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

  1. Habib doesn't seem to know that there is no legal method for asylum seekers to enter Britain.
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  2. Thank goodness no one is forced to listen to Kelvin MacKenzie.
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  3. 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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  4. But what would he actually do that would be effective? A lot of what he says is vacuous.
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  5.  @doilysimpkin6972  I take it back then but I'm surprised he remembered.
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  6. 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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  7.  @U.R.2.H  Tories will have parties anywhere it seems.
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  8.  @stevec6427  You're right that was a typo of mine which I will correct.
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  9.  @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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13.  @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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  14.  @ArtyEffem  He's had 8 failed attempts at that.
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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. @Deartháir agus mairtíreach Then you are sadly lacking in judgement and common sense. Commiserations.
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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21.  @saxglend9439  Labour is not in power and hasn't been since 2010.
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  22.  @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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  23.  @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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27.  @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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  28.  @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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  29. 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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  30. You want him to not represent you in government then?
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  31. 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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  32.  @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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  33.  @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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  34.  @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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  35. He achieved more as Mayor of London than any of his successors. He was a talented politician.
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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. I don't blame Coutts because Farage kept accusing them of reasons that were not true.
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  39.  @sircxx8621  but she probably wouldn't
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  40. 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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  41. I'd rather export Nigel and import someone nicer in his place.
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  42. Labour is for democracy and consent which the Tories clearly aren't. They are just for enriching their backers.
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  43. 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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  44. He gets ignored because he 'votes for nobody' as he says.
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  45. Would that be the Celts then?
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  46. 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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  47.  @Lorraine-p4r  Because she's not great. She's crap and I say that as a female Londoner.
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  48. 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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  49. A whole channel of airheads does not appeal, so they have to bring back The Mouth.
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  50. 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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