Comments by "Mark Welch" (@markwelch3564) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. ​ @Hyper584k  I would say moving away is an excellent way to indicate dissatisfaction with current policy 🙂
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  2. ​@davidcooks2379 you need a womb to give birth? What's happened to "biological reality" and all that?
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  3. The centrists need to accept that they are not popular enough to stand alone, and make changes to build a coalition That will mean getting off the fence and picking a side
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  4. ​ @artificialintel838  has Blackrock ever made anything it touches more productive?
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  5. Has France considered taxing wealth so they don't need to have such high deficits? 🤔
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  6. I know it's rigged, but was curious to know how rigged, and to what degree we can judge the 'true' vote I got some answers from the video, so the vid did it's job 🙂
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  7. ​ @museli_addict people just share with a flatmate rather than get married Same financial burden sharing, without the commitment of marriage
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  8. This is an EU political news channel, so it's going to talk about EU politics 🤷‍♂️
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  9. ​ @SirAlric82 and hospitals were still run ragged, even with lockdown. I dread to imagine what our hospitals would have been like without lockdown...
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  10. The "grown up sensibles" appeasing the far right rather than accept even a small step to the left How did that end for von Hindenburg again?
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  11. Love for the ultra-rich ones, not so much everyone else
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  12. ​ @draveed because I can read
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  13. I have more hope for technocracy in a coalition government. Single-party governments tend to nominate ideologues pretending to be experts, whereas a genuine expert witb a proven record is a credible, neutral option to satisfy multiple parties in coalition
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  14.  @albevanhanoy  naturally - and the NFP is already a coalition, so they've already got experience in negotiating such agreements 🙂
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  15. ​ @seneca983  Americas problem is it doesn't have contrasting parties - it has the corporate party, and the radically corporate party You get to vote for whether corporatations stay powerful, or get radically more powerful 🙁
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  16. Unless you're the USA, China or India, you need other nations as partners. Even those big countries can't snub all diplomacy So if you're Georgia, you're going to have international links if you want to thrive. It's all about picking which ones are the best partners to have
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  17. ​ @karo2090 threaten to burn my street down, and you can go to jail. Don't matter if you were the boots on the ground or a recruiter behind a keyboard Play daft games, win daft prizes
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  18. ​@@Besthinktwicethere's definitely a contradiction in right wing economics right now The right: People should have more children! Also the right: If you can't afford the rent just work three jobs and have no life Because exhausted people are really going to want to add a newborn baby to their responsibilities!
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  19. ​ @maavet2351 if this is minimised civilian casualties, I really don't want to know what it would look like if Isreal stopped trying to minimise casualties...
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  20.  @Ben21756  it's not just the stats. There's plenty of photographic evidence that backs those numbers up. A lot of innocent people are being injured and killed in Gaza right now
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  21. ​@firepalmmy5933 well, anything that benefits rich Americans at least...
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  22. ​@hilmirhrafnhjaltason5032 being the second largest party isn't so special when there's at least four other parties, and none of them want to work with you
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  23. Where are you finding the left wing politics? There isn't much in the mainstream that I can see
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  24.  @pineapplephill7934  I don't think everything should be decided by a big central government, but neither does the EU On the whole, they do a good job on getting the balance right. The issues tackled at EU level are the ones where size is more important than flexibility
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  25. ​ @Faust_1808 you're not going to have a cohesive society if the economy is broken, and people stuggle to cover the basics of life
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  26. Amazon Web Services says it's a tech company!
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  27. Not really, as the national government is also part of the EU council The EU objection is to members who will happily put their hand out for the benefits, but bunk off on the responisibilities. Nobody likes a sponger, after all!
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  28. ​ @wolliebowl shareholder dividends also increase costs and can drive inflation, yet there never seems to be any great political panic about a dividend price spiral Funny that 🤔
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  29. ​@pineapplephill7934 but we share many of the same problems. A cooperative solution will work better than 20 different solutions all pulling in different directions!
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  30. We need investment, not austerity Look at America - they are investing, and everything is picking up. The UK needs to do the same No more austerity!
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  31.  @Ben21756  not just the individual casualties though - the neighbourhoods bombed to dust, the airstrikes on refugee camps - the whole picture as far as we can see from the outside It's unimaginable that you can have destruction on that scale without also having large scale casualties
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  32. So many people are quick to blame immigration, but I wonder if any country will actually be mad enough to deport all their low paid key workers? The result will be interesting, although catastrophic. I feel truly sorry for anyone caught up in the aftermath who didn't vote for it
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  33. ​ @User1billionnd1 and the problem with that style is that when it goes wrong, it goes spectacularly wrong...
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  34. The French ex-PM is right wing, and RN are more right wing than Barnier What labels would you prefer, if we can't call Barnier right, and RN far-right?
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  35.  @Wendeta-hq2cp  The eec was initially set up to coordinate strategically critical resources. It was deeply political!
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  36. @genovayork2468  why not? The analogy is fair - establishment leader who preferred appeasing the far right rather than accept even the tiniest nugget of socialism If history repeats itself, don't say nobody saw it coming
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  37. So far, the technocrats are doing a better job than the populists. The EU mainly concerns itself with economics and trade - attention to detail and statistics is a very good thing in that field
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  38. ​ @ChristopherFodor so when Mogolia was more cosmopolitan it was a world power of it's day, and modern ethnostate Mongolia is largely irrelevant in modern geopolitics? I think that point works quite nicely!
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  39. I am glad there's a UK news org that still cares about Europe. Everyone else either ignores Europe, or has a massive and blatant negative agenda
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  40. ​ @diogorodrigues747 how have executive earnings changed during this period? Because in the UK, there's been a glaring discrepancy between worker pay and executive incomes Wierd how restraint isn't for everyone, eh?
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  41.  @diogorodrigues747  oddly enough, that's exactly what UK execs claim is happening in the UK, while still taking huge dividends year on year!
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  42. How can you start a business if you have no free time, or no money, but probably neither of both?
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  43. Bingo. People need to address the elephant in the room - if we don't have politicial parties talking about the bedrock of the left, working people, do we even have left wing politics?
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  44. ​@juannaym8488 ideology is the tie-breaker you use when evidence is ambiguous. Unfortunately some try to use it as their first option without any evidence at all 🙁
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  45. ​ @SaruyamaPL I don't know your grandparents, but my grandparents on both sides bought a house with the wage from factory work You can't do that now!
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  46.  @Micha-qv5uf  so you prefer your politics done by unaccountable, unelected people?
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  47. @drscopeify  I don't know the French economy as well as I know the UK one, but investment is currently terrible If the rich 'stop investing' - will we even notice? One of the best arguments for a wealth tax is it gives democratically elected representatives more control over investment, because the current model isn't providing effective investment
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  48. I imagine for a lot of people watching, their statement on wages and housing was as obvious and uncontroversial as saying "breathing air is good"
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  49.  @Mallard942  the commission, that also consists of people appointed by national governments?
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  50.  @samuelbucher5189  there's no way that banker is on the left!
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