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

  1. Reform won't tackle this. Their interests are the same as the wealthy elite (freeholders and landlords). They are to the right of the Tories ideologically. Besides we want work MPs don't we? We don't want ones that don't work but sit on their assets and directorships doing nothing while the money flows into them.
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  2. If you listened to the interview he was rejected twice but the government has lost track of a lot of failed asylum seekers, 17000 of them. This government never wants to pay for the services that would apply proper controls whether it's border controls, safety checks, or keeping track of asylum seekers, assessing their claims and deporting failed asylum seekers.
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  3. Trump knows how to press the fear and conspiracy buttons, but in power he didn't do anything to help ordinary people, just managed to sound as though he would.
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  4. I think the politicians are to blame because when this started up decades ago, they took no action to nip it in the bud. They didn't seem to care, I believe that's because they thought it was restricted to one community.
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  5.  @JohnThomas-hv3nd  knives
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  6.  @Steaks652  And Trump is mature is he?
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  7. Worse than Johnson, Gove, Braverman, Failing Grayling and Useless Eustace, bullying Raab and Priti Patel?
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  8.  @kevintravis5123  Diane Abbot faithfully served her constituents for over 30 years and she regularly voted in Parliament to help people unlike many Tory MPs who regularly vote to harm people. As for Tory Ministers they have even more power to harm people and cause chaos and they certainly did for the most part. Remember Failing Grayling with the railways, bullying Priti Patel who often went off piste, Truss collapsing the economy. Johnson's lies and incompetence and huge waste of public money, Hancock and Dorries going awol to appear on celebrity TV shows. Dorries not appearing in Parliament for the best part of a year, Braverman the Attorney General who didn't know the law or didn't care to comply with it, despite being in the so called 'party of law and order' Sunak's failure on immigration, Raab the bullying Minister and Foreign Secretary who decided to stay away on holiday during the crisis in Afghanistan when the British had to evacuate. I could go on but my fingers would get tired.
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  9. Because the Tory government put an end to independent building control inspections of the work (by local councils) and allowed developers to hire their own building inspectors. Developer hired building inspectors want more work from the developers so let through sub standard work.
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  10. You think? She's jumping on the bandwagon now.
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  11. It's no good trying to deflect blame onto the Civil Service. It's always government Ministers who have responsibility and who make the final decisions. The Civil Service just executes those decisions or attempts to, even if the decisions are bonkers, but the government can't expect the Civil Service to break the law for them. That's against the Civil Service Code and against the Ministerial Code also.
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  12. Trouble is I think footballers like Lineker are so used to being paid stratospheric salaries that they probably wouldn't work for a normal one. What's interesting is that a lot of that would go in tax, unless he's on some tax avoiding scheme.
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  13. Hitchens need a face mask to hide his ugly mug. I'm fed up of these whining whingers. How would they have got on in WW2 if they had to wear gas masks for goodness sake? They have it easy in comparison and Hitchens earns his living by being a 'controversialist'. He has to take a contrarian view always to keep a profile in the media.
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  14. I'm sure all PMs talk to and listen to their partners but we don't normally get to hear about it. I think that Cummings and Cain are one trick ponies. They only care about Brexit. They don't care about the Conservative government or whether it stays in power. Appointing Cain as Chief of Staff was a power grab by Cummings. It failed because the Tory party want people who can keep the Tories in power.
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  15.  @yorkshirelass8786  He is untested with no track record in office. How can you be sure? He was wrong about Brexit. It's easy to criticise, much harder to fix things in a way that's fair.
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  16.  @yorkshirelass8786  What were the tangible benefits of Brexit then? No one can say. The majority of the public think it was a mistake. Even Farage has said it was a mistake and he encouraged people to vote for it. He's a shyster.
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  17.  @yorkshirelass8786  What benefits? Lower standards, lower pay, fewer worker rights, smaller welfare state, more damage to the home production sector including agriculture, doing the USA's bidding, more opportunity for the wealthy to become even more wealthy and avoid even more tax? Those aren't benefits to my mind only to Farage's. No I don't get bored about commenting on a problem that still exists and damages people's living standards because people are still dealing with the consequences. If only it were all unicorns as the Brexiteers suggested I'd have nothing to complain about.
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  18.  @yorkshirelass8786  Nigel's not the one for governance. He doesn't believe in such regulation. He knows how to oppose, to criticise but not how to create, to improve. He can oppose all right but not to any real purpose.
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  19. He was excited not he was exciting.
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  20. Ozdave McGee It also proved that many voters are naive enough to believe lies, don't check facts, and don't understand economics or the economy of their own country.
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  21. 'To do or die' That's a line from Tennyson's 'Charge of the Light Brigade' and we know what happened to them. He can't keep going with the existing arrangements, as he suggested without an agreement with the EU and he previously rejected their agreement and they aren't going to change it, they say. There's no time to negotiate a new one anyway even if they were willing to. If Boris just comes out without a deal, everything lapses on day 1. WTO terms would be disastrous.
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  22. No idea about running the country also.
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  23. Because he's no reason to lie now. Which of the leave campaigners are not liers?
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  24. I don't see him as manipulated so much. They do share a sense of grievance and entitlement and when Harry met Sally (sorry Meghan) she emboldened him to express his discontent in this way. His fear about 'history repeating itself' is probably genuine though. I don't think 'logic' is a strong point of Harry. He and she react more emotionally than thinking logically. She thought she won the lottery and didn't read the small print which requires certain duties and discretion in the role.
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  25. Sick of people whining about the BBC and obsessed with 'defunding' it. Closing down media channels is never good for democracy. They are all hypocrites as their real motivation is political censorship.
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  26.  @andrew30m  I don't think it was about culture. The cultures of countries has not become less national, as you say. I know they were concerned about the idea of a European army. Farage kept banging on about that.
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  27.  Jimmy Jams  A feebie? What TV services can you get for free these days? Believe me socialists do not see the BBC as socialist or even near. They pretty well covered Boris's arse in the run up to the election by not showing some of the blunders he was making, even to the extent of showing a previous year's cenotaph ceremony instead of the latest mash up by Boris. He was often interviewed by Laura Keunssberg who is known to be a fan of his (or she was at the time).
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  28.  @blaze1148  I don't know what country you are in, but in the USA the Coronavirus has killed more people than the worst recent year for flu deaths. Also surviving it doesn't necessarily mean that people won't live with some permanent damage. It's not over yet either.
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  29.  @blaze1148  Who knows how long a terminally ill person or someone with a chronic disease would live if they did not have Covid? That's why they also use the 'excess' deaths figure for corroboration. Do you not know this?
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  30.  @blaze1148  You can count people as dying from Covid if they are not in the process of dying when they catch Covid and it kills them. Covid often causes blood clots which cause thrombosis, strokes and heart attacks, and it often attacks vital organs. If it kills you a doctor is not going to say I'll put on the death certificate, as cause of death, the disease or condition you have that might otherwise have killed you in 3 months time, or a year or several years. That's not how death certificates work. Also in the UK, in the beginning, lots of people died of Covid who were never tested for it and whose death certificates would not mention it. These were people who died at home or in care homes because only hospitalised patients got the test at that time, so Covid deaths were largely undercounted than overcounted. I now refer you to my previous comment about excess death numbers as a corroborating measure.
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  31.  @blaze1148  I didn't know all the stats but the death rate from Covid is definitely more than from normal flu in the USA. I think the highest number for deaths from flu in recent years in the USA was about 60,000. They are over 150,000 deaths from Covid now. The death rate in the UK is well above the average death rate over previous years. When I last looked the excess death rate was about 60,000 above the average. This suggests that in the UK the number of Covid deaths has been undercounted.
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  32. There are some accidents from activities only wealthy people can afford. Were these trips ever risk assessed I wonder? What was the escape plan in event of a problem? I read that they went out on a 'window' of good weather. If the weather conditions were that hazardous, they should not have gone. A window doesn't necessarily leave time for a rescue. Why didn't 'customers' think of this before taking a trip. What a horrible way to die, if that is the case.
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  33. 'It's hard to understand the reasonings of post office executives'. Well the government wanted to privatise the post office at the time and the revelation that the software system was not fit for purpose would have scuppered private sector interest in that. The post office was barely profitable at the time.
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  34. Probably the least of worries.
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  35. Some people would say he's an idiot.
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  36. Conveyancing solicitors should be looking into such things and advising their clients (the buyers) before they buy. I suspect the above scenario happens in properties that were once owned by public bodies such as locals councils and are a legacy of the 'right to buy' legislation.
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  37.  jimmyriddlemethis6536  Today Ukraine, tomorrow the rest of Europe that's why. Putin has already threatened that. Bet you regard yourself as patriotic, D Day blah blah blah. Good job you weren't making the decisions at that time.
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  38.  @dave710  Because of Global Warming, leading to high temperatures, drought, food shortages, wars over water supplies the death of many aspects of the natural world, more destructive weather events such as hurricanes, floods and forest fires, more skin cancer from more UV exposure, more disease from mosquitos and other heat loving beasties with no end in sight.
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  39.  jimmyriddlemethis6536  Not at all. I don't rely on the BBC.
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  40.  @lostintranslation1957  I'm sure you know more about me than I do. I get my news from a variety of sources because the BBC doesn't report on a lot of stuff especially stuff that is damaging to the Tory reputation. Their Chairman is a tory appointee and their general manager is also a Tory.
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  41.  @samhodgins9804  But Putin's aim is 'first Ukraine and then the rest of Europe'.
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  42. Have they not closed the wet markets down now? Surely the people operating these markets will die from these viruses too.
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  43. It would be good if they scrapped it but I don't know if they will.
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  44. Those who criticise the BBC for intending to charge the over 75s (which the government shoved onto the BBC without any funding for it) are also often the ones calling for the BBC to be defunded or not paying their own licence fees which is both illogical and rank hypocrisy.
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  45. @auntsally7790 When was that?
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  46. How do you know, they've not been in power for 14 years, and when they were they did a lot. They'll know also that they can't behave like the Tories if they want to stay in power.
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  47.  @XMan-qu5kl  more likely to
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  48.  @stevenaustin8274  Yes if people knew about it but many didn't because they were not notified individually.
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  49.  @steveohara2919  It would have been adequate if that's what the government had done but they did not do it by individual notification as required, as the Ombudsman found. That's why many people didn't know because not everyone is a news hound.
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  50.  @alanwilton6806  They didn't have 20 years. They should have been notified individually when the change was decided as would have been normal government procedure for significant pension changes and that's what the Ombudsman found. So many were never aware of the change. Women's careers are much more broken up than men's because of home and childcare responsibilities and sometimes caring for parents or ill husbands. So for most women their pay was less than men's over the course of their careers. More women also did lower paid jobs than men because they didn't have the career trajectory to give them better job and promotion opportunities for reasons I've mentioned above.
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