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

  1.  @MrNed09  Would you care to tell me which media channels are a beacon of truth and a shining light of impartiality? I've a feeling your suggestions will give me a good laugh.
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  2.  @MrNed09  I do do my own research and don't take things at face value. I'm not gulled by people with an agenda.
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  3.  @danieloliver4558  How would you know?
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  4.  @honisoitquimalypense1316  Not totally but they have been more impartial, knowledgeable and factual than channels like Fox News, and Newspapers like The Sun and The Daily Mail. The Daily Mail was assessed against impartial fact checking sites and found to be the most misleading newspaper of all UK newspapers.
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  5.  @chickenandmushroompotnoodl3180  I think the Gilets Jaunes just went off the boil as far as the media were concerned. If things go on too long without conclusion the media tends not to report on them so much. The same is true for Hong Kong and the same was true for Northern Ireland. At the moment in France the strikes and protests are about Macron's pension reforms. That's a more specific issue than the Gilets Jaunes protest. In the UK we tend not to protest so much about cuts. We vote in a government that believes in cuts.
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  6.  @MrNed09  I think that's absolutely wrong and I have experienced that that is wrong during my lifetime. There certainly is a difference between left and right policies and Labour and Tory governments. People may be judging by Tony Blair's time in office. He was more centrist and a great admirer of Margaret Thatcher. It was like having a Tory Lite in charge of the Labour Party, but even he did a number of good things that the Tories would never have done. I have always voted.
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  7.  @edwardcullen1739  The CS is not accountable to the public. Ministers are accountable to the public. Civil Servants aren't voted for by the public and Ministers are, that's why Ministers are accountable. The civil service is accountable to Ministers via a performance management system and they can be sacked if they break the civil service code. I don't know about the fraud cases you mentioned, but that would be a management failure if they were allowed to continue. Universal Credit isn't that simple. Things that have held it up is include the development of an adequate IT system, and adequate trained staff to deal with the system IT system. It's meant to deal with a lot of different circumstances for different individuals and be capable of keeping them up to date. It doesn't bother me about shaking up the civil service. If they don't do it well it won't work. You can't be at war with your staff and at the same time expect them to endlessly pull out all the stops. I don't know how things are now (I can only imagine) but when I was there a lot of overtime was worked for free - just to get things done- because staff were committed and there was a lot of good will. It doesn't work if you constantly kick staff like that.
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  8.  @chickenandmushroompotnoodl3180  I think the Scandinavian model would work in the UK though it would probably be difficult to persuade people with all the propaganda that would be poured out against it - a bit like trying to persuade Americans that a NHS type system would work there. The propaganda against it seems too strong. The vested interests in government don't want it and the media are largely their mouthpieces. I don't think I will suffer as much under this government as the younger generation will. Things could turn around quickly though if it all goes pear shaped -either that or people will turn on and scapegoat each other and I think things could get very nasty. I hope not. Labour governments have not always been a disaster. The 1945 government created the NHS and built lots of housing. Harold Wilson kept us out of Vietnam and created the Open University. Tony Blair achieved peace in Northern Ireland with the Good Friday Agreement. Gordon Brown was there during the worldwide banking crash of 2008 and he persuaded the EU and the US to prop up the banking system -saving capitalism worldwide from a deep crisis of confidence and allowing recovery. The crash was a result or deregulation of financial service and the Tory view had been that they wanted even more deregulation than there was.
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  9.  @MrNed09  I don't believe that all politicians don't give a damn about people. At local level I've known councillors that do give a damn, and the Labour Party certainly has quite a lot of working class MPs who are burning to deal with social injustices, but unfortunately the country votes those who don't care into power. Bringing control to a more local level (having exited the EU) won't make this lot more caring.
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  10.  @edwardm9227  No just disagreeing with you.
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  11.  @valeriestrojan624  Good.
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  12.  @nigelrobson505  A pig can call itself a dog but that does not make it a dog.
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  13. Not a problem. if people eventually want to rejoin they can vote Labour. If people are happy and don't want to rejoin, Labour will eventually change its leadership. The media reports that the living wage is going up by a 'record busting', 'inflation busting' 6.2% which turns out to be 51p an hour. Labour were going to put it up more than that, but it would have been reported as a 'reckless, irresponsible, unaffordable increase'. Isn't life grandy and dandy?
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  14. The thing I heard they were unhappy with was that those from the EU given leave to stay were only to get the information digitally online and have no physical proof issued that they can show to employers etc. The government is against giving them physical proof. Why? The Lords do nothing to stop Brexit but just ask for changes to make things work more smoothly. Can't see why the government would be against that and they could get their bill through quickly if they did. If the Lords go, who will be there to save people like Boris from the consequences of their own stupidity. A Brexit MEP has already complained that after 31 Jan there will be no-one from Britain to hold the EU fisheries committee to account. Lol. You couldn't make it up.
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  15. Trump still won't condemn Putin and claims to have 'saved' NATO. Lol. What a comedian.
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  16.  @colinsmith1288  I don't think Germany will go bust. It's the strongest economy in Europe.
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  17.  @iguiste23  Trump was also an admirer of Putin and even now won't condemn him. If Trump shuts down gas to Germany or Europe, where is he going to get the money to fund his war?
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  18.  @WildPhotoShooter  What did Trump ever do or say that suggested Putin was an enemy? Haven't you noticed that Trump admires all the worst dictators of the world? He would love to have had that much control. He would have loved to shut down his opponents voices. He never admired any democratic leaders. He criticised them for being 'weak'. He refused to shake the hand of Angel Merkel. That's not 'keeping friends close'.
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  19.  @WildPhotoShooter  You can't judge Trump's attitude just on one statement to Germany. Putin's agents actively worked to get Trump elected by spreading fake news, and during the election campaign Trump openly, publicly, asked Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails.
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  20.  @WildPhotoShooter  I think Trump and Putin try to use each other, perhaps seeing some mutual advantage in that, but some people thought Putin had some hold over Trump, some blackmail material. Whether he does or not, Trump's attitude towards Putin was unusual for an American President.
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  21.  @jugbywellington1134  I couldn't trust a word that comes out of that man's mouth since he even lies about what he himself has said previously. Also I'm very glad to no longer have him in the news on a daily basis since having his tweets always to read was a constant torture. It's a more peaceful life when he's out of the news.
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  22.  @jugbywellington1134  No one's worse than Trump. He's not really a believer in democracy and would do all he can in office to undermine it. He's already demonstrated that with his attitude the the election result and his encouragement of the storming of the capitol. He's a populist who can persuade people that he's on their side but his only real interest is in gaining and keeping power and whatever is to his own advantage. He's also very corrupt. I didn't vote for anyone as I'm not American and therefore not eligible to vote in US elections.
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  23. Is there anyone on here who is to the left of Genghis Khan?
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  24. All we're headed for now is trade wars.
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  25. This is really a Boris fan channel.
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  26. World trade is war by proxy, and the UK has gone into battle having stripped itself of all weapons.
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  27.  @hobnobmarine  Profound thought there.
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  28.  @jamesdaltrey2878  It's the Tories that are selling off the country. Check who owns the former public sector companies they privatised, Railways, Water, Mail, Steel, Energy and services they outsourced in health. They were also pretty cool with British companies such as Cadbury's, and Fry's being sold off to foreign corporations. They were fine with foreign ill-gotten gains being laundered through fraudsters buying property in England, even if it wasn't to be occupied. Many British farms are now owned by foreign companies. They are even trying to remove workers rights so it's easier for these companies to exploit them and increase profits from them.
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  29.  @susancurtis1651  That's not so if you consider the cost of not being 'in' or the benefits of being 'in'. The shrinkage of the economy of a Britain outside of the EU has a big cost for us.
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  30. If it becomes another Murdoch channel I won't be watching. Boris the vandal.
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  31. The Supreme Court wasn't biased. They asked Boris to produce evidence to support his case. Boris never produced the evidence to support his case - ergo he lost his case.
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  32. Don't bother. This is a totally biased website and anyone trying to give the true picture is deleted.
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  33. 'The job of tracking fishing vessels in British waters is currently for a British firm. However, after Brexit, Boris Johnson's government has given the job to a French firm. Another example of how taking back control actually means taking British taxpayers' money from UK firms and giving them to others.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG_fN_cjds8&t=83s
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  34. *has been run
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  35. If this is happening, it's because the Tory government is allowing it. In fact the government has sold off NHS data to the private sector without any consultation of consent. You should be concerned about that. Socialists would never sell off private health data so stop blaming them to deflect from what the Tory government is doing. Apparently, the Tory government has also sold off people's data held by the DWP, and workers at the DWP have reported that the DWP now has to pay to access that data. This is outrageous. I doubt many people know. This government would sell off their grannies if there was profit in it.
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  36. No. Right wingers get excited at every little rise in the value of the £1 but it hasn't gone back to where it was before they bombed it with their mini budget. That well known radical left wing communist paper the Financial Times is alarmed also. Every time it rises a little the government seems to bomb it again. Anyway, the only reason it's risen a bit is because the Bank of England bailed out the government and saved the pension funds and the government has since promised an OBR assessment. Nevertheless, bye bye to the Tories at the next GE. .
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  37.  @yodaslovetoy  I'm happy already - just laughing at your silly name.
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  38.  @yodaslovetoy  *should have not 'should of'. The BBC has an educational remit which you might find useful.
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  39.  @yodaslovetoy  You told me to take my happy pills, so I was just doing what makes me happy.
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  40. First thing out of this guy's mouth is a big lie, - second thing is a big lie, third thing is a big lie ..... you get the picture? Brexit will not benefit the average person one iota. It will benefit only the financial spivs, corporations, money launderers, and wealthy tax avoiders.
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  41. This is wrong. It's setting up a straw man. As they stated the document proves that the NHS is not 'off the table' when it comes to US trade talks and any US trade deal post Brexit, and they could also have a secret agreement aside from any deal if they so choose. It also indicates that US drug companies are keen to increase the price of drugs to the NHS and the government is not telling them no. There's a myth peddled by the government and this video about how they are not 'selling off of the NHS'. However Boris can keep the NHS 'brand' and the 'free at the point of use element whilst allowing more and more health services to be sold off to private companies. He will hope because it will still be called the NHS and still free to use (in the short or medium term anyway), that people won't notice the gradual privatisation of health services. Health services that come under the Department of Health include social services and public health services as well as the NHS. Already 26% of funding goes to private companies. This is somewhat hidden by the fact that some of it goes to voluntary groups and local authorities who merely pass it on to private companies. Because it goes to the former bodies first, the government still classifies the funding as going to public services. You might think what does it matter who provides the services, but it does matter because: staff terms and conditions are often worse; if the private firm fails the taxpayer picks up the tab; money is unnecessarily siphoned out of the system in the form of profit; and private firms who are competitors and competing for contracts don't co-operate and share information in a way that provides for the best (seamless) patient care. The regular contracting round and process is complex and time consuming for those medical staff who need to input to it. It costs a lot to achieve and monitor and may become an inflexible and costly burden if circumstances change or the contract is not watertight. The way has also been opened for private companies to sue the NHS if they fail to win contracts. It requires a lot more accountants and consultants to run and maintain the system. If the NHS becomes predominantly privatised that could change the whole ethos of the NHS (that the patient comes first). The funding of the NHS is in the public domain at the moment but when Hunt was Secretary of State, an attempt was made to sneakily change the structure of funding bodies to align them with the format of those in the USA which would have made it easy for private companies to take this over, so private companies would be deciding how the money is spent. If that happened there would not be much of the NHS as we know it left - mainly the brand and the fact that it's free at the point of use, until a worsening of service would mean the Tories could gain enough support for changing it to an insurance based system and bingo, long term objective achieved. If you don't think the NHS is being gradually privatised, speak to anyone who works in it.
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  42. Aren't his opponents desperate for Corbyn not to be elected. What have they to fear? Oh yes, they'll have to pay their fair share of taxes like everyone else.
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  43. It was not illegal.
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  44.  @ronclark9724  Well that's democracy. I accept democracy and don't seek to call things illegal unless they really are.
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  45.  @daffyddduck2419  The Israeli government. Who started you?
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  46.  @daffyddduck2419  Forced to anyway.
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  47.  @daffyddduck2419  Which sentence is not coherent?
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  48. So why won't Boris publish the report on Russian interference in the UK elections? Could it be they are helping the Tories? After all those Russian oligarchs who want to launder criminal money through Britain can do it much more easily with the Tories in power.
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  49. The British guy is being deliberately obtuse. Anyone who doesn't want to be filmed has the right not to be filmed. He doesn't have to film them.
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  50. The EU may prefer to have a deal but not on any terms. They will have worked out that they stand to receive more economic damage by complying with Boris's requests than by resisting them. I see the UK being squeezed between the nutcracker of the EU and USA. Boris tried to play one off against the other but that failed.
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