Comments by "Tim Murphy" (@timmurphy5541) on "LBC" channel.

  1. You're an unusual person. It's quite impressive to be able to admit to having made a mistake. This is a great strength. Congratulations to you!
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  2. This is all about the electorate electing people who tell them the lies they want to hear and one party decided that losing power was worse than lying.
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  3. One has to get to the point eventually of being happy to be of the human race and not to worried about any further divisions. Being British is not the best or worst thing in the world. Being accepted by decent people of whatever nationality is more important than being accepted as British by 'Albert'.
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  4. These attitudes exist in lots of places. I'm from Zimbabwe and it's very much the case there. Blaming outsiders is easier than changing one's own culture and actions.
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  5.  @AW-uv3cb  it's a way to deflect anger that would otherwise have to find its "true target" closer to home.-
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  6. Presumably a lot of people think lying is fine if it suits their politics - hence they elect liars. The excuse for this is "politicians are all liars anyhow" and so it spirals down ....
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  7. ​ @reevs2153  as an example: Brits live in a "big country" where there is always someone whose job it is to do whatever. Zimbabweans need to have the mentality that if they don't sort out a problem then nobody will. i.e. if you see something broken it becomes your job to sort it out. There's nothing odd about this - it's just adaptation to the situation. In the UK if you take responsibility for things you end up annoying the people whose job it is. The state will also never look after you in Zim so one develops a very different attitude to not being in work or having debt.
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  8. It's the language of someone who has lied or cheated to get what they want and desperately wishes for everyone to forget it.
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  9. They/we have their own serious problems but they're obviously different. They cannot fully understand you guys because of leading a very different life - your views and behaviours can be seen but not fully empathised with because they have no idea what it's like to be you. I'm originally from Zimbabwe and have given up trying to explain myself or my attitudes as it doesn't work. From far away, someone else's culture/behaviour seems odd/comical but some English people don't realise yet that this applies to them also.
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  10. I don't think that's how the voters see it. Labour has presided over bad periods too.
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  11.  @ringtail1410  ... and Australians aren't Australian, Americans aren't American, people born in Africa like me shouldn't even exist..... You just fundamentally have a racial and tribal attitude which is not very British as Britain has has to bring together people who used to fight each other to make a bigger more successful country.
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  12.  @kevinjewitt6347  We don't have many bears left - when they caused us trouble we finished them off.
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  13. AI is overhyped. The only people who can use it safely are people who know what it's doing anyhow i.e. skilled people.
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  14. I don't think they're the slightest bit ashamed - they are determined to have it and want to make it "safe" by making it a taboo subject.
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  15. Moth eaten dead rabbit perhaps. Don't poke the moth-eaten dead rabbit!
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  16. We're not that marvellous, unfortunately. Anyhow thank you for wanting us back.
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  17.  @evolassunglasses4673  No they don't - immigration is our only defence against exploitation - that we are not forced to accept the deal that the oligarchs offer. They can move their money to wherever production is cheapest with ease - but if exploited people can leave then that scheme stops working.
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  18. Perhaps no more big arms contracts with US companies though. I mean if they won't provide the service why should we pay the price.
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  19. The "advisoriness" is not really the issue - the issue is that the Conservative party looked to lose a lot of votes to UKip. Now it has killed off UKIP by adopting its policies. That's what the whole thing is about.
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  20. I found that it depends on having a personalised explanation. One needs the explanation that fits you. In desperation at university on one topic I read every book in the library until one of them had an explanation that made it clear. The impossible became possible. Obviously I have never done a partial differential equation since then :-D There is also a motivation issue because if one cannot see why one is learning it then there's no oomph to get over the problems. Being taught by people who just like it for itself is useless.
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  21.  @kevinjewitt6347  yes Ivan, I notice that when I see their threats against us and their complaints. I also notice the Ukranians seem oddly happy for our help. I look forward to more of your insults to prove how much we matter
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  22. It's got to be very galling to you that its' all unwinding :-)
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  23. We're not weak. We have limitations as does everyone and they relate to what our economy can support. We still pack a punch in various areas. We have to fix what we can but nobody can have it all.
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  24. I think the head of the lettuce is rotten now :-)
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  25.  @denisdaly1708  well, nothing more gullible than deciding to fool yourself and demanding that other people help you :/
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  26. We would like that to be normal and accepted and no surprise.
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  27. You cannot understand mostly because you don't live in a violent place, particularly the US. I think you're 100% right to not like it but often I despair of explaining any aspect of life where I'm from (Zimbabwe) to Brits because they cannot mentally transport themselves to that situation - they have not even the concept of what it's like to be afraid. FWIW my Uncle in South Africa had his house robbed and the robbers beat him to death. Up the road from where I was staying at university there were AK-47 casings all over the road one day after robbers took a cash-in-transit van and it didn't even make the national news. Zimbabwe is less violent than SA if you keep out of politics but there's lots of robbery. You can see when the cops are no help or they're even the ones trying to do you harm that it would be nice not to be helpless. I think with parts of the US - you cannot grok them and they cannot grok you because neither has walked a mile in the other's shoes. As for the idiot in the picture, I think it's all political - looking for support from gun owners and NRA of course.
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  28. Not learning what has been done before in your profession is a huge waste of time. In computers we have lots of people who don't get a degree and their whole career is about making all the mistakes they can learn not to make in 3 years at university. Forever afterwards they need to have basic concepts explained to them and they rebel against being told anything by someone who they feel they're competing with. This attitude of Mr Sutherland's is absolutely ridiculous. If you want a useful degree then don't do Art history but for goodness sake learn something relevant to your profession.
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  29. @Noctis-lg7xp I get to see a lot of CVs without one. I have hired people without one and they haven't been a mistake. I've hired people with better quals who were really difficult. But.. if the other issues are equal, the person with a CS degree is easier to work with. I don't want to discourage people who cannot afford it. You can learn a lot on your own - it's just that people often don't know what they don't know - don't know what to try to pick up. I forgot a lot but I sort of know what I don't know and can go learn it again easily when I need it.
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  30.  @moshedayan6698  we will see how you do it, or how fat you get as you age. It will be interestingnto know if you are perfect.
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  31. @Oldie But Goodie we have laws to prevent speech that incites violence and to prevent libel. I think that's just reasonable. There are limits to all our freedoms when that freedom impinges on other people's freedom.
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  32.  @kevinjewitt6347  Ivan, only a someone who thinks like a poodle tries to accuse others of it. We are not Russia's poodle and that is all you need to know.
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  33. It took dishonesty to get out, we will have to get back in bit by bit.
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  34.  @albert7311  you're not one of me anyhow, fortunately.
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  35.  @fcandfm3000  I'd have to ask if they were reform voters first. If not then why fight?
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  36. Very little. We might end up with a new ship though, if people don't behave.
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  37.  @williamgreen6716  why do you care if we give up or not? I'd guess that you know your voice was wicked and you live in fear of it being reversed.
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  38. I find that you have to be careful when joking about the English sense of humour - they're so proud of it.
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  39.  @YouWhatMate28  the government probably did make enough difference but there are also just insecure people who revert to tribalism and for whom the ideas of their youth cannot be adapted.
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  40. So ....people chose Brexit first then thought up reasons and when those reasons get knocked they think up others. There's not that much point being exasperated since the choice wasn't based on the claimed logic at all. It's also the choice of people who don't think it will hurt them and don't care if it hurts anyone else. IOW you're dealing with selfishness which is an impossible thing to debate on - selfish people have no honour/decency/fellow feeling to grab onto in any debate. Our problem is that Brexit "precipitated' these people and made them a political unit which nobody wants to take on - Starmer is avoiding it. We would ideally find some way to split them - not easy - but the only other way is to really build a coalition of "sense" which will mean co-operating between groups that have not naturally been that friendly and finding some middle ground. Ex conservatives like me are going to have to bite down on our feelings and vote labour and it will be helpful if the leftmost bits of labour don't choose now to start a fight in the labour party.
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  41. Since it hasn't done any damage I don't think so. Some ship afterwards will be there to do the damage using the data this one gathered.
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  42.  @sandygrowler7384  I don't think the crime situation is at all worldwide - that's what I'm trying to explain. British people expect to be safe to an incredible degree and do not expect to take a wrong turn in a large city.
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  43. and apparently you're supposed to blame everything on foreigners and accept whatever shafting you get given from the higher ups as long as they're English.
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  44.  @moshedayan6698  indeed - those tobacco companies and the media have a lot to answer for and it's incredible that we let them hook people on their drugs legally.
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  45. Negativity certainly won't get us back in. Also expecting people's attitudes to truly change is probably not very realistic. Being in is the best way to get overall attitudes to change by keeping young people involved and travelling and getting them to work abroad and so on. Older people won't change their ideas and their ideas will only go when they do.
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  46. Because we all need to be brave and learn to trust each other. You need to fight your prejudice - great that you see it BTW.
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  47.  @5888max  It's being human and it recognises their needs not just yours. Being old doesn't give you the right to get whatever you want at other people's expense. This is decent behavior not politics.
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  48.  @5888max  such concerns are irrelevant. You get the doctor who is available.
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  49. The con victims often desperately wanted to believe the con and quite a number still do despite all evidence. I don't feel much compassion for anyone other than those who are prepared to admit it was a mistake.
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  50. I think she's quite likely to be a bully and to have succeeded in life somewhat because of it. Perhaps she has not yet worked out that the other side are more than a match for her favoured tactic.
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  51. The people who promoted Corbyn when there was no hope of getting him elected need to rethink their priorities. Obviously those who voted Conservative too but what can one really do about them? We need people who are a bit more in the middle that can attract an acceptable amount of the vote and not be a total disaster in power.
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  52. ​ @mogznwaz  i.e. you smelled which way the wind was blowing and trying to end up on the victorious side. Perhaps you need to have another conversion.
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  53. If you're older you may well own your house, so evil furriners who want to change everything are more real to you than some "ungrateful" young peoples' complaints about mortgages and jobs. We have an aging population and people are not very altruistic and think they're all right jack even though they probably aren't.
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  54.  @sawtooth808  I doubt there's anyone that would hate him more than her.
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  55.  @justonecornetto80  i.e. you're being forced to do what's decent for NI and you don't like it. You'd rather just $%^$%^& the Irish quietly and have everything your way.
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  56. i.e. if you did something dumb once then double down and do something even dumber FOR THE WIN!
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  57. If the lettuce can keep her name in the news, there are people who will vote for her. I think that's really what this is all about.
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  58. The cruel response is that if possible we shouldn't be using formula. A lot of things are missing from it like antibodies and stem cells and so on. I think ironically if people were able to not use it, their kids would be better off and that would truly threaten politicians like Widdecombe.
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  59. I don't like Truss either but why would one have nuclear weapons and then tell people that you don't intend to ever use them? That is a very ridiculous attitude which plays completely into the hands of people like Putin. He'll certainly use them if he thinks we won't.
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  60. but he was right about BJ and it is hard to hold out against all the people who thought BJ was great without some kind of mental defence if smugness is it, too bad.
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  61. It's your courage, IMO. The belief that you can cope even while you're chopping away at the foundations of your beliefs. Wanting to be "right" so much that you are prepared to admit being wrong even when it's humiliating.
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  62.  @jooseppielleese7156  almost everyone thinks they're right. I think he often is and a lot of the people who are against him certainly have few doubts about themselves.
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  63.  @leadoucet1432  it makes some of them feel superior that they "don't take themselves seriously" and when one suggests this pride is a case of taking yourself seriously the humour is all gone....:-) I think this is justice for all their mocking.
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  64. Hate speech is just stirring up riots and violence. We don't let people do that because we've had plenty of experience with it.
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  65. If you want someone to disappear you have to stop talking about them.
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  66. Only because he might damage our ability to act as allies.
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  67.  @GiraffeCrab  I'm from Zimbabwe so I know that one cannot overcome a tide of stupidity. It's important to try to survive it.
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  68. or that he has charm but not integrity...
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  69. Voters identify themselves with one side or another and then it can do no wrong.
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  70. They humiliate themselves.
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  71. diddums. Poor Tories...unable to do anything with their huge majorities.
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  72. It depends on what you're doing. A computer science degree absolutely is useful for example - people who don't have it are at a disadvantage and they're a pain in the neck to work with.
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  73.  @rickylocock9068  It's leverage vs the EU doesn't seem very great.
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  74.  @leanatale7251  desperately seeking sympathy for a bigoted attitude perhaps.
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  75.  @arejaycee5484  I agree with you but I was trying to explain why there are other things we are not free to say.
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  76.  @kevinjewitt6347  ...because it's greatly in line with our self interest and of course because we don't subscribe to Russian propaganda because we know how terrible it is like everything else they do.
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  77.  @liul  no, we forgive lots of things and unless you're dead it's never too late.
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  78.  @chatham43  oh yes. We are not in Zimbabwe yet - there is no secret police or dictatorship to force us. You exiters had your time at the wheel and you crashed the car....
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  79. That's a very unfair comparison and, for exampe, if I criticised the British sense of humor I wouldn't expect to be popular at all because theres' always something that people in any country are proud of.
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  80.  @SwillMith16  no it's about the English in general. I often hear complaining about how the Americans are this or that or how American tourists are awful and yet there are so many examples of any nation including the English behaving stupidly and badly and I note that it's Americans who get the worst of the criticism because they are the country whose power and status force themselves on our notice and make us feel small.
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  81. The Royal family have little real power and without them you'll just end up with a dodgy president like Trump, Erdogan, Putin or Mugabe. Then you'll complain about them but they will have obtained real power. The monarchy is a plug stuck in the hole so that nobody worse can fill it.
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  82. IMO it's all about the loss of power of the two major parties. Labour lost votes that went to the SNP making them weaker. The Conservatives started losing power to UKIP. The Labour response was Corbyn perhaps? The Tory response was to emulate UKIP. Extremists had to be courted. First past the post makes the stakes very high. Voters had a choice of the Cons or Corbyn. So they were really being presented with choices that were not ideal for them either way. We should not be attached to parties. We should ALL be swing voters. We should lower the stakes with PR so that a party doesn't have to flatter extremists.
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  83. Ultimately people voted the Conservatives in and a mess has been made and no politician can magic away the years of bad decisions. So of course people WILL suffer and have horrible things happen to them. I'm not going to vote for him but in a way I think it's disingenuous to pretend voters are all innocent. People have got themselves huge mortgages and others have been delighted to become rich on paper. I mention investing to someone and they immediately talk about spending money on the house instead of putting it into some new company that's creating jobs. NIMBY - a thing everyone with a house starts to believe in suddenly. In other words other people can suffer without housing but I'm not going to accept change in my area.
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  84. It's a disarming reply because we now cannot accuse him of personal enmity. We are listening to an intelligent politician who knows how to play the game. It's not a bad thing but it's worth seeing the moves for what they are. It might even be true, actually, but it's said this way for a reason.
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