Youtube hearted comments of Mark Welch (@markwelch3564).

  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. Very disappointed in Sharon Graham - if you only concern yourself with only "local issues and trade disputes", don't act surprised when more anti-Union legislation happens. Very short sighted and/or corrupt...
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. If Lawrence Fox thinks he's getting a rough time in UK politics, maybe he should try being Jeremy Corbyn
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Any figures for when Victoria Derbyshire did holiday cover? It was a much better show when she temporarily hosted!
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  10. 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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  11. "We only needed one volunteer to arrest Braverman, but when 6 volunteered we didn't want to turn anyone down"
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  12. The Tories have sailed past the threshold of "being a public nuisance" Can they all be arrested now?
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  13. But Angela "funny tinge" Smith is apparently still an acceptable candidate 🤔
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  14. I keep seeing the shops changing - not because of an "invasion", but because the economy is screwed and people keep going out of business 🙁
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  15. Anne Widdecome certainly speaks with plenty of experience in helping cover up scandals and doing damage control!
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  16. "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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  17. I can't see a way forward that doesn't end with Netanyahu and associates in an international court
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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  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. Whatever did or didn't happen at the top, we know it was someone lower down the chain of command who got thrown under the bus for it
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  29. 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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  30. Once safely in opposition, Tory Leader Braverman would be pure, joyous schadenfreude 😁
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  31. Birbalsingh feels more than a little inconsistent here. I thought she was all about discipline, orderliness and standards? 🤔
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  32. Sorry Shaun Bailey, this can't be over until you can convince us that you aren't doing this elsewhere. Where else is there one rule for us and no rules for you? Struggling to find a compelling way to convince us? Not surprising, because we don't trust you
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  33. 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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  34. ​ @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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. ​@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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. ​ @Andrew-rc3vh  capitalism is buying everything until you have the monopoly. Welcome to capitalism!
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  43. Canute made a proclamation that he could control the tides to make a point to his sycophantic courtiers about the limits of worldly authority Rishi makes dumb proclamations because he's an idiot way out of his depth...
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  44. But it is about taking sides - I am on the side of civilisation, and both Hamas and Netanyahu's regime are on the other
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  45. If the Government says "this government will never give you a pay rise" the only sensible response is to want a different government It's not ideology, it's the common sense response to the government's negotiating position
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  46. ​ @seang2700  This is the truth of it! Membership definitely made us more prosperous, but all the benefits got funnelled to a small number of people. That needs to change, independently of our relationship with the EU
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  47. The Tories needed to invest in fixing things 10 years ago. They might have made a difference if they invested 5 years ago It's too late now. They can't turn the country around in mere months, and their only choice is how gracefully or disgracefully they bow out
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  48. Horses don't understand the difference between "not my king" and "god save the king" If they can't cope with people shouting stuff, they shouldn't have been put in the middle of a noisy crowd
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  49. The VVD need to take some responsibility for this. They claimed they would make life better for ordinary people, and didn't deliver This is a failing common to many parties who advocate that empowering the individual is the path to prosperity, but when in power pull up the ladder and only empower their chums
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  50. One thing to note is how much warning Iran gave. If they intended maximum damage, they would have launched with as much secrecy as possible In as much as anything involving hundreds of leathal projectiles can be, this was a diplomatic statement. They wanted to get attention, but they left a door open for de-escalation If Iran wanted open war this would have been done in a very different manner
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  51. ​ @SL-sd3sg  shouting over people is what GBNews does when they know they haven't got anything else to counter with
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  52. The "problem" is manufactured by the Tory media, so the quickest way to solve the problem is for the media to stop talking about it If there is a real issue, it's a backlog of claims, which is solved by hiring more people to process the claims It is that simple
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  53. Indeed. Telegraph readers should be proud that their newspaper is respecting it's own principles!
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  54. Not all jewish people are greedy, selfish and money-obsessed, but some people who are greedy, selfish and money-obsessed are jewish Does 'being jewish' give the greedy, selfish and money obsessed a free pass from any scrutiny or criticism?
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  55. So let's talk about it If you don't want immigration, who do you propose fills our job vacancies? Are you going to force people out of retirement?
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  56. The question of who investigates financial fraud is a bit of a technicality Whether an internal matter, or a response to a police investigation, the bank still needs to know the same facts either way. In a police investigation, they will be asking the bank more questions than they ask the individual Financial misdeeds are best caught early, too. Fraud prevented is better than trying to reclaim money that's already vanished
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  57. Our press and journalists need calling out too - how many of them were cheerleading the vandalism, all the way til things caught fire? In a sane world, us general public would never trust any of those publications ever again
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  58. The public were already suffering. The strikes are a tiny blip against thr spectacular waiting lists the Tories built up over 14 years!
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  59. Did you loot the Greggs, or the Shoezone?
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  60. Because if they cut it, they draw attention to it, and it's harder to reinstate it later This way keeps it largely invisible, especially when most of the press will happily ignore it
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  61. I am no fan of Streeting, and in fact I'm helping campaign against him in his constituency, but I will say it took Alan Milburn 10 years to fix the NHS last time, so I don't expect anyone to fix it any quicker this time
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  62. Le Pen might manage to outdo Liz Truss on the unrichment front...
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  63. and I know a few trans people. They're people
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  64. ​@lolwalters2936 I know you're joking about the general elections,but the 10 year anniversary of the referendum does sound like a good time to check back with the public and see how they feel now
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  65. 100% on taxing unproductive wealth. Stop skivers and shirkers from sitting on the wealth from other people's hard work!
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  66. The ERG is loosely defined. If the broadest group votes against, that could be enough to break confidence in the givernment, but if it's only the very core ERG then it would be a minor backbench rebellion that won't be an issue Current gossip suggests it will only be the most stubborn few rebelling, so Sunak has probably kept the Party on the rails... for now
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  67. ​@dogglebird4430even Farage and Tice are saying it now, that's how bad Brexit is
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  68. I appreciate the humility of your correction, but they have been pretty appalling in the North East, too!
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  69. Lineker, Rashford - can we just replace the government with former and current England players? Can't see how it could be worse than what we have now!
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  70. I live in such a city, but sadly not such a country, it seems 🙁
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  71. I wish the Tories were on strike. They'd do less harm if they didn't turn up to work
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  72. 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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  73. Unless Sunak himself goes, is there anyone notable enough still standing?
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  74. 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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  75. 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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  76. 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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  77. 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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  78. 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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  79. Can you not flip that around? First they told me I had to breathe their smoke...
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  80. 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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  81. 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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  82. What is the "trans agenda"?
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  83. 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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  84.  @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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  85. I'll believe that once they nationalise the electricity grid
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  86. She isn't left. She just about meets the bar for "liberal centrist" on a progressive day
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  87. 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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  88. 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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  89. ​ @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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  90. 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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  91. Ah, the jug of water was on the far left of the room I take back my doubts! Marxism confirmed 😝
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  92. 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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  93. 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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  94. @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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  95. 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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  96. 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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  97. 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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  98. 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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  99. 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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  100. Why don't the people who broke everything try being poor instead?
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  101. 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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  102. Suella: "I am not an authoritarian fascist, and I'll ban any journalists who might say so!" 🤔
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  103. Strikes are for a day or two Resigning is forever I think they should try strikes before they have to resort to resignations. Don't you think that's preferable overall?
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  104. To be a global currency, you want it to be relevant to trade Adding trade barriers does the opposite 🤦‍♂️It's like Trump wants the USA to lose status and influence...
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  105. Sorry, got to strongly disagree about politicians being entirely above suspicion. If that's the standard, it gives gutter press rumour mongers far too much power over public life
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  106. But what are we fighting for? Wars always seem to come down to either an aristocrat's pride, or a billionaire's investment portfolio. Neither seem worth risking our lives for!
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  107. I've done the cash run to get small change for the pub I worked for. Even "small change" is really heavy, and still represents hundreds of pounds in your hands, which is a little scary to be walking around with There's reasons small businesses are happy to wave goodbye to cash that aren't anything to do with a "globalist conspiracy"
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  108. If you take the xenophobia out of immigration, the goal becomes simple - you support existing citizens with training to get jobs, fill any remaining gaps with immigration Anything else is putting ideology over practicality
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  109. So if people are concerned about sewage in rivers, we should use their houses as septic tanks instead? Wierd take on how society does stuff!
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  110. Rejoin will have to speak to the underlying concerns behind Leave in order to be successful. I see that as very fair, and totally possible
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  111. He definitely wasn't impeccable, but definitely behaved well in the heat of the moment!
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  112. Anyone remember MySpace? If you don't, that's because Murdoch bought it, and his meddling sank it like a lesd balloon Looks like history is repeating itself with billionaires failing on the internet!
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  113.  @jondarbyshire-s7k  oh no! There are people who haven't remortgaged yet, people who haven't fallen ill and experienced record waiting lists first hand yet, there's room for cost of living to get even worse Plenty of ways the public can be even more disappointed with the Tories and even more people disavow them!
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  114. and that the feeling was very much reciprocated!
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  115. I know why Starmer can't table a motion - the Tory ranks will oppose it on principle Labour tabling a motion might actually extend Dorries' career!
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  116. We can't tell them what to do, but we should quarantine them as much as we can if they go that way!
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  117. Gove is just as right wing as he always was - it's the rest of the party that's moved to be even more swivel-eyed extremist!
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  118. We could tax the ultra rich
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  119. I'd also point out that if we can name Conservatives because people noticed they are toxic and dangerously incompetent, then not noticing Labour shadow ministers is a positive!
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  120. Their idea of neutrality is wierd, too. They'll have an expert and a complete fruitcake "debate" an issue, and give both people equal credibility Neutrality allows you to push back on one side more than the other, if one side are stretching the facts harder than the other. You give them an equal starting point, but after that you can react to their actions
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  121. If we never remove the old, but only add, things are going to get rather crowded 😳
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  122. But it is safe. He was moved out of the march because he wasn't capable of following the one-way system
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  123. It's very Tory legislation. They like to assume that if they pass a bill with "online safety" in the title, then magically we're now safe online 🙄
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  124. Are the Woke Neo Marxists in the room with us now?
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  125. ​ @epincion Osborne has commended more than just Reeves' OBR policy - he endorses her whole economic position
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  126. They ran the water companies down so they were failing just before they privatised them. We know where that ended! So maybe they aren't doing the same now - but it's safer to defend the NHS while we can. If we leave it too late, we get Thames Water healthcare...
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  127. Wait, what? In what world could you describe a big corporation as "the left"?
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  128. Maybe marches aren't the most effective way to get political change - but I don't have a spare million to "donate" to politicians, so marches it is!
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  129. Damo, if you're interested in my take on turning around the "politics of envy" line, we need to turn it to "politics of responsibility" The Lord Alan types want to own everything and profit from everything, but skive off when there's bills to be paid If you own things, you're responsible for them - not just the bricks and mortar, but the institutions they represent If they don't want to take responsibility for all the things they own, we will happily have them back!
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  130. Oddly enough, military interventions by the UK caused many of the refugees. More intervention will just create more refugees, surely?
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  131. I'd say that's an if, not a when Appropriately, this in a large part due to the complications of the Northern Ireland situation. Other CPTPP members are wisely cautious of getting tied up in that!
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  132. I point the finger at the state of journalism. We have newspapers that can spend the best part of a fortnight putting curry and beer on the front page, but is incapable of intelligent analysis of economics
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  133. Unless you're publishing a scientific paper containing nothing but confirmed, repeatable, measurable results, everything is at least a little bit propaganda But GBNews is pretty blatant about their agenda, let's be honest
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  134. It is civilised and correct to restrict extreme methods of protest It is deeply wrong to restrict topics of protest They are doing far too much of the latter, while wearing the mask of the former 🙁
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  135. Police want to catch criminal. It's a horrific situation for the victims, but not something with much depth for discussion
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  136. ​ @stephfoxwell4620 which of Marx's ideas do you disagree with?
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  137. You want a video on the First Minister moving into the official residence of the First Minister? What's the big story there?
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  138. He certainly looked after one particular bank account. He seems to have got bored and given up on championing anyone else's though
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  139. From what little I have seen so far, she's going to be yet another Tory perma-victim, with a thousand excuses for why nothing works, and zero solutions to offer
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  140. Yep. If you want to find people who put their ideology over common sense problem solving, you should look at the current givernment!
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  141. I think there are some improvements to be made in negotiation with the EU, and I am pretty sure I know what will and won't be negotiated What won't be negotiated is the regulations. Take SPS checks as an example. I think there is a deal possible there, that removes a lot of the border friction To get the agreement, there will be no discussion about what checks are expected - the UK takes off-the-shelf terms, or takes the current deal What will be negotiated is how we are going to prove alignment if it isn't done through checks at border. That will be an awkward discussion after the Tory binfire, but not impossible This is what I expect to see - not making Brexit work well but at least working slightly better than currently
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  142. ​ @Hannah-xx8ix Nigel himself says he's been offered a peerage twice. I've not heard anyone talk about a government position though
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  143. Ford won't pay your bill, but Shell loves taking your money
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  144. You can spend and invest your wsy out of recession though - this has a vastly better track record than austerity!
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  145. ​ @eliakimjosephsophia4542 Daily Mail readers are going to be a bit surprised when the real results come in!
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  146.  @Jamie-uk2zh  yet the UK and France are both wealthy countries So where is the money?
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  147.  @markwilkie3677  yes
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  148. 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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  149. 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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  150. 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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  151. I suspect he was ready to make either work, as long as he got a soundbite from someone
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  152.  @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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  153. 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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  154. 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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  155. Wes has the arrogance, but fortunately he's got some sense, unlike those two
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  156. 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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  157.  @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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  158. 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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  159. I assume the ERG are inspired by the oppression and abuse of power bit in the Star Chamber history!
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  160. I hope we all agree that if you injure or drug someone, so they are in agony, then we call that torture, and it is morally wrong Is it really so different if the agony is caused by illness, and someone actively forces the sufferer to continue suffering? That still sounds very wrong to me
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  161. Harehills caught the police off-guard, because there was no warning. That's the only difference
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  162. ​ @marksimons8861 it's almost like they knew they were committing arson on the UK economy 🤔
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  163. ...and on the original point, if you want a viable opposition, the LibDems are right there, ready to go
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  164. It's the question at the heart of all sentencing - at the end of the sentence, have they learned and refprmed their ways, or will they do it again given the chance? It will always be a tough question
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  165. ​ @andrewcalladine2507 Cakeism
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  166. At least now were debating real policy rather than discussing nonsense like "wave machines to push away small boats"!
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  167. @Steve C  it is a waste - why spend so much on hotels, when you could hire staff to handle their claims quicker, and let the legitimate asylum seekers work, and get failed claimants deported? Utter shambles from the Tories!
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  168. I view Brexit a bit like Godzilla. Defeating the monster is just the first problem. Then we have to rebuild everything it broke
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  169. My guess is a pivot to being Pro EU after losing the election after next
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  170. @LowPlainsDrifter60  sure, what are the key facts here? Let's have a starting point
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  171. He's discovering that the UK doesn't have much of a safety net for people unable to get work Nobody deserves to be treated like they are in this position, but Fox is hardly alone. Millions of people are in the same position, or worse This is a societal problem, not a conspiracy against one actor who said some daft things on social media!
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  172. There is so much to dig into there, I would summarise my key thoughts like this - it will be something to account for in marking. If your grading system can't detect bluffers, it's not fit for purpose - it suggests we have a culture problem. Is education valued, or merely qualifications? If we have a culture that values education, nobody would even want to use ChatGPT in this way. However, when the goal is simply the piece of paper at the end, the temptation will be there
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  173. ​ @tony_w839  Suella and Rishi claim people have said it, but the only people I have heard say it in Parliament are Rishi and Suella!
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  174. That's what the campaign is doing - supporting Greens and independents who have a chance of winning, and focusing money and attebtion on them to boost their chances 🙂
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