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

  1. Ford won't pay your bill, but Shell loves taking your money
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  2. Stewart wanted to put time and money into making things better, which was an unacceptable distraction from hogging the gravy train 🙁
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  3. Why can't both be true?
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  4. ​ @nuttall47 Starmer says what his donors want to hear
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  5. You can spend and invest your wsy out of recession though - this has a vastly better track record than austerity!
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  6. We Deserve Better isn't targeting every seat, it's focusing effort on a very small number of seats It's very FPTP-aware
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  7. ​ @eliakimjosephsophia4542 Daily Mail readers are going to be a bit surprised when the real results come in!
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  8.  @Jamie-uk2zh  yet the UK and France are both wealthy countries So where is the money?
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  9.  @markwilkie3677  yes
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  10. Based on the manifestos so far, it does look like Labour and the LibDems are fighting to be the successor in the centre right, which would give the Green party an opportunity to expand into the void on the left
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  11. ​@DropdudeJohn how does privatising put more money in? Whether we pay insurance or tax, we pay it. There's no pile of free money waiting to be unlocked So changing how we pay is just a distraction from the real issue. We just need to put more money in
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  12. @Tony Dick  by mostly trading with countries near them, and trying to reduce trade barriers with said countries Right now, we are trying to trade with countries on the other side of the world, while increasing local barriers I suspect Japan's government will be proven to be better at international trade than our government
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  13. What, because 20% of people vote for the isolationists? Doesn't sound like a majority to me!
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  14. ​ @qetoun  the wealth is still sloshing around though...
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  15. The campaign Owen Jones is backing is only targeting a handful of seats. Do you really think that will prevent a Labour majority?
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  16. I find that's the sort of bluster only tried by someone who doesn't actually expect to end up poor
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  17. ​ @sandrafrancis3631 but we don't want everyone to switch from Labour - only people who live in the North East (who can vote for Jamie Driscoll as mayor), or Bristol (where Carla Denyer can win for the Greens with a little extra campaign support) This isn't about a protest vote everywhere - it's about focusing attention where it has a realistic chance to have an impact
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  18.  @sandrafrancis3631  he didn't, and that's a terrible oversight on his part If you check out the campaign itself though (We Deserve Better) that's very much the plan - focus efforts where they genuinely have a chance to make an impact on UK politics
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  19. Right now, the Tories aren't providing comfort, or safety, for anyone Moot question really
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  20. Neutral vs objective is easier to explain. Neutral is sitting in the studio with one person who says it is raining, and one saying it's sunny, and giving them both chance to speak Objective is going outside and describing what weather you see A trivial example, but hopefully helpful for understanding the difference in more complex issues!
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  21. @saufathau6827  some people would say there's no difference, and it is subtle. However, you can be objective but biased If you stick to provable facts, but curate only facts that favour one side, you're maintaining objectivity, but demonstrating bias This is human nature, everyone is at least a little bit biased, so it's good to look at a few different objective sources so you get different framings of a story
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  22. I don't like this "both sides needs to compromise" rhetoric when only one side has done any compromising for over a decade...
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  23. @dogglebird4430 so what's the competent way to give massive tax breaks to your already rich mates? Asking for a friend
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  24. @dogglebird4430 you think that's the only thing they're cutting? Something else I don't get about this plan. There's plenty of wealth out there already, so the money's there to invest Why aren't they investing?
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  25. @dogglebird4430 clearly something's going wrong, as they're not investing. We should tax them more so we can invest it instead
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  26. ​ @lamestreammedia3154 what sort of campaign could you direct at H - our government and institutions don't fund H
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  27.  @lamestreammedia3154  the organisation beginning with H that sometimes makes YouTube comments disappear
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  28. ​ @CawKee  without staff, a hospital's just a warehouse for medical gear 🙁
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  29. ​ @seang2700  If we look at current EU members, the isolationist bloc will never go away, but it seems to settle at around 15%-20% I believe the spike in isolationism was an anomaly that won't be repeated for a very very long time, and we'll soon be like normal countries, where they are a noisy minority
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  30.  @seang2700  There are many lessons we can learn from Brexit, but the one relevant here is that failure fuels opposition. In a mythical alternate future where Brexit worked well, Rejoin would be a few fringe obsessives in the corner of a pub or coffee shop This is what Rejoin needs to deliver - provable benefits for everyone, so even most Brexit voters agree they're feeling benefits, while grumbling that it isn't how they would have done it It won't be over, but we can avoid the toxicity and hard polarisation if everyone gains something
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  31. Varoufakis will be biased, but I expect he's also wise enough to acknowledge that Greece had dug a spectacularly deep pit for itself I worry we are digging the same sort of pit here in the UK. If you think Greece had it bad, wait til you see how much mercy failed economies outside of large powerful trading blocks get...
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  32. ​ @qetoun if someone demands a unicorn, you can try taping a parsnip to a donkey, but you'll never be able to give them what they asked for...
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  33.  @qetoun  I am! You say "civil servants refusing to obey" I say "civil servants unable to deliver the impossible demands of entitled crazy people"
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  34. ​@joffey1212 this isn't the 19th century. "Having a car" is hardly remarkable or special...
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  35.  @ancietman  I bet a 20% pay rise would make filling vacancies significantly easier
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  36. Does smell a lot like two people liquidating all their assets so they can hide everything overseas...
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  37.  @Mogwai786  assuming all of Isreal aligns with Netanyahu, and that Hamas represents all Palestinians is a very naive oversimplification
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  38.  @Mogwai786  so what's your proposal to resolve this?
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  39.  @Mogwai786  Netanyahu says no to your plan. Next move?
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  40.  @Mogwai786  so action needs to be taken. What action?
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  41. Yep. This is the litmus test of whether Farage really cares about the principle, or just his selfish desire for a posh bank account!
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  42. Very true. Now, whatever rebuilding we want to do has to be done without most of the tools we'd want, as we sold them all off 🙁
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  43. ​​ @stevec700  advisory has a legal definition, and has much looser regulation of the campaign You can argue that advice still represents the will of the people, but legally it absolutely, definitively was not binding
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  44.  @koalaeinstein-y7r  I guess they weigh that against the reduced risk of theft and robbery. It will make sense for more and more businesses as more and more people normally use cards over cash
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  45.  @lucyjordan3188  but why does it have to be my house? Why not renovate abandoned and neglected houses, or build new ones? We need people working in this country, so why are we forcing so many people to stay out of work?
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  46. So you don't like the "expense" of letting them apply and eventually work for their own living, but are totally happy spending 10 million per person to send them to Rwanda?
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  47. ​ @santorini8423 I am sure there's a minority of a minority, but it's not the widespread universal conspiracy people like Anderson claim. That is utter nonsense
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  48. ​ @tony_w839  or speak better English than French
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  49. We have as much land used for golf as housing I see a solution to find space for more houses for ordinary working people!
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  50. There could be some big shocks. I have family in a ridiculously Tory well to do rural area, and there's lifelong Conservative members tearing up their membership The obsession with culture wars is off-putting, but the Liz Truss Special Financial Event absolutely shattered their opinion of the Tories I expect the Lib Dems to do well in such areas
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