Comments by "EdMcF1" (@EdMcF1) on "The New Culture Forum" channel.

  1. No one ever mistook Mr Hitchens for a ray of sunshine.
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  2. Domicile is not residence, he has no address in the UK, but he could be domiciled in England if it is his 'permanent' home. Like them, I don't have armed police to protect me, so I will never go to Britain again, oh, I live here.
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  3. 6' 37" Genius: That is Titania's version of Bob Monkhouse's gag 'They laughed when I said I'd be a comedian, they're not laughing now!'.
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  4.  @mikegray8776  25 years ago? More like 1975 on a good day.
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  5. Duke of Gloucester was a Counsellor of State in his youth, he can step up.
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  6. So the plan going forward is? Tell the EU it's our terms or 1. All EU nationals have to leave and the EU cannot export its unemployment to us anymore. 2. Free trade with no tariffs. 3. Any absurd restrictions on travel and our airspace is closed to over-flights. 4. Pay 2% of GDP to defence or we leave NATO.
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  7. The answer is Presidente MIlei. He has just abolished the Argentine tax authority and replaced it with a body with fewer powers and sacked a large number of bureaucrats into the bargain.
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  8. What a fantastically impressive guest. I hope we see and here more of him, both here and generally.
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  9. Per Mrs Thatcher on Neil Kinnock: If Robert Jenrick is the answer, what on Earth was the question?
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  10. Calvin Robertson for Vice-Gerent in Spirituals, overseeing the Archbishop of Canterbury, like Thomas Cromwell before him.
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  11. She still believes the lies and nonsense, but thinks she's got a work-around.
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  12. Australia and Taiwan have similar population sizes, if they swapped territories then the Taiwanese would be safer and the Australians could save time with the gradualism and for full-on Commie.
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  13. It wasn't independence in Barbados, it has been independent since 1966, it became a Republic. The Queen of Barbados was a different legal person to the Queen of the United Kingdom in international law. The Queen of the UK is not the same as the Queen of Canada, no one says Canada is not independent. Barbados simply changed the legal fiction of having a Head of State who was personified by Elizabeth I of Barbados, with the Governor-General happening to succeed her as Head of State.
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  14. Not that 'reactive' if you are burgled, perhaps 'inactive'?
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  15. Giving long enough for Labour to reverse it and keep the licence fee.
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  16.  @jaywalker1233  Absolutely, a settled intention to live somewhere and abandon your previous domicile creates a change of domicile.
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  17. Clive Ponting was a senior MoD Civil Servant at the time of the Falklands War, he was strongly committed to his views, he was the norm back in the early 1980s, not the exception. This goes back a lot longer and deeper than the speaker says.
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  18. If the Head of Border Force does not want borders, then there should be no Border Force, I don't think their trade union will be happy about that.
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  19. This 'app' sounds like The Daily Telegraph's Peter Simple's Prejometer, point it at someone and it would tell you what their thought crimes were. Complete satire at the time.
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  20. Ah, an instruction manual...
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  21. She's breathing it out....
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  22.  @fionagregory9147  You believe him?
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  23. I understood he had offered to pay for protection, to be fair, he is still 'royal', and there is a whole part of the Met set up for royal protection. We need the dollars to help with the national debt.
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  24. He could become the Duke of Rotherham, then no one would be bothered about what he got up to.
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  25. Well this has gone into the contemporaneous historical documentary category quicker than most imagined possible.
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  26. Stop all police pensions as well. Let them report the 'theft' of their pensions and get a crime number...
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  27. I didn't realise Prince Harry had a sensible side.
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  28. Britain was hardly bound to win after the Somme, Germany's Operation Michael in 1918 very nearly succeeded. And if the British Army had not lost 20,000 in a day with 40,000 wounded on the first day, and done something different, the war might have ended sooner.
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  29. The Soviet Union had 'Internal Troops' a military force used for everything from anti-partisan to anti-riot activities and prison and camp guarding. A General was once reported asked why they recruited from certain populations in the USSR, and his reply was recorded as 'Because they are known for their obedience, stupidity and cruelty. They do everything they are asked without thinking, and are especially mean towards Russians'. Just swap 'the English' for 'Russians' and you have a recruitment policy.
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  30. There are custody time limits in England and Wales that might well lead to bail being granted later on.
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  31. Jersey still has phone diectories in their phone boxes.
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  32. And those are the positives.
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  33. Presidente Bukele could solve the gang problem in a fortnight.
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  34. Calvin for Vice-Gerent in Spirituals.
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  35. I thought it was only in South Africa 1948 - 1994 that they discussed people's skin colour as if it mattered.
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  36. The Ukraine was a member of the United Nations before Russia was. It was a founder member, Russia only inherited the Soviet Union's membership of the UN. No one gives any cogent reason as to why Russia has some right to invade another UN member state, or any reason why the general rules of international law do not or should not apply to Russia. Russia's invasion is aggression and that is all that there is to it.
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  37. They met by most accounts in July 2016, the month after the Independence Vote in June 2016.
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  38. No, let's compromise. Pay all the reparations but offset them against royalties for the Industrial Revolution, at 150% and send them all an invoice for the balance.
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  39. Marx said something like 'That the abolition of the individual economy is inseparable from the abolition of the individual economy, is self-evident.'.
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  40. Put 1% sewage in milk, and it ain't milk no more.
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  41. Rothbard said that the answer to Commies in government jobs is to get rid of the government jobs, not to get rid of people because they are Commies. Anyone who thinks Mr Cummings had any answers might consider what happened since March 2020.
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  42. Mr Trump was and remained hopelessly naïve as the President. He lacked the will and means to eliminate or even temper the inertia in the bureaucracy that was hostile to him. He needs to look at what Erdogan did after his coup (not to copy that) but to see what determine to hold and wield power looks like. Someone like Ted Cruz as A-G might have helped.
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  43. What about 'betterment', the extent to which those living there now have a 'better' standard of living than they would have had if they had been born in Africa and their ancestors had not been sold into slavery?
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  44. I misheard that as 'converting human lard into fizzy drinks' which I thought was a seriously strong allegation.
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  45. The reason why this plague isn't as deadly as feared is that no one knew that latent CJD and BSE (mad cow disease) protects against it AND the virus cures those conditions, so it actually saves lives and explains why the predictions of the 1980s turned out wrong, lucky aren't we?
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  46. Peter is like Brian in The Life of Brian except the people hate him. "You're all individuals!". "Yes, we're all individuals.". "How shall we eff off?".
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  47. No, the BBC will carry on as before, emboldened. Nothing will change. The political class do not listen to the public, only each other.
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  48. The answer is simple: the British state is funded by a legacy of colonialism, so all state funding for these institutions must cease.
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  49.  @jumblestiltskin1365  The law could be changed in a day.
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  50. I think that the panel would have benefited from reading the judgment that they are discussing, and to understand the distinction between the claim and the counter-claim, in the counter-claim a defence was available that was not possible in the main claim for defamation.
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