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UK culture includes Tea and Curries from India, Chinese takeaways, Greek kebabs, Bavarian Beer, Christian ethics from the Middle East thanks to some bloke named Jesus. We had Ska and Two-tone music thanks to the Caribbean/Jamaican influence. Mesopotamian numeracy and currency, Greek Democracy, and several contributions from the Romans including strait roads, hypocausts, irrigation, the aqueduct, sanitation etc. The ship sailed on multiculturalism genetically, culturally and literally centuries ago when we invented boats...
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@jasondevon481 To be fair bro, Our culture includes Tea and Curries from India, Chinese takeaways, Greek kebabs, Bavarian Beer, and Christian ethics from the Middle East thanks to some bloke named Jesus. We had Ska and Two-tone music thanks to the Caribbean/Jamaican influence. Mesopotamian numeracy and currency, Greek Democracy, and several contributions from the Romans including strait roads, hypocausts, irrigation, the aqueduct, sanitation etc. The ship sailed on multiculturalism genetically, culturally and literally centuries ago when we invented boats...
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@T5Zplayer The modern digital age was launched by human ingenuity and invention. Vodafone, Lotus and Dyson were private industries and were never nationalised, although Vodafone did take advantage of taxpayer infrastructure. You seem to have flawed logic. The steel industry was wrecked by Thatcher who closed the coal mines, iron processing plants, steel plants and canal networks that were used for transports. Your tangential irrelevant points are redundant as is your reliance on opinion. Before privatisation our debt to GDP was around 40% or less, it's now over 100% because private industry is dipping their hands in the public finances aided by Tory legislation. While also avoiding tax, leaving the burden on the taxpayer. There are a plethora of articles which prove the water, energy, telecoms, mail, transport, railways and many other nationalised industries lost efficiency and increased costs after being privatised. I'm not interested in constantly providing facts to rebut your repetitive opinions over and over...
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@Ass_of_Amalek lol stop, you guys are the best, I haven't laughed so much in ages. They only need to increase the available water supply, it's not like they don't have any. It's already working in places all over the world such as like S.Arabia, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Ghana, Libya, Namibia and many others. Please stop being silly!
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@kemibello6812 No, her ancestors were transported to the Caribbean which makes that her descent, her heritage is African (but since her slave ancestors had no documentation, she has no idea of her actual country of origin) her Nationality is British. She was repeatedly asked what part of Africa she was from, to which she couldn't answer. The answer I have given you is in Ms Fulani's own words (paraphrased)...
The full exchange of the conversation is:
Lady SH: “Where are you from?”
Ms Fulani: “Sistah Space.”
SH: “No where do you come from?
Ms Fulani: “We’re based in Hackney.”
SH: “No, what part of Africa are YOU from?”
Ms Fulani: “I don’t know, they didn’t leave any records.”
SH: “Well, you must know where you’re from, I spent time in France. Where are you from?”
Ms Fulani: “Here, UK”
SH: “No, but what Nationality are you?”
Ms Fulani: “I am born here and am British.”
SH: “No, but where do you really come from, where do your people come from?”
Ms Fulani: “‘My people’, lady, what is this?”
SH: “Oh I can see I am going to have a challenge getting you to say where you’re from. When did you first come here?”
Ms Fulani: “Lady! I am a British national, my parents came here in the 50’s when…”
SH: “Oh, I knew we’d get there in the end, you’re Caribbean!”
Ms Fulani: “No lady, I am of African heritage, Caribbean descent and British nationality.”
SH: “Oh so you’re from….”
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@crown9413 PS Social Democracy played a huge role in Britain after the second world war. A Labour government rebuilt the country providing social housing to replace slums, medical care so children didn't die of curable diseases and a welfare state to provide a safety net for the ill, disabled and unemployed. They also nationalised the bank of England, coal, steel, transport, energy etc giving people cheaper goods and a stake in the country's success. Later governments reversed much of that but we still have free healthcare, public transport, public libraries, free schooling, legal aid, worker's rights, human rights thanks to Social Democracy and the Attlee government.
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@T5Zplayer I have over 20 articles bookmarked to prove that your Tory mythology is laced with misrepresentations. Privatisation adds an extra layer of admin, and profit requirements while selling off taxpayer infrastructure for pennies on the pound as happened with Royal Mail. While also costing the taxpayer over £100 billion in subsidies and corporate welfare per annum. On top of which comes the bailouts, low wages, increased product and service prices, grants, loans, tax relief etc.
Heath as PM from 70-74 was elected on a platform to crush the unions and workers' rights. Thatcher later built on that platform using security agencies and cuts to further that platform. Most households these days require at least two full-time workers to stay afloat. In the 70s one full-time wage could support a mortgage and a decent lifestyle, we had a fully funded NHS, family doctors, same-day appointments and social housing to avoid homelessness. Not to mention free schooling at Uni level and a decent pension to look forward to.
I also lived through it but had the decency to do research rather than rely on tabloid opinion pieces. Your ad homs do little to make up for your lack of knowledge, political illiteracy and reliance on Tory mythology...
PS I use facts, stats and fiscal data your personal experience is anecdotal evidence...
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@T5Zplayer Here's an example of the type of information you could find if you had the intellect to do research "During the tenures of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, the government went on a selling spree unmatched by any other industrialised economy. Telecoms, gas, electricity, water, airlines and trains: they were all bundled up and sold off. Other public goods were surrendered too, often for a song – the biggest example being nearly 2m council homes." They were taxpayer assets sold on the cheap, our water is now polluted, we have a vast shortage of social housing and Ofcom increased bills by £2.7 billion by allowing unsustainable cartels into the energy market 28 of which collapsed after taking taxpayer money.
"Privatisation is the god that failed. As an object of worship, it has proven expensive for the public and a bonanza for comparatively few investors, often overseas. And in key areas such as council housing, it has proven a singular disaster."
Please do research instead of parroting the same opinionated themes over and over...
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G M Don't want to be one of the elite, I like being able to sleep at night, but yes liquidity will be the main problem, the CIA instigated the Arab Spring in order to protect the petrodollar from a unified middle east. Gaddafi starting an African currency (Dinar) and dropping the dollar for oil sales would have killed the petrodollar off which in turn would have destabilized / devalued the dollar itself. Hence these pesky wars Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya etc to protect the oil industry, the petrodollar and to annex new resources uranium, oil, natural gas, 240 tonnes of gold from Libya alone. Money isn't real, it's not backed by any physical resource since the loss of the gold standard, fractional reserve banking is a joke and FIAT currency is in freefall.
Obama wasn't too bad but yes, still part of the system. Clinton is the first born cloven hoofed spawn of Satan and Trump is just a gullible narcissist / megalomaniac. We aren't that different in our views on how the world is structured but your interpretation comes from those very Elites - rags like Breitbart and are filtered through Murdoch's empire to the general public.
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@igvc1876 Two things you can guarantee in life: Spy stories are just that! 99% of the time you will never know what really happened or which side set up the sting and who was the victim. That's the essence of Spy stories, they are only ever about one side seeking advantage politically or militarily. The other thing you can guarantee is that your own country will always provide a patriotic angle to the story and dismiss any negative reflections of itself.
Sorry, one more thing you can count on, the first casualty of war is the truth...
No matter how well constructed and elaborately conceived or narrated a story like this is, it will only ever give you propagandist info...
Increases in terror attacks, industrial accidents, cyber-attacks, escalation of global conflict, rise in fascism, media rhetoric, nuclear proliferation, treaties failing, troop movements globally
...anyone get the feeling ww3 has already kicked off and we're on the subs bench?
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Chief Sunna of the Saxons I don't lay claim to the Gallic heritage. I simply pointed out in numerous ways, linguistically and geographically, the connection between the modern Celtic language. Celts came from the Iberian peninsula (Spain/Portugal) to Ireland around 10,000-15,000 years ago according to DNA found in burial mounds in Ireland. Then spread out to Wales, Cornwall, Scotland. Average DNA in Britain contains a mix of Scandanavian/Viking, Irish/Celt, German/Saxon, French/Norman and some Italian/Roman. English have around 20% Irish/Celtic and more Scandinavian (10%) and Saxon (35-40%). Welsh have more Irish/Celtic about 40%. The East of England has the most Italian/Greek (Southern European) ancestry (2.53%). Your confusion is understandable though, as you try to swag it out, having been defeated sounded both intellectually and historically...
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@Hypersonik GDP is the gross domestic product of Great Britain, that comes from tourism, industry, taxes etc. It isn't our wages, it's the country's profits. It isn't the same as national debt which is £2.2 trillion. The debt to GDP ratio is how much of our profits we have to pay in debts each year, which at the moment is nearly all of our profits as the ratio is around 100%. I already worked out the national debt as a proportion of every man, woman and child (£2.2 trillion, divided by 67 million population = £32,835.8 each), but only a third of our population is actually working many are children or the elderly. So the number you're looking for is £32,835 but I'm still not sure why you mentioned it, what relevance does it have to the pandemic? other than proving the Tories have ruined the economy...
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Well to be fair it's not like the FBI can be trusted. A small list of their not so legal activities. Files on U.S. citizens, Domestic surveillance, Covert operations on political groups, Files on Puerto Rican independence advocates, Activities in Latin America, 1996 campaign finance controversy, Internal investigations of shootings, The Whitey Bulger case, Robert Hanssen special agent spying for the Soviets, Death of Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Associated Press impersonation case...
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@Nickle314 lol you just talk nonsense and think people can't tell? The way figures are phrased affects the meaning of the figure. That's why you should use base figures. Look what the national debt was in 2010 when the Tories took power, around £0.7-8 trillion. With the banker's bailout just over £1trillion. In just over a decade national debt has increased by £1.6 trillion. It's more borrowing than every other party before it combined. Regardless of the obsession you have with trying to subvert the argument on a tangent to tiny nuances regarding economics the debate is pointless.
Anyone who uses the term Socialist Pensions is obviously making a statement. Social Democracy is responsible for the welfare state and without it sick children, the disabled, the elderly, and people with temporary illnesses would be left to die. Is that really what you want? Look at the percentage of our GDP spent on the welfare state compared to corporate welfare, tax losses, tax credits, cost of infrastructure, subsidies, grants, loans, initiatives etc... We have more than enough resources to live in dignity with all the basics covered, so why are a large percentage of the workforce not getting that? despite working hard and paying their taxes all their life? paying into pension schemes all their life. These concepts create civilisation, the rise in corporate greed can be seen in government accounts and the percentage of poverty in the UK. Seriously get a grip!
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@BBountyHunter I already did with respect to Libya. But also check the quality of life in Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden etc that have all used Socialism in the form of the Nordic Model of Social Democracy, also known as the Scandanavian model. Consistently better lifespan, pensions, wages, healthcare and the policies of Social Democracy are also used in places like Japan, New Zealand and Canada to name a few. Without it, we wouldn't have the NHS, Public libraries, Public Transport, Public Parks, Human rights, worker's rights, Legal Aid, and many other things we take for granted...
Like I said, your meme repetition is circular debate as it's already been debunked and stupidity is repeating the same mistake over and over...
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