Comments by "Mark Welch" (@markwelch3564) on "Professor Tim Wilson" channel.

  1. This "Giving priority to people with lots of money" might just be the most honest thing Reform have ever done
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  2. You can tell the Tories are terrified when they send people out to the media that even the Tory membership have barely heard of!
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  3. The Indian trade deal won't happen unless it is hugely in India's favour. The Indian negotiating teams are world renowned for pushing hard, and India is in a strong position to take as long as India wants Don't expect Brexit-saving wins to emerge from that discussion
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  4. I think it might be deliberate - if both GBNews and TalkTV say the same thing, they then try to claim it's "the voice of the people" because "look at those other people saying the same thing"
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  5. If Lawrence Fox thinks he's getting a rough time in UK politics, maybe he should try being Jeremy Corbyn
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  6. I am trying not to be heartless,but Whale voted and campaigned for a Tory government, and now he's getting Tory healthcare Votes are important, and voting has consequences. It's disappointing that he's only concerned now he is the one who is ill
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  7. Let's face it, the sort of conservatism embodied by John Major and Rory Stewart is already dead in the Tory party The current Tories are the end game of the Thatcher project, and that's a wildly different thing from traditional conservatism
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  8. Any figures for when Victoria Derbyshire did holiday cover? It was a much better show when she temporarily hosted!
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  9. If Braverman wants to test the limits of the law, could the Tories got on with testing their electability and call an election please?
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  10. "We only needed one volunteer to arrest Braverman, but when 6 volunteered we didn't want to turn anyone down"
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  11. The Tories have sailed past the threshold of "being a public nuisance" Can they all be arrested now?
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  12. Anne Widdecome certainly speaks with plenty of experience in helping cover up scandals and doing damage control!
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  13. "Please look at people in small boats, please don't look at what we're doing to public services, wages, trade..." The distraction tactic seems to be too blatant to be credible, yet it seems to be working 🙁
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  14. I can't see a way forward that doesn't end with Netanyahu and associates in an international court
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  15. Our tax system is one of the most tangled and complex in the world! We are definitely due a reform to make it less confusing. There's plenty of examples out there if we need to look for a better way to do it
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  16. Here's a possibility to consider - what if the current ministers are the best the party can currently offer, and there is nobody else?
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  17. I am starting to feel sorry for traditionalists. We really need a party for them that champions traditional values without turning it into a fight to the death Quite happy for the neolibs to tear themselves apart and never recover though 🙂
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  18. I voted Green because I didn't like Labour's growing links to big finance and multinational corporations They haven't done anything to prove my fears wrong. Just last week they sat down to talk to Blackrock. Haven't they learned anything from the repeated failures of privatisation of infrastructure?
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  19. I have a lot of concerns about the banking system, but fail to see how giving Farage his fancy posh person account back changes anything for ordinary people?
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  20. We can't relax yet - we have taken the matches away from the arsonists, but we still need to rebuild Meanwhile, the arsonists will be looking to get a new matchbox while people with responsibilities are all busy rebuilding
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  21. Why is it impossible to imagine this was a deliberate government plan? When they already have a reputation for scandals, why not use one more scandal to remove an inconvenient voice who has been pointing out that the government are complicit in war crimes? Their reputation can't actually sink any lower, after all
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  22. I get so many calm and civilised posts about economics and electoral reform deleted I try not to be conspiratorial, but it does feel like the establishment is protecting the status quo...
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  23. Everyone famous would be forgotten if it wasn't for all the things they are famous for...🤔
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  24. I will certainly celebrate if this is the end of Thatcherism, but I suspect Thatcher's greatest creation is ready to step in and preserve that toxic project 🙁
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  25. We can bet that neither the Hamas leadership nor the Israeli government are likely to be caught up in the violence of the conflict. The instigators rarely do, on any side
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  26. ​ @Levenstone132  I am that horse, and also Lee Anderson's son!
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  27. I don't see how we can let privatisation off the hook here - the profit motive actively encourages short-term thinking and kicking the can down the road on expensive investment and maintenance What else are shareholders going to do? Most of them don't live here, and don't have to drink it or swim in it!
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  28. The Tories have three options: - accept defeat gracefully - bury their heads in the sand and pretend it isn't happening - burn the house down on the way out They seem to be wobbling between the second and third options 🙁
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  29. Once safely in opposition, Tory Leader Braverman would be pure, joyous schadenfreude 😁
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  30. ​@Steve C why don't we let them work, then they can pay their own bills?
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  31. Some might say 40 years in the making
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  32. Birbalsingh feels more than a little inconsistent here. I thought she was all about discipline, orderliness and standards? 🤔
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  33. Agreed. I don't think we're missing much, if a candidate that can't even manage the low bar of getting a few signatures in each borough doesn't get to stand What kind of mayor would he be if he can't even organise that!
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  34. Braverman in opposition sounds fantastic! Even Starmer can win a second term against Braverman!
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  35. I'm amazed he found the time for Scotland, now that Dubai is his main focus!
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  36. Cummings has correctly identified the problem with continuity Cameron and Osborne politics I don't trust him to provide the solution though!
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  37. ​ @petestobbs5844 if you had ten arrests at a similar sized football match, they'd consider that a pretty good day It's a really low number, given how emotive the subject is
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  38. @MissFlight-q8f what deeds, indeed? He said he stood with the fishing community, til he gave up He cared about access to banking, but only for a long as it took to get his posh account back Is there any cause he's stuck with until a positive change was made?
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  39. Yep. When the only source on Farage's circumstances is Farage himself, I am going to be rather cynical about the reliability of those "facts"
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  40. The root cause of the concerns is the Mail and the Express creating fear While we're not having a pragmatic conversation about the whole picture, people will keep being more worried than they need to be, or worried about the wrong priorities
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  41. and many of our "journalists" would call it genius, just like last time...
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  42. Let's face it - even if there is a genuine societal problem here, Farage is not the right person to champion it Just ask any fishing town what happens when Nigel campaigns for your cause
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  43. ​@ghengis430 Rory Stewart's biggest failing is he trusts people from posh elite private schools far too much If someome with an economics degree from Oxford says "We need to cut benefits or the economy fails", Rory justs naively nods along with it 🙁
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  44. Because that would be sensible, and because it doesn't let them use pictures of small boats as a distraction from their economic incompetence and general corruption
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  45. ​@MissFlight-q8f by watching his actions, and believing his deeds more than his words
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  46.  @xMrjamjam  we have a kind of assessment every 4-5 years So far, we haven't been very effective at filtering out problem cases
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  47. If the courts grabbed a record of their facebook page (before they deleted their page) then it won't take the court very long to decide
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  48.  @qetoun  Not sure if serious?
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  49. Was there ever a common culture, or is that just a myth? As a northerner, I don't feel much common ground with someone who went to Eton, and suspect I never will. I live in London now, and Sadiq Khan is a lot more relatable to me than Susan Hall ever will be!
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  50. We're like America, there's a conservative right wing party and a radical right wing party And naturally for a country where public achools are the expensive, exclusive ones, the large C Conservative party isn't the small-c conservative one...
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