Comments by "Django" (@django3422) on "PoliticsJOE" channel.

  1. Growing up through the 90s, my parents had a combined income of about 12k. We were poor but we weren't in poverty. We had what we needed and never went without. Now, in my 30s, I'm on 25k. I barely break even each month.
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  2. She's owed an apology and that rule needs to be taken off the books. Along with any other rule that enshrines some kind of special status for MPs. While some have conducted themselves (by and large) honourably, their collective conduct has shown them to be undeserving.
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  3. Anytime I hear someone spouting the nonsense line that "there aren't any positive masculine role models other than these guys"... erm, Keanu Reeves? If you really think Tate is manlier and more positive than Reeves, I can't help you.
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  4. As an entertainer, wasn't really my cuppa. But as a person, his values were in the right place and he acted on them. He was good people and will be missed.
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  5. ​ @Anglo_Saxon1 So was St George but they turned out for him.
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  6. There's such incredible insecurity to Tate fanbois. Everything about their attitude towards masculinity and achievement is inescapably tied to grand "look at me" displays. So sad that these men desperately need the attention of others.
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  7. Absolutely and I love Dempsey's response on that one; "nurses should be getting more". And that's not the fault of unions that are trying to get their workers a better shout.
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  8. ​ @tinkerbellUK Right, the merchant bankers and hedge fund managers who want to deregulate will definitely have your best interests at heart...
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  9. ​ @danw5760 Very much still contemporary given how often anti-LGBT rhetoric comes pouring out the mouths of government ministers.
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  10.  @Chris-tz9ct  Scotland didn't. Is that difficult to understand?
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  11. Good on ya! Shame outlets like the BBC choose to stay silent on stories like this.
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  12.  @joshyman221  I'm not in the habit of giving out much personal info in YT comments. I'm not in London but I do live in the south, in a mid-sized town.
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  13. This is definitely a discussion that needs to be had, though I don't trust the current leadership one iota.
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  14. History is bursting with traditional, miserable families. Loving families, now that's progress.
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  15. ​ @test-bu8sw Funny, as the only person here making assumptions is you. While walking away is always one option, staying and working to change things is another. I'm English, born and bred. I despair at the state of this nation. But it's as much mine as anyone's and I'm damned if I'll let anyone push me out. I'm staying and pushing for positive change. What are you doing?
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  16. While I appreciate a lot of what Ali is saying here, I don't agree with him about the statues. For one thing, most people don't read up on stuff. You put a plaque somewhere nearby the statue giving an "alternative" view, that's not doing anything. Vast majority of people just see a statue of a bloke and, because of how our brains work and our culture's developed, we see that as a celebration of the person. And it's not a matter of preserving history. We don't need statues to remember our history and they really don't help anyway because statues rarely ever have ANY kind of context or nuance to them. And to use an easy example - I've never seen a statue of Hitler but there's no way I'm ever forgetting who he was or what he did. We shouldn't enshrine individuals like that, it's unhealthy. Because then you're not celebrating the deeds or the ideas but just the person themselves, and people accept that wholesale. So get rid of Churchill's statue. We have WW2 memorials to everyone who fought and died, everyone who laboured for the homefront effort, the people who rallied together and helped each other through... and we can replace Churchill statues with more of those if people want! But stop lionising a white supremacist.
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  17. £5 coffees... do me a favour! I don't drink coffee. I don't run a car. My phone is as basic as I can get and most of my clothes are several years old and starting to fall apart. I work full time in a warehouse, I take home approximately £1,600 per month. I rent privately. When I moved in, 2022, rent was £825 a month. Its now £950. THAT is the problem. THAT is why so many of us are struggling. Its got naff all to do with coffees I don't buy and everything to do with living costs increasing beyond worker's wages.
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  18. Why?
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  19.  @volvos60bloke  Helps convince people that you're someone worth getting behind, that you know what you're doing. She hasn't even got bluster, she isn't witty enough to evade questions or come across as sympathetic. She just comes across as a tool. Politicians who don't have brains desperately need to rely on their charisma and character. She has neither.
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  20. What is this, a customer testimonial?
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  21. I'm not sure he'd commit to anything that didn't primarily benefit him in a material sense. I'm not sure he believes in anything other than what he can obtain.
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  22. ​ @paddymeboy  You don't think that's happening now? Captialism is in a death spiral. Inflation devalues wealth, costs go up so consumers have to cut back on spending. Less spending, less companies making enough money. Those companies fold, people lose jobs, even more consumers are having to cut back even more spending. The cycle worsens.
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  23.  @elanacharles-hiddengem  Of all the tactics I've seen Brand fans take, defending the right of someone to grift people is an odd one...
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  24. ​ @RickMartin-vk8vl You're living in a fantasy. May I suggest the work of Terry Pratchett instead?
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  25. It's still nonsense either way. UK hasn't moved away from capitalism at all.
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  26. ​ @danw5760 If it makes you feel better, you can add it to the list of performative actions taken by this government to give the illusion of action. Of course, you could also consider that the purpose of a lock down isn't to simply prevent people walking outside, nor did it. I took the dog for a long walk everyday during lockdown. The point was to try and stop thousands of people spending their weekends milling around crowded shopping centres and such, because that definitely WOULD reduce viral transmission in a meaningful way. Gets very tricky to start giving everyone the specifics of when's and where's, though.
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  27. ​ @davidmiller7203 You can protest that, too. This might sound wild, but you can actually be against the actions of Hamas while also not thinking that 30k+ dead civilians is a suitable response.
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  28. The Tates don't seem happy, given that they devote so much energy into impressing teenage boys. So definitely don't want that life...
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  29. When it comes to the matter of free speech, the views all boil down to "I want to be able to say what I want and I don't want others to be able to say what they want or be offended by what I say".
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  30.  @nothereandthereanywhere  In my town, it would be. For a flat, you'd be looking at least between £800-£900. And that's for a cheap flat in poor condition. Add council tax, bills and food on top of that? No way you could do it on 12k.
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  31.  @Evolve-TV  You misunderstand. You're the product.
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  32. I'd say that starts to enter "no true Scotsman" area. This IS their religion.
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  33.  @simoncox9689  We know things weren't that simple, that's why we're amazed the lady made that comment. Why, what are you getting at?
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  34. ​ @gm9460  It's a simple question that's yet to be answered. Says a lot about those defending him.
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  35.  @clondon84  Truth? You don't know a damn thing.
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  36.  @poshgentleman559  He's standing up to the MPs who are treating ALL of us badly. We, the public, need to support workers in speaking truth to power so that it can be resolved quickly and fairly. You want to make out like Mick and the RMT strikers are just greedy, what you're either ignorant of or willfully omitting is that the people demonising them and trying to set us against the workers are the greediest, most corrupt in our whole society. We ALL deserve a fairer shout, not to let the Torys and their supporters turn us against each other.
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  37. I'm sure they will. Depends what you want them to prove, of course.
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  38.  @zippymufo9765  But you can compare how they suffer from and deal with specific issues. Take the Phillipines and ol' Duterte. Big dictator chap, no tolerance for liberal nonsense, iron fist and all that... horrendous crime problem. So can you say that increased crime is the result of "liberal progress", when crime is still present in places that haven't had said progress?
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  39.  @clondon84  The only thing around here that's lazy is your comments.
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  40. ​ @selfpreservationsociety So? What does wearing a poppy prove? Anyone can do performative token gestures.
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  41. ​ @garyt123 I think their point is more that in no way can Sunak substantiate his claim that its the will of the people. Criticism of as populist referendum is fair. If there had been one on this issue, Sunak would at least have some basis for his claim. But he doesn't even have that.
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  42. ​ @jamescooke6032 Can you cite some examples of Corbyn being led by his ego rather than his values?
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  43. "Wrong job, sweetheart" needs to be on banners held high and clear when she gets ousted.
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  44. Because protestors can be targeted for reprisals.
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  45. ​ @marksavage1108  No, they're yours. If you were sharper, you'd have picked up on that. But, if you were, you wouldn't have voted leave.
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  46. ​ @test-bu8sw He likes diplomacy. Talking to people to stop fighting, rather than selling them guns to continue.
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  47. Exactly, he's not working harder. He just can't quite bring himself to acknowledege that he doesn't work a little bit harder, he works a little more immorally.
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  48. ​ @graemebarriball303 It's not about wanting to live somewhere ideal or desirable, it's about wanting somewhere clean and safe that doesn't cost 80% of takehome pay.
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  49.  @zippymufo9765  It sure would be inconvenient to your argument if someone could point to countries that suppress the same kind of "liberal progress" but also suffer from those issues...
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  50. ​ @nathanaelsmith3553 With our climate getting increasingly wet, we're gonna have a hard time producing our own food. Fields are flooding out, crops are rotting because ground is too waterlogged to work.
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