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

  1. ​ @maryjones4029 there's no point giving Braverman a nuanced, complex answer as she has repeatedly shown she's incapable of engaging at that level Short, simple sentences are the only level she can manage, so you have to engage at that level
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  2. You can tackle the balance of graduates to jobs at both ends Other countries also invested and incentivised industries that hire graduates, so there are high-skilled jobs for large numbers of graduates to do. That seems wise to me! I also support more vocational training for people who don't suit university and post-uni career paths
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  3. I suspect he was ready to make either work, as long as he got a soundbite from someone
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  4. ...or the rich will just continue subverting the Labour party and let the Tories rot
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  5. Well, his former partner in crime Lord Frost is now busy telling everyone what a terrible deal Lord Frost negotiated Why can't Johnson go around campaigning to fix Johnson's mess?
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  6. You don't put an arsonist in charge of the fire service!
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  7. ​ @qetoun you are putting absolute faith in international law protecting the UK, while assuming the UK can be cavalier with international law Both can't be true!
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  8.  @taffyman6089  oh, definitely. The "obviously Jewish" line was a mistake, but an understandable one when under pressure Falter was clearly being a deliberate problem. I am not going to insult Falter's intellect and seriously claim he doesn't know how a one-way flow works. He knew, and he ignored it to provoke people
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  9.  @taffyman6089  but that wasn't why he was being moved on, and it was an error to talk about it in that context Stick to his behaviour, which was clearly intended to stir trouble!
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  10. ​ @inuwooddog3027 Germany 1940 is definitely a nuanced scenario. The post WW1 settlement was brutally punitive, and the Germans who were too young to have any responsibility for it absolutely had a case to reject it It is also definitely the case that the individual who exploited that anger did so in a horrific and despicable way that cannot be condoned
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  11. I can - all of the media opportunities, none of the actual work or responsibility!
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  12. @Steve C  we have the opposite of a flooded labour market, yet wages are still low. Could it be that migrants are a scapegoat used to distract from the real problem?
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  13. I have to agree with and emphasise the point about "getting the same coverage as the Greens" Farage might be getting similar coverage now - but looking back the balance is nowhere near fair!
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  14. Letting entitled man-toddlers steer government isn't how you should run a country!
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  15. I can't see the finance sector being given access to the Euro markets without adopting the Euro ourselves
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  16. @paultaylor7082  they've gone beyond "if it isn't broken" - they just don't fix anything !
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  17.  @lolawilson8144  do you speak French?
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  18. @lolawilson8144  so you acknowledge that Afghanistan is a dangerous place that people would want to escape from?
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  19.  @lolawilson8144  hopefully their families are somewhere safe for now, while the husband finds somewhere safer
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  20.  @lolawilson8144  Fail to look after our public services and infrastructure, and our standard of life falls We're not going to run services without workers. We already have almost half the population being to young or too old to work. We need working age people to come here to keep everything running
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  21.  @lolawilson8144  absolutely agree that the two party stitchup needs to be ended though!
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  22. What's he been saying? I searched the parlimentary record and didn't find anything that stood out. That said, the record is huge and it's easy to miss things! Maybe you can point me in the right direction?
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  23. Except austerity was completely unnecessary. The economy was starting to grow in 2010, and Osborne's intervention ended the emerging recovery, leaving the UK flatlined til this day Austerity was an ideological choice to strip away public services. There was no economic need for it
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  24. but to continue your analogy, the chef is out the back taking a break, and the manager is sat there too, telling the front of house staff to blame the customers for the problem!
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  25.  @djbogz1921  Have any of this government shown any sign of doing that? No, if anything they've gone to the fridge, made themselves a snack and gone back outside
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  26. ​ @stoptheworldiwannagetoff4780  To be fair, they might not have been lying. It could be they are incompetent and sincerely believed the daft things they were promising
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  27. We shouldn't judge a politician by their background, but can we judge the background by the politicians it produces? The Oxford PPE degree isn't much good, based on the actions of the people who have one
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  28. @Geffo555  PFI is very short-termist. It makes todays budget look good at the expense of long-term liabilities for the future
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  29. Wes has the arrogance, but fortunately he's got some sense, unlike those two
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  30.  @wolfen210959  Parliament borrowed from the public purse, to give loads of money to their mates A pattern they've repeated, time and time again...
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  31. The truth is somewhere in between. This is a two-round system, so the truth is 67% don't want Le Pen as their first choice How much of that 67% will accept Le Pen as a second choice, and how many choose anyone but Le Pen is the key question
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  32.  @barryevans791  well, not our system. Our government is formed by the least small minority, which is rather weird when you think about it
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  33. It's a tough balance when there are people who can't stay on topic without regular intervention. In thise cases, you get a monologue if you don't cut in (ideally as politely as you can without being ineffective) Good discussion and debate benefits from both sides wanting to engage constructively 🙂
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  34. ​ @tonyrobinson362 she shared a platform and talking points with people openly calling for an end of democracy That's not acceptable in a party that supports a democratic political system. She can have those views as a private citizen, but not as a member of a democratic party
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  35. As someone who is not small-c conservative, I come here as Prof Tim is one of the few small-c voices still worthy of time and respect Long may this continue!
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  36. Not quite random - predictable, but only at scale Take a coin flip - I can't predict when it will be heads, but I can predict that a heads is a near certainty if you flip a coin ten times. Stochastic describes such patterns - where you can predict something will happen, but not predict the specifics of where or when
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  37. ​ @vicibox I just can't see Starmer facing up to big challenges. His every action says he's trying to pretend it's 1997. He's cosplaying stable times rather than looking for contemporary solutions 🙁
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  38. The only certainty is in 50 years, Rees Mogg will be dead, and thus beyond accountability for everything he is currently promising...
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  39. Start coming up with solutions for where we find farm workers, doctors and nurses and so many other critical roles If that's too much work, I guess you have to accept things as best you can. Balls in your court now
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  40. ​ @riffraff9506 she was a senior member of a charity that trained lawyers. Many of the people she worked with are now senior members of the Rwandan government It's not cast-iron proof of corruption, but it is opportunity
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  41. Stop the small boats. Provide proper ferries instead
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  42. ​@user-ue8nw6ln1u "Socialism as a philosophy is all about conformity and control" said absolutely nobody, ever who has real-world experience of leftist infighting 🙄
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  43.  @AdrianLee-i7g  but they ain't socialist, they're classic dictatorships with a populist propaganda wing
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  44. Everyone is motivated by food and shelter though, and while we're not going to starve, we are going to struggle We need the economy fixing, and fixing so it serves the needs of ordinary people, not shareholders and hedge funds
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  45. We have more people retiring than children becoming adults. If you want to retire, we need immigration
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  46.  @barrydwyer2039  I fully agree, but that's a plan needing at least two decades before it makes a difference What do we do for those decades?
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  47. Problem is, even if you're honest, if you live in a bubble with other people of very similar backgrounds, you inevitably develop a narrow view of the world that just won't see problems ordinary people see every day Their idea of important gets very distorted as a result
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  48.  @jeffsimon9594  more, so it's proportional to the wealth they extract Pedant 😝
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  49. I assume the ERG are inspired by the oppression and abuse of power bit in the Star Chamber history!
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  50. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" That's the words of JFK, and they are scarily relevant today. Far too many people feel disenfranchised and ignored
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