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

  1.  @bigpants6121  Yes there were a couple of reports the government received on the need to prepare for a pandemic, both of which they ignored.
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  2.  @Steven-bh3uk  They are not meant to 'serve' or be 'of use' to any political party. It's very common that conservatives think it's left wing when it does not slavishly follow conservative PR and similarly it's seen as right wing when it doesn't follow left wing PR. The fact is that the government chooses the governors of the BBC and the BBC's charter requires them to be balanced so they have to find views from all strands of opinion. Some people's definition of bias is a TV channel that does not reflect their own views.
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  3. One thing he could do is reclaim all the furlough money that was fraudulently claimed by zombie companies, but he didn't do it when he was Chancellor so I don't see him doing it now. Why should people suffer spending cuts when fraudsters are allowed to get off scot free?
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  4. *accept
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  5. I wish James O'Brien would curb his tendency to interrupt all the time.
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  6. What evidence do you have that these are overpaid since any wage rises have been below inflation for years while workloads have been growing and and consequently he services have found it difficult to fill vacancies and staff opt to go abroad where health service pay rates are higher?
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  7.  @snowyowel7961  The IFS criticised both Labour and Tory Manifestos. This comment was about the Tory one 'The analysis also highlights the high risk of a no-deal Brexit at the end of 2020, if Boris Johnson wins the election, after he ruled out extending the transition period during which the UK will remain aligned with the EU. Calling it another “die in a ditch” style promise, the IFS said: “That would harm the economy and of course increase the debt and deficit.” And it warned the Tory prospectus would leave spending on public services other than health a striking 14 per cent lower in 2024 than when austerity began in 2010. “No more austerity perhaps, but an awful lot of it baked in,” said Paul Johnson, the IFS director.'
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  8. @Andrew Battersby That's just a slogan. Actually the UK government controls 99% of UK spending and could have given power to the people any time they wanted to. They never wanted to.
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  9. Yes I subsequently listened Andrew Brigden's actual statement about this and it didn't seem to depend on him thinking that he had any Irish ancestry. He just assumed that because he could travel to Ireland without a passport, he was entitled to Irish citizenship if he applied for it. Lol. Under the Good Friday agreement, I understand people in the North of Ireland can hold both British and Irish passports if they wish. Perhaps that also muddled Andrew Brigden's thinking. It's amazing how dim some of these politicians are though. Dominic Raab, currently standing for Conservative Party leader and therefore de facto P.M admitted he didn't realise the importance of the port of Dover for UK/EU trade, until he was appointed Brexit Secretary, a post he soon resigned from, but a subject he now feels qualified to deal with as P.M. Heaven help us! A person with Irish ancestry (parent or grandparent) can apply for Irish citizenship and I have my application ready, because I can see us heading for a hard Brexit now which would be disastrous.
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  10. The government counts spending that goes to private firms providing services on NHS contracts, as spending on the NHS, but private firms siphon off a profit element. There wasn't a 'structural issue with the NHS that needs to be addressed' before the Tories got their hands on it.
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  11.  @Mounhas  Indeed.
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  12.  @jonnybyrne989  It's not habitual, and that was Tony Blair, not typical Labour by any means. He was an admirer of Margaret Thatcher.
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  13.  @georgewright9914  Brown actually saved the world capitalist finance systems from collapse and along with them, whole countries' economies.
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  14.  @capuchinseven  That's not true. EU countries each chose how to handle the banking crisis and aftermath. Portugal for instance, never had an austerity policy.
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  15.  @Space.Ghost.  Let's both go to sleep.
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  16.  @ianexcalibur7096  I could come up with a lot more but there really isn't any point in wasting my time on you. Your mind is a sealed vacuum, and all you can do is resort to insults because you don't have any answers.
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  17.  @ianexcalibur7096  I'll let you have the last word.
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  18.  @richardfox6595  That constipated lump is called 'Brexit'.
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  19. The BBC uses proper journalists who check their facts. They don't indulge in fake news like Fox news for instance.
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  20.  @sentinal2343  Given up now?
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  21. According to Private Eye magazine, it's not true that Andrew wanted to wear an Admiral's suit, and it's not true that uniforms were banned by the Queen because otherwise Harry would be the only one not wearing one and because of Andrew's demand. Harry's cousin Peter Phillips and some other attendees would not have been wearing one and in any case Harry was entitled to wear the uniform of the Blues and Royals whom he served with, if he wished. It's a story made up by the newspapers.
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  22. Meaning what in terms of London?
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  23.  @evolassunglasses4673  'Wanting his country back'. How does that translate into policy?
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  24. How can we get people who know what they are doing economically to stand for leadership? Are there any such people? The economy is now in such a mess, can even people with government finance and economic knowledge sort it out? I would guess not within the 5 year election timescales. It needs to be done in a way that helps struggling people and is fair socially. It needs to have an appeal to voters as well as being able to work economically.
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  25. Britain is therefore nicer.
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  26.  @ruthbashford3176  Why should we shut up and leave people in ignorance. If you saw people heading for a cliff would you keep quiet for the satisfaction of saying 'I told you so' when they fell over it. A hard Brexit will affect us all, not just those who want it.
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  27.  @hoodoooperator.5197  Where can you get TV for free? You pay for what you get and you get what you pay for.
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  28.  @hoodoooperator.5197  Like what?
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  29.  @hoodoooperator.5197  Those you have listed are not free. They are more expensive than the TV licence for the BBC and the quality of news is lower on Sky. I'm not sure that Amazon and Netflix produce news programmes.
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  30.  Bromley John John  The BBC licence costs £155 a year. Netflix is around £10 per month,. That's £120 per year, not much different. Does Netflix do a good news programme? I like history, news and documentaries as well as new BBC drama. I don't know that Netflix does these. You can bet your bottom dollar that if the BBC drops out of the picture through lack of licence fee funding, the prices of these other companies will go up. It depends what you have from Now TV how expensive it is and Amazon Prime always has shows after they've already been on TV and sometimes you have to wait a year for them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-48458598. I have American friends who are disappointed that they can't see what I'm watching on the BBC.
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  31.  @hoodoooperator.5197  Youtube zerohedge seems to provide local USA news with presenters who are less than professional. Interesting, but not wide enough coverage for me.On the BBC you get world news and there are also investigative programmes like 'Panorama'. I also like channel 4's 'Dispatches' programme. This is in depth investigative journalism and I read 'Private Eye' which investigates what goes on in public life that isn't usually broadcast on TV.
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  32. I hope the National Audit Office looks into this and brings in the police if there's no valid reason for writing off such a huge amount.
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  33.  @tonydavenport100  Read 'Private Eye' for exposure of what the media won't say.
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  34.  @godzilla2k26  With the post office/Royal Mail, the government still owns about 51% but they've been thinking of selling their majority. They opened up the market by allowing other firms to compete with Roysl Mail. They outsourced some of the probation services to private companies but then had to take some back into public service when the private company did a bad job and also defrauded the government of public funds. In education the public schools (which are private) are most supported by the Tories and many schools under local government control were given over to Academy Trusts which could be private companies. These still get public funding but the Tories do things step by step 'so as not to frighten the children' as the saying goes. Privatising all at once would arouse too much public opposition. Like the right, they believe in 'small government'.
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  35. Rishi Sunak seems really uncomfortable with people whether it's ordinary people or world leaders. It's like he'd avoid social events if he could get away with it.
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  36. Starmer is terrified that the Tory media will portray him as a supporter of strikes and that will lose him the next election. In the end he'll have to give people reasons to vote for him.
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  37. Defined as anyone to the left of Genghis Khan?
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  38.  @MrTeaTwoSugars  Outrage not voiced by the press, and which rolls off Tory backs like water off a duck's back.
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  39. James O'Brien seems to have a compulsion to interrupt. He's a bit me me me.
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  40.  @evolassunglasses4673  My part's nice. Yours sounds interesting but it's not to do with Khan if they enter legally or get past Border Force.
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  41. I don't know how someone could leave a family member, father of their children in that state even if they are an ex, especially someone who is wealthier and has moved on to an even wealthier partner. Unless the ex had been abusive or violent, you'd think they'd have some compassion, even if it was only for the sake of closeness in the past and the children.
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  42.  Paul Conway  Corbyn does not hate Jews. He hates the illegal and oppressive political and military stance of the Israeli government against Palestinians, that's all.
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  43.  @kepnjem  Blair didn't leave the country skint. He wasn't P.M in 2008, Gordon Brown was, and it was a worldwide banking crisis (a crisis of deregulated capitalism) that caused Britain to have to spend billions propping up the banks, and the crisis started first in the USA with sub prime mortgages which borrowers could not afford to repay because their ability to repay was ignored. Then many banks worldwide took a slice of the business and it sunk them. It wasn't just British banks that were affected.
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  44.  @steve-en7bm  When they aim to protect the public from lunatics like these.
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  45.  @abethebabe3835  That's an ignorant comment.
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  46. @SillySausage2024 Corporations will make vase profits from AI at first when it's fully deployed. How will it increase people's qualities of life if there is a huge pool of unemployed whose jobs have been replaced with AI? What will that quality of life consist of with no income and therefore no choices? Who will Corporations eventually make profits from once there are fewer and fewer people who can afford to buy their products and services? Will there be a wealthy elite who will sell products to each other for high prices and a large pool of people who will serve them for just food and lodging or will society come up with some fairer solution?
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  47.  @glennjones2635  Thanks. I was too lazy to look it up.
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  48.  @stanleypines1026  No one's opinion is invalid on the internet. It's open for comment.
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  49.  westcoast747  She doesn't dislike white people but she was the first female black MP elected to Parliament 33 years ago and given the inequality and discrimination around you would expect her to bat for her constituency, just as Tory MPs bat for the wealthy and the corporate lobby groups.
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  50. Aren't they starving to death? Perhaps they want to repopulate Shanghai.
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