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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. The Tories always appoint some big moneybags as party chairman.
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  4. 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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  5.  @traceymcgowan826  Ah that's what they always say about strong women. Don't fall for that.
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  6. These are not excuses, they are precautions until we know.
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  7. @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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  8. @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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  9. @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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  10. @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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  11. @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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  12. @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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  13. 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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  14. Grow up.
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  15. 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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  16.  @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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  17. 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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  18. The government gave them no alternative. They are destroying the railways in their ignorance and greed.
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  19. Just keep well away from him.
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  20.  @louis-philippearnhem6959  Honest, at least.
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  21. In what sense are they patriots? Patriots according to what definition?
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  22.  @zeldaharris6876  Accepted.
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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25.  @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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  26.  @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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  27.  @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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  28. Is it radical to want avoid breaking the law which is against the civil service code?
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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31.  @greenandpleasant5523  Speeding and International law to mention two, plus Ministerial rules, more than once.
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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34.  @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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  35.  @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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  36. 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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  37.  FourZeroFive  If HR is there to address racism, why was so much racism experienced according to a recent survey?
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  38.  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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. Don't be fooled. He may be nice to chat to but his beliefs are no joke.
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  43.  @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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  44.  @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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  45.  @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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  46.  @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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  47.  @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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  48. More divisive than the Tory donor who said she should be shot?
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  49. It's not your country Lee more than any other voter. You want to dictate to everyone else.
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  50. 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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