK.  I could go on but there is just too much BS to cover.
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  467. + Yoda Oh well there's nothing to be done if you insist on being wilfully ignorant I suppose. Carry on in your personal fantasy world.
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  468. Haha, nice try but fail, just reread my post, most of your "facts" are opinions, and the few things that you did get right (which I also mentioned) are very recent events unlikely to last. But hey when you want the "facts" to fit your opinions instead of basing your opinions on facts, that is the sort of tripe you have to spout.
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  469. And yet the Scottish government publishes figures which show yours are just made up. http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Economy/Exports/ESSPublication If any of the exports to the rUK were destined for elsewhere the SNP would have made great noise about it, given their fantasy of leaving the UK and joining the EU. In fact the only mention of onward shipping is that exports to the Netherlands and Belgium are destined for other countries. But carry on trying to justify your invented figures, it is most amusing.
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  470. +Yoda Glad to see you have given up, when all you have left is meaningless empty insults it is a clear you have no more arguments to offer (not that you any valid arguments at any point). But thanks for the laugh it is always fun crushing remoaners.
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  471. Well I think not, Britain partnered with the Indians, indeed many served in the British Indian army, many fought in WWI and WWII with Britain. Why would they do that if they were oppressed? It seems to me you want to twist history to suit your opinion as opposed to understanding what really happened. 
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  472. +Shananagans5 Absolutely! Well said. The same could be said of the minimum wage, if it is too high it actually prevents people from finding work, or causes workers to be laid off, thus keeping some people on benefits when they could be working and gaining experience which would allow them to rise to a higher level in the future.
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  473. Easy; get rid of the EU and especially the Euro.
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  474.  @75yado  We have been offering a deal for years the EU don't want one. Are you sure you like the idea that "anything can happen"...That would be most interesting.
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  475.  Christina G  Well apparently things are so bad in the EU, France in particular, people will get on dinghies to escape. Which EU country are they escaping from to go to Greece and Italy? What double standards do you think I have? I would be curios to know.
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  476.  @jjefferyworboys8138  the NSDAP. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - National SOCIALIST German Workers Party. Which was then contracted to NaZi just the National SOCIALIST part. It's literally in the name.
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  477. Just remember their Guru Roger Hallam studied "how to achieve social change through civil disobedience and radical movements ". Climate Change is just an excuse for him, he doesn't care about the climate he wants to destroy the country to build a Communist Utopia (haha). These poor gullible people are just cult members being manipulated, I feel sorry for them in some ways, they are just pawns in his game.
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  478. Well done sir for standing up for your principles. I certainly noticed the changes, Radio 4 is a shadow of its former self. Women's hour is particularly awful, but many programmes are infected, from the Moral Maze to Any Questions and PM.
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  479.  SigneN SigneN.Formaldehyd.IngenSojaTilVoresDyr  The mob are more for the moment. But for how long?
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  480. Most people don't live in a detached house or even a house with driveway. How can you charge your car at home if you live in a terrace or high rise flats? You have to be able to park close to your own house and not have cables across the pavement, it's just not feasible unless you have chargers everywhere there is a parking space.
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  481.  @alistairmurray626  You are very welcome. Although there was nothing Random about it, I didn't mention Arthur's daughter at all.
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  482. Or in...they pick themselves.
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  483. I listen to Women's Hour when I feel like shouting at the radio. That Emma Barnett is nauseating, she could whinge for Britain. Except she hates Britain too.
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  484. I want emotional damages !!
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  485.  @mijicmugendo  What a delightful person you are. Now I am "people like you". The UK will be there to sort out the mess as usual, it's a cycle you see, Europe messes up, the UK comes and rescues you and then you mess it up again and so on. It's only a matter of time.
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  486.  @stanisawsota298  I'm Scottish. Scotland isn't going anywhere. Sturgeon needs to keep going on about to win an election by splitting the vote. Scots know they are better off in the UK. This Anthony bloke is clueless, he doesn't even know any recent history. Polls are meaningless they get everything the wrong way round these days.
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  487.  @stanisawsota298  The EU began with the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, but the full thing was indeed cemented by the treaty of Nice and then the Lisbon Treaty. Before that it was indeed the EEC. When it was about trade not Political Union, that's where they went wrong, it was fine when it was just about trade.
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  488. Not to forget the lovely bags of money they give us...
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  489. Spotty and Fatty caused problems also. Presumably Fatty because these days he wouldn't be considered fat at all.
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  490. I knew everything Jim was going to say before he said it. They all have the same script these loonies. The world is ending, 97% of scientists agree, your science is phoney, who is paying you for disagreeing with me. We're all going to die, unless you just pay this tax and then you will be spared...for now.
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  491.  @Arthur_King_of_the_Britons  Indeed, the capacity of the sewers has not followed the supply of Poo being deposited. This is just a further issue to blame on "capitalism" when the problem is immigration.
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  492.  @Arthur_King_of_the_Britons  That's true, nobody wants to come to Scotland unless they come from further North. I think of myself as British though, so it is the whole country that is affected, and it is now causing problems, the immigration is also badly handled, immigrants are creating communities inside our country, that's not good, as we see from the civil war in France that is not openly declared but is definitely happening.
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  493. There are no numbered Swiss bank accounts any more, they stopped all that.
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  494. I have some Bud Light available.
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  495. If these people don't know all this they really shouldn't be in Congress. This is basic economics. Just ask Zimbabwe how it works out. We are on course for disaster, no FIAT currency has every been able to survive.
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  496. That would be awful.
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  497. How about leaders the people vote for. Nobody voted for von der Leyen.
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  498.  @samhird3836  The courts rule on a case brought before them which can take months, also in order for the courts to decide, someone needs to decide to prosecute. So who decides if you prefer, what should be a) immediately censored or not b) If the comment is worthy of censure or just removal c) to issue an arrest warrant and arrest the "perpetrator" d) to bring a charge and prosecute You see these days the process is the punishment, to bring a hate speech case takes months or maybe even years, it is expensive and traumatising for the defendant and their family. And even if the courts find them innocent, they cannot repay the energy and stress of the process.
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  499.  @ovidiuov4317  They are censoring my reply to you...
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  500. Hahaha, that's pretty funny, almost nothing he said here is factually true.
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  501. This is what happens when you talk to racists, they twist everything, obviously she was a diversity hire, just like Karine Jean Pierre.
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  502. This nonsense has to stop. The military is not some kind of nursery.
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  503. "Grimes is a low fi singer..." Maybe, but she's also Mrs Elon Musk.
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  504. It is not about one term of parliament. Clearly the Politicians in the main didn't want to leave, it was after all part of their career plan. It may take three or four terms before the politicians get used to the idea, indeed we need a whole slew of new people as politicians as the current lot in all parties are absolutely useless. All the major parties have become Green Loving Social Democrats, of slightly different hues, but basically they all think more or less the same thing. The Left has moved right and the right has moved left. This is not healthy for our country or our democracy, things will change but patience is required, by 2035 they may be used to the idea !!
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  505.  @xdgamesCoUk  Well most of their policies are left leaning, all this overspending, the Green Policy, the immigration policy, all this diversity nonsense. People voted Tory to get immigration under control get us out of the EU and balance the budget. What we get is increasing immigration , both legal and illegal, massive deficit spending, a rush to net zero, pandering to the LGBT community, increased foreign aid etc etc The Rwanda idea was a ridiculous deflection, they knew that would never work out, we have the power to control immigration but the Tories are just afraid to use it, they had a massive majority, they could pass any law they wanted but they have failed to do anything. the Rwanda policy has wasted a whole year which is exactly what they wanted. Why do you think they are doing so badly in the polls? Do you really think the people think Starmer and his merry band of buffoons are wonderful...Not a chance, the reason the Tories are not doing well is because they are not doing what they were elected to do. It is also the case that Labour have rejected the radical Corbynism and moved rightwards to the centre, so we currently have a Conservative Party heading Left and the Labour Party heading right, everybody has become Lib Dems basically.
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  506. Good grief, what a load of nonsense. "Britain is a relatively barren rock in the middle of the Atlantic devoid of resources". Hilarious.
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  507. Having changed the meaning of many words they have changed the meaning of "Democracy". Old democracy, that antiquated notion of the people voting for their representatives and then holding them to account has been replaced by new democracy. New democracy is a collective of wise socialists and a collection of "institutions", the courts, the NGO's the ECHR, the UN, the WEF all of course run by radical lefties. Voting for your leaders by majority is now called populism, and evil, whereas kowtowing to left wing ideology is democracy. Easy really. That's why Biden talks about Trump being a "threat to democracy", and von der Leyen talks about EU democratic values, despite no-one being able to vote for any of the legislators in the EU. That really is the new democracy in action, (it may also be called "the rules based international order").
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  508.  @blueplanet9120  How do you mean stubbornness? All I did was state some facts.
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  509.  @damianmyles7931  Thanks for the empathy.
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  510.  @jejrhriktntndkkwnrjriths1510  We had a referendum about independence in Scotland and we voted to stay in the UK.
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  511.  mininmalta 123  Perhaps you should... https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/fact2_e.htm
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  512. No deal it is then. Let's see how it goes, haha.
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  513. Well Ted Cruz is a Bee fan !! How cool.
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  514. Looks more like the EU is displeased.
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  515. A paper pushing exercise as usual, that's all the EU does, shuffle paper and leech from the European people, a waste of space time and money. Shut it down.
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  516. The signs were always there. Ronald McDonald clearly a scary man, Burger KING, that's why they went after Uncle Ben's.
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  517. Hahaha, That Becca is a funny girl.
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  518. I presume this was before they discovered blue rinse.
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  519. Humza and his pals are irrelevant now, the Party is falling apart, loads of them are jumping ship and support is plummeting. They sure caused chaos though in their brief Reich.
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  520. That's easy, they haven't got the IQ level of the youngsters down below 75 yet.
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  521. How can the sun give off sonic booms? For that you would need an atmosphere.
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  522. She's in the Fiction section.
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  523. When Trump wins I expect the Dems will go nuts. They already are mentally unstable. The media constantly tells them Trump is Hitler, that if he wins they will be rounded up and put in camps. Some people believe that nonsense. It will be the BLM riots all over again some towns could be more or less razed to the ground in their mostly peaceful protests. I hope the National Guard are on standby.
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  524.  @Poultrymad  Yes, he sells his wine to the EU and then drinks it himself. How very convenient. We pay for it.
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  525. Stop giving these fools oxygen, this is exactly what they want, just ignore them.
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  526. In the sixties we start having some "evidence". Alf Garnet, Love Thy Neighbour, Rising Damp etc. However they fail to realise that even then the Black characters almost always came out on top and the white characters are buffoons. Britain was never a racist country, at least I never saw it until the media started telling me I was a racist, who knew as I walked down the road glancing about I was in fact spreading toxic masculinity and micro-aggressions, I was just going to buy a pint of milk.
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  527.  @simonscarrott9071  I am very grateful I don't know you. When were you appointed the sole judge of what is funny? I must have missed that. He's very definitely a comedian, it doesn't matter if the facts are right or not as long as it is funny. I was definitely laughing.
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  528. I sincerely hope they are not displaying all their available gadgetry on youtube...
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  529. Good prediction !
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  530. But the Georgia election was clearly stolen, the whole thing was clearly rigged. Anybody that was watching could see it. Just like the recent election, do you really think people actually voted for Fetterman? If they did, then the US is in trouble, and if they didn't it's also in trouble. If Trump is not back in the White House the World could easily end up in WWIII.
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  531. The Imperial War Museum doesn't seem to like Britain very much, nor its history, it seems to want to rewrite history. Not at all what I would expect of the Imperial War Museum, I wonder if they know what Imperial means? As for standing alone, Hitler had control of Northern Europe, Italy and Russia were allied with the Nazis, Spain was Fascist but neutral. So Britain stood alone, it's pretty clear. Lots of people wanted to help and rightly so.
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  532.  @BroadHobbyProjects  That would work too, anything that helps spare those they may injure or kill in their quest to evade justice would be a net gain for society.
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  533. He's a backstabbing scheming weasel. Not the sort of qualities you want in a PM, or maybe you do, but I don't.
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  534. Typical lefty, clueless. Nothing wrong with any of those statements, it is evident we are being replaced, what is all this immigration about if not? The PM is Indian the Mayor of London is Pakistani, the FM of Scotland is Pakistani, the Mayor of Birmingham is Indian. The problem is actually the word theory, it's not a replacement theory it's a replacement reality.
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  535.  @blindbrad4719  Haha, you wait to see what happens next June.
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  536.  @blindbrad4719  Well you can, presumably you have some sort of digital device that is designed to be able to do just that sort of thing. D-Day 80th anniversary, there, that'll help you remember, and indeed it is on that very day that you should be paying attention, for once again we will have helped liberate Europe so the date is apposite.
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  537.  @griffon129  What were the Einsatzgruppen for then? Picking up litter? How about the extermination camps? How about the Blitz? How about the V1 and V2 rockets? You have picked some very thin ice to skate on.
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  538. Some things are funny some subjects don't deserve parody, bordering on abuse. The rich and powerful fair enough but making fun of the poor and sick is just being pretentious and brazenly obnoxious. You know like everyone making fun of the fat guy at school is bullying.... These guys are not comedians any more they are jinogistic looking for cheap laughs, such a shame.
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  539. Hahahahahappy New Year. The Euro an achievement? A success? That's really most amusing.
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  540. Well of course it is, so what 's the problem?
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  541.  @Brock-g3z  Now that would be funny. But even the US isn't that stupid hahaha.
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  542.  @Brock-g3z  Hahaha, nonsense you have it all the wrong way round, hahaha. Over here in the UK we think AOC is absolutely hilarious, almost as funny as Kamala Harris, who is almost as funny as Joe Biden. Unfortunately it is causing chaos around the world though.
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  543.  @pingu255  How many illegal migrants crossing the channel did the UK return to France in 2014?
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  544.  @pingu255  Which is not true.
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  545.  @robertgalloway3771  Haha, oh dear, are you bitter about something?
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  546. The election was stolen, anybody can see that if they care to look. No way 81 million voted for Biden. This Kevin guy just hates Trump, and so will believe all the slurs, which is what they are, honestly the guys a Billionaire, he has loads of women who would have him in a instant, what would he bother with some floosie. Typical narrow minded, short sighted, ignorant leftie.
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  547. You can't block me, I don't use Twitter. i don't understand why anybody does, it seems if you tweet something you get arrested or sued by someone you have offended somewhere. That seems to be the purpose of it, make lawyers richer.
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  548. It's an absolute shithole at the moment Scotland. Demolish Holyrood that's when everything started going downhill.
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  549.  @matthewsemple  Phil doesn't know much about it I'm afraid, he just goes with tropes and made up figures. Yes buying things from the UK is slightly more complicated if you are buying something on ebay for example, because of how VAT is handled, but it's the same in the other direction, because they haven't implemented a good system - both the EU and the UK. That was however to be expected after all we left the single market, so something was needed, but they haven't thought through. For the bigger businesses they know what they are doing, if they export to the EU there is a good chance they export to elsewhere too, so they are used to customs. We have a Free trade agreement for most things, so it only affects a few industries and really it's all down to a few forms. Don't forget it's the EU that want all this complexity, not us...We are just going along because that's how they want to do it. We could have mutual recognition and it would be hardly any issues at all, but they aren't interested. And as most of them don't rely on the ballot box for their job, they don't care, and doing it this way means the EU get more money from EU citizens.
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  550.  @RankinMsP  Oh I only drop in now and again. I offered to come on his videos and be interviewed many times to correct the lies he spreads, but for some reason he refuses to be informed and would rather make stuff up. Obviously he has a captive customer base he doesn't want to lose by showing how little he actually knows. This one was presented to me in my feed so I watched to see if he is still as clueless, and he is !!!
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  551.  @julieyates405  Yes I agree. I have never supported going for the US system. You obviously have not read my comments. It's not the NHS or the US system that are the choices, there are many different ways to go about it.
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  552.  @ItsBinhRepaired  You are years behind the curve. Gender is everything and anything, literally. Some people identify as babies, or puppies, one woman came out as a wolf in the past few weeks.
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  553. I've seen all this before. There were punks, and new romantics, and Mods, and rockers and Goths and Teddy boys and skinheads etc. They stuck to safety pins and haircuts and clothes and grew out of it. I feel sorry for the blokes who have chopped their dick off, or the girls who have had their breasts removed... It's so sad.
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  554. Nobody was "booted out", the expectation was 3.5m EU citizens would apply to stay in fact 6.5m applied to stay and since then we have had even more immigration, nobody was "replaced". Anybody can buy a home in Europe, settle in Europe and work in Europe, you just have to apply. Why is it that remainers have to lie all the time? He even said she insulted him when she was very careful to only speak about his stupid smears. Whinge whinge whinge, lie lie lie, that's all they've got.
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  555. There is a simple explanation. If the problem is solved everybody in the department assigned to fix it loses their jobs, therefore the key to job security is to make the problem worse so your department needs more funds.
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  556. Anglea Rayner couldn't lead a Conga. On the positive side that would finish the Labour Party.
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  557. We can't do a deal anyway, the EU forbids the UK to sign a deal it until we are completely out.
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  558. @asphyxiafeeling Well you know it's true, a lot of the same things that happened in nazi Germany are happening not just in the US but in Europe too, out of control police force hate against a religious minority (Jews/Muslims) Imaginary enemies, invading countries, and Nazi Germany was very technologocally advanced, they invented jet engines and rockets and had the best weapons...The US took their scientists, Werner von Braun basically started NASA. It's not crazy if you think about it.
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  559.  @Andre-kc9di  Perhaps the need to learn a foreign language is a bit of a barrier.
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  560. 47 years of membership, 15 percent of the population now, but much higher share before, only one top position in the EU, Roy Jenkins in all that time. The folk with the power are always from Benelux, France and Germany, it's a private club.
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  561. Far Right is just a useful slur. Like when the Liverpudlians protested about the illegal immigrants harassing their daughters in the streets, suddenly Liverpool a staunchly Labour City for a hundred years, became full of Far Right Protesters.
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  562. Haha, it's crazy Liz, she's a riot. Bringing up the corn laws? She hates these two, so she was on her best behaviour. She's a fierce anti Brexit campaigner, imagine being beside Nigel and Jacob. Hahaha
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  563. How about neither.
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  564.  @henrikf9015  There we go. If you disagree with me you must be stupid or badly informed. It never occurs to you that you are badly informed and following information being fed to you for some other purpose.
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  565. The Irony, CNN saying it's immoral to make money out of spreading fake news.
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  566. But the EU elections are next year.
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  567. The more people boo the more they think aha the problem is bigger than we thought, all these people booing us are racists, we need to educate them by virtue signalling even more, which of course induces more booing etc.
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  568. Let's just skip the referndum part and go straight to abolishing Holyrood and disbanding the SNP.. Blackford can go back to Corfting, maybe the peat will find him interesting.
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  569. You don't seem to understand how business works. If you sell to the EU you need to follow their rules, when you sell to the US you need to follow their rules and if you sell to Japan you need to follow their rules. The CE marque is self regulatory ie the manufacturers decide whether they comply or not, unless the product is life dependent (ie hospital equipment, aircraft parts etc). Even if it does need an outside body to verify, once it is verified it is verified, so leaving the EU didn't change anything. Our exports to the EU are a tiny part of our economy, Ford can follow EU regulations if they want, they are valid at the moment in the UK so no worries. And the trade deal allows for parts to come from the UK and the EU to avoid problems with the Rules of Origin, which by the way are solely for the purposes of the EU collecting tariffs, indeed the German car manufacturers who have seen sales to the UK half since 2016 are very concerned about it. But hey it's the wonderful protectionist EU...
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  570. To all these people saying Musk has made a mistake and doesn't know what he is doing with Twitter. How many times did his rockets crash? In the end he now can land boosters on a barge floating in the Atlantic ready for re use after they have sent a payload into space, he had to crash a lot of rockets to figure it out...
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  571. She's like a little kid in the playground, the world has gone mad.
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  572. What is Polly on about? Brexit has been great !! Finally out of the clutches of Brussels.
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  573. No mention of the occupation of the Channel Islands?
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  574. Haha the two worst MEP's, just shows how corrupt the EU is, patting their cohorts on the back.
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  575. She liberated Poland (after 50 years), brought down the Berlin Wall, saved the British Economy, won a war against the Argentinians, and revitalised the country. But you don't think the museum deserves to be named after her, how about the Isaac and Maggie Museum then?
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  576. The hatred is still there, but it's more subdued these days. Saved for special occasions. It used to be you could be stabbed or slashed was the preference just for wearing a Celtic or Rangers scarf. But these days folk walk around wearing replica shirts and there are few problems. Only perhaps on old firm match days or on Orange Walk Days would you be more cautious, and even then you would need to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. However drug use is on the up and that is fuelling gang violence once again, which often hides behind sectarian issues, but if you don't cause any trouble you don't face any problems really. You are very unlikely to be randomly attacked, although obviously it does happen from time to time. Scotland is a very friendly place on the whole.
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  577. Nonsense, not far right...Just right.
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  578. Well yeah of course, they've all gone to live in the richer countries in the West, so we are short of accommodation in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, but there are loads of empty living spaces in Eastern Europe. Supply and demand tells you straight away, prices will be higher where demand is higher and lower where demand is low.
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  579.  @EUdebatesLIVE  Fascinating, how much is your budget?
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  580. From the i. They are insane at that newspaper, anything that's crazy, they love.
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  581. Glasgow needs some Global Warming, we could do with about 5 or 6 degrees extra all year round, that would be great, we might have a real summer for a change. I must buy a new diesel car before they ban them.
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  582. She promised to reduce the gap in education, well she has by removing the good parts to reduce the overall standard. As a result everybody coming out of Scottish education is now clueless and indoctrinated. They are more interested in the LGBT agenda than Maths and Geography.
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  583. I suspected the media in 1980 and completely lost trust in the media in 1989. No TV since 2008. It's great, life is better and you end up better informed. The media lie with what they tell you but they also lie by not telling you things you should know.
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  584. The real test will be if the damage cuased can be repaired. Will the new SNP Fuhrer repeal the nonsense already in place, or will they just build on it and move forward a little more slowly but continue the progression towards insanity? The next election will be interesting. Independence is dead now for a decade at least, so who will people vote for next time?
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  585. The strongest evidence is that since she was arrested the deaths have stopped. I still believe she is guilty. all those scribblings on her notes weren't for nothing, she had a guilty conscience.
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  586. Are you mad? She closed down the entire country for one case of Covid. One case !!! One....Closed down the entire country....I would like to know the definition of authoritarian bully you are using, because she sure fits the bill.
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  587.  @tomthomassony8607  Yes well, terrorism is a tactic, you can't wage war on a tactic. Especially if you are looking in the wrong place.
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  588. Disgraceful, not often I disagree with the Queen but Tony should be in Jail.
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  589.  @paulmcmahon864  Act of Union 1707 article 3: ‘That the united Kingdom of Great-Britain be represented by one and the same Parliament, to be stiled the Parliament of Great-Britain'
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  590. @Quez No chance Scotland isn't going anywhere, the sensible silent majority aren't as stupid as the SNP.
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  591.  @primetime8137  Tories, they hate the Tories. At the last independence march the only chant I heard was Tories, Tories, Tories, out, out, out, all 80 or so of them in unison. Nothing at all about independence.
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  592. ​ @paulmcmahon864  Haha, based on what? If that's your argument you have no problem as article three is currently broken. The Scottish Assembly is unconstitutional, not only that it is unicameral, which is extremely dangerous. I mean imagine a Nazi Party, you know a Nationalist Socialist Party got into power.
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  593.  @paulmcmahon864  But we can't go our separate ways as article one abolished England and Scotland. Don't you ever read this stuff? "That the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland shall upon the First day of May which shall be in the year One thousand seven hundred and seven and for ever after be united into one Kingdom by the name of Great Britain And that the Ensigns Armorial of the said United Kingdom be such as Her Majesty shall appoint and the Crosses of St. George and St. Andrew be conjoyned in such manner as Her Majesty shall think fit and used in all Flags Banners Standards and Ensigns both at Sea and Land."
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  594. Trans people do face a lot of abuse, but according to Stonewall, 75% of it comes from their chosen partner, it's their own choices that result in abusive relationships.
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  595. Star Trek started in 1966. Other gadgets inspired by Star Trek are the MRI scanner and the iPad. Now if only we can find some dilithium crystals we will be fine.
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  596. After 16 years of the SNP they have lost the will to live.
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  597. Phil sure likes his Private Bacon. Perhaps he should stick with Tommy Atkins haha.
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  598. Yeah, but Mozart...? or JS Bach?
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  599.  @adampeckham8541  I suggest you google the phrase "Among G7 countries, the United Kingdom recorded the highest annual growth in 2022".
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  600.  @cosmos237  We should be charging them for access to our market. 15bn a year will cover it.
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  601. I think they have other problems at the moment.
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  602. Mind you Putin doesn't seem able to put any fuel in his tanks either.
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  603.  @jamiegray6931  It looks like a recipe for a lot of confusion to me, and that leads to mistakes and that leads to accidents..
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  604.  @simonrigg8391  It seems to have flown over everybody's heads...
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  605. Erm Franz Ferdinand was assassinated which was what triggered the war in the first place.
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  606.  @marclawyer2789  The Basra railway could have been a factor, but then why did the Germans start hostilities, surely if that railroad was the issue, then it would have been somebody else?
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  607. Just abolish Holyrood. Problem solved !!
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  608. It's like TV in the olden days, people listen while others talk, ideas are exchanged. I hope the BBC are watching to pick up some tips on how to present a debate.
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  609. 27:00 Yes the Nazis used a similar expression to problem solved....It was the "Final Solution".
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  610. If the other party don't know their rights then that's not really relevant.
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  611.  @bren333  That's the point, you can say for example "So and so, has been liberal with the truth" or " has perhaps been ill advised on the facts" or many other ways of expressing disbelief. The House is supposed to be polite and respectful in order to force debate, both sides shouting "liar" at each other gets us nowhere. She did it on the last day before the holidays for maximum publicity for her for minimal personal cost, she's a disgraceful chancer she knew exactly what she was doing.
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  612. 13,000 people use sign language in Scotland, can't they put subtitles it would be more useful and less expensive.
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  613.  @nasty_slapper  Yes think. something sadly absent from most of the people here, an ability to think more than 5 minutes ahead about the long term consequences.
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  614. You should check out his dad. The best President you never had !!
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  615. There is a problem in New York though with Asians being attacked by black men, but of course that doesn't fit because it's the wrong type of racism.
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  616. That doesn't make any sense, the budget for ICU must be a lot more than 14 million, and it can't possibly be put to zero. Something wrong with these numbers.
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  617.  @andrewbayram765  Well indeed, but that's the left for you. Pre-programmed.
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  618.  Alan Braham  Ridiculous. Let's look it at the other way. Britain is a communist country or you wouldn't have communist groups like Momentum.
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  619.  @exodus1536  Countries that joined the Commonwealth Volutarily. Antigua and Barbuda Australia Bahamas, The Bangladesh Barbados Belize Botswana Brunei Darussalam Cameroon Canada Cyprus Dominica Fiji Gambia, The Ghana Grenada Guyana India Jamaica Kenya Kingdom of eSwatini Kiribati Lesotho Malawi Malaysia Maldives Malta Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Nauru New Zealand Nigeria Pakistan Papua New Guinea Rwanda Saint Lucia Samoa Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Solomon Islands South Africa Sri Lanka St Kitts and Nevis St Vincent and The Grenadines Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tuvalu Uganda United Kingdom United Republic of Tanzania Vanuatu Zambia
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  620.  Alan Braham  And yet there are hundreds of far left/communist organisations. How do the fascists put up with it? Normally the first thing they would do is shut down opposition...
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  621. "expert" is very generous.
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  622. Pathetic these vegans.
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  623. Jacob for PM !! He would stand up for Britain and wouldn't put up with any of this woke nonsense, plus he would sort out the EU in short order.
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  624.  @olafbloodaxe5931  True though isn't it? Sounds like an oxymoron, but it is the actual situation, same as the millionaire Hollywood Marxist crowd.
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  625.  @Azro35  Not really, I quite like the idea of a Souk in Morocco...In Morocco, in Paris I want French culture.
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  626. How many companies is that then? Can you name any? I have heard of companies opening up distribution centres or brass plaque offices, but entirely relocating? Not many, in fact it has been the opposite. Shell and Unilever for example two massive companies moved out of the EU to the UK entirely. Maybe they should be invited on to explain why they chose Britain over the EU.
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  627.  @ericlackford6718  I think you misunderstood my comment...the pupils are six years old... they can't stand up to it, and the teachers are just doing what they are told, indeed many of them may well think it doesn't go far enough. Why do we have "pride" flags in Primary schools? It's quite mad !!
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  628. That's not how it works. The Crown is actually the highest taxed in the Country. Nobody contributes to the Sovereign Grant as such, the Monarchy holds the Crown Estates in trust, the profits from these holdings is taxed at 85%, the remainder goes to financing the Monarchy and all its estates and castles etc. Which likewise are held in trust for the Nation. The Crown is not allowed to sell any land, so anything it acquires will always be held in trust for the nation, and cannot be bought by overseas investors.
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  629. If you don't want to take the oath don't run to be an MP. We are not a Republic, we are a Constitutional Monarchy. If you want to live in a Republic move to France, see if you prefer it there. The Monarch is the head of State, if you don't like the State don't run for Parliament. You don't decide what the rules are.
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  630. The problem is no officers on the beat any more. Rather than being there and being seen, they wait for crime to happen and then arrive with their blue lights after the event. Having Bobbies on the Beat was a preventative measure, as well as being closer to the community.
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  631. As for Mystic Veg, the proof is in the pudding.
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  632. @dondoodat Sovereignty, meaning that your vote counts and that your country makes its own laws and decides its own path. What is so hard to understand?
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  633.  @nigelsynnott7344  Well this is just a further example of why you are confused. Look it up, EU regulations become law in all member states immediately they are passed in the EU, there is no ratification process. What do you mean when you say we? I was never asked about anything from 1975 until 2016. All our law had to comply with EU rules as well. So it basically over ruled our constitution and Parliament and common law. My problem is that we were little more than a vassal state. Now we have our own country back again. Isn't it wonderful !!!
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  634.  @luis_sa78  No, Scotland is part of Great Britain. Both Scotland and England were united into one country in 1707.
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  635. The Empire must expand or it will collapse. But the remaining pickings are all going to be expensive...and there is no money left in the EU coffers.
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  636.  @HueyLewisRocks  Hahahaha.
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  637. The problem is they want to force us to live in their asylum. And they are trying to recruit impressionable kids, and they are succeeding, the insanity is spreading.
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  638. We have plenty of them. But they don't allow them on TV.
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  639.  @Anonymous-qw  Yes well FPTP has its flaws just like any system, but we definitely don't want PR. Because the flaws in that system are even bigger. The politicians choose themselves and there is no way to boot them out. At least with FPTP each MP has to actually win their seat, with PR the top of the list is guaranteed a seat by virtue of being top of the list. I took great pleasure in voting SNP to boot out Jo Swinson, she not only lost her seat but left politics altogether. A massive win !!!. I hate the SNP, but Swinson had to go. With PR as leader of the party she would have been top of the list and guaranteed a seat and still in the HoC today.
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  640. Policy Director at the LSE? Good grief, how do these people get these jobs? He's a fanatical nutcase.
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  641. I think to be fair the Greens had a lot to do with it. It was them that demanded "Green Engines", but the ship was already being built, that was what caused the collapse and government takeover of Ferguson marine when they got in a dispute about the extra cost. Of course the SNP then subsequently screwed everything up due to apathy and incompetence. That's what happens when you have two completely bonkers parties working together to virtue signal rather than run things efficiently.
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  642. It's the Golden Pension Register.
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  643.  @rob338  The NHS is supposed to be there for us. Not the other way around.
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  644. Changing the gauge now would be horrifically expensive. Every bridge, tunnel and station would need to be modified as well as moving all the track the electricity lines if electrified the signals, everything., not to mention every train and carriage. It would be more economical to build an entirely new railway. Train journeys would be more comfortable for passengers though with a wider gauge, it's just not practical.
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  645. The glue they use is made from oil, which is rather ironic.
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  646. @maxwolf8055 Which company is this? If you were making enough to pay £7m a year in tax you should have hired some consultants. Nothing much changed with the Brexit deal, certainly nothing that can't be dealt with.
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  647. He's going to clean out everything but the kitchen sink, and he brought that with him.
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  648. Poland and Hungary should leave the fascist EU. It's actually quite funny, the EU ignore their own law and rules all the time.
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  649. Why a sidewinder? Surely a couple of machine gun bursts would have done the job?
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  650.  @jimjones-bk2is  Best if you stop typing now rather than reveal even more ignorance.
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  651.  @jimjones-bk2is  I advised you it was best to stop typing but you wouldn't listen.
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  652.  @JosueMartinez-ww1vj  Trump? What are you talking about? They are supposed to translate, not decide who they translate for. Sack the lot of them.
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  653. Hahaha, they can't figure out their own inverted pyramid of victimhood. The story of the Canadian footballer in the Women's world cup was pretty funny. A woman who was born a woman, but who now identifies as a man was allowed to play for the Canadian women's team as their "first transgender player "because she was actually born a woman and is a woman who currently thinks she is a man. Talk about making life complicated for the sake of it.
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  654. The Romans celebrated Saturnalia at this time of year.
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  655.  @drchrisnewton7100  Well the definition of the word proxy is that you have somebody do something on your behalf. if you do it yourself it is not proxy is it?
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  656.  @drchrisnewton7100  But that is not the case. There are three countries actively involved, Russia Belarus and Ukraine. Russia is not attacking NATO, they are attacking Ukraine. Many countries are supporting Ukraine not just NATO members, NATO just happens to have the umbrella of operational facilities in place for the members use but it is not a united NATO defence effort, each country or group of countries (like the EU Commission) assisting Ukraine is acting on their own initiative. If Russia had persuaded Belarus to attack on their own whilst Russia supplied them with arms and NATO as a group supported as a unit defending Ukraine, then you would have a Proxy War, but if Russia are directly involved it isn't a Proxy war because they are directly involved, by definition if they are directly involved they are not using a Proxy.
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  657.  @gabrielajonczyk5663  Absolute nonsense. Money is not finite. We know that because the Fed or any central bank can just issue more money. If you export goods then money comes into the country from abroad, if you import goods then money leaves the country, so the amount of money in a country at any one time changes. It's like saying wood is finite, you cut down a tree there is now less wood in nature, but if you plant 5 trees for every tree you cut down, in a few years there will be more wood available and you still have the furniture you made from the first tree. So his whole argument is based on a fallacy. How come the GDP of the US was 16 trn in 2014 and 25 trn last year? Where did all that extra money come from...?
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  658.  @ralphbernhard1757  Emotion? Not really. It's actual History. You seem a trifle emotional though. Are you all right?
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  659. So just worked out some back of envelope calculations. There were 173 ICU beds in Scotland before Covid, it peaked at 570 or so but I presume it is back to about 200 now. Checking online a bed costs around £2,000 a day not including medicines or doctors, but let's go with that, so that's 730k per bed per year times 200 beds works out at about £146m a year. Best check what that £14m is for exactly.
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  660.  @bca-biciclindcuaxel7527  I will know what?
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  661. And now Susan has left Youtube. So that's Ardern, Sturgeon, Wojcicki, next up Trudeau, Macron and Rishi.
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  662.  @letmeexplain1816  In an average year around 17,000 die from flu in the UK, in 2020 Jan-Aug there were 394 deaths from the flu.
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  663. So the EU wants to encourage illegal immigration and overloaded boats crossing the Med? Interesting.
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  664.  @ponyclub3198  The guy has obviously given him some attitude. The border guard is reacting he wouldn't say "we're the boss not you" unless the guy had been trying to tell him what to do, given him some order...
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  665. Dont forget Uncles, aunts, first cousins, second cousins removed, grandchildren, great grandchildren, godchildren, distant cousins, step brothers, step sisters, step brothers uncles, step brothers aunts, step sisters, brothers who used to be sisters, sisters who used to be brothers, and Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben.
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  666. ​ @Jamie-ro6sx  It's more about morals than gadgets. Oh and we have had ovens since we have had bread so about 6,000 years. Society has gone a bit mad, with people thinking they can change sex at will, people who think stealing from one person to give to another is being compassionate. encouraging single parenthood with big subsidies. We have moved into a period of selfishness and hedonism, which history tells us is the final stage before civilisation collapses, so we yearn for a past where success was something to be strived for, not the "result of exploiting workers", where people who lived in the same house had the same surname instead of one each, a family as opposed to a collection of people living in the same house. That's what they mean, a time when morals mattered rather than gimme a handout.
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  667.  @earnestequivocation6250  I don't know why there is a problem with P&O, poor management I would say given their recent behaviour. It's pretty easy to work it out just go there and ask. I haven't heard of farmers being forced on to the dole, where have you made this story up from? No problems around me the farmers all seem very wealthy.
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  668.  @earnestequivocation6250  Yes it must have. What is your point exactly? The tragic Truss travesty sounds like an old Clive Dunn joke, did you read it in the i? The font of all remainer wisdom?
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  669.  @earnestequivocation6250  Yes I am sorry about that, come back when you know more.
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  670. It's called comedy. Something Hamza Yousef has banned in Scotland. Just as a matter of interest, do you really think the "First Minister" should be from a party that didn't come first in the election? Also do you think that the Scottish Cabinet should have 27 positions? 25 of which go to SNP politicians (out of 59) pocketing an extra 30k a year? Don't you think that having 42% of your MSPs in the Cabinet is some sort of expensive tax payer funded gravy train talking the piss out of the Scottish Taxpayer?
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  671.  @DaciGotYou  There are 27 ministers. (10+17) most of them with made up titles they each get 30k extra a year. The SNP with 59 seats have 25 ministers, 42% of their seats, for comparison if that was in WM the Tories would have 149 ministers !!! The SNP did not win the election they came first but needed the greens to actually have a majority, it's a coalition. It's a comedy segment everything they say is for a laugh. The Scottish "Parliament" is a complete waste of time, it is divisive, regressive and unconstitutional. We should have a referendum, but it should be a referendum on abolishing Holyrood, that's what would be best for Scotland. Only an SNP minion would think having 27 ministers out of 129 MSPs was a "low" ratio.
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  672. What a load of bollocks these people espouse.
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  673. So the comments from the supporters of this bizarre new thing have all been deleted. Why is that? Where did Eli G and Blazer disappear to? Or were they so ashamed they deleted their comments?
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  674. Let me paraphrase, Give us money.
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  675. Well that's easy as Biden said you can sum America up in a single word ! Asufutimaehaehfutbw. You know;- the thing...
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  676. There's a housing shortage, What's the solution? Tax Landlords. That's SNP genius at work.
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  677. Are pilchards acceptable for the slapping?
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  678.  @03MARA01  Nobody said benefits would be "imminent". Who do you think said that? In fact we were told that it would be awful, that there would be queues at Dover and factory closures and mass unemployment and all the planes would be grounded and nobody would make any deals with us because we were too small, and the pound would crash and there would be no food on the shelves and well the list was endless and pounded out daily. When does all that happen? Freedom of movement isn't that useful, it isn't forbidden now, you can still go, there are loads of ways to go, they have millions of migrants from Africa and the Middle East roaming about, I'm sure it will be no trouble for a young Brit. Apply and fill out the forms, you would have to do that anyway, register for health and tax etc. Where do you want to go? Do you speak the language yet? That's very important you will need it !
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  679. So who would be President and have all that extra power to wield? Boris Johnson? How about Jacob Rees Mogg or Nigel Farage? Would that be better? Nice to see all of Lorna's supporters turn out though I think hundreds is a bit of an exaggeration, looks like a few dozen maybe.
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  680. Hahahahaha. You have to love the liberal tears.
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  681. Hilarious, mind you the EU probably believe their own propaganda. The EU have done nothing except hold meetings.
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  682. And remember that 70% of people giving their opinion on yougov are lefties.
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  683. A Theory is just something for which we do not have empirical irrefutable evidence. Conspiracies are everywhere, a business is a bunch of people conspiring to make money, a political party is a bunch of people conspiring to impose their belief system, a football team is conspiring to win the game etc.
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  684.  @magfes9209  Great, change away. So explain how you are going to make enough steel without coal. In the past we always had something better when things change. Something more efficient or faster or that provided improved quality. So how are you going to make enough steel without coal?
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  685. Why are the EU funding Palestine? They shouldn't be meddling in the first place.
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  686. Or the traditional recipe. Arrive late Introduce loads of people nobody has ever heard of and mispronounce all their names. Forget where you are and look around desperately for clues hoping someone will tell you why you are there, whilst mumbling. Tell a story about some old relative and make up an irrelevant proverb. Say it's no joke, I'm not kidding as you say that spending 5 trillion won't cost a dollar.. Tell a story about taking a train to visit your aunt when you were an engine driver in 1874. Take a short nap Accuse everyone else of causing the problem whatever it happens to be and remind them they need to shape up. Refuse to answer questions and walk off.
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  687. I hope the omens from the Sibyl were satisfactory.
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  688. What about the Termites? Termites produce four times the CO2 that all human activity produces, if CO2 is the problem start by doing some serious Termite Extermination.
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  689. I don't get this Billie Eilish adoration. It sounds awful to me, just heavy breathing with a random note stuck here and there.
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  690. What a load of nonsense, she tried to arrange a private session which is fair enough given her profile, the press would have had a field day otherwise, and then has just paid the fine. 3 points makes no difference to your insurance premium, so it wasn't that either. There is absolutely nothing to see here, people get speeding fines all the time, no big deal. It's just another excuse to hound her and indeed any Tory or Brexiteer.
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  691. Nonsense Simon, I lived in France for many years, I had a few racist encounters and a bit of resentment but not many, for the most part the French were very grateful that we helped them. They feel that the bombings of Brest and St Nazaire were justified. We also helped them a lot too like Operation Jericho where Mosquitoes precision bombed a Prison in Amiens, demolishing the outer wall to allow resistance fighters to escape. De Gaulle and Winston didn't see eye to eye to put it politely, indeed Churchill rearranged his funeral so that his coffin would leave from Waterloo Station because he knew De Gaulle would be there, having lived in London for most of the war De Gaulle knew how the British State worked and knew we weren't compatible with Europe and wouldn't fit in. Britain has always been amenable to creating alliances to keep the tyrants down, we sided with the Germans against Napoleon and the French against the Kaiser and Hitler. We have been allies and enemies of almost every country on the continent at one time or another haha.
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  692. Well I can't wait to see all these taxes change the weather, it's quite exciting really, one of the greatest achievements of humanity. A wonderful future where nobody is glued to the M25.
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  693.  @macdonaldmaurice  Right so you agree they are not elected but appointed. And they are appointed for the full term of the Commission, so we have a situation for example in Sweden where they have a new government which is more on the right, but their Commissioner was appointed by the previous Government on the left. So it is not representative of Sweden, and EU law takes precedence, so the people of Sweden are effectively disenfranchised. And the vote of censure is for the entire commission, not one commissioner. Hence why the Santer Commission had to resign when Edith Cresson was too corrupt even for EU standards of Corruption, and they couldn't cover it up any more.
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  694.  @domi9577  A company does not pay corporation tax on money it pays to its employees, that's a cost it is deducted from the company's income before corporation tax is applied. The death tax is applied to the estate, not the recipients, effectively the dead person is being taxed for dying.
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  695.  @msto1987  Interesting idea. So you want all the rich people, who pay most of the taxes collected, to leave, and replace them with poor migrants. You do realise that will make you one of the Nouveaux riches- relatively speaking... So I hope you will be glad to be paying all those taxes. You will need to make up for a lot as the rich people will have all left...with most of the jobs !!!
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  696.  @msto1987  I would far rather we paid very little tax, just enough to cover a small government, our Defence, our Police and our Emergency services and roads, and locally things like rubbish collection and general upkeep of the town streetlights and some social care. Then we would all have more money and could choose the services we want and who provides them and pay for those, instead we are all forced to pay for everything which gives very poor results where everything ends up mediocre.
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  697.  @msto1987  Well you say that, but very rich people work really hard ! And they can easily move somewhere else. When France tried to tax the very rich, loads of them left the country, and they ended up taking in about the same as before, it was the middle class that made up the difference. That's what happens, the very rich leave, so the rich pay more, so they leave, so the high earning middle class pay more, and then they leave and eventually it's you paying more because everybody else has left, or stopped putting in any effort. If the State is going to take 70% of my earnings...Hey I'm rich...instead of working I'll go and spend my cash somewhere warm instead of busting my butt to pay for you !! Anyway as usual, having lost the initial argument you are now arguing about something else, and obviously we will never agree, because you want Communism, and I definetely don't so best to leave it here...Cheers !!
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  698.  @msto1987  I know what "that" means I don't need to look it up. I understand now why you don't understand anything. Have a Lovely day.
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  699. She is guilty. absolutely no doubt in my mind.
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  700. Excellent as usual, just one detail. It was Newark Airport in 1945, they changed it to La Guardia in 1953.
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  701.  @SonOfExcess  I doubt that, The Tories haven't been doing a great job recently, but at least they aren't bonkers. Just look at Wales !
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  702.  @peterjohnson5132  What does the situation in the Middle East have to do with being right wing or left wing. Well aside from the Left Wing in the UK and the US having adopted Palestine for some reason. Many countries label Hamas Terrorists including the UK. Hamas were the ones who slaughtered people and launched rockets. The conflicts over this land have been going on for centuries, long before anybody had a notion of Left and Right wing. And he's not crying. He is incredulous that somebody who had such a position of oversight can be so biased.
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  703.  @joeoreilly1479  You mean me? No you are very wrong about that. I don't believe any of them. Especially the Mainstream channels. The guy interviewed here was so openly biased and Patrick's questioning forced him to expose his bias, the BBC would have thrown him a few softball questions and then nodded a lot and agreed with. That's the difference. Nothing to do with the channel's bias, a few probing questions that wouldn't have been asked elsewhere and the guy showed his hand.
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  704.  @poopoppy  Haha, you mean he showed himself to be a Hamas sympathiser.
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  705.  @wills2408  It's what they always do. There are a few children coming on Dinghies, so they talk about that and ignore the fact that 95% of those coming are young fighting age men. In the LGBT debate there are two genders and a handful of intersex people, so they talk about them. It's always the exceptions that they want to talk about, until it's the exceptions causing all the trouble in which case they switch to "the majority are not like that". It's just anything that will further their cause. This guy is obviously on the side of Hamas, he should never have been in an oversight position in the first place.
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  706. Courtney says they might struggle with the weather in Gaza come October. This is why you shouldn't have these people who think the weather in the Middle East is the same as where she lives on TV. In October the temperature drops to 28 degrees C, it's the Mediterranean, a sheltered sea, you might have a rough day now and again, any time of year, but it's hot and clear almost all year round.
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  707. It's Ok to chose Mr Right based on how far he leans left ---> No problem It's Ok to be white ----> Is racist and will be investigated by the Police. It really is a mad world we live in.
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  708. If you are a they/them, then you have to use We. Otherwise you will be singular in the first person and plural in the third person, which of course is illogical. Of course, this level of narcissism is not compatible with understanding basic grammar. The whole thing is an exercise in exerting power.
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  709.  @dunnwell7780  Which law was broken?
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  710.  @dunnwell7780  If it's not illegal, he did nothing wrong, when did it become illegal to drive about the country? It was advice, not an order. However this is missing the point. The point I was making to the original poster is that it is an opinion, not a fact, he didn't break any law. He may be morally at fault and that is debatable, he was thinking of his child,, but either way that is not illegal.
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  711. Good grief folks, you are paying this person's ( have to careful these days) salary.
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  712. Just plant your own money tree. Duuuh.
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  713. It should be colour blind also. We now have "protected groups" who have their own laws. Not only is it bonkers it's unconstitutional, the law is supposed to apply to everyone the same.
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  714. Or as commonly seen in slow moving traffic, the nose pick of contempt.
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  715. Of course there is, do you make a joke about somebody dying of cancer, not unless they have been dead for a long time, certainly not when they are alive, for goodness sake some words are considered bad taste. So theses guys sitting in their supposedly rich country think it is funny to laugh at people dying of hunger and disease elsewhere...How obnoxiously nauseatingly self-centredly snooty can you be?
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  716. QMV in action. The Remainers will tell you everyone has a veto. Well they do but only now in a few sectors, almost all vetoes have been removed and instead of Unanimity it's almost all done by Qualified Majority Vote.
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  717.  @CallOfCutie69  Pawns must battle their way to the last rank and then they are rewarded for their effort with promotion, that is not the same thing as randomly transitioning at all.
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  718. Try that in a small town...
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  719. Jacob previously said he had no interest in being PM while his children are young. However the Country needs him.
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  720. +Mishell Cornell Sorry I don't understand. Are you suggesting that all 17.4 million who voted leave have to go and live in England/Sunderland?
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  721. Which is exactly why I voted No.
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  722. Matthew Hayden I doubt it very much. 80% of Scottish MPs are lefties, if you count SNP as left as Labour. It would be a nice dream to think Scotland would be forced to give up their socialist ways, but look at North Korea. they have managed to limp along for decades without having to change. It would have been good for England for sure, but Scotland would have been a mess for ages, possibly 30 years or more, before anybody woke up to reality.
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  723. And yet the survey was Europe wide, so 60% of people Europe wide did not even know who Juncker or Shulz was. That can only be a deliberate policy of the EU to not communicate, they do after all have a massive budget. If they can't even inform the people of Europe who they are voting for for President that suggests more a voluntary lack of communication to hide it. Oh and as I say I did watch the debate. Face it the EU is just a big power trip for failed politicians.
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  724. Which has nothing to do with the topic, if the EU wanted to publicise its machinations it could easily do so. When we had the referendum on Brexit were the debates held on the Parliament channel? If these people had higher profiles people would be more interested in what is going on, but they slink about. Face it they could spend 500 million euros on communication, a plenty large enough budget and let people know who they are voting for and the decisions they make or the topics they are discussing, but they don't they do however have 10,000 people in Brussels who are paid more than the British Prime minister.so they have 1.5 billion for that....
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  725. Ask people who the EPP are, they won't have a clue.
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  726. Indeed, and the same is happening in the Labour party, however if the population is not happy with what happens next we can take steps to oust them and force a new General election. What can we do about the EU ? The EU is a repository for failed politicians, apparently mentioning Mr Kinnock is not satisfactory, Ok let me  name a few more. How about Edith Cresson, catastrophic Prime Minister of France named as French Commissioner eventually booted out for corruption of even the EU (an exception). Mr Juncker oversaw a large tax scam for international companies who could base themselves in Luxembourg, eventually booted out by his own people he is now the President of the Commission, and incidentally is in charge of investigating the large tax scam he instigated in Luxembourg... I wonder how that will turn out? I can go on... The EU is a big repository for failed politicians a retirement home with a big golden pension.. no wonder the politicians are for it, it is their "fall back" for when the get kicked out by their own people for a nice cushy number.  However somebody like Marta Andreason  who blew the whistle on the EU's inability/\(corruption) to manage their accounts was booted out for failing to show sufficient loyalty and respect for pointing out the accounts were fucked up and refusing to sign them off. No pension for her. The EU sucks, face it, anybody who supports it needs their head examined. 
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  727. Best of Both Worlds, Darmok, Starship Mine, and I would put The Inner Light at number one.
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  728. It's our government that is lowering the standard of trolling?
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  729. Jan Schlossar I don't see the connection. Immigrants forcing down wages will not be able to come in the numbers they did before and cheap goods means more buying power especially for the poorer, and cheap goods don't put a strain on social services. So all those things are positives for Britain.
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  730. Jan Schlossar I haven't a clue what you are talking about now. It does appear you have a racist view of things. Controlled immigration means we decide who can come, that's all. If anybody from anywhere has the skills we need then they can come, nothing submissive or racist about it.
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  731. We are trading with the rest of the world but the EU forces us to charge tariffs. The NHS just treats people, unless you take their details you can't forward the bill, when the idea was broached about getting people's details it was declared to be racist. There is no reason the government would reduce funding for anything. We have more influence because we have our own voice back. Do you have more influence when you speak for yourself or when you let somebody else speak for you?
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  732. Jan Schlossar  You haven't made any points you have only spouted abuse.
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  733. Jan Schlossar So much hatred in such a small brain.
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  734. Jan Schlossar No that's you in a nutshell. Why do you even care?
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  735. Jan Schlossar You mean by getting you your freedom back? You might not like being free, but it is a lot better than being in an EU straightjacket, you will see... It gives you a lot more credibility, you get more respect standing up to tyranny, than laying down and being trodden on.
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  736. You are the one talking bollocks, you'll see.
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  737. Not at all, only Westminster can give another referendum and that is unlikely to happen, the polls were wrong about the EU referendum, the last election and the Scottish referendum, Nicola Sturgeon is pushing ahead with the Named Person Act which is costing her a lot of support. It just isn't going to happen. Once the Scots see the benefit of being out of the EU they aren't going to want to leave the UK to join the EU, which is illogical anyway, how is that independence? Leave the UK and hand the power to Brussels...Bananas.
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  738. What EU money? The EU doesn't have any money...It's our money, we give it to them and then they send some of it back and spend the rest on their big salaries and expense accounts and buildings. If we didn't send it them in the first place we could be doing this sort of thing ourselves, and keeping the change.
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  739. Nobody took it away, it was progressively given away by various PMs by signing us up to treaties without asking the people if they wanted to go in that direction. When asked they answered. You are quite right the 350million was wrong, when you add in the invisible extra payments, like the 4/5 of VAT and import duties we pay to the EU plus the fines they lump us with, it is more like 400million a week.
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  740. +Michael Purser I would disagree with you. Attlee's nationalisation programme was a disaster in the long run. Almost everything he nationalised was either closed or reprivatized because it was failing. The only survivor is the NHS which is not great, (waiting lists, drug rationing, a large percentage of hospitals in "special measures") and constantly pleading for more money. This is what is predicted by capitalist thinking. Nationalise and you will have a short period of improvement, but then it goes into decline through lack of vision and investment, which means after a time it becomes uncompetitive, inefficient and eventually collapses, which is exactly what happened.
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  741. +Chris I see, so first hand experience is now anecdotal evidence....OK
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  742. +Keith Mahon So you think personal first hand experience of over 30 years is anecdotal? So what is it? Your first comment says economists opinions have no validity, and then my first hand experience as a user has no validity, so what do you consider a valid opinion? Yours?
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  743. Of course I know what anecdotal means, do you want more anecdotes from more of my family, the ones who died in the care of the NHS? Bit hard for my friend who died because they refused to transfer him to a suitable unit for his condition, or my Dad who had a stroke and when I flew home to see him urgently I found him in the storage cupboard with boxes of latex gloves and syringes etc. I could go on... At some point anecdotal evidence is justifiable evidence, and I would argue perfectly sufficient for a discussion on youtube. In the UK you have to start receiving cancer treatment in a maximum of 9 weeks, on the continent there is no such rule, because if you have cancer your treatment starts immediately. I would suggest that has a large influence on the stats for cancer outcomes than your excuses above.
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  744.  @Robo94100  My position is Geeksqueaks shouldn't presume. Maybe the guy was a professional footballer from a deprived background, does that count as privilege? The whole Privilege thing is based on jealousy, he's rich so he must be privileged. It's a sort of cancer. It's an excuse for inaction. What will these people do when they have stolen all the wealth of the privileged? Who will they rob the following year? And the year after that? and the year after that? Soon you will be the privileged one !!!
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  745.  @geeksqueak7123  I don't consider being wealthy privilege, anybody can be wealthy if they work hard enough.
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  746.  @geeksqueak7123  That's why those without wealth need to stop whingeing and get working. How do you mean redress the balance? You mean stealing from people who have and giving it to people who don't' Who decides who will be stolen from and who will receive? As I say what will you do next year when those who have wealth have left? Who will be the privileged then? You assume he is wealthy, maybe he isn't, maybe instead of going abroad on holiday every year for five years, the family stayed home and played Cluedo, and he spent the money on building flood defences for his house. Maybe he's a builder and built them himself on weekends. How do you know? You assume he is privileged because it fits your narrative, and you are still trying to defend it.
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  747. YaHozna1 And why does Venezuela have no other income? Because they nationalised everything, dictated prices and scared all the business away. Doesn't that remind you of Mr. Corbyn at all? And actually for business the Chinese are now way more capitalist than we are and they have no benefit system at all !! They do have state control of a lot of things but Corbyn wants that more than May does.
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  748. Haha that's brilliant. Don't look at the cause (socialism) blame the CIA. Peru doesn't have the same problems or Bolivia or Columbia. Venezuela was in crisis long before the oil price plummeted. Consumers win with capitalism. There is competition which forces prices down and forces innovation. That's why flights have become so much cheaper over the past 15 years, that's why phones are so cheap and calls are so cheap. When you have real free markets prices go down, and nobody forces you to buy the products it's a voluntary exchange. Nationalisation gives you one option to buy from so there is no incentive to improve or reduce price because there is no other option for the consumers so no need to do anything to improve, that's why everything that Attlee nationalised has either disappeared or been reprivatised. In Venezuela they forced for example bakers to sell bread for less that it cost to make, so the bakers closed, so now there is no bread, please tell me how the CIA managed to force the government to do that... Anywhere socialism has been implemented it has failed. Why don't you give me an example of where it works?
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  749.  @zigwinger2915  Fascinating. Never mind you will realise that's all bullshit eventually. This is the problem with socialism it completely denies reality, human nature and common sense to create a fictional utopia where every socialist believes they will be in charge and be benevolent, whereas the reality is they would be little more than chattel bossed about by even more tyrannical leaders than you get with democracy...Because you do realise the first thing a socialist regime does is remove the opposition, then it goes for its own useful idiots (you) and leaves the sheep.. But to return to your own version of this insanity. Why for example fifteen? Why not 14 or 27? You do realise that the result would be millions of companies with 14 employees? People aren't as stupid as you think... Why is it so unimaginable to employ someone to sweep the floor you have a lack of understanding of the enormous possible businesses. I whittle wooden spoons. Without my whittling skill there is no job for the sweeper. Anyway it's been hilarious. Thanks for the entertainment.
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  750.  @TheNathanX100  It most certainly did. But it was no surprise, Socialists want to take other people's stuff, but they don't want anybody touching their stuff !!! How many socialists must have won the lottery over the years? How many then redistributed the prize? Tells you all you need to know.
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  751.  @TheNathanX100  Haha, so how would you define redistribution of wealth? How would you define the workers owning the means of production? How do they take ownership of this means of production? That's what socialism is all about, take from one and give to another, and of course you need someone to decide who is to be taken from and who is deserving of receipt. What a concept, it's insane to want that.
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  752.  @mikeobrien9822  Of course, it's up there with Cancer as one of the worst scourges humanity faces.
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  753. +deschepper Indeed the UK will still have to follow the rules of the single market FOR THE GOODS it sells into the EU. This is the same as having to follow the rules for the goods it sells into the USA or anywhere else, about which we have no say on the regulations. However if we decide we want to have nice powerful vacuum cleaners in the UK we can, if we want to use incandescent light-bulbs, we can. As only about 4.5% of UK GDP actually goes to the EU, this will free up the other 95% of the country from having to follow ridiculous rules We can make our own decisions about what affects us. Do you understand sovereignty now?
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  754. deschepper Rubbish, we can choose our own light-bulbs and make our own arrangements. Norway does not apply all the rules. Only those it chooses to. And once again you fail to understand that in the EEA the UK would have to apply the rules to the goods it sells into the EU, that's all, not the goods sold domestically or exported to the US. We couldn't be in the EEA anyway because then there would have to be freedom of movement, so that option is not possible.  I don't believe freedom of movement is on the table, evidently immigration is a big issue if we end up with freedom of movement anyway after having left, there would have been no point in leaving, if there is no deal at all that would be fine with me it would harm the EU more than the UK.  
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  755. Nonsense, my goodness you are indoctrinated aren't you. I didn't say the vote was ALL about immigration, but it was a significant issue. You are wrong about Norway, they choose to apply most of the rules but they don't have to. The free movement between North and South Ireland was implemented in the 1920's, long before the EU was even dreamt of, so that will not change. The economy will not collapse if there is no agreement, first of all our goods exports to the EU is about 45% of our exports which is only about 9% of GDP so we are talking about 4% of GDP, even if we exported nothing at all to the EU that would not constitute a collapse, and tell me how those airbus planes are going to take off without the wings made in Wales and the Rolls Royce engines made in Derby? At most there would be a contraction of around 2%, and of course with all the extra trade we will be doing with the rest of the world there probably won't be any contraction at all probably in increase in growth, in the meantime, all those German and French cars (13% of French production goes to the UK) would be a lot more expensive in the UK and lose out to locally produced cars which would boost the internal economy. This would cause the stagnant EU economy to go into negative territory. It is going to hurt the EU a lot more than us. Wine from South Africa and Chile and Australia would be more competitive than French and Spanish and Italian wine, so they would lose out also. You seem to think that it is only possible to buy things from the EU, as we have our sovereignty back we can make trade deals with who we want and import from anywhere no need to be focussed on the EU any more, and we can also sell easier to the rest of the world as we are no longer bound by the extremely protectionist EU. The financial sector will not suffer, yes maybe they have to open an office in the EU somewhere with a handful of people, but the transactions will still be done through the City, just the paperwork will be done in the branch office. There are only positives from having left, if anybody has to worry it is the EU.
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  756. I suggest you look it up yourself Norway does not implement all the directives. The Irish and British PMs met two days ago and declared there would be no changes to the free movement rules. So you are wrong again. You don't need a trade agreement to trade, the EU does not have a trade agreement with China, but imports a massive amount, same with the USA. Trade agreements will not take years to negotiate because it will only be between the UK and the trading partner. It takes the EU years because they have to take into consideration the views and interests of 28 countries and the trading partner and they all have to agree, that's why they only have 31 active deals in 60 years of existence (and many of them are with such financial powers as the Faroe Isles, Jersey, and Albania). The financial sector will find a way it always does, and it won't need masses of people, as we are currently in the EU we are already applying all the rules at the moment so there is nothing new to learn or change except the address on the notepaper. As for article 50, well I agree with you on that let's invoke it straight away, or even better just repeal the 1972 European Communities Act which would mean we leave immediately.
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  757. You haven't explained anything, you've made a few sweeping wild generalisations and assumptions. Trade is not done between countries but between companies and people, yes a trade deal can make things easier but it isn't necessary. I would be more than happy with WTO rules with the EU and no deal, However it may have escaped your notice that loads of countries have lined up to establish trade deals with the UK since Brexit. (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Brazil, Ghana and even the USA who said we would be at the back of the queue) to name a few. By my reckoning that gives a market of some 3.5 billion people, 8 times bigger than the EU. We'll see who comes crawling to who...
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  758. irene lavin Clearly you didn't read any of my posts here.
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  759. Well that's a typically vapid answer. You got everything mixed up and skewed it to your viewpoint. I knocked out your statements one by one. Oh and I know nothing about trading do I ? Only been in  import export for 30 years. 
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  760. The Beyonder Don't waste your time on him. Some people just don't live in the real world, there is no point, he is never going to change his opinion. His imaginary "facts" are good enough for him.
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  761. Defeated? You didn't rebut anything, all you said was "I am right you are wrong" (which you weren't) that's not defeating anything, that's sticking your fingers in your ears and going LALALALALALALA. You SNP fanatics are all the same, complete losers.
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  762. I know you dol. You should try something different.
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  763. +Irene lavin The Greeks were indeed allowed to join the euro under false pretences, however they have not been allowed to leave. The way to deal with their crisis is to devalue the currency. This, they are not allowed to do because they do not control their own money. They could solve the problem by leaving the Euro, but the EU will not let them, instead they are telling them how to run their own country and forcing more debt on them. They would never have got into such a deep mess if they had their own currency as the borrowing rates would have steadily risen, the Euro prevented that. The fact is the EU is scared the Euro would collapse completely if they left, because the Italians and others would follow them, and the Euro underpins the whole EU project. So the Greeks are forced into EU servitude with no hope of redressing the situation.
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  764. I suggest you learn how it works before commenting further. Here you are: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/institutions-bodies/european-commission_en#what-does-the-commission-do? "The Commission is the sole EU institution tabling laws". Can't be clearer than that and straight from the horse's mouth.
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  765. +Yoda It is quite clear only the Commission can propose law, nobody else, no other part of the EU. This is not about alterations the Parliament try to do that. If it is a new law then it can only come from the Commission. What does this mean? It means if they don't like something it never goes anywhere, it is not debated at all, and also if their law is refused by the other institutions they can put it out again and again with new titles or hidden in other propositions until it gets passed. These people who are unelected by the people, are the only body that can instigate new law. Oh and I would like to hear what you think happened in Greece...
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  766. It's quite astonishing the state of mind of these EU junkies. Even after being shown the very page where the EU commission states they are the only body that can table new legislation., they still refuse to believe it. Amazing! Apparently even faced with the facts they are still in denial.  I suppose with this sort of blind belief the EU may last a little longer yet. Hereditary peers were removed from the house of Lords in 1999, the EU commission is appointed and then rubber stamped as a unit by the parliament, each case is not voted on individually, and once again this is not the people electing commissioners, they are appointed and then approved by the very people who hope to be on it in the future, obviously it would not be a good career move to vote against it. The big difference in the UK is that anybody can table a new bill, yes it is harder if you are not in government or a backbencher, but anybody can do it, the Lords too. However in the EU only the commission can do this. 28 unelected people holding sway over 500 million....
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  767. +Yoda It is your own IQ you should be concerned about. You can't even comprehend a simple line of text and persistently refuse to understand how things work, even when it comes from the EU commission's own website and states things quite clearly you still want to make up alternative facts to fit your fantasy. Quite astonishing, no wonder the EU has lasted this long with such deliberate and persistent ignorance.
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  768. +Yoda There you are at it again, you said only the Commission can propose "alterations", now are you blatantly lying. It's amazing you can't even be bothered to check what you wrote. You can't have caught me out lying because everything I have said is well researched truth, the only one lying here is you, you just make things up to suit your delusions, and then convince yourself your delusions are facts. Quite worrying. you should see someone about that before it becomes more serious. Quite right I am for Brexit, a feeling that grew during the thirty plus years I lived in Europe (which I love) and which was especially reinforced during my time in the Netherlands, where by the way they would vote out in a minute if given a chance. Wanting to leave the EU (or rather see its total demise) is not being anti-European, on the contrary I want to see the states of Europe returned to their rightful owners. Now kindly toddle off and leave the discussion to the adults thanks.
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  769.  @hannahd6513  Why do you presume such a thing? At the moment the state pays for absolutely everything. In any case it's not about who pays it's about providing better care.
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  770. Just to be clear up a bit about the East India Company. Briefly, it was a state (crown) sponsored monopoly. The crown defended the rights of the EIC to be the sole importers and exporters with India. They did not subjugate the Indian people, they worked with them to try and keep out the Dutch and Portuguese, most battles were between the EIC and VOC (Dutch East India company) and the Portuguese Estado de India. The EIC joined forces with certain local Maharajas and the Mughals to raise troops for these fights, eventually chasing out the Dutch and the Portuguese.  The Industrial revolution and the rise of laissez faire economics and capitalism caused the EIC to lose its monopoly status ( as monopoly was now perceived as detrimental) and eventually declare bankruptcy at which point it was taken over by the crown as the Raj. So Britain (the state) never actually invaded India, it just took over the institutions and vehicles of the EIC and ran the country through that, and mostly with the agreement of the local rulers.
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  771. You can check it out. Just google the East India Company. As time went by relations broke down as the Raj was not the same as the EIC (now the state was running things not a private company with investments to think about) and indeed the British Army took over from the private army of the EIC and there were atrocities on both sides (eg. Amritsar, Black Hole of Calcutta). However you stated Britain invaded India which was not the case, the crown took over a company...
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  772. The British Indian Army was made up of a very large proportion of Indians. A lot of people do things they don't want to even today to feed their families. The point is that you said that Britain invaded India which it never did. Victoria was called the Empress of India, Elizabeth II is called the Queen of the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand....so what? Britain governed India at the time so it was perfectly normal. Slavery has been around since the earliest times, socialist/communist states have used it too (Soviet Gulags for example). Slavery has nothing to do with capitalism indeed it was the capitalists that worked hardest to abolish it.
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  773. India was a sort of Feudal system the country was divided into territories ruled over by a local King if you like, the Mughal empire and the maharajas. Much like the Dutch and the British fought each other at times at other times they were allied, this was similar in India, sometimes these various rulers would be friends and at others they would fight. Hence occasional battle in which the EIC's troops would sometimes fight on one side or the other, if you look you will see though that mainly the EIC was interested in fighting the Dutch and the Portuguese., not the Indians Free Market Capitalism has its flaws but I would take those any day over any other system especially socialism which has never worked when tried, as it is against basic human nature and relies basically on an all supreme leadership keeping the people in equal depravation and poverty. The problem today is that we don't really have capitalism and free markets, we have engineered markets and crony capitalism whereby the state favours some companies over others meaning it is very hard for competitive forces to enter the market and drive prices down for consumers and increase innovation. It is the state intervention that does the most harm.
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  774. Well it wasn't really rule as such it was a partnership, and it ended in 1858 really but limped along until 1874. But once again there was no invasion as such the power they had just accumulated slowly over time. Once the crown took over it became more of a situation of ruler and ruled, which is why it started to break down. When you say distribution of wealth and resources what do you mean? That those who work hard and earn more should be taxed more, to give it to those who don't? That exists already. As to the government stopping monopolies, well what do you think the NHS is? It is a state created monopoly, all the industries that were nationalised by Attlee, a state monopoly ( and they all failed). The Pharmaceutical industry, it is so expensive to have a drug approved because of the state's rules it is almost impossible to start a new drug company in the UK, meaning that companies like GSK have a pseudo monopoly because of the state. I am not suggesting there should be no rules, but there are too many rules and this is the result. There are many rules and regulations which are supposed to help but which actually put up barriers to competition and actually end up hindering. Look at for example the telephone, until the 1980's BT had the monopoly, then it was gradually opened to competition, the result; now everybody has a phone sometimes more than one, calls are now cheaper in actual terms (ie disregarding inflation) than they were in the eighties, it cost back then about 2p for a local call and 10p for a long distance call a minute now for example I have a contract where I pay £7 for 250 minutes a month or around 2.5p per minute and I can call anywhere in the country. (and I have 5000 texts and 250mb of internet too). That is what free market capitalism does...It improves the quality of products and drives down prices whilst also giving people jobs with a potential to climb the ladder and earn more, or even go off and start their own business. Socialism on the other hand causes stagnation and disincentivises people from working and innovating, why would you bother you will end up with the same anyway?  
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  775. OK well let's just examine some of your points. First the NHS. The NHS is terrible. I have lived in a few countries including France and The Netherlands, the French have the top health provision in the world and it is about 50/50 public private, but very expensive to run, I would say the Dutch have the best system, let me explain how it works. Everybody has to have health insurance, if you cannot afford to pay for it then the state will pay for it. Every doctor and hospital is privately run, you can choose who your doctor is and even which hospital to go to, if you are not happy you can be transferred to another hospital, everything is covered by the insurance (About £80-£120 a month ). The doctors and hospitals are paid for what they do by the insurance companies, so if there are a lot of hip transplants the hip transplant unit has a lot of money coming in so can buy better equipment or hire more staff. This means there are no waiting lists to speak of, and no bills to pay for the user. It is not a monolithic state run monstrosity and was about 10 times better than my experience with the NHS. The state also has a pool of money which it pays out to the insurance companies who have paid for the most treatment, so nobody is refused insurance or subjected to some sort of eligibility test. The government is not involved in decision making, it is not a monopoly but hospitals compete for patients through their level of excellence. Quantifiably a much better system in my view. The railways are not really privatised because they buy a franchise (essentially a monopoly) from the state for a particular line and the state owns the track, however since this system has been introduced the private companies have caused an increase in passengers compared to the BR days of around 120% so they must be doing something right. Built in obsolescence; yes there is a bit of that, but that is also because technology advances so quickly these days that product life cycles are shorter, as to people buying the latest phone, well is it the companies fault that people are gullible? I usually have a phone which is about 3 or 4 generations behind, and only get a new one when it breaks or I get one free. Nobody forces anybody to have the latest gadget. The reason the Nationalised industries closed or were sold off again was because they were draining the coffers of the state, the government is no good at running business, they don't have the vision nor the expertise and invariable use the business as a political pawn rather than seeing it as something which should be profitable, it's a bit like the referee trying to play in the football match instead of ensuring the rules are obeyed. Tax; well it is true that the very rich can avoid it, if the government did less and needed less then they could lower the rate and it would be less interesting for people to go the trouble of avoiding it, the higher you make it the more appealing it becomes as Mr Hollande discovered when he raised taxes to 70% in France for the rich, they just moved out of the country.
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  776. @polemius01 When you have war in Afghanistan Iraq (Pakistan/Lybia), all these bases around the world 14.2 trillion in debt and the government having to beg for more money to keep running from week to week and the Federal Reserve accomodating them, these are the issues you find important? Sorry, I thought you were serious. Good luck.
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  777. It's not so easy when the Lib Dums have to explain themselves, the BBC would have nodded agreement with her "tanked the economy" comment instead of forcing her to make a fool of herself.
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  778. Barry Cryer is the chap for the Dissecting Frog quote.
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  779. Just like Sturgeon, every kid was to get a bike and a laptop....Still waiting...But it seems it's actually OK to openly bribe the electorate these days.
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  780. This lady wouldn't feel safe if the boss makes a decision? That's the job of the boss, to make decisions, if she doesn't like the decisions being made she can find another job where she will feel "safe". Good grief people have become so fragile.
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  781. I had a look at their "abuse"... Not really anything exceptional. They should try not being a woke lefty on Facebook and see the horrible abuse you face. I treat it as a badge of honour, if lefties are upset enough by common sense to hurl abuse that's a victory !!
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  782.  @isacadc4552  Why? What does the EU do that your own government can't? Why do you need the cost of your government and the cost of the EU?
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  783.  @isacadc4552  I do, it would seem you don't though. Come on what do the EU do that your own government can't?
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  784. Much of what you say is true however you seem to be missing the point. Hitler is called a fascist, but he was a socialist a National Socialist, he was obsessed with getting revenge for WWI, for that he needed the people to fight for him, to do that he needed to bring them along with him. Hence the socialism all the benefits and handouts that Germans had never had before, the social organisations, the paid holidays, Strength Through Joy. For Germans only of course, only they would be fighting for him, everyone else was disposable, and of course in time even the Germans were disposable. It was all financed by financial trickery. Did you never wonder how they went from being broke in the Weimar Republic to being an industrial powerhouse by WWII? All of it was financed through a secondary economy with Bonds that were used to pay for all the industry. These bonds had to become Reichsmarks real money by 1939 and he didn't have enough Reichmarks, so he had to plunder. The debt was created to fund the war, and the bills were paid by looting the conquered countries. There was no way for Hitler to carry on peacefully, his trickery would have come to light and it would have been all over. Once he started on the path there was only one possible destiny...War.
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  785. So if you are Black you vote for the Black candidate and if you are white you vote for the white candidate? That seems like a bad strategy if you want to win. Just saying.
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  786. Didn't take long for this to become a shitshow.
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  787. Why is he giving her good advice, that is absolutely a good plan if she wants to be President. However after Biden the Democrats are unlikely to have anybody as President for decades. Nobody would vote for this sort of disaster again.
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  788. They are trying to force the kids here in the UK to take the vaccine also.
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  789. His agenda is to become a billionaire.
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  790. They also have an airport and a ferry building company and a ferry procurement company, which is why they just ordered new ferries from Turkey.
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  791.  @Bobisalive  Devolving power, and be careful about the HoL also. What will you replace it with? An elected senate? what use would that be if both the Commons and Senate are in the hands of the same party there would be no checks on them at all, that would be very dangerous.
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  792.  @Bobisalive  To keep the main parties out? That doesn't sound very democratic. Just look at how devolution has already created divisions in the UK, the SNP won't shut up about independence, even after having a referendum on the matter, there is always an excuse for another one. Imagine that throughout England as well. Sounds like a recipe for completely fracturing the UK. The whole point of a country is to have a central government making law for us all, we would end up like the US with different laws in different Regions, what a mess. Plus they would all be squabbling for a bigger share of the budget all the time and moaning if one area gets investment...Why not us too?? Sounds bloody awful.
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  793. Well this is what happens with PR, it's a terrible system, look at all these parties abandoning what they ran on to get the votes in the first place to try and make a deal. Absolute nonsense, and the previous Government was the result of the last election not being sorted out, Rutte was merely a continuity PM, they still had not agreed things from the previous election. Belgium took 589 days to form a government and more recently 652 days. It's an absolute nightmare, we don't want that. Especially as if we have it we will have loads of parties which will fracture the vote, in the Netherlands they had 26 parties, including the party for sports and the over 50's party and the Party for the Animals. What would we have? The tinkering in sheds Party, The angling Party, The Football lads, Feminist Knitters Party? It has its flaws but FPTP is much better than PR which is a recipe for mediocrity and exactly the sort of thing we want to get rid of, wishy washy politics.
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  794. MSNBC, all they do is spread lies, if you had played along with the narrative they want to promote they would have invited you on TV. This guy is a stooge fishing for guests who will come on and say what they want to attack Musk and by association Trump. Next time they call you maybe take that approach, and then you can stitch them up on live TV !!!
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  795. Here's a question for you. I was reading about the story of Anthony, the footballer accused of assault, and one of the claims is he damaged a silicone breast implant, that prompted me to wonder can you be charged for bodily assault if you in fact assault or damage a prosthetic, like if someone had a prosthetic leg and he is kicked in the leg is that bodily harm? Because you can't inflict harm on a thing. If he was holding a cricket bat and you kicked the bat, that wouldn't be assault. Would it change anything if you knew it was a prosthetic or not? i thought it might make an interesting video.
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  796. If they want us all to see the WEF you can be sure that there is something even more sinister going on somewhere else.
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  797.  Christina G  I really fail to see the relevance. Which EU country are these people fleeing to get to Italy or Greece?
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  798.  @jorgeenchilada  Hahaha. Honestly on every topic you guys are in fantasy land. Most Billionaires support the Democrats hahaha
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  799.  @jorgeenchilada  You said billionaires support the Republicans when in fact most Billionaires support the Dems, whether you support them or not is neither here nor there. I have to say Cute is a new one though. Could you be more specific honeybunch?
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  800. Smacking is illegal in Scotland. But changing gender at 4 is legal. We have a National Socialist "Government."
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  801. I hope that race grifter doesn't get paid for spitting bile on TV.
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  802. What a snooty bitch that Mairead McGuinness is, she will get her comeuppance.
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  803. Very concerning. What is going on with our procurement, it's a mess. However I wonder if tanks are needed these days. The future is going to be air power and missiles, not sure I would want to be in a tank these days. Drones are a real concern we need super rapid fire weapons that can shoot down a drone swarm.
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  804.  @enigmakashman3501  Yes there are means to shoot down drones perhaps we need more of those units, and faster smaller vehicles with missiles rather than a tank with a big gun. The era of the tank is coming to an end I think, for our purposes anyway, I don't see another conflict involving massive tank battles.
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  805. HS2 is about the only useful thing they are spending on, at least we will end up with a new railway line all the rest of the money is just evaporating.
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  806.  @AB-kc3yc  yes I was merely giving examples. Anybody on the right has their credentials dissected, they will point out one Joe Smith from Michigan called them a Nazi in 2011 on Twitter, as if this is an important affirmation. Meanwhile the left commentators are presented as just your average person with no agenda or bias at all , speaking for what the general reasonable British public thinks. They prime the viewers by telling them who's the good guy and who's the baddie.
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  807. Another Jimmy Reid. He saved shipbuilding on the Clyde with his militant action. Oh hang on...there is no shipbuilding any more except BaE and some Ferry builder. I hope that doesn't happen with the railways too.
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  808. Are you sure this is the Beach Cis Gender Males? I think you'll find this was the Breast Feeding Birthing Persons and the Toxic Impregnators.
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  809.  @G-Cam1  Yes well the next problem is generating and transmitting the power, quite apart from the VAT issue, who is providing the energy? How long will these on-street chargers function before they break down or are vandalised? EVs are all well and good if you have an office job, but what if you are a sales rep driving hundreds of miles a day? You can't stop for two hours to charge up, it's not going to work, or if you are a delivery driver. A lot of vehicles are on the road all day, they don't just commute. They should have had all the infrastructure in place before they started pushing the cars on us. We don't have the materials to build the cars, the power generation capability, the transmission capability nor the charging infrastructure. There is no way they are going to be able to force this on us by 2035. Already Hydrogen is looking like a better option.
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  810.  @G-Cam1  I don't have any hopes other than they stop all the madness. If EV's or Hydrogen or any other technology is better then people will buy it. You can't force people to buy things that don't work. Just stop trying to force us into something it's just going to cause chaos. Hydrogen is explosive, yes, but so is petrol, and Evs also catch fire spontaneously so that's not really an argument In any case, we know it's not about the climate or saving the planet, otherwise why are they putting a 25% tariff on cheap EVs from China?
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  811.  @alistairmurray626  Well thanks for the fascinating commentary.
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  812. Hi Richard, I have some straw here if you want to clutch on that.
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  813. Albie just comes across as an entitled virtue signalling brat. Honestly he wants to take money from pensioners to send abroad !!! What a prat.
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  814. It's like the opposite of Blue Peter.
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  815. The far left is the problem.
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  816. Bollocks. People are changing how they use the internet, but that would be one of the last things to go. Broadband costs about £25 a month not even a pound a day.
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  817. She can be President of my digital clock watching society, we need somebody who places great significance to the passage of time.
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  818.  @charlytaylor1748  It's the nature of the case. You could also say that 100% of the evidence against say Jimmy Savile is circumstantial and based on heresay and claims.
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  819. @darthpepe2994 Behave? Youtube sure is full of weirdos in the comments section. A public trial would be where public sentiment was evident and people were pushing for a conviction, mob style, and pushed the jury into a position where they felt obliged to deliver a guilty verdict.... Would you say that's what happened here?
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  820. @@DontPeeOnMyLegAndTellMeItsRain Circumstantial evidence is perfectly acceptable in the UK if there is enough of it. DNA evidence is circumstantial, it can place a person at the scene of the crime but that does not prove that they committed the crime, there has to be other evidence or a total absence of other potential perpetrators. There was plenty of other evidence like a baby whose cause of death was eventually put down to having air and milk forcibly injected into the stomach, causing the victim to be unable to breathe due to the excess volume in the stomach putting pressure on the lungs, the baby vomitted a lot of milk and still died. Lucy was the only nurse attending to the baby. The problem with this being overturned means that either, she gets away with it, or even more chilling there is another person out there still killing or willing and wanting to kill babies, the Police do not seem to have any other suspects or to be looking to charge anybody else. Although further charges of negligence and failure to report deaths correctly may follow.
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  821.  @mijicmugendo  Hahaha, oh dear. Open a history book.
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  822.  @stanisawsota298  Yes and they bash nationalism as evil but want you to swear allegiance to their new Nation. Europe. Which is just Nationalism on a bigger scale. And the poor EU lovers just swallow it all up, it's so sad to watch.
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  823.  @stanisawsota298  But it's what they want. They want all countries to give up their sovereignty to the EU, so they control all of Europe from their unelected ivory tower of Babel. The Project, is how they refer to it.
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  824. Panique a bord.
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  825. @VictimOfBoredom Well whats Guantanamo Bay? A concentration camp in a foreign country... Do you know about FEMA camps? If not you should look it up, this stuff doesn't happen overnight.
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  826. No !!
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  827. Since when did the EU order gas for the member states? If the EU imports 40% of its gas from Russia, and the US is going to reduce that by 20% then the EU is still buying 32% of its gas from Russia, so it's not exactly a solution just a temporary band aid.
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  828. The IWM has gone totally woke, and they are rewriting history. I am subscribed to their youtube channel, the content is atrocious. In a recent video we got a lecture about how the Poppy had been appropriated by the "far-right" !!
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  829. Not good, but on the other hand is it their fault? 10 million people have migrated here in the past 20 years. Everybody goes to the toilet at least once a day, so that's 300 million extra deposits a month. Was that factored in? Is that their issue? I am not condoning dumping waste into lakes, but let's have a bit of common sense applied, investors also expect returns, if they don't receive them, they will move their investments to where they do, they also have bills to pay, these are pension funds and so on should pensioners not receive their pension? This isn't really their fault, they just have to fix it.
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  830.  @OliverKitkat  What is disgusting? Going to the toilet?
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  831.  @jujutrini8412  Really? can you provide any evidence of anything the Government runs that they run well? I want the government to look after defense, Police and Justice, and making the law, provide a couple of essential services on a local level, like fire and rescue, and that's about it. I mean you want them to build sewage systems right? How about a railway? Or roads without potholes? How are those "Public service" things run by government doing?
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  832.  JamJam0189  Does it? Do 14 people living in shared accommodation pay 14 times more than a pensioner living alone? I doubt it. It's nationalised in Scotland, we have the same problems. This is just nonsense, don't blame the companies it takes time to build stuff, they have just spent 5bn on new sewers in London, which aren't quite finished yet, they started in 2015 and expect them to go live next year. So a decade of building preceded by a decade and half of planning. 25 years to build a sewer these days.
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  833. Maybe her speech was like an old fashioned Oscar Speech, but these days those involve a long lecture about how evil the audience are and how they need to change their behaviour to conform to the actor's vision of a perfect society.
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  834. What a terrible idea. It's a bad system, but forgiving debt teaches all the wrong lessons. Why should a manual worker have to pay taxes for some rich kid to do a course on Gender Studies and not be able to find a job at the end of it, so they get a subsidy...It teaches kids if you make bad decisions the government will force poor people to bail you out. Your country is screwed.
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  835. The chyron should read Mayorkas avoids testifying by evading every question asked.
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  836.  @iantrotter9636  How are you feeling now?
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  837. What a load of nonsense. A storm in a teacup. There are real issues to worry about rather than what somebody said years ago. But that's where we are these days.
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  838. Stealers Wheel singer is Gerry Rafferty.
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  839. The crazy woman wraps it up all satisfied that she really put him in his place....Hahahaha.
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  840. It's a great scam, whenever there is some weather incident it's Climate change. A heatwave, a cold snap, a bit of rain, anything.
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  841.  @conah9440 What premise? It's a bunch of nut jobs who are offended by anything trying to rip apart the fabric of the country. If anything needs "taken down" it's the baying mobs of lefty lunatics.
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  842.  @conah9440  The statues are just one of the many elements of society they want to destroy. Anything that is British history and tradition must be destroyed and eliminated. Statues are just one of their many targets. Scum, to borrow a phrase they like to use, who know not what they do, but want to break everything because it's there.
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  843.  @conah9440  "Idols"? See this is the absolute nonsense you come out with.
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  844. @VictimOfBoredom Well there aren't many Christians or Jews there...are there? However do you really condone your country maintaing a prison in a country the US has boycotted for 50 years? Don't you just find that a strange requirement?
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  845. But exports and imports are way up with the EU, in fact last year they were both the highest they have ever been, up 17.5 % (362bn) for exports and 21.6% (452.5 bn) for imports. Don't forget that these "barriers" are designed so the EU gets revenue (not the Nation states the EU). The EU takes 75% of any duties they can charge, and they tell member states what rules they have to use because the EU controls the Customs Union. Previously the EU took 75% of all the import duties they forced us to charge, now they don't get that any more, they want to make sure that EU businesses can't evade paying them by importing via the UK to avoid the EU's protectionist taxes. We don't need to charge them because we aren't protectionist, and we would rather the EU had the same attitude, but if it has to be Tit for Tat, then so be it. At least any duties paid entering the UK will go to HMRC rather than the EU> Things are going great, the Germans have even tried to reach out to us to bypass the EU, because it is a nightmare for them, we are one of their biggest markets for cars, and German car sales to the UK have halved since 2016, seems we don't want German cars any more, I wonder why?
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  846.  @emm_arr  No it's not. Import Duties are set by the EU, the money goes 75% to the EU and the member state where the import happens retains only 25%. Look it up, for some reason I can't post links, but if you search for EU Own Resources, and click on the link Customs Duties it will show you, here I will quote it for you: "Member States are responsible for the collection of customs duties, according to the rules established by Council Regulation implementing the Own Resources Decision. Member States must have adequate control infrastructure to ensure that their administrations, especially their customs authorities, carry out their tasks in an appropriate manner. In the period 2021-2027, Member States will retain 25% of the collected customs duties. This not only covers collection costs but also serves as an incentive to ensure a diligent collection of the amounts due."
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  847.  @emm_arr  Well yes actually. They are proud of it too!. Just google "EU Own Resources" and look at the EU commission pages and you will see that is what happens. Where do you think the money goes? See this is the problem, you don't know how it works at all...Phil doesn't have a clue.
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  848. We're not close, we've gone off the cliff already, now we need some wings or a parachute at least, it's a long climb back up to freedom again.
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  849.  @TheJeremyKentBGross  It was when they realised they could force Evergreen to do as they wished. Forcing White people off campus, having the staff grovel to them, whilst simultaneously the whole student thing and C16 bill was happening in Canada and they were getting Jordan pushed out, that they realised by joining forces they could create this ideology if they all got behind each others causes. So the feminists, the LGBTQ crowd, and later the BLM mob, and all lefty causes joined forces, and the woke movement was born. Sure it was all there before, but in order to create the "baby" the various factions had to "have Sex" with each other. This is where woke began, and like a malignant cancer it has spread uncontrollably and they won't rest until they have killed the patient, or are removed with some Chemotherapy also known as common sense.
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  850. @polemius01 Well I dasagree with you there Dominique Strauss Khan is currently in Jail for allegedly doing a similar thing as Bruno.... I think Dr Paul was very reserved, I'm sure his reaction would have been the same if it had been a voluptuous girl. Only 500 characters you know and I used them all; check out who contributes to Dr Paul essentially individual and esepcially those in the military ! Doesn't that tell you something? So if you don't think he can get anything done, who can?
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  851. Migration Policy Expert eh? If there was no migrants she wouldn't have a job, she wouldn't be talking to Julia. She is making a fortune so of course she wants more migrants.
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  852.  @johnmacaroni105  Whose immigrant family background?
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  853. Well I disagree with your comment, seems to me more that they are making fun of the fact that many Americans think Africa is a country (Sarah Palin for example), so why wouldn't some think it was an ailment. Making fun of people dying of disease isn't funny matey except in very exceptional circumstances. As I said originally the comparison would be Texans dying of America, it isn't even funny in the first place without degrading other people in the process.
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  854. I see you can't decipher. well let me try again, McDonalds was an example. Just look around you, that computer on your desk you just typed into, did it come from the government? Or Dell or Samsung or whoever, now look at the history of computers, hardware and software have evolved rapidly, at the same time price and accessibility have fallen considerably. If this was the way health care was run you would see the same result, yes you may be asked to pay but it would be cheap and available.
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  855. All you have to do is spend an hour or two on the interenet to know that Antifa are violent thugs. They are the very thing they think they are fighting against. Brownshirts beating up those with whom they disagree, because for Antifa, anybody to the right of their thinking is a fascist, so everyone that is not a communist is a target.
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  856. The Irony, the mother of all parliaments, a system that has functioned very well for centuries, so well that many other nations around the world have copied it and here Guy Verhofstadt in the EU parliament, which is little more than a rubber stamp organisation doing the bidding of the Commission  a totally useless gravy train, telling us how it should be run. This Guy is why we are leaving.
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  857. When you are getting lots of flak, it's because you are over the target.
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  858. Well if you dish out free money by printing money out of thin air, you end up with what we have now. Shortages and massive inflation, money will lose its value very quickly. Employers would pay less, because everyone is being subsidised, and then the state would have a new power, you can be sure that down the line they will grant themselves the ability to cut you off. So if you refuse to do what the government dictates they will stop your UBI payment. The idea of government is to run the country not to redistribute wealth, unless you think that being successful and therefore earning more money is some kind of criminal activity, like the socialists.
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  859. If Jen was circling things she must have had a transcript of his "live" speech, of course she could have been circling back.
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  860. These people will be in the workforce shortly. Scary.
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  861.  @ovidiuov4317  If you can call preselecting most of the MEPs democracy. Plus the Parliament has almost no power at all, it is only for rubber stamping duties. Like rubber stamping the only candidate for President of the unelected Commission that is the only body that can make laws. It's a sham democracy, it is intentionally designed to keep the people as far away from any decision making process or having any influence in the law making process.
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  862.  @ovidiuov4317  If you can call preselecting most of the MEPs democracy. Plus the Parliament has almost no power at all, it is only for rubber stamping duties. Like rubber stamping the only candidate for President of the unelected Commission that is the only body that can make laws. It's a sham democracy, it is intentionally designed to keep the people as far away from any decision making process or having any influence in the law making process.
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  863.  @Ju88327  Actually I am an expert on the EU, I have been studying it for two decades.
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  864.  @ovidiuov4317  Let's try again.... If you can call preselecting most of the MEPs democracy. Plus the Parliament has almost no power at all, it is only for rubber stamping duties. Like rubber stamping the only candidate for President of the unelected Commission that is the only body that can make laws. It's a sham democracy, it is intentionally designed to keep the people as far away from any decision making process or having any influence in the law making process.
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  865. ​ @Ju88327  Yes but how many Europeans knew that, even you didn't until I told you and you looked it up, and you think you are an expert. You do realise that the people were never asked that? Or actually they were, it was in the EU constitution. and the French the Dutch and the Irish all voted no to the EU constitution. So the EU changed it to a treaty, the Lisbon Treaty which they could have signed by the Politicians rather than the people voting for what is constitutional change and would normally be the subject of a referendum. The text of the Lisbon Treaty is identical to the text of the constitution. Giscard D'Estaing who wrote it said so. It's much easier to bribe or force 27 politicians to sign a piece of paper than to convince the people, so in true EU style they just ignored the people. Everything they do is about imposing their will and when the people say no they ignore them. As JC Junker put it "If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue’" They rely on sheep like yourself who believe it is all democratic and lovely, as they walk you slowly to serfdom. If it was democratic then people would run for the job, the people would vote and the winner would be chosen by the people, but that is too risky for the "Project", they need somebody who will carry on with the plan. What's the plan you ask? Well the eradication of your country, it will all be one big happy Europe ruled by unelected bureacrats in Brussels. You won't have a meaningful vote you won't be able to change or influence anything, you will just have to do whatever Brussels orders. Or you can wake up and keep your country !!
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  866. As JC Junker put it "If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue’" They rely on sheep like yourself who believe it is all democratic and lovely, as they walk you slowly to serfdom. If it was democratic then people would run for the job, the people would vote and the winner would be chosen by the people, but that is too risky for the "Project", they need somebody who will carry on with the plan. What's the plan you ask? Well the eradication of your country, it will all be one big happy Europe ruled by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. You won't have a meaningful vote you won't be able to change or influence anything, you will just have to do whatever Brussels orders. Or you can wake up and keep your country !!
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  867.  @Ju88327  But you are thinking that the "elections" for the MEPs should also be the elections for the President. There should be a separate election for the President. Like in all the other countries where the President has so much power. Thing is that the EU is no longer a trade bloc. It is the supreme legislator for all its members. Its law is supreme, its courts have the final say. You country is in the hands of the EU. They control your trade, your agriculture, your fishing, if you use the Euro, your money. They tell you what your taxes can be, you have to ask permission to change VAT rates, they control your borders too. That's an awful lot of power to be handed to someone who is selected and presented as the only candidate, and confirmed in a Yes/No simple majority vote by 720 people.
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  868.  @Ju88327  Can you think of any other country in the world that has only one candidate? Open your eyes. The longer you wait to wake up the more power they will have and the harder it will be to leave. Look at how they tried to stop the UK leaving, tried to force us to have a second referendum, worked and colluded with remain supporters to undermine the negotiations, were extremely belligerent, are still trying to get us to rejoin by stealth. They all have their noses in the trough, except those who are there to try and stop them.
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  869.  @ArrowfieldMan  How do you mean?
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  870.  @ArrowfieldMan  Oh I see. well you have that the wrong way round, Let's see what remain said that didn't come true : Immediate collapse of the economy, 800,000 job losses, all factories closing, JIT supply chains decimated, nobody would want to do a trade deal, super Gonorrhoea outbreak, all planes grounded, no medicines, no nuclear materials, all EU citizens would leave (instead twice as many as we thought were here asked to stay, etc etc. It's quite impressive, nothing that Remain predicted came to pass.
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  871.  @ArrowfieldMan  And that maybe explains the pathetic turnout for their march, nobody believes them any more, more people went to watch Burton play Fleetwood Town at football than showed up for this pantomime.
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  872. @turkeydogification Give up the dude's an obsessed fruit cake, he won't listen to anything and has convinced himself Ron Paul is a gay hater, spend your time on a more worthwhile cause.
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  873. I am the walrus. Goo goo ga joob.
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  874.  @nickanderson412  Good to know. So you plan to round up those you don't like and maybe put them in camps?
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  875.  @andreashofmann4556  I'm not taking away anybody's rights.
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  876.  @Odinsday  Because that's how you win support, which is what you want to do right? Win at the ballot box?
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  877.  @dirkthewrench  Apparently your solution is to ethnically cleanse them.
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  878.  @bettyveronica9880  You are welcome.
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  879. Just visiting from Across the pond. Not a republican or a Democrat, just an observer making an observation. You guys are never going to amount to anything if your Compassionate philosophy is actually hate based. Just think about that, when does the hate come for you? When you step out of line? Is that really the sort of world you want to live in?
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  880. Good grief. Whoever made this has taken the wrong pill, if we have to have cancel culture then it should be for this sort of twisted garbage.
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  881. Not sold as such, returned them to private ownership after Attlee had seized them all. They were all private before they were nationalised in 1948.
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  882. Well yeah of course. Straight men are involved in most pregnancies, so they lose their children at an alarming rate, whereas Lesbians can't even get pregnant without the aid of a straight man or a gay sperm donation. So that's a ratio of about 1000/1.
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  883. We have it Glasgow, the fine doubles every time you enter the Zone, so 60, 120, 240, 480, where it is capped. Somebody has received four fines, so that's a total of £800 for being in the city centre of Glasgow (which has a motorway around the perimeter of the zone).
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  884. What oppression? He's calling in to a Left Wing talk show which is all facilitated through marvelous advances in technology which are available to use for a pittance How is that oppression, it's Free Speech !! If there was oppression there would be no left wing, no left wing talk show all these people would be in work camps or in jail and certainly no free speech. This is complete delusion.
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  885. Women's team in the Tournament played 3 Won 0 Lost 3, Goals For 1 Goals Against 25. These were 40 minute games.
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  886. Inflation is printing money, price rises are the result. Last year every western economy printed tons of money and Biden is printing 7.5 trillion dollars to fund his woke agenda, so evidently prices are going to rise very quickly, buckle up, everything is going to become more expensive, double figure inflation is just around the corner.
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  887.  @MangoFIlms_CH  Why would you want to leave the EU and stay in the Single Market, that would be idiotic. All the Political Parties in Westminster were pro Remain, only UKIP was pro Brexit and they had no presence in Westminster. David Cameron sent us a leaflet remember? He said that we should vote remain. He also said the Government would implement the decision, that makes it very much "non advisory" rather it was an obligation to do as instructed. I'm not surprised you disagree though, loads of people, like yourself, don't know much about the EU.
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  888.  @xdgamesCoUk  The Conservatives are supposed to be fiscally sound, they spend like drunken sailors, they are supposed to defend the borders and yet they allow in 600 000 legal immigrants and 50k illegals and don't do anything about it. They are promoting all sorts of Left wing agendas. They aren't conservatives at all. The Rwanda Policy was never going to work out, it's a distraction there was never any intention of sending anybody to Africa, it was to make it look like they were doing something.
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  889.  @cooltv9350  It is these days, there isn't much between them. As I say, everyone is a Lib Dem.
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  890. So what we learned from this is that fat activists are actually Daleks.
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  891. Well I hope both of you are very happy.
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  892.  @billmurray7676  Even less chance of him winning.
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  893.  @billmurray7676  No chance. The French are Socialists at heart they could never allow Le Pen or Zemmour to be President, you are dreaming. In the absence of a good socialist candidate they will vote for the most moderate. In any case the French President is powerful but the Assemblée passes the laws. Zemmour has no MPs and no real party, he would be unable to do anything meaningful even if he won, but there is no chance of that.
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  894. ​ @billmurray7676  Eh bien mon trou d'uc. On verra dans quelques jours ce que je connais de la France et ses institutions.
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  895. It's just a phase. Without us the whole world could be paralysed by a spider in the bath.
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  896. Yep because everyone is equal when they are dead.
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  897.  @SilverFoxHotTakes  Well I disagree. Jacob Rees Mogg has been bothered in his home and they targetted Rishi Sunak's house. Keep the battles on the battlefield, not at the home, otherwise who will risk running for office, if swarms of people could be camped outside your house, because for sure in Politics you are going to have rivals and make enemies and have a good amount of people who disagree with you, so it would just be open season on Politicians houses.
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  898. Most people start with "Thank you for the Question Senator" when answering, it's a way of being a bit polite and buying a bit of time. Also they like to say "we take that very seriously Senator" when pinned down about something but they don't want to actually answer, it's very annoying.
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  899. Some of us have known for a long time, but we were crazy tin foil hat wearing far right crazies, just for being awake and having common sense, now the rest of the world is catching up, the problem is actually making change, we thought we had voted for common sense with Boris, and somehow we have ended up with Sunak and Hunt, both whom were soundly rejected by the public and the Conservative party members and yet there they are doing the bidding of the WEF. Voting for another party is not going to work, so what to do? It's a massive problem.
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  900. I don't think the EU will exist by then.
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  901.  @bentaylor895  Well we have laws for that sort of thing already. They have no idea of the political leanings of the protesters. If they don't like the protest, then it's "far right", if they do, then it's "mostly peaceful". This is very dangerous rhetoric. Remember when the people of Knowsley protested about their children being molested? That was far right too !! In Liverpool...Where finding anybody that doesn't vote for the left is an almost impossible task.
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  902. The Police arrived in two minutes (Lucky Paulie), when that door was opened.... Who opened the door???
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  903. PR is awful, certainly don't want that.
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  904.  @elvishprincess321  With PR maybe the SNP would hold the balance of power or the Lib Dems, or the Green Party....Think about that !!
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  905.  @evolassunglasses4673  Well no that's what you think will happen, but look around. AFd are not in power neither is Le Pen, Sweden has it's first right of centre government for nearly a century. Look at what happened in NZ, one party on the right got 47.5% of the vote and yet Ardern took power when all the other parties united against the clear winner. In scotland the Greens hold the balance of power, the SNP are not in charge, the Greens are !!! PR favours the centre left, that's what you would get for ever...The party that came third would have the most power because they would chose to ally with either Labour or THe Tories to make a majority, so it would be awful.
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  906. Why not give him a nice insulated cell, we can let him out when everyone has insulation.
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  907. @acchokiefan Wait a minute, maybe you have more than me, so therefore, some should be taken from you and given to me, that would be the simplest way to solve my problems.
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  908. Mr Brown wants states to ban ipads and electronic devices? No questions on how he plans to achieve that?
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  909. The OBR did not predict we would be 4% poorer. They said we would have 4% less "Long Run Productivity", which they can't define, and which they calculated by taking an average of percentages which any first year maths student will tell you you can't do. So they aren't very good at Maths for a government agency... The OBR are Remainers, Richard Hughes has been working to undermine Brexit for years, he shouldn't be in the position he is in, in fact I wouldn't want him running a church raffle.
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  910. It's like a Robert Ludlum Story, one man faced with an entire world out to get him. The Bourne Identity Crisis.
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  911. More Britain bashing by these woke idiots. Who let them make videos for the IWM?
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  912.  @garyturner5790  I agree, but who could have foreseen the EU would have been so stubborn. What can you do? If they don't want a fair deal then there will be no deal.
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  913.  @phoebus45  There is no "WTO " law, the WTO is a repository and a dispute settler, an intermediary, they are not a political organisation like the EU, they don't make law.
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  914.  mininmalta 123  Check the link above. Really mate, you post a lot on these topics, you should really be informed before you spout off more garbage. Stop reading newspapers and go to source.
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  915.  mininmalta 123  Haha, no it won't it will teach you, that is if you were able to learn anything new, however sadly I am not sure that is possible. You don't seem able to comprehend and absorb information.
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  916.  @danielbones3072  See for yourself. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-trade-agreements-with-non-eu-countries
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  917.  @garyturner5790  We have had enough extensions.
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  918. @minicoopkart Paul isn't doing anything? He is on tour pretty much constantly, he just returned from Brazil and Argentina.
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  919. Remember Liverpool !!! When they protested about illegal Gimmigrants harassing their children. Of course the BBC called them far right, but let's face it Liverpool is a well know Fascist breeding ground.
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  920. When the truth comes out about Ukraine, we will be looking at billions that have....been misplaced.
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  921. Makes you wonder eh. They escape the glorious conditions they have in France and the EU to come to horrible racist Britain why would they do that? It's really a mystery.
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  922. Pay people to dig a hole and then pay them to fill it in again.
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  923. @VictimOfBoredom But why don't they want them? You know isn't this like the Germans wouldn't want Jews in their borders? Can't you begin to see the similarities?
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  924. Once something is law, people will use it, and if possible, abuse it. Police will be being called to family arguments all the time. This is very scary indeed for those of us living in this SNP totalitarian State. Please can we have an election ASAP.
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  925. It's ridiculous really it's not illegal to use a map, but it is illegal to use google maps (other maps are available) on your phone (should you need to type in the address you are going to).
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  926. Geraldo is hilarious.
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  927. The irony of "Adam Smith" standing up for communism...
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  928. He's just been telling people to turn off their car radios because...cyclists. Doesn't he realise most of the people listening to his woke Radio 2 show are in their cars? Absolute idiot.
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  929. How about just Policing fairly. Stop painting rainbow flags on Police Cars, stop arresting Brits and allowing Machete carrying immigrants to roam the streets, how come nobody in Leeds has been arrested, they attacked a Police car there and burned a bus. No arrests as far as I can see and yet the guy who set the bus on fire was on video. There is no far-right, or if there is it is tiny, all the "riot" areas were left wing areas, those people didn't go from being Labour voters to being far right in a week. It's just a scapegoat. The protests have not gone away, there is just going to be a change in tactics unless the Government gets a grip on Immigration.
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  930. The MSM has been lying so much they believed their own lies. Kamala never had a chance, the polls they commissioned were all wildly wrong. I had my bets on early when the odds for Trump were almost 2-1.
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  931.  @ADifferentBias  Ah you must be quoting the Remain Bus (£2,000 million was how they put it), that's an interesting tactic after slating the leave bus. We know that it costs a 1bn a month, which is very different from it might cost something based on "leaked government report" that never saw the light of day used by a group called "Brexit: is it worth it?", that has since faded into oblivion. Perhaps you have a real rebuttal rather than another failed scare story? I am happy to come on your channel as a guest and discuss Brexit. But I suppose you would be too scared.
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  932.  @ADifferentBias  Not the "latest" figures either. This myth dates from February 2018.
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  933.  @ADifferentBias  Come on Phil. Invite me on. If Brexit is going to be a disaster it should be an easy win for you and you can tell me all about it. Or perhaps you will learn something from me? Either way how can you lose? I would also bring you a lot of new of new views !!!
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  934.  @AaronOkeanos  Where? Here it is what page is the information on? I can't find it, I also can't find any analysis of it that suggests such a thing. 2 billion a week would be 104bn a year, I find that most unlikely, we do not even benefit that much from trade we only export 300bn in total goods and services to the EU at a deficit of 70bn. So how can we be losing 104bn more? How do you define cost also, who would the money be being paid to? Who will be paying it? https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/837632/No_deal_readiness_paper.PDF
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  935. ​ @AaronOkeanos  So the 2bn a week is another invention, even you agree. The other costs are fine by me, if the EU don't want a deal it has to be done. Buildings only need to built once, and certification only needs to done once, and if goods are already certified there is no need to re-certify them after we leave. In most cases, it is manufacturers that do the certifying themselves anyway. The extra costs for paperwork are a nonsense, customs declarations are free, you can do them yourself if you know what you are doing, it's pretty easy. A business will have it all automated in the computer systems. Most goods will be tariff free anyway even if declarations are needed, so I doubt that cost also. A big advantage of course is that now tariffs stay with HMRC, before 80% of them were sent directly to the EU, so we had top pay tariffs but our exchequer didn't keep the money, which was madness. Tariffs are paid by the importer, so we will be paying our tariffs to HMRC on import of EU goods. EU citizens will pay any tariffs on our goods, not us. This is a pessimistic Report erring on the worst case scenario, in reality it will be fine, because if it isn't people on both sides of the channel will complain so much it will be sorted, don;t forget if there are queues here then there will be queues in Calais too. And nobody wants trucks stuck in queues the locals, the truckers, the trucking companies, the ferry companies, the Customs agents, the industries that need the trucks to move stuff, even the governments because it will slow down revenue collection.
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  936.  @AaronOkeanos  No misconceptions. I have been in import/export for decades, nothing much changes, rules of origin will apply but that is not complicated. Food inspections will be straighforward also Vet checks are done before shipment not at the border. Now to your misconceptions. There is no such thing as WTO tariffs. Each country/bloc sets its tariffs and the WTO is a repository. We have set our tariffs, and they are for the most part lower than the EU tariffs, so produce from outside the EU will become cheaper, so that's a bit of a blow for the EU producers when theirs will be more expensive. Looks like we will buy more from elsewhere, if that's what the EU wants. On most things tariffs are pretty low anyway, and in our schedule there are zero tariffs on 80% of goods. 43% of our exports currently go to the EU, down from 54% a decade ago, and including goods transiting via Rotterdam but that is only about 8% of our GDP. Queues are not inevitable, you can combine all sorts of technology, computer customs declaration, ANPR cameras to identify trucks, identifiers on containers that act the same way to identify shipments all linked to the customs computer. All those trucks have to go through a port where all that technology is already in place There is always waiting time whether on the ferry or through the tunnel, it can all be done there for most shipments. Also around 1/3 of trucks are travelling empty, and the TIR system means sealed containers are checked at final destination not port of entry, so only a tiny proportion of shipments will need any kind of physical or onerous checks. Any disruption will most likely be down to teething difficulties more than anything else, or of course political motivation.
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  937.  @AaronOkeanos  Sorry, incorrect again. Nobody has to authorise anything at the WTO and nobody can veto anything. Any dispute is between whoever complains and whoever they complain about, and it's just a dispute, in the meantime trade goes on. If you could veto trade then Micronesia could stop all China's trade by complaining to the WTO, or the Faeroe Isles could stop Australia trading. That is ridiculous. We have rolled over almost all the EU deals, there are only 37 now by the way the EU lost four when we left. Only EU goods will be more expensive, despite us constantly saying here's a deal, they don't want it. So what can we do but build the infrastructure.
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  938.  @AaronOkeanos  Lies now? You were doing so well. Here you count them. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-trade-agreements-with-non-eu-countries I know how the WTO works, you should read up on it and find out instead of believing some story from a newspaper. What has the Cold War got to do with it?
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  939.  @AaronOkeanos  Well now you are understanding a bit, we can only roll over the deals that the EU had. An agreement is not a deal. The Eu only has 37 active deals and we have rolled over most of them as you can see on that page. Obviously the EU is missing, they don't seem to want a deal. And please, inflating trade numbers just weakens your case.
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  940.  @AaronOkeanos  Oh I see you are adding the two. Well As I say we keep offering a deal and the EU don't want it, so we'll see what happens Trade deals aren't that important anyway, they help sure, and we will continue to make them with those that are willing. It's going pretty well in 6 months given the worldwide virus shutdown and all the other distractions.
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  941.  @AaronOkeanos  Don't keep apologising. It's not your fault the media and people like Phil have bombarded you with neagtivity. So you have negative thoughts about it. That's normal. But see imports from the EU are an expenditure,unless it is raw materials in which case it is an investment. Reducing imports from the EU is good for for us. As to Euro clearing, the EU cannot stop it. How can you stop somebody exchanging currency? They can't. Money moves by wire, there are no goods.And quite simply if they demand Deutsche Bank unravel all its positions it would be Bankrupt, and as it is the biggest bank in Germany,they can't afford that. Reduced exports to the UK Germany's biggest market, Virus problem, and their biggest bank going under at the same time,would end the Euro altogether. Cheer up. We have changed relations before with our neighbours,even been to war to liberate them,and we have recovered. Leaving the EU is really no big deal. The media have made it so, but it's not that big a deal really.
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  942. If you want to be proud of something, lady, do something to be proud of instead of whingeing. Earn your portrait on the wall !!!
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  943. Government doesn't create jobs, business does, if Labour got in they would destroy jobs by discouraging business.
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  944.  @mateusznowak1388  Look up Target2 balances for a bit of a shock. Target2 is the invisible mechanism holding the Euro up, Germany is actually in a very bad position.
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  945. So why is there such high unemployment in the EU, and yet loads of jobs available here... It's a mystery. And the UK had the second highest FDI in 2022 in Europe, pretty much where we have always been, in the EU or out. Don't you guys ever check what's really happening? Or do you just get your information from clueless Phil here?
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  946.  @kumasenlac5504  What? i suppose Hitler's bombing of our working class housing was just fine then? Plus if you don't make mistakes you aren't doing anything, The objective was to win the war, everybody was in the fight on the German side, what do you think about the Volksturm? Wasn't that German civilians who took up arms? His positive contributions contributed to winning the war, he was an advisor and as such presented all sorts of options. His point about bombing working class areas was because they were more dense and therefore the bombs would do more damage. Resources were scarce, everything had to be considered. It was War after all.
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  947.  @kumasenlac5504  Perhaps you think I approve of war? We were fighting against an abhorrent evil, everything had to be considered even the most horrible things. After your family has been blown to smithereens in the Blitz the people of the time were not exactly worrying about which class should be bombed in Germany, any would do and as many as possible would be just great. That's what happens when you are at war and you are being bombed and your 18 year old son is on the front line somewhere. I wonder what you would have considered and thought at the time had you been there? You can't judge history from today's sensitivities, especially when they have gone so awry.
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  948.  @TH-tl6sy  Actually it's you that controls the prices. If you think it's too expensive don't buy it.
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  949.  @TheBelrick  OK whatever you say, I guess. Do they let you out often?
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  950.  @TheBelrick  Nope I have not taken any vaccines, but that's another story. What we face now is a new threat, what we were fighting against then was an evil ideology, it wasn't a war for gain, it was defensive war, we fought to defend our country and free those taken over by the evil and restore democracy, not take them over. We were not in a war of conquest. Then we faced a new evil in the form of Stalin and Mao, but we defeated that ideology too with different means. Now we have new battles to fight. If you knew a bit more about history, we always have to be vigilant against those who would dominate us, this is the latest threat, possibly even more evil because they are fighting without uniforms and recognisable weapons. That is all. We have to find the counter measures and we will.
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  951. @polemius01 Well look here it is watch?v=F7RnlPQCKBQ This is why you label him a homophobe.
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  952.  @raoulduke344  Well yeah..Petroleum Jelly, it's like Satanic Water gushing from the depths of hell.
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  953. Fauci is a lying toad. He should be in jail.
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  954. Why would anybody protest tax cuts?
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  955.  @unconventionalideas5683  1000 or so deals pulled because of how they were structured. 1.5m housing transactions last year, so nearly 6000 every working day. it's hardly a panic by any measure, unless you read the Guardian in which case it's worse than Armageddon.
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  956.  @Mpl3564  Their energy bills have been frozen and they have a £400 handout to help pay for them, and the Ni tax increase has been dropped and there is a 1% tax cut for the bottom rate too. So that's pretty good really, I have no complaints. There is no recession in the UK, the problem is supply not demand. There is international chaos. Every currency tanked against the dollar last week. Now the GBP is at 1.12 higher than it was at the announcement; 1.08. So it has gone up. But you don't hear anything about it on the news....They only scream when it suits their agenda.
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  957. I wish you guys would make your minds up. Some are saying the shelves are going to be empty, and you are saying there is going to be a glut of produce, it can't be both...
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  958. Something strange here, one person could maybe die, but all three and the dog? Something is not right. If they died of hyperthermia presumably the symptoms would have manifested themselves gradually. I just looked on the map and there are lots of trees, so plenty of shade to cool off if they were too hot. Did they have cell phones with them, was there a signal? Why didn't they call for help? It's definitely weird.
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  959.  @zoemachell-lee5346  Why? They are entertainers, why would you want to tell half, indeed more than half, of your "customers" to f*** off?
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  960. Because Humza Yousaf says so, even in your own home. Welcome to Scotland.
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  961. Her definition of "Work" and mine must be different.
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  962. Bonkers idea. Prices fluctuate, and they have a purpose in the market, Government intervention in pricing always creates chaos.
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  963. So now the EU want to tell Countries who they can issue passports to?
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  964.  @norflandanforevah  How do you mean, "work against the interests of my own country". It's this lot that want to hand the Country to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. I can't think of anything worse for the interests of our Country than handing authority over to a bunch of people who don't care about Britain and who we can't vote for or boot out.
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  965. It's great, the issue is interest rates on bonds will rise so to prevent that, municipalities should emit bonds...
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  966. Guy was drunk and wanted to get off the plane first, but some "heroes" stopped him. Sheesh, no story here...
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  967. Hi I have 14 million I am going to inherit from a Nigerian Prince, but I need 200k for some fees. Send me your money and we can split it, turn your 200k into 7 million !
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  968. Nonsense, there is much more to this than a break in. A break in is almost impossible security is very tight, she is after all third in line to the "throne", the Police report said both men had hammers, apparently the assailant went to the toilet whilst the Police, who were let in to the house by yet another person, were there. Let's see as the story unravels what is true and what isn't but tarring everybody as conspiracy theorists because they don't jump on the lefty news narrative is just what the MSM do. Come on GB News, we need somebody to not be mad lefties.
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  969.  @julesdingle  Yes, well that's what all socialist leaders do. When was the last time you saw a thin or a poor socialist leader? Hitler didn't target Trade Unionists particularly, if you joined the German Labour Front, the Nazi Trade Union, you would be showered with benefits if you didn't you would be sent off to the camps. Same with any opposition, be they right wing, left wing or independent. That's exactly how all socialist regimes work. All Opposition Parties are eliminated, it's the only way to enforce socialism. Opposition is not allowed as it is against the socialist diktat. Please read some history.
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  970. There has been a rise in the far left, that's why they see perfectly normal people as far-right these days.
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  971. @polemius01 Or he may be upset, don't you hear people saying things when they are upset. Find another example. How can anybody who believes in personal liberty be an anything-phobe? You don't have salient points yet, so far all you have done is repeat fallacious statements from the media and tried to establish an opiion based on a comedy movie. Who do you think can fix things?
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  972. If only Tesla had been able to complete the Wardenclyffe Tower project maybe all this would be unnecessary and we would have free power, imagine that, unlimited free electricity for everyone.
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  973. Burning coal was great for the environment. She's an idiot. Before Coal people used to cut down trees and burn the wood or make charcoal to heat their homes and cook. When we started using coal on a larger scale we didn't need to cut down so many trees any more, so great for CO2 levels if that sort of thing worries you at all.
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  974. We have the filibuster in the UK, it has been used often.
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  975. Obviously didn't hug enough trees in the sixties. Either that or her Oak Tree cheated on her with that Beech down the road.
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  976.  @sam.e7175  When are you going to deal with the Termites? They produce twice as much CO2 as we do, there are 10 Quadrillion of them, and they eat wood. So if you are concerned about CO2 emissions, (4 parts per 10,000 in the atmosphere ) shouldn't you start with the Termites?
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  977. @polemius01 No, people are rallying to the message because it makes sense, and you will say you have answered the question, but you haven't, who will fix things? If it's the American people then shouldn't they be free to rally to the cause they see as the best solution, well that's what they are doing they are rallying to Ron Paul, however you seem to think that your own solution is not correct because if they rally to Ron Pauls message they are nuts, so who else can they rally behind?
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  978. People like Johnathan are the problem. When he is losing the argument he turns on the person as do all on the left.
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  979. How about "I resign". That would help.
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  980. More bullying at the BBC, not a surprise really that seems to be their Modus Operandi.
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  981. Discrimination. Pure and simple.
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  982. Well look around, we have an Indian Hundi as PM, a Pakistani Muslim Mayor of London, a Pakistani Muslim FM of Scotland, The Lord Mayor of Birmingham is an Indian Sikh. Meanwhile apparently everything is designed with systemic racism against the BAME community to reinforce "white supremacy and the Patriarchy"..well it sure doesn't look that way. You get arrested for waving a Union Jack in London and a Police escort and sandwiches if you wave a Palestinian flag.
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  983. Gosh what a load of nonsense. We should be distancing ourselves from the EU. No problem making bilateral agreements with European Countries, but no rapprochement with the corrupt EU. Trump has already been President, things were improving all over the world, since Biden took over it has been chaos and war everywhere.
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  984. Wow that's an easy $1,000 for Jesse.
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  985. Blaming Liz Truss again, absolute nonsense, the interest rate was raised long after she left office, she had nothing to do with any of this nonsense, she is just being used by these crazy lefties who don't understand economics.
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  986. Really? All this fuss over a little bit of Cocaine...Deal with the Fentanyl !!!
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  987. Thanks goodness for people like Liam Norton. Since Comedy has been effectively banned we are in real need of people to laugh at.
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  988. I think White Privilege was Trumped by the Race card a long time ago.
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  989. Yes we have seen MR Starmer in action. Not a pretty sight. He needs to go as soon as possible.
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  990. Well off you go and live with another system in another country then, nobody forces you to stay here.
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  991. Haha, she's like one of those dolls where you pull the string for a pre-recorded diatribe.
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  992. That Smith guy is such a conceited git. She should do a FOI request, that would be embarrassing no matter what, if there is a list it is embarrassing and if there isn't he is caught in a lie. I wonder if her name is "Pike".
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  993.  @keithstudly6071  Well the UK does, and we'll be going, will you be there?
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  994. The John Candy routine is excellent.
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  995. And the Carbon footbrint for transporting all that Irn Bru from Cumbernauld.
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  996. Outside of your bubble...This woman is crazy. She argues like a 5 year old child.
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  997. So an alien invasion won't help the economy after all? Who would have thought?
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  998. If the Independent think it's far right, that just means it's not Far Left, because that's all there is in their eyes. Either you are a woke leftie or a Fascist. There is no other option.
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  999. So funny, they mob people to get them cancelled, and spread lies, now the new boss wants to stop all that and they make it sound like "they have to watch what they say". They love to dole it out, but don't like the eventual consequences, they are always the victims it's so funny.
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  1000. Sunak is a snake, I doubt he will last long, he is a WEF Stooge and the public know it. He has been installed, but the public don't want this I think he will not be able to govern effectively, we'll see. There will be more to come, watch this space.
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  1001. The reason you are supposed to park in the direction of travel is that when you leave the parking space the driver has a clear view instead of being obstructed by another parked vehicle, and you do not have to cross oncoming traffic with limited visibility to get to the correct side of the road. The police and traffic wardens used to enforce that quite strictly, but these days it is rare to get a ticket for parking facing the wrong way.
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  1002. @G3org3Master Yes I know I am one myself.
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  1003. I don't think we want soldiers feeling prosperous, that's not why you join the military. If you want prosperity you would go into business.
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  1004. Well as I said, I used to find them funny, but now they are scraping in the gutter. Fart jokes would be a step up.
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  1005. She was too incompetent, even for Canada.
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  1006. This is why Ron Paul is not interested in going on Bill O'Fascist's show. watch?v=R7JPvbVsDdY Bill is so ignorant and rude I am not surprised Ron Paul would not go near him again.
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  1007. They named a street after him? Is that because it's an accident blackspot?
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  1008. It's clear they are out to shut him up. It doesn't matter if the allegations are true or false, although why would you wait 15-20 years to suddenly make accusations, and then suddenly 4 "victims" appear at the same time. The process is the punishment, if he has to go to court, it will tie him up in the legal system for two or three years at least and discredit the uncomfortable truths he has been revealing, that would be job done for the Plaintifs, they don't care if they lose and have to pay the fees, they will have achieved their goal anyway. Meanwhile everybody can make slurs about him with practical impunity. I expect the BBC will attack him relentlessly. I think on this occassion though it is going to backfire...watch this space.
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  1009. From a British point of view the AUKUS deal is superb, the UK takes a contract with Australia from France and annoys the EU... Delicious. not that Joe knew it was happening or anything, but we like it. If Joe had been involved it would have been called A-U-SUK.
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  1010.  @tesstickle7267  Sorry, stopping people who could kill others trying to get away in a high speed chase is not what I call Gestapo. The thought crime stuff and the "non crime hate incidents" and the Policing of comments on twitter is more Gestapo stuff, and I agree with you completely, but that's a whole other issue.
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  1011.  @tesstickle7267  Think of it as an upgraded stinger to burst the tyres.
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  1012.  @Maurice_Moss  So it would work in many situations. Just an extra tool in the box.
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  1013.  @erikaverink8418  I guess you don't win many arguments then if that's what you use. Most chip shops do not use imported frozen chips, they make their own. Iceland and Norway are not in the EU so no difference there. The Netherlands would be much better off outside the EU. They are closing down your farms forcing people off the land they have owned and farmed for centuries. I lived in the Netherlands for over a decade and I hardly met any Dutch people who thought the EU was a good idea, they all hated them and wanted out.
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  1014. It's not happening slowly, it's going at top speed. I am expecting him to announce the formation of a Gestapo unit any day.
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  1015. So she's six points ahead but is running as the underdog? Hahaha, so the poll is obviously very wrong and they know it. This is all nonsense, she has no support except from the MSM and a bunch of activists. Trump has this in the bag.
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  1016. Lenny was funny back in the day, he was very funny on TISWAS, different times though, we could still have a laugh at people in those days. Could he be Algernon Razzamatazz or David Bellamy these days on kids TV? My God they would have a fit.
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  1017. Dylan's song sounds like Saturday by Rebecca Black.
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  1018.  @rhyfelwrDuw  Absolutely. Talk about overt systemic institutionalised racism.
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  1019. The Planet doesn't care about us, when it has one of its little tantrums and gives as an Earthquake or a Volcanic Eruption the planet is not thinking, oh the poor humans, it just does its thing, in fact nothing on the Planet cares much about us, everything else on the Planet is just trying to survive and will eat anything including us if it had the chance.
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  1020. Hitler also owned the Völkischer Beobachter newspaper.
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  1021.  @jenniferkelly6931  He had all the shares transferred to his name.
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  1022. "Trust that has taken years to build"...What is she babbling about, nobody trusts the EU. What they are irritated about is being found out by the Belgian Police...How embarrassing.
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  1023. @polemius01 If you don't want him elected and it concerns you so I am very interested in who you do want elected. It would help the conversation along if you made clear who you think has the answers and what their positions are, then we cold debate real issues.
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  1024. Disgraceful interviewing, they are supposed be balanced. This is why nobody is watching the mainstream media any more.
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  1025. Young people have difficulty finding a job with all these migrants coming in, and why would they be worried about the weather being warmer? That sounds great, Britain would be a much better place with better weather. i don't know what this guy is on about, I 'm off for a drive to emit some CO2.
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  1026. Blah blah blah. Interesting choice of pendant.
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  1027. @VictimOfBoredom "They" refers to the people you said were scared of having muslims in Prison. "Them" refers to those scary superhero muslims who are going to break out of the prisons and wreak havoc across the states.
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  1028. The fundamental problem is how it is financed. The money comes from the top down, this is the opposite of how it should be. The NHS starts with a budget let's say for hip replacements, as each operation is carried out the money is used up, when all the money is close to being used up doctors have to pick who gets treatment and who has to wait for the next budget allocation. So they have to start rationing. Now if the money went the other way, the more operations you did the more money came in, the budget would always be there for the next patient. So this would require a complete overhaul of the system so the money goes where the demand is, rather than some guy with a spreadsheet deciding how much we are going to need for hip operations in three years time. It should all be privatised, we also have the ludicrous situations when things go wrong. Let's say a Hospital employs a bad doctor, so the taxpayer pays his salary, then the taxpayer compensates his patients for his mistakes, then the hospital is fined ( so the state fines a state run hospital- literally fining itself) and then the Hospital runs out of money and needs bailed out, so the state fines itself, and then bails itself out. And all paid for by the taxpayer, the guilty parties are promoted or transferred, and nobody is actually held accountable. What happened in the wake of the Lucy Letby situation for example? Anybody fired? Anybody held accountable for allowing it to go on? The people who get sacked are most often the whistleblowers. What kind of message does that send? It's useless, I stay away unless I have no alternative.
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  1029. Well who cares about which bloc has more population. That's irrelevant. In any case we have arrangements with the EU, so this isn't "instead of"...it's "as well as".
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  1030.  @AdmiralBison  Eh? These policies divide people, they don't bring people together, that's exactly what they are designed to do. Create divisions.
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  1031.  @ColorMatching  OK how would you define Equity?
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  1032.  @ColorMatching  Righty ho. Hahaha. Oh yes it is !!
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  1033.  @ColorMatching  I have. Awful nonsense, but I struggled through it. But Marx's literature is not Marxism as it is today.
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  1034.  @ColorMatching  Of course I have. Anyway why is that even relevant? You know what the current incarnation of oppressive Marxism is don't you? That is what matters. Now how would you define "Equity"?
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  1035.  @ColorMatching  Too difficult eh?
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  1036.  @nathanielchieffallo4273  Do you speak English at all?
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  1037.  @nathanielchieffallo4273  Any language? I can translate it. If I can understand what you are trying to say I can help you.
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  1038. This is why you are heading for oblivion. Meloni is not fascist, she's a conservative, but of course for you guys anything to the right of Stalin is Fascism.
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  1039. Well look around you. 10 trillion more debt in 3 years, cities full of homeless drug addicts, crime out of control, millions of illegal immigrants flooding in, wars started all around due to Biden being completely useless. Wonderful isn't it?
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  1040. Well look around you. 10 trillion more debt in 3 years, cities full of homeless drug addicts, crime out of control, millions of illegal immigrants flooding in, wars started all around due to Biden being completely useless. Wonderful isn't it?
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  1041.  @JohnB3363  Yep it's actually cruel, he should be happily retired instead they have him pretending he's in charge. The only good thing is that he is keeping cackling Kamala away from being President, which would be even worse.
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  1042.  @mikejohnson8391  That's the problem, the reason you believe all this guff is that you don't look at the other side. Try getting another point of view.
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  1043.  @nancyharvey9533  Which is actually how you can become Korean.
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  1044. She's a nutcase who has found lots of customers. There's one born every minute.
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  1045. Waste of time and effort and energy.
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  1046. Well some things are totally predictable, like print money = devaluing it= prices will rise because money will be worth less. Someone should tell Paul Krugman and Joe Biden that basic fact. It's front page news when Paul Krugman says something because the media don't understand basic economics. Much like this channel. No need for the prize thanks, I wouldn't want to go to what is currently a large open prison.
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  1047. @TheEpisteme Of course it would, I live in Holland there isn't a drug problem here and most of it is decriminalised.
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  1048.  @DaSandwich21  I heard he had been heckled and booed by the crowd, so I was expecting thousands of boos not a couple of idiots shouting insults whilst somebody stopped him for a selfie.
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  1049.  @bxvbomber  Yes there seem to be a lot of Commies in New York, how did that happen? It used to be a great place.
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  1050. You don't need perfect pitch to know when something is not in tune, everybody knows. It's like catching a ball, you don't use advanced maths to calculate the trajectory and speed, you just know when to catch it. If something is out of tune you just know, you may not know if it's sharp or flat or whatever, but it jars you immediately. Another thing we have is that we all sing perfectly in tune all the time to our own ear, just go to a Karaoke bar and watch people convinced they are singing perfectly when they are all over the place.
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  1051.  @pingu255  But it's not true. We could send them back to their country of origin or the first EU country they arrived in if that could be determined and that country agreed. But not France, unless that happened to be the first country they arrived in, which is unlikely.
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  1052.  @DemonofChaos264  I'm sure they do every now and then. There is however an immediate daily situation going on in the Straights of Dover.
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  1053.  @SnakePliskin762  The Duke Of York's Royal Military School in Dover needs some protecting.
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  1054. Fertiliser price is up 400% in Europe.
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  1055. Hmm the Onion used to be funny, but this is not only in poor taste, it just isn't funny, they could say all Texans/Californians etc die of America, but that isn't funny either.
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  1056. The reason they want you to put your pronouns everywhere is for identification purposes. It's illegal to discriminate based on sexuality, but if you put your pronouns in your email you are volunteering the information.... So they know who is the right person to promote....So everybody should go as they/them by default until all this blows over and normality is restored.
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  1057.  @squarerootof2  Well it will, like Teddy Boys, or Rockers, Glam, the mini skirt or Punk, or any other fashion. The whole LGBT thing will be over, people will get fed up and jump on some other passing bandwagon.
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  1058. @mosteel88 Well do you think would a good thing? Where would you send them? It didn't work out really the way England thought it would, but is thatgoing to help? I mean you were so scared of these guys in Tora Bora, where could they be sent that the fear would subside?
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  1059. Be careful what you wish for, with PR we would have coalition governments all the time and it will be horse trading to form a Government. In the Netherlands they had the Election in November, they still don't have a Government formed today, 10 months later. There would also be 30 Parties or so, not 5 or 6, it would be a completely different game altogether. And it wouldn't be any better, on the contrary it would be compromises all the time, and that gives weak Government.
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  1060. Never apologise, they just see it as weakness and attack even more. Do what they do....Double down !!!
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  1061. But it's not based on trickle down economics, it's more using the Laffer Curve. Why do you think tax cuts will result in less investments?
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  1062.  @sands7779  Haha, right. Watch and see indeed, instead of having a tantrum. Changing capital gains tax (20%) would have almost no effect at all as it mostly concerns disposal of assets, you might encourage people to sell assets but that isn't going to help the economy at all, on the contrary.
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  1063.  @tamsinthai  The mad harridan that turned a sinking British economy around? Indeed learning from history is a good thing.
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  1064.  @GoingtoHecq  Eh? You'll have to explain that one.
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  1065.  @nadakbar  Nazis hated a certain religion, and the Supporters of Hamas want to eradicate the same religion. So the question is...who are actually the Nazis? Seems to me it's the Hamas Supporters.
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  1066.  @wargey3431  Chamberlain was an appeaser, those measures were to appease the warning cries from the House of Commons (That warmonger Churchill was always complaining that the Nazis were a threat and always seemed to have accurate information). The Shadow Scheme was started by Baldwin not Chamberlain.
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  1067.  @citoante  i wouldn't cite Musk as an example, he is an exception. he is very creative in that he is turning science fiction into fact. Post modernism seems to be about destroying everything, rewriting history, reducing the achievements of humanity to a good vs evil / the Oppressor vs oppressed narrative. The end goal being to switch the roles, the oppressed will become the oppressors. Instead of being gratefull for all the stuff we have and abilities we have, they seem to want to destroy everything for the pleasure in pissing off the perceived oppressors. It's sort of suicidal madness, a hedonistic desire for destruction for the pleasure of it, all because they didn't win the lottery. Bonkers.
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  1068. @VictimOfBoredom Haha that's really twisting things... Not at all the point is in any other prison you would have multiple ethnicities and relious origins, but not Gimo, how you twist that to saying I suppport quotas for detention is an ineteresting touch.
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  1069. @VictimOfBoredom Well let me ask you if you could estimate the religion of the inmates of Guantanamo Bay... around 100% Muslim would you say? Why is it offshore? Military tribunerals, no rights under the constitution, you might call it a prison, it looks like something else to me. And the Fema camp thing is not a Conspiracy Theory, they do exist, the question is why?
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  1070. That's the end of the Pink Panther Movies then.
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  1071. Hahaha. What a load of nonsense.
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  1072. @polemius01 Look trolling is insulting people baselessly, that's what you have been doing so if anyone is a troll it is you, If your list had been 1. Foreign Policy Reform 2. End the wars bring the troops home 3. Repeal Patriot Act 4. End the Fed restore sound money 5. Re-establish contract rights and property rights 6. Balance the budget -hey how about showing a profit so you can start paying down the debt? Then the triva you mentioned would soon be taken care of.
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  1073.  @matthewsemple  Customs is very straightforward, if you just take the time to find out what you have to do, which quite frankly is not much, a couple of forms and away you go. There were things to do before Brexit too, it was just done after the shipment instead of before, and was about the same amount of paperwork, in fact it was even more tricky than it is now. When you exported goods before Brexit you had to declare it for VAT purposes, and the partner on the other side had to declare it too, if they failed to do so you would end up liable for the VAT.
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  1074.  @RankinMsP  Yes well the EU controls Food via the Common Agricultural Policy, I was not referring to Food but to goods. The EU controls food and Fishing through the CAP and CFP, and how about that, those are the areas where there is the most complications. This is all stuff that the EU wants, not the food importers in the EU, they are the ones who need to do the customs clearance, it is not the job of the exporter to handle import customs it is the job of the importer, these are problems for the EU customer, who obviously want the food as they have ordered it. When you order something from China the Chinese supplier does not clear it through UK customs, that's your job as the importer to the UK, same for every transaction. The EU has made it as complicated as it could for the things it controls, for their own businesses. Basically they set out to punish us for leaving and have ended up punishing their own businesses, which is exactly what you expect from a centrally controlled bureaucracy, that's what they do best...Bureaucracy.
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  1075. Yes well, check out the Pheobus Cartel, even back then it was organised pocket picking.
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  1076. Quel idiot, personne dans l'UE va payerun cent de plus? .Bien sur ils vont payer qui va donner 750bn a l'UE par genoriste?
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  1077.  @DBGTEnjoyer  Je suis en GB, pas de soucis nous sommes partis, hehe.
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  1078. Hahaha, all this hype for Kamala, she doesn't stand a chance, Trump is laughing at the best the Democrats can come up with, it's hilarious. There is no need to "go after" Kamala, she does a great job of canvassing for Trump every time she opens her mouth.
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  1079. We need a mobile group "Just Stop Just Stop Oil", where we nip along on bikes armed with "slurry cannons" to any road blocks.
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  1080. Don't be ridiculous. Climate catastrophe, hahaha.
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  1081.  @rachell7682  I didn't say there wouldn't be problems, there will always be problems, but the NHS has no incentive to address them. Large bureaucracies always end up being self serving. A private hospital would be concerned about being sued and make sure they weren't if at all possible, the NHS doesn't care. The taxpayer gets the bill. Private hospitals can provide intensive care, they can do anything a Nationalised system can do. And if you think healtchcare isn't conducive to profit it's you that's living in cloud cuckoo land... The pharmaceutical companies or the manufacturers of equipment, love it, one customer who will buy for billions great stuff !! Or the staff that work there. Everybody that works there is being paid (making a profit from their time), healthcare is just like anything else. Having privately owned providers is perfectly fine, in fact GPs are private and most dentists are and so are opticians. And private doesn't mean it is expensive or even that you may have to pay, it could be entirely insurance based and the government could pay the premiums of anybody who is unable to themselves. Plus it would be better for the employees, right now if you are a nurse in Britain you really only have one employer available, yes there are a few private organisations but not many, if you have a disagreement with a boss your entire career could be over, whereas if there were lots of other places to work you could resign before even having a conflict and go and work for another provider. That's how things improve, people go where it is good and not where they are told by the state rationing system we have now.
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  1082.  @hb1338  How does a company make the most profit? By providing a good product at a fair price and building a good reputation. A hip replacement clinic that botches up every operation by cutting corners will be exposed pretty quickly, whereas one that has excellent results will also have a reputation a very good one. And you as the patient can choose where you go rather than being told where to go, so which one do you pick? So who makes the profit? I lived in the Netherlands where it is all private, it was much better care than in the UK, you could phone up the GP and get an appointment same day, if you need an operation, no waiting lists and the insurance was very reasonable, it worked out cheaper than paying NI. So it was cheaper, better and faster.
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  1083.  @adrianh332  Yes indeed we wouldn't want such a system. But I have not suggested that.
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  1084.  @JustMe-nj6dp  We will all have insurance. It's just whether the state does the work or private companies.
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  1085.  @angel-a123  How very worrying. So you see things that are wrong but don't speak up because you might be perceived as a "Moaner", and now you have a good job. You are the problem !!! Take a good look in the mirror.
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  1086.  @snowiecat456  You think water companies are not accountable? It's not their fault that the infrastructure is creaking it was built a hundred odd years ago for less than half the population, fixing it is a massive job involving enormous amounts of work. If they get a fine, they have to pay it, if the NHS gets a fine...we pay it !!
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  1087.  @timtreefrog9646  In the Netherlands the insurance is about £100 a month, and you don't have to pay so much NI. So in fact it would actually probably be cheaper. Nobody is tied to a particular hospital either, that's the point, you can literally choose where you go. That's one of the big advantages, instead of being put on some waiting list for some hospital decided by the NHS, you can choose where you go.
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  1088.  @ryand141  Of course it can. It's just a business like any other. You could have clinics specialising in things like broken bones, or hip replacements, or lung problems, general hospitals. The GPs and dentists are already Private, they always have been. The only thing you really need to have a state run general service is for accident and emergency, everything else can be done in Privately run institutions. And it can all still be free at the point of use if you have a suitable insurance scheme. The only difference is that instead of working for the State, the doctors and nurses and so on would be working for a private company.
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  1089.  @Pantifaximile  Unlike the NHS, when they have a problem they come straight out and tell us all about it. There is never a cover up, people are never promoted out of the area to hide it all. And then when it all comes to light, which it does eventually what happens? An inquiry and the Hospital gets a fine, so one part of the state fines another part of the state and everybody is supposed to think that's going to resolve the matter. There would be no waiting lists. Wouldn't that be better? You can choose where you go and who you see. Have you ever experienced anything other than the NHS? I mean compared to pretty much any country in the World, the NHS is like the stone age.
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  1090.  @shihankev  Well not since the Tories became lefties. What I have is experience of private insurance based healthcare, from living in countries that have such a system. You really don't want the government running anything. Then it becomes a political issue, and is run dependent on the finances of the country and the whims of politicians. But then to have made such a comment, you are most likely on the far left, and want everything run by the government. We tried that already and it was a disaster.
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  1091.  @KentReynolds  It has !! Rail users have more than doubled since privatisation, they have relayed a lot of track and opened up new stations, and energy privatisation has been a success too. It would work a lot better if the government got out of it altogether, both industries have their pricing set by the State, the state tells the railway companies how much fares can be and also the electricity and gas companies what the consumer price will be, so it is not really privatised. Companies cannot compete because the price is set by the state, so they are really just administrators. In order to be completely private they should be able to properly compete by setting their own prices.
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  1092.  @annbumfrey6812  Why would you think that? The way to make money as a business is to have a good reputation and provide good service, if you don't, people go elsewhere. With the NHS you have no choice, you go where you are told when you are told. The NHS has no liability, the liability ultimately ends up with the State. Health Care is provided by private businesses all over Europe and you don't hear of as many failures as in the NHS. The point is if it's private and it goes wrong the owners pay. If it's public and it goes wrong the taxpayers pay. The Private company is concerned about losing money by making a mistake, the NHS is not, the taxpayer will pay. You forget that if it was private then you choose where you go, nobody forces you any more by only giving you one option, you have multiple options and pick the best for you.
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  1093.  @annbumfrey6812  I don't know why but my comments are not showing up, I'll try again and sorry if it shows as a repeat. Why would you think that? The way to make money as a business is to have a good reputation and provide good service, if you don't, people go elsewhere. With the NHS you have no choice, you go where you are told when you are told. The NHS has no liability, the liability ultimately ends up with the State. Health Care is provided by private businesses all over Europe and you don't hear of as many failures as in the NHS. The point is if it's private and it goes wrong the owners pay. If it's public and it goes wrong the taxpayers pay. The Private company is concerned about losing money by making a mistake, the NHS is not, the taxpayer will pay. You forget that if it was private then you choose where you go, nobody forces you any more by only giving you one option, you have multiple options and pick the best for you, so you are going to look at reviews and ask people where is best for you to go. With the NHS you don't have that option, you are told where to go.
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  1094. Well not takeover, because all they know how to do is destroy things, there is nothing to take the place of what they destroy, but we can certainly expect a lot of damage.
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  1095. Ron Paul of course. No-one else comes close.
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  1096.  @ItsBinhRepaired  Do keep up. Yes it is, just what do you think "Gender Fluid" means? You can shift into whatever suits the occasion, and then change your mind two minutes later. That way you can maintain a constant state of grievance and entitlement whilst passing as the victim, it really is genius, there is no other word for it.
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  1097. So you support terrorist attacks? The Jews don't make a habit of attacking people blowing up concerts, planes, attacking airports, machine gunning innocent people. What did the Palestinians think was going to happen when they DELIBERATELY attacked civilians and took hostages. No sympathy at all, and it has exposed the amount of people that hate Britain but who are living here, we need to get extraditing !!! Pronto ! Plus mate, you could wipe your nose before making the video that large piece of snot is pretty disgusting.
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  1098.  @glennwhitlock1272  I know, it's wonderful !!!
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  1099. How many illegal immigrants is he putting up in the manse? It's the moral thing to do. He says he is welcoming refugees from Ukraine, but they have come legally, how many illegals is he hosting?
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  1100. Will they play Heil dir im Siegerkranz?
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  1101. She has no clue about the real world. Everything she has put forward has been a complete disaster, like the deposit return scheme which was just a large squandering of public money with absolutely no result whatsoever and also a huge cost to the drinks industry.
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  1102. There was another major war in 1870 when the Prussians invaded France and ended up with Alsace Lorraine en prime.
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  1103. So would that be an insurrection? Or Election Denial? Or is it OK when the EU loses to deny the vote and have protests? It seemed pretty clear, 53% vs 37% combined for the four opposition parties, not even close.
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  1104. The difference in France is that their former colonies in the Maghreb are mainly muslims. Many of these people moved to France from the fifties, there are generations there and they mainly live in the big cities where they are about 10% of the population easily. The radicals have fertile ground if they want to find "activists".
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  1105. It doesn't autofill on my browser either, I just tried them both, no suggestions for either of them. I wonder who else this has been done to?
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  1106. I am all for insulting the Scottish Parliament. It's a complete joke.
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  1107. How ridiculous. The Woke don't respond to logic and facts.
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  1108. Hahaha, The EU is not Democratic, and it is them "picking off" small countries one by one. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so worrying. These people are megalomaniacs.
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  1109.  @reknakfarg7252  So how come there are millions of migrants roaming about? Have you been to Paris recently, it's like a refugee camp.
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  1110.  @brb__bathroom  I see you are of the same calibre. Why is it that all you guys have is a stream of invective? It is really not endearing.
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  1111. The 1924 Labour government didn't last long, we had National coalition governments from 1929 to 1945. Then Attlee destroyed our industry by nationalising everything and the Labour/Tory ping pong managed our decline until Thatcher grabbed the bull by the horns and turned the country around, since then we have seen the advent of globalism and Politicians are now working not for the people but for the Globalist bosses. People though are fed up. We don't want the WEF, the UN, the ECHR, and the Corporations and NGOs to be in charge, we want the people we elect to work for us...not these global masters. Switching from one major party to the other isn't going to change that which is why people are voting for the "upstart parties". Le Pen in France, Wilders in the Netherlands, Meloni in Italy, AfD in Germany...and Reform in the UK. In the UK came to this realisation a bit late, we thought we could trust the Tories to get Brexit sorted, instead they deliberately fudged it and then they started behaving like Socialists. Nobody wants Labour and the MSM have been on a concerted campaign to undermine Reform with all their dirty tricks. Maybe not this time, but next time Reform are going to be a force to be reckoned with, and the MSM is dead after this.
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  1112. eeew. a condescending smug supercilious quiet talker. The most malicious kind of operative of the crazy bunch.
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  1113. Well get used to it because now there are only two possibilities. the Left or the Far-right. There is nothing else in their minds.
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  1114. How do I apply for this coaching job? I'm white, British and don't know anything about the game so that must make me a super minority.
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  1115. Yes folks, let's use our votes wisely this year. It's a bumper election year there elections everywhere, we can make a real difference and end this Socialist wokery crap.
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  1116. @VictimOfBoredom Well right so what is Iran going to do how are they going to invade the States without a significant navy? What is the US scared of? North Korea? All these wars and who is actually really a realistic threat to the US? Really only China or Russia, they both have tons of nukes so why all this fuss over tiny countries and a religion, can't you see?
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  1117. I have a better solution, just cancel them all !! There is almost nothing worth watching these days. This idea to pay a one off fee for everything is not good, it sounds good, but it allows them to fill up with woke content, because whether you watch it or not they get your monthly fee which is the opposite of how films work. The failures get no viewers and the successes make a fortune under the old system....Now it doesn't matter it's all part of the same gloop.
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  1118. Nonsense, the markets are international the Dollar spiked against almost every currency at the same time, look at the Euro for example it followed pretty much the same path as the pound or any other major currency. The traders made a fortune on the way down and on the way back up again...Lovely for them, nothing to do with the UK. Of course the media jumped in and fanned the flames for them, and turned it into a crisis.
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  1119. Every 10 minutes they block a road should be a year in jail, no parole, no early release of any sort.
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  1120. Like America, this can be summed up in one word. Awdsmfafoothimaaafootafootscuseme
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  1121. Lady says, it's nothing to with Brexit but if we get a deal it will be OK. So it is to do with Brexit, just another pointless threat by the EU. It's a funny threat though, if you do not do as we say we will destroy our own tourist industry, so there.
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  1122. 26 years old this guy and still behaves like a five year old...
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  1123. So let's say you redistribute the wealth, great for the first year, but the second year there is no wealth to redistribute, because it has all been redistributed and becoming rich is not allowed, so what do you in year two? Or year 10?
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  1124. Oh dear, would that be some fissures appearing?
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  1125.  @DD-gt2cv  You can't argue with the high priests when the King only takes advice from the high priests.
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  1126. How Vill Ve impersonate Ze Germans? Zis is ein Katastrophe.
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  1127. What a monstrosity.
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  1128.  @simonzonenblick395  But the EU is not a country, it's a political bureaucracy, designed to disenfranchise the voter. It's somewhat ironic singing "Britons never will be slaves" and waving the flag of an organisition which is designed to do just that.
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  1129.  @simonzonenblick395  Well what do you call it when you can't vote for the people who make the law that you have to obey, and you have no means to change it or the people who make it? You are disenfranchised and have to do as you are told for a pittance, what is that if not slavery? In the EU with freedom of movement employers can import workers if the locals don't want your meagre offer, so people have no recourse at all but to accept low wages. Slavery, Indentured servitude, serfdom? It all boils down to the same thing, you have to obey and if you don't you are unemployed.
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  1130.  @simonzonenblick395  You are thinking of old style slavery, with chains and whips, that is not necessary these days.
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  1131.  @simonzonenblick395  Yes you said that already. The definition of slavery: a condition of having to work very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation. So that fits perfectly. As I said, you are thinking of old style slavery with the whips and chains.
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  1132. No chance. The French voting system will mean that she loses no matter who is against her in the second round..
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  1133. What a vile person she is. She is just dripping hatred and contempt. Such an empty vessel that's why she makes so much noise.
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  1134. So imagine what it's like to be a straight white Male. I used to be a bloke , now I am a Patriarchal Hetero-normative misogynist oozing toxic masculinity oppressing everyone with my white privilege. How did that happen?
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  1135. What a terrific dissection of the insanity infecting the world at the moment. Forget Covid we need a woke vaccine.
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  1136. Haha yeah I agree about that a lot of people actually think it's real news which is good for a laugh, and sometimes they hit the mark with some very funny stuff, the couple that do the breakfast news are usually hilarious and they manage to deal with tricky stuff in a funny way, but this just came across as if it was written by a 15 year old who has never been outside his home town.
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  1137. By "Transparency" she means the EU controlling shipping of finished product. Imagine if you had to declare every shipment to the government before you can make it, that's a component of fascism, you can keep your business but you have to do exactly as we tell you. The EU finally shows its true colours.
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  1138. Yep it does build bridges, the ones on the notes were all imaginary until a Dutchman actually built them all. Haha at least the Dutch have a sense of humour.
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  1139. Surely all these refugees increase our carbon footprint, all that extra breathing for a start.
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  1140. They keep bleeding support but pretending that people want independence, every opportunity the people say no thanks and yet they just will not take no for an answer. It's astonishing.
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  1141. More flops than the WSOP, that's quite a feat.
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  1142. Bedlam was a hospital in London, an asylum.
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  1143. @Rationalific Yep I'm concerned by trying to do too much they will run out of material and become repetetive very quickly and spoil a good thing. Film at eleven.
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  1144.  @goldfish2379  Why is it always assumed the only option is the US system. I lived in the Netherlands where it is an insurance based private system, it was terrific in comparison, made the NHS look like cavemen. France was even better, although more expensive with a half private half state system. There are lots of options. When you have lived abroad and have something to compare with the NHS , the NHS is crap. I mean seriously crap.
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  1145. Nice of Sean to give a Doctor his medical advice.
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  1146. How can everyone "get ahead". That literally means doing better than others, it is impossible for everyone to do better than everyone else at the same time. She spews words faster than the Fed Prints Dollars.
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  1147.  @kampfmuffin3535  Sure looks like they are jumping out of a plane, exactly like in WWII, how else would you do it?
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  1148.  @rockfella1377  You do understand that the Russians also have defensive measures? They can also detect and blow up any of our radar that gets turned on.
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  1149.  @davebetney  Because only Ukraine have thought about Drone attacks and the Russians don't have the same gear or better?
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  1150.  @seemopps  Just as well the Russians don't know that, otherwise they would make contingency plans.
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  1151.  @zobius9191  Yes that would be a misuse of resources, if you had one of those best shoot down the plane before they jump. Some exploding drones would be pretty useful though, and pretty cheap, and can be launched and guided from say a truck hidden in a barn.
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  1152. How many places is this woman going to find misogyny. She needs to find a good bloke, she's obviously bitter about something.
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  1153. @polemius01 You accuse Ron Paul of Homophobia based on that sticth up in the Bruno movie? I would have had a very similar reaction, I would probably have head butted the guy and I'm not violent nor homophobic. That was a stitch up they started in a studio and the "lights failed" so they said they had another studio and wheeled him into the bedroom scene, I would have been outraged too, he had been asked to speak about economics. You are not listening to DR Paul you are listening to the media
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  1154.  @Am3thyst_star  Yeah that must be it.
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  1155. You should see what they do in Glasgow when they find out their neighbour is a Pedo. The cops need to come and protect the Pedo !!!
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  1156. Norway helped? They aren't in the EU.
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  1157. These aren't debates, everybody stands up and speaks for 1 minute, nobody pays any attention really, you just end up with a few hundred opinions. That's not going to change anybody's mind everybody is only really interested in their minute.
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  1158. So the joke is, there is no joke?
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  1159. Standing there looking like a plonker just makes your propaganda look even stupider. How do these people sleep at night?
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  1160.  @MichaelWalker-t2j  They have a vote, and because they don't like the result they are protesting? So they want to disregard the democratic decision. So what do you call it when only voting one way is acceptable and voting the other sparks a riot? Sounds like Fascism wouldn't you say? Thugs trying to bully people into doing what the mob wants.
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  1161.  @KarrieDreammind5  But they just had a vote. These people did not like the result, so they riot? That's not defending democracy that's demanding they win !!
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  1162. Interesting the organisation of units being local. The British avoided that after the first world war because towns or areas could lose most of their young men on the same day if their unit was involved in a failed assault. In the first war units were raised from towns or businesses too, even professional football teams.
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  1163. Funnily enough I think the complete opposite Paul Embery. The problem is the government does way too much, there are too many layers of government and ridiculous environmental rules, that's what is holding us back. Of course we need some form of planning system but it is way too complicated as it stands.
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  1164. Everything is a spectrum unless you disagree with them in which case you are a hateful bigot out to kill them. They don't know the definition of Bigot either, because it actually is more applicable to them.
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  1165. Oh but you can. That was Winston Smith's job in 1984, rewriting history.
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  1166. Grace is very nice, but very dim. Why are they always so whiney these lefties?
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  1167. @DrQuijano So why would you want 4?
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  1168. This is complete madness, but who can be surprised, I suppose if you complain about it, it will be hate speech.
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  1169. @polemius01 But you haven't written anything yet of any import, all you have done is try and jjustify that he is a homophobe based on a comedy film, but when asked to provide some other justification-nothing. I mean he is 75, so surely if he is a homophobe he must have left a trail behind him which in the internet age would be easy to track down. So you must have some other examples.
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  1170.  @karmaascendant3936  Nonsense, none of the major parties were for Brexit. It was the people that wanted out not the Politicians. They love it, all that unaudited corruption, the EU is a gold mine for politicians. Remember David Cameron sent us all a leaflet telling us to vote remain, then when we voted leave he resigned. Then they did everything they could to dilute it. If they had just got on with it things would be much better, but we will get there in the end.
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  1171.  @vincentdunne3642  Can you arrange that? Seems a little extreme, but if you think it will help.
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  1172.  @EUdebatesLIVE  Well thank your for your efforts, it must have been a big job making this epic. However my fascination, however gratifying it may be is not the question I am interested in. How much is your department's budget is and how many people work there? As the EU is seeking transparency this should be a simple question, even an approximate response would be great. Thanks very much for your inclusive and appreciative response.
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  1173. Nothing like the medical scandal which is the vaccine.
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  1174. I doubt Hitler went to the trouble of orchestrating an accident. If he had finished with you he would just have you shot, after all who was going to complain about it?
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  1175.  @ImloyaltoScotlandonly  Well no it's not, read article one of the act of Union.
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  1176.  @ImloyaltoScotlandonly  You can believe what you want, doesn't change the facts. That's why it's called the United Kingdom, and not the United Kingdoms.
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  1177. ​ @ImloyaltoScotlandonly  Not really relevant. You seem to be living in some sort of parallel reality. Maybe apply to Rwanda for asylum as you don't like the UK.
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  1178. The irony being, in Prison you don't need a licence.
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  1179.  @mauchkimberly  Right so the punishment is free Room and Board and TV.
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  1180.  @iamrocketray  They'll all be over 75, so special treatment eh?
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  1181. If this guy was on the receiving end of a crime he would be up in arms shouting and ranting about it and blaming everyone. He seems to not give a damn about people having their lives turned to misery by a bunch of hooligans.
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  1182. Ah Michael Walker, who has been less than complimentary to GB News, referring to them as far right, so here he is on GB News. I wonder if he will be taking some appearance money? And will he be rushing to redistribute it?
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  1183. Fine, no borders, so that makes all social systems obsolete, so no benefits, no NHS, no Pensions.
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  1184. Haha, you been deleting my comments? Tell us how many names Biden has forgotten? About him trying to shake hands with invisible people, about him not even knowing where he is or what day it is? Too much?
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  1185.  @laurenpunch1053  Yes he had a lot of people that he fired for incompetence, that's the difference, In the Democrat Party you get promoted for incompetence, I mean just look at Kamala.
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  1186. @polemius01 Haha Cohen chose RP because he was pretending to be an Austrian gay, and Ron Paul is know as the proponent of Austrian Economics.
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  1187. @TheEpisteme Right.
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  1188. Well these folk don't know anything about the Monarchy and how it functions. They think if there is a President it will be some Lefty. They would be apoplectic at the thought of President Boris for example. Plus the chap who wouldn't shut up couldn't even spell Monarchy....And he wrote it on a sign to show everyone.
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  1189. Back when 8 track was the future of music.
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  1190. Imports and exports make up about 12% of GDP.
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  1191. This is not how tariffs work though, they are paid by the importer to the EU and ultimately those are paid by EU citizens when they buy the end product. The African countries would be charging tariffs on imports from the EU and that's the money they would be receiving, which is ultimately paid by their citizens. When we were in the EU if we imported from Africa (when there were tariffs) then the importer would pay the tariff to HMRC, and then HMRC would send 80% to the EU. So we were being taxed to import from Africa by the EU who decided how much the tariff was also. Tariffs are paid by the importer, not the exporter. However she is quite right about the non tariff barriers.
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  1192.  @paulmcmahon864  "That the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland shall upon the First day of May which shall be in the year One thousand seven hundred and seven and for ever after be united into one "
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  1193.  @paulmcmahon864  The sports teams are based on the Federations that run them and the leagues plus we have a bit of an advantage because we invented most of the games. The United States is a Federation of states. The United Kingdom is one Country. Devolution was Tony Blair's idea he thought it would help Labour keep the Tories out. It was unconstitutional, but it was supposed to have very limited power. The SNP figured out how to gain the system and it has been downhill since then. Dividing the country and wasting time and money and effort.
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  1194.  @paulmcmahon864  Out of power. Yes, United States and United Kingdom not United Kingdoms.
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  1195.  @paulmcmahon864  Abolish the assemblies.
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  1196.  @paulmcmahon864  I'm Scottish, and your independence dream is just that.
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  1197.  @paulmcmahon864  Oh I'm very definitely British and always will be, but I am from Scotland. SNP are a minority relying on the insane Green party to push through their socialist agenda. A few more years of that and Scotland will be too much of a basket case to think of running away..
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  1198. The world has gone mad.
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  1199. She likes saying "ambitious plan". Maybe she should look up the definition of Ambitious.
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  1200. So are sanctions a deterrent or not?
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  1201.  @infinitedaryl2267  Well look harder, it's on their literature. Perhaps they have changed or removed it, try looking up the wayback machine. It's a feature of a hedonistic lifestyle, when they don't get what they want they have a tantrum which often ends in violence. Just look at the aggression towards anybody who disagrees with them, they are the angry violent people.
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  1202.  @infinitedaryl2267  Well I don't really want to debate you, you were the one that started the conversation, so if you want to slink off that's absolutely fine by me. I didn't make anything up, it came straight from Stonewall, sorry I don't make an archive of everything on the internet. "They" make their own problems, if "they" got quietly on with their lives nobody would care, but "they" want everyone else to move aside to accommodate their hedonistic desires.
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  1203.  @infinitedaryl2267  The Source is Stonewall. That's all.
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  1204. Oy ! Don't forget the vast majority of Scots don't want to leave the UK, why should we be punshed for the Scottish Nazis?
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  1205. I have to disagree with you here Simon. I lived in France for a long time, I never heard anybody criticise the Brits and Americans for bombing France during the war, I didn't feel any resentment at all due to that. In fact they were grateful, and knew very well that Britain was targeting the Nazis not the French, indeed often the French Resistance would help guide in the bombers so they could hit their targets. Not even a cheep about Mers-el-Kébir. The French don't dislike us they are jealous, they could never beat us, we always ended up beating them, the may have won a battle or two but never the war, that's what annoys them. They have monuments to Napoleon and he is still celebrated, even though if you think about it he was not dissimilar to Hitler, and yet the Germans celebrating Hitler would be unthinkable, yet the French love their Tyrant Emperor, well it was the only time they had a few victories, so you take what you can get I suppose.
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  1206. I see the lefties have been making videos about you Leo. Good job, but I'm sure you knew you were a Nazi working for the Fascist GBNews already, haha. Good job !!!
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  1207. Hahaha, I am pleased to see that you are still ignoring the facts and talking absolute rubbish and making stuff up. Still you have to feed your viewers what they want. Well done, it's nice to see lefty remainers embracing capitalism.
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  1208. @dondoodat When leaving the CTA and entering Schengen.
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  1209. @dondoodat Why am I not making any sense, we have a long standing Common Travel Area with Ireland that started long before the EU was even summoned into existence. What is that you are failing to grasp?
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  1210. @dondoodat We can control our own borders. One way you can do that is by by having freedom of movement with who we choose rather than having it with all of the EU. You aren't making any sense. In the EU you had to have freedom of movement with all members, when you control your border you can decide to have freedom of movement with each country or not, that's control. I am failing to see what it is you don't understand. Plus you have no idea why I voted Brexit, you have just made up a reason.
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  1211. @dondoodat No, you made some ridiculous story about Ireland, made up why I voted for Brexit, and then failed to understand the explanation. No wonder you are angry, you aren't going to get anywhere carrying on like that.
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  1212. @dondoodat I have no clue what you are ,mumbling about. once again you tell me why I voted for Brexit and once again you are wrong. And I did answer the question. Let me help you try and understand a different way. You decide who comes into your house right? You don't leave the door open for anybody to wander in, but your lover or family members or friends may have a key to the door, the people you have selected can come and go as they please. Everybody else has to knock. Get it yet? That's having control over your border and having selective free movement. It's really not that hard to understand. now if the local council came along and said... Ah no, you have to let anybody wander in to your house...would that be OK?
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  1213. @dondoodat Whatever. You seem to be very good at making things up so I was wasting my time trying to help you anyway. And it was you that decided to jump in, so toddle off if you like. No problems, here, have a Kleenex.
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  1214. Notice that Grace gets to talk uninterrupted, but nobody else can finish a sentence without Grace jumping in all the time...and then at the end she complains about being interrupted once. These champagne socialists are such self centred stuck up snobs. They would hate Socialism if they got it !!
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  1215. It's not far right, what a load of nonsense, the trouble is from the far left everything looks like the far right. She first criticises the Nation State as being the cause of war in Europe, and then wants Palestine to have a Nation State. This is far left thinking in action.
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  1216. Byline is a collective of far left, EU loving Remainers. He deserves all he gets for having anything to do with this pathetic, what is it? Website, channel. They call themselves a newspaper but it's a monthly subscription only thing, so more of a Communist Magazine.
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  1217. That guy is the biggest racist of them all. Seriously he accuses the NHS of Racism? What a plonker.
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  1218. Can't see how subscribing will give extra access on Youtube. Not good starting off with inaccuracies.
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  1219. CNN make a profit? Now that's news !! In fact it's a miracle.
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  1220. @VictimOfBoredom I said right from the start it is the same here, yes Geert Wilders is a dangerous man, the BNP are nazis up front, I agree, I am not bashing America or the American citizen or the European. I am saying the powers that be are using the same tactics as the Nazis, and the people are falling for it. It's a very dangerous situation, you know the muslims are no more a threat to the US than the Jews were to Germany.
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  1221. Bit hard for the Palestine supporting lefties admitting that the people they support are terrorists, that would cause too much trauma, people's hair would go blue !
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  1222. Give him a medal, and some marksmanship training...
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  1223. You have to explain it like you are talking to a five year old before they seem to understand. The person had nothing more to say but they will still believe they were right and think Matt is a bigot for explaining simple biology to them.
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  1224. The First Lady's husband has tested positive for Dementia.
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  1225. Careful Leo, a bit too much truth here, they will be after you, watch out for flying Soy-milk.
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  1226. But if you had PR you would have loads of Parties. Look at the Netherlands, 26 Parties stood at the last election in November, the winner got 23%. They still haven't formed a Government and it's July, 10 months later. Same in Belgium, there twice in the past decade they had no Government for nearly two years because they couldn't agree a coalition, and they also have 26 Parties running there. If you change the system you would also change the whole fabric of Politics and there would be loads of single issue parties or minority interest Parties who could only ever hope to win one or two seats.
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  1227. It wasn't a shock if you have been paying attention. Trump is going to romp all the way home, unless they rig it again.
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  1228. 107% of people polled, they were working overtime.
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  1229.  @francesconicoletti2547  Yes and the importers know how to fill in a couple of forms, so it has no effect whatsoever. If it's your business, you make it your business to know the rules.
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  1230. @VictimOfBoredom Well it's an important point "musilims are threat" I mean that would be the basis that they have to be kept in Guantanamo rather than in a prison in the US? Wouldn't it? So even if you personally don't think so the point is that propaganda soup has the people believing it to the point where they won't get on a plane with one. The powers that be are the folks who choose our presidents and prime ministers and etc.
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  1231. Unmitigated disaster looms. It won't take long for the SNP to mess this up.
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  1232. That was just about as much QT as I can handle these days.
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  1233. Surely "the opposite of male" would indicate that there is a binary. Don't they know it's a spectrum. It should be "a state that is present at the widest expanse of the infinite reverberation of the Gender spectrum universe at the furthest point from the Black Hole of Toxic Masculinity." That would be much clearer.
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  1234. And so often repeated, everyone when asked said the exact same thing; "That wasn't real socialism", except the guy who said it wouldn't work in just one country, which shows his ambition.
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  1235.  @adampeckham8541  The LSE? I prefer official trade figures from the Government collated by the ONS. Google "Uk Trade in numbers" Highest exports both to the EU and the rest of the World, and highest imports too. So trade is going superbly well. We were also by the way the fastest growing economy in the G7 in 2022. The antiBrexit LSE is hardly going to present the reality, that would mean admitting they were wrong, and they will never do that ! Hahaha.
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  1236.  @adampeckham8541  Well click on the link to the OECD page. You are looking at the facts and then trying to make some sort of excuse as to why the facts are wrong to fit your imagined scenario. With that approach you can claim anything you like. This is the kind of madness that infects remainers. A willingness to ignore reality and invent their own. How you can look at the results where we are top and claim we are actually second bottom is startling !!!
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  1237.  EliasBac  Mr Verhofstadt's ego is full to bursting point !!
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  1238.  @commonsense31  Is it pantomime season? Oh yes it has !!
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  1239.  @williampatrickfagan7590  "Blessed are the ignorant For will never see their own faults." Blessed are the ignorant For they will never see their own faults. Fixed that for you as you obviously didn't see it.
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  1240.  @michelemijat8260  Of course we did. Inside the Customs Union the EU sets our trade policy, decides our trade deals and takes 75% of the tariffs that THEY charge. That would be just resigning from the decision making process and taking the rules they decide, it would be even worse than being a member.
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  1241. It's true we are not equal, but the EU will just have to try harder, maybe they can catch up.
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  1242. Whatever system you have it will be exploited and have quirks, that's always the case. Nothing wrong with our system, it's the politicians that are rubbish...In all Parties. At least Nigel is tackling the issues people care about head on, rather than pretending they aren't problems and it's those pointing them out who are wrong. But it will take more than Nigel, I'm not sure the rest of Reform's candidates are of the same calibre.
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  1243. The story of a bathtub made in a bicycle shop pulled by a hot rod. Fascinating.
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  1244. Except a lot of people have their rent paid by the Government through Housing benefit or Universal Credit, so they are also finding a way to get Westminster to pay up more money to the councils. Devious lot. The hypocrisy is that they have one rule for the private sector and another for themselves.
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  1245. It'll be the Chinese, apparently darts is big in Mongolia. But that's OK, we have originated most of the games and sports people play all over the world.
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  1246. @MikeTaylor17 Very interesting response, you are quite correct, it also doesn't prevent you from being awake, as religion does, keeps on telling people it's the will of God so just carry on regardless instead of grasping the situation..
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  1247. He's not good at Maths either. 48/50 is 96% not 99%.
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  1248.  @SMhydra  What a load of nonsense hahaha.
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  1249.  @MathyBoonen  On the contrary !!
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  1250.  @SMhydra  What a load of nonsense. Britain is doing fine. It's the EU on the verge of economic collapse.
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  1251.  @raphaelgarcia6121  Anything modular has a wide variety of components, the more options you have the more chance of mistakes (the wrong part being used in the wrong circumstances), which leads to accidents.
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  1252.  @Steelninja77  Exactly ! Those doing maintenance and repairs fitting the parts can easily make mistakes when there are multiple modular options especially under pressure, you call me a loon whilst pointing out the problem yourself. Gotta love youtube comments.
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  1253.  @ashleygoggs5679  Yes I know all that, but the more possibility there is for mistakes, the more mistakes you get, regardless of "procedures." It's just a reality of life.
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  1254.  @ashleygoggs5679  Almost always accidents happen when procedures aren't followed. Like road accidents. The point is when there is room for confusion, confusion will happen at some point, it's inevitable.
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  1255.  @markletts8802  He was the belligerent he set off hostilities. It was Edward Grey the British Foreign Secretary who expended enormous effort to maintain peace. The Kaiser was cousin of the Tsar and Queen Victoria.
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  1256.  @choughed3072 Yes sorry, George V' ths cousins.
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  1257. Standing Ovation from here.
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  1258. These people are nuts.
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  1259.  @wendymcghee489  Just the truth. It's not the first time it has happened. the Royal Mail is in a competitive market, the Unions want to keep the "old Way", but that isn't competitive enough. If the company doesn't bring in enough cash to pay the salaries then the company folds. That's just reality. Nobody sends letters any more. You can't compete with free email, if you don't adapt your job becomes unsustainable.
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  1260.  @wendymcghee489  There we are already. Royal Mail announcing 1,000 redundancies today. Not to worry for the workers though because there are tons of delivery jobs available, they can walk straight into a job fwith DPD and Amazon and Hermes...You know...the competition.
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  1261. These XR people live in LaLa Land.
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  1262. The French had more tanks than the Germans and better tanks too. the Germans had mainly Panzer II's which were armed with two machine guns and Panzer 3's which were medium tanks with a small gun, they only had a few Panzer IV's and the Tiger was still being designed. It was how they were used that made the difference and the combined arms with the Stukas and artillery. The problem really was the French command who were stuck in another era and thought it was going to be a repeat of WWI, with well established lines and attrition, speedy armoured attack was just not something they imagined possible. So they didn't even consider it.
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  1263. Only on Vice would you hear, they aren't going to kill people, immediately followed by, they kill 50 people a year in Asia.
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  1264. Hahaha, the irony of them explaining what they do and how they do it, and then complaining the "other side" doing exatly what they are doing. Hilarious. It's a wonder they can keep a straight face.
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  1265. These people are unhinged, hahaha, it's hilarious.
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  1266.  @Khalkara  Well that wouldn't be possible as Mussolini was dead by the end of the war, so there is no such thing as Mussolini post WW2. Why don't you try defining fascism and then we can know what to compare her party to.
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  1267.  @taranullius9221  Are you talking to me? I don't seem to see all the comments.
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  1268.  @soulknife20  So in your comparison you admit already it doesn't fit with a fascist regime. However the idea is first you define Fascism, not what you think Meloni's party stands for. After all you have to define things before you can compare them wouldn't you agree?
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  1269.  @soulknife20  First you have to define Fascism, but to take your points. Nationalism, yes Nationalism would you say the Scottish National Party are fascists? They are nationalists and call themselves progressives. Most people love their country, it's really not a sign of fascism by any means. Immigration: It's not immigration that's the issue it's illegal immigration Italy has tens of thousands of illegal immigrants arriving every month, they are causing chaos for the locals. It's an issue in other Eu members too, because they move out from Italy elsewhere. It's a big problem in Europe. Same for family, pretty much every country in the world treasures the family, that is not a sign of fascism at all, breaking up the family and removing the children from the care of the parents and indoctrinating them in the will of the state is this is the opposite. So I'm afraid these comparisons don't work, but you see before you compare really you have to define what you mean by fascism, which nobody seems to want to do, they want to complain about Meloni, but they don't really know why. Define fascism, then we can look at her policies and see if they fit.
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  1270.  @kidslovesatan34  Ok well that's a start. But it's enough to refute any possible claims of fascism. She has never asserted that violence is good or advocated for war. She will be prime minister of a coalition of multiple parties (if appointed by the President) in a Parliament with 8 different parties in it, so it is certainly not a one party state. There is absolutely no question of Autarky, certainly not as members of the EU. There is no question of racial purity matters, or thinking Italians are somehow superior it's a question of controlling illegal immigration and they have no scapegoat race that they blame for their ills. So from that little list, zero points, It's really not looking like she is fascist at all is it?
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  1271.  @kidslovesatan34  Don't be ridiculous, she doesn't meet any of your copy and pasted definition. Not one ! She's a good old fashioned conservative.
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  1272.  @kidslovesatan34  Yes I went through those examples and yours, and none of the criteria fit Meloni at all. Which should make you think, but apparently not.
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  1273.  @kidslovesatan34  No, she's best described as a what she is, a conservative. It really is better to call things what they are rather than make ridiculous claims.
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  1274.  @kidslovesatan34  Good grief, what a load of absolute nonsense, none of those things are her policies. This page is fasinating really, you are all living some kind of fantasy, where do you get this nonsense from. I mean why would you think she condones drowning families? More to the point why do you think Italians would vote for somebody who condoned drowning families? i can't imagine anybody voting for such a party.
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  1275. @polemius01 Haha yes fruit cake is homophobic...Just google it instead of allowing your paranoia to define words for you. You are a fruit cake, and obsessed, the country is crumbling around you massive debt wars going on and you are focussed on a 1 minute segment from a staged comedy movie, so what's the point in talking with you, you are never going to modify your opinion. So bon vent.
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  1276.  @PatriciaBryant-s6i  Yes they do, every property on the market is worth what someone will pay at the time they buy it. Every sale is a negotiation. This is just going to destroy confidence in taking out a loan, the world is laughing at NY, the US used to be fairly reliable and now it is engaging in political witch hunts. Nothing scares off investment like knowing you may be subjected to a witch hunt at any time out of the blue. People will invest elsewhere, Great job NY.
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  1277. Do you really think they only people who can do things properly are bureaucrats? Of course there needs to be rules, same as for anything, but think about it. Take McDonalds for example, do they poison their customers? Would they last long if they did? Would they make more money if they did? The answer to all these questions is no, so why on Earth would you conclude that if a Hospital facility was private they would kill the patients? On the contrary, doing a good job = more custom !! Simple...
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  1278. So it only took them about a year to realise what they had to do? If they had done this from the start Just Stop oil would have been Just Stopped.
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  1279. The should withhold his pay. When he calls to question why he has not been paid the person can answer "we take your paycheck very seriously and you will be being paid." When he pushes for when that will be the answer will be "We'll have the HR department reach out to you soon to give you a date by which that may be possible".
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  1280. If Extinction Rebellion just stopped breathing that would save a lot of CO2 production. And the reduction in Vegans would be a boost !
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  1281. @VictimOfBoredom You can google FEMA camps and find videos no problem, and there is denial that they exist, Fema openly say they do, but nobody will say what they are for. Are you trying to tell me the US is so scared of people they consider terrorists they have to send they to Cuba? The Cubans don't seem overly concerned. The reason they are there is to avoid the law. Terrorism, what is that? Is blowing up weddings in Pakistan with drones peacekeeping or terrorism?
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  1282. What a load of nonsense. Honestly the remainer FT really does pump out a load of absolute rubbish.
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  1283. Interesting that that is your perception.
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  1284. That's a bad idea, he can only serve two terms and if he takes over he will only be president for the remainder of Biden's term.
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  1285. Yougov is not random, it's full of left wing activists, everything is skewed. They don't take a sample of the population, they take a poll of people who have signed up to be polled, the left are very keen on being polled. There have been three referendums in your life time (if you were born after 1975), 2011 on changing the voting system, 2014 on Scotland, and 2016 on Brexit. We should have more on the big issues, like Switzerland.
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  1286.  Anthony Burke  Comprehension is obviously not one of your talents.
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  1287.  @bumberClart1000  Haha, oh dear, you guys are just plain weird.
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  1288.  @bumberClart1000  Facist? I have nothing against faces.
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  1289.  Alan Braham  It was the French I believe that introduced the notion of Left and right. What does their skin colour have to do with it?
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  1290. It's Melan "shone", not Melan con, that means something completely different, although some would cosider it more accurate.
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  1291. Right, so you are going to win the war in Ukraine, Stop Climate Change, now you will cure Cancer, but all you seem to be doing is spending taxpayer money on all these things with no results.
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  1292. LOL, she knows her stuff, that's hilarious.
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  1293. There's nothing to be concerned about in the UK. The Dollar is artificially strong because it is used in trade The Euro also tanked against it, but the US economy is a basket case. As for the IMF it is nothing to do with them, what are they on about? Since when were they worried about "equality". This is just media hyped up hysteria, next week it will be forgotten and they will be screaming about something else.
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  1294. He didn't resign though. He just said he would resign once a successor was selected, so the 28 day rule does not apply as yet.
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  1295. Hahahaha. That was hilarious.
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  1296.  @andrewwilliams3137  I know, I can't imagine why, hahaha.
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  1297.  @JJ-zg1hh  But you did have paperwork. You just did it after the shipment, and you don't have any wait at Dover. You have never sent a shipment have you? If you had you would know that what you said is complete nonsense.
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  1298.  @JJ-zg1hh  Yes it should be shown everywhere as how to construct a propaganda piece full of lies and half truths and ignore the real reason for Brexit which was nothing to do with Economics. And how if you dare to leave the EU they will do everything to make it difficult even if it means destroying their own member states economies, because the people making it difficult are those in Brussels not the workers in the EU.
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  1299.  @JJ-zg1hh  Strange question, why would it be relevant. Have you ever actually sent a shipment as a business?
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  1300. Another smug and very confused individual, I feel sorry for these people. We used to help these people, now we indulge their fantasies.
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  1301. The useful idiots are always the first up against the wall.
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  1302.  @FlatToRentUK  Hahaha Well yes it is. Why do you think the Russians rig everything? If the Russians could rig all the elections and referendums why are they invading with tanks? The Dutch voted no to the constitution, they got the Lisbon Treaty anyway. Then they voted no to visa free travel for Ukraine and they got Visa Free travel. The EU don't care what the people vote for. they do what they want. It is completely accurate to state that the Dutch voted No.
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  1303.  @FlatToRentUK  So The Danish Voted no to Masstricht and were forced to vote again The Irish vote No on the Nice Treaty and were forced to vote again The French vote no, the Dutch vote No the Irish vote no to the constitution but get it anyway with the Lisbon Treaty. The Greeks vote No to the Euro Bail-out but get it anyway The Dutch vote No on Ukraine, but get it anyway the UK voted Leave and faced 5 years of pressure to overturn the vote or vote again... The people however made clear in 2019 that they wanted the vote respected. how you can even begin to think the EU listens to the people and that the EU is "the member states" is a joke. The people who run it are hand picked, if you play along you can expect generous rewards if you resist in any way you will be out very fast, only the sycophants are allowed in the inner circle and the more obsequious to "the project" the better. Why is von der Leyen President? Why is Charles Michel head of the Council? Nobody voted for them hardly anybody even knew who they were before they ascended to such heights.
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  1304.  @FlatToRentUK  Hahaha. oh dear. You've read the brochure and swallowed the sales patter. You need to look into how von der Leyen got the job, and why they picked somebody so useless. Honestly all the people in Europe and they picked her? They had a procedure that was in the Lisbon Treaty the Spitzenkandidat system, but that would have meant Manfred Weber was President and they didn't like that (who's they you ask....well yes that is the question...who is they and why do they have such power). Their choices were rubberstamped by the EU parliament which is also a sham, the MEPs essentially choose themselves they put all the "right" people at the top of the list in each region and hey presto. Verhofstadt's Party only has 2 seats, but he always gets one because he is top of the list. Same for Farage, he made sure he was in the right area to get a seat. So the EU parliament is a joke too. Even then with this hand picked mob, she only got 383 votes (she needed 374) so she only just scraped it. By the way how many other elections do you know of where there is only one candidate and your options are Yes or No in an "election"? Finally if the EU is the member states and the member states hold a referendum and say no, then that should be the end of the matter whatever it is, instead they have to vote again and say yes or they are ignored, so clearly the EU is not the member states because they are not listened to, they are told what to do. Anyway we are out of their clutches now thanks goodness, now we can watch the pantomime from the side-lines as they stumble from one meeting to the next shuffling papers and taxing people and achieving nothing but drowning everyone in a sea of paperwork.
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  1305.  @FlatToRentUK  Repeating things does not make them true. You obviously paid no attention to anything I said. Continue to believe the story rather than investigating what happened Von der Leyen was selected by Macron, Merkel, Tusk and Juncker. So only two heads of state and the two outgoing "leaders", what do you call it when the outgoing leader choses their successor? If you think the EU is democratic you are wilfully blind. They put in place a system and then ignored it, just like they made it illegal to bail out the Euro and then bailed out the Euro, and it is illegal for the EU to be indebt but they are now trillions in debt, and the EU army was a dangerous Fantasy and now here we are everyone is calling for an EU army, not in the member states though...in the EU corridors of power. PR is a disaster, you always end up with coalitions where the smallest party holds the balance of power like in Scotland where the Greens have the SNP over a barrel with only 7 seats or even a situation where no government can be formed in the horse trading that follows an election, which is why there was no government in Belgium for a year and a half, the last Dutch election remains unresolved and a compromise has been reached., same in Sweden, and in NZ where Adern became Pm even though she didn't win the lection. It's a disaster. Basically you have it all upside down. Have a nice evening.
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  1306. I spotted that as well. Typical BBC, I wonder if being a blue haired activist is a requirement to join their social media team.
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  1307. Trump was telling people what he said years ago, and that's how he got countries to increase their defence spending. And he was right, just imagine if they hadn't. He wasn't saying what he would do, he was relating what he did 7 years ago. The media have turned it into a drama, but just listen to his speech, he was very clear.
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  1308.  @SomeKidFromBritain  On the wings of a parked plane? Even if you can do it it's a miniscule amount. And a battery is a storage device it's not generation.
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  1309.  @dcpack  I don't think so I don't see any turbine in the nose, and even if it was there the amount of power generated would be insignificant, enough to power a microwave maybe for a minute or two. And a generator is heavy not what you want in a plane, you want it to be as light as possible.
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  1310.  @Orbital_Inclination  But it doesn't generate power in flight, it uses power. What do you mean by GPU? A diesel Generator?
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  1311.  @Orbital_Inclination  But the claim is that it will generate power when it is on the ground, if it is recharging with a generator then it is not generating power, the generator is. There is no system for the plane to autonomously produce electricity on the ground, some kind of power supply or external fuel supply is required.
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  1312.  @Orbital_Inclination  So it would be like charging your battery by leaving the engine running.... That's not the implication at all you can charge any battery by running your engine, it's not exactly "generating power on the ground" is it?
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  1313.  @Orbital_Inclination  Hahaha.
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  1314.  @mofayer  It's a strange idea, the turbine is at the rear, why not have it go out the rear, I'm sure there must be a reason, but that's irrelevant. I'm still waiting for anybody to explain how it's going to generate power when it's parked.
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  1315.  @mofayer  So in order to generate power on the ground you have to have the engine running? I'm not seeing the advantage nor the selling point, and it's not exactly green...Isn't that the point?
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  1316.  @mofayer  Well according to the narration it is "next generation" which is code for "green", and can double as a generator when on the ground. Well any motor can be used as a generator if you leave it running and it is properly configured, and a large Drone can do VTOL something like the Volocopter. If there are no batteries then this plane needs fuel all the time to do anything. So I am not seeing any major advantages. But at least we now have an explanation for how to generate power on the ground, leave the motor running.
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  1317.  @Orbital_Inclination  So it's not anything new. By definition hybrid systems are less efficient because converting from one power source to another always results in loss. To return to the original question apparently we have the answer. it can generate power on the ground as long as you leave the motor running and have a fuel supply. Thus far there is no way for it to generate any kind of power without fuel.
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  1318.  @Orbital_Inclination  Well no because you have to convert rotational power to DC to store it, and then convert electricity to rotational power to drive the propellers so that's twice you lose power in the exchange. If the drive was turning the propellers directly it would be much more efficient. And glad we got it cleared up that the engine needs to be running and provided with fuel for it to generate on the ground. It's not as green as they want it to be.
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  1319.  @Orbital_Inclination  Not at all. the inference from the presentation is that on the ground the aircraft could generate power autonomously, ie that it would provide some sort of green energy. So I asked how that was possible. It turns out it's not some new innovation, it needs fuel to make it work, it cannot in fact generate power without running the motor, so it's the same as technology that's been around for over a century.
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  1320.  @Orbital_Inclination  It is inferred, so I was asking, and the answer is it needs to run its engine.
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  1321. 1000 miles to Paris from Calais? Sorry dear, it's 150 miles, the ticket costs 10 euros, you can be there and back in an afternoon, plus if you know that's the rule you can pick up your visa on the way, so only those actually in Calais now will be affected. I know if I was trying to go somewhere I would take the steps required, not turn up at the border and demand to be let in and housed. They are out of the war zone, it's really quite a luxury to be able to pick which country is going to look after you as well.
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  1322.  @Big1nz  You have a funny definition of hate. I love it !!
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  1323.  @wendell7173  Sam, he's comedy gold. That's why I subscribed. This is one of the funniest channels on youtube. It's great. I mean let's face it, Biden is just doing a super duper job, haha and the contortions they go to to try and paint a rosy picture....It's priceless. We have seen in 18 months the total destruction of the US. The military, the economy, Foreign affairs. You name the sector and its chaos and disaster. I doubt there will be another Democrat administration for a few decades. Nobody would vote for this again.
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  1324. They should be paid a lot more. It's ridiculous that the head of the BBC makes 3 times more than the Prime Minister.
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  1325. @VictimOfBoredom But terrorism is a tactic, the French Resistance, would be considered terrorists by the Nazis, but we consider them heroes. You can't fight a war against a tactic. These people have to use these tactics because the US military is so powerful in a normal war they would have no chance. The only way to kick back a bit for these peoples at the US is to use this tactic, it's a totally unending ridiculous manufactured situation.
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  1326. The scrolling texts are also hilarious, "study finds visiting Mt Rushmore only slightly more exciting than looking at a photo of Mt Rushmore".
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  1327. Funnily enough they haven't tried this in Glasgow.
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  1328. So now the complaint is that we will have so much cheap food from Australia that all our farmers will go out of business. Any comment Phil on how you got this completely wrong?
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  1329. Give it to Ron Paul.
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  1330. He went to war when he did because his phoney economy required it. Look up Mefo Bills. He had to find the money somewhere to hold on to his power and conquest was his only option.
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  1331.  @emm_arr  That's pretty hilarious. Those Russians eh? You wonder why we vote for anything any more, just ask Vladimir what he wants to happen and we do that. It's amazing really the power he has in the Kremlin, Brexit, Trump, he probably decided who won the Eurovision Song contest too.
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  1332.  @emm_arr  You think Putin can influence our votes? Don't be daft. It's much easier to have a scapegoat than face reality.
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  1333. @polemius01 It's not a cult, I just keep my eyes open and support people who make sense, and he makes sense almost all the time. He doesn't play ball with anybody except those who agree with him and who he agrees with, and he votes against what he doesn't agree with regardless of who proposes it. Isn't that how things should be accomplished in a democratic system? There is no trace of any negativity towards the gay community, I have never seen him do anything except defend personal freedom.
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  1334. I wonder if this guy believes a word he is saying? What would MSNBC do without Trump? They talk about him 24/7, it's great advertising....For Trump. Hahaha
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  1335. Nobody listen to what Trump said. He said this years ago and it worked, he was telling the story of how he got NATO members to pay up.
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  1336.  @HTOP1982  I don't see what difference the currencies make, both Shell and Unilever are global companies, they earn and payout in all sorts of currencies. Anyway given the choice they picked the UK. It seems a popular choice. Nobody has come up with the names of any companies that have gone the other way, there must be some though, even when we were in the EU companies moved about, so somebody must be able to come up with one. Surely.
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  1337.  @TalesOfWar  For global companies it makes no difference, You get more pounds for your dollars, but most international trade (purchasing of raw materials) is done in Dollars, you get less dollars for your pound going the other way. Swings and roundabouts. and currencies move up and down, that's less of a concern than law and taxes. People like to be in the UK because the law is fairer and believe it or not a lot faster than in other countries. A big case could take a few years here but it can decades elsewhere.
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  1338.  @redboyjan  Any names of these companies. I hear this all the time, about companies but nobody can ever name any, it's weird that, eh? As for being less racist in the Netherlands, well I have lived in many countries (France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland as well as the UK) and I can say that the most racist was the Netherlands.
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  1339. ​ @redboyjan  Is that supposed to be an insult? How charming, but sorry I'm not a Tory. Fascinating though it seems you hate the Tories more than anything else, a bit strange they were for remain. Remember that leaflet Cameron sent us all telling us to vote remain? It's always the same with you remainers. Doom is just around the corner and it's all because of Brexit, but things are actually going fine, it's all in your heads, sure there are some things that still need to be worked out, and it would be good if we were really out instead of half out, but we are getting there. Nobody can ever actually name any company that has upped sticks and relocated to the EU due to Brexit, they may have opened an office or a distribution centre but I can't think of one single example of a company that has abandoned the UK for the EU due to Brexit. And you can be damn sure it would be headline news on the BBC if anybody did move, it would be news for a week !! Haha.
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  1340.  @jacobcohen9205  But..The EU can do no wrong. Haha, you won't get any sense or knowledge from this lot. Insults and scare stories is where these people are at. Here's some information for you about Germany, German car exports to the UK have dropped from 31bn in 2016, to 16bn last year, almost halved. I guess if you tell your biggest customers that there is a "special Place in Hell" for them, they buy elsewhere. Oh well.
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  1341.  @withcoffey  No I'm afraid not, Somerset Capital have always had their HQ in London, in fact they just moved recently into new offices, They have a fund in Singapore Shanghai and another in Dublin which is relatively new. The story that he had moved to Dublin was of course just another lie from the remain camp, which of course was swallowed by those whose desire to swallow a convenient lie was greater than their desire to do a little bit of research.
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  1342.  @withcoffey  Well it might have had something to do with Brexit, investors wanted something based in the EU, and as the whole point of the business is to provide services for the customer, a new office was opened and a new fund created in Dublin. That's just a sensible business move, like for example Marks and Spencers have shops in France, but they are still based in the UK, and VW have offices here but are still based in Germany and so on. Nothing Naive about it at all. Nothing was moved, a new fund was created. That's what international business is all about. Things change all the time in the world and so business has to adapt. The initial comment was that businesses have moved completely, ie closed their UK office and moved everything to the EU, but despite claims that loads of businesses have done this, after 10 days I am still waiting for somebody to name one business that has actually done that, and nobody can name anybody !!
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  1343.  @eucitizen78  Haha, that's all Phil talks about. And the video is called Brexit anniversary Question Time. So I guess you should ask Phil why he is obsessed about it, not me !
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  1344. I disagree, there are some similarities, but then don't most wars begin along these lines, a territorial dispute, a linguistic or religious or ideological affiliation. However Hitler was out for revenge, he had a plan from the moment he came to power, he started building a war machine immediately and everything he did was about building a massive military, from building roads and buildings, Cruise ships that could be converted to troop ships in a moment, tanks and guns and planes were designed and manufactured in secret, all Political moves were designed to advance the cause. War was the goal, Lebensraum the objective, but really it was all about avenging the defeat of 1918. I don't see this with Putin at all. It seems to me he was reticent to go to war, and he has been restrained, he has moved very slowly, indeed it seems to be WWI style trench warfare (with drones and satellites and sophisticated weaponry) rather than fast moving Panzer groups encircling and advancing at tremendous speed. IN WWII the lines in Russia would move hundreds of miles in a month, in Ukraine they have been fighting over a couple of km's for years. I am no fan of Putin, but I am also no fan of Zelensky, he's a bit of a dictator himself, and let's face it he's a puppet, he is entirely dependent on continued support from the West and to ensure that he has to do as he is told.Putin should not have invaded but there is more to all this than we know...that's for sure. It didn't start as a Proxy war, but it has turned into one, and of course it's the young men in both countries and the civilians on the front line who bear the brunt of it all.
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  1345.  @hurri7720  He has a vast compendium of drivel.
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  1346.  @dinerouk  They don't even know who he is in France.
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  1347. Well we can't take into consideration the problems the EU are facing. We propped them up for long enough. I feel sorry they are suffering so badly but if they ask us for foreign aid we might consider it.
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  1348.  @johnsmart2492  How's it going with Brandon? As a Brit who follows politics closely I promise you no one takes the USA seriously anymore. With your hair sniffing, incapacitated clueless President who can't even get to the end...well anyway, you know the thing.
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  1349. Well there you are EU citizens, your Boss, giving a speech to her boss. This is what you get for your membership of the EU. Next time vote for a different President...Oh yeah I forgot, you don't have a vote and there is only one candidate. Democracy EU style...Just do as you are told.
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  1350. Just remember it is actually the law that LGBT is embeded across the curriculum in Scotland. That means everything, Maths, Geography, History, Physics etc. So in early maths questions you have things like, John's dad has two apples, John's other dad has 4 apples, how many apples are there?
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  1351.  @ericlackford6718  When you are 6 years old?
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  1352.  @ericlackford6718  I would like to see schools make their own curriculum. Why are they all basically the same? Why don't we have schools that focus on particular things, like sport, music, drama, science or languages etc etc. The exams can be the same for all, (mind you they are trying to abolish exams ) but the schools should be able to decide on a speciality, kids are different, trying to make everybody equal squeezes the life and joy out of everything. Let's help kids unleash their potential instead of squeezing them into a tube.
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  1353.  @ericlackford6718  Well if the exams are the same for everyone, then everyone knows what you are expected to learn to pass the exams. So that is a defacto Curriculum. But a sportsman needs to know things like that their career might be very short, how to manage making a lot of money and receiving acclaim if they are successful and then being unemployed at 35 and forgotten. That sort of thing could be taught, how to manage your money dealing with the ups and downs and expectations etc. maybe include media training so they can do interviews and maybe be a pundit later. What to do if you are injured early in your career and that's the sport part over. Just an example. They don't need to know about physics or maths beyond the basics. Anyway it's all dreams for now as we head bit by bit into Communism.
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  1354.  @ScottishRoss27  Well nothing, as the point of the Crown estate is that it can't be sold. You benefit from the 85% of tax they pay which in 2022 amounted to about £255 million. Might as well ask how much is your share of other publicly owned land and buildings? How much of the local Library is yours? Or the local Park? It is in fact a responsibility, if it was theirs they could do with it as they wished, their job is to maintain it all in good order for the nation.
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  1355. ​ @ScottishRoss27  There is only one United Kingdom. Scotland and England were abolished or rather "united" into the country of Great Britain in 1707, it's in the Act of Union. That's why it's called the United Kingdom as opposed to the United Kingdoms.
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  1356.  @ScottishRoss27  You don't seem to know much about this. You must be an SNP supporter. Article of Union Article 1. ‘That the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England, shall, upon the first Day of May next ensuing the Date hereof, and for ever after, be united into one Kingdom by the Name of Great-Britain, and that the Ensigns Armorial of the said united Kingdom, be such as her Majesty shall appoint; and the Crosses of St. Andrew and St. George be conjoined in such a manner as her Majesty shall think fit, and used in all Flags, Banners, Standards, and Ensigns, both at Sea and Land.
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  1357.  @ScottishRoss27  You don't seem able to read very well, but I can't help you there It clearly states that the two entities will be united into one with a new name. It could scarcely be clearer for a document that is over three hundred years old. Anyway we have digressed. the Monarchy is a great system, most of the powers have been handed away the Monarch is apolitical but is head of the Armed Forces. This means some rogue PM does not have control of the Army, which is one of the reasons we have never had a tyrant take over except for the brief moment when the Monarchy was removed by Cromwell, a tyrant. The French got rid of their King and got Napoleon, the Germans got rid of the Kaiser and got Hitler, the Russians, the Tsar and they got Stalin, the Chinese they got Mao...Need I go on? Our system is terrific, I wouldn't change it for anything.
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  1358. I suggest you google Biden "inflection point", it's one of his favourite expressions, he's been using it since the 80's. Everything that happens is an inflection point, it's like his railroad story, he trots it out all the time.
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  1359. They are loonies. The government has had an insulation policy for ages with all sorts of grants and incentives and strict rules on new builds. What's next week's cause going to be?
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  1360.  @philroo1  Maybe yours is but mine is much better than most in Europe. Why do you ;pick Europe as a point of comparison? How about South America or Africa or China?
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  1361.  @philroo1  Well actually there's no point in it in the first place. It's just an excuse to be obnoxious. Do they really think they will save the Earth (does it need saving at all?) with some insulation? It's hilarious.
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  1362.  @philroo1  Not proud, it was like then when I bought it. i didn't have any choice in the matter, it certainly saves money so that's good, saving the planet though? Doubtful...
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  1363.  @philroo1  Oh heat pumps now? They don't have a point at all. they are just a bunch of aging hippies on a jolly. Insufferable hippies.
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  1364.  @philroo1  And you think this is going to end climate change? hahaha, it's like Monty Python sketches have become mainstream thinking.
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  1365.  @philroo1  Yep definitely worth blocking motorways for. Hahaha, Bunch of nitwits, they should get an insulated cell for a year or two for blocking the highway and trespassing on a motorway, which is forbidden for pedestrians. Plus by lying on their bed all day they could reduce their carbon footprint.
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  1366.  @philroo1  Hahaha. Well thanks for the laugh, good luck with your campaign. Hahaha.
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  1367.  @philroo1  Oh I'll be frank, I'm now laughing at you, not polite I know, but then neither is blocking motorways. Nothing gets me down these days, there is too much comedy material at the moment, I am sad people are wasting their time attempting to tear society apart but I suppose if that's all we have to worry about we can just enjoy the show. Pleased to see they will now be facing prison following today's injunction perhaps instead of sitting the M25 they can get down to B&Q and buy some rockwool.
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  1368.  @philroo1  Enjoy your bliss then. hahaha. Honestly the Chinese are building a coal fired power station every week and you think insulating some homes in Barnsley is going to save the world. Monty Python would have thrown it out as being too ludicrous even for them.
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  1369.  @philroo1  Hahaha. So now you are saying It's our fault China makes stuff? I had no idea this conversation was going to be such fun.
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  1370.  @philroo1  Now we are talking about stuff falling off the back of a lorry? This is really a kaleidoscope of insanity. Why don't you go and campaign for them to stop building coal fired power stations and get them to erect more wind turbines, perhaps they could insulate their homes...there's 1.4 billion of them, the question is who's going to make all the rockwool? You need 1600 degrees Centigrade in the furnaces to make it, that's a lot of coal !!
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  1371.  @philroo1  The reason that they protest here and not in China is that they know they would be locked up in ten seconds in China, while the cops here offer to go and buy them some tea. Well that and they probably don't even know where China is. Hahaha. So no rockwool? What do we use for all this insulation? Scrunched up newspaper? Old copies of the Socialist Worker?
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  1372.  @philroo1  I haven't introduced any new topics, I have followed your meanderings through this festival of insanity. Now you have to guess what the insulation will be made from? Mind you that's consistent with the rest. You have no argument, just a whole bunch of flaws tied together with a strand of innocence that would be charming if it wasn't blocking the highway. I am firmly grounded in reality, you are the one that thinks China can do what it wants because WE invented the modern steam engine. They invented gunpowder !!
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  1373.  @philroo1  Hahaha. Half a dozen decades? So you don't know any history either. Well it's been most amusing, thanks for the laughs, but I think that's enough nonsense. Enjoy your evening.
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  1374.  @philroo1  Yes at a time when the population of the entire planet was about the same as the current population of China. And in 1883 Krakatoa erupted so we'll call it a draw.
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  1375.  @owencrompton3713  What do you mean? You don't make any sense. On our side of the border we have our law, and their side of the border they have their law. It has been like that since...well forever. What are you talking about?
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  1376.  @nigelsynnott7344  No that's not correct. Regulations become law immediately. Directives say you must go in a certain direction but how you do it is up to you. So for example you must reduce Nitrogen output, so the Dutch are now seizing farms, the Irish want to cull 200 cattle and the French want to reduce cattle stock by 2 million. So all different approaches to doing as instructed by the EU directive. Our elected representatives do not have the right to give away our sovereignty unless we are for example defeated in war and have no other choice and they are forced to SURRENDER. Fortunately that hasn't happened for 1000 years, and yet our sovereignty was handed away anyway. We should never have signed Maastricht or Nice, and definitely not Lisbon. The EU parliament is a useless rubber stamp committee, they have very little power and no influence whatsoever. It is a totally undemocratic system imposing rules from above. No thanks.
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  1377.  @RedToriesBlueTories  You "lost"? In fact you won you just haven't realised it yet.
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  1378.  @luis_sa78  It was badly worded, It should have been a referendum on seceding. Just like in 1997, the referendum used the word "Parliament" when it should have been assembly. The Act of Union clearly states that the United Kingdom of Great Britain should have only one Parliament in Westminster. But Tony Blair wanted to divide the country and he did. He caused all the division in Scotland, signed Nice, and we got Lisbon despite him pledging we would have a referendum, not to mention starting an illegal war. Still that's Labour, they hate Britain, and they hate the working classes.
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  1379.  @Ardelanin  Well they do have power, they have managed to take over issuing the Currency for almost a whole continent. That's a lot of Power. they also decide Trade, Agriculture Fishing, they can also tell countries not to have mines, and force them to take immigrants, and much more, imagine if they had an army !! So yes they have managed to gather a lot of power in Brussels.
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  1380.  @luis_sa78  Well it is important. That's why you believe Scotland is a Country. It's not a Political matter, and it's not RealPolitik, whatever you mean by that. It's the Constitution. Ignoring the constitution is why we were in the EU at all. We should never have signed Maastricht as it was Unconstitutional. And certainly Lisbon was unconstitutional.
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  1381.  @luis_sa78  Yes well that sort of thinking leads to people thinking they are the wrong sex, or even a cat. You have to deal with reality. You can't just drop a word in and use it as justification for what YOU want. Modern Political Concepts tend to be designed to destroy everything...just because. they should really be steered well clear of. Scotland is not a country, I mean just look at the name of the Country. It is the United Kingdom....Not the United Kingdoms. It is very clear.
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  1382.  @davidlewis1787  Sorry which point are you responding to?
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  1383.  @peterclarke3020  How do you mean? That's what's on every week. This was the exception, just another 95 composed like this and we should be about evens.
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  1384.  @aprisia  You have nothing to base any of that on. Exports and imports are up and the job market is terrific. prices have risen everywhere, absolutely nothing to do with Brexit unless it caused prices to rise in the US and Australia and Germany... As for leverage, how would that be? We already have more trade deals than the EU, our soft power ranking is second in the world behind only the USA. Meanwhile the EU promised Ukraine 50bn euros but realised they don't have the money so they are now begging the member states to contribute extra, 66bn in all they want extra. And they want to start taxing businesses directly !! So had we still been in the EU we would have had an extra bill of about 6-10bn and have looked pathetic as our glorious leader von Der Leyen begs for money. Seems to me we are much better off out of the money pit of the EU, that's about 20bn in fees we saved this year alone. And we have our sovereignty too. No wonder the sun is shining.
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  1385.  @nigelsynnott7344  That's quite some logic. Let's test it out. You are a slave and the master says, pick the cotton. Do it how you like, but pick all the cotton by Saturday. Are you still a slave because you can choose how to pick the Cotton by Saturday rather than being told what to do each day, or are you now a free man?
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  1386.  @MrBizteck  Sorry, what are you referring to?
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  1387.  @paulhollett7183  We could what when were in the EU? I don't know which comment you are responding to. As for EU laws well that's easy. All of them. Our systems are incompatible we should never have been receiving any law from outside our country. You may not like those who make the rules here, but your vote counts and you can participate in our democracy and there will be a time when you will like those those that make the rules here. In the EU you have no say whatsoever, you are merely an order taker, you don't have a vote on anybody who makes the law, and you have no idea what they are doing. When a lwa is going through parliament, it is discussed in the House, but also in the media, if people don't like what is being proposed they will be in touch with their MP, it will be on TV, both sides will be putting forth the whats and wherefores and pros and cons, in short we know what's going on and participate. What law are they currently discussing in the EU commission ? Who is participating? We have no clue whatsoever. And then out comes their document , maybe thousands of pages all done and ready for a vote in the parliament most of whom won't read more than the title and the summary and it is rubber stamped into law. No thanks, that's not how I want our law to be made and certainly not by people who are not elected. I really struggle why anybody would prefer unelected people in a foreign country making our law rather than elected people in our own country. It's a mystery.
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  1388.  @nigelsynnott7344  "All I do is ask quite reasonably that they base them on facts, not tropes." Then the question is why are you watching Phil here? All he has is tropes. Like you; viz " voted for by narrow minded people for one of three reasons - immigration, a desire to give the establishment a good kicking or imperial nostalgia " So you have decided on why people voted for Brexit. I campaigned and voted for Brexit, and did so for years, and none of these reasons apply to me. In fact you are the one making up and feeding off tropes. Phil must be one of the most clueless commentators out there. I only stumbled across this because I was looking for a clip from QT and his came up in the search results. The guy is Clueless beyond belief. Look back at some of his videos he has consistently been wrong about everything. The comment section is good fun though.
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  1389.  @martindornan1667  Well I am from Scotland and proud to be British and want nothing to do with the thieving secessionist SNP who thrive on hatred. How many referendums do you think are necessary before you get the message that most Scots do not want to break up the UK? Or do you just want to keep on having them hoping that one time you may win and then of course no more votes would be allowed? You are just wasting your time.
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  1390. What nonsense, MSNBC, CBS, CNN and ABC attack him 24/7, it's been going on for years, it's not as if he isn't used to it. without Trump these channels have no ratings, they are obsessed with him.
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  1391. Hahaha, oh dear. Join the EU communists, that would be something to see.
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  1392. Every new technology exploits sex first, so no real surprise.
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  1393. I don't understand why the left hate the Jews they way they do. James Schneider is just another terrorist apologist, I am astonished at the way a large section of our country support the Terrorists. It's amazing. Israel is trying to get its hostages back, and to prevent Hamas launching rockets. If Hamas didn't put their rocket launchers in houses they wouldn't be being bombed....
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  1394.  @HueyLewisRocks  Hahahaha. So if you are in a bad mood the person will be cancelled, and if you are not you can laugh? That's the sort of definitions we need. Now we all know where we stand.
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  1395.  @HueyLewisRocks  A joke never offends me.
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  1396.  @HueyLewisRocks  My apologies, I didn't realise you had some words you considered stupid. Do you have a complete list just in case I use any more? You may not want to cancel people, but you would "get rid" of them. I quote you: "Yes, it is ok to get offended but you have to have good reasons, and if those reasons are good, then you have a case for getting rid of whatever it was that caused the offence. "
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  1397.  @HueyLewisRocks  Fascinating. I like the way you assume you know all about me and how I will react and then make up stories to justify your assumption, it's very funny. Ooops! Is it offensive, depending on your mood obviously, that I find something you didn't intend as a joke funny?
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  1398. Check out Wet Leg, they are very refreshing and terrific stuff.
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  1399. The idea that the BBC can fact check anything is quite frankly hilarious. They are fake news champions, just read anything about Trump for example. We do not know what happened at the last US election but clearly there were let's say some shennaginas that occurred, and yet they will say "trump has claimed without evidence", or "Trump's unfounded claims the 2020 vote was stolen from him." etc. And that's just an example, others include branding Liverpudlians far right (the notion is absurd) because they protested against too many migrants being housed near them and harassing their daughters. The list is long. I find BBC Verify hilarious, which is good as the BBC have swapped comedy for Left wing propaganda, so it's nice to have some light entertainment.
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  1400. Well this would raise about zero in tax, for example to get around an expensive and restrictive employment law that kicks in when you have 50 employees a French Supermarket has made hundreds of companies with 49 employees or less. So you go into the supermarket but the butcher is a different company from the fishmonger is a different company from the grocer on paper but for the customer it's just one shop. All perfectly legal nothing the authorities can do. So this is what businesses would do, spread their sales between lots of small companies which they own offshore.
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  1401. Raskin is pretty funny. We need to raise the debt ceiling (borrow more money) so that we don't stiff our creditors (pay our debts)... If you need to borrow money to pay your debts...things are very bad, stop it !!!
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  1402. @VictimOfBoredom Well how about it's got to the stage that recently two imams, flying to a conference on religious hatred on internal US flights were asked to leave the plane because the other passangers didn't want to fly with them, I would say that's pretty far down the road, it's only a small step to smashing up muslim owned shops....
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  1403. This is why Americans are so poorly educated, all the Teachers seem to be leftists, so the poor kids leave school confused, clueless and blue haired.
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  1404.  @froggiewrench1  You have to be joking. R4 is the worst. Every 15 seconds they have to mention one of the following : Climate Change, Minorities (and people of Colour), feminists, LGBT, White Privilege. I only listen to radio 4 from time to time in the car and usually get funny looks as I shout at the radio !!
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  1405. Oh Labour will be worse, but there is no hope for the Tories, so we just have to Keep Buggering On and look after ourselves for the next five years.
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  1406.  @jeffhaggarty9879  I didn't say I was correct, I just pointed out a few pertinent facts.
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  1407. Oxfam is the biggest scam going.
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  1408.  Alan Braham  You may be more than just slightly confused.
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  1409.  Alan Braham  Oh no it's quite clear, you hate Britain and will twist anything to fit your view. Pretty sad. It's confusing for anybody who has a grasp of history though. And if you don't like Britain you can always go and live elsewhere, why stay in a place you loath so much?
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  1410.  Alan Braham  You mean the people that ended slavery and sent the navy out to stop it? The nation that has liberated Europe from tyranny moire than once? Those people playing victims and twisting history? You need a massive history lesson, and why do you refer to my race? What is my race? Why are you being a racist?
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  1411. * sorry not accessibility that was part of something I was going to say about the internet but had to delete something because of the 500 character thing here. But I but failed to totally edit. The point is just think about anything if the government is involved it's long arduous full of paperwork and usually rubbish. If people are doing it to earn their living they do it well and think ahead and compete to be cheaper or better or faster than the competition, how can you not decipher that?
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  1412. The question is would they be joining the EU or surrendering?
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  1413.  @paulfenton7776  You should also look up the word bigot in the dictionary, because so far in this exchange, the bigot is you !!!
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  1414.  @rob338  So now you are having a go at the US system? So everything is bad except confining everyone at home? Is that what you are trying to promote? Permanent solitary confinement?
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  1415.  @rob338  And how do you arrive at fewer infections? You seem to be awfully confused. Do you actually know what your argument is?
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  1416.  @toolma66  People are seeing it as a who is having sex with who question. If we agree that it takes one man and one woman to have sex then the result when you tot up the ledger will always be equal. Some men may be more active but that requires some women to be more active, the result is always equal when you tot it up.
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  1417.  @dearthofdoohickeys4703  Well thanks for agreeing despite thinking you are disagreeing.
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  1418. Le Parliament Europeen est impuissant, ces journalistes ne connaissent rien. Le Parliament ne peut que discuter ce que la Commission leur met sous le nez. Ils ne peuvent rien faire d'autre, il peuvent partciper a des commitees que discutent sur des projets, mais si on veut passer un projet de loi c'est a la Commission qu'il faut s'adresser, pas le Parliament. Le Parliament n'est la que pour tamponner les lois, c'est plus symbolique qu'autre chose.
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  1419. The idea of the ECHR was to protect EUROPEANS. To allow Europeans to escape persecution from another Hitler, or Donald Tusk. It was not created to allow anybody who feels like it from anywhere in the world to demand to enter and live in the country of their choice, that is what it has become...
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  1420. @polemius01 Yes but it's all accusation who knows what actually happened. And SBC was in the process of undressing the swimsuit was all that remained. Anyway forget that it was merely an abstraction. You consider Ron Paul a Homophobe based on that situation when he was clearly the victim. It's a pretty flimsy piece of reasoning. And once again I ask you if you think the system is so hopelessly beyond salvation why are you interested, who do you think can fix it?
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  1421. Difficult for Channel 4, they know that Hamas are the aggressors but they can't admit it and try and blame Israel.
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  1422. Paper bank notes are legal tender, they are always legal tender, you can take them to your bank and they will exchange them or accept them for deposit in your account. It is at their discretion though, so they may refuse if the notes are badly damaged for example, in which case you can send them to the BoE.
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  1423. How is this pronoun thing going to play out in the French part of Canada? French is much more complicated than English, there is no neuter everything is masculine or feminine and adjectives, verbs, adverbs and nouns have to agree with the gender in the sentence. Introducing a new gender would mean introducing completely new grammar rules and introducing 71 new genders (currently 71 offered by facebook) would make the language impossible. I presume this C16 will affect Quebec too...
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  1424. The ships represent the Manchester Ship Canal built in 1894, sixty years after slavery had been abolished by the UK. It was a big change for the City, until the Canal it was inland now it was a Port which was a source of pride and financial gain for the population. These people just want everything destroyed.
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  1425. These people are absolutely insane, sitting around gloating at the political persecution going on. They are going to be so disappointed in November. I would love to see them just after the election, all this group together and a gigantic box of Kleenex.
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  1426. Stop welcoming and looking after them, that's the pull factor. Send them back home immediately, if you do that for a couple of weeks they will stop coming, but nobody wants to do it, if you let them stay, more will come, you want to introduce biometric checks on business people and tourists and make them apply for visas, so complicating things for those coming to spend money, but you let these people do as they please and wander around with no action and even give them money. No wonder they are coming, if i was in a poor country I would be interested in coming too !!
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  1427. The problem is Kamala is worse than Biden, so they have to keep Biden in place until January at least, if they use the 25th, Kamala will be President and will expect to be the nominee, and nobody wants that. So they have to get Biden to pull out of the presidential race but stay president and shoe horn in another candidate. But it's too late, the election is in November and a new candidate starting from scratch now has no chance against Trump. They would never put in RFK he's willing to say things they don't want said, so it would have to be Gavin Newsom or Michel Obama or Jamie Raskin, but then Kamala and the far lefties will have a fit. So they have literally painted themselves into a corner, there is no option where they can even come close to winning, and they don't know what to do. It's actually hilarious.
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  1428. Haha, they are doing it all over the place, for years they have been cancelling everything and everybody they can, now they have some pushback they are screaming censorship, suddenly they are for freedom of speech after being against it for years. Some school takes one of their pedophile books off the shelf and they scream "book burners".
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  1429.  @Ryooken  Hahaha. See you are doing it again. You are so blinkered you just haven't noticed the nonstop firings and people who have been hounded out by the lefty mob.
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  1430. None of them ever answer the question asked. I would never give a job to someone who can't answer a straight question.
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  1431. We should glue them to the bars in their cell, that would keep them happy and us happy. Win win !!
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  1432. "horrors of colonialism", honestly what a joke. Yes there were some horrors but on the whole the British Empire was a great force for good all over the world. So much so that most ex colonies have joined the Commonwealth, kept the law system, kept the government system and use English which has become the international world language. If we had not had the British Empire then the world would be a sadder, lesser more backward place today. America wouldn't exist for a start so think about that Mr MSNBC host.
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  1433. @polemius01 Yes I ignored everything else because there is no point in talking to you. You have made your mind up and that's it. So as I said bon vent. "Fruit cake" is common slang for a nutcase, the only homosexual connotation is in your imagination, like your assumptions about Ron Paul.
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  1434. Would be funny if a couple of billion actually made a difference.
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  1435. All this talk of galvanising, just a reminder: Galvanising is the process of applying a protective zinc coating to iron or steel, to prevent rusting. So just bear that in mind.
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  1436. Well anybody can see Jan 6th was the biggest non event in History, turned into an "insurrection" by the media and the democrats. Trump has not been charged or accused of insurrection, it was a non-event, an obvious obfuscation by the Democrats. So of course he's using it, nobody in the world except the audience of MSNBC thinks it has been anything other than a Politically motivated fabrication, just like the Steele Dossier. What we can tell you is that we don't want any more of that doddery old Biden. He should be in an old folks home eating ice cream, the world would be a safer place.
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  1437.  @TenthCrane2788  No they based their decision on the belief that he committed an insurrection, but he has not been convicted or even charged with such a thing. So the Supreme Court will be overturning that erroneous politically motivated decision. How can they exclude someone based on a press fabrication? There was no insurrection, an insurrection would have been a coordinated attack on multiple points all at once, you would need to take control of the media, the army (at least command and control so the Pentagon !) , the seat of government and all coordinated at once. This was a bunch of people upset the election had been rigged. It may or may not have been rigged, but that was how the people felt at the time.
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  1438. What you need is more freedom and less rules, that's how you get rid of poverty. Let people work !!
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  1439.  Linksgrün versiffter Gutmensch  You are equating freedom with anarchy? i didn't say no rules, I said less rules. People want sensible rules everybody likes that what is bad is when the rules become ridiculous and pointless and politically motivated.
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  1440. Where was Marianna Spring, the BBC's own fact checker at their new Ministry of Truth department, BBC Verify? She should be rebuked and censured for failing in her duties.
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  1441. All this misses the point, the men's world cup generates revenues of about 6 billion, the Women's world cup generates about 150 million. The women are being vastly overpaid already.
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  1442. Profit is a great motivator. In order to make profit you need happy customers, so if you provide shoddy service your business will go bust. When you get paid regardless, you are focused not on the product but on the payer. So the NHS is not interested so much in the patients, they are an inconvenience, they are concerned about pleasing their boss who is paying them, the State. Most Doctors didn't become doctors because they want to save lives, although obviously there are few, most of them chose it because they wanted to earn good money !! Money motivates ! Motivated people produce better results.
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  1443. On a battlefield there is no time to be polite,our armed forces are becoming a joke. Do we really want that sort of people in the Army, whose principal job is to kill the enemy, empathy for the enemy is not a good idea, they will take the opportunity to kill you first and save their empathy for your funeral.
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  1444.  @IAMTHEBIGCHUCQUITA  A scot here, no we don't we think he's great.
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  1445. Successful military operations are based on surprise, Here they gave away the objective right at the start, it was also unfortunate a crack German SS Regiment was there resting, which allowed the Germans to mount a counter offensive quickly. Plus the troops were dropped too far away from their objectives. Shame, had it come off it really would have ended the war by Christmas, saving 6 months.
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  1446. Hysterical crazy woman demanding contrition because she is offended and that people grovel to her. Good grief, what an entitled racist. It seems to me that the racists are the accusers.
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  1447.  @lambertlum1087  I don't think any sponsor is appropriate.
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  1448. i have great fun on the internet asking people to define Fascist. Most of them start off by trying Nationalists and Authoritarians. So I say "what like the SNP?" Ooops! So they have to try again or usually what happens is they hurl a few more insults and disappear. The thing is Mussolini was a Fascist and only got involved in the war because he kind of had to follow Hitler, but Hitler was a Socialist, his version of Socialism was that it be only for Germans and that everybody else should pay for it, but it was still Socialism. People seem to think the Nazis were Fascists, but they weren't. Hitler never called himself a Fascist nor his regime. It was always National Socialism.
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  1449. @polemius01 He's not a senator and he's not homophobic, and his record shows he's the only non-business as usual guy around.
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  1450. Don't ever go into business Phil.
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  1451. "There's too much masculine toxicity"..... so I wonder how much toxicity is just enough? And what about Feminine toxicity? How much do we need of that?
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  1452. How many safe spaces are we obliged to provide, there seems to a new gender every day, it's going to be expensive and never ending.
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  1453. I'm sure any enemy the army may be sent to kill will be asking for everyone's pronouns before they start shooting. This should not be a concern of the Armed forces.
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  1454. @polemius01 Had it been a woman and he ran out saying "there's a raving nymphomaniac in there" what would you say then, he hates women?
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  1455. Oh Oh, a new crime coming soon. Pavement Rage.
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  1456. It was hard to listen to that conversation, what a racist that woman is (is she a woman? Nobody is able to define what a woman is these days), not only does she exclude white people from her charity's good graces she refuses to answer a simple question. Disgraceful racist she deserves everything that is now coming her way.
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  1457. "These emotions reflect our fondness for the United Kingdom – something which goes far beyond membership of our Union. We have always deeply regretted the UK's decision to leave but we have always fully respected it, too. The agreement we reached is fair for both sides and ensures that millions of EU and UK citizens will continue to have their rights protected in the place they call home." We never joined the EU, we joined the EEC, the EU was forced upon us, now we are out I feel for the rest of you, force your governments to have a referendum, stop this madness before it consumes Europe. None of these people were elected by you, and yet they control your lives.
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  1458. Reform the House of Lords, should be fewer members, but an elected senate would end up with a monopoly and unrestrained government. At some point an elected Senate would be of the same political persuasion as the government so it would be like a dictatorship. There would be no balancing mechanism. PR results in MPs being preselected it is actually less democratic and also results in coalitions which means nothing ever gets done, or if it does, it's a compromise, and compromise ends with everyone being unhappy. There is no perfect system, but ours has done very well for a long time, we can tweak it without trying to create a whole new system.
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  1459.  @fitzstv8506  There are no tariffs or restrictions on Aerospace parts so it makes no difference at all to Rolls Royce. Just in Time has been working fine since we left.
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  1460.  @fitzstv8506  Things are going fine. You guys are the ones telling yourselves they are not....Just look around, loads of jobs, wages rising, exports and imports up, meanwhile recessions and stagnation and unemployment in the EU. Thank goodness we got out when we did. Saved a fortune into the bargain !
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  1461.  @fitzstv8506  Honestly mate you need to get some better sources of information. Sterling had risen dramatically in the lead up to the referendum, following the referendum it dropped back to where it has been for most of the life of the Euro. The rise was the anomaly not the return to its natural level, just look at the GBP/EUR chart on maximum time span, you can easily google it. France Germany Italy and the Netherlands who are the main contributors to the EU budget now we have left are all struggling. The Eurozone is officially in recession, that does not signal "rapid Growth" (look that up too). The UK was the fastest growing economy in the G7 last year, we are way past the pandemic problems. Exports and imports were the highest they have ever been last year. Google "UK Trade in Numbers -web version Gov . UK" for the government statistics. We are not "losing anything" the 100bn a year number is absolute nonsense, we had second highest inward investment in Europe last year just behind France, we are pretty much always at the top or second, every year. The UK is powering ahead, whereas the EU with their inward looking protectionism and overbearing regulatory demands and obsession with paperwork is destroying their business. Plus they have run out of money. They are begging for the members to give them an extra 66bn but the members don't want to pay up...Tricky... That's another fee we dodged by getting out. You need to stop getting your information from Phil, or rather trusting it. He doesn't know what he is talking about and feeds you negativity. i double check everything from official sources, I never believe news reports or stories, I see them more of a guide, and go and check on everything they say. Like for example this 4% hit to the economy predicted by the OBR that has become a trope. They didn't say that at all, it was badly reported, they never ever said that and yet it has become a "remain fact"...Much like your imaginary 100bn a year loss. Things are going great
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  1462. Those poor Democrats. Nice brooch, is that Chanel ? Nothing like flaunting your oppression.
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  1463. Attlee destroyed this country. People maybe struggled but they didn't suck on the teat of the state like today. People understood Duty and Service, it was the norm, now it is the exception. They loved their country, now people seem to hate their country. The left has a lot to answer for. They haven't really improved things for anybody, I don't consider depending on benefits to be a success. Almost all the industries that were nationalised have gone all that is left is the NHS, and look at the mess that is.
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  1464.  @afgor1088  About 70.
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  1465.  @afgor1088  Your question was vague, you didn't specify male or female, so I gave an approximate answer. 1948 so many men who had wounds from the war, antibiotics which have extended life expectancy probably more than anything else were in their infancy in availability for the public. Life expectancy has also risen in the US where they don't have an NHS and all over Europe and yet the UK is the only country with an NHS. Life expectancy is currently falling in Scotland...So is that due to the NHS? You can't pluck one simple statistic out of the air and then base an entire argument on that.
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  1466. Well she would be unsafe to see patients at the Tavistock. That's the gender clinic, so she is the enemy, what are they thinking, what is she thinking?
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  1467.  Oppai-sama  What the US don't have pilots that can get closer? To an unarmed balloon?
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  1468. This is why some very educated people have fallen for the climate scam.
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  1469. @MoJoe1983 Unless of course you have a lot of experience in which case that brings you to one inevitable conclusion. Ron Paul 2012
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  1470.  @jimjones-bk2is  Of course the past is being expunged, for example in 2002 WInston Churchill was voted Greatest Briton by the public, do you think that would happen today? In twenty years he has become a racist genocidal maniac, even being called a Fascist, which is somewhat ironic, how did that happen? They are also targeting statues and renaming roads, rewriting our history (have you seen Horrible Histories?), inserting coloured people into everything to try and retell history and pretend that Britain has always been "multicultural" which is just not true. They haven't got to the dates yet, but that will come.
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  1471.  @jimjones-bk2is  OK.
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  1472.  @jimjones-bk2is  Make your mind up.
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  1473. @VictimOfBoredom No I'm not saying they should imprison anybody but if you take a sample prison population anywhere else I think you would find a sample of most beliefs, Jews, Buddhists, christians, Jedi knights, athiests, scientologists and possibly even somebody from the Westboro Baptist Church, but I don't think you will find another place where the inmates are almost 100 % muslim.
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  1474. Being a Communist he's figuring out how to redistribute his fee for being on the programme... Actually no he's probably ordering something on Amazon, as he criticizes Jeff Bezos for being rich.
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  1475.  @drchrisnewton7100 There is no "third country". Russia invaded Ukraine so they are directly involved in invading their target.
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  1476.  @LiftedBuddha  A proxy is to hide and have somebody else do your dirty work. So a Proxy server hides your true identity whilst you browse some internet page you normally shouldn't be able to access for example. Similarly in a Proxy war the idea is that you can't be sure who the real belligerent is, or at least can't take direct action against them without being the one who started the war. As Russia is the belligerent it is pretty clear no Proxy is involved.
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  1477.  @LiftedBuddha  Well I don't see any Proxy involvement whatsoever. Russia are obviously involved upfront and centre. And NATO can't even decide what to do with planes that Ukraine wants that Poland has but nobody wants to be the one to hand them to Ukraine. If NATO are currently involved in a Proxy war then they are really not very good at it. Meanwhile Japan South Korea Australia and New Zealand for example are flying in supplies and they have nothing to do with NATO. It seems to me that Putin made a move because he knows Biden is weak and the US Is most of NATO's power. He saw a window of opportunity and went for it. At this point in time NATO is not capable of anything much due to a lack of leadership in the USA. Things didn't turn out the way Putin thought though, and Zelenskyy has been adept at raising support from all around the world. .
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  1478. Hahaha, it's so funny watching all this nonsense implode. Butterworthless tied himself (herself?) up in knots.
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  1479. What a disgrace to Scotland these people are.
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  1480. You might not be kidding, but they are.
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  1481. Interesting the Onion does potatoes, what's up next? Shepherd's Pie?
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  1482.  @MartinParnham  Search for "UK trade in numbers (web version)" and pick the UK Government page where you can find all the details. Highest imports ever, and highest exports ever in 2022.
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  1483. He's a weasel, he always makes an unrelated speech rather than answering for his crimes.
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  1484. There is also a possible war in Africa over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Ethiopia now can control the flow of water in the Nile which is upsetting Egypt and Sudan especially. The Chinese are heavily involved in the region in many projects so if war broke out they would most likely intervene in some way so it could be a big mess there too.
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  1485. It was the Nazis that declared Total War. When you declare total war everything is a target.
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  1486.  @ralphbernhard1757  18 February 1943.
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  1487.  @ralphbernhard1757  OK well how about 23 July 1944 when Hitler appointed Joseph Goebbels Reichsbevollmächtigter für den totalen Kriegseinsatz.
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  1488.  @ralphbernhard1757  Well really the Nazis had been in total war since the start. It was only a question of when they admitted it. I don't need to google anything to know that.
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  1489. Hallowe'en is an ancient act to scare away evil spirits. The first of November is All Hallows Day, or All Saints day if you prefer. In order to make sure that the Saints were not disturbed by evil spirits on their day, people would try and scare them away by dressing up in costumes on the Hallow's eve, hence Hallowe'en. We all used to do it when I was young, and we would knock on all doors not just people we knew. But you didn't just stand at the door and get a handout, you had to go in the front room and perform something, a poem, or sing a verse of a song, or recite something or other, otherwise no sweeties !! There were other traditions, dooking for Apples, which involved leaning over the back of a chair, holding a fork in your teeth with which you tried to let go and stab apples floating in a bucket or a tin bath. Now they just do this trick or treat thing, which came from the USA, nothing to do with our traditions. All the effort has been removed as usual in the modern world, just gimme the sweets !!
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  1490. It's also to do with music being more or less free and not being something you own. A computer file is easy to copy easy to send or download, so it's a bit like water, we need it but it's everywhere and basically free so we don't think much about it. When you had to go to work and spend your money buying maybe one record, which was a thing you could hold, and came with artwork and you picked that one record and that was it until next week when you bought another one, one 45 or one album a week, that meant you also listened to it...often and treasured it. Now music is a disposable item, easy to make, easy to obtain, easy to consume, and easy to throw away.
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  1491. We don't want a Revolution, they always end badly, The system is good, the problem is the current bunch of useless Politicians from all Parties, there really is nobody to vote for, we end up voting for the least bad option, if at all.
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  1492. Of course he had to object and speak up. If he didn't like playing the songs he could just have said no thanks I don't want to play. Or he could have been more discreet and said he had another engagement already booked. No, instead he obviously wants to carry on with the gig but have it all changed to suit him, well bugger off mate.
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  1493. Don't forget Tusk only actually got 23% of the vote. PiS got 43%, Tusk has managed to do an Ardern, lose the election but still take power. This is why we don't want PR, we may end up with the SNP running the country because they hold the balance of power.
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  1494. Notice almost all SNP candidates are women these days...Just saying. They seem to be trying for Maximum Frump.
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  1495. That has to be sarcasm. Biden is completely clueless, gets everything wrong, doesn't know where he is, refuses to answer questions, he should be in a retirement home with his feet up. And I'm not a Trump supporter by any means. Just watching things from the UK. Trump has a message he has presence, he has energy. Biden is a shuffling old man.
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  1496. You have to be joking. Biden doesn't even know where he is, he should be in a retirement home with his feet up and a nice mug of hot chocolate.
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  1497. The problem with the left is they make a mistake like printing too much money, when it doesn't work instead of saying oooh, that was a bad idea, they say, we didn't print enough money.
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  1498. @polemius01 Bah the issues on the list would all be irrelevant if the big problems were solved, you are interested in trivia.. Except Universal Health care sounds good, feels good at the start but ends up being awful. I thought you might be interested in serious debate. But you don't stand for any candidate, seem intent only on defaming RP, focus on trivia and base your opinions on movies. So have your final crowning statement, after this, but I stop here. Good luck .
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  1499. Looks like what America is? Is Ernie Wise writing his tag lines?
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  1500.  @davecooper3238  Negative tests were required for all sorts of things. In the good old days (before 2019) you would only take a test for something if you felt unwell or showed some symptoms, here you had to take a test and if it showed positive you had to stay home off work and self isolate even if you had no symptoms. If you wanted to visit a foreign country (if the borders were still open at all) you had to take a test to get into the foreign country and then take another test to be able to get back home. Don't you remember? Is your memory so short? They were paying people extra to stay off work.
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  1501.  @davecooper3238  So now you agree, if was the first time we have ever had to take a test to find out if you "had it " but now you think it was "worth it".
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  1502.  @davecooper3238  So you agree that even if you showed no symptoms you had to take a test to find out if you had "it".
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  1503. ​ @davecooper3238  Stop digging mate.
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  1504. This is it folk, the pinnacle of Civilization. People offended by pronouns.
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  1505. Hahaha, this is hilarious.
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  1506. They should install a pictorial history display on some of that waste ground. Many tourists would find that very interesting indeed.
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  1507.  @iaindcosta  Yes awful isn't it? This is all Attlee's fault.The job of the government is not to redistribute wealth, it's really the most horrifying concept. Someone with a clipboard deciding who will be taken from and who will receive...Madness !!!
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  1508. Nonsense, racism is everywhere. Black Lives Matter is virtuous, but saying White Lives Matter, or All Lives Matter is Racism. How can that be? Then you have diversity and inclusion which prioritises everybody who is not white... Just a couple of examples, I'm afraid racism has not disappeared it is alive and well.
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  1509. Nikki Haley? Haha, honestly they will grab at any straw to not have Trump, but it's a forlorn hope.
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  1510. Interesting that they choose USD to convert to and not the Euro.
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  1511.  @nickryder9669  Ask them what?
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  1512.  @saymyname3097  Well I have to say the current government are not very conservative, it's more like a Labour government. but you say "Tory supporter" like it's a negative thing, did you notice the composition of the government? Nobody wants Labour and their bonkers socialist policies, which, under the guise of "compassion" trample on you. The only way to have socialism is by force. No thanks. I prefer voluntary transactions and freedom.
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  1513.  @saymyname3097  Hahaha, honestly you guys are so twisted that you think freedom equates to "far-right", it's hilarious. Far right is the opposite of freedom just like the left. The left want everybody they disagree with deplatformed, shut up. Why is Trump not allowed to tweet? That tells you everything you need to know about the left's agenda. How anybody could support them is beyond me all they want is power and to destroy people who are successful. It's just twisted envy disguised as compassion. The government is not there to redistribute wealth, that's not what we want from out government in the UK, that's North Korea or Cuba or Venezuela, socialism...eeeeuch. What do you mean by emigration exactly? We still had 300,000 net immigrants last year. People are climbing on dinghies to escape the EU to come to the UK why would they want to come to a far right hell hole?
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  1514.  @Dantianblue  Royalty first. The head of state the protection against the country becoming a dictatorship. Nobody can have total power in the UK because the Monarch prevents it. A system that is used in many EU countries, like Belgium, Sweden, The Netherlands, and Spain. The unelected House of Lords do not make law they can only revise it. Whereas ain the EU only the unelected commission can make law and the job of Parliament is to revise it. The other way around, only the unelected can make law. Spads are just advisors, researchers and gofers. Even the parliament is self selecting in the EU, with their system the top of each list is pretty much guaranteed a seat, so we can't even choose them, the only tiny bit of democracy, even that is all fixed up, which is why Nigel Farage always got a seat and people like Guy Verhofstadt is always there, it's impossible for them not to get a seat. I know which I prefer, and it's not the EU secret club system. We don't know who chooses people like von der Leyen, they just appear !!! Nobody voted for her, there weren't even any other candidates, it was this is our candidate, Yes or NO? That's not democracy, one candidate, that only the preselected MEPs "vote" for !!!
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  1515.  @westleyjohnstone4719  We still have the option of retiring abroad, I intend to move to France for a while, it's not a problem, they have 1 million illegal immigrants there, they will be delighted to see a Brit arriving instead of some scrounger. You can also work abroad, it's not a problem either. 5 million Brits live abroad and only about 1.2 million choose the EU. There are more Brits in Australia !! It's so much easier as you don't have to learn the language as you do everywhere in the EU except Ireland and we have free movement there anyway. The paperwork always had to be done. when we were in the EU you did it after the shipment, now you do it before. It's called Intrastat, look it up. It was terribly complicated, now it is much simpler...You had to keep track of the VAT numbers of all you customers and how much you export to each one and inversly all the numbers of your suppliers and how much you imported and they all had to agree in the system or you got a bill. Now it so much easier : Third country. Done. I'm interested, which country is it you plan on moving to? Do you speak the language yet?
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  1516.  @westleyjohnstone4719  Then you are being ripped off somewhere by someone. You should only be paying VAT plus possibly a £5 service charge so it should be about £50, plus your supplier should be shipping without local VAT, so it should end up being about £43. You need to look into it. I have been in import/export for over 4 decades, nothing much has changed at all, this is exactly how things worked until 1993, not so long ago.
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  1517.  @westleyjohnstone4719  It should only be VAT, and the product should be shipped VAT free, so it should end up costing about the same. The problem is that vendors are not shipping VAT free as they should due to terrible communication from the EU. We signed a FTA with the EU, there are no duties or extra costs, all that has changed is where VAT is due and collected.
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  1518.  @nickryder9669  All the deals can be seen on the government website. The Eu could have been friendly they evidently chose to be hostile, if you can't see that you must be blind. No deals contain freedom of movement and even if they did with NZ and Australia, the combined population of those two is only 30m (1.5m of them British expats), compared to 440m in the EU. As for only foreigners getting the higher paid jobs...total nonsense, in any case it was the working class that voted for Brexit and they were the ones seeing their wages dragged down. 6.5 million EU citizens applied to stay that's 30% more than the entire population of New Zealand. The inflation is everywhere so nothing to do with Brexit, unless us leaving caused the US to have high inflation...But then logical thinking doesn't seem to be your strong point. The system would have changed anyway as the Eu changed the rules on 1st July last year, so it makes no difference whatsoever, everybody would have been building warehouse anyway. It is interesting that you see things in such a short sighted manner but then I would expect nothing less. Business is going great in the UK, meanwhile German car exports to the UK alone have gone from 31bn in 2016 to 16bn last year....That's 15 bn per annum down in 5 years, and down to people making personal choices, not some government policy, that's a lot of people who chose to buy a car from some other origin !! Maybe being hostile to your second largest export market isn't such a good idea. Meanwhile those French fish wholesalers can't get their shellfish so they have to sack workers because of the EU, so those French guys are out of a job too. Maybe that's why they want to come to the UK. You don't understand free markets at all, being able to hire and fire favours the employee, the person who wants someone else to take the risk whilst they take a salary, because those who are risk takers are more willing to take risks which means more jobs, which means more power to the employee, if demand for worker is higher than suipply then the employee chooses. If you have all sort of obligations to someone you employ then you aren't going to do it unless you can be sure to meet them, which means less opportunity and less jobs, which is why the EU has no growth. But then again you are a remainer that's too advanced for you. How you can think free markets equates to fascism is weird, if anything it is the EU approach, with the EU regulating every detail, controlling everything. That's more akin to fascism than freedom. Guess being hostile to your customers isn't a good plan after all. But Brexit was never about money, only 5% of leave voters stated the economy as their reason, almost everybody voted because of sovereignty.
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  1519.  @earnestequivocation6250  Ah so you don't like Boris was your point. Well now we are out of the EU your vote counts, you can vote him out next time. We can't vote for the EU leaders. That's the point. Did you vote for von der Leyen, or Charles Michel? Charles Michel was just "relected" for another 2.5 year term. Did you even know there was a vote? Did you have a say? In the EU they choose, in the UK we choose. Nothing else matter really, except who makes the law and if you have a part in the process. But perhaps that's too advanced for you too, you like to be spoon fed by the EU technocrats. It's so strange, I find it hard to understand why you think Belgian, French and Greek bureaucrats know what is right for the UK better than the British people.
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  1520. 4 minute report =1 minute of reporting + 3 minutes advertising CNN.
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  1521. How it is possible for someone to be so confused is astonishing, we can see what's happening from across the pond here. Biden is obviously corrupt and more worryingly, incompetent and confused these days. It is elder abuse to have him running for President, the poor guy should be sitting in a comfy chair eating ice cream and enjoying what time he has left. Not being used as a stooge.
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  1522. The failure was to stay on the beach, they should have moved inland straight away, the Allies allowed the Turks to shoot them up from the high ground. Those were the tactics of the time though, they had no special forces or commandoes or paratroopers to attack from the rear in those days and everything moved slowly. Before you can move an artillery piece you need all the horses and their food and accoutrements, An artillery squadron of 6 guns was 160-200 horses and about 100 men including farriers surgeons artillery men porters cooks and all the ammunition, food for the horses and men . Imagine trying to move all that about on a beach under fire in those days without motorised equipment.
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  1523. Just giving you some back, the left have been cancelling stuff and people for years, decades even, so now there is some pushback you accuse the defenders of being the aggressors...haha, so twisted.
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  1524.  @Avrysatos  Are you mad? Who has been rioting on campuses to stop people speaking? Who has been having people sacked from their jobs for "saying the wrong thing? Media, teachers, speakers, authors....You guys have been shutting people up for the past decade. Now people are pushing back you are blaming them for what you have been doing for years. You do it all the time, blame the other side for doing exactly what you are doing, it's hilarious.
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  1525.  @Avrysatos  Hahaha "whine about the social consequences of being a toad"? So when you do it it's "social consequences". Hahahahaha Something the left has censored through government channels? The list is too long. It's constant. Everything the left do is a failure so they have to lie and cover up.
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  1526.  @Avrysatos  Hahaha. It's pointless giving facts to crazies like you. Try the whole Hunter Biden mess, Biden's insider dealings, Pelosi's insider dealings, Pelosi's husband's drunk driving, the whole Jan 6th sham, the Steele Dossier, good grief the list is endless. The whole thing is built on lies and deception, you must be mad or brainwashed to have anything to do with these self serving hypocrites.
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  1527.  @soulknife20  I haven't been yelling at all, but if you think you are clouds then maybe you need some help with that.
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  1528.  @Avrysatos  Hahaha, so far you haven't actually said anything, all you have done is hurl insults, not surprising. how about you explain to me your goal, what you are fighting for exactly how you think the world should be organised. Tell me all about your World Order and how it would work.
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  1529.  @soulknife20  I'm not mad at all, I find it all hilarious. The way you all make assumptions and then project them onto people is really quite amusing.
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  1530.  @taranullius9221  If you can frame a cogent question I will answer it. "Like what who?" is not terribly clear.
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  1531.  @T.E.S.S.  Who? the crazy kiddies here? All they can do is hurl insults.
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  1532. It was a heatwave, we used to love a heatwave, now we are scared? What has happened. This bloke doesn't care about the cows, he wants them to be extinct because I presume he would object them being in a zoo, and without us to protect them they would be eaten by predators. How is he going to fertilize the crops? No dung so I presume he will be wanting chemical fertilzers but they need fossil fuels...Oh dear this is a bit more complicated than pouring milk on the floor of Harrods.
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  1533. Thanks for the remarks about my perceptive ability, but I am perfectly capably of discerning the intention of the sketch, I find it is seeking cheap laughs, probably from semi-educated people around 20 years old who think they know it all.
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  1534.  @jonathanbuzzard1376  What else could explode? Laptops, computers, TVs, toasters, coffee machines... Nothing will be trusted....
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  1535. The driver has some "assistants" in the bus telling him to keep going, obviously when migrants are involved the State will deploy the assets to move JSO out of the way, the rest of us have to sit in the jams while the cops bring them tea and Jaffa Cakes.
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  1536. It's good you back the leader of your Party Jacob, but really we don't want Rishi, he's an appeaser, he has no vision for the country.
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  1537. Ah sh'es always good for a laugh Rizla, has me rolling with laughter..
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  1538. So the aliens can traverse the galaxy but have no defenses or ability to dodge a missile? OK...
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  1539. Typical Labour, it's always someone else's fault. The Police could have gone to the judge immediately to have permission to name the suspect. Why didn't they? They had him in custody, they knew there was speculation going on and they knew people were upset. This unrest was not the "Far Right" there is no "Far Right". One guy has been jailed for setting fire to a Police vehicle, anybody been jailed for setting fire to a bus in Leeds or overturning a Police Car? How about the Manchester Airport cops? Two charged now while the perpetrators are still free. What's going on?
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  1540. I liked how you put on your best suit to meet the First Lady's Husband.
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  1541. These days it will be Big Drag Queen Sister, Brothers are so heteronormative.... and toxic.
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  1542.  @Eli_Guy  But that is not denying the election. It is questioning the result. Or are you not allowed to have doubts about how the votes are counted? And if you do does that make you some sort of bad or undesirable person. I seem to remember a long campaign against Trump saying he had stolen the election, worked with foreign agents to win, all sort of things. That's OK? But suggesting there are irregularities in 2020 makes you some kind of evil person? I just want clarity here because when Trump wins in 2024, I'm sure you lot will be claiming it was a stolen election and it's all a fraud, like last time.
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  1543.  @asianphillippe007  Which elections? Are you not allowed to question results? That sounds very authoritarian, in a Democracy everything should be open to question at all times.
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  1544.  @asianphillippe007  Which one,because the Democrats have been saying Trump stole the Presidential Election in 2016 for the past 6 years. So are they election deniers too?
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  1545.  @asianphillippe007  Ah . I see, so all these procedures to try and impeach Trump THREE times and remove him and the whole Steele Dossier thing that was accepting the election and moving on was it?
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  1546.  @Eli_Guy  Invisible to me, I even tried logging out and loading the page still invisible, I can see my comments and this comment you just made, that's it. Oh well, nothing is a surprise on youtube these days.
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  1547.  @Eli_Guy  Oh somebody or something is messing with the comments. It's not the first time and it only happens on this page. Obviously they are all for diversity until it comes to diversity of thought. interesting isn't it?
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  1548.  @Eli_Guy  Well why does it only happen here? We'll see if your new comments are visible tomorrow, I'll come back and check.
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  1549.  @Eli_Guy  So these latest comments still appear, but the previously made ones...gone. Fascinating.
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  1550. Does she know the system works I wonder, the VAT is claimed back, so is merely an accounting exercise and the Duty is determined by the EU and 4/5 of it goes to the EU. The whole thing is a scam in the first place, it should be permanently removed. Duty on medical goods. Really?
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  1551.  @JV-dc7om  The importer pays duty not the exporter. The VAT is irrelevant as it can be claimed back anyway. The goal is to appear to be doing something when in actual fact they aren't really doing anything, because they can't, what can they do? They are just a bunch of parasites in suits shuffling papers.
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  1552.  @JV-dc7om  If goods are cheaper to buy that is good, your point doesn't make any sense. If the Chinese wanted to profit they would increase the price by the amount of tariff removed, so the end price stays the same they can reduce the price at any time, it doesn't need tariff changes for that.. You don't make any sense. The purchaser pays for the goods they have to order them first. China can't force their goods on us any more than we can force our goods on them. Do you know how business works?
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  1553. ​ @JV-dc7om  It still has to be ordered by somebody, doesn't matter who it is. You really don't understand. If I am Chinese and I sell 100 units at 1 and the cost to me is 0.7 I make 0.3 per unit, if I sell it for 0.8 I make 0.1 per unit. So I make a lot less per unit. You obviously don't understand what profit is. It is not turnover. The duty is paid at the point of import by the importer, it has nothing to do with China, it is an EU tax on EU companies and citizens.
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  1554.  @JV-dc7om  I do trade with China, I know how trade works and import duties. I gave an elementary imaginary example to show the maths, nothing else.
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  1555.  @JV-dc7om  You are confused, my example had nothing to do with China of course it didn't, it was arithmetic to illustrate how tariffs and profit margins work.
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  1556.  @JV-dc7om  It is indeed, and all they have done is after all this time remove the barrier that they put in place in the first place!
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  1557.  @JV-dc7om  Why is there a barrier on medical products? They are in effect forcing states to pay more for equipment and then pocketing the money, because many countries health systems are state run or financed. So they are taxing member states for importing medical goods. Who are they protecting exactly?
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  1558.  @JV-dc7om  Then why is there a 16% tariff on Oranges?
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  1559.  @JV-dc7om  Just think about what you just tried to justify. The equipment, whatever it is. Does it meet regulations? Yes or NO? Yes: it can enter the market. No: it cannot. So if it can enter the market how does charging a tariff on the importer provide any further protection? All it does is make it more expensive for us, the purchasers, and the EU pockets most of the Cash, what value do they add exactly for this tax?.
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  1560.  @JV-dc7om  Exactly. So we have to pay 16% if we want oranges from outside the EU to protect Spanish farmers. Now you understand why we voted to leave,.
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  1561.  @JV-dc7om  That is what I have been trying to explain to you...Finally You get it. We don't want the protectionist wall, we believe in free trade.
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  1562.  @JV-dc7om  I rest my case.
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  1563.  @JV-dc7om  Thank goodness because this primary school level education is tiring.
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  1564.  @JV-dc7om  Look it was you that came knocking requiring education, if you knew what your were talking about I wouldn't have had to waste my time. If you don't know how things work keep your opinions to yourself. Thanks.
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  1565.  @JV-dc7om  I said she didn't know how the system works, and then you came along and showed you don't know how the system works. The mechanics of business is ABC, because those are the rules we have to follow.
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  1566.  @JV-dc7om  It's not my model, it's the model world trade works on. For goodness sake, all I am doing is explaining it to you. However exasperating a task that is, and it was you that introduced ABC into the conversation, not me. Stop digging mate.
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  1567.  @JV-dc7om  The mechanics of trade model. The mechanics are the same all over the world it is nothing to do with the EU it has evolved over a long time. You are in country A , you buy something from someone in country B. On import you apply the rules for import. All I have done is explain how they work, and they work the same in every country in the world. And my point was why did the EU impose a barrier in the first place !! Why do they tax Europeans for importing life-saving medical equipment? That was all I said, all the rest was your ramblings, and me trying to explain it to you.
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  1568. Journalist : a person who writes for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or prepares news to be broadcast. That's the dictionary definition, doesn't mention anything about University or any other form of training.
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  1569. Roger's little sheep happily going to the slaughter. The man is a menace, he needs locking up for his own good.
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  1570. The Marx Line going to Highgate Cemetery, The Khan Khan line going to Knightsbridge where all the French live, All funded by the Oil of ULEZ.
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  1571. Just look up Roger Hallam, watch his videos, he lays out all the plans, he started all this nonsense, he wants them all to go to jail, it's part of his plan, and they are volunteering to go to jail, they get brownie points !!!
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  1572. There is also life, when you are young you are single mindedly pursuing your goals and dreams with reckless even careless abandon, then you find a partner and have kids and your whole perspective changes to one of preservation and safety and making sure your family are doing well. Also the mind is definitely sharper, and ignorance and inexperience can also have you do things that supposedly don't work or are against the "rules". Then later on, when the kids are grown up, you either rest on your laurels or go back to not giving a damn.
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  1573. Wow a lot of comments being deleted here, I have made comments and had responses that just don't show up the next day. MSNBC are suppressing free speech, they are selectively deleting comments that they don't like. Just be aware they are lying to you !!!
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  1574. Nope what is driving health care costs is tort law and insurance companies. Doctors have to do way more checks than they feel they need to, to avoid being sued, If there was a more sensible policy on tort law costs would drop considerably immediately. If you think about it private business is always looking to reduce costs, because lower cost= more customers, no business wants to price themselves out of a market.
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  1575. Hahaha, any excuse to push this green nonsense. You are going to need oil and gas for decades.
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  1576. Everybody working in the Biden administration is completely clueless.
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  1577. I live in Scotland this is the first I have heard of it. His businesses are doing great !!
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  1578.  @kingbeastie  Yes, well it's a new business. Revenues doubled, from 2020-2021, and then went up by 50% in 21-22. You can find the figures on line. That's how investment works, you don't start making a profit until it's been going a few years. Especially when you have such high investments. He is doing absolutely fine here, should be in profit by 2026.
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  1579. All these vexatious trials just make Trump more popular, everybody can see what's going on, the Democrats are finished. I am not in the USA, but my money is on Trump!!
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  1580. Personne ne peux rien au Parlement Europeen, c'est la Commission qui a tout le pouvoir, le Parliament ne peux que tripoter avec les lois presentes par la Commission. Mais ils peuvent bloquer !! Donc ils sont marginalement utile.
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  1581. hahaha. the more you attack him, the more popular he becomes. It doesn't matter what happens in these courts, he's going to be your next President. And thank goodness, Biden has been the worst President in History, a joke, the world is laughing at the US.
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  1582. I can safely predict she will be unable to recall.
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  1583. So what has so dramatically changed that you find so awful? You will be grateful we left in a few years, just wait and see, the EU is just a paper shuffling operation designed to enrich the bureaucrats, they don't do anything that your government can't do.
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  1584.  @03MARA01  Business does business, trade deals just facilitate things, it's up to business who benefits. I find it amusing the Australians flooding our market with food, firstly you don't seem concerned with the EU flooding our market with food, surely that's more of a worry? And if tons of food is arriving from Australia surely it would hurt the EU producers we would import from Australia the extra we need rather than the EU. Makes sense that if the Australian stuff is cheaper we stop buying the EU stuff. So if anybody should be concerned it should be the French and the Dutch farmers. Anyway, only a small amount of food will come, we need to order it first and then they need to produce it and that will take years maybe decades before it reaches any kind of volume, if ever. The US, UK, India Japan China and the EU is about 80% of the world's economy so that means the remaining 20% split between 160 countries each of the remaining countries shares are going to be awfully small. Size is not relevant, look at Singapore or the UAE, incredibly wealthy, a natural resource or a strategic position or a business friendly trade policy are all factors as are a reliable and strong currency and reliable legal system. Size is just one factor among many.
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  1585. It's right we helped Ukrainian refugees, but I hope they will be going home as soon as the war is over. There's a lot of rebuilding to be done, they will be needed.
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  1586. Of course there was censorship. Raskin is either a complete idiot or worse he is deliberately lying.
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  1587. Those trucks weren't going Honk Honk, they're Road Runners - it's Beep Beep.
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  1588. Ken is completely clueless, but at least he likes a laugh.
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  1589.  @Harassed247  All of that was built by private industry. The hapless Attlee, brought it all under state control, and we went from being one of the largest manufacturers in the world to a strike ridden wasteland, which is the destiny of every attempt at Socialism, destruction of everything, including the fabric of society. Maggie had to put it back on track or we would have been sunk, thank goodness she did. She had 30 odd years of decay to deal with, so it was a big job. I don't want the government owning anything, they are awful at running things, a politician's horizon is the next election, business needs a longer term view, and then when the government changed all the business priorities were readjusted, only to be readjusted again at the next change-over. It was a disaster. All that is left is the NHS which is a catastrophe, rationing of drugs and care and run by an ever growing army of pen pushers...It always happens when the state is involved. Thank goodness for Maggie.
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  1590. @Paul Martin You obviously don't remember what it was like...Strikes all the time, the three day week, power cuts, prices and incomes policy, 15% inflation every year for years, a year waiting list to get a phone line, we almost had fuel rationing, I remember receiving the coupons in the post in preparation. Don't forget that the "utilities we once owned" were forcibly taken from their owners when the state took them over. The State didn't build the railways or the coal mines or the factories, they were all nationalised, forcibly purchased by the state, after WWII. Thatcher just put them back into competent hands.
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  1591. MSNBC spend all their time talking about Trump, it's bizarre. They have nothing good to say about Biden, so they spend their time trashing Trump or praying he will lose, in some kind of desperate hope. Hilarious.
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  1592. @polemius01 And yoiu know SBC is heterosexual but he was playing the role of a homosexual, Ron Paul thought he was coming for a TV interview and found himself in a bedroom with some guy undressing and making bizarre suggestions... How do you suggest he should have reacted? Given the guy a big kiss?
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  1593. Just tell the truth, forget all the flannel. You wore it to wind up the left. Good job !! They are the racists.
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  1594. Gosh she is one despicable woman. She wasn't interviewing she was trying to smear and scaremonger. And talk about being rude, Jim Jordan was very cool !!
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  1595. They get a little knowledge, a lot of indoctrination, and think they know everything because it all sounds good in the classroom. Then they meet reality. These oil protestors will be the first complaining when they lights go out.
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  1596. What a woman ! I love her accent ! She's lovely. And knows how to deal with trolls, hahaha. I wonder if she likes older men?
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  1597.  @johntate5050  But they are owned by the Crown Estate, which is ultimately owned by the people, the Crown just holds it in Trust and the Monarch is merely a custodian, in fact it is in great hands as they are not allowed to sell anything, so no foreign investors can come in and buy up the country. As to whether it was "plundered", well that is debatable, but Britain was successful through trade, not plunder, the Spanish, Portuguese, French and Dutch liked to plunder, but Britain traded.
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  1598.  @rjc0234  These are service contracts. They have exclusivity of the frequency and in return they have to provide the service. Failing to do that means breaching the contract. Like the trains, they have to follow the agreed timetable to provide the service, if they do not then they are also fined. It's not ideal for either party really, but that's how they do it and what you sign up for. That said only 25k for 8 years of unfulfilled contract is tiny, they must be laughing at getting off so lightly.
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  1599. Britain is building airships again, check out Hybrid Air Vehicles.
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  1600. You haven't seen the Fish Slapping Dance? Watch it now !!
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  1601. Hopeless fools with too much time on their hands.
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  1602. English is a European language.
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  1603. They confiscated the toothpaste and left the C4.
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  1604. No chance of that. This is the new Unimperial Woke Museum.
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  1605. Honestly don't these people have anything better to do with their time?
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  1606.  @cheekiestclan5668  Thanks very much !!
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  1607. Finale? It's just getting started, we need a spin off at least. Timpani could get a job at Bucees, Steve could work at the gun store, or the other way around even, the possibilities are endless.
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  1608.  @joycegibbs5267  Yeah but Ofcom wouldn't be happy if someone from the "far right" is on TV, but the far left (I'm literally a Communist) is just fine.
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  1609. Same in Scotland's schools.
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  1610.  Orsen Carte  So you prefer communist hell? What's the difference between fascism and communism can you explain?
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  1611. It's strange, because his dad was amazing.
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  1612.  @Zara-jl5zw  What?
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  1613. There's no way I could watch this Barbie Political Broadcast.
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  1614. ​@Labor Shill Well yes there is that, fools !!
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  1615.  @GhostRangerr  We have to keep the right to protest for that very reason. We have to be careful about demanding more severe laws for protests, that's exactly what a corrupt government wants, for us to demand more state power, wouldn't that be convenient. We need to force the Police to apply the law as it is for these protests, and stop abusing the law when we protest against the state. This is the problem, the law is not being applied equally at all at the moment. Illegal immigrants before the homeless, criminals before the victims, and selectively weak sentencing in the courts.
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  1616. Coca Cola, Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany and Coke sponsored the Hitler Youth.
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  1617.  @billburnhope2176  Haha yes of course how could I have missed the Trump Card.
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  1618. Everything changed after 9/11. Firstly that whole thing is very suspicious, the story we are told is most definitely not the reality, but regardelss since then the world changed, everything started going backwards. Our freedoms were eroded and a totalitarian net is being created around us, the internet was taken over in 2008 or so, everything started changing, you could see things starting to be censored in the name of Political Correctness. Now we have all out censorship, hate speech laws, people being arrested for typing a comment on Facebook, they want to remove cash and replace it with a state run money controlled by them, we have cameras everywhere, flying or driving or heating our home is now frowned on, CO2 literally the gas of life the gas that plants break down into Carbohydrates and Oxygen to provide our food and the air we breathe, is portrayed as a poisonous pollutant. We must be afraid of nice weather, it's no longer a heatwave to be enjoyed but an existential climate crisis out to kill us all, and drives people to glue themselves to roads and throw soup at works of art - only Vegan soup is allowed. Society is being dismantled, civilisation destroyed, there must be some sort of objective....but it certainly doesn't include us, we are in the way, especially if you have realised what's up, that makes you a target straight away - First they will call you a bigot, then far-right, then they will try and get you sacked from your job and deprive you of income, if that fails they will accuse you of a crime, or hate speech and try and get the police to do their dirty work. Very worrying times, but we have to fight, or our children and their children won't live in a free world like we did.
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  1619. Well at least they talked about him as if he is a candidate as opposed to the rest of the media who treat him like a loon and every time they mention him put in a snide remark. Ron Paul 2008.
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  1620. Twitter, it's almost as bad as Canada.
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  1621. @polemius01 Haha, he was invited on the pretext of doing an interview on Austrian Economics, how can you try and pass that off as serendipity? Now you are getting desperate. Come on who can fix it, if you are so against Ron Paul you must be for somebody. Who is it?
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  1622. Biden was definitely installed, no way 80m people voted for him, and the last round of elections was suspect too, how did the Democrats do so well when they have been so awful? Who voted for Fetterman a guy who is completely clueless? I say this from an International Perspective. We do not trust whoever is counting the votes !!
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  1623. There's only one reason...They won't let anybody else have a referendum.... You have to wonder why not.
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  1624. I think Suella Braverman will do a great job, I actually thought she was the best candidate from the starting field to replace Boris. Kemi Badenoch is also excellent and I like Kwasi Kwateng also. I don't think any of them are there for "diversity".
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  1625. Alors L'UE est magnifique et les electeurs Hongrois Polonais et Czech sont des "populistes", "extreme droite", "illeberale" "Souvereniste"? Hmmm...Pas de biais dans le reportage alors...
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  1626. Could be a gambit, is there some potential State Aid? Or is it inevitable in the rush to Net Zero, moving all that nasty industry to other countries so we can live in the Green Party's Utopia?
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  1627.  @georgealchemist  What's confusing? It was pretty clear.
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  1628.  @georgealchemist  Who are you prejudiced against? And why?
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  1629.  @georgealchemist  And yet they can't agree a budget and the talks have collapsed. Doesn't appear that great from here. Could you define "not expensive"?
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  1630.  @georgealchemist  Because it's an evil self serving bureaucracy interested only in protecting the lives of the technocrats that run it, it serves no purpose, and due to its structure is very dangerous. You did not elect the leaders and you can't remove them and they have enormous power. That's very dangerous. Give them an army as they want and you could find yourselves at war very quickly. I really don;t want that for my European friends.
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  1631.  @georgealchemist  I don't think you have been paying attention... Take off the rose coloured glasses for your own good. The EU will trample all over you and you have no say in who runs it.
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  1632.  @georgealchemist  I'm only thinking of you and the citizens. Don't be fooled by these charlatans. You'll see in time my friend, the sooner you start looking the easier it will be to wake up. Who voted for von der Leyen? Did you know who she was? How can you get rids of her if she is doing a bad job? She has almost all the power, she was chosen by Tusk and Merkel, and the next leader will be chosen by the "right " people too, is that what you want? Your leaders chosen by some unelected committee? Good luck if it is, that never works out well.
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  1633.  @georgealchemist  "Nice woman"? Is that what you want from a leader? And you are quite content that she was chosen for you? Well you deserve everything you get if that's your attitude.
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  1634.  @georgealchemist  Thanks I speak German. Just watch it, they have control of the money, next they will take over the taxes from the member states, watch it... Then they will have a police force, then an Army, and then a Secret Police.... It will happen little step but by little step. Fortunately we will be watching.
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  1635. What an obnoxious git that Richard Graham is, he wouldn't get my vote mainly for being an obnoxious git.
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  1636. This James Matthewson chap doesn't have a clue. Nigel says what the majority think, even if James doesn't like it.
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  1637. You need to change your headline to 182 days since we left the EU.
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  1638. Something about living beneath the waves...I think.
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  1639. I boycott Harry Potter fans.
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  1640.  @CGM_68  Which echo chamber? What are you babbling about?
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  1641.  @CGM_68  I think it's you that needs to get out of your echo chamber. Choosing a symbol for a logo is not "appropriating " it unless you are a lefty idiot. Loads of businesses use the Poppy. The Labour Party as I said uses the rose, does that mean they have appropriated the rose? Hundreds of other organisations use the rose too. The only reason you would mention this is if you wanted to make some kind of political statement, which is why I asked why the IWM have gone woke. Never before would the IWM have mentioned such a thing or made such a connection to a tiny fringe party.
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  1642.  @CGM_68  Hahaha. You have to be joking. The Germans were the aggressors, I'm not sure how one would celebrate a failed highly aggressive takeover attempt of Europe resulting in millions of deaths and massive destruction. What would the French be remembering? Years of occupation and collaboration? This is the Imperial War Museum. You know, the British perspective on our sacrifice to liberate these people. What the Germans and French choose to do is their affair and how we remember our sacrifice is our affair. Did they muse on how the Poppy had been "appropriated" by hundreds of different companies and organisation over the past century? Nope they chose one political party that has almost no supporters.
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  1643.  @beingsshepherd  But that is not appropriating is it? If they had appropriated it then the first thing you would think of when you see it would be the Far Right. But that is just not the case is it? The left have tried to appropriate language. Twisting words to suit their lefty agenda. Nobody sees the Poppy and thinks Far Right...They think Remembrance day and of our fallen soldiers. Men who gave their lives so you could be free to think such nonsense.
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  1644. Kristallnacht was not December the twelfth 1938, it was November the Ninth 1938, you should really know that Roger, because it is the date of the Munich Beer Hall Putsch,1923 a sacred day for the Nazis and the date the Berlin WALL fell in 1989, and it is written as 9/11 in Europe.
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  1645. Over working the joke here.
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  1646.  @lesskeels3417  They are approximate obviously, but it would have been about 50% more by now given the amount they have been spending. I don't want to give the EU £230 every year. I will give them what they are worth, which is NOTHING.
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  1647.  @lesskeels3417  Well that's the entire population, babies included. If we only count taxpayers it is probably about £600 per taxpayer. Yes this is just the basic membership fee, then we had all the other taxes we used to have levied on us. For example if we imported say computers from China into the UK for use in the UK, we would have to pay a tariff, this was set by the EU, the EU then took 75% of the money leaving HMRC with only 25%, so they taxed us for buying things from China. Now we may still have the tariff to pay, but 100% of it goes to HMRC so it can be spent here instead of in Greece, or Latvia.
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  1648.  @BernasLL  But she beat the other guy in the election for President... You know what was the name again?? It was a great invigorating campaign she really rallied all the voters behind her. Oh yeah actually she was the only candidate and nobody voted for her. It's such a great democratic system.
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  1649. Just leave them where they glue themselves. It seems super glue is made from oil !!!
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  1650. Plus she has no experience, pay people too much and they become lazy, especially people on low incomes, because they start thinking about what they are going to do with the money rather than their job. And I speak from experience as an employer.
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  1651.  @domi9577  Well look it up I quote from the Government's web-page: "Inheritance Tax is a tax on the estate (the property, money and possessions) of someone who’s died. Your beneficiaries (the people who inherit your estate) do not normally pay tax on things they inherit."
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  1652.  @msto1987  Really? I'd rather they abolish taxes and we could spend our own money on the services we want rather than the services that the State decides we want, and provides very poorly. State run anything by any party is always a shambles.
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  1653.  @testudohorsfieldii7052  What does the value have to do with it? It's the principle. If they start taxing gifts then you can be sure that the kids will be taxed sooner or later.
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  1654.  @frankcastle_1984  Right...So the house, the shares, the Rembrandt over the fireplace, they are actually not worth anything until they are sold and actually turned into money. So why should you be taxed on the "supposed" value when you die.
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  1655.  @msto1987  " I like living in a modern society, with services and amenities. so I am in favor of taxing everything" If you apply all those taxes you will be living in a communist society, like North Korea or East Germany. I don't think you would like it very much after a week or two.
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  1656.  @frankcastle_1984  That's exactly what happens. An executor is appointed usually chosen by the deceased and named in the will. All the assets are logged. Then the tax is paid to the government, and finally the assets are distributed. If there is not enough cash available to pay the tax, the executor has to decide what happens, either money has to be raised by the inheritors to keep assets intact, or some assets have to be sold to pay the tax. It's absolutely deplorable to put grieving families through that, and it can often cause fights and breakups. All because the government wants to tax you even in death.
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  1657.  @msto1987  Where are you from? Where do you live that has all these wonderful services?
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  1658.  @msto1987  Oh right. Now I understand. Haha. You should also look up the meaning of the word Daddy.
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  1659. @geniusjas87 Haha so who killed the other people in the car? How about people from both sides pray for their favourite team, how does God figure that one out? Who do you blame when something bad happens? Mumbo jumbo.
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  1660. Jees this woman spouts such a load mainstream presumptions. I'm an athiest and I think taxes are evil certainly what they have become not their original intent, so explain that by relating it to religion.
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  1661. Beg to differ about 100 years since looting. There was a lot of looting during the war, 400 or so cases reported during the Blitz alone.
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  1662.  @agmuntianu  You think this is going to last a long time? Of course it is not ideal but the question is Do Sanctions Work? And the answer is no. Even North Korea manages to get by and develop both Nuclear missiles and launch capability after being isolated for nearly 7 decades. If they want anything they can get it. Everything has a price. Sure the non-elite people have terrible lives, but that is not the question.
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  1663.  @asgdhgsfhrfgfd1170  So all that to say it would have an effect if the soldiers didn't get their rations? Fertiliser is in short supply the price has quadrupled in the last two months, Europe is running out of rapeseed and sunflower oil, they can't sew the seeds in Ukraine which they should be doing right now or have done already so there will be a poor harvest this year, the wheat price has doubled and is going up all the time. We can't import Russian supplies and Ukraine can't export either or produce satisfactorily at the moment. Germany and the EU is lucky that Putin hasn't turned the gas tap off. The EU is buying almost 1bn euros of oil, gas and coal a day from Russia and they "hope to cut that by 2/3 by the end of the year". So in the best case scenario they will still be sending 1bn euros every three days to Putin. I don't think he has any financial worries, the Chinese are desperate for Energy and they make everything so I'm sure they can do a good deal. Quite frankly the sanctions are joke and as i say they are hurting us more than anybody else.
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  1664.  @agmuntianu  Well in order to see if sanctions work we just have to look at history. N Korea regime is still in place and they managed to develop advanced weapons when as you point out it was a feat, so didn't work there, Iran regime is still in place so didn't work there, Cuba, regime is still in place so didn't work there either. Can you give an example of where and when sanctions actually delivered a result?
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  1665. Shared vehicle schemes can't work, it's too difficult to manage the stock. You end up with the vehicles in all the wrong places, tons at one point none at another, so you need to have a way to move them about to where they are needed which is very expensive. For bicycles you need trucks with a trailers to move them about, cars need drivers to take them individually. A nice idea that doesn't work because of how humans move around unpredictably.
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  1666.  @adamlea6339  We have loads of natural resources. We just don't want to use them. We have 300 years worth of Coal, we have oil and gas, we even have Lithium. The problem is that with all this Green Nonsense we don't want to use them as we could. The only oil the EU has is in Roumania, and it's not much. We have loads to offer. We are the sixth largest economy in the World, we just don't make much in the way of consumer goods any more. Most of what we make is used in industry or hi tech, or Pharma. We also have terrific services, like banking and insurance and other financial services. We now have more trade deals than the EU, remember when remain said it would take at least a decade to make one deal? And yet after three years we have more than the EU.
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  1667. The American chap is a blunderbuss of nonsense. Does he really think Welsh Lamb is going to be enough for the UK and the USA? That UK beef is going to feed 350m Americans? What an idiot.
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  1668. The Beatles go up and down, but they will endure, they will fade for a bit and then become popular again, my daughter loves them about as much as me, so her children will too I'm sure. In the seventies everybody thought the Beatles were old and finished, but they had the top selling album in the 2000's with "1" .
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  1669. @VictimOfBoredom * no denial The country that spends more than all the other countries in the world on its military is so scared of these guys that they have to be kept aborad, give me a break, start thinking about the why's in all this, and don't forget you have been told repeatedly they are a threat, but really are they? Who is going to invade the US? Canada? Mexico? Iran? C'mon it's ridiculous there is no threat to the US it's all made up.
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  1670.  @poopoppy  Hahaha.
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  1671. Dragging my fingernails on a blackboard.
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  1672. Incredible. She doesn't get the analogy about the haircut, and returns to her fantasy story, increasing prices will increase demand, she is affronted at the idea of paying double for the same thing yet continues to say increasing the cost of labour will help employers. I'm sure employers will be queuing up to hire people at a higher wage rate. They will be delighted to see their costs increasing so they have to increase their prices and become less competitive. What a fruitcake this lady is.
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  1673. It was Hitler's Birthday. 20th April.
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  1674. Well she can have a kip in her cell. Unless they accidentally super glue her hands to the bars.
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  1675. Good to know that NATO is scared of Russia....Good Grief, the whole point of NATO is to defend against Russia.
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  1676. May the Fourth be With You, you'll need it.
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  1677. But we have tariff free trade already, we don't want to align automatically with the EU. No matter where you export to you have to abide by the rules of the customer, but aligning means we have to follow EU rules at home too, that's what we voted to leave for, to take back control of our rules, and rule making.
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  1678. Very dangerous to force accountants and lawyers to "grass". Once the law is on the books it will end up being used on the people and that would be very dangerous. Lawyers and accountants are there to help their customers not the state, they are not the secret police to be used as Politicians see fit.
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  1679. Glasgow Cabbie is not faceless what nonsense.
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  1680. Best way to solve this is just dismantle the whole scam. By that I mean the EU, it's useless anyway, it's destroying Europe, might as well get rid of it as soon as possible.
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  1681. @polemius01 ...and you never said anything in the heat of the moment? OK well if you like to label people on one strange orchestrated incident for a comedy movie, fair enough. Good luck with that evaluative strategy.
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  1682. Logic and facts destroy "inflated" opinion every time !
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  1683. Not really. Numbers don't mean anything if they don't have disposable income, and most Europeans are not very wealthy.
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  1684. So hang on, you have to go online to see how much time you are spending online? Why would you give them access to what you are doing, this is just a data mining exercise, please don't advertise this sort of nonsense to pocket some cash.
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  1685. Raskin is either blind or just in so deep he has no other choice but to defend Biden, because anybody can see he's been raking it in from anybody who wants a favour from the US Government, although why? I have no idea, it looks like he won't live long enough to spend it anyway. I can see it from across the pond why can't he?
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  1686. 33 per cent for Le Pen, who has softened her positions, Zemmour, who is much more hard line has 6%, so all those people would vote Le Pen in the second round. Melenchon is basically a Communist, so not even all the lefties would vote for him. It will be interesting, although the nature of French Politics is that someone from the "elite" will suddenly emerge and take on a large following. Almost every President and most of the ministers went to the same University, the ENA which has recently renamed itself the Institut national du service public.
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  1687.  Messanger-cj5nm  So you're saying the end is nigh but it's not climate change after all?
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  1688. Didn't Bastani write a book called "Fully Automated Luxury Communism" where he stated "Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness." Maybe he has changed his mind, or maybe he was exploiting the Commies to make some money like a true capitalist. Anyway, now we know he doesn't even like automated ticketing, why bring him on, let them rant on their amusing little commie youtube channel.
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  1689. The right believe in freedom of the individual, the left believe in Collectivism, so logically, speaking far right would be extreme freedom, hardly any government or perhaps even no government, Anarchy even. The far left on the other hand believe on extreme collectivism, centralisation of power, lots of regulations and taxes, no free enterprise (you might get rich, and we can't have that, that would mean inequality). If I had to choose, I certainly wouldn't choose communism. Far right in media speak basically means you don't want to be assimilated into the collective and go along with their phoney narrative, which makes you a bad boy/girl/They-them.
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  1690.  @darthekul1  It is indeed, so you can't use it for "progressives" by definition.
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  1691.  @soulknife20  Well actually no. The British ended Slavery or at least started the ball rolling for its abolition because it is still around today but it was Britain that first passed laws making it illegal and then set up a fleet to sail around the world stopping it, the West Africa Squadron. Progressives are a curse, they always want to tell people what to do which is always contrary to human nature, and therefore a militia is needed to beat them into compliance and they always want to take other people's stuff, the idea of working and earning their own stuff is alien, they really are backwards thinkers, it should be called regressivism, for that is a better definition.
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  1692.  @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis  Hahaha, Progressives are a curse, all they want to do is take stuff from other people. The further they are from government the better, just look at the US. Biden has turned the country into a complete basket case. We are feeling sorry for you over here in the UK, but at least Joe is pretty funny, shaking hands with invisible people and forgetting where he is and what he is talking about half way through a sentence. Not a good look for the US though, imagine what other world leaders think looking at the US today? Your friends shake their heads in disbelief and your enemies are taking advantage of the situation. The world is on the brink of war because the US has a useless leader.
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  1693.  @ConsciusVeritasVids  No, it is culture. You guys have it all wrong. Conservatism and Capitalism is what makes us strong free independent and wealthy. the enemy is corporatism, big business being enabled by big government to destroy capitalism by creating monopolies with government collusion, and that is only possible with a big state "progressive" government. You actually are facilitating what you dislike because you don't understand what you are doing.
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  1694.  @TheReddShinobi13  Well then you lose your bet.
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  1695.  @soulknife20  I'm not surprised, projecting your misguided beliefs on others is what you do. You are always looking for a reason to hate.
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  1696.  @MrYago-xd7um  How do you mean trolling? Youtube keeps putting these videos as suggestions, so I am just doing my bit, bringing enlightenment to the brainwashed. It's a big job.
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  1697.  @oxman5571  How do you mean? Bringing light into the darkness is enlightening, you don't understand what you are doing with this "progressivism", you are enabling your own enslavement, the only way to redistribute things is with a big armed state. As the rich are eliminated, eventually they will have to come for you. and those at the top of the big armed state will be the new rich, but they will have the guns.
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  1698.  @charadreemurr8673  Hahaha, it is cancer.
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  1699.  @taranullius9221  Oh yes, probably too big for me, undoing brainwashing is a big job, but everybody has to help a bit if we want to eradicate such cancer from the planet.
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  1700.  @oxman5571  Oh yes, you uncovered my true identity. How did you do it? Honestly the level of intellectual discussion here is quite enlightening, are you all 14? Or younger?
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  1701.  @leothenomad5675  Really, my goodness, that's a shock, you mean youtube is watching my every move? Of course I know that, tut it's too much fun, although I am yet to find anybody who will actually discuss things, everybody just likes to hurl insults. So much for all that compassion and equality and being the nice folk. Haha.
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  1702.  @oxman5571  What are these comments? What are you actually doing? Does anybody have an IQ in triple figures?
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  1703.  @oxman5571  You do know what an Ox is? Why did you go for the castration route? I mean I know it's fashionable to be gender neutral, but it's a bit final don't you think?
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  1704.  @oxman5571  Haha, how did I lose? When did battle commence? So far we seem to be at the weigh in with the losers shouting insults. Would anybody like to comment on the fact that the left have been on a mission to cancel everything for years and are now getting upset because people are fighting back against your narrow minded insanity?
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  1705. The BBC will never give up eh? The EU is on its last legs, just as well we got out when we could. The problems we have had with the EU have stemmed from a reluctance by the Politicians to do it properly, and the continued resistance of the deluded remainers who somehow think we would be better off handing power to a bunch of unelected technocrats who have no accountability whatsoever and no interest in the fate of the citizens of Europe. In a decade you won't find anybody who admitted to voting remain, except the hardcore fanatics.
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  1706. ​ @spe3dy744  What difference does it make the leaning of which Party wins? You think they are lunatics I think they are spot on, that's what elections are about. Also I lived in both the Netherlands for 15 years and for a few years in Belgium so I have extensive first hand experience of living there and their system. You should really not jump to uninformed conclusions. You have obviously never lived in Belgium if you think it's not unstable. The country is a total mess with separatist movements, in fighting, massive immigration issues and massive corruption. In the UK we had the election we got the result, and the same day the new Government took over. In the Netherlands it looks like the situation might be at the point of being resolved, but only because Mark Rutte is going to take the head of NATO job so they have to work something out. And even then the Rutte Government was a caretaker government as they still hadn't resolved the previous election. So they have a caretaker government that replaced a caretaker government and they still don't have a Government. The fact that it takes a while is the point, a year before they can even form a Government that's a year of their term gone, and means the country had no meaningful government for a year. In Poland PiS got 44% of the vote. Tusk came a distant second with 27% and yet Tusk is PM and Pis are the opposition. That's bonkers.
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  1707.  @Luke-pp2lw  You have a tiny population, and a unified culture. Pretty much any system would be stable in Denmark. That's not the case in bigger countries. We have an excellent system which has served us well for centuries. The question is do you want a strong government or a wishy washy coalition which is horse traded after the election if it can be agreed at all. We had the election on Thursday, by 11AM the next morning we had completed the formalities and had a new government. No messing about horse trading.
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  1708.  @carelgoodheir692  Well that's your opinion. In Scotland we have PR, so what happened, the Greens were running the show because they held the balance of power. And they have left behind a trail of chaos debt and failed projects. In New Zealand it allowed Ardern to take power, in Poland Tusk, it gives horrible results that suit nobody. You have no idea if another system would have served you better because the whole landscape would be different, there would be loads more parties, many of them single issue parties, the votes would be spread out amongst all sorts of minority interests, so you don't know what kind of governments you would have had.
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  1709.  @beanoboy62  Well there are always polarising issues. So that's irrelevant. I don't want PR at all, it's a terrible idea unless you want mushy governments. Tinkering with how you implement a bad system doesn't stop it being a bad system.
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  1710.  @sctrh2  But that is not feasible, who would be Prime Minister? People always organise themselves into parties. It would be like saying lets have a football tournament with no teams, only individual players. People of the same vision will always group together.
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  1711.  @mandywithell  What is?
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  1712.  @mandywithell  Well not really, our GDP has been growing faster than the EU, imports are up exports are up, the only social problem is remainers still moaning about Brexit. If they would just accept it and embrace it everything would be going a lot better.
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  1713.  @mandywithell  Yes but that's not how our democracy works. It's not a national vote, it's lots of local votes, and each constituency is a separate competition. if you come second or eighth it's the same thing. Adding up the votes is interesting, but meaningless, it's the seats that matter. Everybody has a say by voting in their constituency. If you remove this link to the constituency you change everything, you have to split things into regions and then you don't have an MP you have a whole bunch of MPs in your region and if they all refuse to help you with your gripe, which of them is at fault? So you change the relationship with the public and the MP, and then you have a system of lists, so the top of the list of each of the bigger parties is guaranteed a seat. So how is that democratic if you know you are going to win the seat before anyone casts a vote? Then if you have such a system you will have a multitude of parties, many single issue parties who maybe have one or two seats but aren't interested in anything except their issue occupying a seat that could be better filled. And then you have the biggest party winning with only 25% of the vote, so you have horse trading after the election and everybody jostles for power and you end up with some patchwork coalition government that is going to govern through compromise and committee, and very often the party that came third or fourth holds the balance of power and therefore has the most power, so coming third is the best spot. In other words a wishy washy mess. I much prefer FPTP, you don't need to have a seat in Parliament to make things happen in the UK, we have a great system. Reform will use this information to build a platform, and next time they will do much better, if they do things properly. The Lib dems target their efforts in seats they know they can win and they benefited from disaffected Tories who couldn't bring themselves to vote Labour or Reform.
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  1714.  @mandywithell  Well a lot of absurdities and evident bias creeping in to your thinking. Since when do you have the ability to define democracy? What exactly do you think was undemocratic about Brexit? or Boris? Both of those you gave as examples, but both were voted for. As to the Lib dems targeting seats what's undemocratic about that? How do you think the SNP candidate would get on in Islington? They probably should target their efforts on Scotland somewhere don't you think? Or are they in fact undemocratic because they don't contest every constituency in the country equally. Have you ever asked an MP for help, they are usually very good indeed, if not they usually don't get reelected. It's a very big part of the job. Good MPs take it very seriously, and if they are too busy (if they are in the cabinet or otherwise engaged) they delegate staff to help constituents. We had our election on Thursday we had our new government in place by Friday morning. In the Netherlands they had the election in November 2023, 26 parties ran, the winner got 23.5%, the Government took power on the 2nd of July 2024. That's 10 months, and that only happened because caretaker PM Rutte has a new job at the head of NATO so had to resign, so the PM is a Civil Servant placeholder. Belgium has had no government twice in the past decade for nearly two years because they couldn't agree a coalition. so by the time the government was formed half its term was over. If that's what you want happening in the UK then go for it, but I will be voting to stick with FPTP. That way we can get on with things, on the left or on the right, at least we get on with it.
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  1715.  @joescott7500  Yes ! When they actually reach adulthood it will be a worry. They are mentally still 17, "Up the Workers!!"
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  1716. He's right though.
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  1717.  Glennis Rees  I thought they didn't like the idea of being slaves. That's what's so confusing.
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  1718.  @MrFoffof  Eh? If you can string together a coherent sentence that would be helpful. Offended? What are you talking about?
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  1719.  @robertandrews6915  Who mentioned hate? Only you.
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  1720.  @tytzup5397  Perfectly chilled thanks. Just providing very valuable feedback.
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