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Go out, Stay in, Wear a Mask, Don't Wear a Mask, Go to Work, Don't go to Work, Exercise, Don't Exercise, Go shopping, Don't go shopping, Stay 2 meters away from people-unless they live or work with you or are really hot!
Be sure to check multiple clauses.
What could be simpler?
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@thomasbradley2225 The US has interfered in every South American country since the 20th century. The CIA and your understanding are biased from the start. I don't support Putin, I don't put forward Communism as a solution. Democracy doesn't exist when lobbyists control your politicians. The free market doesn't exist when you have tariffs, embargoes, sanctions, blockades etc. You can't enforce regime change in other countries because you want to discredit their ideology.
Libya was a socialist-style country they used 'The Green System'. Gaddafi was essentially just a figurehead because he'd fought US imperialism all his life and was respected. Libya had no IMF debt, no international debt. Libya had $150 billion in reserves, 143 tons of gold and a similar amount of silver. Libya also created the world's largest irrigation project. Having a house was a human right, each Libyan had a share in the country's 50 billion barrels of oil and petrol was $0.14 per litre. Then Libya decided to create an African currency 'The Dinar' to challenge the petrodollar for oil sales in Africa and the Middle East. Many countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria all dropped the petrodollar for oil sales. America's reaction wasn't to legitimately compete in a capitalist system, they chose to invade to enforce regime change and to loot Libya's gold, precious metals and oil. US Capitalism brought human trafficking and slavery to Libya and caused the death and migration of millions.
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Saint Norbert "Whenever life gets you down Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough..."
Just remember that you're standing in a country that's devolving and dissolving at 900 miles an hour. The Tories making millions every second, so it's reckoned,
The media, the source of all their power.
Now the sun, the daily mail, the daily express, the telegraph, are bullshitting millions of Brits every day, in the awful Tory Britain full of poverty and decay,
On a planet in the embarrassed Milky Way.
No worries!
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@Whoami691 PS Read my earlier replies: "Search for "The nine green policies killed off by the Tory government" 2015 or "Critics accused Tory policies of discouraging the installation of new renewable energy resources" 2019 or "Scotland's renewable energy industry in 'crisis' after Tory cuts" 2022 or "Tory wind farm ban and green subsidy cuts are costing households £140 a year in higher bills" 2022. There are a few examples from the past decade..."
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"Don't talk nonsense. We have a large river network, a massive coast, plenty of wind, plenty of sun and hydrothermal energy. We have more than enough sources as we are already 46% powered by renewables, despite massive cuts to green energy over the past decade. We are paying for selling off our North sea, energy grid and a lack of funding for renewables - IE privatisation... We should be 100% renewable and 100% self-sufficient instead of being subject to extortion by an energy cartel..."
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"PS There are many countries that are 100% renewable. All use their different strengths to generate electricity. "Albania, Bhutan, Congo, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Iceland, Namibia, Nepal, Norway and Paraguay: these are the countries whose electric power generation comes from 97 to 100% renewable energy sources. Several African countries are on the list, along with countries in South America and the Caribbean."
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Mobbdeepak McMacaveli Shakoor Historically the Labour party rebuilt Britain after the ww2, replaced slums with social housing, gave us medical care, legal aid, worker's rights, nationalised the BOE, Water, Communications, Energy, Coal. Transport etc (Much of which has now been privatised at the cost of £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies and taxpayer bailouts). They gave us public transport, public libraries, public parks. But since Blair dropped clause 4 we haven't had a Labour party. Centrist neoliberals now run the left in the UK and the US ensuring a corporate-friendly party in power whoever wins. The left are now called extreme and we have the choice between red or blue flavoured neoliberalism...
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@yorkshiremgtow1773 I'm not arguing semantics and guesswork. While you minimise my points with such stupid arguments as a tax write off of 44 billion isn't corporate welfare! I said corporate welfare (tax breaks) and subsidies, you're comparing millions to billions and then adding inflation based on guesswork. You're ignoring the big picture and no nationalised industry subsidies and losses from a few specific years are irrelevant unless you concede profits from 1948 onwards which was when the Attlee government created most of those nationalised industries. You're using Tory myths that need to be deconstructed individually and I have already told you I'm not interested in being sealioned. Cheap fares, well-paid jobs and investment need to be considered when discussing nationalised industry. But the main thing you need to understand is that when the Tories defund and don't invest in nationalisation to create these problems while wasting the profits, those losses can be written off. Running an industry down, stealing their profits and not reinvesting those profits will obviously create a short term loss. You are pointing to certain periods regarding certain industries while ignoring the long term gains of all nationalised industries.
To put it simply, nationalization is a country being self-sufficient. Why do you think the German, French, Dutch, Chinese are taking profits from our rail networks to invest in their own nationalised networks? Where do you think they got the money to invest in our networks? Privatisation adds an extra layer of admin, shareholder profits, huge salaries, tax writeoffs, higher costs to the consumer and bailouts from the taxpayer, Add all those things together then compare to a nationalised industry that creates profit for reinvestment and provides cheaper services to the taxpayer. Our electricity prices have gone up by 560% over the past year alone. If it was still nationalised reinvestment would have created an energy market similar to Norway where they have virtually 100% renewable energy and produce an excess that we buy via the North Sea Link power cable. Not forgetting the fact that nationalised industry is sold off without reimbursing the taxpayer for the loss of those assets.
I'm not spending hours correcting your cherry-picked data that ignores the big picture. You're sealioning me. I'm sick of wasting my life correcting Tory mythology based on semantics, guesswork and cherry-picked data that ignores why those industries were failing (Tory theft of profits, defunding, selling off assets etc) while ignoring the huge cost of tax breaks, subsidies and bailouts - while the consumer is ripped off by cartels/price-fixing...
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@yorkshiremgtow1773 lol you're just sealioning me and you're a pedant. Half of your points are semantics, I said nationalization was a country being self-sufficient. I gave an example of Norway and the energy market. Self-sufficiency in an area such as energy is not the same as saying a country could be completely self-sufficient in all resources. Being self-sufficient in transport, energy, communications, and other national industries is surely a boon to the British economy and workforce. We can't however grow Brazil nuts for example, as they rely on specific conditions, an ecosystem. You're deliberately misinterpreting my point. You've taken several statements as absolutes out of pedantry. I have around 20 bookmarked articles regarding privatisation including all the hidden costs like tax breaks, subsidies, bailouts, investment incentives from the taxpayer's pocket, loss of tax-payer assets, providing low paid jobs with increased costs to consumers, lack of reinvestment etc which I can't post and have my comments filtered constantly. Before privatisation, nationalised industries paid enough wages to their employees to support a family and a mortgage on a single wage. Now a 1/3rd of the workforce live in working poverty with two full-time wages coming into a household. That's another hidden cost of privatisation and a hidden boon to the workforce that isn't taken into account when discussing nationalisation. I'm not wasting my time. I've called you out from the start as being a time-wasting sealioner, and you keep proving to be so. I've spent thousands of hours detailing all my points with people like you and that's why I don't do it anymore. You'll then complain about sources, argue over minutia, ignore the very obvious facts, ignore the big picture, misinterpret my points with semantics and pedantry and all I'll achieve is a loss of time and effort.
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JOE FABULOUS Apart from Grenfell, Economic Euthanasia, Disabled Vilification, Election Fraud, Contempt of Parliament, Windrush Scandal, WASPI, Working Poverty, Homeless Crisis, Hostile Env, Food Banks, NHS Crisis, Austerity and the inept Pandemic plan, what have the Tories ever done for us?
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