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

  1. Ricky is a lefty too. He just doesn't like hypocrites.
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  2. You're joking. Trump still won't condemn Putin. He'd give him everything he wants. Trump talks himself up a lot but it's basically bullshit talk.
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  3.  @Chiefmismaker  Putin has got some hold over Donald. Putin would know he could do what he wants with Donald in charge in the USA, and Donald would not have agreed sanctions. He can't even bring himself to criticise Putin or condemn him for goodness sake - never mind agree sanctions. Why do people think the sun shines out of Donald's ass. That's just his own assessment of himself and his followers seem to swallow it. The only talent Donald has is for entertainment and showmanship.
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  4.  @Pal.Cockrum  Fool. Any American foodstuffs sold in the EU, (including the UK while we are part of the EU) have to meet EU standards but not so if we have a hard Brexit. This is an example of the standards that Americans get https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/17/health/baby-foods-arsenic-lead-toxic-metals-wellness/index.html I could post loads more types of low standards but you can google them yourself.
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  5.  @Pal.Cockrum  If your comment is aimed at me, you can see where the info is coming from. On what's happening to workers rights it comes from legal documents drafted by Boris's government. On baby foods it comes from CNN who are highlighting an investigative report that confirms the result of an earlier FDA report (Food and Drug Administration in the USA - a government agency) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24du25osgRY&list=LLGGEn5ziDGQqNRr1m3pwHBg&index=2&t=2s https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/17/health/baby-foods-arsenic-lead-toxic-metals-wellness/index.html
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  6.  @gregorysmith7308  I read the article and if you read it all, it also comes from rice which, more than any other crop picks up arsenic from the soil but there are other heavy metals in the baby food also e.g. cadmium. Since the USA allows many more chemicals to be used in farming than are allowed in the EU, plants will be at higher risk of absorbing stuff. It doesn't seem as though the USA is intending to do anything to improve matters or make baby food safer. It's typical to load all the responsibility onto consumers to avoid this that and the other. Until this study, I doubt there were any warnings about this and I bet there are none now. Big corporations control the US government.
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  7.  @Pal.Cockrum  The horsemeat scandal was quickly brought under control when discovered and vCJD originated in Britain but was also tackled once discovered. The EU banned British beef. There's a difference between breaking the rules (illegal) and not much in the way of rules (allowing for all sorts of risky practices to go on quite legally, often without the consumer's knowledge)
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  8.  @mrmagoo-i2l  You don't seem to realise that after a hard Brexit, UK farmers will only be able to compete in price terms with farm produce from the USA and elsewhere if they lower their costs by dropping their standards in terms of chemical usage and animal welfare. Boris won't stop them. He wants deregulation so you will no longer be able to rely on UK produce being of good standards.
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  9.  @mariogmajner6549  I agree with you that most Brexiters are maybe beyond help, but when the scales start to fall from their eyes as Boris betrays their trust, they may remember some of this.
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  10.  @Pal.Cockrum  As I said, there's a difference between breaking rules for which offenders can be prosecuted and not having any rules to protect people in the first place.
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  11.  @wozzer3wa  He gives his interpretation of what things signify but he always applies logic. He's not making up what the withdrawal agreement says (or omits) and he's not making up the wording of the draft Bill currently going through Parliament. I'm sure you could google those and confirm it.
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  12.  @Pal.Cockrum  You didn't read an earlier comment it seems. The CNN report confirmed what a government body, the FDA, had also found (FDA = Food and Drug Administration.
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  13.  @wozzer3wa  Nope. You can google for yourselves to find out whether I make things up or not - if you can be bothered.
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  14.  @reissjarvis9523  Not yet. He believes in deregulation in general, and he's going for a hard Brexit it seems which means he doesn't have to keep to EU food standards. He placed workers rights and the environment in the non mandatory part of the withdrawal agreement which means he can drop them. He's not included them in his withdrawal Bill (currently going through Parliament) and economic pressures of a hard Brexit will force farmers to drop standards to survive against cheap imports from countries with lower costs and standards. I don't see Boris regulating to keep the standards and he will have to drop them to get any deal with Trump. Right wing Tory ideology means they believe the market will take care of everything and the government should not interfere with it by regulating - they believe in 'small government' and consumers being responsible for their own choices. Of course the poor won't have as much choice as the wealthy as they'll only be able to afford cheap food.
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  15. Brexit finally getting done and Boris finally doing you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24du25osgRY
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  16. I voted for him and all my friends did too. This investigation is not about voting. It's about the announcement of the opening of the Elizabeth line a day before the local elections.
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  17.  @jonbaker5990  I don't regret it though. Did you hope either the dim Tory or the even dimmer Lawrence Fox would win? Neither being on the side of the workers. I don't think Lawrence would know what a worker was, but there are lots of them among the voters in London.
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  18.  @jonbaker5990  Well, I live on a busy road and developed chronic asthma as an adult but it's been a lot better since the congestion zone and the the ultra low emission zones were introduced. I've been able to drop one of my asthma meds. You drive in London but you don't say that you live here. It's people who live here who vote for Mayor. In fact your experience would be worse without these policies because public transport in London is good and more people have been encouraged to use it, reducing traffic on the roads.
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  19.  @jonbaker5990  No other candidate or party offers to tackle congestion except the Greens. Unfortunately London is a big city that dominates the country economically and wasn't designed with minimising pollution in mind so it's not an easy problem to solve but when electric vehicles become the norm it will get better. A lot of people cycle. I used to, but I was nearly killed on a couple of occasions by lorries overtaking me and swinging into the kerb while still passing me as if I wasn't there. Fortunately on both occasions the kerb. gave way and I could get off the road. I didn't think I'd be lucky a third time. The economy would be more balanced if the Tories had supported manufacturing in Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, but I remember Margaret Thatcher's government saying we didn't need manufacturing, because we could earn our living from financial services which are predominantly situated in London. As for criminal violence that's been increasing around the towns and cities of Britain as poverty increases. That's not to excuse it, but I think it is an underlying cause. The Tories claim to be the party of law and order but they seem to break the law whenever it suits them these days and they were responsible for the cuts in police numbers by 21,000 since 2010.
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  20. He wasn't defending Hamas. He condemned the attack on Israel, but he was talking about the context for this long term conflict and the equivalence of the lives of Palestinian and Israeli children. The Palestinians are not interested in Islamic fundamentalism but in having some freedom.
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  21. Hardly.
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  22. The Tories want lapdog media. There is no 'swamp' except in the minds of those who can't tolerate opinions that are different from or challenge their own. If it's going to be a lapdog medium then the government should fund it. If they make it like other private companies, it will actually have more freedom as it won't rely on public sector funding at all. The BBC pushed the responsibility for over 75 free licences onto the BBC without giving them any funding for it so they have to cut programmes. They've just cut the Victoria Derbyshire programme. Why can't the BBC sneer if it wants to. Boris Johnson and the Tories are always sneering. Isn't that free speech?
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  23. Fracking, coming to an area near you. Fracking hell!.
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  24. It's rude to point.
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  25. No brain though, unfortunately.
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  26.  @thenorfolkst  We already had the unicorn vote. That was for Brexit.
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  27.  @commiehunter7964  No. I've only one account. You are the troll here.
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  28. Looks like my comment of earlier today has been removed. What sensitive souls these righties are. I shall check back later to see if this is removed. What fun!
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  29. * confuses. Perhaps they thought he was a Quasi Kwarteng.
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  30.  @make_the_ukgreat_again638  People who have attention spans and like good quality drama, journalism, news, documentaries, nature programmes, history programmes etc etc etc.
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  31.  @make_the_ukgreat_again638  Yes, You need say more. You need to back up your libel with some facts.
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  32.  @make_the_ukgreat_again638  No they don't lie all the time. Tommy Robinson lies about Tommy Robinson and that's not even his real name (Stephen Yaxley Lennon).
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  33.  @Useaname  Are you all lads then?
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  34.  @make_the_ukgreat_again638  I expect everything is news to you - especially 'the news'. If you only read stuff that you agree with, you'll never learn anything.
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  35.  @lottiepye6082  Yes, they could cut down on that sort of thing, but often they just stand in front of a photo of somewhere that a viewer has sent in. I also think the weather person goes somewhere where the BBC is already - for instance I've seen them at Wimbledon when the BBC is at Wimbledon covering the Wimbledon Tennis tournament and at Edinburgh when there were some commonwealth games there, so that would keep the costs down if they are basically hitching a ride with the rest of the crew.
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  36.  @englishciderlover7347  Nope. That's what Tories like people to believe to keep themselves in power or sow apathy.
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  37.  @foxbor0  Diversionary tactics.
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  38.  @williambeckett3796  I don't think they would because the word is losers not loosers.
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  39.  @roblewis5044  Percentage wise if you add up, this time a greater percentage voted against Boris's Brexit deal than for it - oddly enough 52 to 48 against, but that's the first past the post system for you. The Tories won a lot of constituencies by not many votes so their vote share gets a whopping majority. I'll live with it. Boris will need to sort out the mess and make good on his promises now. Not so easy for a liar but I notice from page 48 of their Manifesto that they intend to shut down opposition as much as possible so I hope you like what he does because it will be harder for your voice to be heard, in future, if you don't.
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  40.  @thesheepman220  Why should I live in the EU? What childish thinking. Leavers don't have exclusive ownership of Britain.
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  41.  @williambeckett3796  Well, I guess it's not the worst of your problems with Boris in charge. Let's hope he lives up to your expectations. I'm not commenting any more now. I'm going to look for some escapism.
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  42.  @williambeckett3796  Looser than what? It's loser, you loser.
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  43.  @thesheepman220  It's funny that Brexiters think they own the UK and everyone else should leave. You won the vote but not by the majority of people voting, for you. You're not the landlord of the UK. Boris has reserved that role for foreign investors.
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  44. Here is a song that represents Brexit pretty well, I think. I like the German version but I've also posted the English one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYcviXK4rg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35iKfS76TBY
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  45.  @mick1406 What? The Republic of Ireland is in the EU! If you mean between the Republic of Ireland and NI, that would break the Good Friday Agreement.
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  46.  @mick1406  Are you dim? I'm not howling with rage. I'm expressing logic. As the Republic is in the EU there can't be a border between it and the EU. That's like saying you can separate yourself from you. The rules that apply to the EU apply to the Republic which is in the EU. The protection of the EU border includes protections that apply to the Republic. Boris, Parliament and the DUP all signed up to the trade border in the Irish sea. It is they and the Brexiteers who are the hypocrites. It was the UK that chose to leave the EU, or Wales and England to be more precise. It wasn't an issue of the EU's making. You don't leave a club and expect that club to change according to your whims afterwards,
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  47.  @mick1406  The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement does not exclude Northern Ireland or Ireland from establishing cross-border checkpoints and other security measures. However, an explicit objective of the UK Withdrawal Agreement is to minimise physical border controls and politically it is known that border controls would risk restarting the troubles in Ireland. The aim of the GFI is to normalise relations between NI and the South to remove those frictions.
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  48.  @mick1406  It doesn't have to be mentioned specifically if it's inferred.
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  49. Use your brain first. Where is the evidence that she was 'cancelled'? He didn't mention any. Secondly, Stanley Johnson's wife is on written record as saying that he beat her many times throughout their marriage and that Boris saw that happening (so Boris was aware, of it when he nominated his father for a knighthood).
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  50. How exactly are they woke? Are juries 'woke' too? What do you mean by 'woke'?
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