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

  1. @Geffo555  I am not a fan of the PFI model, where the public takes the risk while the private sector takes the profit If it's a genuine partnership with fair sharing of risks and rewards, then that's sound 🙂
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  2. So apologise! Acknowledging that it happened lessens our links to historic injustice Being in denial heightens our guilt
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  3. There's one good reason to go to the polls when you're 20 points behind By winter 2024, they may well be 30 or 40 points behind...
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  4.  @lamestreammedia3154  pick one. Either racism and battery acid are acceptable humour, or neither is This is why I am asking for consistency, because I hear a lot of free speech champions turn into utter snowflakes when the tables turn Personally, I think you should play the ball not the player, so both are bad, as they distract from the important matters rather than illuminate them. I can respect unPC humour, if it makes a constructive point rather than trying to score shock value points
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  5. Unless Sunak himself goes, is there anyone notable enough still standing?
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  6. I am getting bored of the obsession over where facts leaked from! If nobody is disputing the fact itself, the source is pure distraction. A corrupt, malicious member of government needs to go, regardless of who blew the whistle
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  7. If the core of the problem is the perceptions around migration, rather than the actual migrants, then a rebranding absolutely solves the problem
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  8. Osborne is being consistent in policy, so why shouldn't he back Reeves when she is closer to his policies than his nominal collegues are? Policies should be more important than team colours
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  9. Isreal needs to take another look at recent events. The call for Palestinian independence didn't gain it's current profile directly from Oct 7th - the public awareness came from the Isreali overreaction to that day Isreal made Palestine a high profile issue. They don't get to bomb a city and now pretend they didn't!
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  10. ​ @curiositycloset2359 Labour can be quite bad, but they are not as bad. There's definitely a difference!
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  11. The problem for the Tories is that while they would love to be London Mayor, they also want to keep being Tories in a city that doesn't like Tories They can't win without changing, but if the London candidate changes enough to win, they will alienate themselves from the national party Sucks to be them 😋
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  12. Can you not flip that around? First they told me I had to breathe their smoke...
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  13. Far from a beginning - the cracks have been there for years, maybe decades What's changed is they've got too big to be wallpapered over, and even casual followers of politics are starting to see them now!
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  14. I have friends who have been in similar positions - UK beurocracy is infamously complex and slow, and a shocking embarrassment in a supposedly modern country Bet chums of the government don't have the same issue though!
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  15. What is the "trans agenda"?
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  16. I've not seen any evidence of two-tier policing. It's just different consequences for different actions, and some people have the delusion that they are exempt from consequences
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  17.  @DoggleBird  how about picking your strongest case that shows it was who they are that decided consequences, not just what they did?
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  18. I'll believe that once they nationalise the electricity grid
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  19. She isn't left. She just about meets the bar for "liberal centrist" on a progressive day
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  20. We couldn't save the Astoria from being demolished - looks like the "price of everything, value of nothing" mentality is creeping up on the exclusive joints, too I was tempted to indulge in shadenfreude, but honestly this slow death of culture is just shite all round 🙁
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  21. Woohoo! The by election is back on 😁 I was all sad that we wouldn't get to see that by election happen, but Nadine (for the first and last time ever) has come to the rescue!
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  22. ​ @PeterMurrayComedyCam there should be, and if there isn't, we circle back to the cause of the strikes - why are we struggling to recruit and retain NHS staff?
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  23. I am starting to fear that he's not hiding anything, and he genuinely has no depth. Shallow slogans and ever pivoting pledges is the full substance of Starmerism
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  24. Not sure I approve of the principle "it's OK to do horrible things as long as you use moderate language when doing so"...
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  25. Ah, the jug of water was on the far left of the room I take back my doubts! Marxism confirmed 😝
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  26. ​@Spartacus Forlife I miss the EU, because the deals big nations (or groups of nations) make are always better than the deals small nations get Size matters, and we might be a wonderful Island at our best, but we're never going to be a large one
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  27. ​ @robertsmith9810  sadly, I lack easy access to billions of pounds of other peoples money...
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  28.  @robertsmith9810  to be fair, I wouldn't prioritise making returns. Just being stable would be a respectable achievement against modern precedent!
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  29. The newspapers have to be our fault, really If nobody trusts them but we keep giving them money, that's on us
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  30. He'd probably get a seat in the Lords for that
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  31. With "online safety", I always ask the question "would you let a thirteen year old go to a nightclub?" - even if they promised to only buy soft drinks, you probably wouldn't be comfortable with this. It's an adult environment where a lot happens that isn't suitable for them to be around You should apply the same mindset to "can I post on the internet/social media"
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  32. I will be ecstatic if the LibDems gain enough and the Tories lose enough for the LibDems to be official opposition
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  33. ​ @lynnlovattjones4171 Blatant, yes. Open? Not so much We need to know who is making the big donations. The same should apply to donations to political lobby groups
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  34. @M R  thanks for the info.Still, there's never a wrong time to point out that Braverman is a terrible person, no matter who provides the cue!
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  35. @frankreynolds4547  he probably would be. While calling him a slimy weasel is an insult to weasels, and slime, he does have a record of actually achieving things he sets out to do!
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  36. Coalitions beating lone parties is entirely fair though - if you're large, but not large enough to command a majority, then the coalition has a mandate that the large minority does not
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  37. BBC 'neutrality' will give a delusional fever dream the same respect and credibility as an expert opinion of proven pedigree. It's a really weird thing
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  38. So much this. We should definitely treat people with respect if they are honest and sincere in their disagreement Actively toxic and manipulative people should be shunned until they reform their ways
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  39. A lot of the cost of Brexit is having to have our own inspectors and regulators, who mostly confirm that what we decided in the EU still makes a lot of sense Leave means inspecting twice, at our expense!
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  40. ​@DropdudeJohn but what are the Brexit opportunities, and when will anyone see them? Is there anyone alive today who can expect to see one in their lifetime?
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  41.  @MegaKapo12  I don't think you have 50 years. Can you convince people starting their careers now to wait most of their working life before they will see the payoff from Brexit? Because if you can't, Brexit is doomed. The only question is how long will it take to sink
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  42. We should definitely rejoin, but we should do something about that feudal state, too!
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  43. How about in empty houses? Geniuses they are, the Tories have created a country simultaneously full of empty houses and homeless people Also we use as much land for golf as housing. So many options to fix this!
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  44. @dogglebird4430 but the closest they'll say to how they'd be different is "be more like Liz Truss" because that ended well...
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  45. @dogglebird4430  you just get shell companies with one or two employees, it doesn't create jobs The countries that get productive investment, the sort that creates jobs, are countries with good infrastructure and well qualified citizens. Companies pay corporation tax if they see that it's spent on making the country productive
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  46. but if referendums are forever and you don't get to change your mind, the original referedum says we should be in Europe
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  47. I wish Labour took more of their money from unions, and less from business It's common sense that Labour funding should come from the people who work
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  48. Why don't the people who broke everything try being poor instead?
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  49. Given that Trump is president elect, it's clear that populism isn't just noise It's a warning that the status quo is failing people, and those people are desperate for any change, even a high risk one
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  50. Suella: "I am not an authoritarian fascist, and I'll ban any journalists who might say so!" 🤔
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