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

  1. Or to put it another way, those who can more afford to pay to contribute more to public services we need.
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  2. Privatise the BBC and watch the crap it turns into just like every other privatised public service.
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  3. I sat next to him on the bus a couple of weeks ago. I didn't let on that I knew who he was as he seems a private type in real life.
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  4. Why, Because it's not what you want to hear?
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  5. 'A poor country with a few rich people', that's one of the definitions of a third world country.
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  6. But she can't understand why the government went for Chinese overpriced ventilators that were poor quality and didn't last. Sounds like incompetence to me at the very least.
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  7. What evidence do you have of positive discrimination? All she said was that black people suffer racism more often than some other groups which is obvious because they have a visible difference and the backgrounds of other groups would not be known unless they chose to reveal it. If being a terrible MP was a reason for ejecting her, she's certainly no worse than all the terrible MPs in the Tory government. There's no reason to believe that she was a terrible constituency MP and it's for the local party and her constituents to decide who they want to represent them. People don't like outsider clones being parachuted in at the last minute by the party leadership.
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  8.  @ltmund  It's not an empire though, Empires are created by conquest. The EU is a voluntary economic and self-protective bloc.
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  9. Sounds like a description of Boris. Takes one to know one.
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  10.  @steveinjava  Lol. I think Sunak would be ok as long as any foreigners were rich ones.
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  11.  @ben31uk  What will happen is that everyone who watches crap will be fed more of the same in 'recommended' feeds and will be forced to have their viewing interrupted by adverts unless they pay not to. Everything is paid for one way or another. There's no such thing as a free service or a free lunch. Your every response to what you watch, in future, will be fed into some database and sold to some marketing companies so they can better target you with more crap and fake news.
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  12.  @bushman143  Or more non voters and more voters for extremist politicians who provide easy scapegoats to blame.
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  13. It's been constantly 'reformed' by the Tories, ever since Thatcher's day. They've made it more expensive to run.
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  14. She's as thick as 2 short planks and her thought processes are those of a parrot. Someone taught her some phrases and she endlessly repeats them.
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  15.  @randyvalantino6850  Switzerland is a small country that relies on its banking and insurance sectors for its wealth. Norway is also a smaller population than the UK and it has oil.
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  16. He's also pretty ignorant.
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  17.  @Craig121000  Why is it fair for everyone to suffer? Fairness would be no one suffering. We are not a poor country.
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  18. I agree his Brexit stance wasn't popular but if you look at the policies in the Manifesto it would have helped the North a lot, but I suppose voters don't read the Manifestos.
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  19. @D C How do you know that 4 people use double the services that 2 people do? They may not. Unemployed people get a discount because they are in unfortunate circumstances - poorer than those who have a job. Civilised countries look after their poor better, or should do.
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  20.  @chrisj9700  I distrust the word 'modernisation' when used in politics. It's a charlatan's word - a word often used to make something distasteful sound reasonable.
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  21. or end up like India.
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  22. Inheritance tax does not affect people while they are alive and only affects 6% of households anyway.
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  23. She has served her constituents well.
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  24. All the Tories have left is marketing, no substance. There are still 1.6m people who will experience higher mortgages this year as their fixed ones come to an end.
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  25. It is for judges of the Supreme Court to interpret the law and the constitution. If there were no limits to a prorogation process, what's to stop the government from proroguing frequently or even permanently to get rid of democratic opposition which would turn us into a dictatorship. There have to be some limits and some justifications. I don't rate Sharkey that much. As a historian, he makes mistakes in his history programmes - elementary errors.
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  26. That was their biggest weakness for Labour though they did promise to honour Brexit if people still voted for it in a Referendum with a softer Brexit option (to protect jobs). I can see it was difficult for them because their voters were split over Leave and Remain and as information about what leave would be like under a hard Brexit came more and more to light, they could not see benefits for the average person only an economic hit. It is probably for the best that the Tories are responsible for Brexit now because it's their baby really and I think it's going to be a bumpy ride. If Labour had a bumpy ride with it or didn't do a hard Brexit, they would be blamed by the Tories for any problems. The truth is Brexit will be difficult for any political party to pull off without economic damage.
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  27. They do also have an ideology which works against the interests of all but the wealthiest in society, but they don't generally explain what that ideology is to voters. It's easier just to trigger their prejudices.
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  28.  @woodentie8815  Most hospitals are in big cities. Where do you expect nurses to live? Even if they could live somewhere commutable rail fares keep going up more than inflation and rail travel is getting more unreliable.
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  29. When the Tories came into power from 2010 they quickly reduced the civil service by over 500,000. Then they found that they did not have enough people to handle Brexit and Covid and they hired consultants and agency staff at much more expensive rates and with much less knowledge and expertise. There are people who always say reducing the civil service is some kind of benefit and that taxes are never low enough no matter how low they ever are. It's a kneejerk reaction for some political ideologists.
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  30.  @ednorton47  Is that because our GDP shrank or perhaps because the Tories have created more poverty and need or because of spending on the war in Ukraine? What's the reason? The population is ageing so more is spent on pensions. The Attlee government was spending after WW2 when Britain was essentially broke. We certainly spent a lot on Covid but much of that went on fraudulent and overpriced contracts. The Tories also love to hire expensive consultants and that expenditure has gone up. The Tory Health and Social Care Act 2012 created a lot of new Quangos.
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  31. You weren't being offered communism. Communism is doing away with capitalism. The programme on offer was no more communist than the Labour government's programme in 1945 when they were rebuilding Britain or the kind of model you have in Scandinavian countries which come high up in the world happness index.
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  32.  @alanbstard5584  Do you know why? Because Thatcher closed down a lot of industry there saying Britain didn't need it and she never replaced it with anything. Labour may have been in power locally but the Tories in government made sure they were powerless by vastly cutting the funding to local government and when in power the Tories always favour their own constituencies at the expense of Labour ones. Ironically Boris may throw some scraps to the north now in order to keep them voting Tory but don't expect the sort of investment that's really needed to turn things around. I also blame the Blair government. In some respects it acted like Tories in power -Tory-lite, because Blair was an admirer of Thatcher. Maybe Boris has more sense but I wonder. History doesn't allow for much hope. I don't want to be depressing though. I hope for the best for the north.
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  33. It makes me laugh when people object to any TV programmes that they don't personally watch. Selfish or what?
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  34.  @pamelapearse8474  ??? George Osborne's paper is The London Evening Standard. The Guardian would never have Osborne in control.
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  35. Where did you get the idea that the Conservatives don't want to privatise the BBC? Many of them do want to privatise it.
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  36. He took things for granted and didn't check for himself.
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  37. It's the equivalent of a sportsman voting against his own team. There's a risk they they could act to try and bring about the desired result.
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  38. It will be very difficult for Labour, given the state of things, but I think they'd want to try and set the economy on the right track and help those in need more. However the newspapers which are mostly Tory supporting will give no quarter to the Labour Party in the way they do to The Tories. The economy is so wrecked it will take time to turn it around and in that time the Tories will be constantly on the attack and the voters may expect instant relief. It's much easier to be in opposition than to be in government.
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  39. Taxpayers are not really made poorer overall by all the measures, only the wealthier ones but they won't be poor.
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  40. The fact that they are not abashed by the consequences of their actions makes me think this is their plot.
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  41. Some other clowns include Matt Hancock, Dominic Raab, Suella Braverman, Jacob Rees Mogg. None of them grown up or serious and competent politicians.
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  42. As Boris would say.
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  43. The traditional left position on the EU only works if you have Labour governments in the UK and then only in part. However as Tory governments are the norm in the UK, coming out of the EU just gives them the opportunity to demolish workers rights.
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  44. Who wants to live in a Singapore type society?
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  45.  @erynpimentel915  What is the cost of not treating them? Spread of disease to the wider population with even more cost?
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  46.  @nigget-tv-videos4135  Corbyn would not have let all those people die and nor would Starmer. No one could do worse than Boris. The only thing he got right was the vaccine and that's the thing saving him right now, but he never closed borders even when he knew about the Indian variant and that it was more transmissable. He was intending to open up from the remains of lockdown on 21 June but now he's hesitating again because the Covid case numbers are going up again, because he did not close the borders and it's here and spreading now.
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  47. @SillySausage2024 I don't think that will be the main determiner. Actually AI will be more of a threat to jobs unless we find a way to fairly share the profits generated by AI across society more generally.
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  48. Resignations?
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  49. Because Ukraine was a sovereign democracy which was entitled to decide its own affairs.
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  50.  @bigpants6121  Yes, it's not exactly supporting British industry. The only 'excuse' I can think of is if the Chinese could guarantee a sufficient supply and the British firm could not, and then the Chinese firm said to the government 'we will guarantee to supply the UK in the numbers it requires, if we are the sole supplier and have a monopoly', and at that point the government was desperate. All of this could have been avoided if the government acted on previous reports as far back as 2019 that warned them to prepare for a pandemic and recommended what actions to take.
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