Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Nigel Farage: "We're Heading for a Political Revolution"" video.

  1. The biggest problem with that Kwarteng-Truss budget is that they didn't consult with the BoE and in the space of a few weeks almost wrecked the UK pension system, cost the country billions and sent our borrowing costs spiralling. I'm all for a bit of radical, outside the box thinking but there are still some brutal everyday realities that apply whether they're fair, right, decent or not.
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  2. Honestly no skin in the game here, but Nick Hubble who writes for Fortune and Freedom is an utterly brilliant writer.
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  3. What got you piqued in particular may I ask or was it the man himself?
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  4.  @alanpatterson2384  Agreed, and that was why the BoE had to step in with billions. Shame Truss and Kwarteng didn't 'appear' to know this and failed to consult. A radical growth budget this most certainly wasn't.
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  5. A lot of the back benches wobbled over the Truss budget shenanigans because some of them have highly precarious majorities from red wall seats and a good many more saw the substantial economic damage that was being wrought in such a short space of time. What she did was insane not least because her democratic mandate for acting so radically was flimsy and because she failed to consult with the BoE.
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  6. Amen to changing FPTP. Had its day.
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  7. I hear what you're saying. A very nice elderly lady I know, apparently under no illusions, referred to the EU as 'a benign dictatorship' and that she was happy to live under such a system. Kinda makes sense I guess, but it begs the question how long do benign dictatorships remain benign without genuine checks and balances? Sure you can create the illusion of them by following the template and creating the institutions that signal 'democracy', but without true autonomy and genuine accountability they amount to little more than window dressing.
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  8. Science, by definition, is never and should never be settled. If you want to say the Earth is flat then be my guest. I won't hate on you, but proving it is when there are quite a lot of pictures of a round Earth from space means you're up against it. Show me a picture of a flat earth or tell me why you can't. The onus of proof is on you basically in terms of some pretty strong evidence to contrary unless of course you can prove that those pictures from space are themselves faked. Then I'm all ears. Anthropogenic climate change caused predominantly by CO2 is, however, a far more questionable argument even now, so to say the science on the subject is not only 'settled' it is downright dangerous in my opinion.
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  9.  @RTD553  how have they ruined the economy?
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