Comments by "Alan hat" (@alanhat5252) on "The New Statesman" channel.

  1. Well that's hopeful, thank you. The thought that the Torys might be out of our hair for a generation has really cheered me up.
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  2. 8:27 which is not an antisemitic trope! If nothing else because Israel is a country not a religion, an ethnicity or (to accurately fit the definition) a language.
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  3. The only thing I find shocking is that there are people in this country who don't understand every single word of this at a fundamental level.
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  4. 8:47 Luke Akehurst, NEC member parachuted 250 miles, has article after article against him – try one in The National (respected Scottish newspaper) titled "Luke Akehurst: Labour pick 'extremist' Israel lobbyist for safe seat"...
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  5. That "oil find in Israel" is just off the coast of Gaza, Israel has no legal claim to it though they're extracting the gas.
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  6. I believe he has the right to sack or appoint Ministers of his choosing? That's an avenue which could get very interesting very quickly, the Press spend years manoeuvering their choices into place.
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  7. 12:44 does he have to stop summoning ministers? Why? I certainly hope he forces them to explain themselves though I would prefer it done in public.
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  8. 4:17 they didn't do ANY impact assessment, that's a big part of the problem! If they had done impact assessments they would have discovered that the existing system was the cheapest option, cheaper even than withdrawing it completely because of the knock-on expenses in the NHS etc. The proposed means testing is probably the MOST expensive option & will swallow any 'savings' many times over even before the NHS bill comes through. 😮
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  9. "govern"?? They're appointed to represent us!
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  10. 5:00 the Labour Party is & has been since its foundation a left-wing party, it is not Starmer's place to drag the Party to the right of Thatcher!
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  11. because Israel says it is & we cannot contradict Israel ever about anything!
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  12. I'm not convinced that selective editing without commentary is particularly useful. PMQs this week, as ever, was a disgrace but your role as journalists is to provide commentary debunking the lies, misrepresentations, propaganda & disinformation and, most importantly, providing corrections. Democracy is absolutely reliant on journalism, without it Democracy falls because the electorate cannot make rational choices at the Polls & cannot make reasoned representations to their representatives.
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  13. 🤣😂
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  14. Those pigs look a bit young...
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  15. Millions will be voting Green this time, both Labour & Tory voters.
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  16. both need coverage
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  17. I object to 'donations' setting the direction of parties! Especially as they're much more difficult to find on the Electoral Commission website than personal ones on Parliament's website.
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  18. I'll be voting Green & so will millions of others
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  19. I'm shocked but not surprised
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  20. It's a foregone conclusion the Torys are out so it no longer matters what Sunak says but the propaganda would have us believe Starmer will be Prime Minister for the next 5 or 10 years, it very much matters what he says. I'm personally hoping for Carla Denyer as the next PM & the comments I'm reading suggest it's possible.
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  21. ​ @jimboakimbo54 he also compares with Johnson on the lying 😢
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  22.  @stevedavidson666  forecast 4,000 pensioners dead. Presumably your Gran is already dead?
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  23. That's why so many millions will be voting Green.
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  24.  @Dingbat-tb5wz  step outside your bubble, there's a whole world out here
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  25.  @bobblue_west  University College London (UCL) Constitution Unit seems to share my opinion. Do you want to carry on showing yourself up by being abusive whilst having no foundation to your argument?
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  26. ​ @albertbrammer9263 Mandelson was also Blair's mafia, I was very surprised when they dragged him back out of the swamp.
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  27. 11:06 I forget the detail & it's probably difficult to look up but Royal Assent has been refused at least once since the Bill of Rights in 1688. [edit] "The last bill that was refused assent by the Sovereign was the Scottish Militia Bill during Queen Anne's reign in 1708" - Wikipedia - Royal assent. I get a strong impression Victoria could be pretty forthright too.
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  28. ​ @Eltener123 that remaining candidate being, in his day job, the CEO of a private healthcare company
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  29. How's his fishing fleet doing now?
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  30. 6:10 you could go back to the source where she's trying to clarify the terminology (in the sort of cack-handed way you would expect in a "1st draft") between "racism" & other forms of "prejudice". Copied verbatim from the Observer Letters page: Tomiwa Owolade claims that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people all suffer from “racism” (“Racism in Britain is not a black and white issue. It’s far more complicated”, Comment). They undoubtedly experience prejudice. This is similar to racism and the two words are often used as if they are interchangeable. It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice. But they are not all their lives subject to racism. In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus. In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships. Diane Abbott
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  31.  @fbenbow2197  for about a century now Labour have been called in to clear up Tory messes & they've succeeded every time, I don't see why this time would be different?
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  32. Jailed more like!
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  33.  @jameshall6061  🤣😂 16 million voted for Brexit 50 million didn't, how's that for "democracy"? "Bellend"
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  34. let's hope it's too late for this one.
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  35.  @piccalillipit9211  1745? buildings of that sort of age are all built the same (in each area) apart from houses had chimneys, the stone-built ones all work on thermal inertia, you light the fire about this time of year & don't let it go out till late May or June. They're usually toasty if you can keep the draughts out but if you let them get cold they'll stay cold till late summer. Lime plaster is likely all that will stay on the walls but it 'breathes' better than modern plaster. If she does replace it mixing in hair & bristle makes it less prone to cracking but a plasterer that knows lime will know that.
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  36. ​ @verzeda now imagine applying it...
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  37. ​ @gracchi132 WOW, you can count all the way up to three when counting parties! Did you bother looking at your voting slip? There were more than 3 parties on there!
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  38. 4:35 there is already "State funding of political parties", it's called Short Money! 😮
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  39. that part of our Constitution is very much written, it's the Bill of Rights 1688, a document the Supreme Court has visited recently in dealing with our Government, notably over the "illegal prorogation".
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  40. Charles has been speaking directly to the scientists & watching the science evolve for more than 5 decades so I would assume he's pretty authoritative. He has powers to advise & to warn, I expect this would best be done in public forums so that the electorate can evaluate the Government's performance. This is nominally a democracy after all.
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  41. The UK economy has shrunk more than a 5th these 13 years but it's still £trillions, there's plenty of money. What's needed is to drag the money back from the Cayman Islands, or at the very least stop yet more being leeched off.
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  42.  @joepaluka9031  private medicine may work if you can afford it, fully a quarter of the UK population is now in poverty.
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  43.  @richardmurphy4520  we had a republic, it survived 11 years before they were forced by their incompetence to bring a King back.
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  44.  @rtozier2011  look at the numbers, Corbyn very nearly got the top job & if Israel hadn't been working so hard against him he would have got it easily.
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  45. Also missing from this was the power of lobbies & of money. Keir Starmer is very obviously standing on the Israel lobby, the current PM hasn't yet shown his hand but is probably standing on hedgefunds, the previous PM was standing on Tufton Street think-tanks & the one before standing on piles of money from various sources.
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  46. Farage is downhill faster! 😂 He made his money through Crispin Odey's hedgefund when his Brexit tanked Sterling & he'll do it again & again & again! If you want improvements in your conditions vote Green.
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  47. 36:05 Lord Bird (founder of The Big Issue) is, I think, the only member of either House who has had direct personal experience of the circumstances discussed here.
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  48. Not as many as operate from this country & none from abroad.
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  49.  @jackkruese4258  this ability to appoint & dismiss Ministers is Royal Prerogative which comes from the Bill of Rights which was the culmination of the English Civil Wars & is one of the very few written parts of our Constitution & probably the most sensitive because of its relationship with the Civil Wars. I am well aware that the current crop of Torys & the right-wing Press are arrogant & ignorant enough to attempt to overrule the Constitution but would the Courts allow this?
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  50. Excellent article except that Chakrabortty totally fails to mention that change IS on offer – on offer from the Green Party! #VoteWisely, #VoteGreen! They don't need to be in Government, they just need to be polling strong enough they can kick up a stink whenever Gov't gets it wrong! #VoteWisely, #VoteGreen!
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  51. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
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  52. The front-line staff of the NHS aren't the issue, it's the layers & layers of creeping bureaucracy, the lack of maintenance & crumbling buildings, the backdoor selloffs of chunks of the Service. Catering went first, it's been packet meals for 4 decades now, cleaning went next so now we have MRSA & hand sanitizers every 10 yards in every single NHS establishment, who gets the contract for that? And the litany just goes on & on getting worse & worse.
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  53.  @madontherun  yes but Denmark's taxes were introduced slowly, carefully & with purposes & consent. Sunak barely even announced his.
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  54. 1:09 worse even than when the Whigs wouldn't let them in the building?
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  55. He was formerly Attorney General, it was his job to understand details like that.
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  56. That's rather insipid coverage of several very important issues, in particular you don't seem to have any understanding of what happened to Corbyn or why or even how it's treasonous.
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  57.  @MrJaspett  *portentous
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  58. The job Starmer signed up for is to destroy the Party that voted for a Leader who supports Palestinian Rights. The Torys have made it very difficult for him - how can he destroy the Party while he's leading it as Prime Minister?
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  59.  @1951GL  there's £billions leaching away every year without going to the trouble of dragging any back from tax-havens though I dispute the scale that's hidden abroad, too much has been disappearing for too long.
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  60.  @covfefe1787  before the UK Government started meddling & selling parts off from 1979 the NHS was the most efficient in the world & health authorities came from the whole world to see how it was done. Not now though. How it was done is written into legislation dated 1945 & later, Government only has to go into the archives to find the world's most efficient system.
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  61.  @covfefe1787  USA has public healthcare for the poor & private for everyone else, much as you suggest, but they've turned it into the most expensive healthcare system in the world & it's the country's main source of personal bankruptcy. No thanks.
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  62. 4:35 Starmer as Wolfie Smith now!?! Wow!
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  63. no
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  64.  @dogstar5572  you think the most right-wing government Israel has ever had would sully themselves by digging holes for oil?? Of course they've contracted it out!
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  65. They're morally binding, if you vote for MPs with morals it works.
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  66. Blairite/Thatcherite
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  67.  @joepaluka9031  F off back to Malaysia then, the people who actually live in this country want the NHS restored.
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  68.  @tenniskinsella7768  and who imposed that management? Oh yes, Government did!
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  69. Some interesting thinking points, thank you.
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  70. why is he not your MP now? He stands head & shoulders above so many.
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  71. can you tell us more?
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  72. Farage is against the 2-child cap... 😂😂😂
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  73. what? make sense! 😂😂😂
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  74.  @tenniskinsella7768  seriously, make sense! Your comments are unreadable!
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  75.  @Betleyman_7  the Torys have been trying to undermine the NHS since 1945, in 1977 they hatched plans to get serious about it & now we see the fruition. They've been adding layers of bureaucracy to separate parts off & then selling them, there's very little left that's State-owned.
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  76. the people who elected Corbyn within the Labour party were given a vote, they chose to keep him!
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  77. @Richard L BP & Shell at least have a tax base in this country, they can be taxed here & already have been, just not enough. Shareholders could be taxed too though they're a much harder target as so many people have put in fractions of a penny through 'portfolios'. For £50 you can buy into a variable portfolio of 500 companies (eg S&P500).
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  78. Corbyn was sabotaged by his own party, please at least try to keep up! 😮
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  79. it's interesting to note which parties know how to treat journalists, the journalists who are steering our thoughts when choosing a candidate to vote for...
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  80. I hope not! They've driven a quarter of the population into poverty
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  81. We don't pay Inheritance Tax on less than £1million 😂 Real people don't even dream of that much money! If you're not just trolling & you actually do want fair taxation vote Green!
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  82. What does your panel think of the 6 months after that discussion?
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  83. Why? We want money in our pockets & in Public Funds not in offshore hedgefunds! 😮
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  84. 😂😂😂😂
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  85. ​ @scottanderson2458 agreed!
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  86. Starmer's promises are all very pretty but they all vanish. #VoteGreen for promises which are sustained.
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  87. It's an investment fund but it's massively restricted, unlike the one offered by Corbyn in 2017 & '19 or the Greens now. Most countries have them & they put money into the Treasury as the projects they fund mature but they've got to be bigger to work, vote for the Green's one.
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  88. Cambridge Analytica, backed by Robert Mercer, who went on to give the world Trump.
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  89. 😂😂😂 How have you managed to be so far out of touch? 😂😂😂
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  90. you are missing sooo much of what's been going on :-(
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  91. Did you watch/read Bloomberg's "The Big Brexit Short"? They're doing it again but this time they're not using Nadhim Zahawi's polling company they're talking directly to the Chancellor. (Robin) Crispin Odey has been 'donating' to Tory & Tory-MP funds for years now & he's getting kick-backs for it, similarly Robert Mercer (owner of Cambridge Analytica) whose psychologically-targetted social media ads are very likely to swing the Election (which way I wouldn't like to predict).
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  92. what isn't what?
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  93. the country does not need Government's despicable behaviours hidden by spin doctors! 😮
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  94. Starmer has already under promised, he's offering #MoreOfTheSame & an intensification of the austerity we've been suffering since 2010
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  95. Don't forget the "10 pledges" to the Labour Party that seem to have evaporated or the 10 pledges to the Board of Deputies that have miraculously survived.
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  96. This definition of Treason seems to apply: "The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery"
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  97. ​ @luke7708 ...and we have the Press to blame for Thatcher, the same Press which gave us "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" & "It's the Sun wot won it" & drummed Michael Foot & Jeremy Corbyn out of office & which still leads the country by the nose demonstrating how essential journalism is to democracy 😢
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  98.  @andrewwalsh2755  you imply national debt has risen steadily for 40 years, it hasn't, it dropped sharply under Blair/Brown in 1997-2002 (29% of GDP) when they decided it had gone too far & brought it back up to 37% where it was going to remain steady but the 2008 Crash hit & took it up to 67% It was heading back down before the 2010 election. Since then it's been going up, fairly steadily till May & then the Covid mess-up took it up to 104% (118% according to the OECD). It's still not something to deal with urgently though, Japan was running theirs at 250% for decades & has gone up to 263% just recently.
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  99.  @jameshall6061  you'll be one of the 'believers' then?
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  100. If we vote for children we get children 😢
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  101.  @bobblue_west  please behave in a civil manner
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  102.  @jackkruese4258  The Monarch does appoint & dismiss Ministers now, it's convention not law which determines that this happens on the 'advice' of the Prime Minister. The last Prime Minister dismissed by the Monarch was Lord Melbourne in 1834, I think that's probably recent enough that the Courts would support the King.
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  103. 3:00 can he choose where he goes or who he sees? Her Majesty didn't entirely seem to have that liberty.
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  104.  @piccalillipit9211  the sale of Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia was definitely "cruel & unusual punishment", she & her husband were intimately involved in her design & build from the keel upwards & the interiors were entirely Philip's design. She travelled over a million miles, often with the family aboard so is part of the family's memories. Leaving her evidently fully seaworthy & parked in Leith has to have been rubbing salt into the wound these 25 years. The Royal Flight similarly was a hobby of the then Prince of Wales in the 1930s with the finest aircraft in the world & was entirely privately owned for the first few decades. Blair swapping this for a tanker with posh chairs must have been shocking.
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  105.  @piccalillipit9211  indeed. I see it as the punishment for the failure of the Republic projected onto the Monarchy when Parliament was forced to restore Charles II to the English throne in 1660 (he had been occupying the Scottish throne since Parliament executed Charles I in 1649). Why Parliament can't own its mistakes I don't know. I feel fairly sure this is part of why our new King has chosen the name Charles III, it emphasizes the history & is a permanent reminder. Parliamentarians will be forced to say the name "King Charles" repeatedly.
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  106.  @piccalillipit9211  Buck House has had leaky pipes & unreliable, inefficient boilers for decades because Parliament have never stumped up the cash for maintenance of their building. (It belongs to the State, not Crown or Monarch).
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  107.  @piccalillipit9211  one of the ornaments fell off the roof a few years ago & nearly killed one of the Princesses, Margaret I think, possibly Anne.
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  108.  @piccalillipit9211  Parliament has been publishing videos on Youtube of the work they've had carried out. It looks like it's small-scale patching but it's skilled craftsmen replacing parts built using original materials & techniques. Some of the videos are fascinating. They've blown it when the bells need re-casting though, the foundry has gone, I think during Johnson's tenure as Mayor of London. As I recall all they needed was a small loan but skinflint BoJo wasn't interested. Centuries of history & skill down the pan & I think it was the only bell foundry big enough on this side of Europe.
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  109. They do look a bit young...
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  110. all the way to the bottom! 😂😂😂
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  111. 39:00 "you can watch this by clicking the link on the screen now" -- ummm... no. There's no link :-/
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  112. Labour is supposedly a democratic party & Corbyn was elected & re-elected repeatedly by the Membership until Central Office sabotaged the 2019 General Election & he stood down. It's all in the Forde Report if you care to look it up & is in a shortened video format in Aljazeera's "The Labour files" if you haven't got time.
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  113. You're of course welcome to your hopes & dreams but in the world of cold hard reality the Green Party are the ones offering fairer taxation.
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  114. So vote Green, they're the ones with plans for real-world improvements & if you do happen to end up with income over £10million you'll pay a whopping one percent more tax! (2% over £100million).
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  115. 9:50 some of that has _already_ been watered down or dropped completely (as expected from all the other things that have been dropped since 2019)
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  116. Well, that implosion is just waiting for a trigger.
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  117. ​ @TheEroticDonkey true but whose propaganda are they repeating? That of the Tory client media.
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  118. The disaffected vote is already drifting to the Farage Party & to the Greens.
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  119. Labour "shift to the left" 😂😂😂 Starmer's thrown the Left out of the party!
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  120. Labour is no better, fortunately we have other parties.
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  121. Journalists direct the voting of most of the electorate so their attitude towards the various parties is relevant.
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  122. which "line"? where are you finding "left & centre journos"?
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  123.  @ArtyFactual_Intelligence  🤣🤣🤣
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  124.  @robertmiur2388  is it good? Do you recommend it?
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  125. Marginally. Probably. Better still under Greens or even LibDems
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  126. True but since almost all GPs have been private & contracting to the NHS since it began in 1948 what difference are you trying to find? Dentists & opticians refused to join the NHS too.
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  127. You're looking at the wrong end, look at the huge American "healthcare" conglomerates paying MPs for slices off the back of the NHS, the same acquisitive corporations that have bought most of the GPs. 😢 Sir Simon Stevens, "saviour of the NHS", was owned by the American megacorp United Health. He now sits in the House of Lords. 😢
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  128. well as it happens...
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  129.  @sciencefliestothemoon2305  Israel has already tapped it.
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  130.  @johntheaccountant5594  no, take a look at the Zionist project, it's about Eretz Israel & by some accounts bringing forward the Second Coming.
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  131.  @DrSpooglemon  that's 34 minutes of your life wasted then. Perhaps you should just leave grown up discussion to the grownups?
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  132. Absolute BS 😂😂😂
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  133. Moving Dividends & Drawings from CGT into Income Tax is probably what you're looking for.
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  134. where are you getting "knowledgeable" from? 😂
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  135. This is a (deliberate?) distraction from his previous ísrael-linked donors
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