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

  1. Names aren't mentioned until the person is charged.
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  2.  @mohamedabdillahi6180  Well last I heard the police had not interviewed him as he was receiving treatment in hospital. I don't suppose it will be long though.
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  3.  @mohamedabdillahi6180  Read a decent source of news or maybe the Mirror didn't come out in time to issue the latest. news. TV news would be more up to date. His name is Marcus Monzo. He has dual Spanish and Brazilian nationality. Those countries are mostly Catholic but whether he has any beliefs I don't know. He was previously registered as a Director of a real estate company. It sounds like he had some mental breakdown or psychotic episode. I expect more will be revealed on that at the trial.
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  4. That's nonsensical 'what iffery' backed by no evidence. Workers pay has historically been higher under Labour. People were not worse off.
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  5. Don't blame Labour for years of Tory austerity, Anna Soubry!
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  6. Or rather the incident has impacted on the 'hatred between police and the public' by improving relationships?
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  7. Everyone the guy injured is a victim of his violence.
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  8.  @Confessionofteenagenuns  No I'm not locked into partisan thinking. I accept what you say and Labour made mistakes but I was answering a comment that said Labour abandoned the working class so I was listing evidence to show they did do things to benefit the working class. As for privatising the NHS. Yes Labour agreed short term contracts with private health sector to quickly reduce waiting lists on operations such as cataracts and hip replacements but it was the Coalition government (Tories and Lib Dems) who introduced routine privatisation of the NHS through the Health and Social Care Act 2012 which required the NHS to invite the private health sector to bid for any health contract going. The private health sector only wanted to cherry pick profitable areas of NHS services though. The unprofitable parts were left to the NHS. I was born in 1954 to a working class family and I've worked in the health sector and seen all the changes.
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  9. He thinks the wealth we gained from exploiting countries in the British Empire is the same as wealth to be gained from trading with them. He thinks we'd get the same amount of wealth from trade as from exploitation. He doesn't think at all. His brain is full of Tory tabloid propaganda and is just a collection of prejudices.
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  10. It's not true that we've not seen an unassailable majority before in recent history. Boris Johnson got an 80 seat majority in 2019 but the Tories have blown that. What worries me is that if Labour don't deliver the country may swing strongly to the right at the next election or maybe the one after that. Labour don't have much money to play with either.
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  11. It's called a General Election although people vote constituency by constituency. Local elections are elections for local councillors and don't happen at the same time
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  12. We are stuck in an economic impasse now. The only way to produce growth with no pain for voters is to levy higher tax on the corporate sector that can afford to pay and to invest that money for growth. Also to reverse Brexit so we can export again more easily. These are not Tory policies as they don't fit with Tory ideology.
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  13. The future's so scary with AI and if people's access to the truth is being overthrown in favour of lies and conspiracy theories.
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  14. I think his ex wife should support him more for the sake of the kids as they are both responsible for their welfare. Look at the state the lack of adequate universal credit has got him into. It sounds like he's going to get ill through stress. He really doesn't know which way to turn. I wish people would come together as a community. For instance getting together with others in the same situation to share and pool resources in terms of childcare and work and rent. Communal living might be a way to go as this government is uncaring. Everyone is left to sink or swim on their own.
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  15.  @christalmeth613  Even Putin couldn't do that much damage.
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  16. The Tories will be hoping for some payback from the wealthy beneficiaries in terms of contributions to the Tory Party.
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  17. He's got some points to make but he's long winded about it.
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  18. And how is your unnumbed brain doing?
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  19.  John Munroe  You know nothing John Munroe (aka Snow). The BBC is controlled by its governors and the Chief Executive. This Tory government has appointed the governors and they appointed a hard market Chief Executive who privatised as much as he could, as they wanted him to. I wish they taught politics and government at school so people would know how things work.
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  20.  @Human_Harvest  How is it that he asked a woman to let the person on his phone know his location then? She realised he wasn't right in the head just by the look of him.
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  21. Boris doesn't have the interest or skills or knowledge to negotiate properly. For him it's always wanting to be seen as some sort of victor in a macho sense, even when he's proposing nonsense.
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  22. When he was talking about the EU it struck me that's just what Boris would love 'power without accountability' and page 48 of his manifesto indicates he's working towards that. As for being bullied, the UK government instigated or voted for 98% of EU regulations.
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  23.  @samanthawhiting7962  People can choose how to spend their money though. Is yours an argument for paying the lowest possible wages?
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  24.  @samanthawhiting7962  I don't understand your penultimate sentence. It's not grammatical and doesn't seem to make sense.
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  25. It's not normal to release a person's name when they are in custody, until they have been charged. It looks like a white guy though and the woman he first spoke to said he looked not right which would probably mean he looked mentally ill.
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  26.  @NecessaryDramaAddictionNDA  How can you tell his nationality from the videos and stills?
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  27.  @NecessaryDramaAddictionNDA  Why would that be relevant?
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  28.  @NecessaryDramaAddictionNDA  What exactly did you hear? What was the impression you got from that?
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  29.  @NecessaryDramaAddictionNDA  I don't know yet.
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  30. No he didn't. JRM avoided answering some of JOB's key questions, such as the fact that economist and pro Brexiteer Patrick Minford, whom JRM cites in support of hard Brexit, has stated that hard Brexit will destroy British manufacturing and farming. Minford is quite o.k with that. He doesn't think it's important, but will the public be so willing to accept it. JRM wouldn't even admit that's what Patrick Minford said. Nor could he deny it. He just ignored the question completely. He does that when the facts don't suit his argument.
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  31. He was either seeking an answer from the paper or doing a variation on la la la not listening.
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  32. Redwood has always been nuts. The others are probably aware that they are lying.
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  33.  @yuccatree4298  Yes that's the origin of the word. They were given that name by their opponents The Whigs, I think and it was meant as an insult. The word Whig was also an insult and meant country bumpkin. I'm not sure what Stephen Fry video you are referring to.
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  34.  @yuccatree4298  I'll have a look at the video. You know cultural influences come from all over what was The British Empire. Those cultures have influenced Britain which is why our most popular dish is curry and we have lots of Indian words in the language like pyjamas, shampoo and bungalow. It doesn't always mean something negative. Sometimes Brtain has adopted concepts or words they've admired or learned from or that are lacking in our own language or expressed better in another. Tory may be one of those and we have the term Boycott as well. I'm sure there are many others. Britain is also a very diverse country now. There isn't a single English or British view of things.
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  35.  @yuccatree4298  Sorry I can't find the link from your earlier post. Could you possibly copy and paste it to me in reply?
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  36.  @yuccatree4298  What a brilliant video. I think it's spot on. I will be sharing it with any deluded Brexiteers I come across.
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  37. I'm being treated by foreign born nurses and doctors as well as British born and I can't fault any of them on the question of compassion. Lovely people.
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  38. Which Tory propaganda has he been swallowing. He doesn't seem to realise there are far more tax paying workers than rich people tax payers. Wealthy taxpayers are often parking their wealth in offshore tax havens.
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  39. Johnson has refused to apologise for that lie.
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  40. I suppose the markets have the same sort of view as mortgage brokers when they impose an affordability test on would be borrowers. They want to know when and how borrowing can be paid back. They won't rely on some nebulous theory of growth of income in future particularly when the outlook for the future looks difficult. This is interesting because Labour has in its past manifestos, talked of borrowing for investment to produce growth. Investment is more likely to produce growth than tax cuts because it is more targeted at businesses that have consumer demand or can create it, to produce growth and it's growth that will allow the repayment of debt. It's also possible to calculate the anticipated return on investment. However nothing is without any risk. Would the markets, who are risk averse, have taken the same view of Labour's plans I wonder. I'm not defending the Tories here as I can't see how their cuts would have produced growth, but are the markets intolerant of all borrowing by a country already in debt unless there's absolute certainty about the pay back mechanism or is borrowing for investment with a calculated payback time acceptable? The only alternatives seem to be growth in exports (difficult post Brexit) or cuts in spending (difficult politically and morally). I suppose the answer is for countries not to corner themselves in the first place but we are where we are now.
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  41.  @davidcarroll3169  *you're. I think they were fairly decent to Trump given that the man makes a fool of himself each time he opens his mouth. In Ireland he didn't remember the name of the P.M. he was meeting and he thought they wanted a wall like the US. What an idiot. He then contradicted what he'd said when the Irish P.M indicated that he'd got the wrong end of the stick.
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  42.  @rinaa6865  It's not propaganda you could actually see the words come out of his mouth. Name a President who is as ignorant as Trump? He clearly talks cobblers and knows nothing about the Irish border situation. Everything it always going to be good and fine and work out well, except that he said that about North Korea and China . They were his good friends and look how that turned out. It's all cobblers. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2019/jun/05/trump-compares-post-brexit-irish-border-issue-to-plans-for-us-mexico-wall-video
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  43.  @davidcarroll3169  Bill who?
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  44. @Shlomo Bergenstein No. I never believed Iraq had WMDs.
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  45.  @shadejalik4769  Well that's just a prejudiced argument. Nothing to do with facts.
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  46.  @shadejalik4769  Ah well, once you start ad hominem attacks you''ve lost the argument, since you've given up on everything except attacking the person.
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  47.  @rinaa6865  He keeps saying that so many foreign dictators are his friends and how well he gets on with them and how good trade is going to be but in reality the doesn't improve relationships one bit,and a trade war won't necessarily benefit the US. I think his tearing up of the treaty with Iran is dangerous and could lead to conflict in the strait of Hormuz. O.K if the US is prepared to spend billions on war and send off many of its young men to be killed. The alternative is nuclear war which would kill even more people. He is trying to undermine Medicare, having failed to get it overturned in Congress, but it's your country, if that's what you want. I don't have to admire it though, do I?
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  48. Stress can lower the immune system and sometimes there's a link between stress and cancer. They've had to put up with the shenanigans of the Sussexes for years now.
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  49.  @andrewjohn5951  Time is not long enough to list them. Do some research yourself.
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  50.  @prasanamcdonald7991  Why?
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