Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Jeremy Corbyn pitches his four day working week to UK businesses" video.

  1. And the Tories are not doing that? At least Labour will invest in the economy. The Germans and Portuguese got out of the last recession without adopting an austerity programme because they know about the economic theory that says you get out of a recession by spending to invest, and then you save when times are good.
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  2.  @lordalfredgreat  He's not a communist you ignoramus. He's no more communist than the Labour government of 1945 which created the NHS, nationalised lots of industries and built lots of houses to rebuild Britain after WW2.
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  3. Why waste time reading your ignorant comment?
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  4.  @stevedoughty1941  I've a feeling the public are going to trust love rat and serial liar Bojo. Sad that people are so easily gulled by a jokey manner and a load of flannel. He will probably achieve Brexit but it won't do the average Britain any good. It will only benefit Bojo's rich and corporate supporters.
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  5. In a free world hard work seems to lead to a wage that's not enough to live on and no prospects with no good work life balance. We work for the privilege of making others rich while our own families are short changed.
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  6. He's talking about fairness, not judging who is bad or good.
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  7.  @7EiamJ7  That's one opinion but a very right wing laissez faire one. In Victorian times that was the case, but there was so much suffering and early death. Now we have pensions, the NHS and a welfare state as well as some workers rights and it's now illegal to send children to work below a certain age. European countries with good welfare states and the least distance between rich and poor come out highest on the world happiness index (the Scandinavian countries). The gap between rich and poor is growing ever greater in many countries including the UK, and people who work hard don't often become multi billionaires by themselves. They rely on those who work for them to create their profits. Multi national corporations are also very adept at avoiding taxes though they may rely on the state (in the UK) to educate their workers and keep them healthy. When you are a multi millionaire or a billionaire - honestly how much more money do you need? When other people are having to visit food banks due to circumstances beyond their control, that's not a fair society.
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  8.  @secretsquirrel6124  What crap!. They are buying Fairtrade coffee which is the best price that farmers get on the market. They don't own Fairtrade. It's run by the Fairtrade Foundation which is owned by a number of charities in the UK including Oxfam. They may be selling it at a higher price locally to raise money for something else, but they don't have any control over what Fairtrade pays farmers and farmers who are not signed up with Fairtrade get less than the Fairtrade rate.
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  9. Intelligent comment. (Not)
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  10. Who was 'the warm up act'?
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  11.  @amandahunter4034  Lol.
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  12. You are easily terrified. Which aspect terrifies you most?
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  13. Because it's not his plan. You realise 'austerity' was the plan of the Tories? Germany and Portugal got out of the same recession without going through austerity. Even the USA did not adopt austerity as a policy. They all know about the economical theory that says they way out of a recession is more spending (for investment) then save when times are good. It's a bit like when you are skidding while driving. You're advised to steer into the skid while gradually slowing in order to get out of it, although that seems counter -intuitive at the time.
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  14.  @MarkBrydondrums85  Although the labour conference voted on no immigration controls - last I heard him say was the party hadn't yet decided their policy. They were going to discuss it. I agree it would be foolish to have completely open borders. However the Tories SAY they are going to have controls but then they don't fund the services that are supposed to apply those controls so that they can do so effectively. Thatcher cut the numbers of what used to be called customs officers and are now called border controls. I don't think anyone since has restored their numbers. Also if we have a hard Brexit, don't rely on the French to stop illegal immigrants coming across the channel to Britain. Without any agreement they will just be waving them through.
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  15. Who was on before him?
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  16.  @Anthony1uk  Are you saying NHS treatment is provided by chavs? After all it's free in the same way. Actually why would you think that chavs don't know about the internet?
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  17.  @fantastic8213  Do you mean 'broadband'?
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  18.  @stevedoughty1941  Why is it self harm policies? It's not even as radical as the 1945 Labour government was when the country was nearly bankrupt after WW2, and they created the national health service, nationalised utilities and the railways, mines and steel industries and built houses to replace all those lost by bomb damage as well as creating new homes for returning soldiers and moving families from homes with no indoor toilets or bathrooms to ones with those facilities. All of which they did successfully. Germany and Portugal sucessfully spent to invest their way out of recession. They understand the economics of that. (Invest when times are bad, save when times are good). They never had austerity programmes.
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  19.  @Anthony1uk  That's a lie. He doesn't support terrorists. He believes in dialogue with both sides to achieve peace - just as the Tory government started in Northern Ireland under Margaret Thatcher, continued under John Major and finalised under Tony Blair.
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  20.  @stevedoughty1941  And I've been around long enough to know that Labour do more good for people than the Tories.
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  21.  @Anthony1uk  I agree that was wrong. I think they feared breaking the discrimination laws due misunderstanding them, but it has been changed now. Children have been abused in institutions under both Labour and Tory governments and councils in the past.
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  22. Wizard Fruit. What will stop you is your health breaking down eventually.
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  23.  @JoeWhittakerNutritionist  I can't see it affecting people who work for themselves.
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  24.  @JoeWhittakerNutritionist  Probably something great was achieved by a woman working a 4 day week though, and that something great does not necessarily have to be in the place of employment.
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  25.  @JoeWhittakerNutritionist  Choosing to work 7 days a week? There speaks a single man without children.
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  26. Wrong party. The unicorns are promised by the Tories in a hard Brexit. Labour has done some of these things in the past. They are not unachievable. It's just that the Tories try to undo them as soon as they get back into power.
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  27.  @sazzieb1  The power is all on the side of the employers. Once when the Unions 'exerted' themselves, they were suddenly 'holding us to ransom'. Not a very balanced picture.
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  28. You want an entertainment act that's useless in practice? It's 'boring' by the way.
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  29. The Department of Health always tried to restrain drug prices by limiting the profits to a certain level but drug companies always fiddle their accounts to hide the profits by transferring or attributing them elsewhere. I think there was a court case once and DH lost. Drug companies are hoping they can push their prices up to American levels once we Brexit. It needs the government to restrain them or alternatively invest in national drug companies. Drug companies are loathe to invest in treatments for rare diseases because it's expensive and the customer base is too small for them to make a profit or to make one without charging ridiculous prices, but a nationalised body could do it.
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  30. Trivial comment or what, and what's a 'foll'?
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