Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "The London Standard" channel.

  1. Wow. This story was sensational. I think I may have a lie down now as I'm just too excited...
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  2. I'm more than happy to go without electricity and heating so shareholders in the energy company cartel can top up their off-shore accounts...
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  3. Capitalism has run its course, it's the worst system of resource management ever created and allows the wealthy to extort the poor globally. This is a prime example of the greed of a few wrecking the lives of everyone else. Another example would be people like Bezos who exploits child labour abroad, sweatshops and minimum wage internally within his online retail business to amass $165 billion. He could use that money to repair the damage he caused and save millions globally from dying of poverty and it would only be justice...
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  4. They deserve every penny for taking advantage of the gullible public who keep voting the Tories in. If we'd rather die in poverty than spend a few minutes considering our political choices then so be it!
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  5. I'd just like to say how well the Tories have handled this crisis, from the very start they've pumped money into the offshore bank accounts of shareholders while spreading the anaemic pound even thinner with £400 billion in government bonds and historically creating over 2/3rds of our national debt giving us a debt to GDP ratio of around 100%. All while holding back at least £100 billion every year to give corporations in corporate welfare and subsidies. The same corporations who cost us between £40-120 billion per annum in unpaid corporate taxes. Fiscal responsibility? Don't make me laugh...
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  6. Energy costs have gone up by around 400% in the EU, and yet our energy prices have gone up over 560%... just saying. PS I use candles under a crock pot as a cheap space heater...
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  7. You don't have to be skinny, you don't have to be perfect, you just have to be you!
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  8. Steven to 'Unequivocally condemn' Tories on devouring the fatted carcass of the British economy, destroying our global reputation and increasing the suffering of us poverty-burdened citizens in their relentless assault on sanity and logic...
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  9. Wish I was immune to the extinction of the species and intellect...
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  10. Blame the tabloids for allowing the far right to rise by feeding them Brexit propaganda and blaming migrants for the problems the Tories create...
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  11.  @thefastestfox1  My pleasure, Always happy to use dark humour to expose the corruption that reduces our life expectancy and causes such misery to millions of British families... If you prefer empty optimism to constructive pessimism then please feel free to watch adverts from corporations who use your humanity to take more of your money...
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  12. ISIS-K are the low fat option?
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  13.  @bazle64  To be honest they're really bringing me down. I was quite happy just sitting here by myself watching the human race, its history and accomplishments being gradually devoured by the rancid festering corpse of disaster capitalism. Now I have to contend with the human form of psychosis that caused all this mess. Time for a cuppa ;-)
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  14.  @AtomicDuelist  lol are you 12? Seriously, you haven't a clue. Feel free to have the last word, I can't be bothered to argue...
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  15.  @ElliHarper  lol debunked? they're giving them £50 million of taxpayers' money. You think the Tories have no connection to Dubai or oil or backhanders? Sure buddy keep smoking the bud! "The government has had fair warning that there were serious issues at P&O Ferries. Two years ago, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, the billionaire head of Dubai-based DP World, the owners of the ferry company, claimed that P&O Ferries needed £257m in aid to avoid collapse and asked the UK government for £150m – all while paying DPW shareholders £270m."
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  16. Considering he's been funded by corporate lobbyists for many years that's hardly surprising. We are heading for corporatocracy and allowing the Overton window to shift further to the right is just begging for the further reduction of workers' rights and wages... Red or Blue neoliberalism...
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  17. Tories using the Police who are fully prepared to extinguish free speech and protests in Britain. Still not like it's the end of the world...
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  18. and they get some free advertising, assuming their PR dept didn't write this story...
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  19. It all started going wrong for the human race when they started to name storms...
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  20.  Cardinal Sin  I do tackle the billionaires, the FED, Fractional Reserve Banking, FIAT currency, Disaster Capitalism in general. That's why I no longer have accounts on Facebook and Twitter, they don't like people who point out their flaws.
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  21.  @justthatguy3949  You're partly right. But the point is that you have the choice between aristocrats who profit from the poverty all around or a party that while they have been bought out recently - got us out of the slums, gave us free healthcare, schooling, legal aid, workers rights, human rights, public transport, nationalised industry and so on. While Starmer is lobbyist funded the whole Labour party isn't. As for the Tories, they'll never do anything for the poor other than use economic euthanasia on them...
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  22.  @djonfonsteen6331  Agreed, the left used to be that party but since Blair dropped clause 4 the left have been bought out by lobbyists. Centrist infiltrators now run Labour and ensure it never falls into the hands of any real leftists. But yes, 99% of people just want a quiet life, good wages, a nice house, a safe society and decent schooling. Unfortunately, that isn't a very profitable model.
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  23.  @JohnKobaRuddy  Did you not understand what I wrote? I said ideology is what I believe in not parties. I'm not a member of Labour and advocate civil unrest to remove these aristocratic parasites from our political structure. But the system is inherently corrupt, until you get rid of capitalism nothing will change!
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  24. @Carl Collins As much as I enjoy listening to political illiterates who know so little about economics that they blame Labour for a global financial crisis that affected all countries tied to the dollar - I have some paint drying that I'd like to watch...
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  25. @Carl Collins Immigration has gone up considerably since 2010 when Labour left office and Theresa May has the record when she was Home Secretary of 650,000 in one year. So please tell me more about how you manage to ignore reality? As for your diatribe regarding the left it's laughable. About as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  26.  @LeeGee  You sound as though you think I can't see that politics is pantomime and money is simply a human construct that allows a tiny minority to control the vast majority of the world's 'actual' resources. While the media writes the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. They write the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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  27. I wonder what would happen if we worked out how many deaths, domestic and abroad the Tory's incompetence and ineptitude has cost in the past decade...
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  28. Temporary unstable aquatic accommodation with wonderful views and limited freedom opportunities...
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  29.  @Warmaster_horus  How about you accept the multiple studies that prove migration increases our economy and that migrants contribute more in their lives than they take out of the system. You could also look into the hundreds of billions given to the wealthy in tax breaks, subsidies and cronyism, but I doubt financial concerns are really what this is about...
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  30. The middle class have their uses, although I suspect the plastic removed was mainly theirs in the first place...
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  31. Yes, we all know the Tories are all about the green agenda... The problem is that the only green they're interested in lies in your wallet!
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  32.  @johnmacaroni105  Apparently, and I may be wrong about this, but apparently after the planet becomes uninhabitable for human beings there won't be any need for HGV drivers...
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  33.  @johnmacaroni105  So they can all die at a later date... You don't seem able to grasp the concept of extinction...
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  34. Considering an article from 2016 showed that 39% of Tory MPs are landlords, I wonder why they are squeezing the housing market by not building any new social housing...
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  35. For the sake of a few cases nationwide over 14,000 people have been denied the democracy their taxes pay for... Despicable.
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  36. Economy down the toilet, Brexit losses in their trillions, breaking international and British laws, contempt of parliament, contempt of the political process and contempt for their constituents. NHS Crisis - failed pandemic handling - the cost of living has skyrocketed, the national debt increasing to over 100% of GDP... Yea wonderful job...
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  37. Ask your programmer to train a new language model, repetition and exaggeration is an obvious sign of corruption to your AI...
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  38. Congrats you win! dumbest statement of the decade! Think water, sewage, electricity, access, emergency, stability, communications, crime, sustainability, logistics etc...
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  39. Key point: The Public bailed out the banks and corporations, we pay for corporate greed and pay for the mistakes of Tory incompetence and mismanagement. Tories will continually drain the pot and then ask for a top-up, like delinquent teenagers crawling back to mom and dad...
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  40. They should be investigated over selling practices, treatment of workers, exploitation of sweatshops globally and evading legally required corporate taxation... Bezos could spend a million a day for the next 369 years, all thanks to tax evasion, dodgy work practices and the exploitation of sweatshops globally...
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  41. Yay, I can buy an extra carrot...
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  42. Lower than a snake after being run over by a steamroller...
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  43.  @michaelportaloo1981  I never mentioned Tom Jones. PS Tell Tom, The English were conquered by the Saxon invasion hence the name Anglo-Saxon. Us Celts are the true Britons ;-)
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  44.  @michaelportaloo1981  Celts settled in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland and came from the Iberian Peninsula via Ireland. Saxon (German), Viking (Scandinavian), Norman (French), Roman (Italian) and Celt (Iberian Peninsula) all settled/invaded Britain. Average UK residents' DNA is 36.94% British (Anglo Saxon), 21.59% Irish (Celt) and 19.91% Western European (French/German). English residents do however have the highest amount of Scandinavian (9.39%) and Western European (French/German) (20.45%) ancestry. While the Welsh, Scottish and especially the Irish have a higher Celtish percentage.
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  45.  @michaelportaloo1981  The Brittonic tribes as you put it only arrived around 4,000 years ago via Ireland according to DNA testing. But the English are the result of primarily the Norman and Saxon invasion as DNA testing shows. Charles is part Greek and part German from his parents and related to Vlad the impaler. As well as being a distant relative of the Habsburg European dynasty. But yes the royal family have little to do with British ancestory.
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  46.  @MotoTvWoodsFarm  I don't blame Labour for the financial crisis and I know Brown selling off the gold was necessary. But Blair is a despicable human being and both of them sold out the British public and Labour supporters to profit themselves. Blair dropped clause 4 which is the reason we don't have a left-wing option in Britain anymore. They helped shift the Overton window to the right. Blair infiltrated the Labour party and then dropped the socialist base of the Labour party. Started a war based on lies and took money from S.Arabia to cover up their genocide in Yemen.
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  47. I'm sure Johnson loves being probed by the police on a regular basis. It reminds him of his public school days...
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  48. Our national debt in real-time is now greater than our annual GDP. But as long as the important people like corporations and the wealthy continue to profit from my poverty then that's fine. So long as my lack of heating and food helps a billionaire to buy a new yacht then I'm content.
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  49.  @jhfdhgvnbjm75  lol Europe lost only 20,000 HGV drivers and it was due to Brexit as they were predominantly British drivers. Why do you think the Tories are lowering immigration standards to allow EU HGV drivers to come back to the UK if there aren't sufficient HGV drivers in the EU? (not that there isn't a shortage, but as we are in a far worse position as this story and many other's clearly show) Why do you think the EU has had a 400% price increase in energy but the UK has had a 560% increase? because of the loss of HGV drivers and Brexit.
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  50.  @jhfdhgvnbjm75  47% of our energy comes from Russia, Norway and Belgium and is transported. Gas is used to generate electricity which is why it's easier to call them energy as a whole. Estimates are propaganda, try finding accurate figures. The figures I found said no more than 100,000 in the whole of the EU so your numbers are made up. Own up to the part Brexit has played in food shortages, medical shortages, NHS staff shortages, HGV driver shortages and fuel and energy price increase and shortages.
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