Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "NHS worker stabbed at south London Hospital" video.

  1. Agreed, we've lost over 5,000 mental health nurses, 22,500 Police officers, over 23,000 support staff and the NHS has to deal with cuts, outsourcing and stealth privatisation as well as a staff shortage of over 100,000.
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  2. Everything wrong with society can be laid at the Government's feet. They reduced funding, cut Nurse's bursaries, cut mental health workers and police...
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  3.  @GentileMysteriesConspiracies  Such cognitive defecation proves your lack of intellect, such hatred towards a medical worker proves your lack of character. If you want to fight back then aim your ire at the rich and powerful unless you're afraid...
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  4.  @Jennyeq  lol, you're obviously not that careful when you drive, you must have crashed and hit your head...
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  5.  @yorkshiremgtow1773  Theresa May lost a dossier to cover up 90% of child abuse in this country, institutional abuse. Over 100 powerful, wealthy abusers let off the hook. The Catholic church is also responsible for a large amount of that. The Tories also reduced the police by 22,500, support workers by 23,000 and mental health workers by 5,000. I believe in freedom of speech even for idiots like you...
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  6.  @yorkshiremgtow1773  The Tories created 2/3rds of our national debt. Labour actually reduced our debt to GDP ratio by 4% in the decade before the Global Financial Crisis that affected all countries tied to US dollar hegemony. Selling the gold was the right thing to do as not selling it would have cost us more in the devaluation of the pound in the long term, as a Financial Times article from a few years later argues. The reason for the deficit is Thatcher's neoliberalism and the fact that since she gave us privatisation we now pay as much as £100 billion to tax-dodging corporations in corporate welfare and subsidies per annum. To put that in perspective unemployment costs only £1.56 billion last year. Meaning we pay 66 times the cost of unemployment to shareholders who put that money in an offshore bank account to avoid tax. Most societal problems I could argue could be laid at cuts to education, policing, wages, opportunities, working poverty etc. But I'm sure you're aware my original comment is exaggerated for effect...
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  7.  @yorkshiremgtow1773  Nationalisation ploughs profits back into improving services and doesn't['t cost the public any money after the initial creation. But the Tories have always used defunding to cripple infrastructure since the 80s then offer privatisation as a solution. All government infrastructure was nationalised before Thatcher's privatisation. The costs keep rising every year and bailouts are common. Rail/Transport, Communications, Mail, Energy, Coal and Steel and many other industries were privatised at huge cost to the public. Our taxpayer property that provided profit was sold off and we now continually pay subsidies and corporate welfare, plus bailouts and tax breaks. PS I haven't been a member of the Labour party since the 90s when Blair dropped clause 4, but will still defend the truth... I've already corrected much of your Tory mythology and I'm not wasting my life being sealioned by Tory apologists. If you can't recognise the truth in my initial comment or the fact that it's obviously a sarcastic exaggeration then you aren't worth debating. Please feel free to claim a win because I see through your pathetic sealioning and if you're really interested then feel free to do some research and stop wasting my time...
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  8.  @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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  9.  @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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  10. ​ @yorkshiremgtow1773  I'm not wasting my time when you can't even accept obvious points. Your arguments regarding privatisation in general or the continual subsidies, tax breaks, increase in fare prices and bailouts in the rail industry alone prove you are not a good faith debater. Feel free to claim a victory, I don't care about your opinion and I'm not willing to waste time with someone so obviously naive to accept Tory myths and cherry-picked case scenarios while ignoring my points which anyone with a knowledge of British history can accept without proofs. Stop commenting to me as I have no need to argue with delusional Tory Myth peddlers. I've wasted thousands of hours with people like you prove yourself to be. Accept that fact and stop sealioning me!
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  11.  @yorkshiremgtow1773  I'm not interested in right-wing myth peddlers and their sealioning. I've already given you facts and reasons, if you're unable to do research that's your problem. I'm not interested in debating with you, you've proven you're unable to accept obvious historical points. I can't post the articles or even the titles as they get deleted. I'm not wasting my time. Stop bothering me, I've wasted too much time arguing with people like you in the past.
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