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

  1. ​ @perer005 if even people who claim to support them can't be bothered to vote for them, that sounds a lot like "being unpopular" to me!
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  2. Sure, there are global problems - but who has to bear the consequences doesn't feel right to most people. That's the political dispute here
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  3. How did Brexit mitigate any of these problems? It just added new problems
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  4. ​ @cheyh-r8d  reduce welfare? Do you mean "starve all the old people"?
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  5. ​ @nils191  people need to be a lot clearer about whether they mean economically liberal, socially liberal, or both!
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  6.  @nils191  words change, and in English, liberal is probably more likely to be assumed to mean socially liberal than economically liberal You can dislike the way the tide has turned, but you'll struggle to turn it back. I'd rather we avoid confusion, as that's easier to do than turn back decades of linguistic drift!
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  7.  @samuelboucher1454  I'll simply call them arsonists and looters
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  8. @samuelboucher1454  recruitment and coordination are actions. Are you calling for the Just Stop Oil leadership ro be released, too?
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  9. @samuelboucher1454  I genuinely respect your consistency, even if I disagree with your principles! I don't like ringleaders being able to hide behind their followers and get away with claiming they did nothing, while organising everything. I deeply dislike leaders who throw their crew under the bus, and if they won't stand with their people, the law shouldn't let them shirk their involvement
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  10. @MGuðmundur I look at history, and every time a leader comes to power on a promise of "tradition", it's always the traditions that give the leader a fancy house and all the comforts that take priority Everyone else is secondary at best. Often ordinary people just get thrown under the bus once "great" leader has secured their position No improvement for ordinary people has been gifted from above. It's always demanded from the ground up
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  11. If you mean "criminal", they can already be deported If you mean "the wrong colour", you know where you can shove that ideology!
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  12.  @diogorodrigues747  what's wages got to do with wealth? You don't get rich on a wage, even a good one!
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  13.  @Game_Hero  but everyone who stays will be getting what they voted for, so they'll be happy, yeah? The people who leave are happy, the people who stay are happy. Everybody wins!
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  14. @Game_Hero  true, but the people who want those things are all leaving, so the people staying will be getting what they want. They should be super happy!
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  15. The "party of freedom", but their main policies are all "banning things" 🤔
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  16. ​ @michakrynicki7299 and how's that national sovereignty looking if you take all your orders from Washington?
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  17. ​ @chunkykong1976 you do realise they could make paper money worthless overnight if they were daft enough to do so? Digital currencies don't give central banks any power they don't already have over paper fiat money
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  18. ​ @mrsupremegascon using state money to subsidise low wages isn't socialism - it's billionaires squeezing the middle class to try and bribe the lowest paid just enough to prevent riots
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  19. ​@Helsby yeah, silly EU with their over-elaborate formal politeness and processes and structures. Very quaint and faintly ridiculous... until the trade war starts
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  20. Journalists might struggle less with defining party positioning if they understood the difference between "social liberals" and "left wing econonmics" They lump all of this together as "the left", and that is just meaningless and confusing
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  21.  @revilokid  checks and balances are important, but that applies for technocrats, populists and anything in between!
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  22. @inbb510  that kind of identity politics is socially liberal right, it's not leftist at all!
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  23. ​@Wendeta-hq2cp so who decides the terms of this economic union, if you don't want an elected parliament?
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  24. @veemo8605  wonder if a large and influential member like France wanting such a thing could get it across the line?
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  25. ​ @sliftyy le Pen is entirety capable of throwing the French economy in the dumpster, too
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  26. Von Hindenburg: Electric Boogaloo
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  27.  @Mallard942  it is true there are checks and balances After the Trussonomics incident, I am wishing we had more of those in the UK!
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  28.  @genovayork2468  Macron cares more about his share dividends than the French people, and is going to do a Hindenburg to protect his bank balance I really hope I'm wrong
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  29.  @Wendeta-hq2cp  sometimes no amount of tailoring can beat sheer size. Working together is poweful
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  30.  @Wendeta-hq2cp  which prerequisites to loans? I'm afraid I'm not sure what you're referring to
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  31. As Japan showed, low birthrates and low immigration are a bad combination. As people grow old you have a lot of pensioners needing support, and nobody to do the supporting Immigration is an emotive topic, but people taking a hard line against it need to explain the plan to support people as they get old, when there's fewer young people to do all the work
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  32.  @Wolf-Spirit_Alpha-Sigma  other countries have their boom generation right now. If we split currently young boom generations, to support aging boomer generations, everyone can win It all depends on where people move from and to
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  33.  @Wolf-Spirit_Alpha-Sigma  it would be unfair to take everyone, but if there's a balance where they can develop, but won't become a nation of old people in 40 years? That's a win for everyone!
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  34.  @rushyscoper1651  the core truth is that there is no perfect system, and no flawless leader - in democracy, we all need to do a little bit to keep an eye on what's going on!
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  35. Even shorter summary than a short 9 minute video? Don't screw with the EU in a trade war
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  36. 🤞
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  37. ​@user-xz4du3es5p you can have immigration, so there's someone to take your place when you retire, or you can work longer Can't have both!
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  38.  @shap7866  but the UK has many poor areas, and an increasing case of brain drain. We appear to be a damp, cloudy member of the European south
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  39.  @shap7866  yet "make them worse" is exactly what Brexit did!
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  40. @@Dnpe-gs3ib but if you want to stop brain drain, you need jobs. Business is moving to the EU because that's where the customers are, and skilled people are following The drain of companies and workers means whoever is still here needs to pay more tax, to make up for the smaller economic base Where's the wins to counterbalance this?
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  41. @@Dnpe-gs3ib to be fair, they aren't all moving. Some just close instead. The added barriers to export are definitely part of the reason people are losing jobs in Port Talbot, for example
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  42. ​ @TheValdevor you can get a mortgage on a mediocre home? You're doing better than the UK, where nobody can afford the deposit, so we're stuck renting the mediocre home instead 🙁
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  43. Aid to Ukraine is largely military, and there isn't an EU military. Are you saying the EU should have it's own military, that could provide aid to Ukraine?
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  44.  @oditeomnes  it's not "investment" that's harming argiculture, it's terrible trade deals undercutting the domestic market, and export red tape cutting off the export market
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