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

  1. Eh? I've heard of diversion tactics but this is ridiculous.
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  2. Only the government can properly fund the NHS. Public donations can't be used to expand services or increase staff numbers. That's not allowed. They can be used to buy medical equipment provided there are staff to operate it, and to make things more comfortable for patients.
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  3. Respect needs to be earned.
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  4.  @woodentie8815  It's hard when people feel strongly about things. They tend to miss the joke. Perhaps you should have used smiley emojis.
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  5.  @DavidCodyPeppers.  In what respect, because we'll desperately need escapism?
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  6. Didn't Kwarteng also remove the cap on bankers' bonuses?
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  7. She is the Chair of the ERG group. I think it's Sunak's attempt to hold the Tory Party together but she'll be a disaster.
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  8. Perhaps he thinks he's one of the elite that the Tories protect.
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  9. In terms of the affordability test, I doubt that before September 2022, any lender realised that rates would rise so high so fast, and such increases would not have been included in the calculations. If they were, far fewer people would have been granted a mortgage and all those coming to the end of a fixed mortgage were caught out too.
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  10.  @Royboy50  Putting up interest rates increases inflation when measured in RPI, so it's fuel for inflation.
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  11. Unnevervingly I've just realised his voice sounds like Tony Blair's
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  12.  @happyjonn9242  They vote on a wide range of issues in Parliament that they may not speak about but quietly vote in line with the majority of Tories.
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  13. Crass with a long a sound doesn't sound as crass as crass with a short a sound. Anglo Saxon vowel sounds are best for insults and swearing.
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  14. John Redwood is an alien or the nearest thing we have to one.
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  15. Everything to these people is a source of wealth creation. It has no other significance or value to them. It's football, but it could be anything else. (We need to guard our NHS too). Maybe we should be grateful to the Glazers for showing us the truth so starkly.
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  16. As an older person growing up in the UK, I feel we need to kick the Tories out, a.s.a.p as they are the ones doing most damage to the country.
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  17. The French actually offered to put more people on the border quite some time ago if the British erected more border posts and the British refused. Were many of these Ministers just following or accepting Boris's lies about border checks without checking? I can't believe their civil servants weren't telling them those statements were wrong. Remember when the public was told that 'we've had enough of experts' when those experts tried to explain the true position.
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  18. It's not normal to do so, if they are in custody, until they have been charged.
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  19. Jacob Rees Mogg is like Jon Snow. He knows nothing. He's just able to speak confidently as if he does.
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  20.  @bolasworld5425  Ukraine has always been nice to its neighbours but Putin invaded Ukraine. That's not being nice to neighbours.
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  21.  @patriciasullivan2817  You haven't been researching.Jacob Rees Mogg who is pro hard Brexit, relies on economist Patrick Minford in support of this, but even Minford says a hard Brexit will destroy British agriculture and manufacturing.
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  22.  @jb175  Neither was Labour's Manifesto full blown socialist. As I said it was more along Scandinavian lines.
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  23.  @jb175  Same as with Corbyn's plans. They did not remove capitalism.
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  24.  @jb175  Yep. Cobyn was never proposing that the state should own all the means of production. It was more like the Scandinavian model with some differences which I mentioned in another response to you.
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  25.  @alanbstard5584  I don't know but the work was dangerous and many suffered lung complaints and didn't live a full life span or live to collect a pension so I would have expected them to be well rewarded. The unions were necessary because in the history of mining safety was never a great concern of employers and the unions were bound to resist when Thatcher decided to close the mines because it meant the death of many communities.
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  26. This woman is thick. She can't understand a theoretical argument.
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  27. That was Brexit thinking. Why not await the results of the election?
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  28. You just don't want to hear anything against your dear leader.
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  29.  @VPhantom-rf3qo  I don't like O'Brien's style. To me it's bullying and bombastic but I distinguish between personalities and politics.
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  30.  @tonydavenport100  Read 'Private Eye'
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  31. Not until he's been charged.
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  32.  @Norfolkandchance886  You might be right. Innocence until proven guilty is the presumption at a trial and if he is judged to be not guilty, would it matter that his name was mentioned when charged?
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  33. It's not a propaganda machine as its charter obliges it to balance up the opinions they show, so even something that scientists overwhelmingly agree about has to be balanced by the views of some eccentric nutter with no facts to support their views.
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  34.  @yojimbo843  Bad because they don't agree with your own opinions? As I said they are bound by their charter to balance up opinions so they always have to put the other side to any argument and that's not bias to my mind.
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  35.  @tommybcfckrosotv  No I've always been left wing since I was 14 and I was capable of thinking about politics. My family was not left wing. I know no one who works for the BBC. You don't seem to think that people can think for themselves if they take an interest and seek to be informed. I don't think the BBC is left wing. They are fairly central.
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  36.  @Dazwa  I do watch the BBC. What and where is the proof? If sent to the BBC governors they would be obliged to correct it in line with the requirements of their charter - if it's statistically proved and not just subjective opinion.
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  37. 2 days ago no deaths and 3k new cases. Yesterday 12 deaths and 4k new cases. Today 18 deaths and 5k new cases. Seems like Covid spread is taking off again. Unfortunately keeping quiet and not being accountable seems to work for them with the voters who don't notice.
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  38. They had tasers. Not sure whether the injured ones had tasers.
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  39. You have to be pretty close (within samurai sword distance) to use a baton or a spray. Tasers are the tools that let you stay more at a distance
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  40. Labour prioritises people over money. Conservatives prioritise money over people (except when a general election is looming). If Labour were in power perhaps they would claw back some of the fraudulently acquired funds that the Conservatives let go, and tighten up on some tax loopholes.
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  41.  @paulgibbons2320  It's easy to get a simplistic message with simple slogans across to simple folk and harder to get a more complex argument across. People like simplicity because it's easy. They don't need to make an effort to find out facts etc.
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  42.  @paulgibbons2320  I never said I was the only one in the world that uses facts. Far from it. You are misrepresenting my argument. How like the bad news channels. My ego doesn't come into this, just my fear of what people will do and the decisions they will make based on bad information. Decisions that will affect us all. My parents died in the 1970s so I have been managing and making decisions for myself since young and I've been successful at that so far, but the great divisions in society over Brexit and the poor information we get about it are scary for their potential consequences. I also think a lot of hate is fuelled by poor journalism as people look for someone else to blame.
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  43.  @starbar1958  The Metro is pro Tory . It's owned by The Daily Mail. The New Statesman is a magazine. Magazines don't have the same circulation. The 'i' which used to stand for The Independent, is also owned now by The Daily Mail.
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  44. When they bothered to understand the details because they cared, were interested and not lazy.
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  45.  @georgewright9914  You left yours at home.
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  46. The one who we see charging him had a taser which brought him down. Getting to the scene of the crime quickly was obviously more important in protecting the public than waiting for an armed response unit to be assembled.
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  47. If they did understand they would not care although they would say they do.
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  48. It's just shysterism and chicanery. They know very well what the situation is.
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  49.  @highpath4776  The other options were to remain in the customs union (that would mean no outside trade deals but since none of those deals are better than we had in the EU and there are fewer of them, that's not much of a price to pay though there may be a fee for being in the customs union) or stay in the single market but without being part of the EU (that would mean paying a fee, abiding by all the single market rules but having no say on them). I wish we had at least stayed in the customs union.
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  50.  @chatham43  In third world countries most people have little power and can't stop corporations ripping them off in collusion with their government and can't stop their streams and rivers being polluted and their environments being degraded, and often can't afford to feed themselves and their families, er, er, er.
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