Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "GBNews" channel.

  1. Livingstone does have a good record of achievements as London Mayor. He was more astute than any of the others in recent times.
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  2. This doesn't explain things at all. British fishermen largely caught fish that Europeans wanted to buy, but there was little demand in Britain for, and a hard Brexit was always going to result in bureaucratic and expensive barriers to selling them to the EU, which would mean they could never get to the EU in a fresh enough condition. The fish the British like to eat is mostly caught by Norwegians around Norway, but Britain didn't manage to get a deal with Norway after Brexit. Nigel should do a bit of research on the fishing industry. In fact he should have done it before Brexit.
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  3. Politicians, and especially the Tories, always like it if they can dodge responsibility for anything or shovel the blame off onto someone. Money for nothing is their theme tune.
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  4. He doesn't have a formal role now. He's no longer a working Royal and doesn't get paid by UK taxpayers. This is just inter-family grief now, except that the media takes a prurient interest.
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  5. When Farage was a MEP in the EU, he only once ever turned up to attend the Fishing Committee, and his continuing ignorance about the fishing industry comes across in this video.
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  6. You got Brexit. You just don't like Brexit because it's not the Unicorn you wanted.
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  7. Why is GB 'News' fixated on this trivia?
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  8. Sunak attacks the sick though he keeps them sick by maintaining long NHS waiting lists.
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  9. She's even more horrible though.
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  10. The only problem with the protocol is that the DUP don't accept if for political reasons, but the protocol is about trade not politics and it's giving NI the best of both worlds, in terms of trade, and boosting its economy, which the British government doesn't like because it shows up the rotten Brexit they have on the mainland. NI voted to stay in the EU and most people there are content with the protocol. Both the DUP and the British government are ignoring the democratic will of the majority of the people of NI as expressed in the election results. The protocol parties, Sinn Fein and the Alliance and SDLP parties outnumber those politicians objecting to the protocol.
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  11. How would business in the UK cope with all 4000 EU laws abolished at once? As for Kelvin MacKenzie, it's not all about you, you, you is it? What about what other Brexit voters thought they were signing up for or didn't realise they were signing up for? How would getting rid of the legislation make us 'true leaders in industry' as Rachel Watkyn said Sunak said? No one would want to trade with us if we have different rules to other big trading blocks. It's too costly to make product lines to fit too many individual countries that's why trade prefers the simpler less costly option of trading with bigger trading blocks.
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  12.  @bb5979 Is it? Where are the Brexit benefits then?
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  13. From himself. He's the only one who respects him. He would not know who Nicola Sturgeon was. I bet Nigel Farage fed him those lines.
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  14. Because people who are entitled to vote, voted for her. That's democracy.
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  15. One time when Harry was drunk and exiting a club, he appeared in a photo looking rather enraged and I noticed how very like his grandfather Prince Philip he looked. He's definitely from Charles's line
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  16. I think JRM is an actual conservative, heaven help us, but we did get a hard Brexit. It's just that many people who voted for Brexit didn't know what they were going to get because they didn't bother to do any research beforehand and many still don't understand Brexit.
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  17. The housing problem may be difficult but the government have never made an effort on this. Boris may say he wants to get people on benefits the opportunity to buy houses but that's blather. It's not going to happen unless there are lending institutions willing to lend to those people and I can't imagine that they will. Nigel is always good on negatives but he never proposes any positive solutions.
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  18. He'd hardly know who Nicola Sturgeon was. I bet Nigel Farage fed him those lines.
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  19. Zakhawi was also given control of the Treasury (HMRC) at the time when it was investigating his tax affairs. Why don't you talk about the ex party chairman and huge Tory party donor, Michael Ashcroft who runs a company that supplies agency staff to the NHS and who hugely benefits from the NHS vacancy issue. So what incentive does the Tory Party have to fix the vacancy problem in the NHS while they are taking donations from Ashcroft? Sunak can't be a leader as his hands are tied by Tory Party factions including the ERG. But there is also huge ignorance in the leadership of the Tory Party except for personal money making.
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  20. How does JRM know that EU suppliers in the EU aren't dumping on the UK, veg and other stuff that it can't sell within the EU because it does not meet EU standards?
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  21. The Guardian is hardly 'hard left' except from the viewpoint of the 'hard right'.
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  22. Not really. She's a lawyer who can't seem to help breaking the law and breaking rules as if they don't apply to her, and no matter what she believes in she doesn't achieve. She tried to avoid the fine and the penalty though. Are rule abiders a 'woke blob'? Aren't the Tories meant to be the party of law and order?
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  23. What's the point of voting for people who don't want to do anything for their salaries?
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  24.  @Queen.lizard.1947  In the big picture it's very relevant, when the big picture is controlled by liars and information on the big picture is given by liars.
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  25. Don't kid yourself. Making up this conspiracy story to defend yourself shows how dishonourable you are.
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  26. Khan is not as left wing as Ken.
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  27.  @chrisharrison763  That's the easy bit. Talk is cheap. Boris is good at talk - not so good at delivery.
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  28.  @janetmoreton4607  Just do a bit of research. The British don't eat certain fish types in nearly the same quantity as Europeans do. British fishermen catch more of those types than they can sell in Britain.
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  29. £600 million to evict 300 people whom Rwanda has no obligation to detain in Rwanda and under a deal whereby Rwanda can send an unlimited number of Rwandans to the UK - that's not a good deal for British taxpayers. Labour has already come up with a better idea. Why the Tories keep flogging this dead horse is a mystery. The Lords are trying to save us from this crap but they cannot block legislation ultimately if the Commons are determined to push it through.
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  30. @mr grumps Just because he seems a 'jolly nice chap' doesn't mean he is.
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  31. Just declaring anything you don't like to be communism is ignorant.
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  32.  @paul756uk2  Not so. It's leading us more towards fascism than communism. You're getting your extremes muddled up. I don't see anyone in the Tory party anywhere near proposing to share the capital wealth of the country or to take it over on behalf of the country do you? They are more maniacs for privatising everything.
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  33.  @AllanHinde-mb2pr  I did. I voted for Khan
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  34. Shaun Bailey is the guy who was having a go at Sadiq Khan in the GLA over Khan's proposal to increase stop and search to combat knife crime. Bailey inferred it was a racist policy. Then when he decided to stand for London Mayor, Bailey did a U turn on that as he realised his stance wasn't popular. He's an ambitious opportunist and basically he just tows the line of the government in order to get on, and throws dirt at opponents by smearing with false information.
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  35. No Nigel. Instead of finding a massive way to up the private sector involvement what about some massive upping of funding for the NHS? I'm not against involving the private sector as a temporary measure to get waiting lists down but not allowing them to cherry pick or takeover on a permanent basis.
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  36. I remember Brexiteers being challenged about whether they knew what they were voting for and whether they realised what would happen when we left the EU, particularly if we left under a hard Brexit. They would say 'yes we know what we're voting for'. Remainers said that farming would be hit hard. Who was listening at the time? Were farmers listening? There are currently no checks on imports from the EU. Boris has chosen not to make any checks on them so the EU has an advantage over British farmers. Butchering is not just about slaughtering. It's about cutting and preparing meat in the way that the supermarkets require. Some of the problems experienced by pig farmers are down to supermarket contracts which require them to produce so many pigs, even if they can't get them properly butchered, and one pig farmer says it will take 10 months (presumably until the end of his contract) to stop the process. In the meantime they will have to slaughter and dispose of pigs they can't bring to market.
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  37. Could the energy companies not afford to hedge, or were they more concerned with using increased profits to pay increased dividends to shareholders? Many energy companies were just too small though.
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  38. @mr grumps No he's not normal. He's a wealthy man who works to become wealthier and has a wealthy man's interests at heart. He's just like the Tories in fact.
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  39. * bear not bare
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  40. People are individuals and different. You can only talk about your own experience really, and it seems like you don't understand depression. It's more than unhappiness. It's sometimes something overwhelming that people can't find a way out of on their own. It's not just about exerting willpower.
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  41. Whereas the UK government is doing its best to undermine UK democracy.
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  42. A hard Brexit was always going to damage the fishing industry. Fish are only wanted if sold fresh. Most of the fish that British fishermen caught was the kind that Europeans wanted but British people largely did not. A hard Brexit has put too many expensive bureaucratic barriers in the way of selling them to the EU. The fish that the British prefer (cod and other white fish) are normally caught around Norway but Britain failed to get a deal with Norway after Brexit because they would not agree to Norway's conditions. This is a failure of politicians to care about or do research into the fishing industry before Brexit and that includes Farage who still seems to think there's some Brexit gain to be realised, and it also includes fishermen who believed the fairytales being spun.
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  43. Does that absolve the predator from responsibility?
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  44. Divide and rule is what the Tories rely on. Setting workers against each other is a common tactic. The government could end this strike any time they wanted to.
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  45. Speak for yourself.
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  46. Sunak wasn't elected by anyone except Tory Party members. Hardly a representative section of the electorate or one with any judgement. They also elected Liz Truss.
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  47. It was only held to stop the Tory Party from fracturing. Cameron was confident that Remain would win so didn't make a lot of effort to point out the benefits of being in the EU and the downside to being out of it.
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  48. If you can't read I get why you'd consider other uses
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  49.  @moraymac2922  Tories will destroy your standard of living.
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  50.  @Cailean_MacCoinnich  People keep voting for the SNP though don't they? They must think they are doing something right.
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  51. Habib doesn't seem to know that there is no legal method for asylum seekers to enter Britain.
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  52. Thank goodness no one is forced to listen to Kelvin MacKenzie.
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  53. Not rational. Even the scientists and the energy companies say it will not make any difference to the international cost of energy. Energy is always priced on a world basis. There are also unverified risks.
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  54. But what would he actually do that would be effective? A lot of what he says is vacuous.
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  55.  @doilysimpkin6972  I take it back then but I'm surprised he remembered.
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  56. Have you noticed how Nigel Farage gets politicians with different viewpoints on his show because he knows that makes for more interesting TV than just listening to a load of whingers agreeing with each other.
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  57.  @U.R.2.H  Tories will have parties anywhere it seems.
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  58.  @stevec6427  You're right that was a typo of mine which I will correct.
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  59.  @robertmalyn6493  They can't ultimately block it. They can only try to make the Commons rethink on things such as things that won't work, are not good value, or don't make sense but the Commons can reject the Lords' opinions.
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  60. You've just uncritically swallowed what Farage has fed you. Well done. It saves on the effort of thinking doesn't it? Farage only criticises a policy as one for the rich, when he doesn't agree with it personally. He's perfectly happy to accept policies that only benefit the rich otherwise.
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  61. Parhaps because Israel is being supported by arms from the British state. Palestinians are not so supported and Britain is doing nothing to try and stop the massacres.
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  62. Decent regulation? I thought Rees-Smugg was all for deregulation. As for 'scare stories' I remember seeing videos from the US showing fire coming through people's water supply.
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  63.  @jujutrini8412  I don't think they care at all whether they get passenger fares or how much they get since their contracts mean the government will pay them, regardless. The taxpayer's wallet is deeper than the magic money tree is high, it seems.
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  64.  @ArtyEffem  He's had 8 failed attempts at that.
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  65. Plenty of people have expressed regret for not having the jab while they were dying in ICU and they've been recorded saying it. There have been news reports and video recordings. Sadly many are no longer alive to express any regret. I'm sure a lot of people with long Covid regret not having the vaccine also. That's not to deny that some people have suffered from side effects but in the scale of things the vaccines have saved more than they have harmed.
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  66. The new elite is the same as the old elite over time, and many of them are elected. The managerial, middle class is not the elite. They are not the owners of the means of production. They work for others including big corporations. They do what is expected of them by their employers. People who disagree with the opinions of the middle class, call them an elite as a way of undermining them. It benefits the real elite to squeeze the size of the middle class. What you are talking about are cultural differences. This sort of stuff, propounded in this video is sheer ignorance which fails to understand the meaning of the term 'elite' and these false elite theories are pushed by the real elite and their supporters as a distraction from seeing their real power.
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  67. I condemn the Hamas attack in Israel but these people are not as unsafe as the people in Gaza or even the people in Israel . I wish there was a bit of balance or perspective. Why is 'Palestine will be free' a genocidal chant?
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  68. @Deartháir agus mairtíreach Then you are sadly lacking in judgement and common sense. Commiserations.
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  69. She's toning it down to get elected. As soon as she's elected it will be toned up again - reverse ferret.
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  70. If the Welsh want to call it by a Welsh name that's up to them. Why should anyone else get their knickers in a twist about it?
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  71.  @saxglend9439  Labour is not in power and hasn't been since 2010.
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  72.  @EskiLdn  It matters who is in power when you are wanting to complain about what's happening to you under their control. The Cons have gone more right wing than ever. Those who think they set left wing policies must be to the right of Ghengis Khan. They do what they need to do to stay in power, but often that means telling a lot of lies when they think their power is slipping. If you think they have to move to the left to please voters, that means the voters are to the left of the Cons. Moving to please the voters is democracy surely?
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  73.  @saxglend9439  Of course each new government inherits a situation but then what they choose to do about it is usually coloured by their own ideology. There was a world banking crisis when Labour was last in power and they had to spend billions bailing out the banks. When the Tories came into power in 2010 they decided that years of austerity was the answer to the economic situation they found, unlike the USA and Portugal who came out of recession faster without resorting to years of austerity. Now we have Covid which has forced the government to spend billions but not always wisely (e.g £37bn handed out to friends and supporters without any competition for contracts, then not publishing those contracts as legally required). So far they haven't suggested that more austerity is needed but that may change. Brexit has also damaged the economy, particularly the hard form of Brexit that Boris opted for.
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  74. Would the consequences be imprisonment of the Home Secretary if they pushed ahead regardless, as this woman wants. I do hope so.
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  75. You can't sack civil servants for refusing to break the law. The civil service code forbids them from breaking the law. The Rwanda policy is illegal.
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  76. Covid isn't over but the NHS also has to absorb the consequences all the political failures in health policy. Why refer to the NHS as a bottomless pit for money? The UK spends less on health proportionately than many other countries. Why do you think there are not enough staff? Of course it's a money problem. The pay is not good enough to fill all the vacancies and people have worked under huge pressures. A lot of staff were lost because of Brexit also.
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  77.  @billhawkins192  I don't know all the circumstances. Perhaps the parents didn't know or didn't know he was a predator. After all, until recently he was regarded as a well respected celebrity. I did hear that the girl was recovering from an eating disorder and he was 'helping her'. He holds himself out as being some kind of wise guru. She described him as a 'friend' before the incident.
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  78.  @billgreen576  Maybe naivety in trusting him or desperation to cure her of her eating disorder. We should not judge without knowing the facts.
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  79. I don't know why there is so much co-hosting on TV where the hosts present subjects like it's a tennis match with speech alternating between them.
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  80. You want him to not represent you in government then?
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  81. In his last post Sajid David resigned. He wasn't moved on. He resigned because No 10 wanted to remove his aides and for him to us theirs, if I remember correctly which would have removed his independence as a Secretary of State. Having said that I've no love for any Tory Ministers and think they are all bad in various Tory ways.
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  82.  @paul756uk2  When Communism has gone wrong (not as envisaged by Marx) because power has been concentrated among people who acted against their people, it has made little difference to many as you say, and maybe it's not possible for it ever to work. The key to avoiding dictatorship is to preserve democracy. Nothing is perfect but democracy is the best of the options. While a country has democratic elections open to all, it can't be said to be Communist or Fascist. However US and UK governments seem to be taking measures to limit democracy. I'd never call the Tories communist though. They are capitalists seeking to accumulate as much wealth for themselves as possible.
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  83.  @LargeChap  Yes I think it's not possible for it to work, except in small simple societies such as tribal ones, mainly because of the tendency of power to corrupt those in power. Only democratic systems allow governments to be rejected. I wasn't intending to defend communism by the way, just initially responding to a commenter that seems to think it's what we have now.
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  84.  @edmundblackaddercoc8522  I don't think a caveat in their literature would have given them immunity. It was the acceptance of governments to this condition, required before being supplied with it. Governments at the time had nothing else with which to combat Covid.
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  85. He achieved more as Mayor of London than any of his successors. He was a talented politician.
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  86. They are not obliged to break the law. The civil service code forbids them from breaking the law so you can't sack them for that. Rees Mogg ignores the fact that the Rwanda policy has bene judged illegal.
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  87. I think the idea is that they won't have a choice but the Rwanda deal is bad value for British taxpayers for many reasons.
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  88. I don't blame Coutts because Farage kept accusing them of reasons that were not true.
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  89.  @sircxx8621  but she probably wouldn't
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  90. Is he advocating letting the pandemic rip without restraint? That would also steal years off people and more children losing parents and grandparents.
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  91. I'd rather export Nigel and import someone nicer in his place.
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  92. Labour is for democracy and consent which the Tories clearly aren't. They are just for enriching their backers.
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  93. Why should it bother him? His particular obsessions reveal his nasty character underneath the superficial 'bonhommie'. Oh of course, he makes his money by being a controversialist. Lots of students studied from home online and perhaps not having the disruptive classmates to contend with helped. Also some people fall down on exam day, and that may not be typical of their work, but due to exam stress. People with degrees could still go into trades and skills. German skilled workers are more highly educated than British ones and British companies tended to drop apprenticeships. We just don't have the set up for that as much as we used to . I remember having work done on my house where I had to tell the workmen where the electrical points were to go because they could not read the plan which displayed the points. I also remember that the same company sacked a young man as soon as he'd passed his city and guilds qualification in order to avoid having to pay him at a higher rate.
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  94. He gets ignored because he 'votes for nobody' as he says.
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  95. Would that be the Celts then?
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  96. I thought by law that people could not be summarily sacked. There had to be a procedure with a warning given and a chance to improve before moving to sacking. Has that changed? What is the background? Was it just this one comment or was it the final straw, a flippancy by someone who was perceived as generally racist on a daily basis? How can anyone judge without knowing all the circumstances.
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  97.  @Lorraine-p4r  Because she's not great. She's crap and I say that as a female Londoner.
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  98. Not being able to get GP appointments is not to do with 'an exploding population' which is dog whistle language for blaming immigrants, it's because so many GPs were near retirement age and are retiring and not enough newly trained GPs are in the pipeline. More were needed anyway because of an ageing population. The government has known about this for a long time but hasn't planned for training enough new ones to fill the vacancies. There is also a lot of backlog pressure for appointments from people who postponed them during Covid lockdowns or who have long Covid.
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  99. A whole channel of airheads does not appeal, so they have to bring back The Mouth.
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  100. The sad truth is that a lot of the working class vote Tory, even when Labour had Corbyn as a leader who actually promised to do a lot that would have helped the working class. Starmer thinks he has to win some Tory voters back for Labour to get back into government.
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  101.  @slimytoad1447  No party is going to be a perfect fit for a single individual but understanding the ideologies behind the parties, it's hard to see how the working class ever thought the Tories represented them except in sowing division and encouraging prejudice, and using false notions of patriotism. I suppose in boom times when things seemed to be improving economically, the Tories' philosophy of individuals getting on by hard work would seem valid at the time, but booms are often followed by busts, and who carries main burden of those - the working class. Not voting is no answer. The non voters are just an ignored section of the population.
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  102. What a stupid woman to think boredom would drive immigrants back to where they came from.
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  103. Needs must.
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  104. The UKIP party had a purple version of the British flag with a pound sign on it, and GB news itself uses a distorted version of the British flag. I don't remember a great hoo ha about that. This whipped up hysteria about the colours of the England cross of St George on the England kit is fake.
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  105. Labour will get it out, if it gets the chance.
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  106. You voted for it so don't be miserable, vote differently. Your culture is not going away if you have it. Dubai is basically a desert with soulless materialistic infrastructure on top. In Dubai your culture does not apply, your democratic freedoms don't apply.
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  107. Clarke was always anti-union. He regarded unions as self-interested groups. He didn't see any benefits in them at all, although unions often defend standards that affect public safety and welfare. What's happened to his right eye? It looks infected or damaged, and he's lost a tooth - maybe had a fall?
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  108. No it's not treason. The government trying to force them to break the law is the problem. The civil service code forbids them from breaking the law. Can't believe how ignorant GB News viewers are but they are likely to stay that way by watching GB News and shysters like Rees Mogg.
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  109.  @Peter-uy3ti  No they are not. They are resisting breaking the law. Your ignorance needs looking at.
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  110. Laurence Fox is limp brained.
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  111.  @cun7us  Farage is essentially a fascist by inclination.
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  112. No.
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  113. Jacob Rees Mogg is such a shyster. He's stating that civil servants should carry out the lawful policy of the government completely ignoring the fact that the Rwanda policy is undoubtedly unlawful. Even Braverman, The Minister responsible for it, has admitted this. Rees Mogg likes to try and pull the wool over his audience's eyes for the sake of his own agenda. Shyster.
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  114. He lived in 'McCartney and Stone' flats? Well now we know what Paul and Mick Jagger got up to in their spare time.
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  115. Is saying Tory voters don't deserve to be resuscitated the same as saying she wouldn't do it? Probably not, but she would not be trusted as a nurse after saying that. If you want to be better than the left though (as Dan Wootton says), then treat the NHS better and fund it better to do its job.
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  116. JRM would always want to scrap the BBC licence no matter what the excuse. Lineker is just the latest excuse. I mean, good heavens, we wouldn't want a TV station capable of holding the government to account, would we?
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  117. Trump probably wouldn't even know who Nicola Sturgeon was. Someone must have fed him those lines. I wonder who?
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  118.  @johnn278  Ah yes. I forgot about the golf course connection.
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  119. Resolving a dispute doesn't just depend on one person. It's more democratic than that.
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  120. Or they could be saying frack off.
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  121. But we don't need more ignoramuses and noodle brains.
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  122. Perhaps GB News is failing because listening to w*nkers stroking each others egos isn't entertaining.
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  123. @@SimonWeston-ms9vs That's not logical. How is a lack of knowledge related what someone wants or doesn't want.
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  124. She was a very rigid thinker or stubborn if you like. She didn't let facts or evidence or failure of her policies change her mind
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  125. I don't know, but Shaun Bailey's hopes of becoming London Mayor are already over.
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  126. Putin is a mafia like kleptocrat. That's what he's about. Holding onto power for his own interests, a bit like the Tories.
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  127. I think it may be in light of a recent survey that found a lot of NHS staff were experiencing racism in the NHS. They don't have enough staff and need to keep hold of those they have.
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  128. Doesn't realise that there's less democracy out of the EU because it's other countries that will dominate your economy instead, some of them very unsavoury, or small cabals with in the Tory Party with very particular and vested interests (such as hedge funds) which have nothing to do with the interests of the British public. Also he wasn't asked how he was managing now that he can't get enough staff since Brexit.
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  129. Dozens (plural) is more than one dozen, so two qualifies as dozens unless you are making up your own language. The civil service doesn't deliberately set out to stymie the agenda of the Tories. They just can't be expected to put themselves in jeopardy by breaking the law. Breaking the law is against the government approved Civil Service Code as well as being against the law of course. Strangely the so called party of 'law and order' seems to have no moral qualms about breaking the law themselves. GB News presenters are thick or biased or probably both. Yes Minister is entertainment, not reality.
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  130. As far as I know she's never suggested anyone should be shot.
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  131.  @farmerned6  When did she support Hamas? As for supporting the IRA, she distanced herself from that support in 2017 when asked about it saying her views had changed since 1984 and MI5 had changed. Supporting any side at that time, including the British side would have meant supporting shooting.
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  132. You aren't paying him to give us his opinions. His opinions were given in his own time and not through the BBC. He's not a political journalist for the BBC so there's no conflict of interest. The BBC has not banned even political pundits like Andrew Neil from giving their political opinions outside the BBC as Andrew Neil was editor of the right wing magazine The Spectator at the same time as he worked for the BBC. It's hypocrisy by the BBC
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  133. He was a 'guarantor' who 'guarantees' the loan.
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  134. No, but Israel is stealing land that does not belong to them.
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  135.  @thomasrobert4654  It's not the doctors destroying it. They accepted it long ago, but you do know that GPs are small business people contracted to work for the NHS don't you? It has always been that way since the creation of the NHS.
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  136. The title is inaccurate. I don't think schools tell children that they are born in the wrong body. That feeling comes from some children themselves.
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  137. The Freedom of the City of York is bestowed by the City. The Sussex titles were bestowed by the Queen, not by Sussex.
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  138. But GB news uses a distorted version of the British flag and UKIP used a purple and yellow version with a pound sign in the middle. I don't remember a huge outcry against those.
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  139. For indigenous people it's easier to get off the streets because they have access to free public services to help them if they want it.
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  140. Lee Anderthal was part of the Tory government that was in power for 14 years.
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  141.  @fidelitysmart9526  Shaun is quite thick and just parrots the government line. He also wasn't above smearing in his opponents with untruths.
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  142.  @fidelitysmart9526  As I said, Khan increased stop and search (for knives). Shaun Bailey was against that, calling it racist. Then Shaun u turned on that when he stood for Mayor as he realised it would not be a popular view. It was always going to be more difficult to fight knife crime in a period of austerity when the Tories had cut the central grants to local authorities by up to 80% and cut police budgets resulting in a reduction of 20,000 police. As well as that budget cuts resulted in the closure of many projects designed to keep youths off the streets. At the same time youth unemployment increased and many unemployed youths turned to selling drugs as a means of earning a living which brought them into gangs and gang culture.
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  143.  @fidelitysmart9526  No I mean Shaun Bailey. I actually saw a video on youtube which covered a live session of the GL Assembly with Khan proposing extra stop and search and Bailey essentially inferring that operationally it was racist. I'll try to find it again but it was quite a long time ago. At least a couple of years I'd say. Here's one short clip but it's not the one I'm looking for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X14hnYbd0Tk
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  144.  @fidelitysmart9526  Here is the record of the London Assembly discussion Jan 18th 2018. I can't find the video at the moment, but in the video you see Bailey questioning Khan. In the record you'll see that Bailey's main concern was that black kids would not be overly targeted in stop and search. https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2018/0171 Here is a relevant extract: Shaun Bailey AM:  Mr Mayor, can you guarantee young black men in London will not be targeted excessively by the police? (Sorry I can't seem to get the full extract into youtube but if you find the above sentence in the text it follows on from there.)
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  145.  @fidelitysmart9526  Here's the video. See from 29:26 for Bailey's question. Khan says the police will stop and search whoever is suspected of carrying a knife (and since black youngsters are the ones most involved he can't guarantee that searches will not be more on black youths, but he can't say that as Bailey will accuse him of racism. Also it's up to the police at operational level who they check, in line with reasonable suspicion. It's not up to Khan which is another reason why he can't give a guarantee.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0qXLphyI0s
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  146.  @torqueofthedevil8145  Trump takes no notice of anyone who can't advance his own interests.
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  147. *conceited not conceded. (Who else is stupid?)
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  148. Nonsense. There are no such things as high tax globalists.
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  149. This is a pathetic grumble. Waterstone's staff will help people find books on the shelves or order them for customers if requested.
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  150. They are not all the same. Diverse, not the same.
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  151.  @shaunfisher9292  We've not had an IS attack in the UK for some time. Russia has been more recently at war with IS via support for the Syrian regime.
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  152. To be fair to doctors, mental health services are severely underfunded and there is more and more demand for them. People are individuals and need more attention than doctors can give in 10 minute appointments. A good relationship with a doctor should always involve an exchange of information and sometimes assertiveness if need be, but without being aggressive. It's hard for a depressed person to be assertive on their own behalf I guess, and it requires some understanding of their own condition. I don't believe there is a 'cure' for depression. Symptoms can be alleviated with medication but in the end only the person themselves can get themselves out of it - sometimes with the help of friends or family. Some people never escape it, and poverty I think can be one cause, because of all the pressures and fractured relationships that can come with that.
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  153.  @htb123  I'm not blaming those who have been harmed. I don't think it's a simple as you are making out.
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  154.  @htb123  What should doctors do, in your opinion, when approached by someone with depression?
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  155.  @htb123  That may work for some people but not for all, I think, but I do think pills should be a last resort or a temporary one, especially when they are addictive.
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  156.  @Nathan-hc2bb  Who should they pin it on?
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  157. His parents may have been able to go to work without concerning themselves about the unions after Thatcher, but I bet their pay rates suffered as a consequence.
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  158.  @johnjjl  Really. Nissan came to the UK they said because of the skills of the automotive workers here (plus they could pay workers less in the North East and pocket a government subsidy also).
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  159. Not so. Boris did this to himself by getting taxpayer funded defence lawyers. The client of the lawyers is the government as they are the payers and that means the lawyers have to hand over the info they have on Boris to the government.
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  160.  @andrewkenny4633  None now. UK oysters used to be cleaned in a plant in the Netherlands but since Brexit the UK is not entitled to use that facility and we didn't build one in the UK. I just looked all this stuff up. UK fishermen could have looked it up before voting for Brent.
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  161. That Chechen leader later tried to stage a coup against Putin and now is dead, but even all Chechens did not support him. Russian supporting Chechens committed horrible tortures in Chechnya against those who advocated independence from Russia.
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  162. Woke means disagreeing with your views?
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  163. They do have some policies and principles but policies are generally readied more closer to election time so you know what they'd do if they were in government. It's no good having too many fixed polices too early because circumstances change, the economy changes, and the government may steal your policies of parts of them or try to sabotage them
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  164.  @BroncoBill321  It's called a general election which the Tories don't want to hold quickly.
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  165.  @robertmalyn6493  It's part of the system of checks and balances to try and get the Commons to reconsider bad ideas or just improve them. They can't ultimately block it though. Without the Lords any loony badly thought out idea could become law without further considered scrutiny.
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  166.  @robertmalyn6493  If it ain't broke don't fix it. I do think a consideration by another body with lots of experience is a good thing and has proved to be over the centuries. Whether the Commons takes notice or not is a different matter. Imagine if the Post Office had been subject to an independent assessor who looked at what they were doing and how they were behaving. That would not have been a bad thing and might have saved them a lot of trouble in the longer run as well as protecting the lives of innocent sub-postmasters. Sadly those who were in the position to scrutinize the PO were not really independent. The assessors brought in by the P.O were funded by them and when they started unearthing the truth, they were dispensed with.
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  167. A new one appeared locally. Very convenient for me and I had a very nice haircut but I saw no one else in the shop the whole time I was there. Can't believe the guy was a criminal though. He was very nice. About 30. Quite gentle. I'd say he was probably a graduate but knew how to cut hair. I don't think his English was more than basic as he wasn't really chatty though asked some polite questions. The 2 advertised hairdressers were him and a woman. I didn't see her though. Not surprising as the business was not busy. Charged £35 for wash, haircut and blow try. I stopped going to my regular hairdresser during Covid lockdowns and then realised I could cut my own hair reasonably well by bringing it to the front on both sides. I'd then ask a family member to look at the back to check it was evenly cut. It generally was, except for a few wisps of hair that needed trimming. My regular hairdresser was charging £60 for a wash haircut and blow dry before lockdowns and the price seemed to go up on each visit (I'd visit about every 6 months). By now I imagine it would be about £80. He did offer a small reductions to seniors but kept forgetting to apply it and I'd forget to ask. It was quite a walk away uphill and now it's too much for me.
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  168.  @Sam-qh1sh  Waste? Surely it was the better pay that made the difference.
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  169.  @Sam-qh1sh  The NHS has to pay training costs for doctors and nurses which in the case of doctors can be 7 years long. Then the private sector just swoops them up for free. It can also pay staff more because it charges its patients, and in the UK it doesn't do the most expensive work such as A&E. When things go wrong in private sector medicine the patients get shipped back to the NHS to deal with via A&E. Also the private sector is charging the NHS a lot for the work it carries out via NHS contracts. It charges enough to make a profit.
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  170. He's easily wound up about trivia isn't he?
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  171. This is sick-making to watch. Currie and Woodburn are horrible people. To call Angela Rayner a gobby northerner, is rich coming from Edwina Currie - pot calling the kettle black there.
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  172. This is a very thoughtless or childish speech on freedom. One person's 'freedom' can take away the freedom of another. There's the freedom to catch Covid 19. Then there's the freedom to give it to other people. And then there's the freedom to overload the NHS and mentally destroy or kill off a few carers. Ah, there's freedom and then there's selfishness with no thought for others or communities. Together we stand. Divided we fall. He references WWII but that was fought together with people doing as they were told. Soldiers don't get to choose to ignore orders. Civilian populations didn't get to choose whether they 'blacked out' or not at night.
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  173. He can't even get elected as an MP. He's had 9 tries and 9 fails.
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  174. Migrants please, not ex pats.
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  175.  @kirstyi7860  I did give all sides a decent think but there's a point when, having done that, you know what you think and are ready to comment. I did explain my point. If you look at Farage's record he's more about what suits Farage than taking any consistent logical rational position. Here is Farage criticising the Brexit deal he supported. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS8FZjedq9c&t=488s
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  176.  @SheilaTitchener  Ah, kindred spirits then.
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  177. A forthcoming election?
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  178.  @carolmcln5028  Not really because Israel is not letting enough of it through and some illegal settlers have been destroying the aid too.
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  179. It's probably working in a secret way. I bet the hosts get to see the dislike figures.
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  180. Douglas Murray should perhaps be more sympathetic to truckers in the UK and what they are having to go through because of Brexit, but all that is hardly mentioned by his ilk. They'd rather sweep it under the carpet.
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  181.  @alanfenton512  Notice that in his political career he's never reticent in expressing his views about what's wrong with things but never really sticks his neck out by saying what solutions he'd propose.
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  182. working on the hypothesis.
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  183.  @jujutrini8412  Though it's not really the train companies dragging it out. It's really the government stopping them settling. Thatcher wanted to crush the miners union. Today's Tory government wants to crush the railworkers' unions in order to savagely cost cut on services for the public and terms and conditions and jobs of railworkers. The government actually did an assessment of how long they thought the railworkers could afford to hold out but they were drastically wrong. The rail workers learned from the miners and don't call all out strikes but periodic ones.
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  184.  @barneybear1971  The new rules came in before 2014 as I experienced it. Many people may have not known until a short time before that so they have been campaigning since, 10 years at least.
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  185. Farage talks as if there was no complexity in moving out of the EU and no real time needed to be allowed for it. crazy.
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  186. O no. They are fascists at heart and would fix things so that they could never be removed afterwards. They are also full of bullshit themselves.
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  187. @mr grumps That's superficial. I vote for people on the basis of their policies, not their personas.
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  188. @mr grumps Nothing wrong with being wealthy except when the wealthy club together as a cartel to rig everything in their favour and against the general population.
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  189. @mr grumps Labour.
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  190. @mr grumps These https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WknQQHuFcXc&list=LL&index=1&t=497s
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  191. @mrgrumps3062 Yes it does matter if you are in power and corruptly benefitting the wealthy at the expense of the rest of the population.
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  192.  @dave710  Glad to amuse.
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  193. This was the sort of touching faith people had in Hitler. Will people never learn?
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  194. Very one sided and divisive presentation by Tice.
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  195. So he's an expert on economics now, is he?
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  196.  @andycapp3867  I've watched some of his TV history programmes and my husband pointed out some mistakes he'd made. Perhaps his researchers let him down but you'd think he'd know himself.
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  197. The RMT hasn't had any offers from the companies where the DfT is in control as Eddie said. Get back to some research or listen better! Why should people endlessly accept cuts in real terms in pay and fire and rehire conditions to provide ever increasing profits to the already wealthy? Where is your sense of social justice or is Britain to turn into a workforce of slaves with no control over pay and conditions?
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  198. He sounds like he has COPD.
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  199. Hitler
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  200. Is Bigmouth still popular? He's not credible.
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  201. I think it may be in light of a recent survey that found a lot of NHS staff were experiencing racism in the NHS. They don't have enough staff and need to keep hold of those they have.
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  202. Our food standards are going to drop further post Brexit and Boris is doing no customs checks on any imports into the UK as he should be, so it's Paterson's own party that is responsible for drops in food safety. His party also cut so much of the central grant to local government that local government was forced to cut back in all sorts or areas including food inspection.
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  203. The Tories always appoint some big moneybags as party chairman.
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  204. Rubbish. This is made up nonsense by the newspapers. It you look at the set up in Parliament, there's so much furniture between her and Boris, he wouldn't be able to see, even if she had, which she didn't.
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  205.  @traceymcgowan826  Ah that's what they always say about strong women. Don't fall for that.
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  206. These are not excuses, they are precautions until we know.
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  207. @Uri Ljlko If he was only looking after his own ambitions his membership would throw him out. He's elected to that position because they regard him as the best person to represent them. If a Union offered wages to its officers that made them 'suffer' that would not be a good advert for the Union and its principles. It would be seen as just another exploiter.
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  208. @Uri Ljlko It's a wage rise for their members they are negotiating at their members' request. What is the justification for members wages to fall in real terms year on year when profits are rising. I understand the rail companies, or some of them, were willing to settle pay rises with the Unions but the government would not let them. If you believe real terms wage rises cause inflation and that's wrong, then do you believe that no one should get wage rises ever? The fact is that many people including this group of workers have had no pay rises in real terms and yet inflation is still going up. There are other factors causing inflation, some are external such as the price of oil, generally inflation is caused by supply and demand issues. Reports have shown that many people are now relying on credit to pay their way and getting into ever more debt. That is unsustainable long term.
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  209. @Uri Ljlko What tosh! Firstly the RMT is a Union, not a big monolith. I think you must be referring to the Railway industry. That's just the stuff you tell yourself or someone tells you. If you lack capacity to think, someone else will do it for you, usually the Tory media. Lack of control? Do you think there is no management? What evidence do you have that the workers are lazy. What is a reasonable workload or working week in your mind? Are people allowed time with their families? The plan of the government is to cut functions which contribute to safety such as maintenance, the presence of ticket offices, guards on trains and moving people to ever longer hours and shifts. A tired train driver is not a safe one.
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  210. @Uri Ljlko O dear - a Thatcherite miner. You must have been popular back in the day. Did you volunteer to give back your pay since you felt miners were being overpaid? Miners risked their lives and health in a dangerous industry and if profits are high they deserved their fair share. Why is it that the workers are always to blame for the country's ills and not those in control of the country and ripping it off? Who put the country in a dire situation? Was it Brexiteers? Was it those in government spending and wasting billions of pounds on their friends and supporters in ineffective non-competitive contracts which they still refuse to publish, contrary to legal requirements? We are being ruled by a criminal bunch at the moment and not only are they criminal but they are lazy and incompetent. They don't believe in government doing anything except creating a laissez faire economic system where everyone is at the mercy of the market (which has no mercy).
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  211. @Uri Ljlko I don't think you caused the death of your industry. I think it was cheap coal from places like Poland and China that undercut the price of British coal, and China in particular was accused of dumping coal (selling it at less than cost price). Thatcher wasn't prepared to protect the British coal industry it seems, but it's all Academic now because green measures would likely have meant that we turned away from coal in the long run. The thing about Thatcher was she didn't try to justify closure like that. She didn't do it gradually or try to encourage replacement industries. She called miners 'the enemy within' and used strong arm tactics just to show how powerful she was. Not a nice person. She destroyed communities that relied on the industry, without a thought for the consequences.
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  212. @Uri Ljlko I think you are making assumptions. The NHS is composed of individual NHS Trusts and purchasers who can make their own decisions. It's not a big monolith as you suggest, and some of the providers are private companies. It's all run through contracts which are revised on an annual basis in line with changing needs. I've had 7 operations and a birth in the NHS. I didn't see any laziness there. 70% of NHS costs are on staff and staff are the ones that give care. Cutting staff equals cutting care and capacity for care. The Tories have done a lot of restructuring of the NHS including basing the restructurings on outside advice and bringing in managers from outside industries (who know nothing about the NHS). So your ideas are out of date and not well researched - just the product of ignorant and lazy thinking, probably influenced by the Tory media, I guess.
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  213. That's a qualification for a mate, not a political leader. We already had that in Boris Johnson. How can people be so naive?
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  214. Grow up.
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  215. That's peanuts in the scale of things, that's why. If people keep focusing on that they miss the bigger picture.
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  216.  @monkeynews8311  No. People can have a different opinion from me and I respect that if it's reasoned and evidence based, but in this case it's a lack of common sense.
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  217. Why? They are trying to save British taxpayers from the worst value deal since Boris spaffed so much Covid money uselessly up the wall. The Lords can only push it back to the Commons to reconsider their objections but they can't ultimately block it if the Commons is determined to go ahead with it.
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  218. The government gave them no alternative. They are destroying the railways in their ignorance and greed.
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  219. Just keep well away from him.
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  220.  @louis-philippearnhem6959  Honest, at least.
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  221. In what sense are they patriots? Patriots according to what definition?
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  222.  @zeldaharris6876  Accepted.
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  223. I thought that cabal had now given up on the idea. Whatever they do now they can't save themselves in the face of their 14 year record of failure.
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  224. Yes because there's be no one to do the dirty work for the Tories. Rees Mogg says civil servants must carry out lawful government policy, which is true but he completely ignores the fact that Rwanda policy has been judged unlawful even by the Minister responsible for it (Braverman). It seems it's easy to pull the wool over the eyes of GB news watchers judging by the comments on this video. The civil service code forbids civil servants from breaking the law.
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  225.  @scepteredisle  The civil service code forbids civil servants from breaking the law and the Rwanda policy has been judged unlawful. Even the Minister responsible for it has admitted that (Braverman).
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  226.  @Threemore650  People who are prepared to break the law contrary to the civil service code since the Rwanda policy is unlawful?
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  227.  @Threemore650  What isn't true? I don't understand your last comment. The Home Secretary does not decide whether English natives should be allowed a home or not. What nonsense are you talking? I'm not a fan of Braveman but she was born in Harrow so she is English by nationality and she was elected by her constituents in Fareham. Do you understand anything about Britain or the British political system?
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  228. Is it radical to want avoid breaking the law which is against the civil service code?
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  229. If you've half a mind to be on GB News, that's all you need. At least they occasionally invite someone with knowledge these days who can challenge the witlessness.
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  230. You'd think they'd have properly armed security guards on public arenas after the warning that group events were going to be targeted.
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  231.  @greenandpleasant5523  Speeding and International law to mention two, plus Ministerial rules, more than once.
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  232. I'm sure people will be happy with small compensation for earthquakes that destabilise their properties and fire that comes through their water systems as in the USA.
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  233. The energy companies and experts say that fracking won't make any difference to the price of energy which is priced on a world basis. However the risks have not been properly assessed.
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  234.  @armand9404  Maybe we should have energy rationing and more communal hubs where people who can't afford to heat their homes can stay warm.
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  235.  @armand9404  You're being a bit of a Jeremiah, I think. Rationing could mean rotating energy-on times rather than cutting off permanently. I remember energy blackouts in the 1970s under Edward Heath's government. We survived.
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  236. I think it may be in light of a recent survey that found a lot of NHS staff were experiencing racism in the NHS. They don't have enough staff and need to keep hold of those they have
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  237.  FourZeroFive  If HR is there to address racism, why was so much racism experienced according to a recent survey?
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  238.  FourZeroFive  P.S. HR used to work to fair guidance/rules but in recent decades it's become more a tool of management.
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  239. What does patriotism mean? My country right or wrong? 'The last refuge of the scoundrel'? I think people are educated enough to judge things on their merits not with the presumption that my country is the best in the world at everything at all times. That's progress. However there is plenty to be proud of that Britain has fought for or created or invented to the benefit of its people and mankind. Parliamentary democracy, the Vote, workers rights, musical greatness, the NHS, its theatre and poets, fighting against Hitler, etc etc etc. I think the English are embarrassed to celebrate St George's Day since English history is a mixed one so what exactly is being celebrated? England was a nation that conquered and oppressed its neighbours, the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish as well as many other countries in the world and the flag has been commandeered by the far right to support their version of Englishness which is often racist.
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  240. He's like old style conservative when the party had 'one nation' conservatives and there was a wider span of views in the party.
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  241. Why be concerned about that? The Royal Family is strong enough to look after themselves. What Brexit has done to the poor and working class is much worse.
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  242. Don't be fooled. He may be nice to chat to but his beliefs are no joke.
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  243.  @michaelmurphy1127  He's no great supporter of the NHS and I've heard him talk about the need to scrap it in favour of an insurance system. I believe he's keen on a laissez faire economic system of the type they have in certain parts of Asia. That would reduce a lot of workers rights and standards of living. We had that in the Victorian age and generations of workers fought since then for their present day rights. He's cagey about what he's for rather than what he's against but he was a Trump supporter and is on the right of the political spectrum so it's fairly clear which type of economy he prefers. In a video from his “Common Sense” speaking tour, Farage is seen calling for an insurance-based system of healthcare dictated by market forces rather than central government. He said: “I think we’re going to have to think about healthcare very very differently. “And I think we’re going to have to move to an insurance-based system of healthcare.
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  244.  @michaelmurphy1127  I have already given you the references to find the evidence which was captured on film or video. I'm not going to do the donkey work for you. Nigel is very good at taking a populist stance and saying what he's against (which is easy). He's careful not to say what he's for but pretty well all people that far right are for a laissez faire economy and I know what it means. If an economy is largely unregulated with not much of a welfare state, that means a worse life for ordinary working people as they always take the brunt of economic downturns while the rich tax avoiders are largely able to ride out the storms. The pressures in unregulated capitalism are always for cutting costs which means cuts to pay and conditions for workers in real terms. The USA is a good example of wages not rising in real terms for decades.
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  245.  @michaelmurphy1127  'overrun by socialists'. Lol. Socialists brought about the NHS and many other good things in society. I'm sick of that tired and lazy Tory bullshit that it's 'wasteful and inefficient'. If it is, the Tories with have been in charge of it for long enough with their wasteful and expensive re-organisations so blame them. However when Margaret Thatcher first started saying it was wasteful and inefficient and needed reform, it had admin costs of 6% one of the lowest, if not the lowest in the world. The thing about the NHS and care when you are ill is that it's people heavy (about 70% of NHS costs are staff, or were then. I'm not sure what it is now but it can't be far off because care is delivered by people, by doctors but more frequently by nurses, and that's what people need to feel cared for and get better. Most of the rest of the spending is on drugs, equipment and accommodation. Efficiency in Tory terms means staff cuts. Even today the Tories refuse to publish a 'safe level of staffing' recommendation. As for Farage, I'll try and find that video/film and post it for you. I did hear it myself but it was some time ago and I didn't save it anywhere.
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  246.  @michaelmurphy1127  The conservatives voted against the establishment of the NHS 21 times before the act was passed. When I'm ill, I want care and competence. Efficiency is not the first thing on my mind, but you have given no examples of 'waste' which you complain about. I assume that the waste of public funds by this government on failed contracts, and contracts that have ripped off the public purse bothers you not a jot. Also, why is it that failing businesses always want government support (which is taxpayer support). If they are so 'efficient' they would not need that. Many have also defrauded the government by claiming furlough payments without putting their staff on furlough.
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  247.  @michaelmurphy1127  That sort of issue is something that should be raised with the local MP rather than profiting from it at the same time as criticising it.
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  248. More divisive than the Tory donor who said she should be shot?
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  249. It's not your country Lee more than any other voter. You want to dictate to everyone else.
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  250. Nothing to do with Remainers. Boris did this to himself by taking taxpeyer funded defence lawyers when he didn't need to.
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  251. We're not paying for him anymore. It's up to the family isn't it? I don't see the Queen doing that.
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  252. That description could fit GB news.
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  253. Lots of historical buildings in York. It's been an important city since Viking times as it was their capital in Britain.
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  254. So you won't mind it in your back yard then?
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  255.  @hayleylongster4698  where do you get your evidence for that? If it was true, the problem would have resolved itself after lockdowns ended but there are even more vacancies in the NHS now..
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  256. Damp squib not squid. A squib is a firework. A damp squib is one that fails to go off.
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  257.  @amandamitchell8894  O.K That's to be determined but I was responding to someone who was quick enough to blame the parents of the 16 year old without knowing all the circumstances. We should wait and see the outcome when the evidence has been assessed.
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  258.  @billgreen576 I wasn't saying a predator would recognise having responsibility. It would be seen that they were responsible by outsiders.
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  259.  @tiesiai_per_aplinkui  It is illegal to 'smack' someone.
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  260. Is he more annoying than Toby Young though?
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  261. Peter Hitchens earns a living as a contrarian. England may well be happy to leave the UK, but the other UK countries would be even happier, the way things are going. However there's much more in common between the 4 nations than there are differences. It would be a pity to give up that unity. It's just that England has tended to dominate and treat the other 3 neglectfully or unfairly.
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  262.  @jacquelineloaring2438  That's the fault of the English because they get what they vote for. The Scots, Welsh and NI don't get extra money for being devolved governments. They just make different choices about what to spend it on. They spend it on their people. The Tories care more about the rich in England than the rest of the population.
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  263. What people feel is not evidence and could just be prejudice.
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  264. A bit like people throughout history, Scottish history for example.
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  265. Sensible financial management is important because the better public finance is managed, the more that can be achieved with it, but sensible financial management is not a theme that's going to set voters hearts on fire.
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  266. You could end it if you ever had it, but it's lazy and ignorant to refer to things you don't like as 'communism'.
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  267. No more hypocritical than the Tories who've taken lots of donations from Russian oligarchs. Can we follow your money, Nigel? Where does that lead?
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  268.  @bruh949  Well I've always enjoyed living here. He wasn't in office for decades but he did things to speed up the traffic for commuters and he introduced the Oyster system for buses and tubes which was great. It took a lot of hassle out of commuting and travelling in general and enabled people to save more on travel.
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  269. @Neria Wolf No one knows the future. They just have opinions.
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  270.  Xavier Behavier  You didn't listen to the interview where that is explained.
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  271.  @sharonwashington8150  Your comment is illogical. Bad candidates would find it more difficult to achieve things.
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  272.  @sharonwashington8150  *elected.
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  273.  @sharonwashington8150  That's the beauty of retirement.
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  274.  @sharonwashington8150  They've been avoiding that one for years.
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  275. That's because it was so 'settled' and simple, they could not get it done, and they never had a proper debate beforehand either.
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  276.  @frankie7529  I didn't mean that kind of debate. I meant proper planning for Brexit and a debate on what it would mean for the UK. There were discussions but they weren't particularly informed and not always honest. They didn't get it done because it took a long time to negotiate because Britain didn't really know what it wanted except what wasn't on offer and they didn't much like the options being offered. Also the Northern Ireland issue was difficult. The reason Parliament held it up was because Theresa May was told it would be easy to defeat Corbyn if she called an election and she could gain seats to make it easier to get a deal through Parliament. In fact she lost seats to Labour and Lib Dems and made it much harder to get a deal through Parliament. Also her own party was divided. Many of them did not like or support her deal. Then Boris replaced her and told the electorate he had an 'oven ready deal'. Now they say they should not have signed it and are trying to get out of it. It's been a mess all along.
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  277.  @frankie7529  Well, I sussed early on that it would be a problem, and if I knew the politicians should have known, but we have had a bunch of chuckleheads in government, and I think the Leave Campaign just said whatever they thought would win the vote for leave.
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  278. This is essentially what the Tories are about, self protection, self enrichment and never mind everyone else. Also lazy and incompetent because they don't really want to govern, just to sit tight and amass wealth.
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  279.  @Queen.lizard.1947  But no one's in the Olympic league that the Tories are now in.
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  280.  @Queen.lizard.1947  Agreed.
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  281.  @NS-pt9rr  O wave the magic wand and do it immediately. That's not how things work in the real world, but this particular method is the worst value imaginable. A £600m deal to evict 300 people (£2m per person) and Rwanda has not obligation to detain them in Rwanda. In return Rwanda can send as many of it's people to the UK as it wants - no limit.
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  282.  @dianecameron137 She represented her constituents and community. As she was the first black woman elected to Parliament she brought a new perspective to Parliament.
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  283.  @chaoscorsair  He failed 8 times.
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  284. As a historian I would have thought that Neil Oliver should know that turbulent times and suffering for the majority have been the norm throughout history rather than the exception. We have been lucky to escape such troubled times for so long. Personally I prefer having to wear a mask than having had to live through WWI and WW2. We need to get things in proportion and not feel too sorry for ourselves.
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  285. In appearance and but not in his political views.
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  286. The thing that most frightens me about Liz Truss is that she seems to enjoy publicly baiting Putin. That's a dangerous game to play with a man who won't tolerate it and whose advisors are urging him to bomb England (London in fact). She doesn't need to shoot her mouth off about him in that way in order to carry out Britain's policy of support for Ukraine. Don't bait the bear.
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  287. Still focussing on this when the Tory government is planning to turn us into a third world country economically from which only a rich elite benefits - that's the elephant in the room. They do rely on people blaming immigrants for this.
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  288. Arlene pretends nothing has changed by the election. She's got a cheek to mention 'consent from both sides of the Community' being needed for the NI protocol as the DUP never signed up to the Good Friday Agreement either but that didn't stop them from taking part in the Stormont system it created. In fact the DUP did sign up to the protocol. The DUP lost votes to the Alliance because most people in NI are content to have the protocol as it gives NI the best of both worlds in terms of trade and their economy is now booming. Arlene and the DUP don't like it for political reasons because they think it will make a united Ireland more likely, but they did vote for Brexit and the GFA means there was never going to be a hard border in Ireland, so customs checks elsewhere were inevitable. The British government signed up to the protocol and the DUP supported them at the time. I wish there were some interviewers who remembered these facts and used them to challenge the nonsensical stance of the DUP in interviews.
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  289. No.
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  290.  @sh.4409  There's no evidence that he was illiterate. It's just a theory.
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  291. Seems like no one is giving legal advice to Harry or if they are, he's not taking it.
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