Comments by "Alan hat" (@alanhat5252) on "Richard J Murphy" channel.

  1. PPE from Oxbridge would be the certification. Senior mainstream journalists follow the same route into politics.
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  2. ​ @william_marshal because it's a fictional black hole as explained clearly in the video. A Government run by Corbyn, Milliband, Brown, Harman, Beckett, Smith, Kinnock, Foot, Callaghan or any of their predecessors would have taken one or more of the suggestions in the video & just dealt with it. Without Austerity (& the resulting AusterityDeaths). The Green's or LibDems too wouldn't be pratting about like Stoma/Reeves, they have a country to run, it would be best if they just ran it.
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  3. No, it's deliberate lies. If I stated as definite fact that your shoe size is 11 I would be lying because I don't know. Ministers compound the lie because the have the House of Commons Library, Civil Servants, the Treasury, the Bank of England & an array of other experts they can ask!
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  4. The English Civil Wars were a battle for supremacy over the whole of England, a battle between 3 factions, the Crown, Parliament & the People. The People lost quite rapidly but the rest of the battle took most of the century with cities changing sides rapidly as one faction or the other approached.
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  5. We do maintain a disrespect for authority, probably most clearly seen in people doing 80mph on the motorway but extending throughout all spheres.
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  6.  @keithparker1346  that's definitely an aspect, we also have an engineered disinterest, engineered mostly by the Press most of us choose to read or watch. There will be other aspects too but I'm not enough of a philosopher to work it out. It's probably worth having a look at what Marx had to say about it, he was the analyst of cultures.
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  7. ​ @twanderson7756 I take it you haven't seen/read Bloomberg's "the Big Brexit Short"? 😂
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  8. Because these statistics are designed for Government use they're politically expedient figures so you really have to know what you're doing to get useful information from them. For instance "Relative Poverty" is 60% of the median income (£32,300 in 2021/22, the most recent ONS figure, so £19,380) & "Absolute Poverty" is the same figure but based on the 2010/11 median (£29,400 so £17,640) adjusted for inflation (near-zero for most of that time), neither figure closely resemble poverty experienced by an individual trying to survive. "Median" is either the central figure between the highest & lowest or the central of a collection of figures (they seem to be using the latter definition) but the highest figures have been going up consistently since 2010 & we have set a new record for number of both millionaires & billionaires in most of those years while the numbers at the bottom are also increasing at an alarming pace & this is why the median is going up, not because Average Joe is getting more. To find Average Joe in the statistics we need "mode" (most common number) not "median" (central number) & this figure doesn't seem to be published. Government statistics are extremely devious & need to be interpreted by experts 😢
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  9. ​ @fburton8 I'm not an expert, I refer you to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Oxfam, Save The Children & similar expert groups & possibly superceding these the 2017 report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, Prof Philip Alston, in which he found 20% of the population in poverty & predicted 40% child poverty by 2021. I understand the figures are now even worse.
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  10. ​ @fburton8 "abject poverty", "destitution" & "Charles Dickens" were mentioned in Alston's report along with references to the 1945 Social Consensus.
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  11. ​ @stevo728822 only because of Planning Permission.
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  12. turned?
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  13. even the potholes which ruin your goods & increase transport costs
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  14. ​​​​ @adenwellsmith6908 "where?" "Whole of Government Accounts" – type it into your search bar! If you want it analysed start with "Reports, special reports and government responses Public Accounts Committee" & then go on to "The Institute for Fiscal Studies" or, of course, watch this channel (and actually watch the videos, don't just pause & dive headlong into the comments). 😮
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  15. ​ @william_marshal no, watch the video, the "Black Hole" is a fiction of Labour's creation. Yes, the Torys made a mess but a competent Government would clear it up immediately.
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  16. ​ @inguzwulf Reet-Smug is an excellent example of 2nd generation nouveau riche, his father made the money though JRM has expanded it through his hedgefund & other shady dealings.
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  17.  @stephenjenkins1323  there used to be hundreds of philanthropic businesses that respected their staff & communities (Cadbury's, Rowntrees, Lever Bros, Bata etc) but a combination of regulations & buyouts has made them all go away 😢
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  18.  @OneAndOnlyMe  which?
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  19. "Back"?!? He hasn't stopped! If you don't agree with him that's when you need to listen very closely & think very hard about why you disagree.
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  20. We've already seen John McDonnell lay out clearly how a real Labour party would re-nationalize national assets, he even wrote it down in a booklet. The Green Party also has a clear path to the same end. Mr Starmer should go back to his paymasters & seek a more suitable role.
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  21. Tell that the the UN Special Rapporteur on Poverty who has been here several times & issued damning reports, tell it to the people the Rapporteur reported on!
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  22. why?
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  23. ​ @1292liam he's happy being CEO of the International Rescue Committee (& doing a reasonable job of it).
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  24. That's what we're told. Reality is often different to what we're told.
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  25. perhaps we could
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  26. Fair enough. Why?
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  27. @user-lx6pk9os2d Trump is the result of an engineered cult (which cost Robert Mercer $millions), ​ @RichardJMurphy doesn't give sufficient credence to cults so missed it.
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  28. All the time a majority of people point-blank refuse to give their vote due consideration this is going to continue 😢
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  29. 11 million didn't enter illegally, look stuff up before you make yourself look f00lish again!
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  30. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  31. no
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  32. If you give the title & channel name as well as some comment about why you posted that you might get a few people to click on your link.
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  33. "ooglete"?
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  34. oubliette?
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  35. Can we afford NO State Welfare?
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  36. "difficult decisions" usually means a lot of people are going to die 😢
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  37. ​ @burner9147 exactly! 😢
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  38. ​ @andylucas1175 the Crown Jewels are not a State asset. Very little that relates to the Monarchy or the Crowns is a State asset, Buckingham Palace is the only thing I can think of immediately. Mind you, that didn't stop Blair selling off the Royal Flight (private property of Edward) or the Royal Yacht (private property of Elizabeth & Phillip).
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  39. Actually there is a people-centred party left to us & 1,841,888 people voted for it.
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  40. Did Ofgem create the regulations or did Government?
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  41. ​ @WarrenPeaceOG why? They're a huge source of revenue which we would sorely miss.
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  42. Since you have clearly read the IPCC reports perhaps you could detail some of the salient points, obviously with report & page(s) properly cited?
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  43. ​ @keithshippey230 Banks Jenkinson is long dead, that all changed with Thatcher. 😢
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  44. That's one of the more famous examples of "cut red tape" & under threat now are the regulations put in by Gordon Brown's government to prevent it happening again. 😢
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  45. 6:38 yes we have! We have the Green Party & they quadrupled their number of Seats at the last election because of it! Ok, as you say earlier, they're not shouting loud enough to get past the mainstream Media blackout but partly that's because they're not taking "donations" from big business or right-wing countries. 😮
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  46. Am I seeing a suggestion Starmer should be the Guy?
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  47. ​ @tancreddehauteville764 there's quite a mess around what's rated & what isn't, for instance sanitary towels are charged but crocodile meat isn't. It's needed tidying up for decades.
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  48. Centrist parties stand for election every time, if you choose to accept the mainstream/Establishment narrative that they don't exist that's down to you.
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  49. ​ @CurtOntheRadio I understand Neoliberalism to mean sell everything & hand control to "The Market" but politicians are power mad so they can't even get that right!
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  50. is there a problem with the phrasing?
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